Chapter 641: Wenchen
"Past life?" Wu Chong was stunned for a moment.
Wang Ju explained on the side: "Wang Ju went to Quanzhou, deliberately detoured to Hezhou, searched for two days in Hezhou, and finally stood in one place for a long time. A squire asked, and Wang Ju said that I dreamed that this place was the place where I lived in my previous life. The squire deliberately stammered, indicating that Gong must have been a big man in his previous life. Wang Ju said, in my previous life, I was just a very poor teacher. After saying that, he donated another 2,000 yuan to let the local people organize themselves to build a school and build a few roads. ”
"I know, no wonder those maritime merchants deliberately got five ships of grain to be transported to Hezhou this year, because the water level of the port is shallow, and there was almost an accident. Could it be that Wang Ju really grew up in Hezhou in his previous life? ”
That's.
Wang Qi was happy: "Duke Wu, can you know what you did in your previous life?" ”
Wu Chong shook his head.
"It's about a day to think and a night to dream, Wang Ju is going to the south, and Jiangdong Wei was also built by him in a big way by the imperial court, so he dreamed of this past life."
Wu Chong suddenly woke up.
Wang Ju edited the tome of "miscellaneous" books on mathematics, one is to study arithmetic and shape (algebraic geometry), and the other is to study the laws of change of things.
However, Wang Ju himself did not deny that the gods did not exist, but only believed that the gods might not be the kind of gods that people imagined.
In fact, there are very few atheists in this world, maybe this dream is more real, so that Wang Juxin thinks it is true, and then when he goes south, he really goes to find where his "past life" is.
Where can I find this, so I searched for two days before I found a plausible place. This is where I grew up in my previous life.
But what the emperor is talking about is not the previous life of this divine horse. It means that Wang Ju attaches great importance to this plausible hometown in his previous life. How can you not pay attention to your true hometown, your homeland?
Besides, the Song Dynasty was very prosperous, is it really better to be an overseas king overseas than to be an important minister in the Song Dynasty?
This is Zhao Ji's conclusion for immigrants.
So Wu Chong immediately fell silent.
However, Zhao Ji said again: "In this way, the prince, you plan to ask about the situation of Wang Ju's overseas settlements, so as to avoid unnecessary disputes in the court." ”
"Your Majesty, this is a wonderful strategy." Wang Qi said.
The edict quickly reached Wang Ju's hands.
Wang Ju calmly replied to a note.
Maritime merchants needed the support of the imperial court. With immigration, we can develop overseas, have more overseas production, and make profits. In fact, this Wang Ju has said it before, but he said another thing. There are also many powerful countries overseas.
In another time and space, the Yuan army had sent an army to expedition across the South China Sea of Java and the country of Yanpo, in Daha, the king of Gelang Ha Ge led an army of 100,000 to fight, three battles and three defeats, Ha Ge had to surrender. However, because the Yuan army was small. They didn't adapt to the local climate and couldn't stick to it in the end. Fight and retreat, and escape from the South China Sea. On that expedition, the Yuan army suffered few casualties, and it seems that only 3,000 people died.
However, this also illustrates several problems, the military strength of the South China Sea countries is not good, otherwise the dimensional army will be defeated miserably. Secondly, these countries should not be underestimated, and even if they are defeated, they are not easy to conquer. Finally, these countries are also relatively densely populated, otherwise they would not have raised 100,000 troops to fight.
The Yuan army also committed the illness of the Song Dynasty and despised it, and when they heard that spices were produced in the South China Sea, the army did not send it, so they incorporated the South China Sea into Fujian Province, do they know how big the South China Sea is......
Now the same is true, in the main channel of the South China Sea, that is, on both sides of the Strait of Malacca, there have been some powerful countries, although not as good as the Song Dynasty, but can resemble Jiaozhi.
Therefore, Wang Ju said that if the Song Dynasty could destroy Jiaozhi, the Song Dynasty's maritime merchants in these countries in the South China Sea would also be respected. But if it can't be destroyed, it will make them despise, and trade will be difficult in the future.
The impact is a little bit, but it's only on the Champa side.
However, how did the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty know? Besides, Wang Ju is about to do it, and he doesn't have time to verify it.
Therefore, the maritime merchants donated grain and borrowed silk from the imperial court, so that the Guangnan army could quickly wipe out Jiaozhi.
This is called a win-win situation, the court should not think too much, think too much, and make things too complicated, but it is not beautiful. As for why the maritime merchants borrowed silk, so many people migrated overseas, and at first they had to feed them, provide supplies, and build ships, although they were quite profitable, but the expenses were also huge, and they probably didn't have much money in their hands. This is the goodwill of the maritime merchants, and it is also the management of the maritime merchants, since they promised to repay it in two years, let them go. Besides, now there are nearly 1,000 seafarers and thousands of seagoing ships, how much does it cost? Are you still afraid that these millions of silk loans will not be repaid?
However, how to plan overseas, the maritime merchants also have their own group lines, and the imperial court can issue an edict to ask Ge Shaohua in Quanzhou, which has nothing to do with me.
