Can you live forever

Chapter 378

Yizhou, Chixian City.

After the martial arts conference ended and all parties dispersed, Wang Jiangque and his group stayed in Chixian City to deal with some finishing matters in Yizhou, which was the sphere of influence of the royal family.

Originally, Wang Jiangque had already transformed into a dragon. For example, Shaolin Temple felt that people who were not of my race must have different hearts, and wanted to deal with Wang Jiangque.

But after the disturbance of the Mo Sect, the real dragon didn't seem to be so important.

Shaolin Temple also wisely did not deal with the Wang family, but Wang Jiangque had already transformed into a dragon, but they couldn't hide it. The Wang family had known about the dragon scale for a long time, so they were very calm and there was no strangeness.

But Wang Zhi's fiancée, the daughter of the Wu family's first wife, is always suspicious.

Wu Yi was very afraid of Wang Jiangque, who was obviously his future sister-in-law.

"Your sister-in-law is just an ordinary person. If you can't accept it for a while, don't take it to your heart." Seeing Wu Yi avoiding Wang Jiangque, Wang Zhi couldn't even see her face to face, and could only sigh.

"Thanks for your hard work, fourth brother."

The two families of King Wu are married, because the Wang family will be handed over to Wang Zhi in the future, so it is the most sincere thing for Wang Zhi to do it.

Wu Yi is indeed quite beautiful, but at their level, appearance is only a basic requirement, and more is ability. Obviously, she is just an ordinary rich lady.

In terms of appearance, Wang Zhi is more beautiful than Wu Yi...

Of course, the Wu family also hoped to have a more outstanding girl to marry, but the one with better ability was the concubine daughter. Among the first daughters, Wu Yi was already the best.

It does not mean that the descendants of wealthy families must be elites or geniuses.

Their education and resources have allowed them to see and understand the city government is indeed superior to others, but that is only compared with ordinary people, and it pales in comparison to real geniuses.

Wang Jiangque understood that Wang Zhi made the sacrifice for the family.

"It's all trivial matters. I don't have anyone I like. If you marry someone who is not so smart, at least you can live in the town and won't mess up the family business. This martial arts competition has won a big victory. Xu Hai has already given up on Xu's family and left." , the Xu family is at the moment when the building is about to collapse."

"But Tianwen visited and found some bad news."

"I think you saw that too."

Wang Jiangque nodded, and she said with a slightly cold voice: "Xu Jie helped the Xu family to transform, Xu Dong cut off his tail to survive, sold the family business, and worked behind Xu Jie."

"I want to avenge my mother, but I can't do it for the time being."

Wang Zhi sighed, and said: "I will arrange for someone to assassinate Xu Dong, but it may not be successful. Xu Jie reversed the trend of people pushing the wall down. The Xu family still retains its vitality, so the assassination method may not be effective."

"It's better to take it slowly and completely overthrow the Xu family."

"At that time, Xu Dong had nowhere to escape."

"Our fleet has returned from the Lancang River. There is the Hongxi left behind by Xu Hai, and the four external King Kongs that Xu Hai cooperated with us to surround the captives."

"Forget about those pirate captives, there is no need to recruit them, but there are quite a few ships."

Wang Jiangque said: "Chen Dong, Ye Ma, Huang Kan, and Hong Donggang. Among them, Chen Dong is in the Sunda Islands, and only intercepted a small part, and the main force has fled."

"Ye Ma led the Fusang people to attack Borneo. We cooperated with the Wu family to severely damage its fleet and gained a lot, but the damage was too much and we didn't make much money."

"It's mainly the troops of Huang Kan and Hong Donggang?"

Wang Zhi nodded and said: "In order not to leak the news, Xu Hai led the main force to help us solve Huang Kan and Hong Donggang at the mouth of the Lancang River in order to cooperate with Qiu Luan to destroy the pirates of the Xiluo people, and then went straight to Mancijia."

"We mainly captured these two."

"About [-] captives, and [-] to [-] ships."

"If we don't recruit prisoners, if we organize and train the navy ourselves, although there are sufficient reserves, it will take at least half a year to take shape. We have no way to directly take over the sphere of influence that Xu Hai let out."

"As for the escaped Chen Dong, Ye Ma, and other big and small pirates, after losing the restraint of the Xu family, they must seek a new way out."

"We are not pirates and cannot satisfy their interests."

"But Nanjing will incorporate them."

The Xu family has fallen, and the Wang family has risen. Naturally, Nanjing will not sit idly by. When the Wang family is digested and the sea power is completely in hand, won't Nanjing be attacked by the enemy?
So they will definitely not sit idly by.

