Taipingzhou business began.

One after another, 20,000 laborers from other states rushed over, and they had enough to eat, and there was still money to be paid, and the mood of the laborers who came was relatively high, and they did not reject it.

A draw was drawn from among the victims, with several all adults, as well as teenagers over the age of fifteen, participating.

More than 37,000 people, a total of 31,000 people crowded in.

But there is not much real labor, many elderly people do chores, and some women and young people are very suspicious of their labor. The Song people can endure hardships, which is beyond Zheng Lang's imagination, a load of mud is more than 100 catties, and normal labor is like picking and playing, and some have great strength, saying that they can pick up six stone things. But women and young men obviously can't.

The local aborigines, Zheng Lang only arranged 15,000 people, and the labor was sufficient, but the enthusiasm of the people was unprecedentedly high, and the most happy were those big households.

As soon as the construction started, the highest land price rose to nearly 100 yuan per 100 acres.

There are really many big families who have made a fortune.

There are also winter idle, greedy for wages, and as a result, they squeezed out, and there were more laborers than last year, reaching 25,000 at the highest and 20,000 at the low.

There are many people and the speed of progress is fast, but there are also many drawbacks.

The amount of food consumed every day reached 1,000 stones, and it was not only necessary to eat, but also to eat some dishes, pickles, vegetables, a small amount of fish, diesel salt and vinegar, hot ginger soup to keep out the cold, medicinal herbs, and workshops, and the money was used as if running water.

The management is a little chaotic, but fortunately I have accumulated some experience last year, and some people have managed it last year, and they have honed it, and they can be pulled out again and let them manage it on their behalf.

There is still chaos from time to time, Zheng Lang has to be stationed on the polder again, and he is also acting as a show, giving the people a little confidence and taking the lead, not last year, this year Jiuwei is all over the three counties in the state, and it is the same wherever he stays.

But the worst thing happens.

Because the migrant workers from other places are not familiar with it and it is inconvenient to manage, Zheng Lang's approach is very simple, divide one point, and distribute it according to the workload, how many projects, how many workers. Let them coordinate on their own.

It is also an open management approach.

In this regard, it has been relatively successful.

If you are not diligent, I am not in a hurry to do things in fifteen days for twenty days, anyway, there are more people than I imagined, so I can only get fifteen days' salary, ten days to finish, five days to rest, and the same fifteen days' salary. And Zheng Lang has good credit, fair distribution, and ...... Ask the ghost!

Ghosts believe in him, let alone people!

But if there is a problem with the internal labor, it is still the victims.

The mood is low, the labor is uneven, and the workload cannot be distributed according to the workload, which is not very fair to the victims.

But this is wrong.

Most people are hardworking, but there are a few people in it who are still bad.

Most of the displaced people are really unsettled, and there are also a few people who are afraid of the serious, and have encountered opportunities many times in the past year, or as tenant farmers or hired laborers, who are afraid of heavy work and light treatment, and are unwilling to do it, and have been wandering.

When they arrived in Taipingzhou, they knew that they couldn't do it like before, but Zheng Lang's approach made them see the loopholes, some people picked up 200 loads of soil a day, and they picked 100 loads of soil themselves, but it was the same work. Gradually, I changed to fifty tantals, forty quintals.

At first, there were not many people, but like an infectious disease, the more it attacked, the more severe it became, and some people of the aborigines became lazy.

Zheng Lang also took some measures, such as delaying it, not only to confront, but also to let the victims realize the facts, the officials in the north talked nonsense in order to send this group of displaced people, but this is not the case. Another example is to deliberately ignore dozens of restless troubles and deal with them harshly. Another example is to let the 5,000 families be sandwiched between them, they are vested interests, they are very concerned, and they play a leading role. But they don't have the right to supervise, and even if one or two people do, they are all fourth- and fifth-class households, and they can't afford to talk about others. gradually increased, couldn't bear it anymore, and reported Zheng Lang.

