Speaking of Wang Qing's request and the intention of taking the risk to come in person, Yayunchen and they are all clear: worship the dock, ask for recognition and protection, and seek a way out.

Wang Qing said that Mangyuan gave up the throne and surrendered to the public, hoping to have a chance to be accepted by the pirate country, but in fact, he didn't have such a mind at all.

How could he be willing to give up all this to join the pirate kingdom and be a little brother to look at other people's faces and listen to others' shouts?

Wang Qing's brothers were not willing either.

Although they are robbers and pirates are also thieves, they are not the same as pirates. Pirates are serious countries in the name of piracy. The state of Chu is purely a bandit country that kills people without blinking. But bandits live freely and happily in the bandit country, and joining the pirate country is subject to all kinds of constraints, and they can't come by temperament, so how can it? How can you have the desire to take refuge?

As for the real purpose of Wang Qing's visit: if he wants to ask for a way out, whether to give it or not, this is not something that the people below can say, and the king has to say it.

However, the Yayunchen Guardian had the most contact with Zhao Yue, and he was clear about the imperial policy of Yemen, so he said to Wang Qing: "Self-inflicted sin and death, a way out?" I also did it myself. ”

You die of your own work, and no one can ask of you. Stop being a damn thief of the remnants, the pirate nation will naturally be willing to give a way out when it sees the performance.

Wang Qing was very clever and understood what he meant, and immediately said that he would definitely lead the brothers to strive to be a good man and a good ruler in the future.

Ba Yunchen They were noncommittal, they didn't care what Wang Qing would do, anyway, there were few good people in the Great Song Dynasty, so you could do whatever you wanted.

No longer bother with Wang Qing.

Wang Qing felt that he had made a big gain, and when he went back and talked to the brothers, they were all relieved and happy, and began to engage in pro-people and benevolent government.

Nowadays, the Song State has vacant land that is convenient for people to move around and live, not that there was no land to go to before. In order to encircle the people under his rule and not flee, Wang Qingbu and Tian Hu had to put away their fierce appearance and wanton rampantness, and they all pinched their noses to engage in so-called good governance.......

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Regarding pirate blackmail, Wang Qing has no temper. The Song court and local bureaucrats were also tempered.

The magistrate searched the precinct exhaustively, along with his own gold and silver...... Honestly handed over to the pirates, not because they were loyal to the court, nor because they didn't hate the court for asking them to clean up their belongings, but because they were afraid that they would be targeted by pirates if they didn't listen to them....... The pirates could even know what they slept in and what they ate in the secret outer room, which was terrifying.

Who knows which of the people shaking around is a pirate spy and which one is not?

If they are not honest, the ferocious pirates will inevitably target and punish, who can prevent it?

Don't fall asleep, it's time to get up in the morning, but your head is gone......

But there is one area that does not listen to the imperial court, including the taxes imposed by the imperial court, and a single grain of grain has not been paid by a single adult.

It is not the unrecognizable Northwest Western Army Region, but the Cangbei Fourth Army Prefecture. The reason is that there is no money and lack of food.

The Western Army, the imperial court didn't notify at all.

Although the remaining five generals in the northwest have all been listed, they are still loyal to the Great Song Dynasty and are willing to continue to guard the northwest border, and they have also reorganized the army and have the ability to defend the border. This greatly relieved the uneasy imperial court: at least there was no need to worry about the disappointment of millions of men in the northwest who were disappointed in the imperial court and rebelled into the interior to cause rebellion. However, the wealth of the northwest was wiped away by the pirates first, not to mention the gold and silver treasures, even the eldest son who had not been pulled down by copper coins. Where did the money come from in the northwest and still pay tribute to pirates.

The imperial court did not have to go all the way to inform it.

If it is notified, I am afraid that it will become a rebellion that forces the Western Army, which is already in flames, to despise the imperial court......

As a matter of fact, the northwest is now an advanced stage model of "socialism": all money, grain, cloth, and so on, including housing, are publicly owned, and are in the hands of the army, and they are under unified management, distributed according to work, and distributed in a unified manner. It's that I haven't built a collective canteen yet, it's too troublesome, and the army doesn't like to worry about that. Residents eat, and food can only go to the queue every day to receive a daily amount that meets the new status standards of the army. The people of the five departments are concentrated in their own city, so that the management and distribution can be realized. If the food is not distributed at one time, it will save more trouble, because it is afraid that the people who will be able to cross the long no-man's land behind them and successfully escape to the interior. If that kind of thing really happens, then there will be no one else in the northwest except for the Jiangmen who can't go and some of the former army soldiers who follow the Jiangmen. In the northwest, however, there are still a large number of Tibetan barbarians who will inevitably move down to occupy the territory of Hehuang and Tangut, as well as steppe Zahu who will also come to occupy the open space, and the Uighur state, which is also not small, and perhaps the Liao state will move in. The Western Xia Kingdom has completely disappeared, but the northwest has not been a threat since then.

