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Chapter 94 Agricultural Books

Wang Jinghui was afraid that his subordinates would use administrative means during the promotion process to cause unnecessary trouble to the people under his rule, so he gave a special reminder: "All colleagues know: Do not do to others what they do not want others to do to others. Officials should not disturb the people. Although this biogas pool has many advantages, if you force the people under your rule to build a biogas pool, it is inevitable that you will be forced to make people difficult. I absolutely do not agree with this! Ordinary people will only take the initiative when they see the interests. Dear colleagues, remember to 'induce' the people' and not force others to make people difficult. You don't have to consider catering to your own officials, and promote it with 'public opinion'. If you let the official know who forced to promote it, then the official will never give up easily!"

After hearing this, all the local officials felt a little chilling on the back of their necks. When thinking about the methods Wang Jinghui dealt with when building water conservancy projects, no one would take his words as a warning to him and quickly ensured it. Not forcibly promoting does not mean letting go. Wang Jinghui asked them to build two or three biogas pools in villages under his control to demonstrate and let the people see the real benefits. They will naturally take the initiative to build biogas pools. Finally, they introduced them in detail the precautions for the use of biogas pools, especially when cleaning biogas pools, to avoid poisoning and explosions. Wang Jinghui wrote these contents in detail in a booklet so that these officials can use them to better promote biogas pools.

After all local officials obtained detailed information about the biogas tank, they went back to promote the biogas tank according to his wishes. This task was not important to them. The promotion methods used by their superiors were mandatory, even if they were beneficial. The reactions of the people in various places were different. But most of them were very sad. They wanted to please their superiors and did their achievements, but they were also afraid that the people would be resentful. If the public was extremely angry, not only would the boss’s new plan be ruined, but his image in the boss’s mind was greatly reduced. Wang Jinghui was willing to let it go. It was easy to speak, which made officials at all levels below breathe a sigh of relief: It is best not to offend the people or the boss in either aspect!

As for agriculture, Wang Jinghui is an amateur. In addition to designing some simple machines, it is really difficult for him to design agricultural tools. However, he knew that the "Qimin Yaoshu" written by Jia Siyi of the Northern Wei Dynasty was the first of the four major agricultural books in ancient China. The remaining three agricultural books were in the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties. There was no such good textbook unless his head was in water. Wang Jinghui immediately wrote a letter to the Commercial Press and asked them to search for the agricultural book "Qimin Yaoshu". First print a thousand sets and send them to Chuzhou.

The Commercial Press was very fast, and within a month, he printed "Qimin Yaoshu" and delivered it to Wang Jinghui. However, he was troubled again with the printed "Qimin Yaoshu": even in China in the 21st century, rural education could not keep up with the times, and many farmers could only fill in their own names. If they were asked to study, it would be too difficult. This was the case in China a thousand years later, let alone the farmers today? Not to mention how the "Qimin Yaoshu" was written, even if you send it to farmers for free, they would not understand it, and they would probably be filled in.

After Wang Jinghui read "Qimin Yaoshu", he realized that it was not just a problem of communication. There was another fatal problem in this book: this book was written during the Northern Wei Dynasty, and the Northern Wei Dynasty was confronting the Southern Dynasties at that time, so the main content of the book was to tell the agricultural situation in the north of the Yellow River Basin, while there was very little agriculture in the south.

"A book called "Qimin Yaoshu" has caused so much trouble, which is not very good now! If the content in the book is placed on Hebei Road, it would be good, but it would not be of much use on Huainan Road. I am really losing money this time!" Wang Jinghui thought silently in his heart. He was not heartbroken about the cost of printing books. Now, after only the Commercial Press found Buddhist scriptures in Liao Kingdom as a new profit growth point, he basically didn't have to worry about funding issues.

After two days of consideration, Wang Jinghui decided to rely on his financial resources to let the Song Dynasty government produce professional talents to write a comprehensive agricultural encyclopedia that comprehensively summarizes the era! He immediately wrote a letter to Han Qi, Fu Bi, Ouyang Xiu and other senior officials he knew, and the letter comprehensively explained his thoughts: Why is the prosperity of the Song Dynasty now far surpassing all dynasties, and there is no agricultural book comparable to "Qi Min Yaoshu" under the comprehensive development of culture and economy? Food is the most important thing for the people, if the people can eat a full stomach.

Zi, who will rebel? Although the problems that a book of agriculture can solve are limited, they can play a huge role in agricultural development. It is also laying the foundation for the subsequent restructuring of the wing soldiers - the agricultural reclamation soldiers. Especially in the Song Dynasty, natural disasters occur every year. Actively storing grain can not only stabilize the tension and confrontation in the country, but also enable the court to save a lot of disaster relief finance, but also allow the court to avoid worries and fight the harassment of the Western Xia and regain the hometown of the Han and Tang Dynasties!

