"It's coming, there are still thirty days," Wang Ju replied in a flat tone as much as he could.

"Oh," Zhao Niannu said lightly as he tiptoed.

Both of them looked very calm, but Zhao Ji felt that some teeth were a little sour.

This question is very complicated, more complicated than the so-called hereditary as Wang Ju said, so Wang Ju turned to the topic again, pointed to the quilt and said: "In fact, it will be mainly civilian in the future." ”

"Civilian? Probably not. Zhao said.

Well, there's a traffic problem.

These quilts were sent in to make a sample so that they could be sold next year. But in fact, in order to transport them to the capital for display in a hurry, it took a lot of travel money.

Large-scale transportation, if it is in Guangnan West Road, can only go north from Lingqu, then from Xiangshui to the north, to the Yangtze River, and then from the Yangtze River to the Grand Canal, to reach all parts of the north, the road fee is still expensive, even if it is by water. Even the spiritual canal had to be rebuilt.

If you are on Quang Nam East Road, it seems that it is very economical to take the sea route, but the fact is that the current ships are sailboats, and they must wait for the monsoon, except for some small boats that sail nearby, like these large ships that carry goods, they can only go back and forth once a year.

For example, the merchants of Hangzhou went to the Wa Kingdom to do business, and a ship went to the Wa Kingdom along the monsoon, and then traded the goods, and then procured the goods, and then waited for the monsoon, which would take a long time, and many merchants married wives and had children in the Wa Kingdom. One home in Hangzhou, one home in the Wa Kingdom. {In fact, in the future, there are many people in the Wa Kingdom who have Han blood in their blood, but Wang Ju did not take it seriously, just as he regarded Jiaozhi as Han people, and never regarded Jiaozhi people as Han people, although the separation was not long in time.}

So this time is a bit annoying. Although the sailing speed will be fast. It is rumored that it only takes five days to travel from Hangzhou to the Wa Kingdom. But confined to the monsoon. You can only go back and forth once a year, and the cost can't be low. After all, the cost of a sea ship is not cheap, and every two or three years, it has to be repaired and maintained on the slipway.

But don't worry about the profit, because the price is too expensive.

Because of this price, the imperial court will also benefit in the future.

Wang Ju replied: "If it is only in Liangguang, it is unlikely that the people will use it ordinarily, at most some fourth-class households will put some quilts and jackets." However, this kapok is different from the kapok in the Western Regions. ”

"What's the difference?"

"The kapok seeds in the Western Regions are very similar to Dashi, with long cotton wool and suitable for weaving. That's why the big food cloth is very famous. But they are all distributed in the Gobi region, with plenty of sunshine and little rain. Therefore, this cotton seed is not suitable for promotion in the interior. However, the kapok in Lingnan lives in areas with a lot of rainy season. Therefore, it can gradually move north. ”

"Central Plains ......"

"It is the Central Plains, but there is an adaptation process, and it must gradually go north from Fujian Road and Bashu to the Central Plains. Otherwise, if the kapok seeds are violently transferred to the Central Plains, they may not be able to survive. Even if you have to live, you will be very short. There are more cottonseeds, less cotton, and the income is not large. This is only moderately guided in the imperial court, and a few decades will be enough. But in the future, once the seeds are officially launched, can it still be like now? And by sea, there are many risks. There may not be a few scholars in the court who can truly love the people like sons, but they like to make a fuss about human life. So we have to think differently. ”

"What else is he going to do?" Zhao Ji said blankly. Who values the place in Lingnan?

"There is a lot of water in Lingnan, such as Longchuan River and Shixing Water, and its upstream is almost in the territory of Jiangnan West Road and Jinghu South Road, and the source is not navigable. However, the middle reaches of these rivers are navigable, and the shipping capacity is amazing. Therefore, some roads can be repaired, and there is no need to build much long, the short one is only more than 100 miles, and the long one is more than 200 miles, and it can communicate with Ganshui, Leishui, and Xiangshui. If it was unlikely, but now it will do, although it passes through some mountainous areas of Wuling, but now there is gunpowder. And once Kapok is promoted, there will also be this finance. The state does not need to allocate a penny, and many water conservancy roads can be built. Your Majesty, have you noticed that I am facing another crisis. ”

"There are too many crises, I don't know what Qing is referring to?"

