After waiting for a while, Aunt Wu also ran over happily, said a few polite words, and then went to help Liu Chen prepare the meal.

Wow, Liu Xixian, Liu Xian's mouth watered as he looked at the table full of dishes, including several meat dishes! I haven't eaten meat like this in the past few years!

The two of them looked at Liu Ximing with admiring eyes, as if they were looking at an oversized chicken drumstick. Liu Ximing was shocked when he saw it. Why do you look so gay?

As soon as the meal was served, the boys immediately started devouring it, saying from time to time, "Well, it's delicious!"

It's really not enough.

The Liu family is also considered a scholarly family, and they are very particular about not talking when eating and sleeping, and everyone at the table eats in silence without mentioning it.

After the meal, Liu Ximing divided the remaining pound of meat into half and asked Aunt Wu to take it back. Aunt Wu quickly declined: "I just had a wasted meal at night, how can I take more!"

Hahaha, Liu Ximing smiled and handed it to her: "Aunt Wu, take it if you are asked. Brother Biaozi helped me a lot today. Besides, it's not for nothing. I want to ask him to come with me tomorrow."

Together!"

Aunt Wu still refused, so she said a few polite words, made an appointment tomorrow, and went back with the meat and Li Biao.

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After seeing off the guests, the family of four sat in the main room. On the table were the money and cloth left over from today's vegetable sales. Mrs. Liu Chen counted carefully and found that there were seven cents of broken silver and nearly five hundred copper coins, and she couldn't help but feel happy.

: "Sold so much today!"

Liu Ximing smiled inwardly and made a silent estimate. He and Li Biao carried more than a hundred kilograms of vegetables, plus what he secretly took out from the space, they probably sold about two hundred kilograms at eight cents per kilogram.

It was almost 1,700 or 800 Wen. It cost 900 Wen to buy cloth, 180 Wen to buy meat, and dozens of Wen to take the boat and eat with Li Biao. The amounts were roughly right.

Seeing that she had so much money, Mrs. Liu Chen felt happy. She touched a few pieces of cloth and said to her three sons: "My mother will sew a suit of clothes for each of you! We are finally blessed today. This is all thanks to the blessings of the immortals and ancestors.

Come, let’s kowtow a few times together!”

Liu Ximing told Ms. Liu Chen again about her uncle's rescue today. Ms. Liu's eyes suddenly turned red: "You don't know, our family even borrowed two taels of silver from your uncle's family before and hasn't paid it back!"

Liu Ximing sighed in his heart, otherwise the ancients always said that the relationship between mother-in-law and mother-in-law is extraordinary, so he comforted Mrs. Liu Chen: "Mom, it's okay. Let's exchange the debt in front of us first, and I will be rich in the future."

Sooner or later, I’ll invite my uncle’s family over to enjoy the blessing!”

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The night was deep, the lights in Zhangjiawan were extinguished one by one, but Liu Ximing was tossing and turning in bed, unable to sleep. On the one hand, he was a little excited that the vegetable sales went smoothly today, and on the other hand, what he experienced in the city today really made him sigh as a modern person.

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In a flash, Liu Ximing appeared in the Space Palace. He looked up at the statue of Emperor Ziwei and was lost in thought.

Scenes of the day kept flashing before our eyes, the tired bodies of the farmers, the weathered and wrinkled faces of the fishermen, the childish figures of the begging girls, the numb and desperate eyes of the refugees, these formed a perfect combination with the wanton and wild laughter of the rich, petty officials and the powerful.

A sharp contrast.

In fact, as a modern person who has received various information shocks, Liu Ximing knows that human nature has always been evil, but knowing it is one thing, and actually seeing it raging in front of him is another thing. Mencius once said, "The heart of compassion"

"Everyone has it." As long as a human being with normal outlook on life can see these things, who can remain indifferent!

You must know that modern society has the constraints of law and public opinion, so that this kind of evil of human nature cannot act recklessly in the sun. But in this day and age, the so-called law is really just the law of the king.

Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Meng Dynasty, had a heart for the people. The imperial edicts he formulated included the idea of ​​restricting bureaucrats and protecting civilians. However, after all, Zhu Yuanzhang was only a farmer, and his ideas and ideologies were limited by his knowledge and times.

The so-called "there is a way to cure, but there is no way to cure" is this situation. It can be cured for a while but not for a lifetime. Therefore, after the early years of the Ming Dynasty, the entire political ecology and social order began to gradually collapse.

