Gu Zi opened the door, and a hot current in the door made Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu feel comfortable for a while, and their little faces, which had been white, were also smoked red by the high temperature, and the two looked inside the door at this time, only to see a young man who looked young was sitting in front of a stove, and there were two wilted sweet potatoes roasted on the stove.

The two of them still know each other, especially after entering Lantian, this thing exists in the form of a street food, not far from the guest house, there is a cart selling roasted sweet potatoes, and the sweet potatoes taste glutinous and sweet, Gu Yanwu is particularly fond of it.

And this kind of food is rare in Jiangnan, I don't know if it is inconvenient to transport.

The two of them stood at the door, Li Chaosheng also turned around at this time, and saw two young people wearing Confucian shirts at this time, one looked a little older and wore a yellow and green Confucian shirt, while the other young man's Confucian shirt was black and blue, which looked very distinctive.

"Come in, it's cold outside."

Seeing the two standing at the door, Li Chaosheng did not get up to greet each other, nor did he make any gestures like Corporal Lixian, but sat on the chair and said very kindly: It's cold outside.

The reason is also very simple, identity!

What is Li Chaosheng's identity now, although he claims to be the leader of Lantian County, but what Lantian County looks like, the big guys should know in their hearts, this is still a county, this is obviously a province, and now the whole of Shaanxi, even including a large part of Hubei, Henan, and a small number of areas in Shanxi, all belong to the scope of Lantian, if strictly speaking, it should be Lantian.

Therefore, Li Chaosheng, Lantian County, is almost as big as two provinces, you must know that the entire Ming Dynasty is only two capitals and thirteen provinces, and now Li Chaosheng has occupied the second, so Li Chaosheng is not a county but a real northwest giant.

With the identities of Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu, they will not have any problem facing any seven-grade county order in any place, and this county order will also treat the two of them politely, but in Li Chaosheng's place, they will not be good.

Li Chaosheng, what is that, that is a big warlord who occupies two-fifteenth of the world, two poor scholars, even if they have a little reputation, it is not enough in his eyes, so Li Chaosheng's attitude has already made the two of them a little flattered.

Originally, both of them thought that Li Chaosheng would face them as a kind of superior, but they didn't expect Li Chaosheng to be so approachable and speak very kindly, just like their friends, not aggressive.

Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu stepped into the house, Gu Zi closed the door, and the cold wind outside had already blown into the house at this time, but don't freeze the county honor.

"I've seen Li Xianzun."

Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu entered the house and bowed to Li Chaosheng, Li Chaosheng waved his hand and said: "You don't have to be polite when you come from afar, you see that the two of you are wearing so thick, this northern weather is not suitable." ”

Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu smiled when they heard this: "Yes, the scenery of the northern country is indeed different from that of the southern country. ”

Li Chaosheng smiled when he heard this: "Hahaha, too, come and sit, get closer to the stove, it's warm." ”

"Guzi, move two stools."

"Yes, Xianzun." …

Gu Zi answered, followed by moving two chairs, Huang Gu and the two hurriedly thanked him, Li Chaosheng smiled and said: "Thank you, since you have come to my Lantian County, they are all guests." ”

Saying that, Li Chaosheng picked up a roasted sweet potato that had just been taken off the stove and was already slightly cooler, broke it open, and handed it to the two: "Try the sweet potato I roasted myself." ”

Hearing this, the two hurriedly thanked them, and then took Li Chaosheng's sweet potato, Gu Yanwu ate it more freely, Huang Zongxi was indeed very personable, and waited for a while before starting to taste it in small bites.

Li Chaosheng gave Gu Zi a look, and Gu Zi brought two cups of tea.

"My Lantian is located in the northwest and the prosperous place in the south of the Yangtze River is different, there is nothing to entertain, so let's try our Lantian specialty sweet potatoes first."

Hearing this, Gu Yanwu said bluntly: "Everyone says that Guanzhong pasta is the best, and wheat should be used as a specialty, why is it a sweet potato now?" ”

Li Chaosheng smiled when he heard this: "What is a specialty, the so-called specialty is that there are the most such things here, and there are no other places, or there are very few, so they are specialty." ”

"And now the Guanzhong people, if there are ten acres of land, five acres of land will be planted with sweet potatoes, three acres of land will be planted with corn, one acre will be planted with vegetables, and one acre is planted with wheat, so now the specialty of Lantian is this sweet potato, and the food of Lantian people, sweet potatoes also account for a large proportion, it can be said that the prosperity of Lantian is based on this small sweet potato, so I said that Lantian is a specialty of sweet potato."

