There is a study room in the backyard of the Fang family. The study room is not big, but it is very elegantly arranged. There are two rows of bookshelves on both sides of the wall. One row of bookshelf contains some antiques and utensils, and the other row contains literary and historical classics, as well as some famous calligraphy and paintings.

On the right side of the study room, there is a square table table, and an oil lamp is placed on the table table. The lights in the lampshade shine brightly, making the entire study room light brightly. The swaying fire makes the entire study room feel a warm and comfortable feeling.

On the left side of the lampshade, there are some pens, ink, paper, and inkstones and thick memorials.

Fang Guozhen, who has a long figure, dark face, long leopard eyes, long beards and round face, walked in slowly with his hands on his back. Twenty years have passed, and his life of luxury and food has not changed his body at all. On the contrary, his body is stronger than before. The weather in the first month of Jiangnan is still a little cold, but he only passed on a white loose nightgown, but he did not dare to feel any chill.

He sat cross-legged on the desk table, reached out and picked an ancient book from the bookshelf on the left, placed it on the desk table, and then spread it carefully. Under the light, the six big words "The Ten Grades of Unsuccessfulness" on the book were reflected. Fang Guozhen reached out and took a sip of tea, softened his voice, and began to recite.

When Zigong asked someone about Confucius, Confucius said, "Are you stooping? It's like a rotten rope that can control six horses." Zigong said, "How afraid?" Zigong said, "If you don't guide it with the Tao, then you will be my enemies. How fearless?" Therefore, the Book of Documents says, "The people are the foundation of the country, and the foundation is solid and the country is peaceful." Why do people who are the best people are disrespectful?

At the beginning of Zhenguan, Your Majesty regarded people as wounded, caring about their hard work, loving the people as their children, and always keeping simple and having nothing to do. Over the years, he was meant to be extravagant, and he was frugal, and he slightly used human power. He said: "The people are arrogant and elegant when they have nothing to do, and they are easy to be sent to work." Since ancient times, there has been no one who has lost the people because of their leisure and joy. Why do you want to work hard when you fear their arrogance and leisure? I am afraid that it is not the most important thing to promote the country, how can you be satisfied with the long-term calculation of people? This is because it is gradually unable to end.

This was the 12th year of Zhenguan. When Wei Zheng saw Emperor Taizong of Tang gradually becoming lazy and lazy, and was lazy in political affairs and pursued extravagance, he wrote the famous "Ten Roughs and Unsuccessful Commentary", which listed the ten changes in the current attitude of Emperor Taizong of Tang's current governance. Fang Guozhen had some time ago, after reading it carefully, he had a lot of insights. This morning, he dealt with the war layout with Chen Youding. He remembered this memorial that had not been finished. Now he entered the study alone and read it carefully.

"The Ten Grades of Unsuccessfulness" is not long. After reading it several times, Fang Guozhen savored it carefully, thought about what he had done in recent years, then stretched out his body, rubbed his sore legs, took a rest, and sat down again. Looking at the thick memorial in front of him who was still waiting to be reviewed, he sighed softly and lifted up the red pen.

The first memorial was submitted by his aide Liu Renben. Liu Renben was originally one of the four Jinshis of the Tartar court and was appointed as the doctor of the left and right office of Jiangsu and Zhejiang Province. In the 14th year of Zhizheng, Fang Guozhen was in charge of Taiwen, and Liu Renben was appointed as an aide to assist Fang Guozhen in establishing a foundation. He was ordered to promote Confucianism in Qingyuan (now Ningbo), Dinghai, Fenghua, build Shitang, Shangyu, build Luqiao and stone bridges, run Huangyan Literature Academy, and build Du Fan Temple. In the 20th year of Zhizheng,

Liu built a Yuyong Pavilion in Longquan Mountain, Yuyao. On March 3, he invited 42 famous scholars including Ouyue, Zhao Chu, Zhu You, Xie Li, etc. to hold the "Supreme Lanting Meeting" and wrote the "Supreme Lanting Preface" and engraved it into a collection of poems. He was quite famous in Taizhou. Fang Guozhen also had a great impression of such a hard-working scholar. Seeing that it was his memorial, he did not dare to neglect it. He hurriedly took a sip of tea and squinted his eyes and looked carefully. This is a letter about

Taizhou followed the suggestion of the Taurus court to set up a salt farm. According to Li Renben's memorial, the Fang family should restore the early years. The Taurus court set up a salt farm in Dudu (now Taozhu North Jian). Then, the coastal area below Chishan Mountain on the south bank of the Jiaojiang River was used as the production area to attract salt people, and set up a group of knitting utensils to send them to decoction. Every 3-10 stoves are 1 Jia, and 10 Jia is 1. It is scheduled to start decoction in February. Then, in Chishan, Shabei and Shanan, the original salt in the production area was collected and stored. The salt field was set up to be the seventh rank; the chief officer was from the eighth rank; the manager was from the eighth rank; the manager was from the ninth rank. It was specifically responsible for the production of the salt industry, the salt merchants were in the interest rate, and the adjustment of salt prices and salt transportation matters. It also set up a school in Linhai to "specialize the test of salt bags, not to be regular." This was also a considerable income for the Fang family. At the same time, managing the salt farm can also reduce the troubles of the salt people, which is very beneficial to Taizhou's stability!

