Wang Ju first wrote about Xihe, not how to manage it, but for horses.

Can the horse protection law allow the horse raised by the people to go to the battlefield?

But it is different to get Xihe. You can use Wang Shao's market-making strategy to encourage the foreigners to raise horses. But the imperial court must not interfere. Han people are in charge and foreigners will inevitably have disputes. However, they can encourage them to raise horses. Although the breeding ability of horses is not as good as that of cattle and sheep, it is expensive, and raising horses is more cost-effective than raising cattle and sheep. Then officials exchange materials for the scarce foreigners to buy them, and Xihe can become an important horse-raising base.

The second is the army. Because getting Xihe is equivalent to getting many ranches invisibly. The court can draw some imprisoned soldiers to Lunguan, but Lunguan must take a long time to train them into real cavalry, rather than the imprisoned cavalry now.

Here, Wang Ju mentioned another thing: the biggest enemy of the Song Dynasty was still the north.

However, Hebei and Hedong have been in peace for a long time. Of course, this is a good thing, but the disadvantage is that the military and civilians are not accustomed to fighting.

Not only did the people in Hebei gradually become less accustomed to fighting, but the combat effectiveness of the injunction soldiers also became very poor. Wang Shao used mostly archers and foreign soldiers along the border, but not many injunction soldiers were used.

Once there are police in the north, it will be like the Anshi Rebellion. Because the people of the Central Plains are not accustomed to fighting, the Yulin Army of the Tang Dynasty fell, and the elite Tang army was in Qinghai and the Western Regions. So Gao Xianzhi, Feng Changqing and Geshuhan were transferred, but he still could not defeat An Lushan.

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The fatal thing is that the capital of the Song Dynasty is in Kaifeng, and there is no room for maneuver.

Therefore, an elite cavalry must be cultivated in a timely and continuous manner.

Maybe Wang Ju said now that everyone still didn't care, but soon the Khitan saw the great disaster of the Song Dynasty and was dragged by Xihe again. So he came to quarrel again.

Therefore, it is not unreasonable to say that it is not my race. It is true that their hearts are different. Looking at the Song Dynasty and the Liao Dynasty's severe drought, Emperor Zhenzong of Song deliberately asked the victims of Yanyun to come to the Song Dynasty to eat and treat them warmly. After the disaster, he sent a special person to escort these victims back.

But the Liao Kingdom is pretty good.

After the Sino-Japanese War of 1894-1895, in the 32nd year of Guangxu, he heard that there were disasters in Japan. The Qing Dynasty immediately sent 100,000 yuan to help the Japanese disaster. The 33rd year of Guangxu was also a year of famine in China. The people of their own country were not full. Japan reported the flood and sent 600,000 stones of rice and grain to the provinces of Jiang, Anhui, Zhejiang, and Hubei to save them.

What an international sentiment.

After the Japanese crisis has been overcome, it will repay tens of millions of Chinese lives...

Then continue.

This blackmail finally led to the complete destruction of the Northern Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom in history.

Wang Ju tried hard to reverse the death of the Song Dynasty, and even made plans. However, this blackmail was just an opportunity for everyone to listen to.

If the forbidden troops were stronger, there would be a border army in Hedong, Hebei that could be sent to the battlefield. Even if the Jin people went south, it would not be so easy. As long as they could be held back, the Jin Kingdom would be able to fall faster and there would be no harm.

This is the first thing, from horses to soldiers.

The second thing is about Jiaozhi.

In April last year, the magistrate of Yongzhou Xiaozhu was very envious of Wang Shao's achievements in Hehuang. He wrote a letter saying that although Jiaozhi was tributed, he had been in trouble for a long time. If he did not take it now, he would be worried about the future.

It happened that Jiaozhi fought against Chameng and was defeated by Chameng, so Zhao Xu summoned Xiao Zhu to the capital to ask.

After all, before the Song Dynasty, the traditional Han people had always reached Yumen Pass in the east, the Great Wall, and the Lingchuan Plain. The Qin Dynasty had officially ruled and managed the Hetao region in the north. The northeast was Pyongyang and southern Liaoning. The south was Jiaozhi. When the remaining strength was great, they could reach Yilang Iraq, and the north was Xing'an Mountains outside Lake Baikal. However, it could only be considered a ban and could not be considered a direct governance. Therefore, in the eyes of the Song Dynasty, Jiaozhi should even be taken back than Dali.

