"Wu Chongdao, you're not lying, are you? Can you really get that much food? ”

"Yes, 2,000 stone rice grain is incredible! The southeast coast should be able to plant tens of millions of acres of mulberry fields. ”

"Tens of millions of acres of mulberry fields are equivalent to five or six million acres of grain fields! I don't know how many more farmers I can feed......"

"If this is the case, it will be a good thing for the coastal city to do so."

In the Chongzheng Palace, a group of feudal bureaucrats who do not understand the economy at all are already making wishful thinking. They all understand the principle that the country is based on agriculture and the people take food as the sky. However, they also know that the peasants are getting poorer and poorer the more they farm, and making a fortune by growing grain will always be just a legend.

In contrast, it is easy to get rich by growing mulberry and raising silkworms. The income of one acre of mulberry field used to raise silkworms and weave silk is several times that of growing grain, and planting mulberry and silkworms is more labor-saving than growing grain. That is, the same land can generate higher income while requiring less labor...... Mulberry leaves grow on mulberry trees, which are small trees that do not need to be cut down and replanted every year. Therefore, the labor required to grow mulberry and silkworm must be less than that of growing grain, and labor productivity has naturally increased significantly.

How good it is that working people not only earn more, but they also work less often. The saved time can also be used to read some books of sages, even if you can't pass the Jinshi exam, it's good to know a little more truth.

Zhao Ji also understands mathematics, he is a master of the positivist school, of course he can count. It's a simple calculation, and I think it's very good.

The tax on mulberry fields can be much higher than that of ordinary grain fields...... If there are tens of millions of acres of mulberry fields on the southeast coast, the imperial court will be able to collect tens of millions of extra taxes on silk, which is almost more than 10 million yuan.

These taxes alone can be exchanged for the 20 million stone rice grain. Isn't this equivalent to the country's income of 20 million stone rice grains a year?

Now I can be happy again with "Fengheng Yuda"!

It seems that it is still very wise to reuse Wu Haogu and Wu Haowen!

Wu Haogu looked at the faces of the ministers in the hall and listened to their discussions, but he felt a little guilty in his heart. Because he had heard the stories of "sheep eating people" and "silkworms eating people" in his previous life...... Although the plot is not quite the same as what will happen in the Great Song Dynasty, one thing is certain: a large amount of grain input and a large amount of silk output will definitely have a serious impact on the originally stable agricultural production structure in the Great Song Dynasty.

Cheap rice grains brought by sea could only be supplied to the southeastern coastal areas, where proximity to seaports, water transport was well developed, and transportation costs were low. Therefore, imported Nanyang rice can replace local rice to a certain extent. The decline in local rice cultivation will stimulate the development of cash crops and aquaculture, which are not only more profitable but also employ less workers than growing grain. In this way, a large number of agricultural laborers will be liberated - this is certain, when agricultural production does not need so much labor, the landlords and old wealth will not bind the peasants from entering the city!

The liberated agricultural labor force will undoubtedly become the urban poor, the cheap labor force of the capitalist factories, and the main force of colonization at sea.

The abundant availability of cheap silkworm cocoons also stimulates the development of industrial sectors such as silk reeling, textiles, printing and dyeing...... At the same time, the return of large quantities of rice from Champa, Java and Chenla would greatly stimulate the export of sea, shipbuilding, and various household goods and luxury goods, as well as iron tools. It will also greatly promote the development of related industries.

In addition, the gradual control of the Nanyang by the Coastal City Shipping Division would also change the import and export trade structure of the Song Dynasty. It is possible to artificially create surpluses through "unfair" trade in order to generate inflows of gold, silver, and copper.

In the foreign trade of the Song Dynasty in the past, luxury goods such as spices and treasures produced in India and the Nanyang Islands could basically offset the export of silk and porcelain, and sometimes brought a deficit to the Song Dynasty, resulting in the outflow of copper coins from the Song Dynasty.

This situation will be completely reversed by the emergence of the coastal city shipping and construction division. In the foreseeable future, precious metals such as gold, silver and copper will flow into Jiehe Commercial City and Jingdong Commercial Market in large quantities...... This will undoubtedly greatly promote the development of the financial industry!

The gold and silver standard currency will replace the silk standard in the future, and financial institutions similar to modern banks will soon appear in Jiehe Shang Market and Jingdong Shang Market.

Capitalism is really coming!

Of course, this kind of positive change can only happen in the already affluent southeastern coastal areas. For the vast hinterland, this is not a good thing. Once the silk industry in the coastal areas has been greatly developed and upgraded, the silk industry in the inland hinterland will be impacted. The price of silk will fall, and the income of farmers will be greatly reduced...... The tragedy of silkworm cannibalism will probably arise from this.

"Your Majesty," seeing that the ministers had all finished their opinions, Wu Hao Gucai said again, "The coastal city shipping department is indeed promising in operating Nanyang. The foundation of the operation of the South Seas is the market and the navy. The two must complement each other and work in harmony with each other. In fact, you have me, and I have you. It is simply impossible to act as to appease the envoy and the transshipment envoy.

For example, ships used for transshipment at sea and warships of the navy could easily go their separate ways if they were not under the unified command of the Inspection Department in Nanyang. Naval warships cannot escort cargo ships in time, and cargo ships cannot help them at any time.

