I became the son of Renzong

Chapter 845

According to historical records... With this beginning, the most basic condition is that the things recorded must be able to enter the eyes of the main author.

Recording historical phenomena has always been the privilege of the scholar-official class. The grassroots did not have this opportunity, and neither did the merchants.

Because carrots were selected by Zhao Xi for trial planting, the Secretary of the Imperial City paid attention to it, but the following report made Zhao Xi a little ashamed... It turns out that people in Shazhou have long been planting carrots .

From this, Zhao Xi thought that the shipping of Guochao was only known to be quite prosperous in later generations, and the farthest place of Guochao's current maritime merchants is also inferred based on the so-called cultural relics, and there is no pure experience of maritime merchants. records.

In other words, many unremarkable things will not appear in historical materials.

Therefore, Zhao Xi had some expectations for the mob of the fourth son.

The ocean is mysterious. Even in later generations, with the development of science and technology, they dare not say that they have fully understood the ocean. Not to mention development, that is, they dare not say that they have completely covered the ocean as far as humans can go. Development and utilization is even less than [-]%.

So, now, how much can this era know about the ocean?In a few hundred years, what will it be like when the Age of Discovery comes?How many accidental events have been lost in the so-called historical materials?

Zhao Xi felt that he had entered into a kind of obsession...
Even so, Zhao Xi will not lose his mind by playing with things, and his main energy is still on government affairs.The thing about carrots appeared again, but the court did not have any ministers to speak to him.

As for the rumors of the market, there are changes in hot and cold, and it will disappear after a while. In other words, the market, including the court, no longer talks about officials...
The old man's house will communicate with the cabinet again every once in a while. This is not what the old man's house requires, but Zhao Xi's stipulation.

Since he assumes the duties of the court counselor, he should always play a role.After a period of time, let these elders, who have already been considered officials, judge the government affairs of the court as a person who has been there or a bystander.

The perspectives of being in power and not being in power are different, and the interest groups represented are also different.Some elders will only focus on accumulating fame after they become official, and will stand up for the interests of the pure country; some elders completely seek the interests of the family because they have no position; Seeing the clouds roll and the clouds relax, the situation changes.

Fortunately, Ge Lao is a bit old, if Zhao Xi hadn't taken such careful care of them, few of these old guys would be alive.In this way, Chen Shengzhi also passed away last year, and Zhang Fangping, who had a strong personality, was also lying on the sickbed.

Sima Guang, on the other hand, had no other distractions because he concentrated on compiling history.But Fu Bi's is because of his heart; Han Qi and Wen Yanbo absolutely live by their faces.

Han Jiang can't do it anymore, he seldom comes to the public house, resting at home, no longer worrying about the affairs of the court, just because of the relationship that his Han family has admired the official family from a long time ago, he also needs to bear it in the court , let alone Han Zhen.

"Counselors, the cabinet and I are very puzzled by the recent behavior of officials..."

Wang Anshi made a clear distinction between Ge Lao and counselors, and the titles are so clear.

Fu Bi didn't care, Han Qi and Wen Yanbo were a little unhappy, but Wang Anshi has been called this since the new term, so he got used to it.

He is seven or eighty years old, and he is not in court, nor does he have the desire to fight.

However, Han Qi and Wen Yanbo really look down on this cabinet...
"Are you wondering what extra seeds the officials are busy with during this time?"

Since Wen Yanbo entered the cabinet old man's home, he has talked more than when he was in the cabinet, and he seems to have lost a lot of taboos.

Wen Yanbo said this, and looked at these new cabinet ministers with disdain... He couldn't even understand the official's intentions, so how could he help the official?

However, it seems that the treacherous Lu Jifu is very disapproving, as well as the one from the Su family.

In this cabinet, Wen Yanbo also has a slight crush on Lu Huiqing...Of course, he will not admit that it is because he knows how to play tricks.

"That's true. Although the officials will not lose their minds by playing with things, such behaviors of the officials have created a bad impression on the court after all."

Wang Anshi is still very sincere.

Wang Anshi's personality is flawed, and his outstanding talent makes him somewhat selfish, or immersed in his own thinking.That's why he couldn't be as caring with officials as Fu Bi was.

Almost all talented people have this problem.

Since entering the old man's house, I will evaluate the new cabinet when I have nothing to do.

"Fuxiang, do you want Chigui to talk about it?"

Wen Yanbo called Fu Bi still a rich minister, so he didn't care what Wang Anshi thought.

"Tell me, it's all the same."

Han Qi was quite polite to Wang Anshi.

"Okay, then let me talk about...the government's edict to the navy or the fourth prince's team, and the rumors are two different things. The government is actually looking for foreign seeds..."

This point is clear to Wang Anshi, including the entire cabinet.

"As we all know, Guochao's food is now very dependent on Annan. That is to say, if there is a famine or war in Annan, it will definitely affect the food stability of Guochao."

"The second prince is in Annan, do you think that the five thousand soldiers of the second prince can't advance south? At the beginning, the [-] guard battalion of the official family could cause great turmoil in Annan, so that the Shenglong Mansion was shocked three times a day. Guochao Now that the military equipment has been reformed, the second prince can also provoke war in Annan."

"However, the second prince didn't do that..."

Wen Yanbo enjoyed the feeling of teaching the new cabinet, especially after he became an official.

"The fourth prince went east to Tuohai. It was originally a random arrangement. Why did the officials plan to build a navy? Is it really because the fourth prince was wronged when he went to sea?"

"Thinking these two things together, what will you understand? It's very simple. It is easy for Guochao to take Annan now. Even if the second prince provokes a war in Annan and even wins Annan, it is not too difficult. Why not do it, because Guochao North Korea's food."

"The government's plan to build a navy is not so much about establishing and maintaining maritime order, as it is about establishing another channel for Guochao's food. Food from the small countries in the south can be transferred to Guochao without Annan."

"As for the officials asking the navy to pay attention to the seeds, you should have thought of it? If the country cannot have food suitable for growing on barren land before the settlement of the Northern Liao Dynasty, the officials still don't want to touch Annan, but they are worried that the second prince can't help it. It's going to be a mess!"

"For example, carrots. I heard about the merchants going west and said that although they are vegetables, they can yield up to fifteen shi per mu..."

Leaving aside the government affairs and simply thinking about the officials, with many years of experience in watching the officials governing, these veterans in the old court, to a certain extent, understand the official's intentions better than the cabinet.

(End of this chapter)