Aggrieved Fish Sprite

The room was dead silent.

When the surroundings were quiet enough, the intensified dispute outside became faintly audible.

Cheng Jingchuan has a keen sense of hearing, and Qiu Jing possesses internal strength.

When he was in a dilemma, listening to the heart-piercing words of the goatee and the tattooed old man, Qiu Jing's eyes dimmed, and his drooping right hand clenched into a fist.

Cheng Jingchuan closed his eyes slightly, and sighed secretly, this is really a house leak and it rains all night.He misunderstood Mr. Qiu's "love for daughters", and ignored the ignorant thoughts of these Jiang Hu people.

——The sons and daughters of the rivers and lakes are all nonsense, they are all nonsense, and they are clearly the same as their parents.

These masters of Fengxing Pavilion were sent by Mr. Qiu to protect him in name, but they also fulfilled the duty of surveillance.Cheng Jingchuan began to regret that he had never learned martial arts, but a person's energy is always limited, he doesn't have that much time, and he has no talent in martial arts, so he couldn't find any sense of energy in trying to learn internal skills. In addition, when he was young, his body was worn out, and even half of his hard skills in fighting on the battlefield were abolished. If he really wanted to fight Qiu Jing, he might be able to survive the first three moves by rolling with the lazy donkey quickly...

Cheng Jingchuan was helpless.

He took the initiative to expose the traps of the agencies in the house, so he made progress by retreating, and he didn't want to fight with Qiu Jing to lose both sides.

If you want to live, you must first express your position. If you are not sincere, what else can you talk about?

"Lord Qiu Pavilion, there are so many fools in the world, what's more, you and I are in it, what can we do?"

Cheng Jingchuan said slowly, "I know that you have put a lot of effort into Fengxing Pavilion's establishment in Jianghu, and even the world. What you want to do is not only a Jianghu gang selling information, but also its significance to major commercial firms in Jiangnan and Jiangbei. More importantly, only by smoothly transporting goods to places where they are needed, avoiding exorbitant taxes, bypassing court checkpoints and green forest robbers, and allowing money and food to truly flow, is a real wealth."

Qiu Jing looked at him deeply and remained silent.

Cheng Jingchuan continued: "In ancient times, agriculture was emphasized and merchants were suppressed, and merchants were said to be despicable. Why do you not hesitate to suppress the stick? If the same thing can be sold in Taijing at a price ten times higher than that in Ningtai, how many people are there?" Willing to farm for a living? People don’t stay on the land, they move around, it’s not easy to govern, nor can they be pastored and tamed.”

What are the people?In the eyes of high-ranking officials and dignitaries, they are like pigs, dogs, cattle and sheep. The word "Mushou" is used to refer to local officials, which shows the meaning.

Local officials are herdsmen who manage livestock and raise cattle and horses.Only when they are raised well can they hand over more things to the court.

Has anyone ever seen livestock run around?

You have to circle a place, you can walk around freely in this circle, and if you want to go out, you will immediately become harsh and strict.

Ordinary people would not want to go out, because most of them would not know how to live if they left the land where they were born.

"Goods are more expensive than their hometowns, and people are cheap when they're away from their hometowns. That's what businessmen say." Cheng Jingchuan said calmly.

If he dared to take this step, he was naturally prepared.

Meng Guoshi was an unexpected intruder, Cheng Jingchuan was unprepared for him, it would be different if it was Qiu Jing's side.

When Cheng Jingchuan learned who Qiu Jing was, he was preparing for today.

Even without the dead end that Qiu Si threw them, Cheng Jingchuan knew clearly that if he wanted to get out of Ningtai and raise troops in the south of the Yangtze River, the biggest obstacle was not King Jing or King Wu, but Qiu Jing.

Cheng Jingchuan didn't believe in the big Fengxing Pavilion, and in the end no one was loyal to the owner of the pavilion.

Even if Qiu Jing really became a loner, he could still come over and cut himself with a sword, unless Cheng Jingchuan took a dozen martial arts masters with him wherever he went.

Yes, there are many people in Fengxing Pavilion, but after all, these people who betrayed Qiu Jing were either for fame or fortune, or for Mr. Qiu's kindness. In short, they have little to do with Cheng Jingchuan.If Cheng Jingchuan couldn't bring them enough benefits and let them see enough prospects, who would be willing to act as a bodyguard?

