After Chen Gang left, Zhang Kai looked at Jiang Hexing and said, "Brother, can you tell us about your plans in detail, and we can prepare when the time comes." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

Jiang Hexing said: "Okay, big brother, you see that now Wang Mang has been called the regent emperor, and he has the power alone." Those relatives of the Liu family will definitely not be satisfied, and they are worried that Wang Mang will endanger the world of the Han family. There are good reasons for their rebellion, and now it's up to who will stand up.

Once they stood up and sent troops to crusade against Wang Mang, no matter what, the biggest victims of the war were the poor people. We just want to free the people from suffering, and of course it will be good for us. We now have a huge territory, and we have caught up with several states, but we are mainly short of people. If we can bring the people of those war-torn places to us, they will no longer suffer, and we will have more and more people, and there will be a new great development in agriculture and trade. ”

Zhang Kai said: "What will you do then?" ”

Jiang Hexing said: "I am worried that in the event of a big chaos, the people should trust the court more, and may not trust us." We have to think about how to get them to come, first to convince them, and then to think about various routes, all kinds of supplies on the way, which is no less difficult than fighting. ”

Zhang Kai's eyes lit up, and he grabbed Jiang Hexing's hand and said: "Brother, let them believe that it is easy, we have salt, and we can attract them with salt." ”

Jiang Hexing said: "Big brother, now you understand what I asked you to save salt for, right?" ”

Zhang Kai nodded excitedly and said, "I understand, from tomorrow onwards, I will prepare more salt, and the surrounding islands will also be used." When the time comes, I will exchange Yanshan for refugees one by one, and I will have more and more people in Pingzhou. ”

Jiang Hexing said: "You guys start to prepare, I also gave Zheng Yi an order recently, let him set up a point in Phoenix City, report all kinds of information, and then you are no stranger to all kinds of information in Han Land, so you can prepare." ”

After Jiang Hexing finished explaining, Zhang Meng was ordered to go back to continue training. Zhang Kai took the river and rode a carriage to visit the entire Phoenix City. Jiang Hexing focused on the warehouse, each of which is the kind of big house with a round spire, a small wooden window around the week, and the ventilation is good, but the place is relatively humid, the salt is no problem, and there is no problem with the storage and transportation warehouse as a merchant in winter, but things can't be put for too long in summer, and the ordnance is easy to rust. Jiang Hexing thought about it and explained to Zhang Kai that a special small weapons factory would be set up here to produce ordnance and maintain ordnance at that time.

After turning Phoenix, it was already dark. Zhang Kai's whole family invited Jiang Hexing's whole family, a big row feast, Zhang Meng, and Zhao Qingyang came. Jiang Hexing saw the hot pot on the big table and the seafood on the table, and laughed: "Big brother, the food here is not bad, right?" ”

Zhang Kai showed dissatisfaction on his face, and said directly to the river: "Brother, you have this hot pot, why didn't you make it earlier, I also saw those merchants eat like this, and I only knew that you made it on your nephew's birthday last year." If we had this thing earlier, we would have been able to eat hot pot every day in Yangyuan winter. You don't have to eat, and in the end the meal is cold, and you have to eat. ”

Everyone laughed, Jiang Hexing also laughed, and then said: "Big brother, this thing needs a lot of copper, and I haven't seen so much copper at that time, can't I remember it for a while?" In this way, I have the right to punish myself, how about three glasses of wine? ”

In the midst of everyone's laughter, Jiang Hexing drank three glasses of wine, turned his head to look at Zhao Qingyang, who was using chopsticks to hold seafood for Jiang Anbei and feed him. Jiang Hexing said: "Don't give the child too much seafood, he is too young, and it is not good to eat too much." ”

Zhao Qingyang hurriedly said: "Just eat a little, you haven't started eating yet, don't worry about your baby son, I heard the fishermen tell me that I have my own measure." Besides, how good this seafood is, when I first came, I thought it was a desert island, with no food, no play, lack of food and clothing. That knows that it is better than showing martial arts, there is rice and meat every day, and there are fish and shrimp. It's not cold in winter, they say you won't get frostbite on your hands in winter. I'll be living here forever in the future, isn't it, Zhang Meng? ”

Zhang Meng was biting a prawn in his mouth, and nodded again and again: "It's good here, the food is good, and it doesn't snow or freeze." ”

It's a pity that Zhang Meng still has shrimp meat in his mouth, and his words are vague, and everyone is happy when they see Zhang Meng obeying Zhao Qing's threats.

Zhao Qingyi and Fan Jiao were also feasting, and Zhang Kai's wife warmly entertained them, poured wine and dishes, and told them interesting stories about just getting acquainted with Jianghexing from time to time, and both of them listened very interestingly.

Jiang Hexing pulled Zhang Yuan to his side, and looked at this kid, good guy, growing up really fast, the previous little man has become a half-sized boy. There was a heroic spirit between his eyebrows, and Jiang Hexing asked him what he was reading now, but he could practice martial arts and practice horseback archery.

Zhang Yuan told Jiang Hexing that now his third uncle taught him to ride a horse and practice archery, but because he was still young, he could not join the army, and he was still studying in a school in Phoenix, and he had already reached the fifth grade and was about to graduate.

