In the mansion of the county guard, the kerosene lamp flickered to the brightest level. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

He only slept for a few days these days, and watched the situation and ideas about the outside world written by Chen Jian, and became more and more obsessed.

From Nan'an to Mincheng, he saw a new era that was different from the past, and this time the world after returning from sailing opened his eyes.

Mincheng was originally a source of "rebellion" ideas, and even if there were some things he disagreed with, it was impossible not to be affected by many things.

In the past two years, he has gained too many things in Mincheng that he didn't dare to think of before, and gradually began to learn to look at the world and the relationship between people with another eye.

Even if it is still difficult to get rid of the shadow of the old era, the wings of the new era have begun to grow in the cocoon in his heart.

Jian Chen gave him some new things such as chili cane sugar, and it was really delicious to taste it carefully. The chili pepper tastes like dogwood, but the temperament is much stronger than dogwood, and the sweet taste of sucrose is also different from maple sugar.

As for the gold and silver coins he brought back, he also collected some of them, and he also heard Chen Jian talk about the outside world.

He didn't look at those things tonight, but decided to open up some thoughts and say something else to Jian Chen.

Chen Jian said some of his ideas about the trading company, and Yuan Shan waved his hand and said, "Mr. Chen, what you think is excellent, I believe that your vision is much higher than mine." Do you really want to do these things? ”

Jian Chen nodded and said, "Of course, am I joking here?" ”

"It's hard to say it's hard to do, but it's easy to say it's easy to say. As long as you do one thing well, everything can be solved naturally. ”

Chen Jianqi said: "Dare to ask what? ”

"Simple. Leave the party. Make a statement that you, Chen Jian, have left the Mexican Party and say that you do not agree with any of the views you have expressed before. Use your influence within the Alliance for Progress, reorganize the League, continue to do charity, and express your opinion that if you do charity well, you can solve social injustice, and there will be no political change in the future. ”

Jian Chen looked at Yuanshan blankly and asked, "Is this what Brother Yuanshan meant?" ”

Yu Yuanshan smiled: "Me? I'm not qualified to say that to you. Besides, I've been in Nan'an Min County for six or seven years, and there are some things they can't see through, but I understand. Let's put it this way, when I was promoted to deputy county guard, a letter was already delivered. ”

"Your father has been a colonel for so many years, you have a fleet and guns, and there are entrenched pirates in the south. Women are also ready for you, as long as you leave the party, you can get married immediately. Women are beautiful, young and admire you, and of course, from a prominent family. I can win you the next school palace sacrificial wine, I think you can do this. ”

Jian Chen laughed and said, "What is this? ”

"It's nothing. You can make money, your reputation is high, and those families know a thing or two about the affairs of Minjun, so naturally some people want to pull you over. They think that you are the kind of person who wants to ask for fame and profit, and give you a chance to ascend to the sky in one step, which can be regarded as your potential, maybe a hundred years later, there will be another famous family in the world. ”

He stared at Jian Chen, silent for a long time, knowing that there were some things that might as well be said openly.

"Mr. Chen, you have offended a lot of people. You are like a fish in water in Mincheng, that is because the foundation of Mincheng is too shallow, and the real big people and big families are in the north. If you toss like this, if you were in the north, you would have been hanged I don't know how many times. ”

"Some of you in the Progressive League have said terrible things. How terrible is it that you want to feed everybody and make everybody's life better? ”

"Some of you in the Progressive League are writing and talking all day long. What are you talking about? Accusing those big families of monopolizing politics, accusing those big families of owning hundreds of thousands of acres of land, believing that monopoly trade should be nationalized rather than owned by families, believing that some industries related to people's livelihood should be owned by the people, and even having ...... want to equalize land rights."

Jian Chen sighed and asked helplessly, "What does Brother Yuanshan mean...... This trading company or something like that, can't it be built? ”

He asked rhetorically: "You have money, fame, and guns, but the most terrible thing is that you still have thoughts and ideas...... What do you want to do? ”

"If you make a statement of leaving the party and marry a woman, this trading company can be easily established, otherwise, it will be very difficult to set up. Take a step back and don't think that far ahead. I can decide on the island you talked about, and I'm also the deputy warden of the county. It doesn't hurt to let most of the profits go to the Dutch, British and French, you say. Your company only needs to transfer the goods to the island, don't try to stretch your hands too far. ”

Jian Chen frowned and said, "Brother Yuanshan, there are some things you still haven't figured out. We didn't make a lot of money just trading on that island, and a lot of it was taken up by the Dutch, English, and French. The best policy was to negotiate peace, open free trade with the Spaniards. The middle strategy was to monopolize the shipping routes and smuggle directly with the merchants of the Spanish colonies. What to do...... It's to give up these things and be made by middlemen, which shouldn't be. ”

Yu Yuanshan sneered: "Profit? Profit? What good will your occupation of the island trade do to the big families in the north? Their hand can't reach so far, will they allow the workshops and merchants to grow in power? People will oppose one or the other; One will not change and the other will be opposed. ”

