Zheng Lang went down again, and came back a few days later.

Unable to do so. Among the nine counties, Sima Guang and Lu Gongzhu have the most outstanding political achievements because of Zheng Lang's teaching, and Lu Gongbi and Han Jiang have done well overall, although they have made mistakes from time to time. Among the other people, Liu Zhixian served as the county magistrate for several years, but Fan Zhen and Xue Lihe gradually adapted and made up. Even Wu Chong gradually had some outstanding performances in the position of judge. However, Cui Huangchen and Su Shunqin were still very difficult to preside over the affairs of the two counties.

Zheng Lang had to go over again to clean up the mess for them.

There is also a benefit, seeing his shortcomings, Su Shunqin is ashamed, and he is always very quiet, this is what Zheng Lang needs most, even if he cleans up the mess for him four or five times in a year, it doesn't matter, as long as he is not like he is in the capital, self-righteous and nonsense.

Zheng Lang is still very polite to Su Shunqin, and if he doesn't make trouble, he is a good comrade. Talking to him about poems, words, and exchanging experiences is also what Zheng Lang likes.

Dare to love him to compare Su Shunqin to Li Taibai, and compare himself to Li Longji when he was doing something, at that time Li Longji was not faint to the point of being hopeless, he saw through Li Bai at a glance, you still write poems for me, as for what is the Hanlin bachelor, don't think nonsense, this is not a poem, the wine is prosperous, the poetry is also prosperous, drunk all day long, random criticism, I don't know how much mistakes will go wrong.

Back to the state office, Fu Bi said: "The imperial court report is here, Liu Ping, the deputy deployment of Xihuanqing Road, is deployed as the deputy capital of Yanyan Road, and the third envoy Xia La is the envoy of Fengning Jiedu and Zhiyongxing Army, and Fan Yong of Henan Mansion is the envoy of Zhenwu Jiedu and Zhiyanzhou. ”

"Sure enough, it's Fan Yong," Zheng Lang sighed, then shook his head.

"Why?"

"You have a specialization in art, you know what these four words mean, rich brother, let you do a jade job, will you?"

"There are Zhuge Liang, Pei Xingjian ......"

"Don't say, why am I not the prime minister?"

"...... you are prime minister?" Fu Bi suddenly laughed, then looked at Zheng Lang again, turned around, and said, "Governor Zheng, have you had a beard?" ”

"Ganluo is twelve years old, why can't I be a minister?"

"That's a special ......"

"You also know that it is special, ancient and modern, how many famous generals there are, and how many Confucian generals. Scholars are at war, inexplicable. ”

"This is the ancestral law."

"The ancestral legal system, who did Taizu use to conquer Jiangnan, Guangzhou, and Sichuan? Taizong's expedition to Youzhou failed because he was in a hurry, the soldiers were exhausted, and the overall planning was improper, who was available? ”

Not only Zhao Kuangyi, but also in the large-scale battles in the hands of Song Zhenzong, still used military generals.

"Literati, sooner or later, they don't know the height of the sky, and they will be reduced to the level of nine beggars and ten Confucians."

"Zheng Zhifu ......"

"When I was a teenager, I wrote two words to Your Majesty, the law, the law is not the law, but a standard, a limit, a law to be obeyed, and the degree is to make some changes on the basis of the law, just like the adjustment I wrote in the mean. However, this degree must be adapted on the basis of the Fa. The full moon is lost, and the water is full, and the truth is the same, what develops to the peak, it must fall. The literati reached the pinnacle of His Majesty's dynasty. I don't know if the next dynasty will replace the change, whether it will be because of the hatred of the literati who mislead the country, and there will be another book-burning pit Confucianism. ”

"Zheng Zhifu ......"

"Am I an alarmist? No, look at what the scholars are doing today, I said in the book, which disaster victims, but how many people ask the disaster victims? Why don't I have a good impression of your so-called gentleman's party? Take a look at what your party has done, first abolished and then made a big fuss in the court. It makes sense. Then, because His Majesty was so tired that he fainted, he said that His Majesty loves women, rich brother, you also occasionally go to some Qinglou to find a fun, Your Majesty is a young man, a human being, is it normal for people to favor one or two concubines, has it really delayed national politics? You touched your conscience and said, is the reason why there is this statement because the second concubine Shang Yang is the cause of the abolition, so you are making nonsense out of nothing? After Fan Zhong flooded the capital, he set up a hundred official drawings and fought Lu Yijian. Well, it seems that you gentlemen are only doing these three big things. I don't talk about right or wrong, except for His Majesty's poor little harem, it's really pitiful, Your Majesty can't even drink a bowl of soup at night, and he is thirsty, and he turns back again and again, or the queen asks to find out, It's His Majesty who is thirsty, but he doesn't dare to say it, for fear of blaming his subordinates for poor service, wearing ragged linen clothes, rich brother, do you want to be in the capital that day, I will take you to visit Your Majesty's bedroom. But you gentlemen's party is holding on to this little harem and not letting go, the country's redundant officials and redundant soldiers! What about the country's wanton annexation! What is the affliction of the people! What about the border affairs of the northwest! Which one of you has seriously thought about it? Rich brother, this is the real future of the country and the people's affairs. Regardless of this, what qualifications do you have to talk about the pillars of the country and the gentlemen? Are you ashamed? ”

Fu Bi was really at a loss.

