Zhou Heju's face turned black directly, he has always regarded himself as wise, but he made such a big mistake, which is simply unforgivable.

When I came to Lingzhou, I also had the idea of doing something meritorious and wanted to pursue meritorious deeds, but I ignored the biggest problem, and committed an unforgivable joke just like when I was young.

When you are young, you can describe it as inexperienced or ill-considered, but now, you are in your forties, and you are still like this, such an obvious problem, don't you see it, if you really stick to it, then it may really be doomed.

Zhou and Ju couldn't help it, they knocked their heads hard, they forgot about such questions, and they were still thinking about drawing salaries from the bottom of the kettle, Han Qi stopped this letter, maybe he was selfish, but he was even more unwilling to let these cattle and horses waste in vain, and saved these cattle and horses.

Saving these cattle and horses, correspondingly, is equivalent to saving them, as well as the people behind them, this is really not a joke.

Even he, an official who had worked in the Privy Council and already knew a lot about military horses, missed this huge problem, those conservative bigwigs who wanted to suppress Han Qi with all their hearts, what would they do after they knew the news.

At the slightest opportunity, I will not let go of any effort, and when I clearly grasp this problem, I will do it at all costs, such a hidden deep problem, as long as I am not engaged in military affairs, or in other words, I have a very clear understanding of animal husbandry and the army, how many people can think of this.

The leader of the conservative faction, if he wants to seize this opportunity to deal with Han Qi, it really costs a huge price, and he can get the will from the East and West Mansions, or even Renzong, which is not impossible, in the face of triple suppression, what can Han Qi do, he can only honestly hand over these cattle and horses.

This may have had a great impact on Han Qi, but even the immigration has not been finally opened, the transaction of the Weizhou Cattle and Horse Conference, the seizure of Lingzhou, and even the investment of the Lingzhou Water Conservancy Project, in short, there is a place to talk about, and it is impossible to kill with a stick.

But when Han Qi really sent these cattle and horses out, it wasn't a criminal evidence to be sent, it was a hot yam.

Han Qi didn't need to say much at all, if he really wanted to let the Fa Chang faction rise up, as long as he handed it over, then what about the next thing, what should I do with the more than 20 million livestock, since it was the central government, then it was to be transported to Bianliang, Tokyo, not to mention the distance between Bianliang and Lingzhou, more than 2,000 miles, which is not a very close distance for anyone.

Even organizing hundreds of thousands of troops, more than 2,000 kilometers, is a difficult thing to complete, let alone tens of millions of livestock, even if it can deal with the integration of these large livestock, there is still a problem that must be considered, but what about food?

30,000 horses, are equivalent to an army of 10,000 or 20,000 people, now it is more than 4 million, not equivalent to tens of millions of troops, once the food is not enough, eventually a large number of cattle and horses were starved to death, this is the wealth of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Especially horses, cattle starved to death, and they were able to eat meat, and sheep were similar, and the losses could be controlled, but more than 4 million horses, equivalent to 400 million horses, were all dead, who will bear the responsibility?

is so huge, it can almost be said that the loss that shocked the world, not to mention covering it up, if you cover it up a little, you will be in big trouble, as long as it causes the facts, no one can cover it up, even Guo Tianjiangmen, or even when you are the first assistant of the dynasty and the like, it is not enough together, when the time comes, as long as Han Qi watches this thing happen, and then stabs this thing up, the sky is broken, and how many people's lives will be ruined.

The middle-aged officials thought of it, and those young officials didn't think of it, and it seemed that they still wanted to say something, that Han Qi was bluffing, and wanted to take this opportunity to hide his purpose, and kept talking.

Han Qi didn't have the same knowledge as them, he squinted at them, the two young people seemed to feel that they were right, and they seemed to be unforgiving, but at this time, they heard Zhou Heju roaring.

Even Han Qi didn't have a seizure, what did Zhou Heju have a seizure, which made them all stunned, they were a faction, why didn't they help Han Qi and yell at them or something.

Zhou Heju didn't say anything more, he bowed his hand to Han Qi, and then pulled everyone away At this moment, he no longer had the face to stay here, and leaving was the only choice.

Although those people have some complaints about Zhou Heju's approach, it is obvious that Zhou Heju doesn't want to say more, I have to say that Zhou Heju still has some ability, and he has pinched this group of people in the 10 days he has come to Lingzhou, not to mention, only a few people who don't understand, and other people may not know that tens of millions of livestock consume geometry, but when any number of orders of magnitude reaches the level of tens of millions, it will be very terrifying.

