"Ming Gong, this is a letter to you." A post guard carefully handed a thick letter to Wang Ju.

This is the convenience brought about by the reform of the postal post.

Zhang Dian was not greedy for merit, although Wang Anshi did not say it, but Zhang Dian said it, and the idea was Wang Ju's idea.

Indeed, its appearance has produced many positive significance, although Wang Anshi's accumulation of wealth has somewhat cast a shadow on it.

The shadow is the charge for mailing your belongings.

Nor can it be said to be things, but mainly wealth, silver, copper coins, and silk silk. This is not really sent, the cost of a single mail at this time must be extremely high, its nature is still the same as the flying money of the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty before the reform of the post station, there is a similar practice, that is, remittance in place A, place B to withdraw money, the money is not really sent from place A, but place B from all over the turnover, and then charge some handling fees.

For example, now send 100 horses of silk from Quanzhou, 10 taels of silver, 50 copper coins to Hongzhou, copper money is the basic currency, it will not change, but silver silk will produce some price differences, especially the difference in silk is larger, the quality is good, the quantity of local output, the type of silk silk, then make an estimate, and then hand it over to the Quanzhou Xiangguan State Treasury, by the government according to the situation, or from the field of transfer, or by the transfer of the Department to the field.

The postman then sent the letters and documents to the recipient in Hongzhou, and the recipient took out the equivalent silver, silk and copper coins from the Hongzhou post station, but in Hongzhou it had to be re-evaluated according to the situation.

In fact, the process itself produces some errors.

However, after Wang Anshi's planning, the handling fee was surprisingly high.

The nearest one is charged 20%, and the farthest fee can reach 60%! That is, to send ten taels of silver. The government has to collect six taels of it! In fact, most government expenditures and revenues are basically balanced. Only a few expenditures or revenues have a slight deficit. That's the need for turnover, but it's not rice grass, but money, and the actual cost is less than one percent!

Anyway, Wang Ju can't be in a hurry.

If it is not done, it is also a kind of tempering for local officials, laying the foundation for future banks. But if you do that, don't expect anything to be tempered.

And this high handling fee also hindered his plans below.

Of course. The benefits are still there.

For example, ordinary letters, whether they are officials, soldiers, or ordinary people, as long as they pay the postage, all exchange letters with relatives in other places, rather than letting their own domestic servants ride horses to contact each other.

Wang Ju opened the letter.

The letter was written by Han Yun.

The soju workshop was handed over to the imperial court, and Wang Ju asked Han Yun to preside over part of the sales of the sugar cane workshop, and was responsible for the sales of the two pieces to Western Xia and Tubo. This is to make money from "foreigners", and the court did not care too much.

In order for Han Yun to continue to preside over the long-planned plan.

Therefore, Han Yun is now mostly active in Chang'an and Beijing.

When Wang Julin left the capital. Let Han Yun pay attention to some news in the capital. If you really can't do it, let's go find Zhao Niannu. Anyway, a large number of clan children behind Zhao Niannu are all deed shares of the sugar workshop, so there is no need to avoid suspicion.

The letter says a lot of things.

Zhao Shiju's rebellion case woke Zhao Ji, and Lu Huiqing could not be trusted.

So Zhao Ji quickly used Wang Anshi again.

Of course, it is impossible for Wang Anshi to make a big deal about this case, and he strongly advocated Song Xi's intentions, Li Shining decided to make a cane, and matched Yongzhou; Fan Bailu sat on the newspaper to make a false report and depreciated the state tax, and the case was over.

In short, Lu Huiqing did it too quickly this time, and it was self-defeating.

However, now is not the time to deal with Lu Huiqing, so Wang Anshi sent Shen Kuo again to preside over the negotiations with Liao.

To be honest, Shen Kuo's character is not as good as Lu Huiqing, first of all, Su Dongpo. A few years ago, Su Dongpo was appointed as a general judge in Hangzhou, and Shen Kuo went to the southeast to inspect the farmland and water conservancy of Liangzhejiang Road. Zhao Ji said to Shen Kuo that Su Shi sentenced Hangzhou and treated him well. The two met in Hangzhou and talked about wine, which was really good. However, these letters were kept by Shen Kuo, and later became evidence in the Wutai poetry case. After the defeat of Yongle City, Shen Kuo was idle and gave Runzhou, and as if he was nothing, he greeted Su Dongpo very respectfully. Dasu also had nothing to do, so he could only cry and laugh.

