In the summer and June of the first year of Yanhe, Xinhai (26).

The morning sun rises in the east, awakening the silent city.

As usual, Hu Jian and several of his officials opened the closed gate of Xinfeng, and then the peasants and merchants who had been waiting at the gate lined up and entered the gate.

Standing on the city tower, Hu Jian looked at this lively scene, and couldn't help but sigh: "Since the public examination, Xinfeng has been too lively......

The left and right all smiled and nodded: "It's not, since the announcement of the public examination, the people of Xinfeng Township have encountered a good time!" ”

"I'm afraid they made a lot of money just by selling their home-grown vegetable sunflowers!"

Because the public examination attracted thousands of people to gather in Xinfeng City, the prices in Xinfeng City immediately rose.

Fortunately, Sang Jun was here, and Dasi Nong urgently transported a large amount of grain, cloth and other commodities from Chang'an to Xinfeng, so that there was no skyrocketing prices.

But even so, there were suddenly thousands more people in Xinfeng City.

Moreover, it is also a middle-class population with very strong purchasing power, which suddenly brings the merchant households in Xinfeng City and the people outside the city to heaven.

Residents in the city make a lot of money just by renting out their houses and helping with laundry.

If you have some strength, take the opportunity to do some more business, and you will earn a year's income.

And the peasants outside the city did not suffer any losses.

All kinds of vegetables that they used to grow themselves and use as food can now be sold for money.

Moreover, the price is higher than that of corn!

Even the cheapest sunflower can now be sold for tens of dollars a stone.

People who have chickens and ducks at home are even more smiling.

In the past, you could only sell eggs and duck eggs for one or two dollars, but now you can sell them for four or five dollars a piece.

If you are lucky, you can hunt wild boars in the mountains or something, and bring them to the city, and you can exchange thousands of dollars at once!

With such a strong consumption power, even the singers in the willow lane of Chang'an City's flower street also came to Xinfeng in groups, rented a place, recruited merry scribes, and started a leather and meat business.

Hu Jian listened to the discussions of the officials on the left and right, and his face was as usual, but in his heart, he knew that this kind of artificially created market prosperity would soon dissipate.

Because, the number of people gathered in Xinfeng is decreasing.

Yesterday there were as many as three or five thousand in Xinfeng City, but today, there are only one or two thousand left.

And to have a thousand people left after today is already remarkable.

It's just that......

Hu Jian raised his eyes and saw the city gate, suddenly blocked, he looked over, but saw a team of dozens of people, carrying several slaughtered cattle and sheep, and carrying many chickens and ducks, swaggering into the city gate.

Because there were so many things with them, even the city gate was blocked.

Hu Jian hurriedly led people down the city tower and went down to help clear the passage.

He himself carried a ribbon, stepped forward, and asked them, "I am Hu Jian, the official of Xinfeng, why did you bring so much meat into the city?" ”

"Hu Dian's ......" A hearty voice came from outside the city gate in the distance, but it was Ma Yuan from Lixiang Township, with a few children and nephews.

"Ma Gong ......" Hu Jian frowned, he didn't have a good impression of Ma Yuan, but he didn't have a bad feeling, this bully from Lixiang belonged to the kind of shameless but useful country landlord in his eyes.

As far as the Legalist bureaucrats were concerned, they did not care about the moral cultivation of the landlords and magnates under their rule.

Anyway, a good character is a knife, and a bad character is still a knife.

Why is it so clear?

So Hu Jian only frowned, and then stepped forward and asked, "Why did Ma Gong bring so much meat into the city?" ”

"Of course it's here to sell......" Ma Yuan rubbed his hands and smiled: "Didn't the villain hear that the Xinfeng public examination is about to be announced?" I took the villagers to slaughter the animals they fed, and came to Xinfeng City to provide the future Xinfeng Ming Gong with the celebration banquet......"

As a landlord who can get into the princess's mansion in Chang'an City, Ma Yuan's sense of smell is certainly not ordinarily sensitive.

After hearing that the Xinfeng public examination was coming to an end, he immediately reacted.

Those who are in the middle, especially those who are not local to Xinfeng, will definitely celebrate with wine in Xinfeng.

This feast is indispensable for fish!

At this time, if you come to Xinfeng to sell meat, you will definitely be able to make money.

He also had the courage to figure out this section, and immediately led people to buy all kinds of cattle, sheep, chickens and ducks in the entire Lixiang Township.

And then send it today, just to make a big profit!

Hu Jian listened to the other party's explanation, and was noncommittal, but said coldly: "So that Ma Gong knows, Zhang Shizhong has decided that starting from July this autumn, the slaughter of cattle and horses without reason will be prohibited in the county, and all cattle and horses must be slaughtered with the permission of the county government before they can be carried out, and beef is prohibited in the county!" ”

"In the future, Ma Gong can't kill cattle like this for no reason, otherwise, the official will have to be held accountable!"

Ma Yuan was stunned when he heard it.

Don't kill cows and horses, don't even eat beef?

In this Zhang Shizhong, Zhang Chiyou is really bold!

I'm afraid it will cause dissatisfaction among the people......

