Faced with many unsolvable problems, Wei Bao was reluctant to think more far-reaching, forcing himself to fall asleep and forcing himself not to think too much.

Just do what is in front of you, and you can have a clear conscience.

The land area under his current control can almost be regarded as a small European country, and now it is short of enough population!

Wei Bao believes that as long as he gets a population of four or five million to come to Weijiazhuang under the premise of ensuring the problem of eating, various industries will gradually take shape, form a complete set of supply and demand chains, and then develop themselves, and immediately form an independent society and a small country.

Society itself has an integration mechanism, and it doesn't need to be painstakingly thought about every step.

Then cooperate with Shanghai's overseas expansion, expand the origin of raw materials and the market for dumped goods, and provide a steady stream of kinetic energy for this small industrial society made by itself, and in five to ten years, it will be able to form an armored car-like force solid, and at that time, no matter how big or small the country is, but with the land of projectiles, it can also flatten the world!

But where are we going to get four or five million people?

There are a lot of displaced people in Liaodong now, but the speed is too slow just by secretly absorbing them, and many displaced people have no chance to enter the customs.

If it is blatantly transported over, it will not work, and it will definitely make the Ming officials, the Jiangmen family in Liaoxi and Liaodong, and these quasi-warlord forces vigilant.

How did Britain establish a unified central government in its transition from a feudal state to a capitalist state?

In medieval England, local administration was mostly in the hands of lords and clergy, and kings could not interfere in the affairs of their domains.

In modern times, the emerging bourgeoisie defeated the absolute monarchy and established a constitutional representative monarchy, and the British Parliament was able to enact laws that passed through the whole country from its inception, but since when was the British central government able to control local government?

In other words, since when can there be a central government in Britain and be able to govern every British?

This historical process is worth thinking about.

Because Britain itself was acquired by William the Conqueror by force, the degree of centralization of power was somewhat stronger than that of other countries at first.

During his lifetime, William the Conqueror was able to survey and count the land of the whole country, which shows the ability to control it at that time.

Moreover, the whole territory of England has been the territory of England since 1066.

In contrast, the French crown could only start with control of Île-de-France. Burgundy, Brittany, and many more were independent kingdoms.

It took France hundreds of years to slowly acquire it by means of marriage and conquest, and in the process of acquisition, it inevitably granted various exemptions and privileges to the local area, and its ability to control the local area was naturally far inferior to that of the British.

Not only did there be some advantages from the start, but successive kings of England used various means to strengthen the centralization of power.

The common law of England extended the power of the king by constantly improving the royal court system, attracting subjects to abandon the courts of their native lords and litigate in favor of the royal courts.

Tighten local control through the circuit system of the Court of Thrones, while constantly shaping uniform laws across the country.

Correspondingly, the power of the English aristocracy has never had the ability of the French aristocracy to support their own troops and divide one side.

In general, the English king always had a strong control over the commoners of the nobility within his borders.

In order to lead the reform of Weijiazhuang, Wei Bao must have the absolute dominance of the British king in Weijiazhuang! Get rid of all outside distractions and become a real dictator!

Everything in Weijiazhuang must be Wei Bao's alone.

Feudalism and capitalism were not in fact a continuous sequence in Western Europe. Feudalism was followed by the era of absolutism, that is, the king of a country could subdue the various forces within his territory and achieve total rule.

Tudor and Stuart kings of England, Louis XIV and later kings of France, etc.

How feudalism came to an end was a question of the relationship between the king and the nobility, and how the absolutist state arose, without considering concepts such as capitalism, constitutionalism, parliament, etc. In the Middle Ages, all European countries had parliaments, and these parliaments had a substantive role.

The financial history of medieval Europe can be seen as a history of the struggle between kings and parliaments. The power of parliament was weakened in the era of absolutism, and it was only in modern times that the king gradually mastered the tools that allowed the king to obtain a steady stream of revenue without relying on parliamentary appropriations.

Only then did the Elizabethan Parliament rarely convene or the French Parliament did not convene for more than a hundred years before the Revolution.

