Chapter 897: Talk about no old friends (Sixth)

Han Gang was not interested in the private affairs of the Princess's family in Shu Kingdom, so he took it over with a few words.

From the princess of Shu Kingdom, Wang Sheng, the son-in-law of the Shu Kingdom, Wu Yan wanted to talk about his friend Su Shi,

After being expelled from the court in Xining in the fourth year, Dasu's literary reputation became more and more popular. His masterpieces appeared one by one and accompaniment with scholars from all over the world, and he gradually had the attitude of a generation of literary scholars. If he could be like Ouyang Xiu, he would be the chief examiner of the Ministry of Rites or two like Ouyang Xiu, he would definitely be a literary master.

"Recently, since "Meishan Collection" and "Qiantang Collection", Su Zizhan has published another "Yuanfeng Successive Qiantang Collection" and I heard it was entrusted to Wang Shu."

"Oh, I wonder which bookmark shop I chose?" Han Gang asked with interest, "If you can get the attention of the prince-in-law, I believe the printing engineers are the best choices. If Han Gang has any texts to be published in the future, you can also use them as a reference."

Wu Yan was asked this question unexpectedly. After a moment of stunned silence, he finally remembered that Han Gang himself was not good at poetry. In addition, the reason why Su Shi was kicked out of the capital was said to have an unclear relationship with Han Gang and the people in his room, so it was indeed a bit inappropriate to mention his name.

"It's not clear. After a few days of inquiry, I will tell Yukun." After a few perfunctory sentences, Wu Yan returned the focus of his discussion to his job: "The eldest son of the Yong Wang family is the first, and the son of the Shu princess is the second. In the past few days, thousands of children of the royal family have grown cowpox, and there is no unfortunate news yet. Using the orphans in Shantang and the Saint-School Bureau, the number of vaccinia is enough, and the doctor has also cultivated a lot. Now, every box in Tokyo has set up a Baochi Bureau, which is responsible for acne. After the New Year, more than 20 counties in Kaifeng Prefecture will also send capable personnel to the county to set up a Baochi Bureau."

Since Han Gang was appointed by the emperor to be unintentional, he was not convenient to interfere in the affairs of the Department of Health and Health. Whatever Wu Yan said, he just listened and occasionally interrupted.

"The capital is the top priority of acne-infection techniques, but the scholars and people in the world are all people under the rule of the emperor. It is not good to be too favored by one or the other."

"The Department of Health and Health has begun to prepare to implement the vaccination method in various parts of the world. It will first practice the doctors in the Imperial Medical Bureau, and after they have experience, they will be able to stand alone."

"It is best to arrange people from the marginal areas first," Han Gang reminded, "otherwise, everyone will be afraid of heavy things, and they will not be able to tell the emperor's kindness to every Song people."

"Li Dexin came two days ago and talked about this. He also said that there is a shortage of medical treatment and medicine on Xihe Road and Guangxi Road, and it is entirely supported by Zhu Zhong and Lei Jian. Being able to promote the vaccination method earlier will also help their errands."

Zhu Zhong on Xihe Road and Lei Jian from Guangxi had long been recommended by Han Gang as an official, and was a famous Hanlin medical officer.

"How did An Tao do it?" Han Gang asked.

"I have arranged a quick handover and sent the first batch of acne seeds." Wu Yan asked Han Gang to rest assured, "Lei Jian and Zhu Zhong are both medical officers you promoted and appointed by Yu Kun. If they are in charge of two acne seeds, I guess there is no need to worry about it."

"If you should send someone to supervise, you should send someone to supervise. Otherwise, you won't think about passing the imperial examination." Han Gang said, "It is also necessary to collect money for vaccination. You have to be careful of evil people and take the opportunity to make ill-gotten money, which will ruin the imperial court's original intention of saving the people."

"That's natural. You can rest assured Yukun."

After chatting with Wu Yan, he sent Wu Yan away, and Han Gang returned to his study. On his desk was a copy taken back from the Qunmusi Department, a report just submitted by the Shayuan Prison, a detailed list of expenses in this year, as well as specific data on the breeding of military horses, deaths and slaughtering.

Han Gang didn't care about other things. He only saw one of them forty-hundreds of thousands, one of them six thousand and one of them three hundred.

A total of 400,000 jin of funds and 6,000 horses were herded, but 300 horses were slaughtered in a year. And as a court official who is good at military affairs, Han Gang knew very well what level of military horses trained by Sha Yuanjian was. Not to mention fighting, he was simply "no way to ride"!

Fortunately, in the group herds department, the main herds prisons in Henan and Hebei are now laid off every year, and in the end there is only one Shayuan prison left. The manure money of the group herds prison is getting less and less. If it is still retained to the scale of the twelve prisons, it will be the bottomless pit that swallows money and grain.