There is no money in the Northwest. Living in the Northwest, everything depends on distribution, there is money, and money is useless.

Isn't that what advanced stage? (I can't help but laugh when I write this)

The court didn't say anything about Cangbei that had been notified. And the pirate envoy Zhong Xiang didn't say anything.

Leave it at that.

Because:

In terms of individual families, the Cangzhao family and Zhao Zhuang have been completely bankrupt in the summer turmoil, and they owe huge foreign debts. And all of Zhao Zhuang's floating wealth, including grain, fell into the hands of pirates. Other Cangbei officials, who were severely pinched by Zhao Gonglian, the actual invisible king of Cangzhou's landowners, did not dare to embezzle and accept bribes on a large scale, and did not dare to drink the blood of soldiers...... Although the salary of the public servants in the Song Dynasty was high, they only relied on Fenglu to feed a large family of people and horses, and there was obviously no money left.

This is also an important reason why the four military prefectures in Cangbei have not even changed civilian officials immediately according to the practice of transferring them every three years.

There is Zhao Gonglian, a tiger squatting there, Cangbei is dangerous and the climate is harsh, you have to drink the cold wind with your head up, the conditions cannot be compared with the south, and no one in the Great Song Dynasty officials wants to go to Cangbei to be an official. Not to mention martial arts, as soon as there was a rumor that he might be transferred to Cangbei, his face immediately pulled down, as ugly as a dead father......

Public aspect: Cangbei now has no people, it has become a pure military state, and the imperial court still owes part of the autumn military salary to the Cangbei Army before it has time to send it, how can the Cangbei government have money. What's more, there are more than 500,000 monks and prisoners. It's all men who can eat. Only grain, Cangbei did not stare at urging the imperial court to allocate money and grain, which is not easy......

The imperial court has no face to say anything to Cangbei.

Zhao Ji and the ministers tried to rectify Zhao Gonglian's death, but they couldn't even force other aggrieved Cangbei civil and military officials to hate the court, otherwise, I am afraid that the disaster will be a big deal, and Zhao Gonglian will be in a group with the same hatred, in case Zhao Gonglian is against him...... As far as the big Song Jiangshan is now a rotten frame, I'm afraid there will be no future, so I don't have to play.

The pirates didn't say anything, and the imperial court's analysis should also be clear about the situation in Cangbei and Zhao Gonglian's family, knowing that there was no oil and water, and the pirates turned a blind eye.

It is necessary to make a special mention that there is a local official who does not pay money and grain and dares to have a temperament, that is Cangzhou, and J is Zhizhou Zheng Juzhong.

Zheng Juzhong did not dare to have a temper with pirates or the imperial court, but to the Zhao Yue family.

I think that at the beginning, Zheng Juzhong, who had the secret of the holy will, came to Cangzhou from Tokyo with passion and dreams to take up the post of local governor. He specifically came to plague Cangzhao's business and destroy the foundation of Cangzhao's wealth. If this thing is done, not only can Emperor Zhao Ji be satisfied and appreciate him extraordinarily, but also make a fortune. casually blackmail from the Cangzhao family or make some money by other means, and it will also make a lot of money. Also, and after the scourge of Cangzhou is over, he can still pat his ass and leave, and go back to Tokyo to be promoted to a higher ......

It's a bit of a martyr's twilight years, fierce and passionate.

After taking office, he tossed hard, played with majestic power, and gave all kinds of hints to Cangzhao, but he racked his brains and didn't extort any oil and water from the Cangzhao family.

Cangzhao is a hard temper, he would rather bend than bend his brain, and he would rather go bankrupt than compromise to let Zheng Juzhong taste the sweetness.

Don't bird him at all.

Zheng Juzhong was annoyed and angry, and simply sent troops to block the trade channel and prevent Cangzhao from doing business. Isn't it arrogant and tough? will force you to go bankrupt. No, no, if it doesn't break.

...... As a result, Cangzhao Zhen went bankrupt, and the entire Cangzhou economy was also depressed and bankrupt, merchants moved to Cangbei one after another, and a large number of people were lost...... Until now, Cangzhou has become the first rich state in the Great Song Dynasty from not long ago, and even Tokyo City was far inferior in many aspects, to the first poor state in the Great Song Dynasty...... Earth.

