Lu Duan was afraid that this upright and honest old master would misunderstand, and explained: "Liu Zhongcheng, the situation is like this, many cranes have been set up on both sides of the two rivers, and the two Huai have gradually stabilized, and the Bianshui water transportation has gradually developed, and manpower has been saved. Originally, people were saved, and if there was nothing to do, the income would not increase much, but there were many people on the Hezhou side. Like this family, Weng Weng, a family of three laborers, can get six or seven yuan of income every month, that is, people are a little tired, but at least double the original income. Having these three or four taels of money and not having these three or four taels of money will be two different lives. Once you have it, you can buy some new clothes and the occasional piece of meat. ”

The expenses of the two families are different, Liu Wensuo has to support some subordinates, just like Song Jiu, no matter what he thinks, the three Yuping and the Guo family brothers and the old lady of the Zhang family are actually equal to his family members or servants. Not only do they have to eat, but they also have to be paid.

It's just that Yuping won't want it, it's just that it's been posted upside down, can the Guo brothers want it? Song Jiu didn't take the money for the old woman of the Zhang family to sew and mend clothes, but she raised her two grandchildren, which is also equivalent to paying salaries. The difference is that Apple's savings are constantly decreasing.

Therefore, if the minister has a high income, if he is really honest, unless he has a high official position, or has his own property, or embezzles and accepts gifts, it is still very difficult to live a good life.

Three or four taels of money, not a big number.

Zhao Kuangyin forgot to turn the spatula with him, he was thinking deeply.

He has lived a hard life, but he never tells people that if he has so much money in his hand, he has food and clothing, and if he has so much money in his hand, he can occasionally eat meat and wear new clothes. But it is very difficult and difficult, you can't say that you don't pay taxes, and the real two taxes are not big from the two taxes collected from the small citizens in disguise. There are only about ten million, but this is stone. It's a horse, it's a bundle. The money was only five or six million, and the main income of the imperial court was the monopoly of salt, wine and tea, as well as some commercial taxes, as well as apportionments such as and buying.

Moreover, even this 10 million taels of taxes is not all levied from the poor people, the larger the households, the more they are levied, although the following implementation is not the same thing, but it is confident that it is much more progressive than the previous dynasty. If they are all removed, these poor families will not really get better.

Just a few dollars a month. But it made him feel embarrassed.

Zhao Kuangyi was in a hurry, grabbed the spatula and flipped it over, although people started to eat meat from time to time, they didn't eat meat every day, it was not easy, don't burn it.

Zhao Kuangyin said: "Weng Weng, I have benefited a lot from talking to you. ”

The old man didn't understand, and he didn't seem to say anything. How to benefit the emperor, Zhao Kuangyin left, and the old man suddenly said: "Don't eat meat, make offerings." For ancestors. ”

Do you dare to eat this meat, the emperor and the two kings have fried it, let's be blessed. I can't afford it.

Zhao Kuangyin didn't go into the house to look again, but he could smell it. From time to time, I smell the smell of meat, and it seems that it is not a family eating meat. He sighed: "If the whole world is like this." How nice that would be. ”

Song Jiu finished cooking.

Zhao Kuangyin tasted it and said, "Yes, it's better than the food in the palace." ”

Dozens of students who stayed in school glared one by one, and Song Jiu said viciously: "You have to believe Your Majesty's words, the simplicity in the palace is very imaginative, you look at the clothes and fabrics in Your Majesty's imperial robes." ”

Saying that, pulling Zhao Kuangyin's dragon sleeves apart, Liu Wensuo wanted to say that Song Jiu couldn't do anything to the emperor, but he didn't say it, Zhao Kuangyin waved his hand a little "ashamedly" and said: "I am the lord of the world, and I should be an example." ”

However, the students have already seen that it is just a jute lining, or the kind of coarse linen clothes often worn by the people of Hezhou. Dozens of students rose and fell: "Your Majesty, the minister is willing to smear your Majesty's liver and brain." ”

What a good emperor.

Song Jiu sighed in his heart, Zhao Kuangyin has the advantages of Zhao Kuangyin, but there are also many disadvantages.

Dozens of students were full of emotion, which made Zhao Kuangyin very happy, and said to Zhao Kuangyi: "Second brother, these students are also very hard, tomorrow I will allocate some charcoal and pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and those dozens of second-grade students, during this time, they have also made a lot of efforts for the imperial court, each person will be rewarded with ten thousand yuan and twenty silks." ”

It's getting dark.

The monarch and the minister also wanted to go back, stepping on the temporary bridge of the East Water Gate, Zhao Kuangyin looked into the distance. Song Jiu's Hezhou can make a lot of money, which is inevitable. However, it is not as easy as he thought, Song Jiu pretended to be a big brand, and increased the weight, and asked to take the initiative to bear the additional city tax, commercial tax and buying, and reduced his shares, which means that it is not enough to make a lot of money, and it must be a lot, a lot.

But if you really do it, maybe it will be an inspiration.

In the capital alone, there are not only Bianshui, but also three canals, that is, Bianshui, isn't the Beibianshui in the north of the river island more favorable than the river island? Moreover, the world is not only Bianliang City, but also more than a dozen large cities with developed commerce. If the rent of a land is more than 100,000 yuan a year, and squeezing out 30 pieces of land is 5 million, and the two taxes can be waived!

Zhao Kuangyin also underestimated Song Jiu a little, if he said this sentence to Song Jiu, Song Jiu would definitely not think so, he could tell Zhao Kuangyin that even if the Song Dynasty received more than 100 million astronomical sums a year, if it was not used properly, he could still owe!

But how much money can be made, we will be able to see by this time next year.

