I studied in modern times

Chapter 62
Returning to Funing Hall, Zhao Xu's mind is still full of the neat piles of gold, silver, and copper ingots in Jingfu Hall.

A chest full of bronze coins.

There are mountains of fragrant medicines and white ivory.

Countless silk brocades.

There's even a whole [-] horses of jibeb.

Jibeibu may be unfamiliar to modern people, but no one should know its other name.

cotton!

As early as the Tang Dynasty, cotton had already been planted in Lingnan and other places, and began to be woven into cloth, named: Jibei cloth.

The quilt made by Jibeibu is what people called at that time: heavy quilt.

Bai Juyi's poem says: When the sun is high and sleeps enough, it is still lazy to wake up, and the small pavilion is not afraid of the cold under the heavy quilt!

In the Song Dynasty, with the further increase of cotton planting area, especially after the Renmiao era, the southern region began to develop.

Jibei cloth and heavy quilts, which are special products in the south, began to appear in the market as commodities.

It's just that these things are expensive!
At least ten times the price of ordinary silk cloth, even dozens of times!
Therefore, except for noble and wealthy businessmen, few people can afford it and use it, and the scope of circulation is also very narrow.

Even if it is a wealthy family, it is still a heavy quilt when you buy it back.

Cotton clothes and trousers are not absent, but they are very rare - real rich people will not wear cotton clothes that are neither fashionable nor good-looking.

Aren't fox fur and mink clothes fragrant?

Ordinary citizens can't afford the expensive Jibebu at all.

In addition, the production of kapok in Lingnan is also very limited, which affects the promotion of jibe cloth.

Therefore, in the end of the Song Dynasty, Ji Beibu's role and status were very embarrassing.

However, Zhao Xu, who had studied in modern times, knew.The most suitable place to grow cotton is actually not Lingnan.

But...

Xihe Lanhui Road!
Because the local area not only has a suitable climate and proper precipitation.

The most important thing is that there are large tracts of wasteland suitable for cotton cultivation!And a large number of cheap labor!

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"What is Sixth Brother thinking?" The Empress Dowager Xiang couldn't help asking when she saw that Zhao Xu was alone in a daze in the palace after returning to the palace.

"Mother's queen..." Zhao Xu came back to his senses and looked at the queen mother: "My son is thinking about an allusion about the country that my father once told my son..."

"Ok?"

"Last year, when my father was taking his son to study in Qingning Palace, Zeng and his son said that when Taizu first ascended the throne, he wanted to make a smoker cage. He ordered a minister to offer it immediately, but the minister said: "If you want to offer it to the imperial court, you must first send it to the Shangshu province, and the minister's department will be saved. This department will be assigned to the Bencao, and the Bencao will be assigned to the bureau. The bureau will repeat the performance, and then you can present it. In this way, it will take a few days before you can present it to the imperial court. ..."

Listen to the queen mother, I know that what Zhao Xu said is the most famous story of the ancestors of this dynasty's smoked cage system!

So, she listened quietly, her eyes full of admiration.

"Left and right answer: It's the prime minister!"

"Taizu was angry and ordered Zhao Hanwang (Zhao Pu) to reprimand: I was among the people, and I only got a few tens of money for a smoked cage. Now I am the emperor, but I can't get it for a few days. Why?"

"King Zhao and Han said to each other: This rule was not set up by His Majesty, but for His Majesty's descendants!"

"When the Taizu heard about it, he was very good, and praised: "This article is very good!"

Zhao Xu finished talking about this ancestral story that is almost well-known in the royal family of the Great Song Dynasty.

Then he blinked and looked at the Empress Dowager: "Today, the son will follow the mother to Jingfu Hall..."

"Seeing the piles of sealed piles left by the emperor's inner treasury, there are countless treasures!"

"My son has been thinking... If the ancestors want to get a smoke cage, they must set up a system to prevent their descendants!"

"Today, the wealth left by the emperor is more than tens of millions? My son thought, I don't know if there is an order, and people inside and outside the system can use it at will?"

Queen Mother Xiang listened quietly, the admiration in her eyes could no longer be suppressed.

She is the empress of civil servants and prime ministers.

Zhao Xu's stance and thoughts, in the eyes of the Queen Mother, are simply correct and cannot be more correct, and they deeply love her heart!

Daughters educated by scholar-bureaucrats are of course naturally inclined to the ideology of scholar-bureaucrats.

So, she smiled, hugged the child, and said, "Don't worry, my son, since the ancestors, he has been in order!"

"Emperor Daxing's sealed pile treasury, although it is the internal money of the great family, has to be inspected by the outer court..."

This is a fact!

According to the system of the Great Song Dynasty, although the money from the inner court's sealing of piles belongs to the internal money, the outer court can also intervene and even supervise its use.

This is because at the beginning, the internal treasury sealed the pile of money, which was set up to recover Yanyou.

