It took twelve days for the fleet to arrive in Kaifeng. Fortunately, the waterway is relatively straight, and there is no such thing as a "few" like the upper reaches. Caused a flood.
As soon as the fleet passed, the waterway of the Yellow River was immediately navigable, especially the fishermen, some of whom had boats. I am very grateful that the Zhang family's fleet opened the way so that they can cast nets in the river again.
There is also a small group of people who are very angry. They could have dig holes on the ice to catch fish, but now they are better.
The people who ferry back and forth have a job once again, and the people who can walk on the ice complain a little bit. They don’t see much, they only know that they have to spend money again, but they don’t know. They fell into the ice hole this year. There are fewer people.
Even if the Zhang family's fleet does not break the ice ahead of time, it won't take a few days to open the river. Walking on the ice is very dangerous.
The Zhang family directly paid a price of more than 30,000 for this trip. Salt, that cost money, as well as iron for chartering ships, and a ship that was unlucky enough to hit Luo’s ice cubes together. There was a big hole and the wheel was broken, so I had to stay there and let it be repaired.
"They should be grateful to us." Li Xun stood at the bow of the ship, his nose flushed by the cold wind, his voice said in a muffled voice.
Now he doesn't understand anything like he did before, and his way of judging things is getting closer and closer to Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan.
Spending a lot of money to break the ice is considered to be a benefit that the Zhang family left to the capital. The downstream can divert water to soak the land in advance. Since the method of lime dung retting appeared in the Zhangwang Zhuangzi of Sanshui County, most people have followed it.
This method is fast to retreat the manure, and the manure produced is still sufficient. The main reason is that you can refill a lot of straws and leaves together. It has been used for several years, plus the method provided by Sinong Temple according to Zhang's family. , And the seeds cultivated by their own research institute, have also been planted near the capital for two years.
The yield is very high. Last year, the amount of grain transferred from the south to the capital was much less. The royal family did not fight for the credit. Those who want to come to the court understand it in their hearts.
In addition to pre-soaking the ground, it can also make the upstream ice icy faster. The faster the water flow, the faster the ice icing, which can avoid the formation of ice dams in the zigzag area and minimize the possibility of spring floods.
This method is very good. If it can also be used for drilling and burying gunpowder to explode, it will save worry year after year.
People of insight in the imperial court also discovered this problem, but the investment was too large, 30,000 guan, this was the cost of the Zhang family's own business.
There may be spring floods once in five years. The scale may be large or small. If it is large-scale, it is worth investing tens of thousands of dollars in advance to dredge. No, no one dared to mention the unknown danger in exchange for money.
People in the court clearly knew the benefits, but couldn’t mention it. Li Xun was different. He had his own ideas. He was going to discuss with Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan to buy gunpowder and to learn fixed-point blasting technology. This technology has been mastered by Wang Juan and others. Not at all.
Li Xun thinks that the Zhang family has mastered the method. He wants to spend 50,000 guanans every year to break the ice during the period of time before the river is opened. He thinks it is worth it, although 50,000 guanans can be bought when the year is normal. 25 million catties of good food.
He has money, and various deals with Zhang’s family can provide him with more than 200,000 tons of income a year. This is not even the money that has been invested in the development of new industries. When those places can make money, he More income.
He wasn't ready to rebel. He really didn't know what to keep so much money for. In the past, he made money to make his life easier, and at the same time to show off to the royal people of the same generation.
Now his life is getting better, the most comfortable furniture, his fleet, others will be very expensive to buy, he costs money, it is a sin to spend more money, others will be jealous.
Li Xun now understands the theory of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, that is, consumption can increase the national power of the entire Datang. Only when there is demand, there is output. Many people have too single thoughts, so they don’t even think about how to make more money. They just guarded that little ground.
Only plant one crop of grain a year, busy in spring, harvest in summer, harvest in autumn, and stay at home in winter. How can it be done? Li Xun has seen the construction of the people in Luzhou and can always find work. Tired and spread out the rest time, the annual income is hundreds of times that of the ordinary people around the capital.
