"Feng Qi guessed almost?" Xu Zixian also happened to look over, the two looked at each other, Xu Zixian smiled and asked, "Fengqi don't hide it, talk about it?" ”

"The things that make money in the world are nothing more than quantity, and the most closely related to people is salt, wine, tea and cloth." Fang Shaoqun smiled and said: "Cloth, silk, tea, iron, oil, grain, we are all trying to work hard, the Eastern Domain is a treasure island, at least the place we are developing now is a treasure land, such a large plain, the climate is warm, and it is the most suitable for crop production." In addition, our Hou Mansion has a good schedule, and everyone is quite good, and success is inevitable. But to say that if you invest more than 1,000 times, you can get millions of dollars, I really can't think of it. I only vaguely thought, the prince is afraid that he is going to make a fuss about salt? ”

"I'm really convinced." Xu Zixian laughed loudly and said to everyone: "Fengqi's brain is moving really fast. ”

Everyone is a little ignorant, Fu Qian smiled: "I also know some about the salt method, the fire cooking method, is to boil the salt brine, boil to half of the water, add half of the water, then boil, then add water, and then boil, and so on, to get refined salt." The well salt method is also similar, except that we can find a good place like Qinghai Yanchi in the Eastern Domain, otherwise, if you invest thousands of dollars to get millions of profits, I don't understand why you can do it. ”

As soon as Fu Qian said, everyone simply stopped thinking about it, and just looked at Xu Zixian.

Kong He said: "Now the people on the island also eat fine salt, in fact, salt cakes can also be used, saving a lot of money." ”

Xu Zixian shook his head and smiled, and said: "It's not that I don't know the price of firewood and rice, I know the quality of black salt, and it is really poor that there is no way to use this thing, it is better than nothing." We eat mutton, and the mutton is very delicious, but if I call Xuanping and you use black salt cakes to put mutton, I'm afraid that the deliciousness will be reduced by half of the taste, isn't it? ”

Kong He was silent, hugged his fists and said: "It's me who lost my words, and it's not on such a little expense." ”

"Yes." Xu Zixian said: "Salt is expensive, and the government does not charge much, because people can use many ways to reduce the need for salt, use inferior coarse salt, use salt cakes, or prefer to be more puffy, eat less salt, eat less oil." These things are the most necessary goods for the people, but our Great Wei uses them to make money. The imperial court is becoming more and more unpopular, the world is shaking, the forbidden army is weak, the box army is unusable, and the root is wrong. It is not to accumulate more people's financial resources, and then make the imperial court more profitable. Instead, they will fish with all their might, and if this continues, it will be a vicious circle, that is, there will be no threat from the easterners, and sooner or later the imperial court will fall into civil strife and cannot extricate itself. Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, the story of Daze Township, is not far away. ”

Li Yi groaned: "Actually, my Great Wei is already good to the people, arrogant Wei Jian." So far, there has been no large-scale rebellion in the country, which is proof of this. ”

"But there are also small-scale rebellions." Xu Zixian said: "The long history of the letter of this dynasty is self-built. So far, there have been more than 1,000 rebellions of more than 1,000 people, and more than 100,000 people have captured prefectures and counties. The reason why there was no large-scale rebellion in the Great Wei was nothing more than the relief in the famine year and the recruitment of strong men as the army, and the two policies could be adhered to, which was the most important reason why there was no large-scale rebellion. And the imperial court can do such a thing, or because there has always been overseas trade support, if overseas trade shrinks, domestic thieves increase, and the imperial court is not rich enough, it will spark into a prairie fire within a few years, and there is no way to replicate. This is not alarmist, in recent years, I have noticed that Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Mingzhou, Jiangling, these important trade towns overseas ships and ships to the sea are decreasing, our outbound ships have decreased by about 20%, foreign ships have decreased by about 30%, this trend will become more and more intense, do you know why? ”

Fang Shaoqun said: "Pirates are troubled? ”

"It's not just pirates." Xu Zixian said: "There is no need for pirates to continue to loot merchant ships, so that everyone does not dare to go to sea, how can they maintain it?" In addition to piracy, the war against Lan Fang and Srivijaya supported by the Heavenly side against Lan Fang and Srivijaya is the most important reason. The war is non-stop, the place is unstable, how can people have the heart to do business and negotiate business? Manchu wanted to take down Malacca, which is the choke point of the eastern and western seas, and they were aggressive, and the war between the heavenly and Thai countries became more and more intense, so they all affected commerce and shipping lanes. In the past ten years, Dawei has not been able to consolidate the source, and has always done stupid things to kill chickens and take eggs. Maritime trade will be reduced by 30%, and inland porcelain factories, tea farmers, cloth merchants, silk farmers, and all walks of life will be affected. If the people have no money in their hands, they will not consume, and if they do not consume, they will not be able to make money. There is no industrial and commercial sea trade income, the imperial court can not give relief to the place, a large number of recruits, so the place will be more chaotic, there will be more bandits, years of war and chaos without intention to cultivate, so the acres of barren acres, after the shortage of food in a large area, there will be more hungry and chaotic people, this is the cycle of chaos from the rule of the world to the troubled world. ”

