jdhmnovel Chapter 1059 How easily can Old Deng and his son Xiao Deng be praised?
Chapter 1059 How easily can Old Deng and his son Xiao Deng be praised?
Yang Shaofeng really went all out this time.
Based on the principle that if you don't pick up money when you go out, it's considered a loss, the territory in the Americas was originally Yang Shaofeng's last resort—assuming that Lao Deng and Xiao Deng were unreliable, he would gather some people from Ningyang County and Dengzhou, and then set sail directly to the Americas.
But to everyone's surprise, although Old Deng was a bit harsh on the officials, he was quite generous to his son-in-law.
Japan is the fiefdom of our Duke, and Old Deng personally promised in front of his mother-in-law that once Japan is conquered, all the gold and silver mines will belong to the Duke of Ying's mansion.
Yang Shaofeng had little interest in Japan's gold and silver mines.
Those are all external possessions; you can't take them with you when you're born, and you can't take them with you when you die.
What truly interested Yang Shaofeng was the abundant resource reserves in Japan—if the estimate was correct, the vast reserves in Japan were enough for the Medical College of Dengzhou University to use for over a thousand years, and it was even possible that they would continue to produce vast reserves.
Yang Shaofeng wanted to use the short, stocky people to measure the ratio between human blood and total body weight, and he also longed to use Japan's large reserves of bodily tissues to produce more new drugs.
For this goal, Yang Shaofeng would not hesitate to exchange the entire Americas.
As for human nature?
The word "humanity" was used to refer to the common people of the Ming Dynasty, and had nothing to do with short and ugly people.
Zhu Biao was also fooled by Yang Shaofeng.
"Second brother, third brother, fourth brother, fifth brother, sixth brother... thirteenth brother..."
"The fifth son is useless. All he can think about is curing the sick and saving lives. He doesn't think about settling down in his fiefdom at all."
"Ninth Brother... Ninth Brother is an unlucky person."
"Besides those two, there are ten more who can go to their fiefdoms."
Zhu Biao gestured towards the Americas: "According to my brother-in-law, this place can support tens of millions of people to cultivate the land. Its area is about the same as our Ming Dynasty, so ten vassal kings would seem a bit few."
"If you calculate it that way, my dad would have to have at least a dozen or twenty more children."
"wrong."
"There are already a dozen or twenty here alone. If we include Rinan County, wouldn't it need to be twenty or thirty?"
"That's not right either."
"There's still a large area of land here."
"Don't even mention twenty or thirty, even forty or fifty might not be enough."
Zhu Biao became increasingly alarmed as he calculated, and couldn't help but gasp. He looked up at Yang Shaofeng and said, "Brother-in-law, we don't have enough manpower."
Yang Shaofeng glanced at Zhu Biao sideways.
Please explain yourself more clearly.
When you say you don't have enough hands and people, you mean you don't have enough for your stupid younger brother.
When I say there aren't enough people, I mean there aren't enough people in the Ming Dynasty.
These two are interconnected and have a necessary relationship, but they are not the same thing.
While inwardly complaining, Yang Shaofeng said with a smile, "When ordinary people have money, they naturally want to have more children."
"We don't have enough manpower right now, but in ten or twenty years, we should have enough manpower."
"If ten or twenty years is not enough, we can just wait another ten or twenty years."
"Your Highness can also take advantage of this time to develop the Ming Dynasty, make the people of the Ming Dynasty more prosperous, and at the same time, you can also make distant alliances and attack nearby areas, and take back the former territories of the Han and Tang dynasties that should be taken back."
"..."
Just as Yang Shaofeng was trying to instill the Yang family's chicken soup for Zhu Biao, Xia Yu walked over with a person, bowed to Zhu Biao and Yang Shaofeng and said: "Your Highness, Prince Consort, the newly appointed Prefect of Yangzhou, Wu Ju, has arrived."
Wu Ju bowed to Zhu Biao and Yang Shaofeng, saying, "Your subject, Wu Ju, the prefect of Yangzhou, greets Your Highness and the Imperial Son-in-Law."
Zhu Biao smiled and nodded, saying, "Now that you are the prefect of Yangzhou, I am much more at ease."
Before Wu Ju could say anything, Zhu Biao continued, "Perfect timing, your master is here too. Just say what you want to say, and ask what you want to ask."
Wu Ju bowed to Yang Shaofeng again, saying, "Wu Ju greets Your Excellency."
Yang Shaofeng was so angry he almost had a stroke.
How easily can Old Deng and his son Deng be praised?
I had just said that Old Deng was generous and Young Deng was reliable, but Old Deng immediately brought in Wu Ju, who came from Ningyang County, to be the prefect of Yangzhou.
Good heavens, they know I'm right here and are planning to freeload off me?
Just as Yang Shaofeng was secretly grumbling to himself, Wu Ju spoke up: "Sir, before I came to Yangzhou, I passed through Ningyang County and invited a few workers from the county..."
Seeing Yang Shaofeng's increasingly dark face, Wu Ju's voice unconsciously lowered: "I've invited a few craftsmen to Yangzhou."
Yang Shaofeng snorted coldly and said, "Go on!"
Wu Ju chuckled twice and said, "My idea is to first develop water conservancy projects. We should not only make use of the water resources in Yangzhou, but also repair the Grand Canal and connect it to Beiping via Huai'an and Jining."
Yang Shaofeng nodded noncommittally, but Zhu Biao's eyes lit up.
If I had known that Wu Ju, who was from Ningyang, would be the prefect of Yangzhou, I wouldn't have needed to worry about how Yangzhou should develop.
This will inevitably become the next Dengzhou Prefecture!
It might even be more prosperous than Dengzhou Prefecture!
Wu Ju continued, "I also plan to have someone thoroughly explore the underground mineral deposits, especially coal and oil."
"At the same time, we will establish many workshops, starting with brick kilns, cement kilns, and lime kilns."
"When the students came here, they had also looked at the files from Yangzhou and thought that Yangzhou pickles, wind-dried goose, salted goose, dried tofu, bean curd sheets, sesame seed cakes and other local specialties could be considered local products."
"If possible, the students would like to use the Grand Canal to transport goods from Yangzhou workshops to the north, especially to the border markets."
"..."
As Wu Ju continued speaking, Yang Shaofeng's face grew increasingly dark.
Is this scoundrel telling me his governing philosophy?
No!
He's digging into my lifeline!
He's stealing the local specialties of Ningyang wind-dried goose, Ningyang salted goose, Ningyang dried tofu, and Ningyang tofu skin!
The key point is that he not only wants to compete with Ningyang County for the reputation of local products, but he also wants to use the border market to help him make a name for himself!
That bastard!
Zhu Biao was equally dumbfounded.
No, aren't all the officials from Ningyang County... a little bit abnormal?
Is this what my brother-in-law meant by "the upper bunk fights the lower bunk, the senior students fight the junior students, and the students fight over the teachers"?
That's not right either.
He still holds the titles of several school principals.
Would these good students even target me, the principal?
Just as Zhu Biao was pondering this, Wu Ju chuckled twice more and looked at Zhu Biao, saying, "Your Highness, if we're talking about the relationship between the master and his wife, I should address you as Uncle..."
Ok?
Zhu Biao's face darkened instantly.
Wu Ju calls his brother-in-law "Master," and Guan Jin'er and Yu'er call them "Master's Wife."
If we consider it from the perspective of his brother-in-law and sister, he should indeed call me "uncle".
The key question is, can he really call him "uncle" for nothing?
Most importantly, would Wu Ju dare to say this without someone guiding him from behind?
So here's the question—who gave Wu Ju the right to shout that?