Chapter 742: Offset

The car cracked, and Zhang Quanzhong and Huang He also understood the problem, but what did they say?

Huang He had no choice but to say, Prince, if you think about it too much, Your Majesty still trusts you very much, and even thinks that the prince is going south, just to scatter his mind and avoid the limelight, but it is not that he does not need the prince.

Wang Ju said, really? Even if the incident happened suddenly, Your Majesty hasn't thought about it yet, but as early as a few days ago, someone used this to impeach me, and they are not high-ranking officials like Sun Gu, why doesn't Your Majesty deal with it?

This is the best rebuttal, even if Zhao Ji doesn't want to balance, it means that he is also a little unhappy in his heart, why are you and my aunt not knowing each other, but let her give birth to your son!

So in the end, there was the origin of Sun Gu's public reprimand in the court.

Wang Ju said again, if there is no defeat in the summer, most of the officials who want to come will not let you come.

The two did not dare to be silent.

Wang Ju continued, the prince recommended me to participate in political affairs, and I really only have military talent, please come with me.

Then he took them back to the city and took them to a well-guarded storehouse, which Wang Ju had opened and led them in.

There was a lot of gold and silver piled up in the storeroom, as well as a large number of gold and silver coins.

Wang Ju also said that these gold and silver coins were exchanged from the Great Food Tianzhu, and as for the gold, some were mined locally, and some were exchanged from the Great Food. Last year, I told the government that the commercial tax on the other side of the country had reached more than 3 million guan a year, but last year's commercial tax had already increased to more than 5 million guan, and it might even increase to 7 million guan this year.

The main thing is the pull of trade, with the development of the Great Food Navigation Trade Road, not only from the Song Dynasty exchanged a large number of silk porcelain to the Great Food. There are also many goods in the country. It can be shipped to the other side for trading. In fact, it is connected with the trade of the other side. So far, overseas trade has successfully pulled back the trade difference, and gradually reversed to the Song Dynasty, realizing a large return of gold and silver.

But trade must have commodities reselling, and the greater the volume of trade, the greater the local production of goods. As a result, there has been a surge in commercial taxes.

Again, this is a good illustration, no matter how it pulls. There are hundreds of thousands of households on the other side, and the commercial tax has reached almost half of the Song Dynasty, and even gradually developed to Qiping.

So Wang Ju didn't say anything wrong and didn't do anything wrong.

Wang Ju said again, as for the silver, it was obtained from the Wa Kingdom, and last year a large silver mine was finally found under the search of many people. A medium-sized silver mine, and because of violent mining regardless of waste. In addition to some small silver mines, we can get three million taels of silver a year. If it weren't for this change, I would have been able to launch the banking department for the government next year. Even five years later, with enough gold and silver as the principal, 150 million silk can be issued.

As I said, is it possible for the people to be self-sufficient without giving to the people?

Not only that, but I came here for several purposes, more powerful weapons, and several new grains with high yields and drought tolerance......

But when you think about that sad dissipation, there is really no motivation.

I don't know if Fu Jian has different theories against Wang Meng, does he still have the ability to unify the north?

Wang Ju took out the edict again, I serve as the governor of the government, and I have to be careful in everything I do and speak, besides, this privy envoy with no name and no role, so why should I go back?

"Did you really find a silver mine?" Zhao Ji asked in surprise.

Huang He nodded, this was what he had seen with his own eyes, and also bit it with his teeth to try its purity.

Zhao Ji sighed and said, "It's really a great math ...... I have already asked Sun Qing to pay tribute. ”

Zhang Quanzhong and Huang Hena dared to answer, but they thought to themselves, it doesn't matter if you let Sun Gu Zhishi, there are a large group of bigwigs such as Wen Yanbo behind.

If they were not forced to retreat, it would be impossible for Wang Ju to come back.

If he doesn't come back, those seafarers agree to let Wang Ju bring the gold and silver back to China?

It won't take too long, I'm afraid that in a few years, it will really be like Wang Ju said, the carriage of the Song Dynasty will be completely renovated, but what can the two of them say, can it be said, Your Majesty, you just get Wen Yanbo and them down, a hundred Wen Yanbo is not worth one Wang Ju.

Gao Taotao suddenly spoke again: "So, he used his gold and silver to make yards and trade with the officials." ”

Huang He thought to himself, but not only those gold and silver, the banking division, but also the entire Western Xia.

But Wang Ju does have such a meaning, either to stir up different theories, or to use me, if you use me, those ministers should be cleansed, Your Majesty, you can do it.

So Huang He couldn't speak.

Zhang Quanzhong couldn't help but say on the side: "Queen Mother, Le Yi is attached to Zhao State, and he is still Shangqing, but Yan Guo is getting worse. ”

People didn't ask for anything, that is, the court dismissed Wen Yanbo, and Wang Ju may not come back, maybe his mind moved, expelled the court officials, and then became a free and easy king of a small country. But the Song Dynasty may have lost a great opportunity for ZTE since then.

