The big man has a living father

Chapter 194 (Long Chapter) Professional Scapegoat

No one in the court will know.

The discovery of the New World in the Arctic Circle did not arouse Liu Che's extreme interest in exploring the Arctic Circle.

On the contrary, Liu Che turned his attention to Baiyue and the islands outside Baiyue.

The fact that Ge Sanfeng was named Marquis of Beiji became a hot topic in Chang'an.

The newspaper used an entire issue as a special issue on the ocean, publishing the country's current cutting-edge research on the ocean.

Among them, ships, astronomical navigation technology, the use of compasses, etc. are the most important.

In the newspapers, there was a lot of talk about the Arctic Circle, the Arctic Circle, the ice people, the feather people, and the New World.

There was even a special edition featuring Alaskan dogs.

This is a dog from another continent, and it is big and strong.

Isn't dog fighting popular among the nobles in Chang'an? Don't you really want to consider buying some?

In stock? No, but you can pre-order. The Alaskan Malamutes that are currently being farmed need to undergo breeding education, which is called "Chinese localization", before they are available to the market.

Of course, if you really can't wait, you can buy a Husky first.

But a friendly reminder, as dogs that pull carts in the snow and ice, they are extremely active. If you buy one, there is a high possibility that it will destroy furniture and other items in your home because of its excessive activity.

This news is sponsored by Huo’s Home Furnishing.

Indeed, the Husky is not the Husky of later generations. It has not received professional training and is not that stupid.

The problem is that the Huskies of later generations, although stupid, most of them don’t bite people. Only one or two out of a hundred will bite people in spite of their ancestral instincts.

Guess which ancestor is rebelling?
The big man's Husky bites both furniture and people.

After all, the nobles would like to keep tigers at home, so that tigers will not bite people and furniture! ? Of course, keeping fierce dogs is not a problem, and many people really went to order dogs that day.

However, they will have to wait if they want to raise Huskies and Alaskans.

The dog training base established by Lubode has been trying to produce sled dogs with gentler personalities by mixing the blood of their own dogs.

But this doesn't mean that other people with explosive personalities are useless.

Those with strong aggressiveness were mixed with various local pastoral dogs. Because Huo Hai saw that Lu Bode had this talent, he gave part of the task of breeding military dogs to Lu Bode.

Although military dogs need to be obedient, in fact, they must first be physically strong, capable and aggressive. As for obeying orders, these are things that need to be trained in the later stages of training. This breed of dog must be trained to have all the basic qualities and all the attributes maxed out to be a good dog.

Huo Hai didn’t know what standards were used to select German military dogs in the previous life, but the military dogs that the Han people needed now had to be bred and trained in this way.

Before setting out again, Ge San also became a celebrity in Chang'an City.

Even those military nobles who were once granted titles of nobility, and those big businessmen who retired from the army and became rich in business, all tried their best to invite Ge San to be their guest.

The Arctic is becoming more and more eye-catching.

At this time, Liu Che came to the institute.

Huo Hai was sleeping soundly in the new Huo Mansion. When he heard that His Majesty was going to the research institute, he hurriedly took a car to the institute.

Liu Che went to the agricultural science research laboratory of the institute.

At present, Liu Che has established a number of research fields for agricultural research in the upper reaches of the Bashui River, but all the research conducted there is on southern plant cultivation. Liu Che wants to go to the research institute and chat with the researchers.

When Huo Hai arrived, Liu Che had almost finished talking with the researchers.

Seeing Huo Hai arrive, Liu Che asked his attendants to leave, and then, while drinking tea, he said to Huo Hai: "Everyone is looking to the north, but I am paying attention to the south now."

Huo Hai nodded.

Liu Che's thinking is different from that of ordinary people.

Ordinary people take one step at a time, and even some stupid people take one step at a time.

Liu Che thought about the consequences before taking a step, and thought about several ways to take the next steps.

Huo Hai guessed that Liu Che would turn his gaze to the south, but he didn't expect it to happen so soon.

