Chapter 1,370 Harvest Year

In July, during the Sino-Japanese War, the Lord of Liao was like an autumn mountain, celebrating a major diplomatic victory.

In Jiyou, the Song Dynasty began to build an altar on the left side of the southern suburbs to worship God and match it with Taizong.

In that month, the river water rose sharply, and the Dawuxi Embankment launched a flood discharge plan to alleviate the crisis in Lingping Xiaxi.

The Song Dynasty safely preserved the banks of the Yellow River, but the Liao Kingdom was not so lucky.

It rains heavily in Nanjing and the Shahe River overflows.

A small sand river floated the rice that was about to mature in the six counties of Yongqing, Guiyi, Xincheng, Anci, Wuqing and Xianghe in the Liao Dynasty.

In August, the prince Jin Jun was granted the title of Prince of Yan'an, and the Zhaorong Zhu family was appointed as the virtuous concubine.

Kangshen, the emperor is ill.

Except for Zhao Xu's illness, the Song Dynasty finally ushered in a good harvest this year.

Nature was actually very unfair to Zhao Xu. In the 20 years since he took the throne, he only had two real good years, which was very inconsistent with the laws of nature.

But it's finally here.

At the end of August, Sichuan, Jinghu, Zhejiang, and Gyeonggi all reported that they were ripe.

As for the South China Sea, it matures every year, and everyone is too lazy to bother with that cheating area.

Storehouses were being closed and warehouses were being moved around like crazy, but the price of rice could not be sustained from seventy cents per dou to forty-five cents per dou.

This has reached the brink of danger, and low prices are hurting farmers.

This is the first major crisis Cai Que has encountered since he took office, and he has to find a way out for this food.

Cai Jing suggested to the court that the Song Dynasty could lift the ban on alcohol and music nationwide to stimulate private brewing.

At the same time, the Caogang was enlarged, and the Jingcang continued to enrich the Xingluocang. The warehouses there were super large.

The national grain supply is divided into three routes - Shuzhong and Jinghu, which are used to enrich Shaanxi; part of the two routes of Zhejiang and the South China Sea are transported to the capital and the capital; the other part is transported to Jingdong by sea.

The grain from Gyeonggi Province is abundant in Hebei and Hedong.

Hebei, Jingdong, and Hedong three roads were established to promote labor service, and the people were given enough money and food to work.

In addition to the Yellow River project, the road from Jingzhao Prefecture to Lanzhou also needs to be renovated. The Duke of Shu has made trouble in Hexi many times.

As for Hexi, there are talented ministers gathered there, but the distance is too far, and it is not cost-effective to transport grain there, so that's fine.

Cai Que completely agreed to this plan without even thinking about it, even though it was proposed by Cai Jing.

Also this month, Ouyang Fa and Liu Fengshi excavated and sorted out a large number of Dunhuang treasures, covering mathematics, geography, history, politics, trade, philosophy, military, ethnicity, folklore, music, dance, literature, language, phonology, names, account books,

Letters, forms, books, calligraphy, medicine, veterinary medicine, crafts, sports, translation, folk arts, divination, etc.

Among them, there are nearly 100 items related to medicine, including more than 1,000 medical prescriptions;

More than forty items on astronomy and calendar;

nearly twenty items in mathematics;

He has written many works on water conservancy, agriculture, chemistry and other fields.

There are also rhyme books, dictionaries, etc. for primary school students.

Among the important ones, in addition to those previously discovered by Su You, are the "Lun on Death", "Record of Surnames", "Xuan Zan of the Lotus Sutra", "Guanyin Sutra" written in blood, "Collection of the Hexi Jiedu Envoy", "Sha"

"The Envoys of the State Jinzou Yuan", "Accounts for the Thirteenth Year of Datong in the Western Wei Dynasty", "Dunhuang County Dunhuang County Mission Book" of the Tang Dynasty, and documents related to the Jiedushi Envoy of the Guiyi Army.

These materials make the historical appearance of Shazhou clear again in the late Tang and Five Dynasties; they also provide detailed information on the military system, municipal system, farming, horse administration, accounting, household registration, departmental affairs, miscellaneous services, shakedown, land equalization, tenancy, and land deeds at that time.

, lending, buying and selling, employment and other laws, with first-hand information.

In addition, among the Dunhuang stone chamber posthumous documents, there are many classics and documents written in Tubo, Khotan, Kucha, Turkic, Uighur, Sanskrit, and Sogdian.

Ouyang Fa and Liu Fengshi were responsible for transcribing the most precious part of it. The copied transcript was sent to Xingzhou for preservation, while the original was sent to Bianjing. Zhao Xu ordered it to be hidden in Kezhen Hall for the world to admire.

Some of the exquisite Buddhist scriptures, Buddha statues, and embroidered statues were sent to Daxiangguo Temple for worship by Zhao Xu in the name of Empress Dowager Gao.

Monk Daolong used these things to hold a Buddhist meeting, and thousands of people in Kaifeng Mansion came to watch.

