In Jiang Tian's impression, Song Yingxing should be the kind of academic official who is not sophisticated, and he should first use the number jù to speak no matter what happens, but after this incident, he suddenly found that his cognition was wrong, although the old guy was not admitted to the Jinshi, but at least he was mixed at the level of lifting people, which shows that he can't be a crazy doctor who only knows scientific inventions, but when did this old thing start to become slippery? Was it before or after the revolution with Zhang Tao? This question is not easy to answer, and there is no way to inquire, so I can't catch Song Yi and ask: "When did your grandfather become an old fox?" ”

Although the Academy of Sciences is the most comprehensive, largest and strongest comprehensive scientific research institution in this time and space, it is after all an academy of sciences in the initial stage of science, not the kind of academy of sciences supported by a perfect industrial system in later generations. Therefore, the old man Song did not want to offend people, but also had to allocate limited resources, so he could only find some way to let the other party choose his own priorities, which is a natural reaction of Chinese officials in terms of power schemes. To say that this old man is just a depressed little bureaucrat in the original history, although he was born in the turbulent last days, but he is the kind of person who has the intention to kill the thief, has no power to return to the sky, and has no chance to shout that he has died, let alone the helpless type of lamentation.

In this time and space, only because of Zhang Tao's birth and appreciation of him, this gave him the opportunity to change his fate, and then he met Jiang Tian by mistake, it stands to reason that he should devote himself to research in this life, right? But looking at the meaning, the old man still has a certain desire for career in his heart, don't look at him has used the identity of a person to live as the president of the Beijing Academy of Sciences, if it was before, it should be satisfied, but Jiang Tian, a showman, is now from a product, can you let the old guy's heart not ponder?

He admired Jiang Tian's knowledge very much, and there were many academic problems that plagued him, and he had a feeling of being suddenly surprised after reading Jiang Tian's textbooks. Even if there is something you don't understand, as long as you let your grandson explain it a little, you can understand the principle thoroughly. If this ability is put on other researchers, Jiang Tian can happily run around the courtyard twice, but unfortunately Old Man Song is the dean of the Academy of Sciences, except for some confidential things, there is nothing that needs to be done by the dean in person, and it is even more impossible to pull down his face to find Jiang Tian to tutor in scientific knowledge, so his main responsibility in the Academy of Sciences is administrative management. It looks a bit like the situation of the professor as the principal in later generations, but at present, this model not only does not have the drawbacks of later generations, but also avoids the trouble of some layman commanding insiders, although no one can command Jiang Tian except Zhang Tao, but as long as those laymen make a little stumbling at will, they can cause huge damage, and in any case, a technical bureaucrat like Old Man Song is very necessary.

When Jiang Tian finally arranged these tasks and returned to his home, the day's class was naturally over, but there were still a few people in the classroom who did not leave, only to see Liu Baokai's face painted like a flower cat sitting behind the chair, whether it was Song Yi or Wu Yuan's face, he couldn't see anything on his face, Zhang Huan even had ink painted on his neck, and what was even more rare was that Tian Xuhai, who had always been a standard Confucian student, was also in it.

When a few people were enjoying themselves, Zhao Zhi saw Jiang Tian at the door, and then he smiled dryly and didn't know how to explain: "Sir, are you back?" ”

The other people hurriedly threw the things in their hands when they saw it, and they all stood up and smirked at him unnaturally. Jiang Tian walked over and took a look, and found the extremely primitive cards on the table, and asked them if they had drawn black ink on their faces while playing cards. As for what they're playing, it's easy to look at the form of the cards.

Jiang Tian glanced at it slightly and then said, "Who is calling the cards now?" ”

Liu Baokai glanced around with the corner of his eye, and then had no choice but to raise his hand.

"And whose hand isn't going well?"

Zhang Huan raised his hand helplessly.

