Just a few days later, news came that someone from the imperial court had come again.

It was Gao Ruone who came, Zheng Lang had no choice but to hand over the matter to Zhao Tongju, and he didn't give orders. This is the last and most critical year, what is the benefit of Daxu, and it is used to re-put it on, the imperial court has not seen any benefits, and it cannot be said that it has achieved political achievements.

At the end of the year, all the harvests will come up, and the taxes will come up, so much, and the opportunity to get promoted and make a fortune will come.

Therefore, at this time, no one dared to be sloppy, including the small officials, who also wanted to turn positive.

Whether it can be turned positive or not is next year.

returned to Taiping Prefecture, dealt with Wang Zhaoming several times, nodded lightly, and then quarreled with Gao Ruone.

Cui Xian personally made tea, and the three of them sat down to talk.

It's not what Zheng Lang imagined, Gao Ruone's heart was also depressed, what did the emperor mean by giving this edict inexplicably?

If you are like the Great Song Dynasty and lead the victims to come, you are willing. Can you let yourself and a little eunuch in the palace come down just to take a look, do you want to let yourself out?

What's so bad about putting it out? As a parent official, freedom of movement, if you release a Zhizhou, it is the world and the earth, the emperor is the first and I am the second, and what else is there to transfer the envoys, and the right to interfere is very small.

At this time, the officials couldn't think about it, even if they were a nominal palace official and an official in the capital, they didn't want to come to the local area.

Wang Zhaoming's speech was a little slurred, which made him even more worried.

All the way to Taipingzhou, not only Wuhu, Taipingzhou City is also a joyful busy. It looks beautiful, this is what the city looks like, and all kinds of goods are piled up on the docks. As for the people in the polder, they have not seen it.

First ask Zheng Lang how much is the tribute tax and how much is the total output.

As soon as Zheng Lang heard this question, he immediately became disgusted. Not only is more than 80,000 acres of sugarcane affected, but it is also impossible to say that I have reported it myself, and when I heard it, it turned out to be so good, the tax was raised, and the court was so bitter, why did the people of Taiping Prefecture have to live better than the people of other states.

Taxation can be said, and the total output has nothing to do with sugarcane, on the land and the mouth of the tax, or the tax is easy to pay, and the other taxes are saved by Zheng Lang, some are dispensable taxes for the imperial court, and some are new taxes born from the clever orders of the states, and some will be collected by the old taxes.

Zheng Lang disdained it.

Said: "Gao Siji, I have made a table of taxes, you can take a look at it when you have time, about 300,000 yuan a year can increase the grain tax compared with the original." ”

"300,000 Hu?" Gao Rune muttered.

It's remarkable, a small and medium-sized state has increased by more than 300,000 hu, and the whole country has increased like this, can it reach more than 100 million hu, does the imperial court still need to worry about food?

"There will be, as for the money tax and the silk tax, I collect very little silk tax, or use silk instead of money, and some things are in the ascendant, and I can't make a judgment."

"So how much will the total grain production increase?"

"The summer harvest has not come up, I don't know, Taiping Prefecture is not manpower...... " Zheng Lang said again, the states of the imperial court did not even have statistics on the real cultivated land and the real number of mouths, why should we pay attention to the real total output of a small state?

Gao Ruone didn't know yet, and asked suspiciously: "Not enough manpower?" ”

"Gao Si advised, this year is the last year of the circle, the polder is not big, all in the corners, according to the hills and hills, the big one is only about 200 hectares, and the small one is only more than 30 hectares. But there are many polders, as many as a dozen, and the polders will be longer. The state and county officials below have to measure together before they can decide on the polder. ”

"Yes, the officials of Taiping Prefecture have worked hard in the past few years."

"Hard work is due, but it's much more than that, it's labor. Last year, the imperial court transferred 20,000 servants from other states, more than 7,000 victims, so the amount of work was large, and it was barely done. There are still many things happening, not as concerted efforts as the year before last, and the progress of the project is more than ten days slower than the year before. Looking at this year, there are very few landless households in Zhuwei, and some go to the two cities to work and make a living, and they don't need land to live. Or the people in Zhuwei, the official forced them to work, they will obey the order, but will it work? The depression in the polder should be straightened, and the ditch should be dug deeply, so that a few laborers can be extracted. ”

"Yes," Gao Ronne nodded again.

