'I believe that as a matter of urgency, the Xinghua Army should be sent forward to stabilize the situation in Xinghua. The defenders from Fuzhou and Longhai Tong'an counties were also mobilized to assist Xinghua at the same time to prevent the situation in Xinghua from getting out of control. '
Han Qi and Fan Zhongyan are both strong-willed people, but Fan Zhongyan is young and energetic. Han Qi was more cautious.
This accident in Xinghua, no, it should be called an incident, surprised the three great ministers.
Not only were they considering the consequences of this matter, but they also called together many officials from Totang Xifu, Liubu and Jianyuan.
Many of them received the news much later than Xia Dang, but their shock was the same!
The New Deal had only been in effect for a short time before something like this happened!
Everyone's newly ignited flame was completely chilled!
Scholars may have their own purposes, whether they are for wealth or nobility, but the scholars who come to Bianjing City are the pinnacle of the reading world and belong to the most awesome group of people.
These people lack nothing. Some of them may be greedy for money, such as Xia Song, but they are only a minority. Most of them do things with a pure heart! For them, the most important thing is probably reputation!
Not being reviled by the world after a hundred years is the best achievement!
Why do the great ministers perform such a big drama? Is it to gain personal gain from it? It would be a different story if it were Xia Song, but this host was Fan Zhongyan, an honest official recognized even by the Xia Party! Money is not as useful to him as a piece of thatched paper!
The reason is just to make the people of the world live a better life, what else can you do? They have also gained the trust of the officials. They have everything they should have and lack nothing but passion!
But the people didn't buy it.
They never imagined that rebellion would still exist!
These policies are all about taking food from the mouths of nobles and powerful officials. How can they offend the people who just sit there and wait for the benefits? This is what the princes are puzzled by!
Xinghua is a special place. A similar incident happened only ten years ago.
Although the impact of that time was not very great, compared with several major rebellions in Shuzhong and Guangnan, it was simply not worth mentioning. However, the imperial court still attached great importance to leaving a large number of soldiers here.
How dare you rebel despite being guarded by soldiers!
It just so happened that the admonisher Cai Xiang was from Xinghua!
Today's Cai Xiang is no ordinary person. He, Wang Su, Ouyang Xiu and Yu Jing are also known as the Four Admonitions. The status of the four of them is like the Four Heavenly Kings. As soon as they open their mouths, whoever they want to impeach will lose their skin! If those minor characters in the imperial court are targeted by the four of them, then basically don't have any illusions. I'm afraid it's still a light thing to be infamous for thousands of years. I'll give you a few shit basins and add a few charges, and you can be ruined casually. So don't be too embarrassed. Simple.
These people have fairly good character and will not use the power at their disposal to do evil.
Why do people in Xinghua love to rebel so much? How could the imperial court fail them? These high-ranking ministers are very curious about this!
Call them poor. There is a famous saying that people can only plant pines and cypresses when they are thin. Call them not poor. They are next to Qingyuan, Longhai and Tong'an, which is not Wang County, which is extremely rich.
Cai Xiang also said that Xinghua has been in good weather these past few years, and nothing major has happened. There has been no interference from natural or man-made disasters. The life of the people is really good, and there is no reason to rebel.
Then this is strange. They have enough food to eat. The people of Xinghua are crazy. Rebellion is a big deal to lose their heads!
Cai Xiang brought out every possible clue, trying to find any clues.
In the years since Xinghua was reorganized into the military, it stands to reason that the local economy will have declined a lot. The large number of troops stationed in Qiu Ba, which is not engaged in production, costs a huge amount of national money. It is difficult for the people's power to improve dramatically in hundreds of years, but they are required to bear such a heavy economic burden. Naturally, the local economy will decline.
But nothing like this happened. .
Just because Xinghua has three more crops!
The first is double-cropping rice, which can be harvested twice a year. Rice seeds are a miraculous crop from South Vietnam. It seems to be born for the southern climate. The rice seeds produced in one more season allow the people to have two crops in a year. Although the harvest is a bit bitter, with double the income, their quality of life will be significantly improved!
Usually there is no autumn rice planting, and they have to do hard labor in winter. If they have money, they only need to pay part of the grain or income, and they can save themselves the pain of flesh and blood. Although growing rice is also hard, it is not as hard as doing hard labor. , then everyone still knows how to choose.
Then came the emergence of sweet potatoes. This magical crop is of greater help to everyone. In terms of preparation, it is of greatest help to the mountain people!
The yield of this kind of crop that can live on the soil is very high. Even the wasteland in the mountains that no one wants to cultivate can still grow sweet sweet potatoes, saving countless refugees from the threat of starvation and death!
Many ministers in the DPRK exclaimed that it was incredible just to hear about these two crops!
