In this year, it was not only Su Shi and Zhao Xing who became sinners, and in the same month, Huang Tingjian, the last of Su Shi's disciples, was officially demoted. This month, Cai Bian and others rebuilt the "Records of Shenzong" I, accusing Fan Zuyu, Huang Tingjian and others of slandering and slandering the first emperor (referring to Song Shenzong) while revising the "Records of Shenzong", so they placed Fan Zuyu in Yongzhou (now Lingling, Hunan), Zhao Yanruo in Lizhou (now Li County, Hunan), and Huang Tingjian in Qianzhou (now Pengshui, Sichuan).

So far, Su Shi's disciples have been wiped out.

However, can the strict policy of literary prison and Zhulian really stop the yearning of others, Zhao Xing looked at the students scattered all over the mountain who admired the study, shook his head slightly, and replied: "In the past, when the teacher was in Huangzhou, I once slaughtered a cow for the teacher, and today's situation can't help but remind me of the old days. Someone came, went to the countryside to search for two strong cows, and said that the official of Kaichun would compensate him for four strong cows. ”

This time Su Shi did not stop it, because when he was in Hangzhou, he had seen the Indian strong cattle transported by Zhao Xing from Tianzhu, and he knew that now that the winter is idle, the farmers will not need the cattle for the time being, and they will have to consume grain and grass. If Zhao Xing compensates farmers with two cows per cow after the beginning of spring, it will also be a good thing for farmers. And this is exactly what Zhao Xing is capable of doing.

The climate of Huizhou is hot, meat is not easy to store, officials can open meat every ten days, and the people even rarely eat meat for a hundred years, these two cows let Su Shi have a full meal, and at the same time, the students who came to visit Su Shi also had a good mouth.

After a few days of entrenchment here in Su Shi, Zhan Fan Taishou also rushed to Baihefeng when he heard the news, this time his attitude towards Su Shi was more affectionate, and he readily agreed to Zhao Xing's request, so that Baihefeng was also qualified to buy mutton in the Huizhou market.

"It's not enough to kill only one sheep in ten days, I want to transport 20,000 people to Huizhou in January. Zhan Taishou settled them well. So that they can be reclaimed smoothly. In addition, I also plan to transport 10,000 pig seedlings to Huizhou, and first use the practice of the green seedling method, and the government will advance money to the people. Zhao Xing warned meaningfully.

In fact, Zhan Fan had discovered during this time that Zhao Xingtuntian was fundamentally different from the previous officials, and the group of people he hired were resettled by the "variant exemption method", which belonged to hired labor. These men were sent out to the earth. Will receive a set of labor tools and furniture from the government. The former includes shovels, hammers, hoes, scissors, pliers, rakes, plowshares, etc., and the latter includes pots and pans, etc.

No one has ever been so extravagant in rehousing the displaced people, and it is said that from the beginning to the end the government did not spend a single penny, nor did it pay a little tax to the people. It is said that it was a loan given by a "bank", and Zhao Xing's bookkeeping level is well-known in the officialdom, and the accounts left by him in Mizhou, Yangzhou, and Huanqing are said to be understood by few people, but everyone in Mizhou has been extremely satisfied with that way of dividing accounts for so many years.

Over time, there are many people who study Zhao Xing's accounting method. Many people have discovered countless financial mysteries from the inside, and they are all impressed, while those who can't understand have begun to learn to dress deaf and dumb, and praise them with them. Therefore, no one dares to question Zhao Xing's treatment of the displaced people now. Everyone is waiting for the final announcement of the results of the accounts. The local farmers in Guangnan looked at the treatment of immigrants and couldn't wait to go to Zhao Xing to apply for immigration treatment.

This situation also made Zhan Fan figure it out, and Zhao Xing emigrated on a large scale. The local government did not have to pay for it out of its own, and the immigrants filled the local household registration and reclaimed a large amount of wasteland, which was equivalent to adding a new source of tax revenue to the local government. Now Zhao Xing's preferred resettlement point is Huizhou, which is a rare treatment, if his teacher is not degraded in Huizhou, maybe Huizhou will not be able to get this benefit.