After watching for a while, Fang Guozhen nodded, and gently reviewed a few words on the memorial in his hand, asking Li Ren to prepare and put it on the table.

I picked up the second memorial again. This memorial talked about the recent Goryeo. Japan has repeatedly asked to trade with the Fang family and trade with each other. The Fang family transported Goryeo and Japan through the Fang family cargo ship to exchange for Goryeo medicinal materials and Japanese iron tools. After watching for a while, Fang Guozhen squinted his eyes and thought carefully. Since the Fang family occupied Taizhou, Ningbo, Wenzhou and other places,

The Fang family had traded with Goryeo and Japan for a long time. In the 18th year of Zhizheng, the Fang family sent envoys to Goryeo twice and carried out trade activities. In the 24th year, they sent agarwood, bows and arrows, books such as "Yuhai" and "Tongzhi" to Goryeo and traded. The following year, they sent envoys to Goryeo again. The two sides traded a lot. Fishermen in the coastal areas even learned from Japan to take snails, clams, and clam shells from the sea for profit, and the land was used as furnaces, fan fires, and ashes. They made the goods and farmers' manure fields for livelihoods, greatly improving the lives of the people in the Linhai area. Fang Guozhen never let go of such good things, but this was not the most important. The most important thing was that he was leaving a way out for himself.

"We have to leave a way out for ourselves in everything?" This is the truth he understood since childhood. Now, there is Zhang Shicheng in the south of Jiangnan, Chen Youding in the south, and Zhu Yuanzhang, a tiger in Jiangzuo. I heard that he is fighting with Zhang Shicheng recently. Once Zhang Shicheng is wiped out, I am afraid that the army will be against our Fang family, so he has to prepare for it.

He has heard from him that at the end of the Sui Dynasty, there was a man named Qiuyanke. When his father was born, he thought his father was ugly and wanted to kill him. He was rescued and studied under Kunlun slaves. After his art was completed, he wanted to raise an army to seek the world. After seeing Li Jing, he felt ashamed of himself. After seeing Li Shimin, he believed that the world would return to Li Shimin. He wanted to know that Hongfu married Li Jing. After learning that Hongfu married Li Jing, the three of them became brothers and sisters. Qiuyanke presented the property to Li Jing and his wife and left alone. Later, he went abroad and became king in Fusang. He has heard of this story since he was a child and has always kept it secretly in his heart. He has no desire to seek the king's ambition, but only wants to protect the people and do something about kings, princes, generals and ministers.

In this way, he agreed to Zhang Shicheng's marriage regardless of his sister's happiness. His purpose was to find a big tree to rely on. But now it seems that this big tree is also about to fall, and his own way of retreat has to be prepared. If the world is really taken away by Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang may not be able to let him go. Therefore, this overseas is the best choice for the Fang family. The bearded guest in the Fusang Kingdom alone could be the king and the enemy. Could it be that Fang Guozhen, the Fang family now has 100,000 naval troops and more than 1,000 warships, occupying a small Japanese country.

It's not difficult, but the current situation has not reached this point, so there is no need to tear the face, and trade needs to be maintained.

After some conspiracy, Fang Guozhen reviewed the memorial in his imperial pen and picked up the third memorial. This one was just delivered this morning or was delivered by Zhang Zishan himself.

After sorting out his thoughts, Fang Guozhen opened the memorial. The memorial was obviously from Zhang Zishan's hands, and he described in detail the process of destroying the White Lotus Sect this time.

During the riddle meeting, I met the eldest lady, Xiao Yun and others in Zuixianlou. After some discussion, I finally used Xiao Yun's strategy of luring the enemy into deep and fought with the White Lotus Sect. In times of crisis, how could he be rescued by Xiao Yun and how did the White Lotus Sect be defeated? Except for a few people who escaped after hearing the news, the rest were killed.

"Zishan really has some tricks, so is Xiao surnamed?" Fang Guozhen was excited to see it, and couldn't help but take a photo on the desk, and then continued to look. Finally, he had learned from the White Lotus Sect that the leader of the White Lotus Sect this time was arrested, and he might know the whereabouts of the eldest son. He was being taken back to Taizhou for interrogation."

"Good job, good job. With this leader, aren't you afraid that he won't tell Fang Li's whereabouts?" Fang Guozhen frowned and finally stretched out. Then his eyes flashed and he said sternly: "White Lotus Sect dares to bully us Fang's family. Sooner or later, the Fang family will definitely pay you blood debts?" Fang Guozhen said gritting his teeth, and his face looked a little ferocious under the light.

However, the White Lotus Sect depends on Chen Youding. If you want to deal with it, you must first solve this person, otherwise it will be a bit troublesome.

I remembered Chen Youding and Fang Guozhen had a headache. He started a military force twenty years ago and fought many battles. He was not afraid of the army of the Tartars and Zhang Shicheng's army. But when he met Chen Youding, everything was not so easy. He was versatile and continued to expand his strength over the years and joined forces with the Tartar court. This made him feel that he was not easy to deal with.

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