Under the management of Wei Ting and Li Gongyan, the Ministry of Agriculture is no longer as deserted as it was when it was first established, there are a lot more officials and miscellaneous servants, and there are several children of related households like Du Wei and Wei Zhen, who are used in the yafang, and now everything is busy, as long as it is a person who can write and calculate, it can be used here.

Li Shimin had already made an order, during the spring ploughing period, all the local prefectures and counties in Guanzhong, from the history of the thorn to the miscellaneous kitchen workers, all of them were deployed by the Ministry of Agriculture, organized millions of manpower, and cultivated more than 10 million acres of fertile land.

After summoning the officials of the yamen to their own yamen, and after talking about the agricultural plan finalized with Li Shimin in the imperial study just now, Sun Xiangfu finally ordered, "Wei Shilang, you immediately draft an assembly order and send it to the local yamen in Guanzhong, so that all the chief officials of the prefectures and counties, including the low-level Li Zheng and the village head, will arrive at our experimental field in three days."

In addition, the newspaper also published the news that after three days, the Ministry of Agriculture will openly teach everyone the new method of field preparation and cultivation, and the people who can come to study and watch will be provided with free tea and food for three days. ”

"In this way, we may have to invite hundreds of thousands of people to eat, drink and Lazar, but I'm afraid that there won't be enough people!"

As soon as they heard that Sun Xiangfu had such a big move, Wei Ting and Li Gongyan were both excited, however, the actual situation is that the Ministry of Agriculture wants grain but no food, and everyone wants it, and it can't support such a big situation.

"Don't worry, tomorrow Your Majesty will send the Sixteen Guards Army for winter training to listen to it, and the food will come out of their military rations first, and the meals will also be provided by the barracks, and then we will test the grain output in the field, and we will supply them."

Hearing this, Wei Ting and Li Gongyan suddenly realized that with a large army to help, these things became much simpler.

Moreover, it is a very good idea to borrow military rations and then return them with the output of the fields, knowing that with free meals, the people will be much more enthusiastic about coming to learn.

It's time for them to reflect now, why can't they always use the resources in their hands as flexibly as Sun Xiangfu? Perhaps, this is the reason why people can sit in high positions at a young age!

"Governor, over there in Xingfu Village, some melons and cotton have been raised, if according to the plan of the imperial court, Guanzhong will plant 8 million mu of wheat this year, I am afraid that there will be a lot more."

"It doesn't matter, it's still early to the transplantation period, in addition to leaving some seedlings to plant in the fields near the water, you can transport the extra seedlings to Luoyang, now calculate the number first, and send a letter to Luoyang to prepare to receive, completely in time."

After the Ministry of Agriculture has gradually rolled out the system to the whole country, there is a lot of room for allocation, and these cash crops have reached this stage, and it is time to start to get out of the Guanzhong, so that the people in more places across the country can benefit, and the planting experience also needs to be accumulated slowly, and they have adapted to this new seedling sowing method, and there will be other crops similar to sowing in the future, and they are easier to get started.

"There is another situation, in the past few days, our Ministry of Agriculture has received a lot of invitations, all of which are some Guanlong families with more private land, they are not willing to plant low-cost grain, and want to ask for more seedlings of cash crops.

Private land, not to mention the Guanlong family, even the more solid ordinary people will have some, including Sun Xiangfu's family, after he returned the fields of the Zhitian and Shiyi fiefdoms to the imperial court, there are also 3,000 acres of private land brought over by Yu Xiuer when she got married, as far as the entire Guanzhong is concerned, scattered and scattered, there are at least two or three million acres of private land, this data, Sun Xiangfu has already calculated it, in fact, he is unwilling to restrict the cultivation of private land, after all, it is the private property of each family, not the mouth of the field or Yongye field that the court gave them in vain, Forcing them to grow designated crops is a bit of a suspicion of depriving them of their basic civil rights.

The price of grain in Guanzhong, since the impact of the grain transported from the south, has been running at a low level, and even in winter, it has only maintained at about 150 wen per stone.

This year's winter snow around the Spring Festival is normal, almost foreseeable, this year is a year of wind and rain, the head of each family, naturally knows that in such a year, the price of grain may fall again, an acre of land, even if the output of more than three stones of grain, the value is only about half, it is not as good as planting cotton, melon and other cash crops half of the economic value is high, everyone is naturally reluctant to plant.

On the other hand, it is not scientific to use policies to forcibly intervene in the laws of the market, thinking for a while, Sun Xiangfu said, "You can give them some openings appropriately, you can not grow food, but you must plant edible crops, melons and vegetables, can be varied, after the people increase food in other aspects, the consumption of staple food will be reduced, which will make their income higher, and it will not affect the plan of the imperial court." ”

Sun Xiangfu is now more tactful than when he first came through, he can be flexible, try not to offend more people, and he is in a high position, he knows more about the difficulty of maintaining this good situation, and letting his subordinates go out to get some benefits, so that they are more willing to obey their own deployment and management.

Sure enough, after Sun Xiangfu's words, the officials of the Ministry of Agriculture were all happy, they were all people in the officialdom, who didn't have a few related households! It is very important to be with a chief officer who can understand his subordinates, not to mention how much benefit he will have, at least it will not be too embarrassing.

When Sun Xiangfu first came to the Animal Husbandry Supervision Bureau, he never strictly forbade his subordinates to take some benefits when conditions permitted, as long as you can do the right thing, the water is clear, then there is no fish!

When it was time to release the ya, Du Zhenglun's carriage was already waiting at the gate of the Ministry of Agriculture.

