In fact, the basic harvest in Deng Shifeng's mouth not only refers to the development of the army, but also the harvest of industrial talents, and behind these two is the great contribution made by the education popularization plan.

After several years of basic education, stimulated by various ways of using a large amount of food and materials as temptation and reward, a group of students who have received two to four years of complete primary education will enter various positions in the new year, and at the same time, there will be a larger base and a wider coverage of the reduced night school repair education crowd will also grow, the number of these people is not the previous increase of tens or hundreds, but a four-digit increase; At the same time, the number of people receiving literacy education has exceeded five figures, and with such a large base of education, it is much easier to continue to select talents in a pyramid pattern......

If Deng Shifeng is given a few more years to prepare and expand this foundation, then he will have more confidence to deal with future opponents, and maybe he can save the already crumbling Ming Dynasty; However, in Deng Shifeng's heart, no matter how many people on the Internet shouted for it, the Ming Dynasty could not change the result of its doomed demise, which was the result of the wrong direction of military, political and even national policy formulation at the beginning of its founding. No matter how good the medicine or external help, it is just to help it fall slowly, the country's agriculture, industry and military have long had problems from the roots, and no one can save the Ming Dynasty if they don't solve the core source of poison from the rotten roots!

On the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, students began to prepare for the resumption of classes according to the practice of previous years, and some factories also began to resume work on a small scale.

It's just that what everyone didn't expect was that the crowd of people returning to work did not wait, but waited for an unexpected person......

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"Boatman, I heard that Zhongdu is making trouble, but you heard that I am going to hire a boat to go to Zhongdu, but you are not afraid in the slightest, why is this?"

After inviting Ying to the place where the flower skin is, Zhong Shuqing did not delay much, and after accompanying his wife to the New Year, he looked for a boat from Guilin to the south, although it was the New Year at the moment, and no one wanted to run this job, but seeing that Zhong Shuqing was just single and did not eat the power of the boat, and the people of the official family did not dare to offend, so he had to go out of the boat. Not far down the Li River, turn through the Acacia River and enter the Acacia Dai Canal opened in the Tang Dynasty to enter the Luoqing River; Go to Suqiao Water Station here and change to the small boat you are taking now and go all the way south, turn to the Huangla River and sail to Zhongdu. Sitting on the boat, Zhong Shuqing suddenly asked the old boatman who was swinging towards the back a little bored.

"Afraid?! Why be afraid?! Those who don't eat people and don't collect money from waterways, and they speak kindly, which are much better than those officials who only collect money for benefits...... If it weren't for my father's refusal, I would have gone to Huapi to find a job......"

Before the old boatman at the stern could reply, the young man who was propped up in the bow of the boat spat at the vanished water post in the distance to show his displeasure, and looked in the other direction with envy and yearning, which he estimated was the place occupied by the legendary flower skin.

"Wang Du, shut up! Adults are here, less gibberish!! ”

The old boatman at the stern of the boat scolded and reminded his children not to talk nonsense in front of the government people, and the young man was also a little frightened when he heard that it was actually the government people who were on the boat, and hurriedly turned his head to concentrate on supporting the boat.

"Boat family, I'm not an adult, I just borrowed some books to learn books in the government for many years, and I have some official spirit, besides, you also know that I hired a boat to go to Zhongdu, if I were a person from the government, I would have avoided it a long time ago, why go alone......"

Zhong Shuqing knows that the eyes of these perennial runners are very poisonous, if the tricks are not bright, maybe offending anyone with a word will make him suffer unjustified disasters, and he also knows that it will not be useful if you simply deny these people, it is better to generously admit that he has done things in the government and has some official anger is more convincing; And the explanation he said in the end is also more acceptable, if it is really a person from the government, he would have avoided these flower skins a long time ago, how could he go to the chaos of flower skins alone like himself......

"Dad, I'll just say, he's not like an official, have you ever seen an official who is as good at talking as this guest, either with his nostrils facing the sky or never looking at people with his eyes straight......"

Hearing Zhong Shuqing's self-denial, the young man at the bow of the boat became active again, but this time the old boatman did not stop him from speaking again, and he agreed with Zhong Shuqing's explanation.

"This little brother, those flower skins are really better than the officials? Can you tell me more about ......"