Xu Zixian said very calmly, but everyone seemed to have heard the most terrifying ghost story, and even Fang Shaoqun's face turned pale.

These people in front of them can also be regarded as the elite of Great Wei, and they know that Xu Zixian's words are completely true, there is no falsehood, and there is no exaggeration.

In fact, the Great Wei has already walked on this road, these years of natural disasters, external troubles, military rebellions, civil uprisings, northwest and Henan are the most serious, even Jinghu and other grain-producing areas have a large number of displaced and hungry people gathered to cause chaos.

It's the cycle of governance, it happens every few hundred years, and then at least half of the people in the country die, if not more.

It can be said that in the later generations, the ancestors of every living person had good luck against the sky and survived the reshuffle again and again.

The average life expectancy of the ancients was only thirty years, and a large number of people died of starvation and disease, and those who survived were probably the nobles and the strongest warriors of the tribe.

Because only such people have the qualifications and the opportunity to leave their genes.

But when the dynasty was established, the emperors and generals were determined, and the elite were able to enslave the lower classes, the large-scale cycle of chaos was the real hell model.

Some Western philosophers once said that China has no history, it is nothing more than the reincarnation of dynasties.

It's a bit ugly, but it's a formal fact.

The dynasty is established, the rule of the world is coming, the population breeds, the land is not enough to bear the excess population, the system collapses, the land is annexed, the upper class is corrupted, the army loses its combat power, and then there is chaos, or foreign invasions, such as the Wuhu Chaohua or the Mongol invasion, and then large-scale massacres and enslavements, or civil strife, the fertile fields are in ruins, and the population is lost more than half or more, and then after a long period of war, the loss of the population is too much, and the people are determined, the old magnates have been almost cleansed, and the social wealth can be redistributed, So a new dynasty was able to be established.

The cycle of chaos, the so-called story of how many dynasties and how many emperors and beauties are just going around in this cycle.

"So we can't develop slowly." Xu Zixian ignored everyone's broken faces, and continued to say in a deep voice: "If it was a few decades ago, we could calmly develop the Eastern Domain, foreign trade, and internal reclamation, in thirty years, we could make the Eastern Domain almost the same as Fujian Road, with a population of more than one million and tens of millions of income, with the Hou Mansion doing such a thing, the imperial court will definitely crown me as a prince, and you can also wear vermilion, people's life encounters are almost the same to such a point, why pursue more?"

"But it doesn't work, there are pirates outside, there are large numbers of hungry people inside, and there is also the threat of captives, plus the countries of Tianfang and Taixi, my Great Wei is trapped both inside and outside, and it is much more dangerous than the Mongol invasion back then."

"The prince seems to be a little alarmist?" Kong He couldn't help but say: "I read the history books, when the Mongols invaded, the two or three million people in the north were killed, and only two or three million people were killed, Taizu and Mongolia confronted each other, immigrated millions of people from the south before and after, and built more than 100 states and counties, so as to resist it with national strength, even if it was a million dead and wounded, the army and civilians drove Mongolia out of China, if it wasn't for Taizu's birth, I am afraid that China would have been a slave to the north long ago." ”

