After three rounds of drinking, and then half full, Ye Guotai had a master who arranged for a singer to accompany him, and Grandpa Bao refused after thinking about it again and again, not that he didn't have this heart, but that it was really inappropriate today.

Promised Father-in-law Bao to introduce the big businessmen of Guangzhou and even the surrounding state capitals to Father-in-law Bao, in fact, through Zheng Zhilong, the procurement of many bulk commodities has been smooth, but it is better to establish personal contacts and have official guarantees.

Just holding on to their order, the best moment to give up the preparation, is enough to make them feel uncomfortable.

Compared with the British, who robbed all the way, robbed the Chinese, and planned to sell to the Chinese, the elders as their own people, there are still some advantages in doing business, Hong Kong at this time is already a military station and a trading house, compared to Macau, Hong Kong's waterways are better, the port is more suitable for mooring sea ships, of course, food and water are big problems.

Bao Gonggong only took over the task called friendship, which is actually a task of eating and drinking, as long as he comes to eat and drink, and agrees on a time for those businessmen to go to Hong Kong to negotiate specific orders.

Father-in-law Bao came here just to make a front stop and prove that he and the others were not red-haired people who drank blood, nor were they rude and ignorant bad people, but real businessmen, and this was enough.

The rest of the things are naturally done by the leaders in charge.

Of course, Ye Guotai and other Guangdong officials still made good words to appease them, and as the elders who planned to fundamentally replace and destroy these Confucian scholars, they would not be stingy to say a few empty words and clichés to appease them.

As for how to divide the money behind them, this is not his concern.

However, Ye Guotai finally asked: "By the way, my lord, some people have been trafficked from the imperial capital recently, most of them are just jokes that make people laugh, but there is such a Dream of Red Mansions, but it is also a little extraordinary, I don't know if Master Bao knows this book." ”

At this time, most of them are manipulated by the elders, but after review, they are sold, except for those science fiction and romance that are too out of the times, most of the others are mainly martial arts, mixed with a little classical detective.

Of course, comics still don't dare to take too big steps, so far the more popular is Cai Zhizhong's Journey to the West series, as well as Zhuangzi said, Lao Tzu said, Liezi said, etc., it is a little difficult to localize these things.

There is a guiding ideology here, in terms of ideology, we must oppose those decadent ideas, and at the same time introduce more of their advanced science and technology, not too shocking, it is best to be a little more enthusiastic, so far the progress is really not much, that is, Dragon Ball as the first plate, began to test sell, and what kind of old boy appeared in Hong Kong in later generations, the legend of the Son of Heaven, Chinese heroes, how to look at the background of the times is not quite right.

Of course, in the case that the Council of Elders will never spread the word, and whoever says it will die, in fact, the best seller is so many delicate rivers and mountains that allude to the corruption of officials in the Jiajing period of the previous dynasty, and its loving description simply made the people cheer and be obsessed.

In addition, the sales of many *** paintings are also good, and comics are not, which are more suitable for illiterate or illiterate ordinary people.

Father-in-law Bao didn't know much about this, but he knew that the imperial capital was planning to carry out a beauty pageant, and he was thinking that after returning to the imperial capital as soon as possible, he would take the opportunity to spend money, and this kind of fun could not be taken advantage of.

"Oh, this seems to have been written by a colleague, who is himself from the Ministry of Culture, so his ability is still good."

"That's good, where is this Wu Caizi from, and when is he a lifter, I have never heard of it before."

The imperial examination in this era is not the legendary poor scholar carrying a basket to catch the exam, most of them are rich people hugging each other, riding a boat, riding a carriage, walking through the pipeline, where are there so many bad people encountered in the wild, it is nothing more than a YY essay written by Tong Shengxiu to himself, I have such a talent, but unfortunately I can't use me, so I have a cool look in the book.

Therefore, for the annual imperial examination, it is actually not as hard as you think, and the master himself is already a vested interest, and it is easy to be a petty official.

Later generations are more ignorant, and often compare Xiucai with a master's degree or a doctorate.

This is completely incomparable.

Xiucai can be exempted from military service, in ancient times, the conscription was very heavy, what is conscription, to put it bluntly, ordinary people must work for free for the government, no salary, pure obligation, and once Xiucai, the family can be exempted from the conscription of two men, and others are tired and tired, while your family can play chess and drink tea under the big tree, leisurely.

