"What do you plan to do in the future?"

The Nanzhao war is settled, and the framework for the aftermath work has also been set up, and the specific affairs are Zhang Yan, Cui Yang, and several executives of the Four Seas Trading Company to do. The army has Li Sheng and Ma Sui, two famous generals who are several times stronger than themselves, to manage, and they can sit back and relax.

On the other hand, the news that Nanzhao has been destroyed is also blocked as much as possible, and the Duan brothers continue to send people to constantly report to the Tubo reinforcements, just wait for the 80,000 Tubo barbarians to come forward to throw themselves into the net, after fighting Tubo, and then pacify the remnants of the three edicts in Jianchuan by the way, the matter of Nanzhao will be over, and you can go home.

The only small trouble is Zhu Ling'er. In fact, as the first beauty of Nanzhao, Zhu Ling'er can be said to be very beautiful, and her figure is also excellent.

But I don't really have much heartfelt feelings for her, but now He Keer is not around, sometimes I look at her a few more times and think more about He Keer, the joy of fish and water is naturally okay, but I treat her as a substitute for another person in my heart, which is also extremely unfair to her, and what is more troublesome is what to do when I return to Luoyang?

People have feelings, Xiao Quzhi doesn't believe that after the two have that intimate relationship, he will have no feelings for her, if he leaves her here, he will be reluctant and worried; If you bring it back to Luoyang, you feel sorry for He Keer, and you are alone, and you can't love so many people. Therefore, Xiao Qu was sick and simply endured it.

"Ling'er is the prince's maidservant, so naturally wherever the prince goes, Ling'er will go." Zhu Ling'er didn't think about it.

"Okay, then when this side is over, we will go back to Luoyang together, and I will play Your Majesty. Canonize you as the wife of the country, and repair the cemetery for your aunt and build a temple to commemorate you. ”

Xiao Qu was sick and embarrassed, and said in his heart that anyway, this little girl is alone, let him go back to Luoyang with him, and when the time comes, he understands his mind. There are so many good men in Luoyang, and she is so beautiful, I don't believe that she can't find someone to satisfy her.

Thinking like this, Xiao Qu's illness will be relieved to fish and see the scenery, I have to say that although the land of Yunnan is said to be a wild place by the people of Guannai and the Central Plains, the miasma attacks people, but in fact, the climate here is quite pleasant. The scenery is also extremely beautiful.

It is not false to say that there is a miasma, which is roughly because the dead branches and leaves and animal carcasses under the forest in the mountains accumulate too much, and when they are steamed by the heat at noon, there is a miasma. As long as you pay for the local people to clean up, these miasma-causing dead branches and leaves can be turned into fertilizer for farming.

"It's really beautiful, the four seasons are like spring, Xiaoxuan, do you know, outside the beautiful scenery of Erhai Lake. From here, all the way to the north, there is also a Jade Dragon Snow Mountain. It is also the most beautiful beauty in the world; Then continue to the north, there is a place called Shangri-La, which is a paradise on earth that can cleanse the soul, but these places are temporarily occupied by the Tibetan barbarians, and they can't go.

Then all the way south from here, there is a place called Xishuangbanna. It's another scene, Cangshan and Erhai are like spring all year round, but there are all kinds of tropical fruits, and there are the kind of chili peppers called millet spicy that Master is looking for. And it's just as scenic. ”

"Master, have you been here?"

"Naturally, I haven't been here, but Master just knows that after beating the Tibetan barbarians, Master will ask King Dali to send someone to Xishuangbanna to find that kind of millet spicy for me."

This time to Pingding Nanzhao, looking for millet spicy is also one of the established goals, although the hot sauce prepared by the four seas trading company with dogwood is also spicy, the taste is extremely improper, you need to use sugar and several other seasonings to suppress its bitter taste, and the dogwood is also slightly toxic, so the amount can not be used more.

Although wild millet spicy is also toxic, it is much worse than dogwood, but the spicy taste is more than several times, and there is no bitter taste, so it is best to find nature.

"Master is amazing!" Xiao Xuan, Xiao Huang, and Chen Dahai couldn't help but praise, and when Xiao Quzhi was about to show his modesty, he heard Zhu Ling'er speak: "The prince made the Duan family the king of Dali, and gave them so much autonomy, aren't you afraid that they will become the same as Ge Luofeng's father and son?" ”

"How so?"