How to break the dead end?Naturally, it is to persuade the other party to give up.

Whether Cheng Jingchuan persuaded Qiu Jing or Qiu Jing persuaded Cheng Jingchuan, even if they only reached a preliminary agreement, the problem could be solved easily.

"Writing uses Confucianism to disrupt the law, and chivalry uses martial arts to violate the prohibition. The people of the Jianghu travel all over the world, they don't use roads, they don't do production, and they don't follow the orders of the government. They are the first and the earliest people to understand these things. The owner of the Qiu Pavilion raised the Fengxing Pavilion with one hand, and then Don’t you just see through the tricks in bringing the business to commercial firms in various places?”

Qiu Jing said bluntly: "Big firms have their own information channels and means, and those small firms I really want to support are those small firms."

With accurate information and knowing which wharf to burn and which stick of incense to worship, the merchants who have worked hard to sell goods can also struggle to survive, so as not to be crushed and collapsed.

"There are too many small businesses, so the big businesses can't overpower one side, control the price of food, and exploit the common people."

Through this painstakingly laid net, Qiu Jing can know where the drought is, where the flood is, and where the officials are greedy.

Everyone can do business, if you don't enter this city, you can go to that city. If officials want to continue to make money, they should know "there is a degree". It is through such means that Qiu Jing secretly affects countless towns in the south of the Yangtze River and the north of the Yangtze River.Every company and every caravan can mix people from the rivers and lakes, can deliver news to Fengxing Pavilion, and can also take care of Fengxing Pavilion's business.

The disadvantage is that the stalls are too big, and the hearts of the people are different. Brothers who treat each other with sincerity today will change their minds tomorrow.

It's not yet the day of arrival, but the upper management of Fengxing Pavilion has already caused an uproar.

Qiu Jing resolutely decided to give up these elders, those who had worked hard for Fengxing Pavilion and now want to destroy the foundation of Fengxing Pavilion. As long as the bottom sub-rules continue to exist, as long as the swordsmen do not sweep the world, the Fengxing Pavilion that she has devoted countless efforts to will still exist .

Therefore, she absolutely did not approve of Ning Tai's raising troops, so she came to see Cheng Jingchuan with murderous intentions.

But the direction of things gradually deviated from her expectations.

There was an inaudible sound on the roof, and Cheng Jingchuan could have noticed it, but he concentrated all his energy on Qiu Jing, and he didn't think about it carefully.

With a circle of guards outside and a circle of masters from Fengxing Pavilion, how can this make people go up to the roof without a sound?

--can.

Meng Qi stretched out his sleeves, skillfully lowered his figure, and submerged under the eaves.

Qiu Jing came back in a hurry, but it was not without trace. The atmosphere in the Fengxing Pavilion in the city changed. Naturally, Meng Qi would not miss it at this critical juncture.

King Ning's court is not too big, so it is not difficult to find this group of people, it just takes a little more time.

When he came, he happened to hear the second half of Cheng Jingchuan's words.

Meng Qi paused and looked solemnly.

"Use the business name to invigorate people's hearts and save the people from the land?" Qiu Jing frowned deeply, obviously not thinking about the problem from this perspective.

Instinct told Qiu Jing that this sentence was correct. In fact, some places in the south of the Yangtze River had already had such signs, especially in Qiantang County under King Wu's rule. Not every household was farming.

The surplus grain in one place was sold to other places along the canal, and other goods were transported in.There are people in the whole town who only know how to make porcelain, and there are people who only know how to make sauce in the whole village, and they survive by the endless caravans.If people in the world can choose to stay at home or leave their hometown at will, whether farming or other crafts can survive... Maybe the land is really not that important.

"It belongs to the scope of public land, and it is all owned by the imperial court. People are hired to cultivate it, and let the common people be the tenants of the imperial court, and the grain goes directly to the treasury. Let the eyes of those high-ranking officials and dignitaries focus on commercial firms. When business can earn a hundred times the income of the land, they will Will you still hold on to the field?"

