After being exiled, I led my whole family to rebel.

Chapter 290 The Disliked Master Shi

Xu Zhenying continued: "The design drawings of firearms are worth millions, and the drawings of this ten-arrow crossbow are probably worth hundreds of thousands taels. I just don't know if King Ming's pocket has enough money... By the way... We also need one When the water in the bowl is level, the king of Ming in the east will be there, the king of Zhoushan in the west will also be there, and the Zhou Dynasty will also be there. In this way, won't our officials have enough salary for the past three or four years? "

One conversation opened up the minds of everyone in the room!

Pang Xiaohua asked: "Your Highness, aren't you afraid that they will learn our serial crossbow and use it against us?"

Xu Zhenying smiled: "Didn't the institute have a new repeating crossbow that can fire infinitely? This weapon is already being eliminated, so naturally it has to show its final value."

Everyone was stunned, could you still do this? !
Xu Zhenying raised his eyes and looked at them, and said seriously: "This arms reselling is a hugely profitable business. Let's find a few people to make the fake identities more reliable, and specialize in reselling the things that our Jinzhou government doesn't want. Wait until the firearms continue to improve. Finally, drawings of old firearms can also be sold to them.”

Everyone was frightened, this time it was not a repeating crossbow, but a firearm!
The special weapon of their Jinzhou Prefecture!
As if anticipating that they were going to stop them, Xu Zhenying had already raised his hand to interrupt their speech: "It's useless to talk more. No matter how well we hide, they will penetrate every hole. It's unrealistic to keep the firearms for a lifetime. Besides, give them the blueprints, They can’t do it either, and they will have to buy raw materials from us in the end. After all, as long as they don’t develop industry, popularize education, and learn our chemistry and arithmetic, they will eventually be slaughtered by us.”

Everyone looked thoughtful.

Some people even think that Xu Zhenying's words are simply a subversive idea.

Sure enough, His Highness's thinking is so wild and unconstrained that prisoners like them can't match it.

"By the way, there are also those glass beads. Let the people in the institute control the production. They can produce more than a dozen a year. As the saying goes, rare things are more valuable. If there are more things, they are worthless. After they are done, let the Propaganda Department We can create some gimmicks for the glass beads, change their names, such as beads that have been blessed by the Buddha, and then send them to Jiangsu and Zhejiang through our trade routes. People there are stupid and have a lot of money, so we asked the corrupt officials of the Zhou Dynasty to give them to us. Bleeding."

Qu Min followed: "In this way, it is the same as the rich people of the Zhou Dynasty supporting our common people, killing two birds with one stone."

"That's right. Let the people in the institute use their brains and allocate a special group to produce those flashy things, such as glass beads and pocket watches, specially for the rich and officials of the Zhou Dynasty. We will make money from them Money, let their money support our own court.”

Everyone was frightened when they heard this, thinking that His Highness, as expected, could think of such a long-term plan and not even spare the wallets in the enemy camp!

He is really tricky!
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In a blink of an eye, it’s another year of warm weather and flowers blooming.

The war in the east took a break, and the two sides fought for half a year. At the beginning, King Ming's troops were still vigorous and vigorous, with a hundred thousand troops pressing the battle, vowing to take back the lost city.

Unexpectedly, Jinzhou Prefecture was directly loaded with ten firearms. With more than ten consecutive "bang bang bang" sounds, as the city wall was blown up, countless soldiers died in the flying fireworks, and their lofty ideals were also shattered. .

Half a year has passed, and they have not made any progress, and the people in Jiangling Mansion seem to have made up their mind not to expand outward. The strategy of Jiang Yongkang and others is to only defend but not attack.

The two parties have been anxious about Jiangling Mansion.

But now for some reason, the soldiers on King Ming's side seemed to be exhausted by the firearms, or they were discussing tactics. The two parties had not fought against each other for a month or two.

During the Spring Festival this year, Jiangling Mansion was unusually calm.

Jiangling Mansion was merged into Xu Zhenying's command not long ago, just over a year in total. But in just one year, the people felt that their lives had changed dramatically.

In the first year, the people only knew that many, many people came from Jinzhou Mansion!

County magistrates, propagandists, first village chiefs, technicians, and researchers all flocked to Jiangling Mansion.

The local people in Jiangling Prefecture have never seen such a big scene in their lives. Facing so many officials, they are expecting and curious in their hearts.

What are all these people doing?

It is said that the green-headed thief has a good life, but what kind of good method is it?
Where did the king get so much money to support these officials?

Especially the new prince, whose name is Song Luo!

She was actually a girl in her teens!

God——

This news can be said to have been discussed in Jiangling Mansion for a month!