Zhu Ling'er frowned and said: "Why not, you let Dali Wang Yongzhen guard this place, and let the locals manage the locals, the assassination of these indigenous leaders can still be hereditary, but there is one more household Qi people, Ling'er thinks, in fact, it is not much different from the Nanzhao period, what kind of land change is this?" ”

Xiao Quzhi smiled and said: "Let me tell you a story, more than 900 years ago in the Tang Dynasty, there was a great Han Dynasty, when Liu Bang and Xiang Yu of the Han Dynasty competed with each other but could not beat Xiang Yu, so Han Xin was named the king of Qi, and later changed to the king of Chu, Feng Peng Yue was the king of Liang, Zhang Er was the king of Zhao, Yingbu was the king of Huainan, and Zang Di was the king of Yan. But after pacifying the world, he destroyed all these kings, and swore to kill the white horse, and he could not be the king unless he was Liu. ”

Zhu Ling'er said: "Are you going to learn from Liu Bang and kill them after using them?" ”

"Don't think so badly of me, I'm smarter than Liu Bang, and I'm more benevolent than him." Xiao Quzhi smiled and said: "My method is to let them be hereditary, and when it comes to their next generation, I will find another reason, just say that you see, there are no hereditary kings and assassins in other places." Forced by the situation, they will agree, and these people, as long as they do not rebel, will be treated well.

In fact, let them be hereditary for three or four generations, and it doesn't matter, the more they go to the back, the more they are formal leaders, and the officials sent by the Tang Dynasty are really in charge. ”

Zhu Ling'er blinked her good-looking eyes and became interested: "What?" ”

"What do you think, I appointed these local indigenous leaders as assassins and county commanders, but their deputies are all Han Chinese, so let's do the work of organizing households and people, manage the people, collect taxes and persuade farmers, build roads, canals, build houses, and educate the people, right?

Most of these local natives only know how to fight and kill, or pretend to be gods and ghosts in the name of religion, how can they have any management experience, and when the time comes, they will not be able to do it, and they will not be handed over to their deputies, and the officials sent by the Tang Dynasty will do it. As a result, these local natives are nominally shepherds, but the actual managers are officials sent by the imperial court. ”

Zhu Ling'er clenched her fist and supported her chin and thought for a while, and then said: "The natives here are very lazy and fierce, you want them to build roads, canals, and houses, in case they are like before." What about rebellion? ”

Xiao Quzhi sighed in his heart that this is the problem of people in places that are too cold or too hot, just like people in Linyi, Java, Sumatra, and Africa, who will not starve just by eating fruits, and naturally will not have the habit of working, but only know how to fight and kill;

And too cold places, and due to the backwardness of production technology. The ability to deal with natural disasters is too weak, and he has developed a predatory nature. It's really hard to have a good way to do these things for ordinary Tang people, but I'm not.

"How come, for these things, I will ask the Four Seas Trading Company to cooperate with these officials sent by the imperial court, and ask them to build roads, canals, and houses, and give money to take care of food. It's too late for them to rejoice. ”

Zhu Ling'er frowned and said, "How much does this cost?" The four seas trading company has money, and it is not this usage. ”

"You can earn back the money you spent in the end." Xiao Qu's illness at this time remembered He Ke'er's recovery.

This set of vague economic theories learned from later generations is actually very superficial, because Xiao Qubing is not an economist, but when he comes to Datang, he uses more than eighty percent of people to understand it; Only Li Yu, Li Xian, and He Keer can understand it as soon as they talk about it, and they are Li Qi's personal disciples. It also took two or three days to figure out what was going on.

"Ling'er, you say. In the past two days, you have eaten the meals cooked for me by the military cook, as well as all kinds of wine and snacks brought by the Four Seas Trading Company, what is it like to eat the food before; Now that you are wearing the beautiful and comfortable clothes brought by the Four Seas Trading Company, do you feel uncomfortable with the beautiful clothes you used to wear? ”

Zhu Ling'er nodded, and Xiao Quzhi continued: "People are like this, and they yearn for a better life. Delicious and useful things, good-looking and comfortable clothes, and comfortable houses, who likes it, everyone yearns for it.

At that time, some people came to work in the Four Seas Trading Company. With the money they earned, these people will definitely show off everywhere, and others will definitely be very envious, and when the time comes, the Four Seas Trading Company will build a new city next to Longwei City, and the beautiful and comfortable houses will let their indigenous leaders live in, and everyone can see them, know that these houses are comfortable to live in, and they will also want it.

In fact, people are the most afraid of comparison, ten indigenous families, originally lived the same, now one of them goes to work in the Four Seas Trading Company, and the family has all kinds of good things, good food, good clothes, good use, what will the other nine neighbors think? I definitely can't stand it, I definitely want it, I want to buy it, I don't have the money!