"Hmm...... There are only five cards in total, and it's a bit more of a matter of luck, would you like to learn a new way to play? ”

Everyone looked at him for some reason, and the expected lesson of Mr. to the students did not appear, but he wanted to play with everyone? Today, due to the temporary closure of classes, most of the students dispersed before noon. Only Zhang Huan was at a loss, because he would only be more depressed if he returned to the palace too early, and Wu Yuan naturally couldn't leave if he didn't leave, and then the pervert and Tian Xuhai didn't leave together, only Song Yi left because the Academy of Sciences sent someone to deliver a message. Boredom, the pervert took out this set of cards brought by the sailor from his pocket, and played the gambling game that had been circulated in the army back then. At first, the big guys were a little unable to let go, and when Zhang Huan had fun, he had no scruples, how could Zhao Zhi not watch the excitement when he encountered this situation, so there was the scene that Jiang Tian saw.

As for Professor Jiang Tian's gameplay, it is even more not simple: "I have a name for this kind of gameplay: Fighting the landlord!" ”

So the master and apprentice began to fight each other, relying on their skillful skills, Jiang Tian did not have many opportunities to paint ink on his face, but Liu Baokai and Tian Xuhai could not be spared. was playing on the head, and Xinyue came over there to spread the word that the Japanese had come to the door again.

Jiang Tian, who already had a few more beards on his cheeks, groaned slightly, and ignored the stunned Xinyue: "Let him wait for a while, just say that Master Jiang is discussing problems with the students, and he will go back later!" ”

He had the intention to dry the Japanese, but those people would not sing double reeds with him, or they had already wanted to leave, even if the enlightened gentleman would not fight cards with the students, they were afraid that Jiang Tian would have some punishment behind, so as soon as they heard that the Japanese were visiting, they asked for resignation, and Jiang Tian, who had no card friends, had to wash his face and come out to meet the guests.

This Fujiwara and Jiang Tian are also old acquaintances, and it stands to reason that they have more or less a little friendship, but in the hearts of these two people, they invariably regard each other as enemies, Jiang Tian looks at the Japanese in addition to the hostility in his bones, and at the same time there is a feeling of deceiving Kaizi. And the Japanese are not stupid for the Chinese and have a lot of money, and they are really sorry for themselves if they do not earn their money to supplement their families. The focus of their dispute last time was on the status of the Ryukyus, and Jiang Tian thought that he should not be harassed by Fujiwara before the Zheng family's fleet was launched, but he didn't expect the two to meet again so soon.

After the tea was served, the two sides had not exchanged a few words, and Fujiwara asked urgently: "Lord Jiang, I heard that the merchants of the Tokugawa family have landed!" ”

Jiang Tian took a sip of tea quietly, and then said unhurriedly: "You should ask the Ministry of Commerce?" ”

Fujiwara said with some discouragement: "I have already gone there once in the morning, but they said that the department has not received a specific report, and some businessmen are not enough to alarm Beijing, so they paid a special visit in the next day." ”

"That'...... What does this have to do with me? Jiang Tian already understood that the other party felt threatened because of the Tokugawa family's unusual behavior, and if the trade pattern that had been created with great difficulty was finally dominated by the Tokugawa family, what difference would it be from before?

"To tell you the truth, although Tokugawa controlled a silver mountain and some copper mines, there are still some minerals in the hands of the daimyo on our side, but they can't go ashore according to the normal procedures, so we want to reach an agreement with you privately, if we can trade directly with the Central Plains merchants without going through customs, then the price is negotiable."

Jiang Tian raised his eyebrows, and as soon as the good guy came up, he said that it was smuggling, which is not counting the feelings, they have a private treasure in their hands! A few days ago, I was crying poorly and told me that I could only exchange people and some other things for goods, but today it has become that as long as I can legally smuggle, I am willing to share dividends with myself, and this Japanese really don't shed tears when they don't see the coffin. However, although he didn't know what the Tokugawa family had brought to make them so nervous this time, he could at least use this incident to exert pressure.