"Sucrose, what about the sugar business of those big families in the north for hundreds of years? You have made a new route to the Qi country, so what about the families who colluded with the pirates to share the spoils? Now you want to make a lot of money again, but the money you earn is away from them in the north, and they can't share it, what do you let them do? ”

"If this is a ship, the big families are the captains, the big landowners are the sails, the yeoman farmers are the gunners, and you, the merchants and workshops, are but the passengers on board. Although there are more and more passengers, and sometimes you even think about where you want to go, if you want to take the helm, it is a dead end. The 500 yeoman cavalry outside Fujian City and the officers of the nearby garrison have been replaced, who do you think they are guarding against? ”

"Mincheng is Mincheng, the north is the north, when you have time, go to the place near the old capital and take a walk. It's not the same here. ”

Jian Chen smiled bitterly: "One step is slow, one step is slow." We're already behind those guys in navigation. The outside world is so vast, we can obviously monopolize the smuggling trade there, and I am unwilling to let the profits be made by those people. ”

Yu Yuanshan smiled: "There is nothing unwilling. You want to get more people involved, it's hard. It's hard if you want to live better for more people. But if you're just trying to get rich, it's simple. You have the charts, you have the fleet, you have the money, you have the knowledge. Choose a family to take refuge, marry a daughter, help those families run, and don't allow outsiders to reach out, and everything will be solved. ”

"If these things can't be in the hands of those families, it's better not to do it. Of course, after leaving the party, it is different, and some things have other words. After all, between big families, it is not a monolith. ”

Jian Chen said hesitantly: "Betrayer, you dare to use it?" ”

Yu Yuanshan waved his hand and said: "It's not a betrayal, it's just that you went astray and pulled you back." ”

"The Mexican Party has split, and some people in the Progressive League have sharpened their heads and drilled here. I really want to thank you for teaching those people the law of contradiction with your means. ”

"After you left, there was another unrest in the north, and a large number of unemployed homeless hired workers were organized to dig rivers and pave roads in Mincheng. The factions within your progressive alliance have come up with a solution: ask the peasants to levy a special tax, saying that they are feeding the displaced people; Instill in the unemployed and homeless workers here that this is the future world that everyone has something to do. The peasants there resented the displaced hired laborers and your progressive allies, who tired to death every day and received very little income, and were full of resentment about the future you depicted. ”

Yu Yuanshan said abruptly: "These methods, we couldn't have thought of them originally, but some people in your Progressive Alliance have learned and used them and thought of them. Divide, disintegrate, pit peasants and hired laborers. And these methods are only used from the tools of your church. In this case, as a gentleman, you must be more skilled. Someone is naturally interested in you, and besides, your net worth is already very high,"

When Jian Chen heard this, he really didn't know whether to cry or laugh, and suddenly asked: "Brother Yuanshan, I said that I am not for myself, and we comrades are not for ourselves, do you believe it?" ”

"Faith! Of course I believe it. ”

"Then the question is simple. I set aside 60 percent of the non-dividend shares of this trading company to allow the state to redistribute. On a ten-year cycle. Within 10 years, you will be responsible for your own profits and losses. Ten years later, if there is money, the state can take over, and these 60 percent of the empty shares can also be redistributed. It doesn't matter if those families buy it or if it's another family. Everything is difficult at the beginning, and we will do the most difficult thing, and they will pick the peaches when they pick them in the future, which should be okay, right? ”

Yu Yuanshan raised his head and looked at Jian Chen playfully.

After a while, he said interestingly: "Mr. Chen, you buried a barrel of gunpowder that exploded after ten years. Ten years later, as soon as it becomes profitable, this barrel of gunpowder will explode. When the time comes, sixty percent of the empty shares will naturally fall into the hands of those people, and how will the merchants, those who have already bought shares, the merchants who have benefited, and the plantations agree? And what you lead, I'm afraid that profit is inevitable. Ten years later, when the new king is elected, who do you want to blow up with this barrel of gunpowder? ”

Jian Chen was silent, and laughed loudly: "Mr. Chen, you are more ruthless than I thought. I went to Nan'an to see your spinning workshop, ten years ...... In ten years, you can accumulate wealth that would have been accumulated in a hundred years. Some of those big families have only accumulated for a hundred years. ”

He shook his head, took out a piece of paper from his bosom, took out a white phosphorus match, and burned it clean.

"The idea I gave Mr. Chen was still a little worse than Mr. Chen's own idea. I can only say that I haven't learned deeply, and it seems that I still need me to read those pamphlets you have published. ”

After destroying the piece of paper, he found out a few more letters and said, "When you go to the capital, help me deliver a few letters according to the address on the letter." ”

Jian Chen stretched out his hand to take it and said solemnly: "Brother Yuanshan, you think too much. ”

Yu Yuanshan smiled: "It doesn't matter, they will agree, because they haven't seen Mincheng with their own eyes, and they haven't seen those pamphlets you have published with their own eyes, they are old." ”