The reason why it is said to be "land" and not said to be a state is because it is difficult to define the administrative level of Cangzhou today.

Before Zheng Juzhong came, Cangzhou was called a state, but it was actually a more important government, and the chief consul was promoted from the fifth rank to the fourth rank and the third rank before he could come to Cangzhou. Even Zheng Juzhong's appointment from a second-grade member is not a grievance, which shows how developed and important Cangzhou was at that time.

Now, Cangzhou, not to mention material wealth, is not much people.

If you enter Cangzhou from Hejian Mansion in the west, you will see that there are patches of uninhabited land as far as the eye can see. When I arrived in Qingchi County, I would see people sporadically.

Before, the population of Cangzhou City alone was no less than seven or eight hundred thousand, second only to Tokyo with a population of 1.5 million at its peak, and it almost crowded the state city with an area far from being comparable with Tokyo City.

At that time, the military defense circle outside Cangzhou City that had to be controlled was densely packed with people, except for the fields and forests that were strictly controlled when Zhao Gonglian was in power, and the fields and forests that were not allowed to be destroyed and cut down indiscriminately, as well as places that were really unsuitable for human habitation, it seemed that there were houses and people everywhere, stretching out and spreading to Qingchi County. Not to mention Yanshan County, the seat of the Cangzhao family, which triggered and promoted prosperity, has a population so large that it seems to be a temple fair. It was not until the southern edge of the three southern counties that the situation in the district eased somewhat. The population is not 10 million, I am afraid that there are 7 or 8 million, and there are so many people coming and going that the government has no way to count how many people live in Cangzhou.

Every inch of land is expensive outside the city, let alone inside the city.

In the past, Cangzhou City only scratched its head and tried every possible way to buy a house, as long as they could scrape together the money, no matter how expensive it was, they had to buy it, but in this way, almost no one sold the house. They all have a house and are pinched, knowing that if they sell their house, they can move to another state and live easily and happily for the rest of their lives, but no one wants to sell it.

Now, Cangzhou City even has a golden seal on its face, and the more than 20,000 people who have not been picked out and forcibly incorporated into the Gaoluguan Roadside Army have fled one after another by taking advantage of the opportunity to occupy the ownerless fields outside the city and get some heirlooms.

These "adventurers" who came to Cangzhou from all over the country to make money saw that Cangzhou's economy was completely finished, and if they stayed here, not only would they not be able to make a fortune and have a good life, but they would also have to be frightened, and they would have to bear the burden of wanton oppression and slavery by the government and the garrison, and they would have to feed the government army and sweep the streets and transport dung...... Maintain the city's functions and environment and other daily affairs, there is endless dirty work every day, the government does not give money, but also has to bear the disaster of the war on the border of Liaokou, it is not a place for people to stay, and the head must be resolutely escaped.

Even the local urban ruffians, villains, and remnants of the merchants simply abandoned their homes and fled, ignoring the endless land and property outside the city.

There are almost no people in Cangzhou City, and it has become a de facto military city like Cangbei.

The garrison - the ruffians and soldiers who were laid off from the northern border of the original Cang had to stand up and sweep the streets and carry dung...... Maintain the living environment and complain about hardship.

House?

Not to mention that no one is willing to sell every inch of land, it is a piece of land for nothing, and no one comes to live. Houses, restaurants, inns, shops...... It's all empty......

Only the swaying figures of the ruffians and soldiers were on the streets.

Officials?

During the summer disaster, not counting the officers, the other Cangzhou city officials were forced by Zhao Yue to lead the troops to be pushed to the city gate by the Cangzhou army and killed, and the court did not know about it. After the disaster, the imperial court didn't know what to think, so it only sent a pusher to take office, and there was no other normal supporting facilities such as Cangcao, the main book, and judicial supervision officials. It is a pusher, and it is normally divided into left and right, there are two, but only one is sent, neither left nor right, it is called a pusher. The relevant chores can only be managed by unfashionable officials transferred from the state capitals that have been abolished.

What about outside Cangzhou City?

There was not a single household within twenty miles of the neighborhood.

Afraid that the officials and soldiers of the state city would be convenient to harm people nearby, they did not dare to live nearby.

Yanshan County is the most populous of the five counties in Cangzhou today, with more than 100,000 people, but they are not locals, all of them are people who have migrated from the north and south of Cangzhou.

