Zhao Zhen asked why, and it was in Sima Guang's arms. In the Song Dynasty, the best in terms of mouth kung fu was not Han Qi or Ouyang Xiu, but Wang Anshi and Sima Guang, but the two of them all let Zheng Lang get together, discussing every day, it is also a kind of struggle, and the kung fu is even better.

If you want to deal with Sima Guang at this time, there is only one way, learn from Du Yan, ignore anything, ignore anything, after all, he is only a new jinshi, and Sima Guang will have no chance.

His Majesty asked why, and he had to answer. He replied calmly: "Your Majesty, there are still a few months to go, can the minister ask, how does Your Majesty place my husband?" ”

I can ask.

As a minister, Zhao Zhen's minister was the happiest, he could talk as much as he wanted, and as long as he didn't go too far, Zhao Zhen would never get angry.

Zhao Zhen also replied honestly: "I plan to let him return to Beijing." ”

"Your Majesty is kind-hearted, but after returning to Beijing, you have to fight, you have to fight, with the qualifications, age, background, and background of Mr. Now, how to fight and fight?"

"Why fight?"

"Sir often says that the only gentleman in the world is not the gentleman's party, not the gentleman himself, but His Majesty, why don't you dare to admit the facts in the temple?"

You are a gentleman, don't lie.

Zhao Zhen didn't intend to lie, he thought about it again and smiled bitterly. But that's not the point, and he asks, "Why is it related to the world?" ”

"Your Majesty, there will be no serious disasters this year."

Zhao Zhen is not easy to answer, tens of thousands of people have died, how can he say that it is not serious. But it is not serious, once a person dies, everything is gone, and he is afraid that he will live, so he must save and provide disaster relief, arrange food and people's houses, and so on. The scope is only in Sanzhou, so the first two disasters made him anxious, and this time he only sent someone to provide a little relief, and the difficulties were overcome.

I can't say that.

"But in case of a major disaster, the imperial treasury will be surplus?"

Zhao Zhen still couldn't answer.

After two years of peace, the treasury improved. But in the event of a catastrophe like the one of previous years, the treasury remains insufficient. If you come for a few years in a row, it will be miserable, and you will have to wear a belt.

"What if the party members plot to make trouble?"

"No, some time ago, Zhao Yuanhao asked someone to offer the Buddha to the ...... of Wutai Mountain"

"How so?"

"Sima Qing, Lu Qing, what's wrong with you?"

"Sir said so."

"When did he say that?" The time is wrong, this is what happened in February this year, only half a month has passed, even if Zheng Lang hears it, it is impossible for the letter to come to the capital.

"It was said the year before last, he said that if I were Li Yuanhao, I would definitely send someone to make an excuse before rebelling, such as offering Buddha to Wutai Mountain. The ministers of the court were drunk and dreamed of death, and they would not know, not only agreed, but also sent envoys to guide and protect them, and introduce the terrain of mountains and rivers along the way, where the dangers are, so that all the terrain in the north must be mastered by the party members. How so? ”

Zhao Zhen's face turned gray all of a sudden.

In fact, not only did he grant it, but he also ordered the envoys to escort it. So much so that he neglected another thing, Zheng Lang said this sentence when it was the year before last!

"Mr. also said that once Yuan Hao rebelled, but I have a lot of prestige among the party members, some people will inevitably be dissatisfied and lead the people to vote. As long as I accept it, there will inevitably be more party members who are unwilling to go to war with our dynasty and lead the people to vote. There will be chaos within the party, it will not be divided, but it will lose its cohesion. Li Yuanhao was originally only active in the Xiazhou area, but later annexed Lingzhou, the Hexi Corridor, and the northern part of Qinghai. There are many tribes and different races. However, no one in our dynasty may pay attention to it, and in order to appease Li Yuanhao, he will inevitably refuse. As soon as Li Yuanhao refused, the people had no way out, so they had to follow Li Yuanhao to attack our court. Your Majesty, how do you go about it? ”

"He won't ......" Zhao Zhen said weakly: "The battle of the Zongge River in the previous two years ......"

