Zheng Lang first wrote a letter to his half boss, Xu Shen: "Jun uses iron to take copper, this money is called copper money, and iron money is called iron money." Taking iron from copper, unprecedented since ancient times, you want to turn stone into gold? ”

Xu Shen was unwilling to fail in the test in the capital, and went to Jiangzhou to test again, wanting to mint millions of dollars, how much copper and iron would be wasted? Even if it succeeds, will the common people think that it is copper coins, or iron and iron? What is money, the state recognizes that the people recognize, it is money, even if it is a blank piece of paper, it can also be used as money. If you don't admit it, it's not even gold.

Nor can it be explained from the point of view of chemical principles.

Song Qian is not a real copper coin, it is also a primitive alloy, after all, copper accounts for seventy percent, let iron account for seventy percent, the chemical reaction is successful, the new alloy comes out, can account for seventy percent of the iron alloy, will it still be copper coin?

I suggested that Fan Zhongyan come to serve as this Jiangdong transit envoy, why did the imperial court let this Mr. Xu Da mess around?

In the final analysis, it is his own people who are petty and small, and no one listens to what he says.

He still couldn't help it, and wrote another letter to Lu Yijian: "Taiping Prefecture is a state affair, everything is undecided, defeat is not hurt, success is not happy, give it and rule it and think about it, the government of one state is in one state, and the politics of several states are also the imperial court." The prime minister is the prime minister of the country, regardless of the palace merchants (the palace merchants in the five tones are the monarchs and ministers), and do not forget the affairs of a small and medium-sized state, and treat it as a small loss of the big. Yu heard that Lu Shenggong did not hear the name of the insulting official, and Lan Xiangru avoided Lian Po, but the prime minister also cherished it. Zizhang asked the master to be benevolent, and the master said that those who can do five things in the world are benevolent. Excuse me. Said, congratulations to the letter Minhui. Gong is not insulting, but blaspheming others will blaspheme himself, and preventing others will harm himself; Wideness wins the public, narrowness is narrow, narrowness produces resentment, resentment, hatred begets hatred. If you believe in others, you will be honest, and if you are not honest with others, why should you ask others to be honest with yourself? Benevolence is enough to make people, and those who want to make people have a fair heart. ”

There is no attendance sensitive.

As a governor, only Lu Yi Jian's rule in the early stage can be the best, whether it is Li Di, who was brought down by his skillful hands, or Wang Zeng and Du Yan, who can be both successful later, they are inferior.

But the other four lines, Lu Yijian is lacking.

Respectful, no, if you want to get rid of your boss when you are in a lower position, and get rid of your opposing subordinates when you are in a higher position, how can you be respectful?

Not to mention generosity, no one in the Zhao Zhen Dynasty can match the art of power, including the later Pang Ji, Xia Zhu, and Han Qi. It was his lack of generosity that led to the Lu Fan controversy. Fan Zhongyan is responsible for 40 percent, and he has to pay 5 percent of the responsibility.

There is no letter, a powerful minister who is always exercising power and conspiracy, how can he talk about the word letter? Megumi only benefits his cronies who support him. So you're too far away from your uncle, Lu Mengzheng.

One final word.

Fan Zhongyan is just a hot-blooded middle-aged man at this time, not much older than your eldest son, and it is not worth caring about. The Cao family has been established, and the Guo family is not enough to do harm, so there is no need to kill her. Then there was no partisan strife a few months later.

After Lu Yijian saw it, he didn't take it seriously, you know, you said that I was scheming, but the strategies you used in Taiping Prefecture were also not the same? It's just that you put on the righteousness of a saint and throw away this coat, what's the difference?

Anyway, it's about doing practical things.

However, I have some appreciation for Zheng Lang and Lu Yijian, unlike Shi Jie, they are all people who are famous and famous, and they know that doing it is more meaningful than saying.

But this is really the case, no matter what Zheng Lang does, he is bound to morality, morality, behavior, and change, which is very different from Lu Yijian's unscrupulous means to do things.

