Chapter 1010 Su You is unreliable

There are also a lot of raw ores in the gifts. The South China Sea is a rich mineral area and there are many types of ores. Some of them also have gem properties, making them expensive tributes and commodities.

Zhao Zongyou also prepared a picture album for the children, which is an introduction to the geography of New Songzhou. This year, the Jintanwu geography team discovered a passage through the mountains to the east of New Songzhou, blocking access to the inland. They discovered a harmonious wind and rain, a climate

Suitable, fertile and gentle land.

There is a large natural pasture for the development of animal husbandry. The size of the area is not yet known, but the known area is already larger than Xixia.

Therefore, as soon as Zhao Zongyou arrived in Bianjing, he was summoned into the palace by Zhao Xu. Su You didn't see anyone when he came.

Zhang San and Zhang Qi, who were traveling with the fleet, were also too busy to see anyone.

Qian Yi took Tang Shenwei to the Kaifeng government office to visit Qian Zao. The Qian family was a wealthy family, and there were many things to do during the New Year. The head of the family, Qian He, asked him to bring some messages to Qian Zao.

Sitong Seafood Boat also brought a large boatload of seafood this time, all of which are now kept in large porcelain seawater tanks. There is a boiler circulating water treatment system next to the Sanhua Building to purify seawater.

After cracking the secret of the salt content of seawater and the filtration and oxygenation system, seafood can live longer in Bianjing City.

However, winter is more troublesome, so the seafood in winter mainly comes from Zhangzidao and Ludao in the north. Garlic shark fins and scallops can be sold for 300 yuan each at Sanhualou.

What Lifu earns in Bianjing City in one day is not enough to eat even one scallop.

Oysters and abalone are even more expensive. A live oyster is worth ten times as much as a dried oyster, and the most popular way to eat it is to take it out of the white porcelain vat and eat it raw.

However, there was no price issue here in Su You. He took out his folding knives and opened one for each of Bian Guan and Wang Yanbi like a can, letting them try it out.

The aquarium area is full of the fishy smell of sea fish. Merchants are obviously more interested in frozen products and dry goods than in fresh seafood. The reason is simple - they can't afford it.

The taste of fish sauce is not as sweet as oyster sauce, and it has a slight fishy smell, but the price is much cheaper and there is a lot of salt in it. For ordinary people, it is more cost-effective than buying oyster sauce, and it is the favorite of middle- and lower-class housewives.

Spices are too expensive to afford, but spices such as anise, triphenyl, geranium leaves, cinnamon, and grass fruits are all abundant in the south. Nowadays, transportation is convenient and water transportation is available. Coupled with the hard promotion of a big foodie for decades, the sales volume

Bianjing City is huge in winter.

There are many smart people, and the secret of Shaobao's Thirteen Incenses has been cracked by someone who is interested. Now the Song vendors are boasting more than the others. There are even those who dare to sell Thirty Incenses on small carts in Beijing and China.

Bacon and sausages have become must-do items for housewives in winter. The skillful housewives have even discovered ham sausages and luncheon meats. They are much more delicious than those from Shaanxi, and the ones made at home are better than those bought from outside.

The proportion of meat is much higher, the taste is much better, and it can be eaten by your own children, which makes you feel more at ease.

These things are inseparable from the extensive use of cheap spices. The benevolence of officials has eliminated all these things from the spice research, and the price has been reduced a lot.

In fact, this thing is still special inquiry, and it is a real special inquiry, but the people in Bianjing City don't know about it.

The previous special inquiry system of the Song Dynasty actually had a semi-expropriation nature. For example, the difference between the purchase price and the real value of copper materials was more than ten times. This was undoubtedly a cruel squeeze and exploitation of the metallurgists and a naked form of plunder.

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Since the industrial production method of wet copper smelting was promoted, the amount of raw copper in the Song Dynasty increased sharply, and with the widespread use of treasure banknotes, the government no longer had to spend a lot of money searching for copper materials, and the appearance became no longer so ugly.

After Wang Anshi investigated the copper mine production in the Tongling area in Jiangning Prefecture, he wrote to Zhao Xu and did something that the ancestors of the Song Dynasty could not even think of - lifting the copper ban!

