On the 20th day of the 12th lunar month, Zhao Mengqi led a huge fleet to Lin'an through the canal.

The 20 battalions of Dongwei were accompanied by the shore and dike. It was not that Zhao Mengqi was so afraid of death that he needed so many people to protect him, but that this was arranged by many factors.

First of all, after returning to Lin'an, I had the power of my direct line in my hands, so I would be more secure no matter what I do.

Secondly, marching is also a subject for training. This is not a new creation by Zhao Mengqi. During the reign of Emperor Taizu of Song, the "renewal law" was formulated, that is, to prevent the generals from being authoritarian, and to strengthen the physical training of soldiers, "to make the road of exchanges, diligence and hard work, and work and rest."

In the Song Dynasty, there was no special practice subject for soldiers' physical abilities and abilities. Strength was generally achieved through crossbow training. However, the ability of running and jumping may be different. For example, in Yue Fei's army, "Every time the division rests, the soldiers jumped to the slope and jumped into the trench, and they all practiced heavy armor."

In the absence of horses, Zhao Mengqi could only hope that his troops could have a pair of iron feet to improve their mobility.

Therefore, this fully armed marching training will become normal, and all battalions of the East Guard must regularly circulate between Pingjiang and Lin'an.

To cooperate with this training program, barracks and brigade stations were set up at any distance along the way to provide logistical support.

In this way, this canal was also firmly controlled by Zhao Mengqi in disguise.

In addition, the five thousand imperial guards in the front hall, led by Shi Huai, had already set off two days in advance and returned to Lin'an to return to Jian.

At that time, Old Zhao sent out 10,000 people, all of whom were selected by Old Man Lin. Compared with the current Dongwei, it has more practical combat effectiveness.

It is logical that Zhao Mengqi wanted to rely on his own hands. He just took half of the public opinion in the court.

Moreover, these five thousand imperial guards are basically older, with small family concerns and less enterprising spirit in Lin'an. Moreover, even after they return to the founding, these imperial guards will probably be inclined toward the King of Yan, and perhaps they can expand the influence of the King of Yan in Lin'an imperial guards.

In the past six months, although the imperial guards in front of the Wandian have still received their usual military salary, Zhao Mengqi, who was rich and powerful, not only provided them with generous logistics supplies, but also distributed them additional monthly subsidies of regular money, called mission allowances.

Whether intentionally or not, this is a bribery of the morale of the army.

This kind of thing is somewhat taboo. If Lao Zhao doesn't like him, it would be a serious crime to take it out.

But Zhao Mengqi didn't care. He thought that even if he was a good baby and could not find any charges, he would have been "falsely".

In addition, Zhao Meng, the 5,000 people who stayed in Pingjiang, was named that he would continue to cooperate with the economic community next year.

Now the economic boundaries of Pingjiang and Jiaxing prefectures have been completed, with remarkable results. The redrawn fish scale diagram and the newly built anvil base book are being shipped back to the Ministry of Revenue for archives.

In front of the Sutra, Pingjiang Prefecture includes the official fields, and registered farmland is more than 7 million mu.

This time, with Zhao Mengqi in charge, the efforts were unprecedented and the implementation was the most thorough. With several measures, the gentry cooperated more, and the final number was more than 8.3 million mu.

It seems that only about 15% of the hidden fields were found, but it should be considered that during the Shaoxing period more than a hundred years ago, Li Chunnian, with the support of Zhao Jiumei, conducted a relatively successful judicial boundary on Pingjiang Prefecture, which greatly reduced the proportion of hidden fields, and then re-married boundary several times.

This time, compared with before, was definitely the most successful and the closest to the actual situation.

Zhao Mengqi vaguely remembered that after Zhang Juzheng of the Ming Dynasty practiced the whip method, Suzhou seemed to have only more than 9 million mu of land, while Suzhou in later generations had a total area of ​​less than 13 million mu.

In addition to the differences in the units of measurement, there have been some changes in the jurisdiction.

Therefore, Zhao Mengqi is quite satisfied with this achievement.

The most important thing is to clarify the ownership of land and eliminate the disadvantages of "those with land have no taxes, and those with tax have no land", so as to maximize the payment of taxes based on the property.

This not only prevents poor people from having to bear unjust taxes, but also greatly increases the tax revenue of the government.

This year, the court exempted the land tax from the affected areas, but it is expected that by next year, tax grain alone will be paid one million stones.

This number is quite large, because Pingjiang Prefecture did not exceed 700,000 stones at its highest level in history, and usually it was more than 300,000 stones.

This is not much, because during the Ming Dynasty, the land tax he ordered to Suzhou was 2 million stones.

In addition, the hidden fields are converted into official fields and farm management can also provide more food to the court, so that there is no need to use and buy them to supplement the court's food needs, so that the common people will not be exploited again.

In addition to land tax, both the Ming and Song dynasties also had other names of tax levies. After the implementation of a whip, the Ming Dynasty sold all silver and monetized the levies.

Zhao Mengqi also planned to reduce some items when the time is right and then implement monetization taxation.

The Ming Dynasty had sufficient circulation of silver to have the basis for the implementation of the Whip Law, but it still forced many people who had no silver to sell grain at a low price for silver to pay tax after a bumper grain harvest.

To avoid similar drawbacks, Zhao Mengqi must first complete monetary reform and grain price protection mechanisms.

