Chapter 186: Ping County of Struggle

Pingxian County divides about one-third of the area of Cangzhou, connects the Baigou River in the north and Binzhou in the south, presenting a long and narrow belt, with a coastline of more than 200 miles, and the territory is very flat and open. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn Cheng Hao's view, all flat land can be cultivated, and Ping County can open up at least 3 million acres of fields, or even more, as long as farmers work hard, it is enough to support their families.

And after agriculture is prosperous, he can give more land to the imperial court and enrich the treasury, this is the paradise in his heart, and the rule of three generations came from this.

Just like all scholars, they stubbornly believe that as long as the land is flat, they can cultivate, and if they have fields, they will have farmers, as the saying goes, they can run monks, but they can't run temples, and collecting land taxes is the easiest way.

It's just that Cheng Hao couldn't convince Wang Ning'an, and he couldn't even convince the students of the Six Arts.

Lu Huiqing has a rebellious heart, his father used to be a doctor of Taichang, the family is not prominent, barely the tail of a scholar, as the eldest son in the family, he urgently needs to lead the family to glory......

For the sake of the goal, unscrupulous means, Lu Huiqing did not hesitate to leave his hometown in Fujian, traveled thousands of miles, and rushed to the Six Arts School, in order to be stained with Ouyang Xiu's light, as long as the old gentleman is willing to carry him, Lu Huiqing's three words can immediately shine in Shilin, and the future of the field is unimpeded...... Lu Huiqing knows very well what he wants when he comes to Six Arts.

It's just that he didn't expect that after coming into contact with Wang Ningan, he was full of admiration for this gentleman who was a few years younger. The things that Wang Ning'an taught him were unprecedented and refreshing.

For example, Wang Ningan advocated the unity of knowledge and action, and Lu Huiqing took it as a guideline, and practiced it personally, in the final analysis, if you want to lead the family to glory, you must have real skills.

Lu Huiqing's last practice did not show any outstanding performance, he just patiently learned from others and absorbed various experiences.

And this time, Lu Huiqing wants to be the undisputed protagonist!

"It is true that there are millions of acres of flat land in Pingxian County, but seventy percent of these fields are saline-alkali land, and the Yellow River is raging and has not been treated, and most of the fields can only be planted with sorghum, and some even can't be planted with sorghum, so they need to be planted with reeds. In addition, the coastal tidal flats should be opened up into salt farms, and millions of acres of land should be allocated as horse farms. ”

Obviously, Lu Huiqing has worked hard to find out the situation in Pingxian County very clearly, and the so-called male ploughing and female weaving and developing agriculture are simply a joke.

"Pointing to the soil and digging food, these hundreds of thousands of people can only starve to death, so Brother Su said that it is insightful to establish a county with business, but I don't think it's enough! Just transshipment of goods from the north and south can certainly make money. However, once the situation changes, such as the severance of trade routes with Liao, Pingxian will face a crisis. Therefore, I think that in addition to engaging in trade, there should be a strong enough industry to make Pingxian a center for manufacturing goods! ”

Lu Huiqing said loudly, her eyes flashing with wisdom.

Wang Ningan knew that the history books said that this girl's character was not very good, but he also knew that since Wang Anshi changed the law, it was like opening Pandora's box, the old and new factions, you sang and I appeared, and several times repeatedly dumped, alternating the country, the new party came up and wantonly slandered the old party, and the old party's gang of people were in power and could do anything.

The entanglement in those decades is definitely not what many people think, it is a dispute between a gentleman and a villain, in fact, to put it bluntly, it is a fight between a flour seller and a briquette seller, making it black and white, the eldest brother don't laugh at the second brother, anyway, it's all the way......

Of course, putting aside character, Lu Huiqing's ability is beyond doubt.

Industry and commerce are the two thighs of Pingxian County, both of which are indispensable, and Lu Huiqing can be regarded as having touched Wang Ning'an's pulse.

"It is well said that the 200,000 people in the city, if there is no industrial support, they are the greatest burden, but when they find the industry, they are the source of wealth creation. What we need now is for everyone to find the right position so that everyone can earn a living. In order to attract businessmen from the north and south to come over, we must also sell our goods to various places, and only by walking on two legs can we walk steadily and quickly! ”

Wang Ning'an's words were tantamount to finally setting the tone and winning the approval of the students—well, except for Cheng Hao.

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The ancient commercial centers were formed naturally, and the fist products in various places also took a long time to gradually explore them, such as the silk in the south of the Yangtze River, the tea in Fujian, the porcelain in Jiangxi, the brocade in Sichuan, the iron ware in Binzhou, and the donkey meat in Baoding......

Obviously, Pingxian County does not have hundreds of years of hard work, to accumulate a little bit, the imperial court's disaster relief grain has been halved, the seeds of spring ploughing have been planted, and when the autumn harvest is reached, the imperial court will no longer take care of Pingxian.

