"Zi'an, the court's finances are really tight," Zhang Feng was biting hard.

Thanks to Wang Ju's strong recommendation, Cai Ting began to pay attention to Zhang Ting. Soon he found that Zhang Ting did have some talent, so Cai Ting gradually attached importance to it, including when discussing and planning, he would call Zhang Ting over to be a staff officer. So Zhang Ting also learned about some of Cai Ting's character, very similar to himself, a very practical commander. What does it mean to be very practical?

He just won’t talk nonsense, and he took down Helan Mountain with a wave of his hand, but he would not be afraid of the Xixia people. He could clearly know the strengths and weaknesses of the enemy and dared to defeat and weaken Xixia step by step reasonably and rationally.

So this new magistrate has nothing to do with cowardice.

But why did you say this?

There is only one reason: the finances are too nervous, so they can't maintain a real battle, so Cai Ting ends when he sees it is better, and he is satisfied to defeat the Xixia people after the autumn. There is no need to occupy a fortress and start a second battle.

"I don't know much, it's probably very tight," Wang Ju said.

It is said that after Zhao Xu ascended the throne, he ran to the Sansi to check the account books. I had to do things, but I had to have money in my hands. This was the amazing progress of the Song Dynasty.

Including some great scholars, such as Ye Shi and Chen Liang, they firmly oppose "those who talk about their lives far away from each other, but take utilitarianism as a pretext", "pragmatic but not empty", and talk about those who preserve the laws of nature and eliminate human desires, but are practical? Can the people of the country do good things without money? Then they say that human desires are nature, and they cannot "teach people to suppress their feelings and favor falsehoods", do not enjoy food, do not watch songs and dances, do not value fame, do not value status, can you do the second Cheng Lao Zhu? What you can't do by yourself. How can you let others do it?

What should I do? Appropriately control bad human desires and guide them to develop in a better direction.

Such visionary remarks appeared in the Song Dynasty, not by Wang Ju, but by Ye Shi, the Minister of Personnel.

In fact, Zhu Xi did not gain the upper hand in the Southern Song Dynasty, but later Zhu Yuanzhang recognized his ancestors indiscriminately, and the disaster came...

So Zhao Xu immediately looked at the fiscal expenditure income, but was stunned when he saw it.

But it doesn’t matter if you say it, it’s just some fiscal deficits. Wang Anshi only needs to confine himself to one or two years and then all of them will be solved.

Wars must be fought, and they will continue to fight. Why do you say this? It is that you cannot give the enemy a chance to breathe. The fiscal deficit can be settled later and slowly, which is a clever method.

But Cai Ting can't be blamed. Now Han Qi is the prime minister, how can he not worry?

But Cai Ting has Cai Ting's idea, Wang Ju has Wang Ju's idea, and the Xinjiang Ball Fort is not occupied, how can those Yeli people be placed?

Thinking of this, Wang Ju said, "Let's talk about it after you fight."

Zhang Feng was ridiculous and terrified. Others said it and then did it, while Wang Ju said it.

But it is not that simple. If you want to occupy the Xinjiang Ball Fort, you must fight the Xixia people in the future. If you cannot launch a bigger war in a short time, then Cai Ting will not have any objections. As for a few years, will Cai Ting still be on Huanqing Road in a few years? Or, after the Weimingshan incident, does Xixia still care about a Xinjiang Ball Fort?

Zhang Feng said again: "I heard that Mr. Cheng died in Yanzhou."

This is Zhang Shi's vision. Most people don't care about it, but Zhang Shi cares and deliberately notifies Wang Ju.

The reason is simple. It is the Huafu Dao.

Wang Ju was indeed stunned and asked for a long time: "Who is the new magistrate?"

"Duke Lu." Zhang Qiong said: "Since the rebellion of Nong Zhigao, Jiaozhi has become more and more arrogant."

"Isn't that Jiaozhi a small country?" Li Fei'er asked curiously from the side. She really asked Zhang Xi. Jiaozhi is not Vietnam now, and there is a hostile Champa country in the south. It is only half the size of Vietnam. Strictly speaking, it has only been more than a hundred decades and has always been in China's territory. However, it is this small country, and it is unruly. Why?