Hearing this, Huang Zongxi looked at the sweet potato in his hand and said: "I also know that there are people selling this thing in the south of the Yangtze River, but the price is higher than corn, how can it be a staple food?" ”

Li Chaosheng said with a smile: "The land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, there is no shortage of food, although the taste of this sweet potato is peculiar, but it is too sweet and greasy, if the left food tastes bad, it will be tired if you eat too much, so it is not liked by Jiangnan people, as for the Jiangnan sweet potato you said is more expensive than corn, it is mainly because of the expensive freight, and the sweet potato is expensive in the freight." ”

"In fact, the yield of sweet potatoes is higher than that of corn."

Li Chaosheng picked up a sweet potato and ate it, and after hearing this, Gu Yanwu said: "The yield of sweet potatoes is higher than that of corn? How much higher can that be? ”

Li Chaosheng smiled: "It's not much, it's just a few times." ”

"How many times?"

Hearing this, Huang Zongxi and Gu Yanwu all screamed in surprise, and the two scholars couldn't care about decency at this time, this news was enough for them to exclaim.

It took a long time for the two of them to come back to their senses and say: "So, if Lantian grows sweet potatoes, with the volume of Lantian, it will be enough to supply the people of several provinces to eat their stomachs?" ”

Li Chaosheng heard this and said: "Theoretically, it should be like this, but this is not realistic, I just said, if you eat too many sweet potatoes, you will get tired, and you will be malnourished, so the amount of sweet potatoes planted in Lantian will reach half at most, and it will be unrealistic to do more, and the people will have to change their taste." ”

Hearing this, Gu Yanwu said: "Li Xianzun, say an offensive word, now there are hundreds of thousands of millions of people in the Ming Dynasty who can't eat enough, and some will even be starved to death, if the county respects the people of the county to plant sweet potatoes, then the grain produced in Lantian can be used for the people of several provinces to eat and drink, so that they don't have to worry about freezing and starving, this is a great merit, why not do it?" ” …

After Gu Yanwu said this, he looked at Li Chaosheng directly, Li Chaosheng didn't say anything after hearing the words, just a surging smile appeared on his face, and he looked at Huang Zongxi and said, "Do you think so too?" ”

Huang Zongxi shook his head lightly when he heard this: "I didn't think about it. ”

Li Chaosheng looked at Huang Zongxi when he heard this, but Huang Zongxi really didn't think about it? No, he thought very clearly, in fact, he didn't agree with Gu Yanwu's opinion, what is meant by encouraging the people of one province to plant sweet potatoes to solve the problem of famine in other provinces.

This is not only unrealistic, but also very naïve, why do you let Li Chaosheng harm the interests of his Lantian for the sake of the people of other provinces, and why does Li Chaosheng ask the people under his rule to give up the benefits they deserve?

This is unreasonable, okay, even if the saints per capita in Lantian are all compassionate characters, but even so, do you think that if there is more food in Lantian, the people in other places can afford to eat food?

The transportation and sale of grain all need to rely on merchants, and merchants are not profitable and cannot afford to be early, do you think that there is enough grain in Lantian and the price is cheap, and the grain merchants will sell the grain out of Lantian at a very low price?

No, these grain merchants are not even willing to burn all this grain with a fire, and they are not willing to sell it to the people of other places at a low price. Huang Zongxi was not born as Gu Yanwu Qinggui, he had a life experience that was very close to ordinary people, and even he personally witnessed that businessmen were doing business.

He deeply understands the shamelessness of businessmen, who are willing to trample on any laws, morals, and even the bottom line as a person for the sake of profit.

Therefore, Huang Zongxi is still a good economist, and he also mentioned an important point in his economic theory, which is also known as Huang Zongxi's economic law - the harm of accumulation is irreversible.

Therefore, Huang Zongxi disagrees with Gu Yanwu's so-called righteous act of sacrificing a province and drinking others, but as a friend and companion for many years, he can't refute him face to face at this time, otherwise what kind of person would he become? Stepping on the shoulders of your brother and showing off your shameless villain?

But if you want Huang Zongxi to agree with Gu Yanwu's point of view with a clear conscience, he can't do it, if he is so popular, won't he become the vassal he despises the most?

So he said that he didn't think it through, to put it bluntly, it was to save some face for Gu Yanwu, Gu Yanwu looked at Huang Zongxi like this, knowing that his brother didn't agree with his point of view, this is nothing, as friends, they are not the kind of people who hold each other's stinky feet, if they do something wrong with each other, the two are willing to point it out to each other, even if they quarrel about it, it will not affect the relationship between the two.

