Chapter 1497: Light Shine Transport

Liu Si was considered an honest person among the seven sons of the Earth Temple, and his entry into the officialdom was entirely the result of being kidnapped by Zhang Dun.

Zhang Dun wanted to level Meishan and open up Hunan and Hubei, so he needed to use Kuizhou as a large logistics base. Liu Si happened to be in Kuizhou at that time doing the finishing work for the outgoing Su You, so Zhang Dun captured him as a young man and was responsible for managing logistics.

When Zhang Dun defeated Meishan, Liu Si made great efforts and left a deep impression on Zhao Xu as being practical and reliable.

Later, Jinghu was developed following the example of Zhejiang and Zhejiang. No one wanted to be an official in that miasmatic and barbaric land. Liu Si didn't know whether it was good luck or bad luck, but he was named by Zhao Xu and became the transfer judge of Jinghu South Road.

Entered the road-level cadre sequence.

While Liu Si was lobbying the Meishan barbarians there, he met Su Jiu'er, the sister of the local wealthy Su Fang, and the two got married. Liu Si was then recommended by the transport envoy Cai Ye to become the deputy transport envoy of Jinghu South Road.

After Cai Ye left, Liu Si successively served as the transfer envoy of Jinghu South Road and the transfer envoy of Jinghu North and South Roads, which can be regarded as the highest level among foreign officials.

After that, he gradually began to have connections in the officialdom, and through Su You's help, he married his daughter to Wei Zhao, the eldest son of the Western Army general Wang Wenyu.

After Gao Taotao closed the curtain, he attached great importance to agriculture and asked officials on the two systems to recommend agricultural talents. Su You and Zhang Dun recommended Liu Si.

This is the Song Dynasty. There was no scientific examination result and he entered the official position as a subordinate. Liu Si wandered around for decades, opened up hundreds of thousands of hectares of fertile land, stabilized and recruited two groups of barbarians, and immigrated hundreds of thousands of households.

After Jinghu built the prototype of a large grain and silk base in Hunan and Hubei in later generations, he won the favor of the big boss and finally became a Beijing official and the last doctor of Nancao in the Ministry of Revenue.

This doctor is very marginalized, because the work of the Ministry of Household Affairs is very complicated, and he is in charge of the land, people, money and grain, and the difference between tribute and payment.

As for the agricultural part, it mainly controls the country's territory, fields, and registers, and also guides immigrants to reclaim wasteland; recruits and resettles refugees; uses the fish scale atlas and the yellow book as the basis to restrain the annexation of wealthy people; restricts the land and punishes the heretical people;

Serving as an agricultural officer in arboriculture lessons; using grassland to raise horses for grazing; using planting tools to recruit tenants to make the most of the land.

The work Liu Si is responsible for is in addition to these, and belongs to a new department in Nancaozhong of the Ministry of Household Affairs - the Technology Department.

This was Su You's suggestion to Gao Taotao. The six departments set up an independent department to be responsible for promoting new methods, new machinery, and new technologies.

Except for the official department, the other five departments have it.

However, Sima Guang was stubborn. Other departments were called the Technical Department, but the Ministry of Household Affairs still followed the old custom and called the Technical Department Sinong Temple.

Resentment, proper resentment.

However, Su You was too lazy to care. Anyway, the people in charge of the daily work of each department were basically science and engineering talents.

Liu Si has been farming for more than ten or twenty years and is very knowledgeable and confident in his business. Although he was caught off guard, Gao Taotao asked him through the car curtain, and Liu Si was able to answer in great detail, which made all the officials happy.

Very satisfied.

I heard Liu Si say: "The pot camel machine is dozens of times more effective than the Yellow River waterwheel. This year, due to the drop in the river water level, nearly twenty waterwheels cannot function. However, the Beijing Wednesday Road relies on the Luokou water conservancy project to gain

The amount of irrigation water is actually much more than usual."

"The reason for doing this is to turn harm into benefit and build a more complete water conservancy network on Jingzhou San Road."

"In the past, half of the land on Sanjie Road in Beijing was dependent on rainfall. It did not rely heavily on water conservancy projects. When construction work was carried out, local officials often acted in a disobedient manner, or even stopped those who obstructed it."

"This year is different. Local officials and people are very motivated. This is just a temporary facility. There are more than a hundred motorized wells drilled in other places. They are all set up in places where water conservancy was not available in the past. They play a greater role.

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"I have here a detailed map of the distribution of water conservancy facilities on Gyeonggi 3rd Road, and I would like to show it to the Queen Mother."

Gao Taotao ordered Zhang Shiliang to take a look at it. The black part on the picture is the old canal, the red part is the new canal newly opened by the various states this year, and there are hundreds of red triangles marking the location of the wells.

There are also red lines leading out of every machine shaft, turning the entire Gyeonggi 3rd Road into a huge spider web.

