Zhao Zhen decreed a year ago, from next year, the official name of the era will be changed to Huangyou, the emperor of the Song Dynasty is allowed to have multiple era names, unlike the Ming Dynasty, a year name is used for a lifetime. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, although there are many era names, the meaning of the era name Qingli is extraordinary for the Great Song Dynasty.

Once, the whole Song Dynasty was full of confidence, hoping to turn the situation around, get rid of the situation of being beaten, and enrich the country and strengthen the army, but in the end, it was like a meteor, completely failed, and now, even the year name has been changed, and the dream of the past is really about to wake up......

Ouyang Xiu made more than a dozen jars of fine wine and placed them in the house, and no one was allowed to enter.

The drunkard held the jar of wine, laughed, drank, cried, and drank...... Drunk and vomited, the floor was full of filth, drunk in the middle of the wine jar, curled up like a wounded child.

The next day, Ouyang Xiu got up in the afternoon, and when he returned to the Six Arts Academy, the old gentleman was still in good spirits, but many people noticed that there was a strand of dazzling white hair on his sideburns.

A generation of new people replaces the old, and the drunkard is old......

is also getting closer and closer to the New Year, and the whole Wang family has gathered together, including the uncle Wang Liangqi, who had separated from the family before, and also returned.

In the past year or so, he has aged a lot, working in the fields, his neck is purple and red, his palms are rough, his joints are swollen, and he has been ravaged by wind and frost.

The Yellow River burst and caused flooding, flooding Wang Liangqi's fields, and the wheat soaked in the water for more than half a month, and all died. Only sorghum, which was planted in high places and was resistant to drought and flooding, survived.

Wang Ning'an engaged in sorghum cultivation in Cangzhou, which not only made winemaking prosperous, but also indirectly saved many people.

He has already thought that next year he must have a variety of sweet sorghum. The imperial court's strategy of controlling the river will definitely not work, and the next flood and drought will continue, and only sorghum can survive.

The stalk of sweet sorghum is used to squeeze sugar, but the seeds can be left, although it is not delicious, but it is grain, which is much stronger than Guanyin soil, and the year of famine can no longer care about anything......

Wang Liangqi no longer expects to rely on his own ability to live a good life and marry a daughter-in-law, he completely bowed his head, bowed to the fourth brother, he looked extremely deferential, as long as he arranged a thing for him, no matter how difficult it was, he could accept it.

"Big brother, Your Majesty has a will, to build a temple for the ancestors to worship, you should be a supervisor, this is the face of our family, it must be repaired!"

Wang Liangqi's body trembled, and he was very excited.

"Fourth, don't worry, I'll do a good job!"

Wang Liangjing nodded, his expression serious, and turned to his two nephews again.

"Ning Hong, Ning Xuan, you have learned martial arts and been admitted to the Six Arts Academy, Yan Xianggong, Lord Ouyang, and Mr. Su are all rare Confucians in the world, and it is your blessing to be able to learn from them. Work hard, don't weaken the prestige of the Wang family. ”

"Yes, please rest assured, Fourth Uncle!"

The two of them nodded vigorously, not only deferentially, but even trembling.

With the rapid change of identity, Wang Liangjing has become the absolute authority of the family, and even Mrs. Wang will not interfere with his decision. The only one who can influence Wang Liangjing is Wang Ningan.

However, our Wang Erlang is a good boy, and he wants to give face to his father in front of outsiders, and only when the father and son get together, he will be exposed in his true form, without the consciousness of a son.

No, after assigning the affairs of the family, Wang Ningan hooked up with his father very unvividly, got together and discussed the next step.

"With the cooperation of the Han family, we must have a variety of sweet sorghum next year, and I estimate that the Han family will plant millions of acres."

Wang Ning'an's idea is reasonable, the Han family has a lot of land, innumerable, and there are even more gentry who have a relationship with the Han family.

At present, the Yellow River is overflowing, and a lot of land in Hebei is either dry or waterlogged, and after the flooding, there are still large areas of saline-alkali land.

Nothing else will survive except sorghum.

Ordinary sorghum is used to make wine, sweet sorghum is full of treasures, the seeds are eaten, the stalks are used to squeeze sugar, and the remaining dregs are dried and can be burned in the fire.