There is also an attitude towards Wang Anshi, when Wang Anshi was in power, he was praised for the new law to be reused by Wang Anshi, including this envoy, Wang Anshi immediately recommended Shen Kuo. However, as soon as Wang Anshi stepped down, he immediately reported to Wu Yun the various drawbacks of the new law.

Zhao Ji rarely scolded the villain, but he said that Lu Huiqing and Shen Kuo were villains.

However, why Wang Ju attaches great importance to Shen Kuo, one is that this person does have knowledge, this knowledge is not only to write "Mengxi Writings", but also to farmland and water conservancy, because of his knowledge, he is also quite accomplished. And this person is endowed with scheming, the turning point of his life fate is not two-facedness, but the opposite two-facedness makes him like a fish in water, rising step by step. Defeat was defeated in Yongle City, that battle was too miserable.

Shen Kuo needs to be promoted in science, and such scheming people are also needed to be comrades-in-arms in politics...... Of course, when Wang Ju wrote to Shen Kuo, he still paid attention to it, otherwise he would become the second Dasu if he didn't get it right.

The big scientist went down, it was extraordinary, he first went to Hedong to investigate, not only Huang Wei Mountain all the way, but also the Liao people fought for a total of four places, one is Huang Wei Mountain, digging more than 30 miles to the south. The second is the Qinwangtai and the ancient Great Wall in Ulzhou, which fought for seven miles to the south. The third is the Wuzhou Wayaowu area, which has been fought for more than ten miles to the south. Fourth, the Changlian City section, which also fought for a part of the south, stretched to Huangwei Mountain. Then draw the original map of the territory of the Song Dynasty and the boundary line that is now fought for by the Liao State and hand it to Zhao Ji.

There is no reason for the Liao people to fight, and this map is the evidence.

Then negotiated with the Liao envoy six times, and the Liao State had no choice but to go to Huangwei Mountain and invite Tianchi.

In fact, Wang Ju also said this matter in the capital, and he could make some appropriate concessions, but Huang Weishan couldn't let it go this way.

But Wang Anshi suddenly replaced Shen Kuo with Han Zhen to negotiate.

And Wang Anshi drew a line on the map with Huang Weishan and said to Han Jin: "If you want to take it, you must take it." ”

Of course, Huang Weishan was obtained, and Liao Guo was very happy.

Therefore, later generations have a controversy about this, and some people say that Wang Anshi did not sell 700 miles of land. In terms of length or depth alone, there is no such thing as 700 li.

However, these seven hundred li refers to a radius of seven hundred li, and several large areas are indeed between five hundred and seven hundred li in circumference.

Some people say that the negotiations have dragged on until Xining 10 years before they are officially settled. At that time, Wang Anshi had been completely degraded. It has nothing to do with Wang Anshi. But the truth is that Wang Anshi made this concession. The state of affairs is irreversible unless there is a war. Yes, Han Qi and Wen Yanbo, Fu Bi, Zhang Fangping, and other bigwigs played the words, which was equivalent to forcing Zhao Ji to agree to the Khitan's request and sell land for peace, but they flickered and did not say it explicitly. Therefore, it can only be said that Wang Anshi sold these 700 miles of land.

Some people also say that the Liao State got these 700 li and then became peaceful. Not bad.

But why did Huang Lian sigh: "Dividing the water and painting the realm, losing China is in danger." ”

The truth is that this sale, among the various factors of the fall of the Northern Song Dynasty, it occupies at least one to two percent of the credit......

Wang Ju was surprised to see this.

Inappropriately continue to happen this story.

First, because of his own commitment, Zhangdun allocated 3 million war reserve grain to be transported to the border, and even issued some government decrees for this purpose, how to reduce transportation costs. There are still many hungry people on the border, but not as panicked as they did in the past.

Second, because of his own recommendation, Zhang Qi, Liu Changzuo, and Miao Zhu were all transferred to Hebei. Even Zhao Ji transferred Zhang Yu to Hebei.

