It's June (lunar calendar), it's really harvest season, and the seeds we planted two years ago are ready to be planted on a large scale after two years of cultivation.

Among them, especially peanuts, in the fertile land of western Liaoning, the yield per mu is as high as 1000 catties, for the lard fried rice, I can't bear it, I can't resist the temptation, secretly run back to the cloud city, and order someone to dig out an acre of peanuts first, most of them are used to roll oil, and the small half is used to eat directly.

After two years, I was finally able to eat fried peanuts, and at that moment, I almost cried with excitement. Just for this fried peanut, I struggled for two years, thinking about it, there is still such a long way to go, how can it not make people tear up, woo woo.

The most hateful thing is Gao Tanglong, even Guan Ning praised this thing for its extraordinary deliciousness after eating, but after he finished eating, he wiped his grease mouth.

Zhen Zhen said: "Delicious, everyone loves it, and gorgeous clothes are loved by everyone." The sage said that the gentleman cooks far away. Although this thing is beautiful, the ambition of the city lord cannot be surrounded by the cooking all day long. Today, the lord of the city eats this delicacy, thinking about the sorrow of the people in the city, and the sorrow of the people of the Central Plains. The war disaster in Youzhou has not been solved, can the city lord still lie here? ”

How can this be reasonable, when I rushed to eat just now, I didn't see you humble, the plate was empty, and you started to speak, it was unreasonable.

I wanted to refute a few words, but when I saw Guan Ning, Wang Lie and others, they nodded one after another, and Gao Shan Yin Dong and the others were silent, so they had to endure this breath.

He stood up and bowed and said, "Be taught, don't dare to forget Mr.'s teachings, Mr. Wang often reminds Liu Bei that I am willing to act according to Mr.'s teachings." ”

Standing up straight, I added, "If the Han court is all officials like Mr., then the Han family can prosper, and if the officials in Izumo Castle do this like Mr., then I will be blessed with more than 100,000 people in Izumo City." ”

After these words, everyone stood up and said in unison, "The lord of the castle is so sincere, blessed are the people of Izumo." ”

I looked at the seat, Zheng Hun was in the corner, and greeted him cordially: "Gong Wen (Zheng Hun's cousin), do you have any new inventions recently?" ”

Zheng Hun stepped forward in fear, saluted me, and said, "Hun has been thinking about the measurement of temperature recently, and now there is a draft, and I am about to discuss it with the lord. However, if the lord can borrow a thousand taels of gold first, he will return it to the lord in the future. ”

Oh, Zheng Hun is actually short of money and is so short that he asked me for money at the banquet, I thought that the reason why Zheng Hun sat in the back and didn't want to speak was because Guan Ning looked down on Zheng Hun, who was born as a craftsman, and was planning to support him and help him speak, but I didn't expect it......

I asked curiously: "Gong Wen, you are actually short of money, you are a person who gets four salaries, one for the Hundred Workers' Division, one for the Senate, one for the Iron Factory, and one for the Carriage Workshop, you get more salary than me, I still want to borrow some money from you to spend it, you actually spend money to borrow money, what is going on, let's hear it." ”

Gao Tanglong immediately took over the conversation: "Zheng Hun took away three cars of glass, the money was not paid, 30 cars of masonry, 20 cars of wood, a number of steel pipes, 1,000 laborers were used to build their own houses, the wages of the workers were not paid ......, this month's wages were not paid, after all the accounts were paid, 900 taels of money were still owed to the government, 20 taels of interest, and the debts will not be repaid next month, and even the current Daili owes a total of 1,000 taels to the government." ”

I can't help but want to laugh, these days, I have been running around for a long time, and I don't know that Zheng Hun has become my free long-term job. Gao Tanglong, even if you are ruthless, you can think of such a bad move.

However, then again, Gao Tanglong alone must not have thought of such a clever idea, Zheng Hun must have been too arrogant and offended Gao Shan and the others, so he had such a bad move to deal with him. Forget it, he also made a big contribution to us, so I'll pay the bill.

"Gong Wen, how do you feel about this meal you have eaten recently?" I inspired him.

"Delicious". Nonsense, you owe a debt to stupidity.

I continued to enlighten him: "We are going to plant this peanut on a large scale next year, and if the equipment for rolling oil has to use a steam press, it will be too laborious, if we have a small press, for example, a manual small press, and use a screw rocker to press, this kind of press will be of great use, we can use it to squeeze sugar juice, oil juice, etc., then we can sell this oil and sugar in large quantities, and the grain we buy back will feed more displaced people." ”

When Zheng Hun heard this, he nodded absentmindedly.

Gao Tanglong and others immediately apologized to me: "The lord invited us to eat this meal with great meaning, but I don't know, I misunderstood the lord."

