Great Wei Overlord

Chapter 56
Chapter 057
"How did you find me?" Liu Wei showed an unbelievable expression, and asked puzzledly: "It's definitely not the first time I have appeared in this way. I have traveled all over the world, and no one has ever seen through my identity!"

Ran Ming sighed in his heart, should he tell her that he smelled it?Wouldn't Liu Mo call himself a dog nose in the future?Even if she didn't dare to speak in person, she might think so in her heart.

Ran Ming said with a faint smile: "Actually, you have exposed a lot of flaws. First, men have Adam's apples, and their voices are mixed. Second, it's your hands that betray you, because men can't grow such a beautiful face. Your hands, your fingers are slender, there is no callus on your hands, and they are not like the hands of a merchant. The third is your skin, which is too delicate, like the skin of a baby, and can be broken with a snap of your fingers. Fourth, you have both ears Ear piercing. Although men also have the custom of piercing and wearing earrings, they are all partial earrings. Fifth, it’s yours.

Originally, Ran Ming wanted to say that your breasts are obviously bigger. If a man has big breasts, he should be very strong, but you are thin.However, Ran Ming also considered that this might cause Liu Wei's dissatisfaction.Now Ran Ming begged you again, Liu Mo, so he had to change his words: "Fifth, you are guilty. Just now when I deliberately looked at you, you took a step back involuntarily. This is a sign of guilty conscience!"

"what!"

Liu Wei was a little discouraged and said, "So I missed so many questions!"

Liu Mo said to himself, "Why didn't anyone find out before?"

"It's nothing to do with it, it's already on the table, there's no stake in it, people will expose you when they're full!"

Ran Ming looked at Chen Ying and said, "I just want to make a deal with you!"

"Deal!" Chen Ying said with a wry smile, "I've already been robbed of all my capital by the Xianbei people. Without capital, I can never turn around in this life!"

However, Chen Ying rolled his eyes and thought to himself: "Could it be that there is really such a big guy who sticks his head out for me to kill?"

In fact, Ran Ming also knew that at this time Liu Mo was also out of money, she had no capital now, and had no choice but to cooperate with herself!

Ran Ming led Chen Ying and Liu Mo into his tent, and Ran Ming said flatly, "Sit wherever you want!"

"Thank you, Your Highness, for sitting down!" Liu Mo sat quietly.

Thoughts were running through her head at this moment.

Ran Ming's appearance is handsome, and he is very mature for his age. I have to say that Liu Wei is actually an appearance association. She sits on her knees in the tent, her eyes are quietly staring at Ran Ming, but her head is full of imagination.

However, Ran Ming didn't pay attention to Liu Mo at all, but looked at the fat man Chen Ying and said, "I ship the goods, you contribute, we cooperate!"

Ran Ming didn't beat around the bush, and directly handed the bag of green salt that Lu Yan gave him to Chen Ying.

Chen Ying looked at the snow-white powder and was very puzzled. He dipped a little bit with his finger, put it in front of his nose and smelled it, and then put it in his mouth.

Chen Ying's face twitched from the saltiness, and he said, "Salty, so salty! Is this actually salt?"

"That's right." Ran Ming said, "It's just the best green salt!"

"Could it be that Your Highness wants the grassroots to sell this green salt?" Chen Ying smiled slyly, and said: "Your Highness does not know, this green salt is very rare, and it is considered expensive when it is rare. Most of the green salt is used by wealthy people to wash it. tooth, so although this kind of salt is expensive, it is not easy to sell!"

After speaking, Chen Ying sat up slightly, spread his hands out, and said with a smile: "This kind of green salt can be sold for [-] Wen per catty. I wonder how much green salt your Highness has in hand?"

Ran Ming said: "How much is a catty of food now?"

"Different regions have different grain prices. In Jizhou, grain can be sold for [-] renminbi a catty, and there is still no market. However, in Guanzhong, grain can only be sold for [-] to [-] renminbi. As for Jiangnan, it is even cheaper. It's about twenty Wen!"

