Chapter 1006: showdown

   Zhou De's eyes widened, he couldn't imagine that Andre was still a senior, he said angrily, "Why don't you arrest him?"

Mu Yangling said with a smile: "Once we have caught this, there will be another one. Besides, we don't have any solid evidence. Do you think Andrei is a professional craftsman? He is just a businessman, and it is by the way to spy on other countries' news for his country. Yes, maybe in the beginning, he just simply passed the knowledge from the outside back to the motherland, and then slowly turned into a senior and meticulous work, and what I want you to do is the role of Andre, the Western Ocean is far away from us. Far away, we Daqi also disdain their land, but they can’t be full of malice towards us and we don’t know it.”

In a word, they don't care about each other's land, and they don't even think about coveting Daqi.

Zhou De looked serious and said cherished: "Don't worry, madam, although Zhou is only a businessman, he also knows that the country is responsible for the rise and fall of the country. We can straighten our backs overseas because our motherland is strong enough, and Zhou must not It will make the foreigners' wolf ambitions succeed."

The only reluctance left in Zhou De's heart disappeared. He didn't expect the foreigners to have such great malice towards them. What's the difference between this and the barbarians in the West of the Great Jin Dynasty?

Thinking of the large area of ​​land lost in the previous dynasty, and thinking that Daqi might one day be flooded and occupied by foreigners, Zhou De's eyes were red with anger.

Zhou De straightened his chest and stepped out of the palace with great ambition. The spies who stayed outside went back and reported to their masters. The big businessmen could only privately sigh about the good luck of the Zhou family. Why didn't they think of taking advantage of Fan Zijin When it's tough, how about going up?

It's also Prince Rong, they are too domineering. They have banned the sea for 20 years, and they have been making noise for 20 years. When Prince Rong and Duke An Guo said "open the sea ban", the sea ban was really lifted. You must know that this sea ban is so easy to open. Now, they have already brought a lot of money to the two of them.

But money is hard to buy, I knew it earlier.

Prince Rong doesn't care about business matters, but Duke An Guo has already selected the Zhou family as a partner.

The big businessmen regretted, but Zhou De kept going home and selected a few loyal and clever domestic servants. After struggling for a night, he finally chose the second son to take them there. Zhou De gave the second son the number of weeks. Doing psychological counseling, speaking from the future of the family to the interests of the country, he repeated what the princess said, and finally took his hand and cried, "I don't want you to do meticulous work, but those foreigners are too hateful. , I'm afraid it's wrong to hand it over to the servants, since the palace trusts us, we can't live up to the prince and the princess..."

Zhou Shu's eyes were bright, and he asked, "Dad, then you say that if we make great achievements, can our family become an official?" He puffed out his chest.

Zhou De cried for a while and hesitated: "If you do it well, the lord might give your nephew and son a chance."

Zhou Shu's eyes were shining, and he gritted his teeth: "I did it, Dad, don't worry, for the future of my nephew and my son, I will definitely work hard. Our family has worked hard for thirty or forty years and has not been able to produce a person with fame. , this time maybe it will be, even if you don't come from the imperial examination, as long as you can become an official."

None of the businessmen in Daqi wanted to improve their status. Although the businessmen were rich, their status was always low. Sometimes, in order to keep their business, they had to curry favor with officials and act like slaves. Not to mention that the economic foundation determines the superstructure. In ancient China, This statement applies, but it doesn't apply, depending on how you interpret it.

But there is one point. If the big businessmen want to live well, they have to let their family members become officials. Since the Tang Dynasty, there was a rule that businessmen were not allowed to take imperial examinations.

By the middle and late period of the Great Zhou Dynasty, through the efforts of Emperor Gaozong and other emperors, the ancestors had become a businessman, and the imperial examination was not allowed within three generations. Daqi has not changed this point, but it is indeed difficult for businessmen to improve their status. .

The Zhou family is naturally the same. The children of the Zhou family will not be recorded in the family tree until they are ten years old. Why?

In order to select the seedlings who can read, if there are such seedlings, the family will send him to the family of the other family, or record him as the son of the other party, or adopt the past, and still live and study with the Zhou family, and the Zhou family will also To give some support, they only borrowed their identities for imperial examinations, and they were not afraid that the other party would rob the children or the children would not recognize them.

Because except that the child's name is recorded in the foster parents' name, the child is still theirs, and all the grace and support are theirs.

At that time, Zhou De was the only son of Grandpa Zhou. Grandpa Zhou gritted his teeth and refused to let him enter the genealogy. He was only regretfully and fortunately recorded in the genealogy after he was ten years old and determined that he had no talent in reading.

They don't ask their family's children to pass the examinations as jinshi to become officials, they just want them to pass the examinations as scholars to raise the family's status a little.

It can be said that the purpose of businessmen is never to compete for power, but status.

This is the case with the Zhou family, as are other big businessmen, but the Zhou family is a bit more pitiful. After forty or fifty years, there is still not a single scholar in the family.

It's not that they don't work hard, it's just that the imperial examinations are too difficult, and their identities are hard to get good teachers and good books, lack of educational resources, and their minds are floating, so naturally they can't produce talents.

Zhou Shu was also forced to study in the past, and this has a great psychological shadow. He feels that there is no root in the Zhou family's blood to be able to read, and it is useless to work hard. Now that there is another way in front of them, they will If you don't hurry up, you're simply sorry for yourself.

For the sake of his son and his family, Zhou Shu felt that it was worth fighting for his life.

Zhou Shu followed his father to the palace with the tragic feeling of "the strong man will never return", but the captain of the guard who came to train them smiled and told them that their first and forever mission was to be a good businessman role, the only way to save their lives and the entire intelligence system.

Then the captain of the guard told them how to be a proper merchant...

Since the age of eight, I have been buying and selling with money for weeks, watching the captain of the guard teach them how to be a qualified businessman...

Many years later, Zhou Shu brought back a lot of valuable information to Daqi, but he has been traveling safely between Western countries and became a famous big businessman. Recalling today's training, he seriously sighed: "I have always been A businessman..."

So always safe.

At this time, the foreigners didn't know that it was just a child's fight that triggered this series of consequences. If Qi Haoran captured Pedro, exterminated his 2,000 pirates, and captured 560 people was a blockbuster at the moment, Then the foreigners who returned to the motherland after four months found that the exquisite glazed products and clocks that appeared one after another were another form of declaration of war.

Because there are few clocks and glazed products, each of them only has one or two pieces, so after returning to the motherland, they will naturally sell them vigorously, raising the price very high, and when they sell the things, the people will discover the things. At the time of the benefits, exquisite glazed products and clocks appeared on the market one after another. Like theirs, they even had more complete varieties and greater choices. Although they were also very expensive, many people still spent a lot of money to buy them.

Their previous propaganda was all about making wedding clothes for Daqi merchants, which annoyed foreigners who had no supply. They knew that they should not have rejected Princess Qi in the first place, and only bought one or two pieces. They spent more than half a month to open up the market. It was called by the Han Chinese to occupy it.
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