All the commentators shook their heads and sighed: "It's a pity that Chao Yuanxiu and I arranged the arrangement in Xiongzhou, but I have been in the army for many years, so I have to give in this time!"

This is the difference in vision. While everyone is still focusing on local considerations, Zhang Kai has already seen the overall situation.

Su You tried his best to find fault: "No, it's a black sweat. The Seljuqs nearby will definitely send reinforcements."

"This is called hunting rabbits in the grass!" Zhong Ji glared: "Let's not talk about whether there are reinforcements. Once they come, they can't go back. What if our army sweeps around and comes back like Huo Qubing did to the Huns? Let me ask you.

Is it worth it?”

"This... is really worth it..."

In Guiwei, Su You, the military envoy of the Fourth Army in Hebei Province, and Zhong'e, the military commander of the Fourth Army, made a secret report, expressing their full agreement and support for the strategic plan proposed by Zhang Kai, and that they would vigorously cooperate with Hebei Province.

With his advisor Zhong Shidao, Wei Zhao rushed to the capital and worked with Zhang Kai to persuade the court that this was the best plan to defeat the Liao Kingdom!

Geng Yin and the imperial censor Su Yuanzhen impeached Zhang Kai for arbitrarily creating a situation in the South China Sea, hoping to achieve success by luck.

Zhang Kai defended himself and avoided his position to await his punishment. Gao Taotao ordered Yang Shu, the transfer envoy of Nanhai Capital, to investigate and collect evidence, and then deal with Zhang Kai after the report was reported.

The imperial court appointed Zuocheng Han Zhongyan, the Minister of Secretariat, to know the affairs of the Privy Council, Chao Buzhi, the minister of the Privy Council, as the Deputy Privy Envoy, Su Yuanzhen, the imperial censor, as the transfer envoy of the four roads of Ningxia, and Liu Zhengfu succeeded Su Yuanzhen to control the imperial censorship, limited by his seniority.

Censor Zhongcheng.

This is a seemingly normal appointment.

In the eyes of the courtiers, Zhang Kai's previous role as Privy Councilor and at the same time leading the affairs of the Military Aircraft Department had too much power and should have been adjusted.

Gao Taotao restricted Zhang Kai's power without giving up. He appointed Han Zhongyan, whom he fully trusted, to take the seat in the Privy Council, and then appointed Chao Buzhi, who had served in both the Military Aircraft Department and the Privy Council, as deputy envoy. It should be said that he was quite powerful.

means.

The appointment of Su Yuanzhen, the imperial censor, is even more appropriate.

According to the court story, the censor would be promoted or go abroad in three years, and Su Yuanzhen had reached the time when he needed to adjust.

Now, due to the impeachment of Zhang Jie, it happened to be released.

Although he was born as a Yi, no one in the Song Dynasty regarded him as a Yi.

The Su family is a loyal and brave family. His sister Su Mi helped the Song Dynasty capture Nong Zhigao. His brother Su Lie participated in almost all the bloody battles in the Song Dynasty for thirty years and never lost. Su Yuanzhen entered the high school and was famous for his outspoken voice. Zhao Xu once

Write his name on the screen.

He is also extremely knowledgeable, and is proficient in Neo-Confucianism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. He is a disciple of the Longchang period. I heard that he was favored even more than Su You when he was in Meishan Academy.

Long Changqi often sent Su You to wash the pots, dishes and cook, and would scold him if he was slighted. However, Su Yuanzhen never had to work. If the broom fell over and he wouldn't help him, Old Long would pretend to be a good boy and didn't notice.

Because she was from a Yi family, Su Yuanzhen knew several foreign languages ​​and could speak the languages ​​of the Yi and Tibetan peoples.

Buddhism in Xixia, Qing and Tang Dynasties was deeply influenced by the Erlin Ancestral Temple. The ancestors of the Xixia people migrated from the Erlin area.

Being proficient in Neo-Confucianism, Su Yuanzhen had no problem communicating with the local Confucian schools in Hexi.

Born in Meishan, he is good at science and engineering.

The Tibetan people value precious species, and Su Yuanzhen's status is also very powerful. He is the son of an old man from the ancestral land of the Xia people.

Moreover, his demeanor and appearance were both top-notch. In those days, Mr. Wujiu's demeanor attracted the ladies of wealthy families in the capital to chase him in their carriages.

There are also two decisive forces in the northwest, hoarding and controlling the crane armies, and Su Wujiu's influence is also huge.

It should be said that the imperial court placed Su Yuanzhen in Ningxia, and he was the best candidate.

Liu Zhengfu’s appointment was also highly anticipated.

As a former leader of Taixue, Liu Zhengfu was known as "Little Fan Zhongyan". He was impassioned and took the world as his own responsibility.

When he was still a student, he often published heavyweight editorials in the "Times" to criticize the current ills. At that time, the scholar-officials called him the "Censor in White".

There was no objection from anyone except the person involved.

Han Zhongyan's younger brother Han Chunyan married Sun Gu's daughter. Sun Gu also held the title of Tongzhi Privy Councilor and was the old man Gao Taotao invited to oversee the affairs.

So Han Zhongyan and Sun Gu each begged because they were relatives, but Gao Taotao refused to accept any of them.

Han Zhongyan once had disagreements with Fu Yaoyu and General Xu, and Gao Taotao characterized Han Zhongyan's resignation as a disagreement between colleagues.

