"Zi'an, the imperial court's finances are really tight," Zhang Ji will bite hard.

Thanks to Wang Ju's strong recommendation, Cai Ting began to pay attention to Zhang Qi, and soon Zhang Qi did have some talent, and Cai Ting gradually paid attention to it, including when there was a discussion and plan, he would call Zhang Qi over to be a staff officer. So Zhang Ji also learned a part of Cai Ting's personality, which is very similar to himself, a very practical chief, what does it mean to be very practical?

It's just that he won't talk nonsense, and with a wave of his hand, Helan Mountain will be taken down, but he will not be afraid of the Tangut people, he can clearly know the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy, and dare to defeat and weaken the Xixia step by step with reason and reason.

So this new state has nothing to do with cowardice.

But why say this?

There is only one reason, the finances are too tight, and they are so nervous that they can no longer maintain a real battle, so Cai Ting will accept it when he sees it, and he will be satisfied if he can defeat the Western Xia people after the autumn, and there is no need to occupy a fort, so as to set off a second battle.

"I don't know, it's about being tight," Mr. Wang said.

It is rumored that after Zhao Ji succeeded to the throne, he rushed to the third division to check the account book, I want to do things, but I have to have money in my hands, this is the great progress of the Song Dynasty.

Including some great Confucians, such as Ye Shi and Chen Liang, they resolutely oppose "high-level talkers talk about their lives far away, and utilitarianism is the way to go", "pragmatic but not pragmatic", talking about those who have heavenly principles and destroy people's desires, is it practical? Can the people of the country do good things without money? Then he said that human desire is nature, and you can't "teach people to suppress feelings and play favoritism", don't xxoo, don't enjoy food, don't watch songs and dances, don't rename names, don't value status, Ercheng Lao Zhu, can you do it? Something you can't do on your own. How do you get someone else to do it?

So what should we do, properly restrain bad human desires, and guide them to develop in a good direction.

In the Song Dynasty, such far-sighted remarks appeared, not Wang Ju's words. It was said by Ye Shi, the servant of the ministry.

In fact, even in the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhu Xi did not have the upper hand, but later Zhu Yuanzhang recognized his ancestors indiscriminately, and the disaster came......

So Zhao Ji immediately looked at the financial expenditure income, but he was dumbfounded.

But it doesn't hurt to talk about it, isn't it just some fiscal deficit, Wang Anshi only needs to collect it for a year or two. It's all settled.

The war must be fought, and it must be fought, and the reason why I say this is that the enemy must not be given a chance to breathe. The fiscal deficit can be solved slowly at a later stage, and this is the smart approach.

But Cai Ting can't be blamed. Now that Han Qi is the prime minister, how can he not be worried?

But Cai Ting has Cai Ting's thoughts, Wang Ju has Wang Ju's ideas, if the ballast fort is not occupied, how will those Yeli people be placed?

Thinking of this, Wang Ju said: "Let's talk about it." ”

Zhang Qi laughed and laughed, others said it and then did it, but Wang Ju did it and then said it.

But it's not that simple. If you want to occupy the ballast fort, you must fight in the future, and the Western Xia people will be beaten. If there is no bigger war in a short period of time, then Cai Ting will not have any objections. As for a few years from now, will Cai Ting still be on Huanqing Road in a few years? Or after the incident of Weiming Mountain, did Western Xia still care about a frontier fort?

Zhang Qi said again: "I heard that Cheng Gong died in Yanzhou. ”

This is where Zhang Kai's vision lies. Ordinary people don't care, but Zhang Ji cares, and deliberately informs Wang Ju.

The reason is simple. It's the Kashiki Road.

Wang Ju was really stunned, and asked for a long time: "Who is Xinzhizhou?" ”

"6. Zhang Qi said: "Since Nong Zhigao's rebellion, Jiaozhi has become more and more arrogant. ”

"Isn't that Cochin a small country?" Concubine Li asked curiously on the side. really asked Zhang Kai. Now Cochin is not Vietnam, and there is a hostile Champa state to the south. It's only half the size of Vietnam. And strictly speaking, it has only been a hundred years old, and it has always belonged to the territory of China before. However, it is this small country, and people are unruly, what's the matter?

