In August, the lotus leaves are in full bloom, and the large green leaves are connected together, and when the wind blows, the blue waves and green waves are raised, which is very beautiful. Zheng Lang and Cui Xian saw a lot in the south and didn't care, but Fan Yue'er happily walked around the lotus pond.

Zhengjiazhuang Zheng Laosan's daughter is picking lotus canopies in a small flat boat.

Her family also grows a lot.

It's just a northerner, who doesn't know water, is afraid of falling into the water, and can't control a boat, the more careful he is, the more clumsy his posture becomes, far less cute than those lotus-picking girls in the south. It doesn't matter, the main thing is that her clumsy movements in Xiaobian Boat made Zheng Lang stand by the pond and watch, cold sweat dripping, and said, "Little Siniang, be careful." ”

The little girl rolled up the corners of her pants and snorted coldly: "You are the prime minister, what do you care about us small people." ”

The little girl committed that evil nature, didn't Lang Jun like it? Zheng Lang pinched his nose, and couldn't say, I'm the prime minister, you are rude. Turning his head to Si'er, he said, "Si'er, you pick it for her." ”

After all, it is the north, and the lotus pod does not grow much, of course, it is also a small income for the people's families. Several wives and concubines are in the south, only four children have learned to swim, they are afraid of the heat, and they ran to the lake to learn some dog planing swimming postures, but there is absolutely no danger in this small pond.

Xiao Siniang said again: "The little folk girl doesn't dare to be. ”

This has a targeted taste, Zheng Lang said without hesitation: "Little Siniang, be careful." ”

whispered to Si'er: "You go to the village and say hello, what happened?" ”

Si'er went to Zhengjiazhuang.

Zheng Lang was afraid that something would happen to the little girl, so he specially left a water-savvy guard to stand on the side and watch, it turned out that the pond was not very deep, and it happened that the victims came over and overhauled many water conservancy, which came into play last year. In the spring, Cui Xian was idle and bored, and when she saw her husband's kindness, she took out 2,000 yuan from home. Villagers were hired to connect to the original water conservancy, including these ponds, and all of them were dug deep. It also brings in living water, not only to plant lotus roots, but also to worry about irrigation water.

Anyway, it won't fall in the water, and it's going to die.

Continuing to move forward, in the past few years, the rice yield has decreased, and the number of people planting sorghum wheat has increased. But sorghum is certainly not as productive as rice. Zheng Lang looked at it, feeling a little anxious. But there is no way, corn is definitely better, potatoes are higher, in this era, coarse sorghum rice is regarded as a staple food, and potatoes, sweet potatoes and other grains. But ship technology can't keep up.

Deliberately asked, every year.

In the coastal areas of the Song Dynasty, there were very few accidents. The main wave is small. The further south you go, or the more overseas you go, the higher the accident rate. Most of the accidents on the Ping'an Prison ship occurred in the south of Luzon Island. After thinking about it for a long time, I thought of a problem, and I gave my own guidance, talked about some typhoon laws, ocean currents, and drew a map. But ignoring a key factor, the depth of the sea, in coastal areas, is mostly the continental shelf stretching zone. So relatively speaking, the wind and waves are a little smaller, and the bumps are not big. And outward, the deeper the ocean, the bigger the waves, and the stricter the requirements for the quality of the hull. This is still running along the island. If you leave the islands and go to the eastern Pacific Ocean, where there is no island, how big will the wind and waves be? I don't know how those Europeans can steer those backward ships around the world. But after Zheng Lang learned about this factor, he became more and more cautious.

If you send a fleet, thousands of people, all of them will be wiped out, and you don't see the point, you can drown in spittle. can only wait for a while, fortunately, there have been three fist products in Quanzhou: Yuji, Zhangji and Liu Ji. Driven by three dockyards, the technology of the boats has advanced rapidly. In fact, as long as you can reach the ship technology of the Southern Song Dynasty, you can organize one or two fleets to enter the American continent and carry out an expedition. The occupation does not have this idea, it is too far away, but it is not difficult to bring back a few multigrain seeds.

If you want the north to be good, you have to have corn. …,

When I came to my own sorghum field, I surrounded a few old farmers and watched with great interest.

The growth is so good, it is half the height of the sorghum of other people's houses, and the big ears hang down, heavy, some farmers are stunned, and they can only say that the things of the prime minister's house are not ordinary things, and the prime minister personally guided the planting.

An old man said: "Little Xianggong, the old man is hot-eyed. ”

"Erweng Weng (Erbo), I am experimenting, planting like my family, each person can't plant much land, it's not worth it. But if the yield is high, I will keep the seed and give it to you. ”

"Really?" The old man said in surprise.

