I have always been worried about the other one, hoping that the direction of history will change violently, but I am also afraid that if it changes, will I do it well?

This letter is a real first step.

Qiuyao arrived, the clouds were clear, and a line of geese flew south. In the rustling autumn wind, Zheng Lang seemed to smell the fragrance of rice and the fruits were sweet.

When the letter arrived at the two prefectures, the ministers of the two prefectures were shocked. Zheng Lang suggested that they would subvert their ideas again. The main reason was that they didn't understand, just like managing rivers. Zheng Lang's money was so scared that everyone was shocked, but not to mention that they had no money, they had one billion yuan. Has any minister played so many flowers? You may be able to think of the water and rushing sand, but can you think of the division of rivers and lakes, the canals carrying water, the Yellow River and the Huai Bian River, and the Huai Bian River? Not to mention the countless complex theories inside.

If you think about it carefully, this is indeed the case.

The Khitan's current appearance was also of great benefit to the Song Dynasty, which was that it would not recover the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, nor did it want the Khitan to be strong. Not only now, but in the future, can it not be guarded against the Khitan's rescue? After discussing with the Privy Council, the Secretary of the Central Committee and the Privy Council, they decided to adopt it.

But the order given to Di Qing was a little more important, and he helped with the lowest cost.

Wars are also very expensive. Before the war, the mobilization of materials, the loss of weapons during the war, and the rewards and pensions after the war. If the battle is not quickly decided, it will be even greater than the losses caused by the Sixth Dam.

Zheng Lang didn't know what happened in the court. What he did in Zhongli was something that could not be seen in the diary. When Qiuyao arrived, Zheng Lang began to get busy. The pressure was too great, so he had to transfer Zhou Han, Tian Yu and a thousand officials to help. The new canal also has three parts: Hebei Road, Jingdong Road and Lianghuai Road.

Coupled with the management of the Huaihe River Basin, Zheng Lang looked at the two students with lingering fear and said, "Junshi, Jiefu, fortunately, you can help me."

At this time, Jingdong Road had not been divided into Jingdong East and West Second Road. There were twelve prefectures and two armies, with nearly 1.1 million households. Because the entrances were dense, the phenomenon of hidden fields and hidden households was serious, and it was actually more than that. This is what Zheng Lang mentioned.

It’s still not good to have money, you have to be able to earn money.

But there is one thing that Li Shimin commented on Shandong's heroes. This hero may not be a compliment, but also has a meaning, rebelliousness. Shandong was not later Shandong, but east of Wushan, including many areas in Shanxi and Henan, as well as Shandong Hebei.

There is also an evaluation in the history of the Song Dynasty. The hero of Yingqiu's east road was known as wealthy and rich, and the property was particularly prosperous. Deng, Lai and Gaomi were carried to the north of the sea, and Chu merchants gathered together, and the people were stubborn and fond of litigation and fighting. Most of them entered the east were simple and pure, and even those who lost were stagnant, but there were many people who specialized in the classics. Xia Pi was quite similar to Huai and Chu.

Xing is straightforward and a real man, but he is easily bewitched and troubled.

If one is improperly appeases, it is easy to cause disputes.

There are so many powerful people, and Zheng Lang spent two-thirds of his time on it. Without two very awesome students to help, Zheng Lang would probably be unable to move forward. It is not over yet, but it will be better after next autumn. Except for the newly opened river less than a hundred miles long, the rest of the Yellow River is along the old path, and there is not much land dispute involved.

Sima Guang stroked his chest and said, "Mr. Zheng, I suddenly thought of Zheng Lang's wiseness."

"Where is the place that makes you feel inspired by your own home?"

"Mr. Zheng went to Taipingzhou when he was not in Taipingzhou, and if Mr. Zheng had been replaced by Jingdong West or Hebei, he would not have achieved such political achievements."

Wang Anshi's forehead.

This time, the river treatment was so bitter that he said it out loud. Two-thirds of his strength was dealing with various disputes, rather than thinking about how to manage the river. Unfortunately, Zheng Lang did not have the ability to invent watermelon throat pills, otherwise he would be very grateful for the two people.

