Li Dan took him to the county office, and saw the yellow belt in Zhao Chongbi's waist, Lai Wubao, hurriedly kneeling on his knees. "What a strong man!" Zhao Chongbi liked it in his heart, and gently told him to get up and enjoy the seat.

Listening to Li Dan roughly talk about Lai Wubao, Zhao Chongbi frowned, and said slowly: "Because of a tooth, you have to serve a year of labor, this Linchuan County is a bit excessive, but it also makes you have the fate to save people, this merit is not small, don't complain about him."

It's just that the second time I missed and injured the names of the hundred households, it really shouldn't be, not only put myself in danger, but also replace the law of the country with personal anger, which is very undesirable. You should be more cautious in what you do in the future!"

Lai Wubao hurriedly got up, and said deeply: "Your Excellency's teaching is that sinners know their mistakes, and I am willing to work hard to repay them in the future to atone for their past sins!" I hope that adults will give sinners a chance.

In addition, the fault of this matter lies with the sinner, and the others are really innocent! Please be merciful and release everyone. That Guo Jinshan...... It's a pity that he didn't even show up for his daughter's burial, alas!"

"Well, I know that." Zhao Chongbi nodded, glanced at Li Dan and said, "I will write this matter to the envoy in Hongdu, and I will say it for the king."

"Master Xie!"

"It's just ......, the crime involves rebellion, so it may take some time, please tell everyone, work hard to repay, don't be anxious, things will always come to light."

As for you, you are indeed guilty of inadvertent murder. According to the law, they should be transferred to the army, and they should serve in the border army for no less than three years before they can be returned. However, now that the country is in turmoil and rebellions, you will be sentenced to serve in the armies in Jiangxi for three years, can you be convinced?"

Lai Wubao knelt down with "Gu Dong": "Sinners can be like this, all thanks to the kindness of the great master. The sinner is willing to fight first to repay the great master's kindness!"

"Very good, very good!" Zhao Chongbi said to Li Dan: "The appointment of this person will be handed over to San Lang first. He is now in a sinful body, and it is inconvenient to find a position in the official army, so he will be placed in your regimental training first. I will go to the official document and tell them about it in Hongdu."

After thinking about it, he said, "That Guo Jinshan is really pitiful, he is involved in this case of rebellion again, and he is one of the leaders. I'm worried that if Hongdu holds on to it, what will happen?"

Lai Wubao's heart sank when he heard this, and he regretted that he was too reckless. I only heard Li Dan answer with a smile:

"Your Excellency is merciful, and you can see the confusion of this case at a glance. The humble position thought that the order of the virtuous people was dragged out in the first place, and it was also because of this crime of rebellion is really far-fetched." Zhao Chongbi heard a heavy "um" sound here, and Li Dan said again:

"The so-called rebellion is nothing but the anger of the masses, and the siege of the iron official office for a while is actually the words of the guards who have fled back to their entourage.

But the general verbal provocation first, whipping and insulting last, self-misconduct, official misconduct, and even death, can be regarded as heaven's retribution, and cannot be held accountable to Brother Lai, so isn't that a misunderstanding of the heavens?

Therefore, from the perspective of humble duties, this case is actually not difficult to judge."

"That's what Saburo said." Zhao Chongbi said with a smile: "But not everything in the world is so simple. I am only worried that the war will subside in the future, and suddenly someone jumps out to mention this matter, and if I don't handle it carefully, I am afraid that I will cause disaster!" He looked at Li Dan: "What do you think?"

"Although the adults went to help them speak, but Jinxian has now become a battlefield for the two sides, and this cadre has been left to Yugan, so it is better to hand it over to the lowly position to settle.

One of the lowly guards is a guarantee, and the seventeenth, eighth, or one or two hundred are also guaranteed." Li Dan said with a smile that what he meant by this was that he wanted to recruit these people to his subordinates.

How could Zhao Chongbi not understand what he meant? "Well, you just don't think there are many monkeys on your mountain, and the fruit is not sweet!"

"Construction has already started in Huangbu, but there are too few people who know how to do it! That's why I want to take down Jinxian and also hope to recruit some craftsmen (referring to free folk craftsmen) from there, and now that there are these military craftsmen, I naturally can't ask for them!"

