There was a commotion in the conference hall, and the old man in his sixties finally used it, and the crutches hit the ground a few times before everyone quieted down a little.

"What are you arguing about, before it happened, you guys will mess up one by one." The old man turned his head to look at the head of the family, "Master of the family, then Wang Xuan can say what exactly I want the Wei family to do?" ”

"I didn't say it, I just sent a message saying that I wanted my head to come over." The head of the Wei family sighed, he really didn't want to go, his eyes swept around the crowd, and he considered whether to give up the position of the head of the family now......

The chamber began to be noisy again.

"Knock knock!" The old man knocked on the ground with his cane again, with a gloomy face, he was very dissatisfied with the people in the family, "Is there only one else who wants me to go to the Wei family?" ”

"I didn't ask, well, Uncle Clan reminded me that I would arrange for someone to go to a few other houses to ask."

More than 20 people were sent out in one go, and all the families in Zhangzhou Mansion and the Wei family sent people to ask, and everyone was waiting here with a heavy heart, feeling that time was passing so slowly, and the hall was silent, and no one had the heart to talk.

After most of the hour, people began to come back one after another, and the news brought back was different, some said that they had received a notice, some said that they had not received it, and finally after all the people came back, the head of the Wei family found that only the four largest families in the city had received the news.

As for the smaller ones, they don't know the news at all.

In this way, most of everyone's mental calculations were put back in their stomachs, as long as it was not for one family, since so many people were invited, there should be no danger.

……

Wang Xuan agreed on the time for these families to be ten days later, after all, the distance was far and near, and he didn't have the heart to receive them one by one, so he must have set a unified time point.

Seven days after arriving on the ground, some people arrived in Fuzhou Mansion one after another, some settled in the new city, and some settled in the inner city, but without exception, they all visited Wang Xuan, but the vast majority of them were sent back.

After all, there were too many invitations, more than forty families, if Wang Xuan received them all, then he didn't have to do anything else in the past few days.

On the tenth day, Wang Xuan received everyone at the 'Lin Feng Academy', after all, there were too many people, and there was really no suitable place for other occasions.

The four-wheeled carriages arrived, and it was thanks to the large place of the academy that so many carriages could be stopped, and this Lin Feng Academy has been open for more than a year, and it can be said that everyone in Fujian knows about it, after all, the academy is open to all readers, and the collection of books in it is extremely rich, and you can borrow them at will, but you can't take them away.

There are at least 100 people who come here every day, and it can be said to be the largest gathering place for readers in Fujian.

Of course, this place is also controlled by Wang Xuan, and some of the ideas that Wang Xuan needs began to slowly form here, and affect every scholar who came here.

The heads of various families came one after another, some knew each other, some didn't know each other, although everyone was the top person in the house, but not all of them had met each other.

After all, this is ancient times, the transportation is inconvenient, even in the province, it takes more than ten days to go out, and the traffic is too inconvenient.

Today is also a good thing for everyone, it turns out that it can only be said that the heads of the major families who have been friends for a long time have gathered today, and they are very warm to greet each other.

After everyone arrived for more than half an hour, someone suddenly shouted in a long voice at the door of the hall on the third floor: "Mr. Wuzhou has arrived!" ”

In an instant, the entire three floors were silent, and then there were bursts of small muttering sounds, after all, most of the family heads really hadn't seen this famous Mr. Wuzhou Wang Xuan!

A melodious and solemn piano sounded, and Wang Xuan, who was dressed in a white Hanfu, walked into the hall on the third floor under the backdrop of BGM.

Suddenly, the entire hall fell silent in an instant.

Stepping in front of everyone, Wang Xuan stood still, his sharp gaze swept over everyone's faces, none of these people who were famous in the local area on weekdays dared to look at Wang Xuan.

"Some people know me, some people don't know me, let me introduce myself, my name is Wang Xuan."

"People who have been in contact with me know my temper, I like to go straight to the point of speaking and doing things, and I don't like to waste time in beating around the bush, today, in Fujian Province, the heads of the major families who received my invitation can all be present, I am very happy, here, thank you." Wang Xuan clasped his fists and saluted everyone.

As soon as Wang Xuan's words were finished, the people in the audience didn't even dare to shout, and they all said with smiles on their faces that it was their honor to receive Wang Xuan's invitation, and they naturally wanted to go happily, but no one knew what they thought in their hearts.

Damn, I don't want to come!

But I dare not come!

I'll just ask you, do I dare not come!

I don't dare!

Wang Xuan stretched out his hand and pressed it, and only after everyone quieted down did he continue: "Everyone is the leading figure in Fujian, but most of them have never met, and there is no communication between them, which is very bad in my opinion, my Fujian power is too scattered to condense into a rope, and many things are very inconvenient to do." ”

"Of course, this is a purpose, but the more important thing is that some time ago, large ships with a displacement of 2000 tons at the shipyard were launched."

