What is the end result of the large number of idle and unemployed people, but the number of grain fields that can produce grain is decreasing?

The two words that Jiang Dashao blurted out were famine. And Zhang Chen suddenly stopped before the same two words were about to come out. He and Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu had made countless plans and thought of countless plans before coming to Xingtai, but it was better to do it, after really doing it this time, in the face of such a chain reaction, he finally had some different gains.

After thinking about it again and again, his complexion finally changed little by little, and all the initial sloppiness and confidence were lost to Java, replaced by deep fear.

And when Zhang Shou saw his reaction, he knew that Zhang Chen was from a noble background, even if he had been a gentleman since he was a child, but between his ears and eyes, his knowledge was much higher than Jiang Dashao's. If you ask modern people this question, then with a little brain, nine out of ten people will answer you immediately - the end result is war.

That's right, war, not famine. For the result of famine must be war.

Zhang Shou didn't look at Jiang Dashao, who was already panicked enough, and nodded slightly to Zhang Chen, as if to confirm his guess. Immediately after, he said softly: "The famine is actually easy to do, and I have some other gains in Cangzhou." If it is really successful, then in the future there will be other food crops that are inferior in taste to rice and wheat, but the yield is several times higher. ”

Zhang Chen and Jiang Dashao glanced at each other, and they all felt that they were listening to the book of heaven. You know, going back two or three thousand years, grain is indeed not only rice and wheat, but also corn, sorghum and many other kinds, but since grinding noodles and all kinds of flour products are popular in the north, and all kinds of rice have become the mainstream in the south, rice and wheat have become the main food for most people, and the others are just auxiliary.

What other grain can be compared to rice and wheat? And the output can be as high as several times?

Of course, Zhang Shou will not reveal that Lao Salted Fish has corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes, which are three crops that can be used as food. He could not determine the yield per acre of corn and potatoes, but the sweet potatoes ...... Hehe, he remembered clearly that when the rice fields in later generations could yield thousands of catties per mu, sweet potatoes would have been able to reach 5,000 catties and 7,000 catties.

Moreover, the skin of sweet potatoes is much easier to deal with than the bran of grains. And if you don't care so much, after washing and steaming, eat the sweet potatoes with the skin on, it's no problem at all. Of course, it is actually a cruel thing to eat sweet potatoes as rice all year round, but eating them mixed with rice was also commonplace for a long time in later generations.

Between filling your stomach and being delicious, you can only choose to fill your stomach first.

Zhang Shou was not without guilt in his heart, but he knew that even the Emperor Taizu, who was the founder of the country, could not solve all the problems, let alone him. At this moment, seeing that Zhang Chen and Jiang Dashao were confused, but they did not question it, he said bluntly: "So, in the final analysis, the most important thing is not the food problem, but the unemployed population. ”

"As for how to solve the problem, we can try to solve this problem in various ways in Cangzhou. After all, the new textile machine has only been implemented here for a short time, and the new loom has not yet been officially introduced. Only in Cangzhou has found a way to deal with it, and the new loom can be justifiably promoted to other places. ”

It wasn't until he heard Zhang Shou's last sentence that Jiang Da Shaofang was relieved, thinking that he would finally not see the world full of smoke. The turmoil in Cangzhou alone really frightened him.

He immediately smiled and said, "That's good, that's good." In short, Dr. Zhang and Mr. Zhang, whatever you say, I will do whatever you do, and I will listen to you. Anyway, I haven't been home this day and night, can I go home first and say a word? My mother died early, my two younger brothers didn't use it very much, my son is still young, and my daughter-in-law has never seen the world, so I'm afraid that the family will be in a mess......"

Zhang Shou nodded very reasonably: "You go, go outside and say something, let Zhu Hong or Zhu Yi accompany you back, and in the future, you will not be restricted from entering and leaving the house." ”

Seeing that Jiang Dashao thanked him repeatedly as if he had been amnestied and retreated, Zhang Chen suddenly became angry. What kind of teammate is this? Before I started to do it, I had already retreated and shrunk back, and I didn't have any responsibility at all! The little brother that Mr. Xiao chose for him this time is not good...... It's not as good as Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu at all!

"Little sir, this kid is timid and scared, it's useless......"

