After everyone's hard work for a day, the Prime Minister of the Cabinet Lin Qing'er was confirmed. Lin Qing'er temporarily acted as the Minister of Rites. The Deputy Minister of the Cabinet Cai Huaishui was also the Minister of the Ministry of Industry. Cai Huaishui did not expect that an abandoned son would be kicked out by his own family. One day
I was so excited that I became the Deputy Prime Minister of the Cabinet and the Minister of the Ministry of Industry. What an honor it was. I would never betray Yang Peng in my life. I secretly made up my mind. Vice Prime Minister Zhang Xiang and Minister of the Ministry of War, Huang Guang,
Huang Guang, also the Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, was the third group of people rescued by Yang Peng. He was also a great scholar with a high level of cultural knowledge. His whole family was killed by the Khitans when they were harvesting grass and grain, and he ended up working as a coolie in the iron mines.
, did not expect to be saved by Yang Peng, and has been making suggestions for Yang Peng. Yang Peng also admires Huang Guang very much.
But what Huang Guang didn't expect was that Yang Peng appointed him as the deputy prime minister and the minister of household affairs. He was so excited that he shed tears. Zhao Jinxi was the deputy prime minister and the minister of the Ministry of official affairs. He was in charge of Xing Fa. Fu Jianyue was the deputy prime minister and the minister of national territory.
, All land in Tianjing New City cannot be bought and sold. This is a fixed rule. The land title is only for fifty years and can be inherited. There is no right to buy and sell. This is to prevent land annexation. Fu Jianyue couldn't figure it out at first, but Yang Peng did his thinking.
Work and explain that dynasties in the past dynasties only perished due to land annexation. Peasants who had no land and poor harvests would rebel if they had no food to eat. But who would be willing to do the business of killing him if he had a bite to eat? Only then did Fu Jianyue figure it out. Fu Jianyue
He was also rescued by Zhang Yan and rescued from the Khitan prison in Yingzhou.
Fu Jianyue did not expect that he would also become deputy prime minister and minister, and he was equally excited. Zhang Jimeng, deputy prime minister, and minister of the Ministry of Punishment. Zhang Jimeng was also a refugee rescued by Yang Peng in the third batch. He was once the minister of the Ministry of Punishment of the Song Dynasty. He was framed.
After being demoted to a commoner and being beaten by the Khitans, his whole family was saved by Yang Peng. Now that the cabinet was established, Zhang Jimeng naturally became the Minister of Punishment. Zhang Jimeng hated the officialdom of the Song Dynasty. His talent as the number one scholar was to serve the people.
The decision-maker ended up like this. He originally wanted to go home and write poems and books, farm and read, and not deal with secular affairs. He didn't expect to meet the Khitan people who were harvesting grass and valleys. At the beginning, he just wanted to repay his kindness. In the end, when Yang Peng built a new city and did not attach to the Song Dynasty, Zhang Jimeng wanted to come out and do something.
, but what I didn’t expect was that he was also the deputy prime minister. Deputy prime minister Liu Yuan was also the minister of the tax department. He managed all the taxes in the new city, because there was no agricultural tax in Tianjing New City, only commercial tax. The current commercial tax is 10 per cent.
, even Yang Peng's property is taxed in the same way. Liu Yuan can be said to be a master whom his relatives do not recognize. From the beginning, Liu Yuan was asked to be responsible for taxation, and Liu Yuan wanted to collect taxes from Yang Peng's property. What Liu Yuan did not expect was that Yang Peng actually agreed.
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Now all the officials in Tianjing New City were saved by Yang Peng, and they are all Yang Peng's die-hard fans. Yang Peng stipulated that matters decided by the Prime Minister must be decided by everyone's vote. The minority obeys the majority. Seven vice ministers vote, and the Prime Minister proposes
It is suggested that everyone here has no objections to the establishment of the Ministry of Agriculture. Yang Peng will concurrently serve as Minister of Agriculture, and Yang Guihua will serve as Deputy Minister of Agriculture. Because Yang Guihua does have a way of farming, but his education is too low and there is no way. There is also the cultivation of corn.
Yang Guihua didn't understand either, so Yang Peng had to do it himself.
Mr. Ni and his family are farmers in Deyuan New Village. He was kidnapped by the Khitans in Yingzhou in August last year and rescued by Zhang Xiang. He was about to be driven to the Liao Kingdom for a lifetime of hard labor, but he was rescued by Tianjing New City.
The general rescued him. The general was kind and began to feed his family porridge. Later, the general also gave him a full meal and organized everyone to reclaim wasteland and build irrigation canals.
