"Land can always be bought," Ximen Qing and Wu Haogu's "only match" continued. Ximen asked in confusion: "It's just that what do you want to buy so much land?"

In fact, the return rate of land in the Song Dynasty was not high. On the one hand, due to agricultural technology limitations, the yield per mu of land was not high. In the Huaibei area, it would be a lot to harvest 100 kilograms of wheat a year on ordinary dry land. 100,000 mu of land was only 10 million kilograms of wheat annuity... This is the yield that can only be achieved in a bumper year without disasters.

These 10 million kilograms are not all of the landlords. They also have to deduct the food of tenants, seeds for the next year, and various tax payments. In the end, it is already ruthless enough to collect 30 kilograms of rent. If it is an average of over the years, 15 kilograms of wheat may not be able to collect. 100,000 mu of land only earns 1.5 million kilograms of wheat, which is about 15,000 to 16,000 shi, and the price in Kaifeng Prefecture is only more than 10,000 kilograms. In Xu and Hai areas, 10,000 kilograms of wheat cannot be sold.

To purchase 100,000 mu of land, it costs 150,000 to 200,000 yuan. Therefore, the return rate of land is actually very low, about 5%, and investing too much capital is simply a waste.

Therefore, few businessmen would invest too much money on the land - merchants in the Song Dynasty would buy some land, but no one would buy land if they made money, and they would buy it to a point that was enough to hinder the development of capitalism. Because it was meaningless, the "agricultural" in the Song Dynasty was not higher than the "industrial and business". There was no saying that the children of farmers would be "scholars" after reading a few books... Farmers, industry and commerce were equal in front of the imperial examination. If they failed the exam, it would be easier to make money in business and business, and it would be really difficult to turn over as a farmer.

"I am trying to resettle the clans in Luoyang," said Wu Haogu. "My family was originally a large Luoyang clan, inherited from the Li Tang and Wuzhou, and there were thousands of children in the clan. However, now the clan family in Luoyang is extremely weak and is almost unable to maintain it. Therefore, I plan to divide half of the population into Xuhai, which requires about 100,000 acres of land."

Ximen Qing's eyes were wide open, and she felt incredible, "Darang, do you really want to divide half of Baibo Yimenwu into Xu Hai to settle the house?"

"Yes," Wu Haogu nodded, "I will be their new patriarch."

"Be the patriarch?"

Ximen Qing thought: How easy is Wu Dalang to make money? He can spend it like this... He threw out more than 100,000 or 200,000 yuan for a tribe leader?

Wu Haogu seemed to see Ximen's doubts and said with a smile: "I have thought it through these days. If I really want to achieve something, I still cannot do without the support of the clan. I am single-handedly, in the current peaceful world, it is okay. If it is really a mess, it will be called "Daitian is not suitable and the Earth is not effective."

To put it bluntly, if the world is in chaos now, it will be a bit difficult to escape to Jiangnan and spend your old age with the power that Wu Haogu can control now. Not to mention saving Tianqing in the future!

To win the sky, we must continue our strength from now on. The power of the clan, the power of the Six Arts Academy, the power of Christie's, the power of the disciples and the power of the government, and of course the power of the government... the more, the better!

Among all these forces, the power of the Yi Clan is undoubtedly the core. The clan is the feudal clan power. It is a reactionary thing, and it is one of the four great ropes that bind the Chinese people, especially the peasants. This is the words of Taizu of the Red Dynasty in later generations. It is a truth that is more true than real gold, but it also shows the effectiveness of feudal clan power.

Wu Dalang wants to spend money to cultivate the six arts proficient in the six arts, and to be proficient in the martial arts. How can the "Confucian scholars in troubled times" who can chop people up when they are on horseback and dismount to punish people without using "great ropes" to tie them up? If they are not tied up, they will go to the wise leader. Wouldn't Wu Haogu's money be wasted?

With the "Six Arts Confucian scholars" of the Wu clan who were tied with "great ropes", Wu Haogu had his own basic strength. Then he could form an alliance with other wealthy families in the Xu and Hai area through marriage, and then recruit students from the Six Arts Academy based on the marriage alliance of the big clans to establish a feudal master-apprentice dependence relationship.

In this way, once the world is in trouble, Wu Haogu can mobilize his students to recruit soldiers from their clan towns. Just like the Hunan Army in the late Qing Dynasty, he organized a very cohesive mercenary army with a series of special relationships between teachers, students, father, son, brother, and in-laws.

At the same time, with the Six Arts Confucian scholars based on clans as the backing, Wu Haogu could safely and boldly establish his own "Guram Guards" and "Mamruk Guards" - the cost of raising this kind of "slave soldiers" is very high, and if they raise too much, it is easy for people to mistakenly think that they want to rebel, so Wu Haogu did not plan to raise too much. It would be enough to have hundreds to a thousand as the selection of the dead soldiers.

With these two forces, Wu Haogu can do some things in the chaotic times in the future.

As for the small martial officials of the Song Dynasty like the Lin family, the Lin family, who were a few generations of people who ate the Zhao family’s food and wore the Zhao family’s clothes. The dream of becoming a Zhao family official from childhood to adulthood... It is okay to use them, but it would be too stupid to treat them as confidants.

"Still chaos?"

Ximen Qing stared at Wu Haogu blankly, "Dalang, where is it going to be messy?"