At the beginning of summer, the flotilla returned. Bringing back another batch of grain, of course, it will not be as much as last year, less than one million stone of grain, most of it was transported to Hangzhou and handed over to the government, how the government handles it, Wang Ju does not interfere. Another part was transported to Mizhou, and then hired the kind of flat-bottomed sea ship with shallow draft, transported to the Hebei front, and handed over to Zhang Qi. With this batch of grain, it was possible to levy a large number of border troops.

Zhang Qi is not particularly outstanding in government affairs, but in military affairs, no one can be underestimated.

So the situation in Hebei now is much better than it has ever been.

Moreover, when Han Jin went to negotiate with Liao, it was also close to autumn, and the disaster situation had gradually eased.

Why did Wang Anshi continue to make peace?

Wang Ju looked at the letter, a little dazed, the reason why he was in a daze was that Huang Weishan.

Huang Weishan did not play a role in the hands of the Liao, but in the hands of another country, it played a huge role. The first time the Jin people went south, after the Western Route Army conquered Shuozhou, it only took six or seven days to take Daizhou, and then six or seven days, Zhongshan surrendered, and two days later surrounded Taiyuan. However, it was blocked under the city of Taiyuan, and after the two countries made peace, Wanyan Zongwang led his troops back.

In the second year, Wanyan Zonghan sent troops from Yunzhou, only a few days to break through Wenshui, half a month later to take Taiyuan, Wanyan Zongwang sent troops from Hebei, and defeated the Song army in the division in Jingcheng. Then there was no then, and the Northern Song Dynasty perished.

But what about Yanmen Pass? What about Xicheng Village?

Why did these important villages disappear together?

In fact, it did not disappear, but the Liao State got the northern area of Huangwei Mountain, and the Song Dynasty was no longer able to construct a complete line of defense, so the Jin people went south from here. So this way, Hedong Road is no longer an iron wall.

So why is the Liao State desperately fighting for this paragraph, and the fool is not fighting.

But Wang Ju was just in a daze, and he didn't dare to speak at this time.

At the end of last year, when he went to Beijing to report on his work, Wang Juchang talked about overseas contributions to the Song Dynasty. Now that it has been made public, Wang Ju also sent someone to secretly start making further arrangements. First of all, let people publicize and encourage the hungry people to go to Quanzhou, this year it is impossible to let them board the ship in Mizhou, it is close to the capital, the country's center of gravity, and it cannot be done too much.

Therefore, these hungry people were allowed to move to the south in the name of food and famine, and then secretly borrowed some empty households to do good deeds and provide food and clothing along the way, otherwise they would have died thousands of miles down.

After arriving in Quanzhou, you can move these hungry people away.

However, Wang Ju also neglected the danger brought about by this drought, the Han people have a heavy concept of homeland, and those who want to leave their homeland may not be able to take away 10,000 people if they use this method in normal times. But now there is no way to live, and I heard that there is a way to live, and countless hungry people are flocking to the south.

At one time, Wang Ju was forced to buy some grain from various grain merchants at a high price, otherwise the prepared grain would be insufficient.

In fact, the imperial court also paid attention to this matter, but after counting the number of households in each state and county, although the number of people in the south flow was large, it was still limited to be distributed to each state and county, and there was no pressure to relieve the disaster.

There are also some people who have secretly done investigations, and most of the people who fled south are extremely poor households, and there are some hidden households, not people who cannot survive. The one who was willing to flee south. It's thousands of miles. Moreover, after arriving in Quanzhou, he will continue to migrate overseas.

and other reasons, although concerned, but not too opposed.

Seeing that there were too many people, Wang Ju immediately sent people to Quanzhou, Hangzhou, and Guangzhou to build a hundred sea ships. There can only be so much, otherwise the time is limited, and the quality of the ships will be substandard.

This made several of Wang Ju's disciples feel very painful. Building a ship in the mainland is nearly four times more expensive!

But Wang Ju doesn't care, the power should be taken from the people and used by the people. Moreover, the construction of these ships will also bring a lot of commercial taxes to the three state capitals. When they saw the money, the ministers were silent.

In addition, movable compartments have been prepared, these are cargo ships, not passenger ships, and at sea, I want to build a passenger ship with three or four floors to sail. That risk is undoubtedly higher. In fact, this movable clamp is to make a solid layer of splints in the middle of the cabin. The cabins were the same as before, but they were separated from the middle, so that more people could be carried.