"Can I still talk to Erweng?"

"Little Xianggong, how much can you harvest from this acre of land?"

"I don't know, there are always two or three stones. However, when the seeds are in your hands, I am afraid that according to your method of planting thin seeds and wide harvest, I am afraid that they will not be high-yielding. I'm going to leave these acres of land for experimentation and breeding, and if I want to be really productive, I need at least ten years to evolve. ”

I don't understand evolution, but the old man is concerned about another thing, and asks: "Xiao Xianggong, listen to the people who came back from the south, there are high-yield fields in Taiping Prefecture, and the yield of a single acre of land can have seven or eight stones. ”

"The most is Youchunwei, last year's yield of eight stones and three buckets per mu, His Majesty personally issued an edict to commend it."

"Eight stones and three buckets?" The corners of the old man's mouth drooled.

This number shook the entire court. The high yield of the southern polder, as we all know, is more than four stones on average, but this refers to the total output of two and three seasons, and the southern polder does not need to be cultivated in rotation, so the average yield is high. The most productive one was more than seven stones before Zheng Lang went down to Taipingzhou, which refers to the sum of the three seasons.

After ten years of cultivation, the small island in the Yangtze River finally blossomed and bore fruit, at least the yield per mu of Taipingzhou increased by more than half a stone, and some high-yield fields appeared one after another, and the yield in a single season was more than five stones. Of course, there are fields above seven stones, but they are very rare, and there are very few.

It's not high, 700 catties, 800 catties, in the later generations, the whole rice blast has fallen, and there is more than this harvest. But in this day and age, it's a remarkable step forward. Now the influence is still small, and if you want to catalyze the entire Jiangdong to increase production, it will take at least ten years to achieve it. Don't expect a single season output to reach seven stones, so that all polders can have more than four stones, then the Manchu monarchs and ministers will laugh from ear to ear.

This is in the south, the north is still not good, the yield per mu single season and double season together, but only a little more than two stones, a single season per mu yield of more than eight stones, for them is simply a myth. Zheng Lang said: "Erweng, the climate in the south is humid and hot, which is suitable for rice cultivation. So the yield is high. In fact, further south, if Lingnan is intensively cultivated, there can be three seasons a year, and there will be seven or eight stone harvests at will. ”

The wind blows. Sorghum ears rustled.

A few old farmers leisurely yearned, of course, they could not move their families to Lingnan because of Zheng Lang's words.

Zheng Lang was thinking about one thing, the entire East China is mostly suitable for growing dry grains, although rice is good. It was impossible to want a high yield, and he thought of one thing, cotton. The national economic gap is too large, because of its own urging, the southeast is richer, but the north is poorer. Jiangnan became the warehouse of the Song Dynasty, and it is not a good thing to go on like this. After thinking for a while, he said, "Erweng." Watch what I do, you learn. ”

"That's, we're watching."

There is a large age gap. But in the eyes of the peasants at this time, Zheng Lang is a god, and it is not the one who dares to refute Zheng Lang.

"I'm also thinking of a way," Zheng Lang said and went home.

Si'er told what happened to Zheng Laosan's family, and there was a conflict with his family. These ponds are connected together, broken, Zheng Lang doesn't care, planting lotus roots, is to take the lead. He doesn't expect these lotus roots to make money, and his family's income is his huge salary. The second is their own workshop. It doesn't matter if the agricultural industry is in business, a few mothers want to do good deeds and accumulate virtues, often have bad years, do not charge any rent, and even stick to the livestock on the farmland. …,

Other people learn, but they don't understand these new things. Planting it casually, the lotus root grows up and is connected into pieces, and it is difficult to distinguish which one is which one, and they are dumbfounded. The first is the lotus pod, which is often plucked across the line.

The family has a big industry, Xu Bo, Song Bo and Xiao Bo are all old, Xu Bo and Song Bo's son have been helping in the cloth shop, learning some arithmetic, recognizing some words, and slowly running the shop for the Zheng family. However, the affairs of Zhuangzi also have to be managed, so Xiao Bo called his son, who was carrying a big bag in the city, back to work for the Zheng family. Not long after he came back, he saw that everyone else was picking their own lotus pods, and he was anxious, thinking to himself why the people in the village didn't know what to do. It's not that I don't know what to do, I know that the Zheng family doesn't matter, and the small bargain must always be taken advantage of.

Xiao Lao Er just came back, I don't understand, I drew it with my hand roughly, this is my family's territory, you are not allowed to pick it, the result is a circle, the circle is big, Zheng Laosan's lotus pond is the most, but this is not cultivated land, it is reasonable to say, and Zheng Lang is the prime minister, who dares to discern it? Can his daughters be happy when they see Zheng Lang?