Liu Che's idea was also very simple: "The Arctic Circle, with a range of thousands of kilometers, can only support 50,000 people. This area is thousands of kilometers from east to west, forming a circle. No matter how small it is, its area is much larger than that of the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty has an uncounted population of 50 million, while here there are only 50,000."

A thousand times difference.

"I have always been thinking about what to do if we conquer the grassland."

"Because grasslands are not suitable for growing crops, growing crops would actually result in losses and would not be enough to feed people."

"The Xiongnu nobles can feed ordinary Xiongnu cavalry slaves and grow millet for them at all costs, and not even give them food, but the Han cannot. If that were the case, the border people of the Han would rebel."

"But at that time I had not thought that the north was even more bitter and cold, and the Dingling people lived in a place where even the Xiongnu did not live."

"I never expected that there is an even more bitter and cold place in the north, a place where the Dingling people don't even live, and where the Ice People live."

"So I'm wondering, is it true that the further south you go, the higher the grain yield is?"

Theoretically, the further north you go from the Han Dynasty, the lower the grain yield will be, until there is no return on investment at all.

Based on this logic, the further south you go, the higher the grain yield should be.

But Liu Che had data on all the counties and even almost all the vassal states in the world.

Liu Che knew that the tributes paid by each county in the south were far less than those paid by the north.

After thinking about it carefully, Liu Che felt that this was a population problem, not a production problem.

So Liu Che came to the institute.

You wouldn't know this until you ask. Once you ask, you will find out that the planting efficiency in the south is much higher than that in the north.

Although the south seems unsuitable for growing wheat and millet due to the abundance of water, in fact the wheat and millet yields in Shu are significantly higher than in the north.

Only the Huaihe River region seems to be on par with the north.

However, the researcher told Liu Che that there were problems with the wheat yield in the Huaihe River area because of the small number of plants planted, lack of experience, and lack of intensive farming. So if we only looked at the data, it was on par with that in the north.

But considering that a large number of fields in the north are intensively cultivated, while wheat in the Huaihe River basin is planted casually, the wheat yield in the Huaihe River is actually higher than that in the north.

This is even more true further south, even south of the Yangtze River!

After confirming this, Liu Che immediately asked the researchers what miasma was.

The researchers couldn't explain it clearly, but Peng Yi's apprentice told Liu Che that the so-called miasma in the south should be a name for four different diseases combined.

They are bacterial infections, viral infections, parasitic infections, and poisonous insect bites.

Liu Che also listened carefully and seriously, and listened to the research of the institute in its entirety.

Only then did I realize that there had long been a consensus within the research institute that mold that was invisible to the naked eye was divided into two types, one was a virus and the other was a bacteria.

Insect bites are also divided into three types: poisonous insect bites, non-toxic parasitic insect bites, and bites from poisonous animals such as snakes.

After listening to him, Liu Che said, "That is to say, once a virus breaks out, there is almost no cure, but we can research vaccines to prevent it, and most of the time, few people get it. There are a lot of bacteria, but most of them can be cured by just boiling hot water before drinking, and parasites can be cured by just cooking all the food, right?"

"And poisonous animals..."

Liu Che reacted.

Now that the Han people are mining coal everywhere, do they still lack firewood for boiling water? No, in other words, in fact, people from the north will not suddenly die suddenly when they go south to open up wasteland on a large scale.

Once the farmland in the south is reclaimed, the grain produced will far exceed that in the north. If completed, the population of the Han Dynasty will grow explosively in the future.

When Huo Hai arrived, Liu Che asked the real question: "You and Qing Ke have been investigating the Nanyue Kingdom for many years. How is the grain production there?"

Huo Hai: "The Kingdom of Nanyue is now growing a plant that is very similar to our rice. We currently believe that it is also rice, but of a different variety."

Liu Che: "The yield per mu is many times higher than that of the year before last."

Huo Hai: “Eight times.”

Liu Che stood up and said, "With their scientific level, where they just sow seeds in the fields and wait for the harvest, their yield per mu is eight times what we had the year before last? If we hadn't introduced a large number of new farming technologies and manure and other things in the past two years, we wouldn't even be able to catch up with them?"

"The land in the south is so fertile? How many people can it feed?"