The problem was very serious, so Zheng Lang once again counted the work according to the quantity of the project, divided it into pieces one by one, and asked them to elect the leader and supervise the work. Women who behave well can remember eight points of labor, and old men who do not perform well can also remember six points of work, three points of work, and one division of labor. If it is the aborigines, the worst kind, they will be expelled to save the waste of food. The victims of the disaster followed him, but it was said that next year the government would only provide a small amount of funding, and they would maintain their rations, farm tools, supplies, and even ploughing cattle until the autumn, all on this salary for their work.

You are allowed to sleep all day without work, until the beginning of spring next year, some eat and some drink, but after that, even if you rake the mud with your hands, no one cares. If you are not convinced, but the person is elected by yourself, and everyone else is convinced, why are you not convinced?

Wang Anshi said: "This method is very wonderful. ”

"It's not wonderful, this law is the end of the Legalist family, and it will be governed by Confucianism for a long time. What is Confucianism? The inner saint and the outer king, based on benevolence and righteousness. But after saying that, Zheng Lang's expression was not very good, Confucianism said so, and Confucianism is also the state religion of China, what has become of the facts? Inner King and Outer Saint! Righteousness-based, benevolence-based! The benevolent love of others and the holy peace of the people have become a powerful weapon and a false slogan for a few people to deceive the ignorant people. Why do you need to take the test in the system? As long as you truly achieve the inner and outer kings, take benevolence as the foundation, righteousness as the cut, love the people and the people, and settle the people, the country is too far away for a thousand years, but it will not be impossible to come to a 500 or 600 years!

Ordinary people are always dogs.

Putting aside this idea, he said: "Therefore, the golden mean is mostly talking about virtue throughout the article, but the golden mean is divided into three parts, and the middle is the hair, and the descendants of the master saw that the master mentioned the mean many times, so they wrote "The Mean", and only said that virtue could not be explained clearly, so "The Mean" was written very thin in the future, and it often made people confused. Virtue is the foundation, Profit Festival, virtue is the perfect mean of a branch system. ”

Not only is Deli neutralized, but there are also various other aspects.

"But it's also good that it allows us to better understand people's hearts, people's surnames. Whether it is the state, the administration of officials, construction, war, crime, doctrine, industry and commerce, or agriculture, all of them are dominated by people. If you want to know people, you have to know people's hearts and surnames, and if you don't know people's hearts and surnames, you can't cultivate moderation. ”

"Whoa." The four teenagers nodded vigorously.

The surname occupies an important position in Confucianism, the unity of heaven and man is vague, Mencius directly said that the surname is good, Xunzi said that the surname is evil, and even the Shi family also came to join in the fun, saying that the surname is a blank paper, and the day after tomorrow is stained with various colors, Zheng Lang's surname has a different view, he believes that people are born with complex family name inheritance, and there is a strong ** view for individual survival, as well as a moral constraint concept for the overall survival. Just as heaven and earth are composed of yin and yang, they are mutually reciprocal, the starting line and wisdom are different from birth, but the acquired influence is more important, and the combination of the two is the real reason for a person's good and bad.

This view of people's surnames is closer to truth and perfection.

Since coming to Taipingzhou, nearly a year and a half have passed in the blink of an eye, and many things have happened, both good and bad, which have inspired them and better understand Zheng Lang's concept of surnames.

Although it is still small, if Sima Guang and Lu Gongzhu are directly released now, it is very likely that they will barely be a qualified county order.

is also what Lu Yijian wants to see the most, but the politics are different, the thinking is different, and the third son is becoming more and more promising, but he also slides to the place he least wants to see.

After saying this, Zhongyong began to formally revise it.

Instead of writing an article for it immediately, I first sorted out all the relevant chapters and sentences written by various Confucian masters of the previous generation, which will be used as a basis and argument, and at the same time, in the process of collation, absorb the ideas and doctrines of the predecessors, and further reflect on my own thoughts.

…… The biggest advantage of asking ghosts is not to ask the truth of the case, Ding Laosan's death is an episode, Zheng Lang didn't know it in advance, otherwise it would be impossible to sit back and watch Ding Laosan be killed. The biggest benefit is that it is a kind of convincing, which is of great help to the circle.