"It is densely populated, and there are 3 million households in our country, but now there are more than 13 million households. Maybe there were more hidden households during the Tianbao period, and the situation of the people's family division was not as strict as it was in my dynasty. Danchen believes that in any case, there are more than 13 million households in our dynasty, which is enough to correspond to the 9 million households that Tianbao is insufficient. ”

This question is very strict.

To know how big was the area of the early Tang Dynasty of Tianbao? Even the effective control area is much larger than that of the Song Dynasty.

Moreover, the Song Dynasty was barely a hundred and a hundred years old, if it is calculated from the unification of the Southern Tang Dynasty, it is only ninety years, and from the unification of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Northern Han, it is barely eighty years!

In such a short period of time, the population has more than quadrupled!

Zhao Ji didn't know that he would live a short life, so he planned that he would live to be in his fifties and be an emperor for more than 30 years, so maybe by the end of his life, the population would be close to 20 million households.

Is it possible for the people of the whole country to learn the Fujian Road and drown the second and third children?

"陛xià, it's really strict." Zhao Niannu also said on the side.

Zhao Ji couldn't help scratching his head, a large population is also a reflection of good internal governance, but once the population of the Song Dynasty reaches 20 million households, the problem will be more concentrated.

Even if it is dealt with, the population will continue to develop, and in another fifty years, how much will it be, and how much will it be in another hundred years? No, the Song Dynasty didn't even have a two-hundred-year foundation.

"Your Majesty, Jiangdong Wei, how many people can be squeezed? How many people can be squeezed out of the silt fields in the north? Therefore, the population is a big crisis. But what about the two wides? Its area is equivalent to one-sixth of our dynasty, and the number of households in the household register is less than 400,000, including the barbarians, which will not exceed 600,000. Where is not demonized, it is actually a good place with plenty of rain and three crops a year. If it is as it is rumored, then will not the people of Cochin be further south, and the people of Champa further south? If the road is constructed, it will at least relieve the pressure in the two densely populated areas of Fujian Road and Jiangnan West Road. ”

Whether it can be done or not is this cotton.

A simple truth, without money, how to build roads and water conservancy?

Without money, how can officials support it, and how can people rush to go?

"That's so important."

"That is, food, clothing, shelter and transportation, clothing can come first."

"It would be best if that were the case. But what about the North? ”

"Think of the North. This cotton is more important. As long as they resist the cold of the north, the Han people can survive. But the north is more troublesome......"

Zhao Ji was silent.

It's to resist the cold of the north, so what? Yan Yun can't get it back, let alone more north.

The worst thing is that when Song Zhenzong signed the Yuanyuan Alliance, he took a small advantage and became the eldest brother of Liao Shengzong, but in his generation, the emperor of Liao became his uncle! Anyway, they're all a little shorter. If it weren't for Han spiritualism, the Liao State would be the real China (中国. refers to the Orthodox state).

In fact, Wang Ju in the north really has a way to solve it, but it is really troublesome, even more troublesome than Zhao Ji thought. Of course, if it is solved, it may be solved once and for all.

Without him, it would be wrong to say how good China is, and the actual terrain is also bad. For example, in Jiangnan, there is a sentence in Nanliang Qiuchi's "Book with Chen Bo", late spring in March. Jiangnan grass grows, mixed peanut trees. Flocks of warblers fly wildly.

How beautiful the sentence is.

In fact, when later generations read this sentence, they often ignore the situation in Jiangnan at that time, because Jiangdongwei and Taihu Lake have not yet been built on a large scale, and Jiangnan is mostly swampy terrain, full of ditches and lakes, overgrown with wild weeds, and built with miscellaneous trees, and there are few people.

It was not until the construction of Jiangdong Wei and Taihu Wei that there was really a delicate and beautiful style of slanting wind and drizzle, pavilions and pavilions, small bridges and flowing water.

It was not the earth that gave the people this place of wealth, but a group of hard-working people who turned the sea into mulberry fields.

It can only be said that there is an advantage, because of the green mountains, there will be no serious conflict with Western civilization.

