I am the king of the dead

He is rarely able to sit and talk in formal settings.

But this time, in a meeting of this size, it was the first time that he actually sat down to speak.

"I think maritime trade is actually three links, namely production, shipping, and dumping place." Fei Yiying coughed twice to relieve his nervousness before continuing: "The essence of financial affairs is exchange, and the essence of financial affairs is exchange. What is exchanged is what we produce.”

"And the smoothness of the sea route is to carry out non-stop exchange to ensure that the goods reach the destination, and the dumping place is the place of exchange."

"More lands of kingship can promote and expand sea route activities, so as to establish more lands of kingship."

Fei Yiying proposed three links of sea power, producing goods, transporting goods, and exchanging goods, and these three links were placed on the shipping route of Daming. For example, the cotton from Songjiang Prefecture will only take one month to sail directly to Wa Kingdom in April. Shipping time, and the transaction at Namba Port is the exchange of goods.

If you want to strengthen sea power, you must strengthen the efficiency and security of these three aspects.

Fei Yiying continued: "As far as production is concerned, all workshops must unconditionally follow the labor insurance regulations set by His Majesty's Labor Insurance Bureau. This includes labor remuneration, working environment, labor safety, working hours, etc., which are not available in other places. Dare to say, but in Songjiang Prefecture and Yingtian Prefecture, the Labor Insurance Bureau is good to everyone in terms of guaranteeing production."

Fei should also have a deep understanding of it himself.

For these giant businessmen and wealthy businessmen, they are just towering trees, but to peel them off internally is to dig their own foundations and loosen the soil for themselves.

But Fei Yiying also knew that if the imperial court didn't care about it, it would undoubtedly be a fool's dream and a fantasy for these wealthy merchants to have this awareness.

In Yingtian Mansion and Songjiang Mansion, why do all workshops keep a respectful distance from the Labor Insurance Bureau?Even frightened?

Shuang Li's notoriety was notorious in the Nanya government.

In the past, house raids were carried out at discounted cash, and all fixed assets, current assets, and reserved funds would be converted into current assets and sent to the capital's internal funds.

However, when Shuangli ransacked the house, all the fixed assets would not be discounted, and they would be directly classified as Huangzhuang, and what was copied were the means of production. Who could bear it?

Fei Yiying took a look at the sitting in front of the stage with lingering fear, Li Xian and Li Binyan continued to say: "The second link of sea power is sea transportation, ensuring the smooth flow of sea routes, regularly clearing pirates, and measuring monsoons." Time, determination of shipping routes, training of sailors, improvement of ships, increase in the number of ships, etc., are all ways to enhance sea power.”

"And the third link of sea power is the land of overseas kingship. In this part of Governor Li's port is the starting point of the road to kingship. I will not make a fool of myself."

Li Binyan received Fei Yiying's question book, looked at it for a long time, nodded and said, "Very good, not bad."

Fei Yiying put in a lot of effort to participate in this meeting, from initiating ideas, to visiting around, summarizing and perfecting, and finally lived up to Wei Guogong's entrustment.

His thesis is clear, the arguments are sufficient, and he also looks for the problem through the phenomenon, finds the reason in the layers of problems, and puts forward some practical improvement plans.

The discussion around sea power is still going on, and the results of this discussion will be sent to Wenyuan Pavilion every day through the pigeon road. After being drafted by Wenyuan Pavilion, it will be sent to the Supervisor of Rites and presented to His Majesty before the case.

The entire ocean meeting was supposed to end in fifteen days, but because there were many topics discussed, it lasted for more than a month before it ended.

After the end, Xu Chengzong slumped on the soft rattan chair, and finally relaxed.

"Old Li, I recently heard that His Majesty is planning a southern tour. Is this true?" Xu Chengzong asked in a low voice, tilting his head and looking at Li Binyan who was sitting upright.

"Yes." Li Bin said concisely.

The southern tour is a big deal, and it will take more than a year just to prepare. The preliminary preparations for the southern tour are already underway. As long as you pay attention, this matter cannot be concealed at all. Home, knowing the news, is not surprising.

Xu Chengzong's face is full of lovelessness, and what he fears most is His Majesty.

Today His Majesty is a master who doesn't recognize his relatives. When the interests of Daming are not harmed, His Majesty is amiable, talks about the friendship of relatives, and looks like a half-brother.

But once Daming's interests were harmed, the scene of His Majesty beheading the three princes under the Altar of Heaven and Earth is still vivid in my memory.

Moreover, His Majesty personally killed an emperor in the Taimiao.

"Mr. Fei Shang, the loggers on Jilong Island rely only on exiled prisoners from the imperial court. The progress is really slow, and there are labors from Mr. Fei Shang." Li Binyan took out an inscription book approved by Zhu from his sleeve and handed it to Fei And should.

