After Yang Tiexin's report ended, Zhao Qian was full of disappointment. When he learned that the Mongols had surrendered, Zhao Qian still had hope that perhaps the surrendered Mongols could be used to build infrastructure. Yang Tiexin proudly told Zhao Qian that the surrendered Mongols, men, women, and children totaled 200,000, and Zhao Qian's flame of hope was immediately extinguished. The railways needed millions of laborers, and 200,000 men, women, and children were of great use. I am afraid that there are less than 50,000 real usable laborers.

After sending Yang Tiexin away, Zhao Qian heard his father smile and said, "It seems that you seem to understand something." ”

"So easy to see through?" Zhao Qian asked his father.

"If it weren't for people with the same policy guidelines, they probably wouldn't have seen it."

"Official, will the Japanese people really be obedient?"

"Don't you expect the Japanese to be obedient, and your sons and daughters to listen to you?"

Imagining a few babies in the family, Zhao Qian felt that he understood. He replied, "What I was worried about was whether we would be able to organize such a large number of manpower. ”

"It depends on what you're trying to face. If you want to pursue the results you want, you are bound to be disappointed. If you just want to follow the rules as much as possible, you should be able to see results. ”

"I'm just worried...... Forget it, what's there to worry about. Zhao Qian's own thinking also made him judge twice in a short period of time.

"Then go to work." Zhao Jiaren said with a smile.

"Official, I still suffer from gains and losses sometimes."

"You can sometimes not suffer from gains and losses, and that's a big improvement."

"That's because I know what's going to happen, so I don't have to lose or lose. Because I already know the results. But the official family never suffers from gains and losses. ”

Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but laugh at what was hinted at in his son's words, but he wasn't sure if Zhao Qian had a whim or really figured it out. So Zhao Jiaren said: "You can gain a lot after you deal with these things." ”

Zhao Qian didn't ask, Confucius said, birds, I know they can fly; Fish, I know they can swim; Beast, I know it can go. As for the dragon, I don't know, but it rode the storm to the sky. I see Lao Tzu today, and he is like a dragon! If his father was not an immortal in human form, his calmness must have been because he had already seen through everything. Zhao Qian didn't believe that his father was an immortal, because Zhao Qian understood that he had nothing strange about him. As an ordinary human being, Zhao Qian has gone through so many twists and turns, and finally has the ability to see his father's scales and claws, just what he saw made Zhao Qian unable to have the mind to carefully investigate his father's full picture. Its dragon also. How could a mortal have the courage to truly face the dragon. At most, Ye Gong is a good dragon.

Just as he was about to leave, Zhao Qian suddenly remembered something else. He hurriedly turned around and sat down beside his father, and told his father what he had heard when he was with his peasant friends. After finishing speaking, Zhao Qian asked his father, "Official, I don't think the farm can be continued." ”

"Truth should be universal everywhere, and the farm system cannot be the truth. There must be some farms that will do well, some farms that will get by, and some farms that won't survive. I didn't start the farm with the intention of building a great farm where everything was run. It wouldn't have been possible. ”

Zhao Qian nodded again and again. These words corresponded to his feelings, and those who could complete the tasks arranged by their father would find that they did not need to go back to report because the Zhao Guanjia was in front of their end. Zhao Qian also discovered early on that the farm system has many defects, and in areas with complete infrastructure and complete social management, farms can give full play to their great advantages. But this kind of area is not the majority in the Great Song Dynasty. The reason why Zhao Qian did not dare to say it was because he understood that the purpose of his father's farm was to completely eliminate the landlords, and even to try his best to dismantle the small peasant economy. That's the general policy. The good or bad operation of a small number of farms or even a considerable number of farms is not a reason to change the general policy.

Zhao Qian now heard the possibility of change from his father's words, and he simply asked his father, "Official, under what circumstances can it be changed?" ”

"When the farmers have used the money and start working hard to earn it, they can start to change."

"Why?" Zhao Qian asked.

"The payment of money represents the general equivalent of socialization, and the countryside is the most basic level for the country, like the capillaries at the end of the human body. When the lowest level begins to understand that access to general equivalents is in great interest to them, it means that the whole country is almost connected. Because the money is not gold and silver, it will be broken if it is left at home for a long time. And isn't the purpose of the peasants to get the money to buy goods? At this stage, adjustments can begin without changing the state ownership of land. ”

Zhao Qian nodded again and again. Father is really at the forefront. When the supporters of land privatization had not been completely resolved in the entire imperial court, and the views of privatization and nationalization were still in a tug-of-war in some places, my father had long known what he was doing, and to what extent.

"Will the beginning of the adjustment in certain areas give those who advocate private ownership a reason to oppose the state ownership of land?"

