Chen Yaozu, who was sitting on his knees at the bottom, didn't know what the superior Li Xizu wanted to ask him. He subconsciously straightened his body, realizing that this might be some kind of exam.

"Since you are a scholar, you are naturally smarter than us roughnecks who carry goods and move ships." Li Xi said that he was born as a small businessman and walked step by step to where he is today, so he had some respect for scholars.

"Don't dare, I'm just a firewood seller." Chen Yaozu also kept his attitude very low. He knew clearly that if he didn't pass the imperial examination, he would be nothing, and he didn't dare to get any chance of success.

"Hey, now that eldest brother Hong is in power, he chooses talented people regardless of their origins!" Li Xizhu proudly praised his eldest brother Hong Jinglai.

The reason why Hong Jinglai is still called the eldest brother is because everyone is waiting for Li Jinglai to confer Hong Jinglai as the Lord of Zhongfeng Mansion after he succeeds to the throne. This has been scheduled for a long time, but how can the ministers be knighted before the king? Well. So it has not been announced yet. In addition, Hong Shourong and Zhao Wanyong will also be named Fuyuan Lords.

"What the supervisor said is, what the supervisor said is..."

"I want to ask you, do you know how the country's tribute rice transportation is carried out?"

"From each county to the Highway Department, the Highway Department recruited officials to transport private ships to Jemulpo, Xiongjin and other places at Hanshui Port, and then transferred them to Beijing by ships from Beijing merchants." Chen Yaozu's answer was quite satisfactory. This is what everyone in the world knows. Things everyone knows.

"Well, have you seen those outside the city?" Li Xi knocked on the table beside him.

"I saw it, I saw it!" It will take a few days before people are sent to clean up all the 1,500 heads outside the south gate of Hanyang. They are still at the stage of warning hundreds of thousands of people in Hanyang.

"Now the merchants in Beijing have collapsed, but shipping on the Han River is the foundation of the country. How can we restore it?" Li Xi said with a sharp eye.

To put it bluntly, this is the Daoshen question, which is exactly the same as the national and provincial examinations that ask candidates how to solve the rural issues, how to find a balance between big government and small government, how to strengthen the team of party members and cadres, and eliminate corruption.

How can a young man in his twenties who has just stepped out of the society answer this question? Even a thirty-year-old bureaucrat may not be able to say with confidence that I will do it, let alone a candidate who has no experience in governing the country.

Then why does he still take the exam?

Do you want to hear what you have to say about improving the agricultural production guarantee mechanism, streamlining administration and delegating power to the local government, strengthening the administrative power of townships and towns, strengthening the ideological construction of the team, and improving internal discipline supervision?

What's the use of such false and empty words? Of course it's of no use at all! But if you can't even shout such slogans, how can you join a team that serves the people?

To put it bluntly, it is to see if you are a person, or if you have the idea and motivation to work in this field. Then we will absorb you and train you to become the best. If not, we can just do it as an errand.

Li Xizhu asked Chen Yaozu. He certainly didn't expect to hear from Chen Yaozu any countermeasures to solve the Han River shipping problem. He just wanted to change his mind and see if the young man in front of him had any different ideas. By the way, he also wanted to take a test. He doesn't really have real talent and knowledge, or he is just a nerd who only knows how to do it.

"When I came here, I had already heard that the Jemulpo Canal was going to be dug. Why did I want to resume shipping on the Han River?" Chen Yaozu obviously heard a lot of news along the way.

"It will take time to dig the canal, but Hanyang cannot be without supply for a day."

"But after the disintegration of the Beijing merchants, no one was willing to resume sailing, causing delays?"

"The Han River ship operation of the Beijing merchants was involved in the Great Rebellion and was beheaded. It is true that no one familiar with water transport took over the matter." Li Xizhu nodded.

"This must be because the Han River shipping incident involved national branches and no one dared to take charge." Chen Yaozu contacted the members of the Beijing merchant group who were killed outside the city and could understand the reason.

If anyone still wants to monopolize the country's water transportation and then invade the country's finances, then Hong Jinglai's sword will also cut on his neck. This is an inevitable result.

"..." Li Xi did not answer, indicating that this was indeed the case.

"I heard that Grand Supervisor Hong was planning to recruit 10,000 Hanyang old troops to dig the Jemulpo Canal to avoid the dangerous waterway of Han River. This is the most huge business opportunity in the world. I think even Laishang, who is the supervisor, is extremely excited. Do you care?"

"It's natural!"

“Then why not combine these two into one?”

"Combined into one?" Li Xi had a clear understanding after hearing this.

It is not that the country relies on the consortium, but that the consortium needs the state. Without the support of the state, the consortium will never be able to flourish. Li Xizhu himself is the leader of Laishang, so he considers things, on the one hand, how to maintain his good brother Hong Jinglai On the one hand, how to protect Laishang’s own interests.

But Hong Jinglai's foothold was definitely higher than his. Hong Jinglai hoped to change the backward and ignorant state of the country as a whole, reorganize the country's finances, and gradually promote industrialization and modernization.

So Hong Jinglai could forcefully designate someone to take over, but Hong Jinglai didn't. He hoped that someone would take the initiative. Li Xi was the leader of the Laishang Group, and now Hong Jinglai was powerful, so naturally his eyes were on what to do for the time being. Strive for more benefits for the Lai merchant group from the Jemulpo Canal, and do not want the Lai merchants to jump into the quagmire of Han River shipping.

As for Lin Shangwo from Bay Business, he is currently drinking tea with Emperor Jiaqing in Yanjing and has no idea about the situation in Hanyang. Hong Dezhu, the head of Bay Business, is old and tends to be conservative, so he is waiting to marry his daughter to Lin Shangwo, and then I just want to hand over the business to my son-in-law in a smooth and complete package.

The two business groups closest to Hong Jinglai, Wan Shang and Lai Shang, actually refused to take over the deal and did not directly express their opinions. This naturally made Hong Jinglai have different thoughts in his mind.

Now that the leaders of the two business groups are all good brothers, they must greet them immediately with one sentence. What if a few of them die of old age? What will happen if the tail is too big to lose? Make the same mistakes as the Beijing merchants do now?

It would be too confusing for all the heroes to join together, and it would be easy for accidents to happen if two strong forces fight against each other. The best way is to stand on three sides. You can’t kill me, and I can’t kill you. The second and third brothers join forces to beat the boss, and the boss can’t eat him. The second child and the third child.

What Chen Yaozu means is that if Hong Jinglai takes the lead in the future Jemulpo Canal, he will definitely find someone willing to take over the Hanyang shipping fleet. As long as the Jemulpo Canal is built in the future, he can boldly give up The pros and cons of shipping on the Han River are entirely up to the whims of the merchants.
Chapter completed!