Where in the north can the first kind of rice be grown? Zhejiang or Lianghuai. If such rice can also be grown in the Suhu area, how much more grain can the court harvest in a year? No one dares to think about it! There is also a crop like sweet potato. According to Cai Xiang, isn’t it a life-saving food for thousands of toiling people? How many such mountainous areas are there in the two lakes and the Sichuan River, where not a grain of food can be harvested? Every year, countless people will take desperate risks and commit decapitation due to hunger. If this kind of crop is promoted, how much can the national power of the Song Dynasty be improved? How much can it appease the people's hearts?
All the princes listened to Cai Xiang saying that Xinghua had such crops, and they all thought Cai Xiang was joking. If such crops really existed, the life of the Xinghua people would have been greatly changed, and they would have fallen into rebellion again. ?
The common people are smarter than anyone else. When there is something good, they will move it to their homes as soon as possible so that they can get the seeds of this crop. They do not need the promotion of the court, they will promote it themselves. .
When Cai Xiang talked about the third crop, everyone frowned.
Sugarcane is a crop that everyone is familiar with.
What everyone is wondering is what is the use of this crop? Could it be that Xinghua grows so much sugar cane just for that sweet taste?
The imperial court values agriculture and mulberry trees and has always valued the use of land. What they hate most is using it for luxury and enjoyment!
But if there is planting, there will be need. Who eats so much sugar cane?
After continued questioning, everyone heard a name - Liang Chuan!
The court has undergone major changes in three years. Fan Zhongyan was just a secret pavilion school manager back then, similar to Su Shunqin today, and now he has become the top leader of the court. Many people are also new rising stars, and they have never heard of the name Liang Chuan.
But three years ago, when the name Liang Chuan was mentioned, everyone in the court would change their expressions!
This is not a small role. Many people spent a lot of effort in the Forbidden City to get in touch with Liang Chuan. Liang Chuan had a very close relationship with Xia Song at that time. Many people took a fancy to this and wanted to do something for him. Seek some benefits for yourself!
The name Liang Chuan has not appeared in the world for many years!
Since Liang Chuan took the initiative to leave Xia Mansion and returned to Qingyuan, many people thought that he was worthless and rarely paid attention to him. Later, many people heard that something happened to Liang Chuan in Guangnan, and there was no news at all in the past few years. If not, then I don't even care about this 'little role'!
Why did it pop up again now?
When Fan Zhongyan and Han Qi heard this name, their expressions changed!
At that time, Cai Xiang was still growing tea in the mountains of Jianzhou and had no contact with Liang Chuan, so he did not know this person.
But there are several others who have learned Liang Chuan's methods, and the people who can attract Xia Song's attention are definitely not ordinary characters!
Why did Liang Chuan appear at this time? Qingliu's little role encouraged the great ministers to take action to stabilize the situation. Only these people who have dealt with Liang Chuan know that there must be some unknown secret in it!
Liang Chuan would show up sooner or later, but he would perform such a show when the New Deal was being implemented, and the great ministers would be afraid!
They were afraid that Liang Chuan was just a pawn in this big game, but there was actually an expert behind it!
As for who that expert is, no one needs to guess, they can think of one person at a glance, Xia Song.
Xinghua Zhijun Ruijin asked the people of Xinghua to stop growing sugar cane and plant grain instead. They saw that this was a very reasonable and legal thing!
The land should grow food, there is nothing to discuss!
But Rui Jin’s letter did not say that farmers in Xinghua can earn more than ten times a year from growing sugar cane as they do from growing grain. . Even if there is double-cropping rice, they will not plant it for no other reason than because the income from sugar cane Liangchuan is higher!
Naturally, these officials would not have imagined that such sugar cane could yield such high returns. .
People in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Huaihe River, and Sichuan also grow mulberry, because the income from raw silk is much greater than growing grain, so the large fertile fields in the south are also used for commercial purposes, which is nothing more than a measure of profit!
The common people are not stupid. If they have something to gain, they will let it go and act like they don't see it?
Listening to Cai Xiang's explanation, everyone became more and more confused about Xinghua. The people here did not follow the ordinary path at all and did things that ordinary people could not understand.
Someone immediately raised concerns that this matter might be related to Xia Song.
The Xia Party is opposed to the New Deal and has never been able to find a suitable point of attack. The Xinghua incident is most likely an excuse created by them, just to use it as a breakthrough to hinder the implementation of the New Deal!
The more he thought about it, the less Qingliu dared to do anything about it.
Even if Liang Chuan instigates the people to rebel behind his back, it is because the people are dissatisfied and resentful! No matter what the result is, it is an extremely serious blow to Qingliu's New Deal!
Fan Zhongyan had spoken, and others had already guessed that Fan Zhongyan was feeling frustrated and helpless. It was as if there was a big mountain on everyone's heads, weighing them down and suffocating them!
If Cai Xiang hadn't mentioned Liang Chuan, people would have thought that there was something wrong with their new policy.
It would still be good to look it up.