Thinking of this, he turned his head and said to Song Jiu: "Song Jiu, you will be sent here, you have worked hard during this time, go back early." ”

"Whoa." Song Jiu was still standing on the bridge.

The royal driving party gradually moved away, Song Jiu looked at the distance again, in the distance was the lower earth bridge, Zhao Kuangyin saw that the people ate meat and sighed with emotion, in fact, the people of Hezhou have not really gotten better. It can also be seen from the buildings that a Bianshui, the north Bianshui buildings are very beautiful, there are many mansions, and the houses in the south are still dilapidated, including the Song family's houses are gradually being eliminated.

The main thing is transportation.

Song Jiu was thinking in his heart, if he pulled the lower earth bridge away, built the three-bridge flying bridge at the mouth of the three rivers, built a pavilion at the tip of the river, arranged some rockeries, planted some trees and flowers, and made a small square, this would not cost much. Maybe just a vegetable greenhouse can do it.

However, he looked at the house and couldn't help frowning.

It was not a arrangement of more than 50 households outside the city, nominally three houses with three rooms at the bottom, but actually two large rooms, the living room was a large room, the kitchen and utility room were small rooms, everything was two. The upstairs main bedroom is a large room, and the two secondary bedrooms are small rooms, plus the balcony and the small courtyard behind, a family has more than 80 yuan to solve the problem, and this is to settle the people of Hezhou.

But how many households are there in Hezhou, although some houses are broken, the area is not small, and the typical ones are their own homes. If you want to renovate, you need at least more than 200,000 yuan. Now there is not much profit to be made in real estate, and the money for renovation must be reversed.

That's more than 200,000 yuan.

There are no neat houses, no matter how beautiful the Sanfei Bridge is, Hezhou still can't get better.

One River, Two Heavens!

The night wind blew, Song Jiu couldn't help but have a cold shiver, he suddenly thought of something, ran up, panting to catch up with the royal car, the soldier didn't see clearly for a while, and almost put a knife on his neck. Song Jiu shouted loudly: "Brother Bing, I am Song Jiu." ”

This group of people is too critical, and if there is a misunderstanding, it will be for nothing to kill themselves.

Zhao Kuangyin looked at his sweaty embarrassment, hehe, and asked, "Song Jiu, what are you catching up?" ”

"Your Majesty, Weichen soon studied a thing that can solve the problem of keeping half of the people in the capital and even the entire northern people in the north, and its significance can also prevent the deterioration of some water and soil."

"Say it slower?" Zhao Kuangyin said.

"The Yellow River has been flooding year after year, and it is precisely because the mountains and forests on both sides of the rivers are cut down indiscriminately, and there are no tree roots to fix the soil, and when the rain is showered, the sand and soil are washed into the river."

For example, Zhao Kuangyin issued an edict to plant trees and willows in Biandi, and some Tubo people were dissatisfied with the Song Dynasty's large-scale felling in the Qinwei region. Song Jiu said again: "But this is helpless, pine trees are needed to make ink, wood is needed to build houses, and charcoal is needed for heating in winter." What can you do if you don't cut down trees? ”

Zhao Pu's face softened.

"Wechen will invent a simple thing, wantonly replace charcoal with smokeless charcoal, which is low-cost and also reduces some of the deforestation."

"Is it your greenhouse?"

"That's not enough, it's a large-scale burning, a large amount of use, a fast burning speed, and serious waste, which is not suitable for the people. This is a new method, it is necessary to crush smokeless charcoal, and yellow mud, a small amount of wood chips and lime to make new coal, not the kind of charcoal balls used by the common people, less waste, enough firepower, can be sealed for six or seven hours, and it is not easy to be poisoned by coal. ”

This coal poison is a large amount of carbon monoxide produced when charcoal is burned.

Anthracite will also produce gasified carbon, but it is not as serious as charcoal.

"Oh, that's a good thing."

"Your Majesty, but once it is popularized, it will inevitably require a large amount of water milling, and the narrower the river, the more intense the water flow, the easier it is to do water milling, which will block the waterway. Just like the big cylinder car that Weichen is about to build, it is at the bridge pier, although it is where the torrent is, it will not affect the channel. Therefore, I implore His Majesty to send officials to survey in advance which places are allowed for the people to arrange water mills and which places are not allowed, so as to save unnecessary disputes when they get it. ”

During this time, Song Jiu was reading the history books, and he was dizzy, but he also saw some things, such as the Tang Dynasty, where many powerful people set up water mills on various rivers, stamped grains for profit, and occupied water conservancy and waterways at the end of the year, which became a problem when the Tang Dynasty opened treasures. It's much better to say it in advance now than to make trouble and dismantle it then.

Zhao Kuangyin said: "Second brother ......"

"Your Majesty, not only Kaifeng Prefecture, once it appears, it will spread quickly, and it must be ordered to prevent it in advance throughout the country."

Zhao Pu said unhappily: "You try it in the capital first." ”

"Obey," Song Jiu said. Anyway, I said it in advance, and it was the court's business whether to listen or not. Congratulations to Zhao Kuangyin again. After a while, I returned to the river and came to the blacksmith's house, it was cold, and it was time to build the stove. Drawings were drawn and blacksmith Li was asked to make dozens of stoves. When he returned home, he asked Yuping, "What did Your Majesty say to you just now, which made you very happy." ”

"Your Majesty promised that the slave family would at least be a lady in the future."

"Madame?" Song Jiu was silent.

Yuping raised her face, looked at Song Jiu tenderly and asked, "Jiulang, if the Pan family doesn't agree, will you suspect the slave family, or will you not marry the slave family?" (To be continued......)