At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Then he said a bunch of things about His Majesty's advocacy of spending money, so that ordinary people can benefit from it, and expand production, which will drive the overall growth of wealth. Guo Peng himself said a few things times of fresh vocabulary.

This guy remembers it clearly, and he doesn't care if he understands it or not, he just does it.

But most of the time he doesn't understand.

He is really smart, so Guo Peng also likes him very much.

Whenever I heard that Guo Jia was spending extravagantly in the capital again, I would prepare a sum of money and send it to Guo Jia's wife, so that she could take care of the family's life and keep her family from starving.

In order to do a good job as an official, Guo Jia can be considered exhausted.

So this caused Guo Jia to have no money left.

Cao Cao had spare money, but all the savings were in Madam Ding's hands. He didn't have much money in his hands, so he didn't dare to play such a big game. If he really wanted to play such a big game, he couldn't do it without Madam Ding's approval.

On the contrary, Xi Zhong and Wang Can have accumulated a lot of wealth. The family also has land and savings, so they can afford the money.

But it happened that Guo Jia, a poor man, hesitated for a while, and asked them to borrow money, saying that he wanted to go to sea to do business, and he would pay them back after making a lot of money.

Cao Cao was shocked.

"Feng Xiao, don't ask me to borrow money. You know the situation in my family. I actually don't have any money."

Guo Jia looked at Cao Cao with disdain.

"Forget it, I shouldn't ask you, you two, I'm in a tight spot, can you lend me hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars, and I'll return the money to you when the ship returns and makes a lot of money."

Guo Jia shifted his gaze and looked at Wang Can and Xi Zhong with a smile.

Guo Jia can be considered to have played the highest meaning of business skills - using other people's money to do his own business.

Commonly known as borrowing the chicken to lay the egg.

If you make a profit, you will naturally make a lot of money. If you lose, you will run away with oil on your feet.

The world is so big, anyway...Guo Jia really can't escape.

Moreover, both Wang Can and Xi Zhong also knew that the backer and money bag behind Guo Jia was actually Guo Peng himself, so lending money to Guo Jia would definitely not lose money.

Even if he loses everything and loses everything, as long as Guo Jia asks Guo Peng for money to repay the debt with a shy face, Guo Peng will definitely not give up the money.

There is actually no risk for them to lend money to Guo Jia.

The two looked at each other, nodded together, and decided to lend money to Guo Jia, so Guo Jia had the capital to organize a sea caravan to go to sea to make money.

Cao Cao was dumbfounded, and felt that Guo Jia's business operation of using empty gloves to lay eggs was really wonderful, and he wanted to copy it.

"Cao is also cash-strapped, I wonder if the two of you can..."

Cao Cao didn't finish the sentence, but the meaning was the same. I don't know if these two can make a little sense.

But Wang Can and Xi Zhong were just a little stunned, and then talked about him and talked about the weather, which made Cao Cao very embarrassed.

It's not that Cao Cao has no money, it's just that Cao Cao's money can't be used smoothly, and he needs the permission of his wife to use it. This is why Cao Cao is often ridiculed.

You can't get the money yourself, and you still want to be a white wolf?

There is only one Guo Jia.

But in any case, the news that Cao Cao and Guo Jia decided to follow in the emperor's footsteps and organize a sea caravan to go to sea to do business and make money quickly spread.

Basically, Cao Cao and Guo Jia are the political weather vane of the imperial court.

After many political turmoil, the officials have learned to be good, and gradually realized that as long as they follow Cao Cao and Guo Jia, they will generally be fine, and they may not necessarily die.

This time too.

Except for a few maverick poor people who have no property, most of the high-ranking officials in the current dynasty are rich, not ordinary rich, but quite rich.

Although it costs a lot to set up a sea caravan, it is definitely not unaffordable.

Seeing that Cao Cao and Guo Jia were going to do it, they remembered the treaty signed between the emperor and the Romans and the huge trade quota. Under the temptation of real money, many people followed suit and made the decision to go to sea with the Royal Maritime Caravan decision.

A large number of people expressed their willingness to go to sea with the Royal Maritime Caravan.

There are still some who hesitate to make a decision and are still wavering.

The remaining group simply do not intend to follow suit. They feel that going to sea is too illusory, and they will never go to sea rashly until someone really makes money.

When Guo Peng learned of this situation, he did not intervene or force it. He organized the Royal Maritime Merchant Team on his own, prepared goods according to the orders of the Romans, and then ordered the Royal Maritime Caravan Team to set off for Rome as soon as possible to make money.

