At the intersection of Sangjiawazi Road on East Cross Street, Song Jiu bought a few meatloaf to eat. It's also dark, and you can still get something to eat in the palace? Another one was handed to the little yellow door. Xiao Huangmen hesitated and ate as well.

After eating, the two wiped their mouths, and Song Jiu rode a horse and ran to the palace with the little yellow gate.

But this time it was not in the imperial city, it had been taken by the Yellow Gate to the East and West Streets, it was completely dark, and I didn't know where to take it around, and I entered a side hall, and there were only five people sitting in the hall. The Zhao brothers, Zhao Pu, Xue Juzheng and Li Chongju.

Song Jiu gave a salute, and Zhao Kuangyin said: "Flat, sit down." ”

Legend has it that two years ago, Prime Minister Fan Zhen led his ministers to perform affairs, and Zhao Kuangyin said that you will hand over the fold, Fan Zhen got up and handed over the fold, and a eunuch took the opportunity to move Fan Q's chair. Fan quality is not good to say, Xiao Huangmen, you bring the chair back for me, so I have to stand, he stands, and the ministers behind him stand up together. After that, the ministers stood together to perform the work. This situation is the evolution of furniture, the original Tang Dynasty table was very short, that is, a few short, said that people sitting, but the actual people are sitting cross-legged on the ground, so the big guys sit together and discuss. In the Song Dynasty, there was a big square table and a big chair, and Zhao Kuangyin felt that this was not very good, so there was a story of the eunuch stealing the chair.

The Ming Dynasty changed to kneeling, and the Qing Dynasty was not only kneeling, but also had to straighten the waist pole, and there was no possibility of sitting and talking as shown on TV. So the backbone or blood gradually disappeared in these seemingly non-existent rules.

In general, the rules are not very strict, and Song Jiu and the Zhao brothers have also dealt with each other several times, and they basically sit and talk indoors. However, Song Jiu realized that he moved the chair back, then looked at it again, and found that something was wrong, in the middle, and moved to the wrong place. Seeing him playing treasure, several people had strange expressions on their faces, and they wanted to laugh but not laugh.

Zhao Kuangyin said: "Song Jiu, you did a good job in going south this time, and you also found a good big brother." ”

"Your Majesty, there is no need to be taboo for Weichen to do that, right?"

"Taboo? Are you so daring? ”

Li Chongju was happy. Zhao Kuangyin is in trouble in his heart, this kid is lazy not only makes himself helpless, Wang Hu wrote a letter in Tanzhou, almost heartbroken, learned, talented, wise, can also endure hardships, intentions, maybe he was influenced by the Western gentleman, novel ideas, open-minded, is a rare talent in the Song Dynasty, but this kid does not want to forge ahead, lazy personality makes Wang Hu feel deeply regretful. But what is the best way for Zhao Kuangyin? Let him go south, he did a really good job in the south, and his personality has not changed. Could it be that he could be whipped with a bullwhip?

Why did Da Song come up with this freak?

didn't think about it, and said to Zhao Pu and the others: "Just this kid, it seems to be useless, but he said a word in the south, if he doesn't plan to merge into my Great Song Territory, forget it, plan to merge into my Great Song Territory, the land is my Great Song Dynasty, and the people are my Great Song people, even if they are barbarians are my Great Song people, respect and treat them well, Song Jiu, how much salary do you have in January?" ”

"Your Majesty, Weichen's monthly salary is nearly five yuan, and there is also a subsidy for charcoal, firewood, rice, and cloth, which can be more than ten yuan together."

"More than ten dollars, I can come up with these, and when I see Bashu again, I am very disappointed."

Zhao Pu and the others didn't dare to come out. There is no matter of Quanshixiong, it will pass after covering up, and the whole Shixiong is getting bigger and bigger, and it looks like it is going to burn the plains and burn the entire Bashu together, even if it is calmed down, it is a tattered place.