"Your Majesty, where is the Tibetan Imperial City now?"

The two were talking about a series of wars between Tubo and the party members a few years ago, and another powerful minister in Tibet, Wen Qiqi, suddenly launched a coup d'état and locked up the chatter. The opportunity was rare, and Li Yuanhao sent the general Sunuer to lead 25,000 people to attack Maoniucheng. As a result, the whole army was wiped out. Li Yuanhao was furious and sent someone to inquire, but he was locked up, but his influence among the people was too great, and a guard released him overnight, and then he stood in front of the people, just said a few words, and the people immediately responded, and Wen Qiqi fell.

Li Yuanhao didn't care, he personally conquered Maoniu City, fought for more than a month without attacking the city, and then said to the people in the city, let's make peace, don't fight. The people in the city also believed that 35,000 party members had been buried outside the city, what else could Li Yuanhao do except sue for peace? opened the city gate, brought fine wine, and the cattle waiting to be slaughtered, and prepared to swear to the heavens, but Li Yuanhao led his troops into the city, leaving no one behind, and slaughtering them all. Then go down to Zongge City and attack Qingtang City.

But he did not take the initiative to meet the enemy, and concentrated his troops in Shanzhou. Li Yuanhao led the army to wade through the Zongge River, and left a mark in the shallow water, which was a precautionary measure, and could quickly retreat to the Zongge River. Came to Shanzhou City and began to attack, who knew that Shanzhou City had become a strengthened version of Maoniu City, and after more than 200 days of fierce fighting, Li Yuanhao had to withdraw his troops.

When crossing the Zongge River, I don't know where to kill hundreds of thousands of Tibetan troops. After more than 200 days of fierce fighting, to what extent has the morale declined? Li Yuanhao had no choice but to withdraw first and then retreat to the other side of the Zongge River. However, the damned Tibetans actually noticed his mark, and moved it to the deep water. This is a flood that can drown people in more than a thousand years!

One by one, one by one, up. Those who go down are the living, and those who come up are the dead. Li Yuanhao returned with a fiasco.

However, the old problems of the Tibetan people have recurred, and the family has been divided, resulting in a series of splits. After marrying a wife Qiao, he gave birth to a son called Dong Yu, and he himself likes Qiao and Dong Yu. The daughter of his ex-wife Li Lizun, Li Shi, fled to Qingtang City with their two sons, blind felt and felt horns, and supported troops on the plateau. In order to protect himself, he showed favor to his enemy Li Yuanhao. The chief staff of the second son even married his daughter to Li Yuanhao's son as his wife and became a close blood relative. He had no choice but to withdraw the capital from Qingtang City to Lijing City in the northwest.

Some of the details of the Song people do not know, but the main process, most of the Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers are very clear.

"I know," Zhao Zhen said.

He wasn't trying to make more trouble yet.

Who called the life of the Song Dynasty bitter, and spread these two evil neighbors. is like the scoundrel in the village, poor and single, he can't beat and beat, he can't scold and scold, he can steal, he can rob, he can cheat, he can abduct, he can be shameless, he can be soft and hard, so he has to spend money to buy a peace. It's a big deal that the new tax increase in Taiping Prefecture in a year is enough to send these two poor neighbors away.

knew that Zheng Lang's heart was good, but Zhao Zhen didn't want to make this example.

And once the war starts, will the Khitans take the opportunity to attack?

No one can tell.

Sima Guang was also unsure about this, and said, "What if there is a war?" If the country can have enough food, grass, and money, will it be more confident in its heart? ”

"I still don't understand."

"What Mr. did locally is not only a change in the two states, but a way of thinking, such as Taiping Prefecture, which has been opened in a big way, and other state capitals in Jiangdong have imitated it, and I don't know how much grain and how much tax will be increased by more than a dozen state capitals in a year? This is Koto. When I arrived in Hangzhou, it was the two Zhejiang, both of which were the richest in the world. Once these two regions are open-minded and produce a change in the good surname, what impact will it have on the country? Isn't it the world? ”

It turned out to be this world.