These people were frightened by the emperor, and they dare not easily believe in the emperor's goodwill.

But as long as someone came back with a lot of money, even if not all returned safely, they would immediately resent themselves for not going to sea with them earlier.

Originally, this is a huge profit industry. Although it is easy to lose money, if you really want to make money, you will make a lot of money.

It's that simple to starve to death the bold and lucky, and starve to death the timid and unlucky.

Guo Jia said that he didn't know how to operate, so he gave the money to his trusted family members, and hired professionals from the royal caravan from Guo Peng to serve him, and built his own maritime merchant team for himself. And purchase goods ready to go and the like.

Therefore, there are some things that need to be done by professionals. Once a professional makes a move, he will know if there is any.

Professionals did this, and they also discussed with Roman merchants, and held meetings to discuss what they needed to buy.

The meeting lasted for three to five days, and a long list was made and placed in front of Guo Jia.

After watching it for a while, Guo Jia resolutely gave up and asked his wife to watch it.

This kind of thing is really more troublesome than marching and fighting. He would rather spend time in the army with soldiers, study military maps, and plan tactical tactics than fiddle with money here.

As the saying goes, there are first-order skills and specializations. Guo Jia believes that he is not suitable for business, and professional things should be done by professional people.

He just needs to be in charge of that professional talent.

Guo Jia's approach was followed by many people who decided to go out together but didn't know anything about maritime trade. They hired professionals to plan for them and steer the maritime business team for them, and then they were ready to reap the benefits of fishing.

Faced with such a situation, Guo Jin was somewhat puzzled.

"Father, why is father so obsessed with the outside world? Does father think that our country of Wei is not big enough and the population is not large enough?"

From Guo Jin's point of view, the territorial expansion of the Wei Empire has reached its extreme, and the empire's extreme wall has been successful. What he needs to do now is to stabilize the country that his father laid down.

After he becomes emperor in the future, the policy must be conservative rather than pioneering and aggressive. What the Wei Empire needs is to digest the existing territory and build a solid foundation rather than continue to develop.

If the empire continues to develop, the empire will be unable to control it. Once the military weakens, those so-called lands will be lost in an instant.

Guo Peng shook his head.

"Ajin, remember, there is only one way to make the Wei Kingdom last longer, and that is to go out, no matter what method you use, go out, the farther you go, the bigger the world you can explore, and the more you can earn , the longer the state of Wei can exist."

Guo Jin didn't know why.

"Don't ask why, remember, if your children and grandchildren ask you like this, you can answer like this, go out, you must go out, go out no matter what, make money, make more and more money, as long as the money is enough More, and you will always be invincible."

Guo Peng patted Guo Jin on the shoulder, and told Guo Jin this simple but very useful truth for him to remember.

Even if you don't understand it, remember it.

Then pass it on to future generations.

Many people actually don't understand many great principles. For example, the ancient Chinese knew what to do and didn't know why. It all depended on the accumulation of experience.

Sometimes, the accumulation of experience is naturally very effective, otherwise ancient Chinese science would not be able to talk about development, although this development is very limited.

Pulling China's scientific development from the third century to the first half of the [-]th century, China's scientific achievements in such a long period of time are not as great as those made in the second half of the [-]th century.

It is not just China, the times are pulled back, from the third century AD to before the industrial revolution, the scientific achievements created by the entire human society are not as great as the scientific achievements after the industrial revolution.

But human beings are still living, and they are also accumulating science extremely slowly, but there has not been any qualitative change in the past 1000 years.

Some things can be done without understanding.

Because the Wei Empire has established contact with the Roman Empire, it is undergoing internal adjustments.

As for the Roman envoys, they couldn't wait to start a new understanding of the Wei Empire.

They need to be familiar with Luoyang City first under the leadership of diplomats from the Wei Empire.

Today, after 11 years of Yande, Luoyang City has long since gotten rid of the brokenness and barrenness of 20 years ago, and has already redeveloped into the world's number one city that is even more majestic than Luoyang back then.

According to Yande's ten-year statistics, the permanent population of Luoyang City has exceeded 100 million, which is an unprecedented huge city in various senses.

Moreover, the roads in the city are all made of stone slabs, sufficient drainage channels have been repaired, and there are even underground drainage projects.

When Luoyang City was rebuilt, Guo Peng ordered that sufficient drainage channels and underground drainage projects be repaired, so that the accumulated water in the city would be drained out of the city through various channels and flowed into the river.

Xun You and Zaoyi, who presided over the reconstruction of Luoyang City, paid special attention to this project and kept a close eye on it. Therefore, there has been no waterlogging disaster in Luoyang City for more than ten years.

