Start a Ming Dynasty plane

Chapter 354 County Lord, It's Time for You to Get Married
Sun Dali is done, and Chen Shigong is next. The medical school is going to research new drugs. For example, he is currently researching artemisinin, a special drug for treating malaria.

This research is very important. Malaria is very rampant in Daming. The first is that people in Daming generally do not have the habit of drinking hot water. The second is that there are a lot of mosquitoes in Daming. These insects carry terrible viruses. If these viruses are rampant , That is definitely a tragedy in the world, every year in Daming there are not a few people who die from malaria.

Therefore, Chen Shigong led the team to overcome this medical problem regardless of hard work, and in order to overcome this medical problem, money must be indispensable.

Chen Shigong looked at Li Chaosheng with a smile and stretched out two fingers: "20 taels of silver."

Li Chaosheng looked at the 80-year-old old man like a profiteer and couldn't help but smiled wryly and said, "Old Chen, why are you booing along with me?"

Chen Shigong said: "Your Majesty, you have said that there is no price to pay for curing diseases and saving lives, so you must not break your promise."

Li Chaosheng really wants to give himself two big mouths, and he always gives speeches to these people when he has nothing to do. What he said at the beginning was so passionate, inspirational, and classic, and it is so troublesome today. These guys now like to use what they said It is very unpleasant to refute him with words, do you still have to slap yourself in the face?
Li Chaosheng had no choice but to say: "10 taels, Mr. Chen, this is my attitude."

When Mr. Chen saw this, he looked at Li Chaosheng disappointedly, and didn't say anything. In fact, 10 taels was enough, but when they heard that Li Chaosheng brought back 300 million taels from Zhangjiakou, they needed more. Ah, just in case.

Of course, the extra money is not for corruption, but to save it for the next scientific research. After all, being rich is good for everyone, isn't it?

After Mr. Chen finished his work, Li Chaowen said with a smile: "Xianzun, our county boundary has been expanded recently. You can see that it is a problem for children in these places to go to school, so I see if we can cover more while we are richer. Some primary schools should hire more teachers to contribute to our basic education in Lantian."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng patted his head with a headache and said, "How much do you want?"

Li Chaowen said: "After a preliminary estimate, about 30 taels of silver are needed, which is enough to cover all the current areas of Lantian with primary schools that are sufficient for children to go to school."

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng gritted his teeth and said, "I approved your money, 30 taels is a lot."

"Ah, Xie Xianzun."

After listening to Li Chaosheng's words, Li Chaowen thanked him excitedly. Everyone around looked at Li Chaosheng, wondering why Li Chaosheng was so generous. The reason why Li Chaosheng was so generous was that Li Chaosheng understood a truth: no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education, and no matter how poor you are, you can't be poor. Suffering cannot be bitter for children.

The current literacy rate in Lantian has reached an astonishing 20.00%. This literacy rate can be said to be unprecedented in the entire Ming Dynasty. One out of five people is literate. This is completely unimaginable in other places in Ming Dynasty.

But Li Chaosheng was not very satisfied, because this 20.00%, in addition to a group of people who were originally literate, was more of the army after Li Chaosheng forced literacy, and after the popularization of academies and small colleges, the literacy rate of children increased.

But this is far from meeting Li Chaosheng's expectations. Li Chaosheng's expectation is to make the new generation of children no longer have illiteracy, at least to make the illiteracy rate lower.

Li Chaosheng is willing to spend more money on this matter, but before this matter was implemented, two groups of people approached Li Chaosheng. One group was from the Ministry of Finance. It is too difficult to do it. The first school needs money, and it is not a small sum.

After the school is completed, it is not considered complete, and the teachers still need to pay salaries. Usually, some school-related maintenance fees are not a small amount. This is a great test for Lantian's finances.

Lantian is now a waste of money, people's livelihood, the army, scientific research, and almost every penny is counted. Therefore, the Ministry of Finance is not willing to spend more money on education. They want to ensure that Lantian College provides It is enough for high-end talents to be used by Lantian, so what do so many people learn to read.

As a result, Li Chaosheng didn't listen, and asked the Ministry of Finance to squeeze out some money for education, basic education.

The second person who approached Li Chaosheng was Yang Shubai, Li Chaosheng's chief political commissar. Yang Shubai didn't usually have a high sense of presence, but his role was not small. He is always checking on Li Chaosheng's ideological changes, and he is Li Chaosheng's most staunch supporter.

However, when Li Chaosheng wanted to engage in basic education, Yang Shubai found Li Chaosheng, and he expounded a point of view to Li Chaosheng. The more people read, the less obedient they are, and the harder it is to discipline them. Therefore, in "The Analects of Confucius Tabor", there is A word is called, the people can make it, but not make it known.

