"Liu Yifeng! Do you know that this is a kindness from Lord Song! ”

Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, someone jumped out to accuse him, but fortunately Liu Yifeng was mentally prepared: "Of course the villain knows, and the villain also thanks Lord Song for his kindness, but the villain really wants to go to Dongshan Prefecture to see." ”

Song Yingxing stretched out his hand to interrupt Sun Xin's continued accusation, and asked in a calm tone: "Why?" ”

Liu Yifeng took a breath, knowing whether he could pass this level today, it depends on his next words:

"Back to the words of adults, villains want to get ahead, want to be glorious and rich, and want to be famous in history!"

"Oh, what a big ambition, you're a cook!"

"Sangui, let him speak first."

"Yes, sir."

Song Yingxing stopped Sun Xin's accusations, stopped Wu Sangui's ridicule, and no one in the whole room dared to speak anymore, except for Liu Yifeng:

"Adult, villain lost his parents when he was a child, and grew up eating hundreds of meals in Rongcheng. The villain learned cooking skills while washing vegetables in the back kitchen of the restaurant, and later found that the cook could only work for the shopkeeper for a lifetime. So the villain learned arithmetic from the bookkeeper again, and found that he still worked for the shopkeeper for the rest of his life. ”

"The villain has not read the books of the sages, so it is impossible to take the top prize. In the end, he started to trade with his savings, but he didn't expect to end up in such a field. But when the villain knew that he was going to Dongshan Prefecture, the villain decided to go to Dongshan Prefecture, which was the only place where the villain could fly! ”

Wu Sangui wanted to taunt him again, but was stopped by Yang Changbai with his eyes.

Song Yingxing didn't hate the ambition of this "bottom" person to climb up, and asked: "Then why don't you join the army?" The Western Army is recovering the Western Regions, the Southern Army is in the central and southern regions, and even the Northern Army is also swimming in the grasslands, and the three armies need people. ”

"Lord Song, my lords, and villains have actually thought about joining the army, but there are too many people in either direction in the north and southwest."

Zhang Yangbai, Sun Xin and Wu Sangui glanced at each other, and found that the other party didn't understand, and Song Yingxing also asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

"The more people there are, the greater the competition, and there will definitely be various rules that restrict the people at the bottom from climbing up, and these rules are basically set by the people at the top. On the one hand, you can maintain stability, and on the other hand, you can protect yourself. ”

This set of naked social hierarchy pyramid theory is more or less known to many people under the popularization of the Internet in later generations. But in this day and age, it can be regarded as a unique point of view.

It's just that the people here are all mixed in officialdom and have a clear understanding of the social hierarchy pyramid, and they are in it.

And the invisible ceiling that exists in each social level is the biggest obstacle that Song Yingxing, the steward and the 5 brocade guards, who do not have a good father, when they climb up, and they have a deep understanding of the hardships of breaking through this invisible ceiling.

At the same time, they themselves are also people of lower rank than themselves, consciously or unconsciously, using various rules, some of which are managing them, but some of them do play a role in suppressing them from climbing up.

Suddenly, the eyes of the 10 people looking at Liu Yifeng changed, and even the disdain that Wu Sangui had been hanging on the corner of his mouth disappeared.

"Ladies and gentlemen, there are Mongols and Jurchens in the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, and there are other nomadic peoples who continue to the north."

"There are more people in the Western Regions, and the khanates established by the remnants of the previous dynasty are one after another. The Han and Tang dynasties only destroyed the national unity of the Western Regions, but did not eliminate many ethnic groups in the Western Regions. ”

"And in the Indochina Peninsula, there are 3 tributary countries in our dynasty alone, and those lands across the South Seas, there are not only cannibalistic Kunlun slaves, but also miasma snakes and insects in the jungle."

"The pie in these three directions looks big, but there are also a lot of people. Only Dongshan Prefecture, with its vast land and sparsely populated population, is the best place to build a career from scratch. ”

The expressions on the faces of the people at the Maritime Safety Bureau were subtle.

"Dongshan Prefecture is vast and rich, and it is the best place for good men to establish their careers" was the propaganda of the imperial court when Dongshan Prefecture began to immigrate.

At that time, the imperial court was very prestigious, and almost everyone believed it.

Because at that time, the Beiting Protectorate was coming every year with good news, and the establishment of the Western Army pointed to the Western Regions. The Maritime Safety Administration, in cooperation with the Yugoslav Army and Navy, transformed the current Annam Metropolitan Protectorate from a small area on the east coast of the Indochina Peninsula into most of the Indochina Peninsula and a huge sea area.

Whether it was the cattle, sheep and horses of the Beiting Metropolitan Protectorate, or the rice and cheap Kunlun slaves of the Annam Metropolitan Protectorate, countless people who joined the expansion of the Ming Dynasty gained great benefits.

Therefore, after Dongshan Prefecture began to immigrate, as soon as the imperial court publicized it, the people enthusiastically participated. At that time, the maritime safety bureau was in full swing and had to select the right people to immigrate because of the limited capacity.

