For a long time, there has been a worry and a hope, hoping that the direction of history will change drastically, but in my heart I am afraid, if it changes, will I do a good job?

This letter is the first step in real life!

Autumn is coming, the clouds are high, and the group flies south, in the sassy autumn wind, Zheng Lang seems to smell the fragrance of rice and the fruit is sweet.

When the letter arrived at the two governments, the ministers of the two governments were stunned together, and Zheng Lang's suggestion once again subverted their ideological concepts. The main thing is that I still don't understand, just like governing the river, Zheng Lang's money is used so that everyone is frightened, but don't say that there is no money, there is a billion, has there been a minister who has played so many flowers. You may be able to think of bunching water and flushing sand, but can you think of dividing rivers and lakes, carrying water from canals, diverting yellow water into the river, and pouring Huaibian into the river? Not to mention the myriad complex theories inside.

Come to think of it, that's true.

The current state of the Khitan also has great benefits for the Song Dynasty, that is, it does not recover the sixteen states of Youyun, and does not want the Khitan to be strong. Not only now, but also in the future, can the Khitan rescue be prevented? After consulting with the Privy Councillors, it was decided to adopt it.

But the order given to Di Qing was an aggravated sentence, and he helped with the least cost.

Fighting a war is also very expensive, the transfer of materials before the war, the wear and tear of weapons during the war, and the rewards and pensions after the war, if you do not fight quickly, if you do not do it quickly, it will be even greater than the loss caused by the sixth embankment.

What happened in the court, Zheng Lang didn't know. What he did in Nakari was something he couldn't see in the newspaper. Autumn came, and Zheng Lang began to get busy. The pressure was too great, and Zhou Xin and Tian Yu and a thousand officials had to be transferred to assist. The new canal is also divided into three parts: Hebei Road, Jingdong Road and Lianghuai Road.

Coupled with the governance of the Huai River Basin, Zheng Lang looked at the two students with palpitations and said, "Junshi, Jiefu, fortunately you have help." ”

At this time, Jingdong Road has not been divided into Jingdong East and West Second Road, with a total of 12 states and two armies, nearly 1.1 million households, because the entrance is dense, and the phenomenon of hidden fields and hidden households is serious, and it is actually more than that. This is what Zheng Lang said about the entrance cardinality.

It's not okay to have money, you have to get in.

But there is a bad one, Li Shimin commented on many heroes in Shandong, this heroic is not necessarily a compliment, there is also a layer of meaning, unruly, Shandong is not the later Shandong, but east of the Kuoshan Mountain, including many areas of Shanxi and Henan, as well as Shandong and Hebei.

There is also an evaluation in the history of the Song Dynasty, the hero of Yingqiu Dongdao, known as Fuyan, and the products are particularly prosperous. Deng, Lai, and Gaomi are in the north of the sea, Chu and Shang are together, and the people are angry and litigious. The large rate of eastward entry is simple and straightforward, and even the loss of stagnation, but there are many people who specialize in the scriptures. The customs of Xiapi are still quite Huai Chuyan.

IG is straightforward, really manly, but it is easy to be bewitched and make trouble.

If one is not appeased properly, it is easy to cause disputes.

There are so many powerful people, Zheng Lang spends two-thirds of his time on them. Without the help of two very good students, Zheng Lang is estimated to be unable to move an inch. It's not over yet, but it will be fine after next autumn, except for the newly opened river, which is less than 100 miles long, the rest of the Yellow River follows the old road, and there are not many land disputes involved.

Sima Guang stroked his chest and said, "Gong Zheng, I suddenly thought of Zheng Lang's wisdom. ”

"You don't have to be a sycophant, what inspires you?"

"When Zheng Gong went to Taiping Prefecture, if Zheng Gong was not in Taiping Prefecture back then, he would have changed to Beijing West or any state in Hebei, and he would not have achieved such political achievements."

Wang Anshi's forehead.

This time the river is so hard, and the mouth is broken, two-thirds of the IG force is dealing with various disputes, not thinking about how to control the river. It's a pity that Zheng Lang didn't have the ability to invent watermelon throat lozenges, otherwise the two would be very grateful.

Zheng Lang smiled and said, "It's not like that, many areas near Gyeonggi are maturely developed, and my visit is just icing on the cake." Taiping Prefecture is a barren land, but it is easier to make political achievements. It is not like Liangguang, it is too far away from the imperial court, and no matter where Jiangdong is, once it is developed, it will be profitable. At that time, I chose Taiping Prefecture, or other nearby states, because I also had some selfish motives. ”

Wang Anshi and Sima Guang smiled.