"It's not that you don't think about it, your so-called party, not the party of gentlemen, the party of the powerful, the party of scholars, is considering the name, the interests of your scholars, and the interests of Shilin, but the interests of the country are a bowl of water, and if you drink more, others will drink less, so it is clear that it is for the country, and even under the banner of being a villain who is not my kind, it is not enough to suppress the people in the middle of the night, continue to seize power from the emperor, and suppress the emperor into a puppet, the emperor, you are not right, you must listen to us."

"You can't say that."

"Am I wrong, think again."

"It's over."

"Even if it's over, is there any sign of this?"

"Zheng Zhifu ......"

"You don't need to call me, why do you let the literati lead the army at the border pass, Xia Zhu is slightly better, this person may be a villain, his head is not stupid, but what does Fan Yong know? A broad nerd, when he arrived in the northwest, was ready to take the lives of many soldiers to bury him. Oh, wrong, it was the soldier who died, how could he take the risk. ”

"You said Fan Yong......"

"It's not Fan Yong, it's the same for you, think about it yourself, Li Yuanhao conquered Tibet, destroyed the Uighurs, has been on the battlefield for a long time, and has an army of four or five hundred thousand under his command, you go to the northwest to command, how sure are you that you will win?"

"I, I, I ......"

"Brother Fu, why, this is the literati group joining forces to seize power from the military generals, seize the last vestiges of the generals, seize the last vestiges of the country's rights, and then let the country be buried with them."

Zheng Lang said very extremely, but before and after the start of the Northwest War, there were several people who should have died thousands of times, first Guo Quan, and then Fan Yong. But he knew the consequences, but he was powerless to change, and this sense of powerlessness made him feel very frustrated.

"Don't say it, just blame me for being born ten years late...... "Ten years earlier, he is Chinese New Year's Eve a year old today, and he will make some big political achievements, he is not the prime minister, he can be a sub-prime minister, and he has authority when he speaks, not like now."

But the situation is gradually improving, such as disasters, others don't know his details, Zheng Lang said that there are major disasters, years of disasters, although the earthquake was not guessed later, it is not easy. said that Yuan Hao rebelled, and Yuan Hao really rebelled. At this time, some people recalled some of Zheng Lang's strategies and regretted them in their hearts, including Zhao Zhen. Otherwise, Sun Quanbin would not have been sent to Hangzhou for consultation.

and the magic of his performance in Taiping State.

There is an even greater miracle in Hangzhou, and if it is to become a reality, all kinds of miracles will make his voice finally loud.

There will also be a bad side, once he reaches that point, the big guys will no longer treat him as a rising star who is not harmful, but as an opponent on an equal footing, and there will be a lot of things. The greater the credit, the more red-eyed people, the more unfavorable Zheng Lang will be.

Including Fu Bi, because of Zheng Lang's various magic and erudition, he will not look at Zheng Lang like when he was on the bank of the Caishui River, a very good young man, Zheng Lang called him a brother, and he also regarded Zheng Lang as a younger brother, which is at the same level, not the relationship between seniors and seniors.

can not be evil to Zheng Lang, although Zheng Lang has repeatedly said that he wants to kill Guo Quan, but he heard that kind of heartache, Zheng Lang's outspokenness that day also made Fu Bi re-examine Zheng Lang.

In his heart, he faintly saw that Zheng Lang was a gentleman in another direction, not a gentleman like Fan Zhongyan, but another kind of gentleman, who said little, even if he had words, he would not make a big deal of it, this is the Confucian wood, Ne, of course, except for writing books and sayings.

Do more things, how diligent, he also sees, this is sensitive to action.

Good temper, is warm.

Ask for advice with an open mind, ask more everywhere you go, and see it with your own eyes, this is humility, love for the people, that is really from the bottom of your heart, this is benevolence, the family income is nearly 10,000 per year, and there is an annual salary of five or six thousand, and life is not very luxurious, this is thrifty.

Love words, love painting, love piano, love learning, is elegant. Filial piety to one's mother and love for one's family is filial piety. To others, no matter whether they are respectful or humble, they are very polite and respectful. Loyalty to the emperor and the country is loyalty. Even the smugglers of salt are unwilling to be put to death, which is forgiveness...... In him, you can find almost all the virtues of a gentleman as mentioned by the Master.

