Promotion Letter for the Chief Executive

What does Xu You want most?

Undoubtedly, it is authority.

In addition, there should be a reputation.Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to maintain such a good image for decades. There are so many ministers in the court, he is the most popular and most admired, and almost no one says anything bad about him.

Perhaps at the beginning, it was just a necessary disguise to climb up, but after a long time, he has already gotten used to it, or he still enjoys it.

Therefore, all you need to do is to find something that can increase his authority and gain a good reputation after it is done.

What kind of thing can satisfy these two points?Actually there are many.

However, Ping An is now used to thinking twice when doing things. It is best to achieve several goals for the same thing, saving time, effort and worry.So although this matter was to be used to deceive Xu You, it was unlikely to be impossible, and even less likely to be harmful.Otherwise, Xu You still needs to clean up the mess by himself after cheating Xu You.

Secondly, since there will be reforms in the future, it would be good for Xu You to conduct a pilot project now.The experience of failure can also be used as a lesson in the future.

In fact, the simplest thing is to find something in history that "looks good but is actually difficult to develop".After all, with previous experience, the method is more reliable.

But since he had experience, Pinna felt that asking Xu Youlai to repeat it would be of little use.

After all, doing one thing repeatedly is actually a waste of resources.

Ping An couldn't think of something more suitable for a while, so he simply decided to discuss the feasibility with Zhao Can first.Anyway, this kind of thing can't be rushed, you have to take it step by step, and now think about all the possible situations you may face, so that you won't be in a hurry when the time comes.

When the two exchanged letters to discuss this matter, autumn had already arrived.This year is another bumper harvest year, and the grain harvested is enough for the entire Dachu for two years.Such a high output almost exceeded everyone's expectations.

In addition, Ping An also got good news from Zhang Dongyuan.

The thoroughbred transformation work that has been going on for several years has made quite gratifying progress.

Originally, Zhang Dongyuan's main energy was on improving the improved varieties of rice and wheat, two staple foods.Later, two foreign species, potatoes and sweet potatoes, were added under Ping An's suggestion.Then corn was added.In this way, Zhuangzi in the capital will not be enough.After all, it is impossible to use all Zhuangzi as experimental fields.

So Ping An simply suggested to buy farms all over the country and continue to improve them.After all, the purpose of their transformation of improved varieties is also to adapt to the local environment and increase production.The high-yielding varieties grown in the capital may not be suitable for the climate in other places.Experimenting separately in this way may have special effects.

After all, the natural environment of each place is different, and the requirements for seeds are also different.In areas where droughts occur frequently, drought-resistant varieties are required, and in northern Xinjiang, where the environment is cold, cold-resistant species are required.In addition, those that are resistant to high temperature, salt-alkali soil, floods, and simply high yield... Only when they adapt to the local climate can they be popularized.

Sometimes, some things are just that no one is the first to point out the direction and how to do it. Once the layer of window paper is pierced, the following things will be much easier.This kind of easy does not mean that it can be done easily, but that many people can do it.

The practice that can be promoted so that everyone can learn it is truly commendable.Because it is practicable.

After all, the present is no better than later generations. Even if roads are built, the transportation is destined to be impossible to be so convenient, and there are many restrictions in various aspects. It is impossible for the imperial court to uniformly distribute grain to various places.So it would be great if the local government could organize the people to keep their own seeds.

Far away, after several years of experiments, the yields of these crops have adapted to the climate in various places, and the yields have stabilized.The increase in production may not be achieved temporarily, but there is no problem in promoting the planting area.

Even corn, a new alien species, has adapted to the local climate, and its yield has increased, so it can be planted slowly.

Surprisingly, compared with crops such as rice and wheat, corn obviously does not require so much land, and it can be grown on many lands.Although the output is not high, it is enough.

In Hebei and the northwest frontier area, due to years of wars, the population is very sparse, and it is difficult to grow crops in the land, so large tracts of land are vacant.

If crops can be planted on these lands, then a large part of the military rations can be settled on the spot, without the need for the imperial court to transfer food from Jiangnan and other places.The consumption saved along the way is also a huge amount.

Although Ping An has been paying attention to this matter, after all, there are many other things involved in his experience, and after he left the capital, he couldn't care less.So the matter was entirely done by Zhang Dongyuan with the emperor's secret support.

