Liang Xin, the chief proprietor of the Lu family's trading house, was also very interested in the agriculture of Badaohe. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At this time, it was the period when all kinds of crops were growing vigorously, and they walked in various fields under the leadership of Zhang Guoan, looking around.

Zhao Yu, an official of the Great Song Dynasty, openly promoted the auspicious god species, while Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, sold it privately.

The speed and scope of the promotion of a grain crop are mainly determined by interests, but the initiative of the Great Song Dynasty government is conducive to speeding up the process of promotion, which provides an opportunity for the sale behavior of Zhang Guoan's island owner.

Of course, it was mainly some merchants who came to buy grain seeds and made them a fortune.

Liang Xin, the chief shopkeeper of the Lu family's trading house, also knew about the auspicious divine seed, so he was also very interested in this, and the owner of Zhang Guoan agreed to his request very happily.

However, he wanted to promote his cotton seed to him, and compared with Liuqiu Island, the Jianghan Plain was simply a paradise for growing cotton, and the soil conditions and hydrothermal conditions were extremely suitable...... And peanuts, which are also sold to them.

Liang Xin, the chief shopkeeper of Lu's Commercial Bank, asked with some hesitation: "Tens of thousands of acres of cotton fields are not the same thing, but the more the better, is this a bit too much, and more cotton will hurt the farmers......

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, immediately said: "Don't worry, I can buy as much cotton as you want, and you can sign a guarantee contract for this......"

This is high-nitrogen cotton, and the industrial use of cotton in Badaohe is very huge, what he did not expect is that the so-called celluloid glass windows can become very popular...... It has become a must-have item for the big businessmen.

This is all about cotton as a raw material.

Liang Xin, the big shopkeeper of the Lu family's trading bank, smiled and said, "How can I not believe in the owner of Zhang Island, what guarantee contract will I use...... I just didn't expect that so much cotton would be needed here. ”

The owner of Zhang Guoan specially asked the half-sized son Feng Zheng to introduce them to the planting methods of various crops, and his attitude was very serious...... Liang Xin, the chief shopkeeper of the Lu family, said: "But please rest assured, if I have cotton output there, I will definitely send it over......

Zhang Guoan, the owner of the island, calculated the time in his heart. There are at least two years to go, and the output of the two seasons can be topped up for a while.

He said: "As long as the safety of the Yangtze River waterway is guaranteed...... Everything. ”

Liang Xin laughed, and immediately talked about the previous conflict with Liu Quan, and now he has burned many of their warships one after another, so scared that Liu Cheng didn't dare to go out of the water village easily......

Oh, there's such a thing?!

Zhang Guoan was very happy. If they have the confidence to fight in the water, this will be too useful.

He pretended to be curious and asked Liang Xin to talk about it seriously.

As long as the master's achievements are mentioned, Liang Xin is definitely willing to say it in detail, this is the pride of the Lu military group.

Zhang Guoan listened carefully, thinking that their way of playing was still the right way, and he was still considering whether to secretly leak the artillery technology to them.

If you can cast a bell, you can cast a bronze cannon, and your craftsmen are now very handy. Even the craftsmen of the Ryukyu Kingdom could learn from it, so there was no reason why the craftsmen of the Great Song Dynasty could not learn it.

At this time, the more Liang Xin talked, the more he finally said that the Dragon and Tiger Cannon was coming...... It's an exaggeration when he says it, what shakes the mountains, and the bullet rains down like something.

Zhang Guoan asked a few more words from the side, and understood that this was the real development of artillery by others, and now it may be just a prototype. But the important thing is that it was much earlier than the Tatar bandit group, and they also had a rare sense of secrecy.

Of course, Zhang Guoan didn't know what Lu Wende thought. However, what he did was favorable to the war situation of the Great Song Dynasty...... Then the resulting changes had to make Zhang Guoan reconsider.

Liang Xin, the chief proprietor of Lu's Commercial Bank, is very interested in the liquor here...... But this is a specialty.

He smiled and said, "This can be regarded as a military thing, how to monopolize it?" ”

Zhang Guoan immediately understood that they were the emperor of the soil in the Xiangyang and Fancheng areas, a military thing, and no other organization could monitor them.

Zhang Guoan immediately agreed to the cooperation between the two. Baijiu is also an extremely profitable commodity, and he has countless coconuts here, and even when potatoes are more produced, it is easy for him to make wine from starch or directly from sweet potatoes.

When they returned, they were also fully loaded.

Gu Jianshan took the account book and reported: "The main family." They made at least three times the profit this time...... Many of the industries we can engage in have been given to them! ”

Zhang Guoan nodded in agreement...... However, due to Gu Jianshan's age, he may not be able to see the overall situation.

He said earnestly: "Think about it, if you can attract a large trading house, it is a good thing; It would be a good thing if they were also in charge of a region...... The people and materials they can call on are far more capable than we are!

It's called a power amplifier...... It is possible to expand limited benefits to unlimited ......"

What Zhang Guoan said was the truth, the Great Song Dynasty did not prohibit officials from doing business, which gave them unlimited space for power rent-seeking.

The salaries of officials in the Great Song Dynasty were really not low, if converted into rice, they would be 10 times that of the Han Dynasty and 6 times that of the Qing Dynasty.

This is not counting the "welfare subsidies" that officials themselves have for changing seasons, such as clothing, silk, cotton, and rice, and their families can also receive a wide variety of "blessing subsidies" such as clothing, grain, tea, wine, charcoal, and even horse feed, according to their rank.

In addition, the Song Dynasty also set up the "ancestral system", officials to recuperate regularly, all expenses are borne by the state - such a generous treatment, so that the Song Dynasty officials rarely volunteered to become officials, and some people even did not hesitate to bribe officials to change their age, in order to achieve the purpose of continuing to stay in office.

Therefore, since Song Shenzong, the imperial court began to use the policy of "carrots and sticks" to force officials of age to retire:

On the one hand, officials who have reached the age of 70 will not be evaluated and promoted; On the other hand, officials who voluntarily retire are given higher promotions, and their children and grandchildren can be "compensated", that is, they are given certain official positions but no specific positions, and even their wives are given preferential treatment.

However, a low salary will certainly not be cheap, but a high salary will not necessarily be able to support a low salary.

At this time, the officials of the Southern Song Dynasty pulled relations between themselves through the back door, and were busy standing in line, and large-scale bribery was already the norm, and it was an open behavior.

Lao Jia has at least seven of his own industries, but everyone is still like this at this time.

Even Guan Zhun, who is known as a Qing official, lives an extremely luxurious life, so what about the corrupt officials Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others in the mouths of the people?

I'm afraid that the word "more" will be added before "extravagance".

There are also a large number of generals in their army who are engaged in "military downfall", and when corruption becomes a kind of normalization, everyone can only pretend not to see it, and Zhang Guoan can only not see it, and even want to recognize it, and cooperate with others.

There is no way to do things without corruption.

Now, with the reproduction of the descendants of officials, the number of officials increased due to the "shadow supplement" - at the time of Zhenzong, the number of officials in the Song Dynasty was about 10,000, and after only 40 years, the number of officials more than doubled during the reign of Renzong, and it was close to 30,000 by the time of Yingzong.

Until now, the number of officials in the Great Song Dynasty has reached 50,000, but for the Great Song Dynasty, which has a total amount of more than 100 million, it can still be maintained. (To be continued.) )