Two hundred and thirty miles south of Yongdu City, at the junction with Jiangzhou, there is a group of mountains called Songshan, Songshan has more than 100 miles from north to south, more than 200 miles from east to west, the mountains are undulating, there are tens of thousands of mountain people in it, but the Great Wei has very weak rule in the mountains, because no valuable minerals have been found in this mountain forest, and the cost of ruling is extremely high, and the Great Wei has almost given up here, so that the mountain bandits gather, and there are often fugitives from all over the country hiding in it.

At this time, in Songshan, more than 100 men and women were opening the mountain and tuntian, and more than half of them were half-grown children, and the leader was Zhou Fu'an.

"Grandpa Zhou, three more families came to take refuge today"

Cheng Qingsong said to Zhou Fu'an, they came to Songshan half a month ago, and the first thing they did when they came here was that Zhou Fu'an exterminated all the bandits for dozens of miles around the village.

Those bandits who were many evils were slaughtered by Zhou Fu'an, and some of those who had to fall into the grass because of poverty and other reasons were incorporated by Zhou Fu'an as his subordinates, and as the news spread, mountain people in the mountains began to come to take refuge, and their number expanded to more than 150 people.

"Ask and check first, if it's not a great evildoer, take it"

"Yes, Grandpa Zhou"

"The construction of villages has been accelerated, and there are still houses to be built in shacks."

"Yes, Grandpa Zhou, we are building the village according to the construction method given by Gongzi, and we will have a home by then."

"That's right, I have a home, I have to practice martial arts well in the future and protect my home"

Zhou Fu'an nodded, the dozens of children he had adopted before now admired Jiang Cheng incomparably, and even became a little fanatical, and Jiang Cheng had given them a nine-day course, almost once a month, three days at a time, and in nine days, he completely recovered these children.

"Yes, I not only have to practice martial arts to protect my home, but we also have to smash the Great Wei and build a court where everyone has clothes to wear, everyone has food to eat, and no one is starved and bullied, Salted Fish said, this kind of court must be called the Kingdom of Heaven"

Cheng Qingsong replied excitedly, several of their older children, after a few months of recuperation, have become much stronger, and have begun to practice martial arts, they all have a dream, that is, to completely destroy this unfair Great Wei and build an ideal kingdom of heaven.

"Well, you have to work hard, remember to teach those people at night, and teach those who adults want to learn."

Zhou Fu'an said that he also yearns for this kind of heavenly kingdom, but he is not these children, he is still desperate in his heart, he doesn't think that these people can do it, unless Jiang Cheng has more powerful means to spread the previous thoughts before Dawei reacts.

Zhou Fu'an didn't have time to chat with Cheng Qingsong, he was very busy now, he had to open the mountains and fields with the villagers, fight the mountain bandits and the fierce beasts in the mountains, and take care of the weak, so busy every day that his feet did not touch the ground.

So Zhou Fu'an really wanted Jiang Cheng to come over and preside over the overall situation, he couldn't hold it anymore, he was actually not good at these, he was just a family back then, he stretched out his hands for clothes and opened his mouth for food, and he didn't do these things after the fall of Daxuan.

"Grandpa Zhou, there is not much food, the salt is running out, and the clothes are not enough, what should I do?"

"I still have some money here, can you use the money to go out of the mountain to buy things?"

"Yes, I can do it, I'm already an adult"

"Okay, let's go down tomorrow"

Zhou Fu'an nodded, the mountain people who took refuge were still unreliable, and he couldn't leave, so he could only rely on a few older children, among which Cheng Qingsong was the most capable, and now he was very enthusiastic about what he did.

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Yongdu City, the countdown to Chunfu has begun, but Jiang Cheng's mind is not here, the matter of Chunfu has nothing to do with him, he is preparing the third store, and the third store is still catering, this time preparing a fried chicken restaurant.

Cakes, hot pot, fried chicken, these are all national foods in Jiang Cheng's understanding, which are popular foods that most people can accept, rather than niche foods with strong regional characteristics.

This kind of food has been tested by the market, and Jiang Cheng only needs to make a little improvement to make the food meet the taste of the people of Yongdu.

"How does it taste, Sister Green"

Jiang Cheng watched Green Yi quickly finish eating a fried chicken leg and asked with a smile.

"It's delicious, but it's too oily, and if you can't eat a few, you'll get tired, but the water is delicious."

Midori replied that she was referring to several drinks made by Jiang Cheng, including honey yuzu tea, orange juice, and a few green plum green teas.

These are all simple, Jiang Cheng originally wanted to make Coke, Coke with fried chicken, it can relieve greasy, but Jiang Cheng can't make carbon dioxide, without this thing, Coke will be difficult to drink, so he simply does something else.

"Sister Green usually has no shortage of meat, she has a lot of oil and water in her stomach, and she will get tired of eating a few, but these things are definitely the most delicious people for those who usually have less oil and water"

"What Master Jiang said is also right, but can those poor people afford these things?"