The biggest role of Taiping Prefecture is a demonstration.

Even Huang Yanjing knew how to build the polder, and in autumn the lake was built when it was horizontal, but if it wasn't at this time, it would be impossible to take mud, and the water depth would not be convenient to build an embankment. Grab a grab in this way, build around New Year's Day, when the spring ploughing in the first month of the future, rush to divide the Qianmo, facilitate the distribution, and also facilitate the division of the slope pond to the real place, so as not to have disputes in the future, build roads, build stone bridges, make the traffic in the polder convenient, and dig ditches, not only irrigation, but also convenient in case of danger, the people can use the boat to evacuate safely with valuables.

Then it comes to spring ploughing and production, flood control and berm protection during the flood season, and there are still things to do in the first winter, further raise the depression, reduce the damage of waterlogging, dig deep ditches, and increase irrigation functions and water storage. So Zheng Lang said that there was no labor.

Zheng Lang said again: "Either ask the imperial court to order other states to come to assist, but not this year, as far as I have heard, the officials of several states in Jiangdong are interested in building two or three large wei as a demonstration, and they also need labor." However, my number must be completed this year, and it will take at least 30,000 laborers, where does it come from? ”

Gao Rune couldn't speak.

But there is one thing that Zheng Lang did not say.

The aborigines still have some fifth-class households, some of them go to the city to work, and some rely on short-term work and renting land to survive, and they can arrange 4,000 households to go down by changing some means, so that not only all the fifth-class households will be arranged, but also the fourth-class households in a slightly worse situation will also be arranged, and the rest, sorry, will compete with the big tenants.

These tenants are not disaster victims, as long as they give them some slightly better treatment, they will be very happy. The big family has a headache, they can't take care of it, and with that sugar cane, none of them dare to complain. This is the binding of interests.

The reason for success is also the success of bundling interests.

Otherwise, if these things are done in three or four years, the entire Taiping Prefecture still doesn't know what kind of chaos will become.

If you want to get the land, you will work hard.

It is not the original Taiping Prefecture, where 7,000 households were affected by the disaster, more than 4,000 tenants came from other prefectures, and there were more than 3,000 migrant households in the city, an increase of nearly 15,000 households. Squeeze it, and there will be 30,000 laborers.

But Gao Ruone didn't understand and thought it was difficult.

Zheng Lang said again: "Gao Siji, take a look, what will the officials below be busy? ”

There is still something else, Zheng Lang didn't say it.

"Why don't you increase the number of servants?" Gao Rune said suddenly.

Cui Xian touched Zheng Lang under the table with her legs, Zheng Lang understood, it was inconvenient for him to bring it up, so he could give an order on Gao Rune's words, not that I want to increase the number of errands, but what the court officials said, then the act of the exemption law may be overthrown, and he will not be a villain.

But Zheng Lang shook his head silently.

In the most critical months, I don't want to make mistakes, Gao Ruone is not a real "unscrupulous", and he didn't offend himself, so why let him go to the fire pit?

But he said some: "Inconvenience, how hard the errand is, you are a minister, you should have heard of some, some of the family labor is insufficient, but spread a foreign errand, a few months later, the errand is done, and the home is broken." After I came to Taipingzhou, except for those who were in good condition at home, or those who had many brothers, they generally gave some money to the servants, so I did my duty. Not only the errand service, but even the box soldiers are also in name only, and all of them will be distributed to the ground after this year, and they will be cut next year. ”

There are no more soldiers, and he will tell all the drawbacks of the errand service law.

Aren't you very bold, Goronne? See if you have the courage to admonish.

Gao Ruone is not stupid, he doesn't want to fire the first shot of this cannon, and he is silent.

But soon I couldn't find Zheng Lang, I was busy.

Only Zheng Lang Dehua did a good job, and the people were grateful, so they fought for anger, and there were fewer disputes year by year, so that the officials could spare more time to do practical things, otherwise they would be busier.

Gao Ruone said to Wang Zhaoming: "Wang Neizhi, let's go." ”

I can't go back like this, saying that the officials of Taiping Prefecture are very busy, and they are tired one by one, and it is wrong to play the impeachment law again.

Get a look below.

