Cotton was launched by Wang Ju, and the early practice was to persuade the people of Fujian Road to Lingnan, but not to Lingnan there were cotton fields or grain fields, although many places were vast and sparsely populated, and some states only had a few thousand households in the household register.

But these fields are just like Jiangdong Wei, they are all under the water, they are swamps, they are lakes, so they must be enclosed by embankments, some slopes and mountains, and weirs must be built to have irrigation water sources and cultivate.

Therefore, Wang Ju asked Ge Shaohua to work for relief, so that these people, as well as the people initiated by the officials of Guangnan East Road, worked together, and according to the labor, distributed the expenses for the resettlement, including the food, seeds, tools, materials for building houses, and some cattle.

Then it was purchased by the inner library and transported to the north for sale. After the people had cultivated for the Neku for ten years, the cultivated land could be used as their permanent land, that is, their private land.

Wang Anshi took back the third division, and the Qingmiao Law had not yet been launched at that time.

At the beginning, it was still a form of labor relief, distributing materials for the resettlement of the people, but Wang Anshi made a new adjustment, that is, to characterize these fields as official fields, and all these people became tenant farmers, but they became tenant farmers of the imperial court.

The reason for this is to prevent smuggling, and if the people do not hand over the cotton to the government, but sell it to the smugglers, they will immediately get rid of this "official land".

After the rise of the Qingmiao Law, Wang Anshi issued a new order, that is, those who are not enough to provide labor relief, or those who are not highly motivated to work, will deduct the cost of their resettlement, or return to their ancestral land and continue to stay, this fee will be given by the imperial court, but it is only in the form of loans, and some people who come in the spring are also in the form of loans. Repay after the fall. and repay the two dividends.

There are officials who object. But it is true that some people are lazy and have also contributed to work, but they are grinding foreign workers.

Later, smuggling could not be stopped, so Wang Anshi issued two orders in succession, except for the cotton fields of the government, the rest of the people were not allowed to plant kapok, which was to prevent some powerful and powerful people from going south to make profits.

But it still didn't work, and some powerful people hung cotton fields on the names of the Li people. You have a kind of forbidding the Li people to grow cotton!

So Wang Anshi issued a second order, banning all processing workshops in the Kapok Division, and no longer processing them in Guangnan, but transporting the seed cotton to the Central Plains and setting up another workshop for processing. Look at how you hang the name of the Li people, what they sell is not cotton, but Li cloth. If you sell Libu too, I don't see it......

Or also transport the seed cotton back and process it in the mainland, then it will be easy to check. However, it still didn't work, and some smugglers got the craft and decottoning equipment later. It is deliberately transported to some remote mountainous areas, and then hired people to process it.

In the past few years, I have been fighting wits and methods.

The strangest thing is that some Quang Nam officials actually support smuggling.

There are many reasons, to be precise, the purchase price given by the imperial court is relatively fair, but it is inevitable that the officials in some areas will deduct the money, or use guò other means to exploit in disguise, so the people will not get much. You must know that planting cotton is more difficult than planting rice, and the entire growth period needs careful care, including seedling, fertilization, insect control, stubble, picking, especially picking, which are all done manually. Often a family planting five acres of cotton will be too tired to rest. Coupled with the exploitation of the officials, the people will live more bitterly.

There are also different perceptions in the eyes of ordinary officials.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation, only at the beginning it was a luxury, no one cared, with the popularization, it has become a civilian goods, clothing, food, housing and transportation in clothing.

However, because the imperial court set up the kapok division, it was almost equivalent to a franchise, and the price of cotton has been high.

If an ordinary family in the north plans to have a family of six, and wants not to be frozen in winter, two beds, one cover and four quilts, plus cotton clothes, with the current lint price and fabric, it will take at least more than 20 yuan to buy it.

Third-class households can barely afford to buy, but how many households below the fourth-class can afford more than 20 yuan in cash?

Finally, there is the service!

In fact, for the first two, Wang Ju didn't care too much, what he cared about was this battle.

If the imperial court does not make a profit, the imperial court will not pay attention to it, and if the imperial court does not pay attention to it, how can Guangnan be developed?

Even if the imperial court is liberalized, the price will still be very high because of the output, and not all the fourth-class and fifth-class households will buy it. In addition, there are high freight costs and processing costs caused by inferior processing technology.

At least now is not the time to let go.

If you want to let go, you must wait for cotton to spread to both sides of the Yangtze River, and it will take at least ten or twenty years later.

