Chapter 1,638 Xuzhou

When he received the report from the imperial court, Su You had already arrived in Xuzhou.

The current magistrate of Xuzhou is Ye Zuqia.

This man was also the top pick, but his arrival as the top pick was controversial.

At that time, Ye Zuqia participated in the imperial examination, and the examiner was Lu Huiqing. Because in Ye Zuqia's policy article, there was a sentence: "The ancestral disciplines and laws are strictly adhered to, and we hope that the court and the ministers will work together to make new ones", so he was ranked high.

It was Liu Tong's, Li Dalin's, and Su Shi's turn to review, and Shangguan Jun ranked first, Ye Zuqia ranked second, and Lu Dian ranked fifth.

Zhao Xu ordered Chen Shengzhi to read several people's policy discussions, and finally promoted Ye Zuqia to the first place.

Su Shi was dissatisfied at that time and wrote to Zhao Xu: "The ancestors slandered the ancestors in order to flatter the king of the time, and how can they correct the morals of the nobles?"

This incident became the trigger for Su Shi to be exposed by Wang Anshi.

Later, Ye Zuqia, as one of the few people under Wang Anshi who could write well, became the mouthpiece of the reformists.

After Gao Taotao came to power, he re-appointed a group of conservative ministers such as Sima Guang and Lu Gongzhu, expelled Cai Que and Xing Shu, and suppressed Lu Huiqing and Deng Wan.

The court thought for a moment that the direction of the wind had changed drastically, and began to trample Zhang Dun, Zeng Bu and others.

Ye Zuqia insisted on his political views and repeatedly presented memorials to defend the reform.

During the incident, Zhao Junxi caught Ye Zuqia participating in the imperial examination. There was a sentence in the volume: "The ancestors' laws and regulations are as strict as the original, and we hope that the court and the ministers will conspire to make new ones." He said that he had slandered the court and wanted to punish Ye Zuqia.

However, this time, it was Su Shi and Liu Ye who stood up again and upheld justice as the examiner at that time. He believed that Ye Zuqia's test paper "can be called perverse and absurd, but it cannot be called slander."

Su Che was the imperial censor Zhongcheng at the time, and he wrote a letter to impeach Zhao Junxi for digging out the examination papers from more than ten years ago and treating it as a crime. This was in the hope of honoring his superiors and humiliating his colleagues.

In the same sentence, he was the number one scholar back then, but now he is slandering the imperial court. Does this mean that the late emperor was ignorant of people's wisdom?

Zuo Zhengyan and Yao Meng also proposed impeachment on the grounds that Ye Zuqia assisted Wang Anshi in formulating and implementing new laws, and that the government and the people were competing for profits, which was obviously "corrupt and shameless".

This time, it was Suyou who stood up and upheld the banner of reform, believing that reform, restructuring, and renewal were three things that came from the same origin.

Of course, Su You's purpose was to protect Wang Anshi, Zhang Dun, Zeng Bu, and the reform achievements of more than ten years.

Ye Zuqia was just a small soldier, and it was not the turn of a big boss like Su You to care about him.

However, after this turmoil passed, Lu Gong wrote that Su You's idea of ​​"all three factions" was recognized by Gao Taotao, and the speculative Zhao Junxi and others were let go. On the contrary, Lu Dian, Zhang Shunmin, Ye Zuqia and others insisted on their own opinions. People, get extra points from Gao Taotao.

The emperor's mind is not easy to guess, but after this twists and turns, Ye Zuqia finally saw the virtue of the Su family.

As a mouthpiece in the past, he often made bad remarks about Su Shi and Su Xun. He also scolded Su Che, Su You, and even Su Song.

Su You always discusses matters as they are. Even if he is impeached and denounced, he will only present sufficient evidence and political achievements to slap the impeachers in the face, and will never engage in frame-up, distortion or slander.

Moreover, he has never been sorry to the reformists. Many reformists were able to turn over because of his tolerance, blessing and bold appointment.

On the contrary, the reformists have failed him many times.

Nowadays, the conflict between the two factions, thanks to the efforts of Su You and other ministers, has been bridged, and the tense and life-and-death struggle of the past has gradually gone further.

Developing in contradictions and existing in struggles, with everyone supervising each other but pulling each other through, is the essence and normal state of politics.

Nowadays, more and more people understand this. Ye Zuqia was born as a champion, so he can’t still see this clearly.

