Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 228 Keeping a low profile

Chapter 232

Now, after only one year of development, Qingzhou is not only fully self-sufficient, but also because of ecological chain breeding and a large number of workshops settled in various parts of Qingzhou, Qingzhou has instantly become a prosperous place.

Because of the large amount of commercial tax revenue, Ran Ming can use the land of Qingzhou to support an army of [-] cavalry, including the Modao army in the gold-consuming cave.

Ran Ming said: "It is true!"

Hearing what Ran Ming said, Wang Meng showed a pensive expression.

Ran Ming is a person that Wang Meng can't see through. He uses the way of politics to lure him with profit.But Ran Ming has gentle methods, and not all of them are overbearing from the Legalists.Ever since Dong Zhongshu respected Confucianism alone, Confucianism has been dominant, while Mohism, law, military, and agriculture have declined, but Ran Ming has mastered thaumaturgy. If you look closely, it is more like Confucianism and Mohism, combining the names and methods of a hundred schools of thought miscellaneous concept.

Wang Meng himself is also a pure Confucian scholar. He has studied Confucianism, military affairs, law, and fame.

And Wang Mengbisheng's wish is to become a wise man through the ages like Zhuge Liang.

Sure enough, Ran Ming changed the subject and said: "In the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, a hundred schools of thought contended to make Qin powerful and swept the six kingdoms. Today's chaotic world has many similarities with the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period. There are 360 ​​lines in the world, and all trades and industries need to exist. Today, Momen, famous schools, and Zongheng schools have almost disappeared, if all schools of thought have cut off their inheritance in my lifetime, what will we have to face our ancestors after we die?"

"How can this be done?" Wang Meng said, "Ever since Master Dong respected Confucianism, Confucianism has been dominated by one school for a long time. Now that he recommends hundreds of schools, I am afraid that he will be resisted and resisted by Confucian scholars!"

Ran Ming laughed disapprovingly and said, "Fish is what I want, and bear's paw is also what I want. You can't have both, and those who give up fish and take bear's paw are also. Life is also what I want; righteousness is also what I want Also. The two cannot be combined, and those who sacrifice their lives for righteousness also. From this sentence, we can see that the sages have given us a clear answer about the choice, comparing the two benefits with the more important, and the two evils with the lesser! Military strategists It can stabilize the country and the world, and the farm family can nourish the world, so if it is for the common people in the world, Gu would rather give up Confucianism and promote hundreds of schools!"

Although Wang Meng understood that Ran Ming's words were suspected of being unreasonable, he did not find a reason to refute them. Although Confucianism can educate the world and lead them to be good, but facing tigers and wolves, using Confucianism teachings to persuade them to be good is undoubtedly unreasonable. It's playing the piano to a cow.

Niu Shi and Wei Meng didn't know what Ran Ming and Wang Meng were talking about, but seeing their unnatural expressions, Wei Meng hurriedly smoothed things over and said, "Please look, Your Highness, this is the track car we built according to what His Highness said. !"

Following Wei Meng forward, after seven turns and eight turns, Ran Ming came to the warehouse of the arsenal. A row of warehouses is half hidden in a mountain depression. If you don't go closer, it's hard to find it. There is something hidden here.

Walking into the warehouse, Ran Ming only felt a strong smell of iron, and as the clerk lifted up the covering black cloth, there were all gleaming mo knives and Mingguang armor painted black. I went to another warehouse, which contained horizontal knives, countless spears, spears, shields and horizontal knives!

In comparison, the power of the Hengdao in foot combat is far from comparable to that of the Hanhuan First Sword. Although it is expensive, Ran Ming still intends to use the Hengdao to gradually replace the current military-style knives and guns.

No need to ask, Ran Ming also saw that although this warehouse is secret, the terrain is steep, easy to defend and difficult to attack, correspondingly there is a fatal problem, transportation is very inconvenient!

At this moment, there was a sudden rumbling sound, and Ran Ming quickly ran to follow the sound, and saw the railroad tracks half buried in the soil outside the warehouse. The distance between the two rails was about four and a half feet wide. The root track is about three fingers wide.

Ran Ming couldn't help but sigh in his heart, have you ever seen a three-foot-wide track?How much weight can this hold?You can see the dissatisfaction on Ran Ming's face.

Wei Meng hurriedly explained: "I originally wanted to use the steel rails that His Highness said, but it was too wasteful of steel, so I adopted a compromise method, embedding the steel rails into the sleepers, which can save one-third of the cost." No. [-] steel! And it doesn’t affect the effect of the rail car!”

Hearing this, Ran Ming was also relieved. According to the technology of this era, it is impossible to manufacture a train, at least there is no such technical foundation now.

Ran Ming saw that this kind of rail car was actually similar to the coal carriages of later generations. Each carriage was about three feet long, and it was said that it could hold three hundred sets of Mingguang armor or two hundred Mo knives.Only five tons of goods are loaded. In comparison, there is no self-weight of a carriage. This kind of narrow track can fully meet the load-bearing needs!
Ran Ming didn't see the car going down, but unexpectedly found a steel lock on the track, and asked puzzledly, "What is this and what is it for?"

Wei Meng explained: "When I first made the track pulley, it was too fast when going down the mountain, and it was prone to rollover, and it was not easy to pull the empty carriage up from the mountain. Later, one of my apprentices thought of a way to turn the track A double-track track around the mountain is built, and when the heavy vehicle goes down the mountain, the steel lock is used to hold the empty vehicle at the bottom of the mountain, and the heavy vehicle slows down to go down the mountain without danger, and the empty vehicle can be pulled up the mountain effortlessly!"

