"Your Majesty, please read this, this is the statement written by me." Yelu Chucai took out a document from his sleeve and handed it to Guo Ning.
Monk Luo paused slightly while chewing the food, and said with some admiration in his heart: "This Khitan man can really understand Guo Liulang's temperament."
Monk Luo is an old friend of Guo Ning. When they were both lowly soldiers, they rescued each other no less than ten times, forming a loving friendship on the tip of the knife. Without Monk Luo, Guo Ning would have died five or six times. On the contrary,
It's the same thing. The two of them understand and trust each other very deeply.
Because of his deep understanding of Guo Ning, Monk Luo felt the changes in Guo Ning particularly vividly. Guo Ning, who rose from Tangluo County in Hebei Province, was as brave and aggressive as before; in terms of being profound and broad-minded, he was a hundred times stronger than before.
times.
But Monk Luo almost never considers this issue, because Guo Ning's growth is a good thing for every defeated soldier in Tangbo. Since it is a good thing, why bother.
At the same time, Yelu Chucai noticed Monk Luo's expression.
He just pretended not to see it and diligently opened the form for Guo Ning, asking the emperor to read the catalog first.
A few years ago, Yelu Chucai secretly asked Monk Luo about Guo Ning's experience in Hebei. Based on the answers given by Monk Luo and several other veterans of the navy, Yelu Chucai believed that Guo Ning's subordinates
During the time when he was separated and hid in Hebei, he must have studied under an extremely knowledgeable elder and made great progress; and this elder was probably a scholar from the Song Dynasty who lived in the northern frontier of the Jin Kingdom after Jingkang.
Influenced by this scholar, Guo Ning was very indifferent to his family's origin in Youyan. For example, Guo Ning never used the common "Yan people" and "Yan people" to refer to himself for hundreds of years, but always considered himself
"Han people" or "Han children".
On the other hand, when Guo Ning refers to the Song people in the Southern Dynasties, he almost never uses the usual "southern people" or "southern barbarians". It can be seen that in Guo Ning's eyes, the Han people in the north and the people of the Southern Song Dynasty are inseparable.
It can also be inferred from this that the Gaoshi was by no means a Southern Song Dynasty person living in Jiangbiao today, but a remnant of the Song Dynasty who almost united Kyushu in the early years.
It can be said that there are advantages and disadvantages to having such an idea deeply embedded in the emperor's mind.
The advantage is that the emperor will never tolerate the situation of the Han people being divided into the north and the south, and Yelu Chucai will definitely see the Great Zhou unifying the world. The disadvantage is that the emperor seems to be a little too kind to the Southern Song people, because he clearly has a huge military
advantage, but had no intention of suppressing the Southern Dynasty or bleeding the Southern Dynasty with continuous military operations.
This is not a woman's benevolence, but a certain obsession of the emperor. Yelu Chucai could clearly feel that the emperor did not intend to simply rely on iron hoof to go south. He had said more than once that if he only relied on force to kill someone,
If they roll their heads and trample those who dare to oppose into a pulp, there will be no difference between the Great Zhou Dynasty and the Tatars on the grassland.
The emperor was more interested in building the Great Zhou step by step so that the prosperity of the Great Zhou and the wealth of the people of the Great Zhou would be higher than those of the Song Dynasty. Until the Great Song Dynasty was on the verge of collapse, the Great Zhou only needed to click a finger and everything would fall into place.
This goal cannot be declared publicly, because it is too impatient for the warriors. Therefore, the emperor needs to continuously strengthen his control over the army, strive to rein in the reins, and suppress the bloodthirsty instinct of the beast.
According to Yelu Chucai's idea, the Great Zhou Dynasty could have been more aggressive towards the Southern Dynasty, but there was nothing wrong with the situation. The emperor would always be particularly unhappy every time he mentioned the Southern Dynasty people's contempt and misunderstanding of the Great Zhou Dynasty.
Satisfied, even a little too sensitive... This is exactly what Yelu Chucai can intervene to solve.
The people of Song Dynasty regarded the Zhou Dynasty as a country of ruthless captives and warriors. They believed that they could use the economic benefits from the north to enrich themselves and then expand the armaments capable of confronting the north.