In addition, the operation of Nanyang must be decentralized! If it is like the state and county in the country, decentralization and control, it will be too delayed. The traffic between Nanyang and the country depends on the direction of the wind, and the direction of the wind is divided into seasons. There are many south winds in spring and summer, and north winds in autumn and winter, and it is impossible to traffic if the wind direction is not right.

In other words, you can only travel back and forth between Nanyang and Kunaka once a year! If you don't delegate authority to the inspection department and the city department below, you won't be able to do anything. ”

Decentralization again?

Su Zhe immediately became vigilant!

"If the Nanyang City Department and the Inspection Department are mastered by gangsters, they do mischief, and even become the king of the territory, what can they do?"

Nonsense! Wu Haogu thought to himself, isn't it possible for a gangster to go to Nanyang to become an imperialist colonist? Can you hand over so much grain to the court if you don't do anything wrong?

"As long as the Coastal City Shipping Division has a strong enough navy, no one will dare to be king." Wu Haogu patiently explained, "The topography of the South China Sea is different from that of the Central Plains, mainly islands, and the traffic depends on ships. However, there were no good shipbuilders in Nanyang, and the boats built were far inferior to those of the Great Song Dynasty. Therefore, it is difficult to build a strong fleet of sailors! Therefore, the coastal city ship management department only needs to build a fleet with 100 large warships and regularly patrol the South Seas to ensure that everything is safe.

In addition, on the day of the Northern Expedition to Japan, the fleet of the Coastal City Shipping Division can also be used to seize the land of the Liao people's Suzhou Anfu Army and stab the Liao people in the back! ”

The idea of seizing the Suzhou Anfu Army has been moving for many years! However, he didn't really want to poke the Liao people in the back, but wanted to put a nail in the back of the Jin people.

In this way, if the Jurchens still want to go south, they have to think carefully about whether the Song army on the side of the Suzhou Anfu Army (Dalian and Lushun in later generations) will attack and sweep Liaodong.

Zhao Ji had actually made a decision a long time ago, and now after listening to Wu Haogu's explanation, he felt even more wise.

He immediately said: "Wu Qing, I have decided to let Wu Erlang serve as the envoy of the sea route city and the governor of Cangzhou, and the sea route city ship system envoy is the coastal city ship system envoy." Before Wu Erlang arrived from Xiuzhou to the north, the envoy of the sea route city will be concurrently served by you, the Hebei Xuanshuai! ”

"Your Majesty Shengming!"

Wu Haogu breathed a sigh of relief. The sea route market has finally kept this position! Moreover, he can also serve as the Sea Route City Ship Envoy for a few more months, and with this time, he should be able to perform some surgery on the Sea Route City Ship Control Division, and turn it into a real Navy and Colonial Affairs Department.

In addition, Ji Yi did so many bad things in Nanyang that he went to Arabia by himself. We have to take advantage of this autumn and winter to send some bad guys to the South Seas.

Moreover, Nanyang also needs a big bad guy who can replace Ji Yi to grasp the overall situation! Who's going to do that?

……

"Ah...... Sneeze!! ”

Ji Yi sneezed again!

He was standing on the bow of a Venetian galley, looking at the majestic granite walls on the west shore of the southern mouth of the Bosphorus, and the cold wind blew across the strait from the north, hitting his face head-on, making him feel a little cold.

It turned out that he was on his way to Constantinople, the capital of the Roman Empire - as an envoy to the emperor of the Eastern Peach Blossom Kingdom, to meet the great generals of the Roman Empire...... Oh, it's what later generations called the Roman Emperor.

Because of translation problems, the Roman emperor was called the Great Roman General.

In order for Ji Yi to meet the great general of the Roman Kingdom, Meria and Ansari, the scholars of the Celestial Sect who accompanied the mission and acted as interpreters, helped a lot. Ansari also made a trip to Mosul himself, and ransomed two important Crusader knights from the Seljuk Turkic emir of Mosul from the Seljuk emir of Mosul with a thousand silk silks given by Ji Yi, Baldwin and Joserin of Edessa - these two were the counts of the Earl of Edessa and the lord of the Tubessel fortress to which the Earl belonged, who were captured in battle with the Seljuk emirs of Mosul, and had been in prison without lard in Mosul for three years before Ji Yi paid for them.

After being redeemed by Ji Yi, the two of them could not return to the country of Edsabeth for the time being, because the country of Edessa was ruled by the regent Tancred and refused to return it. So they could only act as the leader of Ji Yi's mission, and first led Ji Yi to the Kingdom of Jerusalem to meet King Baldwin I.

Baldwin I had also heard of the Peach Blossom Stone Country—he also used silk and porcelain, so how could he not know that these two luxuries came from the Peach Blossom Stone Country? Now that I have seen the envoys from the Peach Blossom Stone Kingdom, I attach great importance to it, especially when I learned that the Tengger Khan (referring to Zhao Ji, translated by Meria) of the Upper Peach Blossom Stone Kingdom was at war with the Lion Khan of the Lower Peach Blossom Stone Kingdom who believed in the Heavenly Sect, I took it for granted that Zhao Ji was his ally. So he sent a ship to escort Ji Yi and his party to Constantinople.