The winter in Haizhou has finally arrived as scheduled.

The climate of this era was much colder than that of later generations, and after a burst of heavy snow and wind, Yuntai Mountain became an icy and snowy existence, and the surface of most of the streams on Yuzhou Island was also covered with a thick layer of ice.

However, Haizhou in winter is still better than Kaifeng, the temperature is a little higher, not to mention, and the sea will not freeze. And the sea is the vitality of Haizhou, such as the canal to Kaifeng Mansion. The canals in Kaifeng Province will freeze in winter, and it will be difficult to transport fresh utensils from all over the Great Song Dynasty in winter, which will not only make prices high, but also cut off the livelihood of many civilians who eat water and food. Although the official family has its own grace, it will give a little money to help the poor, and it will also allocate rice and salt vegetables for Kaifeng citizens to spend the winter, but winter is still an unhappy season for Kaifeng Prefecture.

However, Haizhou still has abundant fresh and very cheap seafood in winter. There are also small maritime merchants who are greedy for huge profits and bring fresh fruits and vegetables from the south on galleys and fast boats to supply the wealthy and noble. There are also large ships from Goryeo and Liaodong that follow the north wind to the south, carrying countless furs, crude medicines, and all kinds of rare and playthings in the deep mountains and old forests, filling the merchants' warehouses in the county seat of Qishan and the nearby Haizhou Farm.

Compared with previous years, this year, from the autumn to Haizhou a variety of "northern goods" have been shipped to the number of a large number, and there is no lack of high-quality products, the price has also been reduced a lot because of supply and demand, but the happy merchants from Kaifeng Mansion to purchase - these merchants spend every winter in Haizhou, in order to be able to prepare enough "northern goods" in winter, in the first time after the beginning of spring through the canal to transport the goods into Kaifeng Mansion, make a good profit.

And their arrival has really made Haizhou prosperous. This era is not only the best era in the history of Kaifeng Province, but it is also the same for Haizhou. It is now a rapidly emerging industrial and commercial center, and if it had not fallen to the Central Plains, the city would have become a metropolis like Shanghai...... After all, at the beginning of the 11th century, China's economic center was still in the northern Central Plains.

The Tianya Town construction site, located next to the county seat of Qishan County, Haizhou, is also in full swing in this winter.

Looking out from the window on the second floor of the newly built Golden Arch Tower, the roads and ditches in Tianya Town have basically been completed. On both sides of the road, there are construction sites one after another. On both sides of the north-south Fuguan Street (the meaning of resuming the official, what a good name) where the Golden Arch Tower is located, the progress of the project is faster, and the rows of two- and three-story pavilions that have been half-built or nearly completed are lined up. In addition to the completed Golden Arch Building, the Ximen Building, the head office of the Ximen Family Pharmacy, the Haizhou branch of the Pan family's gold and silver silk silk shop, the Haizhou branch of Christie's and Oiran Bank, the head office of Yunwu Tea Shop, the head office of Donghai Bank, and the Haizhou branch of Pan Building, Wang Building, Fengle Building, and Chufang Building, are all built on this Fuguan Street.

The intersection with the cross of Fuguan Street is Gaosheng Road, because Tianya Town is narrow from east to west and long from north to south, so Gaosheng Road in the east-west direction is very short, and too many houses cannot be built, but the value of this street is no less than that of Fuguan Street. Because the buildings distributed on both sides of Gaosheng Road are "Town Council", "Town Office", "Town Capital Protection Office", "Town Police Patrol Office", "Town Tax Office", "Town Tribunal", "Tianya Academy" and "Yuntai School Palace Tianya Hall".

Except for the Tianya Academy, which teaches the six arts, they are all "autonomous institutions" in Tianya Town, and when the "Tianya Shiyue" is drawn up, these institutions can lead the Shinong industry and commerce in Tianya Town to go straight to the "rule of three generations".

"Yuan Hui, as a teacher, I will hand over the Yuntai Academy Palace and Tianya Town to you to take care of."

On the Golden Arch Tower, a farewell banquet is underway. Now it's time to talk about things after three rounds of wine and five flavors of food.

Because of Zhao Ji's edict, Wu Haogu could not celebrate the New Year in Haizhou, so he had to hurriedly return to Kaifeng Mansion to face the saint. And on Haizhou's side, it has to rely on Mi Youren, the big apprentice, to keep an eye on.

There are two tasks assigned to him by Wu Haogu, one is the construction and daily operation of the Yuntai School Palace - the infrastructure of the School Palace cannot be completed in ten years, and it has just begun, but there are many projects waiting to be contracted! As for the daily operation of the school palace, it is mainly to engrave books, as well as a bunch of food, clothing, housing and transportation for students and teachers, and of course, the collection of tuition and miscellaneous fees, the payment of teachers' salaries, and various teaching expenses.

The tuition and miscellaneous fees charged are extremely low, that is, pay for food. Tuition, books, and accommodation are all covered by the Academy. Teachers' salaries, or "salaries", are quite generous. It is completely formulated with reference to the Guozijian.

And the teaching expenses of Yuntai School Palace are not low, because the school palace is engaged in "all-round education", first of all, Yunwen Yunwu, and then also have to study arts and sciences. Not to mention how much it costs to study arts and sciences part-time, just one Yunwen Yunwu has to spend a lot of money.

