Since his grandfather said so, he would definitely not ask for the Xishan Travel Stone, and Fanning was no longer reluctant, so he followed his grandfather to the study outside the atrium.

"This official mansion covers an area of twelve acres, the official family must give it to me, I didn't want it, but you also know my old mansion, it's too small, there are a lot of children and grandchildren, it's really a little bit unbearable, seeing the sincerity of the official family, I accepted it."

Fan Zhongyan poured tea for Fan Ning and said with a smile: "But if the official family wants to use this mansion to block my mouth, he has miscalculated, I want to live in the house, and I will say something unpleasant." ”

Fan Ning didn't know much about the affairs of the imperial court, so he smiled and asked, "How is Second Uncle Chunren now?" ”

Chunren is Fan Zhongyan's second son Fan Chunren, who is in the same department as Fan Ning, and was admitted to Jinshi but did not become an official, but took care of his sick father at home, and Fanning has always admired his filial piety.

"Erlang has been unwilling to go out, although filial piety is commendable, but I don't want to delay the child's future, I repeatedly persuaded him, last year he listened to my words, out of the official, now Xiangyi County as the county, belongs to Kaifeng Mansion, he will often come to the capital to see me."

"Do a good job in Kaifeng Mansion, although it is said that 'my parents are here, I will not travel far', but once the imperial court needs it, I still have to go to Kunzhou, which is far overseas."

When the topic talked about Kunzhou, Fan Zhongyan's face was obviously a little unhappy, but he still couldn't help but not have a seizure, pondered for a moment, he took out a fold from the drawer, handed it to Fan Ning and said: "This is what I am going to give to the Son of Heaven, and it has something to do with Kunzhou, you can see first, there is something wrong with the fold." ”

Fan Ning seemed to feel something, but he couldn't say it clearly, he had to look at it, but after only looking at a few lines, he almost jumped up, Fan Zhongyan was strongly opposed to opening up territory overseas, criticizing the Son of Heaven for his great achievements, working for the people and money, this is only more than Zhang Yaozuo and others, and the other views are the same as Zhang Yaozuo.

Fan Ning was shocked for a long time and asked, "Could it be that grandfather also supports Zhang Guifei's son to ascend to the throne?" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he regretted it, and sure enough, Fan Zhongyan sank down, became extremely ugly, and said coldly for a while: "Do you think that I and Zhang Yaozuo, Gao Rune and others are all the way?" ”

"It's the grandson who is wrong, it's really because the grandson has put a lot of effort in Kunzhou, and it's the grandson's belief in being an official, so seeing that his grandfather is also against opening up overseas, the grandson is in a hurry, and puts his grandfather and Zhang Yaozuo and Gao Ruone's shameless villains together, and the grandson apologizes to his grandfather!"

Fan Ning put down the fold and sincerely kowtowed to apologize, Fan Zhongyan's face softened a little, and then said: "Don't jump to conclusions first, let's talk about it after reading the fold!" ”

Fan Ning had to bite the bullet and continue to watch, the more he saw the back, the more frightened he became, he couldn't imagine that the rich people at the bottom of the Great Song Dynasty lived so hard, working hard for a year, still without food and clothing.

Fan Zhongyan sneered: "Do you think that now is a peaceful and prosperous world, and everyone can have enough food and clothing? In the third year of Qingli, in the third year of Qingli, why did Wang Lun of Yizhou, Jingdong Road, rebel? In response to the call, it swept dozens of states and counties, and in the seventh year of Qingli, why did the king of Beizhou launch a mutiny? Hundreds of thousands of people in Hebei responded, I have witnessed the miserable life of the people at the bottom, if it is not impossible to live, who will follow the rebellion? But in order to satisfy the personal desire of the Son of Heaven to rejoice in his achievements and open up the territory, how much grain did the imperial court spend, and the inner treasury was almost empty in order to build a big ship to go to sea with ten thousand stones. ”

After being silent for a long time, Fan Ning said in a low voice: "Last year and this year, I have already sent back more than two million taels of silver to the imperial court, as well as amber wood worth hundreds of thousands of guan, which has actually completely made up for the expenses incurred by the imperial court to open up the territory and go to sea. ”

"I know, that's the money earned by supporting the Japanese civil war and selling armor, even the civil war, but the common people of Japan are suffering, how many people will be ruined because of this, and their wives will be separated, this kind of political achievement, don't show off in front of me!"

"But the situation in Kunzhou is indeed not what my grandfather thought, I only reported to the imperial court yesterday, please let my grandfather explain a few words."

Fan Zhongyan snorted, "I'll show you the recital, just to listen to your explanation, if your explanation can't satisfy me today, don't come here again in the future, don't conspire with it!" ”

Fan Ning was very bitter in his heart, he only now understood why the second uncle heard that he was going to visit his cousin, why his expression was so weird, it turned out that today was his real debriefing!

