Xiao Sheng clearly wanted to call himself his father, remembering that his dark, thin and gloomy face bloomed like a chrysanthemum in summer, Li Xian suddenly had goosebumps.

Duan Laoxiu happened to be out of class, and when he saw him like this, he frowned and said, "It's almost May, are you still cold?" ”

Li Xian was speechless, and Lao Xiucai continued to damage him: "Is it burying silver at night?" ”

This old man is really well-informed......

followed Lao Xiucai towards him in the depths of the academy, and as he walked, Lao Xiucai said: "In normal times, five thousand taels of silver would not hurt Zhong Shang's vitality, but now he has suffered a catastrophe, and these five thousand taels of silver are about to kill him." I came forward to help him sell more than ten hectares of land to the Peng family in the west and the Fang family in the north, and then he came up with the money. ”

Speaking of this, Lao Xiucai stopped and turned around, staring at Li Shi, with a look of admiration and awe-inspiring light in his eyes: "Lai Yipin's matter, it can also be said that you took care of the safety of your relatives before you made a spicy move." But I didn't expect you to squeeze the bell so hard, that fat man...... It's also pitiful! ”

The corners of Li Xian's mouth were slightly crooked, and he was ruthless?

Just looking at what happened a month ago, it seems really ruthless. Li Xi still remembered that a fat man suddenly rushed into the mine in Fengtian Village, and he didn't care that he was wearing a fine Suzhou embroidered silk coat, so he knelt in front of Li Xi with a puff, and shouted vigorously, "Fourth brother, save me!" It wasn't for Guan Fengsheng who exclaimed, "Master Zhong", he almost asked Jia Gouzi to fork this fat man out and throw it into the river.

Earlier, Li Xian told Xiao Sheng that he had a way to get together the eight mountain-splitting cannons that General Bai wanted, but ...... It's expensive. Xiao Sheng found Bai Daolong, who was annoyed with endocrine disorders, and told him about it, Bai Daolong looked at Xiao Sheng's gaze at that time, as if he had found a stunning beauty.

"Silver? Give as much as you want! As long as you get this cannon together, half of your net worth will be given to him! Of course it's not my net worth, and at this time, Zhong Shangwei should also lose his net worth! ”

Xiao Sheng relayed Bai Daolong's words to Li Shi as they were, so Li Shi shook off the bell that wanted to hug his thigh, and the whole palm was drawn out, five thousand taels of silver.

"And all the land deeds in Fengtian Village......"

Seeing that Zhong was still vaguely relieved, Li Xi added another one, which immediately made the other party's face defeated.

But Zhong Shangli has no choice, he has been climbing the general army, only then has Tengda over the years, if he doesn't solve this problem now, Bai Daolong doesn't mind looking for some reason to cook and eat him, a lackey who has lost his value.

Zhong Shangwei holds two or three hectares of fields in Fengtian Village, there are field bones and field skins, and it is usually worth a thousand taels of silver, but at this time, what does he want to do with the fields. The 5,000 taels of silver that Li Shi asked for were all made up by directly selling the fields that Ping said were the root of his life.

After that, I heard that Zhong Shangwei was completely distracted, and he was still selling his land, and he didn't seem to dare to stay in the sad place of Yingde anymore.

"Teacher, if it weren't for the disciple's kindness to reach out, would he still be able to get out of the way? The disciple's heart is extraordinarily soft......"

Li Xian argued in his mouth, and Lao Xiucai smiled and changed the topic.

"The old man doesn't know how to build, but he is also very curious, how did you build eight mountain splitters in a month? In Qianming, if you have this ability, it's no problem to take a head of the Ministry of Engineering. ”

This seemed to have some deep meaning, Lao Xiucai said while peeking at Li Shi's reaction, but the latter's mind was attracted by the servants who came and went to pack up things.

"Oh, that's just a small thing, and I was already prepared."

Li Shi casually perfunctory, with the iron fan that he had done before, not to mention eight cannons, eighty can be made. The only trouble is that each cannon needs to make a separate piece of clay with an inscription on the barrel. When they took over the business of these eight cannons, Guan Tian and the others looked at Li Shi as if they were looking at immortals, and they all thought that he could even predict that the cannon of the eight cannons on the top of Zhong would be destroyed, so they used Tiefan to make cannons. Li Xi knew that this was really a coincidence, he didn't expect that things would change to this point in just one month.

