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The trees are in the forest, and the wind will destroy them. Time is not long. After experiencing this war, Huairou will not cause shock to the court. The politicians of this era's so-called Confucian moral level are far higher than national interests. They cannot predict how the court will view these new things Huairou, and can only avoid risks as much as possible. Regardless of whether he wants or not, it is inevitable to mediate with those in power. With his 21st century thinking and unrestrained but somewhat cowardly personality, the future is more good and bad. Dragging his tired body, Wu'anguo met with shareholders of various industrial groups one by one, and related to himself

The industry was diverted out. After winning the battle, it wanted to transfer its shares at a low price. Everyone thought that Wu Anguo was so stupid. But seeing his sincere face, he couldn't bear to refuse. "Maybe Wu Dianshi is short of money, but I didn't see what Wu Dianshi wants to do. What is the master's behavior, and ordinary people can't guess it, so it's better to buy some stocks." Everyone thought so. Through semi-public trading, within a few days, Huairou County had many more small shareholders. After some integration, before the court responded, the various commercial banks, factories and mines were divided into several major interest groups. According to Wu Anguo's suggestion, it was called a certain group company.

The major shareholder of the wood and dye industry became Yang Laohan, and metallurgy manufacturing and other related industries belonged to Zhang Wuge. People said that the two had a good life and picked up the God of Wealth by the well. "Why didn't I think about getting water that day?" Someone joked about Zhang Wu. The glass industry was bought by Xu Zhichen, and there were many other ceramics, building materials, etc., and they were all famous flowers.

There are many scholars from nearby counties. After two years, the Confucian scholars on industry have changed. Under the subconscious promotion of Wu'anguo in Huairou Yixue, several Confucian scholars who were staying here have begun to reinterpret the true meaning of Confucianism. In their school, the great sage did not advocate discrimination against industry and commerce, and advocated learning from the strengths of a hundred schools of thought. The sub-sage also advocated respecting public opinion, and did not have the saying "the people are the most important, and the country is the next best"! And uniting scholars into emerging industries is a key step for Wu'anguo to arrange it after deep thought.

Although Wu'anguo offered a price very low, many shares remained in his hands and were not sold. His cash was enough to buy half of Peking. After forcibly stuffed some stocks to Guo Pu, Li Shanping, Zhang Zhengxin, Jiang Ye, Cao Zhen and others, Wu'anguo donated the remaining shares to the school. As a fund for school development, a laboratory has been established in the school, where teachers and students can try their ideas. With new profitable products, they will soon be bought by well-informed merchants, and the school and inventors will be divided equally. If a virtuous cycle is formed, within ten years, the school can survive independently by its own strength.

After these arrangements, Wu'anguo can finally plan how to interact with the court with confidence. "Even if there is a problem in the future, the efforts of the past few years will not be destroyed. The seeds have been sown, and it depends on when it can grow into a towering tree."

King Zhu Di of Yan was busy handling military affairs these days. On the day of his victory, the young prince fully demonstrated his military talent. He ordered the exhausted Huairou Township Warrior to be responsible for cleaning the battlefield and collecting prisoners. The imperial guards and the township warriors of the other two counties, together with the Huairou Artillery, were arranged to cross the valley under the leadership of Qianhu Wang Zhenghao and Ji Canghai, to pursue the remaining enemies. Not far away, they seized the baggage of the Mongols. The Mongolian defeated soldiers did not dare to look back. They fled to Beikou City without even taking the baggage, preparing to delay time with the city wall.

The people killed in Beikou City were no longer there, so Zhang Zhengwu, who arrived later, had no worries. He put on the cannons and Zhang Zhengwu poured the fire of revenge on the city. In more than an hour, many places of the city walls collapsed. Li Yao, a hundred households of the Imperial Guard, rushed into the city first and chopped them when they saw people. The Imperial Guard and the brave men of the town rushed forward almost at the same time. Except for a few of the remaining Mongolian soldiers were almost wiped out. The undry blood of Beikou City made the Ming army lose their last sanity. When Wang Zhenghao led his troops back, he did not bring a single prisoner.