Telling a lie made Zhong Shuqing feel a little feverish on his face, but fortunately, the young man at the bow didn't notice it, and he hurriedly asked the other party, he was lying to cover up his identity, isn't it just to get more information about the skins from these low-level people! And listening to the meaning of these two people's words, it seems that they have also dealt with Huapi, or at least have come into contact with it, and the information they get from such a population is far more pertinent and accurate than the information obtained from these biased eyes.

"Of course that's good!" The young man who opened the conversation box was very excited, one of the biggest characteristics of young people is that they are noisy, and their father does not like to talk, and the perennial boring boat has long made him panic, and today there is someone who can talk to him and naturally make him very happy.

"Those officials don't do anything every day except for knowing how to collect money and exploit it, and they ask for money one by one more ruthlessly, and their hands and feet are not clean at all when inspecting the goods, and the goods that are usually sampled are taken away! If you have a slight defense, you will become more severe, either beating and scolding or detaining people, and you are more arrogant and ferocious than bandits......"

When the young man talked about the water post and the water camp officers patrolling the river, he was on fire in his belly, and he naturally saw a lot of scenes when he grew up on the boat since he was a child; And these things that the young man said, although Zhong Shuqing has not seen them with his own eyes, he has probably heard some of them, although he also hates these people for ruining the discipline of the Ming Dynasty, but he is soft-spoken, what can he say and do......

Wang Du first scolded for a while to vent the unhappiness accumulated in his heart, and then he began to talk about the flower skin, but when he mentioned the flower skin, his two bright eyes were full of brilliance.

"Those flower skins are different, treat people and don't beat people or scold people, the inspection inspectors are also honest and have a lot of rules, and they will not take it back to you after opening the inspection, if you will be compensated for the damage to the goods during the inspection, last time my father and I helped a porcelain merchant transport a batch of porcelain into it, and a flower skin inspected the goods when the action was big and broke a box of porcelain bowls, the original merchant was considered to be the loss of transport, but those few flower skins were stunned to open a note for him to show him what material transactions to what people at the time of settlement, The merchant didn't take it seriously at first and was in the mindset of giving it a try, but guess what?! ”

After Wang Du successfully aroused the high curiosity in Zhong Shuqing's heart, he said loudly with a grin.

"Hua Pi was stunned for a bowl, and lost a box of porcelain bowls to him according to the market price! ! When the merchant returned, he shouted that he had been selling goods for so many years, and he had never seen such a soldier who was not greedy for profit! ”

Hearing Wang Du praise those flower skins like this, Zhong Shuqing felt even more curious in his heart, he knew that he relied on the mountains to eat the mountains and rely on the water to draft water, the military households of the Ming Dynasty said that they had a very hard life, and they could basically only count on getting some oil and water from the past merchants to live, if these flower skin water camps did not collect water to attract money, then what would they rely on to eat, Zhong Shuqing, who was curious, hurriedly asked:

"Then these flower skins really don't charge water to attract money?"

"Take!!" Wang Du's unhesitating answer made Zhong Shuqing's heart suddenly pop up with these fancy skins, which were just so unavoidable, but Wang Du's words in the next second knocked out this little disdain in Zhong Shuqing's heart:

"But I'm willing to give!!"

"The money that Huapi collects is called ...... What's it called? Wang Du suddenly failed to remember the name of the cashier.

"Management fee ......" Just when Wang Du was a little anxious and scratched his head, the father at the stern of the boat gave the answer for his son.

"That's right! It's the management fee! It's still my father's surname...... "Wang Du continued after praising his father's old ways.

"Those officials don't do anything after they receive money, if there are thieves who rob ships and plunder, if you go to those officials, they will only hide far away! And those flower skins can keep you safe if they collect the money! ”

"Why, there are still thieves on the ground of the flower skin?" Hearing this, Zhong Shuqing was even more curious, this bandit, bandit, and robber rebellion has been a stubborn disease that has never been extinct since ancient times, is there any other way to resolve it here?

"Where are there thieves in the fields of flower skins...... As long as we boat people and outside traders enter the realm of Huapi, we can feel at ease, and you don't have to be afraid of thieves when you take the dry roads of Huapi......

Wang Du smiled and told a surprising fact, and this fact made Zhong Shuqing's heart a little uncomfortable, there are thieves everywhere in the royal land under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, but a place controlled by the mountain barbarians has destroyed the bandits and bandits who endanger traffic travelers and merchants, which cannot but be said to be a great irony. And Wang Du didn't know what this guest was thinking at the moment, and then he continued to hit Zhong Shuqing's already unhappy mood...... (To be continued.) )