In February, a spring rain as precious as oil came with the wind.

The rain was not heavy, it only stopped for half an hour, and soon the clouds broke through and the sun rose, and the spring sun was sprinkled. The earthy yellow earth was covered with a brilliant golden layer in the sun, and in the meantime, there were large expanses of soil drilled out of the young green wheat seedlings, which were growing happily. But looking at the continuous fields of Qianmo, the green was blurred by the golden yellow, Wu Haogu couldn't help but sigh, and even the officials who took Su Chi, Zhao Jiaren, Lu Renjia, He Tianran, Wang Yan, Miao Fu, Liu Zhengyan, and other officials who rode forward with him also frowned.

The rainfall in Shaanxi this spring is obviously on the low side, so the growth of winter wheat is not ideal, even Wu Haogu, who does not know how to farm, all the way from the east, can feel that the further west, the more barren the land, the more sparse the population, and the more depressed the industrial and commercial industries.

In the vicinity of Jiehe Commercial Market and Jingdong Commercial Market, which are considered to be excessively business-oriented, this is already a scene of crops thriving. The land there is far more fertile than the Guanzhong Plain, and there are plenty of water, there are few droughts, and as long as no one has the whims to change the direction of the Yellow River, floods are not common. Basically, you can have a good harvest by planting anything, which is not much worse than the water towns in the south of the Yangtze River.

In addition, the rural areas around Jiehe Commercial City and Jingdong Commercial City are also very convenient for transportation. The waterways extend in all directions, and the land routes are not difficult to walk, and there are good official roads everywhere. At this time, the rivers there have long been connected by axes and oarts, and the official roads are also full of merchants coming and going.

It is precisely because of the developed agriculture around them that the two major commercial markets can gather hundreds of thousands of industrial and commercial populations in a short period of time, and if these two major commercial markets are moved to the barren Guanzhong, the problem of feeding hundreds of thousands of people will be unsolvable, not to mention that many industries in the commercial markets also need to obtain raw materials from the countryside - mainly various cash crops and livestock, such as tea, silk, grain for winemaking, horses, cattle and sheep, soybeans, and so on.

Therefore, it is only natural that the germ of evil capitalism is now appearing in Jiehe Shang City and Jingdong Shang City, and perhaps in large coastal cities such as Mingzhou and Quanzhou.

In Wu Haogu's view, the historical Great Song Dynasty undoubtedly stood on the threshold of the budding capitalism, but due to the lack of conditions for the "Renaissance", that is, there was no way to establish a philosophical foundation that could encourage technological progress, so it was impossible to realize the leap from quantitative change to qualitative change. After all, scientific and technological progress is the primary productive force!

And this ideological constraint no longer exists.

In fact, the two PTZs in the north and south have now become two innovation centers. Significant technological progress has been made in many industries such as metallurgy, gunpowder, shipbuilding, printing and dyeing, machinery, breeding, construction and building materials.

In addition, in terms of basic scientific research, the Yuntai School Palace and the Qingcheng School Palace have also achieved fruitful results in the past two years. Yuntai Xuegong has made many achievements in the field of physics (optics, mechanics, chemistry, etc.). The Qingcheng Academy has made achievements in arithmetic and logic, mainly "probability", "statistics" and "inductive deduction" - these are all contributions of the great mathematician Li Qingzhao!

As a well-known "female gambling god" in history, Li Qingzhao should have mastered the method of statistical gambling results, calculating the probability of winning and losing, and then inductive deductive reasoning. However, without the two major tools of "positivism" and "rationalism" and the academic system that was established with them, she could not turn these methods into a knowledge that could be passed on.

Although these achievements are so insignificant in the eyes of later generations, most of these scientific advances are original, not the golden finger of Wu Hao Gukai.

This shows that after mastering the two major ideological tools of "positivism" and "rationalism", some genius intellectuals in the Song Dynasty already possessed the ability to "study things and exhaust reason".

However, while the large cities on the eastern coast represented by Jiehe Shang City and Jingdong Shang City ran into capitalism, in most parts of the Great Song Empire, everything was still the same.

So when Wu Haogu entered the Guanzhong Plain and looked at the vast and barren wilderness, he couldn't help but sigh and said to Su Chi: "Bo Chong, in fact, Ling Zun's idea is also a little reasonable. ”

Su Chi, who was riding a horse and walking side by side with Wu Haogu, frowned and said, "Chongdao, do you also think that if you don't settle the soldiers of the Western Army, there will be chaos in the northwest sooner or later?" ”

Wu Haogu said leisurely: "After all, a big country is difficult to govern, the south and the north of the world, each is different, it is not easy to maintain peace in ordinary times, let alone encounter a thousand years of drastic changes?" ”

The so-called thousand-year-old drastic change is of course a disaster tossed by Wu Haogu!

It made up for the shortcomings of the Confucian philosophical system, opened the valve of technological progress, contributed to the establishment of two autonomous merchant cities, and opened the prelude to the Age of Small Navigation.

When these factors come together, how can it not be a drastic change unseen in a thousand years?

Needless to say, no matter when and where upheaval occurs, it will inevitably be accompanied by shocks.

Now it has been released by Wu Haogu, but it is the devil of capitalism!

