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In the blink of an eye, it was the beginning of summer.

The whole Henan Province is scorching in summer, recently Henan Province has not rained for a month, the cracked land outside the suburbs is like cracked ice, but everyone knows that there is no trace of water here, the drought is not only Henan Province, but other states and counties are also spreading, especially Hebei, this year's grain must be in arrears.

Fortunately, there is enough grain storage in the treasury here in Henan Prefecture, on the other hand, when the canal was built, many ditches were also built by the way for irrigation, although the use at this time was not enough to deal with the disaster, but the Shence Mansion tried its best to open the grain storage and try its best to stabilize the price of grain, and barely alleviated the disaster somewhat.

Wang Ju had a headache for this, this is also a helpless thing, the king of Hongnong County has never been very concerned about political affairs, and now for several months, he has been plunging headlong into the Shence army, although he has also asked about this disaster several times, but most of the time it is still blamed on Wang Ju.

Wang Ju is now in contact with the scholars and influential people in various places every day, just hoping that everyone can tide over the difficulties with the Shence Mansion. Under the coordination of Wang Ju, he planned to adopt the method of cash-for-work to collect a large number of displaced people, give them rations, and let the workshop formulate many water conservancy plans, dig ditches, and build water conservancy.

In this way, not only can we provide disaster relief, on the other hand, if there is a major disaster in the coming year, there are enough water conservancy projects to lay the foundation, and the disaster can be mitigated.

In addition, on the south bank of the Yellow River, there is a large amount of wasteland impacted by the river, which is the land that was submerged after the flooding of the river in previous years, and it is barren. If it can be reclaimed this year, next year's grain output can increase by at least 20 percent.

Although Henan Province is prosperous in industry and commerce, with the development of industry and commerce, it has begun to have the momentum of industry and commerce to feed agriculture, because Shence Mansion has sufficient tax revenue and industrial and commercial income, and it is willing to spend money in revitalizing agriculture.

In fact, for industry and commerce, the ancients' agriculture-oriented policy was right to a certain extent, if it could not prosper agriculture, but insisted on building a country by industry and commerce, then this land. It will inevitably cause a large number of peasants to abandon the land and put into workshop production, and the agricultural output in this era is extremely low, once the people's hearts fluctuate and there is not enough food production, then it will inevitably cause the agricultural output to plummet, which means that the rapidly increasing population will have a famine, and once the famine is completed, the hungry people who refuse to sit still will not hesitate to rebel. In the end, the whole world was smashed again.

Xingnong ...... This is a fundamental problem for this day and age.

However, the foundation of the Shence Mansion to promote industry and commerce, to a certain extent, was separated from the state capital of the world, and industry and commerce were only prevalent in Mengjin at first, a small county in Mengjin. Even if everyone invests in industry and commerce, it will not have much impact on the world's grain production, and the Shence Mansion, which uses industry and commerce to get a large amount of money, can completely purchase grain from nearby prefectures and counties to supply Mengjin and the land.

So theoretically. Mengjin is the spire of the pyramid, and the 300 states in the world have become the towers of the pyramid. They provide grain, raw materials, and then buy goods processed from Mengjin.

And once the industry and commerce become the climate, it is impossible for the Shence Mansion to ignore agriculture, so the use of the accumulation of industry and commerce, the construction of water conservancy, a large number of livestock for agricultural activities, as a result, Henan Province's agricultural products because of the industry and commerce caused by the sharp decline in output, and now, but has begun to have a skyrocketing trend, other states of grain fields, two Zhuang Ding ten acres of land can only produce grain ten stones, but because of the proper irrigation, coupled with the extensive use of livestock, Henan Province only needs a strong man and a cow, plus ten acres of land can produce grain fifteen stones, Not only was the number of people engaged in agriculture greatly reduced, but the land was not barren, but began to be cultivated on a large scale, and the grain production was much higher than in other states and counties.

Now this time, taking advantage of the disaster to build water conservancy on a large scale again, is the main goal of the Shence Mansion this time, in order to revitalize agriculture, Wang Ju can be regarded as using all his strength.

With the accumulation of wealth, many people began to use horses to travel, and more cattle were needed to cultivate the land.

Just when Wang Ju was worried about this, an urgent report was sent to his desk, and all of a sudden, Wang Ju cheered up, immediately got up, and said, "Prepare the car, go to the Shence Army." ”

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The yamen of the Shence Army is not far from the Shence Mansion, and it will be there soon.

