Wu Xiang lifted the curtain, glanced at Wei Bao indifferently, and then got out of the car without answering.

To Wei Bao's surprise, there were also Wu Sanfeng, Wu Sanfu, Wu Xuexia and Wu Sangui in the big luxury carriage.

Wei Bao didn't expect Wu Xiang to bring several children. Looking at the bright and moving Wu Xuexia, Wei Bao's heart bulged, but at this time, there were many people, and Wu Xiang was present, he didn't make a mistake, and he didn't stare at the beauty.

Wu Sanfu took the lead in calling Wei Gongzi.

Wei Bao nodded and smiled at Wu Sanfu: "Brother Sanfu." ”

"Wei Gongzi doesn't have to be polite. I just ask you, as an official of the Guard Command and Envoy Division, it is not an exaggeration to come to you, right? You're in charge of the Guard, aren't you? Wu Xiang asked straight to the point.

Wei Bao sweated, didn't know what Wu Xiang wanted to say, and replied along with the other party's words: "Lord Wu can come whenever he wants, and we, the people of Weijiazhuang, should sweep the couch to greet us." ”

"Hehe, okay, I'll officially tell you now, Weijiazhuang Port has been taken over by the Wei Command Envoy, in order to prevent lawbreakers from using this fishing port, I let a small flag be stationed in the port." Wu Xiang said.

The people around Wei Bao were stunned when they heard this, there is a garrison here? Although Wu Xiang only said that a small flag would be stationed, it was also an army! This is not a strategic point, there has never been an army, and they are all farmers, and they are not military households, is it necessary to garrison troops? This is obviously to seize the port!

Wu Xiang saw that Wei Bao didn't speak, and said with a smile: "Master Wei, there's nothing, right?" ”

"Nothing, nothing, what can there be?" Wei Bao snorted and held back his emotions to get angry. I have been engaged in the construction for so long, although the port does not meet the standards of modern seaports, but in this era, it is enough, even if a large ship of this level of Zhenyuan ship is berthed, there is no problem with shipping, how much silver did I spend, how much manpower and material resources did I spend? Now that the plaque given by the emperor himself is also there, and the prototype of the port is also there, you are here to pick peaches?

Wei Bao has once again fully appreciated what it means to take by force.

"Dad, why bother asking him to be a kid? Commander Wei can garrison the army wherever he wants, I don't believe anyone dares to do anything to the army of the imperial court! Wu Sanfeng sneered, "It's enough to let me come today." ”

In fact, Wu Xiang originally wanted Wu Sanfeng to come alone.

Wu Sanfu heard that he was coming to Weijiazhuang, so he wanted to come with him and come to Wei Bao to play.

Wu Xuexia followed Wu Sanfu, and Wu Sangui followed Wu Xuexia.

Wu Xiang didn't come to fight this time, not to use force, but to suppress people with power, so he simply agreed to let them all come, but it seemed like a family outing, and he didn't have to be too formal, with an attitude that he didn't take Weijiazhuang and Weijiazhuang Port in his eyes at all.

The scheming Wu Xiang knows that many times, the more understatement, the better the effect, especially for people like Wei Bao, who is a common person.

After summarizing the gains and losses with Wei Baodou in the previous paragraph, Wu Xiang found that he had made a big mistake, and the backer he could pull was Zu Dashou.

And Wei Bao can bring the backers, it is not clear, it seems that Wei Bao knows a lot of people, and they are getting more and more powerful, even the chief eunuch Tu Wenfu of the ceremonial eunuch can come to Liaoxi to support him.

Wu Xiang felt that the game of the forces behind him was the biggest mistake he made, as the second largest official of the Wei Command Department, he dealt with a civilian boy, why bother looking for this and that? He is fully capable of playing Wei Bao alone, so this time he only brought a few people to come, looking like he was doing business, and sure enough, Wei Bao didn't have any tricks at all. So refreshing, I agreed directly.

