Chapter 1032 Tu Duan and Shang (Part 2)
"You have to wait until you grow grain. Don't bother me." On the bank of Feishui River in the east of Shouchun City, Sun Zuo waved his hand to his entourage, and then continued to listen to the old woman in front of him.
"There are too many wild silkworms. They are all over the mountains and plains. No one wants them. They are worthless." The old woman rambled, with a bit of surprise on her face.
Although the accent was difficult to understand and he had to be "translated", Sun Zuo was still very interested. Then he picked up a silkworm cocoon, looked at it carefully, and asked: "How many wild silkworm cocoons can be harvested in a year?"
There was no need for the old woman to say anything now. The official accompanying the translator replied directly: "There are always more than ten thousand stones a year, which is a lot."
"What to eat?"
"It eats oak leaves to form a cocoon, which is as big as a oak leaf and is green in color."
"Guo Yigong's "Guangzhi" said that '(Qingzhou) oak trees cannibalize the leaves of the oak trees and can be used to make cotton.' This must be the thing." Sun Zuo said.
Oak trees and oak trees are called differently in different places.
In fact, not only Qingzhou, Huainan and Soochow have such wild silkworms, but they may not eat these leaves.
"Households in Henan receive three kilograms of cotton every year." Sun Zuo said with emotion: "In Huainan, hundreds of thousands of kilograms of wild silkworm cocoons are picked up every year. Cotton can be used as cotton clothes, but it is a pity that people in the north have no way to protect themselves from the cold when the weather is cold. Clothes. Isn’t this money?”
"Write it down." He turned his head and said to a young nephew.
"Kill! Kill! Kill!" A strong cry of killing came from the east bank of Feishui River, which startled Sun Zuo.
Looking closely, it turned out that the soldiers from the Yinqiang Zhongying were taken to Bagong Mountain for training.
"I know how to fight and kill." Sun Zuo said angrily: "I am trying to pave a smooth road for the emperor."
"Do you know how to write it?" Sun Zuo looked at his nephew Sun Song again and asked.
"Wild silkworms eat oak leaves and form cocoons..."
"You can't write like this when you want to talk to the scholars from various states when you go back!" Sun Zuo straightened his face and said: "There are wild silkworm cocoons everywhere, and you can pick them up if you bend down, weighing no less than two million kilograms, which can reach hundreds of thousands of households in a year. Mianzhu. The natives once said, "There are more of these things in Huainan than in the south of the Yangtze River." However, the people in the south of the Yangtze River don't use them, and if they are sold back to the north, Shi Chong and Wang Kai will not be as rich as me." br>
Sun Song was stunned.
Sun Zuo chuckled, without my hard work, how could Mrs. Sheep be so favored?
He quickly said goodbye to the old woman. Before leaving, I gave him a piece of silk as a reward.
Huainan and Jiangnan are relatively backward, and it is almost impossible to see silk of such good quality. One piece is enough for an old woman to use for a long time.
After lunch, Sun Zuo walked around a few more places and asked questions at will.
Sun Song followed behind and kept recording.
And in this kind of record, the prototype of a manor was revealed.
On August 20, Sun Zuo returned to Shouchun, and the young eunuch Cao Yi also arrived here.
This man was still in Pingcheng in June, but two months later he came to Shouchun to work at the front station and work hard.
However, when he saw the fog in the morning, he became a little suspicious and suspected that it was miasma.
"Don't worry, Mr. Cao, it's fog." Yang Bao stood on the bow of the boat and laughed.
While talking, the boat had already turned into Shaopi along the Lijiang River.
There are more than ten boats in the Pi, each carrying twenty or thirty soldiers, all armed with swords and bows, ready for battle.
Cao Yi saw it and couldn't help but feel a little nervous.
"Don't worry, the Jiangdong navy has retreated." Yang Bao said: "There may be people in Lujiang who are accustomed to water fighting, but most of them are in the south, and there are very few in the north. Even if there are, they can still fight."