Huo Hai: "In fact, to understand how many people a place can support, we should first understand the ecological environment and the local biosphere, and then we can understand how many people it can support."

"For example, there are 50,000 ice-field people on the ice field. The locals live by the sea, and actually eat animals and fish from the ocean. Not to mention humans, even polar bears, Arctic foxes, and Arctic wolves mostly eat things from the water."

"Your Majesty, if we can eat wild rabbits, they are considered standard carnivorous beasts. In an area as large as the Arctic, there should be more than 10,000 carnivorous beasts in total. Add in 50,000 icelanders, and this area can actually support 60,000 carnivorous beasts."

Liu Che thought about it and agreed with this statement.

If there were no ice people in this area, these areas would definitely be occupied by animals, which would be able to support an additional 50,000 animals.

Huo Hai continued: "The area of ​​Sushen, Xianbei and Lingding is about the same size as the North Pole. It can support about 500,000 carnivorous beasts and 1.5 million humans. So it can support 2 million humans."

"When the population on the grassland was at its peak, there were about two million Xiongnu. Together with the carnivorous beasts such as wolves and dogs, the total population was about four million."

"We have a total of about 50 million people, both registered and unregistered, but there are far fewer wild animals. However, if we include large carnivorous animals such as domesticated pigs and dogs, the actual number should be around 70 million."

Liu Che agreed: "That is to say, the ecological environment here can actually support a thousand times more top carnivorous animals than those in the Arctic Circle."

It's not just a question of population carrying capacity, but the limit that the biosphere can withstand for top carnivores.

Huo Hai shook his head: "I can't support him."

"Your Majesty, we do eat meat, but how many ordinary people in the Han Dynasty, especially those outside Chang'an, eat meat? If it were three years ago, 95% of the people in the Han Dynasty would never eat meat in their entire lives."

"We humans are outside the biosphere, but we are strongly bound to the local biosphere. We eat everything. Tigers only eat large herbivores, wolves only eat medium-sized herbivores, foxes and cats eat small animals and small birds. Golden eagles eat large animals, and eagles eat small and medium-sized animals. Herbivores eat grass."

"As for humans, we eat grass. We don't just eat grass, we actively grow grass to eat."

“We eat fruits like monkeys and we also grow fruits to eat.”

"We eat small animals and birds like foxes and cats, we also raise rabbits and chickens to eat, we also eat large herbivores, we also raise cattle, sheep, pigs and dogs to eat!"

"So because of our subjective actions, we have fed a lot more people. If the area where the real big man is located is full of wild beasts and no people, it should be able to feed between 15 million and 20 million wild carnivores."

Liu Che thought for a moment and nodded, "Also, they are almost all small carnivores, foxes and cats. Those that are larger than dogs will not exceed two million. As for tigers, there are only about 20,000 or 30,000 of them."

Huo Hai shook his head: "There are tens of thousands of tigers in the south alone."

Liu Che: "So, what do you want to say by giving this example?"

Huo Hai: "I want to say that there is an animal in Nanyue, a lizard, which is what we call a four-legged snake here."

Liu Che disagreed.

A lizard? Something as big as a mouse.

Huo Hai: "One of them is very huge, one to two meters long. At first glance, I thought it was a crocodile, but it is a pig dragon."

"It weighs 40 to 60 kilograms, which is the upper limit of a medium-sized dog, about the size of a large dog."

Liu Che: "What's wrong?"

Huo Hai: "This animal has a similar ecological niche to dogs and wolves. It is not a big threat to humans, but it poses a threat to other small animals similar to that of wolves... In Nanyue and further south, there are conservatively estimated to be 300 million of them."

Liu Che stood up suddenly.

WTF?

If there were no human involvement, it would be a great achievement for the Han Dynasty to have a total of two million wolves, dogs and other animals in the core areas of Shu County, Guanlong Central Plains and the plains where Wancheng is located. This ecosystem can only support so many creatures.

But, there are 300 million monitor lizards in the south? ! ! !

Not to mention the big men, Huo Hai knew that in the previous life and in modern times, there were 50 to 80 million round-nosed monitor lizards in Southeast Asia.

