On October 24, the fifth year of the Qingli calendar, it was already the early winter, and the weather had already turned cold, although it had not snowed, but it had already frosted.

However, Bianliang Kaifeng is still a vibrant scene.

At the end of the morning, that is, at nine o'clock in the morning, Zhao Jun and other prime ministers were in the office, and they all looked at the documents reported by the department in charge in the past few days.

The door is closed, the window is only a crack, and the layout of the room has long been changed, the most intuitive is the heating table.

This table is an ordinary table of eight immortals, which is a bit like a mahjong table, except that it is made of all-steel and has a lid on it that can be opened to put in burning honeycomb coals.

In addition, there is a steel pipe connected to the outside to allow carbon monoxide to be discharged to the outside to prevent gas poisoning.

It is not difficult to manufacture this kind of heating table, but the difficult thing is the honeycomb coal inside, but Zhao Zhen found the formula for honeycomb coal, and after the imperial court built a honeycomb coal plant in the suburbs, the heating table and coal stove gradually became popular.

At this moment, a bunch of old men are sitting around this iron table, talking about official business in the past few days.

"This is the internship report of the new jinshi in each college this year, this one named Feng Jing is worthy of being the champion, or the third yuan and the first, in the tax department to observe the government, the performance is still good, and he has received a high evaluation."

"This one is called Jia An, but his personality is a little upright, and he is commented as a leader, otherwise if it is in an ordinary year, he should also be the top talent."

"The better ones are picked out, and when they are grinding at the beginning of next year, let them go to various places to serve as county commanders and see their political achievements. If you perform well during the internship, it doesn't mean that you will perform well in the local area, but you still need to sharpen it. ”

Zhao Jun buried himself in the official document and said without raising his head.

In recent years, although the imperial examination jinshi is still the most valuable officialdom ticket, from the next year, he intends to officially begin to include a certain amount of physical and biological knowledge.

Confucian scriptures will not teach you the principles of being an official, nor will mathematics, physics and chemistry. But officials must know a little bit about everything, and they still have to have basic scientific knowledge.

Otherwise, if the ideology cannot be developed, there will be a phenomenon in which conservatives resist science and regard science as a miracle and trick, and they will be immersed in the backward ideas of the past and will not be able to get out.

Therefore, the pressure of competition in the imperial examination in the past two years is still very high, and many people have heard about it and have to participate in the imperial examination in advance. For example, Feng Jing is the eighth year of Qingli in history, and Jia Huang is six years in Qingli in history, and now they are all in advance of the imperial examination.

However, their level is still hard enough, winning the champion and the top spot respectively, and obviously they have not insulted their ability in history.

"Hanlong, this is today's slash on the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, look at it."

Yan Shu next to him handed the official document to Zhao Jun's side.

Zhao Jun took it and glanced at it a few times, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, you still have to be urged by interests, and the businessmen will follow one after another." ”

"It's also Hanlong's trick, and now construction is going on everywhere in the city, opening up canals, opening up canals, building new houses, and building new houses, those businessmen will naturally come to ask when they see it."

Li Di stopped the paperwork in his hand, turned his head and patted the horse without a trace.

"Reinforced concrete houses are still stronger, and although they are not necessarily beautiful, they are much better than wooden houses in terms of fire resistance. If there is a fire in this Bianliang, I don't know how many people will die. ”

"Yes, if I am a merchant, I would like to ask how this house should be built. Merchants are profit-seeking, and when something new comes out, they will follow suit. ”

"Is this what Han Long said, the imperial court sets an example first, so those who hold the capital will also hear the news?"

Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng and several others said one after another.

Zhao Jun nodded and smiled: "Yes, capital is like this." As long as the wind is released next year, it is said that in the future, the imperial court will buy a large number of reinforced concrete to build river embankments and city walls, or it will not be long before steel mills, cement factories and brick and tile factories will be everywhere. ”

"This kind of thing really needs to be guided by the state."

Everyone praised it.

Before, they could not understand that there were no suitable iron mines, coal mines, and limestone mines in Bianliang.

There are clay mines, but if you want to make steel and cement, you have to transport them from other places every time, which is time-consuming and laborious, and you have to build factories to do something.

It was only now that they understood Zhao Jun's foresight.

After the factory was built, it happened that the imperial court needed to build a large number of public houses in order to solve the rising housing prices, so low-rent houses similar to tube buildings sprung up.

It also happened that the population of Bianliang increased dramatically, the city began to expand to the outside world, and the suburbs outside the city were gradually incorporated into the urban system, so a large number of construction was needed.

As a result, the steel and cement factories were put to use, and the construction of official residences, the construction of official dormitories, the renovation of palaces, etc., used up the entire capacity of the Bianliang cement and steel plants, and at the same time supported several brick and tile factories.

As soon as the businessmen saw that the steel and cement factories seemed to be quite profitable, many big businessmen who were familiar with the officials came to inquire about it. Including the giants supported by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, they also want to come over and get involved.

Zhao Jun naturally understood that the imperial court alone would definitely not be able to build the industrial system so quickly, and it would have to rely on the subjective initiative of capital, so this was also part of his plan.

