The status of military generals and soldiers in the Song Dynasty was low, although the two ancestors of the Zhao family were afraid of the Anshi Rebellion and the Five Dynasties, so they valued culture and over military military forces. But at the beginning, military generals had certain military power, and when they went to war, they often used military generals to take charge, but later they were distorted by the literati. In fact, it is easy to understand, just like the literati and officials spontaneously safeguarding the interests of the powerful and powerful, because wealth is a piece of cake, which is distributed to the common people, and the powerful people are fewer. Under Zheng Lang's re-correction, he used open source correction to make this cake bigger, so the wealth gained by the powerful did not decrease, and at the same time gave more vitality to the common people. The cake of wealth can be made bigger, but can the cake of power be made bigger?

Therefore, the scholar-officials excluded military generals, just like spontaneously protecting the interests of powerful people, was to spontaneously fight for more rights for the scholar-officials.

It seems to be an unsolvable problem.

When Zheng Lang wanted to solve this problem, he suddenly thought of another problem, which was the literati and officials who safeguarded the rights and interests of the powerful. Even Ouyang Xiu and Su Dongpo, who were famous in later generations, were from poverty, but standing among the literati and officials, they immediately turned against each other.

But considering the problem, we cannot analyze it from the perspective of later generations. In this case, Zhao Shu's Puyi dispute would not have had such a big storm, and Wang Mang could be called the most powerful reformer in Chinese history. In fact, Wang Mang's various measures made the people at that time miserable.

Therefore, Zheng Lang did not dare to use the Ming Dynasty's whip method in the Song Dynasty. If it was not used well, it would cause a huge mess.

When Zheng Lang thought hard, he thought of another disadvantage.

Confucius said how good it was in ancient times. Yao and Shun were great sages throughout the ages. Lao Tzu also said that it was very good in ancient times. This is definitely wrong. Moreover, Xia, Shang and Zhou were still very backward because of civilization and could not truly unify the world. The wars of the princes and countries were endless, and the people actually lived a very hard life. The Zhou Dynasty was declining, but civilization was progressing. Therefore, some sages in their previous lives wanted to find a way out for China. Not only China, but also foreign countries. Sakyamuni could not think of a way out, so he taught the people to be empty, everything was empty and clouds, and to find comfort from the spirit to get rid of the troubles in real life. Lao Tzu was quiet and inaction, and the moon was full and flawed. It also taught people not to be greedy, and there would be no unfair phenomena if they were not greedy.

The Legal Confucians were very practical. They tried to formulate a norm and order to make the society orderly. However, Confucians emphasized education, and the Legalists focused on suppression by force. During the Warring States Period, the Legalists had the upper hand and thus unified the world. However, the Legalists' disadvantages emerged, because they valued bloody military suppression and neglected education, which often made rule over tyranny.

In the Western Han Dynasty, the political ills of the Qin Dynasty were punished. They emphasized the inaction of Huang and Lao, but inaction itself had many flaws. Therefore, the Han and Wu respected Confucianism only and abolished hundreds of schools. However, Confucianism also had the flaws of Confucianism. Can the people be content with education alone?

Later rulers used Taoism and even Buddhists to fool the people, spread the world, and used Confucianism as the representative. Legalism was the inner world and governed the country.

One of the core of Confucianism is especially favored by the rulers. The king is the leader of the minister. The father is the leader of the son, and the husband is the leader of the wife. Or the ancient honor and relatives are no longer the original respect, but honor. The king is more respectful than the ministers. Therefore, the ministers must obey the king, and the ministers are more noble than the people, so the people must obey the ministers. This is used to build a ruling order that is stable and obedient.

It cannot be said that it is not good. For a period of time, it was still a progressive idea. It was this order that made all ambitious heroes have an injustice in their rebellion and reduced turmoil. However, society is progressing, and this idea is becoming increasingly backward.

