"My Hou Ye, that Paul has been in Hangzhou for a few days, and the two industries in Zhejiang have withered, and the goods of this foreign devil can't be sold, and the two of us are planning to take down all the goods of his ship when Paul can't hold on, how can you take all the goods of that Paul down, you don't care about this sentence, we can make tens of thousands of dollars less!"

Early in the morning of the second day, Wang Yuanwai and Bai Yuanwai ran to the Zhizhi Division, and Wang Yuanwai complained bitterly to the people who were eating.

Lotte, who was eating, disagreed: "Favor is greater than business, tens of thousands of dollars are trivial, friendship is the most important thing!" ”

Seeing Lotte's tepid attitude, Wang Yuan clapped his hands anxiously: "Master Hou, you don't eat the meat that is sent to your mouth, let me say what is good about you!" ”

Not only Wang Yuanwai said this, but Bai Yuanwai was also painfully tight: "Master Hou, you don't know how cunning those foreign devils are, those sulfur glass beads, sulfur glass plates, and sulfur glass bowls that are not worth two are sold by them to dozens of times and hundreds of times, how long it takes to do business with these slaves!" ”

Putting down the dishes and chopsticks, he took the paper towel handed by the next person and wiped his mouth, and Lotte asked rhetorically: "Can our glass ware of the Great Song Dynasty be as transparent as the Western one, and is it generally exquisite?" ”

Listening to Lotte's question, Wang Yuanwai and Bai Yuanwai were dumb together, although this glass is very similar to the sulfur glass of the Great Song Dynasty, but the Great Song Dynasty really can't make this kind of glass in the West.

"Expensive naturally has a reason!" Seeing that the two were silent, Lotte smiled and paused, and asked, "If we will also make this kind of glass in the future, then ......?"

Glass price agate crystal, hearing Lotte say this, Wang Yuanwai and Bai Yuanwai opened their eyes together, and the businessman's profit-seeking nature was instantly revealed.

Wang Yuanwai said: "Master Hou, I heard that this glass is produced in the west of Taixi, Tianzhu and Persia are farther away!" ”

"That's not a problem!" Lotte waved his hand and said, "I have already told Paul that when Paul gets the glass manufacturing technology from the Romans, the sales in the Great Song Dynasty, Goryeo, Dongying and Nanyang countries will be divided fifty-fifty." ”

"It turns out that Master Hou hit this idea!" Bai Yuanwai was stunned, and quickly shook his head again: "These slaves have never had any morals in business, Master Hou should not take it too seriously." ”

"With such a big profit from glass, Le doesn't believe him, Paul won't be tempted!" Lotte chuckled, his eyes fell on Bai Yuanwai and Wang Yuanwai, Lotte straightened his color and said, "There are still a few things to ask the two fathers-in-law." ”

"Master Hou commands!" Looking at Lotte's expression, the two knew that Lotte was going to get down to business.

Lotte Zhengse said: "Now that the business in Zhejiang is in a depression, our ships are also idle, and tomorrow we will send ten ships south to Yuhuan, Wenzhou, where there are more than 20,000 people and horses, and transport them to Zhoushan!" ”

Hearing Lotte say this, Wang Yuanwai and Bai Yuanwai each gasped, and at the same time put a question mark in their hearts, who are the more than 20,000 horses, and what is the use of Lotte asking for 20,000 horses?

"Don't hide it from the two fathers-in-law, these 20,000 horses are the bandits Lu Shibao, and now they obey my orders!" In the astonishment of the two, Lotte said bluntly.

The surprised white member subconsciously asked, "But the bandit Lu Shisang who started the incident with Fang La?" ”

"Exactly!" Lotte nodded.

Wang Yuanwai was shocked and said: "Master Hou, now we are encircling and suppressing bandits, if this matter is known by the imperial court, this is a big crime to kill the head!" ”

"Don't worry about the two fathers-in-law!" Seeing that the two of them were afraid, Lotte hurriedly said: "These 20,000 people are just resting in Zhoushan, and Benhou will send them to Dongying in batches to guard the silver mine in the future, as long as the secret is kept, how will the imperial court know!" ”

"20,000?" Bai Yuanwai squinted his eyes and hesitated: "This number is too big, right?" ”

Wang Yuanwai also looked at Lotte with the eyes of a child.

"That's not much, not even less!" Lotte carefully analyzed for the two of them: "The scale of silver mining in Dongying will definitely get bigger and bigger in the future, and the probability of conflicts with the natives of Dongying is also increasing. ”

Hearing Lotte say this, Wang Yuanwai and Bai Yuanwai glanced at each other, and after thinking about it, the two nodded in unison.

Now that the imperial court is encircling and suppressing the rebel army, Fang La and the leaders of the rebels have been captured alive, and it is only a matter of time before these rebels are eliminated, if these 20,000 horses can be used by themselves, it will save Dongying the trouble of recruiting people and horses.

"Are these 20,000 chaotic bandits willing to listen to your command, Master Hou?" Huang Yuanwai said worriedly.