And Zhao Xu was so bold and accurate!

Almost overnight, hundreds of thousands of smelting households were lifted out of poverty and entered the subsistence industry. The fundamental reason for overcoming the copper ban was that in addition to the national reserve of copper, the remaining metal became a commodity! The government purchase price

It has become the same level as the market price.

The metal trade suddenly became prosperous. Folks in the Song Dynasty had not used copperware for decades. The small amounts of Dali copper, Nanhai copper, and Japanese copper could not fill the huge and hungry market of the Song Dynasty.

Then Zhao Xu discovered that in the past, the government's crazy control and crazy squeezing, the copper materials obtained every year, was actually not as good as completely liberalizing the market and reasonably purchasing it from the smelters.

In recent years, the government has accumulated a large amount of copper materials and has enough confidence to regulate copper prices and market supply. The income gained from this can actually catch up with the income from production in the past year.

This kind of cool operation of holding a large amount of supplies, making money from both long and short sides, and gaining reputation made Zhao Xu very comfortable. This is the huge difference between living water and stagnant water.

In the secret note to Zhao Xu, Wang Anshi said that this was what he had gained from studying Zhang Fangping's "On Finance" in Jiangning Mansion in the past few years. At the same time, he quietly called Su You. Your Majesty, Su Mingrun had already discussed this and gave an explanation.

A very appropriate economic term - macroeconomic control.

Considering that his reputation was not very good in the Song Dynasty, Wang Anshi did not dare to make any mistakes openly. He was afraid that those who would criticize others would oppose everything he agreed with, which would only increase resistance for Su You in the court.

Therefore, I only dared to secretly say in the secret that Lao Wang was worried about the Song Dynasty.

Encouraged by the huge gains after the Tongzheng ban, Zhao Xu prepared to deepen reforms and officially announced that the salt industry, tea industry, wine industry, low-end spice industry, and low-end silk industry, which had existed in name only, would be included in the project.

abolition!

As soon as these virtues and policies were announced, everyone in the Song Dynasty shouted "Sage".

However, privately, Zhao Xu had already quietly completed the control of these industries through Sitong Trading Company, and even included the layout of many new strategic industries.

Again, if you have food in your hands, don't panic. You already have the big cake in your hands. Then throw out the scraps to activate the market to attract fish in the fish pond. This method is better than the previous method of forcing the people to death.

, obviously the rank is too high.

Who should get the credit? Zhao Xu also knew in his heart that the Royal Industry and Sitong did not use all their technical reserves and economic means at all. Otherwise, countless workshops in the industry would have to go bankrupt.

This is also very consistent with Zhao Xu's mentality. He supports all walks of life and slowly releases technology, which is completely a parent-child mentality.

Zhao Xu didn't understand science and engineering, but he felt that it was the right thing for an emperor to do things based on emotion and reason.

Fortunately, God gave the royal family a genius in science and engineering, Zhao Zongyou, and the Song Dynasty, Su You and Su Xiaomei, and established several academies. Today, the royal family has the most prosperous talents in this field outside of Shuzhong.

The steamship was a joke, and Zhao Xu's performance was a bit exaggerated.

But steam engines are actually no joke. An arsenal in Songshan, Zhengzhou, has successfully developed power machinery that can be put into practical use. According to Chen Zhaoming's report, the efficiency and stability have exceeded that of water-borne machine tools. The processing efficiency of blunderbuss barrels has

The accuracy of rifling drawing is of huge significance.

This alone was enough for Zhao Xu to pay attention, and also made Zhao Xu a little worried about Su You's unreliability in this regard.

Su Mingrun is indeed very capable, but the problem with this dear friend is that he often points out some important inventions in inexplicable places.

For example, chemical purification initially aims to obtain more pure salt; fermentation biotechnology, for example, targets various seasonings; such as ductile graphite casting and cold forging, initially aims to obtain a suitable wok; such as fine-mesh sieving, preparing ten

Three-spice powder is really useful.

The thermometer was invented to hatch eggs;

The micrometer was invented to make a folding knife;

The magical technology of artificial insemination was first used to expand pig farms; such an important piece of equipment as a steam engine was originally used to bring live sea fish to Bianjing!
Chapter completed!