Otherwise, there will be so many people and few officials in their hands, and there will be a lot of trouble.

At least the ghosts believe it, and there are some of the more difficult ones who dare not cause trouble.

The long causeway gradually rose from Pingtaek, and the winter also went to the depths, and a light snow fell, like those small bridges in the south of the Yangtze River, it fell very **, and it melted when it landed, and only in some of the darkness did I see a trace of a beautiful shadow, and I was very shy to shrink my beautiful figure.

A small boat found Zheng Lang, and Shi Congguang and Wei Siniang jumped off the boat.

Wei Siniang said: "Zheng Zhizhou, do you want to thank my family?" ”

Aunt Wei was so anxious that she wanted to cover her mouth, and she was not allowed to say it until the matter was done.

Zheng Lang smiled slightly: "No, on the contrary, your family should thank me when I arrive next year, I am a person who doesn't like to take advantage of others." ”

"Next year," Wei Shi Niang blinked her eyes in confusion. I couldn't figure it out, and the reason why I couldn't figure it out was in a small bag of hers, handed it over, and said, "This is what my family collected for you." ”

Zheng Lang opened it and saw that there were some things, that is, frosting made in various places.

The frosting is not white sugar, but rock sugar, but not the later rock sugar, and the current granulated sugar is not the later granulated sugar. Peel and peel the skin first, scoop out the sugar juice with a mill, steam it thoroughly with a retort, take out the sugar water, and then put it into the kettle to fry, still steaming. This is the process of making sugar. After the sugar water is squeezed out, it is repressed with raw water, which can be used as sour vinegar, which is a by-product of sugar making.

The steamed sugar water is put into the urn, so that it naturally dries the rest of the water, and produces crystallization, which is the frosting, the color in an urn is different, the stacking rockery is the top, the group branch is second, and the small pieces are interspersed with the second, and the sand foot is the bottom. Or purple is the top, dark amber is second, light yellow is second, and light white is the bottom. The size varies, there are a few taels, and the big ones have nearly 30 catties a piece.

However, it takes a long time, from the cultivator to the finished product, it will take a year and a half at the earliest, and nearly two years at the latest.

It also needs to be made manually, and the large urn is in place, which is the area where the frosting is produced, and the large households only have dozens of urns, and the small households only have one or two urns, and there is no place to hold so many urns. Although it is profitable, the cost is also high. Either to make sugar, but the price is cheap, and if you want to feed 30,000 or 40,000 people, it is unlikely.

So when you hear the word sugarcane, including Zhao Zhen, I don't know what kind of medicine Zheng Lang sells in the gourd, you don't raise a hundred or two hundred people, but tens of thousands of people. In these two years, they must also be given shelter, warm clothing, and adequate food.

I couldn't figure it out, so I had to ask. Including asking ghosts.

But people have not yet come.

Pick up the crystal clear frosting, in the sun, the amber frosting shines softly, like an amethyst.

I put it in my mouth and tasted it, the production cost is very high, the cycle is long, but the taste is no less than the white rock candy that came later.

Wei Shiniang said again: "It's so expensive." ”

Although the benefits are large, the government has to collect taxes and pay tribute, so there are not many producers, and there are no more than 5,000 households in the country. Some places were forced by tribute and taxes, and finally had to open a sugar shop to sell sugar, not candy, but syrup, white syrup is unsteamed, the sweetness is slightly lighter, called raw sugar, light red is steamed once, dark red is syrup that has been steamed twice, called cooked sugar, the deeper the price, the sweeter. This is very common, Taiping Prefecture is not a major sugarcane producing area, and there is a sugar mill in the state city.

Therefore, the price of frosting is very expensive, even the Zheng family, several mothers dare not eat frosting as a snack.

Zheng Lang didn't say anything, looked at Shi Congguang and said, "Is it here?" ”

"All of them."

"Okay, let's go take a look."