Zhao Zhen pondered for a moment and said, "Let me think about it, but you will enter the court as an official in the future, and you can no longer call Mr." ”

Kindness persuaded me.

It's not a party, but you can call Mr. in public, which is not very good. Moreover, the imperial court examination was originally aimed at teachers and students, and there were no teachers and students, all of whom were protégés of the Son of Heaven.

Although it can't be eradicated, it's not good to call it in public.

"Whoa." The two stepped back.

But Zhao Zhen asked Sima Guang and Lu Gong to keep this new mean.

This gentle and improved version of the mean made Zhao Zhen quite appreciative. And a lot of things happened in the states because of the opening of the polder. The first is the uneven distribution, including Xuanzhou Chizhou, which was originally said to be good, but when it can be distributed, there are differences, even if there is good land and secondary fields within a wei, and the influential large households have a finger on their hands, and this land belongs to my family. East refers to a piece, west refers to a piece, and the cut is made. Again, the people were not convinced.

On the one hand, there are still states and counties that lack money and grain, and last year it was the king who followed them, so his hands were widened, and the states lent grain and money loans. It's not for us to do this, Taiping has a precedent for this. But let it go, if you need first aid, you can't get it, and some don't need it, you can force a showdown, and it depends on the head, you are as poor as a ghost, why should you put it? It is very similar to the various ugliness that appeared when Wang Anshi later engaged in the Qingmiao Method. Some will be returned after the autumn, and they will continue to be released this year, and they will not have to charge interest.

Others directly take the title deed and go to the big household, give me a few money, and I will take the land to be your tenant. Otherwise, what should I do, I can't plow this land without cattle, no food, no farming tools.

There are even more people who borrow usury and repay it after the autumn, and the old capital is the old capital, and they don't want this land.

On the contrary, the two Huang Zhijun and Ma Zhizhou, who were of low talent, mentioned by Zheng Lang, have always had a tough attitude, and the distribution of the five circles is the most reasonable.

But I am not convinced, and there are countless people who sue the black below.

Hopefully, this book will give them some inspiration.

There are three articles in Taiping Prefecture, which are dedicated to how Zheng Lang did in Taiping Prefecture, including planning before going to Taiping Prefecture, how to mediate, how to arrange, and so on.

However, the whole book has also made some changes, and the outline is followed by three points, and then to talk about ease, seek government, seek people, seek affairs, Deli, Taiping Prefecture, master and apprentice answer, the world.

…… Sitting on the boat, Cui Xian asked suspiciously: "Official, can you go to Hangzhou?" ”

Originally, he wanted to go to Suzhou and Hangzhou, but Zhao Zhen insisted that Zheng Lang return to Beijing, so that Zheng Lang had to give up this idea and change it to Xiumingmi, Xiuzhou, which he wanted to go to the most among the three states, although there was no Huangpu River, there was also a dense inland river network. Mingzhou is too estranged, although Mizhou is good, in the north, there are big families in that state who can't afford to offend, and they have a lot of headaches.

Inaction, inaction, inaction, it doesn't matter, there must be a dispute of interests in one action, so it is the last.

Hangzhou also has a headache, the Song Dynasty has all kinds of franchises in Hangzhou, and there are large households, after all, this is an important city in the south.

However, other conditions followed.

The strange thing is that the people of Hangzhou themselves are asking officials to go to Hangzhou, and I heard that almost all the people of Hangzhou have signed their names or put their fingerprints on the petition. This will reduce the pressure on officials.

But Zheng Lang shook his head: "I don't know." ”

It's not for the people of Hangzhou to invite if they want to.

Not like that.

The last time I came to Taipingzhou, I was young and insisted on going to the locality, and the ministers of the court were also worried. I was in the capital, talked with Zhao Zhen often, and finally came to Jiangnan and Taiping Prefecture as I wished.

But if Zhao Zhen really issued an edict and asked him to return to Beijing, or to serve as a taishou in other places in Xiangzhou, how dare he disobey?