Li Chaosheng understood that this was the usual practice of the old ruling class. The policy of obscuring the people was simply aimed at consolidating their ruling class. For this reason, they even did not hesitate to stop the wheel of history from advancing.

As mentioned earlier, during the Qianlong period, Qianlong was not really fatuous and decadent. He didn't know the foreign guns and artillery of the Western powers, and the reason why he did not accept Western foreign guns and artillery was because he was afraid that there would be advanced Western ideas that followed. At that time, his regime will be unstable. For the sake of stability, he will not hesitate to strictly close the country, guard against death, and prevent Western things and ideas from entering.

This led to the Western powers opening the gates of the Qing Dynasty with cannons and foreign guns, and Huaxia fell into that humiliating 100 years.

So Li Chaosheng never wanted to carry out any policy of ignoring the people. What Li Chaosheng wanted to do was to educate all the children in Lantian to understand the truth, instead of living in such a muddle like the people of Ming Dynasty.

People say that the scholar-bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty did not know the concept of a country, so how could the common people know that Zhu Yuanzhang implemented the enfeoffment of the kings at the beginning, turning back the wheel of history, and implementing the policy of family rule, which is tantamount to telling the world that this world belongs to the old Zhu family. What does it matter to you common people.

It is the obligation of the descendants of Lao Zhu's family to protect the family. It has little to do with the common people. In fact, Lao Zhu's thinking is also right. After all, it was his Lao Zhu's family who got the most benefit at that time. How could his Lao Zhu's family do it without doing their best? .

But it also made a bad start, making the people feel that the world belongs to the emperor and has nothing to do with us. Isn't there a saying that the shore of the land is the king's land? Since they all belong to the old Zhu's family, what do we do? Ah, when the Tartars came to rob, they also robbed Lao Zhu's house. Anti-thieves are also harming Lao Zhu's house. We just need to protect ourselves.

This is not right, the family belongs to the world, the family belongs to the world, how can this world be ruled by one family, so Li Chaosheng wants to change, he wants to let more children read and write, enlighten the people's wisdom, and then tell them that Lantian is theirs. Yes, Li Chaosheng didn't belong to him alone. The concept of the country of Lantian, Li Chaosheng wanted to use these words to enlighten the wisdom of the people and pass it on to his children.

After the concept of the country is formed in the minds of these literate children, it is not Li Chaosheng's business to invade Lantian again, it is the business of all Lantian people. All the Lantian people are against each other, so what if you Chongzhen was the lord of the Ming Dynasty, what if you Li Zicheng had an army of one million, and what if your Tartars were strong and strong?

Anyone who dares to think about Lantian will be drowned in the ocean of the people, and these literate children are the foundation and hope of the future of Lantian.

Therefore, he is not stingy about educating Li Chaosheng.

Li Chaowen was very excited when he got the full amount of funding, and the rest of the people looked at Li Chaowen with some envy. At this time, it was the turn of the last two big bosses, one was the military boss Li Chaolong, and the other was the people's livelihood boss Guo Bao.

Those were small coins just now, and these two were the ones who really spent the money. After all, multiplying 230 million by [-] million is huge. As long as the amount increases, the money consumption will be huge.

Li Chaolong glanced at Guo Bao and said, "I'll come first, county lord. I'm here mainly for two things. The first is to upgrade the army's equipment, and the second is to build the Tongguan Camp."

Tongguan is the gateway to Guanzhong, and it will soon fall into Lantian's hands. Lantian must not be careless in the slightest. He must build the first line of defense in Tongguan. Holding Tongguan is equivalent to defending the basic market. In the future, he will plot Henan. Shanxi is also guaranteed.

Therefore, Li Chaosheng knew that what Li Chaolong said was very reasonable, so he looked at Li Chaolong and said, "How much does it cost?"

"However, it will cost 80 yuan. Tongguan has been damaged. After Lantian takes over, it is imperative to rebuild Tongguan."

After hearing this, Li Chaosheng thought for a while and said, "Okay, I will give 80."

"Thank you, Commander."

After hearing this, Li Chaolong laughed, and Li Chaosheng smiled wryly. After a while, more than half of the money has gone down, and it's not yet the turn of Guo Bao, a big eater.

At this time, Guo Bao looked at Li Chaosheng's dark face and said, "Master of the county, someone proposed to build canals in the whole county, build a new commercial road with Lantian as the center, and realize the grand occasion of eight rivers around Lantian. It can become another great metropolis and the most prosperous place in Ming Dynasty."

