Wang Ju first wrote about Xihe, not how to operate, but for the horses.

Can the horse raised by the common people go to war?

But getting Xihe is different, you can use Wang Shao's policy of changing the city to encourage the Tibetan people to raise horses. But the imperial court must not interfere, the Han people are in charge, and the Tibetan people raise horses, and there will be disputes. However, it can motivate them to raise horses, although the reproduction ability of horses is not as good as cattle and sheep, but its price is high, and raising horses is still more cost-effective than raising cattle and sheep. The officials then exchanged the scarce supplies of the Tibetan people with them, and the Xihe River could become an important base for horse breeding.

The second is the soldiers, because getting the Xihe River is equivalent to invisibly getting a lot of pastures, and the imperial court can send some forbidden soldiers to the wheel, but the time of the rotation must be long, and they must be specially trained into real cavalry, not the current forbidden cavalry.

Here Wang Ju mentioned one more thing, the biggest enemy of the Song Dynasty was still the north.

However, Hebei Hedong has been in peace for a long time, of course, this is a good thing, but the disadvantage is that the army and the people are not accustomed to fighting.

Not only did the people of Hedong and Hebei gradually become unaccustomed to fighting, but the combat effectiveness of the forbidden soldiers also became very poor, including Wang Shao's opening of the border, which used more archers and soldiers along the border, and did not use many forbidden soldiers.

Once there is a police in the north, it will be like the Anshi Rebellion, because the people of the Central Plains are not accustomed to fighting, the Tang Dynasty Yulin Army degenerated, and the elite Tang Army was in Qinghai and the Western Regions, so Gao Xianzhi, Feng Changqing, and Ge Shuhan were transferred, but they still couldn't beat An Lushan.

The fatal thing is that the capital of the Song Dynasty is in Kaifeng, and there is not even a room for maneuver.

Therefore, it is necessary to cultivate an elite forbidden cavalry in a timely manner.

Maybe Wang Ju said now, everyone still didn't take it to heart, but soon the Khitan saw the catastrophe of the Song Dynasty. was dragged by the Hee River again. So it's time to rip off the bamboo again.

Therefore, it is not my race. It is not unreasonable that his heart will be different. Looking at the Song Dynasty again, there was a great drought in Liao, and Song Zhenzong deliberately let the victims in the Yanyun area come to the Song Dynasty to eat, and entertained them warmly, and sent special personnel to escort these victims back after the disaster.

But the Liao State is okay.

After the First Sino-Japanese War, in the 32nd year of Guangxu, it was heard that the Japanese country had a disaster. The Qing Dynasty immediately sent 100,000 yuan to help the Japanese disaster. In the 33rd year of Guangxu, it was also the year of the famine in China, and the people of their own country could not eat enough, so the Japanese country sued with floods, and exported 600,000 stones of rice and grain to the provinces of Jiangsu, Anhui, Zhejiang, and Hubei.

What an international sentiment this is.

The difficulties of the Japanese state were overcome, and then tens of millions of Chinese lives were rewarded......

And then it continues.

And this blackmail finally brought the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao State to complete destruction in history.

Wang Ju was working hard to reverse the fate of the Song Dynasty, and he even made a two-handed plan. But this blackmail is just an opportunity for everyone to listen.

If the forbidden army is a little stronger, there is a border army in Hedong, Hebei that can really be sent to the battlefield, even if the Jin people go south, it will not be so easy. As long as you can hold on. The Jin State got the Liao State again, so it degenerated faster. There is no danger hài.

This is the first thing, from the horse to the soldier.

The second thing is about Cochin.

In April last year, Xiao Zhu of Zhiyongzhou saw that Wang Shao had won a high-ranking official because of his meritorious service to Hehuang, and he was very envious, so he wrote that although Jiaozhi was a tribute, it was really a disaster for a long time, and if he didn't take it now, he would be worried about the future.

It happened that Jiaozhi fought against Champa and was defeated by Champong, so Zhao Ji summoned Xiao Zhu to the capital to inquire.

