Chapter 665: Class

Fifty thousand hectares of brine-exposed land. In the past, reeds and sedges cost 150 yuan per acre to grow in the sheep beach. In a blink of an eye, it has become the best farmland with guaranteed harvests despite droughts and floods!

This kind of land is just a few dozen miles north of Bianjing City. There is no shortage of water all year round. It is worth two and a half acres!

When Su You was giving a lecture to Zhao Xu, Zhao Xu took the initiative to ask for a pen to calculate, regardless of Su You's obstruction.

After calculating it twice, three numbers 11750000000 were placed on the paper.

Then Zhao Xu got angry and slammed the table, Su Mingrun, you cheated me ten million yuan!

Su You picked up the paper, read it, and put it back respectfully: "Your Majesty, you made a miscalculation."

Zhao Xu was even more angry. He broke the pencil this time. He cheated me for ten million dollars and he could bear it. He finally got it all right. Dare you say I was wrong? I can't stand it!

Su You handed over his hand: "Your Majesty, you don't need to pay for such a large-scale labor service? You don't need to pay for all kinds of machinery? The Zhengzhou cement factory and the iron material factory are many of the clan's industries. Gao Shixiang can borrow money

Give me?"

"Ten thousand civilian husbands, eight coins per month for one husband, this is nearly 400,000 coins."

"Then I promised to give a husband four acres of land, which is another hundred thousand guan."

"Prefabricated iron and cement piles, this is five hundred thousand."

"There are three hundred thousand water dikes and canals here."

"Renting mules and horses to pull fertilizer from the Bian River, three thousand mules and horses, two months, five hundred yuan a day, the mule and horse money is one hundred thousand guan."

"In the future, we will have to maintain dams, clear waterways from siltation, and maintain waterwheels, which will all cost money."

"This does not include the cost of the waterwheel. Although there are four-way construction and water-powered machinery to process wood, which is fast and low-cost, a waterwheel still costs thousands of dollars."

"Now only a few thousand hectares of 50,000 hectares of land have been silted out, so this is not a one-time deal, but a continuous, long-term systematic project."

Zhao Xu breathed a sigh of relief and calmed down: "Even so, this is a good thing."

Su You then said: "Actually, the purpose of this project, apart from developing farmland, is another benefit, which is to support the people."

"The Zhengzhou factory contains 500,000 yuan, with 30% of the imperial tax; with the stimulation of the fields, the hard work of the people, and the use of large machinery such as gantry cranes and giant pulley assemblies, the project can be completed so quickly; Baojia

The horses have made them a lot of money, so everyone is more active in raising horses; the flood control standards of Caocunxi have been improved, and Bianjing City will not be afraid of ordinary floods in the future. These are the real big benefits."

Zhao Xu nodded: "I kind of understand your point of view on finance. No wonder Zeng Bu is so positive. It turns out that in addition to the benefits of land and land, there are so many benefits."

Su You nodded: "That's right, and this benefit is distributed to the people, benefiting both the top and bottom. It is not like the canal dug by Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty, which exhausted the people's power and eventually led to the collapse of the country."

"The advantage of finance is that the country can concentrate its efforts on major projects, so this time I boldly borrowed one million guan from Huangsong Bank, with an annual interest rate of 15%. In the blink of an eye, I have incurred a loss of 150,000 guan in interest."

Zhao Xu was a little heartbroken: "You are given so much for no reason?"

Su You laughed angrily: "Your Majesty, you are the largest shareholder of Huangsong Bank. If the bank is not profitable, it will not be able to continue running."

Zhao Xu asked: "Then all these new lands belong to Huangsong Bank?"

Su You said: "Of course that won't work. These new lands are just mortgages for Kaifeng Mansion and a guarantee that the principal can be repaid."

"Kaifeng Prefecture will eventually sell land to landless households, fourth and fifth-class households, encourage them to diversify, and then use the money to repay loans."

Zhao Xu was a little confused again: "Don't the fourth and fifth-class landless households say they are poor and miserable? Where do they get their money?"

Su You smiled and said: "This is your majesty's kindness. The wages for the river embankment project are more generous than the compulsory service. After one season of construction, the laborers have savings. In addition to the four acres of land rewarded by the court, they also have

You can spend money to buy a few acres, but the Kaifeng Prefecture will strictly review the qualifications of the buyers of these fields. The upper-class households are not qualified to purchase, and after buying it, they are not allowed to trade it within ten years."

"In this way, a landless household can become a self-cultivated farmer with ten acres of land after serving for one season. The more self-cultivated farmers there are, the fewer tenant farmers will be."