Folk craftsmen make things meticulously, and many secret recipes and techniques are in their hands, but these people are even better at making civilian utensils.

For weapons that require tougher, lighter, and stronger weapons, the forging of iron hammers and the use of small crucibles are difficult to meet the needs of mass production, and Li Dan can see in Yujiazhai that this must be changed.

It is necessary to produce weapons in batches and with large consumables, and only through collective cooperation, large-scale equipment, and standardized process assembly production can we achieve both quality and quantity.

The hereditary military craftsmen, who have adapted to the management of the military, happen to be better than the folk craftsmen in terms of obedience to orders and understanding standardization.

"This group of people was originally wronged, and if they were imprisoned, exiled, or even tortured because of this, it would be really tyrannical!" Li Dan smiled.

"You mean, you still want to protect them." Zhao Chongbi sighed: "It's not difficult to report the dispersion and death, but is it worth it?"

"Our factory is very short of people, if possible, I would like to dig up all the people on Jinxian's side!"

"Hey, don't be too greedy!" Zhao Chongbi said and raised his eyes to look at Lai Wubao, who was sitting uneasily below, with a confused expression, and continued to whisper: "A few of their leaders still have to report it, and the merit is the merit and the fault. As for the others, you can choose to report the dead or missing, and I will try to ask for some ironworkers and military craftsmen to come to Raozhou. It's easy to say where it will be sent."

"That's a big deal!" Li Dan's sentence is purely a compliment, he Zhao Chongbi is holding a stake in his hand, and it is not a matter of course to do this.

"But I don't understand, why do you have to get them? If we lack iron, wouldn't it be good to buy it directly from Jinxian? Or build a factory in Jinxian." Let Lai Wubao wait outside the door first, and Zhao Chongbi asked Li Dan questions.

From his point of view, he still feels that it is a bit too troublesome to build a factory from scratch, so why not take a shortcut?

"Do you know the benefits of building a factory?"

"Huh?" Zhao Chongbi was about to answer, but he couldn't help it, his eyes rolled: "I'll listen, you say."

"My lord, please see, we Jiangxi have a lot of people and little land, and the so-called seven points of mountains and rivers and three points of fields. Fortunately, God has eyes that crops can be double-cropped, and in some places even triple-cropped, so they can barely maintain their full food.

But how long can this last? How much wasteland are there for us to reclaim?"

Zhao Chongbi nodded slightly and admitted, "It's really not much."

"If this continues, there will be a day when the balance will be broken." Li Dan concluded.

Zhao Chongbi frowned, he was very unhappy to hear this, but he had to admit that there would indeed be such a day. "So, what is the solution for Saburo?" After a while, he asked slowly.

"I want to use Yu Gan and Anren as an experiment!" Li Dan said, "My lord, please look at these two counties, Yugan is half water, half field, Anren Mountain has more land and less land, and it is very dangerous to go on like this in the long run.

I thought that when I was born, I naturally had to do something for him, let him become an adult and buy a house. Those who have permanent property have perseverance and avoid too many displaced people and idle people.

Like Gu Da and Yang Yi, they used to be well-known pimps in Yugan County, and they helped them find some work, such as helping people do it and maintaining market order, and they didn't make trouble from then on, knowing that they would make money if the market was stable and prosperous.

Later, the humble position took them out to go to Geyang, Zhan Shangrao, and Bao Yugan, and they came up step by step, and they also knew that they could read and read, and they also knew that they had to be reasonable and reasonable. That's a good example."

"Well, that's good." Zhao Chongbi nodded: "But a few people can't mean that all the prodigal sons and splashes will disappear."

"My lord, I thought of it when I brought up the matter of the Funding Committee.

In order for all the idle people to have food and work to do, it is necessary to build new factories, such as factories, carriage and horse shops, manufacturing plants, breweries, glass factories, etc., which will not have much impact on the existing walks of life, and can be used to house and shelter the homeless and idlers.

Now, due to the recruitment of people by the regimental training, only the old and weak women and children are left among the homeless people on the street, and these people have gradually settled down because they are young and strong, and they can rent a cent of land in the west of the city to build a mud house and become a temporary household by paying 20 yuan to the county.

Not only does the county have income, but it's also safer, and the streets are much cleaner and neater. It's all because of the changes that men have brought about in their livelihoods."