If he really wanted to say something, Li Shi just said: "God only favors those who are prepared." ”

After dealing with this problem, Li Xi pointed to the people who were moving things and asked, "Teacher, are you going to move?" ”

The two had already come to the depths of the academy, in front of a separate wooden house, Li Xi helped push open the door, and Duan Laoxiu nodded: "Yes, the old man, this academy is not ready to open again." ”

Li Shi frowned: "Where is the teacher going?" ”

finally climbed up to such an old guy who seemed to have a very good background, just for the explanation of the old Xiucai, in the second half of the month, he took a serious look at the "Yuan History-Food and Goods Chronicle" that Fan Xiucai had re-copied, and wanted to take something out of this old man, but this old man wanted to leave?

At that moment, the word "kidnapping" was wandering in Li Xian's mind.

Lao Xiucai smiled: "The old man should also enjoy the blessings, recently one of my disciples made a fortune and wanted to go to his house to share some joy......"

Then he frowned and pouted: "I just don't know if that guy's brain is open, and I don't know if he is willing to take in such a lonely old man as the old man." ”

Li Xian froze, blinked his eyes for a while, and then looked at the smile on Lao Xiucai's face, and finally confirmed that this old man was talking about him!

"This ...... Of course, this is welcome, but disciples can't ask for it! ”

Although there are still such and such scruples, but the old man has a gesture of throwing himself into his arms, how can Li Xi let go of such a figure who understands the affairs of officialdom? Even if you only use it as a master, you will make a lot of money.

"But...... If you haven't opened your mind yet, the old man is also preparing for traveling all over the world. ”

Lao Xiucai picked it up instead.

Entering the house, Li Xi was stunned, the room was already empty, only a simple straw mat was paved on the floor, two simple desks were placed on the left and right, and there were several layers of woven straw mats underneath, like a tatami mat......

muttering uncertainly, followed Lao Xiucai to take off his shoes and enter the house, obediently shrank to the right, and sat down on his knees like Lao Xiucai, and suddenly felt uncomfortable.

While Lao Xiucai was tidying up his clothes, Li Xian looked left and right, this was not the living room where he first saw Lao Xiucai, but some forbidden place hidden in the deepest part of the academy. There are wooden windows on the left and right sides of the house, and you can see from the cracks in the windows that stand up, one side is a green mountain, and one side is a green water.

"Have you read the book?"

While pondering the old showman's intentions, the old man suddenly asked.

"I've seen it...... Nineteen articles of the Yuan History Food and Goods Chronicles, I dare not say that I will not forget every word, but the general content is still understood. ”

Li Xi still has this confidence, although looking at that thing is as dry and tasteless as chewing wood, but some of the details still attract his attention, and even he can barely have an impression of the whole story.

"So how do you feel after reading it?"

The old man asked casually, at this moment, the door was gently pushed open, and the sound of small footsteps sounded, Li Shi turned his head to look, but saw a soft white figure enter the room, and he stepped forward lightly with a small case, and on the case was a tea set. This should be the maid of the old Xiucai, but this maid is dressed in plain white, and only embroidered a circle of light blue tinch patterns on the sleeves and skirts, this elegance really doesn't look like a maid. Because she lowered her head, Li Xian couldn't see her face clearly, so she saw a loosely tied upright bun on the top of her head, and a forehead band of the same color as her dress was wrapped around her head, restraining the jet-black hair, which seemed to be restrained, but it was casual, which made Li Xian quite surprised. 【1】

Forget it, this old man is an eccentric......

Li Xi is not a nymphomaniac, so he will not be distracted by a maid, his thoughts are pulled back, the old man's problem, he has long known it in his heart.

"Just look at this book...... Da Yuan, that's not inferior to this dynasty...... Heyday. ”

Li Xianyu said sarcastically that "its law can be described as the best", "if its intentions are thorough, it is also benevolent", and "its law can also be said to be lenient", no matter how you look at it, there is no way to connect it with the short-lived puppet dynasty that only lived for 97 years.

Duan Laoxiucai frowned, but asked lightly, "So, which of them do you think are the most interesting?" ”

This question is really interesting, and it is asking Li Shi's itch.

Well, coughing, just as he was about to speak, the white shadow swayed, and the maid had already stepped forward on her knees, holding a small wooden plate in both hands, and held a cup of tea in front of him.

The faint fragrance refreshes people's hearts, which makes Li Xian's spirits lifted, and he can't tell whether this aroma is a maid or tea. He took the tea with both hands, bent down and said thank you politely, and then opened his mouth to talk, not paying attention to the maid who was stunned for a moment, and raised her head slightly, like the eyes of the deep pool of autumn cast a curious look.