Zheng Lang smiled and said, "It's not the case. Many areas near Jingji have matured, so I went there just to add icing on the cake. Taipingzhou is a barren land, and it is easier to achieve political achievements. It is not like Guangdong and Guangxi, which is too far away from the court. No matter where Jiangdong is developed, it will benefit. At that time, I chose Taipingzhou or other nearby states, and I also had some selfish intentions."

Wang Anshi and Sima Guang smiled.

"But don't underestimate Nanfang, Junshi, Jiefu, do you see something?"

"What?"

"cotton."

Two people frowned and thought, and after a while, they said, "Mr. Zheng, it's really a problem."

After several years of cultivation, and under the leadership of the Fan family, the seeds gradually evolved, and the yield was not much different from that of Jiangdong. It turned out that cotton was also expensive, and scarcely the price of things. Kapok was harvested, and eight people did not worry about poverty. That is, one thousand cotton plants were planted in Lingnan, and eight people would not be poor. Ten words have several meanings, and generally they could not be read. First of all, this is the real number of households in the Song Dynasty, and most of them were unwilling to separate the family, unless Zheng Lang's deformed policy, just like the later housing reform caused the couple to divorce, and the policy changed again after the divorce, and they immediately remarried. The people had to force their families to separate the family in order to cultivate land.

Of course, the different quality is one that is to give money to the people, and the other is to make money, and the higher the lower the lower the difference is to make the difference.

But on average, less than eight people can enter, and many families are incomplete, or for other reasons, even if they are distributed, they can only reach nearly six people.

The second is the planting of cotton. Unlike the planting of grass cotton seeds in the Western Regions, many people in Lingnan rely on it to make a living and attach great importance to its planting. However, one is that the land is mostly sparse, sparsely planted, and covers a very wide area. Each plant grows very tall because of sufficient soil, light and growth space. Therefore, there is a record that there are many kinds of kapoks in Fujian and Guangxi. The trees are seven or eight feet tall, and the oaks in the trees are as strong as big rock and green as green. The dew blooms in late autumn, and the white cotton is smooth and smooth. The soil is picked and removed, and the black seeds are sharp with iron rods. Slowly spin them with a small bow and sling, and then weave them into cloth. It is called ancient shells. The wood cotton that is used today is especially fine and tight. The ears should be regarded as the most flowers. If you count them horizontally, you will get hundreds and twenty flowers. This is the best.

Using this record to compare the cross will make it clearer.

First of all, its height is as high as seven or eight feet, like an oak tree. It is not only tall, but also flourishing. Secondly, its number of flowers. The cotton planting technology in later generations has improved, and a cotton plant can only harvest about forty cotton bolts. Now a cotton plant has more than one hundred flowers, and half of it has sixty or seventy cotton bolts. Furthermore, although there are many cotton bolts, compared with the water lily, no matter what kind of big water lily, it is not as big as the cotton bolts in later generations.

That is, the product of extensive cultivation and thin harvest.

Once placed in Jiangdong or North China Plain where arable land is scarce, you must not learn the planting method of Lingnan. In later generations, more than 3,000 cotton plants could be planted per mu of land. Due to insufficient fertilizer, Zheng Lang promoted the number nationwide to two thousand plants per mu. If he learned from Lingnan, he would not plant dozens of plants per mu of land, and would not produce economic benefits.

No matter how it is moved, due to dense planting, the yield of a single plant will definitely decline. The yield of one acre of land is similar to the output of a thousand plants in Lingnan. Because of the large amount of planting, the price of cotton begins to fall. Otherwise, one acre of land can support a family of eight, and you will not worry about poverty and go to plant cotton together.

However, the cotton income is still far exceeding the crop income.

Another point is mulberry and hemp.

Only silkworms are born in the country to do business. A family of ten people raises silkworms and foils. Each foil is 12 kilograms of silkworms. Each kilogram is 1,000 kilograms of silkworms. Each kilogram is 1,000 kilograms of silkworms. Each kilogram is woven with small silk. Each 5 kilograms of silk is woven with small silk. Each kilogram is 1,000 pounds of silk. It is also made by homemade. Therefore, a piece of silk is less than 500 ounces. Of course, when it comes to the market, the price will exceed more than one kilogram)... With a month's hard work, the virtuous will be diligent in the end, and there is no drought or a thousand waters. Isn't it better?

