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Chapter 342 Xianggong(1/2)

A year has passed again.

In the spring, Zheng Lang went to various counties for inspection.

The people didn't know, but Zheng Lang knew it. This was the last time he inspected all counties in Hangzhou in the name of the magistrate of Hangzhou Prefecture.

After just one year of coming to Hangzhou, many things happened, which once disappointed some people.

In the third year, all the benefits came out and the people's attitudes were truly improved.

Some advantages and policies are not fully demonstrated, such as Zheng Lang's relying on the mountains to eat mountains and water to eat water. The mountains cannot grow rice. However, Hangzhou's unique terrain is also a treasure, planting fruit trees, tea, and bamboo. Even the slopes can carry mulberry and hemp.

The Hangzhou licensed tea trade law directly exported to foreign countries by sea ships, which quickly expanded the tea planting area. The improvement of textile machinery and the improvement of technology have also led to the development of mulberry and hemp industry. However, these things have a growth process, whether it is fruit trees, tea or bamboo, it cannot be fully effective within one or two years.

It will take at least ten years to be effective completely before it can be truly saturated.

However, for the improvement in Hangzhou, you can see the change in speed with the naked eye.

Water conservancy caused many storms, and exchanged shares to distinguish Buddha. Some people do not understand why they ignore grain and arable land and return farmland to the lake. It was not until after last autumn, when the damage of autumn was reduced to an incredible slight slight, that many people really understood.

In fact, I have repaired water conservancy again since last winter. As long as the next chief can maintain the current state and make some adjustments, the damage of the slums this year will be even lighter, and the overall grain output has not decreased, but is actually increasing.

Zheng Lang did not waste the water surface that was moved out. It was different from the terrain of Taipingzhou. The lakes in some mountainous areas west were surrounded by mountains. Just like reservoirs, you could raise fish, chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry. Zheng Lang also encouraged the people to raise pearls with triangular clams.

The opening of the cane sugar prison increased the area of ​​planting sugarcane. It also encouraged the people to make bamboo fans. The bamboo paper fans of the Wanu Kingdom were very famous in China. But in terms of craftsmanship, the craftsmanship of the Song Dynasty was not worse than that of the Wanu Kingdom. It was still disadvantageous. The main reason for the famous fans of the Wanu Kingdom was that it came from foreign countries. So Zheng Lang guided some fan workshops, such as the luxurious use of ivory carvings as fan edges, or embellished with jade and gold, or used silk instead of paper, using gold silk as painting lines, or scented with aroma.

The fan of the Japanese country can capture the curiosity of the Song people. But it can surpass it from the height of craftsmanship.

Even because Zheng Lang gave a jade pendant to the little princess, the bloodstone became famous, and some craftsmen went to Changhua to process the bloodstone.

It has nothing to do with Zheng Lang, there is no encouragement or objection.

Although it has increased Hangzhou's revenue, there are too few bloodstone resources.

This is internal affairs.

Maritime Bureau and Ping An Supervision exports carry a large amount of goods, goods and supplies, and have flourished various workshops in Hangzhou.

Zheng Lang further amplified the trade volume. In addition to the copper coins still being controlled, he had no choice but to bring a lot of copper essence to the Song Dynasty last year, but it could not meet the needs of the Song Dynasty's copper coins at all. If you want to make a complete change, it may take at least twenty years, thirty years, or forty years.

But bartering is relaxed.

He also used wooden rafts from the Japanese country. A large number of pine trees were imported, not only used as building materials, but also used as ink making.

Later generations of Japan had a strong awareness of environmental protection, but it was not at that time.

It is impossible for Zheng Lang to have a plot of a friendly federal family, and this country and nation are best erased completely from the map.

Therefore, Wang Zhaoming was mobilized to find every possible way to encourage various forces in Japan to cut down pine forests and trade them with Song Dynasty goods.

A large amount of pine wood arrived, and Mofang appeared again.

The income of internal affairs alone is more than doubled when Zheng Lang came to Hangzhou. At this time, Hangzhou had become the richest prefecture of the Song Dynasty, and the capital was less than that of the capital. It can even be called the richest place on this planet at this time, and it was like a powerful machine that continued to develop vigorously.

Continuous equalization of land, the gap between the rich and the poor cannot be solved, but the proportion of poor people has been reduced and internal conflicts have been alleviated.

Taipingzhou is a miracle, so Hangzhou is a dream.

Even the most demanding gentlemen in the capital had to recognize Zheng Lang's ability to govern local officials.

It is the local administration, not the ability to serve as prime minister. There is a difference between the two. Many officials perform well in the local area, but after serving as prime ministers, they cannot make any difference.

But no one resisted Zheng Lang.

At this time, the two countries were at war, and wealth was the key, and the court urgently needed Zheng Lang's ability to make money in Hangzhou.

What is it related to making money?

But some people think so: scholars, farmers, industry, commerce and soldiers, Zheng Lang emphasizes industry and commerce, and uses industry and commerce to create wealth, which is to make money.

Zheng Lang ignored their ideas.

In the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty attached great importance to wealth. Even if it was labeled as a big fortune, it wouldn't matter as long as it was not a name for exploiting the people.

After walking around, correcting some magistrates' practices, they returned to Hangzhou again.

But not long after, he received the news that Wang Zhi led more than 700 foreign soldiers to the East China Sea Islands.

Zheng Lang said happily: "Let's go."

I took a boat to Zhoushan Islands.

I asked Wang Zhi to do this last year.

