Lao Wang said that he was very embarrassed.

As his heart, do you want to do something to redundant officials? I want to get my hands dirty too. In fact, in history, redundant officials, redundant soldiers, and redundant politics, he has done everything. But you can't do it now, this action is purely a job to offend people, do you still want to be in the position?

So Wang Anshi said: "Your Majesty, there are too many officials, but if you want to cut the grace and shade, you must discuss it with the prime ministers of the two governments. ”

It seems that nothing is said, but everything is actually said.

Your Majesty, do you still want the minister to be better, better to be, don't consult with the minister about this reduction of grace, don't want the minister to be better, then let the minister say, the minister will say.

"Slowly," Zhao Ji also laughed dumbly, he was in a hurry.

Actually, this year is much better, there is an 8 million, and there is no 8 million, that is a different thing. At least the Hebei disaster can allocate some money for disaster relief, not like last year, people, you can find your own way. That's what history has done. Helpless, there was no money, so the officials continued to pretend to be deaf and dumb, and did not even issue an edict to stop the next year's taxation as they did in the first year of Zhiping. But now with these eight million, the imperial court has successively allocated some money for disaster relief, and issued an edict to exempt the people of the state and county from two taxes in the coming year.

There is also an income to come.

Cotton products arrived.

The actual cotton harvest began as early as late July, but that was on Quang Nam East Road, not in the capital. It will also be turned into cotton products, and then moved to the capital step by step.

This time, he was imprisoned by a eunuch surnamed Neiku Zhao, and he also brought two secret letters from Su Lishe and Lu Jujian.

Cotton has nothing to do with the treasury revenue for the time being, so Lu Jujian's twists and turns do not need to be reported to the East Mansion and the Third Division. Of course. The two governors are also aware of this matter. The inner library is the inner library, and the inner library is also empty, and last year it was forced to be helpless, and the salaries of the children of each clan were slightly deducted. The inner library also needs to replenish blood.

Zhao Ji first opened Lu Jujian's secret music.

Lu Jujian didn't show his merits, and he didn't need to show them, if this thing was done, he would naturally have great merit, so he only said one thing.

Zhao Niannu is kind. Of course, Lu Jujian didn't know, thinking that it was the kindness of the imperial court, and he purchased some coats made of quilts and cotton clothes from Li Bu, which was conducive to the stability and unity of the two Guangzhou, and the officials of the two Guangxi raised their hands in agreement. But Su Lishe had no money in his hands, so he had to take out money from the income of the two Guangxi to pay in advance.

However, this amount is very small, mainly the original quilt, that is, the quilt, without a cotton sleeve, transported to the capital. Then let the eunuchs of the inner library find the merchant group in the capital and negotiate the price. Then it will be sold by the merchants, otherwise with so many quilts, what can Neku have to sell them all?

In fact, from the beginning of the construction of the siege and the construction of water conservancy and the opening of the tun, the money and silk brought by the inner treasury have long been used up, and the Guangnan East Road began to be paid in advance as early as the summer, and even provided a lot of unpaid labor to help the inner treasury. Of course, in the long run, ten years later, these lands will still be handed over to Quang Nam East Road according to the contract, and the inner library will only be temporarily operated.

Anyway, it's a.

In addition, the transportation of cotton, taking the Qianzhou private salt road, this private salt road is too famous. The output of salt in Guang is large, but most of them are mixed with Han and barbarians, so the salt law cannot be implemented, and the trade law can only be implemented, so the salt price is low.

Qianzhou belongs to Jiangnan West Road, with Huai salt, and is Yan salt, think about the cost of Huai salt to Qianzhou, plus a method, so the two places formed a huge price difference, many Guangnan East Road and Jiangnan West Road unscrupulous businessmen colluded with Wuling's barbarians to sell Guangyan into Qianzhou, or Jinghu South Road.

When the trouble was terrible, he once led the Haoqiang of the eight states such as Chaoguang to almost make a move, and also led a large-scale uprising, and the Yang family did not deal with the other minister Yang Jin, and finally the court used the method of recruiting an to resolve the crisis. Later, the imperial court successively sent many good ministers to deal with it, and the situation eased a little, but the illegal salt on these private salt roads was still not eradicated, and there was no way to eliminate it, and finally everyone simply turned a blind eye......

