Training, Wang Ju's first thought was Liu Changzuo, but Liu Changzuo was training in Hebei and could not come to the south. But Yanda is not bad, and he is also a good general.

Using Yanda to train soldiers, Wang Ju is 100% assured, and Yanda's ethics are not bad, Wang Ju was not very familiar with it before, he only knew that there was such a general who could fight, and it was not until after Gyeongju that Wang Ju paid more and more attention to it.

There is no problem with training, but there is a problem over there.

So Wang Ju changed his way and said: "Before coming to Guangnan, I sent someone to investigate. ”

"The prince is more ...... than Guo Gong" Yan Da did not say any further, the only person who really made contributions in the first battle of Jiaozhi was Yan Da, and he was punished after the war, but Yan Da was rewarded, and Yan Da did not accept it, and begged for the same responsibility. Such a gentleman will never deliberately step on his former boss in order to tie up with Wang Ju.

But the meaning is also revealed, Wang Ju is more powerful than Guo Kui, at least before fighting, you have to investigate.

Don't say that the other party is a country, it is a group of bandits, if you don't investigate, blindly go to fight, and if you don't get it right, you will suffer a big loss.

"General Yan, I understand, don't say anything about Guo Gong, not only Guo Gong, but also Su Mian, don't say it in the future. I will only talk about the lessons of this battle, and I will send someone to investigate. Previously, Su Yi sent someone to ask Liu Yi for help, but Liu Yi refused to send troops under the pretext of the imperial edict. Then Liu Yi saw that the momentum was not right, and it was too late to send troops. Why, since the imperial edict ordered the two Guangxi to be prepared, Liu Yi also recruited some border troops. Plus some armor, the number is almost 50,000. However, there were more than 30,000 native soldiers in the hands of various big lords and big barbarian chieftains, and when Liu Yi was ready to send troops, Jiaozhi had already invaded the interior in three ways. These lords and the barbarian chieftains are here to protect themselves. I didn't obey Liu Yi's orders. ”

And not only barbarian chieftains. There are also large landowners of the Han Chinese.

Therefore, Wang Ju said that the entire Guangnan West Road was like an independent kingdom.

"Therefore, the first problem, if I prepare weapons and armor and train troops on a large scale, but the measures are inappropriate, not for the imperial court, but for these lords and barbarian chieftains, I will be even more unruly in the future and will not listen to the transfer of the imperial court."

"Princely ......"

"Phew, Shaobao. It's more intimate that way. Wang Judao. Now there are very few people who dare to call him Ming Gong, so almost all of them call Wang Gong, this title makes Wang Ju feel very uncomfortable, I am not old yet.

"Well, Wang Shaobao, this is really important, and they can't underestimate it. Jiaozhi could not attack the city of Yongzhou for a long time, so he divided 20,000 troops to attack Binzhou and Wuyuan, which were defeated by the territorial soldiers led by these local heroes. Jiaozhi had to turn around and return to Yongzhou City, after breaking through Yongzhou City. Slaughtered all the people of the city, and then plundered them in all directions. The people and property were plundered, and they were also attacked by some powerful territorial soldiers one after another. Only then did Jiaozhi stop and return to Jiaozhi with hundreds of people and property. Therefore, when I talked to Yao Lin in the army, I said that if these tens of thousands of local soldiers obeyed Liu Yi's orders, and there were no mistakes in command, maybe they would be able to defeat the 80,000 Jiaozhi troops, and such a tragedy would not have happened. ”

This is impossible, the Song Dynasty did not have that official on the West Guangnan Road who could be so prestigious, and could command all the barbarian ministries.

Besides, if tens of thousands of local soldiers are handed over to Liu Yi for command, can it be guaranteed that there will be no mistakes?

In fact, the defeat of Yongzhou is mainly due to Su Mian's self-abolition of martial arts, not another time and space, this time and space Wang Ju reminded, the imperial court also supported a lot of armor, and then Liu Yi asked Su Mian to send his men to Yongzhou, Su Mian not only did not lead, but disbanded many native soldiers, and abolished his martial arts, otherwise there are enough weapons and armor in the city, and there are nearly 10,000 native soldiers of all kinds to defend, how can Jiaozhi succeed?

But Su Mian is already dead, and Wang Ju has also said it, so there is no need to catch a dead person and let go.

"Wang Shaobao, if the imperial court does not send a large army, Shaobao, you can't deal with these barbarian leaders like you did with those Murong clans, otherwise there will be a big mess. In addition, the number of recruits I am worried about is also difficult to achieve, and the population of Quang Nam West Road is indeed very sparse. ”

Including the migrants of Kapok, the number of households on Guangnan West Road is only about 200,000.

Of course, there is more than that, otherwise it would be impossible for Lu Shu to raise 50,000 native soldiers in Yongzhou.

However, Wang Ju rushed from Yongzhou to Guizhou, deliberately observed, and then made an estimate, that is, the real number of households in the entire Guangnan West Road, including Shengman, the actual number of households is only about 400,000, and it will definitely not exceed 500,000.