Mr. Ni's family consists of four, including his wife, a fifty-year-old father and a ten-year-old son. Last year, they were assigned to the newly built Deyuan New Village, with two brick houses and four houses from the city owner.
Ten acres of dry land. These dry fields are good fields with irrigation canals, and the city lord also distributed farm tools and cattle, giving Boss Ni a full set of tools to cultivate the fields.
Mr. Ni is a good farmer. With cattle and irrigation water, he and his wife showed off their skills on 40 acres of dry land and grew a season of good wheat. Although they planted spring wheat, Mr. Ni made fine compost.
Through hard work, he harvested eight buckets and five liters of wheat per mu. From forty acres of dry land, Mr. Ni harvested thirty-three stones and five buckets of wheat. After excluding the land rent given to the city lord and the five stones of grain sold to Tianjing New City, he harvested one stone and two buckets of wheat.
After taking out the money for farming cattle, and then returning to the city lord one stone for the house, two pounds for the asbestos jackets and quilts, five buckets for farm tools, and two stones for seeds, Boss Ni was able to leave twenty-two stones of food for the four people to eat with open stomachs.
After eating eleven shi of wheat a year, Mr. Ni can still have a surplus of 11 shi of grain. With two shi of grain left to make seeds for winter wheat this year, Mr. Ni still has a surplus of nine shi of grain. Now in the summer, he can plant rice for the previous season. With this
For nine stones of grain, Boss Ni exchanged it for twenty taels of silver at the General's cheap grain store. A farmer can have fifty taels of silver in addition to food a year. What kind of good life is this? With money, Boss Ni
I bought all kinds of daily necessities that my family needed, and I felt rich all of a sudden.
On this day, Boss Ni's family welcomed a relative, Boss Ni's cousin Meng Yousan. Boss Ni went back to Yanshan County during the slack season at the beginning of the year. His relatives all knew that Boss Ni was now living in Deyuan New Village, Fanjiazhuang.
Yanshan County was plundered by bandits, and there were ruins everywhere. The people who were not plundered by bandits also had a hard time making a living, and many people starved to death. Boss Ni went back to Yanshan County and felt even more important.
The hard-earned life of food and clothing in Tianjing New City.
Meng You asked around for directions and found Boss Ni's house. As soon as he walked to the door of Boss Ni's house, he said loudly: "Ni, idiot, Ni! Come out quickly! You live in such a good place now! This is not leaking.
A house made of bricks and tiles! I have never lived in such a nice house!" Boss Ni heard someone shouting at the door and walked out. Only then did he see his cousin Meng Yousan. He smiled and said: "My cousin is here! Zhuzi, come out and call.
Cousin!"
Seeing Boss Ni, Meng Yousan's eyes shone brightly, and he said: "Ni idiot, where did your new clothes come from?" He looked at the patched autumn clothes on his body, and then looked at the nine patches on Boss Ni's body.
Wearing a new round-neck robe, Meng Yousan felt like a beggar, and he suddenly started to speak harshly: "Ni Daizi, you are rich now!"
When he saw Boss Ni's son Zhuzi coming out with a piece of candy in his mouth, Meng Yousan became even more envious and said loudly: "Zhuzi, what kind of candy are you eating?" Ten-year-old Zhuzi was startled by Meng Yousan's loud voice.
, almost spit out the candy, and said weakly: "Cousin, what I eat is the No. 1 Candy." Meng Yousan asked sarcastically: "Where do you have the money to buy the No. 1 Candy?" Zhu Zhu said weakly: "Daddy bought it for me.
of!"
Meng Yousan turned to Boss Ni and said, "Boss Ni, why are you so rich now?" Boss Ni laughed and said, "My cousin is just telling a joke. You just had a full meal. How can you be rich? Compared with the people in Tianjing New Town.
, that’s even worse!” Meng Yousan spat: “Can you compare with the people in Tianjing New City? Those people’s good life is famous far and wide. Don’t you think about yourself? You used to be a tenant farmer in the Weng family.
I have been cultivating twenty acres of dry land, but I don’t even have enough to eat, and my clothes are much worse than mine. Now that I’m wearing a brand-new crew neck, and my son has sweets to eat, can’t you raise another child?”
Mr. Ni said: "I want to raise another one!" Meng Yousan snorted and said: "Where did you get all this money?" Mr. Ni laughed and said: "The city lord gave me forty acres of dry land, and he also gave me
He bought cattle, and this year's harvest was good, and the general only collected 15% of the land rent and returned the money! In addition to the rations and various miscellaneous expenses, there was also a surplus of nine shi of grain, which was all sold to the city lord's rice shop for silver. He received twenty taels of silver.
