What made Zhou Nan happy was not only this period, but even earlier, the Khitan people began to grow rice in this area. What's more, there is really rouge rice in the Jizhou area, that is, the red fragrant rice that Yu Liyan said.

In the era of Zhou Nan, the price of a pound of rouge rice was several thousand yuan, and you can imagine the preciousness of rouge rice.

Of course, Zhou Nan didn't think about selling this rouge rice to the Great Song Dynasty in large quantities, and the rouge rice produced in Zunhua, Yutian, and Jizhou alone was not enough for the people in Yanjing City to eat. To Zhou Nan's delight, the annatto rice of this era, that is, the red fragrant rice, can be famous, and it is conceivable that rice must have been planted in a large area here.

Now the promotion of rice in the Wuqing area is not a problem technically. The only difficulty is how to solve the land problem in Wuqing first.

After the court meeting, the commanders of various prefectures and counties and the army have returned to their posts, and Zhou Nan originally wanted to calm down and sort out the affairs of the prisoner, but suddenly there was no land to plant, so he had to postpone going to the general as a prisoner and urged Yu Zhongwen to recruit farmers to plant rice as soon as possible.

Yu Zhongwen has recruited more than 30 farmers who can grow rice, and they can go to Wuqing at any time to plant rice there. Zhou Nan had already decided that he would take these farmers to Wuqing the day after tomorrow to see how to promote rice cultivation there. Therefore, he went to the northern suburbs of the city with Yu Liyan, not only to relax, but also to see how the spring plowing is going.

Now there is the "Land Decree", around Yanjing City, the people who can cultivate and the prefectures and counties with more arable land have almost all reclaimed the wasteland into fields, and with the beginning of spring ploughing, the fields are in full swing.

Places that are not suitable for farming, such as the foot of Changping Mountain, have become a world for herdsmen, cattle and sheep, and the sheep in the mountain meadows are like white clouds, swimming leisurely with the smoke of the herdsmen's cooking.

"The Khitan hunts the Han and cultivates, and the flying generals will be on the side of the old South Mountain, and they can also shoot tigers with young people." Yu Liyan looked at the idyllic scenery in the distance and couldn't help but chant.

Zhou Nan also deeply felt that the area of Yanjing, Jizhou, and Pingzhou has always been the junction of the Han people who are engaged in agriculture and the Fan people who are engaged in animal husbandry.

If you can really take what you need and mix together, you will naturally "fly from the side of the old South Mountain".

God is so fortunate to himself that he actually put himself here, instead of crossing himself into the Great Song Dynasty. If you go to the Great Song Dynasty, where the law is strict, there will never be freedom like here, and you will never give yourself room for development. I was afraid that as soon as I was about to build a wall, the officers and soldiers would kill me on the mountain.

In the Great Song Dynasty, it was impossible for him to get the craftsmen made of gunpowder and so much sulfur so easily, let alone give himself the opportunity to pull out a team.

As the so-called "no break, no stand", it just so happened that the Liao State here will be destroyed, and the forces of the Jin State, the Great Song Dynasty, and Xiao Gan will compete, so that there is a power vacuum in this Yanjing City temporarily, and he has the opportunity to take advantage of the void to enter, and finally turn Yanjing City into his own place. Next, it's up to you to secure your ground.

"Zhou Lang, it's not a while to repair the fields and canals and plant rice, why don't you stay in the capital for a while and then go?" Yu Liyan saw that Zhou Nan would not live in Yanjing City for a few days before he was about to leave, so he persuaded him euphemistically.

"I also want to take a break, but the matter of farming is delayed for a while, and a year has passed." Zhou Nan said with a wry smile, "I thought that the four realms were stable, and there would be nothing to do." However, Shanhaiguan wants to build a new city, Wuqing and this large area of land want to promote rice, and it will be supervised and sorted out and rectified......"

Yu Liyan said softly: "Zhou Lang doesn't have to be in a hurry. There are soldiers and horses stationed at Shanhaiguan, and you can build the city calmly; The area of Wuqing is close to Yutian, so there must be a way to learn from it. ”

"Wuqing is different from Yutian." Zhou Nan shook his head, "The land is divided into north and south, and each is different. Even if there is water, the Wuqing area is also a land of salt and brine, and you have to go over and see it in person. ”

"The matter of farming, the concubine doesn't understand it very well, and she can't share Zhou Lang's worries." Yu Liyan said apologetically.

"It's all menial work, just selling some effort. But there is something I want you to worry about. Zhou Nan said, "I want to choose one in the east and one in the north and the other, and customize the place of trading, so that the people and merchants in the country can go to these two cities to trade with the people of the Jin Kingdom and the northern tribes, and the imperial court can also use this to collect some customs duties and commercial taxes; The people's produce can also be sold for money. Do you think so? ”

"You wrote a letter to mention this when you were in Bianjing, and the concubines also felt very good, and the shepherds' sheep, horses, leather goods, and weavers' silk silks were all large batches, only in the country, but they couldn't be dissolved, so they naturally had to find a way out. It's just that why didn't Zhou Lang set up a border market in the south and trade with the people of the Southern Dynasty? ”

Zhou Nan said indignantly: "The emperor and ministers of the Southern Dynasty, since they are unwilling to open a market with my Xinliao, why should I Xinliao rush to trade with them?" Wait for me to cut off the road between the southern dynasty and the countries in the north, and then wait for the southern dynasty to come and beg me to open a new Liao border market! ”

Yu Liyan rarely saw Zhou Nan lose his temper like this, so he couldn't help but smile and said, "Then you don't have to open only the east and north cities. Zhou Lang wanted to benefit the people, but also wanted to collect commercial taxes, so he chose a city in the south, east, and west as a place for future transactions. According to the concubine's body, the trade of goods between the two countries cannot be isolated, and the only way to isolate it is that the governments of the two countries do not trade with each other, but the people below always have smuggling and entrainment. Zhou Lang might as well be generous himself, do it openly, do his own business, no matter how he is in the Southern Dynasties, the people of the two countries can trade back and forth. In this way, the commercial tax was also collected, and the people also made money. ”

"It's still Yanyan who thinks about everything, and you have to rely on me, but you will lose your money." Yu Liyan's words really enlightened Zhou Nan: whether to do business or to do it, is the so-called stuffy fortune. Open the border city by yourself, let the people of neighboring countries come in to trade and trade, collect your own tariffs, and earn your own money, but you don't want to ask Zhao Ji and Zhao Kai to do business.

"In your opinion, where is the best place for these four border markets?" Zhou Nan asked Yu Liyan.

"There is Danzhou in the north, Guiyi in the south and Xiongzhou in the north, it has been a place for business travel and sales in ancient times, and the area around Yizhou has always been a place for people to smuggle and cross, and the east is a place where business travelers gather, and Zhou Lang can choose a place by himself. However, opening the border city and allowing outsiders to enter must also prevent the enemy from sending in and setting fire to it. Yu Liyan reminded carefully.

"Yanyan thinks about it thoroughly, I will be careful, I will choose one city first, try it for a few months, and then push it to the other three cities. As long as the means are tight, nothing will happen. Zhou Nan said, "It's just that I'm a layman in this business." I wonder if anyone will come to buy or sell commercial goods. ”

Yu Liyan pursed his lips and smiled: "As long as Zhou Lang can keep the trading place peaceful and peaceful, no heavy taxes will be collected, and merchants will make heavy profits, I don't know how many people will rush to trade." ”

(End of chapter)