Of course, there is another way, just like the slave trade in the Westerners later, by keeping people together in ships, regardless of their lives or deaths, then a sea ship of six or seven hundred tons can carry more than 1,000 people. Can Wang Ju do this?

However, more and more people flocked to the south, especially Wang Ju did one thing that led more people to flow to the south, that is, to bring copper back.

The imperial court finally sent an envoy to interrogate.

However, Wang Ju's various measures were also relatively timely, and the First and Third Divisions also counted on Wang Ju to persuade the maritime merchants to make up for the remaining more than two million stone grain.

The second is copper and iron.

Especially for copper, the official price given by the government during the time of Taizong of the Song Dynasty was 120 Wen per catty, which reached 150 Wen at this time, 200 Wen when it arrived at Yuanyou, and 250 Wen at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty.

In fact, copper production has been surging in the Northern Song Dynasty, but there has always been a shortage of copper. The main reason is the minting of coins, the outflow of coins, coupled with its own huge economy, the shortage of copper coins. The second is that while the number of households living in extreme poverty is increasing, there are also many people whose incomes are also increasing, and they need all kinds of utensils, including bronze. However, because the government forbade the people to buy and sell copper, the bronze ware was expensive. Some bold people sell copper coins, often ten taels of copper coins can be sold at a consistent price.

The Song system is a system of sixteen taels, ten taels only have three hundred tens of grams, and a copper coin weighs three to five grams, but it contains a lot of lead or tin, and it can get more than one gram of copper by selling a copper coin, that is, nearly three hundred copper coins can be eliminated, and it can be exchanged for consistent money after the device. The money has always been more than 700 yuan, which is more than double the interest rate spread.

But this is the gross profit, and there is also the cost of labor......

But including the cost of handwork, the gross profit is also very amazing, so the imperial court has repeatedly banned it.

Another reason is that many people keep copper coins in their homes and cannot circulate them.

As a result, copper production has surged, including the use of gunpowder mining technology, and the price of copper has not yet come down. However, the price of iron has gradually stabilized, otherwise the price of iron is also slowly rising.

Therefore, the Song Dynasty has always lacked copper.

This time, the fleet brought back most of the copper ingots, not to donate to the imperial court, but to the salary and income of overseas immigrants, and then calculated in copper, brought back by the fleet, and then handed over to the post post where the shipping department of each city was located at the official price. In particular, after Wang Anshi lifted the ban on the sale of copper, the price of copper per catty was more than 250 wen, and in some areas it could be as high as more than 300 wen. The reason is very simple, the currency is a tool, the coin has to be re-refined first, and then minted, and now the copper is obtained, which is equivalent to saving a cumbersome procedure. Therefore, it is more expensive than copper coins......

In short, this is a deformed monetary policy.

In addition, the post post was discounted and handed over to the relatives of the immigrants in the inland in the form of copper coins or cloth, and the post post received a large amount of handling fees. Most of the boatloads of copper ingots, nearly 800,000 Song catties, are equivalent to bringing more than 100,000 yuan of income to the imperial court in disguise. However, this expensive "postage" made Wang Ju more and more painful......

However, from the perspective of the imperial court, these are all conscientious maritime merchants, is the imperial court embarrassed to restrain them?

But it was this "sending money back to China" that led more people to blindly move south.

There are too many of them, so the court asked about it, and it was just a question, there were too many benefits, although some people thought that Wang Ju was wrong to do this, but they didn't know whether to object.

Wang Ju replied that there were more than 195,000 men, women, and children together. In fact, it was nearly 300,000 people. Moreover, Wang Ju sent people to several prefectures in eastern Zhejiang, and Jiangnan West Road secretly released a rumor, saying that Quanzhou was in urgent need of all kinds of tenant farmers and craftsmen, and the salary was high, so they flocked to Quanzhou with this help.

The demand for overseas population is too great, and it is far from enough to rely on the poor households of several state armies near Quanzhou, and all the extremely poor households are withdrawn, and the grievances of the big landlords and monks will be greater. Therefore, Wang Ju sent people to incite these people to rush over together, and there were many surges, and there were many problems, even if they moved away, everyone raised their hands in favor.

However, there are not no smart people in the court, so at this time, Wang Juming knew that it was not very good, so he had to make a fortune in a muffled voice. The affairs of the court are up to these bigwigs to intrigue. Anyway, he didn't have the time to talk now. (To be continued......)