Song Jiu's mouth opened, and Zhao Kuangyin said, "Song Jiu, what do you want to say?" ”

Song Jiu originally wanted to say that if it weren't for your two holy decrees that made the generals below misunderstand, what would have happened? But I don't dare to say it, if Zhao Kuangyin makes a mistake and points it out himself, what will Zhao Kuangyin think? The more he learned, the more he saw his view of history. History always sympathizes with the tragedies, so it is inevitable that the history books will beautify Chai Rong and Zhao Kuangyin. But as he learned more, Song Jiu faintly felt that Zhao Kuangyin also had a lot of shortcomings, and he might not be the elder who was too good in the history books. I can't say it myself.

But if someone else is conspiring, do you dare to say it? Take a look at the positions of several bigwigs now, Xue Ju is an old minister of the former dynasty, he needs to be avoided, and he can't enter the core of power, although Li Chongju has the power to bring a privy envoy, he is not Zhao Pu's opponent. Wang Renzhen is finished, Lu Yuqing is going down, the chaos in Bashu is so big, I don't know how many years it will take to come back. If it is a conspiracy, such a means, does Song Jiu dare to say it?

So he said: "Your Majesty, Weichen can only move his mouth, and don't do it, so he dares to say, anyway, it's wrong, there are all the virtuous people who can correct it, and the implementation is another thing, it's easier said than done!" Therefore, when Wechen went south to see all kinds of things in the south, he once sighed that Wechen was arrogant. ”

"Easier said than done, do you know how many people will be confused by what you say!"

"I don't know."

"Tell me what's going on with this map." On the table was a stack of Song Jiu's diaries, written with a brush, and now the paper was thick, and a thick stack was stacked on the table, in addition to some documents sorted out by the officials. Song Jiu said a lot, Ding Deyu, Pan Mei and Wang Hu made a lot of additions, and sent them to the capital with fast horses, so they couldn't show the emperor like this, and Zhao Pu asked the scribe to sort out and summarize them, and they became a number of them, and handed them to Zhao Kuangyin together with the diary.

There are a lot of things involved, such as agricultural production, education, trade and road construction, pit mines, ethnic groups and crops themselves.

The first is agricultural production, which is divided into several parts, the first is Dongting Lake and Xiangshui's edge, there are many lakes and swamps in this area, and Song Jiu suggested setting up a fence. That is, to build a river embankment, to enclose these lakes and swamps, in fact, this is the later polders and enclosed fields, what Tian Song Jiu did not say, and then set up a steep gate, the water hour can open the steep gate to release water to prevent drought. There are also ways to dig ditches in the enclosure to facilitate transportation, or dig ponds and moorings, and use them to store water, silt ashore, and raise the foundation of the field. These water surfaces will not be wasted, and can be used to carry lotus root seeds and fish farming. When the flood season comes, the people spontaneously organize patrols of the embankment and plant trees and willows on the embankment. And these fields have not been used for thousands of years, and the land is abundant, and once cultivated, the yield will be more than twice that of the plains.

This method can be applied not only in Hunan, but also on both sides of the Yangtze River, especially in the Jiangdong region, although most of the Jiangdong region belongs to the Southern Tang Dynasty, but Jiangbei is now under the jurisdiction of the Song Dynasty.

Wang Hu saw this first, so he asked Song Jiu where the money came from. This is not a lack of money, no matter which one is built, it will cost a lot of manpower and material resources. Song Jiu said one thing, the money I got from developing Hezhou?

The problem can be solved as long as the imperial court is not overly greedy and turns these enclosed fields into official fields and imperial fields. Let the people do it themselves, and everyone will work together, and after the fence is enclosed, the enclosure will be your own.

The imperial court only needs to pay some steep gate stone money, and send a few officials to organize and arrange it for them, even if the land is vast and sparsely populated in this era, the people still desire land, the more the better. It doesn't take much, as long as one or two are fenced up, mature in a year, plus one or two years later, the people will return to normal, and when they see the results and learn one after another, the people will spontaneously build many enclosures.

There is only one precaution, just like digging ditches and ponds in the enclosure, it is necessary to keep the river unobstructed and retain all the deep lake areas, otherwise when the flood season comes, the river will be blocked, and there will be no lake to store water, and it will be flooded. It doesn't matter now, the number of people is small and the land is wide, and the number of people will increase in the future, so from now on there must be a unified plan.

