Liao Xingzong was satisfied and released Yuan Hao back. Then asked Guo Kui: "Yuan Hao came this time, is there any sincerity?" ”

I actually remembered to ask Guo Kui.

But Guo Kui's performance during the Khitan camp was very weak, and the Khitan monarchs and ministers have always despised it, since he asked, Guo Kui calculated in his mind, and deliberated again, mainly calculating where Xiao Hui's army was. He replied: "Peace between the Khitan and Western Xia is beneficial to the people. ”

"What people? You just say whether Yuan Hao is sincere, "Liao Xingzong listened impatiently, why are the monarchs and ministers of the Song Dynasty all this virtue, as if they love the people, you love the people, we don't love the people?" But it should be fought.

"Peace is good for ......"

"You say sincerity." Not only Liao Xingzong shook his head, but the other generals also shook their heads.

"Lack of sincerity, Yuan Hao and our dynasty have negotiated peace many times, and the name and the actual battle, and finally defeated him several times, and he really agreed to negotiate peace."

"Are you saying that our Khitan army is not as good as your Song army?"

"Your Majesty, the minister didn't mean that, but if your country doesn't defeat Yuan Hao, it's hard for him to be convinced. But the soldier is the life and death plan of the country, and His Majesty is still cautious. ”

A cadre of ministers made him almost vomit blood in anger, what are these words? Xiao Hui, who came from Beihetao, said: "Your Majesty, Yuan Hao Shiyi is ungrateful, cute and treacherous, today the car is driving a personal expedition, the army is combined, and the sky tempts him to come, so that he can come, this is a good sign, the sky is not with him, and he regrets it." ”

There is a kind of Kui present, Xiao Hui said very implicitly, although Li Jiqian has fought and won many battles with the Song Dynasty, if it is not for the support of the Khitan, with Li Jiqian, can he really succeed in establishing a country? The Song Dynasty also grinded him to death. So just say the word Shiyi. Now Yuan Hao personally came to the camp, this is a sign from heaven, and Yuan Hao will be captured alive on the battlefield. If the heavens don't show it, it's too late to regret it.

Guo Kui wanted to laugh when he heard it, why bother with this move, if so, he arrested Yuan Hao in the camp just now. Even if you can catch up with it now by sending people to arrest it, the dragons of the Western Xia are leaderless, and they will collapse without a fight, so why do you have to go to the battlefield to live and die? This reminded him of Song Xianggong. Such a Khitan monarch. How can you not be defeated?

The other ministers chimed in, saying that the army had been assembled and that it was appropriate to fight it.

Could it be that nearly 200,000 troops were gathered, and only Yuan Hao came to the camp to pay a respect, and the army would return in vain?

This is caused by the Khitan system, with the tragic system of the Song Dynasty, the military generals also have to fight and make meritorious contributions. Moreover, the Khitan. If you want to be promoted, rich, and knighted, you must establish military merits. Yuan Hao's performance was very soft, his own army of nearly 200,000, not to mention defeating the Western Xia, and occupying the North and South Hetao and the Yinchuan Plain. This is the immortal military feat. So we have to fight together.

Liao Xingzong walked around, but he couldn't stand the hard persuasion of the generals, since he wanted to fight, he would fight.

When the news reached Zhang Kang, Zhang Kang was also dumbfounded. Zheng Lang deliberately said one thing. It is the problem of the two emperors.

The Khitan Emperor couldn't move, even if Yuan Hao was defeated, he wouldn't dare to catch the Khitan Emperor. Or kill the Khitan Emperor. Because the Khitan has been founded for a long time, nearly 140 years, it is much longer than the Song Dynasty, and the system is perfect. Even if the Khitan Emperor died in battle, there were still princes in the country, and there were other children of the clan as princes. It may cause some chaos in the Khitan, but no matter which person comes to power, he will regard this matter as a great shame, and the Song Dynasty will take crazy revenge on the Song Dynasty if he catches it. Those caught by the Western Xia will launch a crazy revenge on the Western Xia. If the Khitan went crazy, how could it be said that it was the Western Xia, and the Song Dynasty would not be better. Therefore, he repeatedly advised that once the Khitan was defeated, without the protection of the Song army, the Western Xia people would not move the Khitan emperor, and could only act like this. You can't fight the idea of the Khitan Emperor.

However, the Western Xia is different, not long after the founding of the Western Xia, the states of Xia You are outside the nest of the Western Xia, and even the surrounding clans of Xingqing Mansion may not have much loyalty. Yuan Hao was captured or killed, and Western Xia was finished. Unless the country has been established for a long time, there is a perfect heir system, and many interests are formed, Yuan Hao's death or arrest will not affect the Western Xia. In fact, because the Li family was not very popular in Western Xia, most of them were controlled by their relatives, and they fought and fought for this reason. …,

What a great opportunity, to let it go.