In the New Year, Li Shimin sorted out all the specific powers and responsibilities of the yamen of each ministry, and he obtained almost all the powers expected in the Ministry of Commerce, but when it came to the actual work, it was difficult.

The first is the formulation of commercial taxes, and his first letter was opposed by almost all the ministers, and he was a little confused.

Therefore, he had to come to the door again to ask Sun Xiangfu for advice.

The carriage did not go home, and went directly to Wangjiang Tower, and after the wine and food were served, the two chatted while eating and drinking.

"In this regard, I didn't think about it when I did Chen Tiao before, our Datang business, at present, is not developed, premature strengthening of taxation, is indeed not conducive to business development, everyone is normal to oppose it, you can start from other aspects, such as commercial order supervision, etc., focus on some bullying and dominating the market, support some small traders to become bigger, expand the group of merchants, and the tax revenue of the imperial court will also increase."

In fact, there is another reason why Du Zhenglun's proposal to strengthen commercial taxation was blocked, who is the biggest businessman in Datang?

In fact, it is the emperor and the eldest grandson, Sun Xiangfu's involvement in the industry, most of which are accounted for by the royal family, specifically, are handed over to the eldest grandson headed by the eldest grandson Wuji to take care of, if, these profiteering industries are heavily taxed, and what is damaged is naturally the political achievements of the eldest grandson Wuji, as well as the emperor's money bag, so, in this regard, first of all, he will not get the full support of the emperor and the eldest grandson Wuji.

Secondly, those old shops and all kinds of business premises in the Tang Dynasty are basically in the hands of the powerful people of the family, and if you want to increase their taxes, of course they do not agree, which is easy to form a unanimous opposition from the court, and when the court is unanimously opposed, it will naturally not become.

Of course, it is not only the formulation of commercial tax policies that is blocked, but also the Ministry of Commerce's investigation of the cost of materials used in commodities, profit margins, etc., because this involves too many private secrets, and those big merchants with the background of the powerful family cannot let the Ministry of Commerce know the secrets of their business.

"But if you can't set taxes reasonably and understand the details of the store, how to control it? If we don't control these commercial matters, wouldn't our Ministry of Commerce be useless? ”

At present, it is in this state of idleness that the Ministry of Commerce was first sent to Weinan by Li Shimin to work as a supervisor, which should have been done by the Ministry of Commerce, because they were too idle and sent to them.

But even in the days of Weinan supervision, in fact, there are not many days left, with the construction of Weinan's official office gradually neat, the daily management will also be handed over to these newly established yamen to deal with, after the overall layout is completed, the people of the Ministry of Commerce will not be able to speak, is it that the people of the Ministry of Commerce will just go to court on time in the future, watching the lively idlers of other departments?

"In fact, there is something to do, the details of the product can not be investigated, so the first retreat, do safety supervision, in the future, regardless of the food, canned food, wine, and even furniture and clothing of each factory, can not ensure the safety of users, can be located unqualified, prohibit its production, you may not know, the food supervision in front of the workshop that 'food safety is more important than the sky', but His Majesty approves of the words.

Once all kinds of goods are to be sold on a large scale in the market, then the eaters, drinkers, users, may be hundreds of thousands, millions of people, once there is a problem, it will be a major disaster, in terms of safety, you can not be negligent, there must be a stricter audit specifications, as well as safety spot checks.

In addition, in fact, you can also take the lead and do some specific projects? ”

"Specific projects? How so? ”

Sun Xiangfu thought for a while before replying, "I actually said just now that the Ministry of Commerce can support small traders to become bigger, so how to support them?"

For example, when I went to Shannan Province this time, I passed through a county called Luotian County, where chestnuts have been planted in large quantities since before the Warring States period, and now they are all over the mountains, but the local people do not know how to do business, and they live a poor life with these chestnuts.

Your Ministry of Commerce, you can take the lead, help the local people, make it a national sales industry, by you to operate, the local people with local resources to make the industry, we can call it a state-owned enterprise, profit, you can take out a part of the local people, the remainder, the treasury, this kind of project to do, to the people have great benefits.

In addition, there are citrus from Tongshan County, black fungus from Fang County, tung oil from Laifeng County, Jiangxia lotus seeds, Honghu lotus root ······"

During this period of time, Sun Xiangfu's intelligence group collected a lot of information in Shannan Road, just the information on special products, there are as many as dozens, if these industries are all let the people do it themselves, it will be difficult to make it bigger, if the imperial court takes the lead in doing it on a large scale, establish some shallow processing, or deep processing workshops, will produce a large number of sales, which can bring a lot of benefits to the local people, and at the same time greatly enrich the goods on the market, such as tung oil in Laifeng County, is one of the commodities in short supply in the shipyard.

The idea of state-owned enterprises, after Sun Xiangfu said it, instantly opened Du Zhenglun's brain, this is not only a specific matter, but also a huge benefit, if the Ministry of Commerce can make a large profit for the imperial court, then its importance is self-evident.

Now, Du Zhenglun is eager to collect all the information on local specialties in Datang to see if it is possible to make an industry.

Anyway, no matter how excited he is, Sun Xiangfu's goal is to achieve, with the intervention of the Ministry of Commerce, local economic development, should be a better opening up of the situation, in the early days of opening up in the future, also walked this road, first do some agricultural products township enterprises, and then, with the accumulation of economic capital, the improvement of the technical level, gradually began to do some industrial technology industry, and then the whole country embarked on the road of industrialization, and even after industrialization to a certain extent, gradually embarked on the road of modernization.