Chapter 140: The Secret in the Cave

What do the Japanese regard as culture?

An educated Japanese man, if he doesn't have a few Chinese famous calligraphy and paintings at home, he will be embarrassed to say hello to others when he goes out.

This time, when I came to Beijing for a walk, the two Japanese met many celebrities and collected many handwritings of Su Dongpo, they had to say that they could collect the famous paintings of the four masters of Qi... What else could make them more fanatical than here?

"Hang it, Changmen Hall, I beg you to hang these two characters. Let me wait and enjoy it." The two Japanese begged in unison.

Zhao Xing looked at the ship behind Cai Jing and said in embarrassment: "This is too ostentatious. I heard that after Cai Jing was driven out of the capital, the prophet Cheng De Army and then changed to Yingzhou, and was moved to Chengdu soon after. He was probably rushing to Chengdu to take office. If so, we will travel all the way to Yangzhou and follow him on the same waterway.

The calligraphy and paintings that had just been robbed were hung on the sail and drove straight, with the owner of the stolen goods following behind and following step by step. Isn’t this slap him in the face?"

Zhou Bangshi was also persuading: "Mr. Cai is a little sceptical, and this move may anger Lord Cai, both of you..."

However, no matter how you say it, it could not stop the enthusiasm of the two Japanese. They basically ignored Zhou Bang's words and snatched Cai Jing's handwriting without saying anything. Ji Shouzhong jumped up and hung it on the sail, then sat under the mast with Yuanye, looking at the words floating in the wind in a daze, while copying in the void, and praising: "Such a huge sentence, written without deformation, can still be so elegant... There are all kinds of miracles in the Celestial Empire."

The ship was mostly lawless. When he heard the words of the Japanese, he was pride and was ignorant of the world and only followed the praise. Cheng Azhu was a little worried. When the ship passed Yangzhou, she prepared a gift and asked the Canal River Supervisor to transfer it to Cai Jing afterwards, hoping to ease Cai Jing's anger. Then the loach sailed through Yangzhou and entered the Yangtze River.

The water surface of the Yangtze River in the Song Dynasty was endless. When the boat entered here, it was like a fish entering the sea and completely got rid of Cai Jing. When Cai Jing received the gift from the "Zhaomen Cheng Family", although he was very depressed, he could no longer find Zhao Xing. In desperation, his boat went upstream and walked into the fork road and began to head towards Chengdu.

After Cai Jing arrived in Chengdu, a major event that affected the world would happen - Chengdu merchants used "Jiaozi" as a certificate of commercial transactions. After Cai Jing witnessed the use and circulation of Jiaozi in Chengdu, he was invented the world's first banknote: Jiaozi, also known as "Jiaochao".

However, history has changed a little now - the verification found that there are obvious patterns on the 4-sided layout of the Jiaobao layout.

The "turning leaves" pattern is unique to the Jewish nation. To this day, currencies in various countries have used the four-sided pattern of the "world's number one banknote" to show inheritance. According to records in the history of the Yuan Dynasty, the printing and printing institutions of the Song and Jin dynasties were presided over by the Jews, and said: "They may be omnipotent."

This shows that Cai Jing invented paper money with the help of the Jews. Now, this is what history has changed. Zhao Xing started from Jewish beliefs and pulled these Jews into his arms. In this way, is Cai Jing's honor to invent paper money?

No one knows!

When the loach boat passed through Yangzhou, if Cai Jing had not chased him all the way, Zhao Xing actually wanted to play in Yangzhou for a few more days. Because from Yangzhou, there are two options for water transportation routes: one is to go straight to Taihu Lake through the south section of the canal, and then to Hangzhou; the other is to go east along the Yangtze River to Jinghai (Nantong) near the sea outlet, and replace it with a sea boat to go from sea to land to Hangzhou.

