Chapter 318 Meeting Good Friends on the Road
Li Zhaoying was stunned. Although after graduation, he built the Sanger Lake for the people of Luntai to benefit the people, he did not think that the word greatness could be added to himself. After all, he was born in the royal family.
Compared with the great achievements of his grandfather, father and uncle, what he did was just a small thing. Just judging from the difficulty of the Sanger Lake project, it cannot be called great.
Li Zhaoying remembered one of his seniors who presided over a water conservancy project in Hami. He lacked funds and the local people were in a complicated manner. He always had to go barefoot and was threatened by some people at all times. He overcame countless difficulties before completing the project. Its scale was not even half of the size of Sanger Lake. The young man who was full of energy when he left the campus, his hair was half white when he saw him again.
Li Zhaoying felt that his senior could be described as great. As for himself, the funds for the Sanger Lake project could be solved in just one sentence. Because of the project, the herdsmen wanted to change the grazing location and cause trouble. A telegram was sent to Shenjing, and the Luntai Appeasement General's Office immediately sent 300 cavalry to maintain order.
When the manpower was insufficient, even the Luntai appeasement general even dispatched the army. In order to pump water and build a dam, the counselor's office even directly transferred the coal for winter.
Although there is no background in the local area, Li Zhaoying knew that because of his own relationship, the Lifanyuan would ask about the status of the Sanger Lake project every half month, making this project a first-class event for the local government and directly promoting its smooth completion.
Compared with the two, Li Zhaoying does not think he is great.
After hearing Li Zhaoyan's explanation, Li Zhaoyu shook his head: "No, in my opinion, Brother Wang is a great person. Throughout the dynasties, the children of the royal family were directly related to the image of the royal family. The former Ming Dynasty regarded the royal family as a pig, but this dynasty did not. My grandfather encouraged us to contribute to the country, and my uncle was willing to give us this opportunity.
But in fact, from my father to us, two generations of royal children, all outstanding in politics. For example, King Rong and several princes, all of them were just waiting for death.
Brother Wang is only one, so I don’t think so yet, but our Prince Yu’s mansion has eight brothers.
Brother Wang did what he liked and made achievements, and did it with a selfless heart. He can be called a model for the imperial royal family and even the noble class. It can be said that the nobles of the imperial court should learn from Brother Wang."
Li Zhaoying smiled. He just thought he had not lost his father and grandfather, and did not think he was so great.
Bai Ge asked, "Zhaoyu, does what you said have anything to do with what we beg you?"
Li Zhaoyu nodded: "Of course it's relevant. In my opinion, it's normal for you to bring the concubine around to honor her. I don't think my uncle will stop her, but based on my understanding of the emperor, if you make this request, he will definitely trade with you."
"Trade?" Li Zhaoying said to himself. When he insisted on coming to work in Xijiang, he agreed to the emperor that he would never reveal his identity as a royal child and would never participate in local ethnic and religious activities. By the same token, the emperor would definitely ask himself to do something before he would agree to take his mother by his side to support him.
"Yes, transaction. And Brother Wang's greatest value is your image, your identity, what you do, the harsh environment you are in, God can testify, it is really of great significance to political propaganda. The emperor must want to establish you as a typical example of imperial nobles, but obviously, Brother Wang seems to be willing to be ordinary, so this requires transaction.
Then the problem is with you. Do you want to live an ordinary and fulfilling life now, or do your own filial piety?" Li Zhaoyu asked.
Li Zhaoying understood that perhaps what Li Zhaoyu said was all speculations out of thin air, but he could also treat this as a suggestion and exchange it with the emperor. However, when he thought of himself becoming a tool of political propaganda, he felt helpless, which meant that his original life would be disrupted and everything would have to start over. In the future, he would not only face royal rules and regulations but also media harassment.
"Let me think about it." Li Zhaoying said.
Li Zhaoyu smiled: "What do you think? In the words of the father, children will choose, and adults will say I want both! The biggest beauty is to have both fish and bear's paws, isn't it?"
"Are all the people in your Prince Yu's Mansion so greedy?" Bai Ge couldn't help complaining.
Li Zhaoyu said: "It is not enough to accomplish anything without greed."
"Okay, you said, how can you have both fish and bear's paw?"