Whether it is the East or the West, no matter what kind of system, if it wants to rise, there must be a person who has the final say, and this person must have a piece of territory that has the final say.

Then let the people on this territory obey this person, and the law is also formulated in accordance with this person's ideas, and Wei Bao wants to become such a person.

But Wei Bao is actually quite afraid of becoming such a person.

Although the power is still very small, Wei Bao is already a bit of a phobia of politicians, no matter how big or small the power is, he has to lead it, he finds that being a leader, except for occasionally pretending to be cool, most of the time it is still very hard.

He just wants to pretend to be forced and doesn't want to work too hard, which also causes Wei Bao's development speed to not be too fast, and he can't be a workaholic like Yongzheng.

Eat as usual at noon and the atmosphere is still very good.

Wei Dakang and Huang Ying were very polite to Wu Xuexia, and Wu Xuexia was also very polite to the two of them, plus Wu Sanfu threaded the needle from it, and they were happy.

Wu Sanfu asked Wei Bao to take Wu Xuexia for a walk after dinner, and Wei Bao agreed, because Wei Bao didn't have anything to do, and after every meal, there was a time to walk after eating.

As soon as the meal was over, there were guards outside to do something, and after Wang Qiuya went to listen, she came back and said to Wei Bao: "Son, the Wu family sent someone to find Second Prince Wu and Miss Wu." ”

"Let people come." Wei Bao nodded, there was no high-level nod, outsiders were not allowed to enter Weijiazhuang at will, when he was not there, it was decided by Luo Sanzi, Fan Datou, Liu Chunshi and Fan Xiaolin and others, if he was there, he would generally report to him directly.

After Wang Qiuya agreed, she went out to make arrangements.

Wei Bao said to Wu Sanfu: "Brother Sanfu, Ling Zun sent someone to find you and Miss Wu. ”

Wu Sanfuqi said: "My father has never looked for me, huh? What's up? ”

Wei Bao smiled: "Then how do I know?" ”

"Where are the people?" Wu Sanfu asked.

"I've got people in, and I'll be there soon." Wei Bao Road.

Wu Sanfu looked at Wu Xuexia, "Eighty percent is looking for you, I guess it's a business matter." ”

Wu Xuexia said: "It won't be a business matter, the eldest brother is here." I guess it's because the fireworks last night were so high, and they were so close to Shanhaiguan, they must have seen it over there, and my father knew that we were in Weijiazhuang, so he sent someone over to ask. Now the adults and generals inside and outside the Guan, as well as the big families in Liaoxi and Liaodong, have gathered in Shanhaiguan to discuss matters, and they must be interested in this firework. ”

Wei Bao was shocked when he heard this, and sighed that Wu Xuexia's brain was spinning fast, and eighty percent was Wu Xuexia's guess At the same time, Wei Bao felt that he was Meng Lang again, okay, what kind of fireworks are you playing?

"You mean the fireworks we set off last night? Is this also worth sending someone to ask? Wu Sanfu said inappropriately.

"Why isn't it worth it? If the artillery of the Ming army can be placed so far, will Jiannu still dare to fight us? Wu Xuexia said.

Wu Sanfu suddenly realized, "That's right! Xiaobao, your chance to make great contributions is coming! The power of your firework is much more powerful than the fire of the earthen cannons we defend the city. How many more do you have? ”

Wei Bao hurriedly said: "Where is it, it was all used up last night, it was the little bit left over from our firecrackers, and it happened to be made, how to do it, but no one knows." ”

"Happened to make it? No, it's important to ask the craftsman and ask them to think carefully about how to make this kind of fireworks. Wu Sanfu said.

Wu Xuexia saw that Wei Bao didn't want to sell his skills, and concluded that Wei Bao was definitely not obtained by accident, seeing that Wei Bao fiddling with the fire was very methodical, it is estimated that not only Wei Bao knows how to make it, but most of it is made by Wei Bao himself!