After last autumn, Wang Zhi had received nearly 900 Jurchens. The main reason was that he had contacted him at the beginning, but he didn't understand that the seaside tribes were sparsely populated and were far away from the inland, which was not very convenient, so he started to get not many Jurchens.

These Jurchen soldiers were brought to the mine, and then mixed with the Song soldiers, and took the initiative to provoke local conflicts in the Japanese sub-country and fight for them for free.

They cannot be idle, continue to participate in the war, and maintain their combat effectiveness. The Jurchens come from various departments and can carry out actual combat reorganization by participating in the war. The addition of Jurchen warriors increases combat effectiveness, so that the Japanese slave countries should also consider their own weight when they want to make two mines.

This is a powerful thing, and a large amount of goods are given away to win over, both soft and hard to keep the two mines safe.

Then Zheng Lang issued an order, asking Wang Zhi to go to the Northeast again, and change a group of Jurchen soldiers to come over, and bring these reorganized Jurchen soldiers back to Hangzhou.

It's about to use it soon.

If they can't be used, they can't stay for a long time. They can change a batch in three or four years. Otherwise, once the Jurchen army is formed, it can directly endanger the safety of the two mines.

A large amount of exchange also reduces the number of people born in the Jurchens.

Let Zheng Lang choose to give birth to a Jurchen than betray the Khitan, so that the Khitan would be restrained than to want the Jurchens to become stronger.

Instead of bringing them to Hangzhou, they were placed on an island in the Zhoushan Islands.

Some battles were carried out one after another. The soldiers were reduced. Only less than 800 were left, so Wang Zhi brought them together. However, the Japanese Slave Kingdom had the Jurchens, which were more than 400 prisoners of war brought from the Jurchen tribe in the severe cold last winter.

The large amount of goods exchanged for goods also aggravated the revenge of the Jurchen tribes, which Zheng Lang did not know.

When Zheng Lang saw Wang Zhi, he said, "Thank you for the past two years."

"Bachelor. This is what I should do," Wang Zhi said honestly.

More than two years of experience have caused some changes to Wang Zhi. His body is stronger than before, his eyes are firm and bright, and he is full of confidence.

However, Wang Zhi was also very satisfied. Because of his merits, he had been moved to Chongban and became a general of the eighth rank.

After Wang Zhi finished speaking, he turned his head to look at the three Jurchens and said, "Zhao Bao, Zhao Zhong, Zhao Sheng, this is my head of the Grand Secretary Zheng."

After bringing the birth of Jurchens to the Kingdom of Japanese, they all changed to the surname Zhao.

Then, according to the Song Dynasty, the Song army was added and divided into three commanders. The main general was the Song general, but he followed Zheng Lang's opinion. He also selected three tough people as leaders from the Jurchens to assist the Song army in managing these Jurchens.

The court did not understand that it was nominal leader and had no official position.

Three Jurchens came over and gave a buzzing salute.

Zheng Lang noticed that although it was early March, the weather was a little chilly.

But the three of them were only wearing some clothes. Zhao Zhong and Zhao Sheng still retained the Jurchen tradition and were bare-spoken.

Not only these three people, but the other Jurchens are the same. From a distance, you can see that fierce aura at a glance. This is not the case. When they are replaced, Wang Zhi and Yang Jiujin will not change those thin prisoners of war.

The Jurchens lived a very hard life. After they arrived at the mine, they ate full, slept well, and their bodies became stronger.

The battles from time to time prevent them from falling, so they were able to see this fierce army in front of them.

Zheng Lang nodded, saying hello.

Wang Zhi whispered again: "Bachelor, they want to eat meat."

"Eat meat?"

"I also eat rice and noodles, but mainly eat meat."

"You mean it's not easy to support them?"

"yes."

"It's okay. After staying for a long time, their living habits will improve. The court cannot afford to support them. It's nothing to the court." Zheng Lang said. He was about to take them to the northwest. These people will be suicide squads. Don't talk about eating meat, it's okay to eat meat every meal.

He walked back and said to the three Jurchen leaders: "You can lead the team to practice."

"Here." The three Jurchens went down and ordered these Jurchen warriors to stand in formation and start practicing.

Zheng Lang looked at them and compared them with the Western Army. In terms of formation, the formation was far inferior to that of the Western Army, but his fierceness was not as good as that of the Western Army.

Of course, once they tame and become Chinese and lose their wildness, their combat effectiveness will be the same. They are humans, not gods. If Guo Zun is still alive and comes to fight alone, even if they are born in Jurchens, with Guo Zun's ability, they can still pick ten or eight.

First, let them stay on this small island in the name of maritime patrol troops and let Hangzhou send it to supply.

Returning to Hangzhou, we have to report this to the court.

I said that the army cannot be made into a private army, and I cannot make this army its own private army. It must be handed over to the court, at least in name, under the jurisdiction of the court.

As soon as he arrived in Hangzhou, Sun Quanbin also came to Hangzhou with the imperial edict.

A letter of transfer was transferred to Zheng Lang as Deputy Envoy of the Privy Councilor. Bao Zheng had served as the highest official position and Deputy Prime Minister of the East Prefecture.

They were all old acquaintances, and Sier jumped up happily.

My husband!

His own officials finally served as prime minister, although they were the deputy prime minister of the East Prefecture.

Cui Xian's face darkened, and she said, "Empress Sun, Your Majesty promised the official to serve in Hangzhou for three years, but he has not arrived yet..."
To be continued...
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