To raise ten-foil silkworms, there is less than four acres of land in the mulberry garden. It is just the labor of picking mulberry leaves and drawing cocoon silk when the silkworms grow. The family of ten lives a small life.

This also illustrates many problems.

The literati gradually progressed and no longer grew food or food like before. As long as you work hard, no matter what method you did, the literati believed that it was glorious.

The second scholar-officials do not understand agriculture. Although sericulture seems to be bitter in summer, the most important thing is to have a mulberry garden in hand. This mulberry tree needs to be taken care of. People must be on it all year round and carefully cared for. Otherwise, the mulberry tree will not grow well and there are no mulberry leaves. What should silkworms eat?

The literati and officials didn't understand how hard it was when silkworms were ate mulberry leaves. They were picked and it was the season for chun farming and production. How hard would the people suffer? Zheng Lang saw that he could live and get tired and dehydrated! From the time when the stars were not bright, they would rise up and live, and when the stars were sparse on the moonlit night, the people were still working.

The third one only counts the income, not the account. It’s good. One foil can get more than three small pieces of silk, and ten foils are more than thirty pieces. If you grow some rice and raise some poultry at home, it seems that you can live a small life. But what about taxes and living expenses?

However, it also shows that although sericulture is bitter, its income is still higher than that of grain. In Huzhou, one acre of land will not collect more than four stones per year, and the gross income of four acres of land will not exceed five coins. If it is exchanged for sericulture, it will exceed sixteen coins.

Growing cotton is also very bitter. It takes care of yourself and requires a lot of fertilizer. When it is mature, picking cotton peaches one by one is far more difficult than planting any crop, and even more bitter than sericulture, and the harvest is also considerable. Now it is impossible for a thousand cotton plants to make a family of eight without worries about food and clothing, but the income is still almost like sericulture.

In Huzhou, the land of fish and rice is three times the income from planting crops. What about in the north? The harvest of a mu of land in Huzhou can reach four stones a year, but in the north only two stones, and most of them are beans, millet, barley, and wheat, and the price is only half of the price of rice.

That is, if a mu of cotton is planted in the north, the income is more than ten times that of the crops planted.

It’s time to settle the accounts. How can Wang Anshi and Sima Guang not change their faces after they settle the accounts?

What if all the cotton is planted in the north, what should I do if the people have not reacted yet. They will wake up sooner or later. Once they wake up, the consequences will be unimaginable if they don’t plant crops in the north.

Zheng Lang said again: "It's okay. Cotton has a high income. If there are more people planted, the price will be cheaper. Junshi and Jiefu, think about it. If you have a warm quilt when you enter your home, you can wear thick cotton coats in winter. How many people will not be frozen to death by the cold in a year?"

Now the warm winter is the problem, and the problem is not serious. After a while, small glaciers will descend to the Northern Song Dynasty, and the role of cotton will be more important.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation, and clothing are no less important than eating.

Zheng Lang also said: "Cotton prices fall, grain production increases, and eventually the people who grow grain in the south will increase, that is, the north, because cotton is a intensive labor crop, and it is impossible to completely lose food. But if the good development continues, the south will become heavier."

Wang Anshi said: "I understand, the new canal and the south are developed."

"The one in the middle." Zheng Lang tugged his hands.

Even if there is no cotton, the entrances of the northern people will increase, and in the future, it will also rely on the support of southern grain. However, the Grand Canal turned northwest of Zhengzhou and then turned to Hebei. How many roads did it take? Now it is directly from Shandong to Hebei, and the freight plus the loss will drop by one third. Just this one, how much money will it save for the people in a year?

Moreover, it has military roles, river management roles, commercial roles, and irrigation roles.

The slogan he was chanting was still to control the river.

Jinyao told Sima Guang and Wang Anshi to make them feel more ingenious.

The Song Dynasty will be the last two generations in the future.

So, teach them something more practical.

Unexpectedly, Pang Ji came down in person soon after. He forced him to do so.