So a few years ago, an official who worked on Xihe Road suggested that Wang Anshi set up a pastoral prison on Xihe Road, but Wang Shao and Han Gang joined forces to stop it. The officials in the prison were just a group of worms.

Of course, the small number of military horses slaughtered is not entirely due to the poor herding of officials and herders in the prison. It is also because of the land being occupied.

Han Gang had already learned about the tea and horse market with Wang Shao when he planned the tea and horse market. Only one-third of the pasture land in Shayuanjian's book is still preserved at most, and the rest is occupied for land. Now seven or eight years have passed, and I think the number will be smaller.

When the founding of the country was in the turbulent times of the late Tang Dynasty and the Five Dynasties, there were few people and many lands, so the four left and right Tiansiguans and two left and right Tiansuifangs were included in the capital, with a total of six pastoral prisons. Moreover, the horse army under the jurisdiction of the three yamen also had their own special pastures. During the Dazhong Xiangfu period of Zhenzong, the total number of pastoral prisons in the capital and Henan and Hebei once reached twenty-two.

Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. As the population grew and the courage of the officials and gentry families became greater and greater, while the herds and prisons were constantly withdrawn and merged, the land in the prison was also constantly occupied like mulberry leaves. Not only the herds and horse army in the imperial guards who stocked their war horses, but also the seven herds and horse prisons used as the Niesheng Prison. In the words of later generations, it was a stallion - it was also a large tract of land for people to occupy farming.

Think about it, even the horse supervision that breeds stallions and even the land is occupied by people, what else can the country's horse politics look like?

The people who occupied the pasture land were not ordinary families, either official households or situation households. The so-called situation households are powerful local wealthy families, mainly senior officials from prefectures and counties and prefectures and village households. Sometimes they also include official households in the scope of situation households, but more often, officials and families disdain to be called together with officials and households. Each family has a little background. If the meat enters their stomachs, how can they get it back?

As far as Han Gang knows, when Wang Anshi came to power, the twelve horses in Henan, Hebei under the jurisdiction of the twelve horses in Henan and Hebei were basically not left for free-range horses. Therefore, the horse politics figures in Xining in three years, as the implementation of the horse protection law were so miserable. The Twelve horses in Henan, Hebei, were slaughtered more than 1,600 horses a year, but only more than 200 horses could become war horses. Compared with the Liao Dynasty's war horses that cost hundreds of thousands or tens of thousands, the number of war horses in the Song Dynasty was extremely pitiful. The cost was one million coins a year.

In this case, if you want a horse, you have to seize food from the tiger's mouth; if you don't want to offend too many officials and gentry, you might as well give up the idea of ​​getting a war horse from the herdsman.

Wang Anshi was not stupid enough to fight against so many officials and wealthy families. The battle for the market was a waste of money. At least some people said, but land is the life of others. How can we get the roots back? Even if he was thinking about the Song Dynasty and caused public resentment, the emperor might not appreciate it. Not only would he not succeed, he would also bring himself in. It would be better to find a way to develop the source of horses and acknowledge the reality that the land was occupied by horse prisons in various places.

Wang Anshi abolished the herds' prison, implemented the horse protection law, and allowed the people to raise horses. This was the last resort. Before Wang Anshi, during the Renzong period, the system of officials selling horses and raising them by the people, and the government bought them when needed. They all saw the final results of the major herds' prisons in the Central Plains.

The Twelve Supervisors in Henan and Hebei have been abolished year by year since the implementation of the Horse Protection Law, leaving only the Shayuan Supervisor in Tongzhou. After the horse shepherd’s prison was abandoned, no matter what the cleared land was occupied, the unoccupied land was rented out and taxed. One by one, one can be used to finance millions of yuan in a year.

Except for part of the supply of this million yuan, the rest is allocated to Xihe Road as the capital for tea and horse trading. Now, there is more Guangxi to share the accounts. One south and one north, the horses from the market can basically reach 50,000, of which qualified horses remain in the army, and the unqualified horses will be resold to the people by the Triple and Herds Department to be a qualified second-trafficking dealer.

With the military and civilians who came from the tea and horse market, and the horse protection law fostered among the people, the use of the army is enough. Hangang dared to propose the construction of tracks in Hebei because the number of horses in the country has increased significantly.

Judging from the current situation, the horse protection method is indeed effective, as long as other problems can be ignored.

Unfortunately, if you want to go to the battlefield, some problems cannot be ignored.

In terms of quantity alone, the horses in the folk are not too bad, at least better than the situation in the past when using the Hermitage Prison to raise horses. Of course, a large part of the reason is that as a comparison object, the Hermitage Prison is a bit terrible. Some progress, as long as you compare the bleak base at the beginning, is an exciting progress - but in terms of quality, it is difficult to satisfy.
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