"So you want to set up a factory to provide more people with a place to eat?"

"Exactly. Take Jinxian's iron smelting institute as an example, iron smelting, ironworking, and armor making are together, although Jinxian itself does not have high-quality iron ore, but according to the dynasty

The iron ore that was brought in from the Fuhe River by the court decree was able to feed 4,000 people, and this did not include their families!"

Li Dan pointed with his hand: "Huangbu now has a population of more than 4,600, and we have established a wharf, a mineral research institute, a smelter, an iron factory, a component foundry, etc., and I estimate that we can absorb 14,000 to 16,000 new people."

"So many?" Zhao Chongbi was taken aback.

"There are also warehouses, cement factories and brick factories in Shigang upstream, carriage factories, glass factories and pencil factories in Yangbu downstream, and breweries in Baiba ....... Can adults see the future along the east bank of the Geumgang River?

How many carriages will be running back and forth, and how many families will be able to afford candles and meat? In turn, they would ask the merchants to buy silk from Jiangning, porcelain from Fuliang (Jingdezhen), bacon from Changsha, and even livestock from the Northland.

And then will it be difficult for the government to collect taxes? Can business tax revenue not increase? This is what 'hiding wealth from the people.' Let the people have the ability to buy, have a place to buy things, and have any goods that can meet their living needs, this is called hiding wealth for the people.

Instead of a few wealthy merchant landlords melting the silver into a big pumpkin and hiding it under their own rockery, the kind of 'hiding wealth from the people is just a literal understanding, too shallow!"

"But ......, when the factory is full, it can't recruit people indefinitely."

"That's right. But there are more places to employ people, for example, to run horse-drawn carriages, our roads must be widened and leveled, bridges like the Jinjiang Bridge must be built in many places, and the city walls must be built in all counties to be as ...... as Yugan!"

"But, but," Zhao Chongbi was trying to find Li Dan's loopholes: "You gathered these people over, aren't you afraid that they will make trouble and rebel?"

"My lord, it's still Mencius's saying: Those who have constant birth have perseverance. The ancients did not deceive each other. With money in his hand and food in the pot, what madman would easily throw away his comfortable days and be instigated to kill people and sell goods?

When people earn money, they can start families, they want their children to go to school and write, have a good livelihood in the future, have their own families and inherit the inheritance of their parents. Someone told him to rebel, what would he think?

Will he go to the government that helps him live a good life, or will he pick up a knife and kill this government so that the children will go hungry? Isn't this choice obvious?

In addition, the government has more taxes, and the more money it has for setting up tighter management institutions up to the villages and towns, just like the inspection sub-divisions we have organized, they can organize militias at any time to suppress all lawlessness!

Instead of stopping at the county seat as now, the management of towns and villages is entrusted to the squires and elders who have no ability to resist. I am not afraid of them gathering, and I actually think that it is easier to gather together.

But if there are too many idle people, scattered everywhere, not only is it not easy to manage, but they are more likely to be out of town and out of control! In other words, the more people come to work, the fewer people the careerist can woo.

Shall we push people over to their side, or should we bring them closer to the control of the government?"

"Makes sense!" After thinking for a while, Zhao Chongbi opened his mouth to agree with Li Dan's point of view. "So, whichever county you plan to occupy, you will do business in whichever county?"

"It doesn't stop there." Li Dan shook his head: "If we advance militarily, the funding committee will follow up in the rear, that's for sure.

On the other hand, we will also open schools, including business schools, technical schools, and Gewu schools that teach basic knowledge, and these schools will pass on our business knowledge, state-of-the-art technology and Gewu knowledge to those who need to support their families but cannot afford to take the imperial examination, so that more people can find a suitable career for themselves through their own efforts in the future. It's called 'teaching a man to fish.'"

"Why is that? Do you also want to teach others what you know, what you know, and what you know? Aren't you afraid that people will do better and surpass you?" Zhao Chongbi couldn't see clearly.

"Will others never be able to surpass it?" Li Dan tilted his head and asked, then asked himself: "Obviously not, otherwise there would be no such thing as 'the back wave pushing the front wave.'" So if that's the case, why bother

Sit on one's laurels?