"That's just right, at the end of this year, let's draw up a charter document on promoting the construction of private iron and steel plants, cement factories, textile factories, and brick factories, and let the Ministry of Industry and Commerce organize more domestic businessmen to talk and establish a certain industrial system in major cities around the country."

Zhao Jun thought for a while and said: "For example, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Zhejiang, Daimyofu, Henan, Yingtianfu and other places. There is also a field investigation by the Ministry of Natural Resources to see if there is a place close to the canal and sufficient resources. ”

"Well, I'll keep an eye on that."

Yan Shu was responsible for docking with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, so he nodded to show that he understood.

Zhao Jun turned his head to look at Lu Yijian again and said, "Old Lu, how is the official report of the Imperial History Division and Luzhou County in various places?" Can you count it at the end of the year? ”

"The data in this area is still being counted, but the population of Gyeonggi Road has been censused, do you want to take a look?"

Lu Yijian raised his head and said.

"Let's see."

"Give."

"How many people have been added?"

Zhao Jun asked casually while taking it.

"Twenty-one thousand six hundred and forty-two."

"Huh."

Zhao Jun's hand shook and he almost didn't drop the official document to the ground.

According to historical records, the population of Song Renzong was 10.17 million households during the first year, of which the male population reached 20.5953 million.

According to the average number of five people in a household, the total number of people is about 50 million, and by the end of the Song Dynasty, the population has increased to 12.46 million households, and the male population is 26.42 million.

But this is obviously only an approximate number, because in ancient times, not only was it difficult to count household registration information, but there were also many black households who did not want to pay taxes, so this number is basically for reference only, and the actual number is definitely more than that.

The most typical is that there are far more than five people in a family.

The Song Dynasty forbade the separation of families while the parents were present, and if neither of the parents died or one of them was still alive, then the brothers had to continue to stay in the household register.

Even if several brothers have their own wives, children, and a huge family, even if there are more than ten or twenty people in this family, as long as their parents are still there, then they will still be counted as one family, rather than a few small families each.

In addition, the statistics of the number of men are also somewhat confusing, because many aspects of the population statistics of the Song Dynasty were made by referring to the number of taxpayers.

In the Song Dynasty, only adult men between the ages of 15 and 60 who paid the Ding tax were counted.

At that time, there was no need to pay the Ding tax before the age of 15, and it was only after the age of 15 that it began to be paid, so there was a saying of "15 into Ding" in the Song Dynasty. At the age of 60, the elderly do not need to pay, so naturally they will not exist in tax statistics.

Even if there is an elderly person over 80 years old in the family, or if you have no children over 30 years old, or your parents are old and have no one to support them, you can be exempted from the tax tax, so you don't need to be recorded in the tax record.

Therefore, all things considered, it is easy to conclude that under these official statistics, there is a huge population that has not been counted.

In the second year of Qingli, Zhao Jun asked the Ministry of Statistics and the Ministry of Households to jointly do this census, when the imperial court introduced a new policy, which was more conducive to the emergence of the population, so at that time the census results had 12 million households, with a total population of about 70 million.

But Zhao Jun never dreamed that after this year's apportionment into the mu, more than 20,000 households, that is, more than 100,000 people, suddenly appeared on Gyeonggi Road alone. According to this ratio, I don't know how many people have popped up in the whole country.

"Gyeonggi Road is not big, and the previous population was only about 1.8 million people, and the main population is also concentrated in Bianliang. At the feet of the Son of Heaven, there are so many black households hidden, which is unexpected. ”

Zhao Jun sighed with emotion, then looked at everyone and said with a smile: "But this also shows that our population resources in the Great Song Dynasty are still very rich, I expect that after this census, even if there is not 100 million, there will be at least 80 or 90 million in the country." ”

"What does that mean?"

As he spoke, he put the official document he had just scanned in his hand on the table, and said to everyone: "This shows that the Great Song Dynasty has basically possessed the foundation of industrialization, and now everything is ready, only the east wind is owed." As soon as the money is in place, we can start working immediately. ”

"How long will it take to build trains and ships?"

Lu Yijian asked about what he cared about, he had always wanted to see a machine that could be driven without human labor.

Zhao Jun thought for a while and said, "I should be able to make a model next year." ”

"What model?"

Wang Zeng also came to be interested.

"When the time comes, you can first build a train from Bianliang to Weishi, Kaifeng extends in all directions, and it is good to go anywhere, but there is no canal to the south, and you have to take the land route to Nanyang."

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "If the Beijing-Jing train route can be opened, the goods from Sichuan, Hunan and Guangzhou can be transferred to Kaifeng in Hubei, without the need to go through the Yangtze River to Zhejiang first, and then take the canal from Zhejiang to the northwest to Bianliang." ”

"This is the view of seeking the country."

Everyone nodded.

Now there is the Bianhe River to the west of Kaifeng and the Yellow River, which can communicate with Shaanxi.

The canal to the north has also been dug up, and soon Bianliang from Hebei will no longer need to flow backwards from the Yellow River for a period of time before taking the Bianhe River.