Zhao Xu asked about the specific strategy for the attack, but Xiao Zun could not answer it. Then Chen Qi, who served as the judge of Duzhi of Guangnan West Road, wrote a letter again, saying that there is nothing undesirable to the clown in the south. So Chen Qi was the governor of Guizhou. If there were any border affairs on the road, he would only be dealt with by the special committee of the Shen Jingliu Department and reported it to him.

Wang Ju was in Quanzhou, of course he didn't know about this. Even if he had big fingers, he could not remember everything clearly. He just remembered it because the changes brought about by his appearance and some history were completely different. This is because he stayed in the place. If he entered the two palaces, the changes brought about would be even greater until his appearance was not true. Of course, what he wanted was non-face.

However, he knew about this severe drought, and knew that it would continue until next year, and it would be affected by Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Wang Ju could silently fall into the mud pit as Wang Anshi, but he could not silently see that so many people were starved to death, so he made some preparations in advance.

Although his ability alone is limited, he can save as much as he can.

Last year, I started buying grain in Lingnan, and then used commercial goods to exchange rice in Jiaozhi.

In the third year of Xining, Wang Ju sent several disciples out together and secretly did some things. Among them, Huang Liang and Lu Herang went to Lingnan. The public task was to teach the people to grow sugarcane, summarize the technology of increasing sugarcane yield and sweetness, and preside over the production of sugarcane. In addition to this task, there are two secret tasks, one is to inquire about overseas information, and the other is to inquire about Jiaozhi's information.

In the fourth year of Xining, Wang Juqingzhou won a great victory. At that time, he felt something was wrong. Not to mention him, from Di Qing to Zhang Kang, and then to Wang Shao, after all, they might be promoted in a short time, but soon they were hidden.

Cai Ting was not a deputy envoy of Privy Council, Zhang Ting was not a member of the Privy Council, and then died, otherwise he would end up like Wang Shao soon.

So Wang Ju turned his attention to the south.

Then he used a letter to inform Huang and Lu that the Zhuya Army in the southern part of Qiongzhou Island would invest in the construction of a port.

In fact, there is also a small port here for small merchant ships and fishing boats to moor. It is expanded based on this port.

Now the emperor is far away. He pays some money to bribe him. In addition, Wang Ju is still a little famous, so local officials dare not stop him.

So this port became a transit station.

This port will have great uses in the future, but this king has not disclosed it to anyone.

Huang and Lu set out from Guangzhou and pretended to be ordinary businessmen and entered Jiaozhi. To inquire about enemy information, it is best to take a look at it yourself.

While exchanging food with Jiaozhi people, pay attention to Jiaozhi's situation.

At this time, Jiaozhi turned around and really thought they were ordinary businessmen, so he sent someone to come and ask them for a sigh of relief. As a result, the two pretended to be stupid. Jiaozhi's spies did not get any news, but instead made them get some news.

In other words, Jiaozhi felt very angry when he heard Xiao Chen and the others' words, and he looked down on us so much!

Wang Ju said this. He did not comment on right or wrong. If Jiaozhi continued to be regarded as a temporarily divided territory, the Song Dynasty planned to take it back, but it did not make any mistake. If Jiaozhi was regarded as a real country, there would be some controversy. After all, the Song Dynasty just said that it did not really take action.

Wang Ju reported the matter in the memorial, saying that Jiaozhi might take the initiative.

This was not something Huang Lu asked about, but was fabricated by Wang Ju himself, and it cannot be considered a fabrication. Jiaozhi is indeed going to take the lead soon.

Therefore, it is recommended that Yongzhou immediately build city defense, strengthen vigilance, and train local soldiers in case of accidents.

Don’t manage Jiaozhi anymore, take care of your own affairs first.

Seeing this, Zhao Xu was confused. Could it be that Jiaozhi dared to invade the Song Dynasty? That's not. Although the Song Dynasty was large, there were always few troops in the south. Even Nong Zhigao wanted to be the emperor of the Southern Heaven, let alone Jiaozhi.

Moreover, the Song Dynasty's measures to buy security undoubtedly encouraged Jiaozhi's ambition to expand.

