Chapter 220: Don’t treat “talents” as treasure

This is a bit of experience. Although it was the first time he heard about this, he said it: "The reason why Fangchang was unable to make ends meet before was that the officials did not care about their financial resources and only raised money and spent money, but did not know that the operation of the Fangchang also required money to flow. Dongweng just knew this and even though he gave them dividends, it was a fixed share of dividends. The management was not allowed to interfere."

Wan Qi Yong replied proudly: "Dongweng had already thought of this. Those people were trying to get dividends, and their stocks were deducted from the price of the purchase farm. As long as the government collected less, it would be equivalent to the investment of the Ma army.

In addition, our daily operations are carried out by our servants, and the accounts are supervised by Yici Leye people from the Loach. Those Yici Leye people will not ruin their reputation and make the accounts confused."

Wan Qi Yong explained proudly, Zhao Xing said to Shan E: "This is probably our biggest job in Yangzhou. Cai Jing is pressed on it. We can't do anything else this year. Mr. Shan, please follow me to check it around this year."

Shan E slapped his stomach: "No need to check it. I have been walking around for thirty years. I know every branch in Yangzhou. A few days ago, I checked the county warehouse. Although Yangzhou is rich, the county has little money and no money, and nothing can be done. This year we will make a small fuss. I know a few small rivers. If you dredge it a little, it will not cost hundreds of stakes. Why don't we try it first this year?"

Zhao Xing sighed and said, "The prosperous place in Yangzhou is only more than 100,000 households. Where do you think people have gone? In my opinion, spring farming has not yet begun. It is better to write to the court to immigrate tens of thousands of people from Shandong. Master single chooses a place and let the people move to stockpile it. How about it?"

Shan E was very happy: "That's great."

When Wan Qiyong heard this, he quickly suggested: "We cannot immigrate from a place in Shandong. I heard that the war on Qinfeng Road is constantly rampant and the people in the area are displaced. However, the people there are good at raising horses and cattle, and they also need to immigrate from there. Adults can write the memorial more tactfully and send it to multiple routes, so that enough refugees can be moved as soon as possible."

"Thirty thousand, 30,000 is enough." Shan E excitedly patted his knees. After years of accumulation, he is now able to achieve great success. He was so excited that he couldn't say: "Although the household registration in Yangzhou is only 100,000, the people in the city who work and do business are no less than 500,000 or 600,000. If the population equivalent to the local household registration is moved, it may cause clan conflicts.

Brother Wanqi had a good idea just now. He transferred the people from all over the world. Relying on this Grand Canal, the fewest people will be transferred quickly. It will take about 30,000 to 30,000 people in about 30,000 people in the past month. After they finish farming and harvesting for a season, all those who join relatives and friends will come next year. We just need to expand the land."

Zhao Xing continued: "I am not afraid of spring plowing later. In recent years, I have introduced mochi in Mizhou. This thing has a high yield and barren land. It grows rapidly and will mature in two or three months. As long as the people have been through two or three months, they will be able to take root..."

Wan Qiyong was also very excited. He originally thought that being Zhao Xing's aide was just handling some chores, but he didn't expect that he would do such a big thing at once. This memorial was sent to the court. In the future, if someone asked who would handle it, wouldn't he be glorious?

Cai Jing moved very quickly. Within two days, he had already come to Zhao Xing with a stack of drawings. When he entered Zhao Xing's yard, he almost forgot his purpose, and stared at the servants in the yard, his eyes rolling.

Zhao Xing called out repeatedly, and finally called his soul back. He looked at the picture album in his hand and immediately returned to the main business: "Li Ren, I have studied the box of objects you gave me. Let's not talk about the seventh level pagoda for now, let's talk about the mirror. There are a few glass mirrors in your box, which are revealed in a thousand seconds, without any change. I read all ancient books and found more than a hundred ancient mirror styles from ancient texts. In addition, I also figured out more than a hundred new styles. Look, this is the Han mirror style, the dragon and phoenix mirror, the bronze and bird mirror... This is the bronze mirror of the Jin Dynasty...; this is the Tang mirror...

