"What's the matter?"

"Your Majesty, I have already begun to look like this when I left Qingzhou. However, after Chu Jianzhong went to Qingzhou, everything was returned to the original state. Although Mr. Fan loved the people, he was still not as good as when he left." Wang Ju said.

When you show your merit, you must also show it.

Wang Jucai is not like Zhang Kang. Others let him disappear, but he himself cooperated to disappear on his own initiative...

Zhao Xu sighed slightly.

"Qingzhou is a military prefecture, not a commercial prefecture. As long as the people are quiet and the castles are not lost, it is considered a contribution. However, Quanzhou is different. Many maritime merchants are locals in Quanzhou, or soldiers from surrounding states, so overseas trade is moving with Quanzhou. It is difficult to build and easy to demolish. The most feared are officials like Su Yan and Chu Jianzhong. They are patriotic and loving the people, but because of this, they are even more harmful. I have only been in Quanzhou for more than four years and everything is in full swing. So I beg Your Majesty, if I really transfer to Lingnan, please let Ge Shaohua replace him, and I will issue an edict from now on to let Ge Shaohua be the magistrate of Quanzhou so that I can familiarize myself with Quanzhou affairs in advance."

"Ge Shaohua?"

"It's the original customer of my family," Wang Ju simply pointed out that if he didn't say that someone would pick it out in the future, it would be better to put it on the table in advance and say the reason: "Your Majesty should remember it? At the beginning, the Kapok was run by the inner warehouse. At that time, Ge Shaohua and the eunuch Su Li were involved in the Kapok matter. Later, Jie Fu took over the management of the three departments and established the Kapok, so Zhang Zihou was in charge of the Kapok. Zhang Zihou was remotely controlled in the capital, and there were still a group of officials in Lingnan who were cooperating or commanding below, including Ge Shaohua. However, after Zhang Zihou left the Kapok, Ge Shaohua was transferred to Wuxian County as the magistrate."

It’s not bad for the magistrate, after all, Ge Shaohua is just a disciple. However, Wuxian County is a small county in Xiangzhou. The number of households in the household registration is less than 1,000 households, and Zhao Xu doesn’t even know where Wuxian County is now.

Not to mention Ge Shaohua's contribution, just talk about his hard work for so many years. This transfer was also a pity.

Wang Ju continued: "Later, Zhang Zihou was transferred to the Sansi and transferred Ge Shaohua back to the Kapok Branch. Although the profit of the Kapok Branch had nothing to do with Ge Shaohua, he presided over the resettlement of immigration, the planting and technological improvement of kapok, various land construction in Guangdong and Guangxi, and also participated in the development of five roads, namely, Jinghu South Road and Jiangnan West Road, as well as the reconstruction of Lingqu, and also took into account some affairs of sugar workshops. At least the Kapok Branch expanded year by year, and there was no major accident in immigration. Ge Shaohua made great contributions. Of course, if you only rely on the ranking of the imperial examination, age and qualifications, rather than political achievements, you will not say anything."

How is this possible? It also depends on political achievements.

However, Quanzhou is too important now. Not only is the massive income of the Neiku Quexiang, but the commercial tax in this state is also increasing, and Zhao Xu is a little hesitant.

Wang Ju said: "This is my only request."

However, Zhao Xu was not stupid either. He asked without answering a question: "When will we be able to stabilize overseas?"

Ge Shaohua went to Quanzhou. Perhaps because of this ability, it was mainly to cooperate with Wang Ju's political achievements so that he could continue to move overseas.

Then move. But if you move a lot, the court will also need to manage it.

You should not answer ambiguously, what are the three or four million people, give you an accurate time.

In fact, it was proposed by some ministers. Wang Ju did something wrong. With ore, he must be using gunpowder overseas. Last time in Mizhou, some local tyrants tricked the victims into boarding the ship to grab food. As a result, the sailors on the ship proposed a compound bow and a knife to rush out. They forced the victims back in a few seconds, and even shot the servants who were trapped among the victims in the crowd one by one, and caught them on the ship to force them to confess. This shows that weapons are already being made overseas.

Zhao Xu didn't care much about this.

Wang Ju didn't say it, and he wouldn't ask, because Wang Ju said that there are some fierce overseas people who can eat people and are uncivilized. If you want to cultivate, there will inevitably be some battles. Can you lack weapons?