Zhang Kang was also speechless, if he wanted to fight, Yuan Hao did not have to be released, the army was slowly moving westward, and the biggest crisis in Western Xia would come. If it is released, it cannot be hit. Otherwise, Yuan Hao's army will become a sad army, a mourning army, how dangerous the mourning army is, look through the books of the soldiers.

Inform the imperial court of the news.

Zheng Lang is reading this newspaper. After reading it, Zheng Lang put down the newspaper. Said: "Lan Duzhi knows that one of them is inconvenient for brine selection, the brine concentration is too low and has no effect, too high salt and too expensive, in fact, in Taiping Prefecture, I proposed to use brine to select seeds." The seeds selected by the concentrated brine are all good seeds with full grains. But how many poor people are willing to do this? ”

The average salt per catty of salt in the states and counties of the Song Dynasty was more than 30 wen, and the nobles could reach more than 100 wen. A pound of salt is equivalent to a bucket of wheat, half a bucket of rice, if you want to choose a good seed, widely planted and thinly harvested backward planting methods, with a lot of seeds, a family has to plant dozens of acres of land in order to support the family, if you rent at least forty or fifty acres of land, in order to ensure that a family has a very reluctant food and clothing. If you want the concentration of brine to reach the ideal saturation state, you must use at least 40 catties of salt in two seasons.

Listening to Zheng Lang's accounting, Lan Yuanzhen said: "It's too expensive." ”

"I have always had an idea in my heart, in the five franchises of salt tea wine and alum incense, tea fanzi is used more, it doesn't hurt to be a little more expensive, incense is used a lot, it doesn't hurt to be a little more expensive, alum is used to purify water, the people use it less, a little more expensive is not a big problem, the wine has money to drink a little more, no money to drink a little less, but the salt ...... This is the way to cut down the people. If the fiscal situation is further relaxed, I think that if I let it go a little bit and keep the price of salt at more than ten yuan per catty, in turn, Khitan salt and Xixia salt will immediately lose their advantage. This is what I wrote about the salt drying method," he said, pulling out some pieces of paper from his drawer.

It may not all work, and it is necessary to carry out detailed tests before implementation, select the salt field, and evaporate the salt brine after entering the brine pond after the sun, and then transport the concentrated salt brine to the crystallization pool for evaporation and crystallization. The crystalline is coarse salt, and the second step of melting and filtration is required, because the technology is backward, this process must be carried out at least three times to obtain edible refined salt. There are still some harmful substances in it, but in this era, who can guarantee that there are no harmful substances in the salt, and the industrial salt containing huge poison on the shore of Qinghai Lake can still be eaten. It is estimated that the people also have immunity, and these salts will be eaten in the future generations, and it is not known how many people will die of salt poisoning. There are definitely now, but not much.

The cost will not be lower than boiling salt, but it will not be higher either. Mostly, it increases the source of salt. Yields are even increased by four to five times. When the production is large, the price of salt will naturally fall. In fact, no matter how you calculate it, the cost of salt from the salt field will never exceed four cents per catty. The reason why it is expensive. Or is it caused by a monopoly. Even without the salt drying method, the Song Dynasty did not lack salt, on the contrary, many times the salt could not be sold.

Zheng Lang said: "Lan Du knows that this law cannot be disclosed. ”

"I know," Lan Yuanzhen said solemnly, he glanced at it. Although it is not as wise as Ouyang Xiu, it is not stupid, and he can see its meaning at a glance.

Zheng Lang said: "Secondly, I use a nutrient bowl to carry it, and the nutrient bowl is plant ash. The second is manure, and the third is bean root puree. ”

"Bean root puree?"

"If you look at my physicism, you will know that there is also matter in the air. It is light and invisible to the naked eye, so it will rise as soon as it encounters a lighter object, such as a Kong Ming lantern. Plants not only absorb nutrients from the soil, but also absorb some nutrients from the air, especially beans, so Jia Siyun of the Northern and Southern Dynasties proposed to use beans instead of rotational tillage in the Qi Min's technique. The effect of bean cultivation is remarkable, and planting beans for two or three years can be equivalent to planting one season of milk vetch. ”

Zheng Lang said that these were still difficult to understand in the Tang Dynasty.