The main reason is that Sima Guang is also young, and it doesn't work to speak.

The boat stopped at the Black Sandbank.

The other also stopped, and the officials on the two boats walked down together, and the river had risen, and a shallow layer of water was lapping against the embankment. However, the construction of the embankment ahead of schedule led to further siltation of the river sand, and the silt on the periphery of the embankment was raised a lot.

Follow the dirt steps up the embankment and look inside.

The wheat and rapeseed are all yellow, and the ears and pods are low.

Strictly speaking, this is the fourth generation of seeds.

Yang Cha said: "Good looks. ”

He is a native of Luzhou, not very far from here, and has seen crops.

Zheng Lang didn't make a sound, maybe it was good in the eyes of the Song people, but in his eyes, there was no crop that he thought was good.

It is unthinkable that rape can yield four stones per mu, but two stones can always be. However, such intensive cultivation and seed evolution are only a hundred or dozens of catties, and the oil yield can reach about seventy or eighty catties, and the oil production in Dawei can only produce more than sixty catties. The people were overjoyed.

I don't dare to think about six or seven stones of wheat, but four stones can always do it. It's only a little more than three stones, and two to two and a half stones in the field. The people were happy.

But compared with the original, it must be a high-yield field, and the yield cannot be higher.

Zheng Lang said: "It's still far away, at least ten years to evolve, it may take twenty years to evolve, and then the output will be amazing." This is a pilot, and if it is good, it can be rolled out across the country. Once the whole country uses high-quality seeds, the food crisis will be resolved a lot. ”

It can only be said that there are many solutions, the more food, the more people, there is no rule of law!

He also said: "When I was thinking about it, I thought that I was going to leave office, what if there were officials who were not good? It's not a lot of money, it's money after all. Therefore, it is better to subsidize the people, not to buy seeds at a high price, and to buy them at the same price as the grain price, that is, not to let profits exist. Otherwise, the people themselves will be shoddy and confused with the quality of the seeds. And then give it to the people at parity, the same reason, it is also not to let the middle generate benefits. Otherwise, the officials will be forced to spread among the people. ”

Yang Cha nodded heavily.

For example, Kaiwei was originally well-intentioned, but the people around it were coaxed.

All of them are caused by deviations in the execution of officials.

He said convincingly: "Zheng knows, the next official Xiao Gui Cao will follow." ”

"No, I have some things left for the next governor, one is the city wall. Without walls, there would be no guarantee for such a large city. ”

Hugh said that it was the Taiping era, God knows if there will be Fang La in the future, Taiping Prefecture has become this kind of situation, why attack Hangzhou, it is better to attack Taiping Prefecture, there is a city wall to block it. We don't believe in history books, what is good and what is bad?

There are even people who cheer for Nong Zhigao and Li Yuanhao.

Regardless of whether I drank right or wrong, I am now a Song person, so I have to think about the Song people.

"Whoa."

"There is also the school, this year's Taiping Prefecture Provincial Examination is actually all inked, which is the result of my negligence in Wenzhi in the past few years. But at that time, due to helplessness, the construction of the whole state, the people were busy, and things gradually settled down in the future, and state schools and even private schools could be encouraged. ”

"Whoa."

"And the foreign population. In Wuhu City, most of the large families enclosed the land and built many houses, in order to retain the laborers, they lived for free. But these houses are not the laborers' own, and there are people who want to build their own houses, but they have no land. The immediate crisis is not big, and if this problem is not solved in the long run, it will also be troublesome. In the middle, everyone needs to sit down and negotiate a solution, and we can't use coercive means or be too weak. These working people are the mainstream of the city of the future. ”

"Whoa."

"That's all there is to it, but the city is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more people, and there will inevitably be new problems in the future." In fact, he is explaining the affairs later, but the imperial edict has not been issued, and Zheng Lang's whereabouts have not been decided, and it may not be Yang Cha who will take over.

So the two spoke very vaguely.