Xiucai can be exempted from paying public grain, and in ancient times, ordinary people had to pay public grain to the state, and they used to pay a lot of money. And once there is a talent in the family, the whole family can be exempted from paying public rations. In ancient times, when there was a shortage of food and food was regarded as life, not to mention how affordable it was, when have you ever seen a tax exemption for doctoral students?

Xiucai can be exempted from punishment, once the common people violate the law, dragged to the court, the officials rush up, regardless of the 3721 first hit you with open flesh and skin, give you a dismount, even if you are rich, you will inevitably suffer from flesh and skin, and if you are Xiucai, you can't be arrested and interrogated casually if you break the law, let alone torture, even if you kill someone, the county magistrate will not dare to beat you, because you have the privilege, exempt from punishment, to beat you, you must also report your fame to the provincial school and government after the fame is removed.

Xiucai also has privileges in wearing, Xiucai can wear a plate-collared gown, wear a square scarf on his head, and wear boots on his feet, the green shirt is elegant, and his demeanor is graceful.

Xiucai can be exempted from kneeling, in ancient lawsuits, as soon as the people arrived in court, a move was to kneel to the county lord first, and then state the case, even if it was a landlord, a wealthy businessman must also kneel, and if you are a showman, you can stand swaggeringly, sometimes the county magistrate will show you a seat, you think, the people next to you are kneeling on the ground, and you have the privilege to stand out, that is awesome.

Of course, these privileges have become illusory in my Qing Dynasty, and they have become real sour Xiucai, and under the rule of the Presbyterian Council, the identity of Xiucai is also ridiculous, I don't hold Xiucai exams at all, and directly engage in civil service exams, and those Xiucai spend ten years arranging work to digest them, and the students in the future are all high school students and college students.

Moreover, these privileges are not taken away from Xiucai by the elders, but directly open up the power, so that all the common people can enjoy such power.

Exemption from military service and food? Oh, this, it's all been exempted, even if it's an employee of the imperial capital to build a railway, it will cost money. And the exemption from punishment is also a proper obligation, and the elders have a way to make you speak, kneel down in a lawsuit, and directly arrange seats for everyone.

Every imperial examination, in fact, is also the focus of careful study by people in the officialdom, after all, it is related to how many of their fellow villagers have entered the officialdom, the distribution of strength, etc., after knowing the name of Wu, at first I thought it was a poor talent with a high talent, but the above self-description said that he was an official in the imperial capital.

The reason why Dream of Red Mansions is famous, or unique, is that he is almost the only one, written by the descendants of a country's magnates, based on their own life experience, it can be said that they are people who have really lived the life of a rich young master, although Cao Xueqin's ancestors have been accidentally killed by the elders.

The families of later generations, whether they are Eastern or Western, are generally below average, and the family is already the limit, which is similar to the life of the rich second-generation nobles who can only imagine the life of the powerful in later generations, what boring rich second-generation aristocratic schools, what all kinds of brand-name watches, brand-name clothes, in fact, rich people prefer to raise their own tailors, and people refuse to wear what brand.

In the same way, the most famous Golden Bottle Plum in the Ming Dynasty is famous because of the various details in it, which are definitely from the Ming Dynasty's official eunuch and powerful families, so that they can really understand that ordinary poor people can't write Golden Bottle Plum.

Wu Ming naturally did not take the imperial examination, but Bao's father-in-law also helped him blow it: "My colleague, I don't like to learn anything Bagu, but I am good at writing, and (government documents) are also young and promising, but I was idle and bored, so I wrote such a play." ”

Ye Guotai asked eagerly, "By the way, do you have the rest of the chapters in your hands?" ”

Is it another reminder, but according to Wu Ming's plan, these things should be released later.

"This, you also know, he is responsible for a lot of cultural and educational work, and it is estimated that there is very little leisure time every day, so I am afraid that it will be delayed, and the game is not expected to make money, just play."

Ye Guotai knew that he couldn't say, don't do it with the leaders of your ministries and commissions, hurry up and finish the draft.

I can only laugh and say: "It seems that there is a chance, I have to visit." ”

He sighed secretly, some of the manuscripts were waiting.