In fact, the Great Zhou Dynasty is indeed a military regime, and it does rely on its own force. This is the foundation of the Great Zhou Dynasty and will not be shaken, but it does not mean that the Great Zhou Dynasty only has force. With the vast territory of the Central Plains and the North and the billions of people, the Great Zhou Dynasty
Zhou's bag was full of ways to enrich himself, and he used the fastest speed to show a prosperous attitude, leaving the people of Song Dynasty speechless.
Among them, the simplest and most direct is what Yelu Chucai said in the article: Starting next year, from Gaizhou and Fuzhou in the northeastern hinterland to Qinzhou on Fengxiang Road in Guanzhong, fourteen locations will be opened in one go.
Ports introduced large-scale human and financial resources from the Southern Dynasties.
Guo Ning wiped his hands, flipped through a few pages of instructions, and asked: "It is a good idea to recruit merchants from the Southern Dynasties. More competition will prevent our wealthy officials and merchants from getting used to making money and exploiting the people. However,
Let us recruit people from the Southern Dynasty? Let these people speak with their feet and use unprecedented population migration to prove that the governance of the Zhou Dynasty is better than that of the Song Dynasty? Jin Qing, I am not worried about anything, but the Southern Dynasty is richer than me, and the people of the Song Dynasty will be willing to come.
In the Central Plains, do the northerners have enough food to eat? After these people come, will there really be so much food for them to eat?"
Monk Luo beside him said gloomily: "Not only do we have to be full, but we also have to eat well. I'm afraid it won't be that easy."
Yelu Chucai nodded slightly to Monk Luo, and turned another page for Guo Ning: "I'm not sure yet this year, but I will be sure next year."
Guo Ning read the contents of the statement in detail, and nodded after a moment: "If this is the case, it is worth giving it a try... Please leave this statement here for me to study it carefully. Come, eat the food, eat the food."
Outsiders ridiculed the Zhou Dynasty, always saying that the Zhou regime had the air of a grassroots team that could not be eradicated. Although the court and the provincial departments were grand, those who really participated in the decision-making of major affairs were always a few close associates around the emperor. And many far-reaching government affairs were also
Decisions are often discussed at the dinner table.
In the spring of the twelfth year of Jiading.
Southern Song Dynasty, Fuzhou Linchuan.
Chen Liangfu stood on the mound next to the Xiangxian platform and looked at the nearby fields.
Fuzhou Linchuan City on Jiangnan West Road in the Song Dynasty was built by the powerful Wei Quanxi in the Five Dynasties. In the following hundreds of years, Eryan, Zeng Gong, Wang Jinggong, Lu Xiangshan and others were born here, and they can be called outstanding people.
Fuzhou is also a place where good doctors and medicines are produced. Mr. Xiangshan’s brother, Lu Jiuxu, is a famous drug dealer. Those with rich families are engaged in medicine, while those who are poor in the family often study medicine.
Chen Liangfu was the ship's doctor who accompanied Wang Erbai south when the Zhou Dynasty merchant ships traveled to Fuzhou. His real name was Chen Ziming, and his courtesy name was Liangfu.
Two years ago, he encountered an accident while seeking medical advice in Qingyuan Prefecture. He had no money and was temporarily impoverished, so he accepted the invitation of a maritime merchant and worked as a ship's doctor for two years. In Fuzhou, he was actually good at gynecology.
, sailed for two years, but he also developed good surgical skills, especially good at treating wounds and carbuncles.
At this moment, Chen Ziming returned to his hometown after two years. Due to the wind and frost at sea, his originally frail face became rougher, and he also had a beard under his chin, making him look more mature than his actual age.
The scenery of Fuzhou in the Song Dynasty in the Southern Dynasty is completely different from that of Fuzhou with the same name in the northern country of Monan. The spring scenery is brilliant, the mountains and rivers are green, and the Qingyun Ridge not far away seems to be a piece of jasper floating in the green sea, which is refreshing and refreshing.
But the people who accompanied Chen Ziming all looked miserable and their eyes were a little red.
