Cai Ting stepped aside, the Xixia people were about to invade, and not many people knew about it, except for a few important people in the entire Huanqing Road, many officials didn't know. So as not to reveal the rumors. Cai Ting won't do that stupid thing and talk nonsense everywhere.

Cai Ting said in a low voice: "The imperial court allocated 300,000 horses of silk and 200,000 yuan to Huanqing Road, and at the same time, 200 craftsmen were dispatched from Yongxing Army and other places to rush to Huanqing Road, and some are about to arrive." Another million catties of wrought iron were allocated and transported to Gyeongju in the near future. ”

"So little?" Wang Ju asked in surprise.

There are many craftsmen, and there is less money and iron.

In peacetime, the annual amount of iron in the Song Dynasty reached about 20 million catties, which is the amount of lessons, that is, the number obtained by the imperial court, and the actual iron production may reach 50 or 60 million catties of iron, about 30,000 tons. All kinds of metals, gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead, etc., are combined, and the number of lessons has exceeded 100 million. There are also a large number of non-metallic pits and some workshops, which were also negligent but an important income of the Song Dynasty. The actual income can reach 20 or 30 million yuan, which can exceed the sum of salt and wine. Therefore, Wang Anshi just integrated the Fangchang River crossing, which increased the annual income of the Song Dynasty by five or six million yuan at most.

Don't mention the actual amount of iron, only mention the amount of lessons, the Song Dynasty was the north iron and the south copper, the copper pit was mainly in the south, but the iron pit was mainly in the north. The iron pit in Shaanxi alone has a class volume of several million catties a year.

At this time, it is not transferred to Gyeongju, so what is this iron used for? Besides, it's not a waste, I built an armored weapon, and I will repair it in the future and continue to use it.

Besides, what can a million catties of iron do? If you waste it, three or four thousand sets of armor will use it up.

This money is even more pitiful. It doesn't take much, just stop the annual gifts of Western Xia, and there are 400,000 yuan a year. If nothing else, let's just put fifty arrows for one person, and plan to fight with 30,000 people. One and a half million arrows, ten arrows cost six or seven hundred, twelve arrows is the standard consistent money, just one arrow, it costs more than 100,000 yuan. Therefore, in the future, the first battle of Suizhou cost six or seven million yuan, and that account is still wrong. It has led to the impeachment of many ministers. It's not that the money is used too much, but that the money is used less, using the volunteers to transport grain and grain for free, and even forcing the families of the volunteers to subsidize grain and grass for free, which has made the people of Shaanxi miserable. Otherwise, it's the war. At least it will cost more than 10 million yuan.

"So the old man wrote to Wang Yichen (Wang Juyuan, Zhiyongxingjun) again, asking him to help the old man."

can't get strong funding from the imperial court, Cai Ting is also anxious.

First, he wrote to Wang Su and Li Shen, implicitly mentioning the crisis in Gyeongju and his difficulties. Wang and Li were not bad, and immediately replied to express their support, not financial and material resources. Instead, some officials were sent to greet those Fanzi and cooperate with the caravan coming from Gyeongju. Trade shochu.

The government comes forward directly, which is much more convenient than privately negotiating and contacting a family transaction. This is good news. So Cai Ting wrote to Wang Juyuan again. It's not to let Wang Juyuan buy wine for the workshop, as long as you have money, the price is fair, and the wine merchants don't need to tell you. I will deliver the wine to the door by myself.

What is requested is policy support, such as in the past field service. The officials who collect taxes should not be checked, but they should be checked. There is no time to lose. Another example is to provide some conveniences, such as boats, cars, and horses. The front trading channel is opened, and the rear has to be fast, so that more money can be quickly collected and put into Gyeongju to be converted into combat effectiveness.

Maybe Cai Ting did this, which is even more contrary to the system.

Cai Ting is not afraid, we are considering the difficulties of the imperial court, and we did not ask for additional troops in the rear as promised. In fact, it didn't take much, he asked for reinforcements of thirty or forty battalions of officers and soldiers in the back, and the 100,000 troops facing Western Xia were not too much.

