Time passes in peace, in a blink of an eye is approaching the Shangyuan Festival, this is a festival for lovers to meet, Tiantang industry is also taking the opportunity to riveting energy, carrying out gifts, clothing and various product publicity in this regard, the whole Chang'an ripples with an ambiguous spring taste. In the prince's mansion, several people looked at Li Chengqian and kept complaining.

"There are so many things, there are no workers, and there is a shortage of people everywhere, but how can I arrange it!" Both Wang Xuance and Zheng Tao had some headaches. Dai Wenxi's requirements and Li Chengqian's plan were placed in front of them, but they were helpless, the key was that the stalls were getting bigger and bigger, but not many people were willing to come out to do work, the slave market was about to let them all be completed, and the slave market in the West Market had been closed for a long time, resulting in no one available at present, and both of them were sad.

"Tell me what you think, what are you thinking?" Li Chengqian saw Wang Xuance's extremely distressed appearance, so he asked.

Wang Xuance sighed: "It's not because of the expansion of His Highness's industrial scale, the shortage of people for road construction, mining, chemical industry, and even farms!" As for the official slaves, you can go to the market and have a look, basically there are no slaves, let alone sell themselves into slavery. ”

Li Chengqian lowered his head and thought for a moment, and then said: "This matter is not in a hurry for the time being, first maintain the current situation, a few years ago, I have arranged for Su Zichu and Zhu Dahai to let them hurry up the new sailing ships that have been built, and at the same time, Liu Renqing and Liu Renliang will cooperate to recruit a navy that is proficient in water, cooperate with training, go to Silla and the Wa Kingdom to trade, buy slaves, and by the way, fight the surrounding bandits, and then there will be no shortage of manpower!" ”

"But far water does not quench the thirst of near! Looks like we'll have to wait a while. Zheng Tao frowned.

"I guess I can't count on it for the time being, after all, the weapons and equipment developed can be used except for crossbows, grenades and incendiary bombs, and the rest are fundamentally good, including those mortars, it's okay to deceive you! If you really install and use it, you will be scrapped if you hit it once, and it will be suicide if you use it again. Dai Wenxi was a little unimpressed, "So I suggest that the arsenal be temporarily closed, and the factory personnel should be mobilized and assigned to other industries according to their personal strengths, and then consider it when the military technology and my machine tools, lathes, and milling machines are developed." Don't take out your garbage and embarrass it, destroy it when it should be, keep it as a souvenir if you don't want to destroy it, or sell it to your enemies when the time comes. Doing so can also solve some of the problems of manpower shortages. When the time comes, there will be more slaves returning from overseas, and the problem of manpower shortage will naturally be solved! ”

Li Chengqian listened to it, and hated this mental illness in his heart, my things are not good, because my technical level was born as a soil expert in the late stage of World War II, you are a high-achieving student, I don't compare with you. On the surface, he was amazed: "The master of Qingfeng Village is really a talent, just according to your ideas, those things are indeed dangerous, let's destroy them, the equipment for overseas travel, melee combat is mainly based on traditional weapons, and long-distance combat relies on bows and arrows, crossbows and bed crossbows, and auxiliary grenades and incendiary bombs." The high-power weapons in the future will be seen by the master of the wind village. ”

After thinking about it, Li Chengqian continued: "According to the changes in the sky, I will discuss with Yuan Tiangang and Li Chunfeng, it is estimated that Guanzhong will be a big drought this spring, if it is not bad, there will be a locust plague, and there will definitely be many refugees at that time, you must make good use of this opportunity." ”

Locusts? Wang Xuance and Zheng Tao both took a breath of cool air, can this be predicted? Once there is a drought and locust plague, there will be many refugees, no wonder the local branch camp and the Tiantang supply and marketing cooperative kept hoarding grain last year, it turns out that this prince has already planned.

Dai Wenxi rolled his eyes, but didn't say anything, but Li Chengqian was slightly proud, and continued: "Of course, I didn't mean to do so, I raised a large number of chickens, ducks and geese in the farm, and rarely bought and sold, but also to deal with this natural disaster, when the time comes, you seize the opportunity to vigorously publicize, the sales of these chickens, ducks and geese are estimated to be not a problem, even if there is a locust plague, it is just a festival for these poultry, of course, we do this, but also sell at a low price to help the people." For those who don't want to believe this information, then there is no way, when the disaster comes, let them come to my Tiantang industry to work. ”

"The prince is really talented!" Wang Xuance and Zheng Tao were overjoyed, this prince was far-sighted, and the honor and disgrace of the two of them depended on the prince, especially for Zheng Tao. I can't help but feel a little remorseful about what I have done in the past two years, but who would know that this little doll is so bewitching.

Now, the prince is not only favored, but also quite talented, and his status has stabilized, if the Zheng family can hold this thigh tightly, it will definitely be able to prosper forever! Zheng Tao has begun to think in his heart, the prince is now ten years old, and he can get married in a few years, which sister can bring greater benefits, when to discuss it with the family. If he had come two years earlier, how could it be the turn of this demon girl Li Wujie to approach the prince.

"Two of them have won the prize!" Li Chengqian chuckled, "My father and teachers always say that I don't need to study hard!" ”

"According to Qiming, the prince is now famous all over the world, not only familiar with the classics, but also writes books and says, everyone reads the treasure book of things, which one can be like this, they are like the difference between fireflies and the bright moon compared to you!" Zheng Tao shook his head, "Since Dong Zhongshu proposed to depose the hundred schools of thought and respect Confucianism alone, the world's scholarship has gradually declined, and there is no major development, it can be seen that there is still merit in the contention of a hundred schools, but it just needs to be restricted and guided!" ”

Li Chengqian laughed: "Although the truth is so, although this way of Confucius and Mencius may not be appropriate today, it is also worth learning from, what we need to do is to expand it and accommodate hundreds of schools." ”

"Oh, Your Highness said that this way of Confucius and Mencius is not out of place?" Wang Xuance became interested, after all, he was orthodox Confucianism.

"Qiming is a great Confucian, in fact, no matter what kind of thought, we must keep pace with the times." Li Chengqian smiled again, "Back then, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty deposed the hundred schools of thought and respected Confucianism alone, but in the end, in terms of governing the country, he was just dressed in the cloak of Confucianism and used the ideas of Legalism, not to mention, since Dong Zhongshu, Confucian classics have been constantly revised, why?" In order to cater to the emperor's concept of governing the country, think about it, is this still the thought of Confucius and Mencius during the Warring States Period? What's more, the times have changed, and the situation is very different between ancient and modern, even if what they said at the time was right, but can it remain the same with the development of the times? ”