"Fai'er, don't say anything. The country's focus is in the north, so the south is in vain. As long as there is no trouble, everyone will just close their eyes. So at that time, Nong Zhigao rebelled almost swept the entire Guangnan. It was not that our dynasty was insufficient, but that there were very few soldiers stationed in the south, and it seemed that there were less than ten battalions of the forbidden soldiers stationed. However, the Jiaozhi people had the illusion that Nong Zhigao, who was beaten like a dog by them, could beat the Song Dynasty in a mess, and began to despise our Song Dynasty from then on."

"Zi'an, it's right. Therefore, Lu Xian came to Guizhou to take office. Jiaozhi sent an envoy Li Shunzong to speak rudely. Lu Xian sued his condemnation in person and went to Yongzhou again, gathering the forty-five heads of the left and right rivers, asking them to send 50,000 men and soldiers under their command to train, and then set up local soldiers and officers to cast seals for them. The people of Jiaozhi were afraid, so they sent envoys to pay tribute. Therefore, the court sent Duke Lu to Yanzhou to take over."

Congratulations? They are not congratulatory. Besides, does Lu Shi really have that great ability?

But even Wang Ju can't focus on the south. There is no way, the power is so great. How can we launch troops in the south?

And it's still early.

Wang Ju was thinking about Lu Sheng, and he would not care about the grudges and grudges of this Lu Gong and Zhong Yan in the future. However, this gave Wang Ju a headache.

Cheng Kan also had grudges and grudges with him, but later the two sides "conciled peace" and even after Wang Ju came to Huachi County, he still had some cooperation. Therefore, Wang Ju repaired Huafu and said that if Cheng Kan continued to be in Yanzhou, it would be impossible to ask the officers and soldiers of the 10th and 8th Battalions to support him when it was critical, but he was still sure to ask the officers and soldiers of the 5th and 6th Battalions to fight to the most critical moment, let alone the officers and soldiers of the 5th and 6th Battalions, even if the officers and soldiers of the 1st Battalions came, it would be good.

However, when Lu Shi came, can he ask for support from the officers and soldiers in Yanzhou? It seems that he had to talk to Cai Ting that day. At least Lu Shi would not buy his own face, it depends on whether he bought Cai Ting's face.

…………

Cai Ting came to Huachi County again and brought many officials.

Wang Ju did a big thing, which had nothing to do with military affairs.

Last year, Wang Ju advised everyone to plant winter wheat. Now the weather in the Song Dynasty has not yet ushered in the small ice weather in the late Northern Song Dynasty. Although there is also a cold winter, it is relatively warm winter. Therefore, the range of winter wheat cultivation can reach Youzhou and southern Liaoning.

However, the crops of northern people are still mainly one season and two seasons are supplemented. Why? It is the harvest time of winter wheat that can usually be harvested in early May. For example, the official harvest season of winter wheat in Kaifeng in the first year of Xining is May 7, which is recorded in history.

Therefore, if you want to harvest in two seasons, it will be very troublesome. In spring, you must clear the wheat seedlings, use tools to lay down small pits, sprinkle seeds of bean and millet, and cover them with wood ash and fermented manure. However, in this way, the seedlings of bean and millet are difficult to grow well in the growing winter wheat. The winter wheat harvest has existed, but the harvest of bean and millet has decreased. Therefore, the two seasons in the Ming Dynasty can only be said to be one and a half seasons, which also led to the total yield of only two stones per mu in the north, until Jiangdongwei officially appeared. The high-yield Jiangdongwei pulled the yield of the Song Dynasty to three stones per mu.

In addition, winter wheat cultivation and management is more complicated than beans and millet. It does not mention waste labor and has stricter water requirements. The northwest was originally short of water, so many people in the northwest were too lazy to grow winter wheat and only planted a green of beans and millet.

In order to solve this problem, Wang Ju taught the people a new way, that is, transfer.

Winter wheat is planted in its own way. However, millet is no longer planted directly in the fields as before, but instead cultivated seedlings alone.