Intensive cultivation increased in the Song Dynasty. The use of fertilizers is outrageous, and often even later generations are not as sophisticated as those of the Song Dynasty. In order to fertilize the fields, manure, river sludge, leaching plant stems and leaves, plant ash, leachable garbage, village ditch sewage and peanut and bean bran are all utilized. The people can't say why, but these fertilizers provide nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium for the fields, especially plant ash, which seems light. However, there are a large number of trace elements necessary for agriculture. Even what fertilizer needs to be soaked and what kind of fertilizer needs to be fermented, there are strict details. …,

Lan Yuanzhen seemed to understand whether he understood or not, but he could understand part of it, and he didn't know the principle, but he could see the various ways of using fertilizers in the countryside, and nodded.

"I'm experimenting, I'm interested, I don't rely on it to make any profit, and I don't rely on it to feed a family, but it's impossible for the people, where do they get so much fertilizer, and time. The second selection of seedlings is then carried out through a nutrient bowl. All the seeds that have been moved into the field are good. In the end, I took care of it carefully, this is my family, can other people spend several people for a few acres of sorghum land, piled on it? Therefore, this method can only be conveyed and let the people brainstorm on their own, but it cannot be promoted. Once promoted, it is not to benefit the people, but to disturb the people. ”

"That's a shame." Lan Yuanzhen said reluctantly.

Sorghum with two stones and seven buckets, once it can be promoted, is the Song Dynasty still worried about food?

"When I was in Hangzhou, I heard a legend that there was a mainland more than 20,000 miles away from the Oriental Ocean on the Far South Island (Australia), and the seafarer father of a small country in the South China Sea encountered a typhoon and was blown out of direction, where he drifted to, there were several kinds of grain on it, and the production capacity per mu reached twenty or thirty stones, and the high-yield could reach fifty stones, which was suitable for dryland planting. After that, his father lived there for several years, rebuilt several ships and brought them back. But to the east of the ocean, where there are few islands and many uninhabited, or where a few fierce natives live, it took more than a year to return to their own country, and they ate all the seeds they had brought with them, and at last they had to eat their own partners. I don't know if it's true or not, after all, the production capacity per mu has dozens of stones, which is too weird. If the ship's technology is a little more developed, send someone to spend two or three years to take a look. It's really......"

To put it vaguely, drawing Oceania can say what the seafarers say, after all, the range of activities of seagoing ships in this era is relatively wide, and if you investigate carefully, you can draw accurate nautical charts. But this can only be placed in the South China Sea, and Oceania is already very strange. And then the American continent.

So a legend was used.

"True or false?" Lan Yuanzhen asked excitedly.

"Who knows if it's true or not, it's too far, the sea is deep to the east, the ocean is vast, mainly there are few islands, with the current ship technology, nine out of ten will not return, do I dare to send someone over to see it for a rumor? If you have gains, it's better to sacrifice, if you raise the army and move the people, the whole army will be annihilated, do I dare to bear the consequences? ”

Lan Yuanzhen didn't dare to make a sound.

If you send a few thousand people over, and there is no news in a few years, then it will be dead, and the five horses will be divided. Hugh said Zheng Lang, even Lu Yijian didn't dare to bring it up when he heard this legend. Whoever mentions it dies.

"But the world is so big, there are no surprises, such as the sour bag tree." That is, the bread tree, the baobab tree, at this time there was no bread talk, went to the southern islands, so that the soldiers saw this plant, sour, not very tasty. But it can be full. But I can't get used to eating more, and some people are curious to bring it to the Central Plains. Zheng Lang did not say anything about this, and he could also transfer it in Lingnan, but the income was not very high. If it is planted on a large scale, it is better to spread advanced agricultural technology in the south. In Zheng Lang's future territory, this kind of bread tree has a low status, and it will not be deliberately introduced.

However, some people brought back to the capital one after another, not for deliciousness, but for novelty, including some fruits from the south. It was very sweet, so I dried it and brought it back one after another. It can also be regarded as one of the benefits of the safety prison.

Zheng Lang changed the topic and asked again: "Lan Duzhi, has the imperial court properly settled the retired soldiers this year?" ”

"I don't know, but I guess this year has been a good year, and the imperial treasury has been slightly surplus. Approximately the imperial court will pay the maintenance expenses of these retired soldiers together. Alas, next year the country will be fine. The provincial officials worry about ...... every day in the palace"

Zheng Lang's face was also relaxed.

Unable to solve the problems of the Song Dynasty, nearly 300,000 soldiers were reduced. This refers to the wide recruitment of soldiers after the outbreak of the Northwest Campaign, but in fact, compared with the pre-war period, the number of soldiers reduced was only more than 100,000. Among them, part of the money was to be allocated to Baoding, and Fan Han suggested that some more native soldiers should be added, and the archers would give a little compensation. The combat effectiveness is increasing, and there is a certain reserve of soldiers, but these three require a lot of money. In fact, it does not save much money, but the combat effectiveness of the country's soldiers is far higher than before. It is important for everyone to see the benefits. Another 100,000 soldiers can be reduced in the future. As long as this 100,000 yuan is increased, and then there is a safety prison, and some other auxiliary measures, come and go, at least 30 million yuan of income, even if there is no reform. The Song Dynasty began to decline. …,

"Zheng Xianggong, aren't you worried about the northwest?" Lan Yuanzhen asked curiously.

