Li Zhi looked at the room where Wang Chengen was shouting desperately. He was silent for a long time and then said: "Wang Chengen, don't worry, I'm not here to kill your master."
Wang Chengen looked at Li Zhi with wide eyes and asked breathlessly: "What are you doing here?"
Li Zhi did not answer this question, but simply looked at the ajar door.
Li Laosi frowned and looked at Wang Chengen, as if he was very annoyed by Wang Chengen's stupidity. In the eyes of important ministers like Li Laosi, the powerful people of the Ming Dynasty were really a group of very stupid people. These people seemed smart and witty, but in fact they were always
They are killing each other. They will do anything for temporary power. It seems that they have won everything and controlled everything, but in fact they have lost everything. In the end, a group of people are killing each other and destroying the Ming Dynasty for hundreds of years.
Broken down.
From the bottom of his heart, Li Laosi looked down on people who did not understand public ethics, including Wang Chengen. In Li Laosi's eyes, Wang Chengen, like the civil servants of the Ming Dynasty, was a person who should be abandoned by the times.
Li Laosi felt that there was no need to save the lives of Zhu Youjian and Wang Chengen.
But now, Li Zhi wanted to see Zhu Youjian, but Wang Chengen was shocked and stopped him. Don't Wang Chengen understand? With Li Zhi's identity, Zhu Youjian's name can be taken away from him thousands of miles away with just one sentence.
Li Laosi looked coldly at Wang Chengen on the ground and frowned.
The unhappy look on the veteran's face quickly revealed a murderous look. Wang Chengen, who was on the ground, looked up at Li Laosi, suddenly couldn't help but trembled, and subconsciously took a step back.
He glanced at Li Laosi again, becoming more and more frightened. Gradually, he figured out the current situation. Now even if he gave Zhu Youjian a pair of wings, Zhu Youjian could not fly out. His roaring and shouting were just
Just a joke.
Wang Chengen shivered again and lowered his head in fear.
Li Laosi then calmed down and went up to help Li Zhi open the door of the main room.
A simple little house appeared in front of Li Zhi. The room was very old, and the white plaster on the walls had turned yellow, making it look bleak. However, the plaster did not fall off, so it was not particularly shabby. The windows were
Although the shelf is old, it has been replaced with glass.
This is a barely decent place.
The room originally seemed to be a main room, with an altar table and a few chairs. However, it had been transformed into a study room by the owner of the room. A desk was placed in the middle of the room, with pens, ink, paper, inkstones, etc. placed on the desk.
There are writing supplies and dozens of copper coins. There is a small bookshelf next to the desk, and there are chairs in front of and behind the desk.
The deposed emperor Zhu Youjian was sitting on the chair behind the desk.
When Zhu Youjian saw Li Zhi's appearance, the expression on his face was very complicated, and he slowly closed his eyes.
Li Zhi looked at Zhu Youjian quietly.
After standing outside the door for another ten seconds, Li Zhi walked into Zhu Youjian's study. Li Laosi quickly walked up, pulled the chair opposite the deposed emperor back, and wiped the chair surface with his sleeves.
Let Li Zhi have a place to sit.
Li Zhi did not sit down, but waved to Li Laosi and said, "Go out and take a look."
Li Laosi knew that Li Zhi meant to avoid him, so he nodded and walked out.
Li Zhi strolled up to Zhu Youjian and looked through the books on the bookshelf.
""Huangdi Neijing", "Compendium of Materia Medica"? Do you want to learn some medical skills?"
Zhu Youjian finally opened his eyes, sighed, and replied: "The common people have nothing to do and can only make a living by writing letters to the villagers. It's just that more and more people are literate in recent years. I'm afraid that in a few years, the common people's business will be reduced."
I can’t do it anymore. The common people want to learn some medical skills, and in the future they can help the villagers with medicines and treatment, and earn a living.”
Li Zhi nodded and said, "Where are your wife and children?"
Zhu Youjian didn't speak for a long time.
After a long time, he replied: "Several of my sons have left to start their own families, and my daughters have also gotten married..."
"My wives and concubines..."
"Several of my wives and concubines have rented a house in the next town ten miles away and worked as female celebrities to make a living. If I help people write letters and the business is good, I will ask Wang Chengen to send a few hundred copper coins to buy them some
Cloth to make new clothes. If my business is not good, I don’t want to see them."
Li Zhi nodded and said nothing.
Zhu Youjian was silent for a long time, and suddenly asked: "Europe...Europe has been defeated?"
Although Zhu Youjian was the deposed emperor, he was still concerned about the situation in the world. At least he also wanted to understand what kind of dynasty the Qi Dynasty that replaced the Ming Dynasty was like.
Li Zhi said: "It's down."
Zhu Youjian's face froze and he suddenly closed his eyes again.
The evening sunlight shines into the house from the glass window, shining between Zhu Youjian and Li Zhi. The dust in the house is particularly conspicuous in the sunlight, making some old houses look even more vicissitudes of life.
Li Zhi looked up at the medical skills on the bookshelf, turned his back to Zhu Youjian and asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Zhu Youjian did not answer this sentence.
He suddenly touched the copper coins on the desk, and said in a somewhat inconsistent way: "Actually, there are several middle school students in the town who can do this writing business. However, their calligraphy is not good, and it is crooked.
People who believe in letters feel uncomfortable. So if the villagers have important letters, they will still find me."
"Fang Da, the head of Fanghua Village, is a very good employee. He always introduces business to me. He asks the villagers to come to me when writing letters. The villagers of Wangjiaba also value my handwriting very much and say that my handwriting is very decent, but
Anyone who wants to write couplets comes to me for help. But I only earn a hundred cents a day, and I stop writing after five letters. But the villagers are not angry with me. If I close my shop and stop writing, they will
Go back and find other middle school students to write."
Li Zhi turned to look at Zhu Youjian, knowing that the deposed emperor deliberately changed the topic.
After thinking about it, Li Zhi said: "In the past two years, compulsory education has been implemented in all thirteen provinces, and primary school is free for three years. In less than ten years, all young people in Daqi will be literate. By then, even the most basic craftsmen will be able to read and write.
Learn complex machinery, be able to operate machine tools, and manufacture advanced products.”
When Zhu Youjian heard this, his eyes widened. Obviously, Da Qi's various achievements gave Zhu Youjian a great impact.
Li Zhi did not let him go, and continued: "In North and South America, Daqi's colonies have expanded to the Atlantic Ocean. Portugal has given up the entire Brazil, and now tens of millions of square kilometers in the New World belong to the Han people.
These lands can support billions of Han people."
Zhu Youjian shook again.
Li Zhi looked at Zhu Youjian's face and continued: "The privileges of the gentry and civil servants across the country have been destroyed. Now the lower class of the Han people are no longer afraid of the powerful. Cui Changwu established a supervision system, and Han Jinxin established a surveillance system to closely monitor the actions of bad officials.
With this move, the power of the court and the power of the government are completely separated. Not only do the people at the bottom of Daqi get their land, but they can also live with their heads held high in the future."