"Did you see the Water Gate over there?" He pointed with his hand and said, "That's the Big Incense Gate built by Deng Ai when he was in charge of Shaopi. Quan Cong of the Eastern Wu Dynasty dug it up, and the fields in Shaopi were covered with ocean. In the Jin Dynasty, Huainan Prime Minister Liu Song restored it, so it can be cultivated again, but it is a pity that there is no one."
"Now that we have Yangquan, we have no worries in the north of Shaopi. This winter we just need to dredge the ditches and restore the old fields. We can start farming after spring next year."
"What will happen if the pirate navy comes again?" Cao Yi asked.
"Captain Zhang intends to attack Lujiang after winter." Yang Bao said: "The thieves will be heavily fortified in Hefei, and the attack on Lujiang can be unexpected. If they can succeed, they can also have all the benefits of Shaopi. Wouldn't it be wonderful?"
"If we fight in the summer, we will fight again in the winter?"
"You shouldn't fight in summer, but you should fight after winter." Yang Bao said nonchalantly: "There are plenty of soldiers."
Cao Yi was speechless.
"From now on, we will cultivate land in Deng Ai's old fields." Yang Bao said, "If the food can fill the pavilion, more soldiers can be mobilized."
Cao Yi looked carefully at the vast mist of Shaopi.
Judging from the current situation, only 5,000 hectares of farmland can be cultivated.
If ponds and irrigation canals can be properly repaired, the area can be increased to 10,000 hectares.
The maximum amount of farmland that can be irrigated in Shaopi should not exceed 20,000 hectares.
But this is already amazing.
According to the emperor's plan, rice and wheat were cropped in rotation, with two crops a year. And this kind of farmland that can be fully irrigated often has a very high harvest. Based on 5,000 hectares, it can accumulate 5 million dendrobium grains in an initial year. After a few years of farming, the harvest can be greatly increased.
With this kind of food and grass, it will definitely be able to support a large-scale war, and it is not impossible to capture cities and territories in Huainan.
But I don’t know who was in charge of Huainan’s military affairs in the Southern Dynasty. He will not have a peaceful life in the next few years.
On August 22, Cao Yi returned to Shouchun and immediately began to write a memorial and sent it to Luoyang.
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The patter of autumn rain washed away the dust in Luoyang.
In the political hall, Prime Minister Wang Yan picked up a letter and read it carefully several times.
"Mao Hong, Mao Hong, sometimes your manpower is exhausted, so stop struggling." Wang Yan sighed and put down the letter.
In the long run, it is necessary to cut off the land of Qiaojun, but this matter seems to be a petty one.
In the past, when Liu Hong was in Jingzhou, many refugees came, so he directly banned the mountains and rivers. There were not enough mountains and rivers, so the wasteland created after the Zhang Chang Rebellion was granted to the refugees. All refugee household registrations will be incorporated into the state and county.
But when we get to Jiangdong, we must establish Qiaojun. Why? Of course, the situation in Jiangdong was complicated and he could not speak freely, but Director Wang worked hard to paper it, but he was able to make smooth decisions. Comparing the two, he felt very comfortable.
"Where is the Emperor?" Wang Yan asked Ling Shi, who was staying nearby and was sorting out the archives.
"We have arrived in Hongnong."
"Why is it so slow?"
"The two Jin beauties are pregnant, so the journey is a little slow."
When Wang Yan heard this, he waved his hand to indicate that he understood.
After getting up and admiring the autumn rain in the corridor for a while, Wang Yan slowly walked back to the hall and sat behind the desk specially made by Shao Xun for him - without having to kneel down.
Shi Helun, the governor of the Shanyu Protectorate, asked to establish a city in Pingcheng.
Fang is naturally the inner square of Luoyang, Yecheng and Bianliang, which is a residential area surrounded by walls.
The square is connected with the city. As the name suggests, it is a market enclosed by walls.
The reason why we discussed setting up a market actually stemmed from a slave trade.
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Xu Chengzhi, a great farmer in Liangcheng, sent more than a thousand slaves to Pingcheng. Cao Yi, the young eunuch of the Shaofu government, offered money to buy them. According to the custom, regardless of gender, old or young, each person is given two pieces of mixed silk - actually a kind of silk produced in Hedong and Pingyang.
