Chapter 238: Big Deals

"Also, talk to your people. Let's just say that I said that young people under the age of fourteen, no matter how poor or poor, must be sent to the academy to study, and the academy will subsidize some according to the situation. If you have good grades, you will continue to study, and in the future, they can also become officials in the imperial examination! ”

After Li Hao said this, Chen Sanniang was stunned, and it took a while to react, and then he said to Li Haofu, "The general's move will make my people remember the adults forever, and I am here to guarantee my people and the generals that as long as the adults are here, there will be no more Shanyue people in the future!" ”

All Shanyue teenagers can study the same and take the imperial examination, which is too heavy for Shanyue people. Now how many of the poor families of the Tang Dynasty can't read, but Li Hao gave them such treatment, although now the entire Lingnan Road is the same regardless of Hanyi, but it still makes Chen Sanniang extremely moved.

"My lord, we are going to send troops to the Ryukyus at the end of the year?" With the completion of various projects, plus some teenagers assigned by Li Hao to enter the officialdom of Quanzhou Mansion, Zheng Tingshi's affairs have also decreased a lot, and there is still time to come to Li Hao to sit here. Li Hao had just sent Chen Sanniang away, and he had also determined a plan to develop Ryukyu.

The Eastern civilization is really not very strong enough to explore things beyond the ocean, and it is estimated that it has something to do with the local concept of the people here, even if the north was once killed for thousands of miles without a rooster crowing, most people still like to stay in their homeland.

The development of several large islands off the coast here is very limited. Jeju Island in the north has even become the land of the Yi people, and the Zhoushan Islands in the east have been developed late. Although Ryukyu Island was visited during the Three Kingdoms period, it is still uninhabited.

The only island with a strong popularity is roughly the southern province of Qiong. The development is much more vigorous there, and there are several states on it. However, after Li Hao came over, the role of these two big islands will be brought into play, not only the current popularity.

"Zheng Tingshi is here? It just so happens that I have some good tea here, so let's try it together. ”

Tea produced in Fujian Province, don't eat too much tea here, what kind of tea such as Da Hong Pao, Tieguanyin, etc., Li Hao of later generations has not heard less. And the Internet is full of girls selling tea, and there are often harassment on the phone, and those girls who sell tea are selling all over the sky.

Tea is undoubtedly a good source of income for the people of Quanzhou Prefecture. Li Hao naturally won't let go of these, and some tea-making techniques in later generations were also replaced by him, and then used the time of inspection to promote these things.

When Zheng Tingshi came to Li Hao to sit here, what Li Hao used to entertain him was Tieguanyin here, which belonged to green tea. The brewed tea is full of fragrance and makes people feel refreshed after smelling it.

Although this Lord Thorn is over forty years old, he is really motivated to learn this part. Li Hao has a lot of things to learn from him, so he will come over from time to time to ask for advice. In fact, not only him, but also the history of the Guangzhou Mansion is similar, this is the difference between the Hanmen Pragmatic School and those from the family.

They are willing to put down their identity to learn from people who know more than themselves, and they don't talk about status, family background, and so on. They are aware of the suffering of the people, and they will also pay attention to the lives of the people, and they will pay special attention to the things that can improve the people's livelihood.

Not only will they come to ask for advice, but several children from Quanzhou Mansion and Guangzhou Mansion, including important juniors in the family, have been sent to Li Hao to let them learn from Li Hao. Li Hao himself is still a famous talent in their Tang Dynasty, and they are all assured of this.

"Well, Ryukyu has to get their hands on it. There is a lot of good arable land and special products there, and you can't leave those places for those who are born. And you see, if we control the Ryukyus, whether they are going north or south, merchant ships will pass through us, which is undoubtedly a good thing for our port of Quanzhou. ”

On the sand table in Li Hao's house, there is now another shape of Ryukyu Island, this place is across the sea from Quanzhou Port, so close, it is still a place that has not been reclaimed, how can Li Hao let it go, and there are a lot of minerals on Ryukyu Island.

"However, have you ever thought that the population of our Quanzhou Mansion and Guangzhou Mansion is only so large? In addition, there are not enough Shanyue people who have surrendered, where are so many people to reclaim and plant these places? ”

Li Hao's thinking jumped quickly, and Zheng Tingshi always had to waste a lot of brain cells to keep up with Li Hao's thinking. Zheng Tingshi also wanted to make the place under his rule as big as possible, but Quanzhou Mansion had just recovered, and the population was so small, it was enough to develop everywhere.

