Back to the Song Dynasty as a tyrant

Even the imperial court may not know how many Arabs live in Guangzhou and Quanzhou.

And the so-called ocean trade data is even more impossible. As for the overall situation, even Qian Jinshu may not know.

However, at least for now, it is certain that in the era when Song Dynasty itself was willing to do business with overseas countries, the five shipping divisions were very busy.

This laid a good foundation for Zhao Ning to expand the ocean.

In fact, there is no development deviation in the timeline of official history. During the Southern Song Dynasty, maritime trade soared.

However, Zhao Ning thinks that the layout can be made bigger and the potential of the ocean can be fully utilized.

He said: "If so, can we increase the business with the big cannibals?"

Qian Jinshu said: "If Your Majesty wants to increase business with the big cannibals, it can be achieved, but there may be some problems."

"what is the problem?"

"If you want to increase trade, you will inevitably need to sell more goods, so where do these sold goods come from?"

"Naturally, it is the folks. Folk textiles were prosperous in the Song Dynasty, and there were many workshops. In the south, tea gardens are increasing day by day. If the imperial court wants to collect silk, ceramics, and tea, it is not difficult."

"However, there are a large number of folks. If the imperial court collects these commodities from the folks, it will inevitably lead to many merchants or local dignitaries enclosing land to grow mulberry and ramie."

Qian Jinshu helped Zhao Ning analyze it unhurriedly.

"If things go on like this, good fields will be merged, and more fields will be used to grow other things, resulting in a decline in food production. Wouldn't it be possible to cause a food shortage?"

Zhao Ning said in his heart: It is absolutely right to bring this little lady into the palace!

This is known to those who have really been at the bottom, who have done local food business and know many details.

At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, the population itself was about to exceed [-] million, and more fertile land was needed there.

After the Song Dynasty signed the Chanyuan Alliance, why did they abandon the horse breeding land in the Central Plains and Hebei?

Because horses are an animal that is extremely complicated and troublesome to raise.

It is a rectum, and it eats non-stop, and often slips, which requires a lot of ground.

However, with the rapid increase of the population year by year, the people's demand for food is increasing. The princes in the Song Dynasty discussed it and felt that since they had negotiated peace with the Liao Kingdom, they should stop raising horses.

Farming can feed more people.

After all, talent is the most important right now.

The 100 years of the Northern Song Dynasty were also the 100 years of China's farmland reclamation, and the 100 years of the development of water canals and river networks.

The meticulous management of the Song Dynasty made the internal affairs prosperous, which led to the flow of many rural people into the cities to promote the development of handicrafts and commerce.

The premise of all this is that the food supply must keep up.

Back to Zhao Ning, who wants to transport goods overseas. Although there is no steam engine, the production capacity cannot reach the level of the industrial age, but judging from the current social structure of the Song Dynasty, once the route is opened, there will definitely be a lot of goods exported.

But commodities are not produced by magic. To ensure enough silk, we must plant enough mulberry trees, to ensure enough cloth, we must also ensure enough plants such as ramie.

To sum it up in one sentence: it is to grow cash crops.

Then this will inevitably involve changing rice to mulberry, which will destroy the existing agricultural balance.

This is a huge problem.

Qian Jinshu continued: "Take Hangzhou as an example. At present, each farmer's annual harvest per mu is three stones, and the folks still have surplus grain that can be transported from the southeast to the capital. However, if the imperial court pushes ramie and mulberry trees vigorously, then The reduction of fertile land may even be maliciously seized by someone privately, causing public anger, and the southeast produces a lot of grain, and a considerable part of it is supplied to the land of Gyeonggi, which may affect Gyeonggi."

Zhao Ning fell silent for a moment. Miss Qian was right.

It is impossible for this kind of policy to truly achieve fixed-point results.

For example, the imperial court promoted the transformation of rice into mulberry in Zhejiang and Zhejiang provinces, and only planned [-] mu. Many people would secretly change it because of the huge profits!

Selling silk, ceramics and tea from the Song Dynasty overseas is violent!

There were many "capitalists" in the Great Song Dynasty!

They smell money everywhere, and wherever there is money, they gather there, trampling on human morality.

Therefore, this matter does not mean that I can solve it by drawing a range.

What's more, the grain production in the southeast has also involved the disaster relief in Hebei and Hedong in recent years.

If you don't pay attention a little bit and ruin the southeast, it will really be a catastrophe.

Zhao Ning said: "If this is the case, how about dispatching grain from Jiangnan West Road (Jiangxi Province), Jinghu North Road (Hubei Province), and Shu to the southeast along the Yangtze River?"

"If His Majesty insists on doing so, it is also feasible."

Especially the Jinghu North Road, which is being vigorously developed, and the Jianghan Plain were still Yunmeng Guze in the pre-Qin period, but in the Tang and Song Dynasties, there were already large tracts of fertile land.

Jinghu North Road is also on the edge of the Yangtze River, and the river network is second only to the southeast. If it can be developed there, it can fill the possible food gap.

Zhao Ning said: "Is it possible to plant a large number of mulberry trees and ramie on Jiangnan West Road, Jinghu North Road and Sichuan?"

"Yes." Qian Jinshu said, "Minnv doesn't know much about these places, but according to what she knows about the southeast, it would be better to plant directly in the southeast."

"why?"

"There are two reasons. One is that the rivers in the southeast are dense, which makes it easier to transport raw materials and commodities. The second is that the handicrafts in the southeast itself are very developed, and there are many workshops among the people. In this way, more commodities can be produced faster."

Zhao Ning couldn't help being shocked, Miss Qian really saw these issues thoroughly.

