"Will it take a lot of money?" Yuan Qian asked curiously

Zheng Lang said a financial problem at the beginning, and he didn't dare to say it, but now he sighed for another money. Yuan Qian has been wandering around the place, never entered the center, and does not know much about the situation in the imperial court. It's either a newspaper or a newspaper, but can those two things leak out the core information? The devil believes.

Yuan Qian didn't know what the situation was this year, but the statistics after New Year's Day last year were reported and published in the newspaper, and the imperial court had a surplus of more than 60 million yuan, equivalent to more than 50 million yuan, not a single year, with a surplus of nearly 40 million in the year before last. In the Northwest Campaign for several years, more than 100 million yuan was spent, and the country shouted that it could not bear it. In fact, it didn't cost more than 40 million yuan a year.

Dare him to use this contrast. But it is inevitable that since the imperial court has disclosed that the main local officials below will calculate some small accounts, and some officials even try to ask the imperial court for money and silk to govern the place. If there is no money in the treasury, forget it, can you not be tempted if you have money? It was only last year that the Nongzhi incident broke out, which dispelled the minds of some diligent and patriotic officials.

There's more to come.

Speaking of freight, it often costs 400 wen to transport a bucket of grain to the northwest front, and it is said that it reached 1,000 wen at the peak. This makes Yuan Xuan, a Qing official, incomprehensible, how the money is spent, is it not rice that is transported, but bird's nest dragon meat? Otherwise, how can a bucket cost a thousand Wen. In fact, one-third of the front line is moldy grain and rotten grain, and even good grain is mixed with stones, and one front tooth can be clucked when eaten. Or the dry road is too far, resulting in high freight costs. He didn't want to think about the truth, and he didn't want to think about it. I am in Guangnan East Road, and I only think about Guangnan East Road. Don't want a thousand, and don't want four hundred. As long as the imperial court pays 100 yuan, it has the ability to transport grain from Jianghuai to any place in Liangguang, no matter from the inland river. Or by sea.

Last year, many areas of Liangguang were harmed by Nong Zhigao, and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians died under Nong Zhigao's sword. But in the Northwest Campaign, many soldiers and civilians did not die that year. The two Guangxi used tens of thousands of troops, but the northwest used 300,000 troops. And it is a costly forbidden soldier, an excellent weapon.

Either some roads will be built on Jinghu South Road, which will cost a huge amount, and the total amount of the project will even exceed that of Sanbaiqu, but as long as the front is repaired. There will be benefits later. It is not obvious from the commercial tax alone, there are other chain incomes, which can make up for some of the expenses of the imperial court.

No matter how you calculate it, it's okay for the court to be even. What is the nearly 70 million surplus used for?

Even the bank's dividends have not moved.

It's hard to ask, so I asked Zheng Lang how much money he used.

Zheng Lang looked at him and smiled, and said, "Yuan Yun Envoy, it's not what you think. Last year, the head was exempted from money and additional consumption, and for this alone, the imperial court reduced its income by nearly 10 million. ”

"So much?"

"Remember the Qiongzhou Salt Free Incident that year? The imperial court only reduced the income of one or two thousand salt administrations, but in a year, the imperial court wasted one or two thousand. Why? ”

Zhou Xin said: "People's hearts are too greedy. ”

I was full of emotion. For example, in this battle of pious paths, those heroes have no way to live? In fact, the salt administration and trade law was implemented, and they could also join, but because the income was not as high as that of private salt, they took risks.

Is the imperial court thin on officials? But there are still officials who are greedy for ink. The reason is one word, greed!

"Ji Zhen, don't be angry, you have to understand," Zheng Lang said, but he was also shaking his head, and said: "The treasury is loose, and you also know Your Majesty's character, so the pension became thicker and cost more money." Although the imperial court despised Liangguang relatively lightly, it was just lucky to be able to protect itself in the past. After the Nong Zhigao incident, most of the area was eroded. This is not like the Western Xia, which only fought on the border and did not harm the country. Once in and one out, how much does the country have to spend? Military spending, the wear and tear of the war, plus the cost of road construction. The three of them wrote to me, saying that last year the country was in deficit, and there was an imbalance between the inflow and outreach, and the difference was nearly 20 million, equivalent to 15 million yuan. This picture ...... "Zheng Lang doesn't know whether to open it or not." …,

Open it, it's a magic box, with his own ideas, and the experience of the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties in governing the two Guangzhou, conjuring it up, just a water conservancy, Guangdong South Road will immediately become a kaleidoscope, thriving, but how much money do you have to pile up? I was just scribbled and shocked.