I waved my hand at them and continued to say to Zheng Hun: "If I repay your debts, I can do it, but this sets a precedent, in the future, if someone borrows money from me to repay the debt, I borrow or not, but I have three ways to help you repay the debt, do you want to hear it." ”

"There are as many as three, my lord say quickly, I want to hear it." Zheng Hun's eyes immediately lit up, not only him, but even Guan Ning Gao Tanglong and the others also showed a look of longing.

"First, I think Gong Wen invented a number of new things, during which you have worked hard, and you have to take your own money to study (take my money), after the things come out, others don't know your hard work, just use them, and copy them according to your things, which is really shameless and immoral," Zheng Hun immediately nodded again and again, feeling the same way.

I glanced at Guan Ning and the others, and said, "You'an (Guan Ning's character) will also have such an experience." ”

Guan Ning's eyes immediately widened, "Why did the lord say this, why didn't I know?" ”

Okay, I just want you to be in the same situation as Zheng Hun, so that you can put aside your prejudices and be on an equal footing with an inventor like Zheng Hun.

I went on to say: "You'an has done his best to compile ancient books to educate the people, and has paid painstaking efforts, labor, time, and money, but people don't know your hard work, and they can use the books you have compiled to use them, and they don't know how to admire the sages of the past, and the hard work of today's people, won't people hate them greatly." ”

Sage, as soon as he talked about this topic, Guan Ning immediately nodded.

I continued, "I want people to know that the reason why people are where they are today is because of the hard work of the ancient sages. That's why I want to establish a 'patent law' so that people's hard work can be recognized by future generations." In the future, whoever invents something new, and later generations imitate and produce, must pay the inventor for his hard work; Anyone who writes a new book, compiles an ancient book, and republishes it for future generations, must pay the author's fee. In order to make future generations remember the deeds of their predecessors, at the same time, it can also enable those who do learning to concentrate on learning without worrying about food and clothing. This is a matter for thousands of generations, I wonder what you think? ”

The crowd immediately left the table and praised this method. In the future, I would like to discuss the use of the patent within the scope of Izumo Castle first, and the question of how much to pay for the patent term will be discussed and decided by the Senate.

I then said to Zheng Hun: "This law is the best policy, but if you repay the debt, you will only have income after the Senate passes this law, and it is estimated that it will take you a year to repay the debt." ”

Hearing this, Zheng Hun's face immediately turned pale, and it is estimated that Gao Tanglong's debt collection methods were clever during this time.

He immediately said: "This strategy is too slow, I would like to hear the lord and other strategies." ”

I looked at Zheng Hun and said, "There is another middle strategy." Since ancient times, the master never passed on all the skills to the apprentice, and the teacher did not give all the knowledge to the apprentice, because he was afraid that the apprentice would not have anything to eat, which led to the loss of advanced skills. I intend to change this situation by setting up a "teacher's method". Anyone who is a teacher of a person, once the person leaves the school, must pay a certain percentage of his salary to the teacher for a certain number of years, and if he does not pay, the teacher can sue the law to recover the money. Of course, we have to set a lower ratio so that the apprentices can support their families. In this way, if teachers and teachers do their best to teach their students, they will be able to rely on their educational work to ensure that they have no worries about food and clothing. The more children you teach, the more you earn. In the past, when the saints taught their disciples, they also used this method, but it was not explicitly stipulated at that time. We have made it into law, so that the Master will be happy when he is alive. ”

Everyone nodded, and Du Zhenghun asked, "My lord, how much time will it take to repay the debt with this method?" ”

It seemed that he was not lightly devastated by Gao Tanglong, and I replied, "It's only three or five months." ”

"This method is too slow, I would like to hear the lord's decision," Zheng Hun said with a frown.

"There are two steps, first, you invent the press, although we can only grow peanuts and sugar beets on a large scale next year, but if there is a new type of press, every household can squeeze their own fried sugar, the squeezed soybean cake can be added to sugar, bacon can be eaten, sugar residue can be used to make paper, oil, sugar can be used in large quantities, in the future we can eat this delicacy every day, its unpleasant.

Second, you invented the thermometer, we did not have a thermometer before, steelmaking, brick and porcelain are based on experience, if there is a temperature measurement equipment, we can greatly increase the output of our genuine products in the future, from then on, all the firing industry technology level must be greatly improved (China's temperature measurement was introduced by Westerners in the last years of the Qing Dynasty), if you complete both, I will reward you with 1000 taels of gold, and the title will be upgraded to one level. This method is as fast as 10 days and as slow as 1 month, which one do you choose? ”

Zheng Hun thought about it for a while and made up his mind: "Hun chooses the next policy, but I hope that the lord will implement the two policies as soon as possible." ”

"Well, but the power to legislate comes from the Senate, and who among you is willing to introduce this bill and fight for legislation." All of you here have expressed their willingness to co-sign this case.