Ran Ming thought about it, twenty Wen a catty, one stone is two thousand and four hundred Wen, equivalent to two taels of silver!Green salt costs 96 Wen per catty, and [-] taels of silver per stone.Forty times the difference!Ran Ming said to Chen Ying: "I'll give you five hundred alkalite, how much grain can you bring me from Jiangnan?"

Chen Ying thought for a while and said, "Including freight, food and lodging for the guys, checkpoints, and loss, the value of each catty of grain will reach [-] yuan! If the grain is trafficked from Jiangnan to sell here, it will be at least [-] yuan per catty. Eighty words."

Ran Ming said: "Okay, let's do this! I'll give you five hundred stones of green salt, and you'll bring me five thousand stones of grain. I want top-quality rice!"

Liu Wei suddenly showed a mysterious smile, and she said excitedly: "Really!"

"really!"

Ran Ming said again: "Do you want to make a written certificate for you alone?"

Chen Ying hurriedly glanced at Liu Mo, but Liu Mo ignored Chen Ying.She looked at Ran Ming and said, "This is the best!"

Ran Ming came to the desk, picked up a pen and wrote down the cooperation between the two parties, mainly stating the price difference.

Ran Ming said: "No matter how expensive you sell green salt in Jiangnan, or how cheap you buy grain in Jiangnan, Gu will fulfill his promise!"

Liu Mo thought for a while, then smiled and said, "Your Highness, aren't you afraid that I'll take His Highness's green salt and run away?"

"Hehe!" Ran Ming laughed and said, "If you only care about the small gains in front of you and don't care about the big benefits in the future, you can run away with Qingyan. Besides, I, Ran Ming, am not a person who can be manipulated by others. People respect me. One foot, I make people one foot, if you really dare to lie to me and make you regret coming to this world, only you can't think of my means, there is nothing I can't do!"

Looking at Ran Ming's smiling face, Liu Wei felt unspeakable fear for the first time when he felt this harmless smiling face.Let her be afraid from the bottom of her heart!
Liu Wei and Chen Ying had just left.

At this moment, Lu Yan entered the big tent again with a frowning expression.

Ran Ming looked up and saw Lu Yan coming in, and said, "Mr. Lu, how much green salt can these thousand people in the salt field produce in a day?"

Lu Yan said: "Reporting to Your Highness, the salt field can now produce six stones of green salt every day!"

"Six stones, only 720 catties, not equal to one catty per person, this efficiency is too low!" Ran Ming said: "This speed is too slow!"

Lu Yan said: "This is mainly because the people are not used to it. They are still too unfamiliar with making green salt. After a few days, they will get used to it. If all the craftsmen are trained and mature, they can produce at least sixteen stones of green salt every day!"

"It's not enough, it's still too little!" Ran Ming said, "If you add it, will it produce more?"

Lu Yan suddenly said: "Your Highness, we have too few officials. We only have a dozen or so underlings. It used to be barely enough to manage 7 to 20 people. Now, with the news that His Highness is going to take root in Qingzhou, There are a lot of people around here who come to join us. Now our population will soon exceed [-] people. These new people need to make plans and registers, and also need to arrange work, apply for household registration, distribute rations, and join the ranks. ,...the number of affairs to be dealt with has increased a lot. Moreover, these are ordinary poor people, and there are no squires who manage the local area like before, so we not only lack officials, but also squires who manage at the grassroots level!"

"Chen, it's simply incapable of splitting up!"

The political status of the gentry class is mainly manifested in two aspects: first, it plays the role of coordinating and leading the implementation of the imperial court and government decrees in rural society.Regardless of the method of dissemination, the decrees and decrees of the feudal ruling group must be known to the people through the gentry class in order to spread them throughout the rural society.Those in power only need to inform the squires of policies and decrees, and the squires are responsible for the rest of the process of publicizing and implementing them to the villagers.This kind of political status, which is equivalent to the lowest level of the ruling class, is difficult for other classes except the gentry class.Second, act as the political leader or spokesperson of the rural society.

