Zhang Fangping is an important person from the third division here, and he wants Wang Anshi and Sima Guang as soon as he asks for it, Han Qi and the others inevitably muttered in their hearts: What is this old Zhang going to do?

Zhao Zhen didn't have any other ideas, Zhang Fangping had a lot of things at hand, and now he had to conduct a performance evaluation, so it was normal to need help. However, Wang Anshi can make a decision directly, and Sima Guang's words have the opinion of Coco Bao Zheng.

When Bao Zheng heard Zhang Fangping's dignitary, his brows furrowed.

Bao Zheng and Zhang Fangping had a little friction.

During the Qingli New Deal, Zhang Fangping proposed that the focus of the work of the transfer envoys should be on overt and covert visits, so as to see if the local officials had done anything corrupt and perverted the law, and should not just care about how many old sesame seeds and rotten grain were in the warehouse.

Bao Zheng originally agreed, but he brought his benefactor to stand on the side of the opposition to the Qingli New Deal, and he was caught in a dilemma, so he had to write a letter with another colleague saying that the transfer envoy was too harsh, which led to the local officials being noisy and the grass and trees were all soldiers.

These two letters led to several transshipment envoys who were actively performing at that time, which were defined as "four eyes" and "three tigers", and so on, and were degraded one after another.

Those who follow Qingli's new policy are not only not beneficial, but also suffered, who else wants to follow Fan Zhongyan's new policy?

Qinglixin, these measures were repealed one by one.

Later, Bao Zheng and Zhang Fangping had some other intersections, such as Bao Zheng being Zhang Fangping's subordinate in the Yushitai, and impeaching Zhang Fangping's father-in-law when he wrote a book.

All in all, although they have worked together, their relationship is definitely not close.

There's even a slight crack.

Pang Ji and Han Qi have a good relationship, Pang Ji was heavily degraded this time, and they didn't ask Han Qi to turn around, so they entrusted a student to them.

Bao Zheng, as Han Qi's year, usually takes care of Sima Guang's subordinate.

When I learned that Zhang Fangping was an important person, my first feeling was that Zhang Fangping didn't want to pit Sima Guang.

But Zhao Zhen spoke, and Bao Zheng couldn't refuse categorically, so he had to respond first, and after he went back, he told Sima Guang about it.

Bao Zheng told Sima Guang about the previous proposal that someone in the court and the central government should pay attention to the printing of paper calendars, and said that Zhang Fangping was afraid that he didn't want to hand over this tricky matter to him and Wang Anshi.

Sima Guang had heard of Wang Anshi's name for a long time, but he didn't have many opportunities to communicate on weekdays. Listening to Bao Zheng tell the whole story, Sima Guang said: "Since it is needed by the imperial court, the lower officials dare not resign." ”

Sima Guang didn't have much interest in the trial work, and he had been worried about Dali for a long time in the early years, and now he was very annoyed when he was the magistrate of Kaifeng Mansion, especially when he banned "Golden Vase Plum", he always felt that the eyes of others were a little strange when he walked out.

A few days ago, he received a letter from the teacher, the teacher was far away from Dingzhou, not only did he not blame him, the student who dragged him down, but specially wrote to him to stop thinking about the affairs of Linzhou, and to be sure to gain a firm foothold in the court.

Sima Guang felt that he might be able to do more by going to Sansi.

Bao Zheng heard Sima Guang say this, so he didn't say anything more.

The second day was the rest of the day, Bao Zheng went to find Han Qi for tea, and it happened that Wen Yanbo was also there, and the three of them chatted about Zhang Fangping's sudden stroke, and felt that this old Zhang's current behavior was a little elusive.

Don't look at Zhang Fangping as a "prime minister" now, but he doesn't have much say at hand, and he only cares about his own affairs on weekdays.

Now the affairs that the three divisions can reach out to are all assigned by Han Qi and Wen Yanbo.

They don't deal well with Zhang Fangping, but someone has to do things, Zhang Fangping doesn't say anything else, his ability to do things is really good!

Wen Yanbo and Pang Ji are good friends, and when they heard this, they said: "It's not in the way, Junshi and Jiefu are still young, it's good for them to go through the experience, Sansi is a good place." ”

Han Qi said: "Yes, Zhang Andao is very good at salt politics, according to his book a year ago, there should be news about the salt farm on Jingdong East Road." ”

Wen Yanbo nodded, and then frowned slightly, talking to Han Qi about his own slaughter, and many officials in the court have been looking for him recently, and if he doesn't leave, something should happen.

This is the practice of being a prime minister, generally speaking, it will be three or two years to be a prime minister, don't be too greedy, give others a chance, otherwise there are so many people waiting in line, can they not hate you?

Wen Yanbo took a sip of tea and said to Han Qi: "I will resign from the table in a few days, and I will recommend you to the official family at that time." ”

When it comes to serious matters, Han Qi is also concise and concise: "There is also Jia Xianggong above." ”

If Wen Yanbo resigns, he will be followed by Jia Changchao.

Wen Yanbo said: "He can't come up. ”

Wen Yanbo told Han Qi about the news he got in private, and the official learned that he had written to resign from the phase, and he was currently preparing to engage in Jia Changchao, what he was afraid of was that Jia Changchao would take over as prime minister.

The reason why Jia Changchao is hated by the official is because he once walked the path of Empress Wencheng's nurse Jia!

Empress Wen Cheng is also the Zhang Guifei who Zhao Zhen loves very much.

For this kind of person who is in a position on the way to the harem, the officials have always hated it.

Wen Yanbo has a deep understanding of this.

