In Cai Yan's view, the high taxes of the Song Dynasty had a lot to do with maintaining one.2 million soldiers. The silk brocade was mainly to ensure the clothing of soldiers on the northern defense line. The same amount of silk brocade turned into cotton cloth, and the cost of the silk brocade suddenly dropped several times. However, it is difficult to say whether the big turbans with capital as kings would really reduce the burden on the people.

The cotton cloth did not appear and did not replace the silk brocade before, no one knew what the final result would be, but if it was not done, the result would not change.

Su Mei also thought he was making more money. After all, in a few months, the child who had never expected had swallowed nearly ten millions of wealth.

Not to mention that others don’t believe it, Su Mei didn’t dare to think about it before. In fact, his son, who was proud of himself on the bed, did it, swallowing half of the wealth of Hangzhou City in one fell swoop, and more than half of the shops in the entire Hangzhou City, and half of the fields in Hangzhou City and surrounding prefectures and counties have changed their owners.

Merchants are pursuing profits. If Cai Yan said he would become a cloth merchant in the world, Su Mei would not doubt it, but he did not expect that he would say these words.

Su Mei was very surprised by her son. Cai Jing from Kaifeng Prefecture was also very surprised. She had been unable to make up her mind for several days. Just when she was hesitating, Hangzhou City sent another 800-li urgent letter.

After the morning court, the officials were in great enthusiasm. When Cai Jing was about to leave the Da Nei Palace, the little eunuch hurriedly blocked the way.

When the eunuch helped him to Yanfu Palace, he saw several people in the Pantao Pavilion laughing happily. When he saw who the person in the leader was, Cai Jing frowned slightly.

The official family in regular clothes saw Cai Jing from afar and couldn't help but smile bitterly: "The Cai family is all extraordinary. I never thought that a child would have such a trick, and he swallowed half of Jiangnan in one bite."

Zhao Fujin, who was acting as a maid next to him, suddenly gained his ears.

Zheng Juzhong, the official in charge of the Privy Council, frowned and said unhappy: "The child is rampant and has no action, and the merchants in Suzhou and Hangzhou are even more bold and reckless. Your Majesty should investigate it strictly."

"What should Duff investigate strictly?"

Cai Jing walked into the pavilion and bowed to the official family. Then he sat opposite Zheng Juzhong with a smile on his face.

"Has the Privy Council made a mistake?"

Zheng Juzhong's chest was filled with anger. Just as he was about to speak, the official family carried a slender teapot and poured tea and said with a smile: "Suzhou and Hangzhou merchants have caused such a disaster. They should be severely punished to quell the public's anger. However, most ministers in the court thought that their beloved ministers wanted to be the public and went private. What should they think?"

"Look at public but private?"

Cai Jing shook his head and sighed and took out a letter from his arms, and smiled bitterly: "The official family is not thinking about it. The old minister's unfilial son thinks that the minister is a treacherous minister of the people, and the civil and military officials in the court are all traitors who are traitors and slanderers. The ministers have a headache, but they are helpless."

Zheng Juzhong, the official in charge of the Privy Council, Liang Shicheng, and the concubine Liu who was serving the side, Zhao Fujin, the princess of Maode, and Cai You, the scholar of Longtu Pavilion, were all stunned...

"hehe……"

"The baby is not big, but his tone is quite good. I want to see what the child can say, but even my beloved is helpless."

The official smiled and took the letter from the eunuch. When he saw the dog crawling for the first time, he instinctively disliked him. He looked up and saw Cai Jing with an embarrassed look on his face. He didn't say anything else to make fun of him.

But the next moment...

"Um?"

"Old Master Cai?"

The official looked at Cai Jing who was smiling bitterly. Cai Jing sighed: "The unfilial son is negligent in discipline, and I hope the official will forgive him."

I don’t know what the official’s head was like, but the whole group looked at Cai Jing who was smiling bitterly.

"Um?"

The official again stared at the dog's handwriting...

"well……"

The official shook his head, put the dog crawling letter on the stone table, and sighed: "I'm afraid I'm going to lose this time. As the child said, Liao Guoshi City cannot continue to close."