In addition, I also found some catalogs of gold and stone, and found out the ancient mirrors of the Huns, Turks, and Rouran Xianbei in various eras. I deleted and modified them. I didn’t issue a book to make about 500 kinds of mirrors. I left people to see. How about these mirrors? Do you like it?"

Zhao Xing turned a few pages and sighed to the sky.

If you want to say who can be the first product designer in the Song Dynasty, Cai Jing is the only one who puts in Zhao Xing's box. Zhao Xing only had three glass silver mirrors, which could trigger Cai Jing's inspiration. He drew more than 300 ancient and modern bronze mirror styles in two days, and each style was slightly changed, making it both simple and innovative, which was simply breathtaking.

This is not only the case. Cai Jing not only traced the mirror style, but also designed many other miscellaneous items in Zhao Xing's box, such as glass-imitated ancient jadeware, ancient ornaments, and in two days, Cai Jing actually drew a thousand paintings. This creation speed is probably even when Versace comes, he will shake his head and sigh.

Zhao Xing didn't know that after Cai Jing became the prime minister, he began to instigate Song Huizong to open an official counterfeiting channel, specifically imitating ancient jadeware of all dynasties. Since Cai Jing, making fake antiques in China is no longer a crime, but a cultural elegance. It is said that modern people have counted that Cai Jing and Song Huizong have made no less than 100,000 counterfeit products in their lifetime. On the whole earth, he is the first person to commit counterfeiting in ancient and modern times, both in China and abroad.

Zhao Xing opened his mouth and looked at Cai Jing for a long time. Cai Jing did not feel that he had any mistakes. On the contrary, in this fraud plan, he fully showed his profound knowledge of ancient culture and history. Now, he tried his best and felt that he had a kind of happiness that he could finally show his strengths. Facing Zhao Xing, his soulmate, he became more and more pleasing to him: "There are people from the Cheng tribe in Huangzhou on the Yangzhou Wharf. I heard that Zhao Liren looked at Su Xueshi's snow house and suddenly burst into inspiration. He actually came up with the trick to print calligraphy and painting on the plate. Haha, you and I are both people who understand each other, but I am a little better than you.

However, I can understand Li Ren, because after all, you were born in Huangzhou and grew up in the mountains and fields. Mr. Su learned a lot, but when it comes to proficiency in ancient and modern classics, the Song Dynasty did not become two people except me. What is this? This is knowledge. I have read poetry and books since I was a child, but there have been no omissions in ancient and modern classics. This ancient and modern artifact... Although Mr. Su reads in a mixed manner, it is not as far away as me.

There is no need to be too shocked at the left. This is a small test. Let me take some more effort and study it carefully, and I will definitely make the seven-level Buddha tower unparalleled in ancient and modern times."

Cai Jing misunderstood. He thought Zhao Xing was shocked that he could design so many bronze mirror patterns in such a short time, but Zhao Xing had a flash of thought about this. What was even more shocked was that as the four-way transshipment commander and the head of Yangzhou, Cai Jing spent all his thoughts on these gadgets. So what about civil affairs, military affairs, taxes, and does Cai Jing still have the energy to deal with daily chores?

But aren’t these exactly what Zhao Xing expected? He opened his mouth for a long time, but felt his mouth dry. It took the boss’s effort to close his lips, swallowed and spit. Zhao Xing stretched out his hand and greeted the servant: “Come on the contract, Lord Cai, I want to sign a contract with you. Don’t worry, I will give you VIP treatment.”

Cai Jing didn't understand, but Zhao Xing understood that the contract he brought about was a convoluted agreement signed with the tutoring training during his tenure in Mizhou. The terms of the agreement were layer by layer. Cai Jing, a cultural person, could he understand such a complex arithmetic formula? He touched the cover of the contract and hesitated for a long time, and asked back: "My contract is also the same as Li Gonglin and Mi Fu?"

