"Your Majesty, the effects of life-style martial arts are really good and very popular."

The one who spoke was Lu Buwei, and this was of course Lu Xiaofeng's world. Ever since the portal was established, there has been a connection between the two worlds. At least the flow rate of time has been consistent.

Four years have passed in the main world, and four years have passed in Lu Xiaofeng's world.

Four years ago, Lu Buwei had just taken over Qingyi Tower, and his main task was to transport grain. In the first year, he transported a total of 12 million dan of grain to Daqin. In the second year, it became 20 million dan.

, the third year is 35 million stone.

And this year he plans to make big news, but Ying Zheng came here precisely because of his big news. This is overseas, and the two of them are on a big ship.

Of course, this ship is indispensable for the participation of the craftsmen of Gongshujia. It is an extremely crude internal combustion engine cement transport ship. Most of the raw materials are cement, which sounds very powerful.

Although it is very rough and has a short lifespan, it has great advantages. It can ignore ocean currents and wind directions, and unlike previous wooden ships, it takes several years to prepare the wood alone and the production time is extremely short!

"I heard that the king plans to start the unification war this year?"

"Yes, the original plan was five years, but the goal of the five-year plan was achieved in just four years. Speaking of which, it was all thanks to Father Zhong. If Father Zhong hadn't continued to transport grain from then on, Daqin wouldn't have been able to develop like this.

Hurry." Ying Zheng said seriously.

Today's Daqin has a total population of only 10 million. Although births have been encouraged in recent years, newborns are still newborns, and the number of men and women of the right age will not increase much in a short time.

And Lu Buwei transported a full 35 million shi of grain last year alone, which averages out to 3.5 shi per person, which is 350 kilograms of grain.

Coupled with the land cultivated by the people of Great Qin, there is already too much food to eat. Even if the entire Great Qin has been turned into a large factory, there is no way to eat so much food.

In the past four years, every common person has worked hard for the empire under the plans of the Qin officials. They have harvested food and new money minted by the Shaofu.

During the corvee period, they had three meals a day, and were paid ten cents a day, and their working hours were only eight hours. By now, the people already liked the imperial corvee very much.

It can be said that the food that Lu Buwei brought from this world was the prerequisite for the great changes in the empire. If there was no such food, how could the corvee be able to eat three meals a day?

If the corvee is still in the same state where it is difficult to eat enough in the past, where will the strength come from to work? From this perspective, the Lu Buwei in front of him is the biggest contributor to the empire's great progress.

"Last year I transported 35 million shi of grain, and this year it may be even less. Because the imperial court is not a vegetarian, it was easy to get through in the first year. In the second year, I was prepared.

The environment is also very relaxed.”

"In the third year, the imperial court was actually aware of it. Through various overt and covert investigations, I tried my best to avoid being exposed. But this year is the fourth year, and the imperial court has already set up a net. As long as I show up, I will be exposed.

"

In today's Ming Dynasty, the south has been developed. Jiangnan has become a big granary for the whole world. The grain output of the entire Jiangnan is more than that of other places combined!

As for the overall grain output in Jiangnan, it is about 100,000 dan. If there was a good harvest, it would be even more, but last year there was a natural disaster and the harvest failed.

Last year, Lu Buwei used various means to purchase 35 million shi of grain in one go. If he hadn't made an early layout and prepared many means, he would have been exposed by now.

But even so, the court had already made some speculations. And because of this incident, Lu Xiaofeng directly targeted Qingyi Tower and Lu Buwei.

"And it's not just a food issue. In recent years, Qingyilou has started selling private salt in order to buy food. With the technology provided by the king, the public losers have already realized industrial salt production. This kind of salt is very cheap and the quantity is large.

."

At this point, Lu Buwei stopped. To put it bluntly, this kind of industrialized sea salt was too cheap. Lu Buwei had to raise money like crazy to buy food, so he focused on private salt.

Money in this world is not valuable. One stone of grain costs ten taels of silver. Ten million stones of grain is a small goal. Just buying grain every year requires several small goals. Of course, it is impossible to make such a large amount of money just by robbing.

Although Lu Buwei worked very hard to form the Golden Captain, and also used the public loser's mechanism skills to loot the treasure troves of Shaolin, Wudang, Jiangnan maritime merchants, and northern Shanxi merchants. But there are always limits to this method, Pingnan Palace

When it was stolen, everyone just thought he was unlucky. When Songshan Shaolin was stolen, everyone began to be surprised.

By the time the Jiangnan maritime merchants were robbed, no matter how slow others reacted, they understood: In the past few years, there has been a super thief with a celestial intelligence, and he has been eyeing everyone.

No matter how slow your reaction is, you still know how to distribute your money among several small treasury so that even if it is stolen, you will only lose part of it.

What's more important is that these big forces are connected together. After analyzing each other, they directly join forces. It is because of their cooperation that the court can react so quickly and focus on Qingyi Tower.

When things have reached this point, it can no longer be stopped by Lu Buwei. People are already targeting you, and if it weren't for the purpose of preventing the enemy from being alerted, the Qingyi Building branch on land might have been robbed.

As for the headquarters, of course it is overseas. As early as the second year, Lu Buwei moved the headquarters overseas, occupied the Ryukyu Kingdom, and established the shogunate.

"In other words, basically everyone who can be offended has been offended?" Ying Zheng asked.

"Although I don't want to say this, this is the fact. It was okay before their interests were not involved, but now." Lu Buwei shook his head as he spoke.

Well, I actually don’t blame him for this. It can even be said that Ying Zheng had anticipated this. He smuggled tens of millions of stones of grain every year, and it was successful for three consecutive years. He couldn’t ask for more.

"If it fails, it fails. This was part of the plan. So what are Father Zhong's plans next?"

snort!

"Since the road to peace is dead, let's bring them iron and blood. In my opinion, conquering this world can be divided into three steps."

"The first step is to collect intelligence, go deep into every industry in this world, and thoroughly understand this world. Now this step has almost been completed."

"The second step is to create chaos, or even provoke the ambitions of careerists, let careerists appear, and plunge the world into internal strife."
Chapter completed!