Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 540 Fudge is also an Art

"By the way, Mr. Li, you haven't found any good places to go, have you?" Dispelling Li Yan's doubts, Yang Menglong changed the subject and became concerned about Li Yan's current situation.

Li Yan sighed: "Yes. I also want to find a good place in Nanyang and make a career. However, there are so many new soldiers in Heluo that there is really no place for me." He still has self-knowledge, Knowing that the Heluo New Army is neither resourceful nor courageous, it relies on the entire system to fight. His resourcefulness, which he has always been proud of, is almost useless in the face of this concrete-like army. There is really no one in the Heluo New Army. Location.

Yang Menglong scratched his head and said: "Actually, if you really want to make a career in Nanyang, you don't have to join the Heluo New Army. You can also make a great career by following Mr. Fang."

Li Yan smiled wryly: "Master Fang is also surrounded by talents..."

Yang Menglong waved his hand and said: "No, no, no, the talented people around Old Man Fang are flexible enough, but they all lack a little courage and responsibility. With Old Man Fang, a leader who can tolerate their shortcomings, of course they can You can feel free to use your talents, but if you let them stand alone, trouble will definitely happen. And you are versatile in both civil and military affairs, you are courageous enough, and you have the ability to stand alone. It is too easy to stand out. Old man Fang has approached me several times, hoping to help you. You dug it out, but you were too busy during this period and kept putting it off again and again, but nothing was done. So, I will write a letter of recommendation for you to take to him, and you will be his staff for a period of time first, and then wait for it to be completed. How about asking him to let you go out to be a county official or state official after your grades are over, and then you can climb up step by step?"

Li Yan was quite pleasantly surprised. He came from a Juren background. As a Juren, no matter how talented you are, it will be very difficult for you to achieve anything in this life. Only when the previous official dies will you have a chance to become a Juren, and there are many students who are also Juren. There are so many, those officials eat well and play well, and their lives are surprisingly long. How easy is it to kill them?And he offended many officials and squires because of his persuasion. If there is no accident, it will be difficult to get ahead in this life. Unexpectedly, he found an opportunity to display his talents in Nanyang, which is really great!But apart from being pleasantly surprised, he was also a little disappointed, because his ambition was to follow a peerless powerhouse, advise him, and bring peace to the world, instead of managing every state and county, accumulating achievements and slowly climbing up!
Probably seeing Li Yan's loss, Yang Menglong smiled, took out a document from the pile of documents and handed it to him: "Let's have a look."

Li Yan opened it and saw that it was the plan for the Huguang area formulated by Fang Yizhi and his staff.They plan to build five phosphate fertilizer factories in the Huguang area, with 30 workers and more than 100 factories covering steel, cement, glass, food processing, agricultural machinery manufacturing, textiles, sugar, paper and other industries, from buttons to Lollipops, everything from fertilizers to waterwheels and harvesters.In addition, thousands of miles of cement roads will be built to ensure that four-wheeled carriages loaded with goods can pass through every state and county rain or shine.To put it simply, this plan requires Huguang to reach an annual output of [-] tons of steel, [-] million tons of pig iron, a five-fold increase in cloth output, and [-] catties of rice per mu within five years. Every county should have cement roads, and large cities like Xiangyang, Jingzhou, Wuhan, Changde, Changsha, and Guangzhou should have no less than a thousand large-scale factories to provide employment opportunities for farmers who have no land or during slack seasons.Another is to replace the labor service with the hired labor system, which means that from now on, the people in Huguang will no longer be obliged to serve the labor service. If the government wants the people to do something, they must pay for money and food to hire people.

Li Yan exclaimed excitedly: "This is good governance! If it can be realized one by one, Huguang will become a paradise!"

Yang Menglong took out another document and handed it to him: "This is the next plan, you can read it again."

This one is also quite scary, that is, after the completion of the first plan, a school must be built in every township in Huguang, and this should not be used as an excuse to make profits, otherwise there will be no mercy.Every county needs to build at least one school like Wuyang Technical School, and big cities like Wuhan, Jingzhou, Changsha, and Guangzhou need to build no less than three institutions of higher learning like Taiyuan University. , Those who can enter such a school are the pride of heaven, and they are destined to become the pillars of the country.Li Yan saw that his forehead was sweating, and he stammered and asked Yang Menglong: "Master Hou, do you know how much it will cost?"

Yang Menglong shrugged and said, "There is no doubt that the number is astronomical."

Li Yan was dumbfounded: "Aren't you afraid of ruining your fortune?"

Yang Menglong patted the dog-leg knife on his waist, and said with a smile: "Except for this knife, I earn money for everything. What are you afraid of? Well, Mr. Li, you have also seen that these two plans are well spread out." It is very big and urgently needs a large number of talents, and you can do whatever you want.”

Li Yan bowed deeply: "I am lucky enough to be able to participate in such good governance that benefits all people. How dare you not try your best?" He figured out that it was not necessary to go to the battlefield to make achievements, and helped Fang Yizhi complete these two plans. You can also leave your name in history!
As soon as Li Yan finished speaking, two guys jumped in and called, "Master Fang, we also want to listen to Mr. Fang and work for him!"

Yang Menglong squinted his eyes and saw that these two idiots were Fang Yizhi and Chen Zilong.He glared at Li Yan: "You are in the same group, right?"

Li Yan smiled awkwardly: "I accidentally met Mr. Fang and Mr. Chen, and we hit it off immediately. The two brothers are both talented and ambitious people. However, the Marquis has not appointed them for a long time. They are somewhat aggrieved. …”

Yang Menglong folded his arms, looked at Fang Yizhi and Chen Zilong, frowned and said: "I said you two, didn't you say you want to go to school? I let you go in and study. You can study whatever subjects you want. What else are you dissatisfied with?"