"Don't go through the customs...... Jiang Tian pretended to mutter: "This is not very good, right?" Even if you use real money to do business, this customs is not under my control! ”

In fact, the new Interim Tariff Regulations clearly stipulate that the import of precious metals and currency does not need to pay tariffs, and the import tax on copper ore or copper products is much lower than that of ironware. So in addition to the private plan to sell people, it is very advantageous for little Japan to trade with these two specialties, Jiang Tian knows that they have all imagined reverse export, using cheap Nanyang rice to impact Japanese agriculture, and when their farmers are bankrupt, they can only choose to become miners or come to China to work, and the daimyo will gradually lose their leadership in their own territory after obtaining a steady stream of Chinese products. When a country's major consumer goods need to be imported, whoever can hold on to the source of goods is equivalent to actually controlling the country, just like the Americans in later generations. It was only during this period of time when the north was in a state of flux, and it was the critical moment when a large amount of grain was needed to stabilize prices, that this plan was not implemented, but another slow-working grain import plan was used to artificially create a famine in Japan.

Fujiwara knew that what Jiang Tian said was the truth, he had been observing the officialdom reform in the Central Plains these days, and he also saw that after the six ministries were split into a bunch of small yamen, the professional nature was stronger and not subordinate to each other, and the characteristic was that even if someone wanted to use power for personal gain across departments, it was impossible to get through so many links without too strong strength, so he naturally remembered Jiang Tian.

"Lord Jiang, we are also old friends, in fact, I know that your country urgently needs those copper to cast cannons, and we don't have many requirements, as long as we can get a very small part of those new artillery, how can the copper used to cast cannons pass through the customs? Besides, your country doesn't want to leave a truth. ”

Jiang Tian smiled slightly, he was laughing Fujiwara still hasn't figured out his identity, he wants to threaten China or threaten Zhang Tao, that is definitely the wrong person, he didn't give in when hundreds of thousands of Tartar soldiers pressed the border, and he didn't give in when the warlords and civil officials across the country attacked, Li Zicheng in the northwest and Zhang Xianzhong in the southwest, who of these people can suppress Zhang Tao? Your small island country also dares to negotiate terms with us, if it weren't for the limited capacity, Lao Tzu would directly sail to the world to mine stones, New Guinea, Australia, you can have everything. I still need to talk nonsense with you.

"Fujiwara-sama, don't forget, you want to secretly obtain arms, and the Tokugawa family can buy them from the Central Plains openly, if the truth overthrows the Tokugawa shogunate, how can you count on the income from trade? If you do offend those people in the court, are you sure they won't turn to Tokugawa to purge you? ”

Fujiwara was speechless when he said this, because the reality was here, and they were really not sure of winning with their strength, so they thought of coming to the Central Plains to seek support, but Jiang Tian was not wrong at all, for the Central Plains, it was the same for everyone to support, anyway, the life or death of the Japanese emperor had nothing to do with them, as long as they could make enough profits, who cared who was powerful in Japan? Thinking like this, he really has no qualifications to threaten the other party, and if he really wants to change the balance of strength, unless it is the full support of Nakahara or his Jiang Tian, it is impossible to overpower Tokugawa with this kind of petty trade alone.

Fujiwara, who finally knew his identity, was a little discouraged: "Then what does Master Jiang mean?" ”

Jiang Tian did not sympathize with him at all, and in a well-known saying of the Chinese: a weak country has no diplomacy. In the past, the Central Plains, which was a large family, had long forgotten the art of combining vertical and horizontal during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and even forgot the experience summed up by the ancestors, until later generations regained the wisdom of their ancestors with countless blood and tears, and gradually adapted to this world of the jungle. The name of one of the world's five hooligans is not something that can be obtained casually, and when the overall strength of New China begins to surpass Britain and France and gradually approach the United States, the Chinese are truly qualified to speak out in this world. To apply the current situation, if a handful of anti-government elements in small Japan want to overthrow the government and establish a new regime, they must hug China's thighs and let the suzerains send troops to support them when necessary.