Part of it is because of geographical relations, but more because the people cannot think of more ways to increase income, so they have to be guided.
Li Xun wants to do such a thing now. He has learned a lot of ideas, not taught by Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan, but by himself based on the style of Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan.
All kinds of animals are also raised in the capital. They are not for food, but only for viewing. Then the people can also raise some rabbits and some deer, so why bother to go hunting in the mountains
Li Xun wondered, first invest 50,000 guanans every year to dredge the river that is about to be opened up, and then use 50,000 guanans to encourage the people in the capital and the north to raise animals, especially where the land is sparsely populated. The food you love to eat will be animals when that time comes.
A cloak made of rabbit skin can also sell for seven or eight hundred cents.
"Being backward, thinking is too backward." Li Xun moved a chair and sat on the bow of the ship, watching the beggars on the pier, making a gesture for people to bring him over, and muttering.
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan felt that Li Xun seemed to be insulted. It was thanks to taking him to do business together. Otherwise, according to his few ideas, there would be no need to live at all. There was something at the court, so he would take money out of the house. It doesn't matter if you take it, you have to pull the Zhang Wang family every time.
Even the other businessmen who worked with him couldn't run away, so let's just talk about repairing the canal. It is estimated that the repair will be almost done in the autumn of this year. The court originally planned to invest 250,000 yuan to build a simple canal to connect to the main canal.
In the end, only Li Xun and his own family took out 210,000 guan, and the other merchants combined, a full 400,000 guan, Li Longji immediately stopped taking the money, and also changed the drawing of the canal, which was better than the original one. Farther and wider.
Fortunately, the person in charge of repairing the canal is an official from a family who belongs to the Ministry of Industry. Liu Zhirou is pressed by him. He would not and dare not to greet the money. .
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan are not afraid of spending money, and they will have more income in the future. They worry that the money they took out will not be done in the end but will be embezzled. What they hate most is embezzlement.
If you really have the ability to manage a lower county into an upper county, the county magistrate will embezzle one-tenth of the tax. The people don’t care how much you embezzle, as long as you can eat more and live in a better house. , That is a good official.
When Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan were thinking about things, Li Xun saw that they were silent and said, "Xiaobao, you guys are talking, how can you make the people not stupid?"
"Isn't that simple? Let them all read and read all kinds of books, so that they can understand how vast the sky is outside and what the sea is like, and they will naturally change."
Wang Juan gave the answer directly.
"It's so simple? Then you have to help me. I am going to provide people with such a place for learning within three years." Li Xun was confident.
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan shook their heads vigorously: "Three years? Thirty years is good for all the people to be able to read. In three years, we won't be able to spend tens of millions of dollars to help you achieve your wishes."
"Why do you need so much?" Li Xun's idea was simple, that is, let people go to poor places to build schools, and build one in a village. It doesn't take much money to collect materials locally, and then the people will be able to learn.
Zhang Xiaobao and Wang Juan knew what he was thinking without Li Xun saying it. Zhang Xiaobao felt that they had to continue to teach Li Xun. His thinking was too simple.
"Don’t think that building a school is enough, and the people won’t learn it. If you want the people to spare time to learn, you have to let the people eat and increase productivity. This is not difficult. Within three years, we must Can find higher-yield crops for the people to plant.
Then there is road construction, exchange of needs, encourage the people to raise more poultry and livestock, and even borrow money from them in the early stage, and then the printing of books. This is not difficult. The papermaking has been improved. Xiao Cai’s method is good. It was built in an overseas land and made from the trees there. When we opened up wasteland, we also tried not to burn them. We kept the trees and grass and used it to make paper.
We are willing to invest this amount of money. It is to set up papermaking in various places. We also have new methods for printing. This is simple. The most difficult part comes from the literati. When printing books, it can’t be like now. Look at that ice, According to the words of the literati, that is, the ice is colder than water.
How long does the common people have to study, saying that the water freezes when it is cold, but this is definitely not good. The literati finally have something to show off. They can let you express simple things in simple words
My family raises some earthworms to feed chickens, isn’t there still someone looking for something wrong? What do you say about earth dragons, they are born from the earth, and survive from the earth, and the chicken eats earth dragons as a natural choice, and humans can go against the heavens? Dying.