Sitting on the boat and looking at the long causeways, Zheng Lang also had a sense of accomplishment, and suddenly thought of something, and said to the four teenagers: "Tell me, what is the soil out of the water?" ”

"Division!" Wang Anshi said.

"If you can be righteous, you can be the king, just respond, take risks and go well, so as to poison the world, and the people follow it, what is the blame. Elephant or not? ”

Can lead the people to uphold justice, can be a king (can also refer to a big thing), ninety-two yang in the middle, up and down there are six or five yin corresponding, out of the righteous soldiers and follow the people's will (can also refer to doing great things), although there is harm to the world, and the people are willing to follow, auspicious, where there is a disaster.

This is the general explanation of the teacher's hexagram.

It is indeed very similar to Zheng Lang's encirclement.

"It's the sixth year of the first month, and the division is disciplined, whether Zang or not (you must be strict with military discipline when you go out, otherwise you won't be able to fight a good war), isn't it very similar?"

"Elephant," the four teenagers all said excitedly.

Before Zheng Lang encircled Weiwei, he first dealt with the six tigers of the Zhangjia family and Linjiang Temple, and won the hearts of the people, and used both grace and power, which was also a kind of strict military discipline.

Then he went down to discuss that the second line was that the handsome army was impartial in law enforcement and auspicious, so the king rewarded him many times. It is also like this spring, many people in the court boasted. By the third line, the leader of the army is about to leave the division, and there is a possibility of success, but there is also the possibility of returning with a large defeat in the car, which is dangerous. When the victims arrived, the situation was very similar. The fourth division is stationed on the left side, and there is no disaster. When the victims came, they had to make a surprise move to correct the situation. Woe to me or not, it has not yet been fulfilled.

"Doctor Zheng, so after this hexagram is revealed, is it time to compare the hexagram?" Yan Rong asked.

"Yes, after such a large-scale development, almost all of the potential of Taiping Prefecture has been tapped, taxes will increase year by year, the people will multiply, and the per capita income will decline again. So it has become a hidden and thief outside, and there is a tendency to be stingy and stingy inside (the division is on the Kun and the lower Kan, than the upper and lower Kun, the Kun is the earth, the mother, the cloth, the kettle, the stingy, the even, the son and the cow, the big opinion, the Wen, the public, the handle, the Kan is the water, the ditch, the hidden, the overbearing, the bow wheel, the worry, the heart disease, the pass, the month, the thief, the head, etc.), we must work together, otherwise the people of Taiping Prefecture will have a disaster. But we must succeed in translating this hexagram in Taiping Prefecture, otherwise we will change to a Zhizhou and introduce a new state policy, and this hexagram will disappear completely, and there will be no following hexagram. ”

"It's very reasonable," Yan Rong exclaimed in surprise, and said, "Then can you explain all the problems with ease?" ”

"Yi only has sixty-four hexagrams, which is very practical, but it does not fully explain all the problems. But most of the questions, if you have enough wisdom, can be explained in an easy way, for example, I Chao, what do you think about again? ”

"Jin." Wang Anshi said again.

The Song Dynasty implemented Wenzhi internally, just like the mother and the text, and the outside was bullied by the Khitan and was a soldier, so it was separated, and the upper and lower Kun were separated, which happened to be the Jin hexagram.

"Do you think I have such a peaceful hexagram as Jin?"

"That's ......"

"The relationship between countries is just a use, friends and enemies, don't take it seriously, take it seriously, that's sorry for the wisdom of our ancestors. Not only do you not have permanent friends, but the things of soldiers also happen from time to time, if you are ready to value peace, learn from Mohists, and even the common people of your own country do not eat well, to raise white-eyed wolves, what did Mencius say? ”

"What do you call a white-eyed wolf?"

"The ungrateful."

"That's called fatherless, and so are beasts." When the four teenagers finished answering, they all giggled.

"I'm afraid it's not even as good as a beast." Zheng Lang didn't want to talk about this topic anymore, he was the king internally and holy externally, which gradually started from the Song Dynasty, and it was a very painful topic. Then he asked, "Think again?" ”

"It's better."

