The southeast is very large, why was Song Hou able to be majestic in his previous life, it was not that the southeast under his rule became a rare stable place in the Great Zhou.

There are not many soldiers and horses in several guards, but they are all tigers and wolves.

The surrounding territory is unstable, and the emperor and Wubian generals have borrowed troops from the southeast, since they have a request from the Song Marquis, they naturally want to give him full face.

However, due to the war in the Great Zhou Everywhere, the grain in the southeast is not abundant, so it more or less limited the pace of Song Hou, as far as it seems now, Song Hou took the soldiers of the Changzhou Guard to fight, and it is much easier to install people in the guard, and now Quanzhou's cronies have served in the Changzhou Guard, Song Chengxuan's speed is faster than in his previous life, so land and grain have become the most important thing at the moment.

"If you take Changzhou, you will naturally borrow Songjiang Mansion and arrest the Japanese nobles, but you can ensure that the coast is temporarily peaceful, and Songjiang Mansion has more dry land, if you use it, the southeast can be full, and the soldiers and horses of Lord Song also have grain and grass."

Song Chengxuan looked at Xu Qinghuan and said a lot, in fact, it means that there is not as much land in Changzhou as Songjiang, and Songjiang is a very good place, so you must get it now.

Xu Qinghuan raised her head and found that Song Chengxuan was staring at her.

"Lord Song, don't look at me like this," Xu Qinghuan said, "I'm just thinking about next spring, all the land in Changzhou and Songjiang will be planted with agricultural products, and how to do it will be arranged by Lord Song."

And Lord Song is not embarrassed, isn't Lord Song already stealing people now? The talents stolen from the emperor's hands will stay in the southeast in the future and become the people of Lord Song. ”

The word stealing people, Lord Song sounded very harsh.

He doesn't need to steal people, but when a well-educated person comes to the southeast, he naturally wants to let them go and never return.

After he leaves the palace today, the emperor will inevitably ask the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Rites to draw up a list of officials to go to Changzhou Mansion.

To put it simply, Changzhou is now an empty city, everything can be arranged from scratch, the candidates sent by the emperor to Changzhou have been carefully checked, not the queen mother's party, and not involved with other interests of the imperial court, among these officials who dare to go to the southeast, are either eager to make meritorious contributions in front of the emperor, or really want to do something for the people.

The emperor is so happy, no matter what he does, he must see the results in the short term, the Zhang family is to grasp the emperor's mind, privately develop smuggling, so that the coastal surface of Changzhou is prosperous, showing a prosperous scene, so that the emperor praised, and when the emperor found out that something was wrong, the Zhang family's power has been entrenched, and it cannot be shaken for a while.

Song Chengxuan was thinking about this, only to hear Xu Qinghuan say: "The officials sent by the imperial court can't pay this year's taxes and silver, and they will soon be rejected by the emperor. ”

Song Chengxuan glanced at Xu Qinghuan: "It's not as good as you, you still want Songjiang Mansion." ”

Xu Qinghuan said: "Songjiang Mansion is not ordinary, don't look at the summer like a water city, winter drought, that's because the river has not been cleaned up, there is a student in Songjiang Mansion has been leading the people to control the water, Lord Song is so familiar with the coast of Changzhou, presumably he also has contacts with that student, I happen to know a person, good at farming, how many fields he can take the people to farm." ”

In the previous life, when he was in northern Xinjiang, Mr. Dong asked Li Xu for a map, looking at the land in the southeast, his eyes were shining, at that time Song Chengxuan managed the waterways of Songjiang very well, and there were no floods and droughts, Mr. Dong said, the land of Songjiang, not to mention the large area planted with rice and cotton, even the corner of the land can also be used, in the suburbs of mulberry hemp, in the water rhizome, she is envious every time she hears it, and in this life can finally see Mr. Dong busy in the southeast.

Song Chengxuan listened carefully, Xu Qinghuan at this moment tilted her chin, her voice was crisp, and the whole person seemed to be shining.

Xu Qinghuan continued: "Do you know how many fertile fields there are in Songjiang Mansion? It can cultivate 2 million acres of land, half of which is planted with cotton. ”

Song Chengxuan deliberately asked, "Didn't you say that you can't grow cotton?" ”

"That's different," Xu Qinghuan said seriously, "Some land is suitable for growing cotton, but not for growing rice......"

Swindler.

Song Chengxuan said lightly: "After leaving the Zhang family, the imperial court will inevitably not allow the southeast to pay silver to offset taxes, and must hand over enough grain every year, and use all the existing land to grow rice, and may not be able to pay all the rice grain to the household department."

This is what you said before, why the officials sent to Changzhou can not gain a foothold, because of this, to reclaim Xintian, reclamation of Xintian requires a lot of manpower and material resources, and when I go to Changzhou, I will ask the government Yin to play the imperial court, and the field needs time and labor, please ask the emperor to pay no taxes for three years, so as to attract the people to come to reclaim the famine. ”

In other words, tell the emperor that Changzhou and Songjiang Prefecture are very poor, all the land is used to grow food, and it is not enough to pay the taxes of the household department, and even if the new fields are cultivated, there will not be much improvement in a few years, and the imperial court should not worry about these places.

At that time, the emperor was already anxious about the affairs of Changzhou, and he would definitely accept it.

When the emperor agreed, they planted cotton on the land, and the silver money sold could enrich the southeast, and it was too late for the emperor to regret it after seeing it, and they were not deliberately deceiving the king, after all, the existing land was counted, and the newly reclaimed land was not counted, and no one knew how much agricultural goods would be produced in the future.

Three years is enough time for them to eat and drink.

The land is deceited, and the manpower is deceitful, which is very good and complements each other.

Song Chengxuan thought about it so seriously that he looked serious: "Who taught you this?" ”

Xu Qinghuan pointed at Song Chengxuan: "Lord Song, it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, and I am also forced." ”

"Where is the gentleman you said could plow?" Song Chengxuan said, "I asked him to invite him to meet with the students of Songjiang Prefecture who controlled the water, and maybe I could keep that gentleman." ”

After saying this, Song Chengxuan stood up and walked out.

"Where are you going?" Xu Qinghuan couldn't help but ask.

"Didn't you say that you have to take Songjiang Mansion before the beginning of spring," Song Chengxuan raised his eyebrows slightly, "If you don't marry me, how can you go to the southeast to farm?" ”

Xu Qinghuan was dumbfounded, not knowing what to say.

In the end, he is still a step ahead.

Song Chengxuan walked out of the door and looked at the housekeeper's mother next to him: "I'm tired of my mother, and the grandson of the Song family in Quanzhou asks Mrs. Xu for peace." ”

The housekeeper's mother was stunned for a while, but she didn't expect that Lord Song would come out first, and she would ask to see Mrs. Tai.

This was really unexpected, and the housekeeper's mother said, "The slave maid is going to tell Mrs. Tai." ”