Not only will they absorb the remnants of the Xu family, but they will also integrate and form a new navy to fight against the Wang family.

It is also a battle against the Japanese pirates that will follow with the imperial court.

Like Xia Yan’s strategy and support for Jianzhou, Jianzhou Jurchen now retreats to the Tumenjiang generation, and the restoration, reconstruction and development all depend on sea transportation. Once the sea power is lost, the logistics will be cut off directly. Three years later, I will have to plan food in the white mountains and black waters.

When the heavy snow comes five years later, I don't know how many people will starve to death.

Therefore, the ocean is not only the lifeline of merchants, but also the lifeline of Nanjing. Nanjing’s annual income is divided into three parts.The second part was provided by wealthy merchants such as the Wang family through franchised materials such as salt and iron tea.The third part is the dividends of the four major business gangs.

The salt industry was impacted, wars were fought at sea, and Nanyang was strangled by the imperial court and the royal family.

Maritime trade has been greatly affected, so that the dividends that the four major business gangs can give to Nanjing have also been greatly reduced. This year, Nanjing's "revenue" may drop by at least [-]%.

Everyone is happy when making money, but who will bear it when losing money?

Anyway.

Xia Yan, as the chairman of the council, has decided that this blame is set. Although Nanjing supports some of Xia Yan's plans, they have actually started to make their own. Like this kind of integration of pirates and the establishment of a formal navy, Xia Yan even participated. There is no discussion.

"The decision-making power in Nanjing should be in Zhan Ruosai's hands."

"Different from Xia Yan's shallow foundation, Zhan Ruoshui's words in the parliament have weight, and he is naturally more effective in doing things. However, while Nanjing has to deal with us, it also has to be wary of Xu Jie."

"Zhan Ruoshui will not be willing to give up the speaker's position to Xu Jie."

Wang Zhi analyzed Nanjing's response.

But Wang Jiangque shook his head and said, "It's not whether Zhan Ruoshui is willing or not, but the current situation. Nanjing is gradually becoming unable to cope, and Xu Jie's reputation is also rising too fast."

"It's prestige, but also the foundation."

"At that time, the people in the south of the Yangtze River will carry Xu Jie into the parliament and sit in the speaker's seat."

"Zhan Ruoshui has no unresolvable interest relationship with Xu Jie."

"It's just that Zhan Ruoshui has been famous for a long time and is strong, while Xu Jie is young and weak. When Xu Jie's strength exceeds their imagination, he will naturally become the speaker."

"They are a class of people, a class."

When there are external enemies, the internal conflicts will be put aside temporarily. When facing Jiajing and Zhang Zhixiang's longevity revolution and this mighty reform, Zhan Ruoshui will naturally be willing to retreat when the pressure is strong enough. .

After all, in the parliament, the speaker is not something extremely noble.

Your own strength is fundamental.

Instead of fighting, it is better to follow the money, there is nothing wrong with it.

The enemy's alliance is not good news, but it can't be stopped. We can only deal with it. Wang Zhi said: "In the next six months, we will mainly digest Nanyang, and then use the Liuqiu line as an outpost to fight against the Nanjing navy."

"I probably still want to stay in Nanyang."

"After Qiu Luan and the others leave Manchuria, I need to cooperate with the court's defenders to complete the construction of the Old Port Propaganda Department."

"I won't be able to return to land for the time being. What's your plan? To accompany fourth brother and me? Or go to Wudang and wait for Zhang Zhixiang to leave the customs?"

Wang Jiangque shook his head and said: "If I don't want to go to Wudang, although I really want to wait for him and guard the love of my children, I don't have so much time. My students are still in the capital, and the reform is about to start. I want to Go help them."

"Anping lacks the experience of doing things on the front line. The reason is correct, but he failed to sort out how to implement it."

"Nowadays, there is no such capable minister around Jiajing."

"I have to be involved in the development of the framework."

"in addition."

"Anping gave this to me, and I have to find a way to crack it."

Wang Jiangque took out the Mo Mou, which is similar to the Rubik's Cube. It is by no means as simple as the Rubik's Cube. Only by finding its solution can we know the mysteries of the universe that the Mohists have researched for so many years.

She is as confident as those mathematicians in this world, as long as she is willing to spend time, Mo Ju will be solved one day.

Wang Zhi was a little curious, and asked, "Jiang'er, do you think this ink moment is a keepsake of the Mohist Juzi, does it have a greater symbolic meaning, or is the mystery of the universe inside it so valuable?"

