The rise of the prince

Chapter 541 Tulip Project

"What's the use for you?" He asked Gillian to help organize the words while talking about the meaning of the poem, and then wrote it into a document.

"It's very useful." Li Xingzhou smiled mysteriously, and continued to ask Gillian to help write. It's good that he can write most of the words at his level, and he needs a professional like Gillian to choose words and sentences.

Now the palace has set up many branches along the big river, the Grand Canal, and around the big river. By February this year, it had grown to 26, and the number is still increasing. Among them, the eight in the north are all managed by Yan Kun.

The six schools in the south are all managed by Qifang. The remaining twelve branches are located on Jiangxi Road, Jingbei East Road, Jingbei West Road, Jingdong East Road, and Jingdong East and West Road. They are relatively close to Kaiyuan and are directly managed by the Wangfu. In fact, they are poems. Language management, Yan Yan also helps from time to time, but now that he is old and has limited energy, he spends more time with his family.

Each branch is in charge of business dealings with various merchants in the area, ship supplies, and each branch has one person in charge. Li Xingzhou gave it a fashionable title, called the branch manager.

Some of these people were taught by Yan Kun. In fact, he has already started the task of teaching the next generation. Yan Kun was still very far-sighted when he was managing Tingyu Building.

Others were recommended by Qifang and Shiyu.

But most of them were selected from the old Ministry of King Xiao in the palace.

Although he made the decision on the intelligence collection, personnel recruitment, and news dissemination of the Palace, Gillian helped to write the documents, and the poems were conveyed to Qi Fang and Yan Kun, the two chief executives, but the final implementation relied on these semicolons.

When Gillian finished writing, Li Xingzhou proudly picked it up and read it, "I'll post it tomorrow." Then he pulled Gillian proudly and put it on his lap, and then reached out for the poem, but she avoided it: "How about that?" Remember this day, the sixth day of February, after tonight, this king's great plan will officially begin!"

The poetic language gave him a blank look, and the charm was instantly charming, which made his heart flutter, and the girl became more and more feminine: "It's all nonsense, what a great plan, you're bragging again.

It's a great plan to recruit some savvy small traders.Besides, why do you spend so much time recruiting these people from all over the country? "

Shiyu asked him puzzled.

Shy, Gillian broke free from his big hand and got up to prepare herbal tea for them

In Jingguo, it is not difficult to recruit a few small traders, because Jingguo does not suppress business, so there are countless traders all over the country.

"It's of great use, come here, and I'll tell you quietly." Li Xingzhou said.

Shiyu approached two steps, and was caught off guard by being pulled into his arms, Shiyu was stingy, and lightly thumped his chest: "Again, I'm not in shape, can you stop doing this, you've already been crowned, and you will have a crown in the future." The look of the head of the family."

"Hahahaha, good." Li Xingzhou smiled, and then grasped the poem with dishonest hands.

There is no way, the young guy is just at the age of masculinity and enthusiasm, and it is difficult to control in front of a beauty like Shiyu.

Shiyu sighed, blushed slightly, straightened his collar for him: "You are the prince of the court, you are the general of the town, you are a famous person, how can you be like this all day long."

Li Xingzhou gently picked her up and sat on his lap, "That's outside, I'm your husband at home.

Think about it, you have also been to the ancestral hall of my family, and there are 29 generations of ancestors enshrined in it. Think about it, if any of these generations made a slight mistake, I would not be the person I am today, Li Xingzhou, and I would not met you.

These are at least close to a thousand years ago. When was it a thousand years ago? It was still the Eastern Han Dynasty, and it had to go through various dynasty changes and wars before it could be passed down to this day. How difficult it is.

The unremitting efforts of each generation of ancestors have made me and the Li family today, so."

The poem was also a little moved, "Time is like a vast sea of ​​smoke, so it is really not easy to leave the ancestors. Everyone's hard work has been passed down to this day, so there is such a prosperous scene. Think about it. Although I can't remember each of them, I know each of them. , but it’s also epic.”

"That's right!" Li Xingzhou was overjoyed, and the poem finally understood: "So as the head of the family, this king can't let down the efforts of countless ancestors, and needs to be more diligent to reproduce, so that we can't feel sorry for them. Right."

Shiyu was taken aback for a moment, and finally came to his senses. In an instant, the emotion in his heart dissipated, and he stomped on him in shame and anger. It turned out that he had been talking for a long time because of this.
But after thinking about what he said just now, I also feel that it has profound meaning, not just nonsense, so he whispered: "That will have to be at night, and there is no shame during the day, and you are so busy."