So when he suddenly heard the good news, Ping An was also very surprised, and then became happy.

After hearing about this incident, he had a new idea, and he could do it in conjunction with this incident, and it might have good results.

Xu You's hometown is in the south of the Yangtze River.Although up to now, he basically has no relatives left there, but Ping An can vaguely see from Xu You's biography that Xu You still has a slight preference for Jiangnan.

This is also very normal, and it is impossible for anyone to turn a blind eye to the hometown where they grew up.It's just that most ordinary people will miss it, and some capable people will repay it.But Xu You is obviously different from everyone else.

When others give back to their hometown, they must have the idea of ​​returning to their hometown, hoping to show off in front of the villagers and make everyone envious.

But Xu You wasn't. For so many years, he went out to serve his parents Ding You, and he never went back to Jiangnan.But there is also a lot of attention to Jiangnan. When there are any new policies, they will subconsciously lean towards this place.

Ping An preliminarily deduced that Xu You should have a love-hate relationship with this rich place.

Born here and raised here, it is normal to be unable to let go.But for Xu You, the experience of being poor when he was young, and even having to "sell" his marriage in exchange for the resources to continue to go up, for him who values ​​face and reputation, I am afraid it will not be good. Memories, and I don't want to be discovered and mentioned by anyone.

And that's what peace needs.

Just imagine if there is a new thing that is obviously tailor-made for Jiangnan and has a lot of benefits but no harm, how could Xu You resist fighting for Jiangnan?But because of his own selfishness, after he won the things, he couldn't go to Jiangnan for field inspections.

In this way, in the process of implementation, some problems will inevitably arise.If Xu You couldn't find out in time and allowed it to expand, the final result would naturally be borne by him.

Pingan thinks very clearly that Xu You's identity is different from ordinary people, and it is impossible to completely overthrow him at once, so after meeting him, it is bound to be a long-term job. Xu You made mistakes, and in the end, the small mistakes accumulated and turned into big mistakes, which blocked all his escape routes and completely knocked him down.

So this will definitely take a long time, so what we have to do now is just some preliminary preparations.

If it wasn't for Zhang Dongyuan's progress in this idea of ​​Ping An, he really wouldn't dare to act rashly.After all, the risks are great.

Just like what Ping An said to King Qi before, the south of the Yangtze River is rich, not only because the land here is fertile and it is a land of fish and rice, but more importantly, because almost every family of the people raises silkworms and weaves cloth.And the price of silk is expensive, so the people in Jiangnan are richer than other places.As long as a few silkworms are raised every year, the income can be equivalent to a year's harvest in the field.

What Ping An needs to do is to expand this model, from private sericulture to government support, so that the sericulture business in the south of the Yangtze River can form a scale.

Specifically, Ping An believes that the "Mulberry Fish Pond" of later generations is worth learning. On the premise of not damaging the environment, it can expand the scale and increase profits, forming a virtuous circle.

But everyone knows that Chinese people always have the mentality of following the crowd. As long as there are no restrictions on one thing, and seeing the benefits of others doing it, how can others not be moved?Once the first person makes a profit, the others will naturally follow suit when they are jealous.In this way, the scale will become larger and larger, and finally it will be difficult to control.

The south of the Yangtze River is densely populated and the land is scarce. After those corners and corners are used up, people will naturally have the idea of ​​cultivating land.In particular, the local water network is dense, and if you dig a few meters deep in a piece of fertile land, it will be a fish pond.It is very convenient to plant mulberry and raise silkworms by raising the surrounding soil with the excavated soil.

No matter what age it is, agricultural land must be absolutely guaranteed.Because the people depend on food, and for a country, food reserves are also a very important material.

Jiangnan is known as the "Land of Fish and Rice", with fertile land and high grain output. Because of the warm climate, rice can be harvested twice a year, so nearly half of the grain in Dachu is produced here.If these fertile fields are invaded and turned into fish ponds, the consequences can be imagined.

So Ping An felt that he had good luck. Just when he wanted to trick Xu You, Zhang Dongyuan sent good news.If the work of farming in the frontier goes smoothly and high-quality grains are popularized, then even if there is a problem in the south of the Yangtze River, the grain output of Dachu can still be guaranteed.

