"Little Δ said."

Li Xiangqian doesn't care much about these things, if he says that his expectations for the future, after unifying the earth, it is estimated that he will gradually hide behind the world and be a behind-the-scenes mastermind, and, with their lifespan, he will withdraw from the core of power, it is estimated that it will be a long time, so to speak, the reason why he left the center of power is more likely to be the result of being excluded.

There seemed to be some kind of instinct, and the two knew that they had to keep their distance from each other, but after a pleasant greeting, An Lan led a small official next to him and brought Park Dehuan from another room.

Park Dehuan changed into a very formal dress, looking serious and a little bloated, but the person looked solemn, he walked up to Li Xiangqian and said respectfully: "North Korean envoy Park Dehuan has seen Elder Li. ”

"Hmm...... No need to be polite, hundreds of miles of toil, sit down. Li Xiangqian didn't know how to say those high-sounding words on this occasion, but it was nothing more than those polite words.

"How dare you."

After Park Dehuan entered Beijing, he heard the original words that within the imperial capital, Li Zicheng's original army was useless, and the two Niu and Li appointed by him were also errands, really in charge of things, and the powerful and omnipotent people were these people who claimed to be immortals, but they also really had great magical powers, and they liked to be called elders by others.

So, naturally, these so-called elders must be the objects of their favor, but when anyone knows that the number of so-called elders is actually hundreds, no one can stop lamenting and despairing, how can this go through the back door.

That is, you can only catch all the vegetables in your hands, at least the one in front of you seems to look calm and relaxed, not a small character.

Li Xiangqian should not have come to get involved in this kind of "diplomatic" affairs, but who let the so-called diplomacy in this era is basically military strength behind the scenes, and he does have a need to talk to these North Koreans.

"I don't know how the king of your country is, is he in good health, a few days ago in Shenyang, I sent my son out of the cage and returned to Pyongyang, I really think about it, it seems like a long time has passed."

"Ah, are you the general who has always been obsessed with the prince and swept away Liaodong," Park Dehuan seemed to be very excited, with a little flattery, knelt on the ground, and said: "On behalf of the millions of Korean people, I have thanked the elders." ”

"Where, where."

Li Xiangqian frowned, this was obviously rehearsed a long time ago, every line and every movement, in this way, anyone who watched it would feel that this salute and gratitude were all choreographed things, thinking of the other party's actions at this time and in the future, he sighed in his heart, didn't say anything, pointed to his seat, and said, "Please take a seat." ”

"I don't know what happened when the envoy came to the imperial capital this time."

When Pu Dehuan heard this, he seemed to be very sympathetic and said: "The minister is here, first, for the national funeral of the Ming Emperor, because of the long distance, and the barbarian man blocking the way, so he did not catch up with the national funeral, and I also ask the elders to allow me to wait and cry before the tomb of the Emperor Daxing." ”

"No problem, go ahead."

For this point, Chongzhen is a funeral, the source of the legitimacy of their regime, even at this time, it is also a gentleman's frank expression, you can come at will, of course, more importantly, a few princes, but they live in the imperial capital openly, countless ministers can watch it, if in this case, there are still countless third princes of Zhu are dangling, he believes in evil.

Park Dehuan continued: "And the national gift, I want to enter the palace to see Prince Cihong, I don't know ......"

Li Xiangqian thought about Zhu Cihong, who was silent every day, but also asked and answered, and could even draw inferences from many basic knowledge of later generations, and sighed in his heart, and said: "Of course there is no problem, but the prince still has to read every day, and the specific time is not up to me to decide, I will help you ask, when you are free, arrange for you to meet." ”

This matter is very important to the North Koreans, Li Xiangqian understands, after all, it is a three-hundred-year-old vassal, if the Korean royal family shows indifference to the Ming Dynasty, and only thinks about hugging the thighs of the new court wholeheartedly, it will inevitably be despised by Li Xiangqian and others, so it is just right, just like a small employee of the original company that went bankrupt, although he had to cry a few times in front of the old owner, saying that the collapse of the old company was not his own reason, and he was a down-to-earth, honest and motivated person, it was too cunning.

Pu Dehuan seemed to be very grateful, and said, "Thank you, Venerable Elder Li. ”

Li waved his hand forward, indicating that he didn't care very much, but he didn't care about anything, the so-called friendship between countries is always where the strength lies.

"Let's talk about it this way, now, our Central Plains has been regarded as a change of dynasty, so where will this North Korea go in the future, what do you say?"

Pu Dehuan said: "Ah, of course Park is willing to follow the Celestial Empire, this is nothing to say, but such a big thing is not something I can call the shots." ”

"Mmmm, understand, understand, our Confucian cultural circle has this problem, there is not much ability, the keyboard warrior in the back, I like to command the people who really work on the front line behind the scenes."

Li Xiangqian thought of the previous incidents, in the culture of the Chinese people, they did not regard diplomats as important figures, they thought that they were robots like repeaters, but in fact, there was a lot of knowledge in it.

"Confucian cultural circle?"

This word, in fact, waited a long time, and there were Europeans and Americans from Europa, who called themselves the Christian cultural circle, and naturally several East Asian countries were instilled into the so-called Confucian cultural circle.

Li waved his hand forward, signaling that he didn't have to care, and said: "Okay, the following things are the most important, let's carry forward the past and forge ahead into the future, after all, in the future, the two countries will have exchanges, so let's talk about the future." ”

"Obey the elder's instructions, and Park will naturally bring the original words to my king."

Anyway, he is a lowly official, just a maid with the housekeeper's key, and he can't do enough to speak, just say whatever you say.

