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In the blink of an eye, it was already the beginning of summer.

The whole of Henan Prefecture is hot in summer. Recently, it has not rained for a month. The cracked land outside the countryside is like cracked ice. But everyone knows that there is no trace of water here. The drought is not only in Henan, but also in other prefectures and counties. Especially in Hebei, this year's food must be inadequate.

Fortunately, there is enough grain storage in the treasury in Henan Prefecture. On the other hand, when building the canal, many ditches were built for irrigation. Although the use at this time was not enough to deal with the disaster, Shence Mansion tried its best to open grain storage and stabilize the food prices, which has barely slowed down the disaster.

Wang Ju was very troubled by this, and it was impossible to do anything. The Prince Hongnong, who had always been very concerned about the political affairs, has been diving into the Shence Army for several months. Although he has also been asking about the disaster several times, he still shirks the blame on Wang Ju.

Wang Ju is now contacting the gentry and influential people from all over the country every day, just hoping that everyone can spend the hardships with Shence Mansion. Opening warehouses and releasing grain is a must, but simply releasing grain is obviously not possible. Wang Ju cooperates with him and plans to adopt a method of labor-for-relief, collect a large number of refugees, give them food, and ask the workshop to formulate many water conservancy plans, dig ditches, and build water conservancy.

In this way, not only can disaster relief be provided, but on the other hand, if there is another major disaster in the coming year, there will be enough water conservancy projects to prepare for the foundation, and the disaster situation can be slowed down. If it is a good year, this water conservancy project can also increase the yield per mu.

In addition, there are a large amount of wastelands hit by rivers on the south bank of the Yellow River. These lands are all lands that have flooded after the river floods in previous years, and are deserted. Wang Ju wanted to use these refugees to reclaim a piece of grain field. If it can be reclaimed this year, the grain production will increase by at least 20% next year.

Although Henan Prefecture is prosperous in industry and commerce, with the development of industry and commerce, it has begun to have the momentum of industry and commerce feeding back agriculture. Because Shence Prefecture has sufficient tax revenue and industrial and commercial income, it is also willing to invest in promoting agriculture.

In fact, for industry and commerce, the ancients' agricultural-based policy was correct to some extent. If they could not promote agriculture and insist on establishing a country through industry and commerce, then a large number of farmers would abandon the land and put them into workshop production. The agricultural output in this era was extremely low. Once people's hearts were floating and there was not enough grain production, it would inevitably cause the agricultural output to plummet, which means that the sharply increased population would have famine. If the famine was 10% famine, the hungry people who refused to sit and wait for death would rebel without hesitation, and the whole world would be smashed again.

Promoting agriculture...is a fundamental problem for this era.

The foundation for the Shence Mansion to promote industry and commerce was somewhat separated from the prefectures of the world. Industry and commerce was originally only popular in Mengjin. Even if everyone invested in industry and commerce, it would not have much impact on the world's grain output. Shence Mansion, which used industry and commerce to obtain a lot of money, could completely purchase grain from nearby prefectures and counties to supply Mengjin.

So theoretically speaking, Mengjin is the spire of the pyramid, and the 300 states in the world have become the towers of the pyramids. They provide food, raw materials, and then purchase goods processed by Mengjin.

Once industry and commerce became a climate, Shence Mansion could not ignore agriculture, so it was possible to use the accumulation of industry and commerce to build water conservancy and provide a large amount of livestock for agricultural activities. As a result, the agricultural production in Henan Prefecture fell sharply due to industry and commerce, and now it has begun to surge. In other states, two strong men can only produce ten shi of grain in ten acres of land, but because of the proper irrigation and the widespread use of livestock, Henan Prefecture only needs one strong man and one cow, and ten acres of land can produce fifteen shi of grain. Not only does the population engaged in agriculture have greatly reduced, but the land is not deserted. Instead, it has begun to reclaim on a large scale, and the grain output is much higher than that in other prefectures and counties.

Now, this time, the large-scale water conservancy construction was once again under the disaster, which was the main goal of Shence Mansion. In order to promote agriculture, Wang Ju also used all his solutions.

Henan Prefecture still needs a lot of livestock. With the accumulation of wealth, many people began to use horses to transport and needed more oxen to cultivate and reclaim the land. This huge gap has led to the craziness of the border trade.

Just when Wang Ju was worried about labor, an urgent report was sent to his desk. Suddenly, Wang Ju cheered up and immediately stood up and said, "Prepare the car and go to Shen Ce Army."

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The yamen of the Shence Army is not far from the Shence Mansion and will arrive soon.

