For many years, Zhao Jiaren has always felt that the literati of the Great Song Dynasty would only sing 'Waste Pond Arbor is still tired of talking soldiers', and now someone finally expressed the idea of 'Iron Horse Binghe Comes to Dream', which made Zhao Jiaren feel shocked to a certain extent. Trying his best to suppress his excitement, Zhao Jiaren smiled and said: "In these years, the Great Song Jinshi dared to say this, probably Brother Sima was the first person. ”

"I have seen the war myself, and I feel that the Zhao brothers' militia is by no means weaker than the Mongols. We didn't spend too much effort to fight Zhigu Village, and the level of the Mongols' cannon casting was not our opponent at all. Sima Kao's voice was full of excitement, he had participated in the battle to conquer Zhigu Village as a nominal leader, and now he saw the Mongol desire for advanced artillery. It is natural to have some self-confidence.

From Zhao Jiaren's point of view, Sima Kao is talking about the effect, not the cause. However, there is such a literati who dares to say that he will destroy Mongolia by force, and Zhao Jiaren no longer wants to find faults. So Zhao Jiaren said with a smile: "If you want to eliminate Mongolia by force, you have to have a corresponding system." Of course, it is more important to have corresponding preparations, and if Brother Sima is willing to contribute in this regard, it will be great. ”

Sima Kao looked at Zhao Jiaren suspiciously, and asked in a puzzled tone: "If Brother Zhao becomes the prime minister, he will probably be able to promote it, right?" ”

These words made Zhao Jiaren stunned, and after thinking about Sima Kao's words, Zhao Jiaren suddenly realized that the route Sima Kao hoped for was completely different from Zhao Jiaren. Zhao Jiaren felt that the system of the Great Song Dynasty was hopeless, so he hoped to overturn it and start over. However, Sima Kao hoped that Zhao Jiaren would continue to follow the current path of the Great Song Dynasty, become the prime minister with real power, and then use such power to promote change.

"It's not easy." Zhao Jiaren replied. He didn't know if he was saying it to Sima Kao or to himself.

Sima Kao said angrily: "Now that Jia Rudao is in power, it is certainly not easy for Brother Zhao to be the prime minister. But Jia Rudao is a traitor, and he will not die well......"

This kind of scholar's unique words made Zhao Jiaren sigh in his heart, he didn't think that Jia Yidao was a traitor. A traitor will not play with his life to promote the reform of public land. The means of public land reform is the acquisition of land by the state, and it is the interests of the landlords that are harmed, so it is bound to meet with fierce opposition from the landlords. The purpose of the Gongtian reform was to enable the front-line troops to receive sufficient supplies of military rations and salaries, if not, Zhao Jiaren really had no reason to take on the thankless errand of cotton work, and he did not owe Jia Yidao at all.

At this time, Sima Kao had already made a big attack on Jia Yidao, and when Sima Kao finished speaking, Zhao Jiaren said: "Brother Sima, I have taken over the errand of cotton affairs, and now I am lifting cotton affairs. In order to engage in cotton business, I can rent land in Jiaxing Province and set up a factory. Now I would like to invite you to go to Jiaxing Mansion and work with other cadres to get these things done. ”

Jiaxing Mansion is next to Sima Kao's hometown Gusu, although it is the first time I have heard of lifting cotton, the Great Song Dynasty Jinshi Sima Kao can also draw a more reliable conclusion based on the name. Lifting cotton is the same as lifting tea and salt, both are franchise officials. There are few permanent officials under such officials, and they rely mainly on personal staff. Sima Kao, a retired official, is quite suitable for this.

"Okay, I'll go to Jiaxing Mansion." Sima Kao replied very simply.

"I need to do some training before I go." Zhao Jiaren said to Sima Kao.

can go home and make money, Sima Kao replied cheerfully: "Training is training!" ”

Within two days of saying this, Sima Kao felt that his answer was too casual. There are many physically strong officials in the Great Song Dynasty, and Sima Kao also feels that he is not a powerless existence, but letting him build a house with ordinary laborers is really beyond Sima Kao's imagination.

The water wheel on the side of the Min River pushes the brick-making machine and keeps beating out the bricks, and the bricks are sent to the brick kiln near the Mawei Wharf. The brick kiln did not use firewood, but used charcoal brought in by large ships. The coal-burning brick kiln chimneys spewed black-gray smoke outward, each of which darkened the clear sky, and dozens of chimneys made the vicinity of the brick kiln factory gray.

This magical scene is not just smoke, large quantities of red bricks are fired and sent to nearby construction sites. Workers began to build a three-story building according to the drawings. Before Sima Kao returned, large-scale construction had already begun. Sima Kao worked on the construction site for five days, rotated seven positions, and felt that he would vomit blood if he continued to work, and the first small building was finally completed in the batch construction of the floor.

