Chapter 104: Idealists and Former Idealists (Part II)

Without falling into any silence, Hong Xuchou and Zheping laughed one after another.

Teppei even laughed violently and coughed, saliva splashing out as his lips snapped together.

Hong Xuchou smiled and took out a handkerchief and handed it over: "Cover it and cough." ”

Zheping coughed a little painfully, took his handkerchief and covered his mouth, waited for the cough to subside, and said, "Thank you." ”

Mo Yun dodged the splattered saliva, and raised his eyebrows: "I know this idea is immature, why do you want to laugh like this?" ”

"Your thinking does have some effect. And there is nothing wrong with it, at least on paper, it is completely doable. Hong Xuchou said.

Although Mo Yun had only known Hong Xuchou for a few days, he could see that this ruler of the Song State was actually a talker, and he rarely ended his words a little bit, so he nodded and said, "And then? ”

Hong Xuchou looked at Zheping, Zheping shook his hand and said, "Hong Daxiang, let's talk about it." I need pranayama for a moment. ”

Hong Xuchou didn't push back, as Mo Yun thought, he really opened the conversation:

"It can't last. Why did King Song choose to establish a country with commerce, why didn't he establish a country with agriculture, or with craftsmanship, or with martial arts, or something else? The reason is that business can bring enough money, and money can enhance the external strength of people themselves. For example, a person who has just started a business has only a thousand yuan in capital, and everything must be carefully considered, thinking about how to use it in practice and how much money he can earn back, because once he has discounted his capital, he may return to the poorest state without a penny. But what about the capital of 10 million Jun coins, he will not do this. His business will be very big, and if there is a gap here, he can make up for it elsewhere. One thousand less is a huge and even life-threatening disaster for only one thousand, but ten million is a small number. The Song people are rich and rich, and there are many hidden riches, but more of them are still ordinary businessmen. Once a businessman has the capital, the first thing he wants to do is to make his life better, buy acres of pre-built estates, and recruit displaced people. The second is to further expand its business territory. However, as far as I can see about businessmen, nine out of ten will not always maintain a sense of fearful danger, and more will gradually indulge in pleasure, thinking about the suffering of the first half of their lives, and the second half of their lives will be enjoyed. What's more, going back to what I just said, young people who inherit the family business, because they don't know the hardships of the past, tend to be more stubborn than their predecessors, and they are stubborn not to earn more money, but to be stubborn about how to spend the money. You keep them in a sense of crisis all the time, and the first thing they do when they get up every day is to think about whether they are dead...... Mo Yun, not everyone can be strong enough to persevere, and not everyone is strong. There are also many people who will succumb to their inner desires, some will succumb to their weaknesses, and some will succumb to other pressures. ”

"I think there's something wrong with that. There will also be a sense of crisis among young people, and many people will worry that they will not have so much wealth in the future, or lose their current state of life. For example...... The white order in the white mansion, the white has a plan, and they are there. Mo Yun immediately thought of the Bai Mansion that had originally planned to rebel and was currently in an unknown state.

"Bai family ......" Hong Xuchou was silent for a moment, "They were originally glorious people in their ancestors, and they had the accumulation of the past, and they had reached this level. He raised his hand and gestured higher, then lowered it a little more: "Now it's lower." This repetition seems to me to be in the category of normal fluctuations, because their lintels do not fall into the dust. They are also a group of famous nobles, wealthy businessmen and high-ranking families. If we make a simple division of all groups of people, then all famous nobles, wealthy businessmen and high-ranking families are at the same level, but in this level they are still divided into high and low, but there is no essential difference in this stratification. ”

"That's also a sense of crisis." Mo Yun emphasized.

"It's not a life-threatening sense of crisis. Because you and I both know that they rebel, and we can't do anything to them. Hong Xuchou couldn't help but smile helplessly.