If you want to efficiently mine, can you leave gunpowder?

And Wang Jucheng's gunpowder formulas are also improved by Wang Ju. Not only gunpowder, but also Wang Ju made an indelible contribution in the improvement of steel and armor.

This is understandable, and there is another passage afterwards. At first, there are not many people, so it doesn't matter. But now there are more and more migrants, especially this year, Quanzhou has a huge number of migrants. They have food, iron, technology, wealth, and weapons. The more people they migrate, the more people they migrate, the more tribes. Although they are scattered in the hands of nearly a thousand maritime merchants, Wang Ju has great prestige in the minds of these maritime merchants, that is, Wang Ju may have remotely controlled tens of thousands of tribes, and these tribes can be equipped to become warriors at any time.

This sentence finally made Zhao Xu a little uneasy.

He summoned Wang Ju to the capital, and asked about the Battle of Jiaozhi and the migrant people. The latter was much more important in Zhao Xu's mind than Wang Ju's thoughts.

The problem is that now Zhao Xu is afraid that Wang Ju is furious. I work hard for the court, and you will doubt me again. If you want to let me go home and rest, then it will be messy immediately. At least it will reach the ears of those seamen, and their hearts are cold.

So Zhao Xu was not very good to say it directly.

Wang Ju didn't know the inside story, but knew that the number of immigrants had reached this point, the court would definitely be afraid.

If there are thousands of people, even tens of thousands of people would be fine. When the number is calculated in units of 100,000 people, whether it is a private boarding or hiring, it will inevitably alarm the court. And that kind of sneaky method will only make the court even more afraid.

And it was true that Wang Ju had selfish intentions at this time, but unlike those ministers impeached him, Wang Ju did not want to rebel.

He thought for a while and said, "Your Majesty, let's do it, wait for the population to be a little denser... I'll go back and negotiate with these maritime merchants. Five years later, at least five settlements on that continent will be densely populated, and the court can try to send officials to take charge of the jurisdiction."

Five years, not too long.

However, Wang Ju changed his voice and said: "Your Majesty, but how to govern, the court must also set up a system. It is impossible to divide all states. Roads must be set up, at least five roads, and then states and counties will be set according to the situation, as well as yamen runners, servants, tax systems, etc. Otherwise, officials will be greedy, leading to riots in the people, and the court will find it difficult to even quell the rebellion."

Then just take care of it, but how?

Not to mention anything else. Is there an official who is willing to go overseas more than 10,000 miles away and become a prefectural magistrate?

Zhao Xu couldn't help but frown.

However, Wang Ju also had a headache. There are many secrets now that are not convenient to be exposed.

But more than ten years later, what should I do with these places? Wang Ju couldn't figure it out.

But Zhao Xu must be dealt with first, and Wang Ju said: "In fact, the maritime merchants hope that the court will send officials to manage it."

“Huh?”

"Your Majesty, I heard from me that nowadays, most of the land overseas is vast and sparsely populated, so the people who cultivate farm often can get one to two hectares of land. The middle field is three to four hectares of land. There is no land at all, and there is no land at all, so there is no intention to plant it. As for the larger area of ​​animal husbandry, it can often get more than ten hectares of land and twenty hectares of land. And these are all Yongye fields."

"Yongyetian?"

"Your Majesty, don't worry about it in the future. The land is too wide. Is it important to be the Yongye Field?"

Zhao Xu couldn't help but smile bitterly.

But he thought again, this was too luxurious. Can so many land be planted?

However, he was negligent. Now that he can't plant it, there will be fewer people after several generations of reproduction. Moreover, the population will increase faster when there is no worries about food and clothing.

"However, this is now. Although each household owns a lot of land, they often choose areas with good soil and land to settle down. Although each household has a large land, the people are concentrated together. Therefore, with thousands of people, even if there are nearly 10,000 households, each maritime merchant can send managers and economic personnel to manage first. However, if you want to gain more wealth, you must have more people, and the population will become more and gradually disperse. Moreover, most of the people who have migrated in the past are extremely poor people. They are grateful and easy to manage. Over time, this kind of gratitude fades. In addition, it will gradually disperse. These maritime merchants will not be easy to manage. At that time, they will be eager to use the reputation of the court to manage the people. Moreover, their way of obtaining wealth is the difference between spices, pearls, jade and mineral products of the two places, rather than by collecting harsh tenants. What is the difference between the management of the court and their management?"