Zhao Xing had nodded, and Cai Jing had already opened the last page of the contract, picked up the pen, and said while signing: "I have heard that the contract signed by Li Ren in Mizhou and the tutor training team was not understood. This matter has become a strange story in the officialdom. But three years have passed, and none of the people in Mizhou feel that they are at a loss. The 100,000 people in Mizhou are not afraid. Li Gonglin and Mi Fu are not afraid. What am I afraid of? Li Ren will never suffer a loss."

Zhao Xing touched his chin, and his pride was not dared to show it on his face, but he was always impressed by himself: it turns out that people with credibility have low cost of fraud. Well, let alone fraud, even if they are normal business operations, the cost will be greatly reduced.

After Cai Jing signed the contract, Zhao Xing snatched it and immediately ordered the followers to go to Jiangdu County Government to archive it. After Wanqi Yong excitedly held the contract and snatched the door, Cai Jing had time to ask: "Li Ren, what is written in this contract? Please tell me briefly?"

Zhao Xing laughed happily: "Simple, Lord Cai helped me design more than ten drafts every month. I compiled these pictures into a book and put them on the carvings. The title of the book is "Spiritual Map". In addition, Lord Cai still needs to write a copybook every month, regardless of the number of words...

When Lord Cai completes the contract, I pay at the price. The copyright of the book published lies with Lord Cai. I only receive 50% of the bonus. However, if it cannot be completed, there will always be a restriction. Hehe, Lord Cai will have to pay me money."

Zhao Xing said the last few words with a laughing expression. Who is Cai Jing? This task is a piece of cake for him. He didn't listen to the harsh conditions that Zhao Xing said. Just then, a servant came in with a few basins of fruits. Cai Jing remembered the moment he had just arrived at Zhao Xing's mansion and pointed at the servant and asked, "Li Ren, why is the cloth worn by this servant so weird? The style is also so weird?"

"Fashion of the Demon" is a saying in the Song Dynasty, but in modern times it is called "strange costumes".

Zhao Xing shook his legs proudly and said with a smile: "Master Cai, guess what their fabric is?"

This rhetorical question is not a mystery to Cai Jing. Cai Jing smiled and replied: "I heard that Yi Ci Leye people once presented vassal cloth (canvas) to Taizu. There were many Yi Ci Leye people under his command. Could this be a vassal cloth?"

Zhao Xingji both agreed: "No one is as wise as Lord Cai, well-versed in knowledge, and this is indeed a vassal cloth (canvas). When I was in Mizhou, I summoned the group to train my family and tried new weaving machines to weave vassal cloth. This vassal cloth is the best for sails. The Mizhou shipbuilding industry has developed explosively in recent years. This vassal cloth is in short supply, so the people cannot hear it. However, good things are good things after all. Mizhou Tuanlian once occasionally discovered that after the water seeped into the water, it can be as good as paper armor. If two layers of cloth sewn together, it can block ordinary arrows and stabs.

In recent years, there have been some utility - Mizhou utility privately purchased a van cloth head, made a body armor with it, and put it in an outer robe as a body armor. My servant is now wearing a kind of body armor developed in Mizhou. I named it "Armor (clip) garment".

I invented the copper button on the jacket. This button blocks the heart and chest near the major acupoints, which can prevent fatal injuries. As for the copper star on their shoulders, it is a level. For me, a first-class servant woman is decorated with a star on her shoulder, and a star is added to her work for a year. She becomes a second-class servant woman. After the assessment, the excellent one can add another star and become a three-star servant woman.

After three years, some servants who are still literate and sly, will be promoted to the level of knowledge (steward). They will add a bar on their shoulders, which is called one bar and one star, and two stars in one bar... As for the badges on their sleeves, I call them "skill bar". A shovel represents a gardener, and a star at the shovel represents a second-class gardener, and another star is called a top-class gardener.

In addition, the kitchen knife graphics represent the chef, and so on…”

Cai Jing is not a fool. In terms of intelligence, few people in the Song Dynasty can compare to him. Zhao Xing's almost showing off his words did not make him dizzy. He pointed to the servant who brought the fruit and asked, "I didn't pay attention to this kitchen knife and shovel, but I see why there is a horse and a bow on the servant's armband. There is a horizontal bar on the bow and two stars on it. According to you, this person should be a top archer. How can he bring tea and water like this person?"