"Hehe, don't worry about this, it's very open, all this will happen. Those merchants in Quanzhou Port have also been beaten almost, this year-end banquet, invite them too, and the Xie An and Chen Sanniang from Shanyue, invite them together, I have a big business to do with them. ”

"Your Excellency, are you going to feast those merchants again?" The last time Li Hao invited a businessman was in the year, and after that time, he laid the current situation of Guangzhou Mansion and Quanzhou Mansion, and now he wants to invite businessmen again, thinking that this time the action will not be too small, Zheng Tingshi became excited when he heard this.

"Well, the year-end summary banquet of our government is over, and now it's time to talk to these businessmen. Since ancient times, the official does not seem to like businessmen very much, and feels that these low buy and sell high disrupt the national capital. This is a wrong point of view, you have seen the changes in the past year, as long as these businessmen use it well, they can also bring benefits to the country. ”

After making tea, Li Hao poured a cup for Zheng Tingshi, and the two had a private chat, and they didn't distinguish between superiors and subordinates. Just sit quietly in front of the hall, drinking tea and chatting about various things. will not care about saying something wrong, which makes the relationship between the two a lot closer.

"At this banquet, the businessmen of Guangzhou Mansion will also come, and I will follow them to Guangzhou Mansion for a period of time, and the people from the government over there will also entertain them, and everyone has worked hard with me this year. Therefore, if you have a banquet here, you can't let it go there. ”

Li Hao has a very bad habit, he always treats the people who do things with him as his own employees, and at the end of the year, he can't help but invite these to a meal to get closer to each other. It's just that after doing it, Li Hao felt a little inappropriate. But now that Quanzhou has done it, Guangzhou naturally can't let it go.

The location of the banquet for the merchants is still in Deyuefang, but this time the impact is much greater. The entire Deyuefang was chartered by these merchants, and it was originally Li Hao who invited them to a banquet, but these guys simply paid for the restaurant for a day at their own expense, without Li Hao spending a penny.

Although Li Hao invited them to discuss things, these businessmen also knew that Li Hao's banquet was not just for the money in their pockets, but would also create a big profit for them, so they couldn't let Li Hao break the bank.

The number of people who came to the banquet was more than double that of the last time, except for the people who were cleaned up once in Quanzhou, and many more people came in from Guangzhou. Now these people really understand why Li Hao has so much charm.

"This banquet is still two themes. The people here are either people who know me or people who know me, so I don't talk so much nonsense. First of all, I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the changes in Quanzhou Province over the past year. ”

After the banquet began, Li Hao was still the same as before, he didn't say any nonsense, and directly started the theme of this banquet. First of all, thank you to the businessmen who have funded this place, and then everyone will eat and drink well, and stay in a good mood to discuss another topic.

People who are familiar with Li Hao all laughed when they heard this, and then they said all kinds of compliments to Li Hao, and then they ate and drank. There is no need to pay attention to anything here, and there is no need to pay too much attention to etiquette, Li Hao will not take these things too seriously.

In addition, they can't eat the food of Deyuefang every day. Some of the delicacies are new things that have only recently been introduced, and these are worth a big meal for everyone to eat before they can talk about things, and another theme is business.

"At the beginning of the year, I talked to everyone about ocean trade, but after that, I was busy with the war, and everyone's response was not very high, so I fell behind. Now the project is relaunched, and this time it will be launched regardless of whether or not there is involvement. ”

"The name of the project is the Far East Company, and it covers the manufacture of large seagoing vessels, the trade of ocean-going fleets, and the development of the New World. In addition to recruiting a group of people from the ports of Guangzhou and Quanzhou, the crew of the ocean-going fleet will also recruit a group of young people from the Nanyang Ocean College. ”

One year is enough time for Li Hao to quickly train a group of young people who can get started, not to mention that he has a batch of them in his hands. These people will be the real main force of Far Eastern Company in the future, and they are also the pioneers of Datang's entry into Taiyang.

"In addition to the Far East Company, the second project is the Southern Development Bank, and you all have a brochure on your desk. Above is the full content of our topic, there is a detailed introduction to the Far East Company, and there is also an introduction to the Southern Development Bank. The last content is the Southern Weekly, which is also introduced on it. ”

Ocean Trading Company, Development Bank, and Southern Weekly, when Li Hao was in Chang'an, Li Hao had to use a lot of brains, and he had to figure out Li Er's thoughts, and then pull some powerful people in, but not in the south.

How to make money and operate these things, to be honest, if it weren't for Li Hao's leadership, people at this time would really not be able to play this thing. At this time, there was a money bank, which was the original model of the bank, but it was only a simple loan, and it could not realize the transfer of money from other places, let alone the introduction of something that was convenient to carry out.