"These people are honest peasants, not those slippery soldiers, but they are easy to control!" Lotte comforted, and then chuckled: "And as long as you control Lu Shinang, you naturally won't be able to control these people!" ”

Bai Yuanwai thought for a while and said, "Since Master Hou has brought in a team of 20,000 people at a time, then I will recruit workers as soon as possible and speed up the mining of Dongying Silver Mine!" ”

After discussing one thing, Lotte continued: "There is one more thing, I want to ask the two fathers-in-law, ask the two fathers-in-law to allocate a boat to choose twenty smart young men, and with enough medicine and Lang, to go to the West with Paul!" ”

Seeing that they were puzzled, Bai Yuan and Wang Zuo were surprised and asked, "I don't know what Master Hou is looking for these smart young men to do in the West?" ”

Lotte said: "Since the ancestor of Yan and Huang, my Great Song Dynasty has a history of 4,000 years, but the West also has thousands of years of wisdom, this time to send these smart teenagers to the West, is to let these teenagers learn the language, collect books and technologies from Western countries, Confucius Youyun three people must have my teacher, the strength of the teacher's skills to make up for their own shortcomings, learn through the East and the West in order to strengthen the country and enrich the people." ”

Chinese philosophy only considers the relationship between people, so Buddhism lags behind India in the study of man and God, so Xuanzang went to India to learn scriptures; Western philosophy thinks about the relationship between people and things, and considers the things between people and the objective world, so the natural sciences of the West are very developed in later generations.

The development of natural science in the West is inseparable from the theoretical support of a series of scientists and philosophers such as Archimedes, Pythagoras, Diofanto, Apollonius, and Euclid, and it is the philosophical ideas of these people that have led the development of the economy, science and other aspects of the world from the 16th century to the 21st century.

The main purpose of the Optimist faction of these teenagers to go to the West to learn Western languages is to collect the academic achievements of these scientists in the West, translate them, and spread them in China in the future.

In Lotte's view, the philosophy of China is to consider the relationship between people, pay attention to the word "WTO", as the saying goes, Taoism and excellence, and the Great Song Dynasty also did this, all the good ones went to become officials, no one paid attention to the development of science and technology, and these officials did learning, and naturally they were also officials of learning.

Therefore, Chinese philosophy is more and more inclined to the philosophy of being an official, the philosophy of governing the world, and the philosophy of being an emperor.

Before the pre-Qin era to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, it was the era of a hundred schools of thought, Chinese scholarship can be described as thriving, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty felt that the Confucian doctrine was the most suitable for his own ruling needs, and the deposition of the hundred schools of thought was not the face of later generations, and then the Confucianism of a hundred schools of thought became more and more perfect, but with the needs of the rulers, Confucian ideas were modified by scholars according to the needs of the rulers, and later almost became a castrated version.

Mencius advocated putting the people first, thinking for the people, and not imposing on them what the people hated. Zhu Yuanzhang read "Mencius", was furious, and issued an edict to the world, saying that many of Mencius's remarks were "not suitable for courtiers", and dismissed Mencius from eating cold pork in the temple and the Confucian people in the temple for thousands of years, and ordered Mencius to be expelled from the temple and not to be enjoyed.

In the end, Zhu Yuanzhang was still unable to resist the opposition of the Manchu Dynasty, and invited Mencius back to the temple, but deleted the book "Mencius" into three percent, it is conceivable that the Chinese rulers castrated Confucianism into what kind of appearance, so that after the Ming and Qing dynasties, the thinking of the Chinese people was completely imprisoned, and also made the later generations of China have a hundred years of shame.

In the words of later generations, the productive forces cannot be emancipated without emancipating the mind. The philosophy of ancient Greece and Ming can just make up for the shortcomings of Chinese philosophy and liberate the Chinese people who are bound by Confucianism; After the integration of ancient Greek basic science and Chinese basic science, after digestion and absorption, the level of basic science in China can fully reach the level before the first industrial revolution in the 18th century.

Lotte knows that the emergence of the first industrial revolution of mankind represented by the steam wheel surface is by no means accidental, but an inevitable result of the accumulation of science and technology after thousands of years; By no means relying on the imagination of a time-traveler, he organized a group of blacksmiths to make a steam engine, representing the Song Dynasty entering the era of the first industrial revolution.

To put it more clearly, the industrial revolution is the result of the tremendous changes in the relations of production that have taken place after the development of the human productive forces has reached a certain level, and thus the development of the productive forces to another height.

The primitive society entered the slave society, and the slave society entered the feudal society, and then evolved into the capitalist society, which is the result of the bottleneck, breakthrough, and development of the productive forces, and then the bottlenecks, and then the breakthroughs, and then the development.

Lotte wants to develop not only a few machines, but also to develop and change the production mode and social structure of the Great Song Dynasty.

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After discussing the details, Wang Yuanwai did not leave, and began to talk about what happened recently: "I don't know if Master Hou has heard that someone has recently bought a lot of ownerless land in Liangzhejiang?" ”

Listening to Wang Yuanwai's words, Bai Yuanwai also said: "I have also heard that the man is very generous, and the money is also withdrawn from our Hua ticket number, and 100,000 yuan has been withdrawn in just half a month!" ”

Lotte said with a smile: "Don't hide it from the two fathers-in-law, this land purchase was made by my lord!" ”

"Hou Ye will have to return to Biandu sooner or later, what does it mean to buy so much land in Liangzhejiang?" Wang Yuanwai and Bai Yuanwai were puzzled.

"In the autumn and winter of the previous year, the summer was extinguished in the northwest, and it was common for soldiers to use thatch to store in the linen clothes to keep out the cold, which was very sad." Lotte sighed, and then said: "The cloth and linen woven from cotton are warm, and the cotton wool is in the robe, and the winter cold protection effect is better, if the planting can be widely promoted, wouldn't it be a great thing for the country and the people!" ”

Bai Yuanwai thought for a while and said: "What Hou Ye said is very true, cotton can not only keep out the cold, the price is also high, and the profits are also very rich, but if there is more cotton, the government is afraid that it will affect the food livelihood!" ”

"What Brother Bai said is very true, if you plant cotton, you can't grow grain, and when the price of cotton falls, the price of grain will rise!" Wang Yuanwai thought for a while and said, "Some gains outweigh losses." ”

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