Zheng Lang didn't take him seriously, you are the prime minister, and I am also a Zhizhou, not your minion, you have to report early and late. Only talked about the yield, the wheat was harvested, and the yield per mu was less than three stones. This is a special case, the seeds are carefully selected, the reason why it is called the black sand bank, is the fertile river so that the sand and mud are blackened, it is suitable for crop growth, unlimited fertilizer is provided, a family only serves about ten acres of land, and there is no comparable surname for careful cultivation.

This is a selection and cannot be considered a normal yield.

If that's the case, it's unacceptable. The output of the whole Henan and Hebei in two seasons is barely three stones, and even three stones are insufficient, and the output of three stones in one season is only three stones, and the grain of the Song Dynasty is too much to eat.

Even this output can't satisfy Zheng Lang, General Peng sighed that it was only 900 catties, I don't ask for 900 catties, it's good to have a 400 catties!

However, the yield of rape is very gratifying, reaching one stone and two buckets, about 140 catties.

It's really good.

In the past, the yield per mu in the Song Dynasty was only seventy or eighty catties, so soybean oil, sesame oil, lard and other edible oil were replaced for a long time.

Zheng Lang also wrote that the transplantation of individual plants, including cotton in the south and sorghum and large-root crops in the north, can increase the yield of this method, but the plants are larger and require more fertilizer.

As for the rest, Zheng Lang didn't write much.

If there is something to report, I will not report it if there is nothing, and continue to make a fortune in silence.

also knew that writing to Lu Yijian would be regarded as a fart, so Zheng Lang gradually didn't want to ask about what happened in the court. It's hard to get tired!

…… It was drizzling outside.

The rainy season arrived, and it was almost dawn, but it was very dark.

As soon as the rainy season comes, so does the flood season.

Everything was mainly for flood control, and weaving was not taught in the sheds outside the city, so that the women could go home.

Cui Xian fell into Zheng Lang's arms and said, "Official, you want to go out again?" ”

"Don't look at it, don't worry." turned over, rubbed the oil, and said, "Either I'll come back and you make a compensation, and another big one will sleep with you." ”

"Don't think!"

"It wasn't like it wasn't there last year."

"That's just sleeping."

"What's the difference?"

"Have sex now!" After Cui Xian finished speaking, she bit his ear hatefully. After frolicking for a while, Zheng Lang got up and set off with Si'er.

You still have to take a look at it to rest assured.

Zhao Zhen selected the person to be selected in Taiping Prefecture.

The eunuch is still Wang Zhaoming, and there is also an official, but it is not a Zhongshu official appointed by Lu Yijian, it was personally selected by Zhao Zhen, and the official is Cao Xiumu.

Cao Xiugu's younger brother, because of the letter Liu E returned power, Cao Xiugu was demoted to Zhixing and Huajun, and later Zhao Zhen was pardoned by the government, but he did not return to the capital, and he was sick in Xing and Hua. His people were clean and self-conscious, so that they were poor and could not be buried, and his colleagues and Xing and Huaxiang donated 500,000 yuan to help him, but his daughter refused. Zhao Zhen remembered that he was an official and loyal to him, and gave him the right counselor doctor, and gave 20 money to his family.

Using his younger brother is also a kind of compensation for Cao Xiugu.

Cao Xiumu is also a native of Fujian, a southerner, and knows a little about water conservancy. I still don't understand what are the similarities between the topography of Fujian and Taipingzhou, both in the south, and there is a big difference.

It is also a manifestation of power, and gradually grows up, what Lu Yijian, what Wang Zeng, what Fan Zhongyan, I only believe in myself. Therefore, Wang Zeng entered the East Mansion, transferred Fan Zhongyan back, and restrained Lu Yijian, but he couldn't do without it, how Lu Yijian did practical things, Zhao Zhen knew.

Zhao Zhen began to face reality, he would not idealize it anymore, and he knew the power technique. It's not bad to use people like this, but can you stabilize these two gods?