Besides that, there's another benefit to this thing.Now that all the nails in King Qi's court have been removed, naturally there is no eyeliner to provide him with news.Therefore, as long as the imperial court keeps things secret, it will be difficult for the King of Qi to find out news about Hebei and Northwest, let alone know that he can grow his own food here.

In this way, it is assumed that after four or five years, the mulberry fish ponds in the south of the Yangtze River will have formed a large scale, and the annual grain production will decrease rapidly, and there will be no surplus grain for sale.At this time, the promotion of commercial crops in the southeast has also achieved great results. Most of the land is used to grow these things. They are about to exchange the production for money to sell grain in Jiangnan, but suddenly find out——Hey, where is the grain in Jiangnan?

That picture must be pretty good.

Of course, there are still many details that need to be discussed, such as how to let Xu You know about the Sanji fish pond, and how to make the situation in Jiangnan get out of control.Not to mention keeping a secret.And because it will last for several years, it is inevitable that we will really leave a mess for ourselves to clean up in the future, so the adjustment in the middle is also very necessary.

All of these things cannot be done with just one idea in Ping An, and the implementation process is more complicated and difficult.

However, Ping An is only responsible for coming up with ideas, how to implement these things, whether it is feasible, and what adjustments need to be made are the affairs of Zhao Can.

Thinking about it this way, Ping An immediately wrote down the idea like flying with his pen.Then hand it over to Kai Yang, who will personally send the letter back to the capital and hand it over to Zhao Can.This kind of thing must never fall into the hands of outsiders, so it is not safe to ask others to give it away.

At the same time, since Kaiyang has been sent out, sending one letter is also sending, and sending two letters is also sending, Ping An naturally writes the income he has gained during this period of time into an article and asks Kaiyang to pass it on.

After all, the previous plan was mostly for the purpose of defrauding Xu You. Although as long as it is controlled properly, there will be no major problems, but Ping An is very clear that sometimes things in reality are often not as fast as the plan. No matter how good the idea is, it cannot Completion is empty.

Therefore, Ping An cannot just expect the imperial court to play a regulatory role to control the situation.After all, if you can control it, then you can say anything, but what if you can't control it?So he had to come up with a remedy first.

This idea was gradually formed after Ping An stayed in the southeast coast for so long.

Although up to now, Da Chu has not met any international friends from the sea, but Ping An will not think that there is really only Da Chu in this world, and other than that, it is all barbarians.

After all, in Dachu now, there are already many species brought in from other races—although most of them came by land, crossing the grassland and coming from the northwest.But these are enough to prove that the world structure here will not be too different from the previous life.

That being the case, the age of great exploration will come sooner or later.

If Da Chu is not prepared, he will be at a disadvantage in the future when facing a sea war.At that time, they can only be slaughtered by others.Therefore, Ping An feels that it is necessary to make preparations from now on.And to do this, naval training is urgent.

During this period of investigation in the coastal areas, Ping An found that although these fishermen only operate in the offshore area, their understanding of the sea and a lot of experience are of great reference value and significance.

The current navy of the imperial court basically has no use for it except to perform on the Jinming Lake every year for the emperor to see.Even the battles with pirates are mostly carried out on land.As long as the opponent escapes into the sea, that's fine.

Under such circumstances, Ping An believes that it is possible to form a navy based on these experienced fishermen, so that in the early stage, they will not face the dilemma of not knowing the situation at all and not knowing what to do.After absorbing enough experience, you can gradually start to expand the scale and recruit more soldiers.

Of course, in addition to this, the matter of shipbuilding must also be put on the agenda, otherwise there will be no good enough sea ships, and naval battles will still suffer.However, there is no good way for Ping An in this regard. Although he knows a lot of unpopular knowledge, he is not omnipotent; although he has dismantled a ship model, it is still too reluctant to draw a design.

This can only be done slowly.However, during the Ming Dynasty, China produced treasure ships that could sail to the Western Ocean. Ping An believes that with the strength of the whole country of Chu, it will be able to produce equally excellent ships sooner or later.At that time, the ship will be wrapped with steel, and the title of sea overlord may have to be replaced.

Of course, the reason why Ping An has done these are "remedial measures" is because once the navy has formed a scale, it will naturally be able to set sail and start exploring the overseas world.