After all, before the Song Dynasty, the traditional power of the Han people had always been as far east as Yumen Pass and north as the Great Wall, including the Lingchuan Plain, just like the Qin Dynasty had officially ruled and managed the North and South Hetao regions. In the northeast, it goes to Pyongyang and southern Liaoning. To the south is Cochin. When the rest of the strength is large, it can reach Iraq, and in the north, it can reach the Khingan Mountains outside Lake Baikal, but it can only be regarded as a bondage, not a direct governance. Therefore, in the eyes of the people of the Song Dynasty, Jiaozhi should be taken back even more than Dali.

Zhao Ji asked about the specific strategy of attack, but Xiao Zhu couldn't answer. Then Shen Qi, who served as the judge of the Guangnan West Road Branch, wrote again, saying that there was no undesirable reason for Nanjiao to be a clown. It is to know Guizhou from Shen, if there is a side matter on this road, it will be disposed of by the special committee of the Economic Strategy Division and have to hear.

Wang Ju is in Quanzhou, of course, he doesn't know about it, even if he has big fingers, it is impossible to remember everything clearly, just remember, because the changes brought about by his appearance, some of the history is completely different. This is the place where he has been staying, and if he enters the two mansions, the changes will be even greater, until he is unrecognizable. Of course, what you want is to be unrecognizable.

However, he knew about this great drought, and he knew that it would continue until next year, along with Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Wang Ju could silently pretend that Wang Anshi fell into the mud pit, but he couldn't silently watch so many people being starved to death, so he made some preparations in advance.

Although his ability alone is limited, he can save as much as he can.

Last year, he began to buy grain in Lingnan, and then exchanged it for huàn rice with commercial goods in Jiaozhi.

In the third year of Xining, Wang Ju sent out several disciples together and secretly did something. Among them, Huang Liang and Lu He let go to Lingnan, and their public mission was to teach the people to plant sugarcane, summarize the technology of sugarcane to increase yield and sweetness, and preside over the production of sugarcane. In addition to this mission, there are also two covert tasks, one is to inquire about overseas intelligence, and the other is to inquire about Jiaozhi's intelligence.

In the fourth year of Xining, Wang Juqingzhou won a big victory, but at that time he felt bad, don't talk about him, from Di Qing to Zhang Kang, and then to Wang Shao, after making great contributions one by one, he may be promoted in a short time, but soon they were all hidden in the snow.

Cai Ting was just a privy deputy envoy, and Zhang Qi was just a privy councillor, and then he died, otherwise he would have suffered the same fate as Wang Shao soon.

So Wang Ju set his sights on the south.

He then sent a letter to Huang and Lu to inform them that Zhu Yajun in the south of Qiongzhou Island would fund the construction of a port.

In fact, there is also a small harbor for small merchant ships and fishing boats. It is on the basis of this port that the expansion will be carried out.

Where is the emperor far away now, give some money to bribe, plus Wang Ju still has a little prestige, and the local officials dare not stop it.

As a result, the port became a transit point.

In the future, this port will have a big use, but this Wang Ju has not been leaked to anyone.

Huang Lu and the others set out from Guangzhou and entered Jiaozhi posing as ordinary merchants. Find out about the enemy. It's best to see for yourself.

While exchanging food with the Cochin people. While paying attention to the situation of cochin.

At this time, Cochin, in turn, really thought that they were ordinary businessmen, and sent someone to inquire about them. As a result, the two pretended to be stupid, and the Jiaozhi spies didn't get any news, but let them get some news.

That is, after Jiaozhi heard the words of Xiao Shen and the others, he felt very angry, and he despised us too much!

Wang Ju said about this matter, he has no evaluation of right or wrong, if he continues to treat Jiaozhi as a territory that has been temporarily cut off. The Song Dynasty intended to take it back, and it did not do anything wrong. If Cochin is regarded as a real country, it is slightly controversial. After all, the Song Dynasty just said and didn't really do it.

Wang Ju reported the matter on the fold, saying that Jiaozhi might strike first.

This is not Huang Lu inquiring, but Wang Ju himself made it up, it can't be regarded as a fabrication, Jiaozhi will indeed be preemptive soon.

