Both Zhang Yu and Hou Ke were speechless.

In fact, Zhao Xu was even more speechless. He originally hoped to be better this year, but Hebei continued to suffer disasters, and a Nanxiao Festival spent a lot of money. He even doubted whether the lid of this big pot could be uncovered without the financial surplus brought by Wang Ju.

It will be able to reveal it, but it will be more difficult.

Zhang Qi said: "Maybe it will be better in two years."

This refers to the layoffs, which has nothing to do with Zheng Baiqu’s increased Poche Army. Although the 46th Battalion of Poche Army was added to Han Qi’s insistence, overall, expenditures were not increased but decreased. The expenses of other Poche Army decreased by two-thirds, which was equivalent to a decrease of part of the total expenditure compared with the original ones.

However, the entire Song Dynasty laid off 250,000 troops, and now some retirement and resettlement costs are needed. In another two years, the retirement and resettlement costs will be no longer paid, so tens of millions of guan can be saved. In addition, a Fangchang River Ferry, one in and out, will be 15 million guan.

If there is no major disaster, the national finance can have a preliminary surplus.

Zhang Feng had not taken into account the cotton income, so Zhang Feng didn't know much about this matter. But he was negligent, and he didn't know about the other thing, it was that huge amount of debt!

Wang Ju asked back: "Brother, do you think Xixia is willing to let our dynasty get Suizhou?"

Just one sentence, Zhang Feng kept silent, and even if there was a surplus, what could it be? After a battle, there would be no surplus.

But this is actually not a problem, there is Wang Anshi!

Without Wang Anshi to make money, Wang Ju and other small-scale criticisms can still not solve this crisis.

Wang Ju accepts the army.

Indeed, Zhang Shi did a good job. Although he selected the Forty-sixth Battalion Poche Army, almost none of the many Poche Army were weak soldiers.

"The soldiers of tigers and wolves."

"Zi'an, you don't just want to build canals. Practice it appropriately." Zhang Qi advised.

"Do you think I have time to practice military service?"

"Or write a letter to ask Your Majesty to choose a few brave generals."

"That's true," Wang Judao. In fact, he paid attention to some famous generals and found the whereabouts of some famous generals. For example, Liu Changzu, Yanda, Zhang Shouyou, Liu Shunqing, Qu Zhen, Hebin, Wang Guangzu, Wang Junwan, and some famous generals have not been found out, such as Zhao Long, Jia Yan, Guo Cheng, and Wang Shunchen. After all, his resources are limited, and it is impossible to take the liberty to tell Zhao Xu that these people are famous generals and must be found immediately. Besides, there are so many people with the same name and surname.

Among these people found out, some people have started their own tracks and there is no need to interfere with their development.

But he had a few suitable candidates, the first one was Zhong Yi. The family was young and young, who were only in their twenties now, but they could get a commander and carry them in advance. Another one was Yao Lin. Yao Shui's mother had just passed away and Yao Lin was in a house for a long time, but he could take the love and let him go out of the mountain after a hundred days. The other one was Miao Su, the deputy envoy of the Supply Preparation Depot. These three people were not in the army for the time being, but they could be transferred to the army, and then be responsible for training the tens of thousands of Poche troops.

In addition to being a little more tender in Zhongyi, the other two should have enough qualifications and experience. However, Wang Ju thought about it and added another person, Wang Junwan. It is said that this person is a little greedy and a little narrow-minded. But he is also able to fight. Now he is only responsible for the position of Qin Fenglu. Although he has no practical experience, he has certain training experience. With this person, the shortcomings of the three people will be completely compensated.

Thinking of this, he immediately wrote a memorial and asked the Xifu.

On this point, Wen Yanbo has no difficulty.

"Zi'an, you really want to be nepotist," Zhang Qing quipped. One was related to Yao Yi and the other was related to the diagnosis.

"What should I do? If you were to know who can be available?"

"That's true."

Of course, Zhang Shi didn't know how powerful these four generals were, but Wang Ju didn't know how important it would be to him if Zhang Shi didn't want to remind him a year later.