First to Jingmin Wei, now the largest Wei, but soon the record will be broken, I heard that Shuzhou has a Wei larger than Jingmin Wei, Wuwei Army and Hezhou, Xuanzhou also have a few Wei and Jingmin Wei similar. But it is the earliest Daxu, and it is also the most reasonable distribution of fields, and the best Daxu has done the best work in the future, and there will be Daxu in other states, and it may not be able to do as well as Zheng Lang. Therefore, come to see the polder, Jingmin polder is still the first choice.

At this time, look at Jingminwei, quite spectacular, more than 100 miles of the long causeway is green, the weeping willows are soft, not on the embankment, a kind of beauty and freshness come to the face.

Gao Rune said: "It's so beautiful. ”

Wang Zhaoming said: "It is getting more and more beautiful every year. ”

When I came last year, the tree didn't grow, and although it was beautiful, it wasn't as beautiful as it was this year. When I arrived at the small wharf, I stopped the boat and boarded the embankment, there was a bazaar above, there were warehouses of various merchants, more than 30 large and small cocoons and grains, as well as the warehouses of the government, the largest, to collect grain, and the brocade rust garden also needed silkworm cocoons and raw silk.

There are also more than a dozen grocery stores, several food shops and two breakfast shops, as well as a vegetable market, two teahouses, and more than 200 households. It is already a very decent bazaar, in fact, except for some small polders this year, there are similar bazaars in other polders, and Jingminwei is the largest.

Below is a large ditch that leads to all the villages in the polder, and the common people come to pay the grain tax or sell the grain in small wooden boats weighing two tons. The latter government did not participate, and this just created the prosperity of Wuhu, and the local and upper Xuanzhou area would pour in more than 2 million stone rice, and then through various grain stores, loaded onto big ships, from the Yangtze River to all parts of the country. Almost every mill is grinding rice at this time, and the scene is even more spectacular.

This transaction alone is enough to make all the big players hug Zheng Lang's thighs.

Looking at the polder, many families have become rich first, and it is not easy to buy bricks and green tiles, and it is not easy to build a so-so brick house, which costs thirty-four yuan, but these white lime walls and small brown tiles, hidden under the rows of green trees, look full of poetry.

Wang Zhaoming excitedly took Gao Ruone's hand and said, "Gao Siji, follow me." ”

He came to Taiping Prefecture several times, and Jingminwei came the most, and there were ordinary people who knew him and greeted him politely.

I was very happy, and I also chatted with them: "Wang Si, why did you buy so much pork today." ”

"The child is greedy, buy more, and the small family still has three pigs, but they will be slaughtered in the winter."

"That's good."

"It's a good day, the little ones are laughing in their dreams."

"You're busy."

"Huangmen Gong, you are also busy, you are a good Huangmen, you will be promoted."

Wang Zhaoming was a little ashamed, and took Gao Ruone's hand to a nearby village, where two families were building new houses, a few families had built them, and a few families were straw sheds, but some bricks and tiles were brought in, and it seemed that they would start building new houses next year.

Wang Zhaoming said excitedly: "When I first came here last year, it was still a desolate place, and many people even had food and grain loans from the government, as well as cattle, and this year it has become so. ”

Then he sat on the grass and chatted with the people.

In the end, he reluctantly left, and when he left, he said: "Gao Siji, this is still a greater miracle than the champion public examination three yuan." ”

I feel very honored, I run around by myself, there is no credit, there is also hard work.

Gao Ruone was speechless, although he praised a little, he had to admit that it was indeed a miracle, you must know that this place was originally a lake.

I got on the boat again and looked at the victims.

Can you still be satisfied?

Whether it is a cash-for-work payment or an early withdrawal, each family before and after has invested 90 yuan to go down, plus this season's harvest, which family does not enter the food and clothing? The people of Jingminwei are not living well, and it will only be a year, and they will be able to catch up next year.

It was at this time that Gaurone finally discovered sugar cane, too much.

After returning to Taipingzhou, he finally found Zheng Lang, who was busy, and talked about it.

Zheng Lang said: "Gao Siji, what is the country missing? ”

"What?"

"One is food, and the other is money. How much the grain production has increased, not calculated, but about how much, you have also looked at it for a few days, and you have a number in your heart. Right, no. ”

"Hmm."