Now the Kapok Division is not meaningless, so that the imperial court gradually attaches importance to the south, and more people have migrated, and they have brought more advanced planting methods and production processes, which can effectively change the backward situation in Lingnan, at least in many areas of Guangnan East Road, because the changes brought by these migrated people have become much better than the original situation. Even if it is liberalized in the future, the cotton process will probably be mature at that time, and with cotton cloth, the imperial court can collect taxes like Bashu (referring to the high cost of transporting grain from Bashu to the Central Plains, so the Song Dynasty replaced taxes with silk silk).

Besides, Wang Ju now thinks of the sea route.

But what made Wang Ju unbearable was this battle.

It used to be an errand officer, but now it is a conscription. But the money for the conscription still came from the people.

Moreover, Guangnan West Road is different from other roads in the Song Dynasty, it is divided into three parts, one part can be effectively managed, the second is semi-effective management, and the third is unmanageable.

Only those areas that are well developed and effectively managed can be taxed.

As a result, the imperial court had to find ways to reduce its expenditures, including errand service, officials, and garrisons. This in turn caused Lingnan to fall behind more and more backward, and the defense force was also very poor.

Even some later generations of brick families said that the barbarians kept rebelling and rioting, saying that the Song Dynasty was oppressed, the taxes were too heavy, and they were fucking bullshit.

Those who dared to rebel and riot were all Nong Zhigao and others, let me ask if the Song Dynasty levied geometric taxes on Nong Zhigao? Could it be that offering them to the top of their heads as ancestors is a good national policy!

It is possible that there was a dispute over taxation, which led to a riot. That's not because of the heavy taxes, but because these tribes are lawless, and you Song Dynasty dare to levy my taxes. Let's rebel.

Even if it can be managed in the area. Taxes are not too heavy. However, it is true that it is very poor here, and even if there is a little tax, it will be heavy. The areas that could be managed, that is, those loyal to the Song dynasty, were burdened. If it can't be managed, it is undoubtedly a burden on the unruly backward areas of the Song Dynasty......

This is certainly a deformed tax policy.

So Wang Ju also has to find a way. Lenient pressure on the people of these administered areas.

But the emergence of Kapok Division is the opposite.

The price of kapok is gradually falling, but the income is steadily increasing because the volume is rising. Today, there are more than 1 million mu of cotton fields in Liangguang, of which one-third has been smuggled, but two-thirds is still owned by the Third Division.

And in order to prevent smuggling, the imperial court has become a seed cotton transportation, one is to prevent smuggling, and the other is that cotton seeds are also multi-purpose, and seed cakes can fertilize the field. In fact, it can be sold for money. There are also many uses of cottonseed oil, and it seems that this kind of oil is inedible. Wang Ju didn't say it, but he said that it can light oil lamps, and at the same time it can maintain weapons and light oil lamps, so it won't be much cheaper than vegetable oil. This can be sold for money again......

However, in this way, the weight of cotton transported to the inland every year has tripled, reaching almost 200 million catties!

Think about it with the current traffic conditions, first use the car boat to transport it to the big boat, and then use the big boat to go up the river, and then load it onto the small boat, Lingqu is a little better here, and the rivers on the East Guangnan Road have to be unloaded again, and the car and horse are used to cross the Wuling, and then loaded into a small boat to transport to the main stream of the Ganjiang River, and then loaded on a big ship and transported to the north, how much labor will be used?

It was a conscription, but the money for the conscription was apportioned by the people.

In Guangnan West Road, if you dare to apportionment more, then you will only be forcibly arrested and given a small salary.

As a result, some officials wish that someone would smuggle it, and the more smuggling it is, the lighter the burden on the people in the territory will be.

Therefore, Wang Jujian could not do this, but requisitioned the cotton and traced it down the river, and the water system in Guangnan was developed, so it could be transported to Guangzhou at a very low cost. 200 million catties, even if you use the largest ship in Lingqu, it is only 1,000 stones, and you have 2,000 voyages, and it is still slowly winding along the river, and accidents are continuous. Moreover, this production will increase year by year. However, hiring sea ships to transport, a hundred or dozens of large sea ships will solve the problem.

As long as it is not extracted, although the risk of transporting cotton is higher, that is, there will be more compensation disputes due to the high price after the accident, but it is enough to give it 300 wen for freight. In fact, the calculation of the accounts is still more cost-effective than turning over from the inland, and at the same time, it also relieves the pressure on the people of Guangnan Road.

After Wang Ju finished writing, he sealed it with fire paint and sent someone to the capital.

Qiong Niang said: "Officials, why are there so many smart people in the imperial court, no one thought of it? ”

"This can't be blamed on the imperial court, the actual cotton goes up the river along the rivers of Guangnan, and then down the rivers of Ganshui and Xiangshui, and there is the risk of the Yangtze River, and the accident rate will not be lower than that of transportation by sea. But China is a landlocked country with a natural fear of the sea. ”

"Indeed, when there is wind and waves on the sea, I am really afraid of people, by the way, official, after hearing that you are gone, many people on the banks of the Luoyang River rushed to Quanzhou City and cried like tears."

