contract?

Impossible.

It's absolutely impossible.

Guo Dan’s contracting has actually reached the critical point. If you take a step forward, the balanced relationship will be broken.

But Wanli also knew that Guo Dan was just to inspire them.

If you can't do it, then I'll go.

However, there are a few who are in high positions in the court who have no arrogance, but to the point where they are, their happiness and anger will not be reflected and will not be revealed.

Now they are going to chase after them. Even if they are hit, they must catch up with Guo Dan. Otherwise, there would be no point in this official position in front of him.

Originally, they thought that Wei Hui Mansion was the highlight, and patrolling Kaifeng Mansion was just a leisure trip, but they never thought that Kaifeng Mansion was the highlight!

These ministers were also very excited.

After all, Weihui Mansion is an industry and commerce, and they are not very familiar with it. In some places, they are really helpless and even desperate. It is really difficult to surpass Guo Dan. However, agriculture is different. Officials must understand agriculture. Before that, agriculture is the only one.

All their previous economic policies actually revolved around agriculture, and they are not unfamiliar with this.

Therefore, this time, they did not feel too excited after visiting the Grand Canyon as before, but were even more excited because they thought they could

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"Yuan Yu, what did you ask us to come to this vegetable garden?"

Shen Shixing looked around and found that there was nothing strange around him, so he couldn't help but ask Wang Xijue.

Wang Xijue smiled and said, "Wait a minute, wait a minute."

Shen Shixing and Xu Guo couldn't help but feel curious.

After a while, a middle-aged man yawning and carrying a hoe came over. The middle-aged man saw three old men in gorgeous clothes standing in the yard, all of whom were very unfamiliar, so he asked, "Three old gentlemen, why are you standing in my vegetable garden?"

Wang Xijue smiled and said, "That's right. I haven't had Kaifeng Prefecture for many years. I remember that this place used to be a field. When did it become a vegetable garden?"

The middle-aged man laughed: "The old man must have not come to Kaifeng Prefecture for a long time. It was indeed a piece of land four years ago."

Wang Xijue asked, "Why don't you farm and change to vegetables?"

The middle-aged man said, "Because this land can't grow a few kilograms of grain at all, it's suitable for growing vegetables."

Wang Xijue shook his head and smiled, "This land has been arable land for many years, why is it not suitable?"

The middle-aged man said, "There was no way before. If you didn't farm, you would have to starve to death. No matter how small you had to plant, you would have to plant it. But now it's different. You can buy food everywhere. We can use this land to grow vegetables in exchange for money, and then use this money to buy food. However, it's more than three times more than directly growing food, and it's much easier. Only fools grow food."

Hearing this, Shen Shixing, Xu Guo looked at each other and seemed to understand something.

“That’s true.”

Wang Xijue nodded with a smile, then bowed and said, "Sorry, I've disturbed you, goodbye."

"Ah? The three old gentlemen walked slowly, slowly."

The middle-aged man nodded dullly, his eyes full of confusion.

After leaving the vegetable garden, Wang Xijue said: "This is a key reason for the development of agriculture in Kaifeng Prefecture. Before, every household grew grain, but not every piece of land was suitable for growing grain, but there was nothing we could do.

Guo Dan’s method is actually very simple. He transported all the crops to the market and then distributed them to everyone in need through coins. In this way, everyone can choose suitable crops based on the land, which in turn led to the increase in the yield of each crop, and at that time, the grain output did not actually decrease much."

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but sigh: "When we talked about the prosperous era of the Han and Tang Dynasties, we always said that every family had surplus grain, but now it seems that this family has surplus grain, which is not the prosperous era. Every family has surplus grain, and it can also be said that every family only has surplus grain, and the rest are lacking, because every family has surplus grain, so how can they exchange it for other things?"

Xu Guo nodded and said, "That's the case, but it's easy to say, but it's hard to do. Kaifeng Prefecture is rich, because Weihui Prefecture is right next to it. Weihui Prefecture is mainly industry and commerce, while Kaifeng Prefecture is mainly agriculture, which can complement each other. If you want to achieve the prosperity of Kaifeng Prefecture, you must first create a Weihui Prefecture, but alas!"

After a walk around, he really didn't have much confidence in creating a Wei Hui Mansion.

Wang Xijue said again: "I don't think so. Although Wei Hui Mansion prospered first, don't forget that Guo Dan's first plan in Wei Hui Mansion was also aimed at agricultural reform, not industry and commerce. What initially caused Guo Dan's headache was the supply of food. He spent a lot of money on this!

That day, Guo Dan himself said that if we develop industry and commerce, we must first develop agriculture. Only with stable grain prices can we develop industry and commerce. We have devoted ourselves to industry and commerce before, and ignored agriculture."

Shen Shixing nodded and asked, "What do you want to do?"

Wang Xijue said: "The court should still put agriculture first and farming first. All the merchants are very smart. What the court needs is to control them, not to teach them how to do business. If it is profitable, they will go by themselves, but if it is unprofitable, they will not go even if you pay money to invite them.

But agriculture is different. Agriculture requires the help of the court. I think the court should focus its main annual expenditure on agriculture, rather than choosing industry and commerce. Only when this foundation is solid can the building be built high and the country be more stable!"

Shen Shixing pondered for a while, then looked at Xu Guodao: "What do you think?"

Xu Guodao: "I think Yuan Yu's statement is very reasonable. Giving up agriculture is like losing the foundation and pursuing the end! Moreover, we have talked before that the court must know how to save money, but it must also know how to spend money. If it is spent on the edge of the knife, the court will get more. If the court is like Guo Dan, subsidizing the farmers' agricultural tools, which means spending the money on the edge of the knife, and at the same time, it can also use the court's expenditure to control business. That day, Guo Dan said very clearly that the local peasant owner was controlled by him. One of the reasons is that he is the biggest buyer, and both buyers and sellers are indispensable!"

