Jing Xingzhi’s Daily Life in Ancient Times

Liu Fang put down the sleeping little Ah Deng, turned around, and whispered to Jing Xingzhi, “I didn’t expect anyone to attend. I felt that the latitude here didn’t meet the conditions.”

Jing Xingzhi smiled, “The world has changed, and you still think of other people’s latitude. Isn’t that too strict?!”

“Okay.” His body was a magical product of another world. Liu Fang still believed in science, but he knew that science had developed differently in different worlds.

As for the magic of Jing Xingzhi? Liu Fang said that this was also very scientific, and no refutation was allowed.

“But what should we do next?” Liu Fang looked at Jing Xingzhi seriously and asked him what his plan had been.

Zhenmaguan City wasn’t far from Anbei and Dingbei, and it was only when they arrived there that they learned about the existence of the business for the first time.

When talking about this matter, Hao Youcai deliberately avoided his two friends, thinking that this matter was secret information to other people in Zhenmaguan City.

Why did he find Jing Xingzhi? This was the first time Liu Fang had heard of it, and he was afraid that no one in the court knew about it.

Jing Xingzhi said, “I think maybe the people attacking the city didn’t know about the presence of the ginseng, so they didn’t report it. In this case, Minister Wen, Minister Hong, and Minister Wang probably didn’t know either.”

Speaking of this, Jing Xingzhi raised his head, his eyes shining, “Since the court doesn’t know about it now, we must occupy the territory in advance and make use of it!”

“Of course.” Liu Fang agreed.

Since the court didn’t know about this profitable business, this resource wouldn’t be requisitioned for the time being.

With Li Yunxi’s character, he was really capable of directly requisitioning them and letting their northern marching army do the work of digging ginseng.

At that time, the good wealth resources would be expropriated, and the good material foundation would be gone. How could they develop basic education?

Liu Fang’s expression became excited when he thought that he could also participate in important events. He said enthusiastically, “Minister Wen is a member of the Emperor Party. Minister Hong is relatively simple-minded and only cares about education. I haven’t seen much of Minister Wang. Maybe he’s a bit old-fashioned?”

Jing Xingzhi touched his chin, looked at Liu Fang, and muttered, “I’ve met Wang Zikai a few times. This Mr. Wang must be a capable minister. He’s proficient in criminal law and is famous for solving cases. He was called Wang Qingtian at first.”

“Then I think it’s feasible. Let’s talk to him alone first.” Liu Fang curled his lips and smiled.

The two didn’t talk about it, but they had the same idea about the resource material:

——Those who played around didn’t want it, they could secretly make a fortune!

Of course, getting rich didn’t mean getting money from their pockets, but getting rich in Anbei and Dingbei.

Jing Xingzhi was thinking more. Since a little broth had satisfied the accompanying officials that Old Hong had brought with him, and he took them to eat meat, he could surely collect the dried fish, right?

The big dried fish looked delicious, and Jing Xingzhi had wanted it a little bit.

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So, in the middle of the night, Jing Xingzhi went out again carrying his teapot.

The servant informed that Young Master Jing wanted to see him.

Wang Zikai was confused. What could Jing Zhuangyuan, who had been a fifth-grade official since he had taken office, want from him?

His personality wasn’t like Hong Jiyi or Wen Changchao. He had a tough temper that no one cared about. It was the same on the road. He hadn’t seen his future subordinate, Jing Zhuangyuan, getting too close to him.

Wang Zikai was a little puzzled, but he still let people in.

After all, the two of them would have the closest partnership in the future. Maybe this colleague needed a help from him.

Moreover, Wang Zikai had also benefited from the promotion of officials accompanying him, and he had a good impression of Jing Xingzhi, a junior who “sacrificed himself for others.”

A thousand people would have a thousand ideas, but these thousand ideas wouldn’t be completely different. Some ideas were definitely close to each other.

Wang Zikai had a very similar view to Li Yunxi regarding the “number one scholar.”

Wang Zikai saw that Jing Zhuangyuan had been very smart and kind-hearted.