"Well, I gave you North Korea in the entrusted class, and won a list of ten places, this is not simple, ten people, enough to enter the senior civil service sequence in the future, you go back and arrange it, let your family king, select ten, young, but relatively intelligent, brave to accept new things, come to study with me."

"This ......" What Park Dehuan didn't expect was that his first task was actually a nursery for a student, but he couldn't make the decision, so he said: "Okay, follow the elder's orders, it's just ......"

Li waved his hand forward and said: "I also know that the king of your family can send out, but I am afraid that they are all two classes of nobles, so I can't say anything, after all, now, the whole world is an era when aristocrats are dominant, and if the commoners want to come out, they have to wait until the era of equal rights in education, so for the convenience of doing things, although it is good to send those nobles with high status, the status is higher, and it is easier to do things, isn't it." ”

This is also a helpless thing, in such a fucking era, that is, China and Europe, relying on a huge volume, but also with a part of the social resources, to feed a bunch of civilians to study, not to mention anything else, the imperial examination of the Ming Dynasty, but there has never been a lack, the previous generation is a farmer, relying on a private school, the IQ is too high, the trick is opened, and the continuous fight in the examination room, the last move to win the championship is a good thing.

Rich food production capacity, paper production capacity, convenient transportation, however, is still on the eve of a small country like North Korea, which is a very normal thing.

Park Dehuan only felt that his mind was buzzing, and he didn't dare to answer, but he just said something, Li Xiangqian continued: "There is another thing, before, your younger brother, Mr. Park Demeng, he said that some people in North Korea want to do some tobacco business, and this intention is good, but with such a little tobacco, don't open any tobacco shops, it's too funny, but this business activity can be promoted." ”

He suddenly smiled and said, "As far as I know, in your mission, except for your own little servant, basically all the accompanying businessmen pretend to take the opportunity to do business, right, this is a bit too much, I raised my hands to support free trade." ”

Nonsense, even in the 21st century, free trade is greatly beneficial to China, and he certainly supports it.

Although Park Dehuan doesn't understand the words freedom and trade, why can they be added together, but after all, the Chinese language family is a bit too powerful, and you only need to think about it casually to know that this is going to do a lot of business.

Pu Dehuan trembled and said: "Elder, how can this businessman become a grand event, business is a cheap business." ”

Li Xiangqian smiled and said, "In my place, or in the future, the legitimate rights and interests of businessmen are still protected, huh...... Let's put it this way, in the future, it is impossible to require merchants to pay protection fees, take commissions, and dry shares in order to do business. ”

"But, but ......" Pu Dehuan seemed to be a little unwilling, although he also knew that his younger brother represented the will of some people to negotiate with the general of the Celestial Empire, but in the end, doing business relied on white gloves and relied on the running of slave merchants who were sacrificed to the door, and they were scholars who naturally did not need to dirty their hands to reap the benefits.

Li Xiangqian said: "Actually, it's very simple, the money you collect, those businessmen will not suffer losses themselves, but they have to go through careful calculations, and the cost cost will be accounted for in the cost of selling, and in the end, it is the common people and ordinary people who suffer and share the money equally." ”

"But ......"

Although Pu Dehuan didn't understand the trick of accounting calculations, he still knew the truth that the wool came from the sheep, but he was still unwilling to show weakness, and continued: "However, Elder Li, these merchants, walk the streets and alleys all day long, wandering around, they rely on hoarding, opportunism, and the money they get buy brocade clothes and jade food, and swagger through the market. ”

"Ah......h

Li Xiangqian never thought that someone would think like this, he thought about the relationship for a while, and said strangely: "But how to say it, it is also hard and legal...... Well, most of the time it's legal, people's money, how should it not be divided, after paying taxes according to law, the state will give protection, which is very normal, to you, how do you protect. ”

Pu Dehuan said: "But in this way, isn't it that people's hearts are not ancient, and they are unwilling to read poetry and books." ”

I see, Li Xiangqian understood the trick.

In ancient times, the Chinese understood that business can bring great wealth, but the confusion brought by this wealth is not what they like, and stability is the key, so it is.

This is also a little bit of their dark thoughts, since they want to spread ideology, they naturally want to give people some benefits, and "reading the books of sages" can get benefits, and they are naturally respected, but now, a group of guys who don't read books, by buying low and selling high, can live a better life than those who study hard all day long, why.

From the perspective of social fairness and civilians, this is very helpless and shameless, although businessmen are greedy and like to raise prices, but that is an economic thing, which belongs to institutional management, and this is a class.

However, we finally caught the reason why the so-called order of Shinong industry and commerce was established not only because of the unstable behavior brought by commercial behavior to society, but also because of the ideological impact it bringed.

It's really shocking, Li Xiangqian thought about those high-sounding words, sighed, and made trouble for a long time, the reason is actually very simple.

"The real royal road is to create more wealth, feed more people, and more people who are separated from primary production through industry and commerce, so that a civilized society can be established."

Li Xiangqian doesn't know what he's talking about, he has always tried to use as few words as possible for the ancients of these new time and space, looking at Park Dehuan in the fog, Li Xiangqian said: "You didn't understand it, it's nothing, remember my words when you go back, the future society, although there will still be some core culture as the main axis, but mercantilism is essential, at the very least, it is necessary to protect legal businessmen and crack down on illegal businessmen, well, what am I telling you to do this, you are a talker." ”

Li Xiangqian realized that he seemed to talk a little too much, so he eased up and continued: "You North Korea, there is a place called Zhenhai, which can be said to be very suitable for transforming into a military port, and Zhenhai Naval Port is ...... Well, in short, we will send a few competent people to survey the place, and prepare to transform it into a military port, and you go back and tell your king that we want to ...... Rent it for now. ”

"Lending? Zhenhai, where is Zhenhai. ”