Fenghou

Chapter 1522 Small gathering
In the afternoon, Zhong Huan came to the main store of Yongjing Cabinet Shop located on Dongdajie. The headquarter covers an area of ​​about [-] mu. Only the official Yongjing Cabinet Store has this kind of treatment. The main stores of Wanbao Cabinet Shop and Jiangnan Cabinet Shop are both in Jingzhao County in the south, and each only occupies ten acres of land.

The Yongjing cabinet workshop mainly consists of several warehouses, both underground and on the ground, occupying most of the land, and the specific storefront building is only about three acres.

Yongjing cabinet shop is the former No. [-] cabinet shop in Sichuan and Shaanxi. It changed its name after the emperor ascended the throne, and quickly expanded to all counties in the world. It belongs to the Ministry of Households and is a typical official cabinet shop.

The chief manager of the counter shop is called Yang Chun, who used to be a doctor in the Du Zhi Department, and now works full-time in the counter shop. He is about fifty years old, a very shrewd and capable thin old man.

Yang Chun invited Zhong Huan to sit in the guest room, and asked the waiter to serve tea. Zhong Huan said apologetically, "Before, Your Majesty told me that there was some trouble in the cabinet shop, and asked me to pay attention to it, but I forgot it as soon as I got busy." , I just remembered."

Yang Chun stroked his beard and said, "It's okay, even if General Zhong doesn't come to this matter, we will report to the inner guard tomorrow."

"Tell me what first?"

Yang Chun asked an accountant to fetch the wooden box. He opened the wooden box and found two bills inside. "General, please look at these two bills."

Chong Huan picked up the bill, it was a money bill from Yongjing Cabinet Shop, the amount was one thousand guan, a bill he had never seen before, and it was also a money bill, and when he looked closely, the two money bills were exactly the same, even the number was the same , all stamped with the redeemed seal.

"Which one of these is true?"

Yang Chun smiled bitterly: "We don't know which one is true."

Zhong Huan was stunned, how could it be possible, even the issuer couldn't tell, wouldn't that be a mess?

Yang Chun sighed and said: "Let me tell the general what is going on with the money ticket first, because the counter tickets are all issued with real names and must be exchanged at designated counters, which is actually very inconvenient, so we tried to issue money. Tickets, this kind of idea has existed before, but we dare not implement it, because we are afraid that the enemy will imitate it. Now that the world is unified, we think we can try it out, so we issued a thousand large-value bills, each of which is a thousand guan. Wanguan was used as a guarantee for the issuance, and all counters paid on sight, but problems occurred after three months."

"Is there a problem with this one?"

"So far, this one has a problem, but we still have 87 money tickets outside, which have not been exchanged or recovered. I don't know if there will be a problem?"

"Where did this money ticket come from? I mean, in which county was it found?"

"They were all found in the capital, but not in one cabinet shop. One was in our cabinet shop, and the other was in Wanbao cabinet shop."

"You mean to say that the other two counters also recognize this money ticket?"

"All approved!"

Zhong Huan nodded and asked again: "Then who bought this counter ticket? Could it be that the counter shop didn't register?"

"It's registered. I can't find this person at the moment, so I want to ask the inner guard for help."

"Okay! I get it. You send all the information to the internal guards tomorrow morning and make a formal report. We will classify it as a major investigation!"

Zhong Huan came out from the cabinet shop, and it was getting dark. Today he still has a restaurant, which is on the East Street. He walked directly to the Taibai Restaurant at Zhuangyuan Bridge. This is still a big restaurant owned by the Liu family. The government refused to approve the construction of a bridge over the river, and the two restaurants were separated.

After Shi Guangping’s home was ransacked by the emperor Zhao Gou, the Taibai restaurant opposite was bought by the Zheng family at a low price of [-] guan. After the end of the Song Dynasty, the Jingzhao government approved them to build a bridge over the river, and the two Taibai restaurants officially merged. For one, it became the largest restaurant in Jingzhao City. A total of six families occupied [-]%, the Zheng family accounted for [-]%, the Liu family [-]%, the Gao family [-]%, the Yang family [-]%, the Qian family [-]%, and the Zheng family accounted for [-]%. Whether there are special members or not is unknown.

When Zhong Huan came to the gate of the restaurant, a waiter greeted him with a smile, "Excuse me, do you have a reservation?"

The business of the restaurant is so hot that you must make a reservation to get a seat. Zhong Huan smiled and said, "Mingyuelou Shaoyao Room!"

"Officer, please follow me!"

The man took Zhong Huan to the gate and handed it to a maid who led him there with a lantern. In fact, the restaurant was brightly lit and there was no need to light the lantern. The maid just lit the lantern to create an atmosphere.