Mo Yun almost blurted out a question why, and then was stunned for a moment: "You're not going to pursue their rebellion?" ”

Hong Xuchou patted his thigh, his lips folded upward, and he looked helpless: "Exchange interests, and then unite the forces that can be united, some things are not black and white." Moreover...... The Bai family's thinking is also shared by other high-ranking families, so why not appease one side and calm a city? ”

Mo Yun was stunned: "I thought ......"

"Young people's minds are easier to see both sides of black and white, and there is no form that pleases both sides. So, there are some things that you can't do. You said that King Song knelt down forty-five years ago, right? Did he regret it? Now it seems right, but what if either of the two empires doesn't stick to it? Especially more than thirty years ago, the Nanchen Empire collapsed under the burden of the Hundred Years' War, and the Jun Empire was established on top of its wreckage. At that time, it was the biggest crisis in the life of the Song king, and he was not sure whether the new empire was still willing to implement the agreement between Nanchen and the Song state, and once one of the two empires did not agree, the other side might follow suit. Fortunately...... Someone stood up in the Nanjun court and said a few good words for the king of Song, and the agreement between the two empires to maintain the peace of the Song State was implemented unharmed...... A few days ago, he died in the sea. Hong Xuchou paused several times in the middle of the process, as if he was thinking about the past.

"I remember that it was His Royal Highness Su who proposed to continue to maintain Nanchen's past agreement with the Song State in the court of the Jun Empire, right?" Teppei frowned and thought seriously for a while.

"Well, yes. Su Dian is also old now. Hong Xuchou nodded in affirmation.

"At that time, he was still young." Teppei sighed.

"But if you all think you're doing the right thing, aren't you young people too?" Mo Yun couldn't understand why Hong Xuchou would deny the role of young people so much.

"Young...... Scold. Hong Xuchou looked at Mo Yun and smiled, a little embarrassed, "Then what can it change?" ”

When Hong Xuchou asked such a sentence, Mo Yun felt that this person might really be old.

Hong Xuchou is ambitious, otherwise he would not have given up his high position twenty-four years ago and came to the small Song Kingdom.

Hong Xuchou has the means, otherwise he would not have always held the position of prime minister for twenty-four years, and has always been trusted by the King of Song.

Hong Xuchou has the ability, otherwise he would not have continued to develop the commerce of the Song Kingdom in the twenty-four years, and the Song Kingdom respected him.

Such an ambitious, means, and capable person, who still has ideas to this day, feels that he can no longer change anything.

"When you were young, you always had an idea, you want to make it happen!" Mo Yun raised his voice, with a hoarse tone in it.

Zheping's gaze also fell on Hong Xuchou.

Hong Xuchou looked at Mo Yun's somewhat excited face, and wanted to perfunctorily fool the past: "You are a ranger, what are you doing so excited?" ”

"I don't know! I just think what you and King Song want to do is worth doing. When you were impassioned and eloquent in the Song Dynasty, I felt that you were not a person who was willing to follow the general trend. I am indeed a ranger, and I have no great ambitions, but I feel that when a person is willing to kneel down and bow with tears on his face, and say goodbye to the previous king, and call himself Your Majesty, he is by no means a man who plays with power. What's more, you have a high position, until now, Lang Ge is willing to send a team led by the middle division to help you with just a word from you. There were tears in Mo Yun's eyes.

"Hi...... Yes, and yes, you young people always shed tears over these false things. Men's tears should not be shed easily, I shed tears for King Song, I am grateful for his kindness in knowing and promoting, and I am grateful for the kindness of the 24 years of monarchs and ministers. Those ideas are all yesterday's yellow flowers, very empty, and unrealistic. Hong Xuchou didn't know where to find out a hand towel and handed it to Mo Yun: "Wipe it." ”

Then Hong Xuchou turned his face, lowered his head, wiped his face with a hand towel, and then raised his head and emphasized:

"It's all fake!"

"Hong Daxiang, this ink ranger and I are still waiting for your answer. This is not what I want to know as I sit here today. Zheping smiled at Mo Yun.

Mo Yun snorted and replied heavily:

"Hmm!"