When they arrived at the railway station, they got off the train, Su Song and Liu Wei waited early at the station. After the hustle and bustle, the few people went outside together.

As soon as I left the station, I saw that it was very lively outside, and a large group of workers were clamoring to load goods on the train.

When Ouyang Xiu saw that most of the loaders were farm tools, he asked Su Song beside him: "The farm tools produced here are really easy to sell! I wonder where the customers are? Such a big deal! With such a lot of goods, I think they are big merchants."

Su Song said: "Longtu, this is the goods from Xuzhou and Chenzhou. After the Tangzhou gathering discussion, when Gong Yan and Gong Song returned, they stayed in the Iron Supervisory for a few days and ordered the state to send officials to buy goods here. The farm tools from the Iron Supervisory were made and sent to them first."

After hearing this, Ouyang Xiu stomped his feet and said, "Oh, I forgot about this matter! You produce farmers with a large number of people, but there are many people in need. If you can't ship the goods first, it's not good, so why don't you miss the season! I can't wait for this matter, so I'll live there for a few days and let Punishment Lu Tong send someone here!"

What are these magistrates? They sent people to wait here, and no one dared to compete with them. They would ship them when they have the goods. Of course, buying farm tools is not the government pays for money, but the local organization of the people under the rule of the country to raise money to buy them uniformly. The particularly large households are very active in this matter.

Caizhou is in the lower reaches of the Li River, and goes directly to the water route, not competing with other states. Xuzhou and Chenzhou not only have to compete for the first time to ship goods, but also have to compete for a number of train trucks. Without the support of the government, they were squeezed to the back by those big merchants.

The Tongzong of Yingzhou was Lu Gongzhu and Lu Yijian's third son, and was highly valued by Ouyang Xiu. However, this person's many advantages were that he was not proactive in doing things and was not easy to show off. He might be able to know the situation of the Iron Supervision Bureau from other officials, but he would not take the initiative to take action.

How many political achievements can officials achieve in local areas? In this era, economic development is slow and technology is slower. It is worth writing about the people's living and working in peace and contentment. Promoting new agricultural tools can be recorded in historical books, so how can we let it go?

When he returned to the Iron Prison, Ouyang Xiu asked for paper and pen and asked Lu Gongzhu to send someone to the Iron Prison immediately, bring a few big households to buy new agricultural tools together.

Du Zhongxiao and Su Song sat aside and said to him: "Have you tried the newly made horse-drawn sickle in the field again?"

Su Song said: "The wheat has just bloomed, and there is still more than a month before harvesting. How can I try it?"

Du Zhongxiao said: "What we are trying to cut wheat? As long as the wheat seedlings grow, we can try it. Why wait for the wheat to ripen?"

Su Song immediately woke up after hearing this: "Yun Jue said that this is true. - but this is a bit of a waste of food."

Du Zhongxiao smiled and shook his head: "Compared with the successful trial of the machine, what is that little wheat? If you try it out early, we can use idle personnel from the Iron Supervision to form a team and take the machine to Lianghuai to harvest wheat. There is the most wheat there, so that they can see the benefits of the machine, so that they will not worry about coming to buy it. Moreover, I heard that Lianghuai can get half of the grain. If it is done well, it can bring a lot of wheat back."

At this time, Lianghuai was the most important wheat-producing area in the world, centered on Yangzhou and Chuzhou. The wheat harvest season was the busiest. If you rush to harvest wheat, you had to hurry up and plant rice, and you could not delay it for a moment. Every time the wheat harvest season came, the people of Liangzhe took a boat along the river and went to Lianghuai to harvest wheat. After harvesting wheat, they got half of the harvest. People at that time said that people in Liangzhe did not have to plant wheat by themselves, and half of the harvest in Lianghuai were theirs.

This is the wheat-kick of the age, but because of the geographical, climate and history, people from Liangzhe went to Lianghuai to do it. Later generations moved from the southeast to the northwest as the climate and agricultural conditions changed. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, farmers in the northwest often formed groups to help people cut wheat when the wheat was ripe. The wheat-kicks obtained income, and the wheat-growing families grabbed the farming season, and the two benefited each other. When the harvester became popular, they became several provinces that drove the machine and flowed, with a spectacular scale. The scale was no less than the most magnificent mechanization war in history.