Wang Jinghui also wrote a memorial to convince Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu. In the memorial, he expressed his willingness to provide all the funds needed, and asked the court to use administrative power to call on professional experts in agriculture to gather their talents to write an encyclopedia that can summarize the most advanced farming technology in agriculture, and also explained the great significance it contained. However, considering the threat of the Liao Kingdom, the focus of this agricultural encyclopedia should focus on agricultural production in the south. This is not only to guard against the needs of the Liao Kingdom, but the main development space for agricultural reclamation soldiers in the future is the vast land in the south, so we must prepare in advance.

The princess of Shu looked at her husband who was still writing hard late at night, and cooked a few side dishes for him personally, so that Wang Jinghui could relax, and then sorted out all the manuscripts written by Wang Jinghui and copied them again. Wang Jinghui felt very warm in his heart. Thinking of the two of them getting to know each other and falling in love, there was no passionate and earth-shaking touching love story in the middle. Everything was so calm and gentle, but this calm attachment made people feel particularly enchanting. After he came to this time and space, he felt that the greatest gain was to get the love of the princess of Shu. Her warmth and attachment always made Wang Jinghui feel a sense of finding a place to live, and having such a wife. What else does he have to expect?

After more than a month of recuperation, Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu gradually returned to normal and could go to court to handle political affairs. However, the first memorial he read after he recovered from illness was that Wang Jinghui wrote a memorial to him about organizing power to write a comprehensive summary of the most advanced encyclopedia of agricultural farmlands in the Song Dynasty. This memorial was extremely sensational, which was rare in Wang Jinghui's memorial he read, and also attracted his attention. He summoned Han Qi and other important officials from the country to see

What do they have to do with this memorial? In fact, Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu had already made up his mind to write a farm book that exceeded the "Qi Min Yaoshu" as stated in Wang Jinghui's memorial. Think about it, although the Song Dynasty is full of difficulties, the market is still prosperous. Why can't we write a farm book? What's more, the court just used administrative power to summon professional talents in agriculture. The expenses consumed were entirely borne by Wang Jinghui and had no impact on the finances of the Song Dynasty.

Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, emperors of all dynasties attached great importance to agricultural development. In addition to the rapid drought in Huainan and Zhejiang during the reign of Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty, even the inner courtyard of the palace also had farmland. Among the four major royal gardens of Kaifeng, Biandu, there were large areas of farmland distributed among them. Every year, the emperor would lead all officials to visit the edge of the farmland to see the seeds, growth and harvest. Some Hanlin scholars even took pride in the "Imperial Rice" rewarded by entering the back garden. Wang Jinghui also entered the back garden. At that time, he was the top scholar in the new academic and poetic talent, and of course he could also win this honor. This made him realize that in addition to attaching great importance to the development of medicine, the emperors of the Song Dynasty attached great importance to agriculture more than the emperors of other dynasties.

After Han Qi, Fu Bi and other important officials went to Funing Hall to discuss matters. After reading Wang Jinghui's memorials, Yingzong Zhao Shu learned that Wang Jinghui had written letters to all the important officials he was familiar with in order to make this agricultural book smoothly. Obviously, these important officials of the court were convinced after reading Wang Jinghui's letters and memorials, so that there was no voice of opposition in the entire Funing Hall. This also made Yingzong Zhao Shu see that his son-in-law had good intentions in doing things, especially in writing agricultural books. Since the court came forward, the son-in-law could not get a slight benefit, but instead had to pay a lot of money.

Wang Jinghui, who was in Chuzhou, quickly received a reply from the senior rulers of the Song Dynasty, such as Yingzong Zhao Shu. Wang Jinghui took it for granted in his heart, which saved him a lot of effort. After receiving the exact reply, Wang Jinghui immediately asked someone to notify the Biandu Kaifeng, who was in charge of the industry, to prepare 100,000 guan of funds immediately, and handed over 50,000 guan to King Zhao Xu of Ying to deal with it, and then slowly call the other subsequent funds.

The compilation of agricultural books cannot be completed in a short while, from a few years to several years. This is possible. Even if the compilation of agricultural books is completed, popularization will lead to the problem of farmers being illiterate. When Wang Jinghui thinks of a series of complex problems in the middle, he can't help but get big. He thinks in his mind that not to mention social change, even improving agriculture is so difficult. To solve these difficulties, it requires the improvement of the quality of education for all. Even if he has money, he cannot send people from all over the country to school for education. Even his father-in-law does not have the financial resources, let alone himself.

The scholars of this era had a narrow way out. In addition to taking the imperial examination and taking the imperial examination, even eating by themselves was a problem. Since the Emperor of the Song Dynasty attached importance to medicine, scholars in the world, in addition to taking the imperial examination, also brought many high-quality talents to the field of medicine. Although agriculture was also highly valued by the emperor, even Confucius hated agricultural farming, not to mention that these people also lost their bags of books.

