Volume 1 Chapter 12 Clarify Aspirations
After waiting for a while, Aunt Wu also ran over excitedly, said a few polite words, and went to help Liu Chen prepare a meal together.
Wow, Liu Xixian and Liu Xi'an drooled as they looked at the dishes on the table, and there were several meat dishes! I haven't eaten meat like this in years!
The two looked at Liu Ximing with adoring eyes, as if looking at an oversized chicken leg, and saw that Liu Ximing hit a spirit, why are your eyes gaygay.
As soon as he said that the meal was opened, a few boys immediately devoured it, and from time to time said "Well, it's delicious!" "It's delicious!" Fortunately, Liu Ximing secretly took some space vegetables to the kitchen, and lied that he would sell the rest, otherwise the dishes would really not be enough.
The Liu family is also a scholarly family, and they pay attention to food without saying anything, and people at a table eat in a muffled voice without mentioning it.
After eating, Liu Ximing divided half of the remaining pound of meat and asked Aunt Wu to take it back, and Aunt Wu hurriedly excused herself: "I only ate for nothing at night, how can I take some more!" ”
Hahaha, Liu Ximing smiled and stuffed it to her: "Aunt Wu, let you take it, you can take it, Brother Biao Zi helped me a lot today, and besides, it's not for nothing, I want to invite him to join me tomorrow!" ”
Aunt Wu still didn't agree, she said a few polite words, made an appointment for tomorrow, took the meat and went back with Li Biao.
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After seeing off the guests, the family of four sat in the hall with the money and cloth left over from today's food sale on the table. Liu Chen counted carefully, and there were still seven cents of broken silver and nearly five hundred copper coins, and he couldn't help but be happy in his heart: "I sold so much today!" ”
Liu Ximing smiled in his heart, and silently estimated that he and Li Biao carried more than 100 catties of vegetables, plus they secretly took them out of the space, and it was estimated that they sold for about 200 catties, 8 yuan per catty, almost 1700 or 800 yuan. It cost 900 wen to buy cloth, 180 wen to buy meat, and dozens of wen to eat with Li Biao by boat, which is roughly the right amount.
Seeing that he had so much money, Liu Chen was happy, touched a few pieces of cloth and said to his three sons: "Go back and sew a dress for each of you!" Our day has finally come to an end, this is all blessed by the immortals and ancestors, come, kowtow a few times together! ”
Liu Ximing told Liu Chen about his uncle's relief today, and Liu Chen's eyes turned red: "You don't know, our family borrowed two taels of silver from your uncle's family before and didn't pay it back!" ”
Liu Ximing sighed even more in his heart, or the ancients always said that his aunt and uncle, this sentiment is not ordinary, so he comforted Liu Chen's again: "Mother, it's okay, wait for us to exchange the debt in front of us first, and I will invite my uncle's family to come over and enjoy happiness sooner or later when it is developed!" ”
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The night was deep, the lights in Zhangjiawan were extinguished, but Liu Ximing was tossing and turning in bed and couldn't sleep, on the one hand, he was a little excited about selling vegetables smoothly today, and on the other hand, what happened in Fucheng today really made him a modern person sigh.
In a flash, Liu Ximing appeared in the space palace, and he looked up at the statue of Emperor Ziwei in a daze.
The scenes of the day are constantly flashing before my eyes, the tired bodies of the peasants, the wrinkled faces of the fishermen, the immature figures of the begging girls, and the numb and desperate eyes of the refugees, all of which are in stark contrast to the wild laughter of the rich and the powerful.
In fact, as a modern person who has received all kinds of information shock, Liu Ximing knows that the evil of human nature has always been like this, but it is one thing to know, and it is another thing to really see the wreak havoc in front of his eyes.
You must know that modern society is constrained by the law and group public opinion, so that this evil of human nature cannot act recklessly under the sun. But in this day and age, the so-called law is really just the law of the king.
Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Meng Dynasty, himself had a heart for the people, and he formulated the Great Edict to restrict bureaucrats and protect the common people, but Lao Zhu was only a peasant after all, and his ideology and ideology were limited by his insight and the times.