And in addition to the capitalist devil, a shocking upheaval is also brewing within the Great Liao Empire in the north.

The two upheavals of one south and one north are put together, and they can keep the world peaceful and tranquil, that is hell.

"Chongdao," Su Chi didn't know Wu Haogu's negative thoughts, so he began to peddle Su Zhe's idea, "so my father thinks that it is necessary to establish a township covenant while dismantling the Western Army, set up township soldiers, and build a township school ......."

"Township covenant, township soldiers, township learning...... Seems like there's something missing, right? Wu Haogu asked.

Of course, he knew what kind of prescription Su Zhe prescribed-Jiehe Commercial City and Jingdong Commercial City represented the road of no return to capitalism, while the "Township Covenant, Township Soldiers, and Township Studies" actually represented feudalization.

"What's missing?" Su Chi is actually a Bianliang and doesn't know the real situation in the countryside.

"There's one less squire." The elderly Zhao Jiaren interjected. Before he was used by Wu Haogu, he was actually a landlord in the countryside of the Daimyo's Mansion - if it weren't for the landlord, he wouldn't have been able to take the imperial examination for so many years.

Therefore, he knew the situation in the countryside and also knew what the more conservative landlords and scholars were planning.

"No gentry does not govern the township," Zhao Jia said, "The court only governs the county, and it still has to rely on the gentry in the future." To the east, it is difficult to distinguish between gentry and merchants, and many gentry have become very wealthy by concurrently engaging in commerce...... And here in Shaanxi, I'm afraid there are more powerful gentry, but it's different.

If the officers and men of the Western Army are to be properly resettled, then the soldiers should be the villagers, and the soldiers should be the villagers, and the villagers should be used to govern the township and run the township school, and at the same time, the remote official land should be granted...... Different quantities are granted according to the rank of the official, and it is strictly forbidden to buy and sell, and taxes are exempted. ”

Zhao Jiaren's idea was actually to transform the Western Army from a mercenary group to a land-based government soldier group, and at the same time solidify its original class to the greatest extent.

Solidifying the class in the countryside is probably also the dream of Chinese rural scholars, right? Theoretically, the imperial examination system can play a role in opening up the upward channel for the bottom, but in fact, the children of the low-level peasants have no chance to receive a good Confucian education, and they cannot get into the Jinshi at all. The upward path of the imperial examination has nothing to do with them. However, in Jiehe Commercial Market and Jingdong Commercial Market, there are more opportunities for people at the bottom to rise.

Because commercial activity, technological innovation, and colonization are inherently subversive...... Many of the bad guys who came out of Shamen Island, the lowest level of the Great Song Dynasty, have now turned over in colonial expansion. Even if there is no chance, as long as you follow the big bad guy Ji to the sea, you will have at least fifty yuan of annual income, and everyone on Nanxin Island has been given a share of gold, and you can share the gold again after grabbing the Ka Tu Ha when you go back. After a few years of "adventure" back, whoever doesn't save a few hundred must be unlucky people who have lost all their gambling money.

With a few hundred acres of savings, there are also hundreds of acres of paddy fields near Haizhou, how is it that the class has not risen? There's still no good luck or much skill in this. If you are lucky and have great ability, you can become a rich man in the "adventurer's paradise" on Nanxin Island, or become a colonial governor.

This kind of upward channel is much more reliable than being a tenant and dreaming of a son to study for a jinshi - Wu Haogu is very suspicious that there was a tenant jinshi in the Great Song Dynasty?

However, because the Great Song Dynasty did not have two long-term "fames" of showing talents and lifting people, and there were no restrictions on land sales. Therefore, the position of the landlord class intellectuals is not particularly solid, and they often have to rely on the righteous door to keep warm.

It was also an idea to establish the dominance of the squires in the form of a "township covenant", but the experiment of the township covenant was not successful anywhere outside of Lantian County.

Now, Su Zhe and Su Chi, father and son, have taken the opportunity of dismantling and sorting out the Western Army to try the way of the township covenant again.

However, Su Dabeard and his son must not have figured out the difference between the samurai group of the Western Army and the ordinary scholars and landlords - once the Western Army is linked to the land in the process of dismantling and sorting, and the hierarchical system of "big squire-small townsmen-village soldiers, villagers", it will be the resurrection of the Guanlong samurai group!

"Bo Chong," Wu Haogu asked, "what do you think of Zhao Jiyi's thoughts?" ”

"Feasible!" Su Chi immediately nodded, "It's just how to distribute the land?" The Western army is quite numerous, and if it is to be properly settled, I don't know how much land is needed? ”

"The land is there!" Wu Haogu smiled, "And there are not many elites in the Western Army, deducting the archers who have already given land, at most forty or fifty thousand elites...... This also includes the utility of each family. The average resettlement of 400 mu of land per person is calculated, which is 20 million mu. Shaanxi Sixth Road does not have so many official fields, plus Shuofang Road and Lingzhou are about the same. There are still 300,000 acres of paddy fields in Lingzhou! That's how many acres of dry land can be divided into acres.

The question now is whether the imperial court can agree to allocate the land of the Northwest Third Road, and whether the generals of the Western Army can support us? ”

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