"Even so, it's not too scary." Xu Zixian smiled and said: "The writing of the Beiyu is all pieced together, it is a collection of dozens of grassland tribes, there is no inheritance, there is no canonical system, not even words, only a few oral stories." What is a barbarian, this is a barbarian. In the expression of the Tessians, this is called an inferior civilization. And in China, there is a system of rules and regulations, a written inheritance, and a core of civilization, and Beilu and we are inferior and high, this is not discrimination, people are tall and short, smart and stupid, forcibly thinking that all people are equal, this is nonsense. There are also disparities between races, some develop faster and better, some develop slower, and there will be strong, smart, and stupid people in the group. Each ethnic group is born in different places and will have different characteristics, such as those who are close to the sea are good at sailing and adventurous, and those who are in the mountains are good at shooting and hunting, and they are more conservative. Agrarian will produce order and a lasting civilization, because this is the characteristic of farming. The Beilu are good at riding and shooting, but they are in the bitter cold land outside the Saiwai, and their life is very difficult, so they will not ask their children to study, be courteous, and motivated like us, they will just ride and shoot, and they will not have arithmetic, business, science, and there will be no hundred schools of thought. So there is a higher and a lower. But our contest with the Heavenly People, the Taixi people is different, they also have their own hundred schools of thought, they also have arithmetic, they have legal codes, they have civilization, their civilization is not inferior to ours, and even stronger than us in some places. We also have areas where we are better than them, and they have areas that are better than us, and that makes sense. Once we lose to the Celestials or the Tessians, we're finished. If the northern captives come in, Huaxia will still be Huaxia, and if the Tianfang people or Taixi people come in, the Chinese race may still be there, and civilization will disappear completely. The same is true of the places conquered by the Celestials, and the places conquered by the Tessies. The so-called death of the country, or the death of the world, this is the difference. ”

The people present were all heroes for a while, and after Xu Zixian finished speaking, they had already understood their reasoning.

Some people pondered, some people were excited, Fang Shaoqun bit his lip excitedly, and now he had deeply felt that his decision to go south with Nan Anhou at that time was really the wisest decision in his life so far.

Looking at the entire Great Wei, the person who sees things so clearly, so far-reaching, and analyzes the danger so clearly is nothing more than this monarch in front of him!

Fang Shaoqun couldn't help himself with excitement, and said: "I have long seen that the great enemy in the future is not only the northern and eastern captives, but also the heavenly side and the western kingdoms, now and the past are completely different, in the past Han and Tang dynasties, there was a green mountain desert, the Han Dynasty only knew that there were Taixi countries, and there was no heaven, the Tang Dynasty was a heavenly side, the Tang army in order to compete with the heavens, Anxi Jiedu made Gao Xianzhi and the heavenly army fight with Hengros, the Tang army was defeated because of the traitor behind the Tiele army, but the vitality was not injured, Gao Xianzhi was about to fight again with the whole army, but encountered the Anshi rebellion, As a result, the west of the Green Ridge was no longer owned by the Tang. By the end of the Tang Dynasty, the states west of Yangguan were limited to the Uighurs, and the Uighurs were subject to the heavens. After the death of the Tang Dynasty, our Great Wei rose up and recaptured the Xingling Prefectures, but it was still impossible to recover the Western Regions, because after the death of the Uighurs, the Western Qiang tribes all submitted to the Heavenly Fang, and then there were Heavenly Kingdoms. If so, it is beyond the reach of national strength. Up to now, not only has a passage in the Western Regions, but also has to be thousands of miles away to communicate with each other, and now there is the benefit of boats and boats, from the heavens and the west of the country to the sea, if you buy and sell along the way, you can reach it in half a year, if you want to go east, you will reach the realm of my Great Wei in two months. This would have been impossible hundreds or thousands of years ago. However, it is difficult for the imperial court to deal with barbarians like the Eastern and Northern Prisoners, so how can it focus on the heads of the Tianfang and Taixi people? In the current situation, if the Heavenly Fang helps the Three Buddhas and Lan Fang to destroy the Three Buddhas and Lan Fang, it won't be long before all these places believe in the Heavenly Sect and become one of the vassal states of the Heavenly Side, which country will be next? Luzon, Wa, Siam? Wherever I was influenced by the Great Wei, almost all the places where the Chinese civilization was raised have become the pockets of others. When the people of Heaven come to my coastal places, they will continue to harass, preach, and occupy places, and when the time comes, don't talk about Great Wei, even Huaxia will be completely hopeless. ”

Li Yi muttered: "I've been paying attention to the affairs of the Northern Captives and the Eastern Captives, and now when I hear what the Junhou and Fengqi say, I know that there are other crises." ”

"Yes." Fang Shaoqun's face turned white with excitement, and he said: "If you don't pay attention to it and don't try it as soon as possible, I'm afraid that ten years later, we will have no place in Nanyang, and twenty years later, Champong, Zhenla, Siam, Annam, and other countries will no longer exist, and thirty years later, when we enter the year of knowing the Mandate of Heaven and Huajia, Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi are not owned by the Great Wei, and even Donghu and Beilu will rule across the river from Tianfang." ”

"It's horrible." Kong He muttered, "If that's the case, what's the point of living? ”

Xu Zixian's face was calm and resolute, and his tone was quite firm: "So we can only hurry up and do the things at hand well, don't hesitate, don't hesitate, not only to work hard, but even to do three steps and one step." ”