Guangdong, then to Guangxi, and then to Jinghu South Road. There's a lot to come, the Six Towers River! The Liuta River is definitely not good, it is the entire Yellow River. How much money has to be piled up, not tens of millions of dollars, but maybe 230 million yuan.

If the money piles up, the entire Song Dynasty will undergo earth-shaking changes, where can you get so much money?

With a scroll in his hand, he stared at the night sky outside the tent in a daze.

Two crisp partridge cries came from the riverside, Zheng Lang walked out and came to the river, the cool river breeze blew, blowing bursts of flowers. Even though it's only March, it's already hot during the day. It's only at night that I feel cool.

Not far away came a low voice from the river.

Zheng Lang looked over carefully, and it was a few horsemen who were not afraid of the cold and ran to the river to swim.

The partridge began to chirp again.

Zheng Lang suddenly thought of a poem and whispered: "The green tree listens to the pelican, and the sound of the Nakan and the partridge stops, and the cuckoo cuts."

There is nowhere to go back to spring, and the bitter hatred of Fangfei is stopped.

It is not yet reached, and the world is parted.

Immediately the pipa is closed and blackened, and the longer door is resigned.

Look at Yanyan and send it back to the concubine.

The general was in a hundred battles and his reputation was shattered.

To the river beam, turn back thousands of miles, the old man is extinct.

The wind is cold in the west, and the seats are full of clothes like snow.

is a strong man, and the sad song is not thorough.

The bird still knows that it is like a hate, and it is expected that it will cry tears and blood.

Who is with me, drunk with the moon? ”

"What a long and short sentence," Tian Yu praised. But there was a dazed look in his eyes, this poem is easier to understand on Xin Qiji, which is called depressed and desolate, jumping and turbulent, and there is no such pen power in ancient and modern times. put it on Zheng Lang, it makes people a little confused, and they don't know what it means to turn back thousands of miles to Heliang, so people are forever. Could it be that this river beam refers to Western Xia, and there doesn't seem to be this allusion.

Zheng Lang said: "I'm old. ”

The three of them want to kick Zheng Lang, you are only in your thirties and shouting old, how can we live?

Zheng Lang was still very depressed in his heart. There are so many things to do. And he is a pioneer, saying how good Lingnan is, who has seen it? And it's two wide and big. Unlike Taiping Prefecture, which is only a few thousand square kilometers, the entire area of Liangguang is almost 100 times more than the area of Taiping Prefecture. How big is this stall. And he also took into account the whole country, and there were Jiaozhi, Western Xia and Khitan, and the future Jurchen, the burden was heavy and unimaginable to outsiders.

Therefore, when he heard the sound of the partridge, he chanted the song Xin Qiji, congratulating the bridegroom.

"Let's go back and show you this map of mine first," Zheng Lang said. After all, the strength of oneself is small. Even if you have a gold finger, you can't do it. Let's take a look and see if there is any good way to add. Go back to your tent again and open the map.

In fact, it is a water conservancy plan map of Guangnan Road in the future, and there is a detailed description of the relevant text below, which is clear at a glance.

If the water conservancy of Guangdong South Road is repaired, it is basically divided into two irrigation areas. One is the delta alluvial plain area at the mouth of the Evil Creek and Yushui, which must be dominated by embankments. Just like Jiangdong Wei and Taihu Lake Fields. Construct polders and enclosures. Not only can it create a large amount of good arable land, but it also serves to prevent the river from overflowing, or to stabilize the river water and prevent it from being diverted. Some people on Guangdong South Road did this spontaneously, but the government didn't do much to do it. It's a bit messy, and the climate doesn't form. Many of these beaches are also good arable land, which can be used to build seawalls to prevent flooding from typhoons, and to be cultivated normally.

Easier said than done.

In particular, if you want to be strong, you must use stones, not mud, because mud embankments cannot hold back floods. Yushuikou is the later Pearl River estuary, think about the vast and long Pearl River estuary, how many seawalls have to be built. …,

Moreover, the longer and huge Yushui Basin, only the Duanzhou Alum Dike marked and named by Zheng Lang on the map is more than 200 miles long, of course, the benefits of repairing it are also huge, and it can be more than 700 hectares and more than 70,000 acres! There are many benefits, but looking at the long causeway densely outlined with red lines on the map, the three of them were silent together.