"Liao Kingdom." Wu Haogu smiled, "Sister, didn't Ma Er Ge always say that Liao Kingdom is going to be in chaos? We will definitely be involved in the chaotic times of Liao Kingdom. If we don't prepare now, we will regret it in the future."

"Will the chaotic times of the Liao Kingdom affect the Song Dynasty?" Ximen Qing looked at Wu Haogu, "Are you so sure?"

"Isn't the Liao Kingdom just 1,000 miles away?" Wu Haogu said with a wry smile. "In the past, Yuyang was in agitation and entered Luoyang City in just over a month. In the future, the Liao Kingdom's chaos will happen, and the Central Plains will really be out of the situation?"

The Liao Kingdom is in chaos, but it is actually a chaos in the world!

The Song Dynasty could not be out of the matter, because the Song Dynasty and the Liao Kingdom belong to the same "world". No matter who started the Liao Dynasty, they would not stop at the border between the Song and Liao Dynasty. Even if there was no force that could replace the Liao Dynasty and become the overlord of the northern region, it was a matter of time before the wars of the Northern Dynasties spread to the land of the Song Dynasty.

"This matter..." Ximen Qing shook his head, "Dalang, you are really worried about the world!"

"I'm worried about the world?" Wu Haogu looked at Ximen Qing, "Didn't your family always look north at Yanyun?"

"My house..." Ximen Qing sighed lightly, and just as he was about to say something, the voice of a servant came from outside the door, "Da Langjun, Tong Daguan and Liang Daguan are here."

...

Tong Guan and Liang Shicheng are Wu Haogu's bosses, and their bosses wish their subordinates a happy new year... This is rare in the officialdom, but it is not without them. The key is how hard the subordinates' backstage is! Wu Haogu now holds the thick legs of King Duan Zhao Ji, and he is now appreciated by Cai Jing again, and he is about to become a traitor of the Cai clan. The two nobles of the two dare not take the airs of Shangguan in front of Wu Haogu.

However, they were embarrassed to say that they were here to greet Wu Haogu's New Year, which was too embarrassing, so they visited in the name of discussing business with Wu Haogu.

The business that needs to be discussed now is naturally the matter of going to visit Liao Kingdom.

"This is Ximen Qing. My friend of mine will go north together. In addition, I want to take an apprentice north. I don't know if it's up to the rules?"

After inviting the two nobles into his inner hall, Wu Haogu introduced Ximen Qing to Liang Shicheng. Tong Guan met Ximen Qing as early as in Daming Mansion, so there is no need to introduce Wu Haogu again.

What were the eyes of Tong Guan and Liang Shicheng? Of course, they both saw that Ximen Qing was a female. They both looked a little contempt at the moment - this was too romantic, right? They went north to Liao and brought a woman by their side, what did they say? They were both dedicated to doing things for the government and never thought of women.

No matter how contempt you are, you are always polite in terms of face.

Tong Guan smiled and said, "It's okay. Chongdao you are a pseudonym Bei Shang. His public identity is Pan Xiaoyi, a magistrate. He is an official, so he can naturally bring his servants and concubines. As for his disciples, he can naturally bring him."

When Ximen Qing heard Tong Guan say "concubine", he felt a little hot: I wouldn't have really become Wu Dalang's concubine, right?

Wu Haogu glanced at Ximen Qing, whose face was red, and his heart was also shaking.

Tong Guan continued: "The official family had already given the conditions to make peace with the Western thieves yesterday. We can go north just by waiting for the Liao lord to agree."

The condition is to hand over Empress Dowager Xiaoliang!

In the history of negotiations between Song and Liao, it was extremely tough. Not only did he reject the Liao Kingdom's request to "retire the troops and regain the territory", he also asked the Empress Dowager of Xixia in turn!

However, Zhao Xu and Zhang Dun both believed that the Liao lord would mostly agree to the conditions of the Song Dynasty. It was unlikely that it would be possible to take the initiative to hand over the Empress Dowager Xiaoliang to the Song Dynasty, and it would be impossible, but it was still possible to design the elimination of Empress Dowager Xiaoliang or force Empress Dowager Xiaoliang to leave the Song Dynasty.

So on the morning of the second day of the first lunar month, Zhao Xu issued an edict to the Guoxin Institute and the Hanlin Painting Bureau to prepare to go north to Liao at any time.

Wu Haogu asked: "When will you leave?"

"It is probably early February," Tong Guan said, "The Liao envoy sent a messenger to the north yesterday, and it took more than 30 days to travel back and forth on the way. Before the tenth day of the second month, the delegation should be able to go north."

Liang Shichengdao: "Brother Chongdao went north and there was still an errand here in the Painting Academy, which was to draw an oil painting for the Empress Dowager."

"Oil paintings are time-consuming," Wu Haogu thought for a while, "It is best to enter the palace to write a manuscript before the tenth day of the first lunar month."

"Okay, when we go back, Empress Dowager Bingming will make arrangements as soon as possible." Liang Shicheng thought about it and said, "As for the matter of the Painting Academy, Brother Chong Dao doesn't have to pay attention to it for the time being, so he will concentrate on painting for the Empress Dowager and prepare to go north at the same time."

"It's so good." Wu Haogu agreed completely, but in fact he had no intention of dealing with the Academy of Food and Painting.
Chapter completed!