No wonder those two unruly students were like two docile kittens when they saw Zheng Lang.

Or to use an analogy, Fan Zhongyan is the clean snow in winter, but Zheng Lang is a warm spring breeze...... sighed and said: "Hugh said ten years, even fifteen years, and it may not be ......."

It's a matter of qualifications, and then you have the ability, now that you are the prefect of Hangzhou at this age, it is already a heavy appointment, no qualifications, who will take your words as the same thing? Ten years later, thirty-one years old, still underqualified.

See, wisdom is superb, even if you do, you don't have much influence.

"Don't talk about it, don't talk about it, talk about the good news."

"What's the good news?"

"When I came back, I saw a ship coming back from the Japanese slave country in the city, and they happened to meet Wang Zhaoming and his party, and came back with a message, everything went well, and they will be back in a few days."

"Did you find that?"

"Amitabha, monks don't speak."

"Yes, Governor Zheng, don't finish the monks, it's good, don't joke about the family." But a smile flew on Fu Bi's face.

This is the most critical step.

The leap in navigation technology in the Song Dynasty made this great event possible by Zheng Lang.

Without him, gold, silver, and copper!

If you want copper, you have to go to the Luzon Islands, the terrain is complicated, and the Song people are not very familiar with the terrain, including the waterway, you have to find it slowly, the time is long, and the accident rate is also high. Therefore, Zheng Lang put it aside first. Gold and silver came to mind.

These two things are in the Wa Kingdom.

The first is silver.

Because of the many volcanoes, there is a lot of gold and silver, but because of the small area, the total reserves are not the first in the world, according to the reserve ranking is Peru, Mexico, China, Australia, Chile, Canada, Poland and the United States, the eight major silver-producing countries accounted for 80% of the world's silver production.

Among them, China occupies the third place, far surpassing the Wa State. The mining time is still very early, since the spring and autumn months have been mined one after another, but the silver ore is scattered, coupled with technical factors, the amount of silver produced in ancient times has not been high. The same is true for gold mines, including the Song Dynasty. Now there are 84 silver mines in the country, and the silver mining reached 880,000 taels when Zhenzong was in the time, but now because of depletion, there are only more than 200,000 taels. There are more than a dozen gold mines, and there are only 10,000 taels of gold.

There are also more than two million catties of copper supplements, which are enough as currency.

However, in the Northern Song Dynasty, the currency was outflowed, not only copper coins, which were the currency with the most loss, but also quasi-currency gold and silver. As a result, copper coins have been scarce, and gold and silver have become more and more expensive.

In contrast, the gold and silver reserves of the Wa Kingdom are not as good as those of China, but there are several advantages, one is concentration, and the other is the shallow mineral deposits, which is conducive to the development of the original technology. So it became the ancient legendary gold country, not China, but the Japanese country, it is the real gold country.

The gold and silver kingdom is already mining, its smelting technology is advanced, but the mining technology is very backward, and no one gives them gold fingers. As a result, there are two mega-mines that have remained untouched.

The first is the silver mine, and the Ishimi silver mine.

It took 170 years to officially mine the mine, and today it is a pristine area. Zheng Lang did not know exactly how much it contained, only that it was really mined on a large scale in 1562 and gradually dried up in 1600.

It is these forty years that have made a legend. During the Ming Dynasty, the Wa Kingdom contributed one-third of the world's silver production, and this mine contributed half of the Wa State's silver mines. It was this silver that led the West to mistakenly believe that China was a golden country, and the Ming Dynasty called the Wa Kingdom the Silver Islands.

Its reserves cannot yet be proven, but it can be calculated. The total amount of silver in circulation in the Ming Dynasty is divided into several parts, the first is about the silver left by the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties, about 370 million taels, the second is the silver produced by the Ming Dynasty itself, about 83 million taels, the third is the silver inflow from the Wa Kingdom, about 700 million taels, and the fourth is the silver inflow from the Americas, which is about 1.9 billion taels.

There is also a conservative saying that the total amount of actual mining in the Ming Dynasty was 26 million taels, that in Spain it was 80 million taels, and that in the Wa Kingdom it was 200 million taels.

The former is exaggerated, and the latter must be conservative.

In fact, in the Ming generation, the amount of silver produced by the Japanese must be more than 200 million taels, possibly 300 million taels, and possibly 400 million taels.

Then the amount of silver stored in the Iwami Silver Mine is at least more than 200 million taels.

Later, the world's largest silver mine, the Cannington lead-zinc-silver mine in Australia, proved that the amount of silver hidden reached 23,000 tons, one or two only had more than 30 grams, and there were more than 700 million taels of silver in this mineral alone, and more than 1,100 tons of silver were mined annually, which was nearly 40 million taels of silver.

It is not easy to compare, some silver mines are deep, or for other reasons, there was no technology mining in the Song Dynasty. Even if there were, Zheng Lang didn't want to move.