"It's boring to stay in the city all day, and it's nice to have the opportunity to go out and see the scenery in the mountains." Wu Xiang smiled and glanced at Wei Bao: "Master Wei, isn't it?" ”

"Yes, the air in the countryside is good." Wei Bao smiled: "Lord Wu is willing to come to our Weijiazhuang, this is our honor, just right, we are going to list Weijiazhuang Port, Lord Wu is there in person, it is even more colorful, I don't know if Lord Wu is willing to go together?" Then stay in our Weijiazhuang for a few days, let me enjoy the friendship of the landlord. ”

Wu Xiang didn't expect that Wei Bao's city government had practiced so deeply, and he came to give him a 'nail' and an 'eye medicine', but he didn't seem to care at all, but invited himself to play for a few more days?

Looking at the tall city wall of the Wei family's mansion, in the middle of the luxurious and majestic gatehouse are the two big characters of the Wei Mansion, the red background, the golden yellow big characters, which is particularly atmospheric.

Wu Xiang secretly thought, this Wei Mansion is a hundred times more magnificent than his own Wu Mansion, this little guy, this is the emperor of the soil in the township!

"Hehe, okay, since Gongzi Wei is so kindly invited, I will stay in your Jinshan for two more days, and the last time I spent the night in Jinshan, it was a few years ago, when my Xuexia was still young and didn't remember." Wu Xiang smiled, and actually agreed. This time, he originally adjusted his strategy, and re-regarded the four miles in this area as the same place as the other li under the jurisdiction of the Shanhai Guard Command and Envoy, and did not see Jinshanli differently because of the rise of Wei Bao and the change of personnel power in the township.

As a magistrate, it's not normal to spend the night in the local countryside, play for a few more days, it seems that Lao Tzu doesn't care, and he is not afraid of what you dare to do to me!

Wu Xiang came today to overwhelm Wei Bao with the power and momentum of officialdom.

Since he was outside the system and couldn't do anything with Wei Bao, Wu Xiang decided to completely pull Wei Bao into the system.

In the power system of the Ming Dynasty, Wei Bao, a talent like Wei Bao, is just a marginal person and has no weight.

After Wu Xiang exchanged a few words with Wei Bao, he said hello to a few people who knew Wei Bao and said a few words to Li Chengnei.

Wu Xiang and Li Chengnei have met several times and know that Li Chengnei is Wei Bao's brother-in-law.

Everyone around Wei Bao was surprised again, and everyone didn't expect that Wu Xiang would so readily agree to stay in the local area for a few more days.

"Every time Lord Wu comes back, he stays in my house, and this time he still lives in my house, right? Just ask Lord Wu for more advice. Zhao Kehu behind Wei Bao said.

The friendship between Zhao Kehu and Wu Xiang is actually very ordinary, and the previous interactions were just as exchanges between local officials and above.

Zhao Kehu's purpose in saying this is to show that he is still a local Lizheng and act as a shield for Wei Bao, for fear that Wu Xiang will have some purpose in staying, and take the opportunity to find trouble with Wei Bao.

"No, I know about your affairs, although a few of you are still local Lizheng in the Yellow Book, but the people and land in the four around here have all belonged to Wei Gongzi, and Wei Gongzi should be the biggest, if I have anything in the future, I will find Wei Gongzi, just this time, talk to Wei Gongzi about local governance." Wu Xiang smiled and said: "Since Wei Gongzi has been kindly invited, I will live in this luxurious mansion that is a hundred times more luxurious than our Wu Mansion!" ”

Zhao Kehu, Bai Pengfu and Hou Lixing are all very shrewd people, as soon as they heard Wu Xiang say this, they knew that Wu Xiang was going to find a leader in the local area again, saving such a large area, what is the matter, it is difficult to find someone.

Of course, if you do this, if something happens, you have to let Wei Bao carry it. Wu Xiang did not want to support Wei Bao's status.

"Lord Wu is willing to live with us, we are very honored, but the local people are still Zhao Lizheng, Bai Lizheng, and Hou Lizheng are in charge." Wei Dakang hurriedly spoke: "Our Xiaobao is still young, although he has earned a little silver, but it is nothing in the local area, and there is no reason for a child to be in charge." ”

Now Wei Dakang also dares to speak in front of a 'big official' like Wu Xiang, and he is no longer the image of a cowering peasant in the past.