The imperial court may not believe it, but Wang Ju has to dissociate himself.
You can't let the imperial court really think that it controls all the maritime merchants and immigrants, and then the trouble will really come.
Then Wang Ju talked about the migrating people, and this drought caused more people to migrate.
But if they don't migrate, will they starve to death? It is because so many destitute people have migrated that I heard that many people in the southeast have starved to death.
Why did such a tragic situation occur in the land of fish and rice in the southeast with a slight disaster? Overpopulated.
This is not the case, mainly because the imperial court has transferred the grain from the southeast to the north, and there is not much grain storage in the local warehouse. Otherwise, with the grain production in the southeast, even if there are disasters for two or three years in a row, many people will not starve to death.
Moreover, these people migrated overseas, their consumption was limited, and they had to send money back every year, and how many relatives and relatives did they support?
Wang Ju wrote the chapter and sent someone to send it to the imperial court.
But it did not explain how the silk loan was used, as well as the recruitment and training of troops in Liangguang now, and such a large-scale market on Guangnan West Road. There is no need to explain, otherwise where is the right to act cheaply?
However, the imperial court issued a wise edict this time.
Approved Wang Ju's admonition.
From then on, as long as the grain was transferred from the north, whether it was commercial grain or national grain, as long as it was not transferred to foreign countries (referring to the Wa Kingdom and Goryeo), no city or city department could extract it to relieve the grain pressure in the north.
Permission was granted to the two provinces to hire sea vessels to transport cotton. The City Ship Division is also not allowed to carry out any extraction. But only for official cotton. If there is a sea vessel transporting illicit cotton. Once it was found, all the grain on the ship was confiscated.
In order to facilitate the exchange between the north and the south, the commercial goods traded in the country are only extracted from the port of departure and the city of the port of origin, and then by virtue of the extracted Zhu copy, to any other shore, the city of the port is not allowed to carry out a second extraction.
"Shaobao, this is good news."
"It is indeed good news, and it has relieved the people's strength. It is also conducive to business prosperity. ”
"Shaobao, I mean you can sell the ship."
With these three edicts, as long as Wang Ju's fleet did not intervene, it would be able to feed at least three or four hundred large sea ships just for domestic business. Don't go to foreign countries, just run around in the north and south cities of China, and you can also mix a bite of food.
So Huang Hua ti yì sells boats.
On the other side of shipbuilding, there is no need to buy timber, and many laborers are free slaves, so the cost is only equivalent to 30% of the domestic price.
Hundreds of ships. You can make millions of dollars.
Wang Ju shook his head and said, "Domestic affairs are managed by the country, and we don't interfere." Besides...... Contentment. In fact, the lack of money is the cost of the war, as well as the cost of resettlement of immigrants. The military expenditure is only two or three years, and the cost of immigration will be reduced next year, and you can still expect a major disaster next year? However, some backward ships are eliminated and sold cheaply. If we don't get involved, we will need a lot of cargo ships next year, and now it is too late to build ships. ”
"Whoa."
"Immediately post this edict with a dew cloth throughout the territory, and then send people to explain its significance to the rich people in Guangzhou, so that they can prepare as soon as possible. The shipbuilder can be built now. At least while I'm here, I'll be able to collect a little more tax. ”
"Hahaha." Huang Hua Yile.
The three edicts were quickly posted throughout the territory of Liangguang.
Many officials almost burst into tears when they saw Lubu, and the heavy labor of grief was finally relieved.
Time passed.
The weather is getting cooler, and it can only be said that it is not so hot, and it is impossible to be as high and cool as in the north.
The winds also began to turn, and Quang Nam began to move troops overseas on a large scale.
Until mid-winter, nearly 80,000 native soldiers were transported before and after. The rest are trained in Yongzhou, Qinzhou, and Guizhou, also just in case.
The court also knew about this matter, and some ministers vaguely guessed the truth, but they didn't know how to say it. It's not okay, the first is that the soldiers who went to overseas training did not come back, and they couldn't find evidence. And if there were no servants "hired" from overseas, how would Wang Ju build the front gate, build bridges and pave roads. Without building bridges and paving roads, the villages on Guangnan West Road are still in a state of blockage, so the imperial court will not be able to govern, and the people of the villages will be in a state of poverty because of this blockage. If you are poor, you will go down the mountain and plunder. Only Wang Ju has this big money and does this.
Say okay, really good?
Let them not know what to say, and Quanzhou.
Ge Shaohua did a good job, at least the people of Quanzhou thought that Ge Shaohua had Xiao Gui Cao with the wind, and he inherited Wang Ju's great rule well.
Yet so many people have migrated overseas.
It seems that there are more of them than last year, because the sea merchants have built many more boats and launched them, and most of them are large magnolia boats.
What can they say? It seems that doing so makes them very repulsive.