The Iwami Silver Mine was depleted in only forty years, proving that it is shallow silver ore and easy to mine. It is in line with Zheng Lang's requirements.

Therefore, Zheng Lang said that the silver reserves are about 200 million taels, which is easy to mine, and if it goes well, it will be mined in only forty or fifty years. More than 100 million taels of silver, that is, more than 200 million! Nearly three times the total annual income of the Song Dynasty!

However, it is not enough, there is also a rhominous gold mine, which was mined in modern times, and the amount of gold has reached more than 300 tons, 10 million taels of gold. And it is a relatively shallow gold mine, and it is a rich gold mine, other ores can mine two grams of gold per ton, and here can mine forty grams of gold, which is twenty times that of other gold mines.

However, Zheng Lang also knew that backward technology would reduce the fineness, so he said that he could mine one-third of the gold. But it is enough, this is more than three million taels of gold, which is three hundred times the annual output of the entire Song Dynasty!

In addition to these two large mines, there are also large mineral deposits such as Kurokawa Gold Mountain, Zhongshan Gold Mountain, Island Gold Mountain, Izu Gold Mountain, and Tsuruko Silver Mountain. Some have been mined, and some are inconvenient to mine, after all, they are pulling teeth from the tiger's mouth, and Zheng Lang took the initiative to give up.

But also, from Luzon to Oceania, I don't know how many primitive resources are distributed along the way.

This one was placed later, mainly in the Wa Kingdom.

Not only is the quality high, but these gold and silver ores have a significant characteristic, shallow and easy to mine.

As for the value, it is impossible to estimate, and the two mines in the Japanese country may not even account for one-tenth, so when Zheng Lang sold the deed shares, it was calculated as 10,000 cents, and so many large families and businessmen only gave 15% of the deed shares.

The money raised plus the real estate totaled only about 7 million yuan, and it could not be handed over to the government until there was accurate information. It's too cheap, but considering the knowledge of people at this time, it's not a few.

However, whether it is cheap or expensive, there must be news back.

Once you get this mineral deposit, not only is it wealth, Zheng Lang, Fu Bi, and Wang Zhaoming also said this truth. There are two ways, teach the Japanese people how to open mines, exchange materials with them, and exchange this gold and silver back. It should be compared, for example, gold, at this time is only equivalent to 10,000 yuan, and the purchasing power is equivalent to five or six thousand, six or seven thousand yuan, how can it be worth more than 30 grams of gold.

But Zheng Lang didn't like it.

So I took a dangerous situation, bought land, and the mineral deposits were distributed in dozens of mountains, all of which were in the area near the sea, and sent hundreds of thousands of goods from top to bottom. But once it is mined, it will inevitably cause some trouble, in addition to defending by force, it also takes advantage of the current situation of the Japanese state to carry out some work and continue to provide some goods.

This is a cheap price, fifty years is enough, and five million pieces of goods are just as enough.

Higher rate of return.

After all, the goods, ships, labor, and goods to provide the craftsmen with the opportunity to survive, and the commercial tax brought by them is a lot of income.

The Song Dynasty was really short of money, and the total wealth was there, but there was a serious lack of currency.

With currency, wealth circulates faster, which will have a positive effect not only on Hangzhou, but also on the country.

Even with money, you can buy horses from the Khitans and Tibetans.

A series of good surnames came one after another.

Some Fubi didn't understand it, but most of them still understood, in short, there were many benefits.

The benefits are there, but are there any? This is in a distance, thousands of miles overseas, how did Zheng Lang know? asked, Zheng Lang did not answer (without thinking of a good reason). Regarding this matter, Fu Bi has been up and down in his heart.

Fu Bi took a few steps and said, "Everything is going well." ”

Four words mean understood.

Zheng Lang said lightly: "As long as you arrive safely, everything will go well." ”

"Let's go, you're in for a treat today."

"Why am I in for a treat?"

"You have done another contribution to the court, I am jealous, you don't invite who treats."

It's a joke, Zheng Lang said: "Okay, bring your lady with you, I'll have a banquet for you and your wife tonight." ”

"Let's go," Fu Bi put down the official document in his hand, and returned home to call out his wife, that is, Yan Shu's beautiful daughter, this woman is very squeamish, far from being comparable to Sima Guang's docile wife, or Lu Gongzhu's naughty and humorous little lady.

But he was very polite to Zheng Lang, and Yan gave a respectful salute.

Take them and their husband and wife back to the house.

But when he came to the house, Zheng Lang was stunned for a moment, a guest came, it was that Yi'er, Zheng Lang was a little depressed, she took the initiative to go back, but now she has looked for herself several times, what does it mean? looked at Cui Xian suspiciously.

Fu Bi didn't know what was going on, and said in a low voice: "Governor Zheng, do you want to take a concubine again?" ”