After the Cangbei people came to Cangzhou, they automatically gathered to Zhao Yue's hometown, and they lived as close as they could, there were mansions in the county town elsewhere, and there were many ownerless mansions abandoned by large landlords in the countryside, and they were not greedy to live. The population of the northern border area of Cangzhou is sparse, but the population of the four military states together is also considerable, but either they have taken the initiative to defect to the pirates for many years, or they have been secretly transported away by Zhao Yue's family after coming to Cangzhou, and only the families who have come here late are left, including the families of soldiers who are still serving as soldiers in Cangbei.

The emergence of this situation is naturally not that the people of Cangbei are so fanatical in supporting Zhao Gonglian and the Cangzhao family, nor is it that the consciousness is not greedy to occupy other mansions and fertile land to enjoy, but that they know that living in Cangzhou and not being wantonly bullied and exploited by the government led by Zheng Juzhong, who has specially brought down Cangzhou, is incapable of resisting the enemy and scourge the most capable "capable genius" of the country, and wants not to be robbed and slaughtered by the Liao Kou who can come at any time.

The Cangzhao family did not disappoint them,

Even if he went bankrupt and Zhao Zhuang was almost extinct, he still kindly and thoughtfully sent people to take care of everyone living in harmony.

For this reason, Zhao Zhuang also deliberately cleaned up the original grassroots township gentry in Cangbei who managed the common people and represented the common people, and did not let them live nearby, and all of them rushed to live elsewhere.

These so-called high-ranking townspeople, Confucian gentry, or stubborn and arrogant, or hypocritical, cunning and conceited, came to Yanshan County in a hurry, and still wanted to be village tyrants, township tyrants, and all kinds of tyrants and blood-sucking villagers like they were in their hometowns...... Be a nameless but real ruler, gain fame and fortune for nothing, be majestic and domineering, and be a winner in life.

Zhao Zhuang is welcome, this is not the position of the vampire hypocrite. There are mansions elsewhere, so they are worthy of your identity, so go and occupy them. It doesn't matter what kind of fame he has, what his identity is, what relationship he has between the court and China, how many books he has read, how much he knows about Confucianism, how much so-called talent he has, and how much he has a gentleman's image. Expel them all.

Those people were naturally very angry, and they went to Qingchi County to occupy the mansion with a flick of their robes, and even one family could own a whole strong and tall fort.

There are many such castles in Cangzhou, especially in Qingchi and Yanshan counties, which are the most easily killed by the Liao, and they are all fortresses that were built by the surrounding villages to raise funds and work together to resist the invasion of the Liao. It is also the product of Zhao Gonglian's administration and the vigorous help of the people with the family cement factory.

But the residence is so superior, and the surrounding fields are occupied casually, but they can't feel at ease when they dominate it......

The five counties and county offices under the rule of Cangzhou were all destroyed in the summer pirate disaster, and all the county officials who had danced happily with Zheng Juzhong were killed.

After the disaster, except for Qingchi County, which had too few people to set up a serious government management body, the other four counties still had a lot of pirates who did not want or moved from Cangbei, but the imperial court did not send people to restore the county governance. Even Yanshan County, which is absolutely enough to set up a county government, has not been restored. Just let Zhao Zhuang be managed as a tenant, in fact, sheltering.

Even if the population of the three southern counties is not qualified, then the town-level government is definitely qualified, right? However, even the town-level government and the imperial court have not been changed.

It was directly and painstakingly governed by the Cangzhou government, which lacked supporting officials.

This makes Cangzhou say that it is a government, and it is definitely not a government; Speaking of the state, there are only three serious officials, namely, the governor, the general judge, and the magistrate, is this the state governance? Speaking of counties, they are not even equipped with the main books that are available at the county level. directly manages the people in the countryside, it should be said that it is the town governance, but how can there be a town governance leader who is a member of the second rank of the dynasty?

The Cangzhou government has become a unique administrative district that is not nondescript.

What does it mean for the imperial court to do this to Cangzhou, Shi Fu, the commander of the soldiers and horses, is clear, and his heart is cold.

Zheng Juzhong?

Maybe it's clear, maybe it's not so clear, maybe you still feel that Zhao Ji favors and likes him, and still talks to him about the old friendship. There is still a fluke, and he still dreams of leaving the mess and patting his ass and leaving easily, leaving the trouble of leaving a place to be borne by the unlucky successor, he can go back to Tokyo to be promoted, and then enjoy the prosperity and prosperity in the prosperous and gentle township......

In fact, what Zheng Juzhong is ashamed to say is that he wantonly made Cangzhou into a mess but could not be promoted and returned to Beijing as expected, patted his ass and left, and the terrible situation in Cangzhou still has to be cleaned up by himself.......... The people of the court took advantage of him, and now they have undoubtedly abandoned him.