Cao Yi proposed to buy one piece of silk for one person on the grounds that the Qinghe silk and Hanoi silk he carried were soft and dense.
Xu Chengzhi agreed at first, but he needed to ask the Queen Mother Wang for instructions, but was eventually rejected. The reason was that Hu merchants from the Western Regions did not believe that one piece of Qinghe silk and Hanoi silk could be worth two pieces of Hedong miscellaneous silk.
The slave sale was not completed in the end.
This is actually quite normal.
Hedong and Pingyang counties have more than one kind of silk, and the other counties also have more than one kind.
Wang Yan didn't count them carefully, but there were always hundreds of kinds of silks in Daliang territory.
Some are harder and some are softer.
Some are denser and some are sparse.
Some are dyed, some are not.
Some have colored threads, some don't.
Some are even woven with hemp or rabbit fur, and some are made entirely of silk.
There are so many kinds.
Silk is something that is originally made for people to wear. Naturally, different types of silk are woven according to different uses.
Furthermore, depending on the quality of the weaver's craftsmanship and the different weaving methods, the price of the silk will naturally vary.
Not to mention that there is a difference between old and new. The price of one-year silk and three-year-old silk are very different.
You use silk as money. You say it is worth a thousand dollars, but I say it is only worth five hundred. It is normal to argue endlessly.
To put it bluntly, this kind of thing is not suitable for use as money.
But Yu Zhi, the governor of the Shaofu, refused to give in and became furious. He heard that he had been scolding him for a long time in the official office.
Wang Yan just wanted to laugh after hearing this. Don't you know what kind of virtue you have today? At this age, anger is harmful to the body.
Yu Zhi should have also gone to Shu to criticize Mrs. Wang, because the emperor knew about it.
His response made Wang Yan extremely surprised. The emperor actually wanted to hold a talk and invite scholars and merchants to participate.
Wang Yan thought about it for a long time and always felt that this matter was not simple.
Perhaps it is not just related to business, but also other things, and it is something that the emperor has been planning for many years.
He couldn't guess, but he was very curious and eager to know what tricks the emperor was playing.
He always felt that after the emperor pointed his finger at Jiangnan, he became less and less able to conceal his intentions.
"Don't do serious business!" Wang Yan secretly slandered: "A few things are more important than cleaning up the world?"
However, what was handed down still needs to be done.
Wang Yan thought carefully about which noble families in his impression were engaged in business, and found that he was shocked when he thought about it.
Compared with twenty or thirty years ago, there are really more scholars doing business now.
Before Jia Nanfeng's chaos, the world was mostly peaceful. At that time, the Taiyuan Wang family was counted as one, the Jiyin Bian family was counted as one, and together with the Langya Wang family, they were all running one or several businesses.
But after all, there are many manors and forts everywhere, and most wealthy families are still self-sufficient. Except for salt and iron, they rarely ask for help from others.
After all, this is the highest pursuit of scholars: to be self-sufficient and not to ask for help.
After Liang Guo's twenty counties were transferred to farmland, things slowly changed.
Many wealthy families could no longer maintain their former estates and began to get used to going to the market to buy things.
Don't tell me, my old wife Guo raised craftsmen to make gold and silverware, which she sold far and wide and made a lot of profits. In the past, manor owners mostly let their own gold and silver craftsmen make various utensils, and rarely went to the market to buy them unless a batch of exotic goods arrived.
This year, nineteen counties are in the field again - in fact, they were cleaned up once last year, but the emperor was not satisfied.
After completing the training, who dares to say what the world will become?
Wang Yan couldn't see clearly and felt a little confused. He seemed to be gradually unable to keep up with the pace of the emperor.
At the end of August, a huge team appeared in the western suburbs of Luoyang.
Everyone knew that the emperor's western tour ended and he returned to loyal Luoyang.
(I have something to do during the day, Chapter 3 is at night, it shouldn’t be too late.)
(End of chapter)