Wang Ju put down the letter and muttered, "Why bother. ”

The timing of Wang Ju and others was for Western Xia to send troops, but in fact, not many days after Ye Mo's death, Western Xia sent troops. One is to cheat a time to serve money, the Song Dynasty to Zhou Yongqing as an envoy, the time to serve money and silk clothes to Youzhou soon after, Liang Yi buried troops to attack Suizhou Shun'an, Heishui and other villages, but the Song Dynasty has been strictly guarded, plus the Western Xia is not good at attacking the city, a village is not broken, Liang Yi buried and besieged Suide City, attacked for more than ten days, the number of soldiers and cavalry is increasing, the fireworks of Dingxian Mountain outside Suide City are full, the spy report Guo Kui, Guo Kui said, this is the enemy will escape, I am afraid that I will follow the pursuit, especially to bluff.

Sure enough, Liang Yi retreated soon after, but Guo Kui also knew that the court's peace faction had the upper hand, and he did not pursue.

This is the opportunity that Wang Ju is waiting for.

Let's not talk about the pacification of Western Xia, at least we must hold the frontier.

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The Western Xia sent troops this time, which also meant that it was impossible for the Song Dynasty to "seek peace, and war would break out sooner or later."

But the ordnance supervisor stunned so many idlers, and these idlers stayed restless, and kept causing trouble. Drag it to this point. There are more things to provoke. So in this general trend, as long as Wang Ju explains the truth clearly, he can lay off these officials in one, two, three.

However, Wang Ju didn't want to be a prophet, so he didn't say it, and besides, he said it in advance, and people were also on guard.

So a little tragedy was created.

Wang Juwei said, Ye Mo was anxious. What's worse is that some officials often come to his door to trouble him and constantly humiliate him. Ye Mo wanted to say it that day. But seeing Wang Ju's so many affairs, he didn't open his mouth.

A few days later, a few of the officials came to his house again, and he did something stupid in anger, he had done a bad job for a while, which was a very dishonorable experience, and it also hindered his future, but because of this experience, he thought of an idea, that is, to commit suicide. It is indeed suicide. But before committing suicide, a seamless scene was faked, and the director Han Wei has not solved the case so far.

Why suicide. It is to give Wang Ju an opportunity.

wrote this letter before committing suicide, asking his wife to keep it secret no matter what, and she could not show it to Wang Ju until the end of the year. Then he hoped that Wang Ju would treat his wife and children well.

Wang Ju found a tongue of fire and silently burned the letter, this truth cannot be leaked in any case, even if Han Wei can't make a difference. Then he said, "Sister-in-law, have anyone come to your door to trouble you these days?" ”

"Not a few days ago, but again these days." The woman said.

"So, when you go back, you will clean up your house and move to my house with your children."

"How's that going to work?"

"I feel guilty about Ye Mo, besides, there are a lot of things in my family, and I also need someone to help. By the way, how old is your son? ”

"Eleven."

"It's just right, by the way, I studied with my second brother at my house."

"Ming Gong," the woman knelt down, weeping silently.

Wang Ju helped her up and said, "Don't use it, your husband is a hero......"

However, this incident also gave Wang Ju a wake-up call, and the next day he went to the ordnance superintendent, and immediately summoned all the officials to ask them if they had been harassed, and if so, they would report it, and Wang Ju would seek justice for them.

The end of the year is gradually coming.

But Wang Ju ushered in a new problem.

On this day, when he returned home from duty, the concubine said, "Someone came to the door to ask for a kiss." ”

"Who?" Wang Ju asked lightly. The second girl is seventeen years old, and she will be eighteen years old. Stained with the light of a cheap mother, the second girl looks good, and at this age, there are many people who come to the door to propose marriage, but Wang Juyi refuses one by one.

"It's a son."

"Shizi?"

"The son of the Eighteen Great Kings."

is indeed the son of the world, to be precise, Zhao Ji's cousin. Zhao Yunrang twenty-two sons, Zong Yi, Zong Pu, Zong Hui, Zong Fu, Zong Miao, Zong Yi, Zong Qiu, Zong Shi, Zong Bo, Zong Yu, Zong Shi, Zong Yin, Zong Chu, Zong Xuan, Zong Zhi, Zong Xun, Zong Sheng, Zong Chu, Zong You, Zong Han. Zhao Shu is Zhao Zongshi, so Zhao Zhen and Mrs. Cao often call Zhao Thirteen in the palace.

Most of the so many sects are still alive, and many of them have been crowned princes, not princes, they were crowned princes after their deaths, but because Zhao Shu did not win the battle of Puyi, they could only be crowned princes. But in reality their status is equal to that of princes.