Xiao Lao Er is not happy in his heart, how much land and wealth have the Zheng family has helped the people in the village over the years, you people are too much. The two sides are at a stalemate, this is the following little thing, Zheng Lang and Cui Xian, as well as a few niangniang, don't know. asked the villagers in the village, on the contrary, all said that Zheng Laosan was not good, at least as Xiao Laoer said, he was a human being, he always had to be content, and he couldn't forget the ditch digger when drinking water.

Zheng Lang called Xiao Lao Er over, and he didn't blame him, the Zheng family is already ready to train him to be the housekeeper of the future family, not to pick up the property inside, but to send it out? He only said lightly: "You go to the village to inform you, and we will sit down in the threshing field at night to discuss one thing." ”

"Whoa." Xiao Lao Er obeyed the order.

Sorghum, beans, and rice were not harvested, and the barn was empty, but it became lively at night.

All the people of the village gathered.

Zheng Lang is a child, even in Zhengjiazhuang, he rarely comes out.

No one dares to say that he is withdrawn, people are studying and studying, and after becoming the prime minister, the book is not released, otherwise how could he be a young prime minister?

This is the first time that the villagers have been summoned on such a large scale.

After a while, Zheng Lang came over and gave gifts one by one, except for the workshop households, they were all members of the same clan. Some are three or four generations older than Zheng Lang, and they can't neglect the clan relationship just because they are prime ministers.

The attitude is very modest, but the people of Zhengjiazhuang are accustomed to it and do not pay much attention.

Everyone sat on the bench of different heights, and Zheng Lang spoke: "There is little water in the north, and the only thing that benefits is the lotus root, the ground millet (water chestnut), and the root (taro) are planted less, and even if they are planted, the yield is low, and the pond often dries up, which is not profitable." But there are many plants in the south, lotus root, ground millet, dizhi, water chestnut, lettuce, etc., and some people raise fish, so what did I do when I opened the polder in the south? ”

Zheng Qichang asked: "How did Xianggong do it?" ”

"These water surfaces are public property, it is not easy to divide, even in the south, but they also have to be irrigated, but they have almost no dry period, in order to reduce disputes, I asked them to contract, the water surface and some slopes that can not be planted with crops bid, the water surface planted lotus ling. Fish farming, bamboo and wood on the slopes, the highest price gets it, and then these bids are handed over to the people of the village. Assign by mouth. Reduce the burden on the people and reduce unnecessary disputes. ”

There was a buzz of discussion in the field.

It seems to be a good way, not only the lotus root planters are quarrelling, but the people who don't plant are not convinced, these water surfaces are not private property, why let them occupy them?

Zheng Lang waved everyone to be quiet and said, "The main thing is the special environment in the north. Even if it was planted, it was not profitable, and I did not promote it. If there is water, irrigation will be the main thing, and these are auxiliary industries. The eldest mother and the second mother passed away one after another, and I was sad in my heart, lazy, and didn't ask. It was Xian'er who heard some of my words and asked the villagers to make arrangements. She would have been well-intentioned. Drive it so that everyone has some more harvest. So I planted sorghum, and I didn't do it for profit. After harvesting, they will be distributed to everyone as good seeds. ”…,

Zheng Laosan stood up, knelt on the ground, and said, "Xianggong, I was wrong. ”

How benevolent and righteous the prime minister is, it is wrong for him to behave like a small weapon, no wonder the people in the village oppose him.

Zheng Lang helped him up and said, "You can't do this great gift, you are still my elder." You sit down and listen to me. There are other arrangements, such as opening canals, and everyone has to be patient with things on the water, and in general, there are more years when there is water scarcity than in years with water, even if planting. The profit will not be very large. The rest is to fight for the mountain, fight for the slope, this is the most critical, everyone saw my family that the two soil mountains, I will send people to cut down the miscellaneous trees above, planted pine and fir trees, and later become timber, higher than when the value of firewood, and also, and successively planted some persimmons and late peach trees. I'm not going to profit for them, but I'm going to lead everyone to set an example. ”

Most people are disappointed, the Zheng family has a dirt mountain, and they have a dirt mountain.

Zheng Lang said again: "Helplessly, the north is barren, and if you want to grow food, you will not be able to grow food in the south, and there will be no rich scene of a large fish and rice land in the south." But it's not that there is no chance, I will immediately send someone to work on the first arrangement, and there will be a second arrangement in more than ten years. Please be patient. And my identity dictates that I can't just see one of our villages, there's more, more. I was negligent about the lotus root, Zheng Qichang, you will measure it for you tomorrow with Uncle Zheng, and everyone will also take a step back, divide the boundary, and straighten it with a rope, so as to save disputes and discord among the villagers. Worth.

