When Zhang Ximeng and Li Shanchang get together, they get things done much more smoothly than others. After all, Zhang Ximeng has a great vision and a sufficient layout, while Li Shanchang is pragmatic. Together, the two of them are definitely a perfect match.
Of course, the premise is that their minds are in the same place. If they fight with each other or get in the way of each other, it will be a different situation.
But when it comes to winning over talented people from Wuzhong, the two of them are highly consistent.
First of all, Li Shanchang used Han Xiuniang's case to clean up a large number of old officials in Jinling City. This was just the beginning. It was foreseeable that the old officials of the Yuan Dynasty in other places would either change their minds or leave immediately... And after they left, they left behind
There are countless positions that need people to fill.
If we go step by step, it will be through the school led by Zhang Ximeng to supplement officials.
If that happens, it will not be a good thing for Lao Li.
At this moment, attracting talents from Wu area, although they respect Zhang Ximeng's ideas, they want to submit to Li Shanchang's command, which can be regarded as expanding Lao Li's power.
As for Zhang Ximeng, he is relatively detached. Really, Zhang Ximeng has downplayed power and does not care about money... He is particularly detached.
He has seen the power of ideas. How to create a set of ideas that can be implemented into practice and thus affect the world's trends in the long run is what Zhang Ximeng cares about.
It can be said without politeness that we are already standing on the long river of history. The emperors of Qin and Han, emperors and generals are just floating clouds!
At least we must break away from the limitations of a dynasty and measure the world on the scale of thousands of years. Yes, our situation is that big!
But having said that, we still have to think about how to open up channels...
"Brother Li, there are two things urgently needed in Suzhou right now. The first is more and more detailed article explanations so that they can truly understand our proposition. The second is to have a safe channel for those who are willing to join us.
There is a way to go." Zhang Ximeng said in a low voice.
Li Shanchang smiled and said, "I have no control over the former, as Prime Minister Zhang will figure it out on his own. But I do have some ideas for the latter."
"Oh? What are you going to do, Brother Li?"
Li Shan smiled and said, "Xiang Zhang, do you still remember this person?"
"who?"
"That's the female grain manager!"
"Jiang Nan? How can she help?"
Li Shanchang smiled and said, "She can't do it, but she has a relative named Shi Boren, who is now teaching in Jinling!"
Only then did Zhang Ximeng remember that this man was the husband of the famous female poet Zheng Yunduan and a wealthy man in Suzhou City. Although Zhang Shicheng had continuously drained him of his wealth, his personal connections still existed.
"Brother Li, what are you going to do?"
Li Shanchang turned around, took a map, and smiled at Zhang Ximeng: "See, I plan to prepare a fleet here in Changxing, and then transport Wuzhong talents from Taihu Lake."
Zhang Ximeng nodded, "This road is indeed good, but Zhang Shicheng's navy is not weak, and there are Taihu water thieves, so I'm afraid it's not safe!"
"Hahaha!" Li Shanchang couldn't help laughing, "Prime Minister Zhang, these days you are busy writing articles and helping the world, but you forget the things in front of you. The Taihu water thieves also need to eat food and live... Zhang Shicheng occupied Suzhou
After that, they cut off their salt, hoping to force the water thieves to obey."
"Is there anything else going on?"
"Well, we happened to have reached an agreement with Fang Guozhen, and there is no shortage of salt. We gave the salt to the Taihu water thieves, and they not only ate it themselves, but also sold the salt to Suzhou and made a lot of money."
"What?"
Zhang Ximeng was really a little surprised, "Brother Li, Zhang Shicheng is guarding Huaidong, but it is a salt-producing land and he has no shortage of salt. How can he allow Taihu water thieves to sell private salt?"
Li Shanchang laughed again, after all, the level of magic in the book always exceeded the imagination of the author.
It was good for Zhang Shicheng to have salt, but he still continued the same practice of previous salt merchants, dividing the salt layer by layer. In addition, he had to raise hundreds of thousands of soldiers, so the price of salt was more than double that of before.
He used salt to squeeze the people, but the people were not completely helpless.
If you can’t afford the official salt, you’ll have to eat private salt.
Anyway, private salt business has always existed, and you, Zhang Shicheng, were born as a private salt dealer.
It has to be said that Zhang Shicheng should be the one who knows the most about salt. Not only did he not find a way to make things easier for the government and the people, but he intensified the bad governance of the Yuan Dynasty.
If he doubles up, the people below dare to double up.
There is no other way. When it comes to the common people, they can only double up on private salt.
Interestingly, because Zhu Jiajun held the grain in hand and had enough bargaining power, he forced Fang Guozhen to give a low price.
Needless to say, today's Zhu Jiajun is almost the most honest and efficient team in the world.
When transshipping salt, there are no layers of coding.
Therefore, after it was sold to Taihu water thieves, the water thieves resold it to the people of Suzhou at a price that was more than 30% cheaper than Zhang Shicheng's official salt.
Therefore, Zhang Shicheng's crotch stretching is all-round and hopeless.
And enemies who seem to be completely different from each other are strangely connected in private through wonderful business channels. It must be said that this is the unique black humor of troubled times.