If it is the latter route, you can actually take a sea boat from Yangzhou to Hangzhou, or vice versa, and then transfer through the canal. The carrying capacity of sea boats is dozens of times that of canal boats, so this mode of transportation can minimize the transportation cost... Unfortunately, Cai Jing was chasing too tightly, and Zhao Xing dared not stay in Yangzhou, so he had to order the sea loach to sail all the way to Jinghai.

"It's good that way - Yangzhou has a large number of huge merchants, and the teeth merchants are very strict. We, an outsider, cannot get in. If we have a foothold in Jinghai, it is easier to gradually become bigger." Standing at Jinghai Wharf, Zhao Xing said himself as if he was comforting himself.

This can be hidden from others, and it will be a good idea to hide it. He helped Zhao Xing with housework in Hangzhou for several years and knew the nearby market conditions. He smiled and corrected: "Teacher, you are wrong. A sea boat ship can carry three or five hundred tons of goods at one time, and can carry hundreds of customers at the same time. Such a ship of goods cannot be eaten in a small place in Tongzhou, so it is safe to ship to Yangzhou.

Shipping in Yangzhou is one way to carry the canal boat directly without loading and unloading repeatedly; the other way is that only Yangzhou can transport such a large amount of goods. Tongzhou - this is not far from Hangzhou, and if a sea boat wants to enter the port here, it is better to unload the goods directly in Hangzhou and then load the canal boat - that is our territory at least."

Zhao Xing smiled, patted Cheng Shuang on the shoulder, and praised, "You have grown up. To be honest, I just didn't want to admit my mistakes. You are right, we don't need to run two harbors at a time. If we have to choose, then let's go to Hangzhou. We will focus on operating Hangzhou in the future."

Cheng Xia stood aside and couldn't help but interrupt: "Teacher, are you really not planning to take the post? Then why did you take such a lot of effort to get a Jinshi?"

Cheng Xia should have broken up with Zhao Xing in Yangzhou, but he returned to Huangzhou, while Zhao Xing went south to Hangzhou. However, Cheng Xia found that he had only been breaking up with those brothers of the same clan for three years. Strangely, all the brothers who followed Zhao Xing were a little taller than him.

It's okay to have a low level of knowledge. Zhao Xing has been away for many years and has not taught anything to his disciples. Cheng Xia hired an old man, but instead he is "Zhihu" every day, thinking that he has gained a lot of knowledge. But now that the brothers meet, the children do not talk about knowledge with him, but only compare their figures with him. This makes the original "King of Children" Cheng Xia quite depressed, so he sent his servants back on the road and said to his father Cheng, and he devoted himself to following the teacher to see if the teacher's figure can also be contagious.

In fact, height cannot be contagious. The children who follow Zhao Xing are tall because of their adequate nutrition. The same gene, due to nutritional differences, can be 15 cm to 20 cm in size, which is verified by modern technology.

Zhao Xing vaguely remembers that the standard ration for American soldiers in the field was about 460 grams of beef a day, which is half a kilogram of meat. Therefore, Zhao Xing also asked the children's food to be close to this standard every day. These children who grew up eating meat are naturally different from those who grew up eating grass. It just so happened that these three years are the time when the children grow up, and the sufficient nutrition makes the children around him immediately different from the children who stayed in Huangzhou.

Cheng Xia wanted to follow Zhao Xing, and Zhao Xing naturally knew that his little bit of care. Unfortunately, he had missed the physical development period. No matter how much he supplemented it in the future, his size would not develop any more... However, Zhao Xing would not tell him these things. He did his best to solve the problem of a teacher and answered Cheng Xia's question: "Cheng Xia, what do you mean by living people?"

Cheng Xia lowered his head and thought for a while, and replied: "Although the Masters taught in Huangzhou are all great principles. But I also know that they are actually most eager for fame and fortune... The teacher doesn't like to play with those mysterious things, so I will tell the truth: the ancients said that the world's bustling people come for fame, and the world's clamor for profit. Life is nothing more than that."