Since then, Guan Ning and others have become much closer to Zheng Hun in the discussion of legislation, and with people like Guan Ning as role models, I believe that Confucianism will slowly begin to respect craftsmen and technology.

In the letter I asked Su Shuang to bring back, I arranged two things.

One is the issue of selling goods to Su Shuang, and the other is to ask Izumo City to quickly arm 2,000 ironclad cavalry and organize 3,000 people. When I returned to the city this time, I found that Izumo Castle was very wealthy, so I quickly armed 3,000 ironclad soldiers, each ironclad sergeant with three horses, and 3,000 Korean Minzhuang also organized and conducted simple military training. 800 carts are nearing completion, 300 of which are equipped with three-bow bed crossbows with three chutes on the crossbow arms, large crossbows that can shoot three arrows at the same time, and military supplies are also ready.

I think it's time to rescue Gongsun Chan.

Leaving Guan Haitong to lead the team to reorganize the army, I took Liu Hong to Youzhou. Pitiful, the real Liu Bei has no shortage of fierce generals around him in the Three Kingdoms, and I can be regarded as a fierce general by my side.

At this time, Liu Zhou was traveling around with Su Shuang and Zhang Shiping, and his task was to draw maps and describe the terrain along the way, so as to prepare us for future battles in the Three Kingdoms.

And Chen Yongzheng is in Jixian County, where I am going to set up an intelligence agency, Wang Zhi is going to and from South Korea to do business, and Liu Kai is fighting beside Gongsun Zhan. Brother Meng, where have you all gone?

People's hearts are not enough, and they are both prosperous and hopeful. Thinking about it, not long after I came to the Three Kingdoms, with the assistance of a group of literati such as Guan Ning, I should be content, but I always keep making plans and keep catching up. The human heart is not enough to swallow the elephant.

After coming to Gongsun Mansion and greeting Wang Yue, I came to Gongsun Xu's room and asked if anyone would come to report after I left, but there was news of Gongsun Zhan, and Gongsun Xu also began to be a little worried under my recent continuous inspiration.

"How come there is no news of your father's departure?" He began to ask.

"It's okay, I'll go to the governor's mansion and ask for information." I comforted him.

Walking out of Gongsun Mansion, I stood on the street for a long time, how to open my mouth to Liu Yu, it was really a difficult problem, slowly, I walked to Liu Yu's house step by step, thinking nervously about how to speak.

Now, Liu Yu is appeasing the aliens, meeting with countless alien leaders every day, making promises, temptations, and concessions. In the eyes of the imperial court, as long as Youzhou is stable, everything can be discussed.

Is it really negotiable? I know that in a few decades, the alien races that have finished their recuperation will rush to the Central Plains, taking the Han people as slaves, women as slaves, and the Central Plains as their horse ranches, and the Central Plains will be shrouded in a bloody atmosphere for at least 200 years. 200 years, the Han Dynasty, a person's life is not longer than 60 years, this is an era of the master as a slave, the son as a slave, the grandson as a slave, and then as a slave. Is the golden mean really feasible for them?

I think of history, the British Empire trampled the Indian subcontinent, the Americas, and Africa under its feet, and saw no punishment, but it became stronger, and Spain wiped out the entire Mayan culture, and the invisible collapsed. Chamberlain's policy of appeasement towards Hitler was instead disgraced. Is the conciliatory policy really good? I doubt it. Our Han nation married daughters one by one, and went to get married, and they didn't see it, so it reduced the humiliation of other races.

Throughout the history of China, since the Han Dynasty, it is just a history of being conquered by foreign races again and again, after the Han Dynasty, it was the invasion of foreign races in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and the establishment of the Sui and Tang dynasties was defeated by the foreign races, and the rebellion of the foreign races in Anshi made the Tang Dynasty decline, followed by the great chaos of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, just appeared in the Northern Song Dynasty with signs of unification, followed by the confrontation between the Southern Song Dynasty and Liao, Jin, and Western Xia, and finally the Song Dynasty was conquered by the Mongols, established the Yuan Dynasty, and finally got rid of the rule of the foreign race and established the Ming Dynasty, and was conquered by another foreign race to establish the Qing Dynasty.

Every time we are conquered, our technological level and government system are more advanced than the nomadic conquerors, but why are we conquered again and again. I absolutely believe that if alien races represent the interests of the broadest masses of the people, then I can only find fault in the guiding ideology. We are sick in our minds, and we are not lightly ill, a people who always do not want to conquer, to enslave, to plunder, but only want to defend the city, once the strength of others is greater than you, the fate that awaits you is only destruction and subjugation.