It is precisely because of these three pillars and honor, that all the powerful and powerful exploited the people in a legitimate manner. When hunger and cold are in conflict, the people do not care about the three pillars of honor, so Zhang Jiao and Huang Chao quickly destroyed the powerful Han and Tang dynasties.

Some wise figures in previous lives also saw this flaw. With the people-oriented statement that the prince violated the law and the same crime as the people, Li Shimin also said obscurely that the people can carry boats and overturn the boats. Zhao Kuangyin did not say anything, but he was doing it, attaching importance to the internal governance of people's livelihood and actively restricting the imperial power. Of course, they cannot be called breaking out of this frame, especially as the emperors, Li Shimin and Zhao Kuangyin, even if they had the best vision to see through this frame, they would not actively expose it. Zhu Yuanzhang did more radically in later generations, but quickly let the literati and officials suppress Zhu Yuanzhang's various policies.

It is precisely this flaw in the core Confucian thought that even if the Song Dynasty had obtained the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, and now the internal governance is even more complex, it will continue to merge seriously in a hundred years, and the rich and the poor will be extremely differentiated. If there is another bad person to take power, it is very likely that the vast number of poor people will rise up at the end of their own will, and the country will collapse quickly.

Zheng Lang thought of this, found Zhao Xu and vaguely expressed his concerns.

This doesn't matter much. In Zhao Xu's mind, this country was not the country that Zheng Lang thought of, but the country of the Zhao family. Zheng Lang wanted the Song Dynasty to last for a long time, but also thought about the Zhao family.

Zhao Xu thought about it seriously.

What Zheng Lang said is not impossible. Zheng Lang is about to retire and he is still here. He can continue to maintain the reform, but he cannot live forever. He and Zheng Lang can initiate reforms, and future generations can overthrow or tamper with the reforms.

Besides, according to Zheng Lang, it is impossible to have a system that is completely suitable for the eternal world. That is, the current reform will have various new disadvantages in the future, and future generations must constantly correct and improve.

However, Zhao Xu was also confused.

The power of a man ruled the world is the Confucian Three Bodies and Honor, which overturned it, which is equivalent to overturning the ruler's rule of the country. This is like a cup of poisonous wine. Even though he knows that drinking it will cause a chronic suicide, he has to drink it.

The Three Bonds came from Dong Zhongshu. The Master's original intention was to govern virtue and benevolence was based on benevolence, but some ideas also highlighted the superiority of the powerful and noble. Therefore, the Three Bonds were quickly recognized by the rulers. Even Zheng Lang overthrew many Confucian thoughts of Dong Zhongshu, he did not dare to overturn the Three Bonds.

Zhao Xu asked, "Is there any good solution?"

When Zheng Lang was practicing Confucianism, he could see the disadvantages of this Confucianism, and perhaps he could improve it.

Zheng Lang shook his head. Later generations shouted the slogan of equality for everyone, but in which country can achieve equality for everyone. Besides, equality for everyone is the biggest bug itself. Different wisdom and hard work are different, and the value of creation is also different. Can everyone distribute equally? The simplest example is a lever who carries five hundred sacks of goods a day and distributes wealth as a leverage of one hundred sacks of goods. Is it fair to the former?

Even if everyone is equal, it will give the lower class more vitality. But does Zheng Lang have the courage?

After a while, Zheng Langcai said: "Your Majesty, as the Master said, he is based on benevolence and focuses on moral governance. In addition, it is the supervisor... to resolve it."

When the prison came out, it could only be said to postpone the attack of this disadvantage and could not be cured. But Zheng Lang was helpless and thought to himself. Let it be left to future generations. What he could do was to allow this civilization to last for two hundred years. Zhao Xu's eyes lit up and said, "If the prison is implemented, Zheng Gong will have to continue as prime minister."