Therefore, Yongzhou immediately built a city defense, strengthened vigilance, and trained native soldiers. Just in case.

Don't run Jiaozhi, take care of your own affairs first.

See here. Zhao Ji was at a loss, could it be that Jiaozhi also dared to invade the Song Dynasty. That's not, although the Song Dynasty is big, there have always been very few troops in the south, and even Nong Zhigao wants to be the emperor of the Great Southern Heavenly Kingdom, and he has a toe.

Moreover, the measures taken by the Song Dynasty to buy security undoubtedly also encouraged the expansion of Jiaozhi's ambitions.

The third is that under the organization of Wang Ju, more than 200 sea ships will be sent from Guangzhou and Quanzhou, loaded with more than 3 million stone rice, wheat and bean millet, and a small amount of pickled pork and mutton. ”

It may be that later generations have some misunderstandings about ancient Chinese navigation.

The best era of navigation, everyone thinks that it is the Ming Dynasty, that is wrong, navigation began in the Tang Dynasty, but the Tang Dynasty forbade the people to go to sea, and there were not many maritime merchants who really participated in navigation. From the Great Cannibal and Persian. However, because of the advanced civilization, although the sea ships of the Tang Dynasty in the early Tang Dynasty were not as good as the big food ships and the South China Sea ships, but later they came to the top, and gradually the Quanzhou ships became the most advanced sea ships.

When Zheng He went to the West in the Ming Dynasty, there was no doubt that the technology of sea ships had reached its peak, but that was an official act, and it was a gift of silver. As a result, after Zheng He went to the West seven times, the economic burden of the Ming Dynasty was heavy, and some ministers were angry, so they burned the drawings of Zheng He's treasure ship, and then banned the sea. This prohibition was born.

Therefore, the best age of navigation was the Song Dynasty, although it was not as large as Zheng He, but it benefited the country and the people. Although the scale of a single time is not as good as Zheng He's fleet, the total scale is not known to be many times that of the Ming Dynasty. The ancient shipwrecks salvaged in the South China Sea later can also prove that 70% of them are shipwrecks from the Song Dynasty, not from the Ming Dynasty.

The second is the comparison with steam ships, which may not necessarily be very slow, but if the ocean currents and monsoons are conducive to navigation, the actual sailing ships are also very fast, and the maximum speed can reach more than 20 knots per hour, which is better than the speed of the advanced merchant ships of later generations. Therefore, some businessmen said that if the wind and water from Hangzhou to the Wa Kingdom are smooth, it can reach the Wa Kingdom in three days, less than 2,000 nautical miles, as long as the speed of more than 20 knots is maintained, it can be reached in three days.

But it has a lot of restraint, so it has to rely on the monsoon, and once it goes against the wind, it has to be dumbfounded.

Therefore, even if you go to the Wa country, it only takes ten days to go back and forth, and you can only sail once a year, and it will take a year and a half to get to Dashi.

If the voyage cannot keep up, it will inevitably be replaced by more advanced steam ships.

Unless it is a light boat that carries people on oars, but sailing is for cargo, not for making money. How many sailors does it take for a ship to paddle against the wind with a full load of cargo?

The third is the economic contribution of navigation to the Song Dynasty, if it is negligible on paper, the tax revenue of the Northern Song Dynasty City sometimes did not even reach 1 million guan, and the Southern Song Dynasty only fluctuated between more than 1 million guan and 3 million guan.

Therefore, the famous poet Fan Chengda once built yì, the Tibetan people are indispensable to China's goods (porcelain, silk, tea), but China does not need the goods of the Tibetan people (glass, spices, pearls), and the income is not high, and the people have risks, so the construction of yì closed Mingzhou and other cities.

Ancient literati, where do you understand?

But why did later generations say that the navigation of the Southern Song Dynasty accounted for one-sixth of the economy of the Southern Song Dynasty?

This economy is not directly attributed to the city, but to the indirect pull, these porcelain silk tea has to be grown. Produce it. will feed a lot of people. It will provide a lot of taxes for the Southern Song Dynasty.