Zhao Xing laughed: "What you said is a general term that the ancients of the Bronze Age said. Although this is reasonable, it is inoperable. Let me use the simplest and clearest words to express it, that is, when a person lives, the ultimate goal is to obtain the maximum benefit with the smallest cost."

Hearing Zhao Xing begins to explain the knowledge about the wisdom of life, the Cheng clan children gathered around and listened intently. Although Zhou Bangshi was very curious, this was a part of the clan. He dared not get too close, so he had to stand in a position where he could hear the words and listen with his ears.

Cheng Xia blinked her eyes: "Teacher, these words are so profound. Can you explain them?"

"I ask you, why do we need to use square boxes instead of round buckets for transportation? Logically speaking, the round bucket can be loaded with goods and can roll when transporting, which can save a lot of effort. But why do we have to use square boxes to load goods?"

Cheng Xia has learned these two words "cost" and "benefits", so the words need not be explained. Zhou Bangshi thought for a while and vaguely guessed the meaning of the two words. Cheng Xia frowned and thought for a while, and replied: "Is it possible that square boxes are easy to place... Ah, for this reason, the wind and waves on the sea surface are relatively large, and round barrels are not easy to fix, so it is safe to use square boxes."

"You forgot what I just said - cost and efficiency. This is how things in the world are. When costs are obtained, people say that this matter is reasonable, fair, authentic, and properly handled...

Safety issues are not the main reason for loading in square boxes, because regardless of square circle, the cost of fixing the box is the same. Okay, let’s draw a circle first, and then draw an outer square box outside the circle. Look, what do you think?…

By the way, the four corners of the square body outside the circle are empty. That is to say, if we use a round barrel to load goods, the square outside the circle is the loading space occupied by the round barrel. The four corners on the edge of the circle are the gap between the round and the circle. There is not much stuff in it, and the space at these four corners is a waste.

There are two aspects to consider when traveling a sea boat: one is to ensure safety along the way, and the other is to use limited space to transport more goods. This is to use the minimum cost to exchange for the greatest benefit. When we ship in square cargo boxes, we just ship the most goods with the smallest space, so the benefits we get from going to sea at one time are several times that of others. Therefore, our cost is the lowest, which can allow our partners to get higher returns. If we have a large profit margin, we can give enough benefits to share with our partners - so everyone thinks that our secret to doing things fairly."

Cheng Xia pondered for a moment and felt that the teacher was right. To put it in detail, it was reasonable for every sentence. But Zhao Xing said that everything in the world follows this principle, which made him a little difficult to understand. After thinking for a while, he asked again: "What the teacher just said was the principle of shipping goods in sea boats. Can national affairs be measured by cost and benefits... For example: The master recently discussed the exemption method with people, and the teacher used this theory to analyze the "freedom method".

Zhou Bangshi was a supporter of the new law. When he heard this, he quietly took a few steps closer, pricked up his ears and listened intently.

"Is it a law of exemption from service? Such a big thing, because there are too many troubles and too many clues, we need to analyze: What is the effective cost? Who pays the effective cost?

Let those who work effectively get the greatest benefits, this is called the "way to control people". The human heart is the most difficult thing to satisfy. If the heart is enough, then the work will be earned, and everyone will be at peace with their position. Social order will naturally be stable and great things will be accomplished.

Let us first analyze the problems encountered by the "Exemption Law of Service": there is no administrative expenses at all levels. Due to the insufficient supply of copper coins, the people sometimes have no cash to pay taxes, so the law of service was born. Officials drive the people to work hard, and the people offset the taxes; the government completed taxes and operation.

What happened later? The government had endless service. The people did not care about their own land during the busy farming period and had to deal with the officials' dispatches, resulting in the abandonment of land, the reduction of agricultural taxes, and the number of people who should be defrauded by the government. Therefore, there was a law of exemption from service, allowing the people to use money to compensate for the service, and the government used this money to hire people.

