Zhao Kuangyin said: "Sit."

Song Jiu sat down.

It is better to deceive gentlemen than offend villains, and it is better to fake beggars than to support old ladies. As long as you do not do too much, Song Jiu is not afraid of Zhao Da.

Zhao Kuangyin asked: "Song Jiu, why is it targeting the Hebei industry outside Dongshuimen?"

This is an inevitable result. Not to mention Song Jiu, even when Zhao Pu was at its most powerful moment, someone would still secretly give advice. Hezhou made contributions to the country, but who can ignore the relationship between Zhao Kuangyin and Zhao Pu?

But Song Jiu was still a little disappointed.

However, he had already prepared and replied slowly: "Your Majesty, when Hezhou was set up, my family was poor and once made a living by renting a house, which was selfish."

Zhao Kuangyin didn't say anything and continued to listen calmly.

"Weichen was taught by Mr. and studied materialism for a while, but Mr. teaches theory. If we want to realize it, we must constantly develop it and turn the theory into practice. This requires a lot of money. In recent years, some research has been initially successful, some are only products of laboratory, which cannot be promoted, and some have to be abandoned halfway. Among them, there are public and private, but including the costs used by each farm, Weichen spent more than 2.6 million yuan. Without Hezhou, there would be no such thing."

Zhao Kuangyin was also interested in how much Song Jiu spent, just like Zhao Pu, but his expenses were too complicated and involved, and he went in and out. It was difficult to estimate outside without checking Song Jiu's accounts, so Zhao Kuangyin simply did not ask about it anymore. He knew that Song Jiu had used a lot of money, but he was still a little lost when he heard that more than 2.6 million yuan was money.

"The end is the real public heart. Your Majesty, if our dynasty does not include the Southern Tang Dynasty, its population is only similar to that in the early Tang Dynasty. It is less than one-quarter of Tianbao, and its taxes are far more than Tianbao's taxes. Why are the people not suffering? It is the diversity of taxes that are distributed to everyone. It is not the taxation method that mainly collects farmers in the middle-poor households in the Tang Dynasty. One is two taxes, two is the prison of pit mining workshops, three is the specialty of tea, salt and wine, and four is the commercial tax. But Hezhou cannot be said to be commercial tax, and merchants are divided into three.

Tax, a big businessman who can make a profit of tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars a year can make a profit of hundreds or thousands of dollars a year, and can only hire a few or dozens of servants. Like Weichen's eldest sister, she used to run a restaurant, and her family was a low-level middle-class businessman. There were also small stall vendors who could only keep a starvation to death. The former was not very taxed, and the middle one could only be taxed moderately, but the latter was slightly taxed, and often the family's life was not guaranteed immediately. They were also the objects that His Majesty needed to sympathize with the grace!"

Zhao Kuangyin sighed slightly.

No matter what, he was not evil in his heart, could understand, and could understand Song Jiu's thoughts more. But it was this person who kept saying that I had strong selfishness and had it. He said three reasons and put selfishness first. This made him feel a little dazed.

But in Song Jiu's heart, it is indeed the first one for himself.

It is OK to save people. You must save yourself first.

The reason for this gap is actually very simple to separate, that is, the right words and wrongs are not just the hypocrisy of the scholars and officials! Who would complain the most during the past and present? It is not merchants, not farmers, not workers, but officials! Song Jiu occasionally woke up and thought about saving people, and he had to think about his safety and ability first, but once he reached out, he would really save him, so the two were immediately different.

"This year, the combination of all industries in Hezhou and the shops of various merchants can generate more than 800,000 taxes. However, Hezhou residents, including those working in Dongshuimen, have less than 20,000 households. Is there much tax for more than 80,000 yuan? Not many, many transactions will be destroyed, otherwise there will be more. After payment, there will be no pressure on Hezhou. What if the tax stalls of more than 800,000 yuan are suppressed on ordinary farmers? In an instant, the families of 20,000 farmers were destroyed and their wives and children were separated!"