Tell everyone to disperse.

He also instructed Song Boduo to retreat tomorrow and let some of the lotus root ponds come out.

What to do, anyway, I don't expect it to make much money, I have to take a lead.

The rest of the things are handed over to Zheng Qichang, who is the village chief and the elderly, which is his jurisdiction.

But he said to Cui Xian: "Take a look, the big one is the country, the middle one is the state, the small one is the family and the village, if a village doesn't pay attention, it will cause trouble, and if you retreat like this, there are villagers complaining, not to mention the country." Shen Gong commented that Xiwen was broad, and he was also in the middle. ”

How easy is it to govern a country?

Thinking of Fan Zhongyan, Zheng Lang wrote another piece of music to Zhao Zhen.

After Fan Zhongyan arrived in Shaanxi, the new deal failed, he was in a bad mood, and his physical condition deteriorated. This time it was not to demote the official, but purely to take care of Zhao Zhen's benevolent performance.

Zheng Lang said in the recital that although the new deal failed, Fan Zhongyan was still a good official, and he grew up in the south and could not tolerate the bitter cold in the north. It is estimated that Fan Zhongyan was most unhappy after seeing this piece, and under the influence of Kou Zhun, the officials of the imperial court continued to value the northerners. Fan Zhongyan also regarded himself as a northerner, and in fact, the Song Dynasty was unified for many years, where did the distinction between north and south come from?

Later, Fan Zhongyan continued to float and float, in a bad mood, had no fixed place, and was malnourished due to food and clothing, and encountered cold weather in Qingzhou, which was violated by cold for many years, and his condition worsened, and he died soon.

Therefore, Zheng Lang wrote a letter and advised Zhao Zhen to put Fan Zhongyan in the rich southeast, whether he was appointed as the governor of Suzhou and Hangzhou, or as the transfer envoy between Jiangdong and Zhejiang, it was also a manifestation of care, and energy was used. Besides, although the New Deal is suspected of being a friend, it is not Fan Zhongyan's original intention, and his good intentions in governing the country and saving the people cannot be denied. Treating Fan Zhongyan well is also a reward for morality.

Lao Fan worries about the country and the people, and is the only true gentleman, as for the others...... Just think it's fun, including Yoon-so right away.

Otherwise, let him float everywhere, even if he is floating, the range of activities should not be too large, just go around Jiangdong and Zhejiang, saving a lot of drifting pain.

Cui Xian said: "Officials, everyone calls Wang Ziming (Wang Dan) a big measure, and the official measure is not trivial. ”

"How dare I compare with Wang Taishi?" Zheng Lang said. said in my heart, Xian'er, you don't understand. Later, when the three words Fan Zhongyan were mentioned, they were not names, but the white snow that represented the sacred, noble, and Kunlun Mountains, how many people dared to blaspheme? …,

But Lao Fan is really good. Decao said that second, no one would dare to say first in the three hundred years of the Song Dynasty.

The official rule also has some skills, and he is in the southeast, not in the court, Ouyang Xiu and they will automatically become wilting brothers, so they will not turn the wind and waves and make the court unstable.

Then he wrote a letter to Wang Su. Let him secretly send people from Tibet into the Uighurs to get some grass and cotton seeds. The south is all coarse cotton wool, the quality is not good, but the Western Regions is mostly long cotton wool, so the cotton cloth produced is very exquisite. At this time, if Jiangdong wants to weave cotton cloth, he must be wrapped with silk, otherwise he will not be able to weave wonderful cloth.

Let Wang Su get back some grass and cotton seeds, and then transfer the cotton from Jiangdong to the north. See who works well. There is an adaptation process, anyway, the family does not have to worry about money, so they use their own fields for experiments. But warned the king not to spread the word.

To be transferred. The seeds have an adaptation process, and the Hexi Corridor and the Yinchuan Plain are far more adaptable than the inland. From the perspective of evolution, Guanzhong is more suitable than Henan and Shandong. Guanzhong didn't matter, but the Hexi Corridor and the Yinchuan Plain were controlled by Yuan Hao.

Once there is cloth, food, and horses, the country will be stronger, and it will be more cohesive, and it will not be easy to deal with.

Wang Su is good, he deliberately mentioned Wang Su in Fan Lou. So let's talk about the severity of the matter.

After the two letters were written, Zheng Lang was not very generous, and asked: "Xian'er, do you think I should make some arrangements to deal with Jia Changchao?" ”

"Official, why?"