Now that this place is full of people, many people have come.

They are all familiar faces, Yang Jiong, Fang Jingren and others.

Everyone greeted him, but Qin Shaoyou had not arrived yet. Yang Jiong pulled Wang Ju aside and whispered: "Have you heard the news?"

Wang Ju has been in a dim light for disaster relief recently and is shocked: "What news?"

Yang Jiong stroked his beard and said with a worry, "In the Hebei area, Wei Hongmin from Zhaoyi Town set an example. Since he went to Hebei, he collected money and grain, summoned the troops, and recruited many strong men to form the Zhaoyi Army. At first, it was not true, but now, he has investigated merchants everywhere in many ports in Hebei. Although the Zhaoyi Army did not explicitly prohibit our Henan merchants, these people were rushing to get rid of the bribes or exploiting fraud, and they had already become a mess. A few days ago, a team of merchants stopped him, in the name of carrying prohibited items, saying that they would take out 5,000 guan to redeem people, and... "

Yang Jiong knew the most about these things. He was in the Convention Hall, and there were many merchants in the Convention Hall. If there was any slight disturbance, the news these people received was no slower than that of Zhulou. After all, people who do business now know that the news is money to some extent.

Yang Jiong said again: "Not just that, Wei Hongmin from Zhaoyi Town even opened a workshop himself to learn from our Shence Mansion..."

Wang Ju smiled and said, "What's the point? Even if he wants to learn it, where can he learn it? The workshops in Shence Mansion have long become a climate, with good quality and low price. He wants to start over. How easy is it? Did he train these hundreds of thousands of skilled craftsmen? Does he have tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars in money? Even so, the things produced in the workshops in Henan are all good and cheap. With the crude goods from Hebei, they can compete with the workshops in Henan Mansion? I'm afraid that they will go bankrupt in no time. Don't worry, many things will not be done in one day."

Wang Ju said this, so he naturally had his confidence. Henan Prefecture is no longer Wuxia Ameng. Now he has enough first-mover advantage. With large-scale production, the price can be minimized. Because of years of accumulation, the skill level is far from comparable to Hebei. As for craftsmen, there is no need to say that any skilled craftsmen in the world are not moving to Henan Prefecture, because only here can one of his skills be able to be used and he can get richer rewards. The land price code for Henan Prefecture is absolutely impossible to afford.

Talent, capital, and technology accumulation, these three are the biggest capital of Henan Mansion Workshop Industry. If you want to follow the example, it is just a mere imitation, because Shence Mansion will never give these followers any chance. If the competition fails, it means being eliminated.

Yang Jiong just smiled bitterly and shook his head: "Things are not the case. The key to the problem is that the goods that Zhaoyi Mansion made trouble in Henan were originally made by the goods of Shence Mansion in Hebei. But now the government and Zhaoyi army are exploiting and extorting them there, I am afraid that they will not be less than three Guans. Alas... Now the merchants are excited and are having a big fuss."

This so-called exploitation is equivalent to an unwritten tariff, and this high-cost "tariff" has become Wei Hongmin's biggest advantage.

Wang Ju nodded, knowing that if this problem cannot be solved once and for all, it may be a big mess, so he said, "Where is Your Highness now? Didn't you send an urgent report to Shen Ce Army for discussion?"

"Your Highness and Yang Shizhong are still in the Luoyang Palace. It is said that because of Zhaoyi Army, they sent an envoy. When they met Your Highness, they talked about the caravan of Shence Mansion. Brother Wang must have known that the caravan of Shence Mansion is not small in size and has always been run by His Highness Princess Taiping. The number of people is as many as 4,000 and tens of thousands of carriages and horses. Their main responsibility is to trade the desert, supply salt, pig iron, tea, cloth, and then exchange for fur, cattle, horse and other things to the desert. This is a big deal that our Shence Mansion self-operated has been growing in recent years. There are two types of trades, including water and land, but without exception, whether it is to go by the canal or by land, they have to pass through Hebei. Wei Hongmin sent people to say that the caravan of Shence Mansion passes through his military town, causing many inconveniences, and it means plucking feathers by geese."

"The geese pass by and pull out the feathers..." Wang Ju narrowed his eyes.

This trade was licensed by Wu Zetian's reign, so the governments along the way dared not ask about it in the past. Even if Li Xian ascended the throne, because of the power of Shence Mansion, ordinary local officials would not dare to make such an idea. However, Wei Hongmin now still wanted to attack the caravan.

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Chapter completed!