Why did the southeastern land become the economic center of the country after the Song Dynasty?

Is it because Lin'an became the capital during the Southern Song Dynasty?

Then why did Jiangnan remain the economic center of the country after Zhu Di moved to Beijing in the Ming Dynasty?

It is because of the place in the south of the Yangtze River that the river network is as dense as human capillaries.

The soil of business prosperity is traffic.

In an age of limited productivity, shipping is the cheapest and fastest way.

This ensures that the raw materials can be transported to the counties in the southeast quickly and at low cost, and the goods can also be transported to centralized places at low cost and sold in a unified manner.

This is also the fundamental reason why Shanghai has become the largest port in the 21st century, because those river networks are connected to the Huangpu River and the Yangtze River.

This is a collection of the entire Yangtze River, plus the Jiangnan river network. Where else is there such a perfect port location?

It's just that Shanghai in the Song Dynasty was still a real sea.

Zhao Ning chose the next best thing, and Hangzhou Bay, which exits from the Qiantang River, is also a very good place.

In this way, it is really only possible to develop an economic commodity center in the southeast.

And there is another important reason. More production of silk, cloth, and tea is not only for foreign trade, but also for domestic sales within the Song Dynasty, promoting the prosperity of internal commodities.

After all, there are dense canals between Jiangnan and Gyeonggi.

Shudi, Jinghu, and Jiangnan West Road do not have this advantage.

So after the discussion between the two, they really can only place this economic center in Jiangnan.

If this strategy is really successful, the economy within the Great Song Dynasty will take off.

It will also help to popularize banknotes.

Once there is money, food, and supplies internally, the problem of increasing population and foreign wars can be effectively solved.

Chapter 414 The Inexplicable Wang Zonglian (Part [-])

Zhao Ning continued to ask: "I heard that you also collected some overseas pictures?"

"Oh, there are indeed some, which are scattered and collected before."

"I'm going to open a Hangzhou Maritime University in Hangzhou, can I borrow those overseas pictures and chronicles?"

Qian Jinshu quickly said: "If your majesty needs it, you can take it. It is not a valuable item. It is an honor for a daughter of the people to do a little bit for your majesty."

"Jinshu."

"The girl is here."

"What I told you yesterday is true."

yesterday...

Only then did Qian Jinshu come back to her senses, and remembered that it was the man in front of her who had categorically said yesterday that she wanted to marry her.

She remembered what Zhao Ning said yesterday, marrying him would give her a higher position to display her talent.

It now appears that what he said was indeed true.

However, Miss Qian felt empty in her heart.

She doesn't care about displaying her talents, she just wants to be with the one she loves.

Love is like a glass of wine, whoever drinks it will get drunk.

Qian Jinshu drank this glass of wine and was completely drunk.

She thought she could elope with Zhao Guanren.

She had already figured it out. After elopement, she would find a place to live where no one could find them, farm, chop firewood, or do some small business.

Give birth to a few children, take care of the husband and teach the children, and live this life with Zhao Guanren quietly and smoothly, and grow old together.

She doesn't want the money and name of the Qian family anymore.

She only wants Officer Zhao.

but……

Thinking of this, she felt a hole in her heart, and a wave of boundless grief hit her like a tide.

But Zhao Guanren is Zhao Guan's family, and he is His Majesty the current emperor.

The emperor has no real love between men and women.

What's more, today's Zhao Guanjia is a hero who is trying to restore the prosperity of the Han and Tang Dynasties, let alone indulge in the love between men and women.

However, she is just an ordinary little girl, and she only wants her husband to be an ordinary person.

Thinking about it, she shed tears of grievance.

Zhao Ning asked in surprise, "What's wrong?"

"Oh, it's nothing, maybe I didn't sleep well last night, and my eyes felt a little uncomfortable." Qian Jinshu quickly wiped away her tears.

Zhao Ning stood up, walked over to Qian Jinshu, wiped away the remaining tears from the corners of her eyes with a handkerchief, and looked at her clear eyes that were full of melancholy and helplessness.

"The you today are a little different from the you in the past."

Qian Jinshu asked cautiously, "What's the difference?"

"In the past, you were bright, confident, like a spring breeze, like a bright moon."

Qian Jinshu couldn't help asking, "What about now?"

"Now I look like a wronged little girl."

As he said that, Zhao Ning picked up Qian Jinshu and hugged her into his arms, and immediately smelled Qian Jinshu's unique body fragrance from the tip of his nose.

Women are made of water, soft, waxy, and fragrant.

It tasted like sea breeze.

"Being an emperor is very lonely, and you always need someone to accompany you to chat." Zhao Ning said in that very gentle tone.

Qian Jinshu nodded silently.

In the afternoon, the imperial decree for the concubine arrived at Qian's house.

Qian Jinshu's title is "Shu", which means Concubine Shu.

Concubine Shu ranks second among the four concubines, and Concubine Gui ranks first.

Qian Jinshu's canonization ceremony went smoothly. Zhao Ning greeted Zhu Lian, but Zhu Lian was reasonable and did not stop her.

But the incident has sparked some minor political turmoil.

After hearing this, many people in the officialdom of the capital began to send people to investigate the Qian family. After a final investigation, it turned out that it was a branch of the Qian family in the southeast, and they had done so much business in the past two years in the capital.

And it's also related to Wang Zonglin.

Now countless conjectures came up, and many people believed that Wang Zonglian must have introduced the woman to Zhao Guan's family.

What kind of bullshit love between men and women is this? It's clearly political speculation.

Of course, many people have heard of the Qian brothers and sisters, after all, the business is not small.