"Your Majesty, the national policy that I believe most is that of the people of Qi. Even if it is commercial tax, everyone cannot be killed. The simplest thing about the happiness of a country is to look at the population. There are several dynasties in China that were unified, which was the most powerful time for the population to surge. However, the time for unification was too little. Although the Han Dynasty was long, the East and West Han were actually two dynasties, and the Western Jin Dynasty and Sui and Qin Dynasty could not be counted. The only one who really grew up was the Tang Dynasty, which was less than three hundred years. But it was the disadvantages of the late Tang Dynasty.

When he was born, there were riots of the cliques, separatist rule of the vassal states, eunuchs' autocracy, and the Tang Dynasty could survive peacefully. Why did it perish? That was Huang Chao! Why did Huang Chao gain power? That was because the merger was serious, and the country could only collect taxes on middle-poor farmers who were originally on the front line of life. Once a disaster occurred, the people could not survive, so how to avoid riots. Therefore, Zhao Xianggong said that to unite the people and how to unite the law, including various humane policies, tax policies, including commercial taxation. What the Wei ministers did, show a picture to show a demonstration."

"At that time, the Wei ministers were young and ignorant and neglected the profits of Hezhou. High returns were good, but they could lead the inappropriate guidance, which was exactly the opposite direction. Therefore, the Wei ministers later intentionally distributed the shares of the contract to ordinary people and academies to reduce the shares of the yamen, and even intended to increase the shares of the yamen. In the future, they were ready to hand it over to the court in advance to form a situation where the court and the yamen and the people shared it together. This is Hezhou, the Wei ministers can control it, but other Wei ministers can't control it. The Yanei in Hebei saw the interests, but they could not see the country or the people. They looked at Hezhou in terms of interests, but they could not see the commercial tax paid in one year. On the contrary, they took the lead in the deceased taxes and were dismembering the intentions of the Wei ministers and leading them in a bad direction."

"However, this world is Your Majesty's world, Your Majesty's heaven, Your Majesty's earth, If Your Majesty disagrees, I will stop taking over Hebei servants and stop selling the deeds to the yamen of the Hebei workshops, and continue to hand over the remaining deeds to the common people."

Zhao Kuangyin shouted in a low voice: "Are you ridiculing me?"

"I dare not, I am telling the truth. I am short-sighted. Your Majesty is the king of the country. I consider it more comprehensively than I am. All ministers are your Majesty's assistants. I am considering taxation, and your Majesty also considers the personal feelings of the ministers, so that they can be more loyal to the Song Dynasty. The important things are not daring to take into account. Therefore, Your Majesty wants me to stop, but I dare not stop."

Zhao Kuangyin was silent.

"Since Your Majesty summoned me to the palace, I will report something about agricultural production."

"Say." Zhao Kuangyin was sitting up immediately.

Food is the most important thing for the people. Except for the few treasure emperors such as Emperor Hui of Jin, none of them did not pay attention to it. Not to mention Zhao Kuangyin.

"If crops want high yields, there are only three factors: climate, water, and soil. Climate can be avoided. What kind of climate can be planted? Water can also be avoided, or water conservancy is built, or dry grain is planted in water-scarce areas, but the soil is too complex. According to the academy agronomical studies, there are two divisions. One is sand, loam and clay, which I realized very early. The other is acidic soil, neutral soil and alkaline soil. Neutral soil is the best. It is not suitable for planting crops with too much acid and alkali. There are methods for controlling it. For example, in Guangnan, Weichen encouraged the people to use lime to treat some acidic soil. Alkaline soil also has methods, and it can be neutralized with sulfuric acid, but the cost is too high, so it can only be used as products in the experimental area."

“Besides.”

"The other is fertilizer. According to the theory of matter, crop growth requires nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and other trace elements. Previous people have accumulated a lot of experience. For example, using green manure to ferment. This method is best, not only rich in various fertilizers, but also many organic fertilizers, which are the trace elements that Weichen calls. As well as other substances needed by crops, it can also improve soil solidification. Qimin Yaoshu said that planting beans can fertilize the fields, which means that bean crops seize a large amount of nitrogen from the air and instill into the soil."

