On the second day after Wang Jizhong arrived in Shanxi, outside the government office, a ride came, and people shouted loudly that she was Wang Jizhong's old acquaintance and asked Wang Jizhong to come out to see her. Wang Jizhong wondered if he had just arrived, and there were no acquaintances in Shanxi, where did he come from? When I went out of the government office, I saw Kang Yanxin standing at the door of the government office, saw Wang Jizhong, and said, "Wang Jizhong, where can you hide?" ”

Wang Jizhong greeted him and said, "Miss Kang, why are you here?" ”

Kang Yanxin said: "Why am I here? I'm looking for you? ”

Wang Jizhong hurriedly invited Kang Yanxin into the house and sat down, saying, "What are you doing here on such a cold day?" ”

Kang Yanxin said: "I came here to be an official, and now, Pu Dali is the inspection envoy, you are the chief envoy to pacify, I am the deputy envoy to pacify, and I am here to assist you." ”

Wang Jizhong smiled slightly and said, "Okay, okay, Miss Kang, you have a good time here, and then go back, the Queen Mother still wants you to serve." ”

Kang Yanxin said seriously: "I'm not joking, the appointment letter is here, you can read it yourself." ”

Kang Yanxin took out the appointment letter and seal ribbon and handed it to Wang Jizhong, and sure enough, it was a holy decree, appointing Kang Yanxin as the deputy envoy to pacify and the envoy to Tuntian. Isn't this too child's play, is it to arrange a deputy envoy, but also to arrange a serious old man, how to arrange a milky smelly person, or a woman to be the deputy envoy? I really don't know what the Queen Mother thinks? Your good intentions should be used to the point.

Wang Jizhong said: "No, you can't be here, I'll write an excerpt to the Queen Mother, I can't ask you here." ”

Kang Yanxin said: "Don't bother, I said that you can't want me here, it's that you don't want me." ”

Wang Jizhong had nothing to say for a while.

Pu Dali said: "Come on, come here, what do you want your family to go back to?" People are serving the will of the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother will not be wrong. You see, I'm relieved when you come, and when I talked last night, I was even more relieved. The Queen Mother's vision is very accurate. ”

Wang Jizhong was even more speechless, so he personally found a house for Kang Yanxin and arranged for her to live.

Kang Yanxin watched Wang Jizhong busy moving things in and out for her, tidying up the room, sweating profusely, annoyed and pitiful in her heart, and teased: "I think you can run away?" ”

Wang Jizhong said: "Where, where can I go?" ”

Kang Yanxin said: "Then why did you come here?" ”

Wang Jizhong said: "How can I make the decisions of the imperial court arrangement? ”

Kang Yanxin snorted and said, "You don't want to avoid me, you can't hide from the ends of the earth." ”

Wang Jizhong was stunned for a while and said: "Rest early, after a few days of travel, you must be tired, wait a while, I will ask someone to bring you food." ”

Kang Yanxin was indeed tired, and slept until noon the next day, when he woke up in a blur, freshened up, and someone brought breakfast. After she had finished breakfast, the maid came and asked her what she wanted for lunch.

Kang Yanxin said unhappily: "Why do you ask about food again?" I'm not here to eat. ”

The servant Nuo Nuo said: "The lord told the little one to take care of the young lady. ”

Kang Yanxin said: "What miss? I am your lord, my lord. ”

"Yes, sir, sir." The servant hurriedly said.

"What about your lords?" Kang Yanxin said.

The maid looked at Kang Yanxin and said, "Isn't your adult right here?" ”

Kang Yanxin glared at the servant and said, "I'm asking your lord, Lord Wang. ”

When the servant came to his senses, he said, "Your Excellency is in heaven, and he goes out." ”

Kang Yanxin said: "Gone out? Where did it go? ”

The servant said, "I don't know." ”

Kang Yanxin said: "What did he do?"

The servant said, "Go and measure the field." ”

Kang Yanxin said: "Measure the field, why measure the field? ”

The servant shook his head, Kang Yanxin thought for a while, nodded, and said, "Yes, there must be a standard." ”

The maid looked at Kang Yanxin puzzled, and then asked, "What do you want to eat at noon?" ”

Kang Yanxin got up and said, "Don't eat, I'm going out." ”

After that, Kang Yanxin walked out of the government office and found a government servant and asked him to lead her to Wang Jizhong.

In a ravine, they finally found Wang Jizhong. He led the group of men to the col and rowed against it, which was sandwiched between two mountains, and there seemed to be a trickle in between, but now it was so dry that it was almost impossible to see that there had ever been water. The mountains are full of loess, and the vegetation is sparse. In the col, the loess washed down by the rain spreads out into a small flat river, which is sunburned into a thick shell, hard as iron. Turning over this thick shell, it is full of fine, fertile soil.

It turned out that Wang Jizhong was discussing with others to build a weir pond in the mountain col.