Gao also agreed, so he was silent again.

Zhao Ji asked: "Zhang Qing, how many households are there in Fengzhou?" ”

"Nearly 200,000 households."

"So much?"

"It's the most populated area on the other side."

"Are there any natives in rebellion?" Zhao Ji asked again.

The imperial court sent eighteen officials to the other side last year, not to mention the other side, even on Qiongzhou Island, no official was willing to go, and because of Wang Ju being sent overseas last year, Wu Nan was uneven and beat Zhou Xun severely, who would want to go? There is no need to choose, even if it is a small county lieutenant, he is not willing to go there to be a governor.

In the end, it was the imperial court that forcibly apported eighteen officials, all of whom were the small lord of a county, the county lieutenant, or some tax collectors who supervised the salt and wine in the workshop. And before they left, Lao Wang deliberately wrote in the edict that they must be quiet after they go to the other side. I don't want to govern, but I want to get through the run-in period first, so that the people over there will gradually recognize the court again.

In fact, there is no need for Lao Wang's orders, and no official dares to come over there to make trouble. Isn't it quiet, let's be quiet, mix for a few years, and after you go back with this qualification, don't say a Zhizhou, at least you can mix a general judgment.

It's good to be quiet, and this side of the power should cost nearly 10,000 yuan a year. Buy a court approval.

But not every official who comes here is like that. There was an official who was stupid about reading books. Or they are used to being powerful and good in the country, and as soon as they come here, they begin to meddle in government affairs. Can that get him to intervene?

So there was a dispute among the people outside the state city, and the officials below reported that he took people over to inspect, and met the natives on the way, and was dismembered by the blade.

This message was sent to the capital.

There are many people who have doubts, but after doubts. Another gasp. It's so lawless over there.

But what can be done, is it possible to send the Empress Yu Shi Qiu to go over by boat to investigate? That imperial history dares to go.

However, Zhang Quanzhong didn't know about it now, and he replied: "Because we have been staying in Fengshi City, and the scope of our activities is not large, we have not seen the natives. But we visited Lezhizhou and Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, and according to them, the inner abdomen is already very peaceful, and there are still many indigenous people in the surrounding area. But it is not as the court imagined, although there is repression, but as long as it is quiet, it is even a cannibal tribe. The local government also tried to win it over. But they were still not allowed to intermarry with them. But even this ban on marriage will be repealed in the future. Once the immigrants reach 90 percent. The parties are allowed to intermarry. ”

It would have been a long time since immigrants accounted for more than ninety percent of the population, and besides, a huge fleet of ships sailed to the other side......

But this is not what Zhao Ji is concerned about, he asked, "Are there many cannibal tribes?" ”

In fact, there were also cannibals in the Song Dynasty, such as Kui Xiaman, those leaders like to eat people's hearts and livers, and Zhao Kuangyin's brother-in-law ate more than a hundred beautiful maidservants in Luoyang. But in short, it is a very rare phenomenon, and everyone is very disgusted, so Zhao Kuangyi beheaded his eldest brother-in-law. In addition, when Li Chuyun conquered Hunan, in order to deter the enemy, he selected dozens of obese prisoners from the prisoners of war and ordered his subordinates to eat, but the court learned about it and immediately dismissed the official.

Therefore, whenever Wang Ju talked about Kuixia's barbarian head eating the hearts and livers of the Han people, even Sun Gu's political enemies did not object.

"The big island where Toyosu is located is a little better, especially the island further east, which is almost entirely made up of cannibals (Maori)."

"What is Wang Qing doing over there?"

Zhao Ji asked inexplicably.

In fact, what he wanted to ask most was whether Wang Ju had interfered in the government affairs over there.

"Your Majesty, this slave doesn't know very well, but Her Royal Highness the eldest princess mentioned it, saying that Shaobao is very busy over there, one is repairing books, the other is arranging people to go to the other side last year, and the third is developing weapons and machinery that is also very useful."

"Repair books?"

"The slave is supposed to be working on more esoteric math books."

You can say the same, but not completely.

The foundation of scientific research on the other side is the students taught by Wang Ju in Guizhou and Quanzhou, as well as the simple mathematics books he wrote before, and some instructions.

But when he went to the other side, Wang Ju found a few of his proud students and subdivided all the textbooks.

Approximately as in later generations, languages, mathematics, geography, history, politics, biology, physics, chemistry.

It's just that chemistry was placed in the highest grade for further study because of the conditions.

As for the scriptures, they are scattered in the language along with the previous excellent articles and poems, or they are analyzed in politics.

And the major changes in various dynasties in ancient and modern times are selected and their successes and failures are analyzed.

Finally, there are some brainwashing articles.