Zhang Feng said again: "If these generals can come, Zi'an would like to remind them that they should be brave in their positions, and I just picked them a little, but didn't choose carefully, so the position given to them is only a substitute. I hope these generals will carefully choose after they come down."

"In fact, it is best to identify and select all the commanders and heads of the battalions."

"The best is the best, that's unlikely," Zhang Qing sighed. There are too many incompetent generals in the army, and they are more powerful than the other, but when they really fight, they don't work.

Even if there is a battle in Dashun City, Gyeongju, some of the commands will not perform well.

"Take it slow. Generally speaking, our military performance is much better now than during the Renzong period."

"That's not Li Yuanhao."

Wang Ju made him speechless with just one sentence.

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"Officials, are you growing gold in Lingnan?" Li Fei'er walked over with Qiong Niang holding a few quilts and asked angrily.

"What's the matter?"

"A quilt is twenty stakes, why is it so expensive?"

Last year, Zhao Xu also gave Wang Ju a quilt, but Wang Ju gave it to the oldest man in the nursing home in the name of Zhao Xu. Why, although this small quilt is really not many ministers. At his level, Wang Ju is the only minister, and Zhang Yue has not been able to get it.

It is not a quilt, it is a kind of recognition in Zhao Xu's eyes, but in the eyes of other ministers, it is mostly jealousy and hatred.

So he went to the nursing home in a high profile, pretending that Zhao Xu heard that Zheng Baiqu had run a nursing home and deliberately gave him a kapok quilt to the elderly to express his condolences.

If you send it away, the value of hatred will drop a little.

It was done well, Gao Taotao praised Wang Ju again in the palace, but Wang Ju didn't know.

Then this year, a large number of quilts came. If you want to maximize your interests, you cannot just sell them in the capital. Now the Bian River is frozen, Yangzhou and Jiangning are also available. In addition, Guanzhong has also been transported. Jingyang has become prosperous because of Zheng Baiqu, and some merchants have also brought some quilts to sell.

Last year, it was the emperor's reward. If you receive it, you will get hatred. But now some of them are sold, and I bought it with money, so I won't get hatred. As a result, Fei'er and Qiong Niang went to Jingyang to buy it, and then they were speechless. Others don't know. They think it's rare, but they know the yield. Although the yield of cotton in this acre of land cannot pop out ten quilts. Maybe six or seven quilts pop out. So does it mean that the income of one acre of land can reach more than one hundred stakes?

"Twenty cents?" Wang Ju also stumbled and asked again: "Does anyone buy it?"

"Someone. I guess it will not be able to buy it a few days later."

“That’s not expensive either.”

"It's not expensive, how much does it cost?"

"If someone buys it and sells it quickly, it won't be fast. Besides, this is what the inner warehouse handed over to the merchants, and the inner warehouse may not be able to get much money. I guess the official will be very angry when he heard this price."

"But it is indeed a good thing, very warm," said Jooni and touched the quilt with her hand.

"It is rare to be rare and precious, and it will be better if things are rare in more than ten years." Wang Ju said.

This huge profit may not have been understood by Zhao Xu and Wang Anshi, but it will last for a long time, even for more than ten or twenty years.

The result of market decisions.

Why? It has just appeared, with limited output. Even if the internal warehouse is promoted, it will take several years to popularize it. Besides, Lingnan has a vast land and sparse population, and it can be moved by migrating the people. How many people can it be moved? Su Lishe wrote a letter saying that it would use 200,000 households to use 200,000 households. If one 100,000 households are moved, the momentum will be earth-shaking.

But how much does its market demand be? It is not the capital or the north. To be precise, it is needed to be north of Lingnan. This is a market of more than 10 million households. Also, when the price falls slightly, no one will trade in the Khitan? What about Xixia, Hehuang, Tubo, Goryeo, and Japan? This market is too big unless cotton officially spreads from Lingnan to Jiangnan West Road, Bashu, Fujian, and Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and it will also begin to become popular, and then the prices will fall sharply.

