"Wu Chongdao, you are not lying, are you? Can you really get so much food?"

"Yes, 2,000 stones of grain are amazing! You can plant tens of millions of mulberry fields on the southeast coast."

"Ten million mulberry fields are equivalent to fifty or 60 million mu of grain fields! I don't know how many more farmers can support..."

"If this is true, the coastal market control department would have done a good thing."

In Chongzheng Hall, a group of feudal bureaucrats who did not understand the economy were already making plans. They all understood the principle that the country was based on agriculture and the people were based on food. But they also knew that the farmers were getting poorer and poorer as they grew. It was always a legend to make a fortune by growing food.

In contrast, it is easy to get rich by planting mulberry trees. The income of raising silkworms and weaving silk is several times more than growing grain, and planting mulberry trees is more labor-saving than growing grain. In other words, the same land can generate higher income and require less labor... Mulberry leaves grow on mulberry trees, and mulberry trees are small trees that do not need to be cut down every year. Therefore, the labor force required for planting mulberry trees is definitely less than growing grain, and labor productivity will naturally increase significantly.

How great is this? The working people not only have an increase in their income, but also have a decrease in their working time. The saved time can also be used to read some books of sages. Even if they fail to pass the Jinshi exam, it is good to understand more principles.

Zhao Ji also knows mathematics. He is a wise ruler of the empirical school, so of course he can do it. It is also very good to calculate it simply.

The tax on mulberry fields is much more expensive than ordinary grain fields... If tens of millions of mulberry fields are added to the southeast coast, the court can collect more taxes of tens of millions of pieces of silk, which is almost more than ten million pieces of shreds.

These taxes alone can exchange for the 20 million sl of rice and grain. Isn’t this equivalent to the country’s income of 20 million sl of rice and grain in more than a year?

Now I can happily "Fengheng Yu Da" again!

It seems that it is still very wise to use martial arts and good literature!

Wu Haogu looked at the faces of the ministers in the hall and listened to their discussions, but felt a little guilty. Because he had heard the stories of "sheep eat people" and "silks eat people" in his previous life... Although the plot is not much the same as what will happen in the Song Dynasty, one thing is certain: a large amount of grain input and a large amount of silk output will definitely seriously impact the originally stable agricultural production structure in the Song Dynasty.

The cheap rice and grain transported from sea can only be supplied to the southeast coastal areas, because it is close to the seaport, with developed water transportation and low transportation costs. Therefore, imported Nanyang rice can replace local rice to a certain extent. The reduction in local rice cultivation will stimulate the development of economic crops and breeding industries. Compared with grain cultivation, the economic crops and breeding industries not only have higher incomes, but also have less labor. This will liberate a large amount of agricultural labor. This is certain. When agricultural production does not require so much labor, the landlords will not restrict farmers from letting them enter the city!

The liberated agricultural labor will undoubtedly become urban poor, cheap labor in capitalist factories, and the main force of overseas colonization.

The large supply of cheap silkworm cocoons will also stimulate the development of industrial sectors such as silk reeling, textiles, printing and dyeing... At the same time, transporting a large amount of rice from Chameng, Java and Zhen La countries will also greatly stimulate the export of sea transportation, shipbuilding, various daily necessities, luxury goods and iron. It will also greatly stimulate the development of related industries.

In addition, the gradual control of the Nanyang Department of the Coastal Maritime Control Department will also change the import and export trade structure of the Song Dynasty. Through "unfair" trade, surpluses can be artificially created to generate inflows of gold, silver and copper.

In the past foreign trade of the Song Dynasty, luxury goods such as spices and treasures produced in India and the South China Islands could basically offset the export of silk and porcelain, and sometimes it would also bring a deficit to the Song Dynasty, causing the outflow of copper coins in the Song Dynasty.

This situation will be completely reversed by the emergence of the Coastal Maritime Control Department. In the foreseeable future, precious metals such as gold, silver and copper will flow into Jiehe Shang City and JD Shang City... This will undoubtedly greatly promote the development of the financial industry!

Currencies with gold and silver standard will replace silk standard in the future. Financial institutions similar to modern banks will soon appear in Jiehe Market and JD Market.

Evil capitalism is really coming!

Of course, this kind of positive change can only occur in the already wealthy southeast coastal areas. For the vast inland hinterland, it is not a good thing. Once the silk industry in coastal areas is greatly developed and industrially upgraded, the silk industry in the inland hinterland will be impacted. The price of silk will fall, and farmers' income will be greatly reduced... The tragedy of silkworms eating people will probably be caused by this.

"Your Majesty," Seeing that the ministers had expressed their opinions, Wu Haogucai once again reported, "The Coastal Maritime Control Department has great potential to operate the Nanyang. The fundamentals of operating the Nanyang are one for the maritime and the other for the navy. The two must complement each other and cooperate with each other. In fact, it is also me in you and I in me. It is impossible to act like the Funeral Office and the Transportation Commander Office.