Gao Taotao was very satisfied with this: "Aiqing did a meticulous job in the tasks of the Nancao Technology Department of the Ministry of Revenue. I heard that Aiqing was a dignified messenger all the way. He spent a long time in the fields measuring and planning, building water conservancy projects, and there were songs and songs in Jinghu?

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Liu Si was so embarrassed that he bowed and saluted: "I was born as an orphan and have been in the grassland for a long time. This... this is superficial and simple. It is spread randomly by the people. It is really unworthy of officialdom and insults the ears of the saints."

This is a children's song published in "The Times" and has touched countless people.

"Transfer and transfer, the head of Guizhou is bare and the shin is shining; Jingnan, Hubei, is now turning to Shangjun; I will work hard and the court will not send envoys!"

When Liu Si served as the transshipment envoy in Jinghu, he introduced science and engineering technology and promoted water conservancy. Adhering to Su You's consistent style, he treated both Yi and Han equally, which was very popular.

The transfer envoys usually have to be replaced every three or four years. When the people of Jinghu heard that Liu Si was due to expire, they would leave Jinghu, cry and howl, spread ballads, and appeal to the court not to transfer Liu Si.

Zhao Xu was greatly moved when he learned about it, and because Jinghu was a newly developed area with a mixture of Yi and Han people, making it difficult to manage, he agreed to the people's request and forced Liu Siduo to serve in Jinghu for two terms.

Gao Taotao couldn't help but sigh when he saw the skin color of the old farmer Liu Si: "In the past, when Dayu controlled floods, his hands and feet were callous, and there was no hair on his shins. He never came into the house."

"Aiqing has been in charge of Jinghu for more than ten years, connecting Shuzhong at the top, Huainan at the bottom, looking at Jingxiang on the left, and Guangnan on the right, so that the area of ​​​​two thousand miles in the Song Dynasty has been transformed into a land of fish, rice, mulberry and hemp.

land."

"Ai Qing's contribution is as great as Su's oil exploration of Taihu Lake and Shen Kuo's expansion of the South China Sea."

"I heard that you are only four years older than Situ? This shows how hard you work."

"In the Song Dynasty, there was a transfer envoy with a smooth shank in Guizhou. This is the glory and pride of the Song Dynasty. The glory and pride of the officials and me are so shameless!"

One sentence defined Liu Si's character and made all officials envious of him.

As long as Liu Si does not act recklessly in the future, the Empress Dowager's comments today will be enough to ensure that Liu Si's descendants are wealthy and safe.

But then again, if they were to sacrifice Liu Si's current appearance, ten out of ten of them might not be able to do it.

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On the way back to Beijing, Zhang Dun took the opportunity to discuss Wang Anshi's "Economic Theory" with Su You.

This book by Wang Anshi is the result of more than ten years of painstaking research.

Starting from a macroeconomic perspective, the book analyzes in detail the division of labor and economic structure of the Song Dynasty, and finally discovers a truth, which is the concept of "social wealth".

Wang Anshi believes that a country's economy depends on the size of the country's market and the extent to which social wealth develops and grows in circulation based on the market and division of labor.

The book analyzes many aspects and believes that the value of wealth comes from each person, and the more social wealth each person creates, the more developed and wealthy the society will be.

To realize this, we need workers’ labor proficiency, improvement of labor skills, improvement of tools, and a very important point, the dissemination of knowledge.

Wang Anshi also absorbed some of the views of Su You and Zhang Fangping, believing that production should not only be limited to agriculture, but should include industry and commerce.

The concept of "the property of the four peoples is their fields" is also put forward in this book.

In addition to in-depth discussions and reflections on land leasing, transfer, and mergers, the book also provides a very detailed explanation of currency, commodity exchange, prices, labor, wages, capital, profits, and patents.

As for currency, banking, finance and other aspects, the discussions of Su You and Zhang Fangping were basically quoted.

The book explains in detail many emerging economic phenomena and economic products, including the operation modes of large national enterprises such as steel plants and shipyards; the operation modes of large private capital enterprises such as woolen mills, leather factories, and machinery factories; emerging

Research and analysis of financial means such as demand deposits, money orders, insurance business, etc.; even overseas colonies, whaling industry, new pastures, and new family-style three-dimensional agriculture are discussed.

The final conclusion is that the fundamental reason why the Song Dynasty achieved such great achievements was that it improved the per capita "social production efficiency" of everyone in the Song Dynasty.

The other side of production is consumption. As a two-term prime minister, Wang Anshi also gave a detailed description of the sources and distribution of national income, especially the specific measures to increase revenue and reduce expenditure since Yuanfeng.

However, the book still maintains the conservatism of Confucianism and expresses its approval of Su You's decision to let the clan stand on its own and become an integral part of the "people's power", but at the same time, it also raises the issue of "competing with the people for profit".

Moreover, Wang Anshi pessimistically believes that this is actually another form of plunder.

He believed that the crux of the failure of his early new laws was "taking the interests of the people and the country."
Chapter completed!