Jilin City should have been Chen Gang in charge, Li Xiaowu was seriously ill last year, so he didn't go to Phoenix Island, Phoenix Island now puts Hao Zhan in charge, and Li Xiaowu is now in charge of civil affairs in Jilin City for the time being. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Li Xiaowu was not there, and Jiang Hexing waited until the evening. Li Xiaowu came back, covered in dust, and told Jiang Hexing that he had gone to see the spring ploughing. After he rested, he changed his clothes and started the banquet again, and the two chatted while drinking.

Li Xiaowu introduced the spring ploughing situation in Jilin, with the use of seeding machines, the efficiency has been greatly improved, this year's spring ploughing can be about ten days earlier than in previous years, there are still many wastelands in the vicinity that have not been reclaimed, and the following will concentrate on clearing wasteland.

Jiang Hexing very much agreed with Li Xiaowu's work and nodded frequently.

At the time of the staggering, Jiang Hexing also talked about today's observations. Li Xiaowu frowned and asked, "Hewang, in fact, I can't figure out why you don't let the salt be sold to the Han land, I'm afraid you don't understand everyone's thoughts." I asked Zhang Kai to know that our salt is actually very cheap, and you can make a lot of money by selling it to Handi, and you don't know that the poor suffer from salt. I think I particularly agree with your views and practices on other things, but I don't quite understand this matter, to be honest. ”

Jiang Hexing raised his wine glass and saluted Li Xiaowu first: "Xiaowu, you can understand the difficulties of people's livelihood, I respect you." ”

Drink the glasses dry together.

Pouring the wine again, Jiang Hexing picked up the wine glass and said: "I know that many people have difficulty eating salt, and they eat very poor salt, which contains a lot of mud, bitter and astringent, and some people simply can't afford to eat it, at most they can eat some salty saline-alkali soil." ”

Li Xiaowu said: "In this case, why don't we let our salt go to the Han land, make money, and let the people eat cheap and good salt." ”

Jiang Hexing put two wine glasses in front of Li Xiaowu, pointed to the glasses and said, "Xiaowu, if there are two glasses of wine, one bitter wine and one poisonous wine, which one do you drink?" ”

"Me, it's better not to drink both."

Jiang Hexing and Li Xiaowu laughed.

Jiang Hexing continued: "Now the Han land, or the new land, their salt policy is like a cup of bitter wine to the people; And if our salt is put away, it will probably be poisoned wine. Although bitter wine is bitter, it is not fatal, but poisonous wine is different, it is estimated that tens of millions of people will fall to the ground, how do you say I choose? ”

Li Xiaowu said with a puzzled face: "Hewang, we have good intentions, we just want the people to eat salt, how can it be the poisonous wine of the people, and how can it cause tens of millions of people's heads to fall to the ground?" Our salt is good salt in Pingzhou, is it poisonous salt in Handi? ”

Jiang Hexing said: "Salt is still those salts, salt is just an ordinary thing in our place, but Xindi is different, it is closely connected to the money bag of the imperial court. What happens if the court has less money? Have you thought about it? ”

Li Xiaowu said: "So what, it's just that the officials can take a little less." ”

Jiang Hexing sighed and said, "If only the problem could be so simple, I would have sold salt a long time ago." Have you ever thought that officials deal directly with the people? ”

Li Xiaowu said: "Officials command officials, and officials deal directly with the people. Whether it is collecting taxes, levying labor, or building rivers and roads, it is the officials of all sizes who deal directly with the people. ”

Jiang Hexing said: "By the way, the court has few money bags, but the officials' money is a lot and therefore less, and the less must be those officials." You know what those officials will do when they are short of money, right? ”

Li Xiaowu snorted with a wry smile and said, "They just don't lack money, I can think of what they can do." If they are short of money, they will definitely find a way to make up for it directly by themselves. ”

Jiang Hexing said: "At this time, the officials are not easy to manage, they can only acquiesce to these officials doing nonsense, you let people work, you should let the family get some compensation." At this time, will these officials show their powers? ”

Li Xiaowu nodded and said: "I must find a way to make a lot of money, and no one can manage it, and the tax must be levied more, and the tax should not be levied, so as to give myself the opportunity to get up and down." Needless to say, they will also find ways to deliberately make things difficult for some people and create opportunities for themselves. Isn't this a big mess in the world? ”

Jiang Hexing said: "If there is a big chaos, the court will have less money, and the evil of the officials will be intensified, which will cause a vicious circle." The chaos will also get bigger and bigger, and the court may not be able to keep it at that time. ”

Li Xiaowu said: "If the court can't keep it, isn't it our chance?" ”

Jiang Hexing's face sank, and he slammed the cup on the table and said, "Do you know how many people will die in our chance?"

During the Qin and Han dynasties, from Chen Sheng's rebellion to Gaozu's domination of the world, do you know how many people died? ”

Jiang Hexing continued: "More than half of them died, and this is still relatively fast for Liu Bang to unify the world." If you fight for a few decades, what will happen, thousands of miles of fertile fields are all barren grass, and the cities and villages are estimated to be uninhabited. Han Gaozu fought with Xiang Yu for four years, what would happen if he fought for eight years, have you considered it? ”

Li Xiaowu was in a cold sweat when he heard this, and his hand holding the wine glass trembled a little, and he said in a trembling voice: "Then he Wang, then watch the people of Han land drink bitter wine all the time?" ”

Jiang Hexing said: "There are some things that the two powers harm each other, but in fact, I am more worried that Wang Mang will toss his own country into chaos." When the time comes, it will be difficult for us to avoid people drinking poisoned alcohol. ”

Li Xiaowu said: "Hewang, then what should we do?" ”

Jiang Hexing said: "Don't you see that I have been preparing? If there are signs of chaos in the world, we will strive to settle the world as soon as possible, so that many innocent deaths can be prevented. ”

Li Xiaowu said: "I understand, and the king is waiting for the opportunity, and now accumulate strength first." ”

Jiang Hexing nodded and said: "It's true to accumulate strength, but I don't want the opportunity to really appear, no matter how small the military disaster is, it is much more than the ordinary disaster." Hey, I don't know how many families will be separated and how many people will die by accident. ”

Jiang Hexing held the wine glass, looked at the flickering candlelight on the table, stared for a long time, and finally sighed and said, "I think it's inevitable, you should prepare well." With that, he drank the wine down.

The next day, Jiang Hexing asked Li Xiaowu to prepare a fast boat, and he wanted to go down the river until Xia Du went to see it. Li Xiaowu ordered to go down, but unfortunately, everyone is busy now, and it will take about 5 days to get ready. went to find Chen Gang, and Chen Gang took the sailor to training. Jiang Hexing had no choice but to settle for this spring ploughing, and then, together with Li Xiaowu, went around Jilin to see the situation of farming, urban construction, and the militia's training grounds.

Three days later, one evening, Jiang Hexing and Li Xiaowu took two cars and crossed the bridge from the west of the city to the office office. Jiang Hexing's car walked in front, just got on the bridge, and a luxurious carriage came on the opposite side. Jiang Hexing was only thinking about things, and he didn't notice that a person on the carriage shouted loudly, and then jumped down and rushed straight towards Jiang Hexing.