Fan Ning pondered and said, "I want to ask my grandfather first, even if the imperial court does not open up the territory, the lives of these low-level people will be better?" ”

Fan Zhongyan's heart was gloomy for a while, he didn't know that Fan Ning was talking about the roots, if that was the case, what else did he need to do with Qingli Innovation?

In fact, it is precisely because of the rebellion of Wang Lun in the third year of Qingli that it greatly shook the imperial court, and initially prompted the official family to make up their minds to carry out reforms, but unfortunately the throne of the official family was not stable at that time, and finally under the pressure of the magnates, he had to compromise and give up the reform, and now the official throne is firmly seated, but he has no passion for reform, but he is interested in opening up the territory.

However, Fan Zhongyan would not show the slightest compromise in front of his grandson, and he said coldly: "If it is not too expensive to open up the territory, the imperial court will at least have the spare strength to help the victims of the Shaanxi Road." ”

In fact, Fan Zhongyan was not wrong, the imperial court did not only supply Kunzhou, but also Tanzhou and Liuqiufu, especially Liuqiufu, the garrison consumed a lot, and there was almost no output, and the huge annual demand for supplies to the imperial court brought a heavy burden.

The huge expenses of the imperial court were ultimately borne by the people, and Fan Zhongyan could see it clearly, and he was worried that the overseas opening up of Xinjiang would become a bottomless pit of financial resources to fill dissatisfaction, so he resolutely opposed the overseas opening of the territory.

But Fan Zhongyan also made the common mistake of scholars, that is, empiricism, he has not been to Kunzhou, so he takes it for granted that the bitter cold land of Kunzhou can only be maintained by the supply of the imperial court, as for raising horses, Fan Zhongyan also thinks that it is not of much significance, if the army does not carry out thorough reform, even if it has more war horses, it will not be the opponent of Liao, and raising horses also costs huge resources.

However, Fan Zhongyan has rich political experience after all, although he opposed the opening of Xinjiang, he did not rashly hand over the folds to the imperial court, he wanted to listen to Fan Ning's explanation, and then make a decision.

Fanning organized his thoughts and decided to start with what his grandfather cared about the most, and slowly convince his grandfather.

"Does my grandfather know that 1,600 Han people have already moved in Kunzhou, and we are going to move in another 400 households this year, with a population of more than 10,000, does my grandfather want to know their situation?"

"You say, I'll listen!"

"My grandson has learned that among the 1,000 households that moved in last year, 700 households were victims of the Shaanxi Road, and the drought made them really unable to survive, so they sold their land cheaply, saved a little grain and rice and fled to the capital to beg for food, and the imperial court sent them to Kunzhou together with another 300 households in Hebei, a total of more than 5,400 people, each of them got 200 acres of land, and this year has begun to cultivate, and every household will soon have a new house, with enough food and cloth, and they are very satisfied with their lives, and no one is willing to return to the Great Song Dynasty."

Seeing that his grandfather did not interrupt him, Fan Ning continued: "Grandfather may think that their wealth is due to the supply of the Great Song Dynasty, this was indeed the case in the first year, but it has not been since last year, the two thousand hectares of wheat fields cultivated by the army have produced 300,000 stone of grain, which completely solves the problem of feeding the army, the people and laborers, and this year's output will be even higher, plus the wheat planted by the people, this year's grain will reach 800,000 stone, I have estimated that the last return to the Song Dynasty this autumn, we will at least transport 400,000 stone of grain to the imperial court." ”

Hearing this, Fan Zhongyan's face was a little moved, he didn't expect Kunzhou to feed back to the imperial court so quickly, he began to be a little unable to sit still, and said, "You go on!" ”

"Not only grain, Kunzhou is rich in mines, especially gold, silver and sulfur mines, we found three large silver mines and two gold sand rivers, mining began in June, at least one million taels of silver and one hundred thousand taels of gold can be delivered to the imperial court every year, in addition, Kunzhou's fishery resources are extremely rich, I estimate that we can provide 50,000 to 100,000 quintals of dried fish to the capital every year in the future, and our demand for the imperial court is to need some daily necessities and tea, even cloth we can solve by ourselves, and can even trade with Japan, the silk of the Great Song Dynasty, Porcelain, tea, paper, and other daily necessities were sold to Japan in exchange for large quantities of silver, and Kunzhou would later become an important source of revenue for the imperial court. ”

Fan Zhongyan was silent for a while, he knew Fan Ning, Fan Ning was not a person who opened his mouth, he said this, he must be confident, Fan Zhongyan's strong opposition to the opening of the territory was a little shaken in the face of facts.

After a long silence, he asked again, "How is the situation with horse breeding now?" ”

"Back to my grandfather, I brought back fifty foals this time, in fact, by the end of this year, there will be five thousand new ponies in Kunzhou, and in five years, Kunzhou can provide 10,000 war horses to the Great Song Dynasty every year, and in ten years, this number will increase to 20,000, and they are not ordinary horses, but real army war horses."

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