After the passion, Junchen seriously discussed Lin Feng's assassination. Xiao Yan, the secretary of Dali Temple, added a new information to his report: a small shop in front of the Lin Mansion had been used as a temporary base by the Assassins, but no new evidence or clues were found at the scene.

Li Jing looked at Shi Xubai and made a request for advice.

Shi Xubai knew in his heart that it was clear who did this, and the key was to find evidence. Shi Xubai groaned slightly, and said: "Wei Chen thinks that the key point to solve the case is the masked man in black who escaped first, and Wei Chen thinks that it is enough to track down this person with all his might. "There is a sentence that Shi Xubai can't say clearly, as long as you keep an eye on the old thieves of the Song Party in the DPRK and China, as long as you find that there is a young man with strong martial arts next to someone, there must be no doubt that this person is this person!

Li Jing nodded slightly, and said to Xiao Yan: "The case will be handed over to Dali Temple for disposal, Xiao Qing, you must investigate to the end, no matter which minister is involved, I will not tolerate it!" ”

Xiao Yan hurriedly knelt down to receive the order.

Subsequently, a grand royal banquet was held at the palace.

Compared with the palace banquet a few years ago, Shi Xubai completely changed his appearance at the banquet, talking about the text, witty words, Zhang Chi has a degree, plus Lin Feng is on the side, relaying the interesting stories of Fanguo, the two of them amused Li Jing and a cadre of ministers in amazement, and laughed endlessly.

After the feast, Lin Feng, who was a little drunk, waved goodbye to Shi Xubai, Xiao Yan, Han Xizai and others after leaving the palace, and went straight to Situ Zhouzong's house accompanied by Wei San.

When he arrived at the Zhou Mansion, Lin Feng stepped forward to reveal his identity to the gatekeeper, and immediately someone entered the mansion to report, and invited Lin Feng to wait in the ear room.

After a while, Zhou Ming, the son of the Zhou family, rushed to the ear room and bowed down to explain to Lin Feng: "My father is infected with a small illness and can't welcome him in person, please don't blame Lord Lin!" ”

Lin Feng hadn't seen Zhou Zong in the court before, but he didn't know that he was sick, so he immediately asked, "How is Lord Situ's condition?" ”

"It's fine. Lord Laurin bother, Lord Lin, please! Zhou Ming led the way and invited Lin Feng to the study.

In the quiet study, Zhou Zong was lying quietly on a rattan chair under the window, covered with a thick brocade quilt, and was flipping through a book in his hand, when he saw Lin Feng coming in, he slowly put down the book and invited Lin Feng to sit next to him.

Lin Feng took a few steps forward, directly held Zhou Zong's somewhat cold hand, and asked eagerly, "How does Lord Situ feel?" ”

Zhou Zong struggled slightly, but his hand was grabbed tighter by Lin Feng, he no longer struggled, and said: "In the end, when you are old, you are occasionally caught in the cold, and you can't get up for a while!" There was an inexplicable sadness in his tone, and he glanced up at Zhou Ming.

Lin Feng followed Zhou Zong's gaze and saw Zhou Ming with a worried face, and immediately understood, this Situ Boss must have been touched by illness, and secretly worried that he would be in the next 100 years, what would happen to the Zhou family?

We must act, and we must not let Zhou Zong have the idea of sending Emperor Zhou E into the palace! Lin Feng made up his mind, and first told Shi Xubai about going down the mountain to vote today, and seemed to inadvertently mention his promotion to the chief doctor and Li Jing's expectations for himself, and then said: "Please forgive Lord Situ for Lin being arrogant, Lin wants to ask, what is the most fundamental reason why the boss thinks that the Zhou family can become rich in the world?" ”

Zhou Zong closed his eyes, thought for a moment, first opened his mouth and instructed his family to call Zhou Chu and Zhou Jing, opened his eyes and looked at Zhou Ming, and said, "Ming'er, you should also think about it." ”

After a while, Zhou Chu and Zhou Jing came one after another, and when they saw Lin Feng, they were all stunned, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Zhou Zong repeated Lin Feng's question, looked at Zhou Ming, and asked, "Ming'er, what is your answer?" ”

"The child thinks that it should be our Zhou family who happened to meet the peaceful environment of my Tang Dynasty, and the horse and sheep trade is unique in the country, which led to today's situation." Zhou Ming replied and said what he thought. Zhou Chu and Zhou Jing also nodded in approval.

"It's also right and it's not right. These are just superficial phenomena, not substance, so let's ask Dr. Lin to give you some guidance! Zhou Zong nodded lightly, then shook his head again.

Lin Feng was not polite, paused for a moment, and said slowly: "Lin believes that this is due to the current social development, the production of all walks of life is vigorous, the society needs circulation, the society needs commerce, and business can come into being and develop in response to the situation." In this kind of environment, Lord Situ saw the opportunity, coupled with Lord Situ's talent and hard work, he would naturally become rich in the world. ”

In fact, Lin Feng almost said something like "productivity determines production relations", but when the words came to his lips, he simply changed them.

Zhou Zong nodded with satisfaction, while Zhou Ming thought for a moment and asked, "Does Lord Lin mean that it can also be understood that because we are prosperous and powerful in the Tang Dynasty, we have such a large demand for horses and sheep?" ”

The child can be taught! Lin Feng nodded with satisfaction, opened his mouth and said, "Gongzi Zhou is so smart!" In Lin's view, the Zhou Mansion can be so rich precisely because it conforms to the road of social development. Dare to ask the three sons, what do you think is the road to the development of Datang in the future? ”

This question suddenly stumped the three Zhou Ming brothers. Zhou Zong also stared at Lin Feng.

Lin Feng didn't dare to put on a score, and said directly: "In Lin's view, whether it is the past dynasties or the future, a country is like a person, it has its own life cycle evolution, it should be commercial trade first, then industrial production, and finally it will inevitably settle on money and finance." Lin can conclude that I, Tang, will inevitably move forward along such a trajectory! ”

This is not Lin Feng's fabrication, but the famous British economist Charles in later generations? P. Kindleber's research. According to Kindleber, the sequence of a country's life cycle evolution is usually from trade to industry to finance, and each field has its own internal trajectory of development.

When the three brothers of the Zhou family were still ignorant, Zhou Zong sat up "Teng", and instead grabbed Lin Feng with his hand, looking at Lin Feng with blazing eyes.

Lin Feng looked at Zhou Zong with a smile and said eloquently: "In Lin's view, because of the early start and good timing, the Zhou family has successfully gained momentum in the commercial and trade stage of the country's life cycle. ”

"What does Lord Lin mean?" Zhou Zong's eyes were shining.

Lin Feng successively pointed to Zhou and Zhou Jing, and said: "Lin has two immature suggestions, first, in the industrial field, a son of the Zhou family is in charge, from now on, prepare to plan the cotton-based textile industry as soon as possible, in the Jianghuai Plain, the Jianghan Plain and the lower reaches of the Yangtze River Plain, or directly purchase land, or directly sign a cotton purchase agreement with local residents, control the raw materials of the textile industry, and lay out the upstream layout; Since then, it has vigorously acquired the textile and printing and dyeing industries, established large-scale textile factories and cotton cloth production factories in cotton producing areas, and laid out in the midstream; After the most, we will further participate in the supermarket, control the sales of cotton products, and lay out in the downstream! ”

"Lord Lin has such confidence in cotton?" Zhou Zong asked. He had already heard Lin Feng talk about the planting and production of cotton in the debate competition, but he was still not at ease in his heart after all.

"Of course, Lin Mou dares to use this fourth-grade official hat on his head as a guarantee!" Lin Feng said categorically.