However, the main conflict was not the conflict between the Han and the Han people, but the conflict between the agrarian civilization and the nomadic civilization. The ancients had the constraints that the ancients knew, but if they could conquer the north, then they would have the ability to make agricultural civilization the mainstream of the north, at least the northeast.

At that time, there will be Genghis Khan, and the Central Plains civilization will be unstoppable.

But it's really hard, it's hard.

Zhao Ji definitely didn't know Wang Ju's thoughts, he looked at it again, saw the back, and asked, "Wang Ju, how much will this kind of output be?" ”

"Your Majesty, the minister just heard about it, where can it be clear. But there will be about forty or fifty catties per acre. ”

Wang Ju wasn't sure. It should not be bad, first of all, this nutrient bowl transfer method is very advanced, and secondly, it is mostly fertile, and the silt field that has not been cultivated for thousands of years will not worry about the lack of fertility, and finally it will be transferred in Quang Nam, and there will be no situation of water and soil adaptation.

"That's a lot better than hemp."

"It is definitely better than the benefits of planting hemp several times, and even if it is popularized in the future, it is far better than the benefits of planting hemp. After all, hemp can only be taken from hemp skin. But growing it is slightly more tiring than growing hemp, but it is much better than planting mulberry. ”

Among these textile industries, the mulberry silk industry is the most tiring, picking mulberry leaves in spring is a tiring job, and then you have to draw silk, which is also tiring. After the silk is drawn, the thread is also woven and the cloth is weaved.

However, this made Wang Ju think of a sentence, in the previous life, there was a saying that what the Chinese buy will be expensive, and what the Chinese sell will be cheap.

There are too many people, and the consumption is large, and the output is also large.

Just like this silk, among all the price ratios in the Song Dynasty, the cheapest was not gold and silver, but silk. A piece of fine silk is less than two dollars, and some small silk is only a few hundred yuan. A horse is ten square meters, one hundred square meters, how much will it be worth in the future generations? Why, there are too many people who plant mulberry and raise silkworms!

Once cotton is ordinary, the biggest impact is this mulberry hemp. But it would be a great step forward, but when you think about it, it's a long way off.

Walk out of Sangkokuji Temple.

Zhao Ji suddenly said: "I heard something in the palace, I don't know if it's true or not. ”

"What?"

"Han Qi was in Xiangzhou to worship the temple of King Kong Wenxuan, and stayed overnight, and several thieves broke in, raised their knives and said, we can't help ourselves, and ask for help. Han Qi said, the utensils on the table are worth thousands of dollars, and I can give them to you and others. And the thief said, Let him be the ruler of the king, and offer the westerners. Han Qi is neck-leading. The head of the thief said, I heard that the public morality is outstanding, and I came to try it, sure enough, but the public gave a few things, and we took them away, and I hope the public will not leak. ”

"It's a rumor," Zhao Niannu said suspiciously.

Without him, although Han Qi went down, Zhao Ji gave him the right to enter and exit with the prime minister's honor guard in order to appease Han Qi. Even when you arrive in Xiangzhou, it is also heavily guarded, so maybe a few thieves will touch the bed?

Wang Ju thought for a while and said, "It's not necessarily fake. The drought in Hebei is severe, including Xiangzhou, the minister secretly went out of the city the day before yesterday, and there are still some Hebei refugees outside the city, and then the minister talks to them, the situation is very bad, and there are countless people who sell their sons and daughters. Winter is coming again, hunger and poverty, and some people are bold enough to do anything. ”

"Disaster Victim ......"

"Don't worry, as long as you have the heart and get through this year, the situation will gradually improve in the coming year. Besides, look at the snow on the ground. I believe there will be no drought next year. ”

"I hope so."

This is the real repayment of the debt of the father and the son!

"Your Majesty, it will be fine, think about it, with this thing, next year's income from the inner treasury, the year after tomorrow, the year after tomorrow."

Let's eat it bite by bite.

Zhao Ji's face improved slightly, patted Wang Ju's shoulder, and said, "Qing is timely rain." ”

Timely rain? Wang Ju sweated dripping, I don't want to be Song Jiang's brother......

Zhao Ji asked again: "Wang Qing, how much income will there be next year?" (To be continued......) R1292