Conservatives, gray gone, other neutrals, they don't have some inherent opinions, on some things, see a little more clearly, Han Qi is so clear, some know, whispered to others, yes, when the number is huge to a certain extent, the quantity itself is terrible, cattle and horses, are all large animals, they may ingest more things a day than people.

The energy provided by the grass itself is not as good as that of plants, after all, the heat contained in plants is extremely high, and grass has something.

Cows and horses such large creatures, no matter how little they eat, they will not eat less than one person, the food of more than 20 million people, or more than 2,000 miles away, a sentence of empty white teeth to take back, where is so simple.

In this case, it is very difficult to provide enough things, and if one is not good, tens of millions of livestock may all die.

Livestock, his value lies in the fact that he is a living creature, he can grow, and even reproduce, most of the living animals are more valuable than the dead, and after the animals die, they will rot quickly, if the order is really given, in the end, Han Qi will not be responsible for transporting it, but will only send it out after the inventory in Lingzhou, so how will this animal be sent to Bianliang.

The neutrals did not follow the conservatives, although they would not offend the conservatives, but they were not used to it, and by the way, they asked Han Qi something that they did not understand.

That's right, it's dung, and among the officials who came to the northwest, several of them were dedicated to agriculture, so it was natural to ask about the manure.

As long as you have a little understanding of agriculture, you will know the benefits of manure for agriculture, but because it is not easy to collect and the effect is not used, it is not used on a large scale.

In the pasture, where there are obviously more animals, the manure is also more concentrated, and such a stack is definitely not useless, but has specifications.

Han Qi didn't know much about farm fertilizer, if he knew, he wouldn't have learned all this after he arrived at the pasture, and even dug up a few dung with interest.

For these people who came to Lingzhou, Han Qi is very clear, the conservatives are the enemy, but there is no need to target, the other party chooses personnel very specially, there are middle-level people who are unwilling, this part is not only the edge in the imperial court, even among the conservatives, it is also the edge, if Han Qi deals with them, it is needless to say whether it is worth it or not, if the opportunity is really seized, Han Qi will be very troublesome.

Of course, in order to prevent Han Qi from really attacking, there are still some nobles mixed in it, they are either direct members of the family of the descendants, or the second son or concubine of a high-ranking official, the status is enough, but it is not too important.

This part of the people, just look at it, even if it is the best Zhou Heju, he is not very capable, at most he is a little smart, these people Han Qi has never valued.

However, these of the neutrals are different, some of them are just ordered to come to investigate, although some people are not high-level, one of the Privy Council officials, only six grades, but they hold the important responsibilities of the Privy Council's military and horse division, and there is also a water conservancy official in the Eastern Mansion, and even participated in the management of the Yellow River.

These people are all very capable, at least in his special project, they are very capable, these people are what Han Qi must woo, maybe they can be used in the future.

Han Qi is a conceited person, and he also likes capable subordinates, and he also likes to promote capable people.

These questions, if Zhou Heju raised them, I'm afraid Han Qi wouldn't be too lazy to explain, now it's this part of the people, even if he doesn't know much, he can only explain them one by one according to Zhao Xin's words.

Zhao Xin is very clear, fertilizer is just nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium, these plants grow, vital trace elements, later generations of chemical fertilizer, relative to farm fertilizer, the content is much more, one acre of land uses chemical fertilizer, generally not more than 100 kilograms, but farm fertilizer, at least five or six square meters, the difference in the middle, dozens of times.

At the level of chemistry in this era, perhaps after the development of the Navy to a certain extent, chemical fertilizers will appear, and even if they are synthesized in the laboratory at any cost, they can be made from chemical fertilizers, but the price is too great.

Zhao Xin's current strength, almost 90% of the power, is used in Dinghai currency, a variety of high-precision products that cannot guarantee the success rate, small-scale chemical fertilizers are useless at all, the role of chemical fertilizers is universal, then it is doomed, there is no way to enter the sequence.

Manure is accumulated, fermented, and finally formed into a farmhouse fertilizer, which is a natural compound fertilizer, although the amount of use is much larger than that of chemical fertilizer, but it is not easy to produce the problems of chemical fertilizer, and the effect of improvement is also more extensive.

For the Northern Song Dynasty people who have not yet been exposed to chemical fertilizers, it is a sacred object, but unfortunately, at present, only in the initial accumulation stage, the farmland water conservancy in the northwest has been carried out to a paragraph, the main project has been completed, and the next thing is to gradually improve and systematize these water conservancy projects in the future time, so that they can have a greater effect.