Therefore, the command to Zhao Xing. Zhan Fan was grateful. He got up and thanked him repeatedly: "Don't worry, my lord, the lower officials will definitely count the wasteland in the territory before the year." By the time we get to January, we must prepare the field booklet and wait for the adults to dispose of it. ”

Zhao Xing stared at each other and was silent, Zhan Fan immediately suddenly, he hurriedly added: "There are still 700 people in Huizhou, and they will all be sent to Baihefeng for training tomorrow, and the content of the exercise is to build roads and houses, please rest assured, you will not treat Baihefeng badly in any case." ”

Zhao Xing nodded with satisfaction, and added: "Huizhou is about to build a large-scale house, and the hard work of the group training Xiangding can't treat them badly, I immediately hired a few stonemasons and potters from nearby to guide Xiangding to build a brick kiln and build a quarry, I can't treat them badly---- I have never treated my friends badly." ”

Zhao Xing's last sentence was meaningful, and Zhan Fan understood it. The two did not mention Su Shi in their conversation, but Zhan Fan promised to take care of Bai Hefeng, and he had already expressed his attitude, and the two understood this, and after saying this, the two laughed at the same time.

Zhan Fan smiled, and asked tentatively: "My lord, is it really necessary to build a brick kiln quarry?" ”

Zhao Xing replied meaningfully: "Tens of thousands of people moved to Huizhou, and the bricks and stones needed were hundreds of millions, in addition, Huizhou wanted to build a wharf, and the city had to pave stone roads, and the stones needed were also innumerable, but Huizhou had few people, and the supply of materials could not be supplied, and these materials had to rely on foreign transportation, and the price of foreign transportation was ......."

Zhao Xing dragged his tongue, Zhan Fan immediately understood, he nodded knowingly, and echoed: "There are few people in Huizhou, and you can't do anything with fewer people, but there are some idlers in Xiaguandi's wife's family, and if you don't invite some idle people from your wife's family, no matter what you come to Huizhou for, it can be regarded as a little help to adults." ”

Zhao Xing added: "Tens of thousands of people are pioneering here, no matter what they do, it is a big entry, even if they raise pigs, sell cloth, and even sell some needles and threads, they can also make a lot of profits." ”

One person can't do the task of transforming heaven and earth, so Zhao Xing wants to incite as many people as possible to join this ranks, in other words: tie more people to his chariot and become his community of interests. The power of the officials to recruit friends was very great, and as soon as a local government took action, the first order of the Domino ancient card fell......

Zhan Fan understood, and he also wanted to ask for a specific content, but Wan Qianyong was already urging beside him: "My lord, the people from Fumin Qian Jian are already waiting very urgently, please leave quickly." ”

Zhan Fan hurriedly got out of the way and arched his hand: "Xiaguan sends Lord Zhao off." ”

In the Fumin Money Prison, several officials from the Money Minting Division greeted Zhao Xing respectfully. Zhao Xing finished inspecting the money field. Shaking his head and sighing: "It's too backward, it's all about technology from four thousand years ago, it's a mess...... Now all the work of the money in the money prison has stopped, rebuilt the factory, demolished all your small charcoal stoves for me, leveled the site, and built a large factory building, and it will be January. I'm about to get my new machine, and you're going to get the new factory in January. ==?starter?? ==”

The Qian Supervisor said in embarrassment: "My lord, the date for sending money to the imperial court in February has arrived, but our Qian Supervisor has not yet completed eighty percent of the task, and at this critical juncture, the Lord has stopped the work of minting money......

Zhao Xing interrupted the other party impatiently and replied, "How long does it take for your little crucible to melt a furnace of copper tin?" Quite a while? Or a day? I'll tell you, the new big machine is a steam mint with a boiler boiling. One stamping is the highest amount of money you have to mint in these furnaces. How much wood does it cost you to burn a furnace of copper and tin, how much time does it take, and the new machine only needs one stamping, in the blink of an eye.

Later. You don't have to deal with coal, you have to stay in a large factory, clean and tidy...... Wait a minute. What is the fire consumption in the money prison now? ”

The Qian Supervision Department hesitated for a moment, and said cautiously: "The fire consumption of my Fumin Qian Jian is quite low, only two into five!" ”

Zhao Xing nodded: "After installing the new machine, there is no fire consumption problem in the money prison, and the leftovers stamped down are the largest fire consumption, these leftovers can be recycled, melted into copper plates and recast, I will give you two choices." One is that the leftovers belong to you. You have the ready-made technology to melt the leftovers into copper plates for stamping, and these leftovers are made into copper plates and distributed by your money supervisors. And the two-fifty fire is mine. I want to use it to resettle migrants, build new schools, build roads.

