"If my second brother does this and only picks flowers and does not plant thorns, it will not be a big problem to become a great scholar. However, if he does not take the imperial examination route, it is impossible to become the chief minister..." After all, after the imperial examination era, even after Jiajing

In that era, Taoist sergeants became ministers of the Ministry of Rites. Isn't this first assistant also the exclusive domain of Confucianism in the Hanlin Academy?

"Brother, I'm overthinking it. I, Liu Baiyu, am not actually a Confucian believer. The reputation of this great Confucian is only for the convenience of saving the country and the people. If I can provide advice to His Majesty, I don't necessarily need any fame. After all, fame and fortune are the same in essence. They are things that bind people.

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Liu Baiyu put on a calm look and vaguely summarized his ambition as saving the country and the people. As for giving advice to His Majesty, it was to appease his sworn brother. After all, this was the troubled times of the late Ming Dynasty.

, only the right way is to separate the army outside. Staying in the center and being the chief assistant is a dead end. Therefore, even if Chongzhen cried and asked Liu Baiyu to be the chief assistant, Liu Baiyu would not go.

"If you live high up in the temple, you worry about the people; if you live far away from the rivers and lakes, you worry about the king. The second brother is a true gentleman!" Zhang Tianhong admired this second brother from the bottom of his heart. After all, it is either the "Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs" or the "Complete Book of Government Affairs".

Many of the secrets in it can be regarded as family secrets and should be kept secret. In fact, this is not a problem unique to the Chinese. Aren’t there many secrets and secrets in many modern French wine estates?

In fact, in the eyes of people of this era, a family's unique secret method is more reliable than the wealth of a generation. After all, China's aristocratic era has long passed. Except for Confucius and Zhang Tianshi's family in Longhushan, there has long been no one.

Millennium nobles, even the descendants of the royal family, can hardly be richer than the dynasty cycle of once every three hundred years - in fact, it is common for Tooe's royal family to fall into decline and become commoners after a hundred years. But if there is a family secret method

, that would be completely different.

Let’s just say that the manufacturing methods of the lowest types of soil fertilizers and soil pesticides are enough to increase food production by two levels or more in this era. With this skill, even if you become a refugee, you can become a long foreman.

A free man with savings and dignity can become a rich farmer or even a small landowner in a lifetime as long as he budgets carefully. In a short period of time, he can make a leap that ordinary farmers may not be able to make in four or five generations.

Not to mention the secrets of government affairs. A special aspect of the Ming and Qing Dynasties is the so-called master politics, that is, the masters hold real power as the executors of actual government affairs. And unlike the imperial examinations, which are highly accidental, the masters all have many families.

To teach special skills, such as earthwork calculation, silver quality judgment, purification, grain price changes, etc... Mastering several of them is enough to ensure that the family will be rich in the era...

So Liu Baiyu wrote "The Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs" and "The Complete Book of Government Affairs", which is basically the same as Bill Gates's disclosure of Microsoft's technical details and his announcement that the Windows system is free. To put it nicely, he is a saint who doesn't care about money. To put it harshly,

These are just idiots with bad brains.

"Second brother, you have to think more realistically. Serving the country and the people is certainly a benevolent thing, but you should also leave some ancestral things to your descendants. This is the right thing to do." Zhang Tianhong reminded hurriedly.

Confucianism does not pay attention to selfless dedication. It is the creed of Confucianism to govern the country and bring peace to the world. If Liu Baiyu really left nothing for his descendants, everyone would praise Liu Baiyu for not having time to pursue a career.

In other words, in private, people like Liu Baiyu will be educated as models of brain-dead people... The power of the small-scale peasant economy is not exaggerated. It is not just ordinary farmers who have backward ideas. In fact, even the landlords and high-ranking officials who seem to be very powerful are also such.

Virtue, it's just that Liu Baiyu doesn't understand it.

Brother, you are a wealthy gentleman. As for being such a petty person, Liu Baiyu despised it in his heart and said casually: "Of course I will leave something for my descendants."

"That's good, that's good! In that case, second brother, can you give me a few recipes from [The Complete Book of Government Affairs] and [The Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs] as a family heirloom? Anyway, I read these two books.

It's thousands of pages, and you don't care about one or two pages, right!?" Zhang Tianhong showed an unprecedentedly obscene expression, and nodded and bowed to Liu Baiyu, causing Liu Baiyu to have goosebumps all over his body - it turned out that this handsome guy with thick eyebrows and big eyes was playing tricks

When it comes to being obscene, its lethality is several times greater than that of an ugly man!

This... What could Liu Baiyu say? He nodded. For the sake of a family heirloom for future generations, Zhang Tianhong threw away all his integrity and tore out more than a dozen pages. He didn't tear them in order, but looked at which one was better.

Just tear out the page...

Brother, are you okay? I don’t care about these two pages, but you can’t just tear off one or two pages out of ten, right? Morality, integrity! Liu Baiyu looked at his sworn brother with an embarrassed look on his face!

"Second brother, that's it, that's it!" Zhang Tianhong selected dozens of pages, and finally felt that his thickness had reached the limit. He took nearly a hundred pages from the "Complete Book of Government Affairs" and "The Complete Book of Agricultural Affairs" as family heirlooms, and then

Liu Baiyu smiled sheepishly.

"It's okay, it's okay. Brother, you can just get more!" Liu Baiyu told the truth. Anyway, China is very big. If we really have to use all the local technologies in the future, tens of thousands of pages may not be enough. Zhang Tianhong took away nearly a hundred

The page is actually nothing!

Zhang Tianhong felt guilty, and half reminded, half changed the subject and said:

"Second brother, I know that you have a heart for the world and are unparalleled in benevolence and righteousness. However, if you want to do things at this time, you must have authority and authority. You cannot blindly follow the rules. Contingency is also indispensable..."

When Zhang Tianhong said this, he suddenly remembered the "family heirloom" Liu Baiyu gave him, gritted his teeth, and made up his mind:

"Since the second brother wants to become a great scholar and gain a great reputation, let the eldest brother handle the matter of improvisation and loss of reputation!"

"You and I, brothers, are so clear-cut about what we are doing!" Liu Baiyu, as a modern person, did not know the power of Zhang Tianhong's words, so he answered casually.

But Liu Baiyu soon knew what Zhang Tianhong's contingency approach meant! Don't tell me, Liu Baiyu really can't do such a dark thing!

Liu Baiyu and his party walked for about an hour and came to a river. Although in Liu Baiyu's view, such a river that could be vaguely seen on the other side of the river at a glance can only be regarded as a small river in a township in modern times, and may not be found on the map, but

In the late Ming Dynasty, it was enough to block Liu Baiyu's path!

"Brother, you are a local. Is there a bridge here or is the water shallower somewhere? I can't cross it!" Liu Baiyu looked at the river and shook his head repeatedly.

"I don't know. A month ago, this was a small river. You could easily cross it. What's going on?" Zhang Tianhong, a local snake, was overwhelmed by the strange changes in this small river. He sighed repeatedly.
Chapter completed!