There are fewer people, so there are many places where a large amount of corruption is piled up, so the so-called smoke miasma is heavier, the Han people are not happy to migrate here, the local barbarians because of the lack of communication, backward civilization, slash and burn, life is difficult, so the population is less and less, forming a semi-closed tribe.

And the three states that have been hurt, Yongzhou is the confluence of the left and right rivers, Qinzhou has the Qinjiang Delta, Lianzhou has Yan Pingyuan, the latter two states are also close to the seashore, not to mention Yongzhou, Nantong Jiaozhi, Xitong Dali, if Guizhou does not have a Lingqu, commerce is not as developed as Yongzhou. All three states were relatively civilized, but most of the people in these three states were either killed or taken into exile. This undoubtedly increases the difficulty of recruitment.

However, Yan Da still believed in Wang Ju's wisdom, so he only raised this difficulty and did not question it.

Wang Ju smiled and said: "General Yan, don't worry, I sent someone to carefully calculate, for every soldier recruited, I will give him about 30 yuan of commercial goods a year, one is that they themselves are in short supply of commercial goods, and the other is such a discount, if it is properly managed, in fact, I only need to pay about 20 yuan of cost to achieve, which is equivalent to saving one-third of the cost." Moreover, some tribes are backward in giving money, and the usual transactions are barter, and the people do not know how much money is worth. ”

"Some areas are really backward." Yan Da sighed, falling behind beyond his expectations.

"But I can't hand over these goods to the families of every soldier, including future transactions, which are all traded with their leaders, and the goods are also handed over to their leaders for distribution. General Yan, guess what's going to happen? In fact, the leaders are good, the officials are all the same, some leaders do care for the people in their villages, but there are very few such leaders. Most of the leaders are distributing the merchants' fairs, will they deduct them? ”

Yanda faintly grasped something.

Wang Ju didn't sell it, and said: "As long as it is deducted." They have reaped a lot of wealth in disguise. A soldier deducted half of the gram. It is equivalent to deducting fifteen pieces of merchandise in a year, what if it is a hundred soldiers, what about two hundred soldiers? Then it's 3,000 a year. You have also seen the living conditions of some underdeveloped villages on Guangnan West Road, which are even inferior to some backward cottages in Huanzhou. 1,500 or 3,000 yuan, and in the past four years, so many will be deducted every year, do you think these leaders will be tempted? ”

"That's right, life is cheaper here. To put it mildly, it doesn't cost fifteen yuan, and five yuan can buy a human life. ”

"Second, as long as they persuade Ding Zhuang in the hands of each village to come to be a native soldier, if we have the ability, transfer them out for training, and then tell these things vaguely, there is no leader to deduct them, we can't do anything about them, but that's it. No matter how backward their thinking is, they can love the people in their villages. It's still worth supporting. If the soldiers had been detained, and the soldiers had us gathered together for training, would they not have been as loyal and supportive to their respective leaders as they had been? So if I pick a dozen, or one or two hundred of the worse leaders, and severely punish them as a deterrent, will the situation of the independent kingdom style of Guangnan West Road change? ”

"It seems like a way to do it, but where's the training camp? It's best not to let them not go back for a year or two, and the deduction is too much, so that they can have a strict attitude towards their respective leaders. ”

Yan Da asked this question and bypassed.

"This is the difficulty at the moment, there are fewer troops, and it is impossible to quell Jiaozhi. However, there are many troops, and the cost of troops is expensive, but the financial resources of the two regions are limited. Even the Kapok Division transports the kapok to the north for sale, and the proceeds from the sale are transported to the treasury of the three divisions in the capital, which is actually the income of the three divisions, and the two Guangxi in turn use other revenues to subsidize the resettlement costs, water conservancy costs, housing and cultivation utensils costs, and grain loan costs for the first year. Although the Kapok Division is generally profitable, it has put more financial pressure on the two Guangxi provinces. ”

However, Wang Ju did not object, if the imperial court could not benefit, it would not pay attention to the south.

Just like in the beginning, many ministers were also opposed to migration, some were bewitched, some had ulterior motives, and some were indeed out of public interest, no matter how they were settled, such a large-scale migration would inevitably cause some bad phenomena.

But as the profitability of Kapok Division increased, the opposition became smaller.

It can be said that without the Kapok Division, the imperial court may not agree to him coming to the south and preparing to run Jiaozhi.

It's just that in this way, the financial resources in Wang Ju's hands will be more tight.

"The powerful people in various places ignore the majesty of the imperial court and do their own thing, just like an independent kingdom, and the imperial court decrees are not smooth, so in this case, the training is not good, but it makes these powerful people unable to get rid of their tails. Both of these problems are very strict, so I thought about it and there was only one way to solve it. ”

"How?"

"You will know if you go to Yongzhou immediately, by the way, the first priority now is to build the various forts and forts in front of you, although Jiaozhi has suffered heavy losses this time, and the south is at odds with Zhancheng, but they are a country after all, with tens of thousands of soldiers."

"Wang Shaobao, this is also difficult, where is the labor at this time?"

"I have also arranged the labor affairs for you, and you and the general manager can inspect the various dangerous passes with confidence."

"What's that method?"

