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Chapter 62

After the Korean envoy left, the Ministry of Rites gave a briefing at the morning meeting. The report said that each envoy gave two sets of spring clothes and two sets of shoes and socks. It gave each of the Prime Minister of the Mongolian Expedition to the East Province and the Prime Minister's wife, spring, autumn, winter, summer, and three sets of clothes each. In addition, there was also the "Ginnectus, a specialty of Lingyin Peak of the Great Song Dynasty" packaged with Liaodong breeding ginseng.

This gift list made the participants of all departments of the Song Dynasty laugh out loud. Apart from this, no official of the Song Dynasty tried to seek benefits through Goryeo. Zhao Jiaren was very satisfied with this. If someone dared to act like the 21st century dividing the dividing line with the South Band, the Zhao Guan family was mentally prepared to kill people.

Although no one was in trouble, the Zhao official family still took out the draft Constitution of the Great Song Dynasty he prepared and circulated it to everyone. After reading the Constitution of the Great Song Dynasty, all the senior officials did not speak, and they all chose to remain silent for a while. Zhao Jiaren did not immediately force them to speak, so that people of this era could understand the constitution proposed by Zhao Jiaren.

Whether it was the Song Dynasty or later Britain, there was no constitution, and only the "ancestral family law" existed. Because from a legal perspective, these two countries recognized natural inequality. The Zhao family of the Song Dynasty naturally monopolized the throne with supreme power. If Zhao Jiaren's son had a son in each generation, the Song Dynasty would be immortal and Zhao Jiaren's y gene would be entrenched on the throne of the Song Dynasty forever.

The same is true for Britain. Even in the 21st century, the British were still subjects of the British king, not the people of the United Kingdom, and even the United Kingdom of Great Britain was the private property of the British king. If the British subjects became the people of Britain, it would mean that the British king would live under the British king. This would lead to a new situation where the British kings, nobles, priests, and British mud legs all faced a new situation of unified standards.

Only when such a situation arises can Britain become a country that is barely becoming an equal. Therefore, Zhao Jiaren doesn't understand why most of the Chinese proletariat, known as "white-collar workers", actually thinks that Britain is a democratic country. A group of civilian proletariats praise aristocrats, slave owners, religious figures and bourgeois democracy, were sold and counted money for others.

As the upper class of the Song Dynasty and the ruling class of the Song Dynasty, there was no such "petty bourgeois mania". For such an important thing, these people chose to remain silent. Zhao Jiaren was very satisfied.

"You can take a look first. If you have any opinions, we can discuss it slowly." Zhao Jiaren gave these guys time to study the Constitution.

"This year we have two wars between Yunnan and Guizhou and Liaodong. But I think these two wars will not reach the point where we want to mobilize the whole country. So the normal work in various places needs to be done well. Last year we discussed the impact of silk withdrawing from the Song Dynasty currency circulation market. This year we need to solve this market. At present, Japan should be one of the most important export areas in our Song Dynasty."

"Officials, do Japan have money to buy silk?" The director of the Maritime Bureau expressed his professional views.

"Water state has silver, but does not have the technology to produce silver. Let them learn the ash blowing method and get silver from Japan."

"If so, why don't we go and grab it?" The Director of the Maritime Bureau's eyes shone.

Zhao Jiaren said this attitude seriously, "Invasion wars are exhausting the people and the money. What is more valuable than gold and silver is labor. Money is the general equivalent, and labor is evaluated as the general equivalent."

Even the senior officials of the Song Dynasty were limited in their interest in the subtle words. It was already spring, and the day for raising silkworms has arrived, and production has been increased in all parts of the Song Dynasty, including Sizhou where Zhao Qian is located.

As Zhao Jiaren's son, Zhao Qian knew about the major issue of the value of silk being stripped away. Before going to Sizhou, Zhao Qian and many of the same students received basic common sense training classes. At least the students around him graduated from high school, which made Zhao Qian feel very stressed. After finishing his job in Sizhou, Zhao Qian went to university to continue his studies, but he is now just a high school student who received a college admission letter. The only advantage is the status of a retired major.

It has been more than a month since he arrived in Sizhou, and Zhao Qian has a new understanding of his education and identity. In the Sizhou government, everyone cares about only "Deputy Chief Zhao of the Mulberry Seed Department of the Agricultural Bureau". Everyone has indeed asked how Deputy Chief Zhao was assigned to the Agricultural Bureau. When he learned that Zhao Qian was a high school student, a retired major, and had worked in a Jiangnan veteran tutoring meeting. No one continued to care about the origin of Deputy Chief Zhao. Because Zhao Qian's resume was stable, there was no problem with being the deputy chief.