After all, when Zhang Guifei was alive, he also privately brushed Zhao Zhen's favorability through Zhang Guifei, and later the East Window incident was naturally sprayed by the officials.

However, he is not the same as Jia Changchao, he has a good relationship with Han Qi, Fu Bi, Pang Ji and others, and his reputation can be repaired.

Compared with letting Jia Changchao, who has a mediocre relationship, take over him, Wen Yanbo is still more inclined to let Han Qi go up.

After all, several of them take turns to be prime ministers, how simple is it to come back when the time comes?

A few people chatted about the phase handover while eating tea, and then dispersed after agreeing.

If Su Lu knew that Wen Yanbo and they had such a small meeting, he would be very envious in his heart: the prime minister takes turns, is this the happiness of having a group of bigwig friends?

It's a pity that Su Lu is not qualified to participate in such a small meeting of the circle of friends now.

Since it was a day off, he had to go to Su Song's house to walk around and bring some food and drink.

Su Song's wife Ling and Su Lu are already very familiar, and Su Song's children also like Su Lu very much, because Su Song will bring them delicious food every time he comes over!

Seeing that King Kong and Xiao Cui were carrying big bags and small bags again, Ling said, "Come on, why do you bring so many things every time?" ”

Su Yan smiled and said, "If you want it, I promise Brother Su Xian to take good care of you." ”

Ling said: "By the way, someone sent us a letter early this morning, I'll show it to you." She wiped her hands and took out Su Song's letter to Su Song.

Su Song's home writing is very simple, that is, to tell Ling that her work has achieved initial results, and it will definitely be successful, so that she should not worry too much.

Su Xian smiled and said, "It seems that Brother Su Xian can come back to celebrate the New Year with his sister-in-law." ”

Ling just wondered if this was what Coco Su said in his letter, and he smiled when he heard Su Lu say this.

If there weren't so many mouths waiting to eat at home, she would definitely hope to follow Su Song to Rendi, now that there is no pillar at home, she can't sleep peacefully at night, it's just that a man has something to do, and she can't write letters to disturb him from time to time.

After Su Lu comforted the Ling family, he walked to Zhang Fangping's house, but Zhang Fangping did not receive Su Song's report.

Zhang Fangping said: "Just you have a lot of news. ”

After all, Zhang Fangping still took out the salt drying process test report written by Su Song.

Su Song has a strong learning ability, and he and Lin Yi had pondered the medical statistics that Su Zhen had come up with earlier, and the foundation was there, and the report he wrote was clearly organized, and he had a shadow of Su Chen.

Su Lu roughly swept over, and knew that the method of drying salt was completed. He was a little dissatisfied with the output, and couldn't help muttering: "Only a few thousand catties at a time?" Even in summer, it's only tens of thousands of catties a month! ”

Zhang Fangping scolded: "This kind of good thing that can produce salt in the sun, do you still want to produce hundreds of thousands of catties a month?" ”

Zhang Fangping was already happy after seeing Su Song's estimated output, even if it could not reach this output in the end, it would be a big increase for the area that could open a salt farm.

Think about it, if a pilot salt farm can produce hundreds of thousands of catties of salt a year, it will be necessary to build a few more large salt farms!

You must know that this salt only needs a little manpower as a cost, and the rest is all for nothing.

It's just that what the specific annual output is, and Su Song has to observe the winter and then officially report to the imperial court, so as not to make everyone happy!

Su Lu chatted with Zhang Fangping again, saying that he knew that there were two places where the big salt works were particularly interesting.

One is Cangzhou.

Cangzhou had the largest salt farm in the country in later generations, with an annual output of more than one million tons.

What is the concept of more than one million tons? That's a quarter of the country's salt production!

It's a pity that this place is too close to Liao.

If you don't get the sixteen states of Yanyun back, I'm really afraid that the people of the Liao Kingdom will come to grab the salt farm!

There is another place, Qiongzhou.

That is, the area of Hainan Island.

What does Hainan Island mean? This means that there is sea all around, and there is plenty of sun all year round!

The most important thing is that the development over there is very low, the land is super cheap, and it is not good for those who break the law and commit crimes to rush to work in the salt factory.

When the salt works are developed, the merchants will smell the smell and pass, and then they can also use the area around Hainan Island as a base to develop the southeast coast.

It's a pity, everything is difficult to start, and they have to think about how to do it with these smart adults, if they do it well, they dare not say more, and it is still possible to produce 100 million catties per year!

Even if the distance is farther, you can only earn ten yuan per catty, which is still a million yuan a year.

Qiongzhou is such a broken place, how much money can you pay in taxes a year? It's okay if the court doesn't post it upside down!

And over there in Cangzhou, how many people still dare to live there with peace of mind? You can't collect much from taxes, right?

It's a pity that the vast coastline, it's a pity that the white flowers are salty, and it's a pity that millions of dollars a year are earned!

Can it be cooler to save money by deducting and searching the land than to drop money from the sky?

Alas, what a pity, what a pity.

That's all very profitable and profitable, but it's not easy to do!

Zhang Fangping listened to Su Lu chattering there, and his eyes turned a little green.

If he hadn't been so sensible, maybe he would have rolled up his sleeves and written to Zhao Zhen to ask the imperial court to go to Qiongzhou and Cangzhou to build salt farms!

Zhang Fangping thought about it for a while, but still shook his head and said: "These two places are too risky, let's build the salt pans elsewhere first." ”

The coastline of the Great Song Dynasty is so long, there is no need to find the two places that Su Lu said.

Su Lu saw that Zhang Fangping was not fooled by himself, so he had to sigh.

His small expectations for his cousin's early development and development of Hainan Island were still wrongly paid after all!

This father-in-law can't be trusted!