Everyone was surprised and puzzled. Zheng Juzhong frowned and said, "Official family, can the arrogant child dare to talk about the major affairs of the country?"

Cai Jing's white eyebrows shook slightly, and sighed and interrupted, "Although the unfilial son is a rebellious discipline, he is also aware of the general situation. The Liao Dynasty has constant disputes in government affairs. If Shi Yi cannot open it for a long time, it will inevitably make the Liao emperor angry and displeased. Even if my Song Dynasty interacts with the female Shi Zhiren, he will insist on letting the Liao soldiers go south. As Your Majesty said, Shi Yi is already unable to delay it."

Zheng Juzhong frowned and looked at the letter on the stone table. The official smiled bitterly and delivered the letter to him, sighing: "Jiangnan is the place where our dynasty pays 70% of the taxes, and it will be in chaos."

Zheng Juzhong was about to speak, but his eyes were fixed on the letter in his hand...

"How did a baby know these numbers? The Ministry of Revenue is not so detailed, right?"

Zheng Juzhong stared at Cai Jing tightly. Cai Jing lowered his eyebrows and said uneasy: "Is numbers important?"

Cai Jing clasped his fists and bowed to the official family, saying, "The numbers on the letter are in a table. Although there are some inaccurate differences, they are not much different. It is indeed not suitable to be able to close the market for a long time."

Zheng Juzhong frowned and said, "From the data shown in the table, even if 400 min. per kilogram of clean silk is more than the farmers' income. The farmers can still survive, but the mulberry farmers will lose money and cause trouble?"

Cai Jing said unhappily: "Mr. Zheng has carefully read the children's letters. It's not too late to say this after reading them clearly!"

Cai Jing glanced at Zhao Fujin with his little head stretched out, and a faint smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, saying, "Wheat and millet are different from mulberry and silkworm cultivation. Rice and millet will only use a lot of manpower when planting and receiving the goods. During this period, there will be weeding, but it will take a few days. In the same field, the manpower used by the two is different."

"Under the same manpower, farmers who plant rice use less manpower. After planting rice, they can turn to work or operate market affairs to subsidize household income. However, mulberry farmers do not do it, they must not leave every day, prevent mosquitoes, rats and ants, pick mulberry leaves every day, and make silk cocoons into raw silk, mature silk, and brocade, and must not leave all year round. Therefore, the same value output is available, farmers can live, but mulberry farmers cannot, because farmers have extra money to supplement their work, but mulberry farmers do not."

Cai Jing sighed and shook his head, looked at the official and said, "Although the child said lies, hesitated and didn't know what to do, he asked the official to tell him."

The official family was silent...

"You are like a boat, and the people are like water. Water can carry a boat or cover the boat. The people's hearts are profitable..."

"well……"

The official smiled bitterly.

"The mulberry farmers were injured. It seems that they were only mulberry farmers and weaver, but in fact they harmed the court's taxes and hurt the morale of the lieutenant general..."

"The child has already said all his words, so what can I do? The matter will be handled by the Grand Master in full."

Cai Jing agreed with fists.

"Abide by the will of the official family."

Zheng Juzhong frowned and said, "The market can be opened, but the merchants in Suzhou and Hangzhou should not be careless. Although the child speaks reasonably, he took the opportunity to rob him when the city of Hangzhou is in turmoil. What is the difference between it and the bad merchants in Suzhou and Hangzhou? If one or two are not punished, the people in the world would think that it was the Grand Master who was in trouble for his own interests."

Cai Jing said with a cold look on his face, "Although the child forgot to do things, there were eight hundred civil servants in front of him, and now there were seven hundred civil servants in the stable market. There were countless robbers in Hangzhou. My son personally led the servants in the mansion to fight bravely for a day, and he is still injured in bed. Who dares to say that my son was injured for selfish interests?"

"The unscrupulous merchants in Suzhou and Hangzhou have caused trouble in the world because of buying pumming. I dare to ask Lord Zheng, should these unscrupulous merchants comply with the contracts of farmers for buying pumming? Should the contracts of the official silk and brocades be fulfilled? How can they fulfill the contracts after being robbed by countless people? My son bought their contracts to fulfill the contracts of the people and the official family, so where can we take the opportunity to rob them?"
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