Jiang Hexing thought to himself, his first batch of students, the students taught with his textbooks, will soon finish teaching the textbooks, that is, they will graduate. His textbooks are not difficult, such as literacy, arithmetic, geometry, and a new edition of his book on nature, which mainly explains some natural phenomena. Geometry is not only about understanding figures, he uses geometry as a teaching material for training thinking methods, and there are repeated training of thinking.

After chatting with Zhang Yuan, Jiang Hexing found Zhang Kai again to discuss what to do after this batch of children graduated.

Later, the two agreed to set up an engineering school, an agricultural school, and a military school. The agricultural school is set up in Changchun, the engineering school is set up in Xianwu, and what about the military school? Thinking about it, Phoenix City is good, it can train sailors, infantry, and riders, and the two agreed that in the future, Chen Gang will concurrently serve as the principal of the military academy, and find some military books, combat examples, and then find some good instructors, especially Zhang Meng's special operations battalion, and sometimes they can also come to teach directly.

The next day, Jiang Hexing took his family and took a carriage to visit Phoenix Island. Zhang Kai wants to start getting busy for the sake of the military academy. In this way, after a few days, Phoenix Island began to be lively, sailing ships came from Xianwu City and other places, loaded with all kinds of goods, docked, unloaded, sent to the warehouse, waiting for the merchants of the Han land, or went directly to the Han land to sell.

Many businessmen knew that Jianghexing was here, and they came to pay a visit, and Jianghexing turned around for a few days, taking their families to look at the sea and see the Phoenix Mountain in the middle of Phoenix Island. It's also a bit idle, and some businessmen come to visit and want to know about their business, so naturally they don't refuse.

On this day, the red-faced Dupont came, and Jiang Hexing received him in the office. After the greetings, Dupont said, "And the king, I have something to ask for." ”

Jiang Hexing looked at Du Pont and said, "What is Mr. Du asking for?" ”

DuPont was a little squirming, but finally said: "Salt, I hope we can sell it to the Han region, so that many poor people can eat salt." You don't know how important salt is to the poor, and many people can't afford to eat salt at all, or even eat saline soil. I don't dare to eat a few dishes with salt all year round. I think Pingzhou salt is very cheap, I really don't want to make this money, I just want more people to eat salt. ”

Jiang Hexing shook his head and said: "Mr. Du, I can't promise you this, you should have heard why I don't allow salt to be sold to Handi, and I also know that some people can't afford to eat salt." If you really want people to eat salt, I still have a way, but I'm afraid you can't do it. ”

Dupont's face turned even redder, and he could see that he was a little angry, if it was someone else, it was estimated that his hard temper would attack immediately.

He immediately said, "Please show me to the king, how to make people eat salt, what can be done?" ”

Jiang Hexing looked at Du Pont strangely and said, "If you have money, you can just let them sell salt." ”

Du Pont was a little speechless, and finally said again: "He Wang, Du Pont is just a small businessman, not much money, even if I divide my family property, I can make a few families eat salt, it's just a few more Chinese families." ”

Jiang Hexing looked at Lao Du with a slightly angry look, and felt that this person was quite interesting, Ci is not in charge of the army, righteousness is not in charge of wealth, it seems that the reason why you have been doing business for so many years has not been able to do much, is the reason. But Jiang Hexing still admires him very much, even if others think it's ridiculous.

Jiang Hexing brought a bowl of water to Du Pont, asked him to dissipate his anger first, and then looked at Du Pont and said, "Mr. Du, if I have a way to make more people eat salt, are you willing to help?" It's just that this is a big deal, and even your life is at risk, so you have to think about it carefully? ”

Du Pont's red face turned even redder, and the green tendons in his neck bulged out: "He Wang, I don't have to think about it, it can benefit the people, what is the regret of me going bankrupt!" ”

Jiang Hexing waved his hand and said with a pleasant face: "It's not necessary to go bankrupt, but it's very risky and far along the way, so I originally wanted to gather brave warriors to do it." It's just that I haven't had time, and this matter has never been done. Have you ever heard of Huang Zhiguo? ”

DuPont nodded and said, "I've heard that they attacked rhinoceros that year, and I went to see it." You said you were going to Huang Zhiguo to do business? ”

Jiang Hexing said: "It's not that far, there is a Tianzhu country on their road, Tianzhu country has cotton, this thing can be made into cloth like hemp, I hope someone can go to Tianzhu country and take some seeds back." ”

Du Pont said: "I have also heard of Tianzhu, but if there are few seeds, it will take a lot of transportation, if there are more, I am afraid it will not be able to be transported?" ”

Jiang Hexing said: "Go to Tianzhu from the sea and bring back as many seeds as possible." Would you like to do it? ”

Du Pont hesitated for a moment and said: "I haven't seen this thing, and I don't know the route, even if I dare to go, I don't know which one is this thing?" ”

Jiang Hexing told him in detail about the appearance of cotton, the characteristics of its growth habits, and also drew some pictures for his reference. Du Pont had a bottom in his heart, so he agreed with Jiang Hexing that after selling the grain, he would go back to Chang'an and quietly bring some people out to participate in the search for cotton with him. Jiang Hexing recognized it and agreed to go directly to Xianwu City next spring to lead the fleet to set off.