"Brother, Wei Gongzi said that he got it by accident, maybe it's really like that." Wu Xuexia said.

Wei Bao glanced at Wu Xuexia gratefully.

Wei Bao saw the problem of the Ming Dynasty very clearly, the system is not working, the whole system is corrupt and rotten, rotten from the root, manifested in the collapse of the economy, tens of millions of people in the north are hungry, have to go into exile, or join the rebel army, this is the root cause of the collapse of the Ming Dynasty, and it has little to do with whether the weapons are advanced or not.

The light weapons of the Ming Dynasty may now lag behind the maritime powers such as the Netherlands, Spain, and Portugal, but the heavy weapons manufacturing of the Ming Dynasty is still at the advanced level in the world.

In the case of the economy being able to keep up, no matter how strong Jiannu's iron cavalry is, the defensive pressure of the Ming army is not great, after all, the iron cavalry cannot go up the wall, can not help to conquer the city, at most it is attacking from all sides, the mobility is relatively strong, and it is just to grab people and things everywhere.

If the economy can make ends meet, with the size of the Ming Dynasty, with a little effort, let alone sabotage, it will be completely wiped out in a few months.

It is really funny that a country with a population of nearly 200 million cannot handle a rebel with a population of more than a million.

The person sent by Wu Xiang arrived quickly, but what Wei Bao, Wu Sanfu and Wu Xuexia did not expect was that the person who came was Wu Dashan, who was sent to Weijiazhuang by Wu Xiang before, and belonged to Wu Xiang's more important cronies. Obviously, Wu Xiang has important things to find Wu Sanfu and Wu Xuexia.

Wu Dashan saw that Wei Bao was present, and after saluting a few people, he was a little hesitant.

Wu Sanfuhai said: "Wei Gongzi is my good friend, it doesn't hurt to say something directly." ”

"Lord Wu wants to know what kind of explosives were put in the sky here last night? Who made it? Want to know what happened here last night? The entire Shanhaiguan Pass, and even the garrisons outside the pass, saw the movement here. Not only our adults want to know, but also all the generals and generals. Wu Dashan replied: "Lord Wu said that if you visit the craftsmen who make such explosives, you must bring them back to Shanhaiguan." ”

Wu Sanfu first glanced at Wu Xuexia, meaning that Wu Xuexia really guessed correctly, and then looked at Wei Bao, meaning to ask Wei Bao, what should I do now?

General Wei Bao said what he had said to Wu Sanfu and Wu Xuexia before, and said to Wu Dashan again: "It's just an ordinary artillery battle in the township, which disturbed the adults, and I hope General Wu will go back to help explain." ”

Wu Dashan obviously didn't believe much what Wei Bao said, and looked at Wu Sanfu, waiting for his son-in-law's reply.

Wu Sanfu motioned for Wu Dashan to go down and wait first, and after Wu Dashan saluted respectfully, he retired.

"Xiaobao, what now? Why don't you go to Shanhaiguan with me and explain it to them yourself? With me by your side, it's fine. Wu Sanfu said: "Since my father has withdrawn all the people sent to Weijiazhuang, he just doesn't plan to trouble you, if there is really trouble, I will definitely let you come back safely." ”

"When I'm really in trouble, don't say it's you, even Ling Zun, it may not be able to let me come back safely." Wei Bao smiled helplessly: "The Ming Dynasty does not allow the people to fiddle with iron and fire without permission, this kind of thing can be big or small." We're really just making a firecracker and having a good time when we're festivating. You must know that such a little thing can alarm Shanhaiguan, I definitely didn't set off fireworks yesterday, and I regret my death now. ”

"It's going to be nothing, just a firework." Wu Xuexia said: "Don't you want Weijiazhuang to gain a firm foothold in the local area, and you want to get promoted, so that the imperial court can give you Weijiazhuang?" This is a great opportunity, at this time Shanhaiguan officials gathered, and Governor Sun Chengzong is here, you helped the Jinzhou Peninsula a while ago, just let Governor Sun know, maybe, Governor Sun personally put a watch for you, the court and His Majesty read that you helped the defenders of Jinzhou City to retreat from the enemy, so they gave Weijiazhuang to you. ”

