After the opening ceremony of the Guangming Pavilion, Zhao Ji immediately left the Guangming Pavilion and did not participate in some of the next activities because it was too boring

As soon as Zhao Ji walked out of the Guangming Pavilion, Cai Jing chased after him

"Yuan Chang still has a lot of activities, I'm afraid it's not good that you, the prefect, are gone," Zhao Ji asked with a smile

Saying that, Zhao Ji stepped on the war horse, not to go back to the palace, but to go to the Mo family's rocket manufacturing workshop to see the assault rifles, rocket artillery, car cannons, etc., but the Mo family had made a lot of sharp weapons for the Great Song army, Zhao Ji wanted to go over to see if there would be new surprises

The rocket making workshop is close to Xiaojinshan, there is a small port on the east side of the sea, covering an extremely wide area, Zhao Wei has been to a light car, familiar with the road, and has not met with the Mo family giant for a long time, Shen Kuo has made so many things, how can the Mo family giant not lag behind

"Shengshang Weichen has just taken office as the prefect of Shanghai, the prefect of the Yamen, and there are still a large number of official documents waiting for Weichen to deal with the political affairs hall, and there is no insider, the four universities and all the schools and schools under them must rely on the financial resources of the four universities to supply the treasury, and do not allocate funds for Sima to govern the book city order, turning the four universities into places for research and improvement of technology, and setting up a complete set of systems to encourage innovation and invention, making more money for the four universities, and those who enter the political hall are making more money for the universities," Cai Jing stated

"You are all very busy, so I am idle, but most of the political affairs hall are from the original, those old and important ministers, do they all make a lot of money for the four universities," Zhao Xuan obviously didn't believe Cai Jing's statement

Since the development of industry and commerce, it is estimated that since the development of industry and commerce, there are fewer lower-level officials who care about the harvest of farmland, and more people who are concerned about the number of workshops built by surveying minerals, and Wang is in power, with the support of the Chamber of Commerce and the National Cabinet, reducing loans to workshops, and behind Sima's rule are the four universities and workshop owners," Cai Jing continued

What Cai Jing said was that after Zhao Ji adopted dictatorial means to implement the new law, the previous interest class changed, and many of the clans and landlords and wealthy families transferred funds to the field of workshops, and became the workshop owner class, and the interests of the landlord and wealthy families were divided

Fan Chunren and Han Zhongyan are not Sima Guang's people, but Wang Anshi's people, so if you say this, the confrontation between the northern and southern scholars has become a confrontation between agricultural capital and industrial capital, but whether it is Wang Anshi's desire to implement a ten-year plan to rule the world and invest funds in the agricultural field, or Sima Guang's desire to continue to expand the workshop industry and maintain the high income of the four universities, it is actually a question of the orientation of social capital investment

Without the development of agriculture, handicraft workshops cannot be developed without the support of more commercial grain, and without the development of handicraft workshops, they cannot maintain the operation of the four universities, without the efficient operation of the four universities, and intensive agriculture does not have any surplus financial resources for self-development, and only the workshops can provide greater financial support to the state, and agriculture does not have this power

Before the Great Song Dynasty changed the law, the agricultural tax only accounted for 30% of the national tax revenue, but the commercial tax accounted for 70%, and now this gap continues to widen, the current agricultural tax only accounts for 10% of the national tax revenue, and the commercial tax accounts for 90%, at this time the handicraft workshop is just starting out, there is such a big gap, not to say how profitable the handicraft workshop is, but the development of agriculture is seriously lagging behind

Agriculture and industry and commerce are not only the first two industries, but also must be interdependent two industries, because of the limitations of the times, the industry and commerce of the Great Song Dynasty can not obtain the support of the surrounding countries, so the development of agriculture is the primary issue of the Great Song Dynasty, which is also the basis of the joint government of Sima Guang and Wang Anshi

After listening to Cai Jing's statement, Zhao Ji felt inexplicable, the original handicraft workshop was developed under the guidance of Wang Anshi, and the owner of the handicraft workshop should support Wang Anshi, but now he supports Sima Guang, and the landlords who originally supported Sima Guang instead switched camps and began to support Wang Anshi

Zhao Ji and Cai Jing chatted all the way, and after a short time, they came to the rocket making workshop

"The Holy Lord's Weichen will not accompany the Holy Lord to inspect," Cai Jing arched his hand and said

"What official documents are so important, what do your servants do, what do you eat, you must know how to delegate power in everything, you must bow down to everything, you are a small official, a prefect must think more about the overall development, you understand," Zhao Ji said dissatisfied

Although Cai Jing has eaten through Zhao Ji's temper and wants to show the appearance of a capable minister in front of Zhao Ji, but Zhao Ji does not eat that set, Zhao Ji is a soldier in his later life, this life is a soldier, the emperor's soldier's wrist is to absolutely obey and complete the task, Zhao Ji values Cai Jing's not how to behave in front of him, but what he did and did not complete the task he handed over, Cai Jing used extraordinary means at the beginning of the construction of the capital, but Zhao Ji did not ask, and the reason is here

"The lesson of the saint is that it is just that the spring ploughing is imminent, and the ministers have to arrange the inspection of the field, if this matter is handed over to the officials, it will not take a month for the political affairs hall to remove me," Cai Jing hurriedly replied with a cold sweat behind his back

