"What?"

"Your Majesty, when the minister left Gyeongju, he had already begun to take shape, but after Chu Jianzhong went to Gyeongju, he returned to his original form. Although Fan Gong loved the people, he was still not as good as when the ministers left. Wang Ju said.

The watch has to be watched.

Wang Jucai is not like Zhang Kang, others asked him to disappear, and he himself cooperated and took the initiative to disappear......

Zhao Ji sighed slightly.

"Gyeongju is a military state, not a commercial state, as long as the people are quiet, the forts are not lost, and the Xia people are not allowed to come and plunder, it can be regarded as meritorious. However, Quanzhou is different, many maritime merchants are local to Quanzhou, or military clans from surrounding states, so overseas trade is rotating with Quanzhou. It is difficult to build, but easy to dismantle. What I am most afraid of is officials like Su Lu Chu Jianzhong, who are patriotic and love the people, but because of this, they are even more harmful. The minister has only been in Quanzhou for more than four years, and he is in the ascendant, so the minister implores His Majesty that if the minister is really transferred to Lingnan, please let Ge Shaohua replace him, and from now on, he will issue an edict to let Ge Shaohua serve as the general judge of Quanzhou, so as to familiarize himself with Quanzhou affairs in advance. ”

"Ge Shaohua?"

"It's the original servant in my family," Wang Ju simply picked it out and said, he didn't say that someone would pick it out in the future, so it was better to put it on the table in advance and say the reason: "Your Majesty should remember, right?" At the beginning, it was Neiku who operated the kapok in the name of Neiku, and at that time it was Ge Shaohua and the chamberlain Su Li who were in charge of the kapok affairs. Later, Jiefu was operated by the three divisions, and the Kapok Division was placed, and Zhang Zihou was in charge of the Kapok Division. Zhang Zihou commanded remotely in the capital, and there were still a group of officials in Lingnan cooperating or commanding below. Also includes Ge Shaohua. However, after Zhang Zihou left the Kapok Division. Ge Shaohua was transferred to Wuxian County as the magistrate. ”

The county is not bad. After all, Ge Shaohua was just a kid. However, Wuxian County is a small county in Xiangzhou, and the number of households on the household register is not even a thousand, and even now Zhao Ji doesn't know where Wuxian County is.

Not to mention Ge Shaohua's contributions, let's just say that after so many years of hard work, this transfer is also yielding.

Wang Ju continued: "Later, Zhang Zihou was transferred to the Third Division and re-transferred Ge Shaohua back to the Kapok Division. The cultivation and technical improvement of kapok, the construction of various fields, and also participated in the development of five roads, Liangguang and Jinghu South Road and Jiangnan West Road, as well as the reconstruction of the Ling Canal, and also took into account some affairs of the sugar factory. At least the Kapok Division has expanded year by year, and there have been no serious accidents among immigrants, and Ge Shaohua has contributed a lot. Of course, if you only choose officials based on the ranking and age of the imperial examination, rather than political performance. The minister didn't say anything. ”

How is this possible, it also depends on political performance.

But now Quanzhou is too important. Not only is the massive income of the Uchiku Yuka, but the state's business taxes are also surging, and Zhao Ji is a little hesitant.

Wang Ju said: "This is the only request of the minister. ”

However, Zhao Ji is not stupid, he does not answer and asks: "When will it be stable overseas?" ”

Ge Shaohua went to Quanzhou, perhaps because he had this ability, mainly to cooperate with Wang Ju's political achievements, so that he could continue to move people overseas.

Then let's move, but if we move more, the court will also have to manage it.

You don't have to answer ambiguously, what three or four million people, give an accurate time.

In fact, some ministers put it forward, Wang Ju did not do it right, with ore, then gunpowder must be used overseas. Last time in Mizhou, some local heroes tricked the victims into getting on the boat to grab food, but the sailors on the ship came up with compound bows and knives one after another, forcing the victims back in a few moments, and even shot these powerful servants caught in the victims to the ground one by one according to their appearances in the crowd, and caught the ship to force confessions. This speaks of the fact that weapons are already being manufactured overseas.

For this, Zhao Ji didn't care very much.

Wang Ju didn't say, and he wouldn't ask, because Wang Ju said that there are some fierce and uncivilized natives overseas who can eat people, and if they want to reclaim, there will inevitably be some battles, so can there be a lack of weapons?