The population is indeed expanding, and new disputes around it have caused some people to continue to move to Taiping Prefecture, not as violently as before, but the number of households has increased to 51,000 at the end of March, and it continues to grow. If it develops like this, Yang Cha will take over for three years, and 60,000 households will not be a dream.

This is a gap that Zheng Lang deliberately left.

There are external reasons as well as internal ones.

Some of them are because of labor problems, and labor has been too tight in recent years. But some deliberately stayed and asked for a favor for Xinzhizhou. Otherwise, if he is too full, Xinzhizhou may not be here to pick peaches, and if he doesn't pick well, it's a hot potato.

After going around, I got on the boat again and returned to Wuhu City.

In the sugar factory, all the big households gathered together for a small meeting.

Everyone sat down one after another.

After sitting down, Zheng Lang said: "Chenguang has finally gotten better in the past few years. ”

Everyone smiled gratefully.

"A lot of people wonder how I did it, I said it's very simple, the middle director, the knowledge of the wealth. What is the mean, I wrote a book, and that seems to be a little difficult to understand. ”

Everyone smiled again, it is estimated that there are learned people who see it, and it must have nothing to do with themselves.

But to say a simple analogy, it is like a big family, there are six or seven sons, the eldest son is the best, the second son is second, the third son is said to be able to live, the fourth son is only fed, and the fifth son and the sixth son are not able to eat. What about parents? I had to dig a little more for the eldest son and the second son, and divide it among the fifth son, the sixth son, and the seventh son. After all, it is also the hard work and wisdom of the eldest son and the second son. ”

Clapping and applauding together. That's a good analogy.

"Therefore, to persuade, we also need to use some means, such as I did not say anything before the circle, but only told you the truth, how much land and how much labor. As a result, you will not want to say it. The land was dug up. I divided the land with my labor, and the princes had money, but they did not have enough labor, so they dug up some of it. ”

Everyone looked at each other, then laughed.

"I also said in the book Zhongyong that everyone is a son of the Great Song Dynasty and is a brother and sister. The common people do not have high requirements, they have a bite to eat, they will not freeze to death, they have a home that can shelter from the wind and rain, the home is not big, but their own will not be forcibly demolished for no reason, and they will be satisfied with nothing. Even this requirement can't be realized, one is fine, two or three, thousands, tens of thousands, millions, millions, what will happen in the end. As a result, the eldest and the second will be left with nothing under this storm. If you live a good life, you can do some good deeds, such as respecting the Bodhisattva, in fact, you are also respecting the Bodhisattva. But I'm afraid you don't understand, after all, when the family was separated, everyone was about the same. Later, because of hard work, because of thrift, because of wisdom, I slowly made my life better. ”

"yes, yes." Speaking of the hearts of these large households.

"I'm also taking into account your psychological feelings and trying to compensate you. It's called having it both ways, so you won't get angry at exploiting part of your wealth. This wealth will even be made up by other means. This is learning, what is learning, and what is practical is technology. Why the silk in Jiangnan is not worth much, it is because the technology is backward. You know this very well. Not only silk, iron, copper, medicinal leather, jade porcelain, tea, etc., are all the same. But I'm a parent official, not a businessman, so I can only take you one head and set an example. So encourage yourselves to bring back the skilled craftsmen. ”

It dawned on them that this reminded them of one thing.

"Four years are coming to an end, and it should be clear. What I said today is the first and last time I said it. Why do I ask you to hire skilled craftsmen, with skilled craftsmen, the utensils made in your workshop will be exquisite, and they can be sold more expensively. The more you sell, the more prosperous Taiping Prefecture will be. It's good for you, and it's good for the government. "Don't talk about the big truth, these people may not be proficient in Confucianism, but they are all very shrewd and tell the truth.

Zheng Lang paused for a moment and continued: "Although the truth is simple, you haven't thought about it before, so I used some incentive policies to be intense, some people do it well, some people do it ordinary, and some people just think about it when they see others doing it." If you do a good job and see the benefits, you not only have benefits, but also bring benefits to Taiping Prefecture. Today is the time for the reward. ”

It's a promise he made, and it's time to deliver on it today.

But only this time.

