Wang Ju didn't want to get involved, and said slowly: "Duke Wen, the minister said that there are many drawbacks in the ordnance prison, and the biggest drawback is that the armor is not built in peacetime, and when the war comes, the armor is built in a hurry, so that a large number of craftsmen have to be raised in peacetime, and there is nothing to do - when the war comes, the craftsmen rush to work overnight, and the armor they build is not qualified. Therefore, the ministers advised him to allocate money every year to repair the armor in case of unforeseen needs. Although in this way, from this year, the imperial court will have to increase some expenditures, but in the long run, it is the way to reduce expenditure. And the armor made in the future will never be as miserable as what His Majesty had seen before. ”

"I've heard that you've fired many craftsmen."

"Your Majesty, this is indeed the case. After the reorganization of the treasury of the various institutes, the craftsmen were assessed, and some unqualified craftsmen were persuaded to retire one after another. ”

This process is a bit slow, Wang Ju first reorganized, the storage is only five warehouses, and the manufacturing is divided into six courtyards.

All other irrelevant departments will be abolished.

Five libraries, six courtyards and one prison, this is the current military weapons pro.

Then the officials and craftsmen who retired were given 20, 10 and 5 consolation funds respectively in the first and second years from the head to the craftsman to the study, and the third and fourth years were given five consolation funds. I'll find my way out on my own in the future.

It is also stipulated that the time for students to enter the academy for study shall not exceed three years, and they shall be assessed in three years, and they shall be promoted to the sixth to ninth rank according to the situation, and those who are not qualified shall be eliminated, so as to avoid the disguised extortion of the officials.

This elimination is a bit ruthless, and nearly 5,000 officials and craftsmen have been eliminated successively, and it is not over yet. After the end of the estimate. It can eliminate ** thousand official craftsmen. Xiazi compressed this bloated institution, which amounted to 30,000, by nearly one-third.

After the officials and craftsmen are eliminated, it is the various officials.

Because it is not over, some of them have been reported, and some of them have not.

"Therefore, the cost of manufacturing and replacing tens of thousands of Porghe armor this time has nothing to do with the inner library, and the inner library can be allocated or not."

Sucrose definitely makes money. But how much money can be made, Wang Ju is not sure.

However, many of the management rights of cotton, pit mines, and the city shipping company were transferred to the hands of the shipping department, and the loss of the inner storage was not small, and the sucrose would definitely not be able to make up for this loss. From the perspective of the national economy as a whole, Xue Xiang did the right thing, but it hurt the income of the inner treasury.

This is the contradiction, and it is also one of the reasons why Gao Tao is unhappy, there are many children of the Bijian clan, and just to support the children of the clan, a lot of money is needed for a year.

But it has nothing to do with Wang Ju.

Wang Ju paused and said, "In addition, the minister pleads with His Majesty again." Opened a market in Michigan. ”

Compared with the Tang Dynasty, the Song Dynasty was a bit bitter in this regard.

First of all, the changes in the Yangtze River. In the Song Dynasty, the mouth of the Yangtze River was moving eastward, while in the Tang Dynasty, the mouth of the sea almost reached Yangzhou, so the sea ships could go directly to Yangzhou. However, the Tang Dynasty did not pay attention to its navigation at all, and even forbade the movement of ordinary people, let alone abroad. However, in the Song Dynasty, it could only be built in Hangzhou, and then the Grand Canal was transferred to the Yangtze River, and then from the Yangtze River to the Grand Canal to Bianshui. This risk is no less than that at sea, the difference is that river transportation is not so strict on monsoons.

Secondly, due to the change of the national situation, the sixteen states of Yanyun became the territory of the Liao State, and they did not dare to use Dengzhou as a port, so they could only set up a port in Mizhou. Then from Mizhou to Jishui, from the Wuzhang River into the capital.

Wang Ju's proposal to be in Mizhou City is based on several considerations, the development of the south, once the volume is large, if by the way, you can use the sea route to directly transfer the goods from the south to the north.

The other is sucrose.