That was after humans slaughtered them crazily, sold them in the market, skinned them to make leather shoes, and used them for various purposes, but there were still more than 50 million of them.

You can imagine how many people this ecological environment can support!
However, in addition to grain and food, feeding people also requires space, and Southeast Asia does not have much of that, far less than the Han Dynasty.

However, the big man doesn’t need them to have space!

Liu Che: "Try to persuade the people of Nanyue to surrender, otherwise let's start fighting!"

Others are focusing on the Arctic Circle in the north.

However, after seeing the situation in the Arctic Circle, Liu Che felt that it was imperative to go south to the Kingdom of Nanyue.

Liu Che: "The entire south, especially the Yangtze River... Now the south of the Yangtze River is all mountainous, and it is difficult to grow crops. If we want to open up the land, I am afraid it will take several generations of continuous investment. Moreover, these fields cannot be directly planted. We need to burn wood ash to improve the soil."

"But now Nanyue has better land to the south. If that's the case, as long as we take over Nanyue and the areas further south, the population of the Han Dynasty will rise to more than 200 million in less than 30 years!"

Huo Hai shook his head: "Not so fast. Now that we have food, we need to let more children go to school. The longer children study, the later they get married. After the population starts to expand, the growth rate will slowly slow down."

Liu Che: "So, you also think we should take over the south as a grain production base?"

Of course Huo Hai thought so, and he made everything clear a few days ago.

In Huo Hai's plan, outside the Central Kingdom, every piece of land will produce only one thing, only raw materials and crops.

The Central Kingdom produces industrialized high-tech products, grows large quantities of crops, and cultivates the most advanced new agricultural, cash crops, and fruits.

The reason for doing this is to artificially prevent any region from having the power to rebel.

Of course, if the Central Kingdom’s technology has developed to a very high level, it will naturally be able to release a little bit of things.

But this process is long.

Other places are easy to deal with, but the Kingdom of Nanyue must be taken first.

Including the islands in the south.

It won’t be too difficult to develop these places.

Here, Liu Che's navigation team had an additional task, which was to draw a nautical chart of the southern coast.

We must find out exactly where the South is.

Which of these places are important navigation points, which are important land points, and which are the richest places must all be occupied by the Han Dynasty.

Then in other areas, the Han people were allowed to command the local natives to open up wasteland, increase production scale, and eventually turn them into granaries.

In fact, the reason why Huo Hai wanted to take over Southeast Asia was not just because of the food problem.

In fact, the grain produced by the Han Dynasty is enough to feed 130 million people, at least they can all have enough to eat.

But the thing is, eating enough and eating well are two different things.

At the same time, Huohai also needs a place to produce cash crops.

Obviously, Southeast Asia is that place.

Liu Che thought for a moment and asked, "Is there any extra profit in this matter?"

Huo Hai stared.

A place that feeds 200 million people and makes them eat till their mouths are full of fat, a place that produces all the cash crops needed by 200 million people.

Is it not enough to get the job done? Do you want to make extra money?

I'm going to earn it myself!
Huo Hai could only admit: "Yes." Liu Che had a vague feeling that it was true.

It was like this every time before. Every time I achieved a goal openly, I could make money again secretly. I could make money once abroad and once again in China!
Huo Hai: "Your Majesty, we are about to start the establishment of the Anluo Railway Company and raise funds to build the railway from Chang'an to Luoyang. What do you think of Wancheng, which is very close to Luoyang?"

This section of the road is very close.

However, there is a problem.

This place is accessible by land. People who invest in railways can make a fortune just by considering the route from Chang'an to Luoyang. Who cares about Wancheng?
It's your fault that Wancheng is so unlucky and is stuck in the valley.

If you say you are a battleground during a war, you are just a side issue when it comes to developing the northern economy.

But after Huo Hai brought it up, Liu Che suddenly realized.

"If goods from the south are transported here by rail, it will take many years to be built, and the volume is not large, so they have to be transported by water, or more precisely, by sea."

"If we transport it all the way to Qiancheng and then go up the Jishui River, it would actually be a detour."