Alluvial plains only. Also, the hilly area in the north and the high-pitched area of the Leizhou Peninsula, where the water conservancy is mostly a combination of dikes, and droughts and dikes. The cost of the embankment is not very large, but in these areas, to prepare the embankment, think about the power of the flash flood, and the embankment needs to be stronger, often the cost of the embankment is 100 times that of the embankment, and the stakes are even greater. There are also Pitian Guangdong South Road, such as the Lianzhou Longbelly Pi built during the Three Kingdoms, which can irrigate 5,000 acres of fields. However, at this time, it was very backward, and instead of stone embankments, mud embankments were used, which were damaged by flash floods every few years. Therefore, Zheng Lang was all changed to Shippi, and Pitian spread throughout many areas.

And according to the invention of the Tang Dynasty, Zheng Lang turned it over, using the impact of the torrent to make it rotate by itself, each time it turns, the bamboo tube on the overturned car will bring the water to the high place, and then build a canal to divert water in the high place, and many slope fields can be planted, which is called the car slope field.

Tian Yu muttered: "Zheng Xianggong, no wonder you say that there are one million hectares of land, if you cultivate like this, Liangguang is more than one million hectares." ”

Yuan Qian sighed and said: "It's good, how much silk do you have to use, and where do you get so much labor to build it?" ”

Don't look at the population of Guangnan East Road is denser than Guangnan West Road, in fact, compared with the Central Plains, it is still a sparsely populated place. Except for Guangzhou, there are not many people in other states.

"There is no shortage of labor," Mr. Zheng said.

"Where?" Yuan Qihu asked suspiciously.

"Fujian Road! The area of Liangguang is more than four times that of Fujian Road, but there are only 7.8 million households in Liangguang, while Fujian Road is approaching 1 million households, which is not as many as Jiangnan West Road, and the number of households in Jiangnan West Road is close to 1.5 million, but the area is larger, and there are many plain areas. However, more than ninety percent of Fujian is mountainous, but the density is comparable to Jiangnan West Road, second to Liangzhejiang, but more densely populated than Jiangdong, Liangjing, Lianghuai and Hebei Road. With the most barren and harsh environment in the country, it feeds a population six or seven times the density of the two Guangzhou, you say that in such an environment, if they are given a glimmer of life, and then provide sufficient security, and they are southerners, not afraid of the heat, will more tenants flock to Guangnan East Road? Zheng Lang's heart was very heavy when he said this

The harsh terrain and dense population caused the people of Fujian Road to flock to overseas the most, and the Ping'an Prison opened up some small colonies, and there were actually people on Fujian Road with simple luggage to beg for a living. Forced.

Then he forced the people of Fujian Road to do business and go to the sea. Also, when the Japanese are ......

Tian Yu's eyes lit up and asked, "Zheng Xianggong, can you tell me in detail." ”

"This map is just the information I heard through the information in the Chinese book, and some secret agents. and the maps and materials submitted by state officials. To make it, I had to go down and see it myself. You also have to think about it, and everyone fills in each other's mistakes. When construction really begins, it has to be winter. Miasma is reduced, and there are fewer mosquitoes, so there is no large-scale malaria. During this time, I will use some means to appease the barbarians. And after autumn, the successful planting of the farmers I brought also made these barbarians see confidence and hope, and they will take the initiative to cooperate with us. By the way, the expansion opens up various roads. Make transportation more developed than before. Then, starting in the summer, I mobilized the people of Fujian Road, provided expenses, let them send representatives to come and inspect them personally, and I also had some small plans so that they would not feel afraid of the barbarians. and then provide them with the help of relocation, as for the labor to build the embankment. It was up to them to exchange their labor for the food and cloth they needed before the harvest. After the embankment was built, they were provided with arable land free of charge. There will inevitably be a large number of people on Fujian Road going south, and the labor problem is enough to solve. ”…,

Labor is solved, but it is actually an enhanced version of labor relief.

The people who are willing to come are all bitter haha. The poor people who can't live their lives have migrated and have nothing. If they want to be willing to move, and to survive after the migration, the imperial court must help. It takes labor to build an embankment. The two are carried out at the same time, and the labor solution of building the embankment can also provide the materials for the relocation of people for a year. The best of both worlds.

But......

However, the construction of water conservancy still requires money, and no one is indispensable.

"Can it be divided into several years, more than ten years?" Yuan Qian asked. It is impossible to launch so many projects at once, but it can be carried out in phases, and there is no financial pressure.

