When these four words like tombstones were brought up again, Chen Siwen smiled bitterly, as if he was a little numb and suddenly sobered up with a trace of shame, and seemed to be self-deprecating. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

"If you don't say it, I'll forget."

"Yes, you forgot, I'm afraid there are many more people who have forgotten, and even figured out what to do next. It's just that you have rights, but some people have money, some people have guns, and the reason why you haven't taken that path now is just because you're worried about the money and the guns, and there are more people who might oppose you. Have you ever wondered what it would be like if the Qi State was pacified and there were no more foreign enemies? ”

"Of course I did. Either feed us soldiers, or we'll use our guns to get what we want. Either we die, or those people die. By then we will be useless, and they don't want a gun hanging over their heads, so naturally there will be people who will oppose us, and there will be careerists who will take advantage of us. I thought about it, in fact, after the surrender of the Qi State, it will not be forever calm and no more fighting, but will set off a greater bloody storm. When the time comes, who knows what will be the words that will be exciting? ”

Chen Siwen smiled and said, "Do you think, someone told us that everything we will inherit in the future and be distributed to a large area of land, do you think we will not agree?" But again, there are still those who feel that since there is no enemy, what is the use of a gun? Even the government doesn't need it anymore, otherwise money wouldn't be everything. If another person stands up and promises those empty lands to those who have no land and little land, even if he becomes a hereditary king, there may not be no one to support him. A king with supreme power will always be what the small peasants want most. When the time comes, who will win, who can say for sure? ”

"yes, yes...... So in this way, my words are actually not so ridiculous, are they? I always feel that since the earth is estimated to be 80,000 miles wide, it will not be only us, and it may not be only people like us, maybe somewhere else...... There are really all kinds of people. ”

Chen Jian echoed and said: "As long as there are all kinds of people outside, those four words will not be ridiculous, and there will still be people who believe it, and they will not be busy tearing it inside." As long as you believe in it for another two or three hundred years, maybe everything will be different again, such as ...... One acre of land can produce 1,000 catties of grain, for example, a person can produce dozens of pieces of cloth a day, for example, when our land actually feeds many more people than we think, and there is a new dream that people can strive for. ”

Chen Siwen raised his head, imagined the picture described by Jian Chen, shook his head and said, "Maybe, maybe." Kid, you're right. Going to sea, it's a big deal. In the same way, those things you do in the school palace are also big things. ”

He thought for a moment and said excitedly: "Actually, there are two ways to go. If you can really do what you said, you can produce thousands of catties of grain per acre, and one person can weave dozens of pieces of cloth a day, then it is also possible. It's like a lake, where more and more water is about to flood all the dikes, but there are actually two ways. ”

"Either dig hard and dig the lake bigger, just like the problem of water injection in the Enlightenment arithmetic, as long as the speed of digging is faster than the speed of water injection; Either that, find a dry pond and vent the flood water that is about to overflow. ”

But after finishing speaking, Chen Siwen thought of everything Chen Jian had done, obviously there was only one way in his son's eyes, and the other way would not work in his son's eyes, otherwise his son would not be so persistent in preparing for the second way.

The excitement just now fell silent again, he was hoping that someone would go out of the second way, but the second way seemed to be very dangerous, and he didn't really want this road to be taken by his son.

Jian Chen stood up, bowed down and bowed three times and said, "Father, I am talking to you so much because you are my father, and my thoughts can only be told to you." And I want to ask you to forgive me for my unfilial piety, if once I am buried in the sea, then the rest of your life will be lonely, and the white-haired person sending the black-haired person is the most unbearable pain in heaven and earth. ”

Chen Siwen sat up straight, accepted Jian Chen's salute, didn't say anything more, accepted this matter in his heart, and sighed for a long time: "The road always needs people to go first." ”

"Father, I told you this to ask for help. First of all, I need you to find some good retired sailors and seafarers for me, and preferably within three years, there are some things I can't do alone. Without good sailors and seamen, I would not be able to move an inch. I want outlaws, poor people who can do anything for money, and preferably families who can make sense of the money they make from this potentially dying voyage. ”

Chen Siwen nodded, understanding that a voyage is by no means something that one person can do, and also understands what kind of people need to be brave enough to embark on this seemingly dying road after experiencing a previous failed voyage.

There are only two kinds of people.

For some kind of belief, or for money. There are too few of the former and a lot of the latter.

