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Chapter 714: Pioneering

Guojiazhuang, in fact, is just a manor near the suburbs of Beijing, the vicinity is all ridges, the periphery is scattered farmhouses, in the stars holding the moon, a big mansion like a city fortress is impressive. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info If this house is placed in Bianjing, it will naturally have nothing to show, but if it is placed here, it is dignified and gorgeous, and even the dark bricks and tiles have become brilliant.

A cordon had been set up at the door, and sixteen men in short clothes lined up. Shen Ao and Chen Ji got down from the carriage, and someone inside immediately came out to greet them.

The facilities here are all ready, and the door is facing the shadow wall, blocking the movement inside. The wall is one and a half feet high, completely separating the inside and outside of the wall. The buildings have also been repaired, weeds have been removed, and in addition to the dormitory for ten people, there are also the main hall, study, torture room, registration room, grain room and other institutions.

The setting here is like an independent county office, the county government has six rooms, and here it is four rooms, and the punishment room is dedicated to dealing with spies who have broken the rules. The study is to comb through the information, classify it, what information is important, what needs to be archived, and so on. As for the home room, on the one hand, it is archived, and on the other hand, it is recruited. The granary is to distribute monthly money, although the sparrow is small, the viscera is complete, and this text version is provided by the post bar. The main hall is where Chen Ji works, and there are three or four ear rooms next to it, recruiting more than a dozen sloppy scholars to be on call at any time.

Chen Ji and Shen Ao arrived at the main hall together, and Chen Ji took out a thick book, which included a list of personnel, place of origin, age, and subjects to practice. Chen Ji smiled faintly and said, "Your Highness, do you want to gather the spies and say a few words?" ”

Shen Ao shook his head and said, "That's not necessary. I flipped through the book and asked, "Are all the teaching doctors recruited?" ”

Chen Ji said: "There are a lot of recruits, but there is a scarcity of those who teach the Chinese languages of Nanyang, there are still a few on the Jurchen side, and there are also in Dayue Kingdom, Liuqiu, Dali and other countries, but there are very few others, and now I have gone to Quanzhou to send a letter to ask if the Quanzhou Haizheng Yamen can introduce some people to come." ”

Shen Ao nodded and said, "This must be done quickly, and after three months, this king wants them all to go out of this Guojiazhuang." ”

Chen Ji found a place to sit down, took a sip of the tea he had just delivered, and said slowly: "There is something I don't know whether to ask or not, why do water scouts practice marching and fighting?" ”

Shen Ao sat down and said, "This is also for the sake of insurance." He hesitated for a moment, as if he was considering whether to reveal his true thoughts, and then said: "I just received the news from Quanzhou, now the sea has been calmed, more and more merchants go to the sea, three years ago, Quanzhou's large sea ships are only more than 900, but now, it has exceeded 7,000, this is not counting those small and medium-sized ships with a small cargo draft, although the hinterland of the South Seas countries is deeper, but due to more and more goods, local purchases are also limited, maritime merchants in order to get rid of the goods as soon as possible, They have to lower prices with each other, and now, the profits are getting thinner and thinner. ”

Shen Ao said the reality of the current Quanzhou merchants, in the past, those silk, porcelain and various commodities that were more precious than gold and silver in the South Seas, because the trading volume is getting bigger and bigger, is no longer unusual, and Xibei goods have become the daily necessities of ordinary wealthy households, where can the profits be? Nowadays, Quanzhou and other ports have more than one million people engaged in the shipping industry, this does not count the porters on the horse's head, and the employees of various workshops, everyone knew that going to sea is a huge profit, but now everyone who has a little money in their hands are flocking to join it, and the result is that there are more monks and less porridge. There are even some merchants who go to sea and transport them to the destination to sell them at a discount.

Shen Ao saw the letter from the Haizheng Yamen at that time, and couldn't help but smile bitterly, of course he knew that this special situation had a term called crisis in later generations. Now he has opened a hole in Quanzhou, which is good on the surface, but once the current brewing crisis is not properly handled, the consequences will be absolutely fatal.

If this situation continues, the maritime merchants will inevitably go bankrupt, and most of the ships that they have spent a lot of money on in the past will rot on the docks, and once the maritime merchants go bankrupt, a large number of sailors and porters will have no livelihood, and the shipyards and workshops have recruited a large number of people because of the shortage of goods in the past, and once the goods cannot be sold, these docks and workshops will also be doomed.

The biggest problem is that there are more than 1 million hired workers in Quanzhou, these young and strong people have abandoned their land, gone to the city, and lost their livelihood all of a sudden, it is impossible to get them to work as tenants again, and no one hires them, and they have nothing to do in the city all day long, and there is no food, what is the final result?

A more serious problem than the displaced people, the unemployment rate has reached a certain level, that is, the beginning of riots and even rebellions, and once a large number of workers gather once there are signs of riots, it is difficult to contain the bomb pressure, Quanzhou and the population around Quanzhou has exceeded three million, such a huge population, the result is absolutely a disaster.