The official road of the imperial court is from Henan to Hubei, to Hunan, and then to Lingnan. However, there are a lot of private salt roads, from Longchuan water or Shixing water to the river, when can it not be navigable, when to go ashore, over the five mountains, into Ganshui or Leishui and Xiangshui, through Jiangnan West Road and Jinghu South Road states and counties.

This time, Ge Su's second trip was mainly in the Longchuan water area, close to Fujian Road.

More than 1,000 hectares of cultivated land have been reclaimed, some of which are "reserved for themselves" and distributed to immigrants in advance to grow grain and vegetables, and the remaining nearly 1,000 hectares have been planted with cotton.

Therefore, there are two roads, when spring comes, the sea ship will be transported to Hangzhou at once, or even directly to Mizhou. But that will have to wait for the monsoon, and this winter will be missed. Therefore, we can only take this smuggled salt road, go up the Longchuan River, and then walk more than 100 miles of mountains from the shore, enter the Ganshui River, and then transport it to the capital by boat. It is easy to do when you reach the boundary of Qianzhou, and the largest inland river official ship base in the Song Dynasty is in Qianzhou.

However, if you want to operate for a long time, you must widen and flatten this road, and send two battalions of native soldiers to defend it, even if you don't want to do it privately, it will also be beneficial to the development of Guangnan East Road. But this requires a lot of money, and a lot of gunpowder.

In addition, cotton products are transported to the capital from Qianzhou, and some transportation costs are required.

At the same time, there will be more water conservancy this year, and more migrants will arrive. Therefore, Lu Jujian negotiated with the Guangnan East Road transfer envoy, first borrowed 2 million money, and handed it over to Su Lishe and Ge Shaohua.

However, the income of Guangnan East Road belongs to the income of the third division, not the income of the inner treasury, so Lu Jujian repeatedly reminded in the recital that these revenues will be transported to the capital anyway, so Zhao Ji must allocate two million money from the income of the inner treasury and return it to the third division.

Zhao Ji laughed dumbly, he thought of Wang Ju's words again, and also deliberately mentioned the widening of this road, there are about four or five private salt roads, although it is a little difficult to widen the road in Wuling, but with the road, it means that there is a foundation, and the meaning of these roads Wang Ju has already talked about it, and it is similar to what Lu Jujian wrote, so he immediately replied with a word, accurate.

This time, I watched Su Lishe's secret performance, and I also mentioned this money.

But Sullishi said a lot of other things. For example, the barrenness of Quang Nam. Densely populated places. For example, Guangzhou and several prefectures in the nearby coastal areas, but if you go inland, there are very few people, and even a state is only a few thousand households, and he estimated that if the Guangnan East Road alone is overhauled for water conservancy, 200,000 hectares of cultivated land can be reclaimed. Actually, it's more than that.

The land of the two is sparsely populated, and Wang Ju has also talked about it slightly. But seeing the 200,000, Zhao Ji was still a little distracted. He thought of what Wang Anshi said, and the people did not add endowments and used self-filling. Does this count as self-sufficiency for the people without endowment?

This is the real people's self-sufficiency. However, due to the limitations of the times, Zhao Ji didn't think very clearly.

Then the yield of cotton was reported, because in the first year of planting, the method was not explored, some were planted thickly, some were thin, and the ground was different. The density should also be different. However, he and Ge Shaohua are also summing up experience and lessons, and believe that next year will be better. This new planting method will probably be able to be explored in the following years.

Therefore, there is a high yield, the high-yield lint can reach 70 catties, and the low-yield is only 30 catties.

In fact, long-staple cotton in the Western Regions is not suitable for planting in most parts of China, and the later cotton is not the current Lingnan coarse staple cotton, but the fine staple cotton from the Americas. Although some of the silt fields were fertile, there were no chemical fertilizers and pesticides in this era. The yield of coarse lint cotton is low, and the lint content is also low, and this seventy catties is almost the peak output. In the future, the planting method will be explored, and the average yield of one mu of land is only fifty or sixty catties. If you want to move to the north, the temporary production will be lower.

