After leaving the cotton weaving field, Xu Ping walked on the street in the summer evening, listening to the noise of the people around him, lowering his head to think about his thoughts. The oncoming wind was still hot and he couldn't feel the coolness.

Tan Hu followed not far behind Xu Ping with two followers, and from time to time, he looked at the bustling streets around him curiously.

This is the capital city, where the emperor lives, and the most prosperous place in the world. It is indeed not comparable to the border area of ​​Yongzhou. The streets, houses, and everyone here have a momentum that cannot be seen elsewhere. They cannot be explained clearly, but they are everywhere, showing a kind of grace and grandness everywhere.

Since he arrived in the capital, Xu Ping asked Tan Hu to follow the class first, no matter what he learned, no matter whether it was useful or not. In short, just study hard. Only in his spare time will Tan Hu follow Xu Ping and become his old business instead of the Xiangjun of the Sansi.

Back then in Yongzhou, Xu Ping changed Tan Hu's life trajectory just as a magistrate. Now that he has become the deputy envoy of the Third Division, Tan Hu doesn't know what he will bring to him if he continues to follow this old boss.

Xu Ping lowered his head and walked slowly, thinking about his thoughts.

Xu Ping also figured it out after the proposal of wastewater grinding was rejected. This is the capital city, with various forces mixed in structure, so how could it be so easy to move casually? I didn’t feel these before because my movements were limited to the three sects. Once it exceeded the scope of the three sects, everything would be different.

Watching the willows floating in the evening breeze, looking at a cargo ship that occasionally appears on the Wuzhang River, and looking at the leisurely pedestrians on the road, Xu Ping felt a little disappointed. It was not that he had encountered difficulties before, but this was the first time, he encountered difficulties that he didn't know how to start.

The new business of the Sansi Department has recruited tens of thousands of workers, and it is difficult for Kaifeng Prefecture to recruit people again. It is said that the population of Kaifeng City is over one million, but apart from hundreds of thousands of imperial guards and family members, tens of thousands of officials, and various military hustles, how many people are left? This is a purely consumer city that has risen due to political and military reasons. It is not suitable for large-scale industrial and commercial development, not to mention various kinds of powers and other forces are obstructed.

Have you been wishful thinking? Xu Ping shook his head helplessly.

It was already August and the harvest season was coming again, but Xu Ping could not feel the joy of harvest. He spent a year to sort out the internal affairs of the Sansi. If he wanted to continue, he would have to go beyond the scope of the Sansi's authority. Once the power of the Sansi was exceeded, he would be a little more willing but not capable.

Dangxiang's envoy was recovered a few days ago, and Wang Deyong scolded him and asked them to bring a message to Zhao Yuanhao, keeping his loyalty and not taking the example, otherwise he would have to punish him. Then, Liu Ping was promoted from the commander of the Dragon God Guard to the capital of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Army, and officially entered the ranks of the generals of the Third Yai. Although the commander of the Dragon God Guard and the commander of the Four-Year Plane of the People's Army, he was also a general in charge of the affairs of the Third Yai. He was considered to have entered the top floor of the Third Yai.

In front of the hall of the Third Yamen, the deputy commander of the Ma Army and the Third Infantry Division were not the deputy commander of the Du Commander, because only one position was appointed, regardless of the position of the chief and deputy, both the chief and deputy were the chief officials of the Third Yamen, and they were called the Palace Commander, Ma Shuai, Bu Shuai, and Du Yuhou. However, the military power was concentrated, and the affairs of the Three Yamen were decided by the Three Yamen. Du Yuhou was actually a idle position and had no position to take charge. On the contrary, Liu Ping immediately served outside the office after being promoted to Du Yuhou of the Infantry Division and went to Shaanxi Road to take up the deputy chief office of Huanqing Road, which was in charge of the troops and horses, as a precaution against the possible opposition of the Dangxiang.

With memories of his previous life, Xu Ping naturally knew that the Song Dynasty soldiers and horses were defeated almost every battle in the early days of Shangdangxiang. However, people in this era did not have such an understanding. Yuan Hao himself, he did not dare to think that he could achieve such a record in history, otherwise he would have rebelled long ago. In fact, most people at this time believed that if Dangxiang dared to rebel, he might not be able to destroy him, but it was still easy to get a heavy blow.

Therefore, letting Liu Ping lead nearly 10,000 imperial guards to the northwest is enough to create a huge deterrence to Dangxiang. At least in the short term, Zhao Yuanhao would not rebel openly if he was forced to do so.

Xu Ping understood this and knew that there should be several years before the war came. He had to carry out economic reforms. As long as the economy was straightened out in the past few years and had sufficient money and food, even if it was achieved in history, it would be enough to pile up the Dangxiang with money and food. The important reason why Zhao Yuanhao was able to take the risk was that he consumed the reserves of the Song Dynasty, and he was too plundered and faced a severe situation.

Last month, Han Zong reported that this year, requiring Shaanxi Road to no longer transport grain to the capital, but to transport grain directly to several border states by the Transportation Office. After he was there for a year, the transportation had initially gained a glimpse of the transportation of grain by the government.