"I can do this for you. Are you saying you're going to set sail in three years? ”

"Yes, in three years, the shipyard will be able to build a few ships fit for a long voyage, first of all by bypassing the seas where storms and death coexist, and at least to see where we are—to the west of the desert, the reefs, the waves, and the unattainable mountains."

To this young group, to the west was a desert, a snowy mountain, and an inaccessible place, while the north was covered in snow and pine leaves, and it seemed meaningless for the time being. Maybe it's too young, maybe it's really still a wilderness, maybe it's too short or even there's no civilization there, so there's no communication.

The most elite areas are along the rivers and coasts, and there is no race strong enough to threaten this civilization in the desert mountains, so naturally this race will not have Zhang Qian who "went to the Western Regions".

People's imagination of the desert and mountains may still be the desert and the mountains, and there is no communication and no meaning.

Those who want to sail out in search of the world do not seek deserts or wastelands, but for a rich, cultivable land or more wealth. And the goods that ships can carry are the most numerous and cheapest in this era.

The enemies of the northern steppes had been purged long ago, and it was difficult to threaten this group. After defeating them, you will naturally hear many legends from the far west, but it is too far away, separated by the desert and the Gobi, and the legend says that it is a group of barbarian people, thousands of miles away from the desert, if the sea ship cannot reach it, it is meaningless.

However, to the southwest of Mincheng, there is an uninhabited desert, and along the coast there are chaotic reefs and terrifying wind and waves, at least until now, no ship has traveled thousands of miles of sea to see what is over there.

After all, it was only for a moment that the seafaring trend arose, not for profit, nor for gold and silver, nor for trade, but for some young people who wanted to see what the world was like, or even just to verify that the earth was round.

Without the drive of profit, it will not last long, just as there are only a few people who really want to sail and see outside, and when the soul of these few people returns to the sea, everything will be bleak, and sometimes history is such an accident.

Strange and artificially driven civilizations to grow rapidly are lonely, and hundreds of years are still too short to communicate with each other for a long time.

Chen Jian knew that there was still land to the west of the mountains, deserts, reefs, and waves, but he didn't know what the barbaric and unwritten, white races that he had encountered in his previous life had developed without communication.

Five hundred years is too short to develop a civilization that can be called a civilization when it has accumulated from scratch and has almost no exchanges.

The land over there is the west, and further west is the world that Chen Jian knows that has been turned upside down, and it is very important.

And the wealth there may become the most primitive motivation for this group to expand beyond the sea, which is the first thing to do, to be able to get a maritime merchant or a colonial interest group, with such a group can really start a great controversy in the era of sails in a few years: it is necessary to make this group of maritime merchants become Chen Jian's peers, and these people need to have more voice, and more voice means more wealth.

And for this purpose, he can only use all the means at his disposal, including his own father.

After getting Chen Siwen's first consent, Jian Chen said: "I also hope that you can make more meritorious contributions in the army, even if it is drilling camps and bribes, I will make good money, make a name, and prepare what you need." I also hope that you will not be so decadent and cheer up. ”

"If there are other races beyond the sea, then the navy will inevitably rise, and there is an urgent need to make meritorious deeds and gain wealth overseas. And if you can become an admiral in the Navy, that's great. ”

"Also, I'd like you to give me some pointers. After all, I am still young, and I don't know much about many things inside Mincheng, and I don't know about them. ”

"The county guard of Min County is already very old, and I estimate that he will be the county guard at most in his life, and it is no longer possible to climb up."

"The orchid matter will inevitably lead to chaos in Mincheng for a while, I am afraid that many people will be unable to escape the blame, even if this life is ruined, it is unlikely that they will go forward in their careers. This is not a mine explosion, and the dead are only a hundred or ten miners worth a silver coin, but dozens or hundreds of people who have money and connections to make a voice, as well as tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of silver coins and various title deed bonds. Once this soap bubble bursts, many people in Mincheng will be implicated, and there may even be a big chaos. ”

"So I need your guidance on me, among the officials in the other counties outside Mincheng, which one is the most promising, the most powerful behind the scenes, the most worthy of collusion, and the one who can turn the tide in times of danger, and who has the strength and ability to become a county guard at a young age."

"There's too much fog, I'm too young, and I can't see a lot of things clearly. I may have a lot of things to do, and these things may make a lot of money, and they may lead to the prosperity of a county. ”

"Such a merit is extremely useful for an officer, so I need to give it to someone, someone who can climb very high in the future and can help me."