The result?

It has been almost 15 years since the establishment of Dongshan Prefecture, and this year is the 10th year of immigration, and the entire Dongshan Prefecture is still a huge hole in the imperial court's annual budget. A large number of immigrants scattered their wealth and returned to Daming, telling his family that Dongshan Prefecture was an extremely barren bitter cold mountain land.

As a result, the immigration six years ago did not even account for a quarter of the people estimated by the Maritime Safety Bureau. So 5 years ago, the coastal state capitals of the Ming Dynasty began to arrest thieves and criminals on a large scale and immigrate to Dongshan Prefecture as people's husbands.

Even now, there is a saying within the Maritime Safety Bureau that going to Dongshan Prefecture to become an official is exile. If you have a relationship with the imperial court, you will return to your hometown after a few years. It doesn't matter, there are even those who resign on the verge of leaving.

Liu Yifeng used this propaganda of the year when Dongshan Prefecture was open to immigrants to explain why he wanted to go to Dongshan Prefecture, which really slapped all the officials of the Maritime Safety Bureau in the face, but they couldn't have a seizure yet.

Because Liu Yifeng is from inland Bashu, the people along the coast know that Dongshan Prefecture is a bitter cold place, and the inland really doesn't necessarily know. When the Protectorate of Annam immigrated, many people from Lingnan Fujian became big landlords or large farmers, which made the inland people envious.

The manager of the Maritime Safety Bureau of the Ghost City looked at his nose and nose, and was not ready to wade into this troubled water.

After all, Yang Changbai and the three of them were young and couldn't hold their breath, their faces were a little delicate, and the youngest Wu Sangui's ears were red.

Song Yingxing coughed lightly and said, "Dongshan Prefecture is indeed full of ...... Opportunity, but this opportunity is dangerous and not safer than the Central Plains. ”

"Lord Song, is it dangerous to go to the army. If I just want to make a living and be a little chef in Rongcheng, I believe that with my skills, I can still make a living. ”

"Opportunity always comes with danger, that's why it's called a crisis."

Song Yingxing sighed, knowing that he couldn't convince this young man who he had a good impression of. Moreover, this young man is still a young man who has been deceived by the illusion created by their Maritime Bureau, and as a senior official of the Maritime Bureau, he feels a little sorry in his heart.

"You go down first."

After Liu Yifeng left, the atmosphere in the room was only slightly better, and Song Yingxing pulled his clothes, still feeling stuffy. He asked Wu Sangui to push open the window, and suddenly the outdoor air conditioning rushed in, but everyone inside felt comfortable.

I ate too much before, but in fact, everyone ate sweaty.

The Jinyi Guard Banner Officer sent by the emperor to escort Song Yingxing to Dongshan Prefecture noticed that Song Yingxing glanced at him and understood that this was a hint that he and the others would retreat first. After saluting, he left the room with 4 of his men.

The steward looked at them and wanted to leave. He was very worried that Song Yingxing would continue to talk about the topic caused by Liu Yifeng just now.

As a subordinate official, the boss must have answered the topic when he caused a topic, but as a grassroots official of the Maritime Safety Bureau, he has experienced the immigration affairs of Dongshan Prefecture for many years, and he also knows how embarrassing Dongshan Prefecture is within the Maritime Safety Bureau.

No one likes Dongshan State, but everyone must say good things about Dongshan State. Because more than half of the meaning of the existence of the Maritime Safety Bureau is because of Dongshan State.

This topic is not easy to talk about, especially since he is not Song Yingxing's confidant, he doesn't know what he is going to talk about, what he should say and what he should not say.

Fortunately, Song Yingxing is not the kind of traditional bureaucrat, in fact, most of the officials of the entire Maritime Safety Bureau are not the kind of traditional bureaucrats cultivated by the imperial court.

"Your Excellency."

"The lower official is here!"

"I'm in good health, I heard Changbai say that the captain and the captain of that treasure ship have been locked up by you?"

"Returning to Lord Song, yes, they dare to smuggle birds, the number of which is more than 100, I have imprisoned them in accordance with the Ming law, and sent a letter to the Edo Maritime Bureau, I believe that next month the colleagues of the Edo Maritime Bureau will take them back to the Central Plains to try them."

Song Yingxing doesn't care about smuggling, he smuggles birds and guns to Dongshan Prefecture every year, the difference is only exposed or not, and he doesn't believe that the person in front of him doesn't know anything.

He was only concerned with his own debriefing: "Well, I'm going to leave the day after tomorrow, do you have spare captains and navigators who are familiar with the routes?" ”

Hearing that this Bodhisattva was finally leaving his small temple, the steward suppressed the ecstasy in his heart and said, "Lord Song, in order to prevent similar situations from coming out, the Ghost City has always had a spare captain and a navigator, and I have already arranged it. ”

"Okay, I'll take them to the crew tomorrow."

"Yes!"