When Ran Ming heard this, he was suddenly happy. The ancient people were really smart enough to think of using potential energy.

Ran Ming didn't need to look to know that they must have built the track into a "U" shape according to the mountain.

Sure enough, Ran Ming looked along the rail, and found that this section of rail was a "U" shape, and the location of the warehouse happened to be at the bottom of the "U".

In the arsenal, Ran Ming didn't stop much, just took a rough look around, and then left Licheng.

Go to Guanggu city, Qingzhou government office!
On the way to Guanggu City, Ran Ming, Wang Zhi, Liu Mo, and Li Shi were very happy.

Ran Ming neither took charge of government affairs nor raised any opinions on the future administration of Jiaodong Kingdom.

Wang Meng was very angry when he saw Ran Ming become like this!Unbearable, Wang Meng finally boarded Ran Ming's special car.Wang Meng cupped his hands to Ran Ming, but did not speak yet.

Ran Ming said: "It's really a rare visitor, why do you have a spare car to get together?"

"Your Highness, is it because of this little setback in front of you, because you are about to go to Jiankang as an envoy, and you have no fighting spirit, and you have forgotten the great ambition in your chest?"

Seeing that the two were so tense, Li secretly winked at Liu Mo and Wang Zhi, and they understood.Asking Jing Zhan to stop, the three of them, together with the two book boys, also left the carriage.

"Your Highness shouldn't be a person who is waiting to die, bowing his head and resigning to his fate?" Wang Meng said with a smile: "Don't you think Your Highness wants to go one step further?"

Ran Mingdao: "Gu is still young. To put it bluntly, if you are still young, how can you be able to win the world. At this time, Gu is considered to be the last of the day. Gu is not the eldest son of the father, and he has an older brother. Successor to the position of prince. Lost land. Lonely desire to promote business and reuse poor scholars to balance the increasingly powerful gentry. He is regarded as a thorn in the eye and a thorn in the flesh by the gentry in the world. The right time, the right place, and the harmony of people, what can we do alone?"

Wang Meng nodded sadly.

Ran Ming is right, if Ran Ming is not a 15-year-old boy, if he is ten years older, then by relying on his means of turning his hands into clouds and raining his hands in the military, Zhao will lose his deer, and the world will chase after him. It's not like there is no chance to win the world.

However, as Ran Min's second son, King Jiaodong of the Great Wei Dynasty, the more capable Ran Ming was, the more restless the crown prince would be, and conflicts between the two would inevitably arouse.

Although, as Ran Ming said, he lost the right time, place and people, but Wang Meng did not give up.Ran Ming emphasizes business and agriculture, uses thaumaturgy to benefit the world, employs poor people, employs people on their own merits, regardless of background, and employs talents on their own, which coincides with his ambition.

Because of his birth, it is difficult for Wang Meng to have a bright future in this era.

Wang Meng also thought about becoming an official to assist the Sima family in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. According to his ability, if the resources and connections mastered by the Jin family could be used by him.In a few years, Wang Meng will be able to allow the Jin army to recover the North and unify the world.

However, the power of the Jin Dynasty is controlled by Wang Xie Gu Luhe's big family on Saturday. As a disciple of a poor family, he will never be accepted by the noble families of the Jin Dynasty.

Of course, Wang Meng had other options if he chose to join the Jin Dynasty, such as joining the Qin Dynasty, but Di Qin didn’t value the Han people at all, and even the Han people in Guanzhong had only low-level officials, and the government was in the hands of Di human nobles.

Liangguo, Yanguo, and Daiguo were all in the same situation. Except for Ran Ming, even Ran Min couldn't trust Wang Meng for free like Ran Ming did.

Wang Meng said: "Although Your Highness has neither the right time nor the right place, it would be absurd to say that there is no harmony between people! His Highness's advantage is harmony with people. His Highness loves soldiers like children, and shares joys and sorrows with soldiers. The soldiers sincerely support you. Your Highness created Xuan paper to benefit all the scholars in the world. In fact, the scholars in the world are still optimistic about His Highness, but His Highness does not have the name of orthodoxy, and it is difficult to bring enough benefits to the nobles. They naturally abandon His Highness. The sons are different. No matter how talented the poor family officials are, they can only be officials or aides. They will never make it to the top. Your highness is their hope and future. If your highness consolidates the current people and cultivates in Jiaodong, Prosper business, use business to raise soldiers, as many as 20 years, as little as [-] years, you will have the strength to compete with the prince!"

In the carriage, Wang Meng and Ran Ming proposed many measures for the 23 counties of Jiaodong country to cultivate their lives, promote business, and open sea trade routes.

Wang Meng said: "Recuperate, hibernate and wait, from the current point of view, it is correct, but has your Highness ever thought about causing some troubles for Sima Shi, Huan Wen, Murong Ke, and Fu Sheng?"

"If you're not in the position, you don't seek to govern yourself," Ran Ming said, "The most important thing Gu should do now is to hide his strength and bide his time."

"Since this is the case, Your Highness can continue the previous plan!" Wang Meng said with firm eyes: "Train the soldiers of the Beifu to prepare for unrealistic needs?"

(End of this chapter)