Fencing, horseback riding, and archery must all be arranged with venues, teachers, and teaching aids. Among them, the teaching aids also include long swords, wooden swords, soft bows, horse bows, foot bows, protective gear, and of course, the most expensive investment is horses!

It's not just one or two horses to buy, but a herd of hundreds of healthy horses. There must be a certain area of racetrack and professional horse gallopers and veterinarians to take care of it. This expense alone may be as high as 20,000 yuan.

In other words, the 10,000 yuan given by Song Huizong is not enough for expenses at all. And the money from Jiehe City is actually a name. Jiehe City Bosi is under the jurisdiction of the Hebei East Road Transit Division, where is it so easy to withdraw money from the Transit Division? Even if Zhang Shangying is good at talking, giving 10,000 or 20,000 a year will be the sky...... How much does the Guozijian of Kaifeng Mansion spend a year?

As for Jiehe Commercial Market, it has not started to make a profit now, and even if it does, it belongs to the shareholders. Therefore, most of the expenses of the school palace have to be paid out of pocket by Wu Haogu at the moment. As for the future, Wu Haogu hopes to fill part of it with the tax package of Tianya Town.

"How much does it cost, Yuanhui, you can directly reimburse Sister Ximen." Wu Haogu smiled and pointed at Ximen Qing beside him.

Ximen Qing will not return with Wu Haogu, and Haizhou still needs her to be in charge.

Wu Haogu smiled and said: "Yuan Hui uses money, less than 50,000 yuan, you don't have to report me." ”

"Slave knows." Ximen Qing responded.

This is said generously, but in fact, it is just to show absolute trust in Mi Youren. Now that the school palace is created, there is no perfect mechanism, so we can only use the method of "rule by man", first formulate a general budget, and then delegate power to Mi Youren. The budget of 50,000 yuan was formulated by Ximen Qing and Mi Youren together, including land purchase, school building construction, and so on. It does not include the cost of Yuntai Village, nor does it include the cost of buying a horse, and as for the personnel expenses, it is not counted.

Similarly, for the construction project here in Tianya Town, Wu Haogu also gave Ximen Qing, Hua Manshan, and Pan Xingye full responsibility.

"Yuan Hui," Wu Haogu said again, "Tianya Town's 'Shi Covenant' is formulated, and the Tianya Town Council and the town government are elected, and the Yuntai School Palace must be involved...... You are my disciple, a general of Kaifeng Mansion, and a shareholder of the Republic, you must participate in it and speak for the big industry and businessmen. Do you understand? ”

Now that the "Tianya Shiyue" is being drafted, Wu Haogu will certainly not let go of the opportunity to intervene, and his way to "usurp" the leadership of feudalism is to build the Tianya Hall of the Yuntai School Palace in Tianya Town, as the residence of the teachers of the Yuntai School Palace in Tianya Town.

In this way, Su Dongpo, Huang Tingjian, and Mi Youren can justifiably participate in the formulation of the "Tianya Shiyue".

"Teacher, do you mean to let the business and industry participate in the covenant?" Mi Youren frowned slightly, there will definitely be some resistance to this matter.

Wu Haogu smiled, "Of course, we have to let the big industry and big businessmen participate, if it's just a scholar and no industrial and commercial business, who will pay taxes to Tianya Town?" Who will serve those scholars?

Besides, it's not good, those officials who are demoted to Haizhou, they are not involved in industry and commerce? Even if they put the money in the treasury to eat interest, isn't it equivalent to lending? And who is not an official household for the big businessmen and workers who can do business in Tianya Town? ”

The discrimination against industry and commerce in the Northern Song Dynasty was actually a contradiction between urban and rural areas, and officials from big cities did not have the idea of looking down on big industry and businessmen. Because the big workers and businessmen are also official households, and either the sons and nephews in the family are Jinshi, or there are Jinshi sons-in-law or Jinshi brothers-in-law and Jinshi brothers-in-law.

Only the Jinshi who came from the countryside and did not marry the daughters or sisters of big workers and merchants would regard the urban industrial and commercial households as enemies of feudalism......

However, most of the civil servants from the Great Song Dynasty were from the countryside, and they did not get the masters of the "bourgeois miss", so they were somewhat hostile to the industrialists and businessmen, and they were more inclined to adopt the state-owned and government-run methods to manage industry and commerce.

Therefore, Wu Haogu can't hand over all the autonomy of Tianya Town to the degraded officials, and must let the industry and commerce that invest in Tianya Town also participate, so as to ensure that Tianya Town will become the second Jiehe commercial city in the future.

"The teacher is right," Mi Youren thought for a moment, "so how to get big industry and big businessmen involved?" ”

Wu Haogu thought for a while, "One is an official household, as long as it is an official household, and it has bought or rented a mansion in Tianya Town, regardless of whether it is from a background or not (referring to Jinshi), you can participate in the agreement of self-government."

The other is to pay taxes, if you are not an official household, as long as you pay more than 100 yuan in the city tax in Tianya Town in the previous year, and buy or rent a mansion in Tianya Town, you can also participate in the self-government. ”

"How do I get involved?" Mi Youren asked again, "According to the head?" ”

"Counting by household," Wu Haogu said, "one household generation (representative)." You don't have to settle down, as long as you have an industry or rent a house in Tianya Town. ”