"The rest is money, which is for the benefit of the country, one of them. At that time, 7,000 households were affected, if the previous law of dividing land was impossible? ”

"Impossible."

So I chose this method to make up for their losses and calm their emotions. As for what it will do, you will be able to see in a month, His Majesty asked you to come down, not to let you come down to have a look, so that it is enough for the king's servants to come down alone. The surrounding states and counties have risen, but the states are too guarded to have high and low talents, and not necessarily everyone will proceed smoothly, and disputes will inevitably arise. The same is true for me, there have been many unnecessary disputes in the territory, and if it were not for the good port of Wuhu, which resolved the crisis, there would have been many contradictions. Therefore, Your Majesty asked you to come down and take a look, to see the pros and cons of what I have done, so that when there is a dispute in the states, when the Chinese book is handled, your recital is a reference. Do you think I'm right? ”

"That's right......" Gao Ruone "suddenly realized", I also said, let me come down to see what a minister? I thought I was going to be released. I see, arched his hand and said: "Zheng Zhizhou is reasonable, thank you Zheng Zhizhou for reminding me." ”

Wang Zhaoming was stunned, the emperor had such a long-term plan, he was probably just happy, and wanted them to come down to take a look, report on how much land they had gained, what the people's lives had become, and how much food they had gotten, and then have fun.

But Zheng Lang said that the emperor had good things to say, did he dare to say that he was not right?

Gao Ruone was stunned.

Zheng Lang and Cui Xian glanced at each other, Cui Xian secretly stroked her tempting breasts and breathed a sigh of relief. I'm not afraid that more than a month later, when the court gains profits, the court will be worried, but now there is no profit, and when I hear that Zheng Lang has changed more than 80,000 acres of fertile land into sugarcane fields, what will some ministers who are worried about the country and the people worry about?

A distortion, the edict stopped, so that Zheng Lang where to repay more than a million money raised by various large businessmen or fields of equal value?

It's going to die.

Continue to measure, build warehouses, prepare some equipment, and buy land, have money in hand, and continue to distribute the land to the fifth and fourth class households. Either the people who moved to the polders, many of them, reported first and arrived first, except for some tenant farmers, the aborigines bought more or less some land in their hands at the market price. Some families have more than 10 acres, and they can not only get 30 acres of fertile land, but also more than 20 yuan of money, and they can't stop smiling.

This combined will give rise to more than 40,000 acres of cultivated land.

The land will be distributed again.

The big households complained bitterly one by one, and this sweep also involved nearly 1,000 tenant farmers, and it was not easy for us to abduct these tenant farmers.

Zheng Lang said lightly: "Sugar cane, people's hearts must be content." ”

One by one, they pinched their noses and left.

How busy will the officials be in this way?

Looking at the many officials who walked like the wind, ate like tigers, and rushed to grab time to go crazy, Gao Ruone suddenly shook his head and said: "It's all like this, Taiping Prefecture can't get better, there is no reason." ”

October is here, and the most critical time has arrived.

Zhuwei started construction, and under the heavy remuneration of heavy work, 33,000 laborers were raised again.

In the past three years, everyone in Taiping Prefecture from the bottom to the bottom has been almost like a wind-up machine, running non-stop, and has hardly had a good rest.

All eyes were on the polders.

The real big things are happening quietly.

Wei Wuniang came to Taiping Prefecture with her fourth sister and fourth brother-in-law, Lu Jiaerlang, accompanied by many merchants, some related to workshops, and some foreign merchants, including large merchants in Suzhou, Hangzhou and Yang. This is also one of Zheng Lang's intentions.

It's easy.

Zheng Lang said to them, I have a kind of sugar, which is more valuable than frosting, and it doesn't take time. This is very tempting, if you make frosting, it takes a long time to wait for it to crystallize, not to mention, you also need a huge number of large urns and huge venues, the cost is high, so the scale has not been large. How much is Kelly, everyone knows.

He also said that the state had no choice but to monopolize the sale of tea, salt and alum, but because of the small amount of sugar, the imperial court did not control it. Once the new sugar comes out, it is not as good as unsalted wine, but it will not be much inferior to tea. It is just by taking advantage of the convenience of arranging disaster victims to make joint ventures. Some of them belong to the court, and some of them belong to yours. If you get the righteousness, the court will also get its benefits, and it will not harm your interests and carry out a franchise. Then you will be like investing in several Jingminwei, and in a few years, the profit will be ten times and dozens of times the capital you invested today.

