"Fengqi guessed it almost?" Xu Zixian happened to look over, and the two looked at each other. Xu Zixian asked with a smile: "Fengqi, don't hide his weakness, let's talk?"

"The things that make money in the world are nothing more than quantity. The ones that are most closely related to people are salt, wine, tea, cloth." Fang Shaoqun smiled and said, "We are all trying to work hard on cloth, silk, tea, iron, oil and grain. Dongfan is a treasure island. At least the place we are developing now is a treasure land. Such a large plain, with a warm climate, which is most suitable for crop production. In addition, our Hou Mansion has a good scheduling, and everyone is very outstanding. Success is inevitable. But if you want to invest more than a thousand stakes, you can get a million stakes. I really can't think of it. I only vaguely thought that Junhou is going to make a fuss on salt?"

"I'm really convinced." Xu Zixian laughed loudly and said to everyone: "Fengqi's brain moves so quickly."

Everyone was a little confused. Fu Qian smiled and said, "I also know some salt method. The method of boiling fire is to boil salt water, add half of the water, boil, add water, and boil, and then boil. This way, the salt method is similar. In addition to the fact that we can find a good place like Qinghai Salt Pond in Dongfan, otherwise, if you want to invest a thousand guan, I can't quite understand why it can be done."

As soon as Fu Qian said, everyone simply stopped thinking about it, just looked at Xu Zixian.

Kong He said: "Now people on the island also eat fine salt, but salt cakes are also good, saving a lot of money."

Xu Zixian shook his head and smiled, and said, "I don't know the price of firewood and rice. I know the quality of black salt. It's also the poor who are so poor that they can't use this thing. It's better than nothing. We just ate mutton just now. The mutton is very delicious, but if I ask Xuanping, you use black salt cakes to put mutton, it's probably delicious and you will have to reduce most of the taste, right?"

Kong He silently said, clasping his fists, "I'm not saying anything, and it's not about such a little expense."

"Yes." Xu Zixian said: "Salt is expensive, and the government did not charge much more, because people can use many ways to reduce the need for salt, use inferior coarse salt, salt cakes, or rather swollen, eat less salt and eat less oil. These things are the most necessary products for the people to survive, but our Dawei uses this to make money. The court is increasingly losing people's hearts, the world is in power, the imperial guards are powerless, the wing army is useless, and the roots are wrong. It is not to accumulate more people's power and financial resources, and then make the court more profits. Instead of fishing out of the lakes, it is a vicious cycle. Without the threat of the Eastern Captains, the court will sooner or later fall into civil strife and cannot extricate itself. The story of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang, Daze Township is not far away."

Li Yi pondered: "Actually, my Great Wei is already good to the people. The arrogant Wei has not rebelled on a large scale until now, which is a clear proof."

"But small-scale rebellions are constantly continuing." Xu Zixian said: "The long-term trust of this dynasty has built its own. To date, there have been more than 1,000 rebellions of more than 1,000 people, and more than 10,000 people have captured prefectures and counties. Now there are thieves everywhere in Jinghu. There are even more bandits in the northwest area. The scale has reached tens of thousands of people, and the imperial guards cannot control it. Because the thieves are erratic, the poor respond wherever they go, cut wood into soldiers, killed officials, and looted wealthy families. What does this mean that the people can no longer hold on. The reason why the Wei Dynasty did not have a large-scale rebellion was nothing more than releasing relief in the famine year and recruiting strong people.

Ding Weixiang Army, the most important reason why these two policies can be persisted is that there is no large-scale rebellion. The court can do such a thing because it has always been supported by overseas trade. If overseas trade shrinks, the number of thieves in the country increases, and the court lacks enough wealth, it will be a prairie fire in a few years and it will be impossible to replicate. This is not an alarmist statement. In recent years, I have noticed that the overseas ships and ships going to sea in Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Mingzhou, and Jiangling, these major trade centers have decreased. The number of ships leaving the country has decreased by about 20% and the number of ships outside is about 30%. This trend will become more and more intense. Do you know why?"

Fang Shaoqun said: "Pirates are troubles?"

"It's not just pirates." Xu Zixian said: "There is no need for pirates and will not continue to plunder merchant ships, so that everyone dares to go out to sea. How can they maintain it? In addition to pirates, the most important reason for the war between Mantaojia and other countries supported by Tianfang. The war between Mantaojia and Sanfoqi is the most important reason. The war is constantly and the localities are uneasy. How can people still have the heart to do business and negotiate business? Mantaojia wants to conquer Malacca, which is the throat of the east and west seas. They are aggressive, and the war between Tianfang and Taixi countries is becoming more and more intense, so they have affected commerce and waterways. In the past ten years, the Great Wei Dynasty has been unable to consolidate its roots and clear its source. It has always been the same for the past ten years.

