After a while, Han Qingxiong was beaten by the Pan family brothers and found Song Jiu with a blue nose and swollen face, he was not angry, this was self-inflicted, anyway, like Song Jiu, inherited by his father, his skin was black and his flesh was thick, and it didn't matter how many beatings he had. But curious, he surrounded Song Jiu and said, "Jiulang, did the Pan family really sell your little sister to you?" ”

Song Jiu can't do anything about this goods, most of these Yanei are the descendants of military generals, they are energetic, they are extremely bored to stay in the capital, and a little fun will arouse their curiosity. said: "Han Erlang, I have invited two matchmakers, and I am about to choose an auspicious day to propose to the Pan family, if Mrs. Tian agrees, don't say borrow a few thousand yuan, borrow 100,000 yuan, I will be willing." ”

"What 100,000 yuan did you get?"

"Not now, not in the future?"

Han Qingxiong was speechless, what Song Jiu promised was more than five million yuan, plus commercial tax and city tax, how much it was, it was unimaginable. In fact, Wang Quanbin made a lot of money in Bashu this time, and it was far more than 100,000 yuan. How much, Song Jiu didn't know what to do. Thinking of Bashu, he asked, "Han Erlang, how is Bashu over there?" ”

"After the imperial army broke through Jintang County, Guankou Zhai, Wang Ke and several state rebels attacked Puzhou and was defeated by General Kang Yanze, so the whole division of the male subordinates got a respite, and his generals Luo Qijun and Tang Tao shouldered the danger of Tongshan, gathered the rest of the army to continue to plot. Now General Wang's troops are divided into two routes, one way is General Ding Deyu and Xichuan Cavalry Commander Zhang Yantong and General Kang to deal with the Tongshan rebel army and Wang Keyi's remaining army, and he and General Cao and General Liu led the main army to Yazhou. I don't know the specifics, but I still heard what Wang Dalang and the brothers said. ”

Song Jiu understood, but he was actually still fighting for credit.

Ding Deyu and Pan Mei have already made military achievements in Hunan, and their own policy has somewhat divided the hearts of the rebels. Even if there are people who continue to resist, it will not be too many. The Seven Monarchs of Pingluo and Wang Keyi did not contribute much. But though they are few in number, they are weak in strength. However, it was a mountainous battle, and it was still very difficult to completely extinguish it. So Wang Quanbin handed them over to Ding Deyu and Kang Yanze, one didn't want him to get great merit, and the other was a person he hated.

Then Ping Lu Han, with the support of the Qiang people and the Fan people, had to bring Cao Bin and Liu Guangyi's troops, otherwise he might not have enough troops.

Whether to fight for merit or not, Song Jiu didn't want to think about it, but thought of one thing. It seems that the mutiny will be suppressed soon. Only when there is no war, can the people of Bashu live in peace a little.

Song Jiu said: "Han Erlang, don't underestimate the pacification of Bashu, Bashu came to the country of abundance in ancient times. Once pacified, the imperial court would be provided with a large amount of taxes, and only a small number of valuable goods were transported from the plank road to the capital, most of which were still carried down the river from the Three Gorges and then from Bianshui to Beijing. It's good for us too. ”

Han Qingxiong disagreed, relying on Hezhou's dividends. For a thousand years, the Wang family and Erlang will not be able to share the money that their father got in Bashu. That's when people dared to fish, Han Qingxiong's eyes were red and helpless, and he said: "I saw the cold melon you said outside the city that day. ”

"Oh. Let's take a look. "Song Jiu is overjoyed.

He knew that the court of Ludao had introduced Champa rice and watermelons, so he didn't know where Ludao was planted, and it was also good for the north.

The north can't fight the south. Later, the polders of the Song Dynasty were said to have a yield of five or six stones per mu, and the north was good. In two seasons, the strength of milk will be exerted. The yield per mu will not exceed three stones. However, watermelon is different, especially in the saline-alkali land near the capital, it is not realistic to grow grain, but planting watermelon is the best soil.

The two rode all the way to the south of the city, and rode for more than 20 miles before they saw a sand field with many watermelons planted on it.