"You must do what you can, otherwise there will be so much money? I estimated that if such a project could be implemented, it would cost at least 50 million yuan. If you add Guangnan West Road, 100 million yuan is not enough. ”

"So much?"

"Zizhong, it is a lot, but Liangguang can have three harvests a year, even silkworm raising, in the north there are only two or three silkworm periods a year, the Yangtze River four or five times, and Liangguang will reach six or seven times, seven or eight times! Although the silk in the south is not as good as in the north, it is four times larger. Once fully developed, how many people can be fed will reach at least six or seven million households, instead of the current seven hundred or seventy thousand. Even if the imperial court is light and thin, agricultural taxes, commercial taxes, monopolies, and various kinds of supervision can still bring more than 20 million yuan of income to the imperial court. Tens of millions of people have a way to live and a way out. Compared to this return, how much is 100 million yuan? ”

But the three of them all smiled bitterly, and the prospect seemed to be wonderful, where did Guan Jian come up with such a large batch of money.

Zheng Lang continued: "The reason why I say that the amount of sediment loss over the years is the result of slash-and-burn cultivation and destruction of vegetation. Once it is officially developed, and even businessmen come to Liangguang, I am waiting in Xunzhou City at this moment for me to negotiate with them tomorrow, and the damage will be more serious than slash-and-burn. Sediment loss increases several times, as do downstream river flooding and diversion events. The middle and upper reaches can be taken slowly, but the downstream alluvial plain areas must have a large appearance, and these areas will also benefit faster than Pitian and Sloping Fields. It's just a big look, and how much does it cost? Moreover, now the barbarians do not attach importance to the land, as long as the officials regulate and control properly, there will not be many disputes for the land, once they see the benefits of the land, many barbarians under the preferential treatment of the imperial court, do not know the height of the sky, there will be countless contradictions and conflicts, often make the immigrants can not settle down, serious will hinder the construction of water conservancy projects. So the sooner the project starts, the better. ”

When Zheng Lang said this, he began to rub his head again.

In the capital is starting to plan, to Guizhou and then in the planning, until the pious road, this sketch is fully marked, the battle of the pious road is over, just now I took out the map, carefully calculated the cost, the result is speechless.

"It's a little tricky." Yuan Qian was also at a loss.

Once successful, Zheng Lang doesn't care about political performance, he can care about political performance. The prospect is tempting, but if you can't get the money, it's like nothing.

"There is a way, there is a way, it really doesn't work, you can use the profits of the bank......" Zheng Lang sighed. That is reserved for the bank's expansion of the capital, once used, there are Jinghu South Road, Kuixia Fourth Road, Liuta River, and I don't know that year to expand the scale of the bank. Equally important, the expansion of the scale of the bank will not only make a profit, but also benefit the development of the country's business. For a moment, there is no way to choose. After a moment of silence, Zheng Lang said again: "Please come, first, to discuss." The second is to see, this is the product of a closed-door car, and I want to start construction. It must be supplemented on a large scale, and I do not have the ability to do this alone, so I need you to cooperate with the officials. The second is choice. Those projects had to be started first, and those projects had to be moved later. You can't think about it not in terms of its own economy and returns, but also about its impact on the local community. If it can have a good impact on the local economy or politics, even if the income is low, it is necessary to start construction as soon as possible. That's it, that's the end of today, I'll go down with Ji Zhen for a spin. You will also send officials to check the arrangements, and at the end of June we must settle the matter. ”…,

Yuan Qian smiled bitterly: "Zheng Xianggong, time is still too tight, there is a lack of competent ministers, such a short time, and such a large-scale water conservancy." There are still roads, I'm afraid our strength can't keep up. ”

Zheng Lang touched his chin, thought for a while, and said, "I'll write a note and ask the imperial court to transfer Cai Ting and Yang Cha to assist." They had spent time in Koto and had experience in building polders. Or, I will ask the emperor to transfer Cheng Shimeng, who is not only proficient in water conservancy, but also a good official. Coupled with Zizhong, it will probably solve the problem. ”

The three of them were overjoyed when they heard Cheng Shimeng's name, not to mention anything else, just to control Zhangshui, they could see this person's benevolence to water conservancy.

There was a faint scream in the distance, Bao Kezhi frowned, this group of soldiers was too ruthless, in order to force a confession, all criminal laws were used, which was not in line with the imperial court system at all. But seeing these soldiers gritting their teeth, Bao Ke also felt a little scared and didn't dare to stop it. There is also a benefit, many people confess under torture and interrogation. Seeing that the interrogation went well, Bao Ke simply pretended not to see it, escaped, and squatted in the corner, boys, ask you, I don't know how you asked.