But the benefits are obvious, the population is too dense, migrating overseas is indeed to give these destitute people a way to live, because with these immigrants, the maritime merchants only paid a large amount of extraction in a year, which brought an increase in commercial taxes, but also brought a huge income to the inner treasury incense, and these immigrants also sent back a large amount of money every year, not only to feed many inland people, but also to bring a lot of income to the post department. These incomes are so huge that it can be said that the accumulation of these incomes can buy these people.
This was the view of the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty.
Cochin's view is different.
They also found out that Wang Ju recruited a lot of native soldiers, but their information was limited, although Wang Ju did not suspend commerce, but the inventory was strict, and the merchants of Jiaozhi came, so they could only take the designated road and operate in the designated place, if they went out of this line, they would be arrested immediately, and they would be sent out of the country with a hundred heavy rods.
Although there were still some scouts who bypassed the investigation in the name of merchants, infiltrated the Song Realm, and found some information, it was ultimately limited, and it was impossible to be unimpeded like Su Mian at that time.
Therefore, it is wrong to believe that Wang Ju's practice is actually a disguised way to let all the ethnic groups in the six southern states hand over Ding Zhuang in their village and make him a hostage, so as to ensure their loyalty. But does it work? It is not the children of these chiefs who are sent to serve as soldiers, and they will betray when they should betray, it can only be said that Wang Ju did this, purely because of the stupidity of many people.
However, the thousands of cavalry trained by Qu Zhen in the southwest of Qinzhou made them a little jealous.
Then what I heard was that Wang Ju sent a large number of manpower, with the support of the military offices of various states, to trade with the barbarians of various villages and complement each other. But this kind of trade is not only Wang Shao's simple profit-making transaction, such as the production of various knives in the left and right rivers, according to the type of nationality and divided into knives, knives, knives, knives, often big knives are given to people, but small knives are never given away because they are carried with them. However, the knife made zuò is particularly sophisticated and full of ethnic customs.
Under the persuasion of Wang Ju, many villages began to make knives, and Wang Ju also got leather and gems, and asked them to make exquisite scabbards, which were made by barbarians, and Wang Ju only sent people to guide them, because they made zuò from their hands, so that kind of taste. But for Han craftsmen, that's the same thing.
With an exotic style and a beautiful scabbard, the knife immediately became tall and tall, and when it was shipped to the north, it immediately became a bestseller.
Moreover, the people sent by Wang Ju also repeatedly persuaded that with Shaobao's Chenguang on Guangnan West Road, you should work hard to get better, otherwise if you leave, you will never have this opportunity again.
This is also a fact, at the moment it is a profit-seeking business, but this king of profits is not a big deal, and it will also be taken away by other businessmen in the future, Guan Jian used to let businessmen seek this profit, and no one was willing to come. As soon as Wang Ju left, these managers and economists who had gone around overseas also withdrew. When the time comes, if you want a merchant to come, you have to have something in your hand. Those merchants don't send people to teach them carefully, and they may not be able to teach them well.
Another example is the barbarians in Yizhou, slash-and-burn farming, that is, when winter comes, put a fire on the mountains and forests, and use this plant ash as fertilizer for crops......
If God doesn't take a stand, there will be several rainstorms in a row during the spring flood, and all the seeds will be washed away together, and there will be no food in the autumn, so they will go down the mountain to be bandits and robbers, and the government can't ban it, and we will eat.
Therefore, Wang Ju sent people to persuade patiently, and then transferred the people who had been taken captive, built roads and weirs for them, and even took the initiative to build terraces for them and set up cylinder trucks to divert water. Then let them exchange their own specialties for various farm tools, in fact, sometimes they are operating at a loss, what to do, fall behind to that share, the production that comes. Sometimes when encountering difficult tribes, Wang Judu had to put down his frame and go over to persuade him in person.
What's worse is that the local people have many backward concepts, such as cattle, cattle are raised in many areas, and they also know how to use domestic horses to cooperate with wild horses to improve horse breeds, and some high mountainous areas still raise southern goats. But these high-priced horses, the barbarians did not know how to trade, and the cattle did not know how to use them for farming, but because they "cherished the oxen", they used treadling plows to cultivate. So what is it to raise horses and cattle, to eat! Or sacrifices.
Like the Qiang people in the northwest, many barbarians are "noble breeds", Wang Ju is to go south as an official of the Xifu Zai, and do well, many tribes have planted Wang Ju, Wang Ju came down, led the cattle and horses out, and wanted to slaughter the cattle and horses to entertain Wang Ju.
This made Wang Ju speechless.
So Wang Ju issued an order, and the state and county officials had to find ways to change some of the backward concepts of the barbarians.
If anyone can't let go of their body, I'll write a letter to impeach someone!
Therefore, in the eyes of Jiaozhi people, Wang Ju is quite similar to Fan Zhongyan, focusing on defense and people's livelihood, but it seems that he will not take the initiative to attack Jiaozhi. That is to say, Wang Ju is a qualified minister, but he may not be a qualified general, perhaps the battle of Gyeongju was exaggerated by the people, not commanded by Wang Ju, but fought by various generals, so that Wang Ju took the lead......
Fatally wrong idea! (To be continued......)