Coming out of the cotton weaving field, Xu Ping walked on the street in the summer evening, listening to the noise of the people around him, and bowing his head to think about his thoughts. The wind blowing in front of the pen www.biquge.info is still hot, and I can't feel the coolness.

Tan Hu followed not far behind Xu Ping with two entourages, looking curiously at the bustling streets around him from time to time.

This is the capital, where the Son of Heaven lives, the most prosperous place in the world, and it is really not comparable to the land of Yongzhou. The streets here, the houses here, and everyone here all have an aura that can't be seen anywhere else, incomprehensible, but everywhere, showing a kind of graceful atmosphere.

Since coming to the capital, Xu Ping asked Tan Hu to follow the class first, no matter what he learned, no matter whether it was useful or not, in short, he studied seriously. Only in his spare time, Tan Hu will follow Xu Ping and replace the Xiang Jun of the Third Division to do his old business.

Back then in Yongzhou, Xu Ping changed the trajectory of Tan Hu's life just by a general sentence. Now that he has become the deputy envoy of the third division, Tan Hu doesn't know what he will bring to himself if he continues to follow this old boss.

Xu Ping lowered his head and walked slowly, thinking about his thoughts.

was rejected as a proposal for wastewater grinding, and Xu Ping figured it out. This is the capital, all kinds of forces are intertwined, where is it so easy to move casually? I didn't feel this before, because my movements were limited to the three divisions, and once it was beyond the scope of the three divisions, everything would be different.

Looking at the willows fluttering in the evening breeze, looking at the occasional cargo boat on the Wuzhang River, and looking at the leisurely pedestrians on the road, Xu Ping felt a little lost. It's not that I haven't encountered difficulties before, but this is the first time I've encountered difficulties that I don't know how to start.

The new field service of the third division has already recruited tens of thousands of workers, and it is difficult for Kaifeng Mansion to recruit any more people. It is said that Kaifeng City has a population of more than one million, but in addition to hundreds of thousands of forbidden troops and their families, and then tens of thousands of officials, and then all kinds of miscellaneous military service, how many people are left? This is a purely consumer city that has risen for political and military reasons, and it is not suitable for large-scale industrial and commercial development, let alone all kinds of powerful people and other forces that hinder it.

Is it wishful thinking on your own? Xu Ping shook his head helplessly.

Seeing that it has entered August, it is the harvest season again, but Xu Ping does not feel the joy of harvest. It took him a year to straighten out the internal affairs of the three divisions, and if he wanted to continue to do it, he would have to go beyond the scope of the three divisions. And once the authority of the three divisions is exceeded, there is really some more than enough and not enough.

The envoys of the party were recovered a few days ago, and Wang Deyong came forward to reprimand them, and asked them to bring a message to Zhao Yuanhao, to observe the minister's festival, and not to make an example, otherwise they will be punished. Then, Liu Ping was promoted from the commander of the four compartments of the Dragon Shenwei to the Marquis of Yu, the capital of the infantry army, and officially entered the ranks of the generals of the Sanya Management Army. Although the commanders of the four compartments of the Dragon Shenwei and the four compartments of the Tianwu are also generals in charge of the army, regardless of the affairs of the three ya, they can only be regarded as entering the top level of the three yas when they reach the capital of the infantry army.

The deputy commanders of the three palaces, the Ma army and the infantry army are not the deputy commanders of the three divisions, because the two positions of the chief and deputy have always been appointed only one, and both the chief and deputy are the chief officials of the three ya, respectively called the palace marshal, the horse marshal, and the foot marshal, and the marquis of Du Yu is their deputy. However, the military power is centralized, and the affairs of the three yas are all decided by the three marshals, and the marquis of Du Yu is actually idle and has no position. On the contrary, Liu Ping took up his post immediately after being promoted to the Marquis of Yu, the capital of the infantry army, and went to Shaanxi Road to take up the post of deputy capital of Huanqing Road, taking charge of all the soldiers and horses, as a precautionary measure against the possible opposition of the party.

With the memory of his previous life, Xu Ping naturally knew that the soldiers and horses of the Great Song Dynasty were bound to lose almost every battle against the party in the early days. But people in this era do not have such an understanding. Including Yuan Hao himself, he didn't dare to think that he could play such a record in history, otherwise he would have reversed a long time ago. In fact, in the hearts of most people at this time, they thought that if the party dared to rebel, it would be tantamount to asking for its own death, and it might not be able to destroy him, but it would still be easy to deal a heavy blow.

Therefore, letting Liu Ping go to the northwest with nearly 10,000 forbidden troops is enough to form a huge deterrent to the party, at least in the short term, Zhao Yuanhao will not openly rebel unless he is forced to be in a hurry.

Xu Ping understands this, and also knows that there should be a few years before the arrival of the war, and there are only a few years before he wants to carry out economic reform. As long as the economy is straightened out in the past few years and there is sufficient money and food, even if it is a result like in history, it will be enough to pile up the party's money and grain to death. Zhao Yuanhao was able to take risks and succeed, a very important reason was that the reserves of the Great Song Dynasty were exhausted, and the Shaanxi Road was looted too much, and he faced a grim situation.