Or, this matter is reversed, you take five percent of the fire consumption, the leftovers belong to me, I recycle them all---- don't think that you are the money supervisor can do tricks and feet on the leftovers, how many copper plates I enter every month, the leftovers recycled must also be so much, less I will deduct from your money. ”

Wan Qiyong added next to him: "According to the calculation, the leftovers stamped down are also about 30%, and these three costs will be lost in continuous melting, but now using a stamping machine, once stamping on the copper plate, the rest can be left." ”

Supervisor Qian immediately made a decision: "Since my lord said so, I want those copper plates, I want those leftovers, and I just ask that when my lord demolishes the charcoal furnace, I will leave one below." ”

Zhao Xing nodded: "I will leave you more than one boiler, each press must be equipped with a boiler, once the water in the boiler is hot, you can use the residual fire to melt the leftovers, and the residual temperature in the melting process can maintain the normal operation of the boiler......"

Out of the money prison, Wan Qianyong was a little confused, he asked carefully: "My lord, this algorithm is not right, the leftovers account for 30%, that is to say, only 70% of the copper plate is stamped into coins, and the remaining 30% goes to the Fumin money prison, so where do we still have 30% of the fire consumption?" ”

Zhao Xing replied with a smile: "It's not such an algorithm, in the past, thousands of small charcoal stoves burned together in the money prison, and what is the value of the coal consumed every day?" Now that only a few boilers are burned, how much coal money will be saved?

In addition, it is necessary to calculate the manpower cost, a money supervisor employs about 10,000 people, and after the new machine is adopted, only 1,000 people can exceed the original output by more than 10 times, because the new machine has improved the efficiency by hundreds of times, but only needs to burden one-tenth of the original manpower, so in general, the fire consumption is reduced by more than 30%......

Forget it, I can't explain this problem to you, you just need to know that I am the best at minting money, I take 30% of the fire consumption, that is on the surface, in fact, after the use of the new machine, maintaining a money supervisor is only a few tenths of the investment in the past. Fumin Qian Jian didn't know this, and to be honest, I was worried just now that he didn't want to share the leftovers with me. Because just counting those leftovers, my management staff has to increase and the investment cost has to increase. And he took away the leftovers, to save me money, from now on I only need to transport the copper plate that can be minted for money, as for the specific fire consumption to be reduced...... I won't let the Fumin Money Supervisor know. ”

Next, Zhao Xing traveled all over Guangnan East Road like a whirlwind, stipulating that the copper mine tin mine will make copper plates that can be used to cast money instead of copper ingots and tin ingots in the future, so that the standard customized copper plates will enter the money prison, and all the money prison needs to do is stamping. Each copper plate is a standard "one fan", and "one fan" can be stamped into eighty-one copper plates, which is easy to count and manage.

After turning Quang Nam. Zhao Xing took the congregation to the Hainan Yanzha in Lingding Yangkou. Visiting the Liying Courtyard in Yanzha, Zhao Xing called Rwanda, where he entourage, and pointed to the location of Yanzha in Hainan, so: "This location is very important, he just stuck in Lingdingyangkou, and he can reach Guangzhou when he enters Lingdingyang, and the people who chose this place have a good eye." I heard that there is also a salt field on the land opposite Lingding Ocean, called Jindou Salt Field. Also good place.

We can't get involved. Without the tax revenue of the Guangzhou Municipal Shipping Division, there would be no large-scale immigration. The location of Hainan Yanzha and Jindou Salt Farm is excellent, and the bays are densely packed within the boundary, and the wharf can accommodate hundreds of thousands of ships to berth and enter and exit at the same time. I plan to set up county governance in these two places, and Yanzha in Hainan is called Hong Kong County, and you are the county magistrate of Rwanda.

This place is a treasure land, as long as the land by the sea is leveled, it is a salt pan, enough to support large-scale migration. When the wharf is not enough, you will level the salt field again and turn it into a dock for boats, and you will still make money every day.

I'm going to fill in the immigrants here with the landless peasants of Michigan, and I'm going to find another group of people from Liaodong. Lu Xianling has experience in managing Liaodong and happens to deal with them. In the spring of next year, I will build a road from Guangzhou to this place to ensure the smooth flow of goods here. Wait until the road is finished. You're better off here......"