The third article is that under the organization of Wang Ju, more than 200 sea ships will be sent from Guangzhou and Quanzhou, carrying more than 3 million stones of rice, wheat, beans and millet, and a small amount of pickled pork and mutton. When Zhang Dun, who had just returned to Beijing for his merits and was in charge of military equipment, saw this article, he couldn't help but say: "What a luxury."

Later generations may have had some misunderstandings about ancient Chinese navigation.

The best era of navigation is often considered to be the Ming Dynasty, which is wrong. Sailing began in the Tang Dynasty. However, the Tang Dynasty prohibited the people from going out to sea, and there were not many maritime merchants who truly participated in sailing. They were the great cannibals and Persians. However, because of the advanced civilization, although the sea ships in the early Tang Dynasty were not as good as the large-scale ships and the South China Sea ships, they came from behind and gradually Quanzhou ships became the most advanced sea ships. Many large-scale merchants ordered the Tang ships and used them as sailing merchants.

When Zheng He went to the West in the Ming Dynasty, his seaship technology undoubtedly reached its peak, but it was an official act and a gift of money. As a result, after Zheng He went to the West seven times, the economic burden of the Ming Dynasty was heavy, which made some ministers angry and burned Zheng He's treasure ship drawings and then banned the sea. This ban led to the emergence of Japanese pirates.

Therefore, the best time of navigation was the Song Dynasty. Although it was not as large as Zheng He, it benefited the country and the people. Although the scale was not as large as Zheng He's fleet in a single time, the total scale was many times that of the Ming Dynasty. Later, ancient shipwrecks salvaged in the South China Sea can also prove that 70% were shipwrecks from the Song Dynasty, not shipwrecks from the Ming Dynasty.

The second is that compared with steam ships, sailing may not be very slow. If ocean currents and monsoons are conducive to navigation, the sailing ship is actually very fast, with a maximum speed of more than 20 knots, which is better than the speed of advanced merchant ships in later generations. Therefore, some merchants say that if it is smooth sailing from Hangzhou to Japan, it will be fast enough to reach Japan in three days, which is less than 2,000 nautical miles. As long as the speed of more than 20 knots is maintained, it can be reached within three days.

But it has a lot of restraint, so it has to rely on the monsoon. Once it is headed against the wind, it will be stunned.

So even if you go to Japan, it only takes ten days to go back and forth, and you can only sail once a year, and it takes one and a half years to reach Dashi.

If the voyage cannot keep up, it will inevitably be replaced by more advanced steam ships.

Unless a light ship carrying manned by oars, sailing is to carry cargo, not to make money by carrying manned people. How many sailors do you have to use to row the oars to drive against the wind?

The third is the economic contribution of navigation to the Song Dynasty. If it looks very small on the books, the tax revenue of the Northern Song Dynasty Maritime Bureau sometimes did not even have one million guan, and during the Southern Song Dynasty, it only had more than one million guan to three million guan.

Therefore, the famous poet Fan Chengda once suggested that the foreigners are indispensable for Chinese goods (porcelain, silk, tea), but China does not need foreign goods (glass, spices, pearls and jade), and the income is not high, and the people are at risk. Therefore, it is recommended to close the Mingzhou and other Maritime Mansions Departments.

As ancient literati, how could they understand?

But why did later generations say that the Southern Song Dynasty's navigation account for one-sixth of the Southern Song Dynasty's economy?

This economy is not directly attributed to the Maritime Bureau, but refers to indirect pulling. These porcelain and silk teas are planted and produced, and will feed many people and provide a lot of taxes for the Southern Song Dynasty.

In addition, the Maritime Bureau has limited power. Most cargo ships use small boats to unload goods and smuggle taxes before entering the port. For example, in the Northern Song Dynasty, I saw many maritime merchants with property that cost millions of guan or even tens of millions of guan, which was as rich as a country. With the customs rate of 10 to guan, there were so many maritime merchants, how many tariffs would be needed?

