Where Wen Tianxiang appeared, Zhao Qian was very cautious, Wen Tianxiang didn't care, he came up and said sonorously: "Prince, in the next ten years, the Great Song Dynasty will only go all out on two things: railways and education. Everything else can go with the flow. ”

After saying this, Wen Tianxiang was silent. The accompanying official took a small book and recorded it carefully, but he didn't expect Wen Tianxiang to just say a few words, and waited for a while with a pen, and could only look at Zhao Qian. Zhao Qian could only ask: "The prime minister only has these ideas?" ”

"I have to talk to the ministries about other things, and it has nothing to do with the prince." Wen Tianxiang is still always above board.

Zhao Qian admired him very much in his heart, too many people came to him for all kinds of complaints, all kinds of whistleblowing letters. Like Wen Tianxiang, the sincerity of 'I will scold them myself' is rare, or even unique. Originally, Zhao Qian didn't want to make trouble, so he couldn't help but ask at this time: "Prime Minister, I also think that railways and education are very important, but I don't know what the Prime Minister thinks." ”

"I've heard that 10,000 kilometers of railways can be built every year......

Hearing Wen Tianxiang's data, Zhao Qian hurriedly waved his hand, "But there are not so many, Prime Minister." ”

"Please tell me more about it." Wen Tianxiang hurriedly made a request.

Zhao Qian had to pick the key points. The laborers who dig the roadbed only have to carry a part of the light equipment, which can easily pass through various terrains, and can start work on many sections of the road at the same time. The restrictions on transporting sleepers are much greater. A steel rail is often thousands of pounds, transportation security needs special equipment, laying is more restricted.

The railway from Haizhou (Lianyungang) to Xuzhou was built because there were canals in both places, and there were some small rivers in the middle to provide some transportation. Many sections of the road started at the same time, and the progress was relatively fast. This is not the case for many railways, especially those in the north. It has to be laid in one direction, and the premise of laying the next section is that the current section is laid. There are more and more such sections, and the speed of paving is reduced. After explaining, Zhao Qian said: "Now 3,000 kilometers of new railways are built a year, and in a few years, the railways south of the Yangtze River will be laid in an all-round way, which should be faster." ”

"It's still too slow." Wen Tianxiang sighed: "I know that I have to ask for blame. Yunnan and Guizhou have been lost for hundreds of years, and Guangnan East Road has been all kinds of barbarians, not to mention Guangnan West Road. Now the southern state capital of the imperial court has begun to really manage the place. It's just that it takes half a month to two months for officials to take office from Kaifeng to the local government...... Alas...... It's a lot better than it used to be. It would be nice to be able to get there six days a week. Assessing officials does not have to rely so much on personal integrity, and it is much easier to train officials. People everywhere can go to school, and officials don't have the opportunity to be so domineering. ”

Zhao Qian didn't dare to take this stubble. Wen Tianxiang's identity makes him qualified to say so, although Zhao Qian is not afraid of officials, it is not suitable to do something to the entire bureaucratic system now. After ascending the throne, what Zhao Qian wants to do is Zhao Qian's power, and now if he acts rashly, it will only trigger an overall counterattack.

Wen Tianxiang didn't say much, expressed two points of view and ended the meeting with Zhao Qian. Zhao Qian didn't dare to run to his father's side at this time, Wen Tianxiang clearly wanted to say something quite shocking to his father. It is not good to be seen seeing himself and Wen Tianxiang outside of the official meeting now. At this time, the Ministry of Industry invited Zhao Qian over, and Zhao Qian happily attended this meeting, which would not cause conjecture.

"Prince, recently, the export of the Japanese Kingdom to us has increased significantly. Many state capitals complained. ”

"Why is this happening?"

After the meeting, Zhao Qian went to the Ministry of Commerce. The minister was not there, and the vice minister received Zhao Qian. After Zhao Qian explained his intentions, the deputy minister asked the secretary to bring something. The things were placed on the table, Zhao Qian took out different folding fans from the carton and compared them, and then took out the lacquerware to compare them. Then he asked, "I don't know which ones are from the Wa Kingdom?" ”

The deputy minister asked Zhao Qian, "With the feeling of the prince, which ones do you think are better?" ”

Zhao Qian pointed to the folding fans and lacquerware that he recognized better, and looking at the face of the deputy minister, Zhao Qian asked slowly: "Could it be that these are all Japanese domestic products?" ”

"Yes." The deputy minister responded.

