Yesterday it was clear, but in the middle of the night the north wind suddenly blew strongly, and in the morning Abubeka saw the vast expanse of snow again through the window. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 A thick layer of snow has accumulated on the roofs of the city, and when you stand on the third floor of the state guesthouse and look out, the houses in the city are like rolling hills, and the sky and the earth are white.

As a tropical Sulu, Abbeqa has never seen heavy snow, and it can even be said that he does not know what ice and snow are. Therefore, although the severe cold of Lushan in winter made him shiver, and he shrank in the state guesthouse like a hibernating woolly bear all day long, but he loved ice and snow very much.

The snow was still falling, and the snowflakes were dancing in the air in various positions, flying, circling, or falling straight and fast, falling to the ground.

Abubekkah woke up early today because at ten o'clock in the morning, there was a small private party waiting for him.

Abubeka, who has been coming to Lushan for a while, can be regarded as dating a few people, Sulu is located in the tropical sea, and there is a bit of a specialty. Coral pearls or something, there is still a lot of market in the inland, or it is quite valued by Chen Han, a handful of people who have just become rich. In addition, as the king of Sulu, Abu Becca has a detailed understanding of the situation in the entire South Seas and the specialties of various places, which is very important to many people in the Chen and Han dynasties at present.

In the coming year, the Fu Han army not only had to enter Sulu in a big way, but also to settle down and build a port in a place named Singapore, which was a clear signal for many people in Lushan -- to march into the South Seas.

So not long after Abubeka came to Lushan, he became a guest of many people's houses. He was also enthusiastic about Chen Han's high-level contacts.

Suddenly, woo~~, a trombone sound caught the attention of Abubeka, who was eating breakfast.

"What's going on out there? So lively? In addition to the trombone, Abbekka also heard the sound of gongs and drums. And after coming to Lushan for so long, Abbeka also understood some of the rules of Lushan, and the general Chen Han relatives and nobles do not put on a show when they go out.

The county seat of Lushan is too small. Of course, even this small city of Lushan is much better than Hele - the capital of Sulu - in the eyes of Abu Bekka. Therefore, except for the top handful of people, Chen Han's relatives and dignitaries rarely go out with great fanfare. As it is now, it is a trombone and a gong and drum, and he has only heard such a lively sound when he was ceremoniously welcomed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs when he arrived in Lushan.

"Master Hou." Abu Bekka had already given him the name of Sulu Hou, and Chen Hui also gave him a Chinese surname - Su, and the Chinese name Abu Bekka himself took the word 'Yunsun'. This is Wen Tianxiang's first name, Abbekka admired Wen Tianxiang as an excuse, and 'did not dare' to blaspheme Prime Minister Wen's name, so he took his original name and called Su Yunsun. It will be officially canonized at the time of the New Year. And this marquis was in the Chen Han dynasty, and it was still the scorpion under Chen Hui and Chen Ming's father and son--the only one.

The people around Abbeka have been shouting for half a month, but they are slowly getting used to it. "It's His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Abubeka frowned and thought about it, yes, he seemed to have heard of such a thing a few days ago, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, who had just returned from the war, was going to leave for Wuhan, and it turned out to be today.

It had nothing to do with Abubeka, he had forgotten the news when he heard it, and now that he remembered it, he continued to forget about it. Because the crown prince is too far away from his current position, don't look at him to become a marquis soon! But this marquis of him is an empty marquis, a signboard, nothing more.

Abubekka is a smart man who knows his situation.

Suluhou is just an 'advertisement', which means that Chen Han does not treat 'meritorious officials' badly, but this does not represent real power.

Chen Han's title, there is no first, second, or third class, no matter if it is passed on, there are a total of seven levels: prince, county king, duke, marquis, uncle, son, and male. But a marquis like Suluhou will not be as good as a lowliest baron in the future. Because the latter must have been made a baron for meritorious service! To establish merit, you must hold authority, and what is Suluhou?

Among the people Abubeqa is dating now, although they are all officials and have no knighthood, it is because Chen Han has not yet been knighted. Lushan has long rumored that they will move to Nanjing next year. The king of Han sued the heavens and proclaimed himself emperor, and that was the time to reward them lavishly. At that time, the hall will be full of honors. Even if their titles will be very low, the power and capital in their hands must be much stronger than his empty shell.

The Marquis of Abubeka is still a noble lord who can be passed down to the fifth generation, the gentleman's ze, and the fifth generation. But the Su family will always be just a marquis, an empty marquis with no real power. And the people he is dating now have infinite possibilities in the future.

-- If you have authority in your hands, you will have the opportunity to be rewarded for meritorious service, and you will have a path to climb.

But Abbeka's eyes are a cliff, he can't lead the troops, he can't be an official, the Chinese language is not good, and the Chinese characters are not recognizable, how to reuse? And the identity is also a little awkward. And the sons he left in Sulu are even inferior to him in terms of Sinology, and the two generations of the Su family have no hope, and all hope depends on his grandson's generation.

