Fang Zheng turned around and saw Yang Fengfan. He smiled and said, "Xiao Yang, what's wrong?"
Yang Fengfan wanted to cry but had no tears.
What's wrong? What else can happen? If you don’t mention this today, nothing will happen to me!
Yang Fengfan begged in a low voice: "Master Fang, I don't want to go to Pingwan County to be the county magistrate. Can you please go to His Majesty and help me find someone else? I really don't have the money." Ability."
"Look... I even sent gifts to your house during the New Year and the holidays... You must help me. I really can't hold my head up for the rest of my life, and I won't be able to come back!"
Yang Fengfan started to cry and began to speak eloquently.
Fang Zheng patted him on the shoulder and comforted him: "It is precisely because you gave me a gift that you should go."
"Every effort should be rewarded, and now isn't this reward coming? Do you know how hard I worked to get the court to launch such a pilot project?"
"Gah?" Yang Fengfan's cry stopped abruptly.
Looking at Fang Zheng, he said with blurred eyes: "What? Did you arrange it? Aren't you against it?"
Fang Zheng smiled: "Do I have any reason to lie to you? You said you have been messing with my house a lot. If I harm you, who will dare to give me gifts in the future?"
"That...that..."
"What's that? As long as I'm here, Pingwan County will rely on Taoyuan County in the future. How can it be unreasonable? I will also send people to assist you at that time to ensure your promotion and wealth in a year or two."
"Think about the diamonds in Taoyuan County, the high-quality fairy tea, and penicillin...the compressed biscuits and cans that have recently appeared on the market. Which of them will not make a large number of people rich? I won't tell you how much there are. Come to my house to discuss it in detail when you have time."
"Ah..." Yang Fengfan pinched his face, but still didn't think about it.
When Fang Zheng saw this, he smiled and said: "Relax, everything I said is true. There is a lie and my uncle was struck to death by lightning!"
Yang Fengfan's expression gradually changed from dullness to joy.
You have already staked Mr. Li's life, can you still tell lies? Did you actually make a profit?
Damn it! I made a profit!
"Thank you, Mr. Fang! Thank you, Mr. Fang! I will visit you at your home tonight!"
After that, Yang Fengfan left briskly.
Yang Fengfan left with his front foot, and Guo Tianyang came back with his back foot. He leaned next to Fang Zhengyi with a smile and said, "Xian brother, you did a good job."
Fang Zheng glanced at him sideways, a little surprised, spread his hands and said, "Brother Guo knows me well."
Guo Tianyang chuckled: "Others don't know, and our family doesn't know, so it's the first time your Majesty and I went to Taoyuan County to see your attitude towards merchants. I also know that you are acting. Your Majesty summons you, please."
Haha, it seems that the impression of being a businessman has long been left on the two of them.
Fang Zheng smiled and nodded, and then followed Guo Tianyang to see Emperor Jing.
When he arrived in front of Emperor Jing, Emperor Jing asked, "How did you convince Xu Qing?"
Fang Zheng said: "Your Majesty, how else can I persuade you? Naturally, Xiaozhi will be moved by emotion and reason. Mr. Xu understands the righteousness well and thinks what I said is reasonable, so he agreed to help me."
"But I also have a question. Judging from His Majesty's intention, it seems that he is not opposed to easing business, but why did I retain the previous memorial..."
Emperor Jing clasped his hands behind his back and said thoughtfully: "I don't know whether it's right or wrong, but the courtiers will definitely object. Since it can't be judged, naturally the trouble will be less if it can be less. I don't want to cause more trouble. I have enough things on weekdays. too much."
"By the way, the articles about economics in the newspapers in recent days were all written by you, right?"
Fang Zheng smiled shyly: "Your Majesty has a keen eye! It is true that I can't hide anything from Your Majesty, but those things are not articles at all. They are just some superficial opinions that I have accumulated over the years, and they cannot be true."
Emperor Jing gave him a meaningful look: "Then tell me, what do you think?"
"What I think is quite simple." Fang Zhengyi sorted out his thoughts, "Nowadays, merchants are the allocators of resources. Only through the hands of merchants can resources be better allocated."
"If the court takes the lead, I'm afraid it will be powerless. Because the court doesn't know whether the people want to eat vegetables or meat tonight. It doesn't know whether they want to buy cotton or linen, let alone what color fabric they want to buy. These things may seem ordinary and not worth mentioning, but when the needs of countless people come together, they form an extremely complex force.”
"Only countless businessmen can meet these extremely complex needs. In the process of meeting needs and seeking benefits, they have to connect production, which will create new wealth."
“Today’s suppression of merchants is to suppress the creation of wealth.”
Emperor Jing walked slowly: "Well, keep talking."
"Secondly, I heard from foreigners that they are not good at farming but are very good at doing business. We will have to deal with foreigners sooner or later, and countless overseas resources will be transferred back to Dajing through transactions. Now is the time to guide them out in advance. Some good risk-taking businessmen.”
"Otherwise, if you do business with foreigners in the future, you won't be able to make all the money just by pointing to the court. Why not earn more through private merchants? The fat ones will always be our Dajing people."
Emperor Jing smiled, saying this from the bottom of his heart.
Apart from anything else, no one is willing to do this kind of business to make money from outsiders and enrich their own wallets.
"Haha, I am very interested in making money from foreigners. But everything depends on the results in Pingwan County."
Fang Zheng said: "Your Majesty, I have a request."
"Say it."
"I plan to build a health center in Pingwan County. The culture of petty officials exploiting merchants has been around for a long time, and I'm afraid it won't be eliminated in a short time. Yang Fengfan has been in Hanlin for a long time, and I'm afraid he won't be able to deal with local problems. Jin Yiwei has been fighting lawlessness in Beijing. The result is that we sincerely request your Majesty to allow the Jinyi Guards to build a guardhouse in Pingwan County."
"Well, I'm sure about this. Jin Yiwei has always done a good job in the capital, although it's a little different from what I originally imagined... Just go ahead and do it."
"Your Majesty is wise! Then I have gone to work."
"Wait a minute. If you have time, let Miaohan and Chen Yu stay in the palace for a while. I haven't seen my grandson for several days."
"Uh... I know, I know."
As soon as Fang Zheng said goodbye to Emperor Jing, he was still thinking on the way.
Regarding deregulation of merchants, there is actually one most important point that he did not mention...that is the steam engine.
After Taoyuan County had a surplus of money, it began to vigorously organize manpower to research the technology of boiling water.
Several years have passed now. Although there has been progress, there is still some distance from success. After all, he is 'illiterate'.
You can only guide others in research and development based on your impressions, and the research and development level is almost equivalent to starting from scratch.
But a lot has been accumulated over the years...
Once it is successfully developed and put into use one day, it will be equivalent to crossing the threshold of the industrial age.
At that time, the development of society will increase exponentially, capital will be born, and materials will begin to be greatly enriched.
But if he failed to tell it, it would only be treated as a joke, and he could only wait until it was settled before talking about it.
It's been a while since I've been to the steam station, so it's time to take a look at the progress.
Countless amounts of money have been spent, and now I can’t just get a pressure cooker!
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