"I'd better forget this kind of opportunity." Wei Bao said with a smile: "Although it is the responsibility of the husband to rise and fall the country, I, the husband, should do something within my ability." I'm a flat-headed commoner, so I can have less contact with the court officials, and I still stay in Weijiazhuang honestly. ”

"Xiaobao, even Xuexia said so, what are you afraid of?" Wu Sanfu pouted, "What can happen?" Isn't it just a firework? If you really don't want people to know how you made such a powerful fire fray, you just stick to what you just said, who can force you to hand over the technology to make fire frays? If you don't go, they'll have to let people come. My father sent someone, not someone else, and it was obvious that my father was in charge of this matter, and Xuexia and I could naturally talk. ”

Wu Sanfu's eloquence is excellent, Wei Bao is a little moved, indeed, since this matter has attracted the attention of the bigwigs, if you don't make it clear this time, you will definitely send people in a steady stream, and wait for people to keep guessing, I'm afraid that the result will be worse.

Wei Bao is not afraid of any big people, Wei Bao is afraid of local powerful people like Wu Xiang and Zu Dashou who can kill him. I believe that so many bigwigs are here, and they shouldn't do anything to him as a common person, and this is indeed a good opportunity to see the world and get acquainted with people.

"Don't you want to be an official? Aren't you an official just for power? It will be good for you to meet these powerful dignitaries. Wu Xuexia said softly: "I said that I would not let you have anything, and I would fulfill my promise with my life." ”

Wei Bao's heart was hot, and he smiled at Wu Xuexia: "Thank you." ”

"Hmph, is this the first time you've thanked me?" Wu Xuexia said.

"Not only that, how do I remember how many times I've thanked you?"

"Only this time it's sincere." Wu Xuexia said.

Wei Bao smiled slightly, and said to Wu Sanfu: "I said to all the big families in Liaoxi and Liaodong who lost my silver before, whoever is willing to raise my Weijiazhuang and let the imperial court give me Weijiazhuang, I will pay back half of the silver in three years." Now, I have decided that no matter whether the Wu family mentions my Weijiazhuang or not, I will return the 120,000 taels of gold that the Wu family lost to me last time! ”

Wu Sanfu was overjoyed when he heard this, he didn't expect Wei Bao to suddenly mention this stubble, originally he wanted to wait for Wei Bao and Wu Xuexia's 'good thing' to be completed, and then take the opportunity to propose to Wei Bao to return the 300,000 taels of gold that the Wu family and the ancestral family lost to him, but he didn't expect Wei Bao to bring it up himself.

"Xiaobao, the ancestral family is my maternal uncle, since you are willing to return the 120,000 taels of gold of my Wu family, why don't you also return the 180,000 taels of gold of the ancestral family?" Wu Sanfu said immediately.

Wu Xuexia looked at Wei Bao in surprise, she never expected that Wei Bao would actually take the initiative to return the Wu family's gold! My heart suddenly became sweet, and I didn't think that Wei Bao was doing this for the second brother, but I vaguely felt that Wei Bao was doing it for himself.

Wei Bao said simply: "That's impossible, I also returned the Wu family's gold, because I didn't want to have a stalemate with the Wu family, and because I sold your Sanfu brother's face." Although I, Wei Bao, am not a person who is not afraid of heaven and earth, I am not a person who is not afraid of death! I won the gold of my ancestors, I can't return it, if I lose the gold, who will return it? ”

"But if you don't return all the gold to my father, my family will accompany my uncle's gold." Wu Sanfu couldn't help but show Wei Bao the real details. In fact, if the Wu family and Wei Bao have no economic relationship now, the gap between the Wu family and Wei Bao is still easy to repair.

Ninety percent of the world's contradictions come from the economy.