." After a pause, Boss Ni continued: "In addition to farming, when I have free time, I go to cut pig grass with my wife and sell it to the city owner's pig farm. I also made four taels of silver in a year."
Meng Yousan took a breath and said: "You actually have fifty-four taels of silver a year to spend. You are really rich! You used to be a poor tenant who was worse than me, but now you are living like a master!" Boss Ni
He laughed and said, "My cousin is joking. Now I am still a tenant." "You, a tenant, are richer than ordinary masters." Mr. Ni laughed and said, "Cousin, come into the house to talk and taste the new tea I bought.
." "Look, we have all the tea leaves, but you still don't think you're rich?"
When Meng Yousan heard that Boss Ni had bought tea to entertain guests, his face became even more jealous, and he walked into Boss Ni's house. When he entered the room, he saw more than a dozen pieces of bacon hanging on the beams.
There is so much meat in Mr. Ni's house. It seems that there will be meat and meat for dinner at Mr. Ni's house tonight. Meng Yousan spent all his money to buy food this year since the bandits plundered Yanshan County.
, hungry and full, the family finally got through it. He had not eaten a meat meal throughout the year, and it was a festival when he was full. Unexpectedly, he ate meat at Mr. Ni's house.
But although Meng Yousan had meat to eat, he couldn't be happy because he was full of jealousy. This idiot Ni was snatched away by the Khitans, but he was a blessing in disguise. What kind of thing is this? "Boss Ni, your city lord is recruiting people to open new fields this year.
No?" "I don't know. If the city lord recruits people, I will go to Yanshan County to tell you right away!" "Okay!" Meng Yousan finally smiled, nodded and said, "If you recruit people, you must tell me early! I will be there too.
Tianjing New City comes to be the city lord’s tenant farmer!”
Yang Peng decided to expand the team of farmers in the territory. In troubled times, food is a very important key material. Although the 10,000 farmers who took in last year cost Yang Peng some money in the initial stage, Yang Peng soon got the benefits. After all,
, in the future, we can get more than 16,000 shi of wheat land rent every year, worth more than 30,000 taels of silver. Xuanran Yang Peng paid 30,000 taels of silver. This is an obvious benefit, and there are also potential benefits - Yang Peng also
The grain store can collect 40,000 to 50,000 shi of surplus grain from local farmers, allowing Tianjing New City to achieve self-sufficiency in grain.
In troubled times, being able to be self-sufficient in food means stability. Without food, you can't have enough to eat, and having guns and arrows is useless. If you are hungry, everything is empty talk. Yang Peng, who has gained the sweetness, decided to start another large-scale reclamation and add another 100,000 acres of farmland.
Because there is too much wasteland in Tianjing New City, nearly one million acres of land to the east of Yingzhou and to the south of Yanshan are ownerless. Because the Khitan people have cut grass in the valley, all the landowners have moved away in order to save their lives.
Yang Peng sent officials to survey and map rivers east of Yingzhou, plan new fields, and select the location of 100,000 acres of new fields. These 100,000 acres of unowned wasteland are located on both sides of the Yueya River and Guanghe River. As long as there are waterwheels to pump water,
It can be irrigated. Yang Peng completed the land deed. He also promised to communicate with the riverside fields occupied by Yang Peng to build the canal, and persuade the local people to accept subsidies and make way for the canal.
In fact, these wastelands cannot be said to belong to the Yingzhou system. Unlike those near Tianjing New City, the fields to the east of Yingzhou are intertwined with the civilian fields in Yingzhou County, and the ownership is very complicated. These wastelands in Yingzhou can be said to be both Yingzhou and Yingzhou.
It can be said that it belongs to Yang Peng. But if Hezhou County purchases wasteland and turns these wastelands into civilian farmland, it will be under the jurisdiction of Yingzhou and will not be convenient for Yang Peng's management. So Yang Peng arbitrarily seized the wasteland from Yingzhou
, turning these wastelands into land for Tianjing New City.
With Yang Peng's current majesty as General Longhu, Yingzhou officials did not dare to trouble Yang Peng for these unclaimed wastelands, so they could only hold their noses and endure it. After capturing the wasteland, Yang Peng sent people to Tianjing New City
The nearby prefectures and counties hired two thousand masons to build houses for farmers first. Yang Peng planned to let the farmers who opened up wasteland live in a room for two people for a while. In the future, these farmers would make money by planting plum trees in the dry fields.
, you can build a bigger house again.
It is winter now, and the cold weather reduces the efficiency of outdoor work. Two thousand masons first need to build large shacks for themselves to live in, and then build five thousand brick houses. It is estimated that the houses will not be completed until February. Yang Peng plans to build the house next year.
