Wang Ju put down the letter and murmured: "Why do you have to do this?"

Wang Ju waited for the opportunity to send troops to Xixia. In fact, there were not many days after Ye Mo's death, Xixia sent troops. One was to cheat one Shishi to accept money. The Song Dynasty used Zhou Yongqing as an envoy and escorted Shishi to accept money and silk clothes. Shortly after he arrived in Youzhou, Liang Yimang sent troops to attack Shun'an, Heishui and other camps. However, the Song Dynasty had already taken strict precautions. In addition, Xixia was not good at siege, and a village was not broken. Liang Yimang besieged Suide City. After more than ten days of attack, the troops and cavalry increased day by day. Dingxian Mountain outside Suide City was full of fireworks. The spy reported to Guo Kui. Guo Kui said that this was the enemy generals fleeing, and we were afraid that our dynasty would follow and pursue him, so he made a bluff.

Sure enough, Liang Yi was retreating soon, but Guo Kui also knew that the court's peace-seeking faction had the upper hand and did not pursue it.

This is the opportunity that Wang Ju has to wait for.

If you don’t talk about destroying Xixia in peace, you must at least defend the border.

If you want to defend the frontier, you have to need a strong army. What is a strong army? Strong military discipline, strict military discipline, sufficient food and grass, and distinct armor. Strong military discipline refers to high morale and strong combat power of soldiers. Strong military discipline is the basics of an ever-winning army. Adequate food and grass refers to logistics. Clear armor refers to armor and essence.

If you want to win a war, there are many factors. Often a sudden change in weather can lead to the direction of a battle. But the army is generally the basic. Although the factor occupied by the armor in the weapon is not an absolute factor, it is also an important component.

The Xixia sent troops this time also meant that it was impossible for the Song Dynasty to seek peace, and the war would break out sooner or later.

But the military weapon surveillance has been so many idle people, and these idle people are still restless and keep causing trouble. They are delayed until this time. They want to cause more trouble. So under this trend, Wang Ju can cut off these officials one by one, two by three as long as he explains the truth clearly.

However, Wang Ju did not want to be a prophet, so he didn't say it. Besides, he said it in advance, so he was also prepared.

This created a small tragedy.

Wang Juwei said that Ye Mo was anxious to see. What was so bad was that some officials often came to him to trouble him and kept insulting him. Ye Mo wanted to say that day. But seeing Wang Ju so many things, he didn't speak up.

A few days later, several yamen arrived at his house again. He was angry and did something stupid. He had done a period of offense. This was a very disgraceful experience and also hindered his future. However, because of this experience, he came up with an idea, which was to commit suicide. It was indeed suicide. However, a seamless scene was forged before committing suicide, which led to Han Wei not solving the case yet.

Why commit suicide? It is to give Wang Ju an opportunity.

He wrote this letter before committing suicide, asking his wife to keep the secret no matter how she was, so that she could only show it to Wang Ju before the end of the year. It was delayed until the end of the year. I think Wang Ju also solved the trouble of general weapon supervision. Then he hoped that Wang Ju would treat his wife and children well.

Wang Ju found fire and burned the letter silently. The truth cannot be revealed no matter what, even if Han Wei can't get a bad deal. Then he said, "Sister-in-law, are there anyone here to trouble you these days?"

"Not a few days ago, but it's again these days." The woman said.

"In this way, you clean up your house after you go back and move your children to my house."

"How can this work?"

"I feel guilty about Ye Mo. Besides, I have a lot of things at home and need help. By the way, how old is your son?"

"Eleven."

"It's also just right, I will study with my second brother and others at my house."

"Ming Gong," the woman knelt down and cried in tears.

Wang Ju helped her up and said, "Don't use it, your husband is a hero..."

However, this incident also reminded Wang Ju. He went to the military weapon supervisor the next day and immediately summoned the clerks to ask if they had been harassed. If so, even if they reported it, Wang Ju would come to seek justice for them.

The end of the year is coming gradually.

But Wang Ju ushered in a new problem.

That day he was on duty to go home, and Fei'er said, "Someone came to ask for a marriage."

"Who?" Wang Ju asked lightly. Erniu is seventeen years old, and is about to reach eighteen. With the advantages of her cheap mother, Erniu looks good and is at this age again. There are many people coming to propose marriages, but Wang Juyi refuses them one by one.

"It's a prince."

"Crown Prince?"

"The prince of the 18th National Congress of the Wang family."

He was indeed the prince, to be precise, Zhao Xu's cousin. Zhao Yunrang's twenty-two sons, Zong Yi, Zong Pu, Zong Hui, Zong Fu, Zong Miao, Zong Yi, Zong Qiu, Zong Shi, Zong Sheng, Zong Bo, Zong Yuan, Zong Yu, Zong Shi, Zong Yin, Zong Mian, Zong Chu, Zong Zhi, Zong Hun, Zong Sheng, Zong Chu, Zong You, Zong Han. Zhao Shu was Zhao Zong Shi, so Zhao Zhen and Mrs. Cao often called him Zhao Shisan in the palace.

