Han Gang was not interested in the private affairs of the princess of Shu's family, so he brought it over casually.

Extending from the princess of Shu's concubine, Wang Xu, Wu Yan also wanted to talk a little more about his friend Su Shi,

After Xining was expelled from the court in the fourth year, Dasu's literary fame became more and more prosperous, and one after another masterpieces came out, singing and harmonizing with the scribes of the Quartet, and it has gradually had the momentum of a generation of Wenzong. If you can be like Ouyang Xiu and be the chief examiner of the Ministry of Rites for one or two terms, you will be a master of the literary world.

"Recently, since "Meishan Collection" and "Qiantang Collection", Su Zizhan has another "Yuanfeng Continues to Add Qiantang Collection" to Fu Zi, and I heard that it was entrusted to Wang Xu."

"Oh, I wonder which printing house you chose?" Han Gang seemed to be very interested and asked, "If you can win the value of the Captain of the Horse, presumably the plate engraving is the best choice, and if Han Gang wants to publish it in the world in the future, he can also make a reference." ”

Wu Yan was unintentionally asked this question, and after being stunned for a moment, he finally remembered that Han Gang himself was not good at poetry, and the reason why Su Shi was kicked out of the capital back then, it is said that he had an unclear relationship with Han Gang and the people in his room, and it was indeed a bit inappropriate to mention his name.

"It's not clear, after I find out in a few days, I will tell Yukun." After a perfunctory two sentences, skipping the untimely topic, Wu Yan returned the focus of the discussion to his own work: "The eldest son of the Yongwang family is the first, and the son of the princess of Shu is the second. With the help of the orphans in the Salesian Hall and the Salesian Bureau, the number of pox vaccines is enough, and the doctors have also cultivated a lot. At present, each compartment in the city of Tokyo has set up a special office to protect the red from pox. After the New Year, more than 20 counties in Kaifeng Prefecture will also send capable people to set up a red protection bureau in the county. ”

Since Han Gang was appointed by the Son of Heaven to do an errand that he didn't care about, it was inconvenient to interfere more in the affairs of the Department of Health and Welfare, so what Wu Yan said, he just listened, and only occasionally interjected.

"The capital is the top priority of the pox technique, but the people of the world are all people under the rule of the Son of Heaven, and it is not good to do too much favoritism."

"The Department of Health and Welfare has begun to prepare for the implementation of the pox vaccination method in various parts of the world. I will first train the doctors in the Taiyi Bureau, and when they have experience, they will be able to take charge on their own. ”

"It's best to arrange people from the fringe areas first," Han Gang reminded, "otherwise everyone will be afraid of the serious, and there will be no way to tell every one of the people of the Great Song Dynasty about the kindness of the Son of Heaven." ”

"Two days ago, Li Dexin came and said about it. also said that Xihe Road and Guangxi Road are short of doctors and medicines, and they all rely on Zhu Zhong and Lei Jian to support them. Being able to promote the pox method earlier will also help them in their errands. ”

Zhu Zhong in Xihe Road and Lei Jian in Guangxi have long been recommended by Han Gang as officials and are famous Hanlin medical officers.

"How did An Tao do it?" Han Gang asked.

"I arranged an urgent delivery early and sent the first batch of pox vaccines." Wu Yan asked Han Gang to rest assured, "Lei Jian and Zhu Zhong are both medical officers promoted and appointed by Yukun, and with them presiding over the two-way pox, there must be no need to worry." ”

"Should someone be sent to supervise, or someone should be sent to supervise. Otherwise, don't even think about getting through the Yushitai. Han Gang said, "You also have to collect money for pox, and you have to guard against unscrupulous people and take the opportunity to make ill-gotten gains, which ruins the original intention of the court to save the people." ”

"That's nature. Yukun, you can rest assured. ”

chatted with Wu Yan again, sent Wu Yan away, and Han Gang returned to his study. On his desk was a transcript he had taken back from the Herd Division, a report that had just been submitted by the Shayuan Supervisor, a detailed list of the expenses of the prison this year, and specific data on the breeding, disease, and slaughter of military horses.

The other Han Gang didn't care, he only saw one 400,000 horses, one 6,000 horses, and one 300 horses.

A full 400,000 yuan was spent and 6,000 horses were grazing, but 300 military horses were slaughtered in one year. And as a courtier who is good at military affairs, what is the level of the military horses trained by Sha Yuan, Han Gang knows very well, let alone going into battle to fight, it is simply 'impossible to ride'!

Fortunately, in the group pastoral division, the main pastoral supervisors in Henan and Hebei have been abolished every year, and there is only such a sand garden prison left in the last place - the dung money of the group pastoral supervisors is also getting less and less - if it is still retained to the scale of the twelve prisons, it will be a bottomless pit that swallows money and grain.

So a few years ago, there was an official who served in Xihe Road and suggested that Wang Anshi set up a pastoral supervisor in Xihe Road, but Wang Shao and Han Gang joined forces to stop it. The officials in the prison are just silverfish.

Of course, the fact that the number of military horses slaughtered is not entirely due to the poor shepherding of the officials and soldiers in the prison, but also the factors of land encroachment.