Zhao Xing seemed to have been choked by the fruit. He coughed violently. After a long time of coughing, he said, "This Zhang San, I have been to Nanyang with me. He is a special archer. This is good, but now I am old this year, so I will step down to do some housework."

Older?! Cai Jing looked at the young man in his twenties and full of muscles in front of him and was puzzled. He wanted to ask again, but in the blink of an eye, he changed his mind: "Li Ren, such a person, I see that he has more than one skill bar on his arm. Why, does it take a archer to bring tea and water? Then you are a waste of people."

Zhao Xing smiled, his eyes flashed, and his tone was calm: "I am used to running on the sea on the boat and like an organized and disciplined lifestyle. I don't prohibit what skills these servants like to learn. No matter what they learn, it will always be useful to them. And I just pay for money."

Zhao Xing pointed to the skill bar on the servant's shoulder and continued, "I remember when the bandits of Fuyang crossed the river to attack my manor. These people repelled the attacks of the bandits, so I support everything they like to learn. I can give a penny of one skill. For example, this person can shoot archers and get an archer's salary. In addition, this guy has a bit of cooking skills, so he also gets a chef's salary. His bow and arrow level is very high, so he gets a special archer's salary. He gets a medium-class chef's salary. In addition, there is a steering wheel, he can handle boats and also get a boatman's salary. He can ride horses and ride horses at the best level, and gets a high-level rider's salary.

He is just a doorman now, and I may not be able to use his other skills, but since he has those skills, I will give him money. One day, I will use those skills. For example, riding a horse, I have an urgent letter to let him teleport out..."

Zhao Xing explained his management of the servants tirelessly. Cai Jing nodded and praised: "In this way, as soon as the servants in the house enter the door, they will spontaneously learn various skills, because the more skills, the more money they get, isn't that true?"

Zhao Xing was secretly surprised, but his face was very dull: "Not bad. I think so. My power alone is limited and it is impossible to take care of everything. My advantage lies in my money. If that is the case, I will use money to encourage others to do things for me. In this case, everyone will be brave and I will not worry about anything. Just give money. At the critical moment, when bandits attack, someone will take up weapons and show it."

Cai Jing was silent for a moment and asked again: "I heard that the servants of the family were preparing to buy the farm and take root in Yangzhou. Is this a matter?"

Thankfully, Cai Jing finally turned the topic to what Zhao Xing expected, and he quickly climbed up the rod: "Yes, these servants have been in my family for three years and have learned a lot of skills. Now that the three-year service period has expired, I am planning to send a group of people out and do something that is beneficial to the people..."

Zhao Xing then used extremely inciting language to describe his plan with his subordinates: to establish a group of troops that can quickly respond in Yangzhou with the participation of elite group members, the cavalry, and to establish a fast-responsive force to eliminate less rampant bandits nearby. In addition, he used this powerful mobile armed force to quickly attack the gang of traitors entrenched in the mountains and forests, and then absorbed refugees and developed hoarding people near Yangzhou...

"This is a great achievement!" Cai Jing immediately discovered the benefits, and he immediately stated: "I am the one who leads the memorial. I will report it with my name to help the people who leave me to promote this matter and purify the Yangzhou environment. The taxes in Yangzhou will go up. In addition, the court has been suffering from disasters over the years. As court officials, we should share the worries of the court - 30,000 people. This is not enough. At least 100,000, I will write the memorial!"

Zhao Xing quickly persuaded: "Mr. Cai, we have calculated that we can absorb up to 30,000 refugees. No matter how many, I am afraid that the refugees will not accept discipline, but will suffer from troubles everywhere - 30,000, and we must not be too much."

Cai Jing asked again carefully: "Are you talking about 30,000 households or 30,000 households?"

"Thirty thousand people, this is the limit!" Zhao Xing replied without hesitation: "We didn't want to disturb Lord Cai... Cough cough, if Lord Cai is working hard for the resettlement of refugees, then what should I do with the map? What about the copybook?"