My lord, I thought that it would not be a broad vision, nor would it be broad-minded. Only people who are not confident in themselves and dare not break through themselves to challenge new heights will be like this;

Only those who do not see that the market is booming, and that fierce competition can promote more new inventions and motivate themselves to run towards higher goals;

Only those who are greedy for personal gain and loss and do not want this knowledge to benefit more people will do so.

Of course, I also think that the invention and spread of knowledge should be richly rewarded. Therefore, we will set a confidentiality level for the knowledge, and if the confidentiality level is low or the confidentiality period has passed, it can be publicly imparted.

The best way to do this is for the authorities to come forward and enact a law that regulates how to apply for patents for inventions of new knowledge and technologies, what protection mechanisms are available for patents, and how patent owners can get feedback from the patents.

Whoever wishes to obtain permission to use the patent would then have to pay the inventor for the right to use it.

Inventors who have applied for a patent with the government patent administration can receive a large bonus after paying the deed tax, stamp duty and income tax......

The two chatted for an hour before Li Dan came out, Lai Wufa was waiting anxiously under the tree, and hurriedly stepped forward when he saw it. "Oops, there's something to do tonight. There are two articles to be written, and it looks like we need to buy some more candles!"

Li Dan smiled bitterly, then motioned for Lai Wufa to go out, and told him in a low voice: "You go to report to Chief of Staff Zhao of the General Staff immediately, he will give you a new appointment and task, and then the dock will arrange a ship to send you back to Fenggang overnight."

"Do you know what the mission is?" Lai Wufa was a little apprehensive.

"Hit Jinxian."

"When?"

"In the past few days, my team has been on the way, and will soon arrive at Fenggang, you join them to form a new brigade, take Jinxian first, and then we will wait for Lord Zhao's order to attack Fuzhou. This father and son of the Yang family are dead, I won't touch him, he will come to the door to find trouble!" After speaking, Li Dan sneered.

This was too unexpected, he didn't expect to attack it so quickly. "W-so fast?"

Li Dan smiled: "You didn't expect it, and the bandits couldn't even think of it." Got on the horse first, the two walked side by side, and Li Dan told him softly:

"We were ordered to fight further south as far as Shangrao. If you want to set up an iron factory in Anren, you can discuss with Lao Guo and Wang Ermei, and there are brothers who are trustworthy and have good skills to come over and do things.

Lord Zhao can help them change their identities to settle in Raozhou, and hire about 100 people first.

My Yu Gan not only pays the bride price, but also gives him a house, and gives him a monthly subsidy for his family, coal fire in winter, wine in summer, and meat during holidays, so that children can go to school and read and write, and tell them to hurry up!"

Lai Wubao's eyes widened, and it took him a long time to muster up the courage to ask, "Then, how do you plan to settle sinners?"

"Tsk, don't be an old sinner, a sinner, you will be the trial camp of my green shirt team in the future!" Li Dan glanced at him:

"Don't worry, as long as you have meritorious service, I will persuade Lord Zhao to help you get rid of your crimes. Then you go to Yugan, go to the teaching team to study and study first, and then come out to Chief of Staff Zhao to help him do things three months later!"

"Thank you, thank you!"

"Eh, why are you still giving it up? Haven't you seen how I salute here?" Li Dan saw him salute and smiled: "Do you still have a family?"

"No, only one sister got married early in her hometown, and her brother-in-law is a comprador in the mine, so her life should be okay."

"What mine?" Now Li Dan is very sensitive when he hears who is involved with the mine, and he immediately asks.

"I don't know much about paint, but I see that he always comes home with black, blue, red, yellow, and white. When I saw him when I was a child, I shouted, 'Hua Niu'er, hehe.' Lai Wufa laughed as he remembered a long time ago.

Li Dan patted his hand on his shoulder: "Anyway, that's your family. Write a letter of safety, and the lads in the staff can help you.

Tell your family that you are in charge of the regimental training battalion, and this official has the right to bring a thousand soldiers, so that they will be happy

Glad! When it's over, Chief of Staff Zhao will send someone to help you send you home."

"My lord, is this Chief of Staff Zhao very big?"

"Official? He's not right! Their Zhao family's son, Grandpa Tai, has something to say, he is not allowed to be an official without a special purpose, and Lord Zhao is sent by the emperor, so he is an exception!"

"Huh? He, he's royalty?" Lai Wufa was taken aback: "My lord, why are you and your royal family here?"