If Jiang Yongkang, nicknamed the "Cold-Faced Madman", hadn't been stationed in Jiangling Mansion with tens of thousands of troops, the people of Jiangling Mansion would have started a riot long ago!
Although they were the subjects of Prince Ming in the past, and their lives had not changed much, they would not just randomly send a woman to take care of them like His Highness Prince Zhao, right?
The people in the academy were so angry that they blew their beards and glared. They locked themselves in the study room and formed a group to scold His Royal Highness Prince Zhao who was far away in Jinzhou Mansion for being immoral!
Even though she became the king as a woman, she actually allowed women to be civil servants. Even before those female civil servants came, the entire Jiangling Mansion was already enveloped in an atmosphere of excitement, just like that thin layer. The membrane of cicada wings can be torn apart at any time!

It's so gentle!

No one thought that Song Luo would be the first to arrive at Jiangling Mansion before other officials were in place!

The little girl had one person, one horse and one sword. The small bag on her back only contained two changes of clothes and the appointment document issued by Jinzhou Prefecture. She came like this, without any warning!
The officials who were still serving in Jiangling Prefecture were so frightened that they went to pick him up. Unexpectedly, they suddenly changed their minds and went directly to the cotton planting base!

After walking around for a whole day, walking around and asking around, I found out everything about the situation.

That afternoon, Minister of Commerce Qi Mingzhen also arrived at work in full swing with dozens of cotton-growing workers.

The two girls' working styles are surprisingly consistent.

That is to say, Shi Maoqing, the remaining deputy governor, was not given any chance to perform.

As soon as people entered the city, they rushed directly to the mountains and forests to see the cotton base.

Shi Maoqing felt like he was facing a formidable enemy, with cold sweat rolling down his forehead. At this moment, he finally understood the meaning of the legendary saying "Everyone from Jinzhou Prefecture is a madman".

How about bullying someone who is young and handsome, not cooperating with their work, and giving them power? That really doesn't work at all.

Why.

The garrison at Jiangling Mansion is still guarding.

Jiang Yongkang...that's someone not easy to mess with!
And that firearm... The ground was shaking all day long in the past few months, who would dare to cause trouble at a time like this!

Shi Maoqing could only climb up with his old arms and legs, and the few people under his command. Incidentally, Jiang Yongkang disliked that there were too few people in the government office, and more than a hundred people were temporarily assigned to him. The top of the mountain.

Unexpectedly, before the greeting was uttered, and before Shi Maoqing could even tell who the two women were in front of him, Shi Maoqing was bombarded with questions.

"Master Shi, how much land does our mountainous area occupy? How many people are there on the mountain? Have you discussed the relocation plan with them in the early stage? Also, have fruit trees been planted on this mountain top? What is the harvest situation in the past five years? Is it possible? Calculate your fertility?" Mr. Shi couldn't help but blush, and kept wiping the sweat from his forehead, "This...this...I..."

For goodness sake, who cares about the harvests of the past five years? !

Isn't this really a show of strength for him?

But the woman's tone seemed to make sense.

On the other hand, the older woman next to her with a woman's hair was more tactful compared to the aggressiveness of the young woman. "Don't embarrass Mr. Shi! He hasn't gone to the cadre class in Jinzhou Prefecture to learn and reform." "

Mr. Shi couldn't tell whether it was a compliment or a sarcasm, so he could only laugh awkwardly.

The people in Jinzhou Mansion must be very cunning.

It was obvious that as soon as the woman was freed from the siege, Song Luo immediately became submissive and his tone became softer, "Master Shi, tell me what you did."

Master Shi immediately understood the identities of the two people.

The younger woman should be the new prince of Jiangling Mansion, Song Luo.

The person who just helped him out was the Deputy Minister of Agriculture and Export who was responsible for promoting cotton this time.

Almost all those who reached the ministerial level were close ministers of the emperor. No wonder Song Luo treated them very politely.

"Reporting to you two adults, before you two came, I just listened to the officers and soldiers under Minister Jiang talking about the state of Jinzhou Prefecture, so I followed the example of a tiger and a cat, and first cleaned up the National Education Academy, and then resettled it. Dozens of teachers from the academy have also mentioned the matter of raising pigs with the villagers, but since they have never done such standardized breeding, they still want to wait until the new Lord takes office at the beginning of the year to start the formal work. At that time, I heard that our area is mainly growing cotton, so I sent people to circle the hills in advance. Now the hills cover nearly 10,000 acres, and it is initially estimated that we can recruit at least 1,000 people. "

"Ten thousand acres?" Song Luo frowned slightly, obviously dissatisfied with this scale.

However, Qi Mingzhen said: "Ten thousand acres is probably not enough. Since we want to form a large-scale cultivation, it will be at least 100,000 acres."

"One hundred thousand acres?" Mr. Shi bluffed, "But I don't have much fertile land in Jiangling Prefecture. If all cotton is planted, what will happen to the people's livelihood next year? What will so many people eat? What will happen to taxes?"

Master Shi obviously saw Song Luo's frown deepening.