"Simple. You are now a water conservancy engineer. After returning to the capital, you will cooperate with the emperor to carry out a round of publicity and perform. Then, you can be filial to the concubine. From then on, the whole world will know that His Highness of the Empire's King of Ying is a good prince who goes deep into the grassroots and is not afraid of hardships. And your former colleagues all know that you, Li Ying, is Li Zhaoyan, the King of Ying in the Empire.
After that, when you return to this place, everything changes. The friend who used to joke with you dare not approach you. The guy who once embarrassed you will live like a year and look for opportunities to leave. Your boss will be cautious in front of you, and your subordinates will be walking on thin ice......"
Bai Ge smiled and said, "Zhaoyu seems to have a lot of experience."
"Brother Zhao Cheng and I have experienced it." Li Zhaoyu said, and he continued: "Instead of being at a loss in the old system, it is better to change the place and leave, change your name and change the industry, such as entering the railway industry, and continue to study your sand control and wind prevention. There are strangers around him. Isn't this the best of both worlds?" Li Zhaoyu said.
Li Zhaoying was moved by this and thought it was indeed feasible. Li Zhaoyu smiled and said, "Give two suggestions to Brother Wang. First, do more work for the concubine. After all, the concubine is of noble origin and doesn't know how to live an ordinary life. She should not reveal her feelings. Second, she should grow a beard and shave it after changing careers. When the popularity has passed, people can't remember the King Ying who has a beard for her."
"I will consider it." Li Zhaoying nodded after listening to it.
Half a month later.
Li Zhaoyu rode on his horse and rushed on the Gobi Desert. He ate the dried fruits and dried fruits he bought from Turpan. He felt that his mouth was getting greasy, so he took a sip of cold water, moistening his throat, and shook his head helplessly.
"Brother, hurry up and arrive at Tianshuijing Village, and we can drink hot tea." The man on the camel side seemed to see his embarrassment and said with a smile.
Starting from Luntai, Li Zhaoyu and his party joined a team of carriages. This is a team of trading companies, walking specifically between Luntai, Turpan and Hami. The reason why they partnered with this caravan was to avoid getting lost, and to facilitate food and accommodation. After all, they are familiar with each other.
After passing Turpan, it was just for convenience of food and accommodation, because the road from Turpan to Hami would not be lost, so just follow a railway. This railway was built more than ten years ago, but it only lasted for eight years. It was just because the road was buried in the wind and sand, and the maintenance cost was too high, so it could not be operated, so it was abandoned, but the roadbed and roadside facilities were still there.
"There seems to be someone in front of you." A caravan manager pointed at the front and said.
Li Zhaoyu covered his forehead with his hands and looked in the direction of his fingers. He found that a person was lying on the roadbed, fifty or sixty meters away, waving his hands weakly, shouting something.
"Be careful, I'm afraid it's the whistle that the bandits set off." The man reminded.
Li Zhaoyu asked: "Are there any horse bandits now?"
"It is rare for horse bandits to be seen, but if a little caravan with a bad intention on this big Gobi Desert, it will be very evil." The man replied.
Li Zhaoyu looked at it with a telescope and said, "I don't look like a bandit. That guy is wearing glasses. Does any bandit wear glasses?"
As he said that, Li Zhaoyu called the servants to see him. Li Yongzhong personally took the people over and took a look, rode around the horse, and returned and said, "It's just a lost unlucky guy."
Li Zhaoyu rode over and saw that the man had dusty face and his lips were dry and his skin was already bursting. At this time, he drank all the water in the kettle, and Li Yongzhong asked, "How long have you been eating?"
"Three days, no, there will be four days."
Li Yongzhong nodded, found a bowl, crushed some of the snacks he carried with him, then poured them into water, formed a bowl of batter, and handed them to the man and said, "You drank this first. You haven't eaten for too long. Suddenly, eating too much and too hard is bad for your stomach."
The man ate all of them, and then he was loaded on a carriage full of cotton cloth, covered with linen, followed him all the way to the cart shop in Tianshuijing Village, rested for a while, and ate, and then the man explained his experience.
He also came from Luntai and followed the railway. Unexpectedly, he took the wrong road. When the railway ended, there was still no village and he walked back again.
"You are walking towards Balikun. The fork in the middle is towards Balikun, so the roadbed is built, and there is no railway. Before the completion was completed, the road was abandoned." The caravan manager told the link.
"Thank you brothers for your help. My name is Chen Qiansheng..." The young man expressed his gratitude to everyone.