After seeing off the officials who went to the banquet, Bao Gonggong began to calculate the tasks of the trip.

In fact, he has a lot of tasks, Taiwan's Lukang, Tamsui and other ports are attracting investment, recruiting farmers who cultivate land, this era due to the operation of the elders, Tainan has been occupied by a bunch of Shandong Han's authentic accents, but it is also interesting.

Taiwan, as the eye of the typhoon, is a natural transit port, allowing merchant ships from Southeast Asia and Guangdong to transit, a task previously completed by Zheng Zhilong's Penghu Island, but this Penghu Island is not a big place, and there is not much room for expansion.

The significance of Taiwan does not lie in Taiwan's products, but in Taiwan's geographical location.

At that time, the Netherlands used Taiwan as a base to develop a triangular trade between China, Japan and Europe, in this triangular trade, Taiwan was a transit station, silk fabrics purchased from Chinese mainland were extremely popular in Japan, the Dutch shipped to Japan in exchange for Japan's abundant silver, and returned to China to purchase silk, porcelain and other most popular Chinese goods at that time, and then returned to Europe, this triangular trade, both in terms of time and profit, was designed very reasonable and strictly forbidden, supporting the early expansion of the Dutch in the East.

At this time, after the Dutch were driven away, this gap in power was naturally controlled by the Han merchants, although Zheng Zhilong lost the opportunity to collect tolls, but he saved his life, what are you not satisfied with?

In this era, Guangdong as the hometown of overseas Chinese in later generations, there were still many businessmen who went to Nanyang to do business, and Bao Gonggong drank a lot of banquets in the next few days, learned about some of the situation, and saw if he could find some budding characters of the Thirteen Lines in it.

The meaning of Guangzhou Thirteen Banks is not only thirteen commercial banks, but an industry.

In nature, the thirteen lines are tooth shops, that is, the so-called middlemen, brokers, introducers, the special thing is that they are the middlemen who trade with foreigners stipulated by the government, because of the identity stipulated by the government, there is a monopoly right, and other merchants must trade with foreigners through them, and over time this middleman has developed into a supplier monopolized by foreign businessmen.

The thirteenth of the so-called thirteen licensed goods actually came from the local system in the Ming Dynasty. In the Ming Dynasty, there were ten prefectures in Guangdong, and there were nine counties on the mainland, and the tenth prefecture referred to the Qiongzhou Mansion in Hainan, which belonged to Guangdong. Among them, the goods of the nine counties on land have become Guangzhou goods, and the goods from Qiongzhou Prefecture on Hainan Island are called thirteen licensed goods, because Qiongzhou Prefecture has jurisdiction over thirteen prefectures and counties, and each prefecture and county has set up a warehouse in Guangzhou, the provincial capital, to promote the goods of the county. Therefore, the thirteen of the thirteen lines actually came from the number of Hainan Island counties in the Ming Dynasty.

Gradually, the name came to refer to the business of doing business with foreign countries, and there were thirteen lines that specialized in trading with Western merchants.

And Bao Gonggong also learned some things about the situation in Nanyang, naturally after the foreigners were occupied by the Celestial Empire in Taiwan, they became more and more suspicious and afraid that the Celestial Empire would collude with the Han people and occupy the place where they stole their strongholds, which is also normal.

Similar to my Qing Dynasty, the Europeans engaged in stronghold politics in Nanyang, that is, after building castles, they used the means of controlling a small number of people and instigating large and small fights to make profits, but as long as this stronghold was destroyed, it meant that the area would be in hand.

As a local giant, once China wants to go all out to win the South Seas, then these foreigners really don't have so much confidence.

This is their own narrow-mindedness, the original China, for a place like Nanyang, is not so interested, but these travelers are difficult to say.

But for the Dutch, Indonesia was one of the richest places under their rule, and the East India Company's huge source of profits could not be lost.

Therefore, many Han businessmen were suspected, and the possibility of Chinese exclusion once again appeared.

This is a new situation, for the elders, at this time, Indonesia in the hands of the Dutch is only a temporary loan, and sooner or later it will have to be taken back.

But if this kind of thing happens again under the noses of himself and others, within the influence of force, it will be ......

Not to mention, Xu Hao himself is still in the Netherlands, and I don't know how to end this matter.

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