However, it depends on what the king thinks? Zhao Shisan wanted to fight for orthodoxy, and Zhao Ji, who was his son, had been watching this farce, so after taking the throne, he ignored Zhao Yunrang a little, and even some uncles didn't even get the title of Duke of Guo.

It was Zhao Eighteen Zhao Zongxuan who proposed marriage, and he sent a matchmaker to propose marriage to the second girl on behalf of his son Zhao Zhongluan.

So the concubine feels embarrassed, if she refuses, she is afraid that people will be unhappy, if she does not refuse, one is that her husband does not want her sister-in-law to marry now, and the other is to marry the royal family, which may be a good thing for ordinary people, but for her husband, I am afraid it will affect her husband's future.

Wang Ju felt weird.

His wife's knowledge is limited, but Zhao 18 can't. At the beginning, Zhao Ji wanted to combine himself and Zhao Niannu, and finally gave up, not only because he had set up a family affair, but also because of this future problem. Once he marries Zhao Niannu, he will never want to enter the Chinese book in this life, at most he will go to the Privy Council to mix a privy envoy, or the kind of privy envoy who has no right to speak, just like Wang Yiyong at the beginning.

Why did he send a matchmaker to ask his son for his family?

So the environment is different, the mentality is different, if it is a few years, maybe Wang Ju does not have great ambitions, or ambitions.

He thought for a while and said, "Concubine, don't worry about this matter, let me handle it." ”

"Well, officer. Next year's imperial examination ......"

"Don't learn from other people's lists to catch your son-in-law. If you don't catch it well, it's a big joke. Wang Judao. Wang Ju also intervened in the imperial examination. The exam is limited to three years, and the number of people is also limited. Wang Anshi also inserted a kick, but the "angle" of the two inserted is different, and the intention is also different, in addition, Wang Ju's foot is more hidden, and Wang Anshi's foot is more open. Therefore, it is the same as the imperial examination like Wang Ju. Many of them arrived in the capital early.

Wang Ju didn't care too much about this, but the concubine mentioned it, Wang Ju turned his head to look at Huang Liang and said: "Hengzhi, the country has also reduced the number of places in the imperial examination, and there will inevitably be more people who will fail in the provincial examination next year. Can you come to my house and help me. ”

Help is a humble word, but it is actually to persuade these people to come to the Wang family to be Wang Ju's doormen.

"Okay." Huang Liangdao.

"I'll go out for a while." Wang Ju finished speaking. Riding a horse and leaving home, he went all the way to the east, straight to Zhao Niannu's house.

Yaoyao opened the door and saw that it was Wang Ju, and immediately brought Wang Ju in. At this time, the twilight also came, not to mention that Zhao Niannu's mansion was so rigorous, but Wang Ju came, and Wang Ju stayed in the capital for so long, and he knew more people, and there would be some rumors when it was spread.

"Ma Niang, you have become smart." Wang Juyi said with a smile.

"Thank you."

"It's good to live in the princess's mansion."

"Okay."

The two replied to each other, Yaoyao took Wang Ju to the living room, and Zhao Niannu walked out gracefully and said, "Wang Ju, I haven't seen you for a long time." ”

She is not a reproach, especially at this moment, Wang Ju comes to her house from time to time, which is looking for death.

Wang Ju smiled and said nothing, and then looked at Zhao Niannu, Zhao Niannu was wearing a small cotton jacket covered with goose-yellow satin, although it was not as green as the first time we met in Yanzhou, but after years of precipitation, it was more dignified and calm than then, and it became more and more gentle.

Zhao Niannu said: "How about this padded jacket?" ”

"Beautiful."

"The price of kapok has fallen so much."

Wang Juhehe, this is this year, and it will fall even worse next year, so a quilt may cost ten yuan.

"Even those Libu fell badly."

"Your Royal Highness, although you are kind, but the promotion of kapok planting, the price drop is inevitable, this is the kapok division did not insert cotton cloth, otherwise it will fall faster, those Li people want to live a better life, they must learn the current advanced planting, to win by quantity. It will not be them who actually suffer, even if it falls further in the future, their craftsmanship is still there, the amount keeps up, and they can still have a good life. The real bitterness may be the merchants on the other side of the big food. ”

The maritime trade of the Song Dynasty also became more and more prosperous, and the trade of Dashi accounted for a relatively high proportion of the maritime trade, and the goods there were mainly cotton cloth, glass, spices, and pearls, of which cotton cloth and glass products accounted for a large proportion. If the cotton cloth is promoted, Wang Ju will get the glass out again, and there will be very little goods left of the goods that Dashi provided to the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Niannu smiled and said, "I'm worried that the cane sugar will also fall." ”

"That's inevitable, but it doesn't matter, maybe there will be good news next spring."