What happened next? During this period, the officials did not make any efforts to supply copper coins, but the people still had no money to pay taxes. The officials' requests were still endless. The poor people could not afford to pay the money for exemption, and the wealthy households were also increased by the officials, and the unpaid money for exemption were unbearable, so they abandoned their families and fled.

As a result, there is no one in the entire society to live in peace. If the family and country are gone, how can the country be safe...

Let’s analyze who paid the effective cost for the exemption money?”

The Cheng students answered in unison: "People!"

"Wrong! No matter what kind of regulations are before and after, the only one who pays the 'effective cost' is the service, and the people are the 'ineffective cost' here. Because they have no say in their labor value, their labor is ignored, ignored, and used to meet the needs of officials. Therefore, the court has changed over and over, and the people who pay their labor have no say. No matter how they adjust, only corrupt officials have the power to discount their labor in the name of change."

Cheng Xia and the Cheng family members thought for a while, and suddenly said "Oh": "It makes sense! Teacher, what you mean is that no matter how the court amends the exemption law, the people suffer. But people in the world say that the "Exemption Law" is a good law, and the master is also thinking about eliminating the disadvantages. Is there really no way to improve it? The teacher tries to use "cost and benefits" to talk about how to eliminate the disadvantages of the exemption law?"

Zhao Xing shook his head: "No matter which means of making up for it, if the person who pays effective labor does not have the right to pricing the labor - all efforts will be false in the end.

I remember: Someone who went to the "Immortals" to describe the displaced people and survived under the new law. His Majesty Shenzong couldn't bear it and wanted to stop the new law. What did Wang Jinggong say? People's words are not worthy of mercy. That means: The words of the people are not worth listening to! Hehe, the people who pay the cost have no right to speak. He said that this reform is for the benefit of the people?

It's so funny! The 'cost' does not have the right to participate in the distribution of benefits, who can get benefits?"

Zhao Xing's words involved high-level politics. The Cheng disciples were depressed when they heard this. They couldn't get into the mouth, so they had nothing to say.

Zhou Bangshi couldn't help but interrupt: "Brother Li Ren, you said there are many remedies, so why not talk about it."

"Is it a remedy... I heard that Deng Wan, the magistrate of Ningzhou, Shaanxi, once said this to please Wang Jinggong (Wang Anshi): I will let others laugh and scold me, and I will take good officials by myself. The "good officials" he said does not refer to honest officials, but to official positions with good positions and good quality... If you preside over the new law, you will use such officials, how can you change it?

Sima Xianggong accused the new law of "the people do not increase taxes but the country uses their full capacity" from Sang Hongyang's "the people do not benefit taxes but the country uses their free resources." Wang Jinggong did not deny it, and of course he could not deny it. What did Sang Hongyang do? He was to empty the people's wallets and put them into the pockets of the court. Then, as long as the people who had breathed a breath, they would try their best to despise the regime - so the Han Dynasty was destroyed.

What Sang Hongyang did not improve at the time, did our reform make up for his loopholes?

No! Wang Jinggong did not make any effort except copying it.

So, can we avoid the consequences caused by Sang Hongyang?...Nan Bo, I don’t want to quarrel with you. We are friends. I don’t want to quarrel with you in political affairs - you and I are both idle, what’s the use of quarrel? Ineffective cost. But you can think about my words carefully. If there is a way out for the new law, it is not possible to quarrel alone. You must take action.

Wang Jinggong said: "The destiny of heaven is not worth fearing, the ancestors are not worth law, and people's words are not worth care of." He ignored all rules, so, what should we do? Wang Jinggong did not say! The ancestors said that we should love the people, but the ancestors are not worth law, so Deng Wan and others began to silence the people, and the people were suffering too much, but "people's words are not worth care of", so their pain can be completely ignored, right?

All the rules have been broken. What are our standards for doing things? What are the laws? Without rules, we should act casually, and do things in a national way. How can we do this? What we need most now is the rule to establish rules and let ‘cost’ reflect the right to speak!”