"Your Majesty, don't use it," Zheng Lang immediately refused: "There are Zhang Fangping, Wang Anshi in the court, and other pillars. The old minister can explain the whole story and interests of this matter one by one before leaving. Besides, this world is governed by Your Majesty and the scholars and officials, not the world governed by Your Majesty and the old ministers."

In fact, Zheng Lang also ignored one problem.

He has always said that two hundred years refers to the development of science and technology. Now technology and productivity are still very backward. Even if he writes out what he learned in his previous life and uses his power and influence to promote scientific and technological research, it will take two hundred years before science and technology can make a great leap forward.

But at this time, because of his promotion, the Song Dynasty had officially emerged in the capital market. If the Song Dynasty could transition safely for two hundred years, capital would be more developed. Coupled with the influence of technology, capitalism would inevitably have a serious conflict with feudalism. The severity of this conflict may be better than the party struggles in the Northern Song Dynasty in history. What changes will it bring to the Song Dynasty?

Of course, even Zheng Lang thought about it, he would not say it out loud.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, another good news came, and the detonator was successfully researched. This success does not mean that it has been researched, but it cannot be applied. The so-called success refers to the improvement of safety and mass production, rather than the product of the laboratory.

In order to study it, the court spent countless money, and more than 20 craftsmen had problems and died during their research. There was no way, mainly because the foundation of industry and science was too backward. Despite the guidance of Zheng Lang's theory, every thing was still extremely difficult. However, once various things were developed one after another, they would eventually change from quantity to quality, which was the arrival of the technological leap forward that Zheng Lang hoped.

Seeing the craftsmen experimenting, Zheng Lang sighed.

It's good to come out, but unfortunately it's too late. There is no time to use hot powder on weapons. I can only say that it can be used for civilian use immediately, starting mountains and mining, otherwise it will add a chance of success to the Battle of Xia.

The safety of the detonator is improved and the energy production is produced. Zheng Lang immediately ordered it to be used instead of black gunpowder to promote it, especially Ping Safety Supervision. With it, the output of various metal ores can be increased immediately, which is equally important for the Song Dynasty. The production of metal is also one of the important elements that restrict the progress of the Song Dynasty.

But the success of the detonator is not as important as another thing.

On this day, Zheng Lang was resting at home. After the personnel transfer between the two governments at the end of March, Zheng Lang gradually let go of government affairs, which had nothing to do with laziness, but cultivated the supremacy of each priest.

The family stayed on the grape trellis to cool off while eating ice and licorice soup.

The Song Dynasty also had a cold drink industry, which was very developed. Not only the royal family and powerful families, but also many merchants also opened many ice cellars. In summer, ice cubes were taken out from the ice cellars. Because the wine was low, grinding the ice cubes in the wine was equivalent to drinking beer. As for various cities, cold drink stalls were filled with cold drink stalls, such as using licorice, sugar and water to make soup, then let it cool, and then add ground ice cubes, which became the famous ice and snow licorice soup, which was the ice soup that Zheng Lang's family drank at this time. Or fry the soybeans, remove the shells, grind them into bean powder, mix them well with sugar or honey, add water to make small balls, and finally soak them in ice water. This is the ice and snow cold yuanzi. Or peel the papaya, remove the pulp, leave only the flesh, cut it into small squares, soak it in ice water, and make raw water papaya. Others include medicinal papaya, snow soaked bean water, and other cold drinks.

There are a wide variety of cold drinks, far from what future generations imagine.

Some wealthy people even use ice magazines to avoid the office, which is a double-layer wooden barrel with a base underneath, a cover on it and a mezzanine in the middle. Putting the ice cubes in the mezzanine can keep the ice cubes from melting for a long time, which can not only preserve food and prevent deterioration, but also cool the room. However, this ice magazine is relatively luxurious. If you want to cool down the room, you will not work. If you have too much ice, you will spend a lot of money. If you are not a wealthy family, you will not be able to enjoy this original air conditioner.