Wu Xiang looked at Wei Dakang, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes and looked like a nouveau riche new rich man, and said with a smile: "This is Wei Gongzi's father, right?" Big brother, you're wrong, whoever has the most money and the most reputation in the township since ancient times has the final say. If it weren't for the local talent like Wei Gongzi, the saint would not have personally given a plaque of Weijiazhuang Port, right? To be able to get the royal gift, this is the glory of the locality, but also the glory of the entire Liaoxi. ”

Although his temperament and vision have improved, Wei Dakang is a villager in the end, an honest person's foundation, where is the opponent of a veteran like Wu Xiang in the confrontation of words, I want to defend myself, but I don't know where to start, I can't speak. I always feel that Wu Xiang said that his Xiaobao is a local 'brain', which teaches people to panic and uneasy.

Wei Bao smiled indifferently: "Hahahaha, Dad, it's okay, what Lord Wu said also has some truth, although I am not an official Lizheng of the imperial court, our Weijiazhuang has not been officially recognized by the Wei Command Envoy." But Weijiazhuang is mine, the land and people here are mine, if there is anything, Lord Wu will come to me, no problem! ”

Wu Xiang looked at Wei Bao, originally with his understanding of Wei Bao, although Wei Bao is very young, he is a person who is very deep in the city, he does things without leakage, he shrinks back when he speaks and does things, and he will never take the lead in letting his subordinates come out, so it is not easy to find Wei Bao in big trouble.

I didn't expect Wei Bao to dare to be so 'arrogant'.

Then he nodded and said: "What Wei Gongzi said is right, although your Wei Jiazhuang has not been recognized by the government, but I think that if there is anything here, I will look for you!" ”

"Well said, well said." Wei Bao suppressed the fire in his belly, but he talked and laughed freely on his face.

Wei Bao is not stupid, he can naturally see Wu Xiang's intentions this time, and Wei Bao can now analyze things from a strategic point of view.

As a 'leader', Wei Bao can do specific things, he can't do it, he can't be a tactician, not a general, not a qualified mayor and mayor, but he must be a strategist, and he must have the ability to see things from an overall perspective! Wei Bao is very clear about this.

Wu Xiang's purpose is very clear, Wu Xiangming knows that after he controls the local area, he is now ready to move, eager to expand his business power and influence to the entire western Liaoning, and increase the influence and sphere of influence of Weijiazhuang.

And Wu Xiang went directly to Weijiazhuang to settle the garrison, and he had to stay here for a few more days, which was an official provocation to Wei Bao! Tell you clearly, not only do you not want to develop outside Weijiazhuang, but even this Weijiazhuang, you don't have full control, I want to come, I want to point fingers, if I want to give you thunder, I will give you thunder, Lao Tzu is relying on the identity of the magistrate to press you, so that you don't dare to move easily!

Wei Bao naturally saw these hidden purposes clearly, so he did not shy away from pushing himself out and blocking in front of Zhao Kehu, Bai Pengfu, Hou Lixing and others, on the one hand, he wanted Wu Xiang to show that I would accompany you how you like to play! On the other hand, it is to show the people below that he is not a 'boss' who has no responsibility in case of trouble.

Wu Sanfeng reminded Wu Xiang softly: "Dad, don't live in this guy's mansion, right?" You can live in any house in the middle of the house. ”

Wu Xiang glanced at Wu Sanfeng, secretly hating that the eldest son is not a climate, Wei Bao is not afraid of things at a young age, he can be so responsible, what are you afraid of? Could it be that if he lives in Wei's house, what else does Wei Bao dare to do? Dare to kill you? It's because you always want to put Wei Bao to death all at once, and you are always afraid that Wei Bao will put you to death, so you will do things messily, and you will always be led by Wei Bao's nose.