"Branch, shipping and banknote law, the Song before the Yuan Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty after the Yuan Dynasty, and even the Manchurian ...... I have never seen it in this dynasty. ”

The so-called branch is a subordinate of the surname of the agent, including silk and silver. The silk material is to let the households directly hand over the silk, what is it for? Silk thread is the raw material of silk, and the Yuan court even stipulated which households should pay what color of silk materials, and the government collected it into the treasury, and then interwoven to make silk in workshops, part of the court nobles used for their own use, and part of it was used for trade, which was a major foundation for its commercial prosperity.

The silver package is related to the banknote law, and the Yuan Dynasty did not use silver money, only banknotes. The silver is the banknote, and the silver that the people can make offerings directly is used here.

Speaking of banknote law, Li Shi had to admire the imagination and courage of the Mongolian Tatars, who actually fully implemented the paper money system in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, and even issued copper coins as paper money tokens for a time! However, the foundation of the banknote system has been shaken, and it was still vaguely like a silver standard, with as many banknotes as many as they wanted, and banknotes could be exchanged for gold and silver. Later, I finally couldn't bear it anymore, a piece of paper can plunder the wealth, what a beautiful thing, full power, print! It was no longer exchanged for gold and silver, and soon became a credit system, and of course there was no credit.

Many historians attribute the fall of the Yuan Dynasty to this advanced financial system, but in Li Shi's view, this method was gentle enough for the Mongol Tatars. According to their original national policy, the land of the Han people, people killed everything, looted everything, and destroyed all the fields, and it was right to turn the world into their big pasture with the three-light policy. If this is the case, let alone 97 years, it will be difficult to support it even in 97 months.

As for the shipping chapter, if you look at it carefully, it has something to do with the situation at the end of the Yuan Dynasty that Li Xi has roughly seen. Although the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal was built in the Yuan Dynasty, for a long period of time, shipping accounted for the majority of the total amount of grain transferred from the south of the Yangtze River in the north. The prosperity of maritime transportation also led to the prosperity of piracy, which in turn affected the overall rule of the Yuan court. It is precisely because of the convenience of shipping that the Yuan court relied on shipping to treat Jiangnan as a fat sheep to suck blood, and after the Red Turban Army uprising, not only failed to rely on the resources of Shangjiangnan, but lost Jiangnan again.

Fang Guozhen is a big pirate, intercepted the home of the sea grain route, and after being recruited by the Yuan court, he also got the position of "shipping grain by sea to 10,000 households and defending 1,000 households by seaway". After Zhang Shicheng descended to the Yuan Court, the 100,000 stone of grain offered to the Yuan Court every year was delivered by Fang Guozhen. After Fang Guozhen and Zhang Shicheng rebelled again, the Yuan court relied on the shipping of Chen Youding in Fujian Province and barely supported it for a period of time. As soon as the shipping was cut off, there was no more power to maneuver, and the national fortune came to an end.

Speaking of these three articles, the cause of the rise and fall of the Yuan Dynasty is basically depicted, and Li Xi wrote the history books, mixed with some superficial understanding of his previous life, and even talked about it with comparisons, for a quarter of an hour or two.

All in all, it can be seen from these three articles that the Tartars are about to fight the world and rule the world right away, and these words are not out of thin air. They don't see themselves as real masters, but just a gang of bandits. The master relieved himself, and when he wanted to settle accounts with him, he just flew away with a flying horse, Emperor Yuan Shun didn't have this mind, could he run so fast? ”

Speaking of this, Li Shi slapped him hatefully.

"But this Yuan History, he still takes great pains to praise these Tartars as orthodoxy, I really don't know what intentions!"

His mouth was full of Tartars, talking about Mongolia, but his mind was full of Tartars, and the resentment in his words could literally lift the ceiling. And this resentment comes from the depression he has accumulated during this time.

Although he has done a lot of things during this time, he has defeated Zhong Shangwei and Yang Chun, and by the way, he has also made his own pockets full, and his subordinates have begun to have caring people, and small forces have begun to sprout. But the people of the village are cowardly, accustomed to obeying the people, and the Qing court is cautious and secretive, and it is difficult to earn the general situation. The possibility of a successful rebellion always feels more and more slim, and what is the road ahead, he is just a fog, and the yin fire in his heart is burning.

[1: Don't think it's a film and television drama, women in the Ming Dynasty also wore headbands very quickly, although the color of clothing in the Qing Dynasty has changed, but women still wear more clothes in the Ming Dynasty. 】