When he was outside the government office, Zhao Qian was among the people. Hangzhou had implemented the compulsory education law, and Zhao Qian felt that his academic qualifications should have a slight advantage in Sizhou. After reaching the people, Zhao Qian found that local people had no idea about the imperial examination and the system. When he was in Hangzhou, he felt that everyone was a scholar, and there were few private schools in Sizhou, let alone a decent system school. The people didn't care about this. His ancestors had not studied for so many years, so there was no shortage of this generation. Zhao Qian had an official position, and the people thought it was enough to know this. As for how Zhao Qian obtained his current status, the people dare not ask.

The better land has been divided. If a brand new mulberry sapling is used, all the mulberry trees in the past must be cut down. No matter how Zhao Qian explained to the people, no one believed Zhao Qian. However, the mulberry saplings could not wait, so Zhao Qian could only go far away. Fifty miles away from Sizhou City, Zhao Qian finally found a relatively suitable piece of land.

When Zhao Qian arrived at the Sizhou Agricultural Bureau and said he wanted to build a demonstration forest there, many people looked at him strangely. When Zhao Qian tried to ask, no one told him what was wrong there. When Zhao Qian hired someone to start working there, he needed to ask the local veterans counseling committee staff to help, the president of the counseling committee asked Zhao Qian in surprise, "Why are you building a demonstration zone here?"

Zhao Qian finally found the person who told him the truth and asked: "What's going on here?"

"The imperial court has been committed to state-owned land, and the land here was forcibly confiscated by the government. The local wealthy families hated the government to the core, and there were two groups of officials who had disappeared here. It was because they could not see anyone alive or die. They could not find out no matter how they found it." The president of the tutoring committee lowered his voice, "Some people said it was the clan leader here, but there was no evidence at all. There was no way to convict him. The people in the government refused to come here."

Now Zhao Qian realized that the land that was worse than here was occupied nearby, and there was such a large open space here. However, it was impossible to change the land at this time, let alone the mulberry seedlings had been planted. If they were dug out, they would probably have a dead end. Since they had been assigned here, Zhao Qian had no other choice. Zhao Qian didn't know how to evaluate his colleagues in the government. Overall, Zhao Qian didn't think he had any reason to offend them and offend these people to kill Zhao Qian. Even if the local village leader killed the Song Dynasty cadres was just a rumor, would no one be willing to say anything to Zhao Qian?

The tree planting is just the beginning. The village chief is also a retired soldier. He is taciturn and works hard when planting mulberry trees. With such a simple and firm soldier, Zhao Qian feels much more at ease. However, only simple and firmness is not enough to complete the work of scientific farming. Scientific farming is about a technology, and there are always some reasons for adopting such technology.

"Everyone, look at the mulberry tree, is it very high? The one next to it is much lower." Zhao Qian pointed to the two relatively nearby trees and asked everyone to make a comparison.

After asking the village chief to help, every household of the villagers sent someone to Zhao Qian. No one said anything about this comparison. Zhao Qian continued: "But have you seen that although the taller tree has been around for a long time, the number of mulberry leaves grown is similar to the smaller tree next to it."

It can be seen that the time the villagers spend on comparison is shorter than that when they look at Zhao Qian. Zhao Qian talked about the principle that the higher the tree, the more laborious it will be to transport nutrients to the treetops. Before Zhao Qian could talk about the structure of trees in biology class, Zhao Qian felt that the villagers' eyes that had seen were already looking at fools.

I had to forcefully stop the advance knowledge introduction, Zhao Qian continued: "There will be a great impact on the high and low trees. The higher the tree, the more difficult it will be to pick mulberry leaves. The lower the tree, the easier it will be to pick mulberry leaves. Everyone said right?"

The villagers finally responded to Zhao Qian's question. They laughed at Zhao Qian's words and listened to the jokes.

Zhao Qian resisted the feeling of being humiliated, took two steps forward, pulled one of the guys who laughed the loudest to everyone, and gestured with his hands, "If we can make the mulberry tree grow only so tall, do you think it's easy to pick mulberry leaves?"

The villagers were so different from this comparison that they didn't know what to say. Zhao Qian pulled a few other villagers who were laughing loudly over, let them stand in a bunch, and gestured, "A mulberry tree is so tall and so big. I think not only men can pick mulberry leaves smoothly, but women and children can easily pick mulberry leaves. What do you think?"

Everyone burst into laughter, and the guys who were dragged out as size demonstration ran back into the crowd and did not dare to show their heads again. Zhao Qian sighed. Sizhou is already a famous city, connected by canals, and it doesn't take long to get from Hangzhou to Sizhou. However, the current situation in Sizhou is that the literacy rate is less than 20%, and the people are more satisfied with the current situation where they are not in a famine.
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