"There's been no news from the sea for three years? I'm afraid it's all bad!" Wang *** said in surprise. The man who was looking for the rubber tree a year ago has returned.
It has to be said that Xu Wei's great voyage brought huge benefits to the Daqian court. Even many people who were originally dissatisfied are now satisfied, because this operation directly added a new continent to Daqian, and the gold and silver transported from the mainland increased. It adds up to several billions of dollars. If you add furs and other New World specialties, a New World has given the Daqian court an extra tens of billions of foreign markets, and this market continues to expand, effectively driving the northern region of Liaodong. development of.
However, the end of these people who are looking for the New World is not very good. Most of them are stranded in the New World due to various problems. This is considered a good thing. After all, people are still alive. About 30% of the team can be said to have never seen anyone. No body was found, and Zhen Xing was among this group of people. Only 7 fleets actually reached their destination, found the rubber trees and brought them back. Even a narrow escape was not enough to illustrate the danger of this operation.
And Xu Wei was extremely generous with their rewards. Anyone who brought back the rubber trees and seeds would be rewarded.
The first place, Xu Wei, directly rewarded him with an island with a radius of a hundred miles in the South China Sea, making this adventurer the master of the island. Xu Wei, the remaining team member, also rewarded them with several thousand taels of gold, and at the same time recruited them to become He persuaded Daqian officials and asked them to set up a rubber plantation in Jiaozhou and plant rubber trees. Xu Wei remembered that rubber trees were extremely expensive and could not survive even if the temperature was slightly lower. They could only survive in the Jiaozhou area.
Now, these crew members are the only ones in Daqian who are familiar with the habits of rubber trees. At the same time, making them officials is also a reward for their adventure.
Of course, it is appropriate to use it here. After a voyage of tens of thousands of miles, only a few dozen people can really benefit, and the remaining thousands of people have become withered bones.
Zhen Ju smiled bitterly and said, "But Zhen An believes that since no one is seen alive and no body is seen dead, there is a possibility of survival, so he wants to trouble his son-in-law to help him and ask people to find out about Zhen Xing in the New World."
Wang *** said: "This is not a big deal. I will ask the people over there in the New World to pay attention. My father-in-law will also explain the situation to Zhen An in advance. Since they have not been found now, there is little hope, so let him make preparations in advance. Bar!"
Zhen Ju nodded, he was just helping his old friend with his duties and obeying fate.
After talking about Zhen An, Zhen Ju asked: "Son-in-law, do you have any idea of going to the New World to found a country? Judging from the news coming in the past two years, the area of this continent will exceed our imagination. But they are all willing to entrust them to you heroes. If you don’t occupy a piece of land, it will be very detrimental to the future inheritance of the family!"
To be honest, Zhen Ju admires Lei Gong very much. Although he wiped out the noble clans without sparing any effort, he was able to accomplish such a great feat and conquered the world without relying on the powerful clans, even though he and Lei Gong were enemies. I have to admire it too.
Moreover, he was really good to his heroes. In terms of preferential treatment, none of the Emperor Shizu could compare to him. After all, Emperor Shizu treated his heroes preferentially at most, but Lei Gong directly assigned his heroes to be divided into feudal states, and to be divided into feudal states. , this is something that has never happened again after three generations.
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Now looking at his high-spirited son-in-law, he felt really bad. After Lei Gong occupied Hebei, everyone in the world saw that Lei Gong was the most powerful prince. At that time, he had the idea of joining Lei Gong because he felt that Lei Gong was the most powerful prince.
He is the person most likely to unify the world.
As for the power of Lei Gongqing to suppress the noble families, to be honest, their family is not up to the standards of aristocratic families. If Emperor Ling was not greedy for money, and his family was very rich, it would be difficult for him to even be an official, and his family did not have many disciples.
Official, although the land has been lost, his family's main income is business, so he doesn't mind changing the family.
His idea was very good, but it was a pity that Lei Gong was unwilling to take him in. He did not think that he was from a noble family, but Lei Gong did, so he had no choice but to seek refuge with Liu Bei.
After Zhen Ju defected to Liu Bei, he thought that Lei Gong was arrogant and would not accept the power of the powerful gentry. Even people from a humble family like him were driven out of Hebei, and it seemed that he had no intention of ruling the country with Confucian ideas.
, even Confucian scholars were
He was reduced to nothing.
You must know that almost all the scholars in the world at that time were Confucian scholars. What Lei Gong did was to completely drive the scholars out of his sphere of influence. This was simply asking for death. He did not think that Lei Gong could only unify the world with his mud legs.
It’s just that he never imagined that Lei Gong did not want Confucian scholars, but he turned around and trained thousands of peasants to become officials. These peasants barely knew a few hundred words, but they were extremely qualified to manage a village. Lei Gong relied on his own cultivation to become officials.
Those mud legs really hold up the world.
Only then did he realize that he really overestimated the talents of scholars. Without them, the world can be governed, and the world is fine. Most things are caused by powerful men, powerful men, and scholars. There are no such people in Daqian now.
Governance by doing nothing can also stabilize local development.
In the next few years, he followed Liu Bei in confusion. If Zhen An hadn't become prosperous in Daqian, and Wang *** also became his son-in-law, he would have followed Liu Bei to Tianzhu.
After Wang *** became the prime minister of Daqian, Zhen Ju believed that his decision was correct. He did not want to go to Tianzhu if he could stay in Daqian.
However, after the emergence of the New World, Zhen Ju's idea changed again. Daqian has been exploring the New World for three or four years, but he still has not fully explored the area of the New World. He only knows that it is vast and extremely rich, but here there is
With only a group of savage civilizations, this continent has the potential to become like Daqian.
【In view of the general environment,
At this time, it seems to Zhen Ju that although the prime minister of Wang *** has a high and powerful position, he can only retire in ten years at most, but if he wants to open up a country in the New World, he can be passed down for thousands of years. There is such a comparison
, the position of prime minister, which is inferior to one person and superior to ten thousand people, is no longer favourable.
But Wang *** said calmly: "Although going to the New World can make the family rich, the rest of my life can be seen at a glance and there won't be much development. If I stay in Daqian, I can realize the value of my son-in-law's life, so
I will never leave Daqian and go to the New World."
In Wang ***'s view, the New World is just a place for retirement. Cities and countries can be built in the wilderness of the New World. However, if they want to develop like Daqian, it will not take hundreds of years.
He is still young and powerful, and he also wants to see Daqian gradually change his appearance in his hands, becoming the same as in the story when he took power.
He also wanted to see what his hometown in power was like, so even if he stepped down from the position of prime minister, he did not want to go to the New World. Instead, he wanted to stay in Daqian and work hard to build Daqian into what he imagined.