Chapter eight hundred and fiftieth eight: people make the best use of their talents
"Your Majesty, can Lu Dayuan believe this?" Eunuch Le asked with some concern while packing the tea.
Qin Feng nodded: "He is already desperate. When he led his army to surrender to us in Hengdian, he is already desperate. The robes of the past will no longer accept him, and the Qin royal family will no longer believe him. He has nothing to rely on except us. If he does not want to be a prisoner of war for the rest of his life."
"I can't tell that Lu Dayuan is still in love with the people. If he has helped you, your Majesty will be much easier to run the Qin State." Eunuch Le said happily.
Qin Fengha laughed out loud, "Mr. Le, Lu Dayuan is not for the people, he is for himself. Even though he has suffered hardships in the past and knows the hardships of the people, when he reaches his current position, he is already one of the beneficiaries of the current Qin system. But he can no longer enjoy this benefit. This is a smart person!"
Eunuch Le was stunned.
"Strangely, I have been praising him like that before?" Qin Feng asked with a smile.
Eunuch Le nodded vigorously.
"There are some things that both sides understand, but they can't be said. If they say it out loud, they have no face. I need him to run the Qin game for me. He needs my Ming Dynasty to let him continue to enjoy wealth and glory. Naturally, they all have to find a great reputation. It sounds better to say it!" Qin Feng said lightly.
Eunuch Le showed a hint of disgust on his face, "Looking at his righteousness, I really think he is a good general who cares about the people!"
Qin Feng laughed loudly, "You can't say that. While he is protecting his glory and wealth, he can also let the people of Qin live a good life. You have to look at this from the result."
"But the slave still feels as uncomfortable as if he had eaten a fly." Eunuch Le shook his head and said, "Your Majesty, why did you think this person can be used at that time?"
"From the time when he led 10,000 invaders in Hengdian to surrender to us," Qin Feng said: "I discovered that this is a smart man. Dealing with smart people has saved a lot of trouble. He knows what he wants and what he has to pay. Without further ado, he understands his value. Over the past few months, I have allowed the people from the Eagle Nest to accompany him to almost all the territory of the Ming Dynasty, allowing him to see the strength of my Ming Dynasty and the prosperity of my Ming Dynasty. Of course, it also allows him to see hope and let him understand that climbing onto my Ming ship is his guarantee for the rest of his life."
"Your Majesty is wise." Eunuch Le said admiringly: "But I still think that the fewer smart people like this are in the Ming Dynasty, the better. It is best to have people like this one after annex the Qin State. People like this should be thrown into the cold palace. His glory and wealth are indispensable, but they must not be reused."
Qin Feng laughed loudly and patted Eunuch Le on the shoulder, "You are wrong again. We must use those who are capable like him. As long as you put such a person in the right place and make him feel afraid, he can still exert a dazzling light. I am not afraid of smart people, as long as you can be able to."
"Your Majesty can only control such a person with a broad mind. The servant thinks about it and feels scared!" Eunuch Le said justice.
"People have their own materials and things have their own uses." Qin Feng said with a smile.
"Your Majesty has seen someone for a day today. Have a good rest and have a sleep!" Eunuch Le saw Qin Feng stretching and yawning, and immediately said considerately: "I keep the door for Your Majesty. Today, no one will be seen."
"It is indeed necessary to take a break and talk to the ministers is much more tiring than fighting, especially those civil servants, who speak with their eyes wide and their ears are raised. A simple thing, when they come to their mouths, they can easily get them into the circle if they are not careful."
Holding the tea plate, Eunuch Le smiled and said, "That is, Your Majesty is kind and can tolerate people. People like them have long cut off their heads when they were pseudo-yue."
"There is no choice, no one can do it. There are only a few people who need to use it and those who dare to do things. I can't afford to offend them!" Qin Feng smiled and stretched out his feet, hooked up a bench, and placed his long legs on the bench, "I'll take a moment."
Eunuch Le tiptoed out with a plate.
Qin Feng didn't sleep after all. He just felt that he was about to fall asleep, but was awakened by the noise outside. When he heard the quarrel with Eunuch Le outside, Qin Feng sighed and sat upright.
Why did the old guy Ma Xiangnan run here? Eunuch Le can stop others, but he can't stop him. Sure enough, he just sat up straight when the door slammed, and Ma Xiangnan pushed open the door and walked in with confidence.
Fengpu Chenchen's Ma Xiangnan is now thinner, but his spirit is much stronger than before. When his hands opened the door, the blue veins were exposed, and he could still see the calluses in his palms. Ma Xiangnan used to be a white-faced scholar, but now he has tormented himself into an old farmer.
With this appearance alone, Qin Feng felt that no matter how high courtesy he gave this guy, Changyang is now quickly recovering his vitality under his management.