There is less than a month left, that is, spring, the planting season is coming, in the northwest, the winter is a little longer, the time to plant crops, can be delayed until April and May, but at most, that is, two or three months.

For Han Qi, the foundation of Lingzhou and the northwest has been laid, and the huge farmland with a volume of 50 million to 70 million mu needs a larger number of personnel.

In the army, preparations have been made, more than 300,000 original Lingzhou herdsmen, will draw out 100,000 young and strong, the rest are all put into the pasture, the number is insufficient, it is acceptable, the 100,000 drawn, plus the 200,000 young and strong who came later, will be used as the main force of tuntian and reclamation.

It is enough for these people to provide labor, but if they want to farm, they really can't, they must have between 300,000 and 500,000 Central Plains laborers, and when the combined labor force of the two reaches 800,000, they can barely take care of 50 acres of land by one person, which can ensure that these lands are not wasted.

Intensive cultivation is not to think about it, a person to take care of 50 acres of land, even in large livestock such as cattle and horses, and a large number of tools to match it, but only to ensure the basic steps such as reclamation and planting, I am afraid that even weeding, it is difficult to do precise, can only be roughly completed.

However, Han Qi can only be in the northwest, temporarily mobilized more than 30,000 experienced farmers, plus some supported by major chambers of commerce, about 200,000 people, these are not to settle down, through the relationship of the chamber of commerce, you can come to work, from the spring, to winter, the crops are harvested and leave, they do not rely on planting to live, the northwest will give a certain salary, in short, it will not be lower than the daily wage of ordinary labor.

These channels work together, which makes Han Qi full of confidence in the future, even if the policy on immigration cannot be approved by the central government, with the efforts of businessmen and Lingzhou itself, it can also promote about 600,000-800,000 labor, which may not be able to open up the entire northwest, at least 40 million mu can be guaranteed.

More than 40 million acres of irrigated land, what does it represent, nearly 100 million stone of grain output, with the current population of less than one million in the northwest, the annual expenditure is only 10 million stone, that is, there can be a balance of 90 million stone.

In the south, maybe there is more grain, which is not a good thing, after all, Jiangnan is the granary of the Northern Song Dynasty at present, where ordinary land also has an output of more than 2 stones, plus the relationship of history, most of it is newly opened up land, land annexation and problems are not serious, it is really time for a bumper yield, and the price of grain will be reduced on a large scale.

There is no such problem in the northwest, why the Jiangnan part of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the task is basically to keep transporting grain, and to transport a large amount of grain from the south of the Yangtze River to the north, you can know how short of grain is.

In this era, there is a number, the number of farmland in the south has surpassed that of the north, and it has exceeded a lot, but in terms of population, the north has always crushed the south, in addition to the population growth brought by a large number of troops, an important reason is tradition.

The Central Plains, Henan and Shaanxi, these two provinces, can be said to be the cradle of the Chinese nation, countless legends and ancient holy kings, all born here, coupled with the foundation of the two powerful empires of the Han and Tang dynasties, with Chang'an and Luoyang as the core of this system, in the past thousand years, has been the core of the entire Central Plains Dynasty, which derived the densely populated north.

In the north, grain is not to be sold, even in Jingzhaofu and Shanxi, grain is much higher than Bianliang.

Han Qi didn't plan to sell it at a high price, when the total amount of grain rose, more than 90 million stone of grain could be eaten by more than 18 million people for at least a year, even if it was 500 wen per stone, this was a fortune of 45 million yuan.

It is impossible for this money to be held by Lingzhou and handed over to the treasury to supplement the treasury, and there are some follow-up water conservancy projects, but there is no doubt that this money will become the foundation of Lingzhou's wealth. This is also the highest chapter written by Han Qi in Lingzhou.

chatting with these officials who understand agriculture and water conservancy is always so enjoyable, Han Qi almost showed his ambition in front of these officials, and even added a few followers because of his high-minded talk.

This is not a deliberate wooing, but after like-mindedness, it is naturally attracted, gentlemen are not parties, Han Qi followed Fan Zhongyan before, not because he deigned to Fan Zhongyan, and he had to completely obey his orders.

It's just that Fan Zhongyan's ideas, beliefs, and will stimulated him and made him willing to fight for it.

Now, after meddling in the imperial examination, Fan Zhongyan has no ability to rise again, and this forbidden area will become a lesson for him.

