According to the Song system, the mourning period of the Queen Mother is also 27 months, "to (rì) Yiyue", then the subjects of the world must wear linen and filial piety in the twenty-seven (rì) to mourn the Queen Mother Xiang's family.

The subjects of the world can "change the moon with (rì)", but the emperor and his harem cannot, and they must wear filial piety to serve the queen mother Xiang for 27 months of mourning.

As a result, Emperor Zhao Ji of the Song Dynasty had just mourned for the first emperor Zhao Xu for 12 months, and when there were still 15 months left, he started again, and since February of the first year of the establishment of the Yasukuni Kingdom, he began a mourning period of 27 months. . .

"Your Majesty, Wei Chen is about to travel far away, and today (rì) I am here to bid farewell to Your Majesty." In a partial (diàn) room in the Song Imperial Palace, Li Sanjian said to Zhao Ji, who was a little sad about God (qíng).

The reason why Zhao Ji was sad was that the Queen Mother Xiang died of illness, or because Zhao Ji was depressed that he had to serve a 27-month mourning period.

For the latter, Li Sanjian has a deep understanding in his heart.

During the period of the emperor's mourning, he was not allowed to leave the palace, and he was not allowed to have joyful things such as feasting, celebrating, and juju, and even getting close to women was sneaky, and of course it was not allowed to make a book of concubines, otherwise it would cause impeachment or exhortation like a tsunami.

For a young man who is just in his early twenties, it is really difficult for him, Li Sanjian secretly said in his heart, especially Zhao Ji, likes flowers, grass, trees, rockeries, likes painting, likes bowing, singing and dancing, etc., in short, what is noisy, what does he like, so trapped in the palace, like a prison, how can the heart be good?

"Li Han Renping (shēn)!" Zhao Ji then asked Li Sanjian straight to the point: "Li Qingjia, do you know why I want you to go to Quanzhou?" ”

"Weichen doesn't know, please make it clear to Your Majesty!" Li Sanjian was stunned when he heard this, looked up at Zhao Ji and said.

Li Sanjian is not an immortal, where can he guess the mind of an emperor?

"Does the Li Qing family really not know?" Zhao Ji stared at Li Sanjian and asked again.

"Wechen really don't know." Li Sanjian replied.

"Nangang Quanyu Map"" Zhao Ji looked at Li Sanjian and then asked: "This is a painting made by the Qing family, didn't you think about anything at that time?" ”

"Weichen is a person from Danzhou, Qiongtai, this is what Weichen did with his hometown, that's all, what Your Majesty means... Li Sanjian replied.

"Is that really the case?" Zhao Ji said with a smile: "Li Hanren, do you know that the Nangang you painted, I have never heard of it, and I have never seen it, I must have some ambition in your heart, Li Qingjia, I have a total of four city divisions, namely Mingzhou, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, and Quanzhou City, among which Mingzhou, Hangzhou, and Guangzhou are the most prestigious, known as the 'three-way shipping division', and the 'three-way shipping division' is also (rì) into the gold, how much does the four city shipping divisions earn? Do you know Li Qing's family? ”

I know a, Li Sanjian said secretly in his heart, but Li Sanjian estimates that there are 100,000 yuan a year, right?

"Wechen really doesn't know about this." In front of the emperor, you can't talk about it, if you don't know, you don't know, if you don't know, if you don't know, you can't fool with guessed numbers, and you can't pretend to understand.

When Li Sanjian was released in Guizhou before, he still knew a little about the Song City Division, but at this time, several years have passed, how does Li Sanjian know the current situation of the City Division? What's more, it's the situation of the entire Silu City.

"In the third year of Yuanfu, the fourth city of Bosi earned 670,000 yuan, and Guang and Ming

, Hangzhou Sanzhou Bosi ten residences. Li Sanjian didn't know the details (qíng), and Zhao Ji didn't blame him, so he nodded and continued: "And the three-year-old offering of Quanzhou City's Bosi Yuanfu is only 30,000 yuan, which is not bad, if the year is not good, the imperial court may have to make up for it." ”

"Why is that?" Li Sanjian was surprised to hear the words and asked: "The responsibility of the city is nothing more than the matter of holding the goods, the sea ship, the conquest, and the trade, so the geographical advantage is particularly important, according to the minister's understanding, Quanzhou is close to the East China Sea, the southeast coast is tortuous, the water is deep and the bay is many, the climate is mild, it is really a natural harbor." And the east of Quanzhou is (rì) Ben, Goryeo and other countries, the south is the Three Buddhas, Cao Guo and so on, compared with Guangzhou, although each has its own merits, at the same time, although Quanzhou is far away from Beijing, but compared with Guangzhou, it is much closer, and the geographical advantage is better than Guangzhou, but why is it so far away from the city of Guangzhou and other places? ”

After Li Sanjian learned that he was "demoted" to Quanzhou Zhizhou, he also made up a lot of knowledge about Quanzhou, and at the same time, the world map was clear to Li Sanjian (xiōng), and he only needed to change his name.

"Quanzhou City Bosi was only established in the second year of Yuanyou." Zhao Ji said: "It is more than 100 years later than the city of Guangzhou and other places, and at the same time, there are pirates attacking along the coast of Fujian Road, so ... ”

In fact, there are many reasons, mainly the conflict of interests between the ministers of the court, between the court and the locality, and between the localities, which has caused the current situation.

"Pirates? And pirates? Li Sanjian's eyes widened when he heard this, and he asked.

"Huh? How? Li Qing's family didn't dare to go? I don't blame you for not daring to go. Zhao Ji looked at Li Sanjian and said.