Zhao Qian pointed to the exquisite small box made of shells, "Needless to say, this must be a Japanese domestic product." ”

"Yes." The vice minister agreed, "Prince, these were originally brought in by the Japanese laborers, and now the Ministry of Commerce has decided to open up, and the shops of the Great Song Dynasty in the Japanese State will directly order and purchase goods in the Japanese Kingdom, and directly transport them from the Japanese State to the Great Song Dynasty." ”

After speaking, the deputy minister said in an accentuated tone: "We have asked the official family, and the official family told us that there must be competition, and we must let the best goods in the world compete with the Great Song Dynasty." In this way, we can improve the vision of Da Song and close many factories that do not want to make progress. ”

"Does the official really say that?" Zhao Qian was very surprised, the last paragraph was a bit like Zhao Jiaren's usual feeling.

"Prince, the official family said, whoever doesn't believe it can ask him himself."

Zhao Qian was puzzled, so he picked up the lacquerware again. When making embryos on both sides, they are quite round, and Da Song should have used machinery here, and the arc is a little stiff. The difference lies in the thickness of the lacquer, and the amount of lacquerware is heavier, so I think the lacquer is very sufficient. The lacquerware of the Wa Kingdom is much lighter. As for lacquer baking, hand-painted. The Wa Kingdom is more delicate. One or two details do not determine the superiority, and in every detail is better than the lacquerware of the Great Song Dynasty, the final choice is natural.

Putting down the Japanese lacquerware, Zhao Qian asked the vice minister, "What is better than ours in the Japanese lacquerware?" ”

"It's good that there is more labor in every link of the Japanese lacquerware than us. The labor required three to five times more to make a lacquerware than that of the Great Song Dynasty. The price is about the same. The government has ordered us to provide more processing tools to the excellent lacquerware workshops of the Wa Kingdom in order to improve their labor efficiency. ”

Zhao Qian couldn't understand his father's thoughts, and he asked the vice minister, "Does the Ministry of Commerce think it's right to do this?" ”

"We ...... I think that many domestic factories are really unsuccessful. The Secretary of Commerce gave a subtle and blunt statement.

Zhao Qian didn't answer, and picked up the lacquerware produced in the Great Song Dynasty and compared it again with the domestic lacquerware. After that, he asked, "Is this the best lacquerware in the Wa Kingdom?" ”

"It's not." After the Minister of Commerce answered, he ordered the secretary to go out and get the best lacquerware, and it didn't take long for the secretary to come in with a few boxes and open them respectively, Zhao Qian couldn't help but sigh slightly after seeing it. With just a few glances, the lacquerware reversed a little impression he had of the Wa Kingdom. Although Zhao Qian himself had never been to the Wa Kingdom, he learned from various reports that the Wa Kingdom was poorer than the Great Song Dynasty, and it was nothing compared to the current Great Song Dynasty. Just seeing these exquisite lacquerware makes one have to pay some respect to the Wakoku. These are objects that can only be made by civilized countries, and those patterns and compositions are not created by a genius overnight, but are the accumulation of many people.

In the end, he couldn't find anything, Zhao Qian could only say: "These things can make the country earn a lot." ”

"Let's earn it." When it comes to his profession, the deputy minister answered very decisively. The trade between the Great Song Dynasty and the Wa State now began to enter the paper money stage, and the fact that the Wa people had to accept the paper money of the Great Song Dynasty did not mean that they felt that these paper tickets really reassured them. So the Wa Kingdom tried to buy paper money into the goods they needed. The same is true of the lacquerware industry in the Wakoku Kingdom. Buying a large number of high-quality tools could not only cost the money they made, but they began to buy high-quality wood from the Great Song Forest Farm. "Trade is like this, as long as the volume of trade increases, life is actually better on both sides. Prince, it's just that the units that lose money come out and shout, and those units that make money are silent. That's why it seems like we've suffered a big loss. ”

"Why is the factory in Fujian shouting so much?" Zhao Qian asked.

"Hmm...... The people on the Fujian side are almost gone, and most of the remaining people work in ports, tea plantations, and forest farms. There are not many good people left in the lacquerware factory. ”

"Oh." Zhao Qian answered and got up to leave. Looking at the problem from this perspective, many things are indeed seen thoroughly. There is no population means that there is no talent, and there are only two possibilities for Ken Xin's hard work, one is to really like it, and the other is to be forced to be helpless. In the Great Song Dynasty, which is full of opportunities, everyone has various choices, since this is the case, you might as well wait and see.

After figuring out this matter, Zhao Qian couldn't help but go to the Ministry of Railways, which he hadn't been to for a long time. The main personnel in the ministry are not there, and the people who stay behind are also busy. The reception was only a deputy director, and after seeing Zhao Qian, he asked, "Is the prince here for the Yellow River Bridge?" ”

"The Yellow River railway bridge is going to be repaired?" Zhao Qian hurriedly asked.

