Wen Huanzhang continued: "As for the rest of the people who were severely affected, most of them were short of labor at home, and these people would help some of them, and these people could also go to the capital to find a job and make a living, so don't say that the poor harvest in this Gyeonggi area is a bad harvest, and there will be no catastrophe within a year." ”

Zhang San completely put his mind at ease, so that things would be simple, Zhang San frowned and asked: "This capital just received more than 100,000 refugees last year, and more than 100,000 refugees will enter the city this year, can the capital have so many jobs for these people?" ”

Wen Huanzhang smiled: "I didn't have it before, but now I have." ”

Zhang San asked with interest, "Oh? Why? ”

Wen Huanzhang said: "Since San Lang built a workshop in the capital, the speed of making money is first-class, and some people who are interested in it have seen it and competed to imitate it, and now there are many workshops built and under construction in Tokyo, which is enough to absorb tens of thousands of people." ”

Wen Huanzhang said: "Since the ferry invented by San Lang has been used in the wharf, many shipyards in the capital have been building, and there are more than 10 million river wharves in the world, so these shipyards are recruiting, and the shipyards will have work in three or five years." ”

Zhang San nodded, this is indeed the truth, I didn't expect that I just made a little move, and I brought such a big change to the capital, and I really didn't pay attention to the fact that the capital was building a workshop.

Wen Huanzhang sighed: "Carefully calculated, San Lang's Yixing Hutchison family needs two or three hundred people, plus casinos, chess and card rooms, and banks need five or six hundred people, and more than ten such Yixing Hutchison uses nearly 10,000 people.

Saburo's other workshops for coking, kiln firing, ironmaking, seasoning, woodware, papermaking, shipbuilding, coal making, and furnace making 、......, these workshops fed another 20,000 or 30,000 people, so Saburo himself solved most of the refugee problem in the capital. ”

Zhang San was stunned for a moment when he heard this, he didn't expect that he had unknowingly affected so many people, Zhang San nodded and said: "In this way, I will be relieved, but I heard that the price of grain in the capital has fluctuated a little recently, and I am afraid that there will be businessmen who will take the opportunity to hoard Juqi." ”

Wen Huanzhang looked at Zhang San's eyes and said with some complexity: "In the past, San Lang had no way, but now there is, San Lang's Da Song Daily, which controls the mouthpiece of the world, and its influence is comparable to that of several grain merchants." With a little guidance, the people of Tokyo will surely be at ease. ”

Zhang San was stunned, he saw the faint loss in Wen Huanzhang's eyes, Zhang San suddenly woke up, he seemed to have snubbed him recently because he didn't dare to use him, how could such a great talent have no temper.

Zhang San thought about it, this newspaper company has the mouthpiece of the world, it may be a lot of things for others, but it is really useless for Zhang San, Zhang San knows Zhao Ji's bear appearance, this guy must be a faint gentleman in the future, and there must be a large group of corrupt officials and corrupt officials around him, Zhang San's newspaper can only become their tool if it wants to continue.

Zhang San's eyes lit up, with Wen Huanzhang's temper, could he tolerate the newspaper he had worked so hard to run being turned into a tool for them to persecute political enemies and kill the people? When Wen Huanzhang doesn't fight these people?

Obviously not, Wen Huanzhang is talented and talented, but obviously his words are not very clever, or he wouldn't even be able to persuade Gao Yu, which led to the failure of the expedition to Liangshan and his capture, so he must not be able to do these unconscious officials.

Will it be easier for Wen Huanzhang, who is disheartened at that time, to be accepted? This is obviously certain, as for whether Wen Huanzhang can rely on this opportunity to enter the newspaper to embark on a career and become a CEO from now on, win Bai Fumei, and reach the pinnacle of life?

Obviously, Wen Huanzhang, who doesn't know how to flatter and flatter, has no future, if he had been in the capital for many years, he would have become an official long ago, and he would not have been a teacher now.

Thinking about this, Zhang San opened his mouth and said, "Mr. Wen, I have something I want to ask Mr. Wen for help." ”

Wen Huanzhang was stunned for a moment and said, "Please ask San Lang to command." ”

Zhang San opened his mouth and said: "Although there will not be too many refugees in this locust plague in the capital, Gyeonggi is the center of the world after all, and there can be no turmoil, and the new emperor ascends the throne, I am afraid that some people will spread rumors and make trouble, so the public opinion guidance of this matter is very important, and a talent like Mr. Fei Wen is not competent, so I want to invite Mr. Wen to the Da Song Daily as the editor-in-chief to lead everyone to fight this battle." ”

Wen Huanzhang's hand holding the fan tightened, and he paused slightly for half a moment before continuing to fan, Wen Huanzhang smiled and said: "This matter is easy, this locust plague must be a warning omen from heaven, and the heavenly pulp disaster in Gyeonggi must be a villain around the Son of Heaven. ”

Zhang San nodded happily and said: "What Mr. said is very true, Mr. is fully responsible for this matter, I have something to explain to Mr., the Great Song Daily is the mouthpiece of the imperial court, and it should be used by others to issue articles that damage the reputation of the imperial court and damage the reputation of the Son of Heaven." ”

Wen Huanzhang nodded lightly and hugged his fists and said, "I'm awake!" ”

Zhang San said with a smile: "Then Mr. will go and arrange the affairs of Yixue, and then I will accompany Mr. to the newspaper office tomorrow." ”

Wen Huanzhang got up to say goodbye, Zhang San thought for a while, anyway, there are monkeys watching, and the newspaper has its own eyes and ears, and the newspaper will have to be reviewed by himself before printing, so that even if Wen Huanzhang wants to make a ghost, he will not succeed.

After making sure that there would be no problem, Zhang San began to think about what benefits Zhang San could get from this locust plague, this locust plague occurred in Gyeonggi, it seems that the impact of the disaster is very small, if it happens in a coastal province, it may cause a large number of refugees, and then Zhang San can recruit refugees to open the stage in advance.

Many of them have written ways to deal with locust plagues, the people are ignorant and think that locust plagues are punished by heaven, and they dare not hunt and kill, and the traversers often use the method of raising chickens and ducks and going to the fields to eat, but this method is not suitable for Zhang San's plane.

Zhang San has seen some large-scale free-range households, thousands of chickens and ducks running in the fields and rivers, and the range of activities is only a few hundred acres of land, and how many acres of land does a village have?

In ancient times, productivity was relatively low, and the average family of five people needed to eat about 1,500 catties of grain if they wanted to maintain food and clothing, while the high yield of wheat planted on one acre of land was only 200 catties, and it was generally only a little more than 100 catties. Only the rice yield per mu in the south of the Yangtze River can reach three or four hundred catties.

In ancient times, the expenses of paying the emperor's grain and national taxes, as well as conscription, accounted for more than 10 to 1/2 percent of the income from the land, and the land rent to the landlord generally accounted for about 50 percent of the land output.

In this way, the grain that can actually fall into the hands of the peasants themselves is only about thirty or forty catties per acre, and if they want to make a living, then each person must rent at least thirty acres of land.

This is still to maintain basic food and clothing, so it can be roughly calculated that a village of 200 households has about 6,000 acres of land, plus woodland, rivers, ditches, roads, and barren beaches. It is estimated that each village has 10,000 acres of land.