Cai Jing's answer was straightforward: "When Wang Jinggong was reforming the law in the past, I also presided over the reform of Bianliang. I also had capable people under my command of organizing labor. However, since Li Ren is so eager, Li Ren comes forward, how about it?"

Cai Jing gave Zhao Xing a step. Can Zhao Xing be ignorant? He quickly replied: "Mr. Cai, I have been an official for several years. I am not familiar with the matters on this memorial. In the past, Gao Qiu has always been responsible for it. Since Lord Cai is willing to help, the memorial will be written by Lord Cai. I will become an official according to the Hangzhou method. If others have ideas, I will do it. If others write the memorial, I will give it a name."

Cai Jing was very satisfied. Zhao Xing said this, which was equivalent to giving him the right to speak and let him take credit to him. However, Cai Jing received such great favors from Zhao Xing for a long time, so he naturally would not do too much. He would also express Zhao Xing's credit to him...

Cai Jing was very quick. In mid-March, he and Zhao Xing jointly wrote a letter claiming that there are still many wastelands in Yangzhou. He heard that the imperial court was suffering from disasters all over the country. Yangzhou was willing to share the worries of the court. This year, he accepted 30,000 refugees to reclaim the land. The entire process did not require the court to spend a penny, but only the court allowed the money for the Yangzhou market to be traded, and the Yangzhou government was allowed to use it for one year.

The Song Dynasty had been famine for three years. After this memorial was handed over, the court's reply was quick. Since it did not spend a penny on the court, the court issued an order to greatly praise Cai Jing and Zhao Xing. Then, the refugees arrested from all over the country desperately sent them to Hangzhou.

Immediately afterwards, the second memorial between Zhao Xing and Cai Jing came up. They asked the court to make an exception and allow Yangzhou to hire civil servants and wings to build major projects, mainly to build roads for refugees' settlement sites... The court agreed readily.

The reason why the court agreed so readily was that although Zhao Xing was silent, he had a double insurance strategy in the court. First, Su Shi, who was the Minister of Personnel at the time, was able to send the memorials directly to his fan Empress Dowager Gao. Empress Dowager Gao met his idol's request and never gave a discount.

Another insurance measure is Yici Leyeren. Su Shi was in Hangzhou for three years and had frequent contact with Yici Leyeren. Everyone lived in the same castle. He looked up and saw him. After fully experiencing Yici Leyeren's accounting ability, Su Shi returned to Beijing and took the initiative to seek Yici Leyeren's help. Acquaintances looked for acquaintances. With the strong help of Su Shi, the Minister of Personnel, those Yici Leyeren quickly entered various central departments. With their outstanding accounting and organizational skills, they quickly became backbones of various departments.

At this time, although the officials of the Song Dynasty court did not praise this group of Israel like Kublai Khan - "they can do everything", there was a group of grassroots cadres in the department who were used to being slaves, very obedient, excellent in all kinds of skills, and hardworking, and no departmental officials were not allowed to use them.

With these Israelites, Zhao Xing can guarantee that even if the memorial he signed was thrown into the yard of any department through the wall, someone would pick it up, clean it up, and submit it to his chief officer—and the priority level was very high.

The first half of Cai Jing's memorial, which he wrote himself, is a beautiful poem, which highly praised the Song Dynasty, which was full of famines, and then praised the scene after the land reclamation in Yangzhou in advance. Zhao Xing attached a detailed budget plan after the memorial in the format of a modern plan.

Of course, if most people can't understand this budget, the Israelites became the object of consultation. Their reply did not delay at all, and gave a detailed explanation the next day... Most officials still couldn't understand this explanation, but Su Song, the most intelligent man in the Song Dynasty, understood it, and he praised the memorials very much... Unfortunately, no one could understand what he praised.

So, the dizzy Song Dynasty gave permission in a confused manner, and most people looked at Zhao Xing's suggestions with a joke. For example, Jia Yi said in private: "People say that no one can understand the contract written by Zhao Liren, and I don't think his teacher can understand it either. When the memorial was first presented, Su Zizhan rumbling and whispered, as if the breeze blew across the pages. Is this speed the speed of understanding? I think he just nodded helplessly.
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