Chapter 757: Chicken and Duck Talk
Ma Yu never expected that the Dingnan Prince's Mansion had appointed someone to greet him.
The person who came was not a vicious person or a warrior with swords, but a guest minister in the royal palace who was specifically responsible for entertaining officials of the court. This person was quite sleek and familiar, so he naturally had to exchange greetings.
The so-called greetings are actually mutual testing.
This guest minister naturally hopes to learn about Ma Yu’s purpose as soon as possible. In addition to the imperial envoy, what mission is there?
But for Ma Yu, he urgently needed to know the attitude of King Dingnan towards the court. Should he be rebellious or not? Should he be hesitant or made up his mind, is he in awe in his heart, or is he disdainful to care?
In this way, dialogue is essential.
"Student Zhang Hai, on the order of King Dingnan, welcomes the angel. The angel comes from afar, physically and mentally exhausted, full of dust. King Dingnan said that it is not appropriate to welcome him in person today. He also asked the angel to stay at the nearby station for the time being. Early tomorrow morning, the prince will come to his door in person and apologize for guilt. I hope the angel will forgive him."
"If there is nowhere, the arrangements of His Highness Dingnan King are very appropriate. I am really tired. I may be disrespectful to announce the sacred order at this time. I would rather take a day off first and give some preparation time to the royal palace."
"Oh, Mr. Zhang, from your accent, you seem to be from Jiangxi?"
"Yes, the student is from Jiangxi, and comes from Yichun Prefecture, Jiangxi."
"If it were Yichun Mansion, then wouldn't it be under the jurisdiction of King Ning? King Ning had a son once, and he was granted Yichun. It was a good place, and the four seasons were like spring. The donor of the Ministry of Revenue. It is said that he was from Gao'an, Yichun. This person is an old senior citizen and a Jinshi in the Hongwu period. Unfortunately, although His Majesty has the intention to value it, he has to give up."
"The donor is indeed a fellow student. In fact, in terms of calculation, the adult is half a fellow student. The adult is from Hunan, and Yichun is only one step away from Hunan. All of them are the same. The students remember that there were Hunan people filling Yichun in the Song Dynasty, so there were quite a few Hakka people in Yichun, which is ridiculous to say. The students are now in Langshan. They are actually Hakka people, but who are the locals here? Ten people come from all directions, just like countless gurgling streams flowing into rivers. Ha... I will not be surprised by these, you shouldn't say that."
"If this is the case, I like to listen to these things. Now Japanese officials are very eye-opening. I always feel that the people here are different from others."
Mr. Zhang smiled and said, "This is natural. This is a place of integration. What is integration? It means that there are all kinds of people in the three mountains and five mountains, provinces in the world, and even Western countries. Everyone is together. Can adults know what the greatest benefit is?"
"I don't know."
"Sir, students say it, don't joke. I think adults are casual people, so they are willing to express their own simple opinions. Don't laugh at them. According to some shallow knowledge of students, there are hundreds of people. The people gathered here come from the ends of the world. People from all over the world have different knowledge, just like those from Songjiang Prefecture, they are often good at textiles, and those from Sichuan are the best at brocade. Guangdong has the most food, and they are also the best at planting rice. In this way, people from all over the world have their strengths. If they are just sticking to the ground, that's fine, but each family's
The directors are integrated here. Songjiang weaving has such skills, and Fujian weaving has such skills. Finally, they are integrated. On this basis, they are improved and learn from the skills of various places. Wouldn’t it be twice the result with half the effort? Not to mention anything else, it is difficult to understand. Let’s just talk about this food. Here, there are all kinds of dishes, including Jiangxi, Cantonese, Sichuan, and Nanjing, Tianjin Wei, and Beijing. The first thing that customers come and go to Beijie to eat and drink. In Langshan, you can eat all the food all over the world.”
"These are the communications that our general Tiance said. When people communicate, their vision will be higher. Vision is the most important thing. When everyone gets together, the things they see are different every day, and they are strange and strange. They are slowly absorbed. What they hear and see every day are novel things. In this way, they are no longer ordinary fools. Look at the farmers in the countryside. They have been born in their lives and lived in that village. The farthest ones are probably only a market dozens of miles away. After a lifetime, there are only a few people who deal with them. They are all limited to one place. They still see the mountains, the water, and the fields every day. All their knowledge in this life is probably the same. Such people have shallow knowledge. Even those nobles can be so good. Most of their eyes are only in that place, and they are always bound by a little bit of square inch.
