After Gengzi, ushered in Xin Chou, the messenger of Zhancheng returned to the south, and the ships of Liuqiu were already full of hope to set sail back to Kaifeng, and now the loaded goods have been divided into four, under the escort of officials and forbidden soldiers all the way, safely along the Bianshui Cao Canal to the north.

The river is busy, and the boats set sail and line up on the river.

And just during this period of time, Kaifeng cement plant has also accelerated the rhythm of production of cement, in Kaifeng can see the birth of some cement products, in this almost two months of time, Kaifeng city drainage facilities, road facilities, residential housing reconstruction projects, city wall reinforcement heightening, river reinforcement and other projects are still in progress, compared with before, all people have found changes in Kaifeng City.

"It's beautiful, this Kaifeng City is getting more and more prosperous!" In addition to admiration, the people also felt the convenience brought to their lives by the changes in Kaifeng City.

In the north, after Wang Renfu left the palace that day, he found some men and horses for the envoys of Zhancheng.

After that, Wang Renzhen secretly led Zhao Kuangyin's holy mission to recruit displaced people and artisan households in Hebei who had lost their land due to the war, and by the way, he recovered the soldiers of the forbidden army who were eliminated last year, intending to collect and return to the Great Song Dynasty as the first batch of living forces to open up and seek outflows.

The matter was within Zhao Kuangyin's expectations, and after nearly half a month, Wang Renzhen recruited 10,000 people in the north, and then reported the news to Zhao Kuangyin.

The plan was proposed by Zhao Dezhao, and at this time, Zhao Kuangyin summoned Zhao Dezhao to discuss the money.

After Zhao Dezhao heard about Zhao Kuangyin's plan, he thought about it again and again, and said: "Daddy, the child thinks the same way, and I have only been in the Great Song Dynasty for a year, the treasury is not much, and there are deficits everywhere, and the granaries in other parts of the Great Song Dynasty are short of food. ”

"Then please Zhao'er." Zhao Kuangyin was a little embarrassed, a few years ago, Zhou Shizong fought in the south and the north, and the money and grain consumption of the household department was too large, and then the Tang State was defeated and paid tribute every year, which alleviated part of it, but at the beginning of this year, the Yellow River flooded, and the consumption of money and grain was huge.

At the beginning of this year, a granary located in Hebei caused a large amount of grain to become moldy and deteriorated because of water ingress, which eventually led to the rise in grain prices in Hebei, and the impact of this matter was very huge, so only the people of the imperial court and the officials of the Hebei grain road knew better, and Zhao Dezhao also knew the situation of the treasury after Zhao Kuangyin told him.

"The state affairs of the Great Song Dynasty are the affairs of my Zhao Dezhao, and the ship that my father is relieved to ask for has now arrived in Chenliu, and it is estimated that it will arrive in Kaifeng tonight. And now spring ploughing is imminent, everything should be focused on spring ploughing, last time Zhao'er from the Champa envoy heard about Champa rice seeds in this tribute, Zhao'er plans to draw a batch from it, such as outside the city to try to plant rice from Champong, if as the Champa envoy said, the rice yield is high, then Daddy will aim to promote the cultivation of this kind of rice in Jianghuai, Hebei and other places. ”

"That's fine, after all, I have to give it a try, and when I succeed, I will discuss the promotion with the ministers above the temple."

"In that case, let's wait until after the autumn harvest this year to see how the rice yield in Champa is?"

And at this moment, the silence was broken by the voice of a male duck from outside the hall, and then an official came in. This man is the shipbuilder who taught the shipwrecker, and he entered the temple today to have important things to say.

That person must have something important, about the shipbuilding matter, Zhao Dezhao heard a little, "Daddy, since the shipping officials have something to do, Zhao'er will retire." ”

"Wait, you stay and hear what's going on."

"Hmm!"

As soon as the officials of the Shipbuilding Inspector entered the palace, they could not wait to report: "Your Majesty, the ministers have something to tell Your Majesty." ”

"Say."

"Your Majesty, now the number of ships built by my Great Song Dynasty for water warfare is increasing, but the waters of Jinmingchi are too narrow to carry more warship training, nor can it meet the needs of shipbuilding at once, so the minister begs Your Majesty to take advantage of the opportunity of repairing the Kaifeng capital to expand the water surface of Jinmingchi to meet the training of warships."

When it comes to Jin Mingchi, this is in the Later Zhou Xiande period, Guo Rong used it to fight in water, and now the Great Song Dynasty has inherited Jin Mingchi and has also begun to train the water army on a large scale in order to unify the south of the Yangtze River, so it is very important about this matter.

Zhao Kuangyin didn't think about it, and said: "Now that Jin Mingchi is too small to meet the training of my Great Song Naval Army, this matter is very tricky, let's make a decision after discussing with the ministers in the early court tomorrow." ”

"No, the minister resigns."

The teaching shipping officer handed Zhao Kuangyin a fold, and then walked out of the Funing Palace.

Not long after the official left, Zhao Kuangyin's eyes were staring at his son, "Zhao'er, you usually have the most ghost ideas, what good methods do you have?" ”

"This ...... Daddy, the child just heard from the shipping officials that the pool water can not meet the training of the navy, and the Jinming Pond is indeed too narrow, it is necessary to dig another pool, but to widen the Jinming Pond requires a large number of people, so Zhao'er thinks that it is better to dig a pool outside the Xuanhua Gate, and lead the water of the Cai River into the pool, so that it is estimated that it can meet the training of the navy, and the excavation of the pool requires a large number of personnel, and the various fortifications in the capital are in full swing under construction, I am afraid that it will not be able to be transferred for a while. Let's wait until tomorrow morning to discuss it. ”

"That's it, these three Zhuge Liang are stinkers, Daddy is overworked, and the ministers should also come up with a good solution for me. There is also the matter of rice, there is Lao Zhao'er, and as soon as Lichun begins, he will start to try to plant Champong rice on Zhao'er's fiefdom."