After hearing this, Zhang Ximeng was already confident.
"Brother Li, you are going to use Taihu Lake water thieves to transport people, and I also plan to use Taihu Lake water thieves to send articles there. What do you think?"
Li Shanchang nodded, "That's the best! Let's act separately and don't hesitate. I heard that the superior is coming back, so let's prepare a big gift for him."
Zhang Ximeng nodded and returned to the check-in room. Zhang Ximeng immediately summoned Song Lian, Ye Chen and others to explain the situation... These few were also dumbfounded and deeply hurt by the wonders of this world.
After they reacted, several people started busy.
The Suzhou side only got some articles, as well as more careful explanations and more subtle discussions, but they didn't get it. These things were originally used by Zhang Ximeng to teach his students. Since they couldn't wait any longer, they hurriedly sorted them out without even thinking about it for a moment.
No delay, send it over quickly.
The first is the historical lecture notes written by Zhang Ximeng... This part mainly sorts out the development patterns since the Qin, Han, Tang and Song Dynasties, and clearly explains the land, agriculture, and population.
Once you understand this, you will also understand the theoretical basis of Zhang Ximeng's theory.
Then Song Lian was responsible for writing the doctrines of various schools of thought and summarizing the original ideas of Confucianism. Later, there were Confucianism of the Han Dynasty and the main thrust of Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism.
Sort out the context clearly, the laws of history and the development of ideas, the two hit it off!
At this point, the theory of destiny and orthodoxy, including the "principles" that Neo-Confucianism regards as the lifeblood, have all collapsed and disappeared.
There is no supreme principle. Talking about principle, qi, mind, and these empty things are just a failure to understand the laws of historical evolution.
Putting aside all the complications, the most fundamental thing is only two words: survival!
Zhang Ximeng and Song Lian teamed up to explain these things clearly, which is almost equivalent to making a good diagnosis for the patient.
Then a prescription will be issued, what should I do?
This thing still had to be done by Zhang Ximeng. He thought over and over again and wrote two words: division of labor!
The division of labor that Zhang Ximeng talks about is not just a narrow division of labor in the stage of factory handicraft industry. He is talking about that in the pre-Qin period, people gathered on Wangtian to cultivate, and then the well-field system collapsed and the land was owned by families.
On the basis of family ownership, division of labor within the family emerged, that is, men farmed and women weaved.
After more than a thousand years of development, agriculture has now made considerable progress. Maintaining the traditional habit of men farming and women weaving is already a yoke.
Everyone must be regarded as labor, people must make full use of their talents, and materials must be put to good use.
Produce more food and cloth, create more wealth, enrich the country and strengthen the army, and save the Central Plains from the declining national destiny.
Zhang Ximeng took a cursory look and found that his set of things was not satisfactory enough, and some aspects were not explained clearly. He also encouraged people to get out of the shackles of the land and enter workshops... But how can there be so many now?
Factory? If you want to develop the textile industry, where are the raw materials and where is the market? These problems are very real and not easy to solve.
But there is no doubt that in terms of overall logic, Zhang Ximeng has achieved self-consistency. In other words, those talented people in Suzhou can realize this level, which is already very good.
The remaining problems can only be solved through continuous exploration in the following days.
These contents were quickly printed into pamphlets, with the first batch of three hundred copies.
The books that Mo Xiang still had left floated across Taihu Lake on a pirate ship, entered Suzhou, and were sent to the banks of the Wusong River and to Gao Qi's school.
"Zhang Gongzhen is a sage in this world!"
After reading these contents again, Gao Qi was completely convinced.
It is indeed a new path!
He couldn't wait to copy the essence of the article and gave it to a few friends.
At this time, Gao Qi no longer cared about pretending, he just wanted to send the article out as soon as possible.
Because during the fierce debate during this period, there were quite a number of stubborn literati who did not recognize Zhang Ximeng's ideas and scolded Zhang Ximeng for being deviant and deviant, saying that he was unconventional, disobedient to the sages, and crazy, and it was difficult to write a book!
It is said that Zhang Ximeng is a vicious villain ten thousand times more hateful than Shao Zhengmao.
It is even said that the biggest bastard in the world is not Emperor Yuan of Dadu, but Thief Zhang of Jinling!
Many scholars actually went to Zhang Shicheng to remonstrate with Zhang Shicheng, and immediately asked the Emperor of the Yuan Dynasty to send troops from Suzhou to defeat the rebels. On their must-kill list, Zhang Ximeng was even ranked above Zhu Yuanzhang. This card
It's truly invincible.
But the harsher the scolding, the more it proved that what Zhang Ximeng said touched something deepest. If he didn't hate him to the extreme, how could he go crazy?
I'll simply make you go even more crazy!
Gao Qi no longer concealed it, and directly shouted out that aspiring people should go to Jinling to increase their knowledge and knowledge. Follow the sages and assist the Ming Lord!
After this period of deliberation, the first group of more than twenty people also boarded the ship. The two leaders were named Tang Su and Yu Yaochen. They were full of hope and looked toward Jinling, filled with pride.
"I will definitely show off my talents here and live up to my youth and my youth!"