However, Huang Zongxi did not refute him at this time, but chose to shut up, and Gu Yanwu could also feel Huang Zongxi's brotherly affection for him.

However, Gu Yanwu didn't feel that he was wrong, this year, the Tartars entered the Kou, and the land of Shanxi also suffered from drought, Shanxi once soared food prices, in order to relieve the disaster, Gu Yanwu heard that Chongzhen squeezed out 50,000 taels of silver from the inside, and the queen also sold some of her gold and silver heads, and took out 20,000 taels, all of which were disaster relief, but even so it was a drop in the bucket, it is said that Emperor Chongzhen has not bought new clothes for many years, and even the imperial robe is sealed with patches. …

But Lantian has grain, and even there are high-yield sweet potatoes here, if Lantian people tighten their belts, plant sweet potatoes for a few years, and support Shanxi, Henan and other disaster areas, how many people will be saved?

Chongzhen can put down his glory and wealth, donate money and materials for the victims, and even don't eat meat or wear new clothes, but why can't Lantian people do this?

This is Gu Yanwu's thoughts, of course, this is not Gu Yanwu's pretentiousness, it's just that some scholars in this era are so compassionate and compassionate, and even a little naïve, and Gu Yanwu has never been stingy with his property, if there is a poor person, he is also willing to exchange his property for food to help this poor person.

Gu Yanwu looked at Li Chaosheng with blazing eyes, Li Chaosheng took the teacup from Gu Zi's hand and took a sip of tea and said: "I understand what you said, you mean to harm the interests of the people of Lantian and live thousands of people in the Ming Dynasty, you need me to be a saint, to be a living Bodhisattva who saves suffering, and purifies all sentient beings?" ”

Gu Yanwu heard the words and said: "The whole world says that Lantian County is a person who really serves the country and the people, is the rumor wrong, the county is not the person who is for the country and the people?" ”

Gu Yanwu's words made Li Chaosheng smile, moral kidnapping is indeed a commonly used method in this era, but it has no effect on Li Chaosheng.

Li Chaosheng said with a smile: "Mr. Gu is a little biased, some people say that Li is a person who is for the country and the people, and some people scold Li for being a man of the world, if Mr. Gu is willing to ask Zhou Yanru, Yang Sichang and other literati, they will probably describe Li as a heinous demon, but Li Chaosheng is Li Chaosheng, an ordinary person." ”

Gu Yanwu was stunned when he heard this, he didn't expect Li Chaosheng to break the situation like this, and followed Li Chaosheng and said: "Li was born in a small people, and the reason he knows is very simple, that is, his own family takes care of his own family affairs, I am Lantian County, naturally as long as I take care of the affairs of the people of Lantian, the affairs of the people of the Ming Dynasty should be managed by the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, instead of letting me sacrifice the interests of the people of Lantian to help the people of the Ming Dynasty, if I do this, I am the real bastard." ”

"It's like your mother is sick, you have a pair of medicine in your hand, take this medicine, your mother will be cured, but what, your neighbors around your family are sick, they also need this medicine in your mother's hand, and you now have a choice, the first to give this medicine to your neighbors, and then, your mother has no medicine, of course she will not die, she will only be disabled for life, and the other option is that you leave the medicine to your mother, and your mother will recover and recover, how do you choose?"

Li Chaosheng looked at Gu Yanwu, Gu Yanwu's face became ugly when he heard this, his brows were furrowed and very entangled, Huang Zongxi sighed and said on the side when he heard this: "I'll answer for Zhongqing, if it were me, I would choose to let my mother recover, and their family members are naturally responsible for the life and death of the neighbors, how can it be forcibly imposed on me?" ”

Li Chaosheng smiled when he heard this, but asked: "Then why did your family Zhongqing open his mouth to sacrifice the interests of the Lantian people to save the people of the Ming Dynasty?" ”

Huang Zongxi was speechless, Li Chaosheng turned his head to look at Gu Yanwu and said: "Gu Yanwu, you can be a saint if you want to, but you can't ask me to be a saint, let alone ask the people of Lantian to follow you as a saint, you Gu Yanwu open your mouth to be benevolent and moral, and shut up the people of the world, as if you can save the world, if you are really so great, you should use your own strength to save others, instead of thinking about sacrificing the interests of others every day to satisfy your own feelings of serving the country, I Lantian people are diligent and diligent, Conscientiousness is to live a good life, not to be a saint, and you want them to sacrifice themselves for others with one mouth, why? Is it just because you Gu Yanwu has a big face? ”