After the winter wheat is harvested, go to various states and counties to hire farmers, and then hire 5,000 men and strong women. The first batch of farmers in Tianjing New City have a high income and have set a good example. It is estimated that hiring new farmers will go very smoothly. These
The new farmers immediately started building canals after moving to Dagou. If there is not enough manpower, Yang Peng can also hire nearby idle farmers to build canals. After the wheat harvest, farmers have nothing to do, and local manpower will be very cheap. Build the canals
Then just plant winter wheat directly and harvest the grain the following spring.
Recruiting new farmers to farm is easier than resettling refugees - the recruited farmers will bring farm tools with them when they move, and Yang Peng will not need to provide everything. Yang Peng only needs to lend them some cattle, and it is expected that they will not lack anything.
. But these things cannot be confirmed until new farmers are hired next spring.
While he was busy opening new fields, Yang Peng sent people to collect high-yielding crops. At the end of October, Yang Peng sent five soldiers to the south to collect sweet potato seedlings in the Jiangnan area and find a few farmers who could grow sweet potatoes.
Return to Tianjing New City. If you plant corn in Tianjing New City, you can greatly increase food production. Corn can be eaten by humans. Although eating it every day will be difficult to swallow, it is still very useful as a backup food. Of course, the biggest use of corn is
Corn stalks are fed to pigs. The price of such high-yielding corn is very cheap, which can greatly reduce the cost of raising pigs. Yang Peng is looking forward to the return of these five soldiers and hopes they will bring sweet potatoes back soon.
The demand for crucible steel is fermenting little by little. Tao Laoer from Cangzhou County is a blacksmith. A few days ago, he got a small piece of steel ingot from a few outsiders, half a catty, saying it was City Lord Fine Steel, so he asked Tao Laoer
Try it out. He also said that if you use it well, you can buy more from Gaojiajia's store in Donggaozhou, Cangzhou, for one to two five cents per pound.
Tao Laoer knocked the steel ingot with a hammer and felt that the quality was pretty good. On a whim, he used the steel ingot as a blade and a few kilograms of iron as the back to make a bone-cutting knife. Don't talk about it, just do it.
The bone-chopping knife that came out was of good quality. Tao Laoer asked for a pig leg bone and tried the knife: he only saw that the pig leg bone was cut into two ends when he raised the knife with his hand. Looking at the bone-chopping knife again, the edge of the knife was still the same.
Sharp, no dull edges.
This Gao family's fine steel is indeed very good. One or two and a half yuan of silver per pound is not expensive. Tao Laoer took this bone-cutting knife to the vegetable market and found the butcher Huang who was selling meat. "Butcher Huang,
I'll sell you a bone-cutting knife!" The yellow butcher rolled his eyes and said in a rough voice: "I have a bone-cutting knife! Where can I buy yours?" Tao Laoer said: "My knife is good, save money.
You work hard!"
Butcher Huang said loudly: "My bone-cutting knife is made in Bianjing. Is your knife steel better than Bianjing's?" Tao Laoer smiled, handed his bone-cutting knife over and said, "You try
You'll know if you try it!" Butcher Huang took the bone-cutting knife, looked around, and took out a pork rib from the meat stall. He cut it down and saw that the pig rib was easily cut into two pieces. Look again
The bone-cutting knife was safe and sound.
Butcher Huang said: "Not bad!" He took out another pig thigh bone and put it on the chopping board. He raised the bone-chopping knife and took a look at it, then chopped it down. There was only a bang sound, and the knife cut it open.
The pork thigh bone was cut into the chopping board. The pork thigh bone was cut in half, and the fracture was smooth and sharp.
If it were a knife made of ordinary steel, the cutting edge would curl with one cut. Even if it was a bone chopping knife made by Bianjing, the cutting edge would be slightly blunted with one cut and would need to be sharpened. But Butcher Huang pulled out the knife.
Looking at the edge of the knife, he saw that there were no signs of curling or blunting on the edge. It was still sharp. He couldn't help but said in surprise: "Okay, Blacksmith Tao, your knife is good! It's a little stronger than the knife made in Bianjing. How can it be better?"
Good steel?" After clapping his hands, Butcher Huang said, "How much does your knife cost? It's too expensive, I can't afford it!"
Tao Laoer said with a smile: "If it's not a good knife, how can I come to you? I won't charge you much, just one tael of silver for a handful!" Butcher Huang was stunned when he heard Tao Laoer's words, and without bargaining, he took it out from under the stall.
He handed a tael of silver to Blacksmith Tao and said, "Well, Blacksmith Tao, come back to me if you have any good stuff in the future!" Tao Laoer knew that Butcher Huang thought it was cheap, so he paid so happily. After all, this knife was better made in Bianjing.