"If the seagoing ship goes directly from Kuaiji to the Yangtze River, all the way to Jiangxia County, and then goes from the Han River to the dock and sends it to Wancheng, the Wancheng Railway goes directly to Luoyang, which can save several months of transportation time, and transportation will be cheaper!"

Jiangxia County is the confluence of the Han River and the Yangtze River. It was a county established by Emperor Liu Che two years ago. There is almost no room for development in this place.

Of course, now.

If ships keep coming here in the future, and ships over 500 tons can only stop in Jiangxia County, then there is actually a lot of room for development here.

However, at present, the population along the Yangtze River is too small, and the Yangtze River is entirely mountainous, and the alluvial plains in the middle and lower reaches have not yet been truly formed, so the population will not really increase in the next few hundred years, at least not as exaggerated as in the previous life.

Therefore, the real thoroughfare of nine provinces is not Jiangxia County (Wuhan) but Wancheng, which is the familiar Nanyang.

Nanyang will become a place where every inch of land is worth a lot of money. After conquering the south, we need to build a railway here, and buying land will be very expensive.

It will be troublesome to rebuild it at that time.

Therefore, now that we have begun to develop the south, we must first go to Wancheng to buy land.

Only one percent or even one thousandth of the money can create the future food transportation artery.

The most important thing is that this artery is in the hands of the Han court.

Or, if Liu Che did not want to give so much power to the court, then this artery could always be kept in the hands of the emperor.

After the discussion, Liu Che was satisfied and prepared to go back.

According to the rules, Liu Che provides the money and the land belongs to Huo Hai and Liu Che. When the railway is built in the future, Huo Hai will provide the technology and Liu Che will arrange the personnel, and the profits will be split 30% and 70%.

Don't underestimate this path. This path can ensure that Huo Haisheng's fifth son will live a life as the richest man in the country in the future.

Before Liu Che left, he told Huo Hai to continue pushing forward important matters.

The important matter, of course, is the selection of officials for next year.

Liu Che has been urging this matter since the summer.

But Huo Hai didn't push it at all.

Now Liu Che added one more thing: "If you can't find anyone, go find Weng."

Weng?

Huo Hai remembered that he was the founder of Chengdu Wenweng Stone Chamber, the long-term administrator of Shu County, the top official on the list of the best officials of the Han Dynasty, an educational pioneer, and the second most famous educator after Confucius.

Huo Hai had heard about Wen Weng. After all, it was impossible not to know such a senior official.

When the Imperial College was first established in the Han Dynasty, a total of fifty students were admitted, sixteen of whom were from Chengdu.

It’s not that sixteen people from Chengdu passed the exam.

Wen Weng only sent sixteen people to Chang'an.

Since then, how many people have been replaced in the Imperial College? The number of people in the Stone Chamber remains the same.

Until the year before last, when the Imperial College began to expand its enrollment and the selection of filial and honest officials was stopped, scholars from all over the country went to Chang'an. At that time, more than 3,000 scholars came, including more than 700 from Chengdu.

After that, more and more scholars came to Chang'an, and now there were 70,000 foreign scholars.

Logically speaking, it would be easier to come from the northern Central Plains and Wancheng and Luoyang areas. There should be more students coming from there, right?

Actually not.

In fact, because Chengdu was the first to get on the bandwagon of the new commercial reform, many people became rich directly. They didn’t understand where this trend came from, and many people wanted to come to Changan.

So, 20,000 scholars came from Chengdu!

Currently, 20,000 of the 70,000 foreign scholars have arrived in Chang'an.

Moreover, many of these 20,000 people are not here to become officials, but to witness the new business reforms.

So among these 70,000 people, a total of 40,000 studied in the new university, half of whom were from Chengdu.

Among the 40,000 people, 8,000 have graduated, of which 4,000 are from Chengdu.

Among these graduates, there were dozens of people like Erkuan who passed the first college entrance examination, and half of them were from Chengdu.

Of course, these do not include the local areas in Chang'an.

Simply put, apart from the local people in Chang'an, most of the scholars came from Chengdu.

Scholars have loud voices, while foreign monks are good at chanting.

