Chapter 15: Two Scholars
After Daochang Kuang arranged for Liren and them, he said to the two brothers: "Ren'er Xin'er, there will be no danger on this island, you have almost learned, here are the "Seven Techniques of the Yin Fu of the Benjing" left for the teacher, and the "Guiguzi" two masters, as well as my annotated minutes, in the future, you two brothers will study on your own, and you should take your junior brothers and nephews with you while studying." And your little sister. ”
In the first two days, Daochang Kuang saw that Li Hai and other beggars had a lot of materials to make, and by the way, they were included in the door wall, and Liren and Lixin had a few more brothers, Li Yuan saw that his brothers were accepted, and he was unwilling, so he found the chief of the mine to explain the reason, and Daochang Kuang saw that the girl was cute, and made an exception to accept Li Yuan as a registered disciple.
After Liren and Lixin agreed to the master, Daochang Kuang nodded happily and said mysteriously as he left: "The teacher knows that you have recovered your memory, don't be too willful in doing things in the future, and give others a way to live, which is regarded as leaving a way to live for yourself." Later, Xin'er figured it out and went to Lizhou Yunwu Mountain to find a teacher. After the teacher leaves, you can let go of your hands and feet and do it yourself, just to say to you, don't hurt the Taoist people, and finally leave you a map for the teacher, which is the last treasure left by the Tang Dynasty. Well, the teacher has done everything, and that's it. It's time for you to go your own way. ”
Liren and Lixin looked at each other, kowtowed three times to this master in this world, Kuang Daochang smiled and took off, Liren and Lixin now knew that their master was a person among the immortals, so they knelt down and bowed sincerely in the direction of the master's drift.
Because it was a lot of people from small fishing villages during the day, when they saw the newly arrived Kuang Daochang flying away, they all shouted that they had seen the immortals, and they all ran to Liren and asked them, and when they learned that Liren and Lixin were the disciples of Kuang Daochang, they knelt down and worshiped the little immortals.
After Li Ren and Li Xin persuaded the villagers to leave, they sat in the tent and thought about what to do in the future, thinking that in the end, Li Ren made a decision, now it is mainly all the basic food, although his father will send a lot every month, but it is obviously not enough to keep his head in this era. Lixin added: "On the island we have a base, and now there is all the basic goods that have not been developed, Chaozhou, as far as I know, tin, silver, pyrite, iron, phosphate rock, crystal, potassium feldspar and kaolin, granite. The imperial court already has a silver mine in Chaozhou, and no one else has touched it yet, but I don't know the exact location. ”
When Li Ren heard this, he said: "It's mainly iron ore, but now we don't have enough manpower, and there are no craftsmen, I used to read on the Internet about how to make steel, but now I don't have anything." After thinking about it, Liren said: "I have been to the Sichuan Zhuge Temple, and I have also played with the copied Zhuge crossbow, I want to find me a few carpenters and I can copy it." ”
When Li Xin heard that he could copy the Zhuge crossbow, he couldn't close his mouth happily. Immediately, he said, "Isn't it that the eldest brother is going to build a house, just let my father find some carpenters, but it is better to move the family over." ”
Li Ren laughed: "Now it's better to do something to make some money first." ”
Li Xin was stunned: "Didn't the master leave a treasure map, why don't we go back and take out the treasure?" Li Ren slapped his head with reason: "You are very stupid, it's not that you haven't read the map, in the Qinling Mountains, now the war between the Jin and Song countries is ordinary, and it is not enough for us to go to death, let alone bring treasures." ”
Li Xin only now thought that he was at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, and he was almost finished everywhere, and he was depressed: "Then what are we going to do?" ”
Liren said, "What do you say is the fastest money? Rationale thought to himself: "You mean, rob? ”
Li Ren smiled evilly: "You are not stupid this time, but we have to train them for half a year first, and we need to find more people to flee from the north, and it is best that there are only one or two left in the whole family." ”
Lixin praised the eldest brother very much: "High! It's really high! ”
After Kwong Daochang left, Li Ren and Li Xin are now completely resurrected. First he sent his servants back to his father to ask him for a large number of craftsmen of all kinds, and through his father he asked for a large number of people who had fled, and he had to carefully select among these fleeing people, and finally there were about 500 craftsmen.
After the five hundred people came, Liren and Lixin saw that in addition to the craftsman who had a family, the others were either two brothers and sisters, or one was single, and a few of them were dressed like down-and-out scholars.
The brothers are very suspicious, are there any scholars who sell themselves? I asked various scholars, only to learn that these scholars were poor in their families, and they failed to succeed in the two consecutive examinations, and the last time they had no money to honor the named officials at the door, they were directly driven out. Now I can't open the pot at home, and when I saw the notice of the recruiter in the state government, I brought my family to take refuge, and there were a few of them, because I heard that I was going to come to a desert island, so I was afraid and didn't come.