"Whether it's copper or silver, you can bring it in, you still have to go through the customs, but you can change it to something else when you declare customs, we can find a secluded port to unload the goods, so that we can not only ensure the integrity of the system, but also strengthen the interests of both parties, as for how to transport muskets and cannons back, that's your business."

"That's easy to say!" As soon as he heard that Jiang Tian still did not close the door to cooperation, Fujiwara hurriedly agreed, anyway, Japan is surrounded by the sea, and no matter how strong his Tokugawa family is, it is impossible for him to look at all the small ports: "I just don't know if this price is ......"

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Jiang Tian waved his hand: "I still say the same thing about the price, you have to talk to King Ji, after all, arms are no better than others, and it is difficult to supply them in large quantities without attracting attention, and it is only possible with the participation of the military." ”

Jiang Tian is also familiar with this process, in fact, after the collapse of the Soviet Union in the later generations, those generals who held real power used military airports to engage in this kind of arms smuggling, and every time a military transport plane took off, it may mean that thousands of rifles and even various missiles flowed into the black market, and every time the plane landed, it brought various commodities that were in short supply in Russia, and these large-scale arms trade and imports were not approved by the Russian government. Even if the customs noticed the clues, they could not send investigators to the military base. What if a Japanese businessman made a customs declaration at Dagukou, saying that he had shipped a batch of folding fans from Japan, and then unloaded the goods directly at a certain consignee's wharf, which happened to be used by the military? So who knows whether it was a fan or a stone that unloaded the ship? Or even worse, directly at sea, for example, there are many small islands at the junction of the Bohai Bay and the Yellow Sea that can do this kind of thing, and it is not as troublesome as the Japanese think. However, Jiang Tian did not want to make things too clear, because only competition can promote growth, whether it is the dominance of the Tokugawa family or the opposition, it is not in China's national interests, only these two factions are evenly matched, and neither can achieve a decisive advantage, so that we can suck blood indefinitely until they die of anemic, and for this reason they do not hesitate to support another force, such as Christianity, which has always been obsessed with revenge. Wouldn't it be better to let the two peasants of the Fallen Shoguns and the Christians stage a fight against the landlords?

After sending the Japanese away, Jiang Tian hurriedly sent someone to the customs overnight to ask about the type and value of the goods carried by the Japanese merchant ships that had arrived in Hong Kong in recent days, and on the other hand, he stepped up the improvement of the stamping press and a series of supporting water conservancy machinery, especially the machine tools such as grinding, milling, planing, and boring. I don't know when I will be able to accumulate enough industrial equipment to cause qualitative changes, so Jiang Tian, who is pressed for time, is no longer idle, but begins to draw drawings without sleep or food. Strive to throw these high-end gadgets out directly when Old Man Song adjusts the production order.

Xinyue consciously acted as his assistant again, but after seeing those complicated drawings this time, Rao was still surprised when she already had a systematic understanding of science: "Sir! How can these things be extraordinary? ”

"It is indeed extraordinary, more than one grade more advanced than the equipment used by the Academy of Sciences before!" Jiang Tian didn't mean to hide it, anyway, the drawings would be asked like this when they arrived in Song Yi's hands.

"That'...... Why didn't you come up with these in the first place? ”

Jiang Tian raised his head and sighed: "Alas...... I thought that I would be able to stand alone in the world with the ability of the Academy of Sciences alone, but time was running out, and many projects could not be carried out due to productivity constraints, so I figured out that instead of insisting on a step-by-step process and letting you people who are like blank sheets of paper slowly draw it, it is better for me to do it one step at a time and leave the world behind for decades. When the rubber forests introduced by His Majesty back then became large-scale, I was ready to completely get rid of this kind of water conservancy machinery. ”

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