In the past, Shaanxi Road had to transport 500,000 shi of grain to the capital and Luoyang, and there were also borders and China and France to allow merchants to deliver grain to the border prefectures. This seems to be a contradiction, but it is easy to understand after understanding it. The grain transported from Shaanxi Road to the Central Plains comes from the wealthiest states in Guanzhong, where there is indeed surplus grain, and it is also convenient to transport it to the Central Plains through the Wei River and Yellow River waterways. However, the state troops stationed on the border need food and grass, due to the broken mountains and rivers and inconvenient transportation, mostly rely on shoulders to carry horses, and it is not easy to transport grain from Guanzhong by the government.

If you do this kind of thing, you will not be thankful for your efforts. The bureaucratic nature is to seek profit and avoid harm, so you will find various excuses to push the work of transporting grain to merchants. Merchants seek profit, so they naturally make the most profits. Most of the grains and grass are still plundered from the local area. This was discovered by Xu Ping last year and entered China and France for many years. As a result, all the tea and profits in the southeast were spent, but the actual result was that no stone of grain was entered Shaanxi.

This is not a collusion between officials and businessmen, because there is no collusion at all. It is just that officials are afraid of what they have to do, so they deliberately created such a business opportunity. Merchants faced the difficulties, seized the business opportunity, and their appetites became bigger and bigger, and it was harder to meet them. It is precisely because they each took the needs, no matter how big the disadvantages of this policy are, how to change the tea and salt law, the policy must be continued in the end. If they don’t do this, who dares to go to Shaanxi Road to become an official? Especially the prefectures along the border have always been military generals and prefects. While managing the army, they also have to transport food and grass. Whoever does it is stupid.

It was not until Han Zong arrived at Shaanxi Road that he brought Xu Ping's practice in Yongzhou that year. He really started to build roads and organize grain transportation by the transfer department, completely breaking the chain from official to merchants, and everything changed.

At least the current Shaanxi Road is much better than in history when facing the Dangxiang rebellion. Because of Dangxiang and Zhao Yuanhao's ambitions and policies, Dangxiang will still rebel sooner or later. Perhaps it will be so smooth in the early stage, but the support capacity of the Song Dynasty was much greater. With just the few victories in history, Zhao Yuanhao could not force the Song Dynasty to get along with him.

In the northwest, what you fight is money and food after all. As long as you have food in your hands, you will win the final victory.

Xu Ping's current mind is not thinking about when Dangxiang will rebel. What he needs to do is to carry out economic reform. This is the real top priority. Compared with this, Dangxiang is just a disease of tinea scabies.

Xu Ping stood by the Wuzhang River, watching the river water reflecting the sunset, colorful and like a dream.

What should I do next? Xu Ping was unsure of his mind. All his plans were based on the excellent commodity of cotton cloth, and with the help of cotton cloth, a chain of commodity economy was created. The creation of theory must rely on this commodity chain to convince others. The development of commodity economy must be strengthened with this chain. The transition of society from natural economy to commodity economy must rely on this chain to break the self-sufficiency of clothing, and everything depends on cotton cloth.

Although Kaifeng City is large, it is not a good industrial base, and there are too many forces that cannot be moved here.

Looking up at the opposite side of Wuzhang River, not far from Zhouxiwazi is the imperial guard camp. Such a camp is no less than ten places in the capital. There are no less than 100,000 soldiers and horses stationed in the military camps in this city, and there are 300,000 to 400,000 nearby counties and towns. These hundreds of thousands of people are all living with the salary of the imperial guards.

The imperial guards, including their parents, wives, and children, all ate rice from the court and wore cloth from the court. They were pure consumers, but like farmers who farmed, they did not buy food and clothing from the market.

Isn’t this another kind of natural economy?

Kaifeng City is not only not a good production base, but it is afraid it cannot be regarded as a good consumer market.

The population is over one million, but I really rely on buying daily necessities to live, and I went there 70% to 80% at once. This is an excellent market for luxury consumer goods, but for Sansi's textile industry, it is a bad place.

Xu Ping couldn't help but start to wonder whether it was right to choose the capital as the center of economic reform? If it were in the state army in other places, it wouldn't have encountered such great resistance. What is a water-melting business? He almost turned the sky in Yongzhou, but who dared to say that? Sugar and Sugar business completely destroyed the original social foundation. The immigrant household registration from Fujian Road even surpassed the natives in several counties, and it was not calm.

It is not accidental that economic changes often emerge and grow in places that are implemented. Although the productivity of backward places is underdeveloped, there are fewer constraints on old production relations and fewer constraints on old forces.

If you have less restraint, you must try important favorable conditions. It is like a grass. Although there is insufficient nutrients underground, there are no big trees above your head to block the sun, no ditches to attract rain, and no countless companions to fight with you. Maybe it is the first one to grow.

Kaifeng City may not be Xu Ping’s ideal place to break through. (To be continued.)
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