In addition, Fan Chengda ignored an invisible income, which was the treasury's specialty for spices. The maritime merchants transported jewelry, tortoiseshell, rhinoceros horns, ivory, coral, agate, and spices, which were all purchased by the Maritime Merchant. The price was OK, otherwise the maritime merchant would be scared away and handed over to the maritime merchants for sale. The profit was amazing. In the late Northern Song Dynasty, this item alone brought more than 10 million chunks of income to the Song Dynasty, but it had nothing to do with the three treasurys. At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, almost half of the military expenditure was squeezed out from the maritime merchants. But this income was not seen on the maritime merchants' books.

Therefore, when the sea ship arrives at the port, the Maritime Bureau generally holds a feast for reading and entertaining everyone on the ship, including sailors. First, they are encouraged to pay taxes and withdrawals, and second, they are brought to the country's income.

People are also encouraged to bring foreign merchant ships to ports. If the total value of the cargo ship unloaded more than 500,000 jin will be rewarded for their ninth-rank official position. If the officials of the Maritime Bureau are good at attracting investment, they will be promoted to the next level for each 100,000 jin of income to the country.

If the officials of the Maritime Bureau do not order excessive taxes or purchase them randomly, and scare off the maritime merchants away, they will be fined 100 yuan and demoted to the second level.

There are many regulations, such as the people in the Song Dynasty who operated sailing, and the ships were too expensive, so many people built ships together or rented ships together. The Maritime Bureau took the initiative to register them, one to prevent them from killing each other overseas for profit, and the other to avoid economic disputes.

In fact, in the final analysis, the money is what you value. But everyone doesn’t care about what is overseas.

However, after Wang Ju arrived in Quanzhou, he quickly pushed the sailing to the peak.

The revenue on the books of the Maritime Contract has been doubling, reaching more than 900,000 jin in the past year alone. This is the book. As for the profits made by the spice beads and jade tortoiseshell coral, it is even more unimaginable. Not only Quanzhou, but also under his leadership, tariffs in Hangzhou and Guangzhou are also surged. Especially Hangzhou, it has also doubled, so who made Zhang Yue a good friend of Wang Ju?

Not only did the Maritime Bureau's withdrawal surge, but it was bought back, but it was sold. These ports also had to be taxed one after another, which led to the rapid growth of commercial tax revenue.

But there were new disputes in the middle, that is, the migration of the people.

Under Wang Ju's promotion, more people sailing and larger, they must have overseas bases. Therefore, Wang Ju encouraged the people to migrate overseas. The conditions for these sea merchants to pay for ships are also good. Of course, if the ship fee is required, each family will be calculated by households and will be repaid for ten years. However, if they work overseas, they will ensure that they have an income of more than one hundred cents per year. If they are farming, a hectares of cultivated land will be exempted from any taxes within ten years. If they are grazing, a large number of ranches will be allocated, and a loan of grain and livestock will be used to give the people, with an annual interest of one cent.

But what makes the people most moved is that in addition to these land and ranches that are exempt from ten years of tax, high-paying income, and risk compensation, there is also a promise that if you go to the local area and are not satisfied within one year, the people can come back without charging any shipping fee or food and drink fees. If something happens, compensation will still be made.

But after three years of settlement, if you want to come back to visit your relatives, you have to pay a hundred stagnant of money every time you go back and forth. After all, the cost of sea boats is high at this time, and you have to pay for food and drink on the road. Once you get on the boat and then on the sea, everything is expensive.

Moreover, before boarding the ship, you can go to the government and write a contract.

That is, the conditions on the other side are indeed very good, otherwise there would not be such conditions.

This made the big men in the court curious. Zhao Xu wrote an edict to ask, and Wang Ju replied that there were many unparalleled lands overseas, with a vast area that was unimaginable. The reason why maritime merchants did this was that once the people moved more, the court would send people to manage it. The maritime merchants dared not predict whether to send people to manage it. If they really sent people to manage it, they could only hand it over to the court. So they only promised to exempt ten years of taxes.

Managed overseas?

Everyone was sweating coldly together. Even if the court had the intention and that official was willing to go? It would be better to go to Lingnan to be an official.

So Zhao Xu returned another edict, if so, please instruct those merchants to treat the people well. Moreover, the risks at sea must be guarded against.

Wang Ju also replied, saying, "Don't worry, although there are risks at sea, marine merchants are exploring various routes. They try to avoid hurricane seasons. At the same time, they are also improving seaship technology. The actual accident rate may not be higher than that of the Yangtze River ship.
To be continued...