At this time, Zheng Lang was in Qizhou, which was later Jinan. At this time, Jinan was not as important as Jinan in later generations. In terms of geographical location, Qingzhou and Yingyao Prefecture, and in terms of entrance, it was not as good as Mizhou. However, it was also an important prefecture on Jingdong Road.

Zheng Lang was very grateful to Pang Ji. He did a lot of practical things for the court in the Secretariat. Doing things for the court is equivalent to doing things for Zheng Lang. If Pang Ji did not have the management of the business, then would he have money to manage the river?

There is also Pang Ji's protection for Di Qing.

If Pang Ji had not taken care of him secretly, Di Qing might not have been safe after going to Yanzhou.

It’s just that he protects himself, Bi Jing is not in the Secretariat.

So he booked a pleasure boat in Daming Lake to entertain Pang Ji and asked Sima Guang to accompany him.

Qiuyao arrived, Daming Lake was as clear as a mirror, and the scenery was very beautiful, but Pang Ji had no intention and said directly: "Xingzhi, you have caused me to suffer."

“Why?”

"worn out."

"It's worth it, you will record it in history."

"Okay, don't tell me this, just have a clear conscience. I'll ask you, how much does the Jinghe Trade Union cost?"

Qiuyao arrived, the crops had been harvested, and the northeast of Daming Lake was the suburbs. All the sorghum was cut down, and winter wheat was planted in the field, revealing a layer of misty green green. At this time, it was also the time when laborers were most free, and Zheng Lang grabbed the time and organized labor.

Not only did Huainan organize laborers from a further region, but it even affected the nearby Liangzhe Road in Jiangdong, and organized laborers along the river, including Shuzhou, Wuweijun, Hezhou, Taipingzhou, Chizhou, Jiangning, Runzhou and Suzhou, to Huainan.

It is said that there are many entrances to Jingdong Road, what is it compared to Liangzhe Road? Mizhou, which has the most entrances to Jingdong Road, is only 110,000 to 20,000 households, but the major prefectures with more than 100,000 households in Jiangnan include Jiangning, Xiuzhou, Suzhou, Xuanzhou, Hangzhou, Huzhou, Wuzhou, Mingzhou, Yuezhou, Wenzhou, Chuzhou, Quzhou, etc., more than a dozen prefectures, and almost two-thirds of Liangzhe Road have more than 100,000 households.

Xiuzhou and Hangzhou are too far away, but the people in the riverside areas can organize and rush to Lianghuai to participate in river engineering.

There are nearly 700,000 victims and nearly 500,000 laborers organized by the north. Now the labor force has reached its peak, with more than 3.0 million in income, rather than the two million in income as originally estimated!

It was caused by the entry base, which affected Jiangdong and Liangzhe, and the number of people involved reached almost 7 million. Coupled with abnormal resettlement of victims, such a huge amount of labor is leading to the management of river engineering. When the victims left next year, the number will decrease accordingly.

It is good to have labor, but the money and silk are used to make both the two people feel heartbroken.

How much money will be used is still a mystery, but certainly, it is much more than Zheng Lang estimated.

Zheng Lang pinched his nose too.

If you use money, this project will definitely be recorded in history and become an unbreakable world record.

It is really hard to calculate how much a piece of money is worth to RMB. If calculated by the rice price, it cannot be calculated in the capital city. A dou of rice in the capital city is more than 70 cents on average. There is a freight cost in the middle, which is only worth 400 cents on the land where it is paid. Then a scoop is only equivalent to 400 cents. If calculated by silk, one meter of silk is worth 80 yuan in the future, and one piece of silk is more than 13 meters. High-quality silk cannot be calculated. Normally, one piece of silk is more than one piece of silk, which is equivalent to about 700 yuan. If calculated by the extreme calculation, the difference between the suspension is even greater. If calculated by salt, a piece of money can only buy 30 to 40 kilograms of salt and fifty yuan. If calculated by the real estate and land price, then a piece of money can be worth 10,000, 20,000 yuan, and 30,000 yuan. Salt must be wrong in the Song Dynasty. This is all a mistake made by zhèng fu and cannot be calculated. But even if distributed, it will be worth about 500 yuan.

Two hundred million yuan is definitely not enough, and it is not impossible to look at the 300 million yuan now.
To be continued...