Lao Wang said he was in a difficult situation.

As his true intention, do you want to attack the redundant officials? You also want to attack. In fact, in history, he has taken action on both redundant officials, soldiers and governments. But he can't do it now. This action is purely a job to offend people. Do you still want to take office?

So Wang Anshi said: "Your Majesty, there are too many officials. But if you want to reduce your grace, you must discuss it together with the prime ministers of the two governments. If you don't move, you will be yourself. If you move, you will be noisy in the world. This is beyond the current scope of my duty."

It seems that nothing is said, but in fact it is said everything.

Your Majesty, do you still want to think about your life? Don’t ask me to discuss this with the sacrificial grace. If you don’t want me to have a good life, then let me say it, and I will say it.

"Xuxuxu," Zhao Xu also burst into laughter, he was too hasty.

In fact, this year is much better. There is an eight million yuan, and there is no eight million yuan, which is a different matter. At least the disaster in Hebei can allocate some money to save the disaster, rather than just like last year. People, you can find a way out for yourself. This is what happened in history. Helplessly, there is no money, so officials continued to pretend to be deaf and dumb, and did not even issue an edict to stop the taxes for the next year like in the first year of Zhiping. But now with these eight million, the court has successively allocated some money to relieve the disaster and issued an edict to avoid being taxed by the people of the prefectures and counties in the next year.

There is another income coming soon.

Cotton products arrived.

In fact, cotton began to be harvested as early as late July, but it was on Guangnan East Road, not in Beijing. It also had to be turned into cotton products and then moved to Beijing step by step.

This time, the eunuch surnamed Zhao from the Neiku was imprisoned, and two secret memorials from Su Lishe and Lu Jujian were brought.

Cotton has nothing to do with the income of the treasury for the time being, so Lu Jujian does not need to report to the East Prefecture and the Three Sessions. Of course, the ministers of the two prefectures also know this. The inner treasury is the inner treasury, and the inner treasury is also empty. Last year, the helplessness of the children of the various royal families was slightly deducted. The inner treasury also needs to replenish blood.

Zhao Xu first opened Lu Jujian's secret memorial.

Lu Jujian did not show off his merits, and he didn't have to show off. Once this matter was done well, he would naturally have made great achievements, so he only said one thing.

Zhao Niannu was kind-hearted. Of course, Lu Jujian didn't know it. He thought it was the court's kind-heartedness and bought some coats made of quilts and coats, which was conducive to the stability and unity of Guangdong and Guangxi. Officials from Guangdong and Guangxi raised their hands to agree. But Su Lishe had no money and had to withdraw money from Guangdong and Guangxi's income to advance payment.

However, this quantity is very small, mainly the original quilt, which is a quilt, without a cotton cover, and is transported to the capital. Then let the eunuchs from the inner warehouse find a group of merchants in the capital to negotiate the price. Then the merchants sell it. Otherwise, if there are so many quilts, what ability does the inner warehouse have to sell them?

In fact, since the construction of water conservancy and construction of water conservancy, the money brought by the inner warehouse had been used up long ago. Guangnan East Road began to pay in advance as early as the summer, and even provided a lot of free labor to assist the inner warehouse. Of course, in the long run, ten years later, these lands will still be handed over to Guangnan East Road according to the contract, and the inner warehouse will only operate temporarily.

Anyway, this is also a quarrel.

In addition, the transportation of cotton is carried out, which is the Qianzhou private salt road. This private salt road is too famous. The production of broad salt is large, but most of them are mixed with Han and Manchus. Therefore, the salt method cannot be implemented, and only the commercial law can be implemented, so the salt price is low.

Qianzhou belongs to Jiangnan West Road, which uses Huai salt and is also a quid salt. Think about the cost of transporting Huai salt to Qianzhou, and a quid method, so a huge price difference between the two places. Many illegal merchants from Guangnan East Road and Jiangnan West Road colluded with Wuling's Shengli, and sold Guangshen into Qianzhou, or Jinghu South Road.