After the Fa Chang faction left the center, Han Qi thought that it would take him a few years, or even more than ten years, before he could regain his strength and return to the center.

Intervening in Western Xia, capturing Xingqing Mansion, and destroying Western Xia has greatly reduced this time, but how does he want to re-stand in the Northern Song Dynasty.

We should not underestimate these things, no matter how strong and powerful we are, without a complete method of governance, it will not work, and we will not be able to cross this step at all.

Maybe after waiting for more than ten years, Han Qi will change from the determination of a teenager to the calmness of a middle-aged man, and he will become a little more conservative, but now, he has no choice but to go down the road of changing the law.

However, for Fan Zhongyan's top-down changes, Han Qi had different ideas in his personal experience in Lingzhou, and it was not impossible to go from the bottom up.

In the center, in Gyeonggi, where the conservative forces are strong, it is impossible to realize his ideas at all, but there will be all kinds of problems, which is the problem that Fan Zhongyan and their reformers encountered before.

In order to change these problems, Fan Zhongyan's tough methods, and even in the end, moved the imperial examination.

What is the imperial examination, that is the only thing that can be controlled between the emperor and the ministers, without the imperial examination, it is almost impossible to become a high-ranking official like Zaifu, and the jinshi who has just completed the imperial examination is only a basis for entering the officialdom, it is a group of young students, which is a good grasp of the balance between the imperial power and the relative power, when Fan Zhong drowned this mind and used the imperial examination to cultivate the power of law change, the ending was doomed.

Han Qi will not follow Fan Zhongyan's old path, but he will absorb some beneficial things on the basis of Fan Zhongyan, find out his own bright spots, make improvements, and make the changes better.

In Lingzhou, Han Qi used practical experience to prove the benefits of changing the law, concentrating funds, making changes in some places, and using the overall power to change the entire pattern, which is one of the changes in Lingzhou, it seems that this can be applied to other aspects.

This is just a preliminary idea, a large-scale water conservancy project, a huge investment, that is, in Lingzhou, after the foundation of the Lingzhou peace agreement, this can be opened.

Before that, not to mention the 20 million, 30 million project, I am afraid that in the Northern Song Dynasty, it will take several years, or even more than ten years, to start a 3 million project.

How many times has the Yellow River project been mentioned, what is the Yellow River, that is the mother river of the Central Plains, and it is also the main water source of important cities including Bianliang, after the Northern Song Dynasty set the capital Bianliang, the flooding of Bianliang alone has more than ten times, counting the previous Zhou Dynasty, it is more.

However, even if it is such an important issue of water conservancy, it is impossible to thoroughly control the Yellow River, but through simple dredging of the main trunk and tributaries, it has reached the level of delaying the disaster, and this cannot be done.

The reason is very simple, it is no money, even if an official, a slaughter, has a splendid article in his chest, but it is in vain if he has no money.

Only when he really stood in that position, did he know that it was not easy for such a big empire, when he was young, even in order to come to power, he and Fan Zhongyan were very hostile to Lu Yijian, treating him as a corrupt official and a rebel, but when Fan Zhongyan really controlled the government, he found that he was able to control the government for decades, without major mistakes, and the Northern Song Dynasty was able to move forward steadily, Lu Yijian's ability was really not bad, and some things, if you were someone else, you really couldn't deal with it.

With Lingzhou as the foundation, especially with the support of Zhao Xin, it may be difficult to mobilize these funds for large-scale development such as the Northwest Water Conservancy Project, but it is not difficult to carry out some sporadic, bottom-up, bottom-up reforms from the bottom.

Han Qi took the initiative to put his eyes down, starting from the bottom, he could still see a lot of things that could be improved, plus he no longer relied on those officials at the bottom, instead of using administrative orders, he directly used funds as guidance, just like Lingzhou, guided by some businessmen, which avoided the problems encountered by Fan Zhongyan, and the conservatives did not listen, just bypass them.

In this discussion, Han Qi also said it, and naturally, it attracted some people, two people voted directly, and some people had a good impression of him, which made him feel very excited.

Maybe it can't shake those conservatives, but the people at the bottom will not be deceived by them, everyone wants to live a good life, obviously it can be better, or the example in front of them, why not participate?

This is Han Qi's ambition and concept, although it is only a prototype, but it continues to take root and sprout, becoming his governance program, but he didn't expect that his method is just picking up people's teeth, and when a better method from the future appears, his method will eventually become ancient and not play a role.