Doing a foolish thing about killing chickens to get eggs, the income from overseas taxes and foreign trade is reduced, so the tax is increased internally. What is the reason? The marine trade is reduced by 30%, and inland porcelain factories, tea farmers, cloth merchants, silk farmers, and all walks of life will be affected. People have no money in their hands, so they will not consume, and if they don’t consume, they will not make money. Without the income from industry and commerce, the court cannot release relief areas and recruit a large number of wing troops, so the local area will become more chaotic, and more bandits will appear, and years of war and no intention to farm, so the fields will be deserted. After a large area of ​​food is short of food, more hungry and chaotic people will appear. This is the cycle of governance from the world to the world."

Xu Zixian said it very calmly, but everyone seemed to have heard the most terrifying ghost story, and even Fang Shaoqun's face turned pale.

The people in front of us are also considered elites of the Great Wei Dynasty. They know that Xu Zixian's words are completely true, without falsehood, and without exaggeration.

In fact, the Great Wei has already been on this road. In recent years, natural disasters, external troubles, military chaos, civil unrest, the most serious, the northwest and Henan, even grain-producing areas like Jinghu, there are a large number of refugees and hungry people gathering in chaos.

This is the cycle of world governance. It will come once every few hundred years, and then at least half of the people in the country will die, and even more.

It can be said that in later generations, every living person had good luck against the will of heaven and survived the reshuffle.

The average life span of ancient people was only thirty years old. A large number of people died of hunger and disease. Those who survived were probably the nobles and the strongest warriors in the tribe.

Because only such people are qualified and opportunity to leave their genes.

But when the dynasty was established, the emperors, generals and ministers were determined, and when the powerful class could enslave the lower class, a large-scale cycle of governance and chaos was the real hell model.

Some Western philosophers have said that China has no history, it is nothing more than the cycle of dynasty.

It's a bit ugly, but it's indeed a formal fact.

The dynasty was established, the rule of the world came, the population was growing, the land was not enough to bear the excessive population, the system collapsed, land annexed, the upper class corruption, the army lost its combat power, and then chaos, or foreign invasions, such as the Five Barbarians invasion of China or the Mongolian invasion, followed by large-scale massacres and slavery, or civil strife, and the fertile field turned into ruins, with more than half or even more people losing. After a long period of war, the population was lost, and people were determined, and the old powerful people had been almost washed away, and social wealth could be redistributed, so a new dynasty could be established again.

The so-called cycle of governance and chaos, the stories of many dynasties, and the stories of emperors, generals, talents, men and beauties are nothing more than just a circle of twists and turns in this cycle.

"So we cannot develop slowly." Xu Zixian ignored the broken faces of the crowd and continued to say in a deep voice: "If it were decades ago, we could develop the Dongfan calmly, foreign trade, and internal settlement. In thirty years, we could make the Dongfan almost the same as Fujian Road, with a population of over one million and a profit of tens of millions. If you do this with the Marquis' Mansion, the court will definitely give me the title of king. You can also wear purple clothes. A person's life experience is almost the same as that of this. Why pursue more?

"But it doesn't work. There are pirates outside, large numbers of hungry refugees inside, and threats from the Eastern Captains. In addition, Tianfang and Taixi countries, our Great Wei Dynasty was both in trouble inside and outside, and they were much more dangerous than the Mongol invasion that year."

"The Lord seems to be a little alarmist?" Kong He couldn't help saying: "I read the history books. When the Mongolian invaded, only 20 to 30 million people were killed in the north. Taizu confronted Mongolia, immigrated millions from the south, and built more than 100 new prefectures and counties. Even so, millions of soldiers and civilians drove Mongolia out of China. If Taizu had not been born in a flash, China would have been a slave to the Northern Captains long ago."

"Even if this is the case, it is not too scary." Xu Zixian smiled and said, "The words of the Beilu are all pieced together. They are a collection of dozens of grassland tribes. There is no inheritance, nor rules and regulations, and there is no text. There is only a few stories passed down from word to word. What is barbarian? This is barbarian. In the expression of the Thais, this is called low civilization. In China, there are rules and regulations, text inheritance, and the core of civilization. Beilu and us are low and higher. This is not discrimination, people have

There are tall and short, there are smart and stupid people. Forcing people to think that people are born equal is nonsense. There are also gaps between races, there are fast and good development, and there are slower ones. There are strong, smart and stupid people in the group. Each race is born in different places and will have different characteristics. For example, those who are near the sea are good at sailing and like adventure, while those who are in the mountains are good at hunting and are more conservative. Farming will produce order and continuous civilization because of the characteristics of farming.