"Concubine, don't talk nonsense, the country's center of gravity is in the north, so the south is restrained, as long as there is no trouble, everyone will turn a blind eye. Therefore, at that time, Nong Zhigao's rebellion swept almost the entire Quang Nam, not because our dynasty was not strong enough, but because there were very few troops stationed in the south, and it seemed that there were less than ten battalions of forbidden soldiers stationed. However, the Jiaozhi people had the illusion that a Nong Zhigao who was beaten by them like a dog could beat the Great Song Dynasty to the point of being a wolf, and began to despise our Great Song from then on. ”

"Zi'an, that's right. Therefore, 6 Shu came to Guizhou to take up his post, and Jiaozhi sent an envoy Li Shunzong to speak. 6 He confessed his responsibilities in person, and went to Yongzhou, gathered the forty-five mountains of the left and right rivers, and asked them to send 50,000 Ding Zhuang under their command for training, and placed the local soldiers and generals, and cast the seal to them. Therefore, the imperial court sent 6 dukes to Yanzhou to take over. ”

Respectful? They won't be respectful. Besides, does 6 really have that much ability?

But even Wang Ju, he can't focus on the south, there is no way, the power is so big, how to raise troops in the south?

And it's still early.

Wang Ju was thinking about this 6 Xu, the grievances and grievances between this 6 Gong and the seed in the future, he wouldn't care. However, this made Wang Ju a little headache.

Cheng Kan also had grievances and grievances with him, but later the two sides "made peace", even after Wang Ju came to Huachi County, there was a little cooperation. Therefore, Wang Ju repaired the Huafu Road, if Cheng Kan continued in Yanzhou, when it was time for Guanjian, it would be impossible to ask the officers and soldiers of the 10th and 8th battalions to support, but it was still possible to ask the officers and soldiers of the 5th and 6th battalions. When the fight is at its most critical, not to mention the officers and men of the fifth or sixth battalion, even if the officers and men of the first battalion come, it is good.

However, when this 6 is coming, can he ask for support from the officers and soldiers of Yanzhou? It seems that he has to talk to Cai Ting that day, at least 6 Shu will not buy his own face, it depends on whether he buys Cai Ting's face.

…………

Cai Ting came to Huachi County again and brought many officials with him.

Wang Ju did a big thing, which had nothing to do with the military.

Last year, Wang Ju advised everyone to plant winter wheat, and now the weather in the Song Dynasty has not yet ushered in the Xiaoice River weather in the late Northern Song Dynasty, although there are also cold winters, but relatively speaking, it is generally a warm winter era. Therefore, the range of winter wheat cultivation can reach Youzhou in the north and southern Liaoning.

However, the crops of the people in the north are still mostly planted in one season, supplemented by two seasons. Why? It is the harvest time of winter wheat, which can generally be harvested in early May, for example, the official harvest season of winter wheat in Kaifeng in the first year of Xining is May 7, which is recorded in the annals of history.

Therefore, if you want two harvests, it will be very troublesome. In the spring, the seedlings must be opened, a small pit must be made with tools, and the seeds of the millet must be sprinkled with grass ash and fermented manure, but in this way, the seedlings of the millet will be left in the thriving winter wheat. It is hard to grow well. The winter wheat harvest is here, but the soybean millet harvest is down. Therefore, it can only be said to be one and a half seasons in the Ming Dynasty, which also leads to the overall yield of only two stones per mu in the north, until Jiangdong Wei officially appeared. The high-yield Jiangdong Wei pulled the yield per mu of the Song Dynasty to three stones.

In addition, the management of winter wheat planting is more cumbersome than that of soybean millet, the waste labor is not mentioned, and the water requirements are stricter, and there is a shortage of water in the northwest, so many people in the northwest are too lazy to plant winter wheat and only plant one season of soybean millet.

In order to solve this problem, Wang Ju taught the people a new method, that is, transfer.

Winter wheat is planted. However, millet is no longer planted directly in the field, as before, but is raised alone.