Zhou Bangshi's expression changed when he heard this. He heard that Zhao Xing had a solution, but his solution was not suitable for now.

Although I didn’t know what “republic” was, there were many practical aspects that were based on the “republic principle”. For example, “governing the world with scholars and officials.” However, no matter what, scholars and officials did not think of “governing the world with the people”, because in this way, they had to evolve from a simple “republic” to a “democratic republic”.

Zhao Xing's proposal involved "giving power to the people", which was absolutely impossible in the Song Dynasty, so his method was also unfeasible!

After Zhou Bangshi figured this out, the disciples of Cheng's family immediately understood that Cheng Xia was well-behaved. He immediately jumped to the original question: "Teacher, then you have worked so much to get the Jinshi exam, and you don't want to be an official, how can you show the benefits?"

Zhao Xing slapped his thigh: "This is the problem. Jinshi is the benefit. With that official position pressed there, the officers dare not extort at will, because they were worried that I might become an official in the future, and the officials and officials were given revenge on them.

In addition, with the title of Jinshi, I can completely exempt my family from taxes. No matter how much land I occupy, no one will speak, because I am an official and gentry. With just such an official title, I will gain a lot of benefits.

But... in the past three years, I have only communicated with one business path. Our business network has not yet been expanded. If I really become an official, officials are not allowed to engage in maritime trade. In this way, will my efforts in the past few years be wasted? If I put down these industries and become an official, I will only gain fifteen stakes a month, but what will I lose? When that business path is opened, there will be many people who follow the trend soon. If I don’t quickly build a trash, others will build it. Gradually, my market share will gradually shrink - then what I lose is not tens of thousands of stakes a month.

So, in terms of cost-effectiveness, it is better to be an official title and stay at home and operate my warehouse with peace of mind."

The group of Israelites had already walked around the streets of Jinghai and came back to report. After hearing their reports, Zhao Xing gave a few words, waited for them to say goodbye, and pointed to the backs of the group of Israelites and said to the students: "This group of people may be the ones who understand the most cost-effective relationships in the world."

Cheng Xia woke up from his thoughts and took the opportunity to ease the atmosphere: "I heard that the teacher was going to find priests for them. The cost of sea boats going overseas is not small. Does the teacher think it is worth it?"

"Value! It's so worth it!" What Zhao Xing was most satisfied with was that the most worth it for his trip to Bianliang was to retrieve a group of Israelites.

This group of Israelis can be said to be the world's number one accounting nation, and they are proficient in accounting skills. Zhao Xing knew that almost all the chief accountants of large foreign enterprises were Jewish. How many years would it take to cultivate a group of skilled accountants like Jews?

Zhao Xing estimated that even if he used the modern mature education system, he would have to learn twenty years in this way. Now he only used the promise of one high priest to exchange for one hundred skilled accountants. Isn’t this the maximum benefit with the minimum cost?

The Jews were also showing their value to Zhao Xing: along the way, the Israelites disembarked from the boat in three or three according to the plan. With the assistance of the locals, they would use the opening fee given by Zhao Xing to build the loach stack along the way alone. With their ability, Zhao Xing believed that they could complete such a simple task alone. The Jews were a nation that abides by the contract very much. They claimed that they had made an agreement with God and held this agreement for nine thousand years, so Zhao Xing was not afraid that they would run away with the money.

When the ship entered Hangzhou, half of the Israelis who kept getting off the boat along the way were left - 50. They followed Zhao Xing into the manor, standing on the top of the slope of the manor in Hangzhou, looking at the construction site. Zhao Qin'er was quietly placed in the lateral building by Cheng Azhu.

Zhou Bangshi said goodbye at the Hangzhou Canal Wharf. He needed to go home to raise funds first, and then discuss the shares with Zhao Xing. The two Japanese people followed Zhao Xing back. Among them, Lieutenant General Ji Shou boarded the ship at the wharf and headed to Japan at the wharf.