When the two factors were combined, plus the buff of Wen Weng being a semi-retired provincial governor, Wen Weng became a top figure in the education sector.

The reason why Wen Weng is so famous now is that he was old and originally thought that he would never be able to leave Sichuan once he entered it. However, he still went through great pains to come to Chang'an, not for enjoyment but for studying new knowledge.

Based on the situation in Chengdu, Wen Weng also developed a lot of localized things and policies and sent them back to Chengdu.

Any changes or developments in Chang'an would be sent back to Chengdu by Wen Weng.

In fact, Wen Weng has been in Chang'an for nearly a year. During this year, he has been very active, while the other disciples and officials he brought with him have been moving around in Chang'an, forming a considerable force.

Although politically speaking, Chang'an could knock down eight people with higher official positions than his disciples with one brick.

But these people were also guests of honor among the nobles.

After all, Chengdu is a very important part of the new commercial reform, and they represent the power of the Shu County faction in the new academic reform.

After Liu Che reminded Huo Hai of Wen Weng, he suddenly understood.

This matter really needs to be handled by Weng!

Even if other people get angry, what can we do?
Even if the officials and nobles wanted to turn against the new examination and the new official selection system, how would they do it?
Kill that old man Wen Weng?

Wen Weng was very famous both for his virtue and for his scholarship. He was also a retired provincial governor.

What does it mean to punish him? What do other provincial governors think?
You are high-ranking officials in Chang'an, so we should punish you?
It definitely can’t be fixed.

Zheng Wenweng's son?

Are you kidding me? Wen Weng came to Shu at the age of 20 and has been doing business in Shu for half a century. His family is in Shu County and his word is final.

Are you going to Shu County to punish him? Or are you going to Shu County to be punished?
This is because Wen Weng is a good and loyal man. If it were someone else, the court would have rotated the person in this position eight or ten times. How could it be possible to allow one person to run the company for half a century?
But just because it has been in business for a long time, even if they don't deliberately cultivate their own people, there are still their own people all over the streets.

After Wen Weng's Stone Chamber was built, those who had completed their studies and had ambitions were sent to Chang'an to become students of the Imperial College.

Those who were less capable were left to fill vacancies in various places in Shu County.

Now that so many years have passed, which official in Shu County is not a student of Weng?

But now, Wen Weng did not let his son really pursue an official career. Instead, he abdicated smoothly and let Zhang Qian take over.

Historically, Zhang Qian served as the leader of Shu County for only two years and did not even get the official title of county magistrate. But in this life, Zhang Qian has worked here for four years, almost five years, and has successfully taken over from Wen Weng and become the county magistrate of Shu County.

But if an outsider wanted to harm Wen Weng's family, would Zhang Qian still be able to convince the public if he did not help? Not to mention Zhang Qian, anyone who did not protect Wen Weng's family would not be able to convince the public.

So, no matter what was done, no one could do anything to Wen Weng.

They succeeded in sculpting the golden body!

Huo Hai slapped his forehead.

It’s true, for this matter, we have to find Weng!

Huo Hai asked someone about it and then he found it interesting.

Otherwise, he would be number one on the list of good officials of the Han Dynasty.

So many outsiders came to Chang'an to buy houses. Wen Weng's grandson came and raised enough money by borrowing money and advertising for a school to buy a small luxury house.

This mansion is not big enough for Wen Weng and his family to live in.

Later they came to Chang'an, and it was Liu Che who gave a house to Wen Weng.

The reason, of course, was to reward Wen Weng for his long-term contributions to Shu County.

If it were not for Wen Weng's Stone Chamber, there would be hundreds less officials in the Han Dynasty court and counties.

Moreover, if Wen Weng had not governed Chengdu well, how could Zhang Qian have gone there and ordered his men to directly develop the Tianzhu Company?

You must know that Liu Che and Huo Hai concentrated their efforts on sorting out the Chang'an Tongguan Shenmu Yunzhong Wuyuan line, which led to the northward development of the Xiongnu Company.

As for Chengdu? Liu Che didn't need to mobilize a single soldier.

The foundation of Chengdu can be seen from this.

This naturally needs to be rewarded.