When he arrived in Taipingzhou, Zheng Lang happened to arrive in Liangwei.

The polders of nearly 200 miles should be inspected one by one.

Take a look at the situation in the polder.

The success or failure of the two weis is crucial to the success or failure of his entire plan. I don't dare to be sloppy at all.

Under the leadership of the little official, he searched everywhere, but there was a conflict in Jingminwei, and Zheng Lang went to mediate. I had no choice but to set off for the polder.

Painted on the map, very good, a hundred miles of causeway, mulberry willows are green, lotus leaves are fragrant, fishing boats shuttle, swallows dance low. It's not like that, for example, the road, it's the big road, but it's raining for so many days, and it's not convenient to wear shoes.

The little official took off his boots, Wang Zhaoming and Cao Xiumu glanced at each other, had to take them off, and walked towards the polder with their bare feet, splashing mud.

Seeing Zheng Lang, after saluting, Zheng Lang laughed, looked at them in embarrassment and asked, "Why are you like this?" ”

The two of them also looked at him aggrievedly, Zheng Lang was also wet by the slanting wind and rain, but it was very refreshing, dressed in white, yellow straw shoes, only the shoes were stained with some mud, how was this possible? Did you fly from the sky?

Cao Xiumu asked in wonder, "Why are you splashed with mud?" ”

"Why mud?" Zheng Lang said. He turned his head to look at it, understood, and said, "I'm here by boat." ”

The people don't have to be embarrassed, and the people are very touched to be able to stand here in the rain to deal with affairs. Does the form matter? The important thing is to get the facts done.

"It turned out to be a boat ......" The two glanced at each other, Wang Zhaoming thought to himself, you are a southerner, Cao Xiumu thought to himself, but you have been here in person, and finally looked at the little official, the little official thought to himself, where do I know, I only think about taking you to find someone.

Anyway, that's it, listen to Zheng Lang deal with affairs.

Sounds tricky. The polders are very safe, the polders have not risen, Zheng Lang deliberately widened the polders in history, increased the height by half a zhang, and the flood only spread over the berms, and there was no threat to the polders at all. It is not the height and thickness of the polder, the quality is built by the people for themselves, and they can rest assured, but they are afraid of any unchecked hidden pools, as well as other unexpected factors such as ant nests.

The polder also sent people to take turns patrolling the embankment.

Even equipped the polders with horns, in case there is an alarm, blow the horn, and rescue urgently.

The exterior looked safe for the time being, but something went wrong inside, and the low-lying areas were flooded by the rainy season.

Before the day came out, I had to send a water truck to pump water outward, the embankment was high, and a small ditch was dug on the berm, and two long water trucks handed the water to the outside force.

How slow will the drain be? And Zheng Lang took a look, it was not very safe, there was nothing to do for a year, and for a long time, the drainage ditch continued to drain down, which also harmed the polder. was trying to figure out a way, and there was a quarrel in the polder.

It was divided into Mo, which made Cao Xiumu sigh when he saw it. Good idea, so that the people can farm, the farthest is only two miles away, and the nearest one is in front of their own door, not like the big bowl cut into plates in the north, sometimes the farmer can run seven or eight miles away when he ploughs a piece of land. It was originally very hard, and it was even more bitter to run back and forth for more than ten miles a day.

It was this Jingfang Mo that formed the problem.

The terrain in the polder is also high and low, the farmland in the homes of the people in the high places has not been harmed, and they are not willing to participate in the pumping, and the people in the low places are not happy, which is the common responsibility of everyone.

Many villagers are arguing, the public is saying the reason, and the mother-in-law is talking about the mother-in-law. Cao Xiumu had a headache when he heard this, and looked at Zheng Lang with his eyes.