"Maybe all of them." Wang Jiangque was not curious, and even if she knew about this level of things, it was actually useless. It was for people like Zhang Zhixiang to ask for evidence.

Wang Zhi shrugged and said, "Let Zhang Zhixiang teach those civilized things."

"There is one thing that is more important to you and me."

"How the Wang family retreated bravely, we can't wait until the end of the war to think about it, but we have to think about it now. We will replace the Xu family and become the new ocean overlord. This is the trend in the future."

"In this way, our royal family's power will be too great."

With only sea power in their hands, the Xu family has a huge family business, and it can almost be said to be a country of its own, even if the Wang family does not do those businesses, does not colonize, does not become a robber, and does not traffic people.

But the customs benefits brought by sea power alone are scary.

Its influence on the overall business is enough for them to eat the biggest piece of cake in ocean trade.

If it is said that they take the hegemony path like the Xu family, that's fine.

The Wang family was originally known for their benevolence and righteousness, but now they have gained power. For the imperial court, this is the biggest threat.That is to say, the wedding between Wang Jiangque and Zhang Zhixiang was not announced to the world.

If she is the wife that Zhang Zhixiang Mingmei is marrying.

It's not just the Wang family, even Zhang Zhixiang will be roasted on the fire...

Too much power is a fact.

It is easy to be used and provoked.

In this regard, Wang Jiangque said: "When Anping is out of customs, it is enough for the Ming media to marry Princess Yongchun."

"Ugh……"

Wang Zhi sighed, he knew this was the best solution, but he had wronged his own sister after all, but the fact is that only Zhang Zhixiang is the son-in-law, and Wang Jiafu is the youngest, can give the best explanation to the world, don't worry about anything The tail is too big to fall off.

"Let's talk about marriage later."

"The Wang family's property has been taken care of by my second uncle all these years. What I mean is, since Xu Jie has already begun to equalize the land, how about we directly introduce the Qingyang Party, and our Wang family will start to equalize the land?"

"In the Huguang area, our property is much larger than the Xu family's."

The Wang family does have a lot of land. Compared with the Xu family's 800 hectares, the Wang family's land is close to [-] hectares, which is [-] million mu of land, and it is more concentrated.

It has to do with how the two operate.

The Xu family bought land and rented it out to tenants. The rent was "ordinary", basically [-]% or [-]% of the land rent.

The Wang family is different. The maximum rent of the Wang family is only [-]%, which is more cost-effective than those self-cultivating farmers, because the Wang family will help them solve the problem of taxes and corvee.

Not only that, but all the money the Wang family got from the land will be invested in the construction of the village.

Township associations, public warehouses, schools all over the world...

Anyway, I have never heard of it. There are people who starve to death in Wangjiazhuangzi. Basically, every household can eat enough as long as they work hard, and their children and grandchildren have books to read.

Therefore, after they managed the fields of the Wang family, the people begged the Wang family to buy them.

This is more active than civilian husbands serving as candidates for promotion.

And the foundation of the Wang family is in the [-] hectares of land. This part of the land does not make money, and in many cases it even needs to be subsidized. However, the support of millions of people on this land is that the Wang family has developed all the way over the years. fundamental.

It is actually very easy for the Wang family to equalize the land.

Just change the property rights to those tenants who are farming...

"Well, our Wang family's fields should be divided first, but we have to wait until I go to the capital. It will take about half a month. It doesn't delay anything, just let Xu Jie take a step forward."

"What we are going to do is different from what Xu Jie is doing."

Xu Jie came to equalize the land in the form of redemption, and Wang Jiangque saw the pros and cons clearly. In order to develop industry, Xu Jie let the early concentrated capital invest heavily in infrastructure and education.

This will make Xu Jie's reputation as a savior.

Compared with the old gentry system, Xu Jie at this stage is advanced and compatible with the annexation of the gentry system, so Xu Jie will go smoothly.

However, the path Zhang Zhixiang wants to take is different.

What Wang Jiangque wanted to do in accordance with Zhang Zhixiang's idea was to share the right to use the land equally on the basis of public ownership of the land, and then use the village as a collective to form a farm cooperative, and use the farm cooperative as a unit to plant, cultivate, and water conservancy.

This is a road of independent development and everyone's participation.

But it is hard to say whether such a road will be accepted, because the common people only recognize the fields, and they may not understand when you talk about rural communes and village collectives.

This kind of land that does not require money is not safe for them to hold, because the land deed does not belong to them.

They may be more willing to get the land deed and ownership, and they prefer Xu Jie's set...

(End of this chapter)