However, all kinds of cold drinks are affordable to most people. From royalty to common people, all kinds of cold drinks are everyone's favorite in summer. Even a conversation is recorded in the history of the Song Dynasty. Song Xiaozong told the ministers that I drank too much ice water, which made me diarrhea. Fortunately, I won't get any more. Shi Shi, the Minister of Rites, said, "You are the Emperor of the Song Dynasty. Every move is related to the safety of the country. You must not eat randomly based on your own preferences." Song Xiaozong said deeply.

In recent years, the Song Dynasty became more and more prosperous, and more and more rich people were. The cold beverage industry gradually became a pillar industry in the Song Dynasty. When winter came, all rivers were covered with people who were chiseling ice, shouting slogans while chiseling, with great momentum.

Zhao Niannu scolded two greedy grandsons. After the genetic modification of Li Gui and the little lady of the Di family, the two grandsons of Zheng Lang and Zhao Niannu were beautiful and looked ten times better than Zheng Lang in appearance. Then Zhao Niannu raised his head and asked, "Mr. Zheng, when will you leave Beijing?"

"It's almost done."

A trace of gloom flashed in Zhao Niannu's eyes.

Zheng Lang said again: "Your Highness. If you wait for the Xixia incident, you can go to Zhengzhou too."

"This won't work..." Zhao Niannu said.

"It's okay."

Zhao Niannu suddenly covered his mouth with his hands, surprised and happy.

Jiang Xing'er raised her head and looked at her husband suspiciously. Cui Xian said calmly from the side: "There is something happening in Xixia. The officials are almost perfect. It is too perfect, and it may not be a good thing. It is not unreasonable for me to say that if the water is full, the moon is full, and if it is full, the loss will be lost. Let the officials leave a lack."

It was quite obscure, but Jiang Xinger understood it. He said: "It's good that this is the case. The official has a bumpy life, and at least the family can reunite and spend a year in his old age."

However, it was still early to live a peaceful and peaceful old age, so it was not so easy to annihilate Xixia.

The family was eating cold drinks and talking. At this time, the little yellow gate came to Zheng's house and invited Zheng Lang to the suburbs. Today is the day to harvest various grains. In order to fade out of this achievement, Zheng Lang intended to stay at home. However, Gao Taotao said in the palace, and Zhao Xu sent someone to invite Zheng Lang.

Zheng Lang shook his head, and the little yellow gate begged: "Mr. Zheng, you must go, otherwise the empress dowager will punish me."

After making this little yellow gate helpless, Zheng Lang set off.

Food is the most important thing for the people. This journey includes Gao Taotao, Xiang, Zhao Xu, the ministers, the descendants of the royal family, and even the Khitan sent envoys to watch in advance. The group set out to the suburbs in a mighty way.

It was not very far away. When it was planted, I deliberately chose a place with fertile soil outside the capital and sent a dedicated person to take care of the planting. Because the planting method was not fully understood, part of it came from Zheng Lang's memory, part of it was dictated by the soldiers, and the specific planting method was still being explored. Many plants were brought back, and the second fleet returned to the Song Dynasty not long ago. Many of them took years to see the effect. Some flowers and vegetables had been harvested, such as peppers, but they were still cultivated as seeds and were not introduced to the market as ingredients.

These are not important, the three types of grains are important.

Three well-grown grains were selected and the area was measured. Hundreds of soldiers went down to harvest. The number of people was high and the speed was fast. The officials began to weigh their weight. Starting from corn, the yield per acre of land reached four stones per dou. This was the best-growing piece of land. The officials took good care of it, and even the birds did not allow them to eat a piece of birds. It was not surprising that the rice harvest in the south exceeded four stones per acre.

But in this output, everyone, including Zhao Xu, Gao Taotao and four messengers of the Khitan, kept trembling.

The rice yield in the southern polder fields is very high, but it is the south, the polder area, not the north. In the entire north of the Song Dynasty, the yield of two seasons can be combined to reach four stones will not exceed one thousand acres, let alone the yield in one season. But it is not amazing, and the following is what surprises and excites everyone.

