Chapter 290 God reckons the next five "Papa, papa, papa" Liu Ji's applause sounded particularly harsh in the silent room.
Shi Naian blushed and looked at Zhu Chongjiu with apologetic eyes.
Lu Kun and others glared at Liu Ji.
Even if he doesn't like this small temple in Huaiyang, Liu shouldn't go so far.
How can you force your lord to admit his "unkindness" in front of several subordinates?
This means that in Yangzhou, if it were someone else's territory, how would you, Liu Ji, have any chance of walking out alive?
But Liu Ji and Liu Bowen had no idea that enough was enough.
After lowering his head and taking a few sips of water, he said plausibly, "Don't be surprised, Chief Manager.
Liu didn't mean to offend.
It's just that along the way, he saw that the people in Huaiyang and Yangtze were well-fed and well-fed, while the people in other places were becoming increasingly poor.
The rebels were harming The people, even more so than the Meng Yuan government, are why some words are stuck in the throat and cannot be uttered."
"Junior brother, stay here.
The surrounding rebels are treating the people harshly.
What does my chief manager have to do with it?"
At this time, even Shi Naian couldn't bear it anymore.
He stood up and interrupted loudly.
"The chief steward said before that there is an endless supply of water in this pot."
Liu Ji sighed softly and continued to add, "But Liu only saw that all the heroes wanted to scrape the ground in order to buy cannons from the chief steward.
Here, a copper cannon is sold for a thousand guan, and a piece of iron armor is sold for a hundred and sixty yuan.
However, in the surrounding fields, the farmers work hard, and the yield is only three guan per mu, even if the weather is good every year.
How many products can there be?"
This goes back to his previous argument.
Yangzhou's rapid recovery was based on Zhu Chongjiu's reliance on force and business methods to plunder other surrounding Red Turban-controlled areas.
Miracles can be created in a short period of time, but it is absolutely impossible to replicate it, let alone spread it nationwide.
"This" Shi Naian is very knowledgeable, but he is not an eloquent person.
For a moment, I couldn't find anything to say to refute.
It is even more undeniable that the current prosperity of Yangzhou has formed an extremely sharp contrast with the poverty in surrounding places.
The canal not far away is like a magnet, attracting wealth from all over the world, making the rich richer and the poor poorer.
Robben didn't want to let his master fight alone.
After thinking about it, he interjected very confidently, "That's just because the heroes are incompetent.
If it were replaced by me, the General Manager of Huaiyang, it might not have the same consequences.
At least for now, I, the General Manager of Huaiyang In the territory of the General Manager's Mansion, the lives of the people are getting better day by day.
In the future, as my lord's territory expands, the people around him will naturally live the same life as those in Yangzhou."
"Of course it's good to be able to do this, but I don't know how sure Magistrate Luo is."
Liu Ji immediately turned his eyes to Robben and asked with curled lips.
"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
Robben was slightly stunned when asked, and then responded through gritted teeth.
These words were a little too arbitrary.
Liu Ji immediately shook his head and sneered, "Does the prefect really think that your lord can turn stone into gold?"
"You may not have the ability to turn stone into gold.
And the world is so big, it's far beyond your imagination."
Robben also sneered loudly, stood up, and looked at Liu Ji from top to bottom in response.
After arguing with the other party for such a long time, he finally understood that his uncle Liu Ji was not here to open an academy and pass on his master's secret knowledge.
Instead, he came here specifically to create trouble for the Grand Manager's Mansion under the pretext of opening an academy.
And his excuse for causing trouble was not very clever.
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He just stubbornly believed that the prosperity of the three places in Huaiyang had plundered the wealth of other places.
I turned a blind eye to the rapid changes in the land beneath my feet.
If Robben hadn't personally followed Huang Laowai, Jiao Yu and others to build workshops in Jiangwan.
If Luo Ben was still like a traditional civil servant, sitting in the yamen, just scheming with his colleagues, and leaving all official duties to subordinates, he would really be like Shi Naian and be defeated by Liu Bowen.
And after witnessing with my own eyes how the previously worthless quartz sand turned into "gorgeous and precious" glassware, and seeing with my own eyes the fine steel plate armor and the hundred-refined sword like rotten vegetable leaves, the whole car went out of the workshop.
After the push, the words Liu Ji said immediately became extremely childish in his eyes.
Stones cannot be turned into gold, but people can use various methods to turn stones into something more valuable than gold.
Sand and soil cannot be turned into food, but with workshops and cannons, one shipload of sand and soil can be exchanged for ten shiploads of food from other countries.
This is a fact he has seen with his own eyes, which is better than the eloquence of any language.
This is a brand new world that cannot be understood by nerds who work behind closed doors.
This is an extremely broad field, and even the writings of any ancient sages and sages have not even scratched the surface of it.
Robben, on the other hand, was very proud to find that he was already standing at the gate of the new world.
His so-called erudite uncle was still dozens of miles away and could not even find the way into the courtyard.
Therefore, at this moment, the arrogance on Robben's face is clearly visible.
Liu Ji, who was sitting opposite him, immediately noticed this arrogance.
He raised his hands and said very stiffly, "Liu is lonely and humble.