"The piers are already halfway down." The Deputy Director hastened to report on the latest situation.

Zhao Qian didn't come to ask this, he asked if there was a plan to build a railway in the Yunnan-Guizhou area. The deputy director was stunned for a moment and asked, "Did the prince hear something?" ”

"I haven't heard of anything, but there are quite a few officials from Yungui who are looking forward to the railway to that side."

"We have plans in this regard, but now the dominant plan is not to take the two roads of Huguang and Guangzhou, but to take Sichuan."

Zhao Qian was speechless by this plan. Sichuan is already mountainous, and it is not easy to build a railway to Sichuan.

Coming back from the Ministry of Railways, Zhao Qian was not in a good mood. Before he could straighten out his mood, the Ministry of Agriculture sent a document, and Zhao Qian decided to go home immediately after reading it. It's seven o'clock in the evening, and even if you can't make it to dinner, at least you can get a good night's sleep. As stated in the document of the Ministry of Agriculture, it is hoped that the Japanese people will be able to devote themselves to the construction of water conservancy in rural areas. Yes, the Japanese people are indeed cheap, and the price of labor is only forty percent of that of the laborers of the Great Song Dynasty. But if you do this, can the labor force of the Great Song Dynasty be lazy and do nothing?

In the next few days, Zhao Qian went to the Ministry of Industry to learn a lot about the situation. There are a lot of complaints from the Ministry of Industry, and they are all managed by each factory. For example, the Ministry of Railways withdrew 6,000 tons of steel rails in one fell swoop due to quality problems, and the Metallurgical Agency and the Ministry of Railways began to file a lawsuit. For example, various quality problems in textile enterprises have triggered a comprehensive rebound in the supply and marketing cooperative system. The supply and marketing cooperatives themselves have to draw up a list, and the Ministry of Industry can only stabilize it.

It's all big things, and it's more small. Zhao Qian thought that the Ministry of Industry was monolithic, but he didn't expect a director of the Ministry of Industry to tell Zhao Qian a 'joke' when no one was around. He heard from his wife that there was a market where shoes were sold very cheaply, so he went to see it, and sure enough, it was cheap, so he bought a pair. After wearing it for a few days, the soles were rotten. Upon inspection, it was found that the soles were not made of the claimed leather, but were lined with cardboard. It's rotten when you absorb water.

The person who said it laughed, and someone just came, and this one left. Zhao Qian also thought it was funny, but somehow he couldn't laugh. Zhao Qian didn't even know whether he should laugh or not, he himself had encountered some unpleasant things, the money spent was nothing, but the impact on his mood was very bad. When these things pointed to the industrial production of the Great Song Dynasty, in addition to being angry, Zhao Qian began to feel a kind of uneasiness. If the products of the Great Song Dynasty are all urine, or they are going in this direction, they will definitely make a mess.

After a few days, news began to circulate in the imperial court. This news has nothing to do with the quality of the goods, and everyone said that Prime Minister Wen Tianxiang and Wen Cheng came back from the county and put forward a proposal to implement the unit of 'road'. Later, more news came that the ministers at the local level supported Prime Minister Wen's view, and even put forward a proposal to directly establish a province.

Huaxia has established a county system since the time of Zulong, and under the imperial court is the state capital, and the state capital administers each county. These high-ranking ministers were the last to serve in the local counties, and they all thought that they should establish a province as a real power unit above the state capital. The Great Song Dynasty theoretically had a similar division, with the administrative unit 'Lu' nominally administering the state capitals below. It's just that this unit does not actually act as a superior unit of the state capital, but is closer to the nature of the patrol unit. For example, Zhao Guanjia has served as a prisoner in Fujian Road, and this position does not really manage the power of the same department in Fujian Road, but only can speak everywhere, as for whether the following listen or not, it depends on the will of God.

The Great Song Dynasty adopted the 'ancestral training' of the large and small system, and the purpose of establishing these units was to make power not monopolistic. If each province really becomes a province with real power, it means that the head official of each province will be a feudal official with real power. Not to mention that this has profoundly changed the system of the court and government of the Great Song Dynasty, will an official like the Zhao official family, who has always been in power, agree?

While there was a lot of discussion in the court, the latest news shook everyone. Wen Tianxiang united a group of officials to officially go on the show. Request the imperial court to establish provinces, state capitals, counties, and three-level administrative units. This news made the Great Song Dynasty adopt the 'ancestral training' of the large and small system, and the purpose of establishing these units was to make power not monopolistic. If each province really becomes a province with real power, it means that the head official of each province will be a feudal official with real power. Not to mention that this has profoundly changed the system of the court and government of the Great Song Dynasty, will an official like the Zhao official family, who has always been in power, agree?