Hearing this, Su Shi was stunned and said with a smile: "Prime Minister with a pen, go buy piglets for you, haha, Brother Wen Qing is really overkill.?" With {Dream} Little ◢.com"

Cui Wenqing smiled and said: "As long as I can enrich the country and strengthen the people, I believe that the teacher will not refuse, but before that, I still need the teacher to support my tax exemption method." ”

Zhi Zhao pondered slightly, and said: "The matter of tax exemption is too involved, and I believe it will also cause a lot of controversy in the imperial court, husband, I think you should now write a letter to An Shixiang to explain the truth, so that he can support you in the imperial court." ”

Hearing Zhe Zhao's words, Cui Wenqing thought that there was no need for that, and said with a smile: "Lady, before leaving Luoyang, I have asked my teacher to mediate for me in the court. ”

Zhe Zhao frowned and asked, "Husband, do you believe in Wang Anshi so much?" ”

"Yes." Cui Wenqing nodded affirmatively, history proves that Wang Anshi does have nothing to say in terms of character, and he naturally believes it very much.

Seeing this, Su Shi sighed: "Enxiang can have a student like Brother Wen Qing who can be called a confidant, I believe it will be a great relief." ”

Zhe Zhao glanced at Cui Wenqing and said: "I don't know what soup Wang Anshi poured for you, forget it, just act according to your ideas." ”

Cui Wenqing nodded, and was about to speak, Su Shi was already impatient to ask: "Brother Wenqing, raising pigs to get rich is one of the three ways you have thought of, and I don't know what kind of good strategies there are in the future?" ”

Cui Wenqing said with a smile: "The second way I thought of getting rich for the four states in the north is to grow cotton to get rich. ”

"Grow cotton and get rich?" Su Shi showed a look of surprise, "Brother Wen Qing meant, could it be planting kapok?" Kapok is a thing to keep out the cold, we have planted it in many places, even if we launch large-scale planting in the four states of the Northland, it is just picking up people's teeth and wisdom, how can we talk about being able to grow cotton and get rich? ”

"Brother Su, you are wrong." Cui Wenqing shook his hand and said with a smile, "I naturally know that the kapok you mentioned is a cotton wool that fills pillows and clothes to keep out the cold, and it is also the first choice for our Central Plains to keep out the cold in winter for thousands of years. ”

"Cotton? What is it? Su Shi was confused.

Zhe Zhao frowned and said: "It is said that the people in the Western Regions and other places are not good at planting kapok, so they plant imported cotton from Tianzhu Dashi, the cotton that the husband said, but it is this kind of crop in the Western Regions?" ”

Cui Wenqing nodded and said, "Yes, it's exactly this." ”

Hearing this, Zhi Zhao smiled and said: "Husband, according to the literature, the cotton is planted very little, the yield is low, except for the Western Regions, few people use it as a cold thing, you such a large-scale planting, even if there is a yield, but how can you shake the status of silk numb kapok?" I'm afraid that in the end, let alone making money, maybe there will be a lot of losses. ”

Cui Wenqing said with a smile: "Lady, at present, cotton is indeed as you say, it is not the mainstream, but I think that in the future, cotton will definitely beat silk numb cotton and become the first choice for people to weave cloth and make clothes." ”

"How so? Is there any real evidence? Zhe Zhao asked solemnly, obviously wanting to get to the bottom of it.

Cui Wenqing took a long breath and said: "In fact, when it comes to cotton planting and textile technology, the Western Regions are not leading, and the most superb cotton technology is the Li people living in Yazhou, who are the ancestors of the development of cotton textile industry." ”

Su Shi frowned and said: "Yazhou is the place where the Central Plains Dynasty exiled people, and it has always been rampant with snakes, insects, rats and ants, full of poor mountains and bad waters, and those Li people are all uncivilized barbarians, they are as powerful as Brother Wen Qing said?" ”

Cui Wenqing smiled faintly: "Whether it is the Han or the Li people, the wisdom of the working people is always endless, so we can not underestimate at any time, as long as we can learn the advanced textile technology from the Li people, and then plant cotton, after a few years, the textile industry will be able to vigorously develop in the four states of the Northland, and then I am afraid that we will not be able to make money?" ”

Cui Wenqing believed his own reasoning.

After all, in the ancient history before he traveled, cotton cultivation began to develop at the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, especially Huang Daopo improved the textile technology, which made the textile industry advance by leaps and bounds, and Jiangnan also became the source of the textile industry, and its status has not changed for hundreds of years.

As far as the current history of Daqi is concerned, it is only two hundred years from the end of the Song Dynasty and the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, and Cui Wenqing believes that the textile technology in the hands of the Li people in Yazhou has been fruitful.

Therefore, cotton cultivation is completely worth a try.

As long as it is successful, it will definitely be a profitable business.

Zhi Zhao and Su Shi couldn't help but believe a little when they heard that Cui Wenqing had obtained such a thing, and Zhi Zhao asked: "Then dare to ask the husband, how do we get textile technology from the Li people?" ”

Cui Wenqing said with a smile: "In my opinion, it is best to relocate some Li people to settle in the north, and they will teach them the experience of planting cotton and cotton control technology, so that we can develop and expand the cotton textile industry in the fastest time, lady, do you think the Li people will be willing to come to our four states in the north?" ”

Zhe Zhao smiled bitterly: "Yazhou, where the Li people live, is located in the southernmost part of the Central Plains, and our four northern states are in the northernmost part of the Central Plains, and the distance between the two is almost 10,000 miles, so I'm afraid it's difficult!" ”

Su Shi said with a smile: "I think the living environment of the Li people is bad, and it is a good choice to come to the four states of the Northland." ”

Cui Wenqing nodded and said: "Yes, and as long as the Li people are willing to come, we can also treat them as people resettled in other places, free of taxes, and also give a certain amount of money subsidies for planting cotton, I believe that there will be brave men under the heavy reward, and someone will definitely come." ”

Zhi Zhao thought for a while and said, "Okay, but the matter of relocating the Li people is very important, and it is best for the husband to ask An Shi Xianggong for help." ”

Cui Wenqing nodded and said, "Don't worry, I know what to do, the only way to buy piglets and move the Li people is to ask for the teacher." ”

The two things were agreed, and Zhe Zhao suddenly felt that the future of the four states in the North was bright, and it seemed that the exemption from taxes for fifty years was nothing, so he asked with a smile: "Husband, you have already said two strategies, I don't know what is the best way?" ”

Cui Wenqing said with a smile: "As for the last method, it is a method of ten thousand benefits, that is, to get rich by mining coal." ”

"Coal mining?" Zhe Zhao and Su Shi looked at each other, very surprised.

Cui Wenqing said with a smile: "Yes, it is coal mining, the area we come out of, the products are not abundant, and the planting crops are not suitable, but under the earth, there are countless coal mines, only we can mine coal for sale, and it is difficult to get rich." ”