"But don't underestimate the south, Junshi, Jiefu, can you see one thing?"

"What?"

"Cotton."

The two frowned and pondered, and said after a while: "Gong Zheng, it's really a problem." ”

After several years of cultivation, and under the leadership of the Fan family, the seeds gradually evolved, and the yield was not much different from that of Jiangdong. It turns out that cotton is also expensive, and scarcity is expensive, and the kapok harvests thousands of plants, and the eight families are not worried about poverty, that is, the Lingnan grows a thousand cottons, and a family of eight will not be poor. Ten words, with several meanings, are generally unreadable. First of all, this is the real number of households in the Song Dynasty, and most of them are reluctant to divide the family, unless Zheng Lang's deformed policy, just like the later housing reform that allowed the husband and wife to divorce, and the policy changed again after the divorce, and immediately remarried, the people coveted the land and had to forcibly divide the family.

Of course, the IG quality is different, one is to empower the people, and the other is to accumulate wealth.

However, on average, it is less than eight households, and there are many families that are incomplete, or for other reasons, and can only reach nearly six incomes.

The second is the planting of cotton, different from the grass and cotton planting in the Western Regions, many people in Lingnan rely on it to make a living, and attach great importance to its planting, but there is one, the land is more sparse, the planting is sparse, it covers a wide area, each plant because there is sufficient soil and rizhao and growth space, it grows very tall, so there is a record, there are many kinds of kapok in Fujian and Guangzhou, the tree is seven or eight feet high, the tree is in the tree, it is as strong as the big ling, and the green is green, the autumn is deep and the dew, the white cotton is furry, the soil is picked, the shell is removed, the sunspot is exhausted with an iron rod, Xu spins it with a small bow, and then spins it into cloth, the name rigu bei. Today's goods of cotton, especially its fine and tight ears, when the flower is more than winning, the horizontal number of one hundred and twenty flowers, this is the best quality.

It will be clearer to compare this account with the cross.

First of all, its height, as high as seven or eight feet, like a oak tree, not only tall, but also very lush, followed by its number of flowers, later generations of cotton planting technology improved, a cotton plant can only harvest about 40 cotton peaches. Now there are more than 100 flowers in a cotton plant, and half of them have 60 or 70 cotton peaches. Moreover, although there are many cotton peaches, they can be compared with the rhombus, no matter what kind of big ling, it is not as big as the cotton peach in later generations.

That is, the product of extensive cultivation and thin harvesting.

Once placed in Jiangdong or the North China Plain, where arable land is scarce, it is impossible to learn the planting method of Lingnan, and in later generations, more than 3,000 cotton plants can be planted on one acre of land, and due to the lack of fertilizer, the number promoted by Zheng Lang in the country is 2,000 plants per acre. If you learn from Lingnan, you can't plant dozens of trees on one acre of land, and it will not produce economic benefits.

No matter how it is transferred, because of dense planting, the yield per plant will definitely decline, and the yield of one acre of land is similar to the yield of 1,000 plants in Lingnan. Because of the increase in planting, the price of cotton began to fall, otherwise one acre of land could feed a family of eight, and they would not be poor and would go to plant cotton together.

Still, cotton yields far outweigh crop yields.

Another point is mulberry hemp.

He is the only silkworm to do business, a family of ten silkworms and ten foils, each foil to get silkworms 12 catties, each catty to take 1 or 2 points of silk, every five taels of silk weaving a small silk horse, each silk Yi rice a Shuo four buckets (referring to a mulberry farmer in Huzhou, small silk thin, with less silk, and self-made, so a horse of silk is less than 500 Wen income, of course, put in the market in one in and one out, the price will be more than one silk) ...... With a month's hard work, the virtuous are diligent all year round, and there is no suffering from drought and thousands of waters, isn't it rich?

Raising ten foil silkworms, the mulberry garden needs less than four acres of land, just when the silkworm grows to pick mulberry leaves and smoke cocoon silk, the family of ten will live a small life.

This also illustrates a lot.

The scholars' thinking gradually progressed, and they no longer planted grain and grew food as before, as long as they worked hard, no matter what the way, the scholars thought it was glorious.