Otherwise, it will always be so expensive, and the supply and demand difference is too big. Of course, there will be no sky-high price of a quilt in a few years.

Wang Ju couldn't bear the price, so he touched the quilt and said, "Where are twenty pillars?"

"It turns out that the official is heartbroken."

How can I not feel heartbroken? A quilt costs ten thousand yuan! A real luxury.

Qiong Niang looked at Wang Ju's expression from the side and couldn't help but giggle.

In fact, with the seal of the Bianshui River in the capital, the cotton products behind were sold in the riverside area, so not much of them remained, and the price also began to rise. Some of the cottons were made of more exquisite color forging, which also increased to twenty cents.

Zhao Xu rarely leaves the palace, and at most he occasionally goes to Zhao Niannu to sit there.

The ministers also heard about it, but did not object too much. This was against Zhao Shu's approach, and he valued Zhao Niannu, and also valued Song Renzong, and recognized "orthodox". But Zhao Xu also reflected too much. He looked through history books and saw that Zhao Kuangyin was dead wrong, so he was not easy to say that his grandfather's grandfather Zhao Kuangyi killed Zhao Kuangyin. So he ordered Xuanzu, Taizu, and the descendants of Taizong, to choose one of them as the clan and to be named Duke for generations. Song Xuanzu was the father of Zhao Hongyin, the father of the three brothers of the Zhao family, and actually referred to Zhao Kuangmei's lineage. He also ordered Zhao Defang's grandson Zhao Congshi to be the prince of Anding County.

A belated confession...

It's okay, it's because Zhao Xu has a conscience. However, in September, Zhao Xu suddenly came to a whim and issued an edict: The descendants of the Central Secretariat were close to each other and the descendants of the art ancestor were the ones who were close to each other, and the king of earth would be split and he should be offered to the suburbs and temples, and he would not be eliminated for generations.

Han Qi happened to go to Beijing to report his duties and quickly advised: "The master is a magnanimous person, and it is all for the prince. I suddenly chose someone to follow the emperor and ordered the suburbs to follow the emperor. Wouldn't it be a shock to the world!"

You can offer it, but according to etiquette, only the one who offered it to the suburbs is the crown prince. Because of various accidents, it was not regarded as the emperor. In order to show tolerance, the later emperor used the former crown prince to offer it to the suburbs.

Now that Zhao Kuangyin's descendants are willing to go to the Jiao Temple, it is equivalent to acquiesceing that Zhao Kuangyin's descendants have the status of a crown prince. In addition, Zhao Kuangyin's death is very strange, and it may cause a stir in the future. Therefore, it is okay to be named a prince, even if it is not a matter of worshipping the king, this is definitely not implemented in the Xianjiao Temple.

Although Zhao Xu made a mistake, his feelings are still good.

But once he sat there occasionally, Zhao Niannu immediately became noble.

However, this time it has nothing to do with Zhao Niannu, but it was said by the eunu who bought the eunu.

Zhao Xu was also stupid: "Why are I so poor?"

A quilt that costs only a lot of money can be sold for twenty coins, and some people still buy it, and there is a shortage of supply, but why can't the country open the lid?

Zhao Xu made this twenty knots go crazy.

The eunuch beside him comforted, "Your Majesty, it's normal. A banquet in Fanlou ranges from a few hundred guan and a thousand guan. A gourd that was launched in the morning costs half a guan. It is said that Renzong set up a palace banquet to entertain ministers. When he saw that there was a new crab at the banquet, he loved it very much, so he asked the price and replied that a new crab costs one thousand guan. Renzong was deeply moved and did not dare to put down his chopsticks."

In this way, quilts are really not expensive. A gourd is only made into a bowl of soup. Fifteen gourds and fifteen bowls of soup will disappear after twenty silos. But can they be as expensive as a quilt?

But the more the eunuch explained, the more crazy Zhao Xu got. He asked loudly: "I can't bear to use a twenty-spin quilt. Who is buying so many quilts?" (To be continued) r655

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Chapter completed!