From the start of ambushing the enemy in Shimen Valley to the recovery of Beikou City, in this battle, the township and imperial guards of the three counties wiped out more than 40,000 enemies, which was a rare victory. Zhou Heng and Lin Huofeng's team suffered almost no losses, while the other two teams suffered great losses. The Imperial Guard had more than half of the casualties. Huairou Township Warrior had a whole company of cavalry, with less than 60 people alive, almost everyone was injured, the infantry was in a slightly better condition, and more than 30 people were killed. The number of deaths was not important in Zhu Di's eyes. He was happy that he had achieved such results in his first battle. Although he did not understand why Wu'anguo was worried about the deaths of several soldiers, he tried his best to learn from Wu'anguo's appearance. He believed that this would at least allow generals to do so.

The use of his life is an indispensable talent for a qualified commander. Before the court issued a new order, Zhu Di stationed the Imperial Army outside Huairou City, specially transferred silver from Peking Prefecture, and ordered the entire Imperial Army equipment from Li Shanping and Zhang Wu, each with three-eyed muskets and sabers, and a piece of armor. And for the first time, it was not a recruitment, but a purchase in accordance with the customs, giving enough face to Wu'anguo. This order was enough for Li and Zhang's company to work overtime for a month. Li Shanping's military factory was originally semi-official, and each musket had a number. Although the profit was high, there were no orders except the yamen. Therefore, this goods were made very attentively this time.

Because he personally saw the power of the firearm, Zhu Di was very enthusiastic about it. As long as he had time, he had to practice for a few times, and he could draw the bow in a few days. In order to express his gratitude, Zhu Di gave Wu'anguo another favor on the distribution of spoils. The baggage seized by the Imperial Army must be booked and handed over in view of the Ming army's order. The more than 50,000 remaining war horses were seized by the regiment trainees. Zhu Di believed that it should be controlled by Wu'anguo. He also wanted to take the opportunity to see how this richest man in Peiping distributed these property. What opened his eyes was that Wu'anguo took the lead.

Four percent of them became cash bank, rewarded to Huairou's village heroes, and gave some rewards to the other two counties and township heroes who came to help. The remaining 60% were distributed to investors based on the amount of investment invested by the establishment of the township heroes at that time. In the early Ming Dynasty, each investor's recovery was several times the investment, and he smiled. Zhu Di thought carefully and admired Wu'anguo even more. In this way, if you form a township hero next time, will not everyone contribute money and efforts? High, it is really high. The people in the Central Plains are many people who are tired of war, and sometimes they would rather endure humiliation and bear heavy burdens. This time, seeing the benefits of war, they may change their views a little.

Wu Anguo was not very polite. Zhu Di often forgot his identity as a prince when he was dating him, so the two got along happily. What made Zhu Di even more admired was the fact that Wu Anguo bought insurance for the village. Wu Anguo told Zhu Di that the soldiers in the Central Plains were afraid of death, not because they lacked courage. Instead, once there was a problem with him, the family that had been farming for generations would be less labor-intensive and no one would take care of their family. Therefore, their worries must be solved so that they could be brave and brave. Respecting their living conditions is more effective than using what to encourage them.

"Brother Wu's method is good, but it is almost a piece of money to build an army. When there are few people, it is possible. If there are too many troops, how can I find this more money?" Zhu Di asked suspiciously after hearing Wu Anguo's introduction. Wu Anguo was waiting for this sentence, introducing Huairou's products to him one by one, and told him: If you rely solely on land and military garrison, it will definitely not work. Agriculture depends on the weather and is affected too much by the outside world. And in a good harvest, rice will be cheap. It is not as good as industry and commerce. Now, the Ming Dynasty, Goryeo, Japan, and Ryukyu are now.

There are merchants and exchanges between Mongolia. These fresh things can allow other countries to flow into the Central Plains continuously. The taxes of industry and commerce are much more stable than agriculture. With money, we can naturally organize well-equipped troops. General Xu said that if the fire rate of muskets can be as fast as bows and arrows, 30,000 Ming troops can sweep the north of the desert. Now the fire rate of muskets is almost twice that of bows and arrows. Thirty thousand Ming troops are enough to make the Mongols never dare to go south to herd horses again. It saves much money compared to years of wars.