This Hangzhou courtyard has been built four years ago, and there are endless craftsmen, including Japanese, Vietnamese, and workers from the Arab world. Zhao Xing did not have many buildings, just a few residential buildings, but he had very strict requirements, such as the exterior walls of the manor, with the wall thickness required to be more than three meters, and it was all built of huge stones.

In fact, the exterior wall finally turned into a continuous circular wall building, with four floors high. On the outside, the outside side opened several small square windows as big as a head seven meters away. On the inside, the first and second floors were useless for the outside, all of which were connected warehouses. On the third floor, the living room was installed with large doors and windows.

For four years, craftsmen spent most of their time building the exterior wall. It was not until last year that the circular exterior wall was closed, and then the craftsmen began to build new buildings in the courtyard. At this time, the construction was reaching its peak, and more than a thousand workers came and went, making the courtyard look a little noisy.

Looking at the situation in front of him, Zhao Xing couldn't help feeling a little guilty.

For four years, Azhu lived on such a large construction site, which was really hard for her. He wanted to say a few words of comfort, but he couldn't say it for a while, so he had to hug Azhu gently, and the two hugged each other and stared at the home.

This belongs to him, this is his home in the Song Dynasty.

There were many rooms vacant in that wall building, so no matter how many Israelites came, they had a place to settle. After a while, most of them had already begun to choose their own rooms under the guidance of their servants. There were only five Israelites around Zhao Xing who were still in place, and these five people happened to be the small leaders of the five major tribes of Israel.

Cheng Azhu stayed in Zhao Xing's arms and forgot the passing of time. Chen Yiyi urged her for a long time before she remembered that Zhao Xing's residence had not been introduced yet. She hurriedly led everyone into a small building in the middle of the castle under the hillside. The building is similar to a modern villa, three-story high, a pointed attic, and lives back by the mountain.

It was the first time Chen Yiyi entered this room. She excitedly climbed up the second floor and chose her own residence. Strangely, Jiao Chu actually came out of the room. He was carrying a string of lanterns in his hand, first sent a lantern to each person, and then led everyone into the hall downstairs.

The woman had no resistance to beautiful things. Zhao Qin'er finally entered the house and was also attracted by this unique house. Azhu happened to show off her intentionally and led everyone to visit the small building. Jiao Chu pulled Zhao Xing and took the five Israelites into the kitchen when they were unprepared.

The kitchen wall can be moved. When I push this wall, there is a door behind it, and there is a door behind it. The tsuke kept pushing open layers of thick wooden doors. The more I walked in, the louder the noise seemed to be louder and louder, all of which were clattering metal knocks. When I approached the last thick wooden door, a long tunnel was presented to everyone. In the tunnel, countless women were sitting next to a small square table, operating a spiral coin minting machine in their hands. The lights on their tables were like floor-to-date indicators on the plane runway, one by one, extending to the depths of the tunnel.

Zhao Xing's coming in caused a noise. When the women saw Zhao Xing holding the lantern, they immediately stopped their work, knelt down at their table, shouted in words such as "appreciation", "kow", "changmen Palace" and other words.

Zhao Xing nodded left and right, walked through the corridor with a lamp. The Israelites only watched silently, without saying a word. When they reached the end of the corridor, Zhao Xing looked back at Jiao Chu and asked: "How many people are there in total?"

Jiao Chu replied: "There are four hundred people here, and there are three hundred people in my son."

Jiao Chu answered while pushing open the wooden door at the end of the corridor. There was a large studio inside, with countless lanterns lit to make the room illuminate. Some parts were piled up on a large workbench. Hearing the door, three simple-dressed old men saluted Zhao Xing with five young people. Zhao Xing turned around and asked Jiao Chu: "Is this the Western Regions copper smith introduced by Master Foyin?"

Focus contact nod head.

Zhao Xing walked to the three old men and asked the other party's name casually.
Chapter completed!