Fang Yizhi said: "If you go back to Lord Hou, a man's ambition is everywhere, how can he have a bright head and poor experience?"

Chen Zilong said: "Now the Ming Dynasty is in turmoil. It is the time for me to serve the country. I really can't..."

Yang Menglong interrupted: "Stop! Don't say such beautiful words to me, you want to serve the country, don't you? Okay, tell me, can you lead the army to fight?"

Fang Yizhi and Chen Zilong looked at each other and shook their heads depressedly.They have never even killed a chicken in their life, so asking them to lead the army to fight, isn't that murder?
Yang Menglong asked again: "Then I will hand over a county to you to manage, can you manage it well?"

Fang Yizhi was speechless, but Chen Zilong said, "Maybe we can give it a try..." He didn't have much confidence.They are all from the Donglin Party. What is the nature of the Donglin Party?To put it simply, you are in charge of doing things, and I am in charge of singing high-profile and picking bones. If you make a mistake, don't blame me for picking your nose and killing you!Although these two are the best in the Donglin Party, they have all the faults that the Donglin Party should have.Let them govern a state and county, and they really don't have much confidence that they can manage it well.

Yang Menglong sighed, and said: "Maybe... well, you may be able to govern well, but the possibility of messing up things is not as good as the possibility of governing the place. I have a lot of people in countless counties and prefectures My subordinates are grey-haired and have rich experience in local governance. To put it bluntly, as long as I give them a higher salary and strict supervision, they will be able to handle things properly for me [-]%. May I ask? Why leave these seasoned people unused and use you at the risk of screwing up a place?"

The two young men were speechless for a moment.Yang Menglong didn't lie to them. After Nanyang became rich, many county magistrates, masters, and masters really came to Nanyang to make a living. They worked at the bottom all their lives. In fact, the operation of the entire local government was completely dependent on them. Well, the county magistrate and magistrate are only in charge of some major affairs, and those extremely cumbersome affairs are all handled by them.Now Nanyang has an oversupply of such talents, and there are a lot of them, so why take the risk of using two idiots with high eyesight and low abilities?

Fang Yizhi cried in despair, "Are we useless at all?"

Yang Menglong said: "It's not that you are useless, but you are looking in the wrong direction. You are not here to eat at all!" He took out a document and stuffed it into Chen Zilong's hand: "Take it! This is the future of agricultural development One of the plans is to improve rice seeds to increase production and income. If you are interested, please report and follow them to conduct research in this area. Will you refuse?"

Chen Zilong looked bewildered: "Improved rice seeds?"

Yang Menglong nodded vigorously: "Yes, improved rice seeds. Just think about it. Originally, one mu of rice could only produce [-] catties. After the improvement, it can produce [-] or even [-] catties. With the same land, it can feed twice as much. Population, what an achievement. Also, there are thousands of miles of fertile fields in Liaodong, and the Sanjiang Great Plain is so fat, it’s just that the climate is too cold and the rice seeds are not viable. If you can improve the rice that can adapt to the severe cold over there Liaodong will become the granary of Ming Dynasty, and our common people will never have to worry about food. What a great achievement this is? Think about it carefully, is this more promising than being a county magistrate or a magistrate? , can benefit the people more?"

Stars were about to pop out of Chen Zilong's eyes, and he nodded vigorously, unable to close his mouth: "Yes, yes, this is a great achievement that has merit in the present age and benefits in the future, why didn't I think of it? Stupid, too stupid Already!"

Fang Yizhi called out enviously: "How can such a great achievement make Brother Wozi special? Hou Ye, I want to participate!"

Yang Menglong looked contemptuous: "Have you ever dealt with crops?"

Fang Yizhi was suffocated and said, "No..."

Yang Menglong's nose turned upward: "Without you, what would be the trouble?"

Fang Yizhi pointed at Chen Zilong and shouted: "He has never dealt with crops!"

Yang Menglong said: "But I follow Mr. Xu Ge and have been in contact with agricultural administration since I was a child. I am very familiar with these. Can you compare them?" He took out another document and threw it to Fang Yizhi: "I heard that your chemistry has made great progress. Isn’t it? Great, I’m most in need of talents like you. This is a plan to improve the production process of chemical fertilizers and develop new types of chemical fertilizers. Take it! If you can produce nitrogen and potassium fertilizers, you can also make the world’s crops plentiful. Even after ten or a hundred generations, the common people will never forget you!"

Poor Mr. Fang was immediately knocked unconscious by this big cake, and nodded his head in haste.

Seeing the appearance of these two people, Yang Menglong chuckled inwardly.Hum hum, don’t you Donglin Party members like fame very much?I will use my eternal reputation as bait, and I am not afraid that you will not work hard for me!

Li Yan said sincerely: "Master Hou knows people well and makes the best use of their talents. It's really amazing."

Yang Menglong said: "Stop flattering me...you haven't eaten yet, have you? Let's go, I'll treat you!"

Fang Yizhi was delighted: "Master Hou treats guests? That's great. I heard that the wines and wines of Dukang Restaurant in Nanyang are all first-class, and there are countless beauties to accompany the wine. It is the first choice for carpe diem..."

Yang Menglong rolled his eyes: "Dukang Restaurant? Don't even think about eating at my house!"

The three guys rolled their eyes at the same time, and shouted in their hearts: "Boss, you are too stingy!"

(End of this chapter)