Most of the sects are still alive, and they have many Dukes, not princes. They have been granted the title of Princes after their death, but because Zhao Shu did not win the dispute between Pu Yi, they can only be granted the title of Dukes. But in fact, their status is equivalent to being the Prince.

However, it depends on what the monarch thinks? Zhao Shisan wanted to fight for orthodoxy, but Zhao Xu, who was a son, kept watching this farce, so after he took office, he ignored Zhao Yunlang's lineage, and some uncles even failed to get the title of Duke.

The person who proposed the marriage was Zhao Shiba and Zhao Zongchuo. He sent a matchmaker to propose marriage to Erniu for his son Zhao Zhongluan.

So the concubine felt embarrassed. If she refused, she was afraid that she would be unhappy. If she did not refuse, one was that her husband did not want her sister-in-law to get married now, and the other was that she would marry the royal family. This might be a good thing for ordinary people, but for her husband, it might affect her husband's future.

Wang Ju felt strange.

His wife had limited knowledge, but Zhao Shiba didn't know it. At the beginning, Zhao Xu wanted to get along with him and Zhao Niannu, but in the end he gave up, not only because he had made a marriage, but also because of this future issue. Once he married Zhao Niannu, he would never want to enter the Secretariat of the Central Secretariat in his life. At most, he would be a Privy Council envoy who had no say, just like Wang Yiyong at the time.

Why did he send a matchmaker to propose to his son for his marriage?

So the environment is different and the mentality is different. If it were several years, Wang Ju might not have great ambitions or ambitions.

He thought for a while and said, "Fai'er, don't worry about this matter, let me deal with it."

"Well, official. Next year's imperial examination..."

"Don't learn to catch a son-in-law under the list. If you don't catch it well, it's a big joke." Wang Judao. Wang Ju also intervened. The imperial examination was limited to three years, and the number of people was also limited. Wang Anshi also intervened, but the "angle" of the two of them was different and the intention was different. In addition, the one that Wang Ju inserted was more hidden, and the one that Wang Anshi inserted was more open. The imperial examination was once every four years, and it happened to be three years next year. Therefore, it was the same as Wang Ju's imperial examination. Many candidates arrived in the capital early.

Wang Ju didn't care much about this, but Fei'er mentioned it. Wang Ju turned his head and looked at Huang Liang and said, "Hengzhi, the country has also reduced the number of places for the imperial examination. There will definitely be more candidates who fail the provincial examination next year. You should pay a little attention when the results are released, and see who have elegant attitudes, can see, and have some insights. Ask me for me. Can you come to my house to help me."

Help is a word of modesty, but it is actually to persuade these disciples to come to the Wang family to be Wang Ju's disciples.

"Okay." Huang Liang said.

"I'll go out." Wang Ju said, riding a horse and leaving home, heading eastward, heading straight to Zhao Niannu's mansion.

When Yaoyao opened the door, she immediately brought Wang Ju in. At this time, Ye Mu also came. Not to mention that Zhao Niannu's mansion was so rigorous, but Wang Ju came, and Wang Ju had been in the capital for so long and knew more people. There would be some rumors when it was spread.

"Madam Ma, you have become smart." Wang Juyi smiled.

"Thank you, benefactor."

"Have a great life at the Princess's Mansion."

"good."

The two of them answered each other, Yaoyao took Wang Ju to the living room, and Zhao Niannu walked out and said, "Wang Ju, it's been a long time since we met."

She was not a blame, especially at this moment, when Wang Ju came to her house from time to time, that was seeking death.

Wang Ju smiled and said nothing, then looked at Zhao Niannu. Zhao Niannu was wearing a small cotton jacket with goose yellow satin. Although it was not as green as when he first met in Yanzhou, after years of precipitation, he became more dignified and calm than that, and became more gentle.

Zhao Niannu said: "How about this cotton jacket?"

"nice."

"Kapocao has dropped a lot."

Wang Ju laughed, this is this year, and the decline will be even worse next year, so a quilt may cost ten cents of money.

"Even those Lebu fell sharply."

"Your Highness, although you are kind-hearted, the price decline of kapok cultivation and promotion is inevitable. This is because the Kapok Shop has not been inserted into cotton cloth, otherwise it will fall faster. If the Li people want to live a better life, they must learn the current advanced planting and win by quantity. The actual suffering will not be them. Even if they fall further in the future, their craftsmanship is still there and the volume keeps up, and they can still have a good life. The real suffering may be the merchants on Dashi."