Green Yi replied, she can understand these delicacies made by Jiang Cheng, and all the things she uses are rare things, such as flour for fried chicken, but she needs to use fine noodles and various spices, which are all expensive things, including the previous hot pot, without those big ingredients to suppress the taste, she can't eat it at all, it's too fishy.

"These things are not for the poor, but for those with some family backgrounds, and naturally some people will buy them."

"Why don't you give it a try?"

"Naturally, the shop has been rented, but I hope that the sister in green will help me say a few kind words in front of the eldest princess."

"What, do you want to invite the eldest princess to cheer up?"

"No, it's to let the eldest princess know how much our business can help the poor."

"Poor, they can't afford it, how to help them"

"Sister Green doesn't know, the businessman uses it well, and the country has great benefits, take this little fried chicken as an example, once the finished product appears here, it needs a lot of materials, such as a chicken, oilseeds, flour, pepper, onions, ginger and garlic, etc., and I don't have a field myself, so I naturally need to buy it from small traders, and small traders need to go to the countryside outside the city to harvest, so that those farmers can be stimulated to raise chickens and grow spices.

My sister doesn't know, just the promotion of braised pork and hot pot before, it has doubled the price of various spices in Yongdu City, which is profitable, merchants will increase the price of purchase, farmers will increase production, some spices do not occupy farmland, with some mountains, barren land can be planted, so that you can increase the income of farmers, farmers have money, can pay taxes, can buy some clothes and shoes for their families, and can even provide children with education, and will promote the development of other industries, so as to get a virtuous circle, Eventually enrich the entire Great Wei"

"This..."

Green Yi couldn't turn around all of a sudden, he didn't think about Jiang Cheng's set of theories, because Shang Jia was also at the bottom of the chain of contempt in Great Wei.

"If the sister in green doesn't understand, you can give my article to the eldest princess to read"

Jiang Cheng replied, and then took out a stack of papers, which contained Jiang Cheng's article, which was actually a thesis, and there were tens of thousands of words on the pros and cons of business to society.

The reason why Jiang Cheng did this was very simple, that is, to set up a moat for himself, strengthen the relationship with the eldest princess, and prevent Xin Liangbo and others from playing tricks on him.

Because Jiang Cheng learned that there were many people from the Xungui Group who entered the Xianmen, not only their heirs, but also the people they recommended, and the Xungui Group had a certain amount of force, Jiang Cheng didn't want to take risks, after all, he only had one life.

"Okay, I'll do this for you, then this fried chicken ·····"

"Naturally, there is a three-percent stake in my sister"

"Can you have more?"

"Is my sister short of money?"

"Who's too much silver, right?"

"Yes, but this time it can only be thirty percent, because there are still some others to hold, sister rest assured, there is still a way to make money in the future"

"Master Jiang, I really want to know how many good things you have in your head"

Green Yi replied, Jiang Cheng really surprised her a lot, how much money did she have in her head.

After a few laughs, Green Yi left with fried chicken, returned to Wenxian Pavilion, and went to see Li Hongsleeve.

"Green, what are you doing, why do you have a strange smell on your body"

"Princess, I'll get you something to eat."

"What's delicious?"

"Princess, try it, the new gadgets made by Lord Jiang are delicious."

Green Yi brought the fried chicken she brought back, and Li Hongsleeve took two bites, but she didn't like it very much, it was too greasy, and her own taste was relatively light, so it was estimated that Li Changqing would like it.

"Jiang Cheng made it"

"yes, he also said that it would be a thing that would benefit the country and the people."

"For the benefit of the country and the people, that's all?"

"I don't believe it either, Lord Jiang said a lot, and the green clothes didn't understand, and he said that he wrote the words on paper, does the princess want to read it?"

"Take a look"

Li Hongsleeve said, but she knew that Jiang Cheng's article not long ago set off a court fight between civil officials and nobles, and he still had some literary talent.

Li Hongsleeve took the article handed over by the green coat and looked down at it, the title was "On the Pros and Cons of Businessmen to the People", which was clear at a glance.

At the beginning of the article, I wrote about some of the negative effects of merchants, such as hoarding, manipulating industries, etc., especially grain prices, which have a great impact on grain prices.

However, it is also a brushstroke, and the stroke of the pen is the positive significance of businessmen to society, and the most important point is to promote the circulation of goods, as long as there are enough benefits, they will transport goods thousands of miles away, and even take great risks.

The focus is on the power of commerce on agriculture, such as cloth, mulberry fields and cotton fields can change the social landscape of a place, such as the rich south, in order to pursue profits, rice fields can be converted into mulberry fields or cotton fields, once this scale is expanded, it will affect the operation of the whole society.

It also involves some examples of economic warfare, such as if the enemy country has a special cash crop and can deliberately raise its price, they will continue to expand the planting area in pursuit of profit and wealth, and once it is cut off at some point, its society can collapse directly.

"No agriculture, no stability, no business, no wealth, well said, I didn't expect a little Tsing Yi Wei to be a talent for the country"

The last sentence of the summary made Li Hongsleeve applaud.