When the quarrel was so big, it caused Chaoguang and other powerful officials in the eight states to almost bring trouble, and also led to a large uprising. The Yang family led another civil minister, Yang Ting, to go and deal with it. Finally, the court used the method of recruitment to resolve the crisis. Later, the court sent many good ministers to deal with it, and the situation slowed down a little, but the private salt on these private salt roads still did not stop it, and there was no way to stop it. In the end, everyone turned a blind eye...

The official roads of the court were from Henan to Hubei, to Hunan, and then to Lingnan. However, there were many private salt roads. They went upstream from Longchuan Water or Shixing Water. When would it not be navigable? When would it go ashore? Cross the Wuling River, enter the Gan River or Lei River and Xiang River, and reach the prefectures and counties of Jiangnan West Road and Jinghu South Road.

This time, Ge Su Er went down mainly in the Longchuan River area, close to Fujian Road.

More than 1,000 hectares of arable land were reclaimed, part of which was "private land", and they were distributed to immigrants in advance to plant grain and vegetables. The remaining nearly 1,000 hectares were all planted with cotton.

Therefore, there are two roads. When spring comes, sea boats can be transported to Hangzhou at once, or even directly to Mizhou. However, it will take the monsoon and missed this winter. So you can only walk this private salt road, go up Longchuan, and then walk more than 100 miles of mountainous land from the shore, enter Gan River, and then transport it to the capital by boat. It will be easier to reach the boundary of Qianzhou. The largest inland official boat base in the Song Dynasty was in Qianzhou.

However, if you want to operate for a long time, you must broaden and level the road, and then send two battalions of local soldiers to guard the garrison, not for this private salt, which is also beneficial to the development of Guangnan East Road. But this requires a lot of money and a lot of gunpowder.

In addition, it will require some transportation costs for cotton products to be shipped to the capital in Qianzhou.

At the same time, more water conservancy will be available this year, and more immigrants will come. Therefore, Lu Jujian negotiated with the Guangnan East Road Transport Author to borrow two million yuan of silk and handed it over to Su Lishe and Ge Shaohua. With this money, water conservancy will be available, road construction costs will be available, transportation costs will be available, and people's wages will be available.

However, the income from Guangnan East Road belongs to the income of the Sansi, not the income from the inner treasury. Therefore, Lu Jujian repeatedly reminded in the memorial that these incomes would also be transported to the capital, so Zhao Xu had to allocate two million yuan from the income from the inner treasury and return it to the Sansi.

Zhao Xu laughed silently. He thought of Wang Ju's words and deliberately mentioned the widening of this road. There are about four or five private salt roads. Although it is a bit difficult to widen the road in Wuling, it means that there is a foundation. Wang Ju has already mentioned the meaning of these roads, which is similar to what Lu Jujian wrote, so he immediately replied and approved it, which is accurate.

This time, when I read Su Lishe's secret memorial, I also mentioned this money.

However, Su Lishe talked about many other things, such as the desolation of Guangnan, where people are densely populated. For example, Guangzhou and several states in the coastal areas nearby, there are very few people in the inland direction, and even a few thousand households in a state. He estimated that if Guangnan East Road alone was overhauled, 200,000 hectares of arable land could be reclaimed. In fact, it is not only true.

Wang Ju also briefly said that the land of Guangdong and Guangxi is vast and the people are rare. But when Zhao Xu saw the 200,000 yuan, he was still a little nervous. He thought of what Wang Anshi said about the people who do not add taxes to themselves. Is this considered that the people who do not add taxes to themselves and use self-sufficient?

The only thing in the middle is that the people do not increase taxes, but the country uses self-sufficiently. However, due to the limitations of the times, Zhao Xu didn't think much clearly.

Then the cotton yield was reported. Because the first year of planting, the method was not explored. Some planted it thicker, some planted it thinner, and the ground and the ground should be different. However, he and Ge Shaohua were also summarizing experiences and lessons, and believed that next year would be better. This new planting method could be explored the year afterwards.

Therefore, high yields have emerged, and high yields can reach 70 kilograms, while low yields are only 30 kilograms.

