From Quanzhou to the capital, the land route is indeed very inconvenient, you must take the sea route, fortunately, after a hundred years of precipitation, the coastal route has been very developed, from Quanzhou to the north, from the Yangtze River estuary into the river, and then from Yangzhou to the north of the canal, or Hangzhou into the Qiantang River, and then along the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal to the north, the time is about the same, half a month later, Fan Ning arrived in the capital.

When I arrived in the capital, I naturally went back to my home first, the house was almost cleaned up, large bags and small bags were piled up in several rooms, and even a few hedgehogs and squirrels were put into cages, and the whole family was waiting for news from Fanning, and then moved south.

When Fanning said that the whole family could go south with him this time, the whole family cheered.

Xiao Bisheng was newly married, and at night, after the husband and wife had some affection, Zhu Pei said in her husband's arms: "You are really right, my father had a vague attitude towards Zhang Yaozuo before, and now he has been liquidated and demoted to the prefect of Chengdu, and he will leave in two days." ”

Fanning sat up all of a sudden and asked, "Who else has been liquidated besides your father?"

"There have been a lot of liquidations, I heard from my mother that more than 30 people were degraded and arrested, and the people in the court were panicked during this time, my father was not bad, at least the prefect of Dacheng, this is still Han Xianggong for your sake, many people were demoted to the magistrate of the county, the county Cheng, Zhang Sheng, Wei Zhen, Liang Shaoyou, these Zhang Yaozuo's henchmen were arrested for corruption."

"Your father went to Chengdu Mansion, what should your eldest brother do?"

Zhu Pei was silent for a moment and said: "This is also what I want to discuss with you, I want to take my eldest brother to Quanzhou." ”

"I don't have a problem, the mansion in Quanzhou is very big and enough to live, but whether your mother is willing to do it"

"If you agree, my mother will go to Quanzhou with me first, and she will live there for a while, and then go to Chengdu Mansion."

Fanning nodded, "Let's go see them tomorrow afternoon!" ”

Seeing that her husband was thoughtful, Zhu Pei was really grateful in her heart, and snuggled tightly in his arms.

.........

Early the next morning, Fan Ning came to the Zhizheng Hall, Han Qi, Fu Bi, Wen Yanbo received him, because the Overseas Economic Strategy Mansion directly belongs to the Son of Heaven, Fan Ning as an overseas economic envoy does not need to report to the Zhizheng Hall, but many of his overseas development careers still need the support of the Zhizheng Hall.

Han Qi smiled and said: "It's very simple to get the support of the Zhizheng Hall, come up with benefits, now we are very realistic, we only look at the silver of the white flowers, and everything else is easy to say." ”

Fu Bi knocked on the small abacus in his heart and said, "That's not right! Although you can get back 12 million taels of silver, we also have to take out a large amount of goods, and if you subtract the two, in fact, there is only a profit of five or six million taels of silver, and besides, the war horse belongs to the herd of herdsmen, and it cannot be converted into your share, and then subtract three million taels of silver, and your kid actually only gets back three million taels of net profit every year, who are you fooling?"

Everyone laughed, Wen Yanbo pointed at Fu Bi and smiled at Fan Ning: "Do you know why his surname is rich, he is better than anyone else, so he can get rich, me and Lao Han, one shabby, the other meager, can't compare with him!" ”

Fan Ning said to Fu Bi with a red face: "Fu Xianggong, you have to speak with your conscience!" Kunzhou ships 3 million taels of silver and 300,000 taels of gold sand every year, and Japan's Tohoku Province produces 2 million taels of silver every year, which adds up to 8 million taels of silver, and the carp silver mine in Ryukyu Province is reopened, and there is no problem with 500,000 taels of silver this year, these are net profits, and then we establish official trade with Japan, and we can at least exploit their net profits of three or four million taels of silver every year, and 12 million taels of silver will come, and I will go to Nanyang to open a mine again, and there will be no problem with 20 or 30 million taels of silver in a few years. ”

Fu Bi nodded and said: "We all know that you have a little ability, the Great Song Dynasty has changed a lot over the years, at least silver horns have become more and more common, this is all thanks to the silver you brought from overseas, in fact, what we are worried about is that a large amount of silver comes in, but there is not so much grain, cloth, tea, and oil, will it cause prices to rise, and the lives of the extremely poor people will be more difficult, have you thought about this question?"

Of course, Fan Ning thought about this problem, he said unhurriedly: "First of all, we will not export grain, but will only import it from overseas, Kunzhou imports about one million stone of wheat into the Great Song Dynasty every year, and after the development of Ryukyu Prefecture, the annual import of rice is at least five million stone, and these grains are directly supplied to the capital, which will effectively suppress the grain price in the capital."

As for tea, now the tea cakes in Jianzhou alone can meet the needs of the people of the Great Song Dynasty every year, as well as the tea cakes in Fuzhou, Quanzhou, Lianghu, Jiangnan and Bashu.

