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Zhao Wuxian listened to it, and pretended to mutter: "Zigong is a defender, but why do you want to buy the Lu people?" ”

"The gentleman didn't know anything, and he worshipped a master as a teacher in Qufu, so he traveled back and forth between Jin, Wei and Lu all the year round, the country of the master, and the mother state of the student, so when he saw the Lu people suffering, he would also be unbearable."

"Don't hide it from the gentleman, this time I came to Jin, and I gave the Qufulu people who had already redeemed two Qufulu people who had become concubines on the road, and let them return to the country, if it weren't for the lack of financial resources, the subordinates of the world, regardless of their origin, I would like to redeem them and return their freedom!"

Zhao Wuxian sighed with emotion: "I heard that the sages of the ancients treated the people the same way, regardless of their origins, men, women and children, and they were all benevolent, and they were talking about people like Zigong." ”

Zigong thought that he had agreed, and was immediately overjoyed.

However, Zhao Wuxian's tone changed: "But, I can't promise you this matter!" ”

Duanmu Ci saw Zhao Wuxian's refusal, knowing that today's matter would not be so easy, he bowed again: "Gentleman, I am willing to redeem it at twice the price!" ”

Zhao Wuxian took a sip of the syrup and said with a smile: "Does Duanmuzi regard me as the Fan family's little official, or an ordinary businessman?" This is too underestimating me Zhao Wuxian. ”

"Don't dare ......"

"Let me ask Duanmuzi, do you know where these Lu potters came from?"

"I have asked that Zheng Shang, he is actually eating a doctor in Qi State, these Lu people are from Yundi and Yangguan, which were broken by the Qi army last year."

Zhao Wuxian knew that the Lu State had always been famous for its exquisite craftsmen, and there was a reason for this.

King Xiwu destroyed Shang, Zhou Gongdan also ruled the world, and sealed the princes. The core of the princes is naturally the people from Zong Zhou, who are good at agriculture and belong to the first-class citizens. The Yin people lost their original aristocratic status and were often relocated to the second class of commoners, and they had to engage in other occupations.

When the Duke of Zhou was in the country of his son, he gave the seven clans of the Yin people of the Lu State in the name of King Zhou Cheng, including the Tao who was engaged in the treatment of pottery and the Zhu who was engaged in smelting and casting, so the handicraft industry in Lu was relatively developed.

Thinking about it this way, after a few decades, it is not surprising that the Lu country can appear as a craftsman who defends the sky, and the influence of the Mo family in the future will also be concentrated in Lu Songwei and other Yin hometowns.

Although the state of Lu claims to have a thousand chariots, its combat effectiveness is not bad, but it is a pity that in response to Cao Lie's words, "meat eaters are despised", and the ruler is cowardly and incompetent, so he is reduced to a small fish belly on Sishang. Today, the Qi people attacked, tomorrow the Chu State ran over, and the Lu State was repeatedly forced to form an alliance under the city and was blackmailed.

And the first thing that countries like is naturally Ludi craftsmen.

For example, in the second year of Lu Chenggong, the Chu State invaded Lu as far as Yangqiao, and the Mengsun clan sued for peace, bribing the Chu people to cut off, hold needles, and weave the work, all of which were hundreds. This time, the Qi State attacked Lu, and also plundered the Lu craftsmen, and the Qi State doctor was greedy for immediate profits, and asked the merchants to resell the captives to the Jin State.

Zhao Wuxian is also quite concerned about international events, so he naturally knows what the situation is in these two places.

He said: "Good, that Zigong should also know that the Qi Guoguo clan and Lu Guoyanghu are still in Yundi and Yangguan, and the war is raging, and you let those craftsmen return to their hometowns at this time, isn't this driving people away?" If you don't save people, you hurt people! ”

Duanmu Ci was slightly stunned: "This, Ci can place them in the manor of the Duanmu family of the Patriotic Country......"

"What's the difference between that and being uprooted? What do they do for a living? ”

Duanmu Ci was dumbfounded, after all, he was only about twenty, and he was not so thoughtful, and his usual clever tongue was of little use in front of Zhao Wuxian.

saw Zhao Wuxian squinting his eyes and stretched out three fingers.