Zheng Lang also has a headache, for most of the year, since Kaiwei, he has been dealing with these mothers-in-law's affairs, and he is very annoying. He waved his hand and said, "You send two people out to speak." ”

There were more than a dozen village people on both sides, and after choosing, the two senior household chiefs came out, and they were selected as elderly household chiefs only after there were many people in the family, and they were also poor people, and stood awkwardly in front of Zheng Lang, Zheng Lang asked, "What are your names?" ”

"The small one is called Ma San Melon Seed."

"Little Zhu big boat."

Don't laugh, modern rural people have many names like this.

"Ma Sangua, this official asks you, why are you unwilling to work? Say the real reason. ”

"Zheng Zhizhou, I'm really tired, some people are planting double-cropping rice, and they have to send people to patrol the polder, and they have some summer silkworms at home, and they don't come out every day, and they don't return to the ...... until the middle of the moon."

"Don't say it, this official knows, knowing that this is the case, why do you overreport the number of mouths, there were less than two people in a household, and now there are six and a half people in a household, and two-thirds of the families are exactly six people, can you not be tired?"

Ma San melon seeds couldn't make a sound, and two-thirds of the families reported an overstatement, especially the five-member family, all of which were changed to six, and some of the four-member families were also changed to six. For a family of nine, it will be changed to eleven people, including their own family.

If you are greedy for land and greedy, can you not get tired?

Maybe you are not greedy, you may have this opportunity in your life.

In short, Zhizhou's words made him understand that he deserved to be tired and was not qualified to say it.

I didn't intend to deceive the youngest Sanyuan in history, so I hung my head and didn't speak.

Zheng Lang said again: "This official has seen it, and you use a water wheel to pump, and it won't play a big role." Too few people, too little water discharge, and damage the polder. But there are gains and losses in everything, what is the yield of one mu of polder, and what is the yield of one mu of slope? What is gained is high yield, there is no shortage of water, fertile land soil, and what is lost is waterlogging. ”

Reasonable, Cao Xiumu couldn't help nodding. Is there anything perfect in the world?

He continued: "There are also high and low polders, and there is no need to worry about waterlogging in high places, and there is less benefit to irrigation, at least irrigation is not as convenient as low places. The low-lying areas have been compensated by the officials, and they have divided them into two in their hands, and there is no shortage of water if there is a waterlogging, and there is a lot of water in the low-lying areas, and there are benefits of water. Again, it's not perfect. That pumping can't be pumped anymore. In winter, the polder will lead you to continue to build the construction of the polder, dig all the ditches and ponds deep and wide, so that you can store more water, and there will be silt to change the low field into a high field, and the high place will also be because of the deep ditch, there will be irrigation water, as for the rare waterlogging in a hundred years, even the polder is dangerous, why bother with the gains and losses of one or two fields? After the autumn, when you have a bumper harvest, the official will have some surprises for you. ”

For a few days, I had been thinking about the waterlogging, and there was no way to solve it, so I had to use stupid methods to relieve it, but I couldn't count on any labor from them in winter. This is Zheng Lang's biggest headache.

When the people heard this, they dispersed one by one.

It doesn't get any better than this. This year's rain is not the largest, if there is a big rainy season, there will be a danger of flooding farmland in high places, do you really rely on these small water trucks to pump?

On the boat, Zheng Lang asked, "Two, why did you come to Taipingzhou?" ”

Cao Xiumu said what he meant in the future.

Zheng Lang complained: "It's a state affair, and I also think of a way to save the failure, and the people deliberately choose the households below the fifth class, it is because they have nothing, and the loss will not be big." I won't hide my success from the imperial court, so why bother with the affairs of a state? There are still so many displaced people in Hebei who have not been resettled, is it not as important as those music books cultivated by the imperial court? ”

The two did not dare to answer.

"You also saw it just now, since before the future last year, I was thinking, after coming, after several months of investigation, there are still such and such unexpected things, everything is undecided, how can I report to the court one by one? What can be said is that last year, the royal chamberlain had already brought the song back to Beijing, and it was impossible to say what was undecided. ”

Cao Xiumu said: "Why didn't you start work before last autumn? ”

The time is too hasty, the autumn will start work, the end of the year will be fenced, and then it will be repaired, the ditch will be dredged, the stone bridge, the field will be divided, the book will be made, the farmers themselves will buy mulberry and buy farm tools, weeding, especially weeding, the new wei has just risen, there are many weeds growing in the field, and there is no way to grow without removing the crops. Along the way, I also saw many women with their children plowing grass in the fields.