Next year, if Sulu settles down, Abu Bekka will move most of his direct descendants to China, learn Chinese characters well, and then enter Sungkyun Public School!

Yes, when Abubeka came to Lushan for almost twenty days, he learned for the first time that there was also a school named 'Chengjun' in the heart of Chen Han, which is said to be the study of the five emperors of the Chinese ancestors, which included the children of Chen Han's relatives and nobles, and I heard that it would be a place of learning for the princes and grandchildren in the future.

Abubeka's son couldn't catch up, but his grandson was in time.

The place where the children of this powerful gather is to go in and roll around, and they can also stick to the benefits all over their bodies.

The Abu Bekka family is a pure foreigner, with shallow roots in China, and the most lacking roots and connections. If his grandson enters Chengjun Public School, after a few years of classmates, it will be equivalent to weaving a big network of connections, the most important network for their family, and then his family can really integrate into the top level of Chen Han.

Therefore, don't think how noble he is as a marquis at this moment, don't think that he is going to be a marquis, just how 'close' he is to Chen Ming. It's just a matter of buying horse bones. It's just a pretense that Chen Han used to put on the surface, a ranking. Simply, Abbeka himself is also very knowledgeable.

Of course, Chen Ming didn't know about a person in the State Guesthouse not far away that he didn't care about, and at the same time, he didn't care about him.

When the team left Lushan, the guard of honor was left behind by Chen Ming, and under the protection of more than 100 guards around him, the horse galloped towards Wuhan.

At this time, on the wharf of Hankou in Wuhan, a not very large sand boat sailed into the berth in the spotlight.

Among the hundreds of large and small cargo ships at the Hankou wharf, this small sand boat is like a small fish in a school of fish, and if it were not for the eight warships that were surrounded by arches and those soldiers with loaded guns, this sand boat would not be remarkable at all. But with the external foil, it is the most concerned star in the entire Hankou Wharf!

No one knows what was in the ship. Since the ship arrived at the dock, soldiers have been directly laboring, operating a jib crane to lift a mouthful of large boxes from the ship. These were then directly guarded by the troops, and all of them were transported into an empty warehouse of supplies.

There were also a few yellow-haired and green-eyed foreigners who disembarked with these boxes, and no matter how many they were, outsiders would not be able to see them.

Chen Ming, who rushed to Wuhan in the frost, was looking forward to the machines and materials in these boxes.

Chen Ming proposed to Britain and France to buy a steam engine last year, and in the case that the Watt steam engine had not yet come out, the practicability of the steam engine was very inward. Britain and France don't pay much attention to this thing, they can only pump water now, and it consumes a lot of energy. In order to hide his intentions, Chen Ming's attention to the steam engine is also very bland, Chen Ming put his main 'concern' on the textile machinery series, cotton spinning and wool spinning, including Jenny machine, reel spinning machine, hydraulic loom and a series of new inventions are all on Chen Ming's purchase list. In addition to the non-industrial boring machine, which is not yet a finished product, like the current steam engine, it is in the stage of moving towards practicality in the laboratory.

There are also a large number of scientific instruments, mainly astronomical chemistry. There were a lot of European books, ranging from philosophy and theology to natural science, and he didn't read them anyway. Chen Ming also asked Robert and Perrier to hire Western technicians and scholars, all of which were handsomely honorarium.

At this point in the development of Western civilization, these things are the most exquisite crystallization of the entire Western civilization!

It's just that in peacetime Europe, technicians and scholars there have little interest in crossing the ocean to unfamiliar China.

Or maybe Robert and Perrier didn't bother to look for it, and this time there were only eleven technicians and scholars from the British and French who came to China on the ship, and four of them stayed in India for health reasons, and they all fell ill.

Chen Ming had previously revealed to Westerners tea, bean sprouts and other means to avoid sepsis, whether these things caused a sensation in the West Chen Ming still does not know, anyway, this year from Shanghai, Ningbo, Guangzhou to the west of the European merchant ships, but all buy beans.

However, thousands of miles of sea waves, what is the same as sepsis that endangers people's health? Those four people are cultivating in India.

Some people may say that with Chen Ming's current identity, is it worth his personal appearance just that this little thing at the moment? But in fact, Chen Ming's official reason for coming to Wuhan was a business meeting held by the Industrial and Commercial Bureau, focusing on the textile industry. Since it looks on the surface, those 'strange and obscene skills' from the West are not his cup of tea. It was this move that made Chen Ming's reputation as a businessman settled.

Chen Ming doesn't care about this, Jenny machine, reel spinning machine, hydraulic loom......

These things came to China, but they couldn't just be held by Chen Ming himself, and popularizing them was the right way. And this promotion depends on the upcoming textile industry business conference in Wuhan.

Chen Ming also hopes that the textile association, which will be established next year, will be able to raise a sum of money to publicly offer rewards for more advanced textile machines and improved steam engines. Taking this opportunity, China's Patent Law will also come into being in the future.

With this tiger skin, it is estimated that no one will come to Wuhan because of those machines and books.