This is a huge project, and it may take more than ten years to perfect, but there is no need to be in such a hurry, and it can be improved step by step in the future.

The other side of the shore is equally important, but Zhao Ji was negligent again, and he asked again: "What kind of weapon?" ”

"The slave maid is not very clear, but His Highness has said something, she said why the nomads have always been a danger to the Central Plains Dynasty. Once the nomads stopped the war, the population multiplied rapidly, but the bitter cold desert could not feed so many people, so they often focused on the agricultural civilization with developed fixed cultivation, the Central Plains. Once they go south, as long as they are not defeated, they will have a reward. However, the Central Plains wanted to go on a northern expedition, and even if it won a big victory, the proceeds often could not pay one-third of the military expenses. Therefore, there was little interest, and because of the lack of cavalry, the drag of supplies, and the lack of deep into the desert. Cavalry has little interest in infantry, power is enough, the cost of using troops is low, the cost of using soldiers is high, and barbarism is meek, so the northern nomads have always become the biggest problem in the Central Plains. ”

The question is a bit complicated.

Just like the Song Dynasty bought a large number of sheep from the Liao State and the Western Xia State every year, it was not cattle, whether it was the Western Xia or the Liao State, because of the cold, the number of cattle was too small.

A sheep in the border area is consistent money, but in the capital is three money, why, sheep from the border area to the capital, you have to send people to rush, you have to consume grass grain, and there are related taxes.

But the problem is over there, for example, some merchants in Liao drove the sheep of the desert tribes to the border to trade with each other, and only got the same money, so how much money can they give to those tribes in the desert? Often, one silk can be exchanged for several sheep.

So no matter how many sheep they raised, they have been living in poverty. Therefore, some tribes ignored the ban of the Liao State and the Western Xia and sold horses to the Song people through smuggling channels. Sell horses to get more wealth!

The second is food and salt.

Why can't these tribes slaughter sheep and sell salted meat directly, so that it can be easily transported, and they can also sell their furs?

You must know that the salt in the Liao State is on the other side of the Bohai Sea, if it is smuggled to the Song Dynasty by boat, it may be less than ten cents per catty, but when it is transported to the desert, God knows what the cost becomes? Therefore, the salt in Youzhou of the Bohai Sea of Liao State is only a few pennies per catty, but the Bai Dadan Department on the Xishan side of Liao State has to trade green salt with horses to the Xixia people because of the high price of salt.

In this case, even if there is a large amount of grain in Youzhou, it is not easy to transport it to the desert, so the food of the various tribes in the desert is still meat.

However, the water and soil on the other side of the desert began to deteriorate, so once the population was a little denser, often a snowstorm came, and after a large number of cattle and sheep froze to death, half of the people of a tribe would die.

But this problem will not appear on the Australian side, first, all settlements are now on the seaside, and the price of salt is very low, second, although most of the pastures occupied by the settlements are semi-arid pastures, at least they are much better than the pastures in the desert, and third, the population here is too small.

However, this is the case, after Wang Ju came here, he still issued an order, each pasture should limit the number of horses, cattle and sheep according to the area, it doesn't matter if there is less, and if there is more, it is not allowed to raise, and then implement the policy of rotational grazing and fixed grazing, and organize some water conservancy.

This is what Wang Ju is proud of.

In the past, Australia was dominated by a large group of descendants of European criminals and a small number of indigenous people, who constituted the early Australian people.

It is relying on the geographical advantage, the land is vast and sparsely populated, but these people are generally evacuated by nature, and it can be said that what is the water conservancy situation in Australia for a thousand years, and what is the water conservancy situation after a thousand years.

If the continent is large, there is hardly any large-scale water conservancy.

However, since the arrival of a large number of immigrants from the Song Dynasty, there was almost no need for government organization, and some water conservancy projects began to be built spontaneously. In particular, in the middle reaches of the Fengshou River, because of the low difficulty of construction and the guidance of various officials, in just one and a half years, a water conservancy equivalent to half the scale of the Zhengbai Canal was built with limited manpower, two main canals, more than 50 branch canals, and more than 70 large and small reservoirs, and the water of the Fengshou River was brought to the northwest for irrigation.

This means that there can be more good cultivated and pastoral areas.

Zhao Niannu didn't say anything about this, but the approximate meaning was also said.

"So His Highness said that Shao Bao is inventing some weapons, which can even completely offset the cavalry advantage of the nomads, so that it can be done once and for all."

"Oh." Zhao Ji was interested.

If this is the case, not only the Western Xia, but also the Liao State can be completely defeated.

In fact, Huang He deliberately said this section, and the meaning was clear, the emperor, what is good about that Wen Yanbo, let him be a minister, and inviting Wang Ju back is really useful to the Great Song Dynasty.

Look, people have not forgotten the safety of the Song Dynasty when they go to the other side.

But then it's the hardest thing to say. (To be continued.) )