This is the reason why Shen Ao is eager to establish Jinyiwei, and the current situation seems to be peaceful, but once the crisis spreads, it will be a big deal, and even the entire dynasty may be buried.

The industrial empires of later generations have experienced similar crises, but Shen Ao didn't expect that the crisis of the Great Song Dynasty would come so quickly and with such a fierce momentum, which he didn't expect.

In fact, after thinking about it later, Shen Ao also understood that the reason why the crisis of the British in later generations lasted for decades was because Britain itself was a country with a small population, and a country with a population of one million dumped its goods into the hinterland of tens of millions or hundreds of millions of people, and the crisis naturally came slowly. But the Great Song Dynasty is different, there is the greatest wealth in the world, there is a huge population, once they are guided in this direction of future generations, what will be the result?

As a result, the consumption of Nanyang is too small, and it can no longer satisfy the appetite of the Great Song Dynasty. If we do not open up more and more favorable markets, the consequences will be fatal.

Either the Great Song Dynasty is completely buried in the crisis, or it is to use swords and strong ships and cannons to make a way out.

Shen Ao calmly took a sip of tea, his eyes were slightly open, and he said without hesitation: "Pioneering!" ”

"Pioneering?" Chen Ji was stunned for a moment, and with his knowledge, he still had some difficulty understanding a word that Shen Ao came out.

Shen Ao said lightly: "Dare to ask the teacher, what if one day, a fleet goes farther and discovers a new island or even a continent?" ”

Chen Ji has also studied the South Seas, people stay in a cave and have nothing to do, the greatest pleasure is naturally reading, and the books in Quanzhou are more rare, there are a lot of knowledge of the ocean, in fact, the world is big, it is common to be found on many unknown islands in the South Seas, all of them are written down, but most of these islands are desert islands, and occasionally there are some people, but they are all natives, and the population is not large. Chen Ji thought at that time, it was really the world's greatness, and when he heard Shen Ao ask, he replied without hesitation: "If it is a small country and a widow, it is fine, but if it has a large population, it is natural to do business with them." ”

Shen Ao shook his head and said with a wry smile: "Where is it so easy? These unknown islands and continents, seeing strange ships, may do business with you if you know some education, but most of them are going to attack. Most of the fleet has weapons and sailors, but it may not be useful to really resist, these spies are mixed in, and they can identify themselves at critical moments, dispatch them, and try to get out of the way. ”

Chen Ji couldn't help but say, "A spy will have such a big effect? ”

Shen Ao Zhengse said: "The fleet is overseas, often all sweep the snow in front of the door, once something happens, some want to escape, some want to fight, and the dispatch is not uniform, what should I do?" If a person stands up and takes out the king's token, at least it has a deterrent effect on everyone, even if someone wants to ignore the life and death of others at this time, they have to weigh it, in fact, as long as everyone is willing to have one heart, they may not be afraid of the local natives. ”

When Chen Ji heard this, he couldn't help but nod his head and said, "Today, I'm being taught as a teacher." ”

Shen Ao also smiled, in fact, there was one thing he hadn't said yet, the reason why these spies wanted to learn military knowledge was more important to understand the terrain and the configuration of the opponent's fortresses, troops, and weapons, and roughly estimate the opponent's strength.

Shen Ao can't say these words for the time being, although Chen Ji is an old fritter, but after all, he is still a scholar, and there is always a little bit of mystery in the way that a scholar does, although his mouth is full of great truths, it is easy to be born in the world, and it is a bit difficult to really let them do things. It's not that there are no people who can do things, Chen Ji is only half of it, let him get used to it slowly, and then talk about it, and then he knows that his proud protégé pulled him onto the thief ship, and if he wants to get off the ship when the time comes, it will be difficult.

Although Shen Ao is full of benevolence and morality, but his belly is full of male thieves and female prostitutes, and things like benevolence are nonsense, his only means is to hold a sword in one hand and a copper coin in the other, and be honest and obedient to do dumping, this copper coin will be sent out, but if he is disobedient, Shen Ao doesn't mind one more soul under the sword, and this text version is provided by Tieba.

In fact, Shen Ao didn't want to kill people, let alone create this so-called humanitarian disaster in later generations, but now the arrow is on the line, either you die or I die, if you don't squeeze you, or the Great Song Dynasty will fall, and if you can't open up, countless people will lose their livelihoods and have no food and clothing, and Shen Ao can only have one choice.

Everything has been arranged, and now what we have to wait for is an opportunity, Shen Ao took a sip of tea lightly, his lips squirmed slightly, smiled at Chen Ji, and said: "Good tea, such good tea, it's a pity that there are still many people on the ocean who can't taste it, such tea should break through the sea, reach the other side of the world, and sell it all the way to the edge of the sky." ”

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