"Officer?"

Wu Cheng swallowed his saliva, he had long wanted to be an official, he had thought about it since he was a child, he dreamed about it, and he didn't think of an official for decades.

Now that you're old, you actually have the opportunity to be an official?

"Seventh brother," Wu Chengju hurriedly asked, "Is it Xuan Shuai who wants to protect me as an official?" ”

Wu Chengchang smiled: "As long as you are willing to do things for Xuan Shuai, what is an official?" ”

"Doing things?" Wu Cheng raised his brows and frowned slightly, "Seventh brother Mo said and laughed, Xuanshuai has a Yuntai genius around him, what can he do if he goes?" ”

"There are also things that Yuntai geniuses can't do," Wu Chengchang said with a smile, "For example, if you force hundreds of small farmers into desperation and sell themselves into slavery, they can't do it." ”

"What do you mean by that?"

Wu Chengju's face suddenly sank, of course he knew that he had a reputation for martial arts, which was not a good reputation.

"Aren't I all here for the sake of the samurai! And who doesn't have a pickpocket here in Henan Province to support it? Wu Chengju said coldly.

Henan Mansion is a place where the bureaucratic landlord class gathers, don't look at the clear stream bureaucrats in the gardens in Luoyang City, they are all about to reach the sky, but where does the glory and wealth of their family come from? It can't fall from the sky, it can only be exploited. Moreover, the objects of their exploitation are mainly poor and middle peasants, so don't people have to be "Wen Pa Pi", "Fu Pa Pi", "Yan Pa Pi", and "Han Pa Pi"?

"Not really!" Wu Chengchang smiled, "Besides, it's not our fault that those small farmers went bankrupt!"

Farming is also buying and selling, how can there be a profit without losing money? And what kind of business is not easy to pour with small profits? Besides, the land here in Henan is barren, there are many farmers, and the transportation is relatively convenient, and the cheap wheat from the north is transported by boat, so how can the small farmers compete with others? A large number of bankruptcies are normal. ”

Not to mention, although Wu Chengchang doesn't understand the economy, this is really reasonable. Farming is also buying and selling, at least in most places in the Great Song Dynasty. Since it is a transaction, there is a loss and a profit, there is never a business that only makes money and does not lose money, even if it is a gold digger, some people spend a long time, spend a lot of money and finally do not dig it.

Of course, farming is no exception, and there must be people who lose money. Moreover, farming depends on the sky to eat, and the weather is bad and the land is not fertile, so the risk is very great. So this small profit is thin, there is no good land, and the weather does not help, who will go out of business if this kind of small farmer does not go out of business?

"Not really!" Wu Chengju replied, "In recent years, farming here in Luoyang has become more and more difficult, on the one hand, God does not help, and on the other hand, the northern grain is being transported to the south to reduce the price...... The grain hurts the peasants! ”

"That's right!" Wu Chengchang said, "Anyway, they can't survive in Luoyang, even if they are reluctant to be a tenant, with a butt of debts on their backs, it is better to live than to die." Why don't you go out and give it a go! ”

"Go out and fight? Where to? ”

"To the country of Java!" Wu Chengchang walked to Wu Chengju's side, "The Hailu City Shipping and Real Estate Division has made 1 million acres of paddy fields in Java, and all of them are so fat!" ”

"1,000,000 acres...... The state of Java? Wu Cheng understood after a lift, "What, you want to recruit people from Luoyang?" ”

"Aren't we from Luoyang?" Wu Chengchang smiled, "If you don't look for someone in Luoyang, where else can you find it?"

Henan has many people and thin land, and it is most difficult for small farmers. If you don't go out for a while, you'll be waiting to die at home! So it's better to ask them to sign the paperwork of selling their bodies, and all of them will be pulled to Java to farm. When I arrived in Java, the Hailu Shuaisi family divided thousands of acres of paddy fields and bought them at a fixed price, which made more money than in Henan Province! ”

The land on the island of Java is fertile and rainfall is abundant, and any kind of cultivation is more fruitful than intensive cultivation in Henan. And the land is as much as you want, and if it's not enough, you have to grab it...... So the income from farming is absolutely guaranteed.

In the words of later generations, Henan is the red sea of farming, and it is so red that it is almost red! And the island of Java is a blue sea of farming, a blue ocean as blue as blue ink!

But it's not easy to go to the blue ocean of farming. First, the water and soil are not adapted! Henan people go to Java Island, it's strange if they don't lose their skin.

The second is the wind and waves at sea. It's fatal! Wu Haogu himself doesn't dare to go to sea now, and it is difficult to go to sea to inspect Shamen Island, and he will not go far. Go to the island of Java in the South Seas...... It's scary to think about!

The third is the epidemic! Although Java has been developed for a long time, malaria is still very endemic in the region. Farming is not as good as living in a clean and refreshing city near the sea, so it is very likely that you will die of malaria.

If you want to calculate the mortality rate of going to Java Island to farm, it is estimated that it is not much worse than going to be a mercenary to fight the Qarakhanid Dynasty and the Tianzhu Kingdom. And the latter is faster than farming......