One is his credibility, all kinds of magical things have happened one after another, the second is the relationship between the Wei family, the Wei family has a lot of influence in Jiangning, his family also has eight daughters, in addition to Shi Niang, the others are either married to businessmen, or married to the children of official eunuchs, this is another kind of power, through the relationship of his family, and some good relationship with the big families to form an agreement, these big families have Jiangning, Su Yang, jointly invested 800,000 yuan.

Because of the mistaken food, Zheng Lang has always let them do it secretly and has not announced it to the public. So last year it was a mystery. The supplies were delivered, and he left with a smile and without explanation. The money came, smiled and left.

It wasn't until the spring of this year that Zheng Lang summoned them again, as well as some big families in Taiping Prefecture, these people have little financial resources, but they have to share some with them in order to support them. But how to divide it, I don't want money, and I join in with the land price as shares. And there was land.

Take them on a tour, after a few months of research, the process is finally mature, the specific process is confidential, but the time and approximate process to show them, so that they can know the cost and time, and then sit down to discuss.

All of them had green eyes.

But land is the lifeblood of everyone, and it took a day of grinding teeth to squeeze out a thousand hectares of land, which made Zheng Lang grit his teeth angrily, and then scolded them for being old horsesmen. It's very reasonable, and they are ashamed and laughing at each other.

It is also one of the reasons for the unprecedented unity of Taiping Prefecture this year.

Speaking of which, it's not magical at all.

But if he doesn't reveal the truth, he feels incredible, and even Lu Yijian is wondering, how can these rich landowners dig out the fields by themselves? If this is the case, so much beauty, there is no need to worry about taxes, and the poor people will not complain, and the country will soon usher in the prosperous era of Yaoshun!

Or are these rich landowners going crazy together?

I don't understand.

Not only that, the big outsiders made 800,000 yuan, some did not pay it all, some people were still very hesitant, and the local land shares, also less than 400,000 yuan, were handed over one after another after the visit. Most of them haven't been used up yet, which becomes the original principal.

There are a lot of things to be asked for, and the cane and sickle cane people have their own allocation, but other tools, such as cane chipping, cane stool, cane milling, pressing bucket, plain pestle, crushing tray, pressing bed, lacquer urn, vat, and tile, all these tools have to be bought by the government itself.

Sugar cane has to be paid in cash.

It costs a lot of money to build several warehouses and workshop sheds.

It is necessary to wait until next spring, after the sugarcane enters the warehouse, it is sealed with straw, so that it cannot be frozen, but it must be frozen to let the syrup freeze out, and the effect will be better. October is to give it a try, let everyone take another look, and by the way, bring back some samples that have not worked well.

Including some visitors, it is through their hands that they are pushed to the whole country, and even "exported to the world" by sea.

Lu Erlang came over, and Zheng Lang hired him to be in charge of the future cane prison.

The Lu family is a wealthy family in Suzhou, but Lu Erlang is a concubine, and his status in the family is high because of his business talent.

However, in this era, it is a scholar of agriculture and commerce, and the scholar is the first class, as a cane supervisor, it is possible to turn positive, and the probability is very high, once it brings hundreds of thousands of dollars to the imperial court a year, it must be turned positive. After hearing Zheng Lang's invitation, he was immediately moved.

His special relationship just plays the role of a bridge between business and officials.

However, Zheng Lang frowned slightly, he saw Shi Niang standing behind Si Niang, you little Lori often run to Taiping Prefecture, what do you want to do?

It's hard to ask, so he sent someone to call Gao Ruone and Wang Zhaoming, and said: "The third trick in Taiping Prefecture begins." ”

The first trick is the circle, and the second trick is the port, which actually compares it to the past two years. Gao Ruone didn't know why, but the other businessmen were refreshed when they heard it, and the results could be imagined.

Not only them, but also other big families in Taiping Prefecture. At one time, more than 100 ships set off in unison and sailed towards Wuhu City.

In addition to this trick, there is another trick behind, I don't know if Zheng Lang can wait, looking at the endless river, Zhao Tongjuan thought in his heart.