Although the "Sage Books" that scholars are familiar with now are not worth a penny in Wang Jinghui's eyes, they are always better than illiterate. As long as they are trained, they can easily change careers. But Wang Jinghui thought so in his mind, it is difficult to operate. He added medical science to Huaying Academy, which was founded outside Biandu, and asked the students in the academy to take the "Number Theory" and "Theory of Things" in order to divert it and prevent so many people from squeezed into the single-plank bridge for the imperial examination. Because of the medical science and the selection of the

If students who study "Theory of Numbers" and "Theory of Things" fail the imperial examination, they can enter Wang Jinghui's industry to serve. Those who enter Huaying Academy are all students from poor families. After taking these courses, they can also guarantee their future lives, so the effect looks pretty good. But this is also based on the small number of people in Huaying Academy. If there are more people in the future, even if their industry is large, they will not be able to accommodate so many people in the local area. I am afraid this will be a troublesome thing in the future.

Wang Jinghui thought of agriculture and involved such a lot of problems. He was very upset. The princess of Shu Kingdom, who was copying manuscripts, saw her husband's somewhat annoyed expression. He knew that he must have been stumped by something, so he walked to him and said, "Husband, are you worried?"

Wang Jinghui pretended to be smiling and said, "No, it's just that I'm thinking too much!" But how could this make the smart princess of Shu Kingdom be circulated? He immediately expressed his worries.

The princess of Shu frowned and said, "The ancestors of this dynasty made an oath to treat scholars and officials. In addition, they were all famous scholars in the court, and almost all passed the imperial examination. However, more and more people took the imperial examination. In order to show their favor, the proportion of admissions was far greater than that of previous dynasties. In order to arrange these high school students, the court also assigned official positions. This is what my husband said before, and it was a must! It is not easy for my husband to divert these scholars. As the saying goes, who can resist the glory of the top high school list?"

After hearing this, Wang Jinghui did not expect that his wife would have such insights. He thought she only cared about poetry and songs. He immediately hugged the princess of Shu in his arms and ladder and said, "It's still too early to solve the problem of redundant officials. Now, considering this long term, some mediocre people are disturbed by themselves, and they are also a little anxious for their husbands. Although the compilation of the letter to the emperor for the compilation of agricultural books has been approved, the compilation of agricultural books must be understood by someone, and to teach the people to truly play a role, otherwise it would be a fancy way!"

The princess of Shu laughed and said, "Husband is too worried. You can get some out of the treasury after the agricultural books are edited and distributed. Let those poor students come to teach the people? This way, the students can have a support for their lives, and there is no need to worry about the people not being able to understand agricultural books!"

Wang Jinghui suddenly realized and smiled, "The princess is resourceful and has been taught for her husband!" After that, she gently slapped the princess of Shu with her fingers. Although the method proposed by the princess of Shu may not be good, it is also a good idea. The most important thing is the funding issue. Chuzhou is a hometown of fish and rice. Although his ex-girlfriend Wu Chong was not very good at political achievements, it was also stable and the remaining money in the treasury was relatively large. However, there were no such good things as Chuzhou in other parts of the country. In the end, the country's finances were sufficient to better carry out social changes, which was much smaller. The reason why Emperor Shenzong Zhao Xu used Wang Anshi so resolutely in history was that at that time, only Wang Anshi could make the country prosperous and have sufficient finances, otherwise he would not withstand the huge pressure from the celebrities of the opposition and the two empress dowagers. He also wanted to reform Wang Anshi as decisive as a paranoid Wang Anshi.

"After all, it's just one word - money! As long as the country's finances are sufficient, even if the reformists in history really appear, their radical attitude will be restricted by the emperor. After all, his father-in-law can 'indulge' himself. On the one hand, it's because his strategy is correct so far, and on the other hand, it's not because he can get him more funds to alleviate the national finances?" Wang Jinghui thought secretly in his heart.

So far, Wang Jinghui has brought many unexpected wealth to the senior officials of the Song Dynasty. A glass mirror production formula can allow the court to earn 500,000 yuan a month. In fact, the demand in the domestic and Liao markets can support it even if the production of mirrors is increased, but it was suppressed by Wang Jinghui. However, even such a "unexpected fortune" of the court center of 6 million yuan a year has made Prime Minister Han Qi and Sansi make Cai Xiang live a much better life. There is also a high-level liquor business on the border, after conscious promotion by merchants from the Song Dynasty.

, which finally had the advantageous weapons to obtain horses. The Song Dynasty did not produce horses, and the Liao Kingdom could not make such spicy wine. Neither side could raise prices on the border. They could only use horses and high-quality liquor to start smuggling transactions with goods and goods, which allowed the Song army to supplement some of the war horses to improve combat effectiveness. These newly equipped cavalry have begun to give priority to the equipment for the northwest to fight against Xia. There are also many industries under Wang Jinghui, led by Commercial Press. Due to the increase in trade with Liao, the imperial court has also gained great benefits...

What Wang Jinghui thought of now made him understand: Even if the so-called reform is successful, it will definitely cause the country to suffer pain, and some groups may even damage their interests due to the reform faction. This is common in history at home and abroad. In history, Wang Anshi's Xining reform is a living example. As long as he can make the court's finances sufficient, even if the reforms in history will still appear, the intensity of the reform will naturally weaken, and even become a very moderate social improvement, so that the people at the bottom can suffer less.
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