I would like to hear the details."
"Forget it."
Yangzhou Magistrate Luo Ben suddenly lost interest in the debate, sighed, and slowly sat back in his seat, "Uncle Master rarely comes to Yangzhou, let's eat first.
I guess the kitchen is almost ready. " Some things involve the safety of the Huaiyang Department.
Since Liu Ji didn't plan to stay, he couldn't let the other party know casually.
Some things cannot be explained in just a few words.
As the saying goes, summer insects cannot speak of ice.
If you ask an insect that will die immediately in autumn to understand the world of "thousands of miles of ice and thousands of miles of snow", the final result will either be to exhaust yourself to death or to destroy yourself.
I am so angry that there is no third possibility.
"Pretending to be mysterious" Liu Ji was very hurt by Robben's looking down at him.
He frowned and sneered in a low voice.
"The red scarf trick can incite stupid men and women to rebel, but it is definitely not the way to govern a country."
"Junior Brother is Wrong" The relationship between Shi Naian and Liu Ji has finally become closer.
I couldn't bear to see him miss a great opportunity to make great achievements.
After thinking about it, he softened his tone and said, "Qingyuan is not being mysterious, but there are some things that he knows that you and I don't know."
"Senior brother is in a high position, but he also has secrets that he doesn't know about."
Liu Ji frowned and asked with a bit of confusion.
He was not deliberately provoking, but based on past experience, he determined that officials like Shi Naian, who held the power of academic administration in a place, had already entered the core of the General Manager's Office.
How is it possible?
There are some secret things that he has no chance to see.
"Brother Yu has only been in Yangzhou for a short time, and he has been busy preparing for the scientific examination recently, so he has time to see many places."
Shi Naian smiled and admitted frankly.
"but"
After thinking about it for a while, he decided to remind the other party with something that did not involve any confidentiality, "Junior brother, can you tell Brother Yu how the white rice he has eaten at Jixian Hall these days tastes?"
"It's hard and rough, and tastes like chewing wax.
It has no merit except that it can cure hunger."
Liu Ji didn't know Shi Naian's purpose.
He thought about it and responded unhappily.
"This is rice grown in Champa.
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It is harvested two to three times a year.
Of course it doesn't taste very good," Shi Naian smiled and explained proactively.
"Zhancheng" Liu Bowen's body stiffened suddenly, as if he had been struck by lightning.
Note 1 For him, who is well-read and well-remembered, Champa is not a new geographical concept.
But Yangzhou people eating rice from Champa was far beyond his scope of knowledge.
Thinking of Zhu Chongjiu's metaphor of the kettle, wouldn't this Champa rice correspond to a steady stream of living water?
And around Champa, there are Annan, now Vietnam, Chenla Kingdom, now Cambodia, and Siam.
In an instant, Liu Ji felt like a hole had been opened in his forehead, and countless fresh and hot things were poured into it.
But Shi Naian was afraid that his headache was not severe enough, so he continued to confuse him, "But the rice in Champa is sold locally for less than 30 yuan.
And the white porcelain tea cup in your hand, junior brother, is only sold locally.
It costs 300 coins.
It only takes more than a month to go to Champa from Haimen Port.
If the wind is smooth, fifteen days is enough to exchange for rice.
There is no need to send a boatload of porcelain, and twenty boatloads of rice can be exchanged. " Porcelain, cement, glass, and all kinds of expensive and strange things were loaded on cargo ships and continued to sail southward along the sea.
Then, rice, gold and silver, as well as rare treasures from various countries, were continuously transported by sea ships to Haimen Port on Yangzhou Road.
And with the ability to sink the opponent with random cannons from a distance of thirty steps, which pirate dares to attack the Yangzhou fleet?
If things go on like this, who in the world can compete with Zhu Chongjiu?
I am afraid that as soon as they meet, they will be used by the Huai'an revolutionary army.
Money is being sacrificed to death, how can we have a chance to fight for supremacy on the battlefield?
Although it was a glimpse of a leopard, Liu Ji and Liu Bowen shuddered at the glimpse.
In terms of money and food, Zhu Chongjiu couldn't be bothered at all.
In terms of morality, my previous accusations were also very reluctant.
In terms of force, Zhu Chongjiu will only push others further and further away, and it is absolutely impossible for others to catch up.
No matter how hard Zhu Chongba works in Chuzhou, and no matter how closely he adheres to the ways of saints, I am afraid that in the end, he will end up with an happy ending.
It can't be better It's okay if you don't compare.
The more you compare, the more Liu Ji feels that the future in Chuzhou is bleak.
The rule of three generations and the ethics of hierarchy are like golden and iron laws, which are sacred and irreversible in his mind.
There was a war between heaven and man in his mind, his eyes were straight, his body was stiff, the tea in his hand was trembling, and it all spilled on his front.
Note 1: At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, the officials had no concept of maritime trade at all.
In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, a maritime ban policy was implemented to prevent pirates.
Even during Zheng He's voyages to the West, the main purpose was to promote the country's prestige.
Unable to get enough profits back, Zheng He's voyages to the West immediately became a thing of the past after his death
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