"Exactly, there is a group of fierce robbers outside, which is also the heart disease of my dynasty, or the barbarians below are above it, it is the hexagram. Therefore, with concerted efforts, the crisis is not big, and once the internal division occurs, the country will be in danger. ”

To put it this way, the I Ching is amazing.

It's not so magical, but the simple materialism of the I Ching has many places that have great reference value, as for the use of fortune telling, what else is there to say, such as gunpowder has become a firecracker, and the compass has become a compass for measuring the treasure of feng shui, which is also a heavy topic.

When he arrived in Wuhu County, Zheng Lang entered a workshop, a very large workshop, and it was something that made Zheng Lang cry and laugh, he originally wanted to move it outside the city to save costs, but considering the future of the city, he still put it in the city, warehouses, workshops, a total of more than 100 acres of land, all of which cost more than 30 yuan to buy an acre. It didn't come in handy now, but there was a heavily guarded corner.

The silk weaving technology is released, and Zheng Lang does not plan to release this technology.

If the victims want to be resettled, they have to use clever methods and deviate from the teacher, but the fourth hexagram of the teacher also said that the partial division is out according to the art of war, and there is no blame, and everything he has done is not in accordance with the art of war, so is there any blame?

If someone else has so much money, they must also see a return.

It is also necessary to give a very generous reward to the imperial court, and somewhat block the mouths of some ministers.

So it has to be blocked.

I was also forced to be helpless, I didn't need to do this, including this big workshop, and I didn't want to set it up, because the victims of the disaster had to set it up, set a strict plan, and all of it was overturned and restarted, what kind of feeling is it?

That's when we came to the docks.

A large number of four and Ming Liang cane were transported, and the climate was similar, so this variety was selected for transfer.

A lot of them, boat after boat.

Carry it to the big workshop.

In the following days, a deep pit was dug and the sugarcane was placed in the pit to raise seedlings. There are a total of 4,000 acres of seedling land, which frightened the locals.

There are 4,000 acres of seedling land, how many will there be in the field?

And the new problem comes out, making frosting, don't look at the money in the state treasury, but that money is not enough to turnover, the profit of making granulated sugar is thin, so much at once, it will inevitably affect the price, the profit is thinner, not worth much, or selling syrup, that is even more impossible.

I can't understand it, but because Zheng Lang has performed too much, I can't figure it out, and no one questions it.

…… The polder is gradually about to be circled.

Wang Zhaoming came to Taiping Prefecture again, found Zheng Lang, and complained: "I knew that this was the case, so I shouldn't go back to Beijing." ”

In fact, it is joy, and running like this is called proclamation, and it is a grace. If he stays in Taiping Prefecture and is not allowed to go back, it is called release, depreciation, and the quality of the surname is completely different.

Zheng Lang stayed on the embankment, the conditions were very simple, but the tea set was still available, so he asked Jiang Xing'er to make tea, and said, "Wang Neizhi, what is the matter with this trip?" ”

"Congratulations to Zheng Zhizhou, Your Majesty has a decree to let you serve in your original position, and move you to Longtu Pavilion Straight Bachelor."

Jiang Xing'er is overjoyed, that's a straight bachelor! There would not have been dozens of officials in the entire Song Dynasty who were similar to or more than the position of this pavilion.

But Zheng Lang suddenly changed color, and said: "Please tell Your Majesty, the minister will not accept it!" ”

"Why?"

"Your Majesty's disregard for human life is also wrong. For the sake of balance, bribing the courtiers is also wrong. I have talked with Your Majesty many times, and Your Majesty should know that the minister is not such a person, but he bribed the minister with his official position, and he is also wrong. Could it be that Your Majesty thinks that this period of time is too quiet, and wants the ministers to learn some words and ministers, and to criticize Your Majesty one by one? ”

Zhao Zhen, don't make a mistake, if you go too far, Shi Jie and the others can whip you, and I can whip you too!