Li Chaosheng's face turned black when he heard this. Isn't it crazy to build a canal?Eight waters around the blue field is amazing, and it sounds very good, but the example of Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty is there, can this be repaired casually?If this trouble is not good, Lan Tian will fall into the quagmire. The guy who came up with this idea is either stupid or bad.

Li Chaosheng looked at Guo Bao, this kid doesn't look like a fool, can't he see such an obvious calculation?

Seeing Li Chaosheng like this, Guo Bao smiled and said, "But I didn't agree. The guy who came up with the idea was also asked to be arrested and tortured. I found out that he is the disciple of Cao Yao Xijun, the law of the Yingtian Mansion."

"Yao Xijun?"

Li Chaosheng is very unfamiliar with this name, Guo Bao said with a smile: "Yao Xijun has an older brother named Yao Ximeng, and Yao Ximeng's good friend is Zhou Yanru."

Hearing this, Li Chaosheng narrowed his eyes. He didn't know who Yao Ximeng and Yao Xijun were, but he knew Zhou Yanru.

Zhou Yanru, a native of Changzhou Prefecture in Southern Zhili, Huiyuan in the 41st year of Wanli, the number one scholar, is a well-known smart man. In the second year of Chongzhen, he was favored by Chongzhen. An existence that can wrestle with Wen Tiren.

However, in the sixth year of Chongzhen, because of his loose mouth, he privately slandered Chongzhen as the Master Xihuang. What does it mean that Chongzhen did not act, but was an incompetent lord? is re-enabled.

However, although Zhou Yanru is not in the court, his party members are all over the world, and he is also a powerful person, and he is not idle in these years, doing business in various ways, relying on his status and the help of old disciples, he The businessman who is covered is doing well and can bring him huge profits every year.

But these years, he has always wanted to get business privileges in Lantian. After being educated by Lantian County a few times, he had a grudge. He secretly wanted to cooperate with Yang Sichang and detain Lantian as a criminal evidence of treason. In the end, Chongzhen didn't know what he was thinking. He actually trusted Lan Tian so much that such a strategy failed.

There is a second plan, let people come to Lantian to offer advice.

Li Chaosheng looked at Guo Bao and said with a smile: "Zhou Yanru regards me as Chongzhen this week, hehe, Guzi will write this down, and when he finds an opportunity, he must pay the unit price. If he dares to plot against me, Lantian, he must pay the price." cost."

After hearing this, Gu Zi immediately responded, "Yes."

After saying this, Li Chaosheng looked at Guo Bao and said, "Okay, since you don't want to build the canal, how much money are you going to ask for, and what are you going to do?"

After hearing this, Guo Bao said: "At present, all parts of Lantian are running well, and there is no need for a large investment of money. I am here today to talk about a more important matter with the county lord."

"Oh, what's the matter?"

Li Chaosheng looked at Guo Bao, and Guo Bao said, "Your Majesty, it's time for you to get married."

"Ok?"

Li Chaosheng's eyes widened, he never expected that Guo Bao would urge him to marry him.

Li Chaosheng frowned at this moment and said, "This is my private matter. What does it have to do with you, the head of the Secretary of Government Affairs? My marriage is also considered a political matter?"

After hearing this, Guo Bao said very seriously: "Forget it, and it is an extremely important political matter. Your marriage is not your personal matter, but a major event related to the future of my Lantian."

"Our Lantian is thriving at the moment, all businesses are waiting for prosperity, and the future is bright, but we can't do without an heir. Now it has been rumored that the county's honor is not in good health and can't have a son. Lantian died in the first life. A lot of people have doubts."

"Nonsense. I'm in good health. Why can't her mother have a son? Nonsense."

"Then the county venerable will stop everyone's mouths, and the county lord has descendants, so we can really rest assured to fight the world for the county lord."

After Guo Bao said this, he turned his head and looked at the Lantian important ministers around him, and said, "Do you think so?"

After hearing this, everyone nodded in unison, and Song Yingxing said: "The marriage of the county lord should be considered, and the early birth of an heir will be a peace of mind."

"That's right, magistrate, you can't delay the birth of your son."

Sun Dali was also helping, and Chen Shigong pondered for a while and said: "The county lord, if there is something unspeakable, I have a few secret recipes of the palace, and I will never let the county lord have any worries."

"I'm fine."

Li Chaosheng looked at Chen Shigong and said helplessly, if Sun Dali or Guo Bao had said this, Li Chaosheng would have scolded him, but if the 80-year-old man said it, Li Chaosheng could only justify aggrievedly.

(End of this chapter)