Chapter Seventy-Five: Future Directions

He Fu summoned him, but for Zhang Youzhi, it was a great opportunity.

Zhang You got up early in the morning and sorted out his clothes. Carrying a few silver tickets of a thousand taels, I was extremely worried. It's just that after he arrived at Hefu, he was arranged at the gatehouse, but he saw that there were already dozens of people waiting here.

It's all officials.

Zhang Youzhi has a white body, and Zhang Youzhi is in the middle, excited and inferior.

I am excited that he can now be in the same room with so many officials. This already represents an elevation of his status. What is inferior is that everyone else is an official, and he is a white body, so he does not dare to sit or stand. I don't know where to go because I have a small identity.

But even so, listening to these officials talk about some things he didn't know, such as the progress of the construction of the city of Beijing, the problems that have been encountered, and the geology there is not good. And how many steam engines have been built, and how many clouds have to be allocated.

Although these things have nothing to do with Zhang Youzhi, just listening to them made him tremble with excitement.

It's just that Zhang Youzhi waited until the afternoon, after having dinner at He Fushang, to be heard.

He Xi also had just eaten dinner, holding a cup of strong tea in his hand, blowing lightly, and said, "I remember that I asked you to come at night." Why are you here so early? ”

Zhang Youzhi said: "Adults call each other, how can the grass people not be grateful, and dare not have the slightest slack." ”

He Xi looked at Zhang Youzhi, but saw him Zhang Youzhi, although he was sitting, it was more uncomfortable than standing, and his butt was slightly touched on the bench and he didn't dare to move. He Xi has also seen it, that is, some officials see Zhu Yuanzhang.

The color of flattery is overflowing.

He Xi was a little nostalgic for the Zhang Youzhi half a year ago.

At that time, Zhang Youzhi was down-and-out in a foreign land, penniless, and a helper. It seems to have broken the jar and broken. On the contrary, it has a bit of a single momentum. But now that he has unprecedented money and status, he is worried, and his original temper is gone. But there is a groveling posture today.

He Xi sighed slightly and said, "What are your plans for the future?" ”

Zhang Youzhi was stunned, he originally thought that He Xi summoned him for business. After all, the net profit of Puzhou Society is more than 10,000 taels. Here in Zhang Youzhi, 10,000 taels is simply an astronomical amount. But the problem is that the money in He Xi's hands is in the millions of dollars. What's the point?

He Xi didn't care at all.

Zhang Youzhi thought that He Xi would ask a lot of questions, but he never thought that as soon as He Xi came up, he would ask about his future plans? What is this? Talk about life and ideals.

Zhang Youzhi turned around a few times in his heart and said, "My lord, what do you want me to do?" I'm going to do whatever I want. ”

He Xi looked at Zhang Youzhi and seemed to see through Zhang Youzhi's face that there was a shadow of a person behind Zhang Youzhi, that is, Ge Tiangong, and other craftsmen. He Xi didn't dare to say that he had seen Zhang Youzhi through, but he generally understood.

is a person who wants to be an official but can't get it.

He Xi understands this kind of plot very well, this kind of plot has always existed in China, and even has been passed down to later generations. This sentiment will still exist in later generations. It's just that such a situation is simply deep-rooted and unshakable in Daming.

What is it to make money? Desperately drilling into the power field is everyone's expectation and idea.

He Xi actually doesn't like the combination of power and capital, there are too many problems in it. He Xi hopes that the merchant class can develop an independent force, not that He Xi likes the capitalists, but from the perspective of developing productive forces and ensuring people's livelihood, capital has a certain degree of independence, which is very necessary.

It seems that the merchant class of the Ming Dynasty is not good at all.

The reason is very simple, after such a long period of self-domestication, businessmen have already understood one thing, or rather, they have long been accustomed to one thing, and you have not done fart business in the background. When you have money, you will take the initiative to flatter power. More non-commercial benefits are gained through the exchange of power.

Sometimes, it's really not a word of speculation.

