Helping others is the basis of happiness, this is the principle that Zhang Shi believes in.
Now Lu Yongyan wanted to go to the Pure Land of Paradise. As a good boss in the Song Dynasty, Zhang Shi felt that he had to help him, stepped on the accelerator, and accelerated him to the cemetery.
So Zhang Shi smiled and said, "You are well-informed and know that someone is planning to run away."
"It's strange that no one wants to run away. I heard someone say that during the war a few days ago, some people ran away to Goryeo, and some people ran to Japan. I thought that if I could run away, I would go to these places. It’s better to run.”
Lu Yongyan smiled and whispered: "Where do you plan to go? If you don't give up, I am willing to continue to follow you. Anyway, when we get to those places, it is best for us to work together to overcome the difficulties, what do you think?"
Do you really want to follow me?
Stay with me?
Zhang Shi almost stopped laughing.
But as a double agent of the Ming Dynasty and the Renaissance Society, he felt that he was a professional. Unless he couldn't help it, he would never laugh, at least not out loud.
So he suppressed the urge to burst into laughter and pretended to be sorry.
"My father died for the country. As his son, how could I abandon the country and escape alone? Such a thing is not something I can do, so I decided to stick to it until the last moment."
"Ah? This..."
Lu Yongyan's face was full of disbelief: "You want to stay? Are you really not going to leave? My husband, it's not what I said, this city of Hangzhou is by no means a good place. Although your family has little wealth, you are still a high-ranking official. , it will inevitably be liquidated by the Ming Dynasty."
“When a country is in ruins, someone has to stand up and save the last bit of dignity for it.”
Zhang Shi pretended to sigh and said with a gentle smile: "But don't worry, if you want to leave, I will make arrangements for you in advance. Just go to Korea with Mr. Shen. Even if there is a problem in the future, you can still Escape to Japan and everything will be arranged for you anyway."
Lu Yongyan was grateful for this, but he still found it incredible.
"Are you serious? Why bother? If you want to stay, someone will naturally stay. As a Privy Councilor, how can you stay and throw yourself into a trap? I think this is completely unnecessary."
"When every dynasty collapsed, there were loyal people who died for the country. If not, this country would be too desolate, and our scholar-officials would be ridiculed by future generations. Therefore, the Song Dynasty... let me do it."
Zhang Shi let out a long sigh and said, "We, the scholar-bureaucrats, are deeply indebted to the country. If we flee in all directions when the country is in danger, how will the history books talk about us in the future? How will future generations view us?"
Lu Yongyan never expected that Zhang Shi would have such an idea. While sighing in his heart, he also scolded Zhang Shi for being a fool.
Damn, everyone is just joking about repaying the country's kindness. Why should we repay the country's kindness?
He took the civil service examination by himself, and he suffered a great deal.
The military attaches also worked it out on their own, either going to the battlefield and risking their lives, or spending money to bribe the superior officers.
It’s all my own efforts, what a shameless country!
Aren’t there just a few idiots who died in the past dynasties in order to repay their country’s favor? Even if those few who died just moved themselves after death, wouldn't most people still live well?
Living is the most important thing, living has everything. Being a human being is not easy, who wants to die!
He always thought that Zhang Shi was an official who knew how to be flexible and had some own opinions on flexibility. And after all, wasn't his father Zhang Jun killed just to repay his country's favor?
It was the Emperor of the Song Dynasty who personally ordered him to be killed. He was killed as a privy envoy, setting a precedent.
I was already a fool, but it turned out that my son was even more of a fool among fools. He didn't want to avenge his father, but he actually wanted to die for his country.
There are two generations of idiots in this family, father and son. If your Zhang family continues to have descendants, I will take your surname!
Lu Yongyan didn't care about that. He didn't want the army, and with the Mingguo instructors there, he couldn't guarantee that the army would still listen to him.
For now, he just needs to make sure that the soldiers still listen to him. He spends money to raise the soldiers. They are well-educated and well-educated. When the time comes, he can take the soldiers with him and he can guarantee his own health. It's safe.