In the early winter, Wang Ju wrote two letters, one to Zhao Du and the other to Ge Shaohua, instructing them to take out a few jars of cane sugar and let the maritime merchants bring them to the Wa Kingdom and the Great Food. The feedback from the big food is a bit late, it is now the era of sailing, although the speed is not slow, but it must wait for the monsoon, and it will take a year and a half to come and go. There will be news from the Wa Kingdom next spring.

And Wang Ju mentioned one thing in his letter to Zhao Du, that is, wood. The Song Dynasty was able to provide too many goods to the Wa Kingdom, but the Wa State produced very little, and there was no currency exchange, so the amount of trade was limited, and copper coins were also diverted to flow abroad.

Therefore, Wang Ju mentioned one thing in the letter, to see if the seafarers could use wooden rafts to drag the timber of the Wa Kingdom to Mizhou, instead of only using ships to load precious boards. This is a bit of a problem, first of all, the boat has to be further improved, and the sails must also be installed on the wooden rafts, so that the speed can be increased and the wind direction can be adjusted. Fortunately, there are now compasses and rough sextants, which can give a more accurate direction and position for sea navigation.

Once successful, the significance is unimaginable. First of all, the people's livelihood, the Song Dynasty has been very developed brick and tile technology, and bricks and tiles can prevent insect erosion and fire, but the cost of wooden houses is cheap, especially in this era, the cost of transportation is high, even if the bricks are burned with coal, the price of bricks and tiles is not low, so wooden houses occupy the mainstream. In addition, a large amount of pine smoke is required to make ink, so the timber market is large. However, it has nothing to do with the timber market, there is no timber from the Japanese country, and there is also plenty of timber in the country, at most it will further damage the water and soil.

Once there were trade goods, then Song dynasty porcelain, silk and other goods, including sugar, were continuously dumped into the Japanese state, and of course more people were fed, and the state also received a part of the tax revenue.

The second is the expansion of maritime trade, which will stimulate the improvement of ship technology, not much, as long as the ship technology develops to the level of the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty, a certain number of people can migrate overseas on a large scale, and evacuate the pressure brought by the increase in population in the Song Dynasty.

A few days ago, the Central Decree ordered Kaifeng Mansion to buy 4,000 lanterns, and Su Dongpo took advantage of this to play 7,000 words.

One said that it was not appropriate to put the regulations department, the second said that it was not appropriate to use young officials, and forgot about the old ministers such as Ouyang Xiu of Fubi, the third said that it was not appropriate to open the farmland and water conservancy law, the fourth said that it was morals and customs, and it was not appropriate to be eager for utilitarianism and greed for wealth and strength, and the fifth said that the Song Dynasty was defeated nine out of ten troops, and it was necessary to value virtue and harmony, and the sixth said that it could not punish the ministers.

Wang Ju was shocked when he heard it. Let's not mention this idea that harmony is precious, is the farmland water conservancy law also wrong? If there was no farmland water conservancy law initiated by Wang Anshi, it can be said that there was no need for the Jin people to invade the south in history, and when the Song Dynasty developed to 20 million households, the country itself would be in chaos.

Now before Wang Anshi introduced the farmland water conservancy law, Wang Ju has been secretly promoting in advance, not only Zheng Baiqu, the population that feeds is limited, and the important thing is in the military. It is Jiangdong Wei, a dam in the south, and the population migrates south. It was precisely because of Wang Ju's mention that Zhao Ji deliberately sent Shen Kuo to Jiangnan East Road to preside over Jiangdong Wei affairs. There is also a part of the grain production increased by Wang Ju. In a short period of time, some population pressure and food pressure were solved, but in the long run, it was to exacerbate the population expansion, not to much, to feed two more sons for every ten households, and the Song Dynasty would increase by nearly three million households in a dozen years.

That's why it's important to move overseas.

Of course, Su Dongpo's knowledge was still limited at this time, until he went to Huangzhou, lived a hard life by himself, saw the warmth and coldness of people, and saw with his own eyes that the people of Huangzhou drowned their own children because of poverty, just like the people of Fujian Road, his thinking matured, and he understood Wang Anshi's good intentions.

But Wang Ju's main intention is still for sucrose, he has a lot of things to do, these things require a lot of money, it is impossible to ask the court, the request may not be agreed, and if it is agreed, it will not be allocated, so it can only count on sucrose.

In the end, it is a small selfishness, a big bad selfishness. (To be continued......) R1292