You can't think about too much business.

"I also know that the work started well before the fall, but the crops were not harvested before the fall, so the labor? The autumn water is uneven, how big is the amount of work, the tidal flat is not exposed, and how to repair the polder if the mud cannot be taken? After the polder is repaired, it is all fertile soil, will these poor people be willing to wait for a year and a half to repair it slowly? ”

Again, the two were speechless.

"But it's about fine," Zheng Lang said, looking at the embankment in the distance.

The mulberry trees on the two embankments are half the size, and they also burst out with green onions, making the two embankments change from oolongs to green dragons, the lotus leaves are overwhelming at the water, and the rice on both sides of the ditch is fragrant. Although it has not been harvested, it is already a gratifying scene.

He also said: "The two of you want to write a song and return to Beijing, and ask Your Majesty for four words for me." Grab when the harvest comes, the stone is a monument. ”

After saying that, he went up to the embankment and took them to other places.

Let's compare the big wei with the small one.

Since the rainy season, two small polders have been broken, one is called Shiliuwei and the other is called Liangli Wei, the area is not large, one is about 200 acres, and the other is about 300 acres. There are also some small polders that are also in danger.

The boat first shook to Shiliuwei, the owner surnamed Gu, who was leading a group of tenant farmers with a sad face to grab the rice on the high place, half an ear, and people could not eat it, making pig feed, or feeding cattle.

The boat shook in directly from the embankment, and when he saw Zheng Lang coming, the Gu family came up to give a salute, and asked, "Zheng Zhizhou, when will this polder be circled." ”

If it doesn't hurt, it hurts, if you break your heart, it's better to be in Dawei, although there are dozens of acres of land missing, at least you don't have to worry about being scared every year. Zheng Lang said uncertainly: "I don't know how much labor I can invite when I see it." The more labor, the more the remaining six polders, and without labor, the official would not be able to transform the polders. ”

Then he took the two of Cao Wang up to the polder, pointed to the thin polder and said: "Two, see no, this is the inconvenience of the small polder, if it is as tall as Jingmin Wei, the gains outweigh the losses, not high, in the future, the more the polder will be together, the more the water is circled, the easier it is to break the polder." In the event of a heavy flood, there is a shortage of manpower to patrol the embankment and flood control, and if there is a gap, there is not enough labor to rescue it. Therefore, the minister repeatedly wrote and asked for Lianwei. ”

Let them see it with their own eyes, and they can directly react to Zhao Zhen about the matter, so that in the future, a minister can say that Shiliuwei is a random frame for Jingminwei.

Can you refer to the emperor as a deer as a horse, and be called a loyal minister, not to mention to yourself?

Then it shook to Liangliwei, the polder saw it, and cried bitterly, the ancient family still had a hope, his family's small polder was drawn in, but Liangliwei was not in.

Zheng Lang persuaded again, try your best.

If there are financial resources, manpower has, they are still in Taiping Prefecture to build some medium-sized polders one after another, the remaining small polders are inconvenient to circle large, so they have to ask for more blessings, many have more than a dozen by the terrain constraints, can not circle large, even if expanded, can not expand dozens of acres, not worth it.

There are also five or six polders that go directly to the river, and they don't count the nine times they are flooded, and they also obstruct the flood discharge of the river, and these small polders have to be forcibly demolished.

Shaken to Wuhu City, barely described as a city, there is no city wall, no city gate, but there are many families.

Take them to see the Brocade Rust Garden, there are less than 200 Weaver Girls, at the beginning they were not in a hurry, only 20 Weaver Girls were transferred, and the others were hired from the local area, and the craft had to be learned slowly. Then send someone to collect silk, or directly collect silkworm chrysalis and draw silk, and then weave silk into various silk fabrics.