"Last year and the year before last, when the weather was cold, no one could afford the quota of one stone per mu, not to mention the case money and the commune money, the personal money and the service money, not to mention the big fights in the local area.
Dendrobium, advance loans, heavy reminders, free warehouses and many other shameful methods. By the way, brother, at the beginning of the year, sergeants Zhang Fu, Mo Jian and others gathered in the Xingyuan Mansion and gathered thousands of people to rebel. The imperial court mobilized troops to quell the rebellion.
We have to levy more money and food..."
The speaker was Chen Zixin, Chen Ziming's cousin. He was not wearing a hat or a turban, so he tied his hair with an old piece of cloth. His robe was patched four or five times and was so dirty that the color could not be seen clearly.
He was obviously a scholar, and his life was even worse than that of a mud-legged man. When Chen Ziming saw his cousin's appearance, he became very angry and interrupted him and asked:
"Disasters happen every now and then, there's nothing new. The fighting between soldiers and horses in Sichuan, what does it have to do with us in Jiangnan?"
Chen Zixin complained repeatedly: "There is a war in central Sichuan, and the northern captives are strong and strong. We will inevitably have to move grain and grain to the west of the Yangtze River! If we don't want to move closer and lose farther, we will have to pay extra land fee. Every stone of grain will cost an extra
Four extra buckets!"
When the soldiers of Xingyuan Prefecture rebelled, they used the Lizhou Road to support the counter-insurgency. No matter how large the scale was, the two Sichuan and Four Roads would be watching from behind. Not to mention that there are Jinghu and Jinghu besides Sichuan and Shu, so why would the Jiangnan West Road branch be needed?
Moving grain?
To put it ten thousand steps back, even if the Beibei invaders invade the border, the three routes of Beijing and Hu are too busy to take care of themselves, and Jiangnan and South China have to move, how come the land fee is so high that every stone will be charged an extra four dou? It’s not that Chen Ziming never paid the land fee in his early years.
It was only four or five cents per dou, but now it is converted into an additional four dou per stone. Calculated based on this year's grain prices, it has increased by a full twenty times!
This is completely nonsense. It was robbed by local subordinates in the Ming Dynasty. If nothing else, just this small amount of money can drive farmers who are not so well-off or who don’t have much land to die!
There is no need to guess, someone in the village must have gone bankrupt or died. It is hard to say how long the survivors can last. Otherwise, these relatives would never have blocked themselves outside Linchuan City, sullenly asking for help.
Chen Ziming sighed: "So, you all sold the fields?"
Everyone also sighed: "Sold it, sold it to Miaofa Temple."
Miaofa Temple is the largest Buddhist temple in the area, and the monks in the temple are also powerful loyal dogs who work for several local wealthy people. I heard that several large local drug dealers are now very wealthy, and all of them are keen on buying land.
Since they have driven Miaofa Temple to come forward, the people in the countryside have to sell it if they don't want to.
"What price?"
"The price of the business is money, eight hundred and ninety cents per acre."
Chen Ziming felt a rush of breath in his chest and felt dizzy. Eight hundred and ninety cents was still money. This was like being robbed for the second time. He couldn't even afford the coffin boards... No wonder they all looked so thin and sallow!
These people in front of them are all relatives, friends and neighbors that Chen Ziming knows very well. With the little land in their hands, they may be at the end of their rope. If the news of his return to his hometown had not given them some hope, this would have been possible.
Soon they will have to beg and run away!
Chen Ziming looked heavy but said nothing.
Including Chen Zixin, more than a dozen people did not dare to speak. Some looked at him eagerly and forced out a flattering smile; some moved their lips and wanted to speak but did not know what to say; some were ashamed, but had to wait like this;
There were also people squatting on the ground dejectedly without raising their heads.
Chen Ziming took off a gauze belt from his chest, placed it on the ground in front of him, and slowly opened it: "In the past two years, I traveled on the sea and saved some money. It should have been more, but I bought some northern
I have used up a lot of the medicinal materials. In this way, each family will keep twenty guan, and when I sell the medicine and get the price, we can discuss the rest."
Everyone was overjoyed and praised him one after another. They immediately gathered around and divided the money among them.