Qixi Festival is a very important festival in the Great Song Dynasty, it is a festival about love, but it is not a festival for lovers. Because the Cowherd and Weaver Girl are legal husband and wife, not lovers. Before the Tanabata Festival in 328 years of the Great Song Dynasty, 'grinding and drinking' dolls made of rubber were sold in the market as gifts for children.

It is the children's plaything of the folk Qixi Festival in the old days, that is, the small clay puppet, and its image is mostly a half-arm dress with lotus leaves, holding lotus leaves. On July 7 every year, in Kaifeng's "Panlou Street East Song Gate Wai Tile, Zhou Xiliang Gate Wai Tile, North Gate Wai Roof, South Zhuque Gate Outer Street and Mahang Street, all sell grinding and drinking, it is a small plastic clay puppet ear".

In the Southern Song Dynasty, grinding and drinking music was no longer a small clay puppet, on the contrary, the more refined it became. The size and posture of the grinding and drinking music are different, and the largest is as tall as three feet, which is comparable to that of a real child. The materials of the production are carved with ivory or carved with Longyan bergamot, the dress of grinding and drinking, it is extremely exquisite, there are painted wood carvings as the railing, or the red sand and blue cage as a cover, and the toys held in the hands are also mostly decorated with gold and jade gems, and the cost of a pair of grinding and drinking music is often as high as thousands of dollars.

Zhao Jiaren has the intention to operate this traditional industry according to the so-called Barbie model, and the results have proved to be very good. Since the introduction of rubber, the same face, different shapes. Dolls in sets are selling well.

In addition to the more expensive gifts, a cheap octagonal paper locket is also a big hit, and in addition to the box, people are also catching spiders. According to the custom of Tanabata, "In the small spider Anzygote, look at it the next day, if the net is round, it is said to be clever." ”

As a gift for the little lady, I hope that the little lady can be ingenious. Of course, the little ladies in various big cities entered the school under the strict orders of the latest "Compulsory Education Law" of the Great Song Dynasty.

Soon after the Qixi Festival, it was the Midyear Festival, and some people began to burn paper offerings to their ancestors on the streets of Jiangning. Funeral workers were inspired by the 'Mo Drink Le' dolls, who made the same human shape out of bamboo strips and pasted them with paper to make delicate paper dolls. If the other party asks for it, ask the artist to draw a more delicate appearance on it. If everyone's picture is cheap, white dolls will also do. In Jiangning in 328 of the Great Song Dynasty, many dolls had the name of 'Wenzhang' written on them and burned them in the fire, expressing the expectations and curses of those people. In addition to burning paper people, lighting soul hooking lamps, and setting up nail-headed seven-arrow books are also a lot of rituals.

Soon after the curse was issued, the people who issued the curse received notices from the government after the Midyear Festival, and the landlord who owned real estate in Jiangning was angry after reading the contents of the notice. The official document told them that if these people did not come to pay the fine within 10 working days, their properties in Jiangning would be seized and auctioned by the government, and the money obtained would be confiscated. If the money is not enough, the government will go to the homes of these people to collect the remaining fines.

As the saying goes, the county official is not as good as the current management, and the Wenzhang prefect has both the roles of county officials and current management in Jiangning, and those landlords who have real estate in Jiangning are powerless to resist. Cursed Wen Zhang for not dying well, and cursed those warlocks who cast the curse for their low mana and inability to curse and kill Wen Zhang. Part of the landlords had to give in.

With the Duan family Zhuyu in front, there was soon a climax of buying and selling land by the Qinhuai River in Jiangning Prefecture, where one acre of medium land could be exchanged for three or four acres of lower land, and one acre of upper land could be exchanged for eight to ten acres of lower land. The rotten land along the river was quickly sold to the Jiangning government, and the Jiangning government bought and exchanged it for its own, so the land that needed to be used for water conservancy construction basically fell into the hands of the government.

"Is there enough land for this?" Wen Zhang asked very uneasily. It took a lot of money to acquire land, but Jiangning, which had a thriving business and high taxes, still made Wenzhang feel extremely heavy economic pressure.

"Please rest assured that there is enough land for this purpose." Cai Zijun, director of the Agriculture Bureau, is full of confidence. 190,000 acres of contiguous land were collected on both sides of the Qinhuai River planned by the government. This achievement has exceeded Cai Zijun's highest expectations, he has actually prepared the situation that the collected land is very mixed, but he didn't expect that the landlords, who are the head snakes of the land, are so capable and help the government a lot.

After finishing his rhetoric, Cai Zijun said again: "It's just ......"

"Just what?" Wen Zhang immediately asked.

Cai Zijun replied: "It's just that the hills and hillsides still need to continue to reclaim the land. In addition, our current technical strength may not be enough, and we still need some support from the imperial court, at least the support of the Ministry of Agriculture. ”

"What about other than that?" Wen Zhang asked.

"In addition to these, it is probably necessary to have managers with experience in large-scale collective farms. I used to intern at a farm in Songjiang Province, and the level of farm management was really high. As soon as he mentioned the experience at that time, Cai Zijun couldn't help but keep his eyes shining, "In the final analysis, the collective farm is the word 'management', and the efficiency of the collective farm is several times higher with the same size and the same number of people." The income is also several times higher. It's really nice to have a lot of research to do......"