He was at a loss for a moment, wondering what he had said wrong.

Why is it that this is the first time they meet, and it seems that the new prince is already dissatisfied with him?
Qi Er said with a smile: "One hundred thousand acres is not a scale. Mr. Shi may not know how big the market for cotton-padded clothes has been in the past two years. In the first year alone, we sold 100,000 pieces of cotton-padded clothes. This time, no matter what, You have to buy a million pieces, and a cotton coat costs at least two taels of cotton. How many acres of cotton do you have to plant?"

Mr. Shi was startled, "A million pieces?"

He had only heard that cotton-padded clothes were very popular, but he didn't know they could sell so many.

Millions of cotton-padded clothes, can they be sold?
"Have Master Shi ever seen cotton clothes?"

Mr. Shi shook his head and smiled awkwardly, "Our Jiangling Mansion only changed hands last year. I don't know many new things in Jinzhou Mansion. I only know that the cotton-padded clothes are said to be light and warm, and they are expensive. Even ordinary people can't buy them."

Song Luo's face seemed to soften slightly, "That's right. Jiangling Mansion was still the territory of Prince Ming last year, so the cotton-padded clothes probably haven't been circulated yet. It's normal that you don't know."

Mr. Shi probably understood.

It turns out that I was disliked by Master Song just now.

Song Luo continued: "These cotton-padded clothes do not need to occupy fertile land, just ordinary mountainous land. There is a method of composting in Jinzhou Prefecture. Even if it is a newly reclaimed mountain forest, if we act quickly, we can plant these ten in time in the spring. Ten thousand acres.”

Master Shi was extremely shocked this time. Fortunately, he had carefully selected the forest where the fruits were grown, thinking that they would at least have some fertility.

Who would have thought that Mr. Song would directly decide to reclaim the mountains and forests.

In this way, all the things he did in the early stage were in vain. It is no wonder that Master Song looked bad at first.

After working with him for so long, it was all in vain?
Master Shi felt even worse.

Qi Er then said: "I just saw this mountain forest. It should have been used to grow fruit trees, right? The land is very good, but I heard from the people that the harvest is not very good. I happened to bring a group of people from Jinzhou Prefecture who were specially planted. Fruit masters, these masters already have rich experience in Qianzhou. The yellow plums and bayberries in Qianzhou are all handled by them. Now they have become very famous in the Zhou Dynasty. Let them show it to us in Jiangling Mansion. , what kind of fruit is suitable for us to grow here.”

Shi Maoqing was immediately overjoyed, "That's great! Qianzhou's yellow plums and bayberries are also somewhat famous in our Jiangling Mansion. They are almost exclusively supplied to dignitaries, and the price is extremely expensive! If the common people of Jiangling Mansion can also If we grow our own special fruits, won’t the common people’s livelihood be improved?”

Seeing that Shi Maoqing never left the common people, Song Luo thought that he was an honest and honest official, so it was no wonder that he could stay in Jiangling Mansion.

In this way, Song Luo would no longer care about his efficiency.

The people of the Zhou Dynasty were accustomed to never seeing any good things. As long as they were good people, there was no harm in training them.

Qi Er said with a smile: "The price is high because of the high cost of long-distance transportation. There is also a huge cold storage in Qianzhou, which is specially used to store fresh fruits, oh, and tea. Otherwise, how can we ensure that the fruits will last for a long time? Fresh. Didn’t Mr. Shi realize that the buying and selling cycle of Qianzhou yellow plums is longer than that of other plums?”

Shi Maoqing was stunned again, "Cold storage? This... the climate in our place is relatively warm, but we can't find a natural cold storage like the Qianzhou Cave..."

"It's not natural, it's the basement cold storage we built ourselves, with homemade ice cubes, which plays a role in refrigeration and preservation." Qi Er smiled and shook his head, "Master Shi, there will be a cadre training in Lan County soon. "Ban, I think you still have to go to class first and come back after a few months of training."

Qi Er's tone was sincere, without any trace of ridicule or disgust, as if he sincerely wanted him to study.

Shi Maoqing's old face was a little worried.

This is being despised.

He did quite well during the Zhou Dynasty.

Besides the fact that he doesn't like flattery, who among the common people doesn't praise him as Shi Maoqing as a good official?

But why did he get disliked many times when he reached the borders of Jinzhou Mansion?

Song Luo said sincerely: "Master Shi, we have to spend several years in Jiangling Mansion. Don't think too much. We people from Jinzhou Mansion don't like to play tricks. That's one thing, one thing, and another thing." Secondly, it's always about the matter and not the person. As for you, don't mind if I speak directly, we will be more efficient if we speak directly. Not only you, but also the dozen or so officials who remain in Jiangling Mansion, including others. The same goes for the state capital. Anyone who stays in the Zhou Dynasty must go to the cadre training class. "