The yield of sweet potatoes per acre has reached eight stones, and potatoes are also close to eight stones.

In fact, Zheng Lang was very dissatisfied with this yield and the best growth in the experimental field. If the yield of sweet potatoes and potatoes is taken care of like this, it should be 4,000 pounds or 5,000 pounds, but now it is not enough for a thousand pounds.

But the others didn't think this way. Zhao Xu almost enjoyed dancing when he listened to this yield.

The yield has come out, and there is another question: whether you can eat it and whether you can eat enough.

Under Zheng Lang's guidance, a mixed grain banquet was held. The rest could not be eaten and kept for next year's cultivation and promotion. As the sky was approaching dusk, the palace was holding a mixed grain banquet, and it tasted good before eating it, but after eating it for a long time, it was not the case. The wheat and rice were still the mainstream food in China in the future, but others didn't know. They ate red and their faces were full of red. The Khitan envoys seemed to have seen the effect of mixed grains on the Khitan, and changed their previous arrogant attitude and devoted themselves to their sincerity.

The news soon spread, and it would take at least the year after that, but this output seemed to surprise the people of the Song Dynasty, and even neglected the fine cotton in the test field. As the news spread, the price of grains fell sharply before they were promoted. A dou of rice in the southeast was sold for only twenty cents, and the rice price in the capital was only thirty-five cents.

Low rice prices are also a sign of national governance. Zhao Xu was overjoyed after hearing this and asked Zheng Lang: "The rice prices are too low. Will it hurt farmers?"

Zheng Lang looked a little dazed at this time. He was thinking about something. In history, the rice price in Huangzhou fell below a low price of 1000 yuan last year. This also proved the changes brought about by Wang Anshi's reform, and at least proved the help of Wang Anshi's farmland water conservancy law to the Song Dynasty. With the overturn of the reform, the rice price gradually rose. By the Zhenghe period, even the wheat price rose to 1000 yuan, which was twelve times that of the Jingde period of Emperor Zhenzong!

The news is good now, and it is only comparable to the grain price in the second year of Yuanfeng in history, but Zheng Lang is not depressed. It is not that he is not as good as the reforms in history, but that the population has increased more rapidly than in history, which has restricted the decline in grain prices.

Zhao Xu asked again: "Duke Zheng, should you store grain and regulate grain prices?"

He was also afraid that if the grain prices were reserved in large quantities and the country would suffer losses invisibly next year. Moreover, when the war came, the country could use limited money and could regulate it for a while, but not for a lifetime.

Zheng Lang came to his senses and said, "Your Majesty, this is a good thing, northwest..."

Zhao Xu suddenly realized.

Once hundreds of thousands of people conquer Xixia, the national grain prices will inevitably rise, and the current preparations are different from the future preparations.

The cost seems to be small, and a dou of rice is only 15 cents apart from 35 cents a bucket of rice and 50 cents apart. However, when transporting it to the northwest front line, the civilians and soldiers who transported grain back and forth on the way, and the consumption caused by a small amount of greed for ink is the big part of the loss. The transport of a dou of grain from the capital city to the front line is less than 20% left, and all of them are lost on the road. In other words, the cost of transporting grain to the front line is 50 cents apart from the rear. The cost of reaching the front line is more than 200 cents based on the loss of consumption alone.

The price of grain fell by fifteen cents, and the cost of going to the front line could drop by nearly eighty cents. This is compared with the price of grain last year. If the price of rice per bucket of rice in the third year of Qingli, the cost of transporting to the front line would save 350 cents. However, it was not that luxurious at that time. In order to save costs, most soldiers ate millet, not rice.

The high yield of miscellaneous grains has led to a decline in grain prices, which is equivalent to saving the cost of summer cutting. At this point, summer cutting is almost like everything is ready, just one east wind is gone. The east wind has risen... (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!