Rwanda looked at the county under his jurisdiction with joy, there was a ready-made salt farm, which could make it not so difficult for him to start out, he looked left and right, and immediately asked: "My lord, I'm afraid that the people in the salt field will not want us to add a salt farm, isn't this robbing them of their jobs?" ”

Zhao Xing nodded: "It's okay, the market is the land." As long as the road is built. Their shipments will also go up, I'm just worried about their lack of capacity. Call the head of the salt slash, and I will tell you a few words......"

Salt is a high-tax commodity, and the output of salt land has gone up, and Zhao Xing can only laugh happily. He called the head of the salt sit, described to them the local plan to build a wharf, and then drew a big pie for them: "I once experimented with a new method of drying salt in Michigan, which did not need to start a fire, the cost was low, and the salt produced was as white as snow. I am going to summon the small boats of the Jianghuai to come to Hong Kong after the wharf is repaired, and let them transport the salt you produce directly by sea and land to the mouth of the Grand Canal, and then to the inland through the canal. This time there are more than ten times the profit, so I'm afraid that you won't have enough production, and I plan to dig more salt works nearby.

My new salt farm is designed using a new method, and when you build a new salt plant, you are allowed to send someone to watch it, and if you don't understand something, you can ask directly.

In addition, this official also intends to open the salt ban in Quang Nam, and anyone can go to the salt field to buy salt, and anyone who buys salt from you can be brought by you to Jinglusi, and this official will give salt guidance when he sees someone, and as long as he pays taxes, I don't care whether he is a salt merchant or not. ”

Several leaders in the salt stake trembled excitedly, as long as the salt ban was opened, they were only worried that their own output was not enough, which accounted for the appearance of competitors, several leaders looked at each other, and asked tentatively: "Lord Jingluo, Xiaomin plans to buy a few more acres of seaside beach, I don't know if the government is allowed to need it?" ”

"How many acres?" Zhao Xing asked rhetorically.

"Perhaps...... Tens of thousands of acres, is it successful? ”

Zhao Xing nodded: "The seaside beach belongs to the government, and the government does not prohibit the development of tidal flats, but the government is ready to change the taxation method in the future, no longer staring at the output of your salt farm, but instead calculating it by the number of acres of salt fields. If you are diligent, you will produce more salt, and if you like to collect salt pans, you will buy salt pans and dry them, and as long as he pays taxes as usual, the official will not interfere.

The auction was for five years, and the bidder allowed him to run the pan for five years. Five years later, the next round of bidding will be held, and the highest bidder will win. In this way, the management of the official is simple, I levy as many taxes as there are acres, and I don't have to stare at you every day to count how many shovels of salt you shovel. And you are simple, you don't have to bribe the insatiable tax collectors, you can only sell the salt you produce, and pay the tax at the end of the year. This official only needs to repair the wharf and repair the road, so that your salt can be sold unimpeded, how about it, simple. ”

It is indeed simple, such a change in the tax calculation method, Zhao Xing's administrative costs are reduced, and the operation space of corrupt officials and corrupt officials is reduced, several salt farm owners first looked at Zhao Xing in a daze with a disgraced face, but then one of them revealed the secret in a strange dialect, he said: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, we have at least five years, the adults have just arrived, and he doesn't know how much salt is produced per mu in the salt field, and how much tax to pay is not up to us. In my opinion, we have at least ten years of good times, and when ten years later, we have earned ten years of money, will anyone dare to fight with us, is this clearly giving us money? ”

Seeing that others still didn't understand, the old man reminded: "Open the salt ban, and we will be the ones who will pay the salt tax in the future." As long as we issue a voucher for the sale of salt, the government will give the salt introduction. In this way, not all the salt merchants in the world will come to us to buy salt, but without it, everyone can participate, and everyone has the opportunity to make money. In the future, our salt output will only be greater, tell the adults, we will buy 30,000 acres of salt fields first, and the rest of the people will go back to me immediately, and recruit as many people as we can......

Zhao Xing also couldn't understand the other party's dialect, because there were too many Chinese dialects, and he couldn't understand them all. Seeing that after the old man had said this, the salt merchant's expression was about to move, and he smiled proudly.

When Rwanda saw that the trouble was solved, he happily came to Zhao Xing's side and asked repeatedly: "My lord, your immigrants will arrive in many places, and I am now a bare-pole county commander...... By the way, the lord said that the Jindou Salt Farm across the sea also set up a county government, I wonder what the lord plans to do with that new county? ”

Zhao Xing stiffened his face and replied with a smile: "Macao County, that new county is called Macau." ”