Fei Yiying was terrified and took the contract book. This book contained all the news of Daming about Jilong Island, including the location, shipping route, environment, products, climate and so on.

It's money, money that keeps on flowing.

Just the logging industry is enough to produce several million silver coin houses, and the industry of Jilong Island is not limited to logging?

Jilong Island is much larger than Ryukyu Island, and neither Ryukyu can be compared in terms of industry scale or quantity.

Such a title book that has been approved by His Majesty is not for nothing, and Fei Yiying will naturally have to pay the price.

And this price is that all the funds of all chambers of commerce involved in the development of Jilong Island, in addition to paying taxes, have to put the funds in the Baoyuan Bureau, and carry out under the supervision of the province.

It is unrealistic to rely solely on the Ming court to develop Jilong Island. The number of exiled prisoners is so small, and the development progress is slow. Today, the Penghu Inspection Department and a port have been rebuilt, and the scale is extremely small.

Fei Yiying took the inscription contract and wrote his name on it. He is Xu Chengzong's white glove. He was called over today and heard the big news of His Majesty's southern tour. He knew that he signed today. It's decent. If you don't sign it and don't want to be decent, there will naturally be people who make him decent.

"Mr. Fei Shang has done a lot of business recently, but I have heard some bad rumors." Xu Chengzong watched Fei Yi apply the seal, sat up straight, stared at Fei Yiying, and said quite calmly .

"I..." Fei Yiying couldn't say anything, his legs were shaking a little, and he finally knew why he was left alone after the ocean meeting.

Recently, Fei Yiying's wealth has been increasing in an extremely terrifying way, and he thinks that he did nothing wrong.

Seeing Fei Yiying's stuttering appearance, Xu Chengzong said angrily, "Your Majesty launched the summer hunting operation recently, do you know?"

"The business of prostitution, or the donkey rolling business that spread across the six northern provinces, was jointly suppressed by His Majesty and Yu Shaobao. I can remind you that expansion is expansion, but if you get out of it, I can't save you."

"Yes." Fei Yiying wiped the sweat from his brow, and said in a low voice, "We also ask Duke Wei for advice."

"The person who can help you is sitting here, and I can't talk to me." Xu Chengzong glanced at Li Binyan, then stood up and said, "I'm off to spend time and drink, it's up to you whether you can let Henglin Fei survive. "

"gone."

Xu Chengzong ignored financial affairs, leaving Fei Yiying behind and left Wanguo City directly. This Wanguo City has a style of Wanguo, as long as he is willing to spend money, even Hongmaofan can play.

"Don't be so cramped, I'm just looking for you to talk about what you've done recently, sit down, secretary, give me a cup of tea." Li Xian said with a smile, motioning Fei Yiying to sit down and answer.

Fei Yiying sat on the rattan chair, with his buttocks half-stretched on the chair. As for the tea, he dared not take a sip.

Li Binyan and Li Xian, Shuang Li and Shuangsha questioned, it is strange that this tea can be drunk.

"Let's talk." Li Binyan looked at Fei Yiying and said, he waved his hand to signal the secretary to start recording the conversation.

Fei Yiying lowered his head and frowned, thinking about many questions, how much did the court know, whether what he did angered His Majesty, whether he violated the laws of Ming Dynasty when he did these things, he How much should I say, whether I should tell the truth, and what will happen.

For a moment, Fei Yiying had a lot of thoughts, but he didn't have many entanglements, just like pouring beans into a bamboo tube, he explained everything clearly.

Fei Yiying lowered his head and said in a low voice: "In the past, our General Chamber of Commerce presided over bulk commodities, and then divided them into ten to a hundred shares and distributed them to all merchants in the chamber of commerce. , lose money, and consider yourself unlucky."

"For example, to sell tea bricks, silk, and cotton cloth outside the Great Wall. It takes a long time to go there, and there are also great risks. It has been done this way."

"Then I wondered, since bulk commodities were fine in the past, is it possible for sea trade to do the same now? After trying several times in a row, several three-masted ships went to Japan and returned safely. Before all the ships in Zhejiang set sail, the shares will be split and subscribed."

Fei Yiying split the three-masted ship into shares. At the beginning, a ship was split into more than a dozen shares, but soon other merchants also started to do the same. A ship is split into thousands of shares, and in this way, even some small merchants can participate.

It is the nature of merchants to seek profit, especially this method of risk sharing, which soon swept across the two rivers and two Zhejiang provinces, and almost everyone participated in it.

But Fei Yi should be able to be the head of the business, so how can he be an idle person?He saw a business opportunity.

When others were still engaged in fundraising, Fei Yiying discovered that after the fundraising, the money would stay in the account.

It’s not too early to pay without profit, and the recognition is not simply a recognition of the same value as the goods, but there is a certain premium, and this part of the premium is the profit that should be paid.