Shen Shixing sighed, "But the court does not have so much money!"

Wang Xijue smiled and said, "We can learn from Luzon's method and lend them money without interest through Yinuo Money House, so that they can buy the best farm tools. When they make money, they will return it to the court, and pay it to help them establish farming clubs and markets, and concentrate all the farm products in the market. When this market is prosperous, merchants will naturally bring money, and we must also prepare for reducing and exempting agricultural taxes."

In fact, they were also very confused before. They understood urbanization, but everyone had no idea whether Weihui Mansion could be copied. They could only take one step at a time and did not plan for a long time.

However, Kaifeng Prefecture provided them with an idea to use agriculture to drive the development of industry and commerce. Looking at the whole country, the places where industry and commerce are well developed are also places where agriculture is prosperous. Without the support of agriculture, industry and commerce cannot develop.

Then again, industry and commerce are not what they are good at, they can only be led by Guo Dan. However, they are very familiar with agriculture, and are even more clear than Guo Dan, so they can carry out reforms better.

But the methods are different. In the past, we used to persuade farmers and sericultures, but now we use capital to promote agricultural development.

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Guo Dan believes that his task has been completed, so he has to spend the next time with his family.

But as soon as he was about to go out, he was called by someone sent by Wanli.

When Guo Dan saw Wanli, he suddenly felt a bad feeling, because Wanli's face was quite serious, and Wanli had always been relaxed before, as if he was on vacation.

"My Majesty, is something wrong?"

Guo Dan asked.

Wanli waved his hand.

Tian Yi immediately handed a secret letter to Guo Dan, "This is just coming from Yunnan."

Guo Dan took it and looked at it for a while, and he couldn't help but frown.

The south started fighting again.

When the Ming army withdrew from Dongwu, the local war was actually not over, because Siam immediately sent troops to fight against Dongwu while Dongwu was fighting against the Ming Dynasty. Of course, this was all due to Dongwu's own fault. At first, Dongwu sent troops to Siam first and occupied a large amount of land in Siam. Siam was just a counterattack.

This is not all. With the support of the local Portuguese mercenaries, the Aragan area also sent troops to Dongwu and wanted to take advantage of the situation to rob.

This is why Guo Danfang Mang Yingli died at that time. His purpose was to let Mang Yingli fight to the death with the Portuguese mercenaries first.

After the northern crisis was lifted, Mang Yingli mobilized all the main forces to block the attack of Alagan's mercenaries. Seeing that Mang Yingli had already truce with the Ming Dynasty, Siam felt a little relieved, so he stopped the attack.

And Mang Yingli was unable to settle accounts with Siam.

Although no parties reconciled, the war slowly stopped, and then everyone was busy trading with the Ming Dynasty.

However, the war has started again recently. Mang Yingli suddenly sent troops to Siam and reached an alliance with the Arakan area. According to reliable information, Mang Yingli should have received full support from Franji people.

Although the Ming Dynasty stated that it would not interfere with their disputes, it seriously harmed the interests of the Ming Dynasty. First of all, the port of Alagan had been taken down by the Ming Dynasty, but it was just through commercial means and did not use force.

Isn’t you two just going to kick me out?

Secondly, Siam has recently turned to the Ming Dynasty and exported a large amount of food to the Ming Dynasty. He is a very loyal younger brother.

Zhang Cheng sneered coldly: "It seems that those Franchise men are unfamiliar wolf!"

Guo Dan smiled bitterly and said, "We didn't support them, we just benefited each other."

Wanli snorted: "That's right. Now it has proved that they have always been ill-behaved. I heard that they wanted to kill the Han people living in Luzon, so why not treat them by their own way?"

The implication is to massacre all the Franchise people on Luzon Island.

Just for the fat man, you can scold me, you can laugh at me, but you can't touch my cheese. Whoever wants to touch my cheese will be my life.

It's that simple.

Guo Dan hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, we still need to trade with Franchise people at present, and we need to use Franchise people to find gold and silver mines, which is probably not possible."

When Wanli heard about the gold and silver mines, his expression was slightly relieved.

Unloading the mill and killing the donkey, the problem is that the mill has not started to rotate yet!

Tian Yidao: "But Franji people support Mang Yingli, which is also known to everyone by Sima Zhao. They just don't want to see these places controlled by our Ming Dynasty."

Guo Dan immediately said: "I understand this, I will never let them succeed, but I need trade more now in the Ming Dynasty. If we kill them all, it will also harm our interests."

Wanli asked, "How should we deal with it in your opinion?"

Guo Tan said: "Bizhi believes that Mang Yingli should be ordered to withdraw his troops, otherwise we will support the Siam battle. At the same time, we must tell the Franji people to make them honest."

Tian Yidao: "If they agree, they will not start this war."

Guo Tan smiled and said, "If they don't agree, then they will beat them until they agree, but in the end they will have to stay a little bit. But please rest assured that we will pay back this account sooner or later. When the time is right, we will use the same way to treat the other person."

Wanli nodded and said, "Let's leave this matter to you and Lu Wang to handle."

"Abide by the orders of humble duties."

As soon as he left the courtyard, Yang Feixu at the door said, "There is a bad news."

Guo Dan smiled bitterly and said, "I understand, it's about the war between Dongwu and Siam."

Yang Feixu was a little stunned and shook her head and said, "It was from the Japanese side."

Guo Dan said in surprise: "Japan?"

Yang Feixu said: "There is news that Franjiren seems to have close contacts with Toyotomi Hideyoshi."

"very good!"
Chapter completed!