China is dry for five days and one day off, and Sima Kao, who was sore all over, went to visit the first repaired small building with the support of his concubine. Next to this small building are the same type of small buildings that have been roofed and installed with windows. The light opens from the outside, and the houses are finished. Inside, Sima Kao noticed the difference. Some of the small buildings are empty, and there are no floor slabs. Some small buildings have floors but no stairs. This small building has been repaired, all the floors, stairs, and doors inside have been installed. Even the walls have been painted.

However, the visitors seemed to be too curious, and Sima Kao found that the white wall was dirty with many dirty hands. And I don't know who took a dirty palm print on the high wall. Given that the small building was empty, I could only guess that it was a guy who jumped high and took such a palm print.

Sima Kao felt that the guy who did this was really boring, but he couldn't help but admire that this guy could jump so high. He could only drag his sore body around at this time, let alone jump so high, probably he couldn't jump up.

The concubine eagerly looked left and right while supporting Sima Kao, and finally couldn't help but say: "Official, ......, this house is not bad." ”

"Hmm." Sima Kao also thinks it's good. Judging from the land area alone, each small building only occupies 60 square meters. But this is a three-story building, and the entire construction area is greatly exceeded. Especially on the third floor, not only is it transparent, but the humid heat on the first floor becomes refreshing here. Sima Kao felt that if he had such a building, he must use the third floor as his study. Just imagine that reading here is a wonderful feeling.

Coming down from the building, Sima Kao looked at the rows of such buildings on both sides of the wide dirt road, and he began to feel that he might have suffered a loss when he went to Jiaxing Mansion to engage in cotton work. Zhao Jiaren has already paid for the entire land in Mawei, but these buildings are not for Zhao Jiaren to live alone, but for the personnel of the Mawei Shipyard, the personnel of various factories in Mawei, the personnel of the Mawei School, and even the employees of the brick factory can live here. Now that this good life is about to begin, Sima Kao has to move out. It's so sad.

After a day of rest, Sima Kao felt that the soreness in his body seemed to be aggravated. Fortunately, Zhao Jiaren did not let Sima Kao continue to work, but organized some cadres who were put on the construction site to conduct training. They have all done a lot of positions, and this training is to let these people fully understand all the links behind the construction.

After three days of lectures, Zhao Jiaren took the stage at the beginning of the fourth day, and he expressed his heart directly, "I want to build a new city like Mawei in Huating County." ”

The Jiaxing Mansion of the Southern Song Dynasty is equivalent to Shanghai and Jiaxing City in the 20th century, and this land belongs to the essence of China. Zhao Jiaren felt the need to develop the area.

"We will not only open up farmland in Huating County, we will also open shipyards, ship repair yards, build wharves in Huating County, open various factories in Huating County, and also open schools. Mawei has today, relying on shipyards and factories, schools. I think it can be done in Huating County. ”

Sima Kao's first feeling was that Zhao Jiaren was crazy. If you just engage in cotton planting in Huating County, then there is naturally no problem. But Zhao Jiaren's plan will invest a very large amount of money in Huating County. Jia Rudao is not easy to get along, this Zuo Prime Minister probably does not have the ability to reach out to Fujian, but he is fully capable of reaching out to Jiaxing Mansion, which is not far from Lin'an.

But after thinking about it, Sima Kao found that he had a reason to agree with Zhao Jiaren. If this can be done, at least this kind of three-story building can be built in Huating County. Sima Kao, who had to leave Mawei, really had nothing to regret.

The training is also five days and one day off, and when Sima Kao was about to go to see the house, his uncle Xu Yuanzhi came to Sima Kao. Sima Kao didn't want to stay in the house, so he invited his uncle Xu Yuanzhi to go and see the building together. You don't have to be in the house to talk.

Xu Yuanzhi readily accepted Sima Kao's invitation, and the two talked while walking. Xu Yuanzhi opened his mouth and sighed: "Jia Rudao is going all out to promote the reform of public fields, and the means are very intense!" ”

Sima Kao only listened, but did not speak. He himself was so resentful of Jia Nidao that he didn't bother to criticize Jia Nidao.

"You go to Jiaxing Mansion, if you can do cotton work well, maybe Jia Rudao will not be able to do more excessively." Xu Yuanzhi said in an encouraging tone.

What else is that? Sima Kao's heart churned. When he first went to Jiaxing Mansion, he didn't consider his relationship with Jia Yidao, and this matter was a problem between himself and Zhao Jiaren in Sima Kao's opinion. However, after Xu Yuanzhi's reminder, Sima Kao found that if he did a good job, Zhao Jiaren would probably benefit, but the biggest beneficiary was Jia Yidao. After all, Zhao Jiaren's cotton service has to pay Jia Yidao one million copper coins every year.