Zhang Shou interrupted Zhang Chen with a smile: "Don't take the standards of Zhang Wu and Zhang Lu to ask for such an incompetent rich boy in Cangzhou." It would be nice if he could do what he is now, and if he could take the initiative to think about problems and solve problems. ”

"But he already knows about the new loom, and if he doesn't say it, then we'll lose a weight!" Zhang Chen's face was full of resentment, and he said angrily, "I reminded him a thousand times on the road today, and I tried to dial him all the time, but he still looked like he couldn't support the wall with mud." ”

"A person has to be cultivated little by little, not to mention that he is not a good piece of wood in the first place, but a piece of wood that is half rotten. As for the matter of the new loom, it is best not to leak the rumor, and it doesn't matter if it leaks, you don't forget that your weaving workshop is quietly guarded by the family of your Qin State Mansion, and the family will be quietly guarded. As for me, there are no drawings and no craftsmen, and no one else can find out anything. ”

"If it leaks out in the future, it may attract pretenders, but how to make good use of these pretenders is the key."

Zhang Chen saw that Zhang Shou seemed to be holding a wisdom pearl, and immediately self-righteously suddenly realized: "I know, Mr. Xiao is testing Jiang Da's kid!" It doesn't matter if he's afraid, but if he uses him who is afraid of things to fish out some people who can use it, he can be regarded as a waste use, and he hasn't been blind to this hard work. ”

Zhang Shou smiled indifferently, and let Zhang Chen guess by himself. He wouldn't say that Jiang Dashao was originally on a whim, and then he wanted to save trouble, and he felt that this son-in-law, who was naïve and stupid and a little filial, was a bit interesting, and then he thought that it was better to make a mistake than to make a mistake. However, Jiang Dashao still has ideas, but he has been a bit useless at home for a long time, so he is afraid of things.

Zhang Chen was embarrassed to say that others, thinking that at the beginning, wouldn't he, the eldest son of the Duke of Qin, only show off his might and swagger through the market?

But Zhang Chen came, he had a relatively mature helper, Zhang Shou of course had to make the best use of it, and immediately began to assign tasks to Zhang Chen - or rather, assign homework.

"There is no you in Xingtai for a while, and your family will be able to continue to maintain, so don't go back yet. It's easy to resume work here in Cangzhou, and it's easy to rehire people, but then you have to do a rather tedious thing, you pick a few safe people in Cangzhou County, and feel how many people are unemployed in various parts of the city now, how many people are just doing odd jobs, and how many people have stable jobs......"

After citing a variety of employment situations, Zhang Shou saw Zhang Chen nodding again and again, and he continued: "Of course, you don't have to go to all places, I'll give you a few samples." Brother Zhu killed those dead people of unknown origin in the backstreets of Washi today, Shuishi Street where the old salted fish and salted fish shops are located, and the spinning market street where those spinners used to live in Xian Yunhe, and the most prosperous Bliss Street in Fang Market......"

took out five streets as a sample in one breath, and he explained in detail why he chose these places, seeing that Zhang Chen understood, he immediately agreed without saying a word, he thought about it, and finally added two more sentences: "You can take Zhu Er with you when you turn around, anyway, what he was going to do has been done, how much can reduce your burden." You, of course. ”

As soon as he heard that he was going to bring Zhu Er, Zhang Chen was suddenly unhappy. That useless guy, I heard that after he left, he took the position of fasting chief, if it wasn't for nepotism, why?

But when he heard the last four words, he calmed down. As long as he can be the main thing, it is not difficult to bring Zhu Er. He reluctantly made it difficult for him...... Divide Zhu Er's street and let him go and help with the work!

In fact, one of the things that Zhang Shou wanted to do most in Cangzhou was to register for the census of the middle-aged laborers, but thinking about doing such a thing in this year, it was simply difficult, and he finally gave up, so he only planned to do a simple sample survey of the employment of the middle-aged laborers. The five samples he selected included wealthy areas, merchant areas, slum areas, market areas, and so on.

He only has a rough idea of how to solve the problem of idle labor and develop jobs.

As for what if you don't find old salted fish, corn, sweet potatoes and other food crops, what will you do in the face of the domestic economic crisis...... Well, in fact, he had the idea as early as after he found out that the Northern Expedition turned out to be a great victory for our army and a great defeat for the enemy......

The four seas are peaceful, the master is lonely, if you just stop fighting and rest the soldiers, then the result is definitely not to bury your head in internal skills, but to bury your head in internal fighting, and you must be full of internal worries when you turn back, and you will be dumbfounded when external troubles occur. Since the foreign enemy is powerless, when will it be better not to take the opportunity to open up?

Of course, this development does not necessarily have to be a foreign war...... If you can really start industrialization, you can't rely on domestic demand completely, right? You have to open up overseas markets, right? Once the cotton fields really increase in large quantities, in the case of rice and wheat production has not been greatly improved, people will not be able to eat sweet potatoes every day, and overseas granaries will definitely be needed. Also, the Tohoku is a good place, it's just too cold......