When the time comes, those officials say that they will build roads, build canals, build houses, and give money, even if it is less than the money given by the Four Seas Trading Company, they will be willing to go. Moreover, the money invested by our Sihai Trading Company in the early stage can finally buy our goods and buy our houses through these natives, and then earn it back.

In this way, not only will the Four Seas Trading Company not lose money, but will make more and more money, and in this way, we will build this place better little by little, the roads have been repaired, the canals have been repaired, the dead branches and leaves on the mountains have been cleared, comfortable and beautiful houses have been built, there are more and more good things in the market, and people's lives are getting better and better.

At the same time, it also changes the people here, changes their living habits, has something to do, and has the pursuit of a better life, the people here will not always fight and kill, and the lazy people can become diligent.

If you don't change, you can't do it, others and their wives and children are dressed cleanly and beautifully, and their wives and children are dressed in tattered clothes; Other people's families have good things to eat, but their own family can only eat wild fruits, and even individuals can't stand it. As for those who do not change their dead nature, and who are willing to die lazily rather than work, let them die. ”

Zhu Ling'er frowned, although she didn't understand very well, but she felt very powerful, she thought for a while: "Such a good way, why haven't people thought about it before." ”

Xiao Quzhi said with a smile: "One is that they don't have such an upfront investment, and the other is that they don't have a complete set of perfect operation models like Sihai Trading Company, but the most important thing is that they are still in front, and they don't have production technology like Sihai Trading Company!" ”

"Production technology, what is it?" Zhu Ling'er asked seriously, and then inadvertently leaned over to Xiao Quai's side, and the heads of the two were almost touching.

Xiao Qu didn't avoid falling ill, he took a light breath and said with a smile: "It is the efficiency of producing things, such as spinning, before Datang was an ordinary peasant woman weaving cloth at home, fast and slow, and the quality was good and bad."

This is not the case with our Shikai Trading Company, where thousands of women weave cloth in one workshop, and there are professional technicians who teach these women how to weave cloth and how to use the weaving machine, and there is a division of labor and cooperation, so that everyone's weaving skills are improved a lot, and the quality is very uniform.

On top of that, we improved the loom so that the weaving efficiency was more than ten times higher than before, and later, the engineering bureau of our Shikai Trading Company developed a water turbine that could drive the loom with running water, quickly and smoothly, and never get tired. Now the weaving efficiency of our Sihai Trading Company has been more than 30 times higher than that of ordinary Datang peasant women.

And the weavers are not hard, they work four hours a day, and the rest of the time they can rest, go shopping, and play. Is the garment you are wearing now, woven by the women of the textile workshop of the Four Seas Trading Company, tighter, denser, and stronger than the cloth you have seen before?

Think about it, if a hundred ordinary Tang women weave cloth in their own homes for a month, they can only weave a hundred pieces of cloth, but a hundred weavers of our Four Seas Trading Company can weave 3,000 pieces of cloth. The same is true for the efficiency of building a house, we have something called cement, which is also twenty times more efficient than others; The same is true for iron smelting, which is at least 50 times more efficient than the natives here.

In this way, we have two advantages: first, to do the same thing, others have to spend a lot of effort, resources and time to complete, and these local natives may feel very bitter and tired, and then be dissatisfied and rebel; And we at the Four Seas Trading Company only need to spend very little effort and time to finish it, so they will not feel tired, and naturally they will not be dissatisfied.

Second, with such a high production efficiency of our Sihai Trading Company, how can other people in Datang, especially these natives, compete to win us, although we paid wages to these natives, but in the end, they still have to buy our things and return the money to our Sihai Trading Company. ”

Zhu Ling'er was stunned when she heard this, the Four Seas Trading Company actually had such a ability, no wonder the Four Seas Trading Society was so rich, no wonder the weapons and equipment of the Tiance Army would be so good, no wonder the three thousand Tiance Army could repel the 30,000 Nanzhao Army.

On the other side, Chen Dahai said proudly: "Sister Zhu, you don't know, these improvement ideas were all thought up by my master!" ”

Zhu Ling'er was already full of stars at this time, she only thought that Xiao Quai's Tiance Army was very capable of fighting at first, and later knew that Xiao Quai's Sihai Trading Company was very rich, but she never thought that Xiao Qubing would not only be able to fight and make money, but also improve production technology! It's even more powerful than both civil and military, I don't know how many times.

Xiao Quzhi smiled: "I just put forward a direction and idea, which were developed by the craftsmen of the Engineering Bureau with a lot of time and energy. ”

Zhu Ling'er looked at Xiao Quai's illness with bright eyes, and asked, "So, the prince is using this method to lay down a place, and then govern this place better and better, and build it more and more prosperous?" (To be continued.) )