"Ouyang Xiu has said many times that he is a traitorous villain. However, if he gets the wrong object, it's not Wang Gongchen, he's forced, it's not Zhang Dexiang, he's quiet, not used to the tossing of gentlemen, not to mention Lu Yijian, Lu Yijian is a villain, but it's definitely not treacherous, let alone Li Shu, although this person likes to engage in some bad and insidious things, lacks scheming, and can't do a big harm. Only this Jia Chang Dynasty, although the emperor intended to promote Wu Yu as a constraint, he was finally the prime minister of the dynasty. The emperor wants to use me in the future, and Jia Changchao also wants to maintain the position of prime minister. ”

"The emperor has a lot of deep meaning with him."

"I know this, I want to use the traces left by Jia Changchao's sweep of the Junzi Party, so that the government and the opposition will not be bothered by the New Deal, turn the riots into calm, and he is the emperor's teacher, he is a person around the emperor, and he belongs to the kind of feminine and quiet person, after the chaos of the New Deal, such a person is also needed to lead the country."

"That is, this situation is not easy to deal with, and besides, if you leave the court, your strength is limited. And if you want to deal with him, you must join forces, at this time, the emperor is most afraid of the so-called gentlemen joining forces, you are also a gentleman, it is impossible to say that the emperor is not scrupulous at all. He also said that if you wait a few more years, if you stand up now, the emperor will be dissatisfied to some extent, and he will think that you are too impatient and frivolous like Fan Zhongyan and them. Losing the trust of the emperor, as a minister, can he really turn the river and the sea? ”

The husband and wife actually said this, if Ouyang Xiu knew, he would be shocked.

It's easy, it's said that it's a treacherous villain, but it turns out to be a miasma, and these false things make people even more disgusted. It can only be said that there is a stake.

"Xian'er, but seeing all kinds of Jia Changchao, I am very worried, the Khitan and his party have made some back-hand arrangements, in the Khitan, I am not afraid, but what I am worried about is the country, and the most worried in the country is Jia Changchao. In the past, Jia Changchao tried to woo me many times, but I ignored him, and he was already dissatisfied. Speaking of which, I have a lot of regrets in my heart. At that time, although it was difficult to overthrow the Jia Chang Dynasty, it could still be done, although it would trigger a series of bad consequences.

"Official, why did you agree to send an envoy to the Khitan?" Cui Xian said complainingly. is the emperor's daughter, not his own daughter, and he disagrees with Zheng Lang's approach.

"What if you don't say yes at the time? The Khitan is not in harmony, if he listens to Yuan Hao's instigation, he will attack from both sides, and the country will be in danger," Zheng Lang said, in fact, he agreed at the time, but he was just impulsive, and he agreed for the sake of the so-called friendship, which has nothing to do with this at all, even if he does not agree, the Khitan will agree to negotiate peace. The gold and silver are real, if the Western Xia has money, and promises to give 100,000 yuan to the Khitan every year, the Khitan has the face, the lining is there, and this time it will not start a war.

The generous Zheng Lang paced back and forth.

It's not impossible, but it's very likely, first, there will be resentment in the past, and second, he will hinder Jia Changchao in his career. Unless you tell him that without yourself, Wu Yu will admonish you several times, and sooner or later you will be removed from the position of prime minister. If he says it, he won't believe it. Some frustratedly said, "I'm still lacking in scheming." ”

Even if you don't be the prime minister of Shenma, it doesn't matter, but you have to withdraw from the Khitan, and you can't really stay in the Khitan.

Then turn over the historical memories one by one and look for opportunities. Wu Yu and Jia Changchao fought in the dark, and it was not until March of the following year that Jia Changchao was brought to the Daimyo's Mansion. I will not wait until the year after tomorrow, it is possible that the Khitan will be defeated immediately, and I will send an envoy to Beijing to ask me to travel, which is also what I promised. What happens during the year? If there was an accident in the rear, he went to Khitan by himself, and he took the initiative to jump into the sea of fire in Daoshan Mountain. Especially thinking that Yin Zhu was made miserable by Jia Changchao immediately, he was even more concerned in his heart.

Suddenly, he had an idea and said, "I have a solution." ”

The foundation of the golden mean, there must be a yin side must have a yang side, yin is in the sheng, the yang will breed inside, the yang is in the sheng, and the yin will be dark and grow in the inside. On the positive side, there is also a negative side, at this time Jia Changchao was unscrupulous, and many people secretly hated it, but they lacked opportunities. By the way, rescue Yoon Su's kid, otherwise he will die too miserably, and he will be his own subordinate anyway. (To be continued) RQ