In ancient China, agriculture was related to the rise and fall of the country, whether it was the government or officials, they attached great importance to agriculture, and at the time of spring plowing and autumn harvest, there were very few people from the prime minister to the small officials who stayed in the yamen and were on duty, so as to ensure that the government could transport the government, and everyone else had to personally go to the fields to inspect the sowing and harvesting, and solve the problems that might arise in time

Even the emperor has to go down to the field to set an example, Zhao Ji still remembers that in the third year of Xining's spring ploughing ceremony, he also went down to the field to plough an acre of land, this is a practical official, other things can be tricked, only this matter can not be a problem, agriculture has a problem, not a tax drop is so simple

Since Dong Zhongshu of the Han Dynasty put forward the logic of "heaven and man induction", the fate of a dynasty is almost locked in the will of heaven, what is the will of heaven, a drought or flood, etc., is a warning from heaven that the emperor will change the dynasty if he is not virtuous and does not correct it

The fear of changing the dynasty has led to the absolute importance of agriculture, and how to correct the disaster situation has occurred, and the government must make great efforts to help the victims, otherwise it will be immoral, and it will die without repentance

Thinking of this, Zhao Ji nodded awkwardly and responded: "It seems that I also have to prepare, you go and get busy."

Zhao Ji didn't want to pay attention to the relationship between the seven and seven eight and eight anymore, Zhao Ji couldn't figure it out, and he couldn't figure out the tricks such as power checks and balances, power exchange, etc., Zhao Ji didn't know it, Zhao Ji was not a politician in the first place

Zhao Ji stood in front of the gate of the rocket making workshop and found that the sign had been replaced with the Assault Rifle Research Institute of the Civilization Academy

Not long after, Tong Wenjiang, the giant of the Mo family, ran out with a few apprentices to meet Zhao Ji

Walking into the research institute and finding that the research institute was depressed a lot, Zhao Ji couldn't help asking: "Isn't Zeng Gongliang here to improve the assault gun, why is he so a little bit of a person?"

"The Holy Ministers are ashamed," Tong Wenjiang said in disappointment

"What's going on," Zhao asked eagerly

Originally, Zhao Ji heard that Zeng Gongliang personally sat in charge to increase the range of the assault rifle, and increased the range of the assault rifle from fifty steps to one hundred and fifty steps, Zhao Xuan was very concerned, because this promotion means a military revolution, and from then on, the bow and crossbow will withdraw from the stage of history, and the Great Song Dynasty will fully enter the era of hot weapons, and at that time, it is not a matter of saying that it will unify China and conquer the world

"Zeng Xianggong has been bedridden for several months, since the explosion, half of my original apprentices have died, and the apprentices who have been collected later have also died a lot, and the risk of studying assault guns is too great, although the political affairs hall has cared for them, but it still can't calm people's hearts, except for the six apprentices around me, the others have left for various reasons, and the book city has stopped allocating funds to this research institute, if it weren't for Li Dongjia's embarrassment to let me preside over the design of the first floor of the Great Song Dynasty and make some money, this research institute would not be able to sustain at all," Tong Wenjiang said ashamedly

"Li Xiang'an, you sent someone to send some medicine to Zeng Gongliang on my behalf, has there been no progress in the improvement of the assault rifle?" Zhao Xuan didn't know what to say

"The improvement of the assault rifle has invested a lot of time, there is no profit, the formula and production of gunpowder are already the best, it is difficult to compare with the sky, and Weichen will start from the quality of copper and iron, and strive to use stainless iron and steel to manufacture the assault rifle, increase the amount of gunpowder loaded with the assault rifle, although it can increase the range of the assault rifle by twenty steps, but twenty steps is not a big progress, and the cost is much higher," Tong Wenjiang looked listless, and the former self-confidence could not be seen

Zhao Ji saw that Tong Wenjiang looked like he was godless when they met for the first time, and said helplessly: "What's going on with the big bang, why hasn't anyone mentioned it to me?"

Wechen pondered to improve the quality of the gun, one is the quality of copper and iron, the other is the configuration of gunpowder, and the quality of copper and iron must be based on the output, so Wechen designed a set of mining machines, a set of smelting furnaces, thought it could be sold, but because the initial investment was too large, there was no mine to see, and later Weichen started from the configuration of gunpowder, Wechen found that cotton soaked in saltpeter liquid and sulfur liquid mixed liquid can explode, the explosion power is much greater than the original black powder, if you use cotton gunpowder instead of black powder, the range of the gunpowder can reach one hundred and fifty steps or even farther, Wechen produced a batch, did not expect that it would explode suddenly, if it was not for Wechen to preside over the construction of the first floor of the Great Song DynastyIf you go, it is estimated that you will have to die here, it may be that the ancestor of the Mo family is angry, our Mo family should not have made these big killing weapons in the first place," Tong Wenjiang kept saying and spit out bitterness

Zhao Ji now sees that this research institute is not the original workshop, and the original workshop has long been blown up, if it weren't for the political hall blocking the news and announcing that a salute is being developed here, then I don't know what kind of panic it will cause

Engaging in research is originally a matter of decades, and what a researcher has to pay for is his whole life, so Zhao Ji didn't have the courage to do it himself

"Don't worry about the giant fund, how about I transfer some two million yuan a year to you from the inner treasury," Zhao Ji could only comfort when he saw Tong Wenjiang's appearance

"Shengshang Weichen doesn't mean that, now the inner treasury is separated from the national treasury, and the transfer from the inner treasury is not equivalent to Shengshang's personal support, Weichen thanks the saint for his attention, but this issue is not a question of money," Tong Wenjiang was tantamount to rejecting Zhao Ji's kindness