No other, fair ears. In his hands, he can do a very fair reward, but in the hands of other officials, it may not be possible to do it, not necessarily all officials are bad, in fact, under the supervision of the officials, many officials would rather not do anything, do not dare to go too far.

This is also the only place where Zheng Lang does not reject the Junzi Party, that is, the power of supervision, including the Jiangdong Prefectures, the more troublesome things get worse, and a large number of officials will step down because of this.

But you don't necessarily understand this aspect.

At least not what they learned, and the way of Confucius and Mencius they learned would not say this.

This award is both the beginning and the end.

So read out the list, the most is the textile workshop, some people have a long-term vision, from the beginning to send people to learn, there are some weaver girls in the workshop is quite clever, in the brocade rust garden, they also played a brand, there are two iron workshops, a scissors workshop, a glass workshop, and five or six other workshops, has broken out of some fame, in the surrounding quite some prestige.

But it's not the craftsmanship they have researched themselves, they are all clever craftsmen invited from other places, with a group of craftsmen, and they have made a reputation. These workshops met the standards set by Zheng Lang at the beginning, and the tax was deducted from 10% to 20%.

After Zheng Lang finished speaking, many people beat their chests.

knows the benefits of inviting high-level craftsmen, but the salaries of high-level craftsmen in the Song Dynasty are too high, and they are reluctant one by one.

However, this policy was enough to ensure the wages of craftsmen and improve the competitiveness of workshop tools.

It's too late to regret it now.

Zheng Lang waved his hand to silence everyone, and continued: "It's not too late to make amends. Paying taxes is only a commercial tax, and you can pay how much you can pay, even if you subtract one or two shares, it may not be above your hearts. I just want to tell you through this that the importance of knowledge and technology, and the profits generated by a sugar workshop, are the benefits of learning from things. ”

Gewu Zhizhi is an empty statement, but because of the results of external and internal factors, the Song Dynasty was not very exclusive to miscellaneous studies, including commerce, which had many drawbacks, and it was a good opportunity to popularize science.

Zheng Lang finished speaking and left.

This reunion was basically his last reunion, and it also drew an end for him in Taiping Prefecture.

What should be done was done, and what should not be done was left to the next one.

Xia received it.

Along with the tax filed.

This is a very astonishing tax, there is less grain, only 200,000 wheat, 30,000 stone of oil, but the latter figure is very staggering, 220,000 horses of fine silk cloth, this alone is worth nearly 400,000 yuan. There was no way, the money was insufficient, so I had to use silk instead, and there were more than 240,000 yuan. There are also 100,000 taels of money and 100,000 horses of silk to continue to be the capital of the two eunuchs.

These taxes and income taxes account for a very small proportion, and the sugar cane workshop makes a profit of more than 900,000 yuan. The imperial court distributed more than 300,000 yuan, and the profit of the Jinrust Prison reached more than 200,000 yuan, and the commercial tax was close to 80,000 yuan. The rest is two taxes.

The results were presented, which also took several new prime ministers by surprise.

It's incredible.

Wang Zhaoming came to Taiping Prefecture again.

Zheng Lang politely welcomed him into his home, feeling uneasy in his heart, knowing that this time Wang Zhaoming came not for the affairs of Taiping Prefecture, but for his arrangement.

Cui Xian also nervously wrapped her daughter and looked at Wang Zhaoming. At first, Huan'er still wanted to go back to the capital, the capital is big, lively, and the climate is also suitable, not as hot as the south in summer. But after Zheng Lang's analysis, he knew that it was not a good thing to return to the capital, except for quarrels, nothing would be accomplished. On the contrary, stay in the place, hone a few more years, and have political achievements, and only then will there be a foundation for your career in the future.

But it may not be, if you can be like Han Qi, you can be promoted quickly. But in that case, Zheng Lang didn't like it.

looked at Wang Zhaoming very nervously.

After coming a few times and becoming very familiar with Zheng Lang's family, Wang Zhaoming took a sip of tea and said in a low voice: "Congratulations to Dr. Zheng." ”