"Okay!" Wu Chengju didn't know the risk of going to Nanyang to farm, but he did, and he couldn't control that much. "I have this matter, I dare not say more, there are still ways for three or five hundred families. Not only do we owe Hades a lot of farmers...... There are still many families in Luoyang who also have such tenants who owe a lot of money and can't pay it off in a hundred years. As long as Xuan Shuai is willing to spend money to buy their accounts, they have to work for Xuan Shuai, this matter is justified, and it is also reasonable for Xuan Shuai to go to the king of heaven! “

The total population of the Song Dynasty was actually not much, and it was only 100 million when it was Manchu, and the contradiction between man and land was not as prominent as that of the Manchu Republic of China in later generations. However, during the Northern Song Dynasty, the development of the south was not sufficient, and the population of the Central Plains, especially in Jingdong, Jingxi, and Gyeonggi, was still relatively large, so there was a certain surplus of "tenants".

Therefore, it is still a little feasible to spend money to "buy tenants" to become farmers on Java Island, but it is not feasible to do more, and it should not be difficult to draw 10,000 households.

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Territory of the Emir of Khorasan, the city of Herat.

Emir Ahmed of Khorasan of the Seljuk Empire. Sanjar has been stationed here since last winter.

It is also the area where the Ghul people, who historically replaced the Ganiz dynasty in northwestern India, lived in the war, and in last year's war, Sanjar's army easily defeated the leader of the Ghul people, Iz. Fourth. Hussein. However, instead of killing the captured Hussein, he forced him to become a vassal of the Seljuk Empire and raised food for the Seljuk army stationed in the city of Herat.

In Sanjar's plan, the city of Herat would be the base from which he would lead his army through the lush mountains into Kashgar, which was under the peach blossom stone.

In order to reinforce the Qarakhanid Dynasty, Sanjar not only concentrated half of the Gullam warriors under his command, about 13,000 people, but also ordered the Gur, Ghazni Dynasty, Sigistan, Mazandaran and other vassal states to send troops and horses to help in the war.

At the same time, he also sent envoys to Bukhara, the capital of the Western Karakhanate, and Barasagon, which was occupied by the Khitans, who did not know that Yelu Dashi had only used a group of Khitans who were wandering in Yemili to establish his own power, and his roots were very shallow, and he thought that the latter represented the Khitan Empire. That's why they sent an envoy to Jerodashi to show friendship.

As long as the Khitans did not march on the Western Qarakhanate, then the Seljuk Empire could recognize their annexation of the territory of the Eastern Qarakhanid.

He didn't want to start a war with the two powerhouses of the Great Song Dynasty and the Khitan at the same time.

Now the envoys have been sent for more than a month, but the response has not yet arrived, but the messenger of the lion Khan of the Eastern Qarakhanid dynasty has arrived in the ancient city of Herat first.

"Honorable emir, the army of pagans in Upper Peach Blossom Stone has reached the Yache Oasis, which is very close to Kashgar. Because of the long journey, they were sleepy and short of horses, short of supplies, their cattle and sheep were emaciated, and their horses were too weak to fight.

If the emir had been able to dispatch a large army at once, he would have been able to quickly defeat the hateful infidels. When the time comes, the entire Peach Blossom Stone will be prostrate at your feet, and you will become the greatest conqueror in the history of the Heavenly Sect......"

Sanjar sat cross-legged on a Persian blanket and just frowned at Ibrahim, the emissary of the Peach Blossom Kingdom, the son of the Lion Khan.

This is a very heroic young man, but I don't know what will happen if I go to war?

"The Pamirs are now passable for the army?" Sanjar asked.

"Yes! But it's difficult. Ibrahim replied, "But as long as the Allah warriors are willing to overcome the difficulties, it should not be a problem!" If the pagans of Peach Blossom Stone had captured Kashgar, they would have crossed the Pamirs as well. At that point, Herat will be a battlefield. ”

"Those armies on the Peach Blossom Stone are very capable of marching?" Sanjar asked again.

"Yes," replied Ibrahim, "the army of Upper Peach Blossom Stone marches with sheep and oxen. And the slopes of the Pamirs have the best pastures, and emaciated horses only need to graze there for ten days before they become fat. Then they will kill like demons under the city of Herat. ”

There is a grassland called Yuqi Tash on the Pamirs, which seems to be a transit point for travelers to rest and recharge, so that people can rely on fewer supplies to pass through the plateau.

However, Sanjar was not worried that the army of Shangtaohuashi would enter his territory, and what really worried him was that the lion Khan of the Qarakhanid dynasty would lead the remnants of hundreds of thousands of people (including family members) across the Green Ridge and then go south to India through Herat and Ganiz...... The Ganiz dynasty had now fallen apart, and it was impossible to withstand the invasion of the Qarakhanid dynasty. And Sanjar himself covets India's wealth.

If the Christians in the Mediterranean did seize Sinai, and the navy of Upper Peach Blossom had subdued the Emir of Adan, then the entire Seljuk Empire might have to rely on the Indian A-3 to feed it.

"Well," Sanjar said, thinking of this, "Ibrahim, you go back and tell Aslan Khan that my army will be dispatched soon." As long as the envoys I sent to the Khitan could bring me accurate news - whether the Khitans joined the war or not, I would lead a large army through the Pamirs.

If the Khitans also become our enemies, then sooner or later the banner of Allah will fly in the capital of the Khitan Empire! ”