Datang Nongsheng

Chapter 529 The Ability to Expand Outward
Sun Xiangfu is really a man of his word, so that night, all the little princes were miserable, but in fact, they were not arranged to do difficult things, but they were asked to boil some hot water for themselves to take a bath.

"Master head, they are so stupid! They don't even know how to use flint and steel. I taught them how to start a fire, but they don't know how to start a fire. They filled the room with smoke and made themselves look like big cats. It also smoked the other people in the yard so that they couldn't stay in the house." Wu Meiniang ran from the backyard to the front hall and complained to Sun Xiangfu.

Not to mention, the little princes who have never done this kind of thing since they were born, and have never even seen such a thing, the first reflex when receiving this task is, "If you want hot water, why don't you let the servants serve it?" come up? '.This is exactly what Emperor Hui of Jin said, "The people have no chestnuts and rice to satisfy their hunger, so why not eat minced meat?" 'There are similarities in the same purpose.

"Shut up, Meiniang, they are all princes, don't belittle them." After dinner, the samurai who continued to chat with Sun Xiangfu about work in the living room has lived in fear for the past few years. Of course, his daughter is not allowed to offend So many princes.

Sun Xiangfu smiled and said, "It's okay, the princes of the Tang Dynasty, if they are all useless rice bugs like them, how can the common people respect them? How can they respect the royal family?"

After finishing speaking, Sun Xiangfu turned his head to look at Wu Meiniang and said, "Meiniang, you go and tell them, if you can't, you can ask the children in the village, but you can't do anything by others, otherwise, you will serve with a whip."

Hearing this, Wu Meiniang, who wanted to see their jokes, nodded and said yes, and ran to the fire room in the backyard again.

In the front hall, Sun Xiangfu continued to talk about the project business of the overseas exploration and investment company with the warrior Xun. In the fire room in the backyard, Li Tai, who was like a big cat, continued to blow fire with tears in his eyes. At this moment, He actually understood a little bit why after Li Chengqian came back from Shanyang, his father and queen mother liked him more and more, because Li Chengqian seemed to know everything, but he couldn't even do things like lighting a fire and boiling water well.

There is also Li Ke who has the same feeling. He is patiently groping for a way. He is not like Li You and Li Yin, who keep cursing and wanting to quit. These two people are also persuaded by him. Only then continued to stay here to light the fire.

As for Li Yuanjing and Li Yuanchang's generation, they gave up treatment a long time ago. They each threw away the bamboo tubes for blowing fire, and ran outside the yard to hide from the smoke. Moreover, it has been decided that it is a big deal not to take a bath today. They can't do it.

At the beginning of February in the lunar calendar, it is actually March in the Gregorian calendar. At this time, the frogs in the Dongting Lake area have already emerged from their holes, and the lotus roots have also begun to stick. In various ponds and small rivers filled with spring water, loaches and eels have also begun to be active. Wu Meiniang found Outside the yard, I saw the disheveled kings. When she was laughing and passing on Sun Xiangfu's words, there happened to be a group of half-sized men who went to the river outside the village to release fish cages at dusk.

Then he chased after him, and said to the middle-aged and middle-aged people in the village, "Several big brothers, go slowly, there is something more profitable than getting into a fish cage, do you want to do it?"

Soon, these lads all understood what Wu Meiniang meant. The lads in the village would naturally be happy to teach the prince to do some simple things that people in the countryside would do. As for what Wu Meiniang said, teaching people must be Although they felt that it was a bit inappropriate to receive the reward, who told Wu Meiniang that it was an order from Young Master Sun who was in charge of managing those princes!
These peasant families who helped the imperial court build the paddy fields were actually not rich, especially those families who were first resettled in the paddy area. They were families with many children and a hard life. Once tempted, they naturally agreed.

However, he had to lower the fish cage into the river first. Since the Yangtze River Waterway Transshipment Company started operating, even in such a small wharf without a city, one or two fish dealers would come to collect fish every day. The goods, similar to the relatively advanced fish cages made by Sun Xiangfu in Guanzhong, were also spread here early, but they can allow these children to earn a little money every day to help support their families.

"Wu Meiniang, didn't you say that you asked them to come over and teach us? How did you let them go?" The younger and older Jing King Li Yuanjing shouted at Wu Meiniang who had gone and returned.

"When did I say that I want them to come and teach you? My head master just said that if you want to learn, you can ask them for advice. I just told them that if you go to ask for advice, ask them to agree to help you teach, then I’m afraid it’s just teaching you some trivial matters of making fire and boiling water, and they are also considered your teachers, so you have to ask them yourself, you should have learned the principle of respecting teachers before!”

"That's it, return to the teacher..."

Li Yuanjing and other lords cursed furiously when they heard the words.

At this time, I saw Li Tai who couldn't stand the smoke in the room, and ran out covering his mouth, "Uncle Jing, boiling water is important, if you can't learn it, we will have to smoke like this every day from now on."

Hearing this, Li Yuanjing was stunned, and flicked his sleeves bitterly to stop making a sound.

Seeing this, Wu Meiniang said again, "The children in the village are busy with their own affairs all day long. If they take time out to teach you, it will delay their own affairs. Therefore, you need to give a certain reward, which can be regarded as a thank you gift! "

"Thank you ceremony? These farmer children, dare to ask me for a teacher thank you ceremony..."