Zhu Di's wide eyes burned the boy's enthusiasm, and sweeping away Mobei was his ambition since childhood. Wu'anguo had already learned about his relationship with Zhu Di in the past few days. This boy was said to have been held in front of the formation by Zhu Yuanzhang when he was very young, and he was used to the sound of killing and had a special domineering attitude. In addition to being loyal and affectionate, the cruel side of the boy Zhu Di also shocked Wu'anguo. Wang Zhenghao and others recovered Beikou City and did not leave a prisoner. Zhu Di not only did not blame him, but also praised him for his good killing and personally took the enemy's head to worship his dead subordinates.

. During the days when Wu'anguo was in a coma, Zhu Di asked the village hero to tie all 4,000 prisoners outside the city. As long as Wu'anguo was not managed, they would be buried with Wu'anguo. Fortunately, Wu'anguo woke up in time and persuaded Guo Pu on the grounds that he was too heavy for days and was ominous to kill prisoners. In addition to picking out 500 prisoners who looked neatly to Nanjing to offer prisoners, Zhu Di thought that keeping them would be a disaster after all, and it would be better to kill them. Wu'anguo persuaded them for a long time and finally promised that there was a plan that the Yuan people would not dare to harass him anymore. Zhu Di stopped just now, let's see how Wu'anguo dealt with them.

Wu'anguo picked out the old and weak prisoners of war and ordered them to carry the seriously injured person who was missing and his legs and left the Central Plains quickly. There was no delay along the way, so he asked Zhu Di to send troops to escort him. The remaining 3,000 prisoners were ordered by Wu'anguo to escort them to Xiu Huairou roads. They could ask the wounded to send a message to their tribe members, each of which could be redeemed with three horses, and the hard labor period was over. Zhu Di was very happy and said to himself: "You, Wu'anguo, do not want to kill people, but you are an absolute kidnap bandit. In this way, the Mongolians must have been afraid and dared not come again when they heard their disabled tribe members talk about the power of firearms.

Causing trouble. The road construction work is tiring, so the prisoners can save wages and make good horses. No one except the unscrupulous businessman came up with such a vicious trick. I will give you some materials for this trick!" Nodded and ordered Li Yao, a hundred households of the Imperial Guard, to escort the Mongolians to the frontier. The Li Yao family was both lost in the war and hated the Mongolians to the core and abused them all along the way. These wounded soldiers were originally seriously injured, and the weather was cold and the land was frozen, and less than 30% of them returned to the north of the Mo. Wu'anguo didn't know Li Yao's life experience and Zhu Di's thoughts. He thought he had done good deeds, but he didn't know that if the wrong person was sent to the wrong deeds, it would be more vicious than evil.

In his spare time, Zhu Di always pestered Wu Anguo to ask this and that. This young man was very curious about new things and wanted to know everything. When he was not showing his majesty, he was no different from other young men. This gave Wu Anguo some confidence in the influence of him. "Since he was high and he was surrounded by Confucian scholars who talked about the monarch, ministers, fathers and sons, and he didn't take ordinary people seriously at all. So he didn't care about the life and death of ordinary people. This may be the key to Zhu Di's cruelty." Wu Anguo secretly thought, "Try to change him. No matter what the future is, at least he is a strong helper to protect the new things in Huairou." So Wu Anguo answered seriously, from the working principle of the water wheel to the method of making glass, he was never tired of it. In his words, he implied that everyone was in a common sky. Everyone may have different backgrounds, but they are all worthy of respect. For example, these craftsmen and merchants,

Without them, there would be no convenience in life. Some economic theories that Wu'anguo himself seemed to understand were also told to him. Zhu Di was most interested in humanities and geography. Regarding the overview of the foreign countries, he asked about the Wu'anguo, Cao Zhen and Wang Feiyu in particular. "Brother Wu, Zhu Di's greatest wish is to be a hero, like Wei Qing and Huo Qubing." Once the two had a happy chat, Zhu Di whispered that his mother was an ordinary concubine and died when he was a young man. It was Empress Ma who brought him up. Therefore, he wanted to repay Empress Ma, so when the current crown prince became the emperor, he would double his territory. This not only repays the kindness of the raising of Empress Ma, but also allows his mother to be glorious in the nine springs. "I am destined not to be an emperor, but I want to be the most accomplished among the princes." Zhu Di looked forward to his future.