In fact, long-length cotton in Western Regions is not suitable for planting in most parts of China. Later cotton was not the current Lingnan coarse cotton, but the fine-length cotton from the Americas. Although some silt fields were fertile, there were no fertilizers and pesticides in this era. The yield of coarse cotton was low and the lint content was also low. This seventy kilograms was almost the peak yield. In the future, the planting method was explored, and the average yield per mu was only fifty or sixty kilograms. If you want to move it to the north, the temporary yield would be even lower.

This is reasonable planting and transferring nutrient bowls. In fact, Wang Ju's previous life, the yield per mu of northern lint was only about 30 kilograms. Of course, the same Asian cotton planted at that time, that is, coarse lint cotton was planted.

Now, Wang Ju suddenly raised the planting method to the level of his later generations in the 1990s. However, Wang Ju didn't know this history anymore. Zhao Xu didn't know even more, but he could compare the income of hemp and silk. This comparison scared him a lot.

"Hahaha," he laughed a few times. He was happy to go crazy with joy.

Zhao Xu is really easy to satisfy now...

Then he said, "Come, let the kitchen prepare mutton today, I want to eat meat."

You have to take the lead, you are hard and simple. Now Zhao Xu is so busy that he can't even bear to eat ordinary mutton.

Then I continued to read. When Sulishe wrote this secret song, many cotton had not yet been harvested, so he estimated that the total output could be about 4.5 million kilograms. The quilts were packed with eight kilograms, and it could be made of quilts of about 700,000 kilograms.

Then I thanked Lu Jujian again and again, many things he and Ge Shaohua could not have imagined, such as the conflict between this private plot and cotton.

When the cotton is ripe, it has to be picked one by one, then squeeze out cotton seeds and spun quilts. The people themselves are not enough. The autumn flood is also the fatal flood. When autumn comes, the "typhoon" that Ge Shaohua and Wang Ju call it from time to time. Once the typhoon comes, it will rain. If production is delayed, people will even organize their troops to fight the flood.

Therefore, Lu Jujian and officials from Guangnan East Road immediately dispatched some labor to harvest crops for the people, and even took the initiative to hire people to participate in cotton spinning, otherwise many cotton would rot in the fields.

The reason in between is actually the relationship between the distribution of interests. This kind of income does not conflict with the powerful, and it will increase national strength and enrich the people. Even if Sima Guang goes, Sima Guang will take the initiative to cooperate. Of course, Zhao Xu did not expect that, and he said in his heart, do I want to reward these officials?

Su Lishe also commended Ge Shaohua's achievements. Ge Shaohua's career is the key. It is not only water conservancy, but also the main reclaimed place is in the middle of the Longchuan River. It is sparsely populated here and there are no fields and polder fields. People plant it just by living by the water, which is very similar to the situation in Jiangdong. In fact, it was not until the Ming and Qing Dynasties that large-scale development of Lingnan began. Now Lingnan has decent water conservancy. Even in Guangzhou, there is a lack of decent seawalls, which leads to a huge flood of tides and devastated lives.

This circle will inevitably have conflicts with the residents, and there are only three circles in total, but because of Ge Shaohua's handling, there are no serious conflicts and conflicts.

For example, with the profits this year, Ge Shaohua organized manpower and wrote letters to these villagers to report their safety to their relatives in their hometowns. He even organized manpower and brought the money they received back to their hometown. Therefore, after the government organized this year, many people flocked to him.

There is someone who can’t see the benefits. Who is willing to leave the well and fall behind?

However, Zhao Xu was a good candidate. Compared with the arrogance of other eunuchs, Su Lishe was loyal and honest. Otherwise, many conflicts would occur.

Finally, Su Lishe said, "Many people on Fujian Road are too difficult. Why don't they move 300,000 households and let them all grow cotton?"

Zhao Xu was ridiculous after seeing it.

This old eunuch had a kind intention. If all 300,000 households came to plant cotton, how much cotton would the imperial court have to plant? Moreover, with the vast land in Guangnan, the sparse population. A little water conservancy was built, the 300,000 households would be resettled. The problem of tight farmland on Fujian Road was immediately alleviated. But at the critical moment, this can only be persuaded, not forced. Once the people are forced to migrate, there will be many conflicts.

Therefore, he commented on it later and asked Ge Shaohua.