With the unification of the Kapok Division, Ge Shaohua became a grassroots subordinate officer of the Kapok Division. But this sucrose, Wang Ju didn't let the three divisions interfere. Xue Xiang didn't figure it out for the time being, and he also didn't propose to intervene.

Zhao Du found the seafarer according to Wang Ju's instructions, and this is the key to this.

The surrounding countries of the Song Dynasty were influenced by the Central Plains and were relatively civilized, including the Maritime Silk Road, but the Luzon side was relatively backward. However, the areas to the south are all along the sea route, and Tianzhu has no sucrose and no shortage of related sucrose products. In other words, the real market for cane sugar is still the two countries that Wang Ju hated in his heart, Goryeo and Wa, or some of them will circulate from Goryeo to Khitan.

But new problems arise.

That is the trend of foreign trade, not as later generations think, the Song Dynasty was developed, and navigation would make n money for the Song Dynasty every year. The reason is simple, these countries are far poorer than the Song Dynasty, that is, the Song Dynasty has more goods, where can I get the money to buy them? Therefore, the Song Dynasty sold less and bought back more.

In addition, a large number of copper coins and gold and silver flowed out, gold and silver flowed to Dashi, and copper coins were lost to Liao, Goryeo, Wa and the South China Sea. This is that many Song Dynasty ministers did not figure it out, so that soon Wang Anshi was fooled and was defeated in the Song-Liao currency war.

It may be a little better when it comes to the Southern Song Dynasty, but the current Song Dynasty is like this. However, Wang Ju still agrees with it, there is some currency loss, but this transaction from buying and selling transactions to transportation, to production, it will not only feed many foreign Yi people, but also many Song people.

Or is it like a certain city later, saying that the goods bought by the mainland occupy more or less land, can it be counted like that? The pull in the back is the real big head! To put it mildly, in later generations, the value generated by going to the Wa State to purchase only one Spring Festival before he wore it was enough for the Wa State to produce a hundred fighters.

The afterlife and him will always be two planes, but they can be used for reference.

After Zhao Du inquired, he was also aware of this situation.

It's not that it can't be sold, how can Guan Jian sell it? The Wa Kingdom has no way to trade that little property.

So Wang Ju wrote a letter, first, he asked Haike to go to the Wa Kingdom to look for silver mines along the volcano, and let the Wa Kingdom mine the silver ore in advance. As long as there was enough silver, then the currency tension in the Song Dynasty would change.

Once the currency of the Song Dynasty is not tight, with the economic development of the Song Dynasty, it will produce earth-shaking changes.

The second is to let the Wa Kingdom cut wood.

In fact, the Wa Kingdom traded with the Song Dynasty, and the timber was the bulk for a long time, but now it is mostly some precious timber, which is made into boards and loaded on ships. Wang Juxin has another approach, which is to let the seafarers make wooden rafts. Follow the monsoon. Towed by boat to the Song Dynasty.

But this drags. With the current navigation situation, it is also necessary to explore, but it is not difficult, and not only cane sugar, but also other commodities, the seafarers are struggling with the items that the Wa Kingdom did not trade, and the amount of wood required by the Song Dynasty in a year is amazing, once this market is opened. Transaction volume has surged. The merchant pursues profit, and this profit may be 100 percent or 200 percent. As long as it is reminded, there will be a lot of smart people who will come up with a solution.

Moreover, Wang Ju used his power to study a reliable compass, and even wanted to come up with a Song-style sextant.

With these two things to help, navigation will be safer.

However, the transaction volume is large, and then transported to Hangzhou, the cost is equivalent to an invisible increase a lot. This is also one of the reasons why Wang Ju proposed to buy a city in Mizhou.

The third is the surge in the production of gunpowder, and the demand for sulfur is increasing at a rate of almost 10 percent per year, and the source of sulfur is still the Ryukyu Islands. In the past, it didn't matter how much was needed, but as the demand increased. This cost also has to be considered.

But now it's not so urgent, Wang Ju didn't write a recital, Zhao Ji and Wen Yanbo asked, Wang Ju simply said the stakes.

"Mizhou is too close to the Khitan," Han Jiang said.