Therefore, all the officials in the imperial palace "impeached" Han Zhongyan: "The appointment of ministers is related to the country, and they must coordinate affairs in the temple. If you argue bitterly and ignore the matter, how can you watch all the officials! Yao and Yu, even though there are generals

It was a mistake in the debate, but everything is due to public interest, and I hope that I will take office."

Only then did Han Zhongyan have to agree.

But only a few people knew that the Song Dynasty's campaign against the Liao Dynasty had begun from a place that seemed out of reach.

…

In March, after Suyou inspected the steel industry, he began his own inspection.

Behind the diesel steamer, three more flat-bottomed wide wooden boats were towed, which were piled with supplies.

The Fourth Route Military Envoy had 500 personal guards arranged by the imperial court, who were mobilized from the new army in Beijing by Gao Taotao. Su You took advantage of this opportunity to try out the possibility of "advancing simultaneously by land and water".

Along the Yellow River, he inspected Yizhou, Wuyi, Fucheng, Leshou, and finally arrived in Cangzhou.

After the Ding tax was exempted and servitude was implemented, there were significantly fewer farmers in the fields and more oxen and draft horses.

This was Yuanyou's reformed policy. The number of cattle and draft horses owned by farmers was no longer used as a basis for tax payment. This measure made the sales of cattle and horses in Xiangzhou skyrocket.

In view of the difficulty of managing too many cattle and horses, Su You also wrote a letter requesting the Four Roads to follow Ningxia's example and exempt them from the crime of killing cattle.

Potatoes have a huge advantage. They are harvested every three months. In Hebei, you can do one crop of wheat or one crop of rapeseed. These two crops occupy the winter, which is just enough time to plant potatoes in autumn. It just depends on how you arrange it.

If you are in the south, you can also plant a crop of rice.

It's only March now, and the people in Hebei are planting corn.

To grow corn, you have to divide the land at home into two parts. One part is for planting wheat and potatoes, and the other part is for planting corn right now.

However, the reason for growing it is for both human and animal use. When the corn is harvested and wheat is planted in autumn, the wheat can be harvested over there to arrange rapeseed or corn for next year.

It's very good, the arrangements are very full, but the soil fertility has become a big problem, and it needs to be fertilized.

When manure became a commodity in short supply, every family began to dig toilets, and no one was spared, including cattle, horses, pigs, and humans. As a result, in major towns in Hebei, manure trucks from rural areas in Sichuan began to appear, as did manure trucks that bought people's manure early in the morning.

Farmers carrying manure.

Suyou is calling on all prefectures to develop five small industries, that is, small steel, small coal mines, small machinery, small cement, and small chemicals.

In Hebei, we are uniquely endowed with these things.

Everything else is progressing pretty well, but the chemical industry is mostly soap factories, lime factories, and factories that can produce fertilizers, and the threshold is too high.

Fortunately, there is one in Cangzhou.

Cangzhou has the best salt field in China during the entire feudal era - Changlu Salt Field.

But it is very sad that the people of Hebei, who guarded a good salt field, could not afford salt a few decades ago.

Speaking of which, this is Zhang Fangping's good policy. Lao Zhang went to Hebei for investigation and found that during the transformation of the salt policy from the rationing system to the supply system in the Song Dynasty, the government no longer distributed salt to the people in Hebei and allowed everyone to buy it on their own. However, the money for salt and vegetables was still the same.

Taking care of it!

Lao Zhang immediately wrote a letter requesting to be exempted from this harsh rule.

And because Hebei is originally a salt-producing area, it is normal for ordinary people to eat private salt, so it is forbidden repeatedly.

So he submitted a letter again, saying that there was no need to produce salt in Hebei. Once enough was handed over to the government, the people could simply allow the people to produce and trade on their own.

From then on, Hebei and Sichuan became the only two regions in the Song Dynasty without salt farming.

After becoming a custom-made company, many of the Hebei transshipment envoys coveted this big profit. Unfortunately, the people in Hebei were really fierce, and in the end they left it alone.

It was not until Su You implemented the "New Deal" of Anshi Xianggong in the places where sheep heads were sold as dog meat on Liangzhe Road, and stipulated that trafficking more than three hundred kilograms of salt at a time was considered "reselling private salt", and the salt industry in the Song Dynasty was truly dead.

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Speaking of this trick, Su You is still proud of it. He sold three hundred kilograms at a time, and he couldn't even carry it on a horse.

After the salt field technology of Liangzhe and Zhejiang was established, Sitong also rebuilt the large salt field in Cangzhou.

It is also sad to say that Cangzhou is located at the "Nine Rivers" and has been swept away by the Yellow River several times in the past few decades, and the salt field has become dilapidated.

After the arrival of Sitong, they had to work hard to "limit production capacity" because they were afraid of being coveted by the Liao Kingdom, and did not dare to make a big deal.

Now that the Song Dynasty has finally begun to strengthen its waist, and Zhao Xiaotong Shoes gave Situ a lot of face and generously borrowed 15 million yuan, Su You, who is a source of huge profits, will certainly not let go.

In addition to the salt field, there is also a salt chemical industry base. Scientists at the Capital University have a professional and quiet research environment, and they have started the most terrifying golden finger of modern salt chemical industry - the ammonia synthesis process.

The previous ammonia was crude ammonia, a by-product obtained by dry distillation of wood.
Chapter completed!