The maritime trade in the Song Dynasty was becoming more and more prosperous. The transactions on Dashi accounted for a relatively high proportion of maritime trade. The goods there were mainly cotton, glass, spices, pearls and jade, among which cotton and glass products accounted for a large proportion. If cotton cloth was promoted and Wang Ju made out the glass again, Dashi would have few products left to the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Niannu smiled and said, "I'm worried that sugar will fall."

"That's inevitable, but it doesn't matter. Maybe good news will come next spring."

In early winter, Wang Ju wrote two letters, one to Zhao Du and the other to Ge Shaohua, asking them to take out a few jars of sugar and let the maritime merchants bring them to Japan and Dashi. The news on Dashi was a bit late. Now is the sailing era. Although the speed is not slow, it must wait for the monsoon, and it will take a year and a half to go. There will be news in Japan next spring.

In addition, Wang Ju mentioned one thing in his letter to Zhao Du, that is wood. The Song Dynasty could provide too many goods to Japan, but Japan produced very little and had no currency transactions, which restricted the trade volume and led to the outflow of copper coins to Japan.

So Wang Ju mentioned one thing in his letter, to see if the seamen can use wooden rafts to drag Japanese wood to Mizhou, instead of just carrying expensive boards with boats. This is a bit troublesome. First of all, the ship's technology must be further improved, and sails must be installed on the wooden rafts, so that the speed can be increased and the wind direction can be adjusted. Fortunately, there is now a compass and a rough sextant, which can set a relatively accurate direction and position for the navigation of the sea.

Once successful, its significance is unimaginable. First of all, it is people's livelihood. The brick and tile technology in the Song Dynasty was already very developed, and brick and tile can prevent insect corrosion and fire. However, the cost of wooden houses is cheap. Especially in this era, the cost of color transportation is high. Even if you use coal to burn bricks, the price of bricks is not low. Therefore, wooden houses occupy the mainstream. In addition, a large amount of pine smoke is required to make ink, so the wood market is very large. However, it has nothing to do with the wood market. Without Japanese wood, there is also sufficient wood in China, which is at most further damage to the soil and water.

This people's livelihood refers to other markets. Once there are trade goods, the Song Dynasty's porcelain, silk and other commodities, including sugar, will continue to dump energy into Japan, which of course also feeds more people and the country also receives part of the tax revenue.

Secondly, the expansion of maritime trade will stimulate the improvement of ship technology. Don’t be too much. As long as ship technology develops to the level of the middle of the Southern Song Dynasty, it will be able to immigrate overseas on a large scale and evacuate the various pressures brought by the increase in the population of the Song Dynasty.

A few days ago, the imperial edict was issued to Kaifeng Prefecture to buy 4,000 lanterns, and Su Dongpo used this to write a long message of 7,000 words.

One is saying that it should not be established by the Regulations Department, the second is saying that it should not be used by young officials, and forget that Fu Bi Ouyang Xiu and others are the old ministers outside, the third is saying that it should not be opened for farmland water conservancy laws, the fourth is saying that it should be moral and customs, and that it should not be eager for utilitarianism and greed for wealth and strength. The fifth is saying that the Song Dynasty sent troops to nine out of ten, and that virtue and kindness must be the most important, and that the sixth is saying that the ministers cannot be punished.

Wang Ju was extremely surprised when he heard this. I won’t mention this kind of harmony. Is the Farmland Water Conservancy Law also wrong? If it weren’t for the Farmland Water Conservancy Law initiated by Wang Anshi, it can be said that in history, there was no need for the Jin people to invade the south. When the Song Dynasty developed to 20 million households, the country would be in chaos.

Before Wang Anshi introduced the Farmland Water Conservancy Law, Wang Ju was already secretly promoting it in advance. Not only Zheng Baiqu, but the population that feeds is limited, the important thing is military. It is Jiangdongwei, the water dam in the south, and the population is moved south. It is precisely because Wang Ju mentioned that Zhao Xu deliberately sent Shen Kuo to Jiangnan East Road to specialize in presiding over the Jiangdongwei matter. There is also part of the grain production brought by Wang Ju. Some population pressure and grain pressure were solved in a short time. However, from a long-term perspective, it has aggravated the population expansion. There is no need to spend more. Every ten households support two more sons, and the Song Dynasty will increase by nearly three million households in more than ten years.

Therefore, overseas migration is very important.

Of course, Su Dongpo's knowledge was still limited at this time. It was not until he went to Huangzhou that he lived a hard life, saw the warmth and warmth of human nature, and saw with his own eyes that the people of Huangzhou were drowned by their own children like the people of Fujian Road. His thoughts matured and understood Wang Anshi's good intentions.

But Wang Ju's main purpose is to make sugar. He has a lot of things to do, and these things require a lot of money. It is impossible to ask the court for it. The request may not be agreed, and he will not allocate funds after agreeing. He can only count on sugar.

Finally, there is a small selfishness and a very bad selfishness. (To be continued, please search Piaotianwen, the novel is better and faster!

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