To the east, take the Bianhe River to the Daimyofu, then to Huainan, Jiangsu, and finally to the Yangtze River.

In this way, it can be circulated in most parts of the country.

The only problem is to go from Sichuan to Bianliang, logically stop at Hubei, and then go north to Kaifeng to be closer.

However, because of the shipping relationship, Sichuan merchants had to go to Zhejiang first, and then go north from the canal to Bianliang, which led to a long more unjust road.

So if you build a railway from Bianliang to Hubei, it will be much more convenient.

The reason why Zhang Zhidong wanted to build the Pinghan Railway in later generations is basically here, which brought great unprecedented prosperity to Wuhan, Zhengzhou and Beiping at that time.

Although the rubber cannot be mass-produced after being shipped back, it is not a problem to bring back a certain amount of rubber raw materials and build hundreds or thousands of units.

When the time comes, we will try to build a short section of railroad tracks, and then we will start building railways with the help of the whole country, hoping to fulfill their wishes before the old Dengs die.

As several prime ministers were talking, the outside door suddenly opened, and a cold wind blew in.

The prime ministers of the Constitutional Yuan are not always there, some prime ministers need to go to various ministries to inspect, and some have to deal with affairs, for example, Lao Fan went to the military department this morning to inquire about the affairs of the army.

After the door opened, Lao Fan Fengchen came in, and as soon as he came in, he shouted: "There is good news and bad news, which one do you want to hear first?" ”

"Let's talk about it first."

Zhao Jun raised his head and looked at him.

Lao Fan raised the official document in his hand and said: "I was just in the military department, and there was an official document from Annan, Di Qing successfully destroyed Annan in September and supported the descendants of the former Li Dynasty to ascend to the throne. ”

"Oh?"

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "He set off in March, arrived in Yongzhou in June, and destroyed Annan in September?" ”

Fan Zhongyan said triumphantly: "That's my favorite general." ”

"It has nothing to do with you, he has been listening to me talk about the art of war before, and I trained it."

Zhao Jun was not happy.

Which hot-blooded young man in later generations does not have a dream of a golden iron horse and a wolf Juxu?

But it's a pity that Zhao Jun is in an important position and can't personally lead the troops.

Of course.

His military theories also exist in theories.

Although he is familiar with the books of great men and soldiers, the actual operation is estimated to be ruthless, and he does not dare to really go into battle.

But Di Qing was taught by him, so how could he let Lao Fan lead the credit?

"What you said, what's the use of you teaching the art of war, I have to take him out to fight to grow up."

"It's like how powerful you are, Yue Fei is about to recover the mountains and rivers, I told you who the enemy is, how the enemy should fight us, you haven't wiped out Western Xia and Liao."

"You're talking about it easily"

"Alright, you two don't fight for credit."

Lu Yijian coughed and said, "Let's talk about the bad news." ”

"Bad news"

Lao Fan came over and sat down, threw the official document in his hand on the table, put his hand into the iron table and roasted the fire and said: "On the way here just now, I met a new sword from the Jinju Academy, take it and take a look, guess what I saw?" ”

"Can't you just finish it all at once?"

Zhao Jun rolled his eyes.

Fan Zhongyan said with a smile: "I saw the excerpt on the stage of the Jiangsu-Zhejiang Road, saying that many landlords are in tandem and plan to protest the new deal with the imperial court. ”

"What can be done, the bullet pressure is enough."

Wang Zeng said lightly: "Now many young people in the country are attracted, either recruited by the imperial court to repair canals, or reclaim wasteland and include it in official fields, some landlords, how many people can there be?" What kind of wind and waves can it bear? ”

"Okay, I'll approve a palindrome later, and let someone be sent on Jiangsu-Zhejiang Road to suppress it!"

Fan Zhongyan said casually.

Although this incident was bad news, it was really not a big deal.

Uprisings also need various reasons, if the common people live in abundance and health, and have something to eat, who will risk killing their heads to rebel?

Therefore, the more productive and well-fed everyone is, the less likely it is that there will be a rebellion.

After a few years of Qingli's new policy, the productivity has now been greatly improved, and even if there are disasters throughout the country, the imperial court has the ability to provide disaster relief as soon as possible, so as not to starve to death.

In this case, although these landlords have a lot of food and population, they must also have people under their command who are willing to rebel with them.

However, just when Fan Zhongyan was about to approve the slash and respond like this.

Zhao Jun narrowed his eyes and said lightly: "No! ”

"No what?"

The crowd looked at him in confusion.

"Don't send someone to suppress!"

Zhao Jun looked at Lao Fan and said, "I'll approve this slash later." ”

"What do you want to do?"

Lu Yijian sniffed out the smell, looked at him vigilantly and said, "Han Long, are you making any big moves again?" ”

"What big moves can you make?"

Zhao Jun smiled indifferently and said, "I just let the Jiangzhejiang Road side not take care of it." ”

Don't care?

The crowd frowned.

What does this mean?

Wouldn't it be bigger and bigger if you didn't care about it?

Wait.

Getting louder and louder?

Everyone's eyes looked at Zhao Jun thoughtfully.

Han Long.

It's still as ruthless as ever.

(End of chapter)