Start by mixing farmhouse manure with fertile silt. Wang Ju also provided a tool to the people for free, an iron cylinder below, a piston on the top, the piston was lifted, pressed on the mixed mud, and then the piston was pressed down. When it comes to Huozhai, a cylindrical nutrient bowl comes out.

Then sprinkle sorghum seeds on top of the bowl. Put it in a small field to manage.

The winter wheat is harvested, and the nutrient bowl is transferred to the field.

This method is not only suitable for sorghum. More suitable for cotton.

But it's a little troublesome, but now Wang Ju has prestige, and spring is coming, Wang Ju is running around on horseback, fortunately, the area of Huachi County is not large, so the supervision from village to village, the tools are provided for free, and the people have also carried it out. At first, however, Gyeongju officials didn't pay much attention, and as the winter wheat matured, everyone finally saw the benefits.

The winter wheat here is ripening day by day, and the sorghum seedlings are also thriving, and they are growing far more vigorously than the previous seed-sowing planting.

The Song Dynasty attached great importance to internal governance and cultural governance, so Fan Zhongyan proposed to focus on agriculture and mulberry, but if you can't shout slogans, you have to introduce some practical methods, otherwise what's the difference between shouting and not shouting? Don't talk about the Song Dynasty, some people shouted out in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Therefore, after Cai Ting heard about it, he immediately brought officials of all sizes in Gyeongju to inspect it.

"It's a good approach," Mr. Cai praised.

Other officials together amounted.

To put it mildly, if the two seasons are not affected, even if each household increases their income by a few hundred catties of grain, some extremely poor households will not go hungry. To put it mildly, if the popularization starts, and one household increases its income by five stones, the entire north will increase its output by 20 to 30 million stones, and there will be no grain crisis.

Or spread in the northwest, if it is promoted in Shaanxi, the whole Shaanxi will increase a few hundred stone of grain a year, even if the imperial court buys it with money, this increased grain can barely keep the military grain, so how much money do you have to save?

Its significance is immeasurable.

But Cai Ting is still negligent, how can this kind of transfer mean more than that?

In the past, when planting soybean millet, it was to sprinkle seeds into the ground, and five or six seeds could be sprinkled in a pit, but the root system of millet is so big, and there are often three or four sorghum seedlings that survive, and then they compete for fertilizer and water in this limited area, how can they achieve high yields?

But now this kind of single plant transfer, only one seedling, then it can attract nutrients and water in the soil to the fullest, and because it begins to grow in the small field, the weak seedlings can be removed without use, and the seedlings are grown in a fertile nutrient bowl, so its root system begins to root down from a young age, and after moving to the field, its roots can be deepened, and it can also attract more nutrients and water. Rather than as before, because the underlying soil is compacted, the root system can only extend to the surface soil.

Wang Ju briefly explained its meaning, but some did not say it, because everyone may not be able to understand it. Unless his deeper mathematics book comes out, which introduces some physics, chemistry and geography, everyone reads it, reflects on it, and then talks about it, then they can understand it.

And how much its output will increase, Wang Ju has no bottom in his heart.

In any case, this method will increase the yield compared to the previous planting.

"If that's the case, it's a great achievement."

"Cai Gong, can't think so optimistic, two seasons of planting is labor-intensive, this will be more labor-intensive, in order to encourage the people to use this method of planting, in the spring Xia Guan does not know how much wear and tear. Looking at the whole north, there is a lack of water sources, and there is a lack of cattle, so it is still the era of thin seeds and wide harvests, even if the imperial court promotes it, there will not be many people who choose this method to plant. Unless the whole north is greatly developed for water conservancy, and then, like the lower officials, cattle are not counted in households, etc., and even those who raise cattle will be given some incentives to encourage the people to actively raise cattle. ”

It is easier said than done, that is, how much money will it cost to implement these two clauses, and how much tax will have to be reduced?

Cai Ting's smile gradually faded.

"Cai Gong, let's talk about the harvest after the autumn, and when the harvest comes out, it will be convincing, maybe it will be happy at that time."

"Haha, too, this is also the second thing the old man came." (To be continued)

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