Last month, Han Zong demanded that this year, Shaanxi Road no longer transport grain to the capital, but that it should be directly transported to the border states by the transshipment envoy. He was there for a year, and the transportation had a preliminary idea, and the government could organize the transportation of grain.

In the past, Shaanxi Road had to transport 500,000 stone of grain to the capital and Luoyang, and at the same time, there were merchants who entered China and France along the border to send grain to the border state army. This seems to be a contradiction, but it is actually easy to understand when you think about it. The grain transported to the Central Plains by the Shaanxi Road came from the richest prefectures in Guan, where there was indeed a surplus of grain, and it was also convenient to transport it to the Central Plains through the Wei River and the Yellow River waterway. However, the state army stationed on the border and needed grain and grass, because the local mountains and rivers were broken and the transportation was inconvenient, most of them relied on shoulders to carry horses, but it was not easy for the government to organize the transportation of grain from Guanzhong.

This kind of thing is done thanklessly, and the bureaucracy's nature is to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, so they find all kinds of excuses to push the work of transporting grain to the heads of the merchants. Merchants seek profits, naturally how to make the most profits, and most of those grains and grasses are still scavenged from the local area. That is, Xu Ping discovered it last year, and it has been running along the border into China and France for many years, and as a result, all the tea profits in the southeast have been put in, but the actual result is that there is no stone grain into Shaanxi.

This is not a collusion between officials and businessmen, because there is no collusion at all, but the officials are afraid of what they have to do, so they deliberately create such a business opportunity. The businessman rose to the challenge, grasped this business opportunity, and his appetite became bigger and bigger, and it became more and more difficult to satisfy. It is precisely because each takes what he needs, no matter how big the disadvantages of this policy are, how the tea law and salt law are changed back and forth, and in the end this policy must be continued. If you don't do this, who would dare to go to Shaanxi Road to serve as an official? Especially the state army along the border, it has always been a military general who knows the state, and while managing the army, he has to transport grain and grass, and whoever does it is stupid.

It wasn't until Han Zong arrived at Shaanxi Road that he brought Xu Ping's practice in Yongzhou with him, and really began to organize the transportation of grain by the transfer envoy Si Xiulu, completely breaking the chain from officials to businessmen, and everything changed.

At least the current Shaanxi Road is much better than the situation in the face of the party's rebellion in history. Because of the ambitions and policies of Zhao Yuanhao, the party will have to be reversed sooner or later. Maybe the initial stage can still be so smooth, but the support capacity of the Great Song Dynasty is much greater, relying only on those victories in history, Zhao Yuanhao can't force the Great Song Dynasty to make peace with him.

In the northwest, after all, it is money and grain that is fought, and as long as there is grain in hand, you will win the final victory.

Xu Ping's current mind is not to think about when the party item will be reversed, what he wants to do is to carry out economic reform. This is the real number one priority, compared to which the party is nothing more than a disease of ringworm.

Xu Ping stood by the Wuzhang River, watching the river reflect the sunset, full of colors, like a dream.

What's next? Xu Ping's heart couldn't make up his mind. All his plans are based on the excellent commodity of cotton cloth, and with the help of cotton cloth, a chain of commodity economy is created. The creation of theories must rely on this commodity chain to convince others, the development of the commodity economy must be strengthened by this chain, and the transition of society from a natural economy to a commodity economy must rely on this chain to break the self-sufficiency of clothing, and everything must rely on cotton.

Although Kaifeng City is large, it is not a good industrial base, and there are too many forces that cannot be moved here.

Looking up at the opposite side of the Wuzhang River, not far from the state of Xiwazi is the forbidden army camp, such a camp in the capital is no less than ten. In the military camp in this city alone, no less than 100,000 soldiers and horses were stationed, plus 300,000 or 400,000 people in the nearby counties and towns. These hundreds of thousands of people all live on the income of the forbidden army.

The forbidden army, including their parents, wives, and children, ate rice from the imperial court and wore cloth from the imperial court. They are pure consumers, but like farmers who farm the land, they do not buy food and clothing from the market.

Isn't this another natural economy?

Kaifeng City, not only is it not a good production base, but it is not a good consumer market.

With a population of more than one million, but really relying on buying daily necessities to survive, it has gone to seventy or eighty percent all of a sudden. It's a good market for luxury consumer goods, but it's a bad place for the textile industry in Sanji.

Xu Ping couldn't help but wonder if he was right or wrong to choose Beijing as the center of economic reform. If it were an army in a foreign state, it would not have encountered such a big resistance at all. What is a water mill? Back then, I turned the sky over in Yongzhou, who dared to say a word? The original social foundation has been completely destroyed, and the number of immigrants from Fujian Road has even surpassed the indigenous population in several counties, and it is not calm.

It is no accident that economic changes often arise and grow in the places where they are implemented. Although the productive forces are underdeveloped in backward areas, there are fewer constraints on the old relations of production and fewer constraints on the old forces.

Less restraint is not an important advantage. Just like a small grass, although there is not enough nutrients in the ground, there are no big trees overhead to block the sun, no ditches to divert rainwater, and no countless companions to compete with him, maybe it is the first one to grow.

Kaifeng City may not be Xu Ping's ideal place to break the game. (To be continued.) )