If this passage was said a few years ago, everyone would think that Song Jiu was a psychopath, and it is easier to understand now. At most, it is difficult to understand what nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium are.

"Manure is also rich in nitrogen fertilizer, while wood ash is rich in potassium fertilizer. Our people in many areas began to pay attention to these two things, but they fell into a misunderstanding. After repeated trials by students, they came to a terrible conclusion that the wood ash is alkaline, and it is easy to react with manure, becoming other substances, reducing the fertilizer efficiency. However, when our people in our people applied these two fertilizers, they were both mixed."

"Is there such a thing?" Zhao Kuangyin asked in surprise.

In order to show importance to agricultural production, there are also farmland in the palace, and even the emperor himself held the plow in the spring. The difference is that some emperors acted like this, and some emperors paid serious attention. Zhao Kuangyin was the latter. Wood ash and manure are two main fertilizers used by farmers today. It is very hard to get it. If there is a problem, it is a national mistake.

"It's because of this, I dare not speak nonsense on it. In addition, there is another kind of fertilizer, that is phosphorus fertilizer. During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the palace maids of Northern Qi invented a substance that was applied to a wooden stick and burned with one stroke. That substance was phosphorus. However, there are very few natural fertilizers, and may be there, but I am shallow in knowledge and do not know which substance will be. Moreover, because I am not understanding, I am just guessing, and researching it is very slow. I spent a lot of money and silk to get some. It seems to be growing well on winter wheat. Therefore, I want to ask Your Majesty to send a confidant to visit the yellow gate."

"I have heard you talk about this artificial fertilizer before... take me there in person."

Song Jiu did not stop him.

This is Song Jiu's war.

The power behind Lu Duosun should not be underestimated. The direct ones are Chu Zhaofu and Su Xiao, who will join forces with him. I don’t know if he has anything to do with Zhao Kuangyi. Even if not, Zhao Kuangyi will secretly contribute to the fire. But he has never taken action. This is to let himself be a gun. As long as he takes action, there will inevitably be a minister complaining in front of Zhao Kuangyin.

Lu Duoxun observed Zhao Kuangyin's dynamics again. If he didn't object, it would not be too late for him to take action, and that would not leave any displeasure in Zhao Kuangyin's heart. If he objected, he would become a scapegoat. As for what he said, let Song Jiu create opportunities, it would be valid, but don't take it seriously. If these people say seriously, they won't even know how to die in the end.

However, Song Jiu was not jealous either.

Lu Duosun is a conspiracy, but Song Jiu is an open conspiracy.

Zhao Kuangyin still dressed casually and brought his guards to Henan, which is the experimental field in the academy.

When he saw the winter wheat, he looked at it for a long time. There was winter wheat in the palace, and there was no need for the palace. Walk a few miles away, and there were crop fields everywhere, and you could see large fields of wheat. After half a day, he asked, "Is this the function of fertilizer?"

"It's not only the fertilizer, it's the experimental field. The best seeds are used, the most advanced planting methods are used, and the soil has been repeatedly transformed under the student experiments. Of course, the role of this phosphorus fertilizer in the middle cannot be ignored."

"Let me take a look."

There was a group of students who were studying in the experimental field, but they all avoided them from a distance. Song Jiu waved and called a student to go to the small warehouse to take out the fertilizer. Zhao Kuangyin took a handful of snow-white fertilizer and asked, "Is it?"

"It's it. It's the new substance that reacts with some phosphate ores with sulfuric acid, it's fertilizer."

"This technology must be handed over to the court and no profit is allowed."

"Your Majesty, if you succeed, you don't need your Majesty's orders, and I will also hand it over to the court. But it has not succeeded, just as what I said just now, is the product of the laboratory and cannot be put into actual production."

"Then you..." Zhao Kuangyin was very unhappy. The contrast between the front and the back was too big. Isn't this just a joke?