Cheng Jingchuan said, sighing softly, "Of course it will take a long time. For thousands of years, both the poor and the rich have been relying on the land... except for the land, they don't believe in anything."

"Even take all the gold and silver obtained from business to buy land, and leave it to future generations." Qiu Jing slightly raised his eyebrows, his eyes were ironic.

It's easy to fight, easy to kill, easy to conquer the world——

And how difficult it is to change people's hearts!

"The Chu Dynasty has achieved everything, but it has failed to change the ignorance of the world and even the monarch himself." Qiu Jing said mercilessly, "Cheng Jingchuan, you are just a nobody, even if you are comparable to Wei Guogong, Wu Ke When the reincarnated Marquis Jing Yuan dares to say that he can do this?"

When it comes to ideals, who is vague?Is there a good way to govern the country, so that you can raise troops to conquer the world regardless of the life and death of the people?

"A single tree cannot form a forest. You don't have congenial and heroic comrades. Don't you know what kind of people my father has under his command?" Qiu Jing enunciated clearly and resolutely, "With such a group of people , even if you can rule the world, how will you satisfy their selfish desires? People’s selfish desires are endless. At first they just want to live, and then they want to get promoted and get rich. The future generations will plan to leave it to decline for three generations, how can they support more and more children and grandchildren without private land? Who can guarantee that there will be no unworthy people in their descendants?"

Land is the easiest and least worrying thing, because it doesn't need heirs to work hard, and he doesn't need heirs with both ability and virtue.

Qiu Jing asked word by word: "You don't care whether these people are good or bad. You only ask whether they are useful. Are you going to follow the example of Emperor Chu Yuan and slaughter the so-called heroes? Because they are so greedy and drag your big plan, so you kill them?" They have no sense of guilt. If there are such good-looking and famous ministers, it will make it difficult for you to make a move?"

Cheng Jingchuan's expression moved slightly, and he avoided answering: "I only believe that the world is so big that I am not the only one who can see the key points of the fields. The pavilion master can catch the throats of corrupt officials today and let them know how to make money." With a degree, money can have a long history, and he will be able to teach those people to understand the truth that only occupying land will lead to poverty. On the one hand, the business roads are open and money is flowing, and on the other hand, the imperial court imposes heavy taxes. Take a hundred acres of fertile land and pass it on to your descendants, and let them go bankrupt and pay taxes."

"You are tyranny! Those landlords will only raise troops and let you die without a place to bury you!" Qiu Jing shouted angrily.

Meng Qi was condescending, thinking deeply with no expression on his face.

Cheng Jingchuan's idea is not that every word is unacceptable.

The bondage of the field is right, and it is also right to break this endless cycle.

However, it is not bad to see, and the practice is outrageous.

I still don’t have enough experience. I don’t know that these high-ranking officials, dignitaries, and local tyrants who have been raised by the land for thousands of years can really block and kill gods and Buddhas in order to maintain their original lives. What is loyalty, what is the emperor, and the army What are soldiers and horses?They will try their best to do everything in their power, and they will do bad things everywhere, and they will continue to be maggots.

How can you underestimate maggots!How many good strategies of the Chu Dynasty ended without a problem, and how many people who could have lived a better life had to continue the life of their ancestors.

Meng Qi felt a little pity, Cheng Jingchuan lacked too many things, and it was a lunatic like Qiu Si who was promoted and appreciated to give him a chance, so the influence became more and more extreme, if he was a brazen junior like Yuan Ting Forget it, just bad luck——

The national teacher thought about it, and his thoughts went away, and the dispute in the room continued.

"Lord Autumn Pavilion is right. I lack people and strategies, and I am thirsty for talents. I may not be able to rule the world, let alone display my ambitions. There is nothing wrong with Pavilion Master Autumn's idea of ​​not wanting to use swords in the south of the Yangtze River, but..."

Faced with the oppression of martial arts masters and Meifeng not moving, Cheng Jingchuan also questioned: "The three places in the south of the Yangtze River seem to be prosperous, but they are actually not as good as the Qi Dynasty in the north. There are tax collectors who are about to die, let alone the people? There is no government around me." Talent, let alone the ability to turn the tide, chaos has arisen, and there will be rebellion even if you can't afford to fight.