Chen Hongmi was shocked by Hua Xue's prediction, especially since this prediction was not empty words, but also had a detailed basis and a logical reasoning process. After thinking about it, Chen Hongmi still couldn't make up his mind.

As for the discussion of the causes of rain and snow, there is naturally no problem in reporting it to the imperial court. However, the slightest carelessness in predicting the disaster situation is a great sin to confuse the public and deceive the people. If it was just a crime, Chen Hongmi would not hesitate, he still had the spirit of pursuing the truth, but whether this prediction was the truth or not, he still had to consider it carefully.

With the intention of knowing more about Hua Xue, Chen Hongmi then asked: "You said four things, this disaster is indeed the most important, but what about two more?" ”

"One is light, although most of the treasures are gold and silver, there should be no shortage of jade and other things that are not cash but are priceless. These things are flashy, but they can be exchanged for gold, silver, rice, and grain. Adults may wish to find some inferior ones, and give some to the big brothers who have worked hard, and the adults will make it clear to them, after all, they are all ordinary people, and it is a blessing or a curse for them to be too valuable. Then entrust reliable merchants to send a large number of medium-sized goods to Dongfan, and tell them that as long as we have grain, no gold and silver, as long as we are willing to give them profits, those merchants dare to do anything. Of course, in order to prevent them from running away with the money, the grain must be handed over to us first, so that we can exchange enough food from the rich households. If they're smart enough, they'll be able to get more food back from Toban. ”

"Dongfan has not been affected? Where does the food come from? ”

"My lord, it doesn't matter if Dongfan suffers from disasters or not, the key is that there are Francoji people in Dongfan, and they can bring us grain from foreign countries."

"They won't buy grain from Daming?"

"How can the people of the Ming Dynasty have surplus food? The grain stored by wealthy merchants in other places would not have been given to the people, and it was also a blessing for the people to buy it in the hands of adults. ”

"What about the best ones?"

"In the name of auspiciousness, it is presented to His Majesty, and it is said that 'mountain out of the instrument' is 'Da Rui', which can be compared to the Bian clan of Chu, or can boost morale. The student's previous explanation may be able to win the trust of the court, but if you want the people of the world to understand, it may be delayed. But auspiciousness has always been believed in by fools and fools, and they are happy to spread it. The wise can use reason to inspire morale, but the foolish people can only use faith to boost morale. When the adults are on the table, you may wish to speak out, believing that all the princes in the court and all the people in the world are timely rain. ”

Chen Hongmi is not a person who does not know how to be flexible, otherwise it would be difficult to be promoted all the way, but he insists on the bottom line of not exchanging people's lives for official positions, so it is difficult to pay taxes. Therefore, for the various workarounds that Hua Xue said, not only did he feel deviant, but he felt that what this son was thinking and thinking, which had never been done before, and what he had never thought of before, was really a genius in the world, and he believed Hua Xue's prediction a little more.

"Don't you want a copy?"

"If the adults agree, they can take some of the help students from them and give them to the owner of the pear orchard as ransom. If you do not agree, the student has his or her own way of repaying the money. Adults do not have to tempt students with this, and since students have presented this picture, they will naturally not covet the riches in it. ”

"If you don't want it, then I'll just take out enough ransom and treat it as if I've already distributed it to you. Don't blame me then, after all, if you can save one share, you can exchange more food. ”

"Students don't have any pursuit of money, and adults help students get married to Sister Yuanyuan, which is the best reward for students."

"Then it's decided. What about the fourth use? ”

"The fourth use is to slow, although there are many hidden treasures, after all, there is an upper limit, so using limited treasures as a base, extracting the parts that are not urgently needed in the short term, making money with money, and flowing for a long time is a long-term solution."

"You mean that the government comes forward to do business and compete with the people for profit?"

"Hehe, my lord is so open-minded, do you also think that the government is competing with the people for profit when doing business?"

"Isn't it?"

"The market is so broad, take the bowl of adults eating as an example, do adults think that every household in my Ming Dynasty can afford such a delicate bowl?"

"Of course not."

"Then if the government makes a batch of the same bowls and sells them cheaply to those who can't afford them, so that the people who can't afford the bowls have bowls to use, shouldn't it be called returning to the people? Those who buy bowls still buy bowls from the same place, and for those who buy bowls and sell bowls, everything has not changed, and there should be no competition with the people, right? ”

"How do you make sure you sell all the bowls to those who can't afford them?"

"My lord, why guarantee this? The bowl will continue to be produced, and the price will not increase if it is hoarded, so you will only buy what you naturally need. As long as they are sold to those who need them in the end, and a few hands are poured in the middle, it will increase the number of people who can afford to use the bowl, right? ”

"So the bowl seller will have a bowl that can't be sold, right?"

"This can't be sold because he is not doing it well, what does it have to do with me?"

"I know you're a quibble, but it's still a rhetoric."

"In fact, students don't want adults to be stained with the words 'competing with the people', which is not good for adults. Since the students still raised this matter, there was a way to circumvent this 'competition with the people', and even a way to get more support from the gentry for the adults' fight against the disaster. After all, although many of the gentry were not highly respected, there was no doubt that these people were the foundation of the Ming Dynasty. ”

"It's good that you know this, I heard that in your previous words, you were not friendly to these people, and I was worried that you would be rash, but I didn't expect you to be so clear at such a young age."

He didn't know that at this point, Xiaohuaxue was even clearer than Dahuaxue. After all, Dahua Xue was born in New China, grew up under the red flag, and the education she received since she was a child is still an equal education. But Xiao Huaxue has been observing the world as a person from the beginning, but his treatment is okay. After the baptism of various ideas in the three planes, Xiaohuaxue fundamentally adapted to this feudal society, and learned a lot of new thinking and technology from the previous two worlds.

"Adults have won awards, and students just don't have a good impression of some of them. In fact, there are no grievances, so naturally I will not be rash. ”

"Not bad. So what are you talking about? ”

"My lord, please see, still take the porcelain bowl as an example, if we don't sell porcelain bowls, sell a bowl that is lighter, durable, neat and beautiful than porcelain bowls, but no one has ever sold it, is this still a competition with the people? If you bring in the gentry who were selling bowls and want to sell them but have no way to sell them, tell them, "Your Excellency, you have lower cost but higher quality bowls here, but you don't want to compete with the people for profit, and you want them to sell them." But the imperial court can't give them free of charge, whoever is willing to pay the highest share to the imperial court is the official and businessman who specializes in this new bowl. Do you think anyone would be willing to pay a high price? And the gentry who made the bid had a closer relationship with the imperial court? ”

"I used to listen to you, and it seems that I am quite dissatisfied with the gentry who are in business, but now it seems that this is not the case?"

"My lord, in ancient times, people cultivated land purely by manpower, and one person could plant less land and produce less grain, and one person could feed three people with heavy land, so there must be a farmer for every three people, otherwise someone would starve to death. Today, with tools and handling, one farmer can grow enough food to feed nine people. Then, there is only one peasant out of nine people. If the remaining two peasants do not change their careers and return to farming, there will be a situation where the grain is cheap and the peasants are hurt. So, two people have to move to other industries. What do these people think? Of course, for the sake of the country's grain reserves, more farmers should be needed. But after all, food can't be left for too long, so there will always be a surplus agricultural population. This is the trend of national development, which shows that the country is stronger. ”

After a pause, Hua Xue said: "On the contrary, now that it is a famine year, more people need to fight drought and invest in agriculture." Therefore, my advice to adults is that drought resistance is important, and business is slow. ”