Villager of Daming

Chapter 1225: Lightning Photographs Moving Back and Forth

Ling'er knows about the glazed jade here, and has more detailed information than what can be found officially.

In fact, there has not been much extensive mining here in history, and it is an important part of the Hongshan culture.

In later dynasties, there was no development here, that is, there was no special protective mining.

This jade is amazing, but many people think it is not valuable, not as valuable as Lantian jade, and even not as valuable as the later Hetian jade.

"Let's go pick some jade! The Shoushan stone over there was awarded to the ministers, and with the placement and carving techniques provided by Xiaqiu Village, some people are willing to buy it for collection.

The glazed rock jade here is easy to carve. Uh... can we find more jade that is difficult to carve from others, and raise the price after processing?

We still have to wait until everyone becomes wealthy, otherwise no one will pay to buy it, how about selling it to the barbarians?"

After listening to this, Lao Wu thought about it and suggested that Shoushan Stone has been successfully promoted and will not cheat the poor. Of course, it will not cheat the rich either. There are indeed few of them, and even fewer good ones.

Even though there was a lot of it, and some people used it to build walls, it was not enough according to the population base of the Ming Dynasty.

What are released now are ordinary and bad ones. The ordinary ones are very expensive. If the carving craftsmanship is good, ordinary stones can also be carved beautifully.

Keep the ones with better quality. In the future, when there are more wealthy people in the Ming Dynasty, you can release one and sell it for thousands of strings of cash.

"There is very hard jade in the southwest, which most people cannot process. Once we deal with their King Liang, we will go and dig.

Be careful when digging, don't blow it up randomly, protect the difficult-to-dig areas first, and don't allow others to pass through.

Then we vigorously promoted that the jade from that place was not as good as that from other places. Japan had some, and the rest was in the places where our Ming navy went, but none of them could compare to that place. "

Ling'er remembers what Brother Hanhan taught her, it's called Jadeite, go further south in the colorful clouds, Brother Hanhan said he knows a lot of good mining areas and you can mine anywhere you want.

"Yes, pick, slowly, good, adjust, keep, eat, okay, um! Hehehehe..."

Zhu Wentian grilled a bunch of skewers of meat and urged everyone to come and get them, as they would not taste good if they got cold.

He was indeed eyeing jadeite. Jadeite can be found in Myanmar, Japan and North America, but jadeite from those two places is not acceptable.

He knew the locations of many old mines. There was no other way, he didn't need to remember them deliberately because those old mines were just too famous.

Jade is becoming more and more valuable with the economic development of China and Japan.

Those things that I once didn’t want but were not of very good color, even the white ones, later became very expensive.

When that country was at its most powerful, the sale of jade alone accounted for half of its GDP.

The income from all other industries combined makes up the other half, and this is the importance of jadeite.

Therefore, there are wars there all year round because it is really profitable.

The key point is that half of the GDP is only the country's income. The income of some local forces is not counted into the country's income.

If it is counted, it would account for more than 90 percent.

For the sake of long-term planning, we must find a way to make that place a part of the Ming Dynasty's territory.

The next step is publicity. People in every place are generally willing to accept the jade that they can produce.

Agate is naturally precious in places where it is produced. How can you own it if you can't get it? Increase publicity, for example, steamed buns are eternal and will be passed down forever. It represents life and family happiness. If you have more steamed buns, you will be full!

To what extent should it be promoted? As long as the people of the Ming Dynasty like something, people all over the world will flock to it. Even if it is a pile of shit, it has to be good for the Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty devalued things that it didn't have, saying they were worthless. Analyzing from all angles, why is there no difference between rubies and ordinary stones? Because...

"I'm used to eating Hanhan's grilled skewers, but what am I going to do in the future? I won't be able to eat them anymore!"

Liu Sheng didn't know what the village guard of Xiaqiu Village was thinking! He didn't care about the jade. He took a piece of meat, chewed it a few times, and swallowed it into his stomach, showing a troubled look.

"You stay here for a while, and someone will take over later. Among those sergeants who came to help, someone will be selected to replace you.

You should first respond to the offer to be an official in Tianfu. If you cannot enter the imperial city, you should gain some experience in the local area. Otherwise, even if you enter, you will not be able to maintain your stability with the help of your father.

In the future, officials of the Ming Dynasty must be promoted little by little from the local level. In fact... uh... you should go to Taiping Prefecture!
Go to Taiping Prefecture to be an official, then enter the Imperial City to get familiar with the situation, then go to Ningguo Prefecture, then enter the Imperial City again, go out to Yingtian Prefecture, and finally enter the Imperial City. "

The village head understood what Liu Sheng meant. If the other party missed home, he could make arrangements.

However, the other party was only working in Dingliaoduwei, dealing with matters concerning the Jurchens, Goryeo, and Northern Yuan.

In terms of people's livelihood, it was different from the Ming Dynasty. It was first moved to Taiping Prefecture, which was not as developed as Ningguo Prefecture, but it had the Ma'anshan iron mine.

Now I am familiar with some of the situations in the mining industry, including some economic operation models that are similar to those of Ningguo Prefecture.

Half a year is enough to enter the Imperial City. Even if you are not a fifth-rank official, you can enter the Imperial City, depending on your position.

The post of Zuo Shiyi was of the eighth rank, usually of the eighth rank. Was it small? But he could enter the imperial city and had the power to speak directly to the emperor.

Zhang Jiuling in the Tang Dynasty was the Zuo Shiyi. As an eighth-rank official, he impeached Yao Chong and Lu Huaishen, two prime ministers. In the end, he failed to impeach them, but he got the assistant minister of the Ministry of Personnel removed.

Zhang said that this person was also a prime minister. Zhang said that he had never done anything better than Yao Chong. He left. Zhang Jiuling saw that he could not impeach him, and that the prime minister who could support him was finished. So he left! He went home!

After returning home, he was bored and wrote a letter to Li Longji, asking him to build a road, and thus the Meiguan Ancient Road came into being.

Liu Sheng's father was a minister in the Ministry of War. After returning to the imperial city, he could go to Xiaqiao Village for meals, but he couldn't go there every day.

But you can order food. If you don’t want to eat at Guanglu Temple, Xiaqiao Village will give you a menu and ask you in advance what you want to eat. After you order, it will be delivered to you on a small train.

In this way, you can go back and forth between the central government and the local governments, learn more knowledge, and if you perform well, you can stay in the imperial city forever.

Even if you do a good job and become a prime minister in the future...that's impossible!
From now on, there will only be six ministries, and the position of prime minister will no longer exist. Want to share power with the emperor? Dream on!

Liu Sheng's mouth was slightly open. He had just taken another piece of meat and chewed it twice before he was dazed: "..."

He couldn't figure out how it worked, why it moved back and forth, and how long it stayed in one place.

His throat moved and he forced himself to swallow the unchewed meat. Just as he was about to ask for details, the door suddenly opened and a communications soldier came in.

"Report! We found Northern Yuan army scouts in the northeast. They didn't find us. Our forward scout chose a good spot. We estimate there are 50 Northern Yuan scouts. They were hiding under the trees and were seen by lightning."

The signalman reported that the Northern Yuan scouts hid under a tree during a thunderstorm and were exposed by a flash of lightning.

(End of this chapter)