This is still a reasonable planting, as well as the transfer of the nutrient bowl, in fact, Wang Ju's previous life in the entire northern lint yield was only more than 30 catties, of course, at that time, the same Asian cotton, that is, coarse cotton was planted.

Now let Wang Ju suddenly raise the cultivation method to the level of his later twentieth century nineties. But Wang Ju doesn't know this history anymore. Zhao Ji didn't know anymore, but he could compare the benefits of hemp with silk. This comparison startled him a lot.

"Hahaha," he laughed a few times, and he went crazy with joy when he was going crazy with joy for the country, the people, and the finances.

The current Zhao Ji is really easy to satisfy......

Then he said, "Come, let the dining room prepare mutton today, I want to eat meat." ”

To take the lead, hard and simple, now Zhao Ji is so boiled that he is reluctant to eat even ordinary mutton.

Then continue to read, when Su Lishe wrote this secret note, a lot of cotton had not yet been harvested, so the total output was roughly estimated, which could be about 4.5 million catties. The quilt is packed in eight catties, which can be used to make more than 700,000 quilts.

Then he thanked Lu Jujian again and again, many things that he and Ge Shaohua couldn't imagine. For example, the conflict between this reserved land and cotton.

The cotton is ripe, this has to be picked down one by one, and then squeeze out the cotton seeds, spin out the quilt, the people themselves are not enough, the fatal thing is the autumn flood, the autumn comes, from time to time Ge Shaohua and Wang Ju said "typhoon", as soon as the typhoon comes, it will rain. The production was delayed, and even the manpower had to be organized to fight the flood.

Therefore, Lu Jujian and the officials of Guangnan East Road immediately transferred part of the labor to harvest the crops for the people, and even took the initiative to hire people to participate in cotton spinning, otherwise there would be a lot of cotton rotting in the fields.

The reason for this is actually the relationship between the distribution of interests, this kind of income has little conflict with the powerful and powerful, and increases the national strength and enriches the people, even if Sima Guang is replaced, Sima Guang will also take the initiative to cooperate. Of course, Zhao Ji didn't think of it again, he said in his heart, do I want to reward these officials?

Su Lishe also commended Ge Shaohua's merits, this line of Ge Shaohua is the key, not only water conservancy, the main reclamation place is in the middle of the Longchuan water, where the population is relatively sparse, and there is no enclosed field polder, the people planting is to rely on the waterside planting, and the situation in Jiangdong is very similar. In actual history, it was only in the Ming and Qing dynasties that large-scale development of Lingnan began, and now there will be decent water conservancy in Lingnan. Even in Guangzhou, there is a lack of decent seawalls, and the tide is large, and the lives are miserable.

This circle will inevitably have conflicts with the residents, and there are only three circles in total, but because of Ge Shaohua's handling, there is no conflict between Yan zhòng.

For example, with the income this year, Ge Shaohua organized manpower to write letters to these villagers to report safety to their relatives and relatives in their hometown, and even organized manpower to bring the money they got back to their hometown. Therefore, as soon as the government organized a little this year, many people poured over.

There are so many people who can't see the benefits, who wants to leave the well?

However, Zhao Ji is a good candidate. Relative to the arrogance of other eunuchs. Su Lishi was loyal. Otherwise, there will be many conflicts.

In the end, Su Lishe said that many people on Fujian Road are too difficult, and they are really poor and white, so why not relocate 300,000 households and let them all grow cotton.

Zhao Ji laughed after seeing it.

This old eunuch is kind-hearted, if all 300,000 households come to plant cotton, how much cotton will have to be planted, and how much silk will the court get? Moreover, the land of Quang Nam is vast and sparsely populated. With a little water conservancy, 300,000 households will be resettled. The problem of arable land shortage on Fujian Road was also immediately alleviated. But when it is critical, this can only be persuaded, not forced. Once people are forced to move, how many conflicts will occur.

Therefore, he commented on the following sentence and asked Ge Shaohua.

Why is there this sentence, Wang Ju did it, and also said to Zhao Ji that what a good official should do is to guide, not force. This is the "rule by inaction" of Huang Ba, the first local good official in the Western Han Dynasty.