"Lan Duzhi, why should I worry? The fierce generals in the northwest are like clouds, Zhang Kang, Di Qing and Wang Xin's command ability is far above mine, and there are some rising stars, not only to fight, but also to further sharpen the future of the country. If there is a mistake in this battle, it proves that the command ability of our generals is far behind the Khitan and Western Xia. Then in the future, even I obediently sued for peace and used a lot of money to ensure the peace of the border. ”

Lan Yuanzhen didn't take it seriously, let alone list Zheng Lang under the three of Di Zhangwang. I just thought that Zheng Lang was confident.

But Zheng Lang is also thinking about it, he is not worried about making mistakes during the war, but thinking about the post-war, which is the difference between him and Di Qing. Di Qing's war is a battle, purely an act of force and violence, and Zheng Lang's view of war is only a continuation of politics. Pre-war preparations and wartime were mainly for the war, while post-war resettlement was for politics. Regardless of victory or defeat, there are pros and cons, unless the war of annihilation of the country, how to expand the positive side and avoid the disadvantage side is the focus of Zheng Lang's consideration.

Then staring at the sorghum in front of him, Lan Yuanzhen wanted to take some back to Beijing and let Zhao Zhen take a look. About Zhao Zhen was also curious in the palace, what is the difference between the sorghum of the two stones and seven buckets and the ordinary sorghum. Something suddenly came to mind.

All along, he was not allowed to promote good breeds.

Taiping Prefecture has almost become a special zone, and its own set of methods has been retained and become a rule, and it is estimated that those seeds in Taiping Prefecture have produced some bad phenomena at this time.

This is helpless, when it comes to the government, you can't say anything, and there will be many people who stretch out their hands. It is precisely the main reason for the failure of Wang Anshi's reform and the main reason for the failure of Qingli's new policy. I believe in the rule of officials too much, Fan Zhongyan thinks that if a large group of moral gentlemen go down, the officialdom will be governed, how is it possible? Wang Anshi turned the private economy into a public economy, which was run by officials, how could the economy be good? So when I think of this defect, I have not been able to promote good breeds. Otherwise, it may not be useful to promote it in various places, but it will cause trouble to the people, and a large amount of public funds will be embezzled.

Until he saw the results, Zheng Lang didn't do anything. If you can't do it, if you do it, it will cause disputes, and it will definitely become the target of attacks by political enemies in the future.

I wear a microscope to magnify things.

However, Zhao Zhen asked, and he had an inspiration. looked at Fan Yue'er beside her, and said to Lan Yuanzhen: "Regarding the matter of seeds, I have a plan, and I will write a note to Your Majesty immediately." ”

After writing the fold, he said to Lan Yuanzhen: "You go back and report to Your Majesty for me, please don't worry about Your Majesty, the Khitan will lose this battle." Yuan Hao personally went to the Khitan camp to ask for peace, and asking for peace was what he wanted most, no matter how much he made arrangements, nearly 200,000 Khitan troops went west, and he would have the idea of being afraid. But why did he take the chieftains of the three ethnic groups to the Khitan camp to ask for guilt? ”

"Why?"

"There are many tribes in Western Xia, let the three chiefs look at it, and see that their lords are so low, the Khitan still does not let go of Western Xia, and there are three chiefs to testify, and there is an atmosphere of mourning. The three armies are all mourning, and when they encounter such an army, even when the Khitan is at its peak, they have to retreat, not to mention the current Khitan army. The Khitans are so careless, how can they not be defeated? ”

"No wonder ......"

"Yuan Hao is not simple, the victory of Sanchuan Village, he is careless. But from then on, it will be more difficult to deal with Yuan Hao. I'm thinking about ...... too," Zheng Lang said.

In his deduction, there are two possibilities, one is that Yuan Hao was stimulated and angry. The second is that although Yuan Hao was damaged, he finally won a great victory and began to be complacent and degenerate. I don't know what the outcome will be.

As the Song Dynasty, it is best to guide Yuan Hao to the results behind. How to do it, Zheng Lang was also thinking about it at this time. One more thing that comes to mind, I didn't move my sister, when did you come out? As soon as this big beauty came out, Yuan Hao was finished. (To be continued) RQ