The second scholar does not know how to farm, although the sericulture industry seems to be hard in summer, but the most important thing is to have a mulberry garden in hand, this mulberry tree to take care of, all year round to the people to lie on it, carefully take care of it, otherwise the mulberry tree does not grow well, there are no mulberry leaves, what do silkworms eat?

The degree of hard work when silkworms eat mulberry leaves, the scholars don't understand at all, this piece of mulberry leaves is picked, and it is the season of cultivation and production, how bitter will the people be? Zheng Lang can see it, he can live and be tired and dehydrated! From getting up before dawn to living a thousand lives, to when the stars are scarce on moonlit nights, there are still people working.

The third is only counted in the account, not counted out of the account, yes, a foil silkworm can get more than three horses of small silk, ten foils is more than 30 horses, if the family grows some rice, raise some poultry, it seems to be able to live a small life. But what about taxes, what about living expenses?

But it also shows that although sericulture is bitter, the income is still higher than the grain, placed in Huzhou, one mu of land will not collect more than four stones of grain per year, and the gross income of four acres of land will not exceed five yuan, and the replacement of sericulture, will exceed 16 yuan.

Planting cotton is also very bitter, take care of it, need more fertilizer, when ripe, pick cotton peaches one by one, far more hard than planting any crops, even more bitter than silkworms, but the harvest is also considerable. Now it is impossible for a thousand cotton plants to make a family of eight have no worries about food and clothing, but the income is still almost the same.

In the land of fish and rice in Huzhou, it is three times the income from growing crops, but what about in the north? The annual harvest of one mu of land in Huzhou can reach four stones, but only two stones in the north, and most of them are beans, millet, barley, and wheat, and the price is only half of the price of rice.

That is, if one acre of cotton is planted in the north, the income is equivalent to more than ten times that of growing crops.

Just don't settle the account, how can Wang Anshi and Sima Guang not change their faces once the accounts are settled?

If all the cotton is grown in the north, what will happen to the grain? The common people have not yet reacted, and sooner or later they will wake up, and once they wake up, the north will no longer grow crops, and the consequences will be unimaginable.

Zheng Lang said again: "It doesn't matter, the yield of cotton is high, and the more people who plant it, the price will be cheaper, Junshi, Jiefu, think about it, there is a warm quilt at home, and you can wear a thick cotton coat in winter, how many people will not be frozen to death by the cold in a year?" ”

Now in the warm winter, the problem is not serious, and after a while, the small Xiaoice River will come to the Northern Song Dynasty, and the role of cotton will be more important.

Food, clothing, shelter and transportation, clothing is no less important than eating.

Zheng Lang also said: "The price of cotton has fallen, grain production has increased, and eventually the number of people growing grain in the south will increase, that is, in the north, because cotton is an intensive labor crop, and it is impossible to completely lose grain." But if the good IG continues, the south will become more and more heavy. ”

Wang Anshi said: "I understand, the new canal and the development of the south. ”

"Medium." Zheng Lang stroked his palm.

Even if there is no cotton, the entrance of the people in the north will increase, and they will have to rely on the grain support of the south in the future, and the original Grand Canal turned to the northwest of Zhengzhou, and then fell to Hebei, how many roads did it detour? Now it is sent directly from Shandong to Hebei, and the freight plus the loss alone will be reduced by one-third. This alone will save the people and the country how much money will it save in a year?

Moreover, it has a military role, a river control role, a commercial role, and an irrigation role.

Under the slogan, it is still to control the river.

Jinyao said it to Sima Guang and Wang Anshi to make them more detailed in their hearts.

The future Song Dynasty is the death of these two.

So, teach them something more practical.

Unexpectedly, Pang Ji came down in person not long after. Forced.

At this time, Zheng Lang was in Qizhou, that is, Jinan in later generations, Jinan was not as important as Jinan in later generations, and the geographical location was not as important as Qingzhou and Yingyaofu, and the entrance was not as good as Mizhou. However, it is also an important state on Jingdong Road.

Zheng Lang is very grateful to Pang Ji, he has done a lot of practical things for the court in Zhongshu, and doing things for the court is equivalent to doing things for Zheng Lang.

There is also Pang Ji's protection of Di Qing.

If there was no Pang Ji secretly taking care of him, Di Qing would not have been able to live in peace if he went to Yanzhou.

is to protect himself, Bi Jing himself is not in the book.

So he chartered a painting boat in Daming Lake to entertain Pang Ji, and asked Sima Guang to accompany him.

