"Listening to what you have to say is better than ten years of reading!"
Emperor Hongzhi's eyes were shining with light, and he looked at Liu Jin with admiration. It was incredible that such a young man had such a deep understanding of balance and system.
I have been an emperor for many years, and I have already mastered the Game of Thrones, but I have never been able to form a systematic understanding. Now, when I heard it, I suddenly saw the light, and I suddenly had an epiphany.
"I don't dare, I don't dare, I'm just picking up people's wisdom."
Liu Jin smiled and shook his head and said, This is the truth. His knowledge will be useless in later generations. Anyone can talk to you for three days and three nights. If Liu Jin were to summarize something,
Liu Jin must have had a dark look in his eyes.
"Young Master Liu is being humble. I knew that the young master was knowledgeable and talented back then at Wangyue Tower. It was only after I came to Xishan today that I realized that the young master has great talents. Taking this small briquette as an example, it not only solves the problem of heating and using fire for the common people in the capital in winter.
Despite the difficulties, it is also able to provide tens of thousands of refugees with a job to survive this difficult winter, and it is also possible to make real money from this briquette. It is really admirable."
Du Mingen on the side pointed at the extremely busy Xishan and said with a smile: "Young master Liu and Mr. Zhu are really the same. They have such a way to make money and they didn't call me. It's a pity that they missed the gold and silver!"
"Mr. Du, thank you, thank you~"
Liu Jin replied humbly again, then thought for a while and said: "Let's sit down and have a cup of tea and chat slowly. You guys coming here today must be about the fleet heading to Golden Continent."
"Well, this Golden Continent is thousands of miles away from our Ming Dynasty. The sea is rough and windy and the waves are strong. Naturally, we have to discuss the matter of this fleet carefully."
Du Mingen nodded and said.
Soon, under the leadership of Liu Jin, everyone came to the courtyard where Liu Jin lived, and sat down around a round table in the middle of the courtyard. Soon someone brought good tea, and they chatted again while drinking tea.
stand up.
"Mr. Liu, Mr. Zhu and I are very well prepared for the fleet heading to Golden Continent. Mr. Zhu has great powers and has already acquired ten large-scale ships in a few months.
The ship is currently anchored at Tianjin Port."
"I have also prepared the relevant supplies, etc., but in terms of manpower, I am really ashamed, because it is too dangerous to go to the Golden Continent. Even though I have offered a very high salary, I still feel ashamed.
Only less than 100 experienced sailors were recruited."
When Du Mingen came, he had already communicated with Emperor Hongzhi and understood their respective preparations. Now it can be said that everything is ready and all we need is the east wind. We have ships and supplies, but we just need to send people.
It would be easier to do things if you have money. As long as the money spreads, there will definitely be a lot of people willing to work hard, but Du Mingen remembered Liu Jin's advice. Going to Golden Continent not only requires people who are willing to work hard, but also needs experience.
sailors, so we can’t recruit people randomly.
Although Du Mingen is rich, it is very difficult to recruit qualified sailors and make them willing to travel thousands of miles to the Golden Continent.
"This is a problem. If you are an ordinary person, you can easily recruit tens of thousands of people, but qualified sailors are not so easy to recruit."
"What's more, the journey to Golden Continent this time is extremely dangerous. There may be no return, and no one is willing to go."
Emperor Hongzhi nodded after hearing this. According to the original agreement, he was responsible for the ship, and Du Mingen was responsible for the materials and manpower, so he did not take care of this. Now that he thinks about it, it seems that he is sincere.
It is difficult to recruit qualified manpower.
"I will solve this manpower problem. There are too many people here in Xishan, and I am worried that there is no place to deal with it."
Liu Jin said quickly when he heard this.
"This... Mr. Liu, didn't you say that those who go to Golden Continent must be carefully selected? Although the people here in Xishan are very good at mining coal, with all due respect, are they as good as Mr. Liu?
It seems a long way from being selective.”
When Du Mingen heard this, he immediately said doubtfully.
"Of course I know this. Going to Golden Continent not only requires courage, but also professional skills and abilities. You may not know that here in Xishan, they work during the day and need to take night classes at night. Between me and
Three of my students are waiting for someone to give them a lecture."
"So among the thousands of people who worked here in Xishan last year, each of them knew a few hundred words and could calculate some slightly more complicated numbers. I even taught some simple geography, astronomy knowledge, and more importantly
It was me who told them about the prosperity and richness of the world outside the Ming Dynasty, and many of them were very eager to have the opportunity to explore the world outside the Ming Dynasty."
"In terms of performance, they are definitely very qualified candidates, with strong willpower and a certain knowledge reserve. Of course, many of these people have not been exposed to sailing, so they need to be brought to Tianjin for targeted training.
With the training, I believe it won’t take long to become a qualified sailor.”
Liu Jin nodded solemnly, and then explained his thoughts and opinions in detail.
"It turns out that if these people can read and write, and know some knowledge of astronomy and geography, with a little training, they can indeed become suitable sailors."
After Du Mingen listened, he thought about it and nodded in agreement. Although the 100 sailors he recruited were familiar with the affairs of the ship, they were all illiterate. To put it bluntly, they were not actually a suitable number of people. They only knew how to operate.
If a ship does not have knowledge reserves, it will not work.
"Young Master Liu is so considerate in his work that he actually taught these refugees how to read and digitize. It's really admirable."
Liu Jian couldn't help but pay tribute to Liu Jin. In this era, no knowledge is easily passed on to others. It takes a lot of money to study. You have to pay a lot of money to teach you how to read and digit. This is a craft that is even more important.
You need to work for your master for free for many years before you can gain some knowledge and experience.
Now Liu Jin actually takes the initiative to teach people how to read and digit and pass on knowledge for free, which is really admirable.
"It's nothing. It's just that when I was managing Xishan Coal Industry, I discovered a lot of problems. People who have no knowledge and are illiterate can only do some simple physical work. They need to do some useful work.
When the job is difficult and technical, it is difficult for them to do it well."
"So I thought about teaching them how to read and write, and impart some simple knowledge to them, so that they can use it more easily."
Liu Jin smiled and shook his head. If you want to engage in industrial production in this era, your employees must know some words and master a certain amount of knowledge. Otherwise, it will be like building a tall building in the sky, which will not work after all.
"I see. I said that the impression you give people here in Xishan is always different, and you actually use people who can read and write."
Du Mingen suddenly became enlightened and seemed to understand something.