This refers to the autumn of the previous year, coupled with the big tide flood, the sea water is pouring back, the entire coastal area of the Luoyang River in the northeast of Quanzhou flooded, disaster relief is like fighting fire, Wang Ju took the officers and soldiers to the officers and soldiers, and went down to the disaster together. The disaster was a bit big, with countless homes left empty and many people trapped in the water.

Wang Ju led a group of sailors to row a boat and save people one by one.

He doesn't want to endure hardship, but the disaster is so big, the number of people who can be drawn out in Quanzhou is limited, and he is so tired that he can't do it, he doesn't take the lead in motivating morale, leading by example, how to cheer up the people below? In fact, the truth is the same as fighting with the army.

However, he was an official after all, and although he was sturdy, he couldn't endure the hardship, and after saving him for a few days, he fell down tired. The victims took turns carrying him back, and he fell asleep on the people's backs.

Wang Ju rode away first, but the news could not be hidden, especially when Qiongniang left Quanzhou with a group of servants and students from her family, hundreds of people flocked to the side of the road to see him off, and many people who were saved on the banks of the Luoyang River also rushed over and cried.

But it is not as good as Gyeongju, and there are still many ancestral halls of Wang Ju in Gyeongju, and the incense is very vigorous.

Then Zeng Xiaokuan wrote a chapter, the sedan chair was carried together, Wang Ju stretched out an olive branch, he also had to stretch out a friendship hand, so he said this in the chapter, and praised, on the merits of internal governance, Wang Ju can be compared with Huang Ba, the first local good official in the Western Han Dynasty.

It's not too much, some officials have done a good job in the local area, but they are not very good in the center, such as this Huang Ba, who is Taizong in the local area, and the Taishou who has done the whole world is dumbfounded, no less than Wang Ju. But Huang Ba doesn't have a golden finger, which can only show that he really uses his heart. However, when Huang Ba arrived in the court, he was not a first-rate prime minister. When you get to the court, you not only have to be attentive, but you need higher wisdom, just like Han Xin commented Liu Bang, Your Majesty, your military talent can only lead 100,000 soldiers, and the minister, the more the merrier.

Wang Ju is now in the local area, and he has used his achievements again and again, proving his worth.

However, after entering the two mansions, it is difficult for anyone to judge.

Qiong Niang said again: "If it weren't for the officials, who would think of the sea." In this way, the fleet can get another batch of income. ”

"Qiongniang, we can't earn this money, but give it to other seafarers."

"Why?" Qiong Niang asked puzzledly, not to mention anything else, immediately this military fee will make Wang Juju painful.

"If you don't want people to know, unless you don't do it, this mention is out of my own mouth, the court is afraid of so many people who have migrated, what will they think when they learn the truth? Don't think about it, this is just for the sake of the people, and the communication between the north and the south is also conducive to the development of the south. Not to mention anything else, let's just say that the countries of the South China Sea, those small countries near the main waterway are relatively developed, and those small countries and small tribes far away from the main waterway are very backward, and they are not as good as the barbarian people in the old mountains and deep forests on Guangnan West Road. ”

"Official, it's very ...... to do this"

"Unyielding, remember, no matter what the overseas development becomes, the roots are in the Central Plains. Without this root, there is nothing. Unless the overseas Han people can multiply to tens of millions, tens of millions, then civilization can be re-established. But how many years will it take to get there? ”

"The concubine body is just talking, and the official can have this status, and the concubine body is also satisfied."

"That is, contentment is the only way to be happy."

"I'm afraid that the court won't agree."

"It doesn't matter, the third envoy is Shen Kuo, I often have correspondence with him, and what I said is the truth, which is beneficial to the country, why doesn't he agree? Let's go out for a walk. ”

The couple walked out together.

Qiong Niang sighed again: "The scenery of Guizhou is so beautiful." ”

Guizhou is Guilin, and the scenery is of course good.

"That is, do you want me to have a chance in the future to take you to see Zhangjiajie, Stone Forest, Shangri-La, where is the fairyland on earth."

"Where are they, why haven't the concubines heard of them?"

"Zhangjiajie is in the north of Chenzhou, where is Wulingman, the stone forest is in the Luomeng Department of Shanxian Mansion, and Shangri-La is in Shanju County."

"What, what," Joan said with a smile.

Where is this all gone, is it a fairyland or a hell, can you go? Is it to enjoy the scenery or to die? Besides, the last two names sound like the names of Dali, what are you doing in Dali?

But the clever Qiongniang was also negligent here, Wang Ju not only called out the scenic spots, but also called out the county capital they were in Dali...... (To be continued......)