In fact, the Chinese feudal dynasties except the Qing Dynasty ruled only at the county level. Below the county level, there were local gentry who governed themselves. They were not officials, but they played the role of officials.A large-scale peasant uprising broke out in the late Ming Dynasty, mainly due to the inability of the gentry to rule the place.In the Qing Dynasty, it was because of the effective rule of townships and fortresses below the county level that the Qing Dynasty actually oppressed the people more seriously than the late Ming Dynasty. !Killed in the bud.

As a person of later generations, Ran Ming didn't have a good impression of this kind of country gentry. In fact, he was also one of the representatives of country gentry in later generations. Of course, he knew what these so-called country gentry were.Not only will they fail to stabilize the place, but they will stimulate class antagonism and activate contradictions.

Ran Ming said: "We don't need squires to rule for the time being. We have a military town with 1 people. This is just a preliminary statistic. We can change the general town. Every hundred households are a village, ten villages are a fort, and ten villages are a fort. The fort is a town, the town is at the county level, and there is a county magistrate. In charge of government affairs, the establishment is only responsible for armaments, and the military and government are separated. Thousands of households are also in charge of army preparation, and the fort chief is in charge of government affairs. Everything else is the same.”

Lu Yan nodded, "This is also a measure of rights and interests!"

In fact, in Lu Yan's mind, the country gentry is still indispensable to manage the place. Now Ran Ming has no country gentry to join him. In fact, most of the country gentry and noble families have already fled to the north.

"So how to solve the problem of officials?"

Ran Ming said: "I'm going to take the exam alone"

"Exam?" Lu Yan asked puzzledly, "How about the exam?"

Ran Ming said: "We don't have squires to recommend talents for us. How do we know who can be an official and who can't? We don't know their details. A good official can benefit one party, but an incompetent mediocre official, Corrupt officials will cause harm to one side, so we can use the method of examination to select talents based on the virtues and talents that officials need. For example, if you need to recruit a county magistrate of Anmin, what should the county magistrate do?"

Lu Yandao: "The county magistrate is the head of a county. He needs to select talents for the imperial court, issue government orders, educate the people, be in charge of rewards and punishments, judiciary and supervision, and manage local finances!"

Ran Ming said: "Yes, we will evaluate whether they are competent from these aspects!!"

Lu Yan, who was born in the Fanyang Lu family of the aristocratic family, could see the harm of the imperial examination system to the aristocratic family at a glance. They all come from the ethnology of the big family. Before the invention of printing, books were the fundamental factor restricting the spread of culture, and a book was simply hard to find.Now that Ran Ming wants to open a course to obtain a scholar, he is cutting off the privilege of the family to recommend talents for the imperial court. Without this privilege, the family would have no place at all.

"Your Highness, can this matter be discussed again!"

"What? You don't agree?"

"No, no!"

Ran Ming said: "Mr. Gu can't just find someone to be the county magistrate. This is the only way to solve the urgent need. When we have a big territory and other families join us, we will implement the recommendation system!"

The demise of Yang Guang in history was not because he was cruel and unkind, nor was it because he was able to make people miserable, but because Yang Guang vigorously promoted the imperial examination system, which harmed the interests of the family. The family would not allow an emperor who broke the root of the family's survival , so they turned against each other.At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li Er was tough enough and had enough means, but he didn't dare to attack the family. Wu Zetian was decisive enough to kill, but she also bowed to the family.

Ran Ming dared to do this at this time because he has no clans under his command. It will be more difficult to implement the imperial examination system when the territory grows larger. Attract poor people to join us!

Ran Ming said: "Gu is responsible for formulating the examination system himself, and then organizes all the people under his rule to participate in the exam for at most half a month, and Gu can give you enough officials to help you!"

(End of this chapter)