Therefore, when Su You arrived in Xuzhou, Ye Zuqia of course warmly received his immediate boss and savior, and even accompanied him on a tour in person after official business.

The relationship between the two is quite harmonious.

Xuzhou is a large old industrial base. It was first created by Su Shi using Li Guojian, and then developed by Wu Juhou. However, this guy turned steel into iron money, which severely undermined the local economy.

Su You was in charge of Xixia at the time and had no time to quarrel with Wu Juhou. He simply refused Wu Juhou's suggestion to write to the court to express his support.

When Su You was freed from Xixia, the first thing he did was to defeat Wu Juhou.

The people of Xuzhou were overjoyed. On the day Wu Juhou stepped down, the whole city set off firecrackers to celebrate.

Therefore, Su You's inspection in Xuzhou went very smoothly, and the merchants, mine owners and common people knew everything about him.

From everyone's comments, we can know that Ye Zuqia's new policy on the Four-Route Transport Department was implemented most effectively.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that Ye Zuqia himself needs a lot of effort to expand Xuzhou's coal and iron production capacity, dig canals, and build railways.

Su You obtained the policy of exempting Ding tax from the imperial court, coupled with a series of measures such as promoting improved varieties, adopting intercropping, increasing the yield per mu, reducing taxes in disguise, and allowing population mobility, which can be regarded as resolving his urgent needs.

Su You did not hesitate to praise Ye Zuqia.

Of course, another important reason for the harmonious relationship is that Suyou also brought a large order to Xuzhou that could promote industrial upgrading-inland river gunboats and small steamers.

Yuanyou six-year-old inland river gunboat, 18 meters long, 4.3 meters wide, 3.7 meters high, with a displacement of 25 tons, powered by two diesel engines with a total power of 300 horsepower, dual-shaft propulsion, and a maximum speed of 10

One knot, cruising speed of six knots, and a range of about three hundred nautical miles.

Because the draft is very shallow, only one meter, it is very suitable for rivers and lakes, and can also travel in offshore areas with less wind and waves.

The entire hull is welded with iron beams and steel shells, and the deck is paved with green wood. The front is the cockpit, which is covered with iron sheets. The rear half is the crew cabin, which can accommodate two infantry squads, that is, thirty soldiers.

Because the hull is too small, only two 40mm smoothbore infantry cannons and one 70mm short-barreled smoothbore cannon can be installed on the cabin roof.

There is no protection, only a steel plate protection is set in front of the operator.

There is no need to consider it when dealing with big cities, but it is also incomparable in dealing with Liao's simple water fortresses, the wooden city of Touxiajunzhou, and the wooden boats of the inland navy.

To the north of Xuzhou is a long and narrow lake, which is connected by two lakes - Chaoyang Lake at the top and Weishan Lake at the bottom.

Liguojian is located in the southeast of Weishan Lake and faces the lake, so it is the best research and development base for river vessels.

The gunboat is actually the firepower version of the Suzhou steamer. The original wooden hull version has a single engine, but because the wooden boat is very light, its cruising speed can reach ten knots, and it can reach six knots after mounting a cannon. It is the best "water ship"

locomotive".

Equipped with searchlights and other night navigation equipment, it can carry six tugboats with a load of ten tons and travel five hundred miles a day and a night.

This order is mainly used to transport large-scale construction machinery, machine tools, steam engine parts, steel plant machinery and other heavy materials and equipment from Yunzhou, Xuzhou, Lianghuai to Daming.

The first phase required five gunboats and four small steamers. For this reason, the imperial court specially set up a special R&D and production organization - the Shipping Bureau - next to the Weishan Huli State Prison.

Su You looked at the steel frame erected on the slide rails on the lake beach. It already looked like a shipyard on the Yangtze River in later generations, but it lacked steel oxygen cylinders and acetylene carbide bottles.

To get acetylene, you need to get calcium carbide. The production of calcium carbide is very simple. It is obtained by the reaction of calcium oxide and carbon. There is only one problem, that is, this thing is a highly endothermic reaction. You must first have something that can produce a high temperature of 2,200 degrees.

stove.

This problem has been solved after the invention of Tianshi electric furnace, but there is another obstacle - the preparation of oxygen.

This is difficult. Today's technology has only reached the level of refrigeration of ammonia and ether through screw compressors. In addition to electrolyzing water, it is still far away from the oxygen production process.