The first Lanzhou Fair was fruitful. The Song Dynasty people exchanged a large amount of porcelain and silk for treasures from the Western Regions. After the Khotan jade was delivered to the inner workshop, Zhao Xu no longer had to worry about Taichang Temple officials tampering with those who collected old utensils.

Got an idea.

On the north bank of Lanzhou Iron Bridge, a market town born out of trade began to take shape. Many Hu merchants left their children behind, bought land, and built properties and shops.

The Hexi Corridor needs a lot of transportation capacity, Wuwei and Zhangye need to be rebuilt, and the merchants' pack teams also play a big role.

Many merchants were attracted by the tax exemption of up to 15%, allowing their goods to be digested before arriving in Lanzhou, and then started a business of renting out pack teams, and participated in the Silk Road reconstruction plan of the Sanludu Transport Department.

Come.

When the Song Dynasty entered a full harvest season, Ningxia Sanlu also entered the first harvest period of agricultural products.

In addition to the necessary defense forces, Suyou devoted all its military power to looting.

It's very convenient when planting, but it's a bit confusing when harvesting.

Harvesters require portable, reliable and high-horsepower energy support. Due to the limitations of technological development, Suyou has no choice now.

China has not developed such a machine for thousands of years. Because of the shortage of land resources, agricultural machinery technology has developed in the direction of intensive farming and large-scale mechanical harvesting. Hahaha, that can only be called a dream.

There are many crops harvested in this period - cotton, rapeseed, and wheat.

Li Shuanshuo still thought that Su You was not busy enough. On August 12, Su You received a report in Lanzhou. Oil was discovered when drilling to a depth of 85 meters near the ruins of the Han Dynasty Earth Temple in southwest Suzhou!

After seeing the harvest expectations of the three main agricultural producing areas, Su You felt that his back was suddenly strengthened.

Yuanfeng's five-year bumper harvest allowed Sanlu to accumulate considerable wealth and make sufficient preparations for real accumulation of development in the coming year.

Ningxia is a good place, but Hexi has been hampered by wars for hundreds of years and has not developed normally.

After the demon of war was expelled, boundless vitality suddenly burst out.

This is what teachers from various schools teach children, and it is the propaganda slogan of "Ningxia Daily", but it is also an indisputable fact.

Income is the best proof.

There may be die-hards in the Xia Kingdom who dare to assassinate the Ningxia capital transfer envoy of the Song Dynasty, but there are no die-hards who dare to assassinate Yixi Weishe.

Su You is a person that no one can dislike, whether Han or Tibetan.

Even Liang Yiduobi, a representative of the "reactionaries" whom Su You nicknamed, admired Su You's character.

After the first harvest, the political situation in Ningxia No. 3 Road, which was still somewhat tense, suddenly relaxed.

This tension was actually caused by Su You, because as the actual leader of the Third Route, this kid had basically never stayed in Xingqing Mansion. He spent more than half a year wandering around the Hexi Corridor without ever relaxing for a moment.

Shen Kuo, Fan Chunren, and Zeng Xiaokuan were incomprehensible to Su You's actions and believed that he had overly trusted the ministers who surrendered to Xixia.

The person in charge of the overall situation in Xingqing Mansion is actually Chaogu, Liang Yiduo Burian, Wei Mingji!

Although there is also Li Shunju sitting in charge, he is a middle-ranking official, hahaha, and he is also not worthy of the trust of civil servants.

In fact, Su You was a thief. As long as others were in Xingqing Mansion, there would probably be some unfounded stories about what happened to Su You in the Xixia Palace.

Su You was very stingy and was not willing to give even this kind of opportunity to his political opponents.

It was not until Hexi became more mature and the industrial base had taken shape that Su You returned to Xingzhou with the Crane Control Army. As for the Dun'an Army, Ouyang Fa had already left it in Shazhou as a force to protect Dunhuang.

Dun'anjun has a tradition of soil work and is an expert at digging trenches. Three thousand hectares of cotton is a huge source of wealth. After one season's harvest, Su You no longer has to worry about it.

Therefore, by the time Su You returned to Xingzhou and exchanged jobs with Chaogu, it was already September.

Chaogu is old Ningxia. Under the assistance of Liang Yi Duomi and Wei Mingji, Ningxia Third Road is mainly quiet. In addition, Su You encourages production, provides work relief, divides cultivated land, establishes household registers, and religious brainwashing

After a series of policy combinations were implemented, the people in Ningxia's Third Road felt that their lives had changed dramatically, and that they could see the blue sky through the clouds.

The former Xingqing Mansion had one hundred thousand centimes and fifty thousand makui. When he first returned to his hometown, he was still worried that he was going to be liquidated.

As a result, Suyou not only allowed all of them to return home, but also divided their land, provided them with crops, and supported farming.

After the harvest in September, tax is really exempted.

All the preferential measures promised before were implemented. The Song Dynasty was indeed a kind and good lord.

In fact, Su You really had no choice. In the first year, as long as everyone could support themselves, he could not even finish the official fields of Xia State that he took over.
Chapter completed!