Wu'anguo looked at this mature and childish boy and felt very moved, "In the history I know, you are an emperor who dominates the world, but it's hard to say in this branch of history, who can predict the future?" He patted Zhu Di's shoulder comfortably and used a homemade goose brush to draw the map of his memory on paper. When he was a "donkey guest", the world map was hung on the head of the bed every day, and Wu'anguo could almost count the world's famous places. In order to broaden Zhu Di's horizons, he explained it to Zhu Di one by one. "There is not only the Central Plains and the Great Wall in the world, but the world is very big." Wu'anguo outlined a few strokes, "This is Japan, this is Ryukyu, this is Liaodong, which was originally the land of our country, but was handed over to the Goryeo by the Mongols. This is India, and further west, it should be the world of the Turks.

On the west side, there are two countries in Britain and France. The war between them has been fought for a long time. There is a city called Florence on this peninsula that looks like a boot. These people are different from our language and living habits. To the south of the Ming Dynasty is the sea, and Dali in the southwest is still in the hands of the Mongolians. There is an island in the sea called Yizhou, which was the territory of the Wu Kingdom during the Three Kingdoms. There are countless islands to the south of Yizhou, the largest one is like this, I don’t know if anyone lives there.” Wu’anguo said, and his thoughts have floated to his own era, Australia, a beautiful and sad place. “The sea in the east of Japan is a larger land, larger than the Central Plains and more fertile…” Zhu Di held a pen and repeated it after the Wu’anguo master. The two of them chatted until dawn.

"Brother Wu, when my father asks me to lead my troops out of the frontier in the future, let's take this first." Zhu Di pointed to Liaodong, "take it back, and then headed west and drove the Mongolians to the other side of the mountain." Zhu Di stretched his finger across the Alps, "and then robbed a group of blue-eyed beauties that Brother Wu said, and became his wife to Chang Mao and the others." Zhu Di thought of his friend, Chang Yuchun's son, the Hedong lion in his family, and smiled in a hint of embarrassment. He held his smile and said solemnly, "Then we build a big ship, throw all the Japanese who were always robbing things by the sea into the sea, and then take up the land you mentioned that is larger than the Central Plains, and turn all the places that the sun and the moon shine into my Ming territory."

"What a courage, what a place where the sun and the moon shine, it will become my territory of the Ming Dynasty." Shisanlang pushed the door and broke in. Those who dared to be so arrogant in front of the King of Yan would only be the friend of the Wu'an Kingdom. "The sun and the moon will never die, and the Ming Dynasty will shine on my King of Yan. His Royal Highness is so brave. There is really one day when Cao Zhen is willing to be the pioneer of the two tents and put the Ming Dynasty flag in the drawings." Shisanlang slapped his big hands heavily on the drawings, and was full of heroic spirit, although he had never heard of many places.

"Can Your Highness ensure that the people in these places live well after occupying these places?" Wu Anguo asked softly.

"have no idea"!

"Then what's the use of you occupying such a big place?"

Zhu Di looked at Wu'anguo in a daze. Why is the ruler responsible for letting the people live well? He never thought about this question. His master only taught him that all over the world was the king's land, and the king's ministers were the king's ministers. He never said that the ruler still had responsibility.

"Your Highness, I look at it from the perspective of a businessman. If the people pay taxes to you, it is equivalent to buying your protection. If the people in power collect taxes, it is equivalent to accepting a contract to protect the interests of the people. Therefore, it is necessary to ensure that the interests of the people are not violated by foreign enemies and bad officials, otherwise it will be a breach of contract." Taking advantage of Zhu Di's youth, Wu Anguo instilled. "No matter how much he can listen to, at least in his heart, there will be the concept of the people." At this moment, Wu Anguo felt more like Zhu Di's teacher.

"Brother Wu, I brought a great happy event." Shisanlang had long been used to the fallacies of Wu'anguo and did not argue with him, bringing the news that excited everyone today.
Chapter completed!