Before he finished speaking, Shiyu suddenly realized that he seemed to have been led astray by him, "You haven't said exactly what you are recruiting for."

"Hahahaha." Li Xingzhou laughed. When he is under pressure, teasing his wife is the way to relieve stress. Poetry is too serious, and people who are too serious are good, but too serious will make the brain unable to keep up with the happy thoughts, so he always If he can tease her, he always succeeds.

"It's useful." Li Xingzhou was still trying to keep it.

Dissatisfied with the poem: "pretending to be a ghost."

"I'll go to your room at night, and then I'll talk slowly, there's plenty of time." He winked.

Shiyu looked unnatural, avoiding his scorching gaze, "It's up to you, but you are not allowed to bring Sister Gillian, I... I am not as slutty as you."

"I know." Li Xingzhou smirked.

"Since it is a great plan, it should have a name, Tulip Project? Or Clivia Project?" he said to himself.

"I don't know why, Tulip? What is Clivia?" Shiyu asked in confusion.

"Hey, I'll explain to you one-on-one tonight." Li Xingzhou was suddenly in a good mood, and finally decided to call him Tulip.

Tulip is a native plant, while clivia is an exotic plant introduced from Africa, so the "Tulip Project" is more grounded.

Tulip Project.
The purpose of the Tulip Project is very simple, that is to destroy the Xia Kingdom. Of course, Li Xingzhou does not intend to achieve this purpose through military means, but through business.

Jingguo's policy of emphasizing business and trade is a great opportunity, and the same is true for Xiaguo, who even has imperial merchants.

But the imperial business is not a good thing, because the imperial business may also represent monopoly and unfair competition.

But no matter what, since the alliance between Xixia and Jingguo was signed, businessmen from the two countries can communicate freely without any restrictions. This is a great opportunity!
Many people probably think that it is not uncommon for Jingguo to attach importance to commerce, but the fact is that in ancient dynasties, it is very difficult to not only repress commerce, let alone commerce.

Even if you look at Chinese history, among the various dynasties since the unification of Qin Shihuang, there is only one that does not restrain business, and that is the Song Dynasty.

What is commendable is that Song not only does not restrain, but also attaches great importance to business, which is very rare.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, long-term hegemony, the most powerful overlord, Jin, was also a commercial country.

It is worth noting that the Song Dynasty was another era of ideological collision after the contention of a hundred schools of thought in the Spring and Autumn Period, and because of the ancestral motto of the Song Dynasty "not to sin with words", the ideological contention in the Song Dynasty was very intense and magnificent.

It is a pity that the Song Dynasty was surrounded by foreign enemies, and faced with the situation that powerful foreign enemies could not resist, the free collision of ideas finally came to nothing. It could only change from open competition to "loyalty" that served the rule and united the country.

Song Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was an all-rounder in both civil and military affairs. It can be said that he was talented and general. He quelled most of his worries and uttered the heroic words "How can others sleep soundly on the side of the couch?" Unfortunately, he died young, probably because of the root cause of his youth.

After his death, his younger brother Zhao Kuangyi succeeded to the throne, but his younger brother is really an idiot.

Zhao Kuangyin died at the age of 49. If he could live to around seventy, Song Dynasty might have a more stable external environment to cope with internal ideological changes.

If there were no powerful foreign enemies, such as the Liao Kingdom, which dominated the north;

Because whether it was before the Song Dynasty or after the Song Dynasty, all the feudal dynasties in the Central Plains suppressed commerce and trade, and there were various constraints.

For example, during the Han and Tang Dynasties, merchants and their descendants were not allowed to take part in the imperial examinations, not to wear silk and satin, not to ride in a carriage, etc.

After the Song Dynasty, there were merchants in the Ming Dynasty who were not allowed to wear silk and satin, restricted and stipulated the system of riding in various specifications, and there were also sea bans.
But in the Song Dynasty, none of these!

Merchants in the Song Dynasty could wear whatever they wanted, ride whatever they wanted, and do business wherever they wanted. The children of merchants, craftsmen, and even themselves could take the imperial examination!

The Song Dynasty never thought of using commerce as a weapon.

Jingguo's emphasis on business gave Li Xingzhou a chance. Sometimes it's not just the sword that kills without blinking an eye.

　The update has been very problematic these days, I'm really sorry~~, Borderlands has been waiting for seven years, and it's finally out!When I got home from get off work, I couldn’t help playing for a while, but the time passed by accident, and I kowtowed to apologize!

　　
　
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