Now there are many people here.

are all familiar faces, Yang Jiong, Fang Jingren, etc.

Everyone said hello, but Qin Shaoyou hadn't arrived yet, Yang Jiong pulled Wang Ju aside and said in a low voice, "Have you heard the news?" ”

Wang Ju has been in the dark for disaster relief recently, and he can't help but be stunned: "What news?" ”

Yang Jiong stroked his beard and said with a worried face: "Over there in Hebei, Wei Hongmin of Zhaoyi Town set an example, he went to Hebei, he collected money and grain, gathered government soldiers, and recruited many strong men to form the Zhaoyi Army. In the name of carrying contraband, he said that he would give 5,000 yuan to ransom people, and ......"

Yang Jiong is the most knowledgeable about these things, he is in the council hall, and there are a lot of businessmen in the council hall, and there is a slight disturbance, these people get the news no slower than the news of Zhu Lou, after all, people who do business now know that the news is money to some extent.

Yang Jiong said again: "Not only that, but Wei Hongmin of Zhaoyi Town even opened a workshop himself and learned from our Shence Mansion ......"

Wang Ju smiled and said: "What's there to worry about this, even if he wants to learn, where can he learn?" The workshop of the Shence Mansion has long been a climate, and the price is cheap, so he wants to start over, how can it be so easy, has he trained these hundreds of thousands of skilled craftsmen? Does he have tens of millions, or even hundreds of millions? Even so, the things produced by the workshops in Henan are of high quality and low price, and with the rough and inferior goods of Hebei, they can also compete with the workshops in Henan? I'm afraid that it won't be long before they go bankrupt, Yang Gong don't worry, many things are not done in a day. ”

Wang Ju said this, naturally has his self-confidence, Henan Mansion is no longer Wuxia Ameng, now there is enough first-mover advantage, because of large-scale production, so the price can be reduced to the minimum, because of several years of accumulation, the level of skills is far from comparable to Hebei. As for the craftsmen, it is needless to say, the world's skilled craftsmen, which one is not flowing to Henan Mansion, because only here, their skills can be brought into play, in order to get more generous remuneration, Henan Mansion opened the land price code, other state capitals are absolutely unaffordable.

Talent, capital, technology accumulation, these three are the largest capital of Henan Fu workshop industry, if you want to learn from the same, it is just Dong Shi Xiaofeng, because Shence Mansion will never give these chasers any chance, and the failure of the competition means that they are eliminated.

Yang Jiong just smiled bitterly and shook his head: "This is not the case, the crux of the problem is that the Zhaoyi Mansion makes it difficult for the goods in Henan, and the goods of the Shence Mansion have been consistent in Hebei, but now the government and the Zhaoyi Army who go there are under the exploitation and blackmail, I am afraid that there will be no less than three times, hey...... Now the businessmen are excited, and the trouble is very strong. ”

This so-called exploitation is equivalent to an unwritten tariff, and this kind of high-cost 'tariff' has become Wei Hongmin's biggest advantage.

Wang Ju nodded, knowing that if he couldn't solve this problem once and for all, he might really make a big mess, so he said: "Where is Your Highness now, didn't you send an urgent report to the Shence Army to discuss the matter?" ”

"His Royal Highness and Yang Shizhong are still in Luoyang Palace, it is said that it is because of the Zhaoyi Army, sent a messenger, met His Highness, talked about the matter of the caravan of the Shence Mansion, Brother Wang must know that the scale of the caravan of the Shence Mansion is not small, it has always been operated by Her Royal Highness Princess Taiping, the number of people is as many as four thousand, tens of thousands of carriages and horses, their main responsibility is to trade with the desert, supply salt, pig iron, tea, cloth, and then exchange for fur, cattle and horses and other things, this is a big deal for our Shence Mansion, the scale has been growing in recent years, There are two kinds of trade: water and land, but without exception, whether it is by canal or by land, it has to pass through the land of Hebei, and Wei Hongmin sent someone to say that it was the caravan of Shence Mansion passing through his military town, which caused a lot of inconvenience, and there was a meaning of plucking the feathers of geese. ”

"The goose has plucked its feathers...... Wang Ju's eyes narrowed.

This trade was granted by Wu Zetian's reign, so the officials along the way did not dare to ask in the past, even if Li Xian ascended the throne, because of the strength of the Shence Mansion, where would ordinary local officials dare to fight this idea, but now Wei Hongmin still wants to do something to this caravan after all.

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The first chapter was delivered, and the students had a happy Lantern Festival. (To be continued.) )