This is pure fart, why did I raise some earthworms against the sky? But what the people want to learn is exactly this knowledge. You teach them "Yi and Qiju, there are many fish, there are bonito and tuna, minnows and carp, to enjoy and sacrifice, and to provide blessing." Is this useful
People want to know how to grow more food by farming, how to raise chickens to grow faster, and what and what cannot be eaten together. This is called class. In order to maintain its own mystery and interests, They can do anything. "
Zhang Xiaobao felt aggrieved when he mentioned this matter. If you want to teach others more knowledge, you have to consider the current environment. A lot of knowledge can only be taught to farmers and outsiders will not tell.
Li Xun also remembered the incident, he laughed, and said, "Didn't the official who impeached your family be exiled? What else did he want to do? He is also short-sighted. When was the impeachment bad? It was because of the locust plague in Henan Province. At the time of impeachment, your chicken is eating locusts there.
Since the resistance is too great, let's slow down, at least under my control and your dad's treatment, no one can manage it. Do you know why your dad can be arranged to Shuzhou? It's not just that your family has exchanged two good things, but the most important thing is that the governor who took office is too outrageous.
In Shuzhou, the tax paid every year in the past few years was 110,000 Guans, which did not fluctuate much, but in recent years it has been decreasing year by year. Before delivery at the end of last year, it was reported to be 60,000 Guans. That’s Shangzhou. It’s not as much money a year as your Sanshui County.
One Sanshui county’s taxation is more than two Shuzhou’s. Who do you want to clean up? The imperial court now uses Sanshui County to compare it with other places when it’s okay. In the past, after taxation was paid by other prefectures, they were always praised. Since the taxation of Sanshui County, even Chuzhou The emperor's uncle also threw a sentence of "I know" when the 180,000 bucks of tax was sent there last year.
This time I sent your dad to hope to reproduce the original situation. The most important thing is to fight with the local family, the bribed officials and wealthy businessmen. There is no money, but the question of whether it can be collected. "
"Oh... That's it, okay, I like it." Zhang Xiaobao nodded, indicating that he understood.
Wang Juan also seemed very excited. She wanted to see Zhang Xiaobao’s methods in the mall. The most difficult time of the Zhang Wang family was when Zhang Xiaobao turned his hands for the cloud and covered his hands for the rain to operate, so that one by one came over to find trouble. The businessman fell into the sand.
I haven’t seen it for a long time. I miss it. The businessmen in Shuzhou are more powerful, the better. Aren’t many movies that show ancient times acted more often? I was embarrassed when I was an official, and then I found evidence to clean up the people in one fell swoop. .
That really fell into the lower class, why find any handle to clean up people? How good is it to use business wars directly
Zhang Xiaobao didn't know that Wang Juan was thinking about this. He said that it was because the form was complicated and it was easy to train his father. It was not Luzhou, so it was difficult.
As for whether you will fail because you can’t beat others, you don’t have to think about what happens after the failure. There is no such result.
Li Xun didn’t worry either. He didn’t believe anyone else could fight against the Zhang family. Other officials were afraid that the local family and businessmen would have contact with someone or a few people from the imperial court. There is no need for Zhang Family to be involved in the Lord, the princes and princes like him.
When it comes to the royal family, it’s enough to show up by yourself. Everyone has the same identity. Don’t want to suppress anyone. Besides, you still have money. Didn’t Xiaobao and the cuckoo say that having money can make you push ghosts? What's more important is that you can write to the emperor at any time.
It’s not a book, it’s just like a family letter. It’s a treatment that only you can enjoy. Who will let other people not live with Zhang Wang’s family? If the emperor wants to understand the situation of Zhang’s master, he has to write it himself. Letters and family letters are much more useful than writing a book. You can write anything on it. Whoever dares to mess with the uncle of the royal family will clean up.
There is no need to worry about the pressure from court officials. It is estimated that the news has spread to Shuzhou, which means don't expect them to help speak in the court, think of a solution by yourself.