Song Jiu frowned after seeing this, and shouted to a person in the field not far away, "Who planted this melon?" ”

"Guo Si's family."

"Trouble folk, can you take me to him?"

The farmer glanced at the two of them, although Han Qingxiong's face was still a little bruised, but he was dressed extraordinarily, he didn't dare to offend, and took the two of them to find Guo Si in a mulberry forest, Song Jiu said: "I am Song Jiu, the founder of the country." ”

"I've seen the Count."

"No need to be polite, have you heard of the out-of-season vegetables outside the East Water Gate of the capital."

"Little one."

"That's what I planted, I'll teach you how to grow cold melons."

When I got here, it was a real countryside, the people were simple, Song Jiuyi was an official, the second was an earl, and the third was the owner of that expensive dish, Guo Si believed it very much. This kind of thing will definitely not work, Song Jiu taught him to open the furrow and dig out the furrow, otherwise he will not be able to dredge the water.

Then the melon seedlings are transported out and placed into the small seedling field, which must be strengthened with sufficient farm fertilizer. Then dig in the field, fertilize in the ditch, and move the melon seedlings to this ditch when they grow up. At the same time, we must learn to beat stubble, artificially pollinate, and weave small hats to cover on melons. Of course, catching insects, and so on.

After hearing this, Guo Si said: "Count Song, the younger one has no money and the other is not free." ”

After daring Zhao Kuangyin sent someone to fetch the seeds, he followed Song Jiu's suggestion and sent them to some people on the saline-alkali land, letting them plant and fend for themselves. So the common people planted it, sprinkled it on the sand, did not apply fertilizer or water, and really left it to fend for itself......

Song Jiu said: "That's it, I'll send someone to send you ten yuan tomorrow, you ask someone to help, if your own farm fertilizer is insufficient, use the money to buy some." ”

After speaking, he rode back with Han Qingxiong.

The yield of this method is definitely very low, and it will be slower to generalize. However, after guiding a family, seeing the effect, there will be people imitating it in the future, and it will be promoted faster, at least there will be a fruit in the summer.

However, this still doesn't work, or simply come to a greenhouse watermelon this winter?

……

No matter how the Pan Weide brothers got the money, with this money injection, other yamen have taken out their pockets.

The officials of the Quyuan were very up-to-date, and only levied 1,000 yuan to buy money. The actual proportion of buying and selling in the Song Dynasty wine is not very large, only more than ten percent, mainly official. But this kind of price is more practical than the price of Chinese cabbage, forcing Song Jiu to go to Quyuan and take the initiative to sign an agreement to buy 1,000 yuan for every 200,000 jin in the proportion of 200,000 catties, and 10,000 yuan for every 200,000 catties. Two million catties is not impossible, and the annual production of wine in the Song Dynasty is very amazing. It seems that just the wine once occupied more than 10 million yuan of income in Wang Anshi's reforms, including the corruption of officials. The actual figure would be more than 20 million. The average price of one catty is five cents, and the annual wine consumption of a family has reached 300 catties.

Others don't talk about it. Last year alone, Song Jiuyi ate more than 1,000 catties of wine and drank it as beer one by one. When drinking a drink, can the dosage be too much? In fact, if it is famous, the output may far exceed two million catties in a few years.

This must be made clear now, otherwise if you don't pounce on it when the time comes, others will think it's unfair, and if you add money, the people in the government won't be willing, but it's not beautiful.

The officials of Qu Yuan didn't understand his intentions, and saw that Song Jiu took the initiative to promise to increase the money. One by one, they couldn't cry or laugh.

But Song Jiu didn't say much, how many catties are now, for the Yanei, it is also a very vague number, and it will also be a kind of expensive wine, I don't care about this catty and five pennies. After finishing this matter, Song Jiu asked people to call Zhu Yanei again, and some people have not yet received the news, the same as last year. Song Jiu paid for them for the time being. It's not too much money, and it will be paid back soon. Song Jiu only said two things, the first thing is that the core place, that is, the place of distillation, must be preserved. Can't let the yamen move, just on the twenty acres of land that Song Jiu gave up. The second thing is to repeatedly tell you that you can buy land. Negotiate, that's a little more expensive. That is, dozens of acres of land, and it is not allowed to bully others. In a few months, all three things will be opened, and there will be no trouble at the moment.

