Can you live forever

Chapter 12 The Giants of the Times, Rich and Enemies

Flying into the sky and escaping from the earth, moving mountains to fill the sea.

These eight words made Zhang Zhixiang's eyes widen. He couldn't imagine that this is something that can be done by one's own strength. The cultivation in his cognition is not so high...

After dinner, Zhang Yonghuan went to meditate.

Zhang Zhixiang went to stand outside the house and asked Da Fangfeng to help him correct his posture, but after practicing for more than an hour, he never stood for more than 2 minutes. On the contrary, because of the weakness of his legs, he couldn't even maintain the posture of standing. Can no longer practice.

Although he was only a five-year-old child, this still made him a little frustrated.

Sitting outside with Da Fangfeng, he asked, "Da Fangfeng, do I have no talent for martial arts?"

Da Fangfeng nodded.

Buzzing said: "My uncle's muscles and bones are average, and his personality is too gentle, so he is not suitable for martial arts, especially Bajiquan. Master Yonghuan should teach you Taijiquan."

Zhang Zhixiang thought about it for a while, and knew the painstaking efforts of the fourth uncle.

His character is actually a bit cowardly. After all, his health was not good in his previous life, he didn't like to argue with others, and he was afraid of disputes with others. Although he is more cheerful in this life, he is still not tough enough.

"Bajiquan is very good."

Originally planning to take a rest, Zhang Zhixiang gritted his teeth and stood up again, tremblingly posing his fists. He has already gone down the mountain, and he should have his own responsibilities when he entered this world.

Da Fangfeng looked at Zhang Zhixiang with a touch of approval in his eyes.

Suddenly, his ears moved slightly, and he turned his head and glanced upwards. The little girl who looked like a porcelain doll was startled and closed the window.

"Discovered?"

Wang Yuanzhi was settling accounts, and seeing his daughter flustered, he asked with a smile.

The little girl is wearing a white dress and a red dress. She is bright and beautiful, but she is as cold and arrogant as a snow lotus in Tianshan Mountain. Today's dress is actually restrained. As Wang Yuanzhi's only daughter and the only daughter of the Wang family's generation, she never has to accommodate others. .

This time, she was brought out by her father on purpose, just to make friends with a little Taoist priest, she didn't quite understand.

"It was the giant who found me."

"father."

"Is he a well-earned warrior?"

Wang Yuanzhi added ink, and said while keeping accounts: "At least he was not when he left the mountain two years ago, otherwise the third child of the Xu family would have died."

"The Xu family doesn't pay much attention to business, and they follow the Xiluo people in the slave trade."

"Ten years ago, they attacked several tribes of the Cherokee and captured a group of female slaves. Among them was the tribe of Dafangfeng. Because Dafangfeng had a giant body shape, they thought it was more valuable and planned to ship it back for sale."

"In the end, he escaped by chance and was taken in by the Heavenly Master's Mansion."

"Trouble will come naturally."

"Five years ago, Dafangfeng started to go down the mountain. He took revenge on the Xu family three times. Two years ago, he was the closest to success. Xu Laosan, who was in charge of the slave trade in Shangzhou, was killed ten steps in front of him."

"It's ten steps, but for Da Fangfeng, it's only two steps."

"In the end, I was stopped by the Xu family's big priest."

Wang Jiangque nodded half-understanding, and suddenly said: "Father, that person is quite dumb."

Wang Yuanzhi smiled lightly, and said: "The information received is not dull. The former imperial eunuch Huang Jin went to Longhu Mountain to issue the decree. While waiting for the ashes to fly from Jia Guan, he saw that Zhang Zhixiang has no cultivation, but he can be the same as heaven and earth."

"Walking out of the pavilion, avoiding the wind and snow."

"This is the fairy weather."

Wang Jiangque didn't take it seriously. She was born smart. Although she was only seven years old this year, she matured much earlier than ordinary children. What she didn't understand was why her father valued this person so much.

"Times have changed, father, giants like Dafangfeng are no match for firearms, so what if they have a higher level of cultivation?"

"Times have indeed changed."

Wang Yuanzhi covered the account book, and said with a solemn face: "There are rumors in the Tianshi Mansion, and other monks have also proved that there will be a great heat before the great cold, and then it will be the era of immortal cultivators."

"Individual power can reach levels we can't even imagine."

"Our Wang family doesn't need you to get married, but these years I always show you the heroes of the world, so that you can choose by yourself."

"Today I will take you to see the first one, and it is also the most suitable one."

"You might as well take a look before making a decision."