Rushing to Hankou with a frosty face, Chen Ming arrived at the settlement under the greeting of Liu Dezhao and others, and arrived at the reserve warehouse in person after a short rest. In the big warehouse, most of the iron-wood intersecting machines have been assembled, and Chen Ming has really seen Jenny's loom at a glance, not on the drawings.

"How? How do you feel after reading this? ”

Touching the steam engine that had not yet been assembled, Chen Ming said to Liu Dezhao, Pan Zhencheng, Han Teng and others beside him.

Liu Dezhao has seen the relevant introductions of these machines before, and Pan Zhencheng, Han Teng and others are also clear about the role of these machines. They still vividly remember the shock and disbelief they felt when they first saw the introduction.

"The ability of Westerners to be strange and obscene, ingenious and incredible."

Just a few instruments, with the same manpower and time, can make the output of cotton yarn and cloth increase dozens of times. What a powerful force this is. None of them are nerds who are dead readers, how could they not know the profound impact of the big price reduction of cloth and cotton yarn. I shudder to think about it!

"Fortunately, His Royal Highness has a clear understanding and a clear vision. So that I also have this weapon in China. Otherwise, the cotton and yarn of the Westerners will become cheaper and cheaper, and they will be dumped in our country, and there will be chaos for a long time. Liu Dezhao continued to compliment.

It seems that there is no idea what kind of impact this kind of machinery will have on China's traditional family economy if it falls into the hands of businessmen and spreads out in China so quickly in such a short time! The water-powered loom and other equipment are not at all owned by the farmers of the family unit, so the price of cotton yarn and cloth will be greatly reduced in the next few years, which will definitely be a disaster for the common people.

Liu Dezhao could think of this with his toes. But he didn't say it to Chen Ming. Han Teng and Pan Zhencheng didn't say either. Because they have close ties with countless businesses behind them.

On the contrary, Liu Wu raised this point after Chen Ming returned to his residence.

"Thousands of bankrupt peasants, the small-scale peasant economy ...... that has been greatly impacted" Chen Ming's face showed a touch of amazement, but he didn't say anything, but waved his hand to let Liu Wu retreat.

When the book is used, there is little hatred, and I don't know how difficult it is. Chen Ming, who was just a simple petty citizen in his previous life, could not really solve the "paradox" of how to 'live in harmony' between the labor problem needed for industrial development and the social problems brought about by the collapse of the small-scale peasant economy and bankruptcy.

These two issues are two sides of the same coin. the development of capital, the collapse and disintegration of the small peasant economy, the natural economy; And if the smallholder economy is to continue, how can capital get the market to expand enough for them? It's like the sheep cannibalism in Britain, just like the Civil War in the United States......

There are advances and retreats, and there are gains and losses. Or in the words of the previous life, it is to reduce the number of rural residents, increase the number of urban residents, and liberate the labor force!

Although the process can be brutal and inhumane. But it can indeed force millions of ordinary people in China to come out of the fields helplessly, and can make China's domestic demand market continue to develop, expand, and expand.

All industrial countries must first have a basic market, that is, the domestic market. Especially in these days!

If China continues to fall into a small economy and continues to walk on the road of natural economy, and thousands of ordinary people can make a living in the local area, then in the future, the Han army will have laid down more territory, and it will also be a sandcastle on the beach. Can't stand the shock!

To put it mildly, aren't the people of the Chinese dynasties who filled in the borders poor and jingle poor? Didn't the British develop the colonies by the clanging of bankrupts, proletarians, and even criminals at home?

When it comes to the essence, it's all a reason.

Mencius said: Those who have constant birth have perseverance, and those who do not have constant birth have no perseverance. But if this sentence were to be put in a different shell and put on the lowest class of peasants, that is, as long as they have a bite to eat, they will not think of any other way, immigration, right?

Land is the lifeblood of the Chinese people, and it is also the 'means of production' that can bind the people the most.

If you don't smash this plate, in the future, in the Americas, Northeast, Outer Northeast, South Seas, Australia, the Year of the Dog, and the month of the horse, you will be able to gather enough people to fill these lands?

Economic bankruptcy at least makes the people's initiative to migrate more vigorous, right? It's better than the government whipping with a whip, scaring with knives and guns, crying all the way to your father and mother, and keeping up with the 'immigrants' like the execution ground, right?

That's the price that has to be paid!

As for domestic agriculture, the gradual concentration of 'means of production' shifted from a subsistence small-scale peasant economy to a supply of raw materials. Chen Ming does not have the luxury of advanced agriculture like the United States and Europe in later generations, but he must face the reality that the current level of science and technology has not yet reached that level. But the small and medium-sized family farm model is also stronger than the tenant and yeoman farming model.

Chen Ming is level is really limited, and many things have to be taken one step before they can see the next step. Fortunately, he is a traverser, and he is still reliable in terms of forward-looking.

-- The future is absolutely bright, but the road is also absolutely tortuous. Crossing the river by feeling the stones! (To be continued.) )