In addition, the power of the city shipping department is limited, most of the cargo ships have not entered the port, and they use small boats to unload the smuggling of goods and evade taxes, such as in the Northern Song Dynasty, we saw that many large sea merchants often have millions of yuan, or even tens of millions, and they are rich enough to rival the country. With the customs tax rate of the Song Dynasty, there are so many maritime merchants who draw it down like this. How many tariffs do you have to have?

Also, Fan Chengda ignored an invisible income, that is, the exclusive franchise of spices in the inner library, and the maritime merchants brought in jewelry, tortoiseshell, rhino horn, ivory, coral, agate, and spices, all of which were purchased by the city's shipping division, and the price was okay, otherwise the maritime merchants would be scared away, and then handed over to the inner library to sell, and its profits were very amazing, in the late Northern Song Dynasty. This alone brought more than 10 million guan income to the Song Dynasty, just in the inner treasury. It has nothing to do with the three divisions. At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, almost half of the military expenditure was squeezed out of maritime merchants. But this income is not visible in the books of the city.

Therefore, when the ships arrived at the port, the city shipping department generally held a banquet to entertain everyone on board, including sailors, to encourage them to take the initiative to pay taxes and extract money, and second, to bring income to the country.

Moreover, the common people were encouraged to bring foreign merchant ships to the port, and if the total value of the unloaded cargo ships brought exceeded 500,000 yuan, they were rewarded with nine official positions. If the officials of the city department attract investment in a good way, they will be promoted to one level for every 100,000 yuan of income they bring to the country.

If the officials of the Municipal Department of Shipping do not follow the regulations to collect more taxes or make random purchases, and scare the maritime merchants away, they will be fined 100 yuan in silver and demoted to the second class.

There are also many regulations, such as the Song Dynasty people engaged in navigation, ships were too expensive, so many people partnered to build ships, or chartered ships, and the city shipping department took the initiative to register them, one is to prevent them from killing each other overseas for profit, and the other is to avoid economic disputes.

In fact, in the final analysis, it is this money that is important. But people don't care about what they have overseas.

However, after Wang Ju arrived in Quanzhou, he quickly pushed this voyage to the peak.

The company's book income has been doubling, reaching more than 900,000 yuan last year alone. This is the book, and as for the profit made by the inner library because of the spice pearl tortoiseshell coral, it is even more unimaginable. Not only Quanzhou, but also Hangzhou and Guangzhou, led by him, tariffs are also surging. Especially in Hangzhou, it has also more than doubled, who made Zhang Qi a good friend of Wang Ju.

Not only has the extraction of the market surged, which was bought back, but also sold, and before and after these entry and exit from the port, they had to be taxed one after another, which led to the rapid growth of commercial tax revenue.

But there was also a new dispute in the middle, and that was the migration of people.

Under the impetus of Wang Ju, there were more people who sailed and the scale was large, so there had to be overseas bases, so Wang Ju encouraged the people to migrate overseas. The conditions of these maritime merchants are also good, of course, if the boat needs to be paid, calculated by household, a family of 100 yuan, ten years to repay, but if you work overseas, to ensure that there is an annual income of more than 100 yuan, if it is farming, then to a hectare of arable land, ten years exempt from any taxes, if it is grazing, will also allocate a large amount of pasture, and will also loan grain and livestock to the people, the interest is one cent per year.

But the most exciting thing for the people is that in addition to these ten-year tax exemption land and pastures, or high salary income, and risk compensation, there is also a promise that if you go to the local area, if you are not satisfied within a year, you can let the people come back, and do not charge any boat fares and food and drink expenses. In the event of an accident, compensation will be made as follows.

But after three years of settlement, if you want to come back to visit relatives, you have to pay 100 yuan for each trip, after all, the cost of sea ships is high at this time, and you have to pay for food and drink on the way. On the ship, and on the sea, everything is expensive.

And these conditions can be written by both parties to the government before boarding the ship.

That is, the conditions on the other side of the strait are indeed very good, otherwise there would not be such conditions.