Duanmu Ci was shocked, could it be that he said so much in order to ask him to redeem it at three times the price? The careless little gentleman is not such a person, right?

But I heard Zhao Wuxian say slowly: "Three years, I am not the Fan craftsman workshop, and I will not bind those Lu people for a lifetime, I only need them to work in my territory for three years." It is not regarded as a subordinate concubine, but a free craftsman, whose family members can live in peace and well, and if there are relatives in the Lu State who want to avoid war, they can also take it. ”

Like a lawyer who asked for wages for migrant workers in later generations, Duanmu Ci asked eagerly: "What about three years later?" ”

"Three years later, I allowed them to be free again! If you want to stay, it's good, if you want to return to your hometown, let them go, and give them the money they need on the road and settle down after returning home. My Jin Kingdom is currently peaceful, and it also saves them the pain of running around and working hard. ”

Duanmu Ci secretly said in his heart, you are the sixth secretary of the Jin Kingdom, didn't you almost fight during the winter solstice last year?

But he can only praise goodness in his mouth. Although the Zhao gentleman did this, although it was not quite in line with the result he hoped for the most, it was also thoughtful and acceptable. And the other party, as a Qing family, can negotiate with him in a consultative tone, which is already an extremely rare thing.

So, the fate of those Lu people was thus decided, although Duanmu gave them their lives, but they themselves did not have the right to choose.

Since it was not easy to catch the line of Zigong, Zhao Wuxian naturally would not let it go easily.

He pretended to be curious and inquired about the situation of the "master" who was in the state of Lu. As the disciple who supported Kong Qiu the most in history, Zigong was naturally full of praise.

Zhao Wuxian is a person who has read the Analects, and he can still recite a lot, and he also knows a little about Confucius's ideology and scholarship, so he can talk to Zigong very well, but Zigong is once again impressed by him and regarded him as a fellow practitioner.

After narrowing the distance with Zigong, Zhao Wuxian said meaningfully: "Zigong had a dispute with the Fan craftsman this time, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to do business in the Jin Kingdom in the future......"

Duanmu Ci smiled bitterly and nodded: "I didn't expect the Fan family to be so arrogant, but the world is so big, and there are dozens of countries, which is enough for me to walk, and I won't lose my livelihood." ”

Is this what it means to go around the Jin Kingdom in the future? That's not going to work, you still have to get it in my bowl.

So Zhao Wuxian leaned forward and suggested to Zigong: "Why bother, I admire Zigong's personality, and I heard that you are good at breeding, and you are often in the market speculation, if you don't dislike it, are you willing to be protected by the Zhao family?" ”

But Duanmu Ci's face was very resolute: "The gentleman is kind, he gives his heart to lead, and then he gives him to go to various countries, he is used to freedom, and business is just a sideline, and his main mind is to study from the master in Lu State, and he does not want to eat the minister, so that his descendants will also be bound by this......"

Once he eats in the official mansion of the minister and becomes a "business food official" again, in that case, the son of Shang will always be a businessman, which Duanmu is unwilling.

Zhao Wuxian waved his hand and said: "No, no, no, no, I don't want Zigong to become a subordinate merchant of the Zhao family, but to swear an oath with me alone." In the future, I will be the proprietor, provide goods, and protect you from Fan's troubles. You sell countries for me, and from then on, the checkpoints will be unblocked, no need to pay taxes, it is a win-win cooperation, not a master-slave relationship that binds you! ”

After Duanmu Ci heard this, he couldn't help but be stunned, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that there was a lot to be done.

In today's world, although all countries swear an oath that "there will be no strong roads" and "the city will not be levied", saying that the checkpoints will be opened, business travel will not be hindered, and commercial taxes must not be collected indiscriminately.

But in fact, the greedy aristocracy even increased the land tax from the eleventh tax to the twenty-one tax, and said that "two, especially insufficient", how could the rich and weak businessmen not pluck their feathers?

As a result, not only did the state government set up cards, but also the ministers and doctors under them also set up cards in the sections of their respective territories.

But if you have the protection of the Zhao clan and hold the Shangjun General Talisman, at least in the Jin Kingdom, all this can be exempted!

The benevolent heart of the Zhao gentleman is very appreciated by their Confucian masters and apprentices, how can such favorable and harmless conditions not make him not excited?

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