The battle of Mingwei General Zhu Tingfang in the back streets of Washi, because there were no witnesses—not a few people heard the movement, but few dared to speak out—so when the soldiers and horses of the Rui cavalry battalion hurried to clean up the dead bodies at the scene, it did not cause too many waves, and there were not even people who came out to check on them. And the Rui Cavalry Battalion didn't bother to ask for any confession.

Because Du Heng and the four people he brought with him, from the sidelines to the witnesses and then to participate, nothing was left behind from beginning to end.

Although there were heated discussions in the city, and some people even swore that General Wei Zhu Tingfang was seriously injured and dying, but when Zhu Tingfang announced that he would personally try several cases the next day, including when Qi's youngest son forcibly robbed other men, this kind of rumor not only lost the market, but even some people went to the county government to denounce the person who spread this statement, and was dragged out by Zhu Tingfang without saying a word and punished with ten lashes.

As for all the corpses, they were carefully examined and recorded by Zhu Tingfang's order in the county government, and the corpses were incinerated, and the heads were nitrated one by one, and then sent to the capital. He killed and killed, although he didn't ask for his confession, but he always had to send it to the capital for some people to see, and maybe some of them would be recognized. As for what happens after recognizing it, then Zhu Tingfang doesn't bother to care.

In the other carriage that accompanied the carriages with the boxes of skulls sat the great prince, who was described as emaciated and withered. Of course, if he knew that he had returned to Beijing with such a terrifying thing, it is estimated that the eldest prince would have gone crazy a long time ago.

The people in charge of escorting were the fifty people selected from the two hundred sharp cavalry battalions brought out by Du Heng this time. As for the 100 people who had accompanied the eldest prince to Cangzhou, out of the suppression of the situation and the consideration of giving people a chance to atone for their crimes, Du Heng left them in Cangzhou. With this alone, Du Heng finally won the hearts of many soldiers.

Of course, the degree to which he won the hearts of the people is inversely proportional to the degree to which the eldest prince lost the hearts of the people in Cangzhou and the hearts of the Rui Cavalry Battalion.

The greatest unstable factor in the city, the Great Prince, was sent out of the country, and Master Chiang was finally released from the palace the next day—or more accurately, brought out of the court. Zhu Tingfang, who personally presided over the trial, directly summoned the surviving heads of the family, including Jiang Dashao and the eldest young master of the Qi family, to come over and observe. And Zhang Shou did not show up, but just stood in the shadow of the screen at the back of the lobby.

Zhu Tingfang has never been a procrastinator, and after a simple opening remark, he said bluntly: "Stopping work and business for no reason, burning down people's houses, and radically changing the good people, this crime is one." When I arrived in Cangzhou, I ordered the Rui Cavalry Battalion to abandon their homes and not return when they stayed in the mansions, nor did they go to the county government to surrender, but stopped Dr. Zhang, the Guozijian who was ordered to visit Cangzhou, and the commander of the Rui Cavalry Battalion Du to cry out for injustice, which was the second crime. ”

Jiang Dashao, who was also in the hall, was not very bold, but at this time, his heart was pounding by Zhu Tingfang's hard words, his face turned pale, and he couldn't help but wonder if his words about rushing home before were taken as shirk by Zhang Shou, so now his father was erected as a target by Zhu Tingfang. Just when the more he thought about it, the more worried he became, Zhu Tingfang's words were not finished.

"Obviously, you, as the head of each family, contacted the eldest prince, and participated in everything, but you entrusted the eldest prince, this crime is three. Seeing that Qin Cha did not express his position, he intended to commit suicide and threaten, this crime is four. ”

Although behind the screen, Zhang Shou couldn't see the expressions of the various generations of family heads at the moment, he could guess it. Everyone felt that since Jiang Dashao was the only survivor of the county government banquet that night, he was released to visit various families, and put forward conditions and requirements on behalf of Qincha, then the Jiang family would definitely be lifted high and put down gently, but they didn't expect things to be completely different.

They didn't want to think about it, the eldest prince had no good fruit to eat when he returned to Kyoto this time, and Master Jiang, as the head of the families on the surface, did such an extreme thing - even if he said that he was coerced, the people who coerced him became dead heads!

If the only Jiang family gets away with it because of their private morality, how can they embarrass the feelings of the families who are about to be severely punished for other crimes?

Almost subconsciously, Jiang Dashao directly stepped out of the step, knelt down, and bowed down directly: "Father is just confused for a while, the father pays the debt, the father sins, and the people are willing to ......"

Before he could say this, he was interrupted by a roar of rage.

"Shut up!" Master Jiang, who was already kneeling on the ground, stopped his eldest son in one gulp, and then said in a low voice, "The dog is ignorant, please forgive the general!" Thousands of sins are the sins of the grass people. Although the dog is stupid, it can still bear the weight of the house! ”