He welcomed Old Man Xiao respectfully into his room. Chen, who looked at it, was envious and quietly said to Chen Jialuo, "It's better to be knowledgeable. Look at Old Man Xiao who walked there, he was treated as a guest of honor. Cao Yun looked at us politely, but in fact he was arrogant in his bones, but when he came to Old Man Xiao, he was sincerely respectful."

"I'm envious, hurry up and study!" Chen Jialuo teased: "With your intelligence, you may be able to read it."

Chen also curled his lips, "I am a good businessman, and I am a little worse than studying. Not only me, but my sons are not good either. However, I have more than a dozen grandchildren in my family, and they are all studying now. Not only do they go to school in school, but when they get home, they also hired a wise teacher to teach. I don't believe that none of them can't be able to read it? Even if they use money, I will pile up one."

Chen Jialuo laughed and reached out to pat Chen Ye on the shoulder: "Brother Sun, it's not that I'm pouring cold water on you. With your qualifications, it's probably because of your ability to be a profiteer, and studying requires talent."

"You look down on me!" Chen was also furious.

"No." Chen Jialuo smiled and said, "Look, your surname is Chen, and I am also Chen. We might be a family five hundred years ago. How could I laugh at you? Besides, don't belittle yourself. At least in Wuling County, your reputation is not smaller than that of Mr. Xiao. Mr. Xiao is naturally popular when walking among studying, but if he walks among a bunch of mud legs, do they know Mr. Xiao? But they recognize you and know you are their county magistrate."

"That's right!" Chen Ye was thinking.

"So, Mr. Xiao is a seed. Isn't it another way that you are following now?"

"But no matter how good I do, only people from a county recognize me and are grateful to me." After thinking about it, Chen was depressed again.

"How big the bowl is, how much rice we can hold, how big the ability we have, how big the things we do, how big we can chew more and not mess around. If you are too greedy, it will be bad things." Chen Jialuo said meaningfully.

Inside the room, Cao Yun looked at Xiao Hua with emotion and said, "I invited my husband to Daqi many times back then. Even if I don't serve as an official, even if I teach, it is enough for me to enjoy wealth and honor. It is so hard to use it as hard as today. At this age, you are still driven by Qin Feng to run around!"

Xiao Hua laughed: "Isn't a fish? How can I know the joy of fish? Your Highness, what I feel most about now is that I decided to stay in the Ming Dynasty and not to Qi State. It was a correct decision! At that time, the Yue State was destroyed and the country was destroyed. I did try to go to Qi State to avoid disaster, but in the end I stayed there. Not only was this land the hometown of me, the place where I gave birth to me and raised me, but it was also because Qin Feng came to the door to invite me again and again."

"Using your disciple and family's life threatening, can it be considered a delay?" Cao Yun sneered, "The gentleman did not avoid covering up for him. I still know a little about what happened back then."

"The methods are indeed a bit bad, but they also show how much he values ​​me!" Xiao Hua smiled and said, "Although I am old, I am not willing to sink into nothing. When I really arrived in Qi, I could only be a teacher."

Cao Yun was silent for a while, and finally nodded: "What Mr. said makes sense. I heard that Mr. is very busy now? It must be very hard, right?"

"It's not about hard work, but enjoyment!" Xiao Hua said: "Your Highness, what I am doing now is what we scholars want to do the most, but they feel that we can never do it. Before me, many sages worked hard for this but all ended in vain, but now, I have seen hope."

"Every village has a sound of reciting, and every family has a scholar?" Cao Yun asked.

"No," Xiao Hua nodded and said, "Everyone in the world said that I, Xiao, is for the sake of my honor after death, to win the special encounter of an emperor holding a spirit, but I am just using this reason to fulfill my life's long wish. Your Highness, you are from a noble family and don't know what the sufferings in the world are. You will never understand the lowest level. What a luxury it is to read and read!"

"Although Cao came from the royal family, he also knew that it was indeed difficult to support a scholar." Cao Yun nodded.

"Although Qi is big and rich, he never thought about this. Although Ming State was established for a short time, the emperor really regarded this as an eternal great cause."

"I used to think Qin Feng just regarded this as a gimmick, but I didn't expect it to be true." Cao Yun said with emotion.

"Of course it's true." Xiao Hua stroked his long white beard, "You don't know how much money the court has to invest in this every year? In order to allow children of appropriate age to study instead of at home, the court even issued a special law for this. Violators will double taxes. This alone forces those foolish men and women who still can't figure out the links here can only do it obediently. If this is not the help of the court, I will be unable to do it alone!"

"Sir, I think this thing can be really done?" Cao Yun was still a little unbelievable.

"Of course it can be done." Xiao Hua said proudly: "You are in Wuling County now, and this is still a very remote place in the Ming Dynasty and very poor. If you go to Shayang, Zhengyang, Taiping, and Yuejing, you will truly understand what it means to recite in every village, and what it is like to have scholars in every family."