Mingyue Building is the east building, and the west building is called Baozhu Building. Unlike Fengle Building in Lin'an, Taibai Restaurant is open to everyone, as long as you dress decently, and don't show your chest or bare arms or bare feet, you can enter. .

The maid walked to the Shaoyao room, put on a gesture of invitation, and Zhong Huan nodded and went in.

There were already two guests in the room, one was Chao Qing and the other was Su Ce. Back then, the three of them took part in the imperial examination together and passed the Jinshi exam. Chao Qing and Zhong Huan stayed in Jingzhao. He was in the Duzhi Office, but at the last moment, he chose to go to the local government to become an official. He has been transferred several times, and he was recently appointed as the governor of Fengzhou, and he came to Beijing to go through the formalities. "

Zhong Huan and Su Ce hugged tightly, they hadn't seen each other for many years.

"Sit down!" Chao Qing smiled and asked the two to sit down.

The three of them sat down separately, today Chao Qing was the host, he had already ordered the food and wine, soon, a maid brought them the food and wine, originally there was a singing girl to add to the fun, but they refused.

Chao Qing filled the wine for the three of them, toasted and said with a smile, "This is our first meeting in five years!"

"cheers!"

The three of them clinked wine glasses and drank them all in one gulp. Zhong Huan grabbed the jug and filled it up for the two of them, and asked, "How did Brother Su become so skinny and dark? I almost couldn't recognize him."

Su Ce sighed, "Don't you know my nickname?"

Chao Qing clapped his hands and laughed, "I know, this nickname was given by the Son of Heaven."

"What nickname, tell me?" Zhong Huan asked curiously.

Su Ce smiled bitterly and said, "Call Mian Mian County Magistrate!"

Zhong Huan was taken aback, "Why is it called this nickname?"

"The tens of thousands of hectares in our Lingwu County are all used to grow cotton, which is the kind of high-quality long-staple cotton. My biggest task is to grow cotton. I have planted cotton in Lingwu County for three full years, and it is exposed to the sun every day. Can it turn black?"

"So, Lingwu County doesn't grow wheat anymore?"

Su Ce shook his head, "Now the entire Hetao Plain is used to grow cotton, and we want to become a cotton road."

Zhong Huan was really puzzled, and asked Chao Qing, "Hetao is an important place for producing wheat. If we give up wheat, will it affect food stability?"

Chao Qing pointed at Zhong Huan and said, "You have been in the inner guard for a long time, and you don't understand the society and people's livelihood at all. You are not as good as His Royal Highness the Crown Prince!"

"I don't care too much. Tell me, I'm all ears."

Su Ce also smiled and said, "I also want to know more about it. It will be good for me in Fengzhou."

Chao Qing asked calmly: "Which of you still wear fine linen clothes now?"

Chong Huan thought for a while and said: "It seems that there are no more, it is all cotton cloth, and it seems that some low-level people wear fine linen."

"Fine linen is also the clothes in the past. Now the fine linen is almost no longer sold. The old hemp fields are replaced by corn, and then the cotton in the Hetao Plain, the cotton in the Hehuang Valley, and the cotton from Liuqiu Island and Fujian Road are mixed. Weaving it into cotton cloth is enough to supply the clothes of the world, and it is supplemented by silk and satin from Jiangnan and Bashu."

"That's not right!"

Zhong Huan suddenly remembered, "Cotton is planted in Hanzhong. I went on a business trip not long ago and saw a cotton field."

"The cotton fields you mentioned are not only in Hanzhong, but also in Zhongyuan and Shandong Road. They grow short-staple cotton and cannot be used for weaving. They can only be used as filling materials for cotton clothes and quilts, but they are relatively sporadic and do not affect the overall situation. New crops such as pumpkins, pumpkins, and potatoes were a stroke of genius and completely solved the food problem, but what to do with the need for land to grow corn? So wood cotton and cotton were used to weave cotton cloth instead of linen, and the hemp field was vacated.

The production of corn and potatoes is huge, and it is not a problem to feed a population of 9000 million. The excess corn can also raise pigs, and eating meat can strengthen the body and prolong life.

If the food problem is solved, the population will grow. When the population increases, a large number of people will be able to go out and occupy more land. Even if the empire is divided in the future, there will be many Han countries in the world. This is what His Majesty said personally.

He said that there are still many unowned lands in the world, which are countless times larger than our Yong Dynasty. If we don't occupy them, if they are occupied by others, our descendants will blame us in a thousand years. "

Su Ce heaved a long sigh, "What you said sounds like a bible to me, it completely subverts my imagination."

Chong Huan raised his wine glass and said leisurely: "Hearing what you said, I really don't want to be an internal guard. I also want to lead troops to fight and open up territories for my descendants!"

(End of this chapter)