"Who are our enemies? Who are our friends? This issue is the primary issue for social progress. The basic reason for the ineffectiveness of all the progressive struggles in China in the past was that it could not unite true friends in order to attack real enemies. ”

Of course Zhao Qian heard this, Zhao Jiaren not only told Zhao Qian, but also told the society, the imperial court, the government, the army, and even the entire Great Song Dynasty in the newspaper. However, at this time, Zhao Qian only felt that he was empowered, and the things that he had felt extremely entangled in before suddenly became enlightened. In my heart, I once again gave birth to the sigh of 'its dragon'.

Leaving from his father's side, Zhao Qian's heart was bright and relaxed. He felt that he finally had the courage to face the head of Henan Road School. Before the investigation of the Luoyang incident, Zhao Qian was very concerned about the rural issues raised by the seniors. It's just that at that time, he was full of entanglements in his heart, and at this time, those entanglements could already be seen clearly, Zhao Qian believed that he could face the president and discuss the matter with him.

Without waiting for Zhao Qian to act, Lu Baifeng came. He handed Zhao Qian a telegram. Zhao Qian looked surprised after seeing it. Lu Baifeng sighed: "This is probably the last time I will send a report, but I didn't expect it to be like this." ”

Zhao Qian pretended to be deaf and dumb at Lu Baifeng's complaints, and he asked Lu Baifeng: "What did the province of Europa teach Sheila?" ”

"The prince has to ask Minister Yang." Lu Baifeng replied in disappointment. Although the Ministry of Officials did not announce the content, everyone determined from various channels and reactions that Yang Congrong would succeed him as Minister of Foreign Affairs. This judgment is correct, Zhao Qian knew that the officials had begun to conduct a final review of Yang Congrong, and he was about to ask Yang Congrong to talk.

Zhao Qian didn't want to get involved in this matter, he just wanted to ask Yang Congrong, how the office of Europa Province in Constantinople selected compradors, and how they educated compradors. Is there special training for certain people?

At this time, Xie Song also saw the news, and he wanted to laugh when he thought of the reactions of those leading figures in Eastern Rome. Xie Song smiled bitterly in the end, and he muttered a sigh: "Sheila, you are such a good student!" ”

Sheila, the patriarch of the Eastern Roman Empire, did not think of Xie Song at this time, let alone the distant Great Song Dynasty, and His Excellency was facing the questions of the elders in the Senate at this time.

"Your Excellency Sheila, why do you suggest that special food stamps must be used in grain transactions in the future?" The patriarch of the senate's agricultural group had not yet spoken, and the patriarch of the financial group asked sternly.

"It has been clearly written in our group's report that collecting all the gold and silver of the current empire is not enough to pay for the grain produced by the empire." Sheila replied earnestly. With that, she looked in the direction where the elders of the agricultural group were sitting. I saw that the patriarchs either bowed their heads and did not look at people, or they watched this inquiry with nervous expressions.

Sheila hadn't thought about food stamps at first, and she wanted to make an estimate with the elders of the farming group to see how much the empire's food prices would be acceptable. The calculation was a problem, and the initial results left Sheila and the elders of the farming group dumbfounded. The amount of money in the Eastern Roman Empire was too small to buy the grain produced in a year.

If you don't even have money, how can you estimate the grain you need for the whole year and then set the grain purchase price? Sheila was shocked and immediately asked for a re-estimate, and the other patriarchs thought the same thing. This time the result was much different from the last time, but the final result did not change.

Sheila was not to order the mathematicians of the country to be summoned in the name of the Senate's agricultural group and asked to do accurate calculations. The final data is significantly different from the previous two, and the results remain unchanged.

The patriarchs in the group immediately began to argue fiercely, saying that the mathematician was unreliable and needed to be replaced. It is said that this algorithm is not right at all, but in fact, there are a lot of currencies in the private sector that are traded in various ways, but the imperial court does not know about it. Others lamented that the treasury of the Roman Empire had been robbed by the Crusaders, so there was no money.

Sheila really didn't want to argue with the senators, just look at the history books of Rome to know that Rome's finances were in debt since the time of the Republic. It is true that some of the wealthy families seem to be rich, but their wealth is nothing compared to the finances and debts of the entire Roman Empire.

The elders of the group argued for days without much to come to an end, and according to calculations, if the amount of money was forced to be linked to grain production, the price of grain would have been one-half, or even one-third, of what it was at the beginning of last year. At this time, the patriarch with a great aristocratic background immediately jumped to his feet. They want food prices that are three and a half times higher than they were at the beginning of last year! According to this calculation, the difference in food prices is as much as ten times.

The elders of the poor agricultural group could only ask Sheila, who had not participated in the debate, and Sheila gave a simple and straightforward plan, "decouple the grain transaction from the traditional currency, and issue special food stamps for the grain trade."