Is it really just a coincidence that God brought him to this era? Liu Ximing looked at the red light that appeared and disappeared on the sculpture of Emperor Ziwei uneasily.

To be honest, before time travel, Liu Ximing had also been involved in the Three Palaces and Sixth Courtyard. He often wished that he could replace the protagonist in the novel and kill everyone. However, when he came to the Meng Dynasty, as an ordinary person, he suddenly felt a sudden change in his heart.

I feel confused, just like most people know that it is easy to start a business, a good idea today will be a good idea tomorrow, but when it comes to actually doing it, most people will be timid.

However, now that he has space in his hands, Liu Ximing's confidence is gradually increasing. What the hell, others are holding kitchen knives, and you are holding Gatlin, and you are still going to do this? If you don't do something yourself

, should we expect Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong and Xiao Dangzi in the future?

Mencius, who lived two thousand years ago, dared to say to the world: "In today's world, if you want to rule the world peacefully, who else would you rather me!" As a son of destiny in this dimension, I have nothing to be afraid of, just do it! Anyway, there is no need to work part-time.

Maybe those who work part-time still have to hold their own destiny in their own hands.

Liu Ximing gradually made a decision in his mind. I wonder if it was an illusion. The red light on the sculpture seemed to be thicker?

After leaving the space, Liu Ximing lit the oil lamp and decided to write down some of the things he thought of while his thoughts were clear.

Well, you have to make money first. Money, money, and life are connected. Whether you recruit troops or do other things in the future, you will need a lot of money. If you have space, you can complete primitive accumulation through planting in the early stage.

However, I am afraid that I will not be able to save a lot of money just by farming, especially when there will be an explosion of troops in the future. After being in Meng Dynasty for a few days, Liu Ximing has a general understanding of the prices of this era.

An average small family needs about fifteen taels of silver a year. If you want to recruit soldiers, each soldier will need at least one tael of silver a month as military pay, which is twelve taels a year, plus food, ordnance, and clothing.

When it comes to consumables, it is estimated that it would cost twenty taels a year to raise one soldier, and it would cost twenty thousand taels a year to support a thousand soldiers.

I'm so hot, this fucking monster is really a gold-eating monster.

Of course, I can also lower my food and salary. In this world, I should be able to recruit people. After all, the frontier army now claims that the military salary is one or two a month. It is estimated that after being deducted by all levels, it will only get seven or eight coins. But in this way

The combat effectiveness of the army will inevitably not be guaranteed.

Damn it, no wonder in the late Meng Dynasty, military generals mainly relied on servants to fight. It was too expensive to raise troops.

He only has ten acres of land, and growing vegetables seems to be quite profitable at the moment. However, after a trip to Fucheng today, Liu Ximing saw the problem. Selling in bulk is too time-consuming, and restaurants like Zui Xianju can't.

It's not too much. I estimate that it will take several months for this batch of vegetables to be sold out, which means that it only costs one or two thousand taels of silver per year at most.

It seems that we still need to expand our financial resources. If the time is right, we must develop industry as support.

Secondly, he is only fourteen years old now. It is obviously unrealistic to directly develop much power. Besides, after experiencing the incident in Fucheng and listening to his uncle and Chen Jianzhang chatting, Liu Ximing suddenly realized that in this world, if you do not have official status,

status, he was afraid that even if he accumulated a little wealth, it would be swallowed up completely, so he said to his uncle, "Today I will know the wonders of fame and fame."

It is still necessary to study more while you are young and strive to get a good name. Although it is very difficult for modern people to learn these things, but with the memory of his predecessor, coupled with the help of spiritual water, Liu Ximing has been drinking it continuously for the past few days, and Liu Ximing feels that his memory is weak.

I am getting better and better, and my mind is getting smarter and smarter. As long as I work hard, it is not impossible to give it a try.

And while you are studying, you can also see if there are any scholars who can develop. China's thousands of years of history have taught Liu Ximing a truth. Rebellions without intellectuals will either fail, or eventually have their rights stolen by the civil servant class, and eventually lose their power.

It will become what it is now!

Yeah, Liu Ximing waved his fist. After such calculations, he has great advantages, and of course his disadvantages are also obvious. But as long as the goal is clear and the method to achieve the goal is determined, the rest depends on hard work and God's will.
Chapter completed!