"Well, it's okay for Zhao'er to retire."

After Zhao Dezhao retreated, he began to visit Zhao Defang in Renming Palace.

At the court meeting the next day, Zhao Kuangyin put the widening of Jinmingchi on the court. All the ministers were discussing, and the final opinion of the court was that, as Zhao Dezhao said, a large pool was dug outside the Xuanhua Gate, and the water from the Cai River was brought into the pool for the water to be used by the water army.

The matter of Jin Mingchi has been ordered, and this period of time is the most frequent and huge mobilization of labor, and the entire Kaifeng City is in full swing.

What is gratifying is that the ship that has returned from Liuqiu has arrived in Kaifeng safely, and then the contents of the ship are handed over to the household department for inspection and inspection, and then handed over to the treasury, and to the emperor's delight, Wan Song and others have done a good job on Liuqiu Island, and have transported so many minerals at once, including half a ship of gold, half a ship of coal, and the rest of the iron ore and copper ore.

It is said that there are so many minerals in Liuqiu, and it is indeed jaw-dropping that so many mineral resources can be mined with the personnel on top of ten sea ships in the case of almost no human population.

The emperor is familiar, the minister is anxious, Zhao Dezhao urges it, so he can't let Liuqiu no one manage, so after the emperor's ministers discussed, change any of the competent officials to Liuqiu to take office, and then Zhao Kuangyin changed to Liuzhou, and any local official Ye 13 was Zhiliuzhou, and from now on, with 10,000 people, 20 big ships, and 15 small boats, rushed to Liuqiu.

After everything was ready, before the beginning of spring, the officials and people of the Great Song Dynasty got on the ship leaving Beijing and set off from Kaifeng to the south.

In the second year of Jianlong, the beginning of spring, it is now about to be the day of spring ploughing, during this time Zhao Dezhao went to inspect the farmland near Kaifeng with the officials of the Department of Agriculture, and before spring ploughing, the field must be cultivated first, the old cattle of the tenant family began to plow the field, and a cow led the plough behind it, and the old farmer was operating at the moment.

This is the plough at this time, which is mostly the Quyuan plough handed down during the Tang Dynasty. The curved plough has several significant improvements compared to the previous plough. First of all, the straight wheel, the long wheel is changed to the curved wheel, the short wheel, and the plow disc that can rotate freely is installed at the head of the wheel, so that not only the plow frame becomes smaller and lighter, but also is convenient to turn around and turn, the operation is flexible, and the manpower and livestock are saved.

It's just that Zhao Dezhao saw that the length of the Quyuan plough is a little long, and the energy consumed according to the length of the force arm, in fact, the longer the power consumed, so in the inspection process, after discussing with the officials of the Department of Agriculture, Zhao Dezhao suggested that the Quyuan plough in the Tang Dynasty should be improved and perfected on the basis of the Quyuan plow, so that the plough wheel is shortened and bent, and the parts such as the amount of the plow and the pressure are reduced, so that the structure of the plough body is more lightweight, the use is flexible, and the cultivation efficiency obtained is also higher.

Therefore, after going back, Zhao Dezhao immediately let the craftsmen who would be the supervisor improve a batch of Quyuan plows, and after Zhao Kuangyin's approval, he opened up a place in the back garden of the palace, and then Zhao Kuangyin named this place as the Guanjia Palace, which was specially used by the emperor to observe and plant rice.

Zhao Dezhao personally pulled the ox and tied the improved Quyuan plow, and after several tests, he finally got a few good Quyuan plows. Later, he personally went to the outside of the city to let the people of Rujia try it himself, which was indeed a lot less effort than the original Quyuan plow.

After the beginning of spring, the weather warmed up, Zhao Dezhao cashed a batch of rice from the imperial warehouse, and then personally handed it over to the people in the fiefdom to let them plant this batch of rice.

After the land is prepared, the next step is to sow the seeds of the rice. First of all, soak it in a basin with water for a day and a night, after sowing seeds, the wait is long, and Zhao Dezhao's heart is also anxiously waiting. Fortunately, after the beginning of spring, there has not been an extremely bad weather with a cold spring.

Three days later, the rice seeds of Champa began to sprout, and when the first leaf broke through the germ sheath and grew, Zhao Dezhao's heart began to flutter. Although the first leaves are still curled, the young roots have elongated!

After that, Zhao Dezhao handed these over to experienced old farmers to operate, and the seed germination rate of this batch of rice is indeed higher than the original seed germination rate, and the germination rate has reached about 98%.

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ps. Gengzi, the lunar calendar is heavy snow to January of the following year.

The local administrative divisions of the Song Dynasty were basically two-level systems, that is, the government, prefecture, military, and prison were the first level, and the county was the first level. The magistrates of the Song Dynasty were all appointed by the central officials to "know xx things", and the senior officials were called "judge xx things". With the state as the standard unit, it is mostly called "knowing x state military state affairs". Zhizhou is also in charge of the Xiangjun as usual. In addition to Zhizhou, each state has a "general judgment", whose status is similar to that of the Sui Dynasty. Documents issued at the state level must be signed by a general judgment before they can take effect. The purpose is to implicate the power of Zhizhou.