He Xi recognized Zhang Youzhi's true nature, and there was no need to talk to him more. Doing things for the Shenguo Mansion, in He Xi's opinion, is to be a dog. But in this person's opinion, I am afraid it is a good business that cannot be sought.

Horses of courses.

He Xi said indifferently: "Yesterday, Shen Guogong came to me. I like you and think you're doing a good job. Tomorrow, you can go to the Shenguo Mansion. ”

The expression on Zhang Youzhi's face was indescribable for a while, and he didn't know whether he was happy or worried. Don't even understand what's going on behind the scenes. But He Xi didn't give Zhang Youzhi more time, and directly served tea to the guests.

Before Zhang Youzhi left the mansion, Yang Zhen came forward and asked Zhang Youzhi to come over and get a famous thorn. From then on, Zhang Youzhi didn't need this thing, because he was a person from the Shenguo Mansion, maybe not as good as He Fu, but he was also a figure among the top elites of the Ming Dynasty.

He Xi looked at the famous thorn in his hand and threw it into the wastebasket. asked: "Yang Zhen, do you think that all the nobles are going to do business, is it good or bad?" ”

Yang Zhen said: "It's not good, it's not bad, without them, it is impossible to have a business of this scale." But it's hard to explain what they do. ”

He Xi said: "It's hard to say. ”

He Xi has already seen what he has done, if the situation does not change, He Xi's efforts in the future will be the Republic of China, the situation of the four major families, the combination of crony and capital, to form a huge bureaucratic system. The only thing that makes He Xi feel a little stronger than the Republic of China is that in this era, the Ming Dynasty is the most powerful country, and these big families will not have the opportunity to become compradors.

It's just that He Xi is not satisfied in his heart.

The period of the Republic of China, whether it is the period of the Beiyang warlords or the period of the government of the Republic of China, is actually an era of constant change, conservative and innovative, conservative and advanced, in contradictions. The extremely conservative such as the empty grid, the empty grid rule is essentially a variant of Zeng Guofan and Li Hongzhang's set. This is also why Kong Yige admires Zeng Guofan and Wang Yangming. In fact, our party is quite fashionable to be in line with the world, and there is not much difference between ideology and the mainstream ideology of the world.

Even within the Kuomintang, there were many progressive reform forces, and many systems were laid during the Republic of China. And New China inherited and developed.

To be honest, even the government of the Republic of China is actually much better than the Ming court. No matter how dark the government of the Republic of China is, there is at least a very bad commercial system that can accommodate the development of industry and commerce. Now the Ming Dynasty is not attached to the powerful, and there is no possibility of private development at all.

What does the future look like?

He Xi was a little confused in his heart.

Even He Xi doesn't know if what he is doing is right or wrong? From the current point of view, the key to the success or failure of the new law is to push the nobles to get involved in business, and thus to get the support of a very powerful political force. But the question is what to do in the future?

After the combination of the huge magnates and the advanced productive forces, there will be more power, and He Xi can even predict that if one is not done well, the Ming Dynasty will regain the gate valve power of the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties.

These huge forces will also suppress the development of productive forces.

In this way, advanced productive forces can burst out from other places.

At this time, He Xi had some understanding of why the first industrial revolution happened in Britain, but at the time of the electrical revolution, Britain was not dominant. On the contrary, Germany has come from behind, and in many cases, it is not a matter of technology and science, but of politics.

If this is the case, the industrial revolution happened in China first, but because of the crony capital like China, it was transferred to other countries, and even a few hundred years later, the later countries surpassed China. It's as if at some point in the future, China will defeat the United States.

From a larger historical perspective, this is true or wrong.

Even this question can be extended to the fact that for China, a huge country, is it important to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the first to be the last to be the first to develop?

That is, the Industrial Revolution happened in ancient China, is it a good thing? Or is it a bad thing?

You must know that Britain still retains a large number of feudal remnants, and the weakening of Britain's international power is not only a relatively small problem in Britain itself.

Many obvious questions, after careful consideration, do not know whether they are right or wrong?

The biggest problem with the study of history is that it is not a science, but it is inevitable and accidental, even if it is repeated again.