It was not easy for him to save money as an officer these years.
When he was not in a high position, he relied on the flesh and blood of soldiers to save a lot of money. When his position was high, many people gave him money. He spent a lot of money and even gave away most of the money he got. Store it for your wife.
In order to facilitate his escape, Lu Yongyan divided his savings over the years into two parts.
Some of them are still copper coins, which are put into jars and jars and hidden away to be taken away. Copper coins in the Southern Song Dynasty are the hard currency in East and Southeast Asia and can be used. Many countries recognize this, so you need to hold some.
The other part is exchanged for other value-preserving goods with strong value, such as gold, silver, copper utensils, Sichuan brocade, etc., which reduces the space occupied and facilitates transportation.
As for his family's house and a group of real estate properties, Lu Yongyan was also forward-looking and arranged to sell them after acquiring them. The money from the sale was also divided into two parts.
So at this tense moment, Lu Yongyan is actually one of the most prepared people.
As the saying goes, opportunities always come to those who are prepared, and Lu Yongyan is the one who is prepared.
Of course, Lu Yongyan is definitely not the only one who is prepared. There are always many smart people and many people with strong actions.
As the news that the Yellow River diversion project in the Ming Dynasty was about to be completed spread in Hangzhou, a considerable number of military officers and civilian officials began to take action.
As a result, in March and April of the eighth year of Hongwu's reign, there was a short period of prosperity in the commercial transaction market in Hangzhou. Many high-quality commercial resources were released, and the sales and transfer prices were very low, with many discounts. It makes people feel that as long as they buy it, they will definitely make a profit.
However, after several rounds of war and the brutal exploitation carried out by the Hangzhou court in order to survive, almost no one in Hangzhou still has money to buy these high-quality commercial resources.
The rich people are all among the bureaucrats, and they are all ready to make money. Who will be taken advantage of at this time?
As a result, few locals are willing to buy these originally high-quality commercial resources.
But there is a group of people willing to buy it.
A businessman with a Ming Dynasty background.
There is of course a reason for all this.
After the signing of the peace treaty of the Second Ming-Song War, the entire Jiangnan Kingdom's commercial market was forced to be completely open to the Ming Kingdom. Ming merchants could purchase and independently operate any commercial stores located in Jiangnan, and Jiangnan Kingdom officials could not restrict it.
Moreover, Jiangnan officials cannot suppress taxation and must maintain it within a reasonable range, and this range needs to be jointly agreed upon by the Jiangnan government and the Zhongdu court.
In short, Jiangnan officials do not have the final say on a series of related taxes that Ming merchants need to pay when doing business in Jiangnan. The decision-making power actually lies in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.
In order to protect its country's power over capital, the Ming Dynasty would of course force Jiangnan to set extremely low taxes on Ming Dynasty capital, and even have quite a few tax exemptions.
And all of this is not available in Jiangnan’s local private businesses.
Therefore, in this link, the production costs of goods under the control of the Ming Dynasty national team were greatly reduced, forming an absolute price advantage over the local products of Jiangnan Province, which resulted in the large-scale dumping of Ming Dynasty products in Jiangnan.
Except for salt, the financial lifeline of the Hangzhou court, which insisted on not opening up, almost all other industries were opened up by the Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, the advanced production system of the Ming Dynasty showed great advantages.
The goods produced by a large number of Ming Dynasty factories through scientific and reasonable assembly line models have considerable price advantages. The high-quality and cheap cloth, farm tools, pots, pans, spoons and other normal goods that the people desperately need began to be dumped on a large scale. Jiangnan.
In a very short period of time, high-quality and low-priced Ming products destroyed a large area of industry run by local merchants in Jiangnan.
Jiangnan's local business forces were retreating steadily, and were constantly squeezed into bankruptcy by the capital of the Ming Dynasty. They were then merged and acquired, further strengthening the economic control of Jiangnan by the capital of the Ming Dynasty.
In this process, the Hangzhou court was fragile and powerless.