This is the point. The Northern Barbarians are good at riding and shooting, but they are in a bitter and cold place outside the border, and their lives are very difficult, so they will not be like ours, they will only be riding and shooting, and they will not have mathology, business, science, and there will be no mathology. So there are higher and lower classes. But the competition between us and the people of Tianfang and the people of Taixi is different. They also have their own mathology, mathology, codes, and civilizations. Their civilization is no less than us.

Even in some places, we have places that are stronger than them, and they have places that are stronger than us, which is very reasonable. Once we lose to the Tianfang people or the Taixi people, we will be completely finished. When the Northern Barbarians come in, China is still China, Tianfang people or the Taixi people come in, the race of China may still be there, and civilization will completely disappear. The places where the Tianfang people conquered and the places where the Taixi people conquered are like this. This is the difference between the so-called destruction of the country or the destruction of the world."

All the people present were heroes at the moment. After Xu Zi finished speaking first, they had already understood the truth.

Some people were pondering, some were excited, and Fang Shaoqun bit his lips excitedly. Now he felt deeply that he decided to follow Nan'an Hou to the south at that time. It was really the most wisest decision so far in his life.

Looking at the entire Wei Dynasty, the person who understands things so clearly and is so far-reaching, and analyzes the danger so clearly is nothing more than the lord in front of him!

Fang Shaoqun was so excited that he could not do so himself and said, "I have long seen that the great enemies in the future will not only be the Northern Barbarians and Eastern Barbarians, but also the Tianfang and Taixi countries. Now it is completely different from the past. In the past, during the Han and Tang dynasties, there were only Taixi countries but not Tianfang. In the Tang dynasty, there was Tianfang. In order to compete with Tianfang, the Anxi Jiedushi Gao Xianzhi fought with Tianfang Army and Hengluosi. The Tang army was defeated because of the rebellion of the Tieler Army, but its vitality was not damaged.

Gao Xianzhi was about to reorganize his army and fight again, but encountered the Anshi Rebellion, and the west of the Pamir Mountains was no longer owned by the Tang Dynasty. By the end of the Tang Dynasty, the states west of Yangguan were all limited to the Uighurs, and the Uighurs surrendered to the Tianfang. After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, our Great Wei rose up and recaptured the Xingling states, but we still could not restore the Western Regions. It was because after the fall of the Uighurs, the Western Qiang tribes all surrendered to the Tianfang, and there were Tianfang countries behind us. If our Great Wei faced westward, we would have to fight with their countries. If this is the country, it would be true.

It is beyond our reach. Now, not only is there a passage in the Western Regions, but it takes thousands or tens of thousands of miles to communicate with each other. Now, there is the benefit of boats and boats. If you go to the sea from the Taixi countries along the way, you can get there for half a year. If you just go east, you can reach the territory of our Great Wei in two months. This was completely impossible hundreds or thousands of years ago. However, it is difficult for the imperial court to deal with barbarians like the Donglu and Beilu. How could it bet on the people of Tianfang and Taixi?

In the current situation, if Tianfang helps Mantao and destroy the Three Buddhas and Lanfang, it will take no time for these places to believe in the Tianfang religion and become one of the vassal states of Tianfang. Which country will be next? Luzon, Japan, and Siam? Wherever our Great Wei influence, the places where Chinese civilization has educated will almost become things in others' pockets. When Tianfang people come to my coastal places, they will continue to harass, preach, and occupy the place. At that time, let alone the Great Wei, even China will be completely helpless."

Li Yi murmured: "I have always been concerned about the affairs of the Northern and Eastern Barbarians. Now, after hearing what Junhou and Fengqi said, I realized that there are many other crises."

"Yes." Fang Shaoqun's face turned pale with excitement. He said: "If we do not pay attention and do not try early, we will probably have no place in Nanyang ten years later. Twenty years later, Chameng, Zhenla, Siam, Annan and other countries will no longer exist. Thirty years later, when we enter the age of knowing destiny and 60s, Fujian, Guangdong, and Guangxi are not owned by the Great Wei, and even the Eastern Hu and Northern Territory are ruled across the river from Tianfang."

"This is too terrible." Kong He murmured: "If this is the case, what's the point of living?"
Chapter completed!