You must know that the Han people eat beef, this is a tradition, especially the rangers, when they are tired of playing, they surround the fire plate, stabilize a pot of wine and cut two plates of beef, which has always been their favorite thing.

This Chi You is in charge of the heavens and the earth, can you still control other people's mouths?

But it didn't have much to do with him, Ma Yuan just smiled and arched his hand: "The grass people know ......"

Although he was not optimistic about this Chiyou's ban on slaughtering cattle and horses and not eating beef, Ma Yuan still decided to implement it first.

Anyway, he also felt that this rule would not last long.

So, it doesn't matter if you sell or sell well.

…………………………………………

Zhang Yue blew the ink on the cloth on the table, then handed it to Sang Jun, and said, "Please Brother Sang bring this letter to Ling Zun...... Say hello to Ling Zun again for me......"

"Don't dare to ......" Sang Jun took the silk book and bowed: "Say hello to the waiter, the lower official must bring my father ......"

"It's just ......" Sang Jun thought for a while and asked Zhang Yue: "The waiter really thinks that this official tea and beef have a profit?" ”

Since Zhang Yue wants Xinfeng to get the power to collect and supervise industry and commerce and various industrial and commercial taxes in the hands of Dasi Nong, of course he can't take it with empty words.

In this way, even if Sang Hongyang can agree, the salt and iron bureaucrats under Sang Hongyang will not agree.

So, you have to exchange the benefits.

This government-run tea and official-sold beef are the benefits that Zhang Yue took out in exchange.

It's just that now, because of the settlement of tea-making technology and tea-drinking culture, the profits of tea trade have not yet been highlighted.

But Zhang Yue knew that in the historical Northern Song Dynasty, how much profit did the tea official camp bring to the Northern Song Dynasty?

That's a net income of millions of dollars a year!

Even better, tea is now a monopoly resource that is unique to China, as is silk.

As long as the development is good, are you afraid that there will be no money to make?

As for the official sale of beef?

In fact, it was a temptation by Zhang Yue.

Because, he knows, once Xinfeng's cattle farming technology is promoted, the world will soon ban the slaughter of cattle.

But beef is extremely delicious and nutritious.

The physical fitness of the Han people is inseparable from the Han people's appetite for beef.

Therefore, it is imperative to divide cattle into cultivated cattle and beef cattle.

Zhang Yue also believes that Sang Hongyang will understand what he said in the letter.

As long as cattle are included in the strategic resources under control, it is forbidden to slaughter them privately.

Then beef will become a monopoly resource and become a trump card in the hands of Dasi Nong.

Moreover, you can play a lot of new tricks.

For example, if the ploughing cattle in the hands of the peasants are sold, they can only be sold to the big farmers.

As the only buyer, Dasi Nong can naturally lower the price.

Then, at the same time, Dasi Nong is the only beef seller in the market, so the price of beef can be increased.

This subtracts and adds, and the profit will naturally come out.

In addition, as long as it is profitable to sell beef, Dasi Nong will vigorously develop beef cattle breeding.

With the scale of the northern pastures now controlled by the Han family, it is no longer a problem to raise millions of cattle and sheep.

In this way, it is possible that in the future, the gains from animal husbandry in the northern border will be able to make up for the shortfall in investment in agriculture and development.

Expanding territory will no longer be a burden, but will become a lucrative business.

As long as the expansion of the territory can bring benefits and make money, the people will support the war.

This creates a virtuous circle.

In the future, we will light up the technology tree of the wool textile industry and launch a wool textile industry, so that Jiuquan, Zhangye and Juyan will become a treasure land flowing with honey and sugar.

People will automatically migrate to these places.

With the population, Hexi and Hetao can become barracks in themselves.

Of course, these are just Zhang Yue's fantasies.

In the end, it depends on future practice.

Sang Jun still couldn't understand it, but he was smart enough to know that he could go back and ask his father about this matter, so he walked out of the official office with the letter.

After Sang Jun left, Zhang Yue got up and walked out of the official office, came to the palace next door to the Taishang Emperor Temple, and found Liu Jin who was reading.

"Your Royal Highness......" As soon as they met, Zhang Yue arched his hand and said: "Now, Chen County Cheng is leading people to inform you of the admission of scholars one by one in Xinfeng City, and the minister thinks that those scholars who have not won the middle school are not bad, so please ask Your Highness to write a letter of recommendation for them, so that the talents will not be exposed!" ”

This is also something that Zhang Yue has thought about a long time ago.

For literati doctors, this is the best means of wooing.

Neither money nor any resources need to be invested, just write a little kind word.

And with the recommendation letter written by Liu Jin and himself, although these people did not work under him, they were also labeled as Liu Jin and himself.

In the future, if there is a talent among them, it will be their own credit.

Why not do such a good thing?

Liu Jin listened, and naturally agreed, although the literati who can enter the interview process in the public examination may not be as high as that in terms of level, they are more than enough to be qualified as ordinary low-level officials.

So he wrote a letter of recommendation of several hundred words, and then handed it to the left and right and instructed: "Go and copy hundreds of copies, and then stamp the letter with Lone's seal and hand it over to Zhang Shizhong ......"

"No!"