But the four-person talks ended.

In fact, this night's meeting was the first time that Zheng Lang came to Liangguang in the real sense.

The meeting was held the next day.

Before the war, during the war, and after the war, Zheng Lang was actually planning for the post-war period from before the war. It was very effective, the businessmen who came with him, as well as the businessmen who rushed to Liangguang after him, looked at Zheng Lang with admiration one by one. But those barbarian chieftains, looking at Zheng Lang's eyes, finally became afraid.

In order to show their merits, these representatives made some exaggerations after they returned, but these chiefs did not know, and thought that what they sent out their children to see with their own eyes would not be fake, and this time, they felt even more lucky and afraid.

Zheng Lang asked everyone to sit down on the ground, still not in the city, but outside the city. Many civilians also rushed to watch the news, and asked the soldiers to separate the people. Zheng Lang waved his hand, and Cao Beiwei understood, ran to the back and began to command his subordinates.

It was a small airboat, which Zheng Lang drew the drawings and asked Yuan Qian to make them in the past few days, and then asked him to take them to Xunzhou. It is far less big than the one in Bay, and can only carry three or four people. But it was enough, after a while, the airboat heated up and floated slowly, and the wind was not strong, so I let go of the rope and let the soldier drive the airboat to glide freely in the air, and put down a ribbon, and wrote six big characters on it, we are a family.

For the first time, the people of the south saw this kind of thing, especially the barbarians who worshiped all kinds of ghosts and gods, and they fell to the ground in fright.

There are also some barbarians who are perverted.

Without him, with this thing floating in the air, his cottage will no longer be in danger of terrain. Coupled with the prime minister's elusive military skills, it is too simple to deal with himself.

That's what I want.

It is impossible to invite them one by one to talk slowly, but at least a few hundred thousand or more large families, and some have thousands of ordinary people in their hands, and they all have high prestige and appeal in various regions. Their submission can lead a large number of tribes to submission. As long as these tribes can come together, everything will be easy. The method of selling security alone will gradually become ineffective, and some deterrent measures must be added.

That's what we want to do after the war.

Seeing the effect, Zheng Lang smiled slightly and said: "Everyone, you are barbarians, and some people are divided into Yi people, fang people, and Yu people, but they don't like it. Because we are a family, we are all Song people, and we are all brothers, if we divide it so clearly, it will hurt our feelings. ”

He pointed to the words on the ribbon and said, "Before today's meeting, the first thing I said was that from now on, we are a family, and there is no difference between barbarians." ”…,

What a heart-warming sentence!

It was also after a frightening bloody battle, after hearing this, many barbarian representatives beat their chests and feet, screamed and screamed, and some cried loudly, expressing their loyalty to Zheng Lang to the Song Dynasty.

Tian Yu and Zhou Xin stood on the side to observe and learn.

But it is also from Zheng Lang's heart, why should it be so clear, the more nationalities, the more troubles, now there are only two words, barbarians, Tibetans, but later, it is ...... Waving his hand to make everyone quiet, Zheng Lang said again: "Before getting down to business, I'll say one thing first." This is a list, map, and information, which was obtained from last night's interrogation, and a total of eight tribes participated in the murder of the pious path, and some tribes were all in the prime of life, and now they are either killed or captured. But there are still some people in these tribes, but they are far less powerful than before. They are all involved in the rebellion, and these tribes will be handed over to you. But there is one thing, no matter what you do with their property, you are not allowed to use the people as slaves. Beyond that, their people, their property, are at your disposal. And for every clan that is destroyed, a certain one will give you some rich rewards of varying degrees of severity. ”

More than a dozen chiefs were ready to move. They are close to these barbarian realms, and they know more about the places where these barbarians live. They are all poor, there is no prime-age labor, these barbarians have also become lambs to the slaughter, and there are rewards, and they immediately beat Xiao Jiujiu in their hearts.

Tian Yu sighed lowly, this is to destroy the clan.

But I thought of Zheng Lang's post-war, this is also after the war, the blood feud is knotted, there is no room for recovery, the clan is not destroyed, and after a few years, the new man will grow up, which will seriously threaten the safety of the pious path. But if you enter the deep mountains and old forests to fight, if you are not the head of the Song army, the sacrifice will be very heavy, and it will be handed over to these barbarians. After the subsequent war, these barbarians will be more tied to the chariot of the Song Dynasty.

He muttered, "After the war." ”

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