Picked up a copy of Romance of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 333 The world is rich
Outside the southern army camp, several uninvited guests appeared.

Several young men in soap clothes gathered around an elderly man outside the camp, talking about something, the two soldiers guarding the gate quickly noticed them, this old man was dressed unusually, they did not want to They chased them away, but the opponent stayed here for too long, it was a little strange, a soldier walked up to them, and said displeasedly: "The southern army camp, don't come close!"

The old man said with a smile: "I am here to visit relatives."

"Without the order of the captain, no entry!"

"Hey, those soldiers who returned from Liangzhou a few days ago are in the camp?" the old man asked again.

The soldier thought for a moment and said, "They are in the Southwest Campus and are going back."

"Thank you!" The old man smiled, and asked the servants around him to take out some money and wanted to hand it to him. The car drove towards the direction of the Southwest School Field. The Southwest School Field is located in the west of Luoyang. It is a small school field that can only hold more than a hundred soldiers.

The old man rushed outside the school grounds and asked the young man to inquire. The young man came to the gate of the school ground in a few steps. I hope you can tell me something."

The soldiers froze and nodded. One continued to guard the door, while the other went in to report that Yuan Shu was training soldiers in the school grounds. Looking at the school grounds, after seeing Yuan Shu, he grinned and grinned. Yuan Shu frowned, ordered the soldiers to continue the drill, then turned and walked out.

Walking outside the school grounds, the old man hurried up and said with a smile, "Greetings, Young Master!"

Yuan Shu cupped his hands. The man in front of him was the steward of the Yuan Mansion. The steward looked at Yuan Shu in front of him with some excitement. Looking at the young general who was completely different from before, with a heroic aura all over his body, he couldn't help but With emotion, he said: "Young Master, I haven't seen you for a long time. I don't know if I may spare some time to go to the mansion and meet the Patriarch. The Patriarch often mentions Shaojun, and I miss him very much."

Hearing what he said, Yuan Shu was silent for a moment, before he said: "There is no military order, if you don't dare to leave the barracks, go back and tell my father, next year at the latest, I will ask the school lieutenant for a few days off, go home to visit, tomorrow , I will lead the army back to Liangzhou, at this time, it is too late to resign."

"Ugh"

When the old steward heard this, he just shook his head and said nothing.

Yuan Shu returned to the camp, but the soldiers didn't ask any questions. In the past few days, many people came to look for Yuan Sima. A fat man who was full of arrogance came earlier, and Yuan Sima hurried out to greet him. He had just left, and then a young scholar came and brought some charcoal for chariots and horses. He came again today, it seems that Sima still has a lot of friends in Luoyang.

On the next day, Yuan Shu led his soldiers back to Liangzhou.

When the treasury obtained such a large amount of wealth, Wang Fu couldn't sit still immediately. He proposed to the emperor to allocate money from the treasury to cultivate and cultivate fields in the border areas, and send them to Youzhou, Sanhan, and Hexin states. Iron plows and cattle, in addition, some money must be taken out to build houses in these areas to help the people survive the cold winter. For other areas, measures such as light tax exemptions should be taken to encourage local development.

Hearing this news, Wen Rengong was like a civet cat whose tail had been stepped on. He jumped three feet high and almost fought with Wang Fu. The most painful thing for him was that the emperor accepted Wang Fu's proposal. The measure of light tax exemption was implemented, and the money from the treasury was scattered to all directions. Wen Rengong wanted to cry but had no tears. If he had known this, he should have killed Wang Jiexin at that time!
However, regret is obviously useless.

After receiving the funding from the temple, all regions of the country ushered in a new development, and the common people began to have food storage and even some spare money at home. This is a situation that has never happened in the past hundred years, and these are To further encourage the developing handicraft industry, the scale of many local cities has developed, and the harsh business tax has not been able to suppress such signs.

The emperor also ordered Zheng Xuan, the governor of Liangzhou, to allocate money to purchase and cultivate cotton on a large scale. Judging from the trial cultivation of the previous year, it can be seen that cotton has made a lot of progress in Xiliang, although in terms of quality, it is not It is not as good as the pure white cotton purchased from outside, but it is also light yellow cotton, which can still be used for weaving. Last year, Zheng Xuan organized more than [-] farmers to plant cotton.

In the Han Dynasty, the common people had always cultivated grain, and only a few tyrants would let their tenants plant tea and fruit, because the taxes collected by the temples on the common people were paid with grain, and a few industries were converted into money, and the common people were afraid that if If you cultivate other crops, you will not be able to pay taxes. When Zheng Xuan mobilized these people, he still declared that they would be exempted from this year's taxes, so that they could farm with peace of mind.

However, what Zheng Xuan didn't expect was that after the people cultivated cotton, they sold cotton and the money they got was enough to exchange for more grain than they used to. , and failed to obtain so much food. Now, the enthusiasm of the entire Liangzhou people has been aroused.

Zheng Xuan was a little flustered and confused about this matter. He had never encountered such a thing. Instead of farming food, he got more food. On the one hand, he felt that more people should be encouraged to farm cotton, but he was also worried that if everyone Cultivating cotton will cause insufficient food production, which will cause food shortages and disasters in Liangzhou.

After receiving the order from the emperor and the money from the treasury, Zheng Xuan decided to mobilize [-] people to cultivate cotton next year, and at the same time promote cotton planting in Liangzhou. He also contacted Yizhou, Sili, and Bingzhou. The governor hoped to trade with them next year and exchange cotton for food, which could be regarded as leaving a way for the people of Liangzhou. If there is a food shortage, they can quickly provide disaster relief.

In the end, the Son of Heaven used the remaining money for mineral development. The focus was naturally on copper, iron and charcoal, especially ink charcoal. He asked all counties and counties to vigorously mine it, and strived to make ink available to the people everywhere after this year. Charcoal, against the cold winter.

Wang Fu has already listed the goals for these. He wants to cultivate cotton on a large scale in the northwest and sell it to Yangzhou, Yanzhou, Jizhou and other regions. In addition, he wants to sell the ink charcoal produced in He, Bing, and Xinzhou to the south and northwest Ministry, Wang Fu's initial goal is to make the five frontier states become a wealthy continent, so that they will not continue to drag down the treasury of the Han Dynasty, and can turn around and become one of the future financial sources of the Han Dynasty.

In the 15th year of Jianning, it was a year when the common people cheered, merchants were gearing up, and scholars held lamps and read at night.

At the same time, it was also a year when Wen Rengong was overjoyed and sad, and his heart was bleeding.

(End of this chapter)