But besides that, Wang Zikai also saw that… this Young Master Jing might not have cared about face or details, and he was a rare person who suited his taste.

Because it satisfied his taste, Wang Zikai had previously thought about whether this subordinate would approach him in advance.

But it turned out that he had thought too much.

Seeing Old Hong and Old Wen playing chess together, the lonely Old Wang had actually felt a little bit sad.

When Jing Xingzhi entered, Wang Zikai asked him to sit down.

Jing Xingzhi sat down with a smile, glanced at the table, took out two teacups from the tea tray, and poured two cups of tea for himself and Wang Zikai.

“I’m sorry.” Wang Zikai glanced at the tea and asked directly, “Why did Young Master Jing look for me?”

“The student went out for dinner with his friend. In the evening, I learned a very important piece of news from this friend,” Jing Xingzhi said seriously.

“What’s the news?” Wang Zikai’s curiosity was aroused, and he straightened up.

Jing Xingzhi looked around.

When Wang Zikai saw it, he waved his hand neatly, “Go down and don’t let anyone get close here.”

The scene was cleared, and even eavesdropping was prevented.

With just one move from Jing Xingzhi, Wang Zikai had acted so decisively, which made people feel very comfortable.

Jing Xingzhi asked, “How does Mr. Wang think Dingbei should be transformed?”

The two had gone to Dingbei, saying they were going to govern and educate, but in fact, they were doing the hard work of transformation.

One was to transform the system and the market so that the border residents would recognize Li Dynasty in their lives; the other was to transform the local people’s ideas and make them ideologically submit.

Although the purposes were different, the two were complementary to each other.

When Wang Zikai heard this question, he thought for a while.

After pondering for a while, Wang Zikai replied, “First resolve the conflicts between the people on both sides. If we soften on our side, the foreigners on the other side will sow their hearts and minds, win over those who can be won over, and attack those who cannot be won over.”

Jing Xingzhi: ?!

‘Can an official be so bad?! But this method was easy to use, and his mind was open enough!’

Jing Xingzhi couldn’t help but show admiration, “What a great idea!”

Seeing him like this, Wang Zikai couldn’t help but raise the corners of his lips, knowing that this little guy didn’t care about details, and he was to his liking.

Wang Zikai took a sip of tea and said, “Now can you tell me what the big news is?”

At this moment, Wang Zikai felt a little like teasing the junior.

He had never seen any scene before. Only really “big” news could be considered important. Ordinary things wouldn’t make his expression change even a little.

Jing Xingzhi looked at the other party and said, “My good friend’s family owns a chamber of commerce, and he does ginseng business with Dingbei.”

Wang Zikai had been drinking tea calmly at first, but when he heard the word “ginseng” clearly, he spat out a mouthful of tea!

“Cough cough cough!” Wang Zikai coughed violently, and his face turned red.

But he didn’t care about himself first. He grabbed Jing Xingzhi’s arm and asked, “Really? There is a ginseng? Can we trust what he said?”

“There’s no need to lie to me.” It meant it was true.

“Not many people seem to know about the business there. He thought that I, a fellow Jinshi, would know about it, so I said that I would ask Your Excellency first. I also promised him that I would help if I could,” Jing Xingzhi said again.

Wang Zikai nodded and started to sort out the information by himself.

Participating in the ginseng business represented too much information. A mountain of ginseng was like a mountain of white flowers, and it would still give birth to cubs by itself.

Moreover, few people knew about this matter, which made it a bit complicated. How many people knew how to do this?

Wang Zikai slowly regained his breath and said, “When we go to Dingbei and open the city, he might turn around. We don’t know about this.”

Because if they had known, it meant that Li Yunxi knew. But if Li Yunxi knew about ginseng business, he wouldn’t send such a team of people to govern and educate pitifully.

If Li Yunxi had known about it, he would definitely have asked the army to dig up ginseng. It would have been okay if it had been hollowed out, because it was difficult to defend the border!

But if it was them who dug it all back, they would have been his. This was the most reassuring thing.

The royal family hadn’t known about it at that moment, so they must have failed to contact anyone who was doing business.