After saying this, the audience remembered the exclamation, which obviously knew what the 2,000-ton displacement ship represented, but more people were confused, and they didn't understand what it had to do with them.

Wang Xuan smiled and raised his hand to soothe him, and then continued: "Most people here don't know what this is, so I'll explain a few words." ”

"A large sea ship with a displacement of 2,000 tons means that it can transport three million catties of grain at a time, and if it starts from Fuzhou, even if it is transported to Tianjinwei, it will only take half a month, and the loss on the road is almost negligible."

"What?!"

"It can't be!"

There were immediately exclamations in the venue, and many heads of families jumped up from the spot, and it was hard to believe this fact.

What does this mean?

According to the current transportation capacity of the Ming Dynasty, a few years ago, before there was no four-wheeled carriage, all the carriages were used to transport 500 catties of grain on the official road, and it would be good to have 200 catties left from Fujian to the capital.

This is still the official road, and it is guaranteed that no one will eat and take the card along the way, and the road will be safe without any accidents.

Even if you take the Grand Canal, starting from Yangzhou and Hangzhou, 500 catties of grain can be transported to the capital to 400 catties, at least 20% of the loss rate.

The main reasons were the small size and slow speed of the boats, and the limited navigability of the canal.

But now what Wang Xuan said, one ship can transport three million catties, what kind of concept is that, at least equivalent to the transportation capacity of 100 to 150 boats.

And not to mention the speed, the loss is almost negligible.

The consciousness of ignoring is at least the meaning of no more than half of the loss!

Everyone understands what this means, after all, these 40 or so are the heads of the family, and any family is more than 10,000 acres of fertile land.

Of course, these grains are consumed in the province, but they also have to be transported back and forth, and they know in their hearts that the consumption is huge.

Everyone also knows that Wang Xuan won't deceive people, but intellectually they can't believe it.

One by one, they looked away from Wang Xuan and focused on the heads of the families involved in the sea trade, hoping to get some answers from them.

"It's not impossible, before, my family's ship was a thousand-ton displacement, and I already knew that the shipyard was building bigger ships, but I don't know how big it is and when it will be launched."

Someone stood up and confirmed, which caused another burst of exclamations, 1,000 tons, doesn't that mean that 1.5 million catties of grain can be transported at a time?

Of course, in fact, it can't be transported so much, and Wang Xuan's three million catties are also exaggerated, after all, the density of rice is much worse than water, and the space is limited, and half of the performance is transported at one time.

But that's scary enough.

Of course, these people who do maritime trade understand what is going on, but they don't dare to dismantle Wang Xuan's platform, in fact, if they transport some metal products, they can still transport so much.

Everyone looked at those who did maritime trade with envy, and now they finally know why these people are working hard in the sea, such a large amount of transportation, and a lot of east-west-north-south trafficking can make a lot of money!

Wang Xuan stretched out his hand again to press it down, calming everyone down, and then continued: "Why did I have to inform so many family masters who are not doing maritime trade business when this big ship was launched? ”

"This is indeed because, this matter is really related to you, compared to everyone knows, in fact, there are many big islands overseas, let's say that we Fujian next to this small Liuqiu, in fact, the area is not much smaller than Fujian, although it is also more mountainous, but its arable land area is not much less than Fujian."

"But now on the island, there is almost no development of arable land, what does this mean, it means, where there are no less than five million acres of land that can be used to grow food!"

Speaking of this, Wang Xuan's voice suddenly raised, and he said with demagogic power: "Five million mu, that's five million mu!" ”

"The more important reason is that because of the climate, where can the land be harvested three times a year!"

"No one occupies the land full of barren grass, as long as you get people to go up, you can start to open up the wasteland, as long as you open up the wasteland, it is your own, as long as you have people, as long as you can eat, 10,000 acres, 100,000 acres of land, you can occupy it!"

"Guys, do you know what that means?"

"In the past, there were no big ships, people couldn't transport them on a large scale, and they couldn't transport back the grain to sell, so the land had no development value at all, and no one cared about it for thousands of years, but now it's different!"

"A large ship with a displacement of 2,000 tons can only sail through it in six or seven days, and it can transport four or five thousand people at a time, even if you grow more grain, it can be transported to the north for sale."

"How much is that worth, you know?"

As soon as Wang Xuan finished speaking, the entire hall on the third floor completely exploded, and more than forty family heads were red with excitement one by one, they knew too well what this meant!

Land, a large amount of land, as long as they can open up the wasteland, it is all theirs, the family has 10,000 acres of fertile land is a wealthy family, if the family has 100,000 acres of fertile land?

It's unimaginable!

How much food can be produced, how many slaves can be fed, and how much money can be earned every year!

I can't imagine that my family can become a real top rank!