Lu Huiqing's estimate is good, if we can't make industry and commerce prosperous as soon as possible, just by relying on the harvest of the fields, even if it is a bumper harvest, it will be distributed to every people, that is, two or three hundred catties of sorghum rice, and after the husking, there will be more than 100 catties of grain left, which is only three or five taels of sorghum rice per day.

In the case that there are few fruits, vegetables, meat and snacks, this bit of food is only enough to continue life......

The people have been hungry for more than two years, and the taste of hunger is like a lingering nightmare, and every citizen does not want to try again, they must learn to change, to adapt to a new life, to fight for their own survival.

It has to be said that the bad environment has created a unique gene in Pingxian, and the internal and external difficulties have forced everyone to rack their brains, not to slack off, not to be complacent, and to be brave enough to try new things - trading houses, workshops, shops, inns, teahouses, restaurants, warehouses, ...... A brand new shop opens every day.

The new shipyard at the wharf immediately recruited more than 1,000 shipwrights, more than 2,000 people in the carriage and horse shops, and countless people even came to the dangerous whaling. With the end of the disaster relief, the whales caught do not need to be exchanged for food relief victims, in addition to paying one-tenth of the tax, the rest is harvested, you can rest assured that you can boldly offer a high price, even if you are killed or injured, there is also a generous compensation.

Li Wujian's brothers, who had robbed whale meat, this time they all became sailors and boatmen, and bravely rushed to the sea, without fear.

Li Wujian also thought about going to sea with his brothers.

However, he has been called to Wang Ning'an's side and has become a preparatory unit, he wants to become a regular, and the most important level - lose weight!

Li Wujian felt that Wang Ningan was purely playing with him, and he wanted to pretend to be a rich businessman and eat desperately, so that Li Wujian's weight directly exceeded two hundred, if he put on dozens of catties of armor, plus horse lance, bow and arrow, no horse could bear his weight.

Li Wujian must practice every day, running long distances with weights, facing the sea, doing push-ups, climbing mountains and mountains, lifting stone locks, practicing horse lances, and turning the fat on his body into strong tendon meat.

He is not afraid of hardship, but everyone knows that the more he consumes, the more he must replenish, his appetite continues to increase, but in order to lose weight, he must eat less!

Stuffing too much food into your stomach every day is sad enough, but hunger is even more insane in comparison! After going through these two processes at the same time, Li Wujian didn't even feel that death was the most terrible, Wang Ning'an was even more terrible than the little ghost in the palace of the king of Hades!

Li Wujian once wondered if Wang Ning'an was deliberately manipulating him, but when he saw a group of young men training on the coast, he immediately grinned, he was just Wang Ning'an's first experiment, and there were countless unlucky people who wanted to repeat his experience.

Wang Ningan, as an otaku coder in his previous life, faced with a worse and worse body, and also mixed with the gym for a period of time, he also spent a lot of effort to study "Prisoner Fitness", which is a book that teaches you to do one-arm handstands, one-leg squats and one-arm pull-ups...... In short, it makes you stronger. Among them, the bridge series and the leg lift series help a lot with strength.

Many military instructors, wrestling instructors, and martial arts instructors are very fond of "Prisoner Fitness", and Wang Ning'an in his previous life certainly didn't have enough perseverance to turn himself into a strong muscular man, but it didn't prevent him from borrowing the methods in the book and applying them to his own soldiers.

A soldier of the Great Song Dynasty has to carry an average weight of 32 kilograms, which is more than twice that of the special forces of later generations!

Without a strong body, it is absolutely impossible to carry such heavy armor, so the most important condition for selecting soldiers in the Great Song Dynasty is height, and even the higher the length, the higher the salary can get. Wang Deyong's father, Wang Chao, relied on his height of more than seven feet to gain Zhao Er's appreciation and become a general. If Yao Ming lived in the Song Dynasty, he would probably be able to mix well......

Thousands of rookies in the Wang family's army, eating large pieces of whale meat every day, training frantically, everyone's body is like a ball of impulse, pieces of tendon meat bulge, thin bodies become thick and powerful, Wang Ningan is very sure, within a year, let these boys become real warriors!

It's not just the men who are busy, but even the women are forced out of the house, and in fact last year they started making whale bone ornaments in exchange for food rations.

This year, the scale has increased countless times, not only jewelry workshops, but also garment workshops, fur workshops, and hemp spinning factories, all of which are invested by Bai.

The Northern Song Dynasty also inherited some of the Tang Dynasty's open-mindedness, and the restrictions on women were not so much. There are places to work, to be able to get paid, to support their families, and more and more women are going out of the house, they are not afraid to show their heads, and they are like men, in groups, laughing loudly.

The strong woman, carrying hundreds of pounds of whale meat, sent it to the workshop, refined it into whale oil, blood and sweat flowed down together, fell to the ground, and became a series of obvious marks. They didn't care, they just wiped it around, and hurried to move the next piece, each with five copper plates!

Twenty or thirty yuan a day, there are more than 100 yuan into the account, and it is settled on the same day, the women carefully count each copper plate, when it is confirmed, they are stuffed into the purse, at this moment, they show the happiest smile......