"You'll know when you get to Yongzhou," Wang Ju said again.

With Yanda's temperament, he may not be happy, but let Yanda slowly think about its importance, there must always be a trade-off, heavy here, light there, Yanda can finally agree.

Yanda left with a stomach full of questions.

Wang Ju crouched on the table and wrote the second sparse note.

This sparse performance has nothing to do with the military, but is about the Kapok Division and the City Division.

The price of cotton has fallen even more sharply, a pound of lint is only about 200 yuan, in fact, this is still a high price, until a pound of lint 3 to 50 yuan, that can enter thousands of households. However, it will take a long time to fall to that share, after all, cotton is only planted in the south, and it has gradually spread to the north of Wuling, which is still far away from the Yangtze River Basin, not to mention the north, which has a cotton seed evolution process.

Although the profit has declined, the volume has risen, so the profit of the Kapok Division last year almost reached nearly 6 million yuan.

So Wang Ju couldn't figure it out, where did the money he made over the years go?

In fact, it is also simple, the income has increased, the use of soldiers is a little more luxurious, the armor is more complete than before, the rewards and pensions are also more, and the salaries of officials at the grassroots level have increased slightly. Then the treasury expenditure also increased. There is also his people-oriented letter, the imperial court transported a lot of grain from Bashu to the southeast, although many people in the southeast lived, but that transfer cost a lot of money.

There are more and more children of the clan, they are all in captivity, the inner treasury has money, the treatment has been slightly increased, and the expenditure of the inner treasury has also increased.

If you squeeze it, you will have a lot of money left over in a year, and if you loosen it, you will spend a lot more money in a year.

Because Wang Ju is not above the court, it is not very clear.

Of course, the financial situation of the Song Dynasty can be said to have basically improved since this year, even if there is another drought.

Wang Ju is talking about this kapok.

The first thing to talk about is not kapok, but grain. The population is increasing, and although Wang Anshi initiated the farmland water conservancy law, which has enabled many people to feed, the fertile land in the north is limited, and the grain production in the north is very low.

The further back on, the more there is a shortage of food, and the imperial court now relies on the southeast for supply, but the people in the southeast are increasing faster. Therefore, it is necessary to turn our attention to Lingnan, and as the number of people who migrated increased, these people also planted a large amount of rice themselves while growing cotton for the imperial court.

Although the scale of migration is not as large as before, some people have flocked to the south to survive. And maybe the imperial court gets Jiaozhi, if there is a capable minister to govern Jiaozhi, where is the land of fish and rice, and the crops can be harvested three times a year.

But it is not easy to transfer grain to the north, at least not slowly from the Lingqu to the north, because the consumption is too great. Therefore, the imperial court could find a way by sea.

Now it's not that there are no ships, but that the city has made a hateful extraction.

Grain is also a commodity, if it is a sale, the grain is transferred from Quang Nam, and the city ship department comes to extract one-tenth, and when it is unloaded in Mizhou or Hangzhou, it is extracted again, and one-tenth, if it is handed over to the merchants, they have to pay one-tenth of the extraction. In fact, there is a huge price difference between Guangnan and the north of Guangnan and the north, which is about 250 wen per stone in the capital, and about 200 wen in other regions.

If there is no such extraction, some sea ships load grain from Guangzhou, arrive in Hangzhou or Mizhou, and then unload the southern goods and grain for sale, and then bring the northern goods to the south, although the profit is low, but in the case of the ship is not fully loaded, by the way, there are still maritime merchants who are willing to transport some grain to the north. For example, when the price of grain in the north was high, the imperial court could use taxes or purchases to transport grain along the developed waterways of Guangnan to the port of Guangzhou, and then hire sea ships to pull it to the north, so as to regulate the price of grain and give the people more ways to survive.

However, because of this hateful extraction, as well as the freight, the loss, and the fact that the port of the city does not reach the destination, it has to be transported to the place of sale by guò carriage or river boat. That's hardly any profit deposited.

Wang Ju also gave an example, in the sixth year of Xining, Wang Ju asked the maritime merchants to prepare grain for the imperial court, and also raised some grain from Lingnan, but before loading it on the ship, the city ship division extracted one-tenth. But fortunately, after arriving in the north, there was no such thing as the city.

This is disaster relief food, and it must also be extracted.

So this question is to be considered by the court.

Moreover, this extraction itself, not grain, other commercial goods is even more so, the single extraction seems not high, only one-tenth, but the Lingnan goods are brought to the north, in fact, it is a disguised payment of thirty percent of the extraction.

Because in order to avoid this extraction, some merchants are reluctant to do so, or smuggle at sea without going through the hands of the city.

Wang Ju hoped that the imperial court would adopt his practice in Quanzhou, which was equivalent to reducing the extraction rate by half in disguise, but the reduction by half must reach a certain amount, which also stimulated the maritime merchants to gather goods in disguise, although the extraction rate declined, but the amount came up, and also cracked down on some tragic incidents formed by smuggling, and the communication between the north and the south was also conducive to the development of the economy in various places.

Not only grain, but also kapok, after Wang Ju arrived in Guangnan, he found that this kapok was very sad...... (To be continued......)