Kang Yanxin said: "Where does the flowing water come from here? The construction of the weir pond is also dry, what are you doing in vain? ”

Wang Jizhong said: "It seems that you don't know much about this place, don't look at this time there is no water here, in fact, the rain is heavy, the flash flood is full, the valley and the river here are full of water, yellow and dang, the locals are called Tianhe." If it can really intercept and store water for irrigation, it is a rare fertile land here. ”

Kang Yanxin looked at the mountain and said, "The construction of a weir pond here is not a small project." ”

Wang Jizhong said: "The amount of work is being calculated, and we now have few people and no equipment, which is difficult." ”

Kang Yanxin said: "Where there is a will, there is a way, I support you." ”

Wang Jizhong smiled bitterly: "You support me, what do you use to support me?" ”

Kang Yanxin said: "Look for Master Pu Dali, let those soldiers help." ”

Wang Jizhong said: "The adults have to manage the military and political affairs of Shanxi, and the soldiers have to guard the border. ”

Kang Yanxin said: "What do you do with the thieves you usually catch? ”

Wang Jizhong said: "Generally, it is to be whipped a few times, locked up for some time, and then released. Repeat offenders, confiscated and exiled. ”

Kang Yanxin said: "It's better to send these people here, let them build weirs and ponds, and open channels to show punishment." ”

Everyone said, "That's a good idea. Let these people do something, and then repent and change themselves, killing two birds with one stone. ”

Wang Jizhong said: "Go back and discuss with the adults, these thieves are not heinous people, most of them are forced by hunger and cold, let them come here to build a weir pond, eat and drink, and no longer have to worry about their troubles." ”

However, when they had spoken to Pudari, Pudari's head shook like a leaf in the wind, and he laughed and said, "Oh, you can think of it, build a weir pond." It's funny to build a weir pond there. What the hell are you doing? What do you plant crops for? I'd rather it grow grass than waste all my efforts to build any weir ponds, I don't understand what you Han people do all day long, do this, do that, toss? It's exhausting. ”

Wang Jizhong explained: "My lord, you may not know the benefits of this weir pond. ”

"What's the benefit?"

Kang Yanxin said: "What's the benefit? We'll talk about it later, what is the most annoying thing for adults right now? ”

"There are too many thieves to catch them," he said. Jizhong, you said that there are not many people here, why are there so many thieves? ”

Wang Jizhong said: "The last war, Shanxi was the most devastated, many people gathered in the mountains and forests for self-protection, for bandits and thieves, in fact, most of them are good citizens, forced to be helpless to become robbers, as the saying goes, hunger and cold thieves, are all to live, but where there is a way to live, who will go to a dead end? ”

Kang Yanxin said: "Yes, there is food and drink, who will risk losing their lives? ”

Pu Dali said: "According to me, just kill a few of them, scare and scare them, and make an example of them." ”

Wang Jizhong said: "You can't kill, we didn't say it's okay, appeasement is the best." ”

Pu Dali said: "How to appease? Why do I think that the more I appease them, the more powerful we are, as if we are afraid of him, it turned out that those natives were thieves, and now, the Han people who migrated over also steal things, so wouldn't Shanxi be chaotic? ”

Kang Yanxin said: "Speaking of which, these people are desperate to take risks when they don't have food, let's get them some food and let them do things with peace of mind, so that no one will steal." ”

Pudali said, "Where do you get food for them?" Besides, if you give them food for no reason, let them eat and drink for nothing, won't they develop the habit of being indulgent and disgusting? ”

Kang Yanxin said: "Don't worry, we can't let them eat and drink for nothing." ”

"Why, do you expect them to give us money?" ”

Kang Yanxin said: "This is not to repair the weir pond, let them repair the weir pond." You see that you have caught so many thieves, and there is no place to close them, and since these people want to have something to eat, why don't you reward them with a bite to eat. ”

Puda thought for a moment and said, "It's a good idea, because we will build the weir and don't let them go back and steal again." Just where to get food? The granaries are empty. ”

Wang Jizhong said: "Don't cry poor, adults don't cry poor, Shanxi is a big battle, and the people have fled, but the crops haven't left, aren't they harvested by us?" There is enough food in the army, and even the war horses are fed wheat, what a pity! Even a little out to repair the weir pond is also a blessing and virtue. ”

Pu Dali smiled: "Both of you will plan to make a plan, I can't count you, you can do whatever you want, but the people are handed over to you, if you run away, the blame will be borne by you." ”

Wang Jizhong said: "This is natural, but, my lord, we are here to protect the territory and the people, don't provoke the Song people and provoke the war because we can free up our hands, then we are really in vain." ”

Pu Dali said: "What you are talking about, what are you provoking them for no reason? Don't worry, as long as they don't come to bully us, I'll close my door and live my life. You may not know that I don't want to fight. ”

Wang Jizhong said: "This is the best, my lord, I have another suggestion, do you think it will work?" ”

"What advice? Let's hear it. ”

Wang Jizhong said: "In the future, if there are cattle and sheep coming from the south, we should not lock them up and send them back." ”

Pu Dali immediately glared at the beads and said, "How can that be done?" It came by itself, and we didn't rob it, so why send it back. ”

Wang Jizhong said: "Doesn't it seem that we are generous and do not take advantage of small advantages." ”

Pu Dali said: "Whoever takes advantage of the small advantage, it is sent to the door by itself." ”

Kang Yanxin smiled: "My lord didn't settle the account again this time. ”

Podari said, "Why didn't I settle the score? ”

Kang Yanxin said: "My lord, now are there more cattle and sheep on our side or more cattle and sheep over there?" ”

"Of course it's on our side—oh, it's a good deal, well, it's yours," said Pudari. ”