Wang Jiangque nodded, "Oh", but there was no more to say. Although she was precocious, she was still young, so she didn't pay much attention to these things.

She always cared about her father's attitude.

Her father cared too much about Zhang Zhixiang. She knew her father's foresight. The rise of the Wang family took only 20 years. The uncle and his father created a huge family business from scratch.

Starting from ginseng, he became a tycoon in the pharmaceutical industry, and then derived all kinds of industries.

They can't figure out how rich the Wang family is. The imperial court's annual tax revenue in Taicang is only more than [-] million taels of silver. The [-] material ships of their Wang family go to and from Beishangzhou once, and the ginseng they bring back is worth Tens of millions of taels, although they only come back and forth every two years to receive the goods, but the Wang family is not only in the ginseng business.

In recent years, the price of ginseng commodities has been operated. The price of ginseng has gone from 1 cent and 5 cents per catty in the first year of Jiajing to 3 taels of silver per catty, but it is still not enough. Simply selling ginseng does not make much money.

However, it is enough to make ginseng into a supplement for health and treatment.

The annual income of the Wang family is tens of millions of taels, and the total assets of the family are even more difficult to count.

Relatively speaking, although the Imperial Household Department's Taicang deposit is less than one-tenth of the actual tax, plus materials and so on, the Ming Dynasty can actually have 8000 to [-] million taels of actual fiscal revenue a year.

But the court has only so much money at its disposal.

Their royal family is actually richer than the emperor...

The Wang family is so rich, but they are still just upstarts of Huizhou merchants, ranking last among the four major Huizhou merchants.

Xu, Wang, Wu, Wang.

Which of these four companies does not have an annual revenue of tens of millions of taels?Among them, the Xu family controlled the armed hegemony of the entire southeast sea. The more than [-] pirates all listened to the Xu family. The annual tolls were unknown. The Xu family accounted for [-]% of the global slave trade.

That is the real rich country.

The Portuguese and Spaniards dig for gold and silver all over the world every year, but don’t they still come to Daming to buy goods in the end?The influx of silver from the Ming Dynasty is over [-] million taels every year, but the imperial court is so poor that the sea ban has been banned for so many years, and the ban has completely out of control in the south of the Yangtze River.

The two capitals of Ming Dynasty.

Shuntian Mansion belongs to the imperial court, while Yingtian Mansion already belongs to merchants...

Why did Emperor Zhengde insist on asking Wang Yangming to release the captured King Ning after King Ning rebelled?Why?He didn't want to play, he wanted to lead an army to sweep Jiangnan.

What is the result?

Naturally, it was suppressed by all the civil and military officials, and then Emperor Zhengde forcibly went to Yingtian Mansion to check the accounts. As a result, he couldn't even enter the palace, so he could only live in the eunuch's house. He fell into the water once when he went out to fish. After three days of secret talks, Yang Yiqing fell into the water again, and then was forced to be taken back to Shuntian Mansion for treatment. He couldn't change the doctor even if he wanted to, and was forced to die of illness...

emperor?What is an emperor?
Start with reality.

In fact, their royal family didn't have much awe of the imperial power, and they didn't plan to send their daughter into the palace. They didn't think much of the queen's position at all. After all, the world was so big, and Daming was only a little old.

If you are willing to go overseas to cultivate wasteland, it is not impossible to occupy the land of Wanli.

But that doesn't make sense.

Xi Luo is ruthless and has no bottom line. All over the world, they are robbing slaves, planting and mining land reclamation. All they earn is hard money. The materials produced, the gold and silver dug, all have to be transported to Daming?Is there any market in the world that can digest so many things?

In the final analysis, there is nothing the Xiluo people can do.

They do business normally. If they can’t make money in Shangzhou, they can only rob them, but the effect is limited. Although most of the Yindi’an people are loose tribes, there are also several countries, Maya, Aztec, The Inca, they had a huge stock of wealth.

It's a pity that the Xiluo people can't beat them...

In other words, the progress of the war was very anxious, and the Xiluo people could only look at the huge amount of gold and silver owned by the Yindian people and drool, while the caravans of Daming returned with full loads time and time again.

The wildness and freedom of global trade, the explosion of wealth.No matter what Wang Jiangque thinks, this is the era of businessmen.

But why did dad say it was the era of immortal cultivators?
Obviously just a silly little Taoist priest...

(PS: The price of ginseng took off in the middle of ten thousand years. It was only more than ten taels of silver per catty in the late Ming Dynasty. In the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, it had increased by more than 2000 times.)
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