This made the bigwigs in the DPRK and China curious, Zhao Ji wrote an edict to ask, and Wang Ju replied that there are many borderless lands overseas, and the area is unimaginable. The reason why the maritime merchants did this was that once the people migrated too much, whether the imperial court should send people to manage it, the maritime merchants did not dare to predict it, and if they really sent people to manage it, it could only be handed over to the imperial court. So only 10 years of tax exemption were promised.

Managing overseas?

Everyone broke out in a cold sweat together, even if the court had this heart, that official was willing to go? Then it's better to go to Lingnan to be an official.

So Zhao Ji replied with an edict, if so, please instruct those merchants to treat the people well. Moreover, the risks at sea must be prevented.

Wang Ju also replied, saying that please rest assured, although there are risks at sea, maritime merchants are exploring various routes. Try to avoid hurricane season. At the same time, seagoing technology is being improved. The actual accident rate is not necessarily higher than that of the Yangtze River ship.

Moreover, under the persuasion of Wang Jujie, the maritime merchants also signed an agreement with the migrants, and if there was an accident, each family could compensate their relatives and relatives left behind in the mainland. It was also stipulated that when the local area was settled, they should immediately write a letter, and then be brought back by sea ship. Moreover, Wang Ju warned the people again, and each of them secretly agreed with their relatives before migrating, and made a mark on the letter. In case the maritime merchant sent someone to write a letter back pretending to be a relative after an accident.

There is another flexible regulation, if the spices and pearls brought back by the maritime merchants are smuggled, there is no way, if they are not smuggled into the port, they must be bought by the inner treasury.

The inner treasury did not pay copper coins, but mostly exchanged silk, porcelain, tea and other materials, or gold and silver with maritime merchants.

Therefore, if the people had a harvest overseas, when they paid for the silk gold and silver of spices in the inner treasury, the maritime merchants took a part of it and distributed it to their families.

Why is it that maritime merchants are counted as households, as long as they are one household? Whether it is one person or ten people, they pay a hundred ferry ticket fees.

This is intended to encourage the whole family to migrate.

But in the end, it's overseas. Except for those people who really can't survive, the rest of the people are willing to go overseas with all their families?

As a result, most people have families and dependents staying in the mainland.

Then, in the following year, many people did write back, and some began to reap a great harvest, and the merchants did not embezzle their gains, but sent them to their families one by one with the silk and gold and silver paid for by the inner treasury.

However, it was also fortunate that the post reform was implemented, so that ordinary people could communicate, and at the beginning the implementation was mainly for the Kapok Division, and the implementation of Fujian Road was the best, otherwise it would be difficult for the people of each household to contact.

Wang Ju also attached some family letters collected from the people at the back of the fold, and used them to prove that although the people went overseas, they did live well, and even the treatment of the migrants was several times better than that of the migrants of the Kapok Division.

But that's when the controversy began.

With such a push, there is no doubt that many poor people have fled overseas.

First, it affected the relocation of Kapok Division, and second, it affected the local monasteries and powerful tenants, and some people wrote to impeach Wang Ju.

Wang Ju replied with another note.

He first talked about the population density, such as Huanqing and the two prefectures, including the Tibetan people, will not exceed 60,000 households, but the number of households in Jianzhou, Fuzhou and Quanzhou alone has reached more than 600,000, and its density is almost seven to eight times that of Huanqing and Quanzhou!

Not only these three states, including the entire Fujian Road, Liangzhejiang Road and Jiangnan West Road, are too densely populated, so the people cannot support more children, and many parents drown their own children alive, including Zhang Dian was almost drowned by his parents, and the Zhang family is still a relatively good family in the local area. But Wang Ju didn't say anything, after all, he had to give Zhang Duan a little face. And now this situation has spread to Huangzhou and Ezhou.

The land is limited, and the people are infinitely multiplied, do you want this miserable situation to continue to occur and expand?

In fact, it is to migrate some people to leave Fujian Road, and the population density of Fujian Road is too large, so they plan to draw half of it, as long as their father does not drown his children alive, or it will be restored again in 30 years.