"Sir, look very happy."

"Of course I'm very happy." Xiao Hua laughed: "You have never done teaching and educating people, and of course you can't understand this kind of emotion. For me, walking between the countryside and wilderness, you can hear the sound of children's memorization, and you can see them writing new words on the ground with branches. That is the happiest thing. Daming will definitely do this."

"After the Great Qi unify the world in the future, Cao will definitely do his best to make this happen. Mr. should take care of himself, and he will still need to use his power!" Cao Yun said with a smile.

Xiao Hua tilted his head and looked at Cao Yun for a while, and suddenly burst into laughter.

"What are you laughing at sir?" Cao Yun asked calmly.

Xiao Hua shook his head while smiling: "It's nothing, nothing, to be honest, I have not been involved in the government affairs apart from one acre of three-point land in my family. Although I have my name in the Political Affairs Hall, I have never been to go as long as it is not related to teaching and educating people and etiquette. But even so, I am very clear about the current situation of the Ming Dynasty. Your Highness, you can't win."

"Why did sir say this? Even though the Ming people annexed Qin, their strength is still not worth worrying about than my Great Qi, right?" Cao Yun spread his hands and said, "I don't think the Ming Dynasty can defeat us."

"Do you know what unity means?" Xiao Hua said with a smile: "I know. Do you know how popular the current Ming emperor is? I know. I am familiar with history books and deeply familiar with history. Looking at the countless emperors in history, no one can compare to the current Ming emperor. Even the founding emperor of the Tang Dynasty, Li Qing, in my opinion, is not as good as the current Ming emperor. I have no clear concept of which is stronger and weak in the military strength of the Ming Dynasty and Qi, but I know that the Ming Dynasty is in the same direction and thinks in the same direction. On the contrary, Qi State is not the case. At least you are in chaos now."

"Although there are minor problems, there is no need to worry about it!" Cao Yun said.

"I'm afraid it's not a small problem, but a confidant!" Xiao Hua said: "If you stay in Ming Kingdom for a longer time, you will have a deeper understanding of how powerful the Ming Dynasty is now. I am not talking about the Ming army, but the hearts of the Ming people. Whether it is the important officials of the court, the merchants and wealthy people, they all have a deep sense of identity with the Ming Dynasty. They all believe that only in the Ming Dynasty can they keep their current life and make him create a better life. Your Highness, I am actually a little confused. Why did the Emperor of Qi take such fierce means to deal with domestic problems?"

Hearing Xiao Hua's words, Cao Yun became alert and looked at Xiao Hua with some suspicion. Could this be another person to shake his mind? But looking at the white-haired old man opposite, full of doubts, he put aside this suspicion.

"We are different from the Ming Dynasty. The disaster of the Fore-Right has almost dealt with the wealthy families of the Fore-Right. Qin Feng is naturally good at painting on a piece of white paper. Now our Majesty also wants to get a piece of white paper that can be re-splashed ink!" Cao Yun explained.

"It's not like this!" Xiao Hua shook his head. "There are many wealthy families in the Ming Dynasty, now they are pillars of the country. There is no need to say that the five great masters of Shayang are the foundation of the emperor's founding. They are the wealthy merchants and wealthy people, now they are pillars of the Ming Dynasty. Do you know the track car of the Ming Dynasty?"

"I know a little, but I haven't seen it myself." Cao Yun said.

"The rail car has been built in Wuling County. This time I came by a rail car. Do you know where I came from? It was from Baoqing Port, Changyang County!" Xiao Hua looked at Cao Yun. "Changyang County is mountainous and extremely steep. It costs a lot of money to build a rail car. The court definitely cannot afford this money. I believe you also know that the people of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be very rich, but the court is really poor. Do you know where the money comes from?"

"It's the national debt again?" Cao Yun guessed.

"Wrong, this money is what those wealthy families, merchants and wealthy people paid for the construction, and the court only paid a small part of it." Xiao Hua said: "Do you know why they paid this money? The Ming Dynasty court, the Ming Emperor, did not force them, but interests drove them to take out the money. The Ming Dynasty is now officially developing sea trade to the people, and anyone can buy a ship to go to sea. Those rich people saw the huge commercial interests. In order to gain the advantage of this wave of going out to sea, these people voluntarily took out money to build this road, but the purpose was to connect the transportation between Baoqing Port and the mainland, so that their goods could appear at Baoqing Port as fast as possible on board the ship. Of course, when they paid for the construction of the road, others would have to pay for it. Even if the court wanted to use this road to transport materials, they had to pay for it. There was only one situation, that was, a war broke out."

This was the first time Cao Yun heard this and was very surprised.
Chapter completed!