Temperament, in the final analysis, is a lack of bearing, which is the most undesirable point for officials and those who achieve great things!

This is Wu Xiang's comment to Wu Sanfeng, and it is also what he has been secretly admonishing himself.

"Wei Gongzi, didn't you just say that you were going to list Weijiazhuang Port? It's better to be in a hurry than to be in a hurry, let's go? Wu Xiang smiled and said: "It is my honor to participate in such a grand event in the township. ”

"Okay, Lord Wu, please get in the carriage, the beach is still a little far from here, and you have to walk for an hour by car." Wei Bao looks like a very considerate and thoughtful qualified landlord. After speaking, he took the opportunity to look at Wu Xuexia.

Wu Xuexia was also looking at Wei Bao, but just a glance at Wei Bao, Wu Xuexia returned to the car with a red face.

Wu Xuexia is indeed a very qualified goddess of coldness, no matter what time it is, she always has an empty temperament.

After Zhao Jinfeng glanced at Wu Xuexia, he looked at Wei Bao and found that Wei Bao and Wu Xuexia were looking at each other.

The girl's mind is always very sharp, and Zhao Jinfeng suddenly felt a little pantothenic and unhappy.

Last time, Zhao Jinfeng and Wu Xuexia had already come to Weijiazhuang once at the same time, and the two beautiful girls had already met each other.

Wu Xuexia didn't treat Wei Bao as a treasure, and was still faintly disgusted with Wei Bao's 'arrogance'. But Wu Xuexia also accepted some of Wei Bao's advantages, and would always unconsciously compare Wei Bao with the men she knew, and found that no one could compare to Wei Bao.

And Zhao Jinfeng has accepted Wei Bao a little now, so Zhao Jinfeng will pay special attention to the contact between Wei Bao and Wu Xuexia, even if it is silent contact, he will not let it go.

Everyone took a carriage and soon arrived at Weijiazhuang Port.

The Weijiazhuang Port is strategically located, and the Yanshan Mountains behind the port provide a natural barrier to protect the port from freezing, siltation and wind and waves.

Compared with sea carriers, the all-weather navigation and operating conditions, coupled with the high efficiency of Weijiazhuang Port, have improved the economy of ship operation.

At present, two main waterways have been developed, which are natural waterways, which are maintenance-free, and the operation is basically not affected by the natural climate.

Weijiazhuang Port also has an incomparable advantage of coal collection port, Daqin line is the main production area of Chinese coal, Weibao also plans to build a special channel for coal railway transportation in the future, and the heavy-duty unit train of 10,000 tons of coal will run back and forth in this section, which can greatly improve the utilization rate of the port.

The simultaneous expansion of Qinhuangdao Port and Daqin Railway will make this advantage more fully reflected.

Weibao plans to flow coal to various ports in the north in the future, and 90% of the coal flowing to the northern ports will come from Weijiazhuang port.

After Wu Xiang got out of the car, he saw that thousands of people were under intense construction, the harbor had begun to take shape, and the thick seawall around the harbor also gave people a sense of steadiness.

"Wei Gongzi, you are moving very fast, you are going to make this place more prosperous than Shanhaiguan and Yongping Mansion." Wu Xiang was in a casual mode, setting Wei Bao's words.

Wei Bao smiled slightly, and did not laugh, but replied brightly: "Shanhaiguan and Yongping Mansion are already mature and important towns, and they are restricted by the system, and their future development is limited. Weijiazhuang is different, in less than three years, I can build this place into the most prosperous town in Daming! Although the feudal shackles on tenant and employment relations were loosened in the Ming Dynasty, the germ of capitalism in agriculture was extremely rare. Mainly in certain cash crops, in the new reclamation areas and among the wealthy shanty people, there are some hired workers. Wealthy families were constantly pouring out, but they were also constantly transformed into new landlords and old-fashioned kulaks. This old-fashioned kulak, and even the tenant kulak, was only a small-scale economy. ”

Weibao has brought a large number of high-yield crops, and in a one-step way, it has completed the package production to households, private ownership of land, and completed the employment relationship in agriculture.

