"Listening to your words is better than reading a book for ten years!"

Emperor Hongzhi's eyes flashed with light, and when he looked at Liu Jin, he was full of appreciation, it was incredible that he was so young and had such a deep insight into balance and system.

How many years have I been the emperor, the game of thrones has long been played, but there is always no way to form a systematic understanding, and now when I hear it, I have an epiphany.

"Don't dare, don't dare, I'm just picking people's teeth."

Liu Jin smiled and shook his head and said, this is the truth, his knowledge will be rotten in the future life, any person who comes out can blow with you for three days and three nights, if you really let Liu Jin summarize something, Liu Jin will definitely be black-eyed.

"Liu Gongzi is modest, I knew that Gongzi was erudite and talented when he looked at the Moon Tower, and after coming to Xishan today, he knew that Gongzi had the talent of the heavens and latitudes, just take this small honeycomb coal as an example, which not only solves the difficulties of the people in Beijing to heat and use fire in winter, but also allows the tens of thousands of displaced people to have a job to survive this difficult winter, and they can also earn real money by relying on this honeycomb coal, which is really admirable."

Du Mingen, who was on the side, pointed to the busy Xishan and said with a smile: "Liu Gongzi and Mr. Zhu are really, there is such a way to make money and they don't call me, it's a pity, I missed the gold and silver mountains!" ”

"Mr. Du has won the award, he has won the award~"

Liu Jin replied modestly again, then thought about it and said, "Let's sit down and have a cup of tea and talk slowly, you came here today, presumably for the sake of the fleet's trip to the Golden Continent." ”

"Well, this Golden Continent is thousands of miles away from our Daming, this sea is turbulent, the wind and waves are rough, and we naturally have to discuss the affairs of this fleet."

Du Mingen nodded and said.

Soon, under the leadership of Liu Jin, everyone came to the courtyard where Liu Jin lived, and sat down around a round table in the middle of the courtyard.

"Liu Gongzi, this matter of the fleet to the Golden Continent, Mr. Zhu and I are also preparing for it, Mr. Zhu has great powers, and he has already obtained ten large fortune ships in a few months, and they are currently moored in Tianjin Port."

"My side has also prepared the relevant supplies and so on, but in terms of manpower, I am really ashamed, because it is too dangerous to go to the Golden Continent, even if my side has already offered a high salary, it still only recruits less than 100 experienced sailors."

When Du Mingen came, he had already communicated with Emperor Hongzhi's side, and learned about their respective preparations, and now it can be said that everything is ready, only the east wind is owed, the ship is there, and the materials are also available, but the people are missing.

Originally, it must be easy to do things if you have money, as long as the money is scattered, there must be a lot of people who are willing to work hard, but Du Mingen remembers what Liu Jin told him that going to the Golden Continent not only requires people who are willing to work hard, but also needs experienced sailors, so they can't recruit people indiscriminately.

Although he Du Mingen is rich, it will be very difficult to recruit qualified sailors and make the other party willing to travel thousands of miles to the Golden Continent.

"This is a problem, if it is an ordinary person, it can be recruited by tens of thousands of people casually, but this qualified sailor is not so easy to recruit."

"What's more, this time to go to the Golden Continent, the way is very dangerous, there may be no return, and no one wants to go."

Emperor Hongzhi also nodded after hearing this, according to the original agreement, he was responsible for this ship, and Du Mingen was responsible for the materials and manpower, so he didn't care about this part, now thinking about it, it seems that it is really difficult to recruit qualified people.

"I'll solve this manpower problem, there are too many people here in Xishan, and I'm worried that there is no place to deal with it."

Liu Jin hurriedly said when he heard this.

"It's... Liu Gongzi, didn't you say that the people who go to the Golden Continent must be carefully selected, although the people here in Xishan are very good at digging coal, but with all due respect, it seems to be far from what Liu Gongzi said about careful selection. ”

When Du Mingen heard this, he immediately said suspiciously.

"Of course, I know that going to the Golden Continent requires not only courage, but also professional skills and abilities, you may not know, here in Xishan, they work during the day and need to take night classes at night, and my three students and I will give them lectures."

"So last year, there were thousands of people working in Xishan, each of whom could know hundreds of words, be able to calculate some slightly more complex numbers, and even taught me some simple geography and astronomical knowledge, and more importantly, I told them about the prosperity and richness of the world outside the Ming Dynasty, and many of them were very eager to have the opportunity to go to the world outside the Ming Dynasty."

"In terms of aspects, they are definitely very qualified candidates, with a strong will, and also have a certain amount of knowledge, of course, many of these people have not been exposed to sailing, so they need to be pulled to Tianjin for special targeted training, I believe it will not take too long to become a qualified sailor."

Liu Jin nodded solemnly, and then explained his thoughts and opinions in detail.

"I see, if these people can read and hyphenate, and can also know some astronomy and geography, with a little training, they can indeed become suitable sailors."

After listening to this, Du Mingen thought about it and nodded in agreement, the 100 sailors he recruited, although they were familiar with the affairs of the ship, but all of them were illiterate, if you really want to talk about it, it is not the right number, but it is not enough to know how to operate the ship, if you don't have knowledge reserves, it is still not good.

"Liu Gongzi is thoughtful, and he actually teaches these homeless people to read and hyphenation, which is really admirable."

Liu Jian couldn't help but pay tribute to Liu Jin, in this era, any knowledge will not be easily passed on, reading requires a lot of expenses, and paying a lot of money can let the master teach you to read and break words.

Now Liu Jin has taken the initiative to teach people to read and hyphenate for free, and pass on knowledge, which is really admirable.

"It's nothing, it's just that when I was managing Xishan Coal Industry, I found a lot of problems, which have no knowledge, and people who can't read and write can only do some simple manual work, and when they are slightly required to do some difficult, technical work, it is difficult for them to do it well."

"So I thought about teaching them literacy and hyphenation, and imparting some simple knowledge to them, so that it would be much easier to use."

Liu Jin smiled and shook his head, if you want to engage in industrial production in this era, the employees under this hand must know some words and master a certain amount of knowledge, otherwise it will be like a tall building in the air, it will not work after all.

"I see, I said that you Xishan always give people a different feeling, and they all use people who can read and hyphenate."

Du Mingen suddenly came to his senses, and suddenly seemed to understand something.