"The fewer tenant farmers there are, the higher the labor costs for mergers and acquisitions will be, and the momentum of mergers will inevitably be curbed."

"When large companies are forced to purchase machinery and oxen and horses replace manpower, Your Majesty, we will win this battle."

Zhao Xu was a little confused: "What do you mean?"

Su You said: "At that time, the people will be truly prosperous and the country will be strong."

Zhao Xu shook his head: "No, if Xixia and Liao are not destroyed, the people will not be truly prosperous and the country will be strong."

Su You smiled and said: "Your Majesty, at that time, the annihilation of Xixia and Liao Kingdom will no longer be your ambition alone, Your Majesty, nor will it be the aspiration of a few elites, but the whole country, including scholars, farmers, industry and merchants.

It’s an era that requires you to fight for more benefits, resources and security for the people of the country.”

"It seems now that this day may come sooner than I expected."

After speaking, he took out the gold-plated gun that Zhao Xu had given him before from his school bag: "I just entered the palace and the guards let me in like this. The palace ban system should be rectified."

Zhao Xu put away his gun: "You haven't returned it, so I don't have the nerve to mention it..."

After saying that, he took out another handgun with extremely complicated carvings from under the desk: "Hehehehe... But I asked my uncle to make another one for me."

Throwing the new gun to him for viewing, Zhao Xu said: "You don't have to worry about the palace ban system. I will naturally give you the dignity that a pure minister deserves."

After saying this, he sighed: "If only the ministers were as good as you. Wang Xianggong's stubbornness sometimes makes me unable to stand down, but I think you and him can get along?"

Su You said: "Your Majesty, haven't you noticed that Mr. Wang is somewhat similar to you?"

Zhao Xu shook his head so much that he grunted and refused to admit: "I'm not as stubborn as him."

Su You said: "Your Majesty, you and your husband, as well as Sima Xianggong, Fu Xianggong, Wen Xianggong, and even Zhang Gong and Zhao Gong, are actually the same kind of people."

"He is a person who does not care about personal gains and losses, takes the world as his own responsibility, moves forward firmly for the goal, and never looks back."

"You can reason and make excuses, you can act righteously, you can't argue, you can't do anything privately."

"If you are above, you are called the Holy Lord; if you are below, you are called the Righteous Minister."

"The so-called differences of opinion are just that everyone has different points of view, and the arguments held by each are not sufficiently based on solid evidence, leaving too many loopholes for each other to attack."

"What I did was to look for evidence one by one based on the arguments held by everyone, seek truth from them, and then find ways to fill these loopholes."

"The Analects of Confucius says: 'Zi Jue four: no intention, no necessity, no solidity, no self.' I think it is the best. This is also the outline of the practice of Neo-Confucianism."

Zhao Xu nodded: "Mingrun's knowledge is becoming more and more perfect, and it can be said that it is constantly improving."

Su You bowed and said, "Your Majesty is so ridiculous. This is not something I could have thought of on my own. It is the result of exchanging letters with university advisors, discussing and demonstrating together, and gained a lot of teachings and suggestions."

…

In the fifth month, Zhang Dun sent a letter to Hubei Province and appeased two more places.

In the same month, Su You reported to Zhao Xu that after verification, it was found that there was a phenomenon in Kaifeng county where people were promoted to ordinary households by planting mulberry trees, etc., and he appealed to Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu issued an edict: "Farming and mulberry trees are the foundation of food and clothing. It is appropriate to persuade the people. However, if the people do not dare to work on their own, the prefectures and counties will make an appointment with them as capital to promote their households. The old prohibitions can be clarified."

The decree re-enacted the regulations and prohibited the use of mulberry trees as a standard for raising households. The new law was issued to all roads and inspected every February. Those who planted enough trees would be rewarded, and those who planted less than seven points would be punished.

In June, in view of the money shortage in the west of Beijing, Huainan, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Jinghu, the three departments requested to set up a money supervisor in each of the six roads, and each cast money ranging from 150,000 to 100,000 guan.

Gao Shilin promptly presented the coin stamping machine and requested that the Qian Jian be changed into a bank. The treasure banknotes should be printed uniformly in Beijing and central China and distributed by express silver ships. The local copper coins could be allowed to be die-cast by themselves.

Zhao Zonge and Zhao Hao presented the method of banknote examination in the Imperial Song Dynasty, requiring that the amount of money should not be used indiscriminately, and the scale of banknotes issued in western Beijing, Huainan, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Jinghu should be carefully determined.

As a result, there was still a problem - the new coins were very popular because of their clear and exquisite money inscriptions. The new folk coins were equivalent to the bronzes of the same weight. The same solid coins were more expensive than the old hollow coins.
Chapter completed!