"Han Gong, it's okay, you can distinguish Mizhou City from other cities, allow Song Dynasty merchants to transport goods to trade, and also allow foreign merchants to enter Mizhou, but set cards around Mizhou, not Song Dynasty merchants, the scope of activities is limited to Mizhou, and they are not allowed to leave Mizhou and go elsewhere. In addition, the deterioration of Shaanxi's water and soil is also due to too much timber cutting, which not only worsens Shaanxi's water and soil, but also harms the Yellow River. ”

"I'm going to do it." Zhao said.

Wang Ju said that the reason for opening the port did not deliberately mention sucrose, and mainly talked about the south.

But it is true that once it is developed, the south is also very important, and it does not cost much to set up a city ship, but a place is equivalent to one more road to and from the south.

Everyone was also silent.

The main thing is that its interests are not much related to the powerful, maybe there are some timber merchants in Shaanxi who have suffered some losses, but the capital's will not, just turn one direction.

Therefore, dozens of ministers thought not of the city, but of sugar.

Wang Anshi was very puzzled, cotton understands, this is a cover product, a cold product, but how much income can this sucrose have? There is a comparison, frosting, how much profit can frosting make in a year?

Wang Ju was also puzzled, so many bigwigs were sitting together, obviously discussing a big matter, but Zhao Ji summoned himself, was it just for those armors in Jingyang Courtyard?

Sure enough, Zhao Ji sent a eunuch to hand over a few letters.

Wang Ju opened it and looked at it, and what he wrote was one thing.

In April this year, Xue Laofeng, the envoy of Western Xia, came to the Song Dynasty and proposed to exchange Anyuan Saimen Erqi for Suizhou.

Xue Laofeng's first stop must pass through Yanzhou, and Guo Kui wrote a sentence: This is a business for 600 miles!

It is an allusion that during the Warring States period, the two countries of Chu and Qi concluded an alliance, and the Qin State was worried, so he sent Zhang Yi to the State of Chu to lobby King Huai of Chu, that is, the fool who exiled Qu Yuan. Zhang Yi said to King Chu Huai, if the king can cut off contact with the Qi state, I will ask the king of Qin to donate the land of 600 li in the area, so that the women of the Qin state can be the concubines who serve the king, and Qin and Chu will become brother countries forever.

King Chu Huai really believed it, and immediately sent an envoy to sever relations with the Qi State, and then sent someone to follow Zhang Yi to receive the land. Zhang Yi returned to the Qin State, "fell" from the carriage, was injured, and did not go to court for March. When King Chu Huai heard this, he said, Zhang Yi is probably because I have not completely broken off diplomatic relations with Qi State. So he sent warriors to the Song Kingdom, borrowed the Song State Fu Festival, and went to the Qi State to insult the King of Qi Xuan. King Xuan of Qi angrily beheaded the Fu Festival of the Chu State and made friends with the Qin State.

After dedicating the land, Zhang Yi said to the envoy of the state of Chu, I have a six-mile fief given by the king of Qin, and I am willing to dedicate it to the king of Chu.

King Huai of Chu was furious and sent troops to attack Qin, but Qin and Qi joined forces to defeat Chu and let Qin take the opportunity to capture Danyang and Hanzhong.

This is what Guo Kui meant, the words of the Xixia people can't be believed, he dares to treat our big guys as the king of Chu Huai.

However, to disappoint him, there are really many, many King Chu Huai of the Song Dynasty, including Fan Chunren!

It was Han Jiang who negotiated with Xue Laofeng, and he was forced by so many Chu Huai kings, so he had no choice but to discuss, and then he looked at the national letter, and there was a line of words on the national book, Gou De Suizhou, please offer Anyuan and Semenseki.

What do I want this Saiji for, so Han Jiang asked: "What is the field of the second Saiji?" ”

Xue Laofeng said: "An has the clothes of the widow and leaves its leader? ”

Han Jiang also believed it.

