Chapter 138, Unbelievable

"This ...... Is that really going to happen?"

Gu Fan told Zhao Bocong about the situation, and Zhao Bocong was really hard to believe. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 infoIn his opinion, even if his minister is not a saint, he is a disciple of a saint after all, and he eats empty pay and drinks the blood of soldiers, and the martial artist does this, he believes. But the reader, he really doesn't believe it.

"If Your Majesty doesn't believe it, when someone comes, you can ask. ”

As Gu Fan spoke, he ordered someone to find the orphan who had let the besiegers receive a pension in the yamen at that time.

Although the people who occupied Kaifeng City were martial artists, although it was a sneak attack at night, casualties were inevitable.

There are not many masters like Gu Fan and Wang Chongyang, but as long as there is a person who is similar to that shamanic man, it is enough to cause casualties. Not to mention that this is Kaifeng after all, after all, it is the future capital of Jinguo. The top masters haven't come yet, but there are always first- and second-rate.

Kaifeng was captured that night, and casualties were reported during the day. These people, Gu Fan reported to the emperor and asked for a large amount of compensation.

"Hehe! I believe there are black sheep, but I reach out to the deceased, the heroes of the country. I don't believe anything. Zhao Bocong laughed.

He believed that his ministers were ethical and would not be so inhuman. His ministers read moral texts.

Seeing that as a supreme ruler was so naΓ―ve to people's hearts, Gu Fan didn't know what to say.

He believed so much that his ministers were all moral gentlemen, and Gu Fan didn't look for anyone to come, and said directly: "Your Majesty, we can disguise ourselves and take a look together." ”

"Okay! I'll take a look. But real people, just watching, I'm afraid it's not interesting?" Zhao Bocong said.

"What does Your Majesty want?" asked Gu Fan.

"Why don't you make a bet?" Zhao Bocong said tentatively.

"Bet on what?"

"Elixir of life!" Zhao Bocong said word by word.

Over the years, he has only seen Gu Fan young, but not Gu Fan old. If he didn't have the elixir, Zhao Bocong wouldn't believe it. Especially over the years, he has seen that he has grown older day by day, and his desire for immortality has become more and more intense.

Taking this opportunity, of course he wanted to give it a try.

"Okay!" Gu Fan nodded in agreement.

Gu Fan agreed so easily, but Zhao Bocong was taken aback, and couldn't believe it: "Real people really have the elixir of immortality?"

This is "immortality"! You agree so easily, is it really good?

Of course he had to check it.

I didn't want Gu Fan to shake his head and said, "I don't have the Pill of Immorality." After speaking, before Zhao Bocong could speak, he said, "But I know that I will definitely not lose." ”

"Okay!

Whether it was Gu Fan saying that he didn't have an elixir, or the pension of the greedy under his subordinates, Zhao Bocong didn't believe it.

"Why is it so much? Why!"

But the things of the world are always worse than good spirits.

As soon as Gu Fan and the others arrived, they saw a village aunt receiving a pension.

The middle-aged fat man who was in charge of the bereavement pension glanced at the village girl and said, "Why? You go and ask the court yourself, don't ask me." ”

The village girl looked at the two pieces of money in her hand and shook her head: "It must be a mistake, it can't be only so much, the real person asked for my brother, how can the pension only be so little?"

Although the land of the Southern Song Dynasty is too small, the Southern Song Dynasty has been 60 years since Gaozong Zhao constructed the "King Kang Mud Horse Crossing the River" to establish the Southern Song Dynasty regime, and has gone through two generations of emperors of Gaozong and Xiaozong. Due to the difficulty of Jingkang, the southern crossing of the Song Dynasty, and the occupation of the Central Plains by the Jin Dynasty, the barbaric rule of the northern people in North China and the Central Plains caused a large number of southward migration of the northern population, which brought sufficient labor, advanced production technology and rich production experience to the Southern Song Dynasty.

First of all, agricultural production technology made significant progress during the Southern Song Dynasty. First, there are many kinds of agricultural tools, at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, Wang Zhen recorded in the "Book of Agriculture" that the agricultural tools have reached one hundred and five kinds, and the agricultural tools used in the Ming and Qing dynasties have appeared in the Southern Song Dynasty. The main agricultural tools were also improved in structure, especially the Quyuan plough invented in the Tang Dynasty, which was more flexible and lightweight by the Southern Song Dynasty, and was suitable for farming in paddy fields. The plough engraving and plough wall have made a division of labor, so that the cooked soil ploughed up is on the top and the raw soil is on the bottom, which is conducive to the growth of crops. So far, the ploughing in the traditional Chinese era has reached the point of perfection and has been used to this day. The second is to pay attention to deep tillage, the application of top dressing and "relying on the field" technology to increase soil fertility, popularize the multiple cropping system and the rice-wheat coarse grain intercropping system, and pioneer the planting of early and late rice, thus greatly improving the yield per unit area. In the Tang Dynasty, the yield per mu of Shangtian was only about two stones, and in the Southern Song Dynasty, Jiangdong and Liangzhejiang regions, "one mu of Shangtian received five or six stones," which was more than twice as high. In addition, with the large number of northern people moving south, the demand for wheat surged, and with government encouragement, southern farmers began to grow wheat generally. Compared with the Northern Song Dynasty, the Southern Song Dynasty had fewer famines, and the promotion of the rice-wheat double cropping system was indispensable. The proverb "Suhu is ripe, the world is full" was born. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Hangjiahu area was the main source of taxes for the imperial court, which also began in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Secondly, handicraft production in the Southern Song Dynasty has developed considerably. During the Northern Song Dynasty, although the overall level of handicraft production in the south had caught up with that of the north, there were still many production sectors above the south. In the Southern Song Dynasty, with the development of agricultural production, a large number of handicraftsmen from the north went south and the descendants of relatively advanced production technology brought the handicraft production in the south to a new level.

In addition, on the basis of the development of agriculture and handicrafts, the commodity economy of the Southern Song Dynasty was more developed, which was embodied in the prosperity of the city, the prosperity of commerce and handicrafts, and the unprecedented activity of overseas trade.

Especially after Gu Fan pointed out the geography for them, the economy of the Southern Song Dynasty at this time was very developed, and it was far more developed than in history. I dare not say that all the silver in the world has flowed to the Song Dynasty, but there are also eight or nine of them.

This is also why Zhao Bocong knew that Gu Fan occupied Kaifeng, and even the people who helped later also rewarded twenty taels of silver.

Being rich is so capricious.

But how much is two hangings?

One hanging is a thousand Wen, that is, consistently, and one or two silver, which is the official price. Even if China lacks copper, making copper expensive and silver cheap, in some places it is indeed seven or eight hundred wen for one tael of silver. But that's it, it's only less than three taels of silver.

That's not even a fraction of the money.

But the dog official, who was as fat as a pig, shook his chest and was already like a woman's tits, patted the table in front of him and said: "Look clearly, this is the yamen of the imperial court, and Lord Ben is not a public servant, so that's all, do you want to? Don't go away, don't affect the people behind." ”

This scene was watched by Zhao Bocong's stunned. (To be continued.) )