After the finished product came out, I didn't let the government sell it, I had nothing to do, I wasn't there, I didn't know how to sell it, and finally I was in someone's pocket and handed it over to various stores in the city. It really attracted some businessmen, how good is the name of the Royal Weaver Girl? Almost as soon as I put it in the shop, it was snatched up.

The scale is not very large, but there are many women in the workshop, all of whom are women sent by decent families to learn the trade. On the Brocade Rust Garden, a row of workshops has been transformed one after another, how the Brocade Rust Garden is done, how they do it, but the scale is slightly smaller, and it is also in a state of closure. However, it is possible that all of them will start construction by next year.

Zheng Lang said: "Once the time is ripe, the officials are not greedy or inky, and this silk prison alone can bring more than forty or fifty thousand yuan of income to the imperial court in a year." There are also taxes from other workshops, transactions from various trading houses, docks, and hundreds of thousands of dollars. ”

It is also a bright prospect, since the imperial court sent people to see it, let them see it, and only after seeing it can they ask for labor support. A few large polders in the rear are the fundamental place, without that book, there would be no city.

Then he returned to Taipingzhou, took them to see the seeds, the best ones were left on the two sandbanks, and the seeds were selected by a single plant, and the rest were exposed to the sun, sifted and floated, and all the immature ones that were not full were removed together and stored.

Even hired short-term workers to go to Jiangzhou, preferring to harvest later, and asking elders of wheat and rape to harvest some to make the seeds more mature.

Zheng Lang complained again: "For this seed, it costs more than 1,000 yuan a year. And across the river circle, across the polder circle, they are red-eyed, can they do it like me? Even if they were to be distributed, to whom would the seeds go? ”

I know, it's all in the hands of big households.

Then take them to see the account book, the imperial court tax is temporarily not collected, which relieves the pressure on the Taiping Prefecture's finances, and there are tens of thousands of money taxes along with money, grain, silk and grass, which will come in handy after the autumn. But they were put together in the warehouse, not moved, how much was spent, how much was earned, and every account was clearly remembered.

And it was written on paper using the method of financial statements of later generations, with horizontal and vertical lines, and it was clear where to put the tables at a glance.

If you want to find me trouble, I won't give you the handle!

Take them to rest after watching it, that's about it, it's time to play.

Save the bigwigs in the court from doing nothing, it's not enough to stare at the music book, but also to keep an eye on their own mess. You can't stare at it, it'll make me creepy if you stare at it.

The flood season was spent safely.

The rice officially glows golden yellow.

Zheng Lang wants to be low-key, but how can it be low-key?

With more than 2,000 hectares of excellent polderland, the output has reached almost three-quarters of the previous output of Taiping Prefecture.

Some officials go directly to the book, and you bigwigs won't let us read it, but we will look at it ourselves.

Lu Yijian was helpless, he didn't want to be troubled the most, what happened to letting officials leave the station and go to a foreign country? Discussed with Wang Zeng, and then with Zhao Zhen, and finally decided, just look at it. If you don't look at it anymore, these prefects probably don't have the heart to deal with domestic government affairs.

At this time, Zheng Lang and several mothers rushed over from Zhengzhou.

Spring was about to come, Zheng Lang went to the letter, he couldn't come, there were too many things.

Summer is so hot that you can't come, don't burn your old people's bodies.

In the autumn, Zheng Lang is still half-pushed, and there are still many things.

But a few mothers want to have a son, but they can't persuade them, so they came to Taiping Prefecture by boat, and there is one more thing.

Zheng Lang had no choice but to come back from the polder and pick up a few mothers. As soon as she entered the house, the eldest lady shouted, "Kneel." ”

A drink made Zheng Lang confused.

Sima Guang and Wang Anshi glanced at each other, the big drama is coming, is Zheng's mother also going to whip her son? It's a good show, it's rare to see, you have to watch it.