Xue Laofeng went back, the two countries sent envoys to exchange, and the Song Dynasty sent Zhao Yu and Xue Changchao to Yanzhou, and made an appointment to exchange on the same day. Guo Kui still didn't believe it, and said that it was okay to change, your Xixia first handed over the Erzhai territory to the Song Dynasty, and our Song Dynasty returned Suizhou to you Xixia again.

Now the Song Dynasty occupies Suizhou, but it does not occupy the entire Suizhou, which is equivalent to about half of the original Suizhou. Saimen and Anyuan Erzhai originally belonged to Yanzhou and the Security Army, that is, the Tumen area, including the northern area of the Security Army. This area is not small, and it can barely settle the subordinates of Mt. Weiming. Of course, it is far less than the area of Suizhou occupied by the Song Dynasty.

Therefore, Guo Kui put forward this statement, firstly, our Song Dynasty credit is stronger than that of you Western Xia people.

Second, this exchange is that you Western Xia took advantage.

Thirdly, morally, this time our Song Dynasty also made sense, it is not right for our Song Dynasty to violate the agreement to occupy Suizhou, but it is also not right for you Xixia people to occupy Tumen. Now that we are changing it back together, then we in the Song Dynasty have no place to be sorry for you Tangut people.

In fact, after Li Yuanhao sent troops, Western Xia occupied not only the Tumen area, such as Quye River, but also some areas of Hulu River, and Tumen was considered a large area. The Song Dynasty also occupied some Western Xia places, such as Dashun City. Overall, the Song Dynasty suffered a lot and took advantage of less.

Then let's change it.

Xue Laofeng had no choice but to force it, and pointed to the two Zhaiji and said: "I agreed with your Song Dynasty officials, exchange Erzhai for Suizhou, Erzhai, Zhaiji is also, not to mention the boundary, where is the boundary?" ”

Zhao Yumeng and exchanged two Zhaiji for Suizhou? He thought desperately, and finally came up with it, saying: "In the north of Erzhai, there are 36 earthen forts in the past, and they are bounded by the Great Wall Ridge, and the book moved by the Xiping King (Li Deming) auspicious charm is fixed. ”

That is, Li Deming's letter to Song Zhenzong also wrote about this matter.

Now it was Xue Laofeng's turn to be dumbfounded.

There was no way to deceive, Xue Laofeng had to go back. Zhao Yu didn't change it, and he couldn't return to the capital, so he wrote in Yanzhou: "If you don't have the original Song Dynasty boundary, what's the use of the ruins of these two cities?" Suizhou will still use troops for Western Xia, and if it does not use more soldiers, the border preparations can not be relaxed. ”

So as soon as Wang Ju came in, Zhao Ji asked Jingyang how the armor of the courtyard was.

The fateful thing is that at this time, the imperial court issued an edict and asked Guo Kui to burn several forts in Suizhou together.

So after accepting Zhao Yan's performance, Zhao Yan was shocked and asked Wen Yanbo, I don't know if Suizhou still exists?

It's you who take the lead in changing, wanting peace, and burning Suizhou Castle, otherwise it may be so passive.

Wen Yanbo was dumbfounded, how dare he answer, Zhao Ji had no choice, so he had to convene the important ministers to discuss. These ministers were also dumbfounded, and more than ninety percent of these ministers wanted to be replaced, and they wanted peace. Together in a hurry, I don't know what to do.

Zhao Ji knew that Wang Ju had worked very hard during this time, especially the reduction of officials and craftsmen, it was not a casual layoff, Wang Ju personally presided over the assessment before each cut, so many officials and craftsmen were screened, can the task not be heavy?

However, these ministers did not speak together, and Zhao Ji had to send eunuchs to call Wang Ju to discuss the matter.

Wang Ju was also a little confused, and glanced at Wen Yanbo, it was like this, you can still think of giving Wang Anshi eye medicine, okay!

Wen Yanbo didn't want to touch it for the time being, and there was no need to touch it, the person who touched it was Wang Anshi.

He put down these twists and turns, and asked: "Your Majesty, and the princes, even if the original boundary of Tumen is exchanged for Suizhou, it is still cost-effective for Western Xia, why don't Western Xia change it?" (To be continued......) R527