But he was a little curious, why didn't Su Lishen mention miasma in the recital?

There is a miasma. But the embankment was enclosed, and the beach became fertile land. Mosquitoes have lost their breeding ground, and ** things have become fertilizer for crops, so there is a miasma in the soil?

There will still be miasma, but it will not be as strict as Zhao imagined. Besides, this is not an army of 100,000, the people came, and immediately dispersed, Wang Ju repeatedly instructed a few precautions, anyway, Su Lishe has not encountered it, why mention it?

However, the miasma in the south was demonized in the north of the Song Dynasty, and Su Lishe didn't mention it, and Zhao Ji was still a little worried.

Zhao Ji looked at the chapter again, staring at Ge Shaohua's paragraph.

Then he thought of Wang Ju's words, why the imperial examination is employed, the intention is to restrict hereditary! Instead of really learning the way of Confucianism, you can become a good minister, in fact, many officials and eunuchs have more experience than Jinshi.

For example, this Ge Shaohua.

Another example is the Zhao Du last year, Wang Ju only took it for a while, and his appearance was better than many county-level officials.

"Officials, servants, the way to choose officials......" Zhao Ji muttered, but the weight of this was too complicated, and he couldn't think clearly for the time being. Even if you think clearly, you don't dare to implement it, at most you can choose a few particularly outstanding officials to be officials, how dare you wantonly select officials from among the officials?

"Slowly," Zhao Ji said silently, and immediately called the eunuch of the inner library and asked him to go to the merchant group to negotiate.

In the evening, the news came that the group bank was willing to pay six yuan a bed to buy quilts, and the other prices and profits were about the same.

That's not bad, Zhao Ji estimated it, and after deducting the real cost, the real income exceeded three million.

Thinking about it, Fangchang Hedu is so prosperous, and it only brings 4 million hundreds of thousands of benefits, but now, almost without a little wave, he has obtained more than 3 million yuan, Zhao Ji is ecstatic.

He walked around excitedly, walked for a long time, and said, "Okay, so be it." Let them prepare the money immediately, and I am waiting for the money to be used. ”

It has to fill the money advanced on Guangnan East Road, and it has to take out some money to help the people, and Zheng Baiqu has to use some money.

This money came at the right time.

However, after a few days, he was not happy.

Cotton products are shipped in boats, this is fast, and after a while, the water will be equally frozen. At that time, cotton products could only be stranded in Yangzhou, not only missed the sales season, but also needed to be managed.

The merchants of the regiment also saw this, and even sent people to Yangzhou on horseback to organize ships to strengthen the transportation capacity, some of which were transported to the capital, and some of which were transported to Yingtianfu, and then processed on the spot, and made cotton sleeves with the most exquisite colored satin, which were immediately sold in various stores when the weather was cold.

This thing was exhibited for many days last year, and finally distributed to relatives and important ministers. The people didn't catch any of them, but the more they did, the more curious and sensational they became.

This year, I finally saw that there was a sale, many people came to rob it, and under the repeated coaxing of prices, a cotton quilt was sold for sixteen or seventeen yuan, and the poor quality was also sold for ten yuan.

"So expensive?" Zhao Ji screamed.

What is sold to the group bank is the original cotton tire, and the group businessman has to hire someone to process it, and there is also the cost of color forging, but how much can this cost? Think about it, a beautiful colored forging horse is only two or three dollars, and the top one is only six or seven dollars. How many cotton sets does a horse have to be forged? As for the cost of the Weaver Girl for workers, how much can it cost?

"It's too dark-hearted, it's too dark-hearted," Zhao Ji was anxious, and his eyes were red, which meant that Nekuxin's hard-earned money was not as much as the businessman's subsequent efforts.

But in fact, everyone is black, can a cotton tire quilt be worth six dollars? In doing so, Neiku is also tantamount to grabbing money. It's just that no businessman grabs much. However, Zhao Ji was not convinced, he thought about it and said: "No, you have to pay taxes, and you can't miss the taxes and living taxes, whether it is that person is running a business, all the taxes will be collected by me!" (To be continued......)