Two women, one older and one young, were in the house sipping plum wine, eating fish and tart, secretly discussing some things that could not be heard by outsiders.

This kind of topic can only be understood by the Empress Dowager Xuan.

Once upon a time, Empress Dowager Xuan also thought that one day, she and her younger brother Wei Ran would be excluded by the nobles of the Qin State and even her own son, and then end up gloomily.

There is nothing more terrible in the world than this.

Empress Dowager Xuan suddenly said, "Has Bai Hui thought about this problem? ”

"I don't know!"

"I don't know? You dare to build a manor here for him. Empress Dowager Xuan shook her head, not believing.

"I really don't know, but if you guess, what does the Queen Mother think?" Ji Ling threw this troublesome topic back to Empress Dowager Xuan.

Empress Dowager Xuan shook her head: "That's it, there's no need to be dumb anymore, have you thought about it or not, you know it or not, it's nothing." You prepare, and the day after tomorrow you will accompany the palace to see the Empress Dowager Yan. There are some things that are inconvenient to talk about, so you can talk about them. ”

Ji Ling smiled: "What Empress Dowager Yan, it's not as good as me." ”

This is a bit arrogant, but after thinking about it carefully, Empress Dowager Xuan thinks that what Ji Ling said makes sense, the only value of Empress Dowager Yan is to leave Yan Kingdom with two treasures, but Yan Country also has a way, that is, not to admit this matter.

In fact, that's what Yan Guo did.

The practice of the Yan Kingdom is not to admit that the jade seal was taken away, nor to admit that there is a Empress Dowager Yan who fled with King Xiaoyan.

There is more than one concubine of the first king of Yan Kingdom, who can see the concubines of King Yan one by one, even if they do, it is impossible to take a closer look.

Change the person, and take the name of the current Empress Dowager Yan. Children, the difference in appearance is not very big, change one, and take the name of King Yan. As for the jade seal, make another one, anyway, Yan Guo said that what is left in Yandu at the moment is the real thing, and the rest are all fake.

Ji Ling said again: "What if the Empress Dowager Yan is real, there is nothing left in the Yan Kingdom." The output of Yan Guo in a year is not as high as that of my small territory. ”

Empress Dowager Xuan nodded slightly.

She believed Xi Ling's words.

The territorial land here in Wajima is huge.

Seeing that the Empress Dowager Xuan nodded, Ji Ling continued: "It's not that I don't respect the Empress Dowager, but a little Empress Dowager Yan, being qualified to meet the Empress Dowager is already a reward, do you still want the Empress Dowager to greet you?" ”

Empress Dowager Xuan didn't speak, and she was discerning what Ji Ling said in her heart.

Ji Ling continued: "The Queen Mother is going to greet her, so I should naturally accompany her." But what is Empress Dowager Yan, in front of me, a broken person who has lost the country, I don't think she can compare to me. ”

"That's what I said." Empress Dowager Xuan was not angry, but just reminded that Ji Ling's words were arrogant.

Ji Ling didn't think so, and listed a set of data at the moment: "Queen Mother, don't mention the grain production, because the fields in the territory of the Yue people on Wadao are still being cultivated, but the seven docks of the Yue people on Wadao Island, the income from shipbuilding every year, can be exchanged for grain, which can be equal to the net income of five million mu of fertile land in Yan Kingdom." ”

"Dockyard, with such a high profit?"

"Yes!" Ji Ling said with great certainty: "The wood doesn't need money, the Japanese slaves can eat and drink, and they will be very happy if they give some linen, and they can be rewarded with a piece of silk, and the Japanese slaves can be scared and can't sleep for a few days." ”

Empress Dowager Xuan reacted, and the industrial cost of Wadao was extremely low.

In the case of the Qin State, the dockyard alone is a handyman who carries it, and the cost of one person can be as high as four Wadao. Speaking of wood, the wood here is cut down, and you only need to pay a tax to the Qin State.

The land in Yan is barren, and it takes at least forty to fifty acres of land to feed a family.

Yan State harvests one season of grain a year, and the harvest is not good, and the agricultural tools are backward, and it is not as good as the Qin State has begun to use fertilizer.

The harvest of the seven docks is much higher than the income of 10,000 households.

Therefore, Ji Ling's words are true, and there is even a modest element in it, according to the actual income of the Yue Ren dock, it is not impossible to say that tens of millions of acres of Dingyan Country are in it.

Ji Ling said: "This is not counting the cargo income of the wharf and the mulberry weaving workshop that will be built soon. The first batch of 300 Japanese slave women was already proficient in using the loom, the second group of more than 1,000 people was already able to start practicing on the loom, and the third group was even more and was also training. ”

"Well, the labor fee?"

"Take care of the rice, take care of it, give a batch of hemp every month, and give an extra fifty catties of rice. With such wages, if they were placed in Xianyang, I am afraid that the workshop would have been smashed dozens of times, but if they were placed here, the Japanese slave girls would be cured when they heard the sound of the loom when they were seriously ill. ”

What Ji Ling said is too exaggerated in modern terms.

It can be placed on Wajima, which is a fact.

Empress Dowager Xuan asked, "Who taught you this?" ”

"Dahe-kun, there is a special word for all this, which is to squeeze surplus value, which belongs to cruel exploitation. I still can't fully understand these words, but in my opinion, this is not only Dahejun giving the Yue people a better life, but also giving the lowly Japanese slaves a good life that they could never dream of. ”

If she had said this 2,000 years later, if she had stood at the door of her silk weaving factory, the silk weavers would have gone on strike immediately.

However, Wajima is indeed a fact.

Who has ever seen the Japanese slaves who have just evolved from primitive tribes to learn to cultivate by digging wild vegetables and eating tree bark every day, and mixing a little bit of food, have indeed lived a better life.

The Great River is the savior.

Ji Ling said one by one, let the Empress Dowager Xuan calculate it like this, the area controlled by Ji Ling may not be comparable to Yan Guo at the moment, but at most three years, it will indeed exceed the wealth of Yan Guo.

This wealth is not the treasury income of the Yan State, but the gross national product.

Of course, Empress Dowager Xuan will not be such a high-end and atmospheric neologism, which is the approximate meaning.

Because of this, a Queen Mother Yan who escaped from Yan Kingdom, Ji Ling can ignore it.

Empress Dowager Xuan asked again: "Do you know the benefits of Fugang?" ”

"The Queen Mother doesn't know, does Ji Ling believe it?"

"It's not that I don't know, but I didn't ask, I heard you mention the benefits here, so I asked."

Ji Ling shook her head: "I'm afraid that only Dahejun and several general accounts know about Fugang's income, but it can be calculated." I estimate that the income of Fugang is more than ten times that of my here, especially the Fugang Steel Mill, once it is fully operational, the income is amazing. ”

"Amazing benefits?" Empress Dowager Xuan was surprised.

"Tell the Queen Mother that there are 20,000 Japanese slaves who are handymen alone, and this is only handyman."

Empress Dowager Xuan nodded, and said in her heart that if the income of the steel mill is not large, how can it be necessary to need 20,000 Japanese slaves as handymen, this big steel mill is afraid that she underestimates it, and she has the opportunity to see it.

You must know that the largest steel mill in Xianyang, that is, 500 furnaces, together with craftsmen, big workers, small workers, and handymen, is about 3,500 people.