Song Jiu quickly explained: "Your Majesty, fertilizers need to be studied slowly. The laboratory is one thing, and actual production is another. In fact, many new substances can be created in the laboratory, but it is too difficult to put them into production. This has to be done step by step. After all, this science is the product created by my husband's combination of Chinese and Western civilizations. It will be gradually practical until my hands are approved by Your Majesty. Where can I succeed in one step? But its effect is not small. It has nothing to do with fertilizer, but seeds. I don't know how much the output of this land will be next year. I believe its output must be very high."

This is a fact. Zhao Kuangyin looked around and looked at the wheat again. He almost wanted to order the guards to guard day and night.

"What Weichen wants is its seeds, which may be restored after promotion. There may be a sudden change. Once the seeds undergo a complete transformation, they will use points to lead to pieces and pieces to surface. The effect is immeasurable."

The Song Dynasty was a low-yield era, not only fertilizer, but also the most important thing, that is seeds. This passage was also difficult to understand in the past, but now with a cotton, it is easy for Zhao Kuangyin to accept it. At most, it is not as clear as Song Jiu.

Zhao Kuangyin was silent again.

The north wind blows, bringing layers of chill, but Zhao Kuangyin stares at Song Jiu seriously.

More and more news came from the south, and the ministers rarely said it because of their jealousy, but many yamen went to the south. They did not make the sugar sugar technology that Song Jiu said had progressed, but as Song Jiu said, it had not yet been put into actual production.

These yamen went to the south, mainly enclosing land and growing cotton.

Including his three sons-in-law.

Their family's affairs kept bringing news from the south back to the capital, and it reached the ears of three daughters, and the three daughters entered the palace and then came to their own ears.

According to these stewardship, what Song Jiu did in the south was simply incredible. Countless Song Hou Roads, Song Houdi, Song Houwei, Song Houyan, officials saw that there were too many Song Housing, which was prone to chaos and wanted to change their names, but the people disagreed. There was a yamen who were friends with Song Jiu to show their favor with Song Jiu's reputation, but when they said it before, the people sneered at it. Will Song Hou have to repay his good deeds?

Song Jiu himself couldn't even think clearly, and Zhao Kuangyin was also confused. Song Jiu did a good job in the south, but did the people miss this? However, someone said something that made him hesitate and dared not reuse Song Jiu.

Although he also saw through it at this time that Song Jiu was exchanging, disguised exchange, but this intention still touched him.

He squatted down and looked at the wheat seedlings. It was growing so well, as green as jade. He stood up and breathed: "Song Jiu, Lu Duoxun once recommended you as the Second Supervision Commission of the Secretariat in front of me. What do you think?"

The Secretariat is a leisurely yamen and has several departments under its jurisdiction. However, it is precisely because of these pictures and books that it is expensive. There was no such picture book in this era, and even Lu Duosun's brain could not remember them one by one. The emperor often came to several library cabinets under the Secretariat to check.

Therefore, officials in the Secretariat could often deal with the emperor. Later, the Song Dynasty mentioned the Pavilion Officer included officials in a broad sense, including officials with officials in the Grand Secretary and the Direct Bachelor's degree. The narrow sense refers to the official positions of various institutions of the Secretariat, including the official characters of the Secretariat that Fan Zhongyan once served as the official character of the Secretariat.

It is precisely because of this nature that the promotion will be quickly achieved once the official of the library comes out, and Ouyang Xiu shouted, "I cannot serve as prime ministers unless I am a official of the library."

That was a fool. He and Fan Zhongyan and others were from library officials, so they shouted this sentence. However, their nature was that the emperor had more opportunities to contact him and read more books during the review and correction process.

If you read more books and have more knowledge, that is a good thing, but it won’t be practical, and you are just a nerd.

But no matter what, this official position is very expensive and is very suitable for Song Jiu. The Secretariat has a supervisor, a junior supervisor, and a minister. There are many officials below, but the main director is the secretary supervisor. Although the young supervisor is expensive, it is relatively leisurely, which allows Song Jiu to continue to take time to study.

Although Lu Duosun used Song Jiu, this was a reward.
Chapter completed!