Then it was handed over to the Yamen, including their wine diggers, building workshops, and how to standardize.

The workshop wanted to be built, but there were at least three or two months left, but the wharf was completed, and Zhao Kuangyin personally led the ministers to watch the ceremony.

Unlike Hongqiao, it was only for the sake of a happy New Year, Zhao Kuangyin took the ministers to take a look, and left after seeing it. The dock is very important. Song Jiu said that Bashu would pay taxes and transport it from Bianshui to the capital, not to mention. As Hunan gradually settled, including Hunan and Jianghan, these taxes also had to be transported from this lifeline to the capital.

Huainan also gradually stabilized, Song Jiu said about the field in Tanzhou, and also mentioned Jiangdong Wei, this Jiangdong area is very large, including the east of Ezhou, part of Poyang Lake, and the east along the east area, all the way to Runzhou in the Southern Tang Dynasty, but also including the Jiangbei area opposite the Southern Tang Dynasty.

The flood season is different from Wuyue, Wuyue is close to the sea, and the flood season is mainly in autumn, when typhoons cause flash floods, so floods are formed. The Koto area is a little far from the sea, but there are many rivers, so the flood season usually begins after the rainy season.

And the polders are to enclose the various swamps and lakes to make the lakes into fertile fields, and when the flood season comes, it is the real river fields. Not only does it require a lot of manpower, but it is also necessary to send people to fight the flood and protect the polder in the flood season, and it is obviously unrealistic to build the Jiangdong polder in the current situation of Huainan Road.

However, after all, Huainan has a developed water system and a warm climate, and the harvest is much higher than that of the north. Once settled, the tax rate will increase immediately.

Then there is the tribute of Wu Yue and the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Song Jiu said the year before last that Bianshui is not as good as the Wuzhang River, but this year is different, after the autumn, Jianghan Lake and Hunan will not change, and the Bianshui will be far above the Wuzhang River. Not to mention the high crop yield in the south, even the area and population of radiation are far from comparable.

This is not for Zhao Kuangyin to be imprudent.

Zhao Kuangyin led the ministers to arrive, the gongs and drums were noisy, the lanterns were colorful, and the firecrackers were set off, which was a festive day. Lu Duan and Han Chongyun will also do face projects and forcibly drive out the ships in the city. There will also be ships coming into the city to unload their cargo, but the ban will become stricter until there are no ships left in the city.

There is no ban yet.

However, Lu Duan sent a servant, how dare the owner disobey? Then he stood curiously on the bow of the ship and looked at the monarch.

There was also a series of ceremonies, including the ceremony, which was much grander than when Hongqiao was completed. In fact, Zhao Kuangyin also has a plan in his heart, and he is also watching, just like Hongqiao, if it is safe and sound, after a period of implementation, Hongqiao will be used to replace the flat bridge on Bianshui. The same is true for wharves, if the unloading speed is fast and manpower is saved, similar wharves are also set up on the Caishui, Jinshui River and Wutai River, and even in some important state cities, various small wharves can also be set up to reduce the labor of the people across the country.

River Island is just a pilot.

But this idea he did not say, a series of ceremonies ended, and unloading began. It turned out that Zhao Kuangyin saw the unloading in the river, obviously this time the progress was greater, and the unloading speed was faster. With a car transporting goods through the concrete road to various parts of the city.

For the time being, the summer tax has not come up, and although the warehouse has been built, it has not yet come in handy. But this is for the future, and no one will impeach waste.

After watching it for a while, Zhao Kuangyin asked Han Chongyun, "Han Qing, what about Song Jiu?" ”

"He came the day before yesterday to take the students to check them one by one, and then handed over the affairs to the old minister, as if he said to the students that they should compile the textbooks quickly."

Zhao Kuangyin knew what the teaching materials of the road were, he looked at the east again, the east side is the playground, as long as no one lives, Zhao Kuangyin will not care, this is what he said at the beginning, but there are many strange instruments, some are very tall, I don't know what the road is used for, he thought about it and said: "Let's go to the school." ”

The textbook made him very uneasy! (To be continued......)