For example, ships used for maritime transshipment and naval warships will easily do their own things if they are not uniformly commanded by the inspection department located in the South China Sea. Navy warships cannot protect cargo ships in time, and cargo ships cannot assist warships at any time.

In addition, you must delegate power to operate Nanyang! If you are like the states and counties in the country, decentralize and control them layer by layer, it will be too delayed. The traffic between Nanyang and Nanyang depends on the wind direction, and the wind direction is divided into seasons. There are many south winds in spring and summer, and the north winds in autumn and winter. If the wind direction is wrong, you cannot transport.

In other words, you can only travel to Nanyang and Guozhong once within a year! If you do not delegate power to the inspection department and the Maritime Department below, you will be unable to do anything."

Delegation of power again?

Su Che immediately became alert!

"If it is the Nanyang Maritime Bureau, the Inspection Bureau is controlled by evil people, and even the territory is king, what can I do?"

Nonsense! Wu Haogu thought, can a bad person go to Nanyang to be an imperialist colonist? Can he hand over so much food to the court without doing anything wrong?

"As long as the Coastal Maritime Control Department has a strong enough navy, no one dares to be the king." Wu Haogu explained patiently, "The Nanyang terrain is different in the Central Plains, mainly islands, and all the travels are dependent on ships. However, there are no good shipbuilding craftsmen in the South China Sea, and the boats they build are far inferior to the Song Dynasty. Therefore, it is difficult to build a powerful naval fleet! Therefore, the Coastal Maritime Control Department only needs to build a fleet of 100 large warships and regularly patrol the Nanyang to ensure that there is no danger.

In addition, on the day of the Northern Expedition, the fleet of the Coastal Maritime Control Department can also be used to seize the land of Anfu Army in Suzhou by the Liao people, and stab the Liao people in the back!"

Wu Haogu has been moving for many years to seize the Anfu army in Suzhou! But he didn't really want to stab the Liao people in the back, but to nail the Jin people in the back.

If the Jurchens wanted to go south in the future, they would have to think carefully about whether the Song army on Suzhou Anfu Army (Dalian and Lushun in later generations) would attack and sweep Liaodong.

Zhao Ji had actually made a decision long ago. Now, after Wu Haogu's explanation, he felt even more wise.

He immediately said, "Mr. Wu, I have decided to let Wu Erlang be appointed as the Hailu Maritime Mansion Commander and the Governor of Cangzhou. The Hailu Maritime Mansion Commander is the coastal Maritime Mansion Commander. Before Wu Erlang takes office from Xiuzhou north, the Hailu Maritime Mansion Commander will be the Hailu Maritime Mansion Commander first!"

"Your Majesty's wise!"

Wu Haogu breathed a sigh of relief. The position of Hailu Maritime Controller was finally saved! And he could also serve as the Hailu Maritime Controller who had been in charge of a few months. After this period, he should be able to perform surgery on the Hailu Maritime Controller and turn it into a real Navy and Colonial Affairs Department.

In addition, Ji Yi has done so many bad things in Nanyang and has gone to Arabia by herself. She has to take advantage of this autumn and winter to send some bad people to Nanyang.

Moreover, Nanyang also needs a big bad guy who can replace Ji Yi to grasp the overall situation! Who should I let you go?

...

"Ah...Ah snee!!"

Ji Yi sneezes again!

He was standing at the bow of a Venetian galley, looking at the majestic walls on the granite on the west coast of the Bosphorus, and the cold wind blew from the north across the strait and hit his face, making him feel a little chill.

It turned out that he was on his way to Constantinople, the capital of the Roman Empire, as an envoy of the Oriental Peach Blossom Stone Kingdom, to pay homage to the general of the Roman Empire... Oh, he was the Emperor of the Roman Empire as later generations called him.

Because of translation issues, the Roman emperor was called the Roman general.

In order to allow Ji Yi to meet the general of the Roman Kingdom, the Tianfang Cult scholars Meria and Ansari, who accompanied the delegation and acted as translators, helped a lot. Ansari also personally went to Mosul and redeemed two important crusaders from the Seljuk Turkic Emir in Mosul with a thousand silks given by Ji Yi. Baldwin and Joselin of Edsar were the earls of Edsar and the lords of the Fortress of the Tubesel to which the country belonged. They were captured while fighting against the Seljuk Emir in Mosul. Before Ji Yi paid for the money to redeem them, he had eaten a prison meal without lard in Mosul for three years.

After being redeemed by Ji Yi, the two of them could not return to Edsaber for the time being, because Edsaberer was ruled by the regent Tancred and refused to return it. So they could only act as the leader of Ji Yi's mission, and first led Ji Yi to the Kingdom of Jerusalem to meet King Baldwin I.
Chapter completed!