"This is also..." Zhao Xu thought for a while.

"Your Majesty, take the map of Liao Kingdom again."

"Map of Liao Kingdom?" Zhao Xu said, but he immediately ordered the eunuch to take the map of Liao Kingdom, but this map was not too standard.

Wang Ju said: "In the past, Emperor Taizong wanted to take Yanyun, so he sent Gao Qiong to set off from Cangzhou and landed in Yingzhou. However, these ships were very small, with limited troops transported there and lacked supplies and supplies. Therefore, Gao Qiong returned in vain this time. But what if there were a thousand Mulan boats in the court?"

"Mulan Boat?"

"It's not only the Mulan boat. Under the guidance of the ministers, the maritime merchants have made a lot of money in recent years. Therefore, many people have built large sea boats, and the number of ships has surged in recent years. However, if you want to be safe and profitable, you must have a larger ship. And once there are more people, it is not only spices, including food, meat, ore, wood, and even war horses."

"There are horses over there too?"

"Maybe there, maybe not, but I encouraged some maritime merchants to go to Liaodong to exchange for some foals to grazing. If you want to transport horses, the boat must be larger. Now some maritime merchants are sending craftsmen to design larger mulan boats."

Don’t think that it is too big, the limit will not exceed 1,500 tons. Moreover, this kind of ship must comprehensively improve the existing hull, cabin, oar, sail, rudder and other technologies, otherwise it will not be put into shipping.

But what Wang Ju said was the actual thing. The huge profits will not last long. In the future, most of the transported people's daily necessities will be ordinary people's living resources, so the ship must become larger and larger.

"If there are thousands of large ships like this, and with some warships, how many soldiers, war horses, and food can be carried?" Wang Ju drew along the Bohai Bay with his hands.

Zhao Xu was immediately excited, which meant that the Song Dynasty could at any time send more than 200,000 troops, including war horses and food, to the rear of the Liao Kingdom.

Wang Ju breathed a sigh of relief.

As long as Zhao Xu has this hope, it will probably be okay in the future.

"So, the imperial court sent officials to manage it, Your Majesty, don't worry. The maritime merchants will not resist it. It's just that its significance is far more important than the maritime merchants think. However, if officials are sent to manage it, what if the officials are restrained? How can the system be established? Are there any officials willing to go? Furthermore, the cost of shipping ships is high. Since the court is in charge, what should we do if the tax is done? It is impossible to requisition the maritime merchants for free. If the maritime merchants are angry, they will ban the sailing spontaneously, and the officials will not come back. These are headaches. I have been thinking hard for a long time and have not come up with a good solution. However, Your Majesty proposed it, and I hope that Your Majesty and the ministers will work together to come up with a safe plan within the past five years."

Think about it slowly...

Zhao Xu has already said it twice in vain, which shows that there are many people in the court who are attracted to it. Then these difficulties must be revealed.

However, Wang Ju's eyes were also confused.

China has always been a country that defends the inside and the outside, so it has never paid attention to overseas development. But Wang Ju knew that later Europe and the United States were strong, which was the industrial era and colonization. However, compared with the pitiful population and economy of Europe and the United States, China still had a leading economic advantage in the late Qing Dynasty, so let alone this time. Therefore, once the immigration is successful, relying on this huge economy, the future is unimaginable.

But what changes will happen if this continues to develop? The court suddenly changed its mind and was really interested in this overseas.

So Wang Ju couldn't figure it out.

Seeing Wang Ju's confused eyes, Zhao Xu became even more confused.

After a while, Zhao Xu laughed: "Take it slow, this matter..."

Then he asked: "Wang Qing, our dynasty uses military force, will the Liao Kingdom propose more blackmail?"

In fact, Shen Kuo could basically negotiate, so Wang Anshi sent Han Zhen to replace Shen Kuo. Well, the Song Dynasty relaxed, the Song Dynasty retreated, and the Liao Kingdom advanced, so he put forward some more unreasonable demands. Not to mention reasoning, since the beginning, the Liao Kingdom had no intention of saying reasoning.

It is precisely because of the excessive emphasis on the Liao Kingdom and the contempt of Jiaozhi that under the command of Wang Anshi, a series of misjudgments occurred... (To be continued)
Chapter completed!