But how can it be possible to extract half of it, so how many households do you have to have? How many ships do you have to use to load, how many people do you have to settle them, do the maritime merchants have this ability?

The reason why the monasteries are against it is because the more densely populated and the tighter the land, the more valuable the land they own. If there is less land and more people, the treatment given to the tenant farmers will be poor, and they will be more profitable. As for the people drowning their children, they don't care about their.

However, after migration in these two directions, there will be a situation where the population density decreases, the desire for arable land decreases, and the value of arable land decreases, so the number of annexations gradually decreases. Because the number of the common people was decreasing, it was impossible for these big landlords and monks to cultivate the land themselves, so in order to be able to hire the people, they had to gradually improve their treatment so that they could keep the tenant farmers. Isn't that what you desire?

In fact, Wang Ju said it to Zhao Ji before.

The biggest crisis of the Song Dynasty was poverty and weakness, and there was an even greater invisible crisis, that is, the population was expanding violently, and there were more than 14 million households in the household register alone.

This is the most fundamental reason for the frenzied annexation of cultivated land.

Like in the early Song Dynasty, the price of land was so cheap that people were afraid of people, and the rate of return on investment land was low, so how many people would spend a lot of money, or use all kinds of means to annex with their conscience?

If this continues to develop, once the number of households in the Song Dynasty doubles again, without foreign invasion, the Song Dynasty will be finished. Because it is impossible to feed such a large population. This is very fast, if there are no other accidents, at most seventy or eighty years, the population of the Song Dynasty can be doubled.

Moreover, the opposition of the local Haoqiang began as early as the Kapok Division, so Zhang Dian also deliberately discussed with Wang Ju, and then launched the post reform.

Wang Ju deliberately reminded again, yes, the local Haoqiang is against it, although the sea is not as terrible as the people say, but there are indeed risks, even if Wang Ju was in Quanzhou during this time, he heard that several sea ships had accidents. But it's better than letting the people drown their children alive.

In any case, this kind of self-family planning of the people is indeed too miserable.

And Zhang Dian used to do a survey for the Kapok Division, five out of ten households on Fujian Road have done this, in this era in addition to making a fuss about the women's safety period, there are almost no scientific contraceptive measures, even the safety period may not be safe, and pregnancy will be carried out at every turn. So this miserable thing is indispensable to think about.

Therefore, Zhang Dian said, although there have been some deaths in the migration to the south, it is much less than this mortality rate, is it not that these babies are human lives?

What else did Zhao Ji say.

However, under the instigation of Wang Ju, the number of migrating people was very staggering, and almost more than 20,000 households disappeared from the household register, and even affected the west road of Liangzhejiang. This is only the number of public households, and there are a large number of hidden households who have escaped, and these people are the people who really can't survive, and they have also migrated out. But these people can't be counted.

However, the local officials were a little in awe of Wang Ju, don't look at Wang Ju when he arrived in Quanzhou, but after he made a fuss, six or seven bigwigs in the court, including Sun Gu, were degraded and dealt with, Chen Xiang almost disappeared, and even Wen Yanbo's resignation was faintly related to Wang Ju.

And this migration did not start when Wang Ju came to Quanzhou, but in the winter of the fourth year of Xining, some merchants began to do it. It's just that after Wang Ju came to Quanzhou, he further expanded it in order to evacuate the local people and give everyone more life.

Indeed, the land of Liangzhejiang Road and Fujian Road is more tense, especially Fujian Road, because there are many people who go to sea, not only for navigation, but also for fishing, so there are many people who believe in gods and worship ghosts, and a large number of monasteries are produced. But these monasteries are the most greedy, and they occupy almost a quarter of the arable land on Fujian Road.

However, after Wang Ju's promotion and further evacuation, the situation gradually improved, which was also easy to manage.

Moreover, because of Wang Ju's promotion, the commercial taxes of the local government have surged, and now the performance of the Song Dynasty is linked to the economy, and the emperor does not speak, so from the officials in the capital above to the officials below, everyone has turned a blind eye together. I didn't expect that a bigger reward would come so soon. (To be continued......)