Wei Bao was unmoved by Wu Sanfu's words: "I said, I also gave the Wu family this gold, not because I was afraid of anyone, as for the money between your family and the ancestral family, I am not interested in knowing." ”

"Wei Gongzi is willing to return 120,000 taels of gold at one time, it is already very kind, indeed, the world has never heard of the truth that the gold won is returned for no reason." Wu Xuexia said, taking out a piece of jade pendant from her snow-white neck: "Master Wei, in order to thank you for your generosity, I will give this to you." ”

"No!" When Wu Sanfu saw Wu Xuexia take off the jade pendant, he hurriedly said: "This is a family heirloom, my father spoiled you, so I gave it to you, if it is in a peaceful and prosperous world, this jade pendant is a rare treasure in the world, at least worth 100,000 taels of gold!" ”

Wei Bao saw that Wu Xuexia's jade pendant was completely black, although he didn't know much about jade, but he also knew a little bit, if it was a treasure, he was afraid that it was a glass black jadeite, which could really be said to be priceless, and in the future generations, 10 billion yuan would be difficult to buy, so Wu Sanfu said that it would be worth 100,000 taels of gold in the peaceful and prosperous era, and he was not exaggerating!

Before, Xu Rui gave Wei Bao a piece of gold-inlaid jade with mutton fat and white jade as his heart, which was already very valuable and worth a lot of money, but compared with Wu Xuexia's black jade jade, I am afraid that it is more than an ant than an elephant.

Antiques in prosperous times, gold in troubled times.

"I must not ask for such a valuable gift, I am not for anything in exchange, to return the Wu family's gold, and it is a full refund, because I cherish the brotherly relationship between me and Brother Sanfu." Wei Bao said sincerely.

Although Wu Sanfu seemed reluctant to give up this black jade worth 100,000 taels of gold, Wei Bao just now offered to return the Wu family's 120,000 taels of gold when he didn't know that Wu Xuexia would give him something.

Hearing Wei Bao say this, Wu Sanfu was a little embarrassed, "Xiaobao, if this is my thing, no matter how valuable it is, you can take it!" But this is indeed the heirloom of my Wu family, which my grandfather got by chance, and it cost 50,000 taels of gold at the beginning! ”

Wei Bao snorted, he didn't expect the Wu family to be so rich in Wu Sanfu's grandfather's generation, "Brother Sanfu, I understand." ”

"I said that I would send it, if Wei Gongzi didn't want it, he would look down on me Wu Xuexia, and I would smash this jade now!" Wu Xuexia had already taken off the jade pendant and reached out to hand it to Wei Bao, it seemed that if Wei Bao didn't take it, she would really smash it immediately.

Wu Xuexia made Wei Bao realize once again the willfulness of the eldest lady, and the jade pendant worth 100,000 taels of gold actually said that it would be smashed if it was smashed?

"You go on, Xiaobao, she can really smash it, my sister has always said that she can do it!" Wu Sanfu hurriedly said: "My father once said that when Xue Xia got married, it was enough to bring only this jade pendant as a dowry, and there would be no additional dowry." ”

Wei Bao sweats, can this be accepted? Wu Xuexia, what does this mean? Is this her dowry? Then I took her dowry, what is it?

"Miss Wu, don't be willful, this gift is really too valuable, I can't afford it!" Wei Bao hurriedly said, and leaned forward with both hands, really afraid that Wu Xuexia would really smash to the ground, and be ready to rescue at any time.

Wu Xuexia's beautiful eyes looked straight at Wei Bao: "If you say it, splash the water, Wei Bao, even if you can stop me at this time, you can't guard me all day long, if you refuse to accept it, I will definitely smash it when I turn around!" Regardless of whether it is priceless or not, if it cannot be given away, it means that it is useless, a useless thing, what is it for? ”

At this moment, Wei Bao is really embarrassed, knowing that Miss Wu is willful, but he didn't expect to be so willful, Baoyu, worth 100,000 taels of gold, you make it like a broken stone?