White sugar and spirits are the two most important ways of wealth in front of the Wang family. And they are all tens of millions of huge profits at every turn, a year ago, Wang Liangjing could be frightened, even now, he is dizzy and trembling.

"White sugar can't be sold in Da Song, and if there is too much at once, it will disrupt the market, cause prices to plummet, and affect profits. And if the movement is too big, it will also attract the attention of others and attract other families to follow suit. We divide the sugar business into five years, expand steadily, let the price of sugar slowly fall, prevent competitors from noticing, and we can control more land, form a huge scale, and the layout is completed, so we don't have to worry about others following suit. ”

Wang Ningan counted his business experience, "So like spirits, sell excess white sugar to Liao, I believe that the nobles of Liaoguo definitely prefer sugar!" ”

It is cold in the north, and in winter, the wind and snow are fierce, and even the emperor of the Liao State will not be able to come out of the imperial account. There are not many means of entertainment, except for giving birth, that is, drinking, wrestling, if the white sugar is made into various sugar cubes and sold to the Liao State, it is definitely very popular.

It is best for the whole Liao country to eat white sugar violently, and eat a mouthful of tooth decay! If they can't bite the mutton and can't eat the jerky, they won't have the ability to go south to fight the grass valley...... Of course, this is just Wang Ningan's brain, how can he point to sugar and waste a huge empire.

But the huge profits brought by smuggling sugar can make the Wang family grow rapidly, and maybe one day, the Wang family's iron horse will destroy the Liao Kingdom!

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The two financial roads gave the Wang family father and son full confidence.

It's time to expand the roster!

"At present, there are more than 120 people under our name, but there are more than 700 people in the Bow and Arrow Society, and there are 500 young people who have been brought back, and many young people in the surrounding villages and towns have the heart to take refuge...... After all, it is not easy to survive in a disaster year. Wang Liangjing learns quickly and thinks more and more clearly.

"All in all, people are not a problem now, it can be said that there are as many as we want, and the threshold is how much capital we can have."

Wang Ningan nodded, the more people the better, and it is not just a casual touch of the head, just a soldier. It is necessary to select talents well, and it is necessary to cultivate them carefully, and it costs countless funds to train a suitable warrior.

"I mean to expand the power as much as possible, but we can't put all the strength on the soldiers, our family should be like an iceberg, a small piece of the sea is exposed, and most of the real ones are hidden under the sea, this is called pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger!"

Wang Liangjing understands the iceberg effect very well, he has seen the ice of the Bohai Sea, there is only a thin layer on the surface of the sea, and the rest is underneath, but he doesn't believe that there will be ice like mountains on the sea, so wouldn't even the land be sealed...... "Tell me how you want to hide people?" ”

Wang Ningan said with a smile: "This is not difficult, first of all, separate the box army and utility soldiers of the Weizi battalion, other people's box troops are all raised by the stepmother, eat less, do more, and are bullied, like a grandson - our box army must be strong and capable, and it must look like the forbidden army, which is even more powerful than the forbidden army." Not only do we not eat empty salaries, but we must also have a full number of people, not only formal men, but also enough utility men, so that we can have a thousand men and horses in our hands. ”

Wang Ning'an's plan is 500 regular soldiers and 500 utility soldiers, since the utility is not counted as regular soldiers, it seems that the Wang family only has 500 people, but there are actually 1,000 people!

Don't think that a thousand people are not much, and the folded family that has suffered heavy losses in Western Xia is only more than a thousand effects. Of course, the people of the Zhe family are very capable, far from being comparable to the recruits of the Wang family.

Therefore, the focus of the next year is to train the soldiers, and refine the soldiers of the Wang family into steel. Wang Liangjing must be in charge of this work.

"Our foal is already there, and the part sent by the Yang family has also arrived, after the fifth day of the new year, I will take people to the Wild Wolf Valley to train, don't practice them down, my surname is written upside down!"

Father Wang was murderous, "I also read the king upside down!" Wang Ningan muttered quietly, and in an instant, his father's sharp gaze struck, and he was so frightened that he hurriedly stopped his mouth.

"Let's discuss other business, how to hide soldiers!" Wang Ningan hurriedly changed the topic.