Like subcontracting of creditor's rights, pledges can recover profits in advance.

Buy the goods yourself, ship them to the country of Wa, and then bring the goods back from the country of Wa. The speed of selling the money back is really too long.

Although the pledge will transfer part of the profits, it can recover the principal and profits as quickly as possible.

After doing this several times, Fei Yiying's business grew bigger and bigger, and he began to buy three-masted ships and all shipyards capable of building three-masted ships.

This is what Fei Yiying is doing. His expansion rate in the past year has been so fast that even Xu Chengzong has discovered Fei Yiying's business, which is not normal.

To put it bluntly, what Fei Yiying did was to lay eggs with a chicken.

Li Binyan and Li Xian glanced at each other. This method of operation is exactly the same as the sale of the contract of sale, which is to withdraw profits in advance and carry out rapid expansion, but it is not the same as the sale of the contract of sale. What should be bought and sold is equity.

"I'm going to trouble Mr. Fei Shang to stay in Songjiang Mansion for a few days." Li Binyan stood up, and walked out of the cubicle with Li Xian, while Fei Yiying stayed at the Shipping Department of Songjiang Mansion, waiting for the result.

Xu Chengzong didn't go to spend time and drink, he stood outside the door and heard clearly.

Li Binyan said as he walked, "Fei Yiying's business is really worthy of his title as a business owner. It is much better than those stubborn old people in the Confucian Mansion who only know how to buy land all day long."

However, Li Xian shook his head and said: "He is just stripping small merchants and peddlers. How can there be a stable profit in this sea trade? Fei Yiying is easy to sell by splitting shares and subscriptions. It seems that he has given away a lot of money, but actually ?He made a lot of money, but left the risk to small businessmen and wealthy people."

"This is Zanbo!"

Li Xian is quite dissatisfied with Fei Yeying's way of doing things. This is a typical sharing of risks. The risks of maritime trade are transferred to the merchants and rich people. The ship returns and makes a lot of money. Didn't you lose everything you lost?

Xu Chengzong was a little distracted, he said in a low voice: "Don't you think Fei Yiying is opening a gambling house by doing this?"

"I have no regrets. Isn't the appearance of buying and leaving the hand a gambling house? It's just that betting on dice has become a betting on whether the ship can come back. This betting in the gambling house has become a pledge."

After Xu Chengzong finished speaking, Li Xian and Li Binyan were taken aback. They found that what Xu Chengzong said made sense.

"But it's different." Li Binyan thought for a moment and said, "What do you think this gambling shop is betting on? Nine times out of ten bets, it's the boss's conscience."

"However, Fei Yiying's Longmen Formation will take the bait from those who wish, and now, the ships going to the country of Wa can come back in all likelihood. As far as I know, the ships going to the country of Wa are not easy to buy. Only those who have connections in Fei Yiying's Chamber of Commerce can get it, and every ship is scrambling for it."

When three people walk together, there must be my teacher. The more we argue, the clearer the argument, and the three of us will agree to the deal. You say something, and I discuss it.

Li Binyan, Li Xian and Xu Chengzong came to the Yamen of the Shibo Department and fell into deep thought.

Li Xian finally sat up straight, and said with lingering fear: "I finally know why your Majesty opened the sea, and there are many difficulties. It is really that this sea trade is too profitable. It is more profitable than winning in the gambling house. Ask yourself, rarely Someone can stand up to such a lucrative deal."

Li Binyan didn't know whether this kind of recognition was good or bad. He thought for a while and said, "It's better to write it as a memorial and send it to the capital. Your Majesty will make a decision."

Chapter 6: Obtaining Knowledge by Investigating Things

Li Binyan did not impose any specific punishment on Fei Ye, everything was decided by Shangyi.

Li Binyan was holding a book in his hand. This book was collectively written by the craftsmen of the craftsman city. It was called "Kun Yuzhi", and it consisted of sixteen volumes.

The first to sixth volumes are about mining, the seventh volume is about experimental methods, the eighth volume is about mineral processing, the ninth volume is about smelting, the tenth volume is about metal separation, No.11 is about metallurgical equipment, No. Volume 12 is the charcoal method.

This book is a compilation of the culmination of smelting techniques in many official factories, but there is no smelting method of Daming Iron and Steel in the book. Cast iron, steel, ordnance and rust protection.

The first twelve volumes were published on a large scale, and the last four volumes were the textbooks of the Daming Craftsman Academy.

In this "Kun Yu Zhi", there is no mysterious and mysterious statement, the description of the process and equipment is very clear and accurate, and it is equipped with 290 woodcut drawings, even if you don't know the art of smelting, you can understand it.

And the author is Chang Youde.

Often Deben is not a craftsman, but a doctor in a saddle factory.