In between, adults and students think that throughout the years, scholars, farmers, industry and commerce have only seen one thing, that is, the dusk air, the dusk air is deep, the world is so big, how much knowledge can you have? Some of the people in this world are extremely smart people. Even if they look at the sky, they can innovate and tinker with new things. It’s a pity that even if this fresh thing is useful, it is only a benefit in a corner and cannot be promoted. As a result, over the past few hundred years, many skillful techniques, articles and ideas have gradually been lost. The so-called past is not the present, so it is like this. Therefore, the greatest advantage of Lang Son is that people from all directions gather here. As long as one person has new ideas and improvements, they can be quickly spread. Then later generations improve step by step based on these. Even if he is the most vulgar craftsman, his knowledge is not comparable to ordinary people in the Ming Dynasty."
Zhang Hai said these things, but Ma Yu didn't really hear them, because his purpose was very clear. Lang Shan's improvement and integration were actually nothing to do with him. The most important thing about him was to find out the attitude of the Hao family, but Zhang Hai was so impressed. When it comes to these mixed stories, he was very excited, but he never mentioned the thoughts of King Dingnan.
In fact, if Zhang Hai was willing to listen carefully, it would be more useful to the court, because Zhang Hai's words revealed a truth, namely the so-called advanced and backward issues. Later books and magazines often say that workers represent advanced productivity and so-called vanguards, and farmers have their limitations, which is by no means discriminatory to farmers.
The fundamental reason is that the difference between cities and rural areas. Workers gather in cities, and tens of thousands of people, each person has information exchanged with each other, which means that one person has tens of thousands of information. They understand the way the workshop operates and the process of production, and it is easier to accept new things. The farmers are more like the current court. They rest at sunrise and sunset, and what they hear and see every day is the same. What the outside world looks like, good or bad, they do not have enough imagination and cannot imagine, so society can allow the former to move forward. As for the latter, if their living conditions are not broken, even if they have been cycled for thousands of years, they are still in circles and repeated over and over again.
The most important thing about Lang Son is to build a city, which attracted people from all directions. At the same time, it established workshops and cultivated a group of people around the workshops. These people include merchants, craftsmen, and all industries that provide spiritual entertainment for merchants and craftsmen or food, clothing, housing and transportation. In this place where nearly a hundred people gather, whenever new things appear, they will be spread immediately. Any so-called family-born craftsmanship or unique skill, after promotion, technology accumulates step by step, constantly innovates, and continues to brew this prosperous scene.
On the other hand, Jinling is also a huge city, but it is just under the feet of the emperor and the administrative center. The one who has truly become the protagonist for thousands of years has been the so-called kings, princes, generals and ministers, scholars who have entered Beijing to take the exam, and almost all the professions that have been born are mostly just for convenience. Those who dominate Jinling do not care about the innovation of skills and have no interest in opening up the trade path. What they always revolve around is nothing more than the classics and articles, the knowledge of saints, how they are, how they deal with things, and how they guide the country.
These are two completely opposite forms. In fact, the two forms cannot be said to be good or bad. It does not mean that the kings, princes, generals and ministers in Jinling cannibals cannibals, but the merchants and chaebols in Lang Son do not eat people. Any ruler actually cannibals cannibals. The food of merchants and chaebols may even be ugly. It is just that the things built by them are the hundreds of thousands of craftsmen gathered around their workshops have broken many of the old shackles, and what they represent is the advanced.
Ma Yu, who comes from Jinling, naturally would never understand these things. What he thought of was the same as the kings, princes, generals and ministers, so for him, these things finally made him sneer.
After several tests, Zhang Hai mostly shifted the topic to some well-known food and specialties in Lang Son. He even joked: "Actually, when it comes to specialties, Lang Son really has no specialties, but there are specialties everywhere in the world, no matter where they are, there are them."
Ma Yu thought to himself that this man surnamed Zhang was obviously playing Tai Chi with him. After saying so much, there was only a few things that he cared about.
He had no choice but to smile dryly and said, "In this way, I want to see a little bit."
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