"Uncle Jing, don't be angry, what this young lady of the Wu family said is somewhat reasonable, why should she teach us to do these things for nothing?"

It was not Li Tai who spoke this time, but Li Ke. It seems that he has also realized some truths, even deeper than Li Tai. After all, in terms of age, he is one year older than Li Tai. Among the princes, he is only a few months younger than Jing Wang Li Yuanjing.

He felt that as a prince, he should not ask for anything from the people, and let the people give to him free of charge. Even his father, Li Shimin, when he received gifts from the people, didn't he always think about how to return the gift?How can people like myself let the people work in vain!

However, this truth does not make sense in the eyes of Li Yuanjing and Li Yuanchang. They have believed since childhood that the common people in the world should serve their royal family unconditionally, but now Li Ke is on the same side as them. They are not good at rebuttal.

In addition, although Li Ke called them Uncle Wang, his actual status was much higher than these people.After all, he is the son of the current emperor, and his mother is still a noble concubine, but they are only the sons of the abdicated emperor, and most of their mothers are concubines, Jieyu, or even talents and beauties. At the very least, it is a general governor, or a state shepherd, and they are at most a state governor level in a remote area, and there are some elements that dare not refute it.

On the contrary, Li Tai was more thoughtful. Seeing Li Ke ran out and said a word, he kept everyone silent and expressed his obedience. He immediately felt that his leadership position was threatened. How could someone with the highest status among the kings let someone else be the leader of this group of people!

So he said, "Since this is the case, everyone will listen to my arrangement, go to the belongings, find something out, and use it as a gift to thank the teacher. From now on, there may be many things that will depend on their teaching!"

Thinking of the days to come, everyone had no choice but to keep silent, and went to the room one after another to look for the items they brought with them, but Li Tai found a feeling of leading the crowd. He looked at Li Ke with some complacency, and then he himself I went back to the house to find something.

All these expressions of his were seen by Wu Meiniang, and she had a little more evaluation of this fat man in her heart, and soon, she walked quickly to the hall.

"Master head, Mei'er has done what you said. Now they all want to invite the children in the village to teach them how to make a fire and boil water! They also want to prepare thank-you ceremonies for those children."

"Thank you?"

Hearing these three words, Sun Xiangfu took a meaningful look at Wu Meiniang, and knew that she was playing tricks again, and she would not expose it. This time when he came to Shannan Road, in order to let the kings experience the simple farm life, Li Shimin did not How many personal belongings are they allowed to bring, and when all their things are given out, the fun will really begin.

After being interrupted by Wu Meiniang, Sun Xiangfu resumed the conversation he had just had with Samurai Xun.

To open up large-scale agricultural and pasture lands overseas, such as pastures in Australia and farms in Luzon. In fact, more than two years ago, Lingnan's fleet has already started to operate, transporting some crops and species suitable for farming. After arriving at those places, if you want to expand it to a certain scale before the stable sea transportation route is opened up, and to make up for Datang, you still need some artificial assistance. After all, even after three years, the entire sea line Well developed, farming and animal husbandry in the local area has only been promoted for five years.

"Master head, why is it that our Tang Dynasty has to go to such a far place to open up industries, wouldn't it be good to bring all the people from those places to our Datang? Don't we still have a lot of land that has not been developed?"

Regarding the two questions raised by Wu Meiniang, Sun Xiangfu, as a teacher, naturally wanted to answer them, saying, "Now moving those aborigines to the mainland of our Tang Dynasty will certainly increase our population and increase our population to a certain extent." Productivity. But it is only a short-term benefit, we should look at the longer term.

With development, the local population increases, and the resources that can be enjoyed by each person will become less and less, which will make the people poorer.

Moreover, our overseas development is not just for profit, the most important thing is to exercise our ability to expand outward. In the teacher's view, a country's ability to expand outward is an important symbol of a country's strength. With the idea of ​​sticking to the partial security, then the country tends to become weaker and weaker, because if you keep it for a long time, you will lose it. "

Sun Xiangfu is a later generation. He has some understanding of the dynasties poisoned by the Confucianism that was castrated later. The Song and Ming dynasties, which were powerful for a while, were passively beaten all the year round and eventually perished.

Otherwise, with the population, economy, and industrial capacity of the Song and Ming dynasties, in this world, where would it be the turn of the small barbarians to come out and jump around.

The samurai who heard Sun Xiangfu's words nodded repeatedly. As a merchant, he was not as pedantic as those who came from a Confucian family.

He basically spent the first half of his life in pioneering business routes, and he knew the importance of this pioneering spirit. Seeing his daughter listening to Sun Xiangfu's words, he looked thoughtful, and suddenly thought of a question, Then he opened his mouth and said, "Since Zhengming has already accepted the little girl as an apprentice, then this time, when the old man returns to Chang'an to take up his post, let him stay by your side to listen to your teachings!"

Sun Xiangfu felt that it was all right for the arrangement of the warrior Xun, so he nodded and agreed, but he didn't know that the reason why the warrior Xun brought Wu Meiniang with him, or stayed at home, was not because he really wanted to learn such a profound knowledge, a woman !In the end, she was going to marry someone else, but he just didn't want Wu Meiniang, who was getting smarter by the day, to stay at home and have trouble with her two elder brothers in the house. She had two sons who were too playful, and a daughter who was too smart. This is also impossible.

(End of this chapter)