When autumn came, Daming Lake was as clear as a mirror, and the scenery was very beautiful, but Pang Ji didn't have a mind, and said directly: "Xingzhi, you can hurt me." ”

"Why?"

"I'm tired."

"It's also worth it, and you will be recorded in the annals of history."

"Well, don't talk to me about this, just have a clear conscience. I ask you, how much does the Guild cost? ”

Autumn is coming, the crops have been harvested, the northeast of Daming Lake is a suburb, the sorghum has been cut down, the ground is planted with winter wheat, faintly revealing a layer of misty green. At this time, it was also the time when the labor force was most free, Zheng Lang grabbed time and organized labor on a large scale.

Not only did Huainan organize laborers from farther afield, but even spread to the neighboring Jiangdong Liangzhejiang Road, and organized laborers from areas along the Yangtze River, including Shuzhou, Wuweijun, Hezhou, Taipingzhou, Chizhou, Jiangning, Runzhou, and Suzhou.

It is said that there are many entrances to Jingdong Road, what is it compared with Liangzhejiang Road? There are only 1120,000 households in Mizhou, which has the most entrances to Jingdong Road, but there are more than 100,000 households in Jiangnan, Xiuzhou, Suzhou, Xuanzhou, Hangzhou, Huzhou, Wuzhou, Mingzhou, Yuezhou, Wenzhou, Chuzhou, Quzhou, etc., more than a dozen state capitals, and almost two-thirds of the state capitals in Liangzhejiang Road have more than 100,000 households.

Xiuzhou and Hangzhou are too far away, but the people in the areas along the river can organize and rush to Lianghuai to participate in the river work.

There are also nearly 700,000 victims, and nearly 500,000 laborers organized in the north, and now the labor force has reached its peak, 3 million yuan, instead of the original estimate of 2 million yuan!

It was also caused by the import base, which affected Jiangdong and Zhejiang, involving almost 7 million households, coupled with the abnormal resettlement of disaster victims, which led to such a huge labor force in the management of river workers. Next year, when the victims are gone, the number will also drop.

It is good to have labor, but the use of money and silk makes the two governments feel cold.

How much silk will be used is still a mystery, but for sure, it is much more than Zheng Lang estimated.

Zheng Lang also pinched his nose.

If you talk about using money, this project can definitely be recorded in history and become a world record that is difficult to break.

It's really hard to calculate how much a piece of money is worth in the currency. If calculated according to the price of rice, it cannot be counted as the capital, and the average price of a bucket of rice in the capital is more than 70 yuan, and there is a freight cost in the middle, which is only worth 40 or 50 yuan in the place where it is produced. Then one wisp of money is only equivalent to 400 yuan in the minmin. If calculated according to silk, a meter of silk will cost eighty yuan in the future, a horse will be more than thirteen meters, and high-grade silk can not be counted, and a normal horse of silk will be more than a few points, which is equivalent to about 700 yuan in the people's currency. If calculated according to salt, a wisp can only buy thirty or forty catties of salt, fifty yuan. If calculated according to the price of real estate and land, then a penny can be worth 10,000, 20,000, or 30,000 yuan. Salt must be the fault of the Song Dynasty, this is all a mistake of zhègf, and it cannot be calculated. But if it is evenly shared, it will be worth about 500 yuan.

200 million yuan is definitely not enough, and 300 million yuan is not impossible now.

In later generations, there may be tens of billions of dollars of large projects, but ninety percent of them are inflated, and the cost of land, labor, and goods is ten times that of the Song Dynasty, and dozens of times more. If you take these estimates into account, it is not 300 million yuan, but it may be 5 billion yuan, or even 10 billion yuan. In this way, what kind of project can achieve such a cost?

Zheng Lang said: "Mellow, sow the autumn harvest, the autumn harvest has already picked the fruit, and there is still a fruit in our court that has not been picked Qianjing." ”

"Oh, what fruit?" Pang Ji asked excitedly.

Zheng Lang didn't answer, but asked, "How is the business tax this year?" ”

"It's a little better than last year, but it's embarrassing for the Imperial Historical Observatory, and after setting up its own supervision and prison, the Imperial Court often finds trouble with the Imperial Historical Observatory." Pang Ji laughed triumphantly.