Secondly, in the mountainous areas, it is impossible to say that it is impossible to build a weir and set it up, and it will take more money and less income, so it can only wait for the country's economic conditions to improve and the population will increase and then let the officials find a way. But now there is an easy way to do it, a dam in the water. The water system of Hunan is developed, but there are many streams in many mountainous areas, the water is shallow and the water is urgent, the flood dry season is obvious, the flood season is not worried about water use, and the streams can not even see the water in the dry season. Growing crops cannot be expected to grow all during the flood season, which also affects farming. The solution is also simple: set up a small dam on a gentle section of the stream to cut it off. The height of the dam should not be too high, so that when the water is large, the stream can flow through the dam to the downstream without harming the crops on both banks. The water hour just played the role of water storage, so a simple reservoir appeared, solving the problem of irrigation when the water is dry.

There are also precautions to be taken, and residents upstream are strictly ordered to intentionally build embankments and build high dams. Otherwise, it will affect the water storage of the people downstream, and once the dam collapses, the people downstream will usher in a disaster. It is said that the enclosure is not new, the Yellow River has embankments, and the Southern Tang Dynasty also has a small number of polders, but the state has not yet realized its broader role and has not vigorously promoted it. But this dam is a novelty.

The most difficult thing is that it is impossible to directly divert water from the mountainous area, there is still a way, the tube car, not only Song Jiu will set up a tube car to pump water to the continent in the future, it has been there very early, Zhao Kuangyi's house is high and cannot draw water, so he sent a craftsman to build a big tube car to absorb water to his house to irrigate the flowers and trees in the garden. Taking advantage of the turbulent water flow in Hunan, the cylinder car is pushed by water power to draw water to a high place, and a diversion canal is set up to reclaim the terraced fields on the hillside.

In this way, more than half of Hunan can be turned into treasure. Not only Hunan, once promoted, many places in the Song Dynasty will benefit.

With this article alone, it is worth Zhao Pu to send a scribe to sort out and report the diaries of Song Jiu and several people.

It is also the reason why Wang Hu is heartbroken.

But not only that, there's a lot more to it underneath.

There is not much to say about the pit mines, but there are many metal deposits in Hunan, and because of the backward mining and smelting technology, they cannot meet the iron demand of Hunan itself. Song Jiu made a record, pointed out the potential of some mineral deposits, and hoped that Wang Hu would write a letter and ask the imperial court to assign some officials to bring gunpowder to Hunan to bring more advanced mining techniques.

Then there are the farm implements. Farm tools are ploughed and cultivated, Song Jiu also looked at it carefully, where there is no ploughing cattle, there is no need to mention, the clumsy treadmill, iron tie, and plough have become the theme, this is not bad, all the way, I don't know how many areas continue to use slash and burn farming, and it is even more miserable. But in Tanzhou, oxen are also seen ploughing, but most of the ploughs are thin and small straight ploughs, not Jiangdong ploughs, that is, zigyuan ploughs. I didn't see the knives that Song Jiuhe and his party had deployed on the plough to reclaim the wasteland. However, the kind of knife in Hebei was also backward, and it was not within the scope of Song Jiu's responsibility at that time, and Song Jiu did not take a closer look, and it is estimated that there was no sharper steel blade on the knife head. Song Jiu also honestly wrote down the latter point, and he couldn't make a judgment without asking. After Wang Hu saw it, he didn't know whether to praise him for being honest or something else, and the officials who copied it were also ridiculous when they saw this paragraph.

This is ploughing, and Yun, the Song Dynasty has appeared in the north of the car, I heard Tsing Yi say that there is an advanced Yun tool in the south of the Yangtze River, Yun Dang, not only the Southern Tang Dynasty, Wu Yue also has, the Southern Tang Dynasty is not very easy to say, the Song Dynasty asked Qian Jiao to create Yun Dang technique, don't you give?

But the more important thing is below, especially the map in Zhao Kuangyin's hand.