Zaozhi even made an oath, saying that as long as there is no major flood that is rare in decades, Luoyang City will never be at risk of flooding.

Under such a premise, the city of Luoyang is always clean and tidy, and there will be no situation where it is muddy on rainy days and dusty on sunny days.

Even the outermost outer city is like this.

This made the Roman ambassador Manuel very impressed.

Chapter 1393 One thousand three hundred and three Simpi can understand Manuel's doubts

The Roman ambassador Manuel was a close confidant of Caracalla.

This time, he was sent as the ambassador to the Wei Empire out of trust, trying to learn more about the Wei Empire and develop the business of the two countries.

And the more he learned about this huge empire, the more surprised he was.

He was walking on the hard and clean slate road, looking at the neatly shaped slabs that looked like they had been cut and processed, he couldn't help asking Simpi, Minister of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, who was accompanying him.

"How much money and time does it take to lay such a huge city with such a stone slab?"

The interpreter translated Manuel's inquiry to Simpi, and Simpi smiled proudly after hearing this.

"Money and time are not the main issues. These issues are not important. The important thing is whether His Majesty wants it, is willing, and whether he needs it. As long as His Majesty needs it, we, as subjects, will of course do it.

What's more, Luoyang is the imperial capital, and it is very necessary to lay stone slabs throughout the city, not only for the convenience of walking, but also for other needs. It must be done, isn't it good now?How good it is when it rains without being muddy, and when the wind blows without causing dust. "

Simpi said cheerfully.

"Then Luoyang is the only city like this?"

"not like this."

Xin Pi shook his head again and again: "At first, it was like this before the first year of Yande. Later, over the past ten years, basically every prefecture, every county, and every county town has paved stone roads, not to mention all, at least The main road is paved with cobblestones.

Your Majesty attaches great importance to the cleanliness and cleanliness of the city. Your Majesty believes that one of the reasons for the plague is that the city is very dirty. People pour their feces and urine on the street, so that the whole city is filthy and smells bad. It is only Your Majesty who repairs the stone road. Part of a set of requirements. "

"Plague? What is this? Are there any other requests?"

Manuel didn't understand the meaning of the plague. The interpreter thought for a while, and explained the meaning of the plague with the meaning of "many people get sick at the same time and die soon".

Manuel was shocked.

"We also have a plague in our country. Many people are infected with the same disease, but we have nothing to do with that disease. We can only sit and watch people die."

Simpi nodded heavily.

"Sure enough, you have them there, and I also have them in Wei. Once the plague occurs, there is no time to find a cure, and people will die. All we can do is isolate. We don't know where the disease comes from, and how to treat it.

Then His Majesty the Emperor pointed out that the city where we live is dirty, eating raw food and drinking water indiscriminately is an important reason for the emergence of the plague, and His Majesty the Emperor then ordered to rectify our city and habits in many ways. Much smaller. "

Simpi expressed his thoughts with emotion: "Although I don't know how much this matter is related to what His Majesty has done, the plague has indeed improved a lot. Tell him about the great plague that happened."

Simpi asked the translator Wei Yong to repeat his meaning, and then talked about the great plague that occurred in the troubled times of the former Han Dynasty.

Wei Yong translated Simpi's words again, and then began to tell about the tragic past of tens of thousands of people who died of plague in groups of tens of thousands in some counties at the end of the Han Dynasty.

At that time, hundreds of thousands of people were infected with the disease at the same time. They didn't know where the disease came from, and they didn't know how to treat and recover. In the end, except for a very few lucky ones, most of them died.

When all the people die, the plague will be over. Burning all these corpses means that this plague crisis has passed, and no one knows when the next crisis will come.

But even if it comes, there is no way to solve it, because people in this era don't know what bacteria and viruses are, and they can't detect them. Except for prevention and isolation, everything else is unsolvable and depends on luck.

The more Manuel heard it, the more he felt uncomfortable.

Because his hometown was also attacked by such a terrible disease, and almost all of them died. He was lucky enough to escape the catastrophe. He did not expect the same thing to happen to the Wei Empire 20 years ago.

"Such a thing happened in my hometown, and it happened in many places in Rome. What about now? Does it still happen in Wei?"

Manuel continued asking.

Simpi nodded.

"Yes, but the scale is much smaller. Your Majesty believes that if there is no cure for the plague, the only way is to isolate, quickly isolate, and isolate the patient as quickly as possible at the beginning of the plague. This is the only way to deal with the plague." means."