The entire land of Weijiazhuang belongs to him alone, he is a real centralized landlord, in Weijiazhuang, he is more emperor than the emperor!

The emperor of the Ming Dynasty did not own all the land rights of the entire Ming Dynasty.

The Ming Dynasty, including the central monarchy before the Ming Dynasty, was deeply entrenched, and the emperor directly controlled the land and population of the country.

Although the feudal lords of Europe controlled the land, they lacked control over the burgher class, and feudal relations were relatively loose.

The vast number of yeoman peasants in China make a living from their own production and are extremely poor, lacking both the desire to consume and the purchasing power, and the consumer market cannot be formed.

The vast number of urban civilians in Europe did not have land to make a living from commerce or handicrafts, and the purchase of daily goods was necessary for life, which was conducive to the formation of markets.

China's consumer goods production is mainly oriented to high-end consumption, silk, gold and silver processing, high-end porcelain and other luxury goods are basically upper-class luxuries, the market scope is small, and the space for capitalist development is limited.

European commodity production and service objects are extensive, cotton spinning, wool spinning, iron making, etc., most of them are the daily consumption of the masses, the market scope is large and stable, and the development of capitalism has solid stamina.

China's domestic market is sluggish, merchants generally lack capital, are unable to carry out foreign operations, and the small-scale peasant economy depends on land and has no desire to explore at sea.

The European market was active and the capital operation was smooth, and the expansion of wealth must continue to expand consumption, and at the same time there was an urgent need for labor and resources, and foreign expansion was necessary, which was manifested in the organization of seafaring to expand the colonies.

The germ of capitalism in China appeared only in a few sectors in the south of the Yangtze River, and did not penetrate deep into the countryside.

In the sixteenth century, capitalism developed rapidly in Europe, and capitalist handicraft workshops became a common phenomenon.

In Wei Bao's view, the budding capitalism in China has contributed to the transformation, but it has not contributed to the transformation of Chinese society.

In Europe, however, capitalism greatly promoted the development of the productive forces, the progress of science and technology, and the economic progress, and further led to great changes in the economic structure, class structure, ideology, and values, which triggered the bourgeois revolution and made the transition to capitalism in Europe.

Therefore, what makes Wei Bao most anxious now is that he is sure what kind of seed he has planted, but he is not sure what kind of tree this seed will grow?

Wei Gongzi's biggest worry is the growth of a crooked-necked tree.

It cannot be called capitalism without private ownership.

The driving force behind the renewal and iteration of capitalism comes from the free and spontaneous order.

Therefore, the essence of capitalism is a free market economy.

Everyone constantly improves the rules of the game when they are playing freely, which is the spontaneous order.

Wu Xiang was stunned, he didn't know what capitalism was, he felt confused when he heard Wei Bao say this, and he didn't know why Wei Bao suddenly talked to him about this?

Wei Bao's words were said in public, not only Wu Xiang, but also Luo Sanzi, Liu Chunshi, Fan Datou, Fan Xiaolin, Wang Qiuya and Xu Rui and other people around Wei Bao have never heard Wei Bao talk about 'capitalism'.

"The Ming Dynasty has been governed up and down for hundreds of years, and it has been a peaceful country and a people, what? Does Wei Gongzi still want to make your Wei Jiazhuang different from other places in Daming? Wu Xiang said.

Wei Bao smiled slightly, but didn't say anything, he knew very well that if someone tried to design a perfect game plan from the beginning and then let everyone participate, this kind of practice would definitely be unreliable.

It's like playing football and basketball, maybe there are not so many rules at the beginning, just people on both sides grab the ball and play, and then one goal on one side, a basket on the other, and slowly there will be a restricted area, a three-point line, and then slowly there will be walking fouls, handball fouls, penalty kicks, and two-point free throws.

Anyway, everything has its own process of continuous improvement, relying on people to force, one step in place to let others accept, it is difficult, others to accept it also has to have a gradual process.

Only the participants who have gone through the game can find the irrationality in the game and then continuously improve it.