Han Gang had already learned about it when he and Wang Shao planned the tea and horse exchange market together, and only one-third of the 9,000 hectares of pasture land on the Shayuan Supervisor's register were still retained, and the rest were occupied to make fields.

At the time of the founding of the country, it was the late Tang Dynasty and the five dynasties of a hundred years of turmoil, with few people and many lands, so in the land of Gyeonggi, there were four left and right Tiansi supervisors, two left and right heavenly stables, a total of six pastoral supervisors, and each horse army under the jurisdiction of the Sanya also had their own special pastures. During the reign of Zhenzong Dazhong Xiangfu, the total number of pastoral supervisors in Gyeonggi and Henan and Hebei once reached 22.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, with the multiplication of the population, and the increasing courage of the official gentry family, the pastoral superintendent continued to withdraw and merge, and the land in the prison was also encroached upon by the spring like mulberry leaves. Not only the pastures of the major pastoral prisons and the horse armies of the forbidden army that raised their own horses, but also the seven horse herding prisons that served as the prisons of the evil life—in the words of later generations, the horse farms—were also large tracts of land for people to occupy for farming.

Think about it, even the horse supervisor who breeds stallions even occupies the land, what else can the country's horse administration look like.

It is not ordinary people who encroach on pastureland, they are not official households, or situation households - the so-called situation households are the powerful and wealthy families in the local area, mainly the high-level officials of the state and county yamen, and the upper households in the township, sometimes the official households are also included in the scope of the situation households, but more often, the official eunuchs disdain to be called the same as the official households - each family has a bit of background, and the meat enters their stomachs, where can they get it back?

As far as Han Gang knew, when Wang Anshi came to power, there was basically not much pasture land left for free-range horses in Henan and Hebei under the jurisdiction of the Qiji Academy. Therefore, as the implementation of the horse protection law, the statistics of Xining's three-year horse administration are so miserable - the twelve prisons in Henan and Hebei have slaughtered more than 1,600 horses per year, and only more than 200 can become war horses. Compared with the hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of war horses in the Liao State, the number of war horses in the Great Song Dynasty is really pitiful. The cost is one million a year.

In such a situation, if you want a horse, you have to take food from the tiger's mouth; If you don't want to offend too many gentry, then simply give up the idea of getting a war horse from the shepherd.

Wang Anshi is not stupid enough to confront so many official eunuchs, Qingmiao and Shiyi are fighting for floating wealth, and they still have some words, but land is the life of others. Roots, where can I get them back? Even if he thinks about the Great Song Dynasty and causes a lot of resentment among the people, the Son of Heaven may not appreciate it. Not only will it not succeed, but it will also put itself into it, it is better to find a way to develop the horse source, and admit the reality that the horse supervisors in various places have been encroached upon.

Wang Anshi abolished the pastoral superintendents, implemented the horse protection law, and let the people raise horses, which is the last resort. Before Wang Anshi, Renzong had already begun to implement the system of selling horses by the government in Hebei, raising them by the people, and buying them by the government when needed. They are all the results of seeing the most difficult results of the major pastoral supervisors in the Central Plains.

The 12 prisons of Henan and Hebei, since the beginning of the implementation of the Baoma Law, have been abolished year by year, leaving only the Shayuan Prison of Tongzhou. After the Horse Husbandry Prison was abolished, the cleared land was occupied, and those that were not occupied were also rented out and collected taxes. One out and one in, a year can be a million more financially.

This million, in addition to a part of the supply to the market, the rest is allocated to Xihe Road, as the capital of the tea and horse market, and now, there is more Guangxi to share the account. One south and one north, the number of horses that come from the city can basically reach 50,000, of which the qualified horses remain in the army, and the unqualified horses are resold to the people by the herd husbandry department, so as to become a qualified second-way dealer.

With the military and civilians from the tea and horse market, plus the horses fostered in the civilian population by the Baoma Law, the use of the army is sufficient. And Han Gang dared to propose the construction of a track in Hebei because the number of horses in the country had increased significantly.

As things stand, it seems that the law is effective, as long as other issues are ignored.

It's a pity that if you want to go to war, there are some problems that you can't ignore.

In terms of quantity alone, the horses of the people are not too bad, at least better than the use of horses in the past to raise horses - of course, a large part of this is due to the fact that the situation of the horse husbandry supervisor is really miserable as the object of comparison, and some progress, as long as it is compared with the dismal base at the beginning, it is an exciting progress - but in terms of quality, it is inevitably unsatisfactory.

The horses were put into the hands of the people and raised on their behalf, and as a result, almost none of the horses bred could go to war. War horses are not only a matter of shoulder height, coat color, weight, physique, etc., but also a very important character, to be bold, not afraid of people, to be unwavering in the face of arrow rain and horns, and to be able to fight hard with the rider at critical times. The soldiers and civilians who can be trained from the people are just like the people who come out of small families, they are not allowed to go to the table, and they have a hand in pulling plows and plowing the land. Han Gang found them a job pulling carts, and they chose the right trade.