This former Chu family, who was born in Jiangnan, had a much broader vision than ordinary officials. He did not focus on the grain industry. Because Changyang has many mountains and few land, he could not grow much grain even if he spent more effort. Jiangnan planted mulberry trees and silkworms, while Ma Xiangnan was in Changyang, but he also vigorously developed such economic crops. Fruit trees and medicinal materials planting are now two magic weapons in Changyang. Over the years, various fruit trees in Changyang have formed economies of scale, and the medicinal materials and medicinal materials workshops have benefited Changyang County a lot. This year, Changyang County has achieved self-sufficiency and a small surplus. Thinking of the tragic situation in Changyang County a few years ago, Qin Feng was full of admiration for this old man. Not everyone can be like him.
What's more valuable is that he brought out a group of officials like him in Changyang County.
"Mr. Le, give tea, give good tea!" Qin Feng said loudly.
Without waiting for Eunuch Le to agree, Ma Xiangnan raised a bag in his hand, "Your Majesty, I won't drink tea today. The old me brought you the specialty of our Changyang County, fruit brew. I want to congratulate you and want to drink a few cups with you."
Qin Feng stared at Ma Xiangnan with his eyes: "Yeon Owl enters the house, my Lord Ma, what do you want to do? This is a military, and you are not allowed to drink."
"You are Your Majesty, you should have privileges. I am a civil servant, and I have no military affairs, and I am not bound by military rules!" Ma Xiangnan said with a smile. "I came here to congratulate Your Majesty."
"Where does the joy come from?" Qin Feng asked with a smile, waved his hand, turned to Eunuch Le and said, "Mr. Le, go and see if there is any food to eat. Ma Gong is here, so you have to entertain me anyway."
"Your Majesty is now going to snatch a large area of territory from the hands of the people. Isn't this a joy?" Ma Xiangnan smiled and opened the bag and took out several pots. "The fruit brew of different flavors will be blessed this year to the master, and the harvest will be good."
"Those lands are still in the hands of all the people!" Qin Feng laughed loudly.
"How can you run away if your Majesty loves something!" Ma Xiangnan said with a smile: "Now that Your Majesty has stepped on the neck of Emperor Qi, he has to give in to you. I don't think it will take long before these territories will return to the arms of the Ming Dynasty. Isn't this worth a few drinks?"
"I'll ask you Ji Yan, okay, then let's have a few drinks!" Qin Feng laughed.
The so-called dish of wine is just some jerky meat that is always prepared in the army, and it is also a few dishes of new side dishes, but Ma Xiangnan ate it with relish.
"Ma Gong, you still have to cherish your health. You are too thin." Qin Feng slowly drank the fruit wine, looked at Ma Xiangnan, and said softly.
"Your Majesty, my health is better now than ever before." Ma Xiangnan chewed the jerky mutton hard, "I read less now. If I go back to Jiangnan and negotiate with those great scholars, I will definitely be refuted by them."
"It is better to travel thousands of miles than reading a thousand books. Ma Gong is a pragmatic person. Compared with those sour scholars who have been stupid in reading, wouldn't they be demoted to their own status?" Qin Feng said with a smile.
"Yes, Your Majesty is right." Ma Xiangnan clapped his hands, picked up the big bowl in front of him, and drank the fruit into one gulp. "Your Majesty, I am here this time to ask Your Majesty to put the first railway in Changyang County to repair it."
With a loud bang, Qin Feng had just drunk the sip of the fruit brew that had spewed out, making Ma Xiangnan look all over his head.
Ma Xiangnan's expression remained unchanged, "Your Majesty, Changyang has a good harvest this year, but I feel uncomfortable watching these fruits rot on the trees. If this railway can be built, these difficulties in Changyang County will be solved."
"Ma Gong, do you know how much it costs to build a railway? Do you know how many people it costs to support this railway? "Qin Feng looked at Ma Xiangnan and asked. "Just today, Jin Shengnan and Fang Dazhi had a big fight with me, because of the money issue."
"Didn't the court pay? You set up the Railway Bureau, isn't it just to solve this problem?" Ma Xiangnan asked back.
"Who told you that the court paid the money!" Qin Feng was amused and cried, "The court will subsidize part of it, but the court must have money. More importantly, the local government will pay money and try to absorb funds. Ma Gong, you should not think about this money for now. Changyang County cannot afford it now. Moreover, Changyang is mountainous, the roads are steep, and there are still many technical difficulties for rail cars. It is impossible to go to Changyang Xiu without conquering it. It must be a transaction that will cost money."
Looking at Ma Xiangnan's eyes bulging, Qin Feng had to introduce the problems contained in detail to the old minister, and only half of them were said. The old man was already placing his head on the peddler. Before Qin Feng could talk about it, he gave up.
"Your Majesty, since this matter cannot be done, you must support me in another matter." Ma Xiangnan said: "I want people and a large number of people to enrich Changyang County. Where is I still short of people."
"Hasn't you removed a lot of barbarians?"
"It's not enough. After Guan Gong Quan was worried that too many barbarians would be moved to our Changyang County, these guys would run into the mountains without a trace. So wherever they went, they were all old and weak. Although in Changyang County, these old and weak can still do something, but they are better than strong men."
"Where did you ask me to find a strong man for you? The people in other counties in the Ming Dynasty won't go where you are, right?"
Chapter completed!