Later, Taizu told the ministers in court about the purpose of the money from the internal treasury: "The army and the hungry should be prepared for themselves, and they should not be generously collected from the people!"

This is to use the sealed pile money as a modern national strategic reserve.

Afterwards, the Zhen Temple and the Ren Temple were completed successively.

Especially in the Renmiao era, a system was established in which the financial expenditure of the left and right Tibetans was supervised by the three envoys and the governor of the political affairs hall.

Renmiao once said to the minister in person: "The state bans money, and there is no inside or outside, so it is used to help funds!"

But the problem is that there are 32 warehouses in Xining and [-] warehouses in Yuanfeng.

It is neither Tibetan on the left nor Tibetan on the right.

Instead, it is the same as the old Taizu's pile money, which only belongs to the emperor's control and use of internal money.

Although in name, whether it is the Ministry of Household Affairs or the governor of the Dutang, they can also intervene.

However, if the emperor really wants to spend money, who can restrain him?
The five roads attacked Xia, fought in Yongle City, guided Luotong to Bian, and rebuilt the imperial city of Bianjing.

Zhao Xu's father is determined, and no one can stop him.

It is precisely because of this loophole.

In the Yuanyou era in the previous life, the empress dowager was said a few good words by the ministers of the foreign court, and when she let go, the money in the house flowed out like water.

What's worse, these expenditures were not even embezzled by others.

Much is simply wasted.

For example, Sima Guang exhausted the new law, but the country needs money to operate, and the government also needs to operate.

Especially after the immunity law was abolished, most of the local governments were instantly paralyzed.

Up and down, complaining endlessly.

How to do it?

We can only take the money from the pile sealing money and bear it first!

However, the amount of money to seal the pile is limited, and it can last for a year, but not for a lifetime.

In Zhao Xu's previous life, after the death of Sima Guang and Lu Gongzhu, the sealing money finally couldn't stand it anymore.

Therefore, their apprentices and grandchildren invented a new thing: assistant money.

In fact, the exemption money has changed its name.

But the problem is that no one dares to restore the immunity law - the last person who proposed to restore it has already been labeled as a traitor and evil party and kicked out of the court.

That person's name is Li Chang.

Zhao Xu's father joined the army when he retired from his residence in the past, and he was also one of the people who opposed the new law most fiercely at the beginning of the reform in Xining!

However, he was still accused of being a "treacherous minister and evil party" and a "little man attached to the Affiliated Party" and expelled from the court.

Therefore, although the people paid the money.

But Yaqian still has to obey!

This is why the new law only needs money, but the old party needs both money and life.

By the way, Qingmiaofa, whom Sima Guang hated so much, came out again after his death with a different vest.

It is the common law!
The old party scolded Wang Anshi every day for accumulating wealth and harming the people.

But when they came to power, they had no money in their pockets, so they still had to obey reality.

But they can't smack their own mouths.

So, I had no choice but to use the bottle of the old law to fill the wine of the new law. The disadvantages of the new law and the disadvantages of the old party were all mixed together—what kind of poisonous cocktail is this!
So, before Zhao Xu came to power.

The old party has made the whole world angry.

They have offended most people, even those who once supported them most and who were once their own people, who are also considered to be the old party.

Naturally, it was impossible for Zhao Xu to give those people the chance to mess around without a bottom line.

Keeping the pile money is one of his restraints - without money, Sima Guang, even if he is a grandson, will change 72, he has to obey the reality.

"Is it just a test?" Zhao Xu blinked his big innocent eyes, and looked at the Queen Mother: "I think it's better to establish a system, to clarify the system of the upper and lower, and to set the rules of the world!"

"This is also what my father asked my child to remember last year!"

"The empress might as well report to the great mother, and ask the great mother to summon the ministers to discuss the method of sealing the pile of money in the inner treasury..."

Listening to the queen mother, she nodded slowly, feeling that what Zhao Xu said made sense.

Moreover, this is something that the Emperor Daxing specifically entrusted to Sixth Brother.

Must do!Do it now!

Moreover, the Empress Dowager Xiang felt that there would be no difficulty in this matter.

The ruling and opposition parties, including the empress dowager, will only agree.

It just so happens that this matter is also used to share the discussions of the government and the public, and also to share the hearts of the Empress Dowager.

otherwise……

The Empress Dowager recalled yesterday and today, when she persuaded the Empress Dowager in Baoci Palace to save Wang Gui some face, but the Empress Dowager remained silent.

She is really scared!

Just in case, the Empress Dowager of Baoci Palace made up her mind to strip off Ma Wanggui!

Then the whole world will shake!

　Note: Kapok is cotton, which has been proved by the notes of Su Shi and Su Zhe.

　　Note 2: The old party's show operations in the Yuanyou era were too much...

　　
　
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