"Chen Qiansheng, you are Mr. Qingtong." Li Zhaoyu didn't take it seriously at first, but suddenly heard the name and asked immediately.
Chen Qiansheng nodded slightly when he heard this, looked at Li Zhaoyu, and felt that he didn't know him, and said, "You know me."
"I have read your book." Li Zhaoyu immediately went back to his house to look for it. He soon rushed back with the book "Rural Economic Survey of Hezhong Appeasement Zone" and said, "This is what you wrote, right?"
Chen Qiansheng read the book, nodded slightly, and said, "This is indeed my clumsy work, but... this brother, it is not recommended to read pirated versions."
"I'm sorry..." Li Zhaoyu immediately felt extremely embarrassed.
He brought a lot of books from Xijin, all of which were borrowed from several universities in Xijin. After borrowing them, he arranged for people to buy them at Xijin's bookstore according to the book list. If he bought them, he would return the borrowed books. If he couldn't buy them, he could only take away the borrowed books and send them back after reading them. This book by Chen Qiansheng belongs to the former, but he did not expect that the servant bought from Xijin was actually a pirated book.
"Well, you saved me... and, not many people are willing to read books like this." Chen Qiansheng said helplessly.
With Chen Gansheng, Li Zhaoyu had a talking companion along the way, and the road to Hami was not that lonely. The biggest topic between the two was still the Hezhong Appeasement Zone. However, Chen Gansheng took one step ahead of Li Zhaoyu, and knew in the newspaper that the Hezhong Appeasement Zone was going to negotiate with foreigners about cotton farms.
But it is obvious that the two of them can't talk together.
After reading Chen Gansheng's books and related books, Li Zhaoyu had a relatively in-depth understanding of the current rural economic situation in the Hezhong Appeasement Zone. Combined with the situation seen on-site inspections in the Hezhong Appeasement Zone, he concluded that the Hezhong Appeasement Zone requires more capital investment to achieve rapid development.
But obviously this was not Chen Gansheng's original intention. Chen Gansheng went to Hezhong Appeasement Zone three years ago to investigate to expose the oppression and exploitation of the farmers in Hezhong Appeasement Zone, the oppression of the bureaucratic class, the oppression of the old aristocrats and the oppression of the big capitalist farmers.
One person focuses on economic development, and the other person is based on class struggle. That is when you talk to him about the city gate and he talks to you about the head of the kang, how can the two of them get together?
But quarrels themselves are a special way of chatting. One of them rides a horse and the other rides a car. They carry kettles and eat melon seeds. They walk along the way and quarrel, and no one can convince anyone.
People in the trading company have never seen such Western scenery. They just feel curious. Many people follow them, but they just listen to it. Only the trading company's style, laughing all the way, and enjoying it.
"Old Xu, let's just listen to us. Do you like to listen or what's the point?" While resting, Li Zhaoyu asked Xu Dachuan for the trading company.
Xu Dachuan smiled and said, "You two have read books and are knowledgeable. The words you say are different from those of us, the rough ones. If I listen, I will just listen to it fresh. It's better to drink than eating peanuts."
Chen Gansheng asked: "Do you understand?"
Xu Dachuan immediately said, "I understand."
"Okay, then tell me what are we quarrel?"
Xu Dachuan said: "Brother Li Yu means to make more money in the pockets of us ordinary people. Brother Chen means not to let us stand up, straighten our backs, and not be bullied by rich people and powerful people. Right, that's what it means?"
Chen Gansheng and Li Zhaoyu looked at each other and nodded: "It's profound, what you said is really right? Then, who is the two of us right?"
"Everything is right, everything is right..." Xu Dachuan began to get mixed up with the scattered ones.
"You're not right."
Xu Dachuan said with a smile: "Isn't it all right? Everyone wants to make money, and no one wants to bend down. At the very least, it's best to stand and make money!"
"It's better to mix with the slightest." Li Zhaoyu waved his hand.
Xu Dachuan sighed and said, "Are you all like this? You want to become an immortal when you become a mortal, and you want to become an immortal when you sit on the ground and go to heaven. I am like you at your age, and you are hungry in Gansu. At that time, if you could reduce the rent by half a percentage, let alone bend over and kneel down for the landlord. But now that you have made money, you don't want to bend over.
Chapter completed!