And Ping An has always remembered that in places going south, such as Vietnam, rice is harvested three times a year. As long as you can find these places, you can buy as much food as you need.Moreover, in the initial nautical age, the occupation of land in the early colonial period was a simple and crude way of "who discovers who belongs to whom". As long as Da Chu has the ability, he can definitely get a large enough territory for himself.

At the same time, Da Chu can also establish diplomatic relations with other countries, and by the way, sell the silk tea produced in the southeast and Jiangnan to foreign countries for huge profits.

It's amazing to say that the three plans, which were originally created separately due to various reasons, have become interlocking here in Ping An.If it can really be done, then in this matter, Da Chu can be said to be completely invincible.Zhao Can will naturally have less worries, and can fully implement it.

After writing the plan, Ping An felt that his brain had been squeezed dry, so he immediately put all these things aside and continued to travel around the mountains and rivers, completely ignoring these things.

On Zhao Can's side, when he received the proposal from Ping An, he was both surprised and happy, but at the same time, he couldn't help but be a little bit dumbfounded, "Ping An really can't wait for me to be idle for a moment. With these two things, I will be busy for a long time. gone."

Kai Yang pretended that he hadn't heard this sentence, and said with a straight face, "Ping An also found two experienced old men who can build boats by the sea, and let me bring them back. Would you like to meet, Your Highness?"

"Of course we want to see you." Zhao Can couldn't help laughing upon hearing this.Although Ping An said in his letter that he couldn't help with this matter, he obviously didn't think so in his heart, and spent all his efforts and efforts to find the two shipbuilders.

To make him pay so much attention, the two of them should be very capable when they come here, and in that case, he naturally wants to meet.

In addition, Ping An also managed to send back a box of seafood.I don't know how he did it, but these things didn't stink after sending them all the way.When opening the box, Zhao Can was startled.

Of course, Kaiyang also reported the things he couldn't guess one by one, "Ping An seems to have put ice cubes in it, but it's almost melted now."

Of course, it is impossible to have ice cubes in the small fishing village, and these ices are all made by Ping An.In order to ensure the transportation was successful, he specially made an ice-making tool and handed it to Kaiyang, adding some ice cubes to it every day.

"I'm afraid the tributes are not so dedicated." Zhao Can couldn't help but sigh.Even if he is a noble person in Tianhuang, because he lives in the capital, he seldom eats seafood.It is usually dried seafood with a strong fishy smell.In addition, it is possible to eat fresh ones in winter.

Although Zhao Can didn't like it, Ping'an's dedication was indeed very rare, and he was naturally happy in his heart.

However, before Zhao Can was happy, Kai Yang said, "Ping An also said the same, so I asked His Highness to present this box of seafood to His Majesty."

"What?" Zhao Can almost suspected that he had heard it wrong.

The good things that my sweetheart sent back all the way were not for me!

Kai Yang felt very sympathetic to His Royal Highness, but he didn't know if it was because he had been with Ping An for a long time, and he consciously regarded himself as someone from Ping An, so when he faced Zhao Can, he didn't have the same feeling as before. The emotion of fear, on the contrary, is a little more gloating than watching the excitement.

"Pingan said that the matter of the Sanji fish pond is nothing more than that. Since the 'credit' is to be given to Xu You, it is best for His Highness not to touch it on the surface. But the navy and shipbuilding matters cannot be left in the hands of others. Your Highness must Hold it in your hand." Kai Yang said, "If you want His Majesty to agree, naturally you have to give some benefits."

"What did he say?" Zhao Can asked.

Kai Yang imitated Ping An's tone: "Cough... don't let His Majesty know the specific plan, let your Highness offer the seafood, just say that there are many good things in the sea, you need to train a group of people, and then build a boat to go to sea fishing."

Zhao Can: "..." Suddenly it felt so perfunctory. In Ping An's heart, is the emperor so easy to fool?

He had to think, if he hadn't sent Kaiyang to Ping'an, maybe Ping'an would have started fooling himself right now.

Thinking of this, Zhao Can immediately felt very unsafe. He stared at Kai Yang suspiciously, and his aura exploded, "What else does Ping An want you to hide from me?"

Kai Yang was taken aback by his sudden behavior, and subconsciously told the truth, "Ping An followed the pearl divers... down... into... water..." Halfway through the sentence he came to his senses, but in front of Zhao Can Faced with this, I had no choice but to bite the bullet and finish.

Ping An, I really didn't betray you on purpose!