Therefore, today's acetylene spray guns can only be called acetylene air flames, which cannot reach the incredible high temperature of more than 3,000 degrees like oxyacetylene flames. The ship hull can only be manufactured using a combination of steel frame rivets and electric welding technology.

After receiving a telegram and learning that the welding rod steel core and coating had made breakthrough technological progress and had been developed and finalized, Suyou began to place an order with the Xuzhou Shipping Bureau, and then specified that the gunboat must be manufactured using the latest technology.

Ye Zuqia followed Su You: "Nine steamships, five steel hulls totaling 1.5 million guan, and four wooden hulls totaling 600,000 guan. This is an order of 2 million guan. Xuzhou now has a total of only 5

With over 10,000 households, just with orders for these nine ships, the average household in Xuzhou will have an output value of 40 yuan more this year."

This is already an algorithm close to the GDP. Su You is no longer surprised by the wisdom of the smart people in the Song Dynasty today. He smiled and said: "This is just a method of calculating the degree of development of a place. In terms of people's livelihood, Brother Dunli still needs to pay more attention.

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Ye Zuqia smiled and said: "This is natural. With money and rice, you can naturally make good dishes."

Su You also laughed: "With the new canal and new railway connecting the north, south, and east, Xuzhou has made outstanding political achievements in recent years. Cai Jing and I both count on Xuzhou to supply equipment. Brother Ye is a blessing in disguise and has taken advantage of it!"

Ye Zuqia laughed loudly: "Both of you are big patrons. Now I, Ye Dunli, have become the leader of a merchant guild. It is insulting to be polite to say so."

Su You handed over to Ye Zuqia: "It is the greatest elegance to make the world prosperous and the people live and work in peace and contentment. In addition to the economy, Brother Ye has also spent a lot of effort in promoting culture and education in the past few years."

Ye Zuqia waved his hand: "This is nothing, the teaching material system, these difficult things have been done by the minister, and the lower officials are just implementing it."

After saying that, he handed over to Su You and said, "I haven't congratulated you yet, but the second young master is going to be the top student in high school. It's true that the father of a tiger has no son."

Su You also shook his head and smiled bitterly: "To be honest, I didn't expect that the second child in my family could get such a ranking. It was just a stroke of luck."

"But even for me and my son, in front of Brother Ye Jindian Wenkui, that's not a smile."

Ye Zuqia was overjoyed: "The envoy said so politely. The descendants of the Su family include the envoy, Zizhan, Ziyou, Su Mai, Su Chi, and Su Ji. In Jinke, there are two more young masters and Su Guo, and from the envoy

When I first met, my children and nephews were all in high school."

"Nowadays, it is spread all over the world that 'eight Jinshi from one discipline, father and son from both sides'. The Su family of Meishan is already the Wenzong of our dynasty."

Su Guo is only nineteen years old this year, but he has been accompanying Da Su in Hangzhou. He only joined Wang Hui's special tutoring after passing the examination, and only ranked in the top ten.

Su You waved his hands repeatedly: "Whether it is appropriate or not, in terms of diction, Zizhan Ziyou is indeed impressive, but the rest, including me, can only be considered average."

Ye Zuqia thought that Su You was in Versailles and asked curiously: "I heard that the day before the ranking was announced, the Prime Minister's residence was so bright that half of the people in the entire West City could see it, and it even alarmed the Imperial City."

"People say that this is the residence where literary stars gathered to receive a sign from the sky. Is this true?"

Su You was speechless: "Brother Ye, it's not like he doesn't know that the people in Bianjing are first-class in their ability to make connections. In fact, it's just a few kids secretly experimenting with electric welding at home."

"In less than a month, Brother Ye will know what that glory is about. By then, you, the Xuzhou Shipping Bureau, will be shining brightly every day!"

"Without further ado, I think the per household output value that Brother Ye just mentioned is quite promising as it reflects the level of local prosperity and the performance of officials in governance."

"Brother Ye might as well go into more detail and divide this value into three categories: industrial output value, agricultural output value, and commercial output value. Then we can calculate the average household value of the industrial population, agricultural population, and commercial population. Finally, we can get

The total output value per household per capita is made into a systematic analysis and reported to the three provinces."

"How to consider the performance of officials is also a big question in governance."
To be continued...