The Maanchang Special Zone has 15 households, with a total of [-] people. There are also garrisoned Beijing troops and prisoners after the Nanya quelled the rebellion, totaling more than [-] people. As the five-year hard labor of the prisoners continues to end, the Maanchang The number did not decrease, but gradually increased.

There are more than [-] mine pits in the Ma'an Factory alone, making Ma'anshan pitted, and these mines are excavated by ordinary people and kiln workers in Daming. To see a doctor, Chang Youde was transferred from Shijingchang doctor to Ma'anchang special zone.

During these seven years of work, Chang Youde's medical skills were basically at the level of "Preventive Hygiene and Simple Prescriptions", but his smelting technology has improved by leaps and bounds. Chronicles.

Li Binyan studied ink and picked up a pen. He wanted to write a preface for this Kun Yu Zhi, and then send it to the capital.

"Fu Yihuangtian brings good fortune, and Fu Dabao is in Yuanliang; during the reign of the Holy Emperor, Dianqun was born in Jingtai. The sound and teaching permeated the world, and the benevolence and kindness spread throughout the world, and the gods and men celebrated. Your Majesty the Emperor, wise Rui Zhi, success is more beautiful than Tang Yu..." Li Binyan's opening is the standard opening of a preface, in summary, it is a beautiful article of praise, flattering and slapping, making the emperor more dizzy, saying The courtiers are more respectful.

Although Li Binyan is not good at this, but after all, he was born as a Jinshi, so as long as he thinks about flattery, he can write a bunch of flattery that the parties blush after seeing it.

It can be said that Li Mei is in Tang Yu, Maode Pi is in Tang and Wu, En Guang is in the two rooms, and his merits will last forever.

"Kun, the earth, everything is nourished, so it is said to serve Kun; Yu, Cheyu, Kun is the earth, and it is the great jade." Li Binyan first explained the meaning of the word "kunyu".

The largest car in the world is the earth, so the map is the map, and the study of the land is the study of the map.

Li Binyan continued to write: "All the elites who conceived in the land have insight into the origin and elucidated the profound meaning. That is, whether ore veins are beneficial or not, and they also explore the mystery. If they can be mined properly and smelted legally, then all gold, silver, copper, tin, and lead Iron and other items can be used for the country and the people’s livelihood.”

"What is recorded in the book is to peep into the mountains, observe the veins, and test hardware. There are medicines for mining and forging with my husband, and schemas for smelting utensils, and they are all in good order."

Li Binyan stopped writing at this point and put down the pen, frowning tightly. He found a problem. He explained the word Kunyu clearly, but he couldn't explain the character Zhi clearly.

He hesitated for a moment, then suddenly he had a flash of inspiration and wrote down the words Gewuzhizhi before nodding his head in satisfaction.

"Ge, Zhiye, objective observation and cognition. Things, like things, objective things. To, push to extremes, subjective analysis. Knowledge, like knowledge, objective laws."

"Those who extend knowledge are in the investigation of things, if they want to exhaust my knowledge, they will find out the reason." After writing this paragraph, Li Binyan's brows finally relaxed, and he worked hard to complete the draft of "Kunyu Gezhi".

Gezhi is a classic concept of Neo-Confucianism. It comes from the "Book of Rites", which says that knowledge is based on investigating things, and then you know when you understand things. In fact, it was Li Binyan who froze on Li Daitao.

Specifically, Li Binyan wants to establish a set of testable and reproducible explanations for objectively existing phenomena, and a formalized theoretical knowledge system for objective things.

Li Binyan, who looked up at the starry sky, observed astronomy, and Li Binyan, who was down-to-earth, built a craftsman city, all of which are Li Binyan.

At this time, Li Binyan was not clear about it. He opened a door to science for Daming. He just couldn't understand his thoughts for a while, so he stopped writing for a while, and wrote down the four words "Gewuzhizhi" in a flash of inspiration. After writing, his thoughts became clear.

He further clarified the Neo Confucian concept of gewuzhizhi.

Li Binyan finished writing the manuscript, read it through, and when he re-transcribed it, he shook his head again. He felt that what he wrote was still not precise enough and too broad, so he continued to write: "Confucian scholars should cultivate their moral character internally, and govern the country externally. ;"

"Those who study things, those who are masters study things and gain knowledge, can pass through the world, and those who are second can also benefit people's livelihood, economical and useful, and it is not a useless study."

"Confucianism can be the body, and the study of things can be used for the purpose. People with insight, the two are indispensable."

"Looking at things to gain knowledge, that is, knowing things!"

Li Binyan dried up the entry draft, hoping that His Majesty, who is far away in the capital, can understand what he wrote.

In this entry draft, Li Binyan compared craftsmen and craftsmen and officials from the low-level with strange and obscene skills to those who studied things and compared them with Confucian scholars.