The knife is still strong, but a pound of iron costs one, two, two, three cents, and the knives made are naturally more expensive. Half a pound of Tianjing Xincheng fine steel only costs seven cents and five cents, and counting a few cents of pig iron, making a
The cost of a knife is no more than 8 taels of silver, and Tao Laoer can earn 2 taels of silver.
This business is not bad. Tao Laoer can earn a tael of silver by doing a few transactions a month. If nothing else, the butchers and restaurant cooks in Cangzhou County will probably like the knives made of Tianjing Xincheng stainless steel. Tao Laoer secretly wanted to
Go to Gao's house in Cangzhou and buy him a dozen kilograms of Tianjing Xincheng fine steel, make them into knives and sell them.
On November 10th, the weather was already very cold. Ice had frozen in the pond at night and had not melted this morning. There was a little snow falling in the morning before dawn, but it stopped as soon as dawn. Yang
Peng was wearing a coat and was looking through the reports in the store in the official hall. After ten days, more than a thousand kilograms of fine steel was sold in Tianjing New City. As a product that has just been launched, this sales volume is very good. But Yang Peng hopes to sell more in a month.
Selling 10,000 kilograms, he was not satisfied with the current sales. Yang Peng was thinking about how to expand sales when he saw Zhang Xiang walking in with a cold breath.
"Brother, you have a heater here. It's really warm!" Yang Peng asked, "Aren't you going to train soldiers? Why do you come to see me when you have time?" "The Selection Group are all veterans. The battalion commander can watch the daily training.
You don’t need me to keep an eye on you!” Sitting on the chair, Zhang Xiang said casually: “Brother, do you know that Uncle Han’s wife from Jingbianfang is dead!”
Yang Peng was stunned and asked: "How did he die?" "He was suffering from frostbite, coughing non-stop, and later died of illness. He was only in his thirties! This Han Jinxin used to be a spy of the Ministry of Punishment, but now he has fallen like this.
"Yang Peng thought of this Han Jinxin.
This man is a native of Cangzhou. I heard that his grandfather was a Jinshi and served as the minister of the Ministry of Rites. However, his father was extravagant and used up all the family's money. This Han Jinxin originally relied on Zu Yin to become a spy for the Ministry of Punishments. During the Taizong period, he
He got close to the eunuchs and was promoted to a detective in the Ministry of Justice. Who knew that when Emperor Taizong died, the eunuchs collapsed, and Emperor Zhenzong vigorously liquidated the eunuchs, and Han Jinxin was kicked out.
Han Jinxin is a remnant of eunuchs, and his reputation is well known. The two county magistrates of Cangzhou, Zha Dengbei, were all Qingliu, and they hated eunuchs the most. During the two county magistrates, they were in charge of Cangzhou. Both inside and outside the Cangzhou system were extremely repulsive to remnants of eunuchs.
He killed him quickly. Han Jinxin could not even find a job under the name of eunuch, so he relied on pawning his previous belongings. At the beginning, he could live an ordinary life with some wealth, but he did not expect the imperial court's hatred towards eunuchs.
For ten years, his family's life was getting worse day by day, and it was very miserable.
His wife died of illness, which was unexpected but reasonable news. In the past, Han Jinxin liked to stand in the workshop and be in a daze when he had nothing to do. He was very kind to children. Yang Peng met him when he went to Cangzhou to do business, and even ate the candies he gave out.
.When I heard about his family’s miserable situation, I couldn’t help but sympathize with him.
Yang Peng thought for a while and said to Zhang Xiang: "You ask Han Jinxin to come, and I will find something for him to do!" Zhang Xiang said: "Brother, he is a castrate! If you take him in, our people will
What do you think?" Yang Peng spat: "What happened to the eunuch?" "You call him!" Zhang Xiang had no choice but to follow the order and went out. In the afternoon, Zhang Xiang brought Han Jinxin.
Han Jinxin was wearing an old cotton-padded jacket. It could be seen that the outside of the old jacket was made of silk and satin. It was probably made ten years ago. At this time, the jacket was full of holes. Probably because no one helped, the family patched it.
There were no rags to be found. He had a long beard, and his face was sallow due to long-term malnutrition. A man in his thirties looked the same as he did in his forties or fifties. Probably because of the loss of his wife, he looked very depressed.
His eyes were dull. He walked with his back hunched over and his eyes always looking at the ground. He didn't look up until he was in front of Yang Peng and then knelt down. "Han Jinxin, the sinner, has met the Lord of the City!"
If you want to know what happens next, let’s look at the breakdown in the next chapter.