The reason why Wei Bao said it in public and did not shy away from it was because he already had a certain ability to protect himself, and he wanted to take the opportunity of Wu Xiang to come to Weijiazhuang to 'find trouble' to test his advanced ideas, what kind of impact would it have on Wu Xiang?

Wei Bao didn't care whether Wu Xiang could understand the meaning of capitalism, and continued: "The Ming Dynasty did have the budding of capitalism, the commodity economy was very developed, and even commodities with brand effect appeared. For example, Shi Dabin's purple clay pot, Zhang Mingqi's hand stove, Jiang Qianli's luodian, etc. However, the budding capitalism of our Ming Dynasty can be said to be an important factor that harmed the Ming Dynasty. Because the germ of capitalism is a market economy, and the current system is a feudal social system, and the currency in circulation is silver. The amount of silver is limited, and the market is infinite once it swells. The system cannot keep up with the form, and the circulation of money cannot keep up with the growth of the market. From the Wanli Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty began to decline. The germ of capitalism, without institutional guarantees and ideological foundations, is nothing more than water without roots and cannot develop anywhere. For the feudal bureaucracy, the merchants were just a flock of fat sheep that could shear their sheep one after another, while those merchants had a small-scale peasant mentality that was deeply rooted in their bones. ”

"Wei Bao, how dare you talk nonsense? Who said that our Ming Dynasty went into decline from the Wanli Dynasty? What you say is a great rebellion! Wu Sanfeng seemed to have touched a certain nerve, and jumped up very excitedly to refute Wei Bao's large number of nonsense remarks. He didn't understand anything else, he heard Wei Bao say something bad about Da Ming.

"If you think this sentence is a big rebellion, you can go outside at any time to preach it, or you can go to the yamen to complain, I don't think anyone who is blind, deaf, or too little knowledge, knows this fact, right?" Wei Bao reasoned with Wu Sanfeng with a calm face.

Now Wei Bao has become more and more able to hide his inner emotions, and the shrew-like wild beating and scolding rarely appears in Wei Bao's behavior.

Wu Sanfeng is a straw bag without much ink, and when it comes to reasoning, he is naturally not Wei Bao's opponent, and he said angrily: "I will naturally sue you!" Wherever you go, you can't say that in the hands of His Majesty Wanli, the Ming Dynasty is in decline! ”

Wei Bao believes that the most basic element of capitalism lies in the separation of powers, the people or businessmen have certain rights, the rights of businessmen are protected by law, and the whole society has the spirit of contract.

Capitalism has little to do with money, even if the country has no money, it can be capitalism.

And with the centralized power of the Ming Dynasty, no matter how rich the entire dynasty is, it has nothing to do with capitalism.

As an agrarian civilization, the culture of China has always been to emphasize agriculture and suppress commerce.

Merchants had a very low status in society, they were inferior, and in some years, the status of merchants was similar to that of prisoners.

In the Ming Dynasty, it was true that some merchants with great wealth appeared, but under the system of the family world, the merchants themselves were the private property of the emperor, and their wealth was not guaranteed.

Shen Wansan is rich and rivals the country, but Zhu Yuanzhang immediately lost everything, including his life.

"Let him go on and talk about it, and don't take it too seriously." Wu Xiang is very interested in Wei Bao's words, he is an authentic businessman, a businessman wearing official skin, so although Wu Xiang has not heard many words spoken by Wei Bao, he feels fresh, and he will not be able to understand it for a while, but he can understand the general idea of Wei Bao's words.

"Opening a few dyeing houses and hiring a few people to do the work will bud capitalism, which is too child's play. If capitalism wants to arise, there must be that soil, a culture of respect for businessmen and respect for wealth. Without the concept of the state and the nation, there is no idea of defending the country and defending national independence. In the eyes of the common people, it is just a group of people fighting another group of people, whoever wins, who can give a way to live, and who has less taxes, will help whom. After Wei Bao finished speaking, he stared at Wu Xiang to see what Wu Xiang's reaction was.