As for rewards, give people what they need.

Just give me a house as a reward.

Liu Che awarded the former Gongsun Mansion to Wen Weng.

The Gongsun Mansion in the past refers to Gongsun Hong.

Gongsun Hong was the previous prime minister! He died two years ago, and his family bought a mansion in Xincheng. Their mansion was bought by Liu Che.

Liu Che didn't know where to invest his money, so he bought a lot of courtyards.

Even now, many ministers who are short of money for their business will take the initiative to ask Liu Che if he wants to buy their old houses.

Liu Che never refused anyone who came to him.

It’s just a few dollars, just buy it.

In the entire Ling County area, many of the top wealthy people moved to the new city, and the areas of Ling County close to Chang'an were almost successfully acquired by Liu Che.

So it’s easy to give a house to Weng.

But Wen Weng flatly refused and shamelessly asked Liu Che for a house in the new city.

Liu Che was stunned: Hey, you old man! I rewarded you with a house, but you are still picky. You even want a luxury house in Xincheng. The luxury houses in Xincheng are much more expensive than those in Lingxian!
However, after Wen Weng explained the reason, Liu Che agreed.

Wen Weng said that he was old and came to Chang'an this time to study the new learning and spread the new learning back to Chengdu. If he lived in Ling County, he would run back and forth between Chang'an County and Xincheng all day long and would be exhausted before he could sort out the results.

That would be a waste of time.

It would be better to live in the house bought by your grandson.

But how dare I live in the house that Your Majesty has rewarded me with?

If you don't stop, isn't that giving face? If you don't want to be shameless after being given face, isn't that courting death?

Therefore, Your Majesty, either don’t give it, or give it to a good position that is convenient for studying.

After listening to Wen Weng's opinion, Liu Che agreed with what he said, so he gave Wen Weng a house in the new city, which was next to the canal and close to the Prince of Lu's palace.

Because there is a bridge next to it, you can reach Chang'an County by crossing the bridge, and the new city is to the north.

You can visit any school at any time.

Moreover, it is not far from the research institute, so you can go there anytime when necessary.

The technical college is not far away either.

It is not far from various universities.

After Wen Weng got the house, he really started to study new knowledge, and often organized students from Chengdu to ask them to learn with an open mind, learn new knowledge, learn simplified Chinese characters, and learn engineering science.

Liu Che has seen all of this over the past year.

In the past, three generations of the Liu family trusted Weng, and they trusted him in the battle reports.

Now Liu Che felt that Wen Weng could be brought into the core team to do the work.

After receiving instructions from Liu Che, Huo Hai also went to Wen Mansion.

The person who opened the door was not a servant, but a student who came to Chang'an to study but had no place to live.

They live here and help Wen Weng with his work.

After opening the door, the student did not look like a local of Chang'an and did not know Huo Hai.

"Who are you? Who are you looking for?"

Huo Hai: "My name is Huo Hai, looking for Master Wen Weng."

The student was shocked: "Marquis Huo Wu?!"

Huo Hai nodded.

The student hurriedly said excitedly, "Classmates! Marquis Huo Wu is here, open the main gate quickly!"

The student stepped forward excitedly: "Master Huo, the old master has been talking about you every day and wanted to talk to you, but you were too busy, so the old master never visited. I didn't expect you to come in person!"

Huo Hai smiled calmly, "Really? I've wanted to visit Mr. Wen Weng for a long time, but I've been busy with so many things lately, so I've been delayed."

Enter through the main entrance.

Huo Hai saw an old man saying to the person next to him: "If you have a cough, take some croton seeds. Don't delay me from seeing the guests."

Huo Hai was puzzled: "Croton? Croton can cure cough?"

Old man: "Yeah, I don't dare to cough, because if I cough I'll have diarrhea."

Turning back, Wen Weng saw Huo Hai looking back: "Oh, I finally see you."

Huo Hai burst into laughter.

Wen Weng is quite humorous.

Croton cures cough? Croton already exists in this era?

By the way, croton is the bean produced in the Bashu area. I wonder if anyone here knows about it?

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Asking for a monthly ticket!
(End of this chapter)