This is how politics is, complementing each other and progressing step by step, it is complicated to say and more complicated to do.

If Zhao Mengqi was asked to operate it himself, he would definitely not have the ability. The key is that he would not have to do it himself.

Wu Qian, Ma Guangzu, Xie Fangshu, Jiang Wanli, Yang Dong, Ye Mengding, etc., who are not veterans in politics?

As long as he expresses his ideas, after he has confirmed the feasibility, these people will naturally improve the details. If there are any flaws or inappropriate points, they will try to make up for the avoidance.

This time when he returned to Lin'an, Jiang Wanli brought more than 600 students with him. Although most of them were not from Lin'an, he should be awarded if he made a contribution.

At the beginning, Zhao Mengqi promised that as long as they passed the assessment, they could be appointed as the official.

Now the achievements of the Sutra Realm are a perfect answer. After Zhao Mengqi returns to Lin'an, he will start operating in the court, and at least he has to seek a ninth-rank official for them.

Of course, even with an official position, most of these people still do work in the economic world within three to five years, and then slowly fill in other positions, becoming Zhao Mengqi's political direct line.

There is another group of people in the fleet, namely the "bankers" led by Zhao Heyun.

It is certainly a joke to say that they are bankers at this time, but several years later, they were indeed the ones who held the great financial magistrates of the Song Dynasty.

What they next need to do is to establish the Lin'an sub-headquarters of Royal Bank of the Song Dynasty, because the economic center in Zhao Mengqi's mind is Pingjiang Prefecture, and the headquarters will definitely not move.

In general, Zhao Mengqi's trip to Pingjiang Mansion has gained a lot. To be more common, it is a double harvest of love and career...

The boat was sailing slowly and finally arrived in Lin'an on the fourth day.

The stopping place is the pier two miles north of the Yanwang Mansion. He who set out from here and returned here today.

However, the scene has become very different from the time.

A small dock that could only dock two or three ships before, but now a semicircular dock with a diameter of one mile has been dug out.

On the shore are large warehouses arranged neatly, with square brick and stone cement structures, and the roof is still inverted.

The arc-shaped bank embankment built with large stones and cement reinforced, and the Yongguo Pier, which is thirty feet long and three feet wide, extends to the water surface every twenty feet.

There are berths on both sides of the trest bridge, and at least six canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal canal

There are some equipment like tower cranes in later generations standing on the pier, which are more than one to two feet tall, and are used to load and unload goods.

This earth tower crane was naturally born by Zhao Mengqi, and it used the principles of lever and pulley. The Song people had applied this aspect and it was not difficult to build it.

The middle of the trest bridge is covered with iron hardwood tracks. A special transport truck can save a lot of effort when driving on it. It is easy to use a cow to pull three or five thousand pounds.

In theory, this should be the best and most convenient pier in the Song Dynasty at present, but all berths are empty and seem to be very depressed, if you don’t look at the vast crowds on the shore.

Seeing this, Zhao Mengqi on the ship was very shocked.

Qian Duo was even more surprised, "How come there are so many people? I'm afraid that not half of Lin'an people will come."

Half of Lin'an's is really exaggerating, there are definitely 20,000 to 30,000 people.

"Are they here to greet us?"

Zhao Feng's big eyes flashed, his face was just curious, no longer as uneasy as he was half a year ago.

Zhao Mengqi frowned, "It must be the one who answered us, but..."

It’s just something is wrong. It takes such a big battle to welcome a prince who has been out for half a year?

With doubt, Zhao Mengqi's boat sailed to the center of the bay and leaned directly onto the embankment.

A relatively large open space was separated by the imperial guards, and dozens of people who looked like officials were waiting.

Chang Geng led the East Five imperial guards to get off the ship first and set up a warning.

When Zhao Mengqi saw the situation on the shore, it was obviously an official move, so he asked several young ladies to wait on the boat first, and went ashore with Jiang Wanli.

When he walked three meters away from the official train, all the officials bowed and bowed, which made Jiang Wanli, who had two steps behind him, hurriedly dodged to the side.

"I welcome His Highness the King of Yan and ask De'an."

Zhao Mengqi, who was confused, bowed and replied, "Little Wang'an, all the people are calm."

After the etiquette was completed, Yang Dong, the minister of the Ministry of Personnel, who was located in the front row of officials, took an edict from the pallet held by the clerk next to him.

"The emperor has an order, and Xuan and the King of Yan listen."

This edict was a bit long. After looking up, Zhao Mengqi's long list of official titles could not even be read in one breath.

The general meaning of the content is that Zhao Mengqi made many contributions in the past six months, such as destroying the rebels, fighting floods, eliminating hurricanes, relieving grain shortages, repairing water conservancy, maintaining people's livelihood, practicing the world, promoting industry and commerce, and boosting the economy, etc., all of which are great contributions to the country. Lao Zhao was very happy and felt extremely proud of his son, Balabala.

So after careful consideration, Lao Zhao decided to marry his son as soon as possible. After getting married, the crown prince ceremony was officially held.

Zhao Mengqi felt dizzy after hearing this. It turned out that he had made so many great achievements without realizing it.

However, even if there is really no other way to reward me, there is no need to announce that I would make myself the crown prince as soon as I arrived in Lin'an?
Chapter completed!