Not everyone can fool about Zhang Zhong. The emperor's uncle and the prime minister are all staring at them. Impeachment is okay, and it is reasonable to suppress the crime. Unreasonable convictions are just spoken directly in the court. To change the topic, I hope that the Zhang family can create one miracle after another.
Li Xun could think of the imperial court’s idea that a Sanshui county could be turned into a Shangxian county and pay so much tax every year. Wouldn't that Shangzhou pay more taxation? Who dares to look for things in it is no different from looking for death.
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"My lord, the man has brought it." The man who went down to lead the beggar came back, and led the six small beggars to Li Xun to reply.
"Well, take it and wash and change clothes. Let’s go with the boat. Ask them if they have family members. If so, take the family away. If the family is wealthy, then take the baby away. Remember in the future, as long as you see Such a person is taken back to the mansion, and one can help one."
Li Xun glanced at the six children casually, and he would not mention this matter after the order. He now wants to understand that as long as it is within his ability, he will help. If all the wealthy people in Datang If you can be like him, does Datang still have a beggar
Begging doesn't mean that people can't do anything. In fact, there is no other opportunity. With the knowledge you have learned, it is easy to find a job. The baby will let them study, and it will be useful when they grow up.
The six beggars don’t know how honorable Li Xun’s identity is. They only know that the person who feeds them is better than the county magistrate. The county magistrate is shivering when they meet, let alone the village magistrate, blame. It's scary.
"Xiaobao, how many days will the boat stop? Don't delay the plowing." After the six children who didn't even ask their names were taken away, Li Xun asked Zhang Xiaobao boredly.
"Originally I planned to replenish it and leave today, but since I will run into trouble there, I can only stop for two more days. Prepare to prepare. It won't matter if you delay for two days. You will have a lot of fertile land after you get there. What kind of plant it is, and at the same time pack the wasteland."
Zhang Xiaobao is also very leisurely. He and Wang Juan now have less work. Every day they only have to study, exercise and play with their younger siblings. Don’t worry about people’s livelihood and other things. They have more energy on calculations, which is very interesting. thing.
Li Xun nodded. He believed that Zhang Xiaobao would not lie to him to play with nothing, but couldn't think of what to do with the wasteland. Before he asked, Zhang Xiaobao explained to him:
"After the wasteland is packaged, houses will be built on it. Most of the scorpions will be raised. I will do an experiment for a small part. The characteristics of a place.
This summer, there will be no shortage of food, and a large amount of food will be shipped back from overseas. There is no need to produce much food in Shuzhou. I plan to build it into a base for medicinal materials. You will be the first person to eat crabs. After eating and teaching it to the local people, I am trying to grow other medicinal materials. "
"Oh... Can medicine be raised and grown? How about selling it? There will be no shortage of medicine in the palace." It was the first time Li Xun heard about this stuff. In the past, he let me pay tribute to places where medicinal materials are available, and use all kinds of things. Come to replace the renter. If you can raise it, then the snake catcher will be less dead. Just get the snake catcher to raise the snake.
Zhang Xiaobao nodded, "If you can grow and raise, it means that the efficacy of the medicine may be poor. It doesn’t matter. Just increase the amount and sell it directly to the hospital. You need to summarize the various problems that occurred during the planting and raise, and then let the local people plant it. Come to raise, we buy together, it’s not the kind of scam of the Five Lakes Chamber of Commerce."
"Can the hospital still make money? What if there are too many medicines and the hospital can't sell it?" Li Xun worried that if the output is too large, the hospital will lose money.
"It's not enough. I'm going to open Deyi Hospital throughout Datang. I don't expect to make money. I just need to keep my capital. Those who are rich will have more money, and those who have no money will spend less. All pregnant women, children, and ages. To a certain level of people, free medical care is implemented."
Zhang Xiaobao has never forgotten about free medical care and free education. The form of operation is different, but he can bear it and develop little by little, and one day it will be realized. The difficulty is relatively high, and it is a road that no one has ever walked. , Very challenging, even if you fail.