If you want to mine efficiently, can you do without gunpowder?

And these technologies Wang Ju will be in the metropolis, and the gunpowder formula is also what Wang Ju has improved, not only in the improvement of gunpowder, but also in the improvement of steel smelting and armor, Wang Ju has also made great contributions.

This can be understood, Guan Jian has a paragraph later, there are not many people at first, it doesn't matter, but now there are more and more migrants, especially this year, the number of people in Quanzhou is huge, there is food, iron, technology, wealth, weapons, the more people migrate, the more Ding Zhuang, although scattered in the hands of nearly a thousand maritime merchants, but Wang Ju has a huge prestige in the hearts of these maritime merchants, that is, Wang Ju may remotely control tens of thousands of hundreds of thousands of Ding Zhuang, and these Ding Zhuang can be equipped into warriors at any time.

This sentence finally made Zhao Ji a little uneasy.

He summoned Wang Ju to the capital, first asked about the battle of Jiaozhi, and the second asked about the migrating people, and the latter was much more important in Zhao Ju's heart than Wang Juxiang.

The problem is that now Zhao Ji is afraid that Wang Ju will be furious, and the minister will work so hard for the court, and you will doubt me again, you have to let the minister go home and rest, then it will be a chicken feather immediately. At least in the ears of those seafarers, their hearts are cold.

So Zhao Ji didn't say it directly.

Wang Ju didn't know the inside story of this, but he knew that the number of immigrants had reached this point, and the imperial court would inevitably be jealous.

If it is a few thousand, even tens of thousands, when the number is calculated in units of 100,000, whether it is on the ship without permission or in the form of employment, it will inevitably alarm the imperial court. And that kind of sneaky way will only make the court more jealous.

And it is true that Wang Ju was selfish at this time, but unlike the impeachment of those ministers, Wang Ju did not want to rebel.

He thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, let's wait until the population is a little denser...... I went back and consulted with these maritime merchants, and in five years, at least five settlements on that continent were densely populated, and the imperial court could try to send officials to govern them. ”

Five years is not too long.

However, Wang Ju's voice changed and said: "Your Majesty, but how to govern, the imperial court must also set a system, it is impossible to divide all the states, and it must be put on roads, at least five roads." Then according to the situation, the state is divided into counties. and the officials and officials. tax system and so on. Otherwise, the officials will be corrupt and harsh, leading the people to riot, and it will be difficult for the imperial court to even suppress the rebellion. ”

Then take care of it, but how?

Not to mention anything else, there is an official who is willing to go overseas more than 10,000 miles away to be the governor of the prefecture and county?

Zhao Ji couldn't help but twist his eyebrows.

However, Wang Ju also has a headache, and now there are many secrets, which are not easy to expose.

But more than ten years later. What about these places? Wang Ju couldn't think clearly.

But Zhao Ji must be dealt with first, and Wang Ju said: "In fact, the maritime merchants prefer that the imperial court send officials to manage it. ”

"Huh?"

"Your Majesty, and I heard the minister say that most of the overseas land is now sparsely populated, so the people who cultivate, often a household in the field can get one to two hectares of land, and the middle field is three to four hectares of land, as for the field at all, the field can't be planted, how can there be the heart to plant the field. As for the area of livestock land, the area is larger. It can often be divided into more than ten hectares and more than twenty hectares. And these are all Yongye fields. ”

"Yongye Tian?"

"Your Majesty, don't worry about it in the future. The land is too wide, is it important to Yongye Field? ”

Zhao Ji couldn't help but smile bitterly.

But then he thought, this is too extravagant, can so much land be planted?

But he was also negligent, and now he can't grow it, and after a few generations of reproduction, there are actually not many. Moreover, when there is no need for food and clothing, the population will increase faster.

"However, this is now, although each household owns a lot of land, but it does not choose to settle in areas with good water and soil, although each household has a large land, but the people are concentrated together. Therefore, in the case of a few thousand people, even nearly 10,000 households, each maritime merchant can send stewards and economists to manage it first. But if you want to get more wealth, you have to have more people, and the population is more and more dispersed. And now most of the people who have migrated past are people who are destitute, and they are grateful and easy to manage. After a long time, this feeling of gratitude faded and gradually dispersed. These maritime merchants are not easy to manage. At that time, they will be eager to use the prestige of the court to govern the people. Moreover, the way they made money was the difference between the price of spices, pearls, and jade minerals between the two places, rather than making money by collecting tenant farmers. What is the difference between the management of the imperial court and their management? ”

"This is also ......," Zhao Ji thought for a while.

