Chapter 42: Each Man Chooses His Own Way (5)
"Dong Wenbing is also dead."
"There are not many people left who followed the Great Khan's expedition to Dali in the early years."
"Alas......"
Hao Renwanhu's senior brother Wang Donglu listened to everyone's sighs, and he himself kept silent. Kublai Khan's expedition to Dali was 26 years ago. After the surrender of the king of Dali, the king of Dali, Donglu, followed Kublai Khan as a prisoner.
The people who talked about this matter in Hao Jing's house were all on the side of the winner, and only Wang Donglu was the loser, and he really couldn't pull down his face to participate in the discussion.
After sighing, Hao Jing said: "I have tried my best to convince Hao Ren. However, he resolutely refused to let go, and the affairs of the government soldiers could only be like this. ”
Those who came here were all the disciples of Hao Jing or the backbone of the princely faction in the Great Yuan court, and everyone knew how noble the ten thousand households of the Ba'er family were. Hao Ren is a descendant of the Torre family, and he is even more noble. Hao Jing dared to hit Hao Ren with the idea, which had already made everyone quite amazed.
Dong Wenbing's testament said that the Song Kingdom was not credible, and Zhao Jiaren was especially untrustworthy. In the past, the officials and rulers of the Song State waged war against Dayuan, either because they were willful or for the sake of party fighting. What Zhao Jiaren wants is to mix up a Chinese country, so he will believe in his words and deeds. As soon as the armistice comes, there will be another war. I think so. Hao Jing recounted his views.
The students and princelings nodded slightly, and the outcome of the Battle of the Yellow River was much more than the Great Yuan courtiers expected. Emperor Kublai Khan did not cross the Yellow River and was defeated by the Song army north of the Yellow River, and the myth of the invincibility of the Mongol army was completely shattered.
What was worse was not only the defeat, but the fact that the Song army was able to divert the Yellow River to the north. If it weren't for the hundreds of thousands of people who saw it with their own eyes, if it weren't for the tens of thousands of Mongolian troops who came back alive, they could prove it. The urine nature of the science must take such a huge natural change as a warning from Heaven to the Son of Heaven.
"At present, traitors are rampant, and the court is chaotic. We must do harm to the people. Lian Xixian said viciously.
Naturally, it is not Hao Ren Wanhu who is called a traitor by Lian Xixian, but Ahama, the current right prime minister of Dayuan. Although Hao Ren is hateful, he is a person of Kublai Khan, and of course these princelings do not dare to do anything to Hao Ren Wanhu, not to mention that Hao Ren Wanhu's political position does not conflict with the princelings. As for Ahma, he has long been the princeling's biggest political enemy.
Before Dong Wenbing's death, he told the story of Ahma's control of the production of inferior agricultural tools by the Agricultural Implements Bureau, which caused the people to suffer greatly. However, His Majesty was deceived by Ahmad and turned a blind eye to this. Lian Xixian said heartbreakingly.
When the princelings heard this, they all agreed.
At the same time that the princelings expressed their grief, Hao Ren Wanhu's housekeeper was reporting to Hao Ren Wanhu, "Wan Hu, the things produced by this Agricultural Tool Bureau are really useless. The granges in various places are all used in the Song Kingdom. ”
Hearing this, Hao Ren couldn't help but smile bitterly. Dayuan adopted an iron monopoly system, and all iron guys had to buy them from the places designated by the imperial court. Originally, the Great Song Dynasty also adopted this system, and it is said that it has begun to be abolished in the past two years, although there are still many restrictions on iron tools, such as not being able to manufacture weapons and not being exported to the Great Yuan, but many iron fields in the Great Song Dynasty have been liberalized.
For example, Hao Renwanhu engaged in the trading of needlework and awls, and the Great Song Dynasty had no intention of intervening.
Looking at Wan Hu's wry smile, the official family thought that Wan Hu didn't believe this. He hurriedly took out two sickles, and beckoned someone to carry two iron plows.
As the saying goes, people have to die more than people, and goods have to be thrown away. The farm tools of the Song Kingdom and the farm tools of Da Yuan are put together, and there is nothing to evaluate if Hao Ren Wanhu does not farm. Song Guo's farm tools look shiny, and they are also simple-shaped sickles, which are full of metallic luster when they look at it.
If Hao Ren Wanhu had learned a little about metals, he would probably know that the agricultural tools of the Song Kingdom were made of white cast iron. As early as the Spring and Autumn Period, China made white cast iron with good wear resistance and used it as some anti-wear parts. This kind of cast iron has the characteristics of high carbon and low silicon, has high hardness, but is very brittle, suitable for manufacturing parts with small impact load, and is generally used in parts such as ploughshares.
The advantage of white cast iron is that in addition to being harder, it is also more resistant to corrosion. In the Song Kingdom, this material was also used to make sickles. On the Dayuan side, there is no need for it, and the Farm Tools Bureau uses pig iron to make farm tools. Pig iron is similar to white cast iron in many ways, but pig iron is much more brittle and can easily break.
Dayuan did not know this technology, but the farmers of Dayuan knew in practice that the metal farm tools produced by the Dayuan Agricultural Tools Bureau were unreliable. Therefore, they would rather use wooden farming tools that they can produce and manufacture than buy metal farming tools.
As for nobles like Hao Ren Wanhu, in order to maintain a relatively high production efficiency, their officials would choose to buy smuggled Song agricultural tools.
"That's really a lot." Hao Ren Wanhu could not find a reason to refuse smuggling. As 10,000 households, he was truly enshrined by 10,000 households. Not 10,000 people, but 10,000 households.
Looking at Hao Ren's reluctant appearance, the official family hurriedly persuaded him: "Ten thousand households, the 20,000 households of the Shi family of Dong Wendai, who died only the day before yesterday, marched to 10,000 households in Guanghua, Dengzhou. It is said that it was because the Song State took away the land of Henan that he died of anger. It is also said that Dong Wenbing's grange was sold to a batch of farm tools by the right prime minister, Ahmaqiang, which was unusable and made Dong Wenbing angry. ”
"Don't talk nonsense!" Hao Ren Wanhu immediately stopped his official family's speech. You can't say that. Even if it's true, you can't say that, let alone if it's not true. If Dong Wenbing is angry to death, he will also be robbed of his land and die. The loss of land was, in a sense, the responsibility of the Great Khan Kublai Khan......
"Wanhu, this statement has spread in the capital." The official said.
When Hao Ren heard this, his face changed, and he asked, "Really?" ”
"That's true." The official hurriedly replied.
Hao Ren Wanhu's face became very ugly, and he pondered for a moment and said, "Prepare, I will set off to inspect the affairs of the government soldiers in the next two days." ”
The official family was stunned for a moment, and then felt that Wanhu was going to import smuggled farm tools for his own grange, and immediately went to prepare the items for Hao Ren's Wanhu trip. As for Hao Ren Wanhu himself, he clearly felt that the struggle in Dadu had been so fierce, so fierce that all kinds of rumors began to pop up.
Dong Wenbing is an important minister of Kublai Khan, and he is quite respected, and when he dies in office this time, someone immediately starts to make a fuss, and the force behind this is probably to overthrow Ahma.
Although Hao Ren didn't hate Ahma, he didn't mean to advance and retreat with Ahma. At this moment, apart from running out and fleeing, Hao Ren Wanhu couldn't think of any other way.