First, he mixed farm fertilizer with fertile mud. Wang Ju also provided the people with a tool for free, with an iron cylinder underneath and a piston above. The piston was lifted up and pressed on the mixed mud, and then pressed the piston down. Lifting up the village, a tube-shaped nutrition bowl came out.

Then sprinkle sorghum seeds on the nutrition bowl and place them in a small field to manage.

The winter wheat is harvested and the nutrition bowl is transferred to the field.

This method is not only suitable for sorghum, but also for cotton.

But it was a little troublesome, but now Wang Ju has gained prestige. With the arrival of spring, Wang Ju rode around on horseback. Fortunately, Huachi County was not large in area, so the supervision tools were provided free of charge, and the people continued to implement them. However, at the beginning, Qingzhou officials did not pay much attention. As the winter wheat matured, everyone finally saw its benefits.

The winter wheat is approaching ripening day by day, and the sorghum seedlings are also growing vigorously, and are growing more vigorously than the previous seed-sowing planting.

The Song Dynasty attached importance to internal governance and civil governance, so Fan Zhongyan proposed to emphasize agriculture and sericulture, but slogans were not enough. You have to introduce some practical methods, otherwise what is the difference between shouting or not? Don’t talk about this emphasis on agriculture and sericulture, but someone shouted it out in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Therefore, after hearing this, Cai Ting immediately brought officials from all over the country from Qingzhou to inspect.

"This is a good way," Cai Ting praised.

Other officials were all on the forehead.

To put it in small, if the two seasons are not affected, even if each household increases its income by a few hundred kilograms of grain, some extremely poor households will not go hungry. To put it in small, if the promotion starts, one household increases its income by five stones of grain, the whole north will increase its production of 20 to 30 million stones of grain, and there will be no crisis in the grain.

Or spread in the northwest. If it is promoted in Shaanxi, the entire Shaanxi will increase its grain by hundreds of stones a year. Even if the imperial court uses money to buy it, the increased grain can barely save military food. How much money will it save?

Its meaning is immeasurable.

But Cai Ting was still negligent. This kind of transfer is more than that?

In the past, when planting beans and millet, they were soaking seeds into the ground. Five or six seeds could be sprinkled in a pit, but the root system of millet was so large that there were often three or four sorghum seedlings that could survive. Then they compete for fertilizer and water in this limited area. How could they produce high yields?

But now this kind of single plant is transferred and there is only one seedling, so it can attract the nutrients and moisture in the soil to its fullest. And because it starts to grow in small fields, weak seedlings can be removed without using it. Also, the seedlings grow in fertile nutrient bowls, so its roots start to pierce down from childhood. After moving to the field, its roots can be deeper and attract more nutrients and moisture. Instead of as before, because the lower soil is solidified, the roots can only extend to the surface soil.

Wang Ju briefly explained the meaning, but some of them did not say it, because everyone may not understand it after saying it. Unless his deeper math book comes out, which introduces some knowledge of physics, chemistry and geography, everyone reads it again, reflects it again, and then talks it before they can understand it.

And Wang Ju had no idea how much its output would increase.

Anyway, this method will increase yields even more than the previous season of planting.

"If this is the case, it will be of great significance."

"Mr. Cai, you can't think so optimistic. Planting for two seasons is labor-intensive, but this will be even more labor-intensive. In order to encourage the people to use this method to plant, the Xiaguan has worn out many mouths in spring. Looking at the whole north, there is a lack of water sources and even lack of plowing oxen, so it is still an era of thin seeds and wide harvest. Even if the imperial court promotes it, many people will not choose this method to plant. Unless the entire north is water conservancy promotion, and then like Xiaguan, they do not count cattle in households, and even raise plowing oxen, they will also give some rewards to encourage the people to actively raise plowing oxen."

It is easy to do and difficult to do, but how much money does it cost to implement these two clauses and how much taxes will be reduced?

Cai Ting's smile gradually faded away.

"Mr. Cai, let's talk about the harvest after autumn. Only when the harvest comes out will it be convincing. Maybe it will be more joyful at that time."
Chapter completed!