The maikes at this time were different from later generations. When they arrived in Lianghuai, they were responsible for threshing the wheat after harvesting the wheat. At the same time, the owners raced against time to plant rice in the field where the wheat was harvested. The wheat was harvested and the rice in the field was also planted, which was similar to the mechanized army of the harvester.

The land is vast and the population is sparse, and human resources are lacking. The income of maize chefs is not comparable to that of later generations. They usually take away half of the wheat harvest.

The two seasons of rice and wheat appeared not long in a year, and it was very rare in the Tang Dynasty. It was only promoted in Lianghuai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang after entering the Song Dynasty. The Song Dynasty did not establish a field system, and tax collection was based on the old rules of the previous dynasties. Two tax collections were only collected for one season, and rice was not collected. Most landlords rented land, but only collected crops for one season. It was easy to plant wheat, but did not use much manpower to manage the field. For wealthy families, they just rented the land out, and half of the harvest was rented locally.

I used the newly made agricultural tools from the Iron Supervision Department to work in Lianghuai for one or two months and the food I received was extremely considerable. The biggest use of horse-drawn harvesters is not to plant more land, but to achieve two seasons a year in a wider area.

From south to north, Liangzhe area is warmer, and there is plenty of time to harvest wheat and plant rice. When you arrive in Lianghuai, you will be very tight and you have to hire someone to harvest wheat. Then you will only have to go north to Jingdong Road, and you will have to plant wheat once a year. It is too late to plant anything else after harvesting wheat. The same is true in the central area. There is plenty of time to harvest wheat and plant rice south of Dongting Lake. The Xiangyang area in Nanyang began to be tense. After passing Fangcheng Mountain, it is impossible to have two seasons a year.

After hearing Du Zhongxiao's words, Su Song said, "What the Yun Jue said is that when you go to Lianghuai, you can go down the Bian River and collect the last quarter, and you can get a lot of food. Last year, the grain and rice in the Iron Prison was transferred from other states by the Transportation Bureau. This year, I saw the Iron Prison making money, which was all considered loans. The money we make now is not only to buy grain and rice, but also to repay the principal and interest to the Transportation Bureau. The grain is very short of food."

Du Zhongxiao smiled and shook his head. If he didn't do this, it would be a transfer department. You can't blame them. He helped him when it was difficult. Now that the Iron Supervisor is well developed, he should collect some interest and go back. The Sansi system has a tradition of doing this. As long as the local area cannot starve to death, try to get the money and grain into its own hands. The most likely thing now is that the 500,000 guan started by the Iron Supervisor will be taken back. Although the money comes from the inner treasury, the account is in the hands of the Sansi. They just need to wave a big pen and change the 500,000 guan to the inner treasury to the Sansi.

After Taizong's reign, the three corps were always short of money. One was the increase in expenses, and the other was Taizong's power technique. He transferred a lot of the original Zuozangku's income into the inner warehouse, and all the newly minted money in the world were entered into the inner warehouse. Don't think that the world belongs to the emperor, and the emperor would not care. They actually divided it clearly. The inner warehouse is their own money, and the Zuozangku is public expense, which is different. The San corps' money has never been enough, so he had to borrow money from the emperor, and it accumulated more and more every year. The dead pigs are not afraid of boiling water, so they simply don't pay it back. Every few years after the emperor's favor and pays the accounts for the San corps, he can calmly spend the money from the inner warehouse. Officials from the outside court have shortages in their hands and can only endure it for a while. Otherwise, if they spend the money from the inner warehouse, the officials would still say the long-term shortcomings.

The same is true for the Iron Supervisor. If there is too much money in the account, it will inevitably be taken away by the three departments. At the beginning, it will also find an excuse, such as the 500,000 jin to make you pay the principal and interest, or increase taxes. If you are used to it, you will not find these excuses, and you will set up a name to get the money.

Du Zhongxiao knew this well, so when the Iron Supervisor made a profit, it either recruits people, expands its scale and increases its assets. Anyway, there is no more excess money left in the account. In addition to taxes, the remaining money and grain in the local area is called Xianyu, and if you pay too much, you can be promoted. However, if you pay Xianyu, you will inevitably plunder the local area and be called cruel officials. It would be fine if you get a bad name, but as long as you get promoted, it would be fine. The problem is that it depends on the mood of the emperor and the prime minister. Depriving the people is not a good official. If you are not careful, you cannot be promoted and you will be demoted. This happened when Empress Dowager Liu was in power, and it has continued to this day.
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