In fact, there is a serious surplus of tea cakes in the Great Song Dynasty, and the only thing that will produce pressure is cloth, which can completely expand the cultivation of hemp, and as for cloth, there will be large weaving workshops, and there will soon be a workshop with 3,000 looms in Quanzhou, and Fuzhou will also have it, and the price of cloth will be even lower. ”

Fan Ning's words made the three of them silent, and after a while, Wen Yanbo said: "Fan Envoy Jun is also right, the people take food as the sky, as long as we control the food, other by-products can increase the output, like cloth, ordinary people are self-sufficient, and they can't sell it for money if they grow hemp, but once there is a large-scale textile workshop, the demand for hemp is very strong, and the people can increase planting, increase income, and silkworm farming is the same, so many years of output can't go up, it's not that there is no ability, but there is no demand, once the overseas market is developed, The export of silk to the West through the Maritime Silk Road will increase the enthusiasm of farmers to raise silkworms and cut silk will be unprecedentedly high, and as long as it is profitable, a large number of textile workshops will definitely appear in the Jiangnan area, which will open up a new way for the resettlement of the victims. ”

Fanning smiled again: "I'll say one more thing to the three Xiangguo, I accidentally found that the Ryukyu Mansion is full of endless cotton trees, I estimate that every year the cotton can harvest a million catties, the market cotton one or two consistent money, every year a million catties of cotton into the Great Song Dynasty, this is how much value, of course, the price of cotton will be very cheap, then every household can afford to use, there are cotton clothes in winter, sleeping with cotton quilts, it will be a huge improvement in the lives of ordinary people." ”

The three of them looked at each other, and Fu Bi suddenly said angrily: "Why haven't you found it for so many years before?"

"In the past, it was because of the serious banditry in the Ryukyu Prefecture, and the army had exterminated the murderous enemy in the past two months, so the power of the Great Song Dynasty began to move south, which is also the basis for me to propose to immigrate 20,000 households to Ryukyu, and it also takes a lot of manpower to pick cotton."

Fanning also had no choice, although he had the right to establish a new county, but the immigration was in the hands of the Zhizheng Tang, and he had to ask the Zhizheng Tang to speed up the pace of immigration.

Han Qi smiled and said: "That's right, if you want the Zhizheng Hall to do things for you, you have to know that it is profitable, and you will be exempted from it, as long as it is profitable, who will not support it."

Fan Ning said depressedly: "I found that Han Xianggong is becoming more and more philistine, and opening his mouth and closing his mouth is money!" ”

Everyone laughed, and Han Qi smiled and said: "In the past few years, the silver sent by Kunzhou has made the imperial court taste the sweetness, and you are a master of gold digging, how can we not look forward to it."

..........

The prefect finally approved the trade agreement signed between Fanning and Japan, agreed with the decision of the Overseas Economic Strategy to add Ryuchu and Ryunan Prefectures to the Ryukyu Prefecture, and ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to provide the Overseas Economic Strategy with a list of alternative officials as soon as possible.

Fan Ning then met with the Empress Dowager of the Two Palaces and reported to them the actions of the army in the Ryukyu Province, although the Empress Dowager Cao felt that it was cruel to exterminate the natives of the Plains, but Gao Tao supported Fan Ning's decision.

The Qilin Hall of the Inner Palace was originally Zhao Zhen's inner study, but now it is the place where the two queen mothers received the ministers, the room was separated by a gauze curtain, the two queen queens sat in the inner room, and Fan Ning sat outside.

Empress Dowager Cao has always been relatively silent, but today Gao Tao was a little excited, and she said loudly: "The mourning family is not mistaken, the opening of the Ryukyu Mansion is still before Kunzhou, but what Kunzhou looks like now, what the Ryukyu Mansion looks like, in the final analysis, our army is too weak, if we started ten years ago, the Ryukyu Mansion would be a completely different scene." ”

Fan Ning could feel Gao Tao's fiery gaze, he was worried that Empress Dowager Cao would be dissatisfied with him, and added to explain: "These natives are not the aborigines of the Ryukyu Prefecture, they are from Luzon, and they have been oppressing and killing the local natives for a hundred years, so that the population of Dongfan has been reduced by more than half, and the Gaoshan people hide in the mountains and dare not come out, when we exterminate these natives, the Dongfan people also participated in the battle, and now the Dongfan people have surrendered to the Great Song Dynasty......"

"Forget it, this kind of army people don't want to know, the mourning family is sleepy, you can report other things to the Empress Dowager Gao, and the mourning family will go to rest."

After speaking, the Empress Dowager Cao got up and left, and the eunuch shouted, "The Empress Dowager is driving!" ”

More than a dozen eunuchs and palace maids followed Empress Dowager Cao out of the back door, and there were only six palace maids left in the room at once.

Fanning's heart was pounding, and when he looked up, he saw that the curtain had been lifted, and a pair of seductive eyes were staring at him fiercely.

At this time, Gao Tao said slowly: "The mourning family wants to look at the map!" ”

She got up and walked to the next room, where there was the map room, which was full of all kinds of maps, and when she reached the door, she looked at Fanning deeply again, and went inside.

Cai'e, the head of the palace maid, stepped forward and whispered in Fan Ning's ear: "It's all my own people here." ”

Fanning is a little helpless, this is in the inner palace!

He had to get up and say, "The minister showed the Queen Mother the map of Ryukyu Prefecture." ”

He also followed into the map, and as soon as he entered the map room, a pair of soft jade arms wrapped around his neck.