Wen Zhang's concern at this time was whether his political gamble could succeed, and the collective farm was not in Wen Zhang's scope at all. He interrupted Cai Zijun's excited statement of the liberal arts man, and asked calmly, "Who did you see over there, give me a name." ”

Three days later, the Minister of Agriculture happily brought a set of planning drawings to meet Zhao Jiaren. Unfolded the picture to Zhao Jiaren, and the Minister of Agriculture also told the credit of the Jiangning Agricultural Bureau. Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but sigh after reading it, but didn't say anything. The Minister of Agriculture hurriedly asked, "Why is the official sighing?" ”

"I think Jiang Ning's side will probably ask the court for money next. If Jiangning succeeds, probably other places will do the same, and then ask the imperial court for money. Zhao Jiaren gave the answer.

Any infrastructure requires investment, and these investments have to be invested in real money. The more infrastructure is invested, the slower the payback will be. This is especially true for water conservancy investment, not to mention that there is no way to directly recover it, and it has to be reinvested in maintenance every year. The Minister of Agriculture didn't know what Zhao Jiaren meant, so he was silent.

Zhao Jiaren only complained simply, and he continued: "Do a good job of the farmland tax first, and see if you can earn this money by relying on the farmland tax." ”

The Minister of Agriculture felt that Zhao Jiaren might be worried that the big farm would not make money, so he immediately replied: "Official, Jiangning's plan is indeed good. But I don't know if the local people in Jiangning can do the work of a big farm. ”

Zhao Jiaren smiled slightly, and sighed in his heart that this Minister of Agriculture is really good at being an official. Directly talk about the problems you are facing, and you will not find a reason to defend yourself in the future. So Zhao Jiaren asked the Minister of Agriculture, "Why do you think the people go to the collective farms to make a living?" ”

"Because...... Can you make more money? ”

"Yes. Everyone is just to make more money, and high efficiency is not the advantage of big farms. As for whether you can do it, it depends on whether the money is enough. I'm just worried that I can't produce good managers, as long as there are people, there is nothing to be afraid of. ”

When the Minister of Agriculture came out of Zhao Jiaren's place, his heart was full of doubts, and then he suddenly felt very uneasy. What does the phrase 'I'm only worried about not being able to train good managers' mean, does it mean that the Minister of Agriculture is not good enough? Or is it implicitly accusing the Minister of Agriculture of not being able to produce good managers? Returning to the Ministry of Agriculture with such thoughts, Minister Jiang Ying had already made a decision when he sat in his seat, if the Jiangning Agricultural Bureau did not handle the matter well this time, he would directly order a replacement. Many of the staff of the Agricultural Bureau are cadres, and it is not the turn of the Minister of Agriculture to be in charge, and the Director of the Agricultural Bureau is an official, and the Ministry of Agriculture can solve the problem. After determining his own solution, Jiang Ying finally regained his composure. He called in the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, "The troops in the northwest have already brought in thousands of tons of poplarine, and we must speed up the establishment of institutions in those places." Poplar forests should be under the control of the Ministry of Agriculture. ”

Jiang Ying is concerned about the matter of eucarpine, and Zhao Jiaren is also very concerned. Zhao Jiaren was very surprised by the efficiency of the army, but thousands of tons of pocypine were sent in a month. However, the army is also very honest, and the report given by the army says that pocypine is easy to obtain, and a person can get hundreds of catties a day with a pocket. For the troops, the most difficult thing is only how to get these poplarines out. If the Yellow River is better navigable, or if the Tongji Canal is restored, it can be sent directly along the canal from Luoyang to the Yangtze River.

If the infrastructure can be built, everyone will like it. Zhao Jiaren understands this very well, just like those traitorous intellectuals shouting 'high-speed rail, please wait for your people' no matter how they shout. But the people don't care what the public knowers say, they will desperately go to 12306 to grab votes. So Zhao Jiaren pretended not to see it, and just asked the analysis department what about the composition of these pocytics.

The analytical department is very efficient, and they say that more than half of this poplarine is sodium bicarbonate. That is, baking soda. Others are salt, and some soluble tree sap. This made Zhao Jiaren very happy, sodium bicarbonate can be used directly in the edible field. Sodium bicarbonate can be heated to obtain sodium carbonate and carbon dioxide, and sodium bicarbonate is one of the two bases. Zhao Jiaren no longer has to worry about Da Song's industrial alkali. This made him once again sincerely thank the great motherland for its precious products.

Then Zhao Jiaren ordered, "Make 500 tons of soap first and send it to Jiangning." ”

When Mei Youqian, the servant of the Ministry of Works, who was in charge of executing this order, heard the news, he just smiled slightly, and then carried out the order. Unlike the calmness of the executor, the entire imperial court was a little shaken. The commercial system centered on Jiangning can digest these 500 tons of soap, and 500 tons of soap can make a lot of money. This money means Zhao Jiaren's attitude towards Wenzhang. The imperial court was so concerned about this matter that it ignored another order of Zhao Jiaren to establish three soap factories in Songjiang Prefecture, Fuzhou, and Guangzhou.