The salary of the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army is 36 yuan a year, but there is a big difference between these 36 yuan and whether they are paid money or copper coins. Based on the calculation of 100,000 field troops, the annual salary is 3.6 million copper coins. The forbidden army that can get such an income is elite, and with such an elite Jia Rudao, he doesn't worry about credit at all.

At this time, Sima Kao suddenly had a possibility that Jia Yidao, whom he hated, might really have the possibility of success. This realization made Sima Kao's mood fall suddenly, and he stood in place and didn't even want to continue walking.

Xu Yuanzhi looked at his nephew with no expression on his face, but he was very sorry in his heart. It was Zhao Jiaren's intention to talk to Sima Kao, and Zhao Jiaren was worried that Sima Kao would find out that he was working for Jia Nidao when he was halfway through the work. It's hard to say what's going on. Clearly telling Sima Kao would probably give Sima Kao the feeling of looking down on him, so he asked Xu Yuanzhi to come and persuade Sima Kao. Looking at it now, Sima Kao's hostility towards Jia Nidao is so strong that in a sense, it even presents a dominant situation.

"After all, we are the Jinshi of the Great Song Dynasty, even if we don't share the sky with Jia Yidao, we can't abandon the Great Song Dynasty." Xu Yuanzhi persuaded.

Sima Kao didn't speak, but chose to turn around and leave. With his cleverness, he already understood at this time that the reason for Xu Yuanzhi's speech was not to criticize Jia Yidao, but to warn Sima Kao not to make the wrong choice. Such a move made Sima Kao feel a strong sense of humiliation. First of all, he knew that his uncle was not worried about him. Secondly, and most importantly, the reason. Sima Kao found that his uncle was actually not mistaken. When he learned that Jia Yidao could get great benefits from the cotton service, Sima Kao's first thought was to 'find a way to destroy the cotton service'.

The nephew left, and Xu Yuanzhi didn't chase after him. He told Zhao Jiaren about this, and then sighed and said: "Zhao Zhizhou, I think you still don't have to be embarrassed for Sima to take the test, if he still can't think about it, let him do cotton work, and sooner or later he will get something out for you." ”

Zhao Jiaren smiled bitterly: "If Sima Kao is unreliable, can I ask Mr. Xu to come out." ”

Xu Yuanzhi shook his head, "I don't like Jia Yidao either. The reform of public fields is nonsense! ”

Zhao Jiaren did not continue to speak, he also knew that the reform of the public land was extremely tragic, which greatly offended the landlords and gentry. Judging from the information collected by Zhao Jiaren, Jia Rudao really promoted the implementation of the public land law with an iron fist.

At the beginning, when buying official land, it is still the one who takes the most; Then, except for those below 200 acres, they are exempt, and the rest are bought in one-third; After that, although the 100-acre home was not inevitable. The price is to rent one stone to pay for forty of the eighteen realms, and the fields in western Zhejiang, the stone is rented to those who have a straight ten, and it is also at this price. If the price is a little higher, half of the silver silk will be given. and more, then give a degree, tell the body to be straight, Deng Shilang quasi-three thousand, Shilang quasi-thousand, Xu go to Cao test; The captain is quasi-10,000, Chengxin Lang is quasi-15,000, Chengjie Lang is quasi-20,000, Anren is quasi-4,000, and the widow is quasi-2,000. The people lost their real property and got false accusations, and the officials were unscrupulous, and there was a great disturbance in Zhejiang, and there were many bankrupt and unemployed people.

Some officials did not follow it, Liu Lianggui impeached him, chased down his origin, and never collected it. It seems that Chen Ji went to Xiu and Hu, and Liao Bangjie used to urge him to supervise. There are special officials in the six counties to buy land, Baohui and Cheng Gongce in Pingjiang, Pan Qi, Li Bu and Jiao Huanyan in Jiaxing, Xie Yi, Yue Youxu, Wang Tangqi and Ma Yuanyan in Anji, Hongqiu and Liu Zigeng in Changzhou, Zhang Kun and Guo Mengxiong in Zhenjiang, and Yang Ban and Huang Shen in Jiangyin. restored to Pingjiang, to the use of corporal punishment; Bangjie is in Changzhou, and the people are particularly harmed, so that there is no land and they are merged and bought from themselves. The imperial court only took the purchase of public land as a merit, and entered the good nobles twice, and the rest of the people entered the rank poorly.

But Zhao Jiaren found that he liked Jia Yidao's approach more and more. In the 21st century, there is indeed a group of people who sing the praises of private land. But the more educated people believe that land ownership is best. Zhao Jiaren is one of them.

Jia Nidao's public land reform is not land state ownership, but at least Jia Nidao dared to attack the landlords, which is already very remarkable. For this reason alone, Zhao Jiaren thinks that Jia Yidao is a politician. So he said cheerfully: "If the two of you refuse to go, forget it." For the sake of Da Song, I just have to take on the cotton business! ”