Li Sanjian is a weak scholar who has never experienced a battle, so he is timid, and it is also (qíng) forgivable, Zhao Ji said secretly in his heart.

"Your Majesty!" Li Sanjian bowed his hand and said: "The family of the minister micro (jiàn) is out (shēn), and it can have today, all of which are given by His Majesty. Wherever Your Majesty asks Wechen to go, Wechen will go, go to the soup and fire, why should Wechen regret this (shēn)? ”

At this moment, can Li Sanjian still say half a "no"? Can you still cringe? The answer is no, so since it is already a sure thing (qíng), since it has already gone to Dingquanzhou, it is better to say it beautifully.

Pirate? What is a pirate? No matter how pirate he is, he's also a thief, isn't he? Can you beat the officers and soldiers? Li Sanjian said secretly in his heart.

The breeze was slow, blowing Li Sanjian's clothes fluttering (dàng), coupled with the impassioned god (qíng) and language, quite poisonous snakes gnawing fingers, strong men breaking their wrists, quite a bit of wind and shyness and water cold, Li Sanjian is gone.

Zhao Ji suddenly felt a little funny when he heard this, but at the same time, he was also a little moved, so he smiled and said: "I don't need you to go to the soup and fire, I just need you to manage Quanzhou City and increase more taxes for the imperial court." ”

Wealth is the source of life and the foundation of survival, and it is indispensable.

Song seems to be rich, he can't spend a lot of money, the country is rich and the people are strong, and he looks like a peaceful and prosperous world, but in fact, it is not.

Under the peace, in fact, there are many crises.

First of all, in order to deal with the attacks of Liao and Western Xia, the Song Dynasty needed to maintain a large number of troops, with no less than 600,000 troops stationed in the west and north, and under the national policy of "internal and external maintenance" and "strong cadres and weak branches", hundreds of thousands of troops were also needed in the area of Kaifeng Prefecture in Tokyo, at least

The number of troops stationed in the capital will not be less than that of the border troops, so the number of the entire Song (jìn) army is not less than 1.2 million, and the huge army will inevitably produce a huge military expenditure, so the cost of raising troops accounts for seven or eight tenths of the entire Song year's income.

In addition, it is the royal family's expenses and officials' salaries, etc., which is also a huge expense, so the Song court at this time has long been unable to make ends meet.

If you want to say what Zhao Ji lacks the most at present, it is money... At this time, the war in Western Xia, the troops in the north, and the successive deaths of the royal family, so the treasury was already empty at this time, and Zhao Ji was already overstretched.

Therefore, the tax paid per year by the Song City Bureau was not actually the main annual income of the Song Dynasty, but it attracted the attention of the Song Emperor Zhao Ji, who thought of ways to alleviate the current crisis.

"Wechen is willing to share his worries for His Majesty!" Li Sanjian said after understanding Zhao Ji's meaning.

"Good, good!" Hearing this, Zhao Ji stepped down from the throne, walked in front of Li Sanjian, looked at Li Sanjian and asked, "What is the plan of the Li Qing family to increase the income of Quanzhou City?" ”

"Your Majesty!" Li Sanjian replied when he heard this: "Wechen has not yet arrived in Quanzhou, and I don't know much about Quanzhou, but Wechen thinks that (yù) to govern the city must first govern Quanzhou, and the first thing to govern Quanzhou is people. ”

"Very good! I really didn't see the wrong person! Zhao Jixi said: "What else does the Qing family want?" 今 (rì) can be raised. ”

"Your Majesty!" Li Sanjian said after a long silence: "Since Your Majesty trusts Weichen so much, Weichen has the courage to say it clearly, what Weichen wants is one word, that is, 'power', military power, political power, and civil power, all three powers are indispensable." ”

Li Sanjian's voice was not loud, but his attitude was unusually resolute.

Li Sanjian (yù) has to do something in Quanzhou, and he must be fully responsible for the affairs of Quanzhou, otherwise the constraints from all directions will be Li Sanjian's hands and feet, and it will be difficult to move an inch.

At the same time, Li Sanjian also understood that although Zhizhou was the governor of a state, there were many constraints from various aspects, such as the restrictions of road-level officials on the state army, the supervision and restrictions of the Zhizhou by the general judgment in the state, and the restrictions of the imperial court on local officials.

"Anyway, I will appoint you below the state level, and I will approve all the rules of your Li Sanjian's election of officials, and the following generals will also be appointed by you Li Sanjian." Zhao Ji thought about it and said to Li Sanjian.

The army of the Song Dynasty is mainly the (jìn) army and the box army, and the other is the township soldiers and the fan soldiers, of which the (jìn) army is the army of the imperial court, which is the regular army, also known as the "Shang army", which belongs to the (diàn) front division, the horse army division, and the infantry army division, and these three divisions are called "three ya".

The army (jìn) was the army led by the emperor himself, which was of course the most elite tour of the Song Dynasty, and the front of the Xiang army (shēn) was the army of the Tang Dynasty, which became the army of the town after continuous weakening, called the "standing army", which was actually a miscellaneous soldier of the state capital, under the control of the state capital and the imperial court, and was always subordinate to the Guards Ma Jun Division and the Guard Infantry Army Division.

The main tasks of the Xiang army are to build cities, make weapons, build roads and bridges, transport grain and reclaim famine, and guard officials, greet and send off, etc. Generally, there are no combat or training tasks

At this time, Li Sanjian (yù) asked for the military power of the Quanzhou Xiang Army, and Zhao Ji gave it to him.

It is said that the Quanzhou Xiang Army was originally under the jurisdiction of the Quanzhou Prefecture.