"Take it! Don't let my sister down! Wu Sanfu smiled bitterly. Secretly thinking that Xue Xia is really obsessed with Wei Bao, as long as the two of them get married, won't Xue Xia's things be Wei Bao's sooner or later? I gave it to Wei Bao earlier, and it was still at my own home, which was nothing. So Wu Sanfu quickly figured it out.

Wei Bao is really embarrassed now, he has thought about being with Wu Xuexia, Wu Xuexia's family background and appearance are impeccable, looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, it is difficult to find such a wealthy beauty. But Wei Bao really can't accept the domineering temper that Wu Xuexia has developed, and he is still inclined to marry Zhao Jinfeng in his heart, and he already has an oral marriage contract with Zhao Jinfeng! This time, he cooperated with Wu Sanfu to act and tried to please Wu Xuexia, but he just wanted Wu Xuexia to speak first to reject herself, and to end the matter of arranging for the two of them to sleep in the same bed for one night before Wu Sanfu.

Wu Xuexia was so hesitant because of Wei Bao's hesitation, tears welled up in her beautiful eyes, and she raised her hand, and immediately wanted to smash Baoyu away.

Wei Bao sweated, instinctively stepped forward, took Wu Xuexia into his arms, took the jade pendant from her hand, and pinched it firmly.

Wei Bao didn't mean to take advantage of Wu Xuexia, Wu Xuexia was a little taller than the current Wei Bao, she raised her hand, Wei Bao couldn't reach it at all, so she could only hold Wu Xuexia in her arms to be able to wear the jade pendant.

Wu Xuexia was held in Wei Bao's arms, her plump breasts were tightly pressed against Wei Bao's still slightly thin chest, and she only felt hot all over, and her delicate body trembled slightly and uncontrollably.

Wu Sanfu was stunned, and looked at Wei Bao holding his sister dumbfounded, secretly thinking that Wei Bao was a real cow! Usually not obvious, I really dare to get started at a critical time, and even Xuexia's tofu dares to eat.

In Wu Sanfu's memory, in his impression, his sister has never been like a little sheep like now, and she is quite well-behaved in her own family, but when you get along with a man outside (mostly sons and daughters of big families), isn't it cold?

Wu Sanfu was thinking about whether to quit first, so as not to delay the time when the two of them embraced.

Wei Bao took the jade pendant, took a step back, and let go of Wu Xuexia in his arms.

Wu Xuexia's clear, watery beautiful eyes looked at Wei Bao, and a pair of big eyes seemed to be able to speak, clearly expressing her willingness to marry Wei Bao.

Wei Bao was tempted, in reality, when a man meets Wu Xuexia, a beautiful woman who is well-proportioned and graceful, plump and delicate, he is not tempted, it is all fake.

Wei Bao's motivation is ninety percent!

Wu Xuexia was also tempted at this time, but Wu Xuexia's actual motivation was not as deep as her tender appearance.

Wu Xuexia's degree of motivation is at most seventy percent!

The reason why Wu Xuexia wanted to hand over such a valuable jade pendant to Wei Bao was equivalent to entrusting Wei Bao with her life, mainly because Wei Bao's return of 120,000 taels of gold to the Wu family just now moved her.

In the past few days, through what she saw and heard in Weijiazhuang, and through Wei Bao's management of Weijiazhuang, Wu Xuexia has changed her opinion of Wei Bao. I think Wei Bao is very talented.

In addition, there are a lot of novelty inventions in Weijiazhuang, especially the very high-quality special wine.

And so on all this, coupled with Wei Bao's promise to return 120,000 taels of gold to the Wu family just now, made Wu Xuexia realize that Wei Bao was extraordinary, not a man she could easily meet, and if she missed it, she might regret it in this life.

Wu Xiang is a very good businessman, Wu Xuexia is definitely the daughter of a very good businessman, she has an account book in her heart anytime and anywhere.

"Put it on, now this jade pendant is yours, and you are never allowed to take it off." Wu Xuexia smiled at Wei Bao, this was the first time she smiled so gently at Wei Bao.

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