The Imperial Historical Observatory is a Li institution, which is in charge of picketing officials and evils, and correcting discipline. The big things are distinguished, and the small things are played. All sacrifices and court meetings will be led to belong to the class order of hundreds of officials. There are three of them, the Taiyuan that serves the imperial history, the palace that serves the imperial history in the palace, and the procuratorate that supervises the imperial history, and now it has become four, and there is a supervision envoy in charge of the supervision court.

It turned out that the official position was a royal doctor, not a regular member, but an additional official. There is a royal history in the middle of the staff, who is the director. A servant of the imperial history, in charge of Taiwan politics. The two palace servants of the imperial history, the law of the ceremony corrected the loss of hundreds of officials, and the bullet dynasty will lose the ceremony. Six superintendents of the imperial history, in charge of the affairs of the six Cao and the hundred officials, correct their fallacies, impeachment in major matters, and correct in small matters. One prosecutor, in charge of the detailed law, one master, one in charge, in charge of the incident, collusion of thin water. Ten magistrates, specializing in prison affairs. The former director of the department has two shifts, two are the main and deputy officials, three are in the knowledge class, five are in the knowledge class, four are in the history of the book, four are in the driving officer, two are in the legal department, nine are in the six inspection scribes, five are in the post department, and three are in the general introduction officer. There is also the Imperial History Observatory of the Three Princes, and the Guan Gou Taiwan affairs are each one in, and the 1riri judgment is due. With the court official or above, he worships the watch and makes incense, and corrects the violations. Let the history of the two enter, know the class, drive the scrivener, and enter the scribe. However, there are many changes in the number of staff and titles, sometimes there are more posts, sometimes there are fewer posts, some are established, and some are often not established.

After the establishment of the Supervision Department, 12 supervision envoys were added to the Ministry of Supervision to picket the commercial taxation of various localities, the tax accounts of officials, and the cashier of the accounts of various departments.

If you have the right, it's all a life of offense.

The Governor's Yuan should be called the Counsellor's Yuan, which belongs to the Menxia Province. There are many changes in the three provinces, the three provinces of the Tang Dynasty made decisions, the subordinates deliberated, the books were implemented, and the rights of the subordinate provinces were very high. In the Song Dynasty, the function of Shangshu almost disappeared, although there were six parts, but let the six rooms of the Chinese book replace. The function of the province under the door has also been further reduced, and the success of the subordinate has been examined, the order has been examined, the violation has been refuted, and the letter has been issued to enter the recital, and the treasure seal has been requested. Where the Chinese book province paints yellow and records yellow, and the Privy Council records white and paints the purpose, it is left as the bottom. There are French things in the six departments of the province of Heshangshu, and they are all re-examined and refuted.

However, neither the Zhongshu nor the chief of the door can master the two provinces, and the one who can master the two provinces is the bad official, that is, the prime minister.

And this house was put under the control of his men. First of all, in the Jubilee year, six counselors were set up in the Imperial Academy, with the left and right counselors, the left and right counselors, and the left and right Zhengyan as counselors. He did not hold other positions, served full-time, and was appointed as a Li institution, but soon the counselor was vacant, and the Imperial Court existed in name only. In the first year of the Emperor's death, Liu E gave the imperial history a headache, and reinstated the Imperial Court to restrain the imperial history platform. In the first year of Mingdao, the province was officially appointed as the court, and the prefect was set up to enter the six courts, and the doctors were advised, and the ministers were admonished. Those who serve as other officials are called the Governor's Yuan. There are not many of the former, and there is not much real power, but most of them are the latter, the Governor's Yuan.

The establishment of this organization means that it will inevitably be pinched.

As a subordinate of his subordinates, most of them speak for the prime minister, but as the imperial history platform, they are mostly against the prime minister. So over the years, one hospital has pinched his head many times.

However, as a minister, the power of the Imperial Court is not as good as that of the Imperial Historical Tower, and the scale is also inferior. Often, there are only a few officials, plus some small officials who can't speak.

No matter what happens, if you say something forgiving, you will enter the meeting, and there will be problems as soon as you take care of things.

The hatred has been for a long time, and how can the Counsellor let go of this great opportunity. Regardless of the failure of the Imperial Historical Observatory, the management of the Imperial Historical Observatory is still lost.

As the prime minister, he wants to see this situation the most.

Zheng Lang also smiled and said, "In this way, the ministers of the court and the central government have to thank me." ”

"Not necessarily, I am suffering in the court this year, you are safe and sound below, and you may be fine next year, but the year after tomorrow, you will not be able to escape."

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