Heaven let him come to this era, is it really just a coincidence, Liu Ximing looked at the red light that appeared from time to time on the sculpture of Emperor Ziwei, and was uncertain.
To tell the truth, Liu Ximing also had a crooked three palaces and six courtyards before crossing over, and often longed to replace the protagonist in the novel to kill the Quartet, but when it came to the Meng Dynasty, as an ordinary person, he was at a loss all of a sudden, just like most people know that entrepreneurship is good, a good idea today, a good idea tomorrow, but when he is really asked to actually do it, most people have to coax.
However, now that he has space in hand, the confidence in Liu Ximing's heart is gradually rising. What's the matter, other people take kitchen knives, you take Gatling, are you still going to be like this? If you don't do something, do you have to count on Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and the little pigtails in the future?
Mencius, who has been around for 2,000 years, dared to say to the world: "In today's world, if you want to rule the world peacefully, who else can you give it to me!" "Brother, as the son of destiny of this Yuan, what is there to be afraid of, do it! Anyway, it's impossible to work part-time, and your own fate still has to be in your own hands.
Liu Ximing gradually made a decision in his heart, I don't know if it is an illusion, the red light on this sculpture seems to be thicker?
Out of the space, Liu Ximing lit the oil lamp and decided to write down some things that came to mind while his thoughts were clear.
Well, first of all, to make money. Money and money are linked to life, whether it is recruiting troops in the future, or doing anything else, you need a lot of money, you have space, and you can complete the original accumulation through planting in the early stage.
But I am afraid that I can't save much of my family business just by relying on the money from farming, especially when I want to explode troops in the future. It has been a few days since he came to the Meng Dynasty, and Liu Ximing also has a general understanding of the prices in this era.
The average small family needs about fifteen taels of silver a year. If you want to recruit soldiers, each soldier needs at least one tael of silver a month, which is twelve taels a year, plus food, ordnance, clothing and other consumables, it is estimated that it will cost twenty taels a year to raise a soldier, and a thousand people will cost 20,000 taels of silver a year.
I'm hot, this fucking gold-swallowing monster.
Of course, you can also reduce the salary, and you should be able to recruit people in this world, after all, the border army is now known as one or two a month, and it is estimated that it will only be seven or eight dollars of silver after being deducted at all levels, but in this way, the combat strength of the army is bound to be unguaranteed.
Damn, it's no wonder that in the late Meng Dynasty, the army generals mainly relied on their families to fight, and it was too expensive to raise soldiers.
My own space is only ten acres of land, and it looks very profitable to grow vegetables at present, but today I went to Fucheng and Liu Ximing saw the problem, it is too time-consuming to sell in bulk, and there are not too many restaurants like Zui Xianju, and it is estimated that it will take a few months to sell this batch of vegetables, so that it will be at most one or two thousand taels of silver a year.
It seems that it is necessary to open up financial resources, and if the time is right, it must be supported by the development of industry.
Secondly, he is only fourteen years old now, and it is obviously not realistic to directly develop much power, besides, after experiencing the affairs of Fucheng, and listening to the chatter between his uncle and Chen Jianzhang, Liu Ximing suddenly realized that if you don't have an official identity in this world, you are afraid that if you accumulate a little family property, it will be swallowed clean, so he said to his uncle, "I know the wonder of fame today."
It is still necessary to study more while you are young and strive to be famous. Although it is very difficult for modern people to learn these things, but the memory of his predecessor, coupled with the assistance of spiritual water, has continued to drink it in the past few days, Liu Ximing feels that his memory is getting better and better, and his mind is getting smarter and smarter, as long as he works hard, he is not unable to fight.
And in the process of reading, you can also see if there are scholars who can develop, China's thousands of years of history tell Liu Ximing a truth, the rebellion without the participation of intellectuals will either fail, or will eventually be stolen by the civilian class, and eventually become what it is now!
Yes, Liu Ximing waved his fist, after such a calculation, his advantages are great, of course, the disadvantages are also obvious, but as long as the goal is clear and the method to achieve the goal is determined, the rest depends on hard work and providence.
The current essentials of action: obscene development, don't wave!