But these officers and soldiers not only had to eat, but also to drink, which was all food, and there were all kinds of other materials, including clothing and shelter. So how much will it cost the officers and soldiers of the thirty or forty battalions to reach the front line from the Yongxing Army or the capital to the front line?

It is not required to draw out seven or eight million pieces of money to support this battle, in fact, it is to draw out seven or eight million pieces of money, which is pitifully small compared to the cost of other battles in the Song Dynasty, but at least one of three or four million pieces of money and silk.

However, the imperial court was very good, and only took out 500,000 yuan.

The money was not enough, and I wanted to repel the enemy, so I had to find a way.

In fact, the court is now fighting for Puyi, and there is a lot of quarrel, so who is in the mood to care about him?

However, Wang Ju was very skeptical and said: "Cai Gong, it is just a wine, even if the officials are in Jingzhao Mansion, how much wine can be sold if the officials of Jingyuan Road and Qinfeng Road cooperate with Cai Gong?" Besides, it's in such a hurry. The real source of the appropriations from the imperial court is the source. ”

"The old man is helpless."

"Cai Gong, no, you still have to write a letter to the imperial court, ask your majesty, how much you want. Moreover, the money transferred by the imperial court was spent immediately, and there was no need to wait for the autumn queen, after the autumn war was over, wouldn't the imperial court give rewards and pensions to the soldiers? ”

"Hehe, that seems to be your style."

"No, it won't work, anyway, the country's money is also redundant for no apparent reason, so it's better to force the court to take out a little more and do some practical things."

"This old man will find a way, and the old man will come, and there is one more thing to say, the workshop is in Huachi County, but the distance is a little farther, and the real trunk road is the trunk road from Gyeongju to Ningzhou to Gyeongzhaofu. Therefore, the old man planned to find a steep river section on the bank of Maling Water and set up a workshop. This will ask the craftsmen of the Huachi workshop to guide, but you can rest assured, the old man will also draw out 50 craftsmen, 200,000 catties of wrought iron, 20,000 horses of silk, and 10,000 yuan of money, and allocate them to Huachi County. ”

Wang Ju has Wang Ju's small abacus, he must first pick up the heads of several battalions of officers and soldiers in Huachi, Cai Ting also has Cai Ting's small abacus, he has to pick up the heads of the soldiers on Huanqing Road, this is afraid that Wang Ju will create armor weapons, and they will be allocated to several battalions of officers and soldiers in Huachi County, and other officers and soldiers in Gyeongju will not be able to divide them at that time.

Wang Juyile: "Gong Cai, there is no need for Gong Cai to say, the lower officials also know the severity, at least the officers and soldiers of Dashun City and Rouyuan Village must also be armed." However, Cai Gong is only an official craftsman, and his manpower is still insufficient. ”

"The old man plans to draw two battalions of soldiers from the rear to fight."

"In addition, it also prevents officials from being greedy for ink."

"Whoever dares to stretch out his hand at this time, the old man will immediately cut off his hand." Cai Ting said viciously.

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Last year, Wang Ju allocated funds to transfer 3,000 stone of wheat as seeds, in this era. There were a lot of them, and they pulled four hundred carts. But how many acres of land can actually be sown?

It's pitiful, only a hundred hectares.

There is no way, this is an era of thin seeds and wide harvests, and one acre of wheat harvest can be less than two stones. But it takes nearly thirty pounds of seeds. Looking at those short ears of wheat, Wang Ju thought about the yield per mu and the appearance of the ears of wheat in later generations, and felt very sad.

Therefore, there was a saying in the Song Dynasty that if a family wanted to maintain food and clothing after paying taxes, they had to have at least 30 to 40 acres of self-cultivated land. That's it, in the event of a disaster. I had to flee the wilderness.

This is Wang Ju's idea, but others don't think like that, not only these winter wheat, but under Wang Ju's repeated persuasion, some people have also bought seeds by themselves. Sow winter wheat. Therefore, the winter wheat alone has increased the output of Huachi County by nearly 40,000 stones, and if you don't count the horses, only the ration consumption of the officers and soldiers, this increase in production alone is enough to be satisfied.