"Your Majesty, bring the map of the Liao Kingdom again."

"Map of Liao?" Zhao Ji said, but he immediately ordered the eunuch to take the map of Liao, but this map is not too standard.

Wang Ju said: "In the past, Taizong wanted to take Yanyun, so he sent Gao Qiong to borrow a boat from Cangzhou and land from Yingzhou. However, these ships were small, had limited troops, and lacked supplies. Therefore, Gao Qiong's division of troops this time was in vain. But what if the imperial court had a thousand Mulan boats? ”

"Mulan boat?"

"Not only Mulan boat, in recent years, under the guidance of the minister, the maritime merchants have made a lot of money, so many people have built large sea ships, so that the number of ships has increased dramatically in recent years, but if you want to be safe and want to be profitable, you must have bigger ships. And once the number of people increased, it was not only spices that were transported at that time, but also grain, meat, ore, timber, and even war horses. ”

"Horses over there, too?"

"There may or may not be there, but the minister encouraged some maritime merchants to go to Liaodong in exchange for some foals to graze. To transport horses, the ship had to be bigger. Now some maritime craftsmen are designing larger magnolia boats. ”

Don't think it's too big, the limit won't exceed fifteen hundred tons. Moreover, this kind of ship must comprehensively improve the existing hull, cabin, oars, sails, rudder and other technologies, otherwise it will still not be able to be put into shipping.

But what Wang Ju said is also practical, the windfall income is not long-lasting, and most of the ordinary civilian materials will be transported in the future, so it is necessary to win by quantity, so the ships must become bigger and bigger.

"If there are thousands of such large ships, with some warships, how many soldiers, horses, grain and grass can they carry?" Wang Ju then drew along the Bohai Bay with his hand.

Zhao Ji was immediately excited, which meant that the Song Dynasty could put more than 200,000 troops, including war horses, grain and grass, into the rear of the Liao State at any time.

Wang Ju breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as Zhao Ji has this hope, it will probably not matter in the future.

"Therefore, the imperial court sends officials to manage it, and your majesty does not need to worry, the maritime merchants will not resist. It's just that its significance is far more important than the maritime merchants think. However, if officials are sent to manage, what if officials are harsh? How to establish the system? Are there any officials willing to go? In addition, the cost of sea ship transportation is high, and since the imperial court is in charge, what should be done about this tax? It is impossible to requisition the ships of maritime merchants without compensation. If that angered the maritime merchants, they spontaneously banned sailing, and the officials could not return. These are all headaches, and the minister has been thinking about them for a long time, but he has not come up with a good solution. However, His Majesty put it forward, and I hope that His Majesty and the ministers will work together to come up with a safe strategy within these five years. ”

Think about it slowly......

Zhao Ji has said it twice in a vague way, which shows that there are many people in the imperial court. Then these difficulties should also be revealed.

However, Wang Ju's vision was also confused.

China has always been a country that guards its internal and external affairs, so it has always paid little attention to overseas development. But Wang Ju knew that it was the industrial age and colonization that later became strong in Europe and the United States. However, compared to the poor population and economy of Europe and the United States, even in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, China still had a leading position in the economy, let alone at this time. Therefore, once the immigration is successful, relying on this huge economy, the future is unthinkable.

But if it continues to develop like this, what changes will it make, and the imperial court suddenly changed its mind for no reason, and it actually really moved its mind about this overseas.

So Wang Ju couldn't think clearly.

Seeing Wang Ju's confused eyes, Zhao Ji was even more confused.

After a long while, Zhao Ji laughed: "Take your time, this thing ......"

Then he asked: "Wang Qing, if I use troops to fight with the DPRK, will the Liao State propose more blackmail?" ”

In fact, Shen Kuo could basically be negotiated, Wang Anshi sent Han Zhen to replace Shen Kuo, okay, the Song Dynasty was relieved, the Song Dynasty retreated, and the Liao State entered, so he put forward some more unreasonable demands. Don't be reasonable, from the beginning of the request to redraw the border, the Liao State did not intend to be reasonable.

It is precisely because of the excessive importance of the Liao State and the contempt for Jiaozhi that a series of misjudgments occurred under the command of Wang Anshi...... (To be continued......)