Why did Wang Ju do this? He also told Zhao Xu that a good official should do guidance, not coercion. This is the "rule by inaction" of Huang Ba, the best local good official in the Western Han Dynasty.

But he was a little surprised, why did Sulishe not mention miasma in the memorial?

There is a malaria. But when the dike is surrounded, the lake beach becomes a fertile field. Mosquitoes lose their place to reproduce, and things become fertilizer for crops. Where does the malaria survive?

There will be malaria, but it will not be as serious as Zhao Xu imagined. Besides, this is not a 100,000 army. When the people came, they immediately dispersed. Wang Ju repeatedly instructed several precautions. Anyway, Su Lishe had never encountered it, so why should we mention it?

However, the miasma in the south was demonized in the north of the Song Dynasty. Su Lishe did not mention it, and Zhao Xu was still a little worried.

Zhao Xu looked at the memorial again and stared at Ge Shaohua's part.

Then he thought of Wang Ju's words, why is the purpose of employing people in the imperial examination to restrain the hereditary system! Instead of truly learning the Confucian way, he can become a good minister. In fact, many children of officials and clerks have richer experience than Jinshi.

For example, this Ge Shaohua.

For example, Zhao Du, Wang Ju, who was only in charge of his time, performed better than many county-level officials.

"Central officials, culprits, the way to select officials..." Zhao Xu murmured, but the severity of this was too complicated, and he couldn't figure it out for the time being. Even if he thought it clearly, he would not dare to implement it. At most, he would choose a few clerks with particularly outstanding performance as officials. How dare he select officials from the clerks?

"Slowly," Zhao Xu said silently, and immediately called the eunuch from the Neiku and asked him to go to the merchant group to negotiate.

In the evening, news came that the Tuanxing was willing to pay six guan per bed to buy quilts, and the other prices and profits were about the same as that.

That was not bad either. Zhao Xu estimated that the real cost was deducted and the real income was more than three million chunks.

Thinking about how mobilizing the troops in Fangchang Hedu only brought about a profit of more than 4 million yuan. But now, he has earned more than 3 million yuan without any waves. Zhao Xu was ecstatic.

He walked around excitedly, and after walking for a while, he said, "Okay, let them prepare money and silk immediately. I am waiting for money and silk."

We have to fill the money paid by Guangnan East Road, we have to withdraw some money and silk to help the people. Zheng Baiqu also needs to call for some money and silk.

This money comes at the right time.

However, after a few days, he couldn't feel happy.

Cotton products are shipped by ship, and this is fast, and in a while, the Bian River will be frozen. At that time, cotton products could only stay in Yangzhou. Not only did they miss the sales season, but they also needed to send people to manage them.

The merchants of the group travelers also saw this and even sent people to Yangzhou to organize ships and strengthened their transportation capabilities. Some were transported to the capital, and some were transported to Yingtianfu. They then processed them on the spot, used the most exquisite colored satin to make cotton covers, and immediately sold them in various residences when it was cold.

This thing was exhibited for many days last year, and was finally distributed to foreign relatives and royal ministers. The people did not get a single item, but the more they were like this, the more curious it became.

This year, I finally saw something sold, and many people came to rob it. After repeated price increases, a quilt with a cotton cover actually sold for 16 or 7 jin, and a poor quality sold for 10 jin.

"So expensive?" Zhao Xu shouted.

The original cotton tires sold to the group businessmen, and the group businessmen have to hire someone to process them. There is also the cost of color forging, but how much can this cost? Think about it, a beautiful color forging costs only two or three stakes, and the top ones only six or seven stakes. How much cotton cover does a color forging cost for a piece of color forging? As for the cost of the worker weaver girl, how much can it cost?

"It's so dark, so dark," Zhao Xu became anxious and jealous, which means that the money Neku worked hard to earn was not as much as the businessmen earned after he made trouble.

But in fact, everyone is unwilling to think that a cotton quilt is worth six guan? The inner treasury does this, which is also equivalent to robbing money. It’s just that there is no merchant robbing much. However, Zhao Xu was dissatisfied. He thought for a while and said, “No, you have to collect taxes. No matter who is operating, you can collect taxes for me!” To be continued..

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