However, it is not certain that winter wheat was harvested according to the previous harvest exhibition. The harvest of autumn grain will be reduced, even if the people are industrious, and the soybean millet seedlings will be mixed in wheat during the growth period. It will also affect the yield.

How, it can only be seen that the sorghum grows taller day by day.

The sweltering summer is gradually passing, August is approaching, and the sorghum is about to ripen day by day.

There are not many sorghums that have been transferred, less than 200 hectares, that is, the cultivated land after Wang Ju persuaded him to plant winter wheat. It accounts for only one-fifth of the cultivated land in Huachi County.

And the people are also suspicious, a simple truth. It turns out that if five or six seeds are sprinkled in a seedling pit, they can grow into four or five sorghum. Now that it has become a sorghum, can this harvest be guaranteed?

Fortunately, Wang Ju had enough prestige, and the people obeyed Wang Ju's persuasion suspiciously and moved them one by one.

Whether there is a guarantee or not, it can be seen now.

The ears of each sorghum are three or four times larger than the other sorghum ears, and the seeds are fuller, hanging down heavily, and with a slight hint of hot autumn wind, they immediately set off golden waves.

The growth is so gratifying.

Even Cai Ting couldn't help but ride a horse and bring officials over to watch several times in his busy schedule. And their growth alarmed the surrounding counties, many Anhua County, Longpan County, and even the people of Zhiluo County and Fuzheng County on the side of the Meridian Mountain also took the time to run over, and asked the local people to keep these sorghums, don't eat them, and sell them to me to make seeds.

"Wang Ju, how many stones do you say they can harvest per acre?" Cai Ting asked.

"It's hard to say for sure, but it should be very high, but it's also a special case, and there is no shortage of manure for the people of Huachi this year, so if it is placed in other areas, the yield may be lower," Wang Ju replied.

It has nothing to do with the manure of the Tibetan village, and now the Tibetan people are also half-cultivated and half-pasted, although they raise a lot of livestock, but the fertilizer is kept for themselves.

However, because of the prosperity of private business, many people in Huachi County raised livestock, and there were many war horses in Huachi County, and Wang Ju allowed the people to exchange grain for horse manure.

It has nothing to do with accumulating money, if it is really accumulating money, Wang Ju will not spend a lot of money to buy cattle, buy seeds, and give some tools for free.

This is also forced.

If the harvest is good, the government will allocate some money to buy the food of the local people, and the other is the grain from the rear, which will be transported to the front line, or the soldiers will be mobilized to the rear to eat.

The latter, whether Cai Ting or Wang Ju, dared to bear it, and the soldiers were transferred to the rear to eat, did they still want to fight? Or bring grain from the rear, and that grain really can't afford to eat.

There are only the first two methods that can be accepted, but the tax grain is fixed, but this year, even if the entire Huanqing Road has a bumper harvest, it cannot be levied more, and the more at this time, the more and more the people's will is needed.

Then I have to use the purchase method to solve it, but the money is too tight, and I can save a little is a little. But whether the people were asked to exchange grain for horse manure, or horse manure was given to the people for free, the manure was piled on top of the crops.

Moreover, Wang Ju's water conservancy measures have gradually begun to bear fruit this year.

"Not bad." Cai Ting praised.

"Yes, maybe a very small number of sorghum production will give everyone a bigger surprise." Wang Ju took Cai Ting to a piece of sorghum land that was growing the most vigorously, pointed at them and said.

"How much will this land yield be?"

"The lower officials don't dare to say it."

"Hahaha," Cai Ting laughed and said, in fact, everyone's requirements are really not high, even if there is an output of one mu and three stones, it will be a big surprise, and it can even be reported to the imperial court, as Jiasui, as auspicious.

While the two were talking, Li Sangou rode a horse and galloped, came to the two of them, quickly dismounted, and said: "Report to Cai Gong, report to Wang Zhixian, there is news from the other side of the mountain, and Xixia has begun to collect troops and horses." (To be continued)

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