As soon as Liren looked at it and talked to these down-and-out literati, in the words, these scholars had not yet been corrupted by the ideology of etiquette, Liren nodded: "Hmm! Yes, but for what they will do in the future, these scholars will have to do a lot of ideological and political work. ”
After setting up tents for these 500 people, the wood and masonry brought from Chaozhou also arrived, Li Ren and Li Xin were on the beach, writing and drawing, thinking about how to build their first base, at this time there were two down-and-out scholars, one named Chen Lin and the other named Zhang Yue, who were very curious, came behind them and watched and listened to what they said, and at first they heard that it was to build houses, but the more they listened, the more wrong they became.
Zhang Yue looked at Chen Lin, Chen Lin looked at Zhang Yue, and nodded to each other. Zhang Yue said behind the two brothers: "What kind of house do the sons want to build? ”
Rihito and Lixin had long been aware that someone was behind them, and in order to test the thoughts of the comer, they continued to say their true thoughts.
Li Ren smiled when he heard the voice behind him, and didn't turn his head and said, "I don't know what Mr. thinks is good to build?" ”
Zhang Yue spoke first: "If the sons want to build an ordinary house, they can find any craftsman to know, it can be seen that the sons have carefully planned, and the house they built must not be an ordinary house, it should belong to the pre-defense and pre-attack building." I am not willing to give Chen Lin a word to the sons. ”
Liren and Lixin stood up, and Lixin smiled at the two scholars and said, "Both, I don't know if you have any good suggestions?" But it doesn't hurt to say that. ”
Chen Lin said first: "Sons with all due respect, if the sons only seek self-preservation, which desert island is more than enough, if the sons want to dominate one side, this desert island is not the ideal place, first, there is no buffer in this place, once it is attacked, it will be lost." Second, there are no resources, no minerals, no people, and it will develop and eventually perish here. Zhang Yue nodded beside him and said, "What Brother Chen said is very true. ”
Li Xin leaned on his brother with his hand, and after contemplation, Li Ren saluted Chen Lin and Zhang Yue and said, "Why don't you ask the two gentlemen to teach me." Chen Lin and Zhang Yue were very happy to see this young man being polite. Zhang Yue said to Chen Lin: "Brother Chen, please first." Chen Lin nodded and said seriously: "Although this island is very large, it can accommodate tens of thousands of people. First of all, water sources are a problem, which cannot solve the daily consumption of tens of thousands of people, and moreover, it is difficult to make a major breakthrough in the case of insufficient water sources for growing food. Then there is the fact that iron is something that we must solve, and without iron there is no weapon, and there is no tool for farming. These three things are not a threat to the current population of less than 1,000 people. However, in order to develop and grow, it is difficult to achieve great development if we are not self-sufficient in basic materials. ”
Zhang Yue nodded to himself after seeing Chen Lin finish speaking, and added: "Now I have two suggestions, I don't know if I should talk about it or not?" ”
Li Ren is very impressed now, and thought in his heart: "There are still many people with lofty ideals in the Southern Song Dynasty, and they just look at the problem differently." After thinking about it, he saluted Zhang Yue again: "Sir, it's okay to talk about it." ”
Zhang Yue smiled: "These two suggestions, first, the early development of Gongzi can be on this island, but we have to use the elite soldier policy, what is the elite soldier I think Gongzi should know better than me." Second, after development, we should choose another place that is more developed, but we should avoid the imperial court and not have a direct head-on conflict with him. In this way, in five years, we will have the strength to confront the imperial court head-on. ”
After listening to this, Li Xin said to Zhang Yue: "Two gentlemen, isn't it a rebellion for us to do this? ”
Zhang Yue laughed: "Rebellion? Could it be that the two sons are now recruiting private soldiers and cultivating military generals, isn't it a rebellion? Besides, what is there to be afraid of rebellion, the court is in charge, and the people are in the dark, shouldn't they rebel? I only hate that scholars like me don't have the power to restrain chickens, and it's difficult to rebel. ”
Li Ren stopped Li Xin with his hand and spoke again, and bowed to Chen Lin and Zhang Yue: "Please help me and wait for the two gentlemen in the future, I wonder if the gentlemen can agree?" ”
Chen Lin and Zhang Yue both bowed to Li Ren and shouted in unison: "Lord, please accept Chen Lin (Zhang Yue)'s worship." ”
Li Ren hurriedly helped the two gentlemen up, laughed and said loudly: "Now I have Mr. to help, Ren, the big thing can be done." ”
Later, on the beach, I heard four people laughing unpassionately.
From then on, Liren arranged Chen Lin to be responsible for the operation of funds and buying people's hearts, and Zhang Yue to be responsible for internal construction and the allocation of materials. Rixin is responsible for the establishment of the medical system and the supervision of weapons, while Rihito himself trains elite soldiers and teaches reserve generals, and all basic affairs are carried out in an orderly manner.