Kou Tianci grinned instantly, and Zhao Run's face showed a hint of shame when he saw this.

Zhao Run is obviously a little arrogant.

Kou Tianci had a lot of gifts, but he only had the ancient inkstone that Kou Ji gave him.

He naturally cherishes the ancient inkstone.

When Kou Tianci found him and wanted to give him a cart of gifts, in order to protect his face, he pretended not to care about those gifts.

But when Kou Tianci asked him for the ancient inkstone, he couldn't hold back at all.

After Kou Tianci pierced Zhao Run's little tsundere, he did not chase after him, but walked to a carriage, jumped on the wheel, and waved at Zhao Run.

Zhao Run glared at Kou Tianci, walked over, jumped on the wheel, and sat side by side with Kou Tianci.

When the two of them jumped into the car, Kou Ji and the others had already loaded all the things they wanted to bring into the car.

On the occasion of parting.

Kou Ji summoned Di Qing to the side.

"Di Qing, this farewell, see each other again, I'm afraid we will have to wait until the two newly established forbidden armies of the imperial court arrive here. You're going to be here for a long time to come.

There are some things that I can't tell you in front of people, and now I have called you to the back of people to tell them.

After I am gone, the affairs of the land will be under your control.

Once you encounter a captive rebellion, you must not be relentless.

Subsequently, the imperial court would send a large number of civil servants over.

If any of them guards the captives after they have rebelled, you do not have to be merciful.

In short, in this place, anyone who hinders the rule of my Great Song Dynasty here, you can cut it down first and then play it.

You don't have to be afraid, and you don't have to give too much face to those ministers.

You are in charge of the forbidden army, and they have no right to interfere with everything of the forbidden army. ”

Kou Ji mainly emphasized to Di Qing what kind of attitude Di Qing should take to deal with those ministers after the Wenchen arrived.

The Wenchen of the Great Song Dynasty cleaned up batch after batch before.

However, with the rapid expansion of the territory, the imperial court selected many people as officials.

It is precisely because of this that it is inevitable that the imperial court will have times when people are unknown, and some pedantic or black-hearted guys will be mixed in.

Black-hearted guys don't talk about it, pedantic guys are sometimes easy to do bad things with good intentions.

Once there is a rebellion among the captives, some of the pedantic guys will inevitably stand up and say that God has the virtue of a good life, and prevent Di Qing from leading heavy troops to suppress it.

Then he ran to reason with the captives and recruit them.

In this way, it is not only harmful to oneself, but also to others.

It is also easy to raise tigers.

The captives here are fundamentally different from those bandits in the hinterland of the Great Song Dynasty.

If they make a fuss, they basically run to the death.

Appeasement, solicitation, almost non-existent.

Unless the Great Song Dynasty allowed them to establish a ministry, or a country.

But is that possible?

Therefore, once the captives here make trouble, there is no second way except to use heavy ammunition to suppress them.

Koji didn't want the stupidity of some civilian officials to give birth to any rebellious forces here and form a general trend.

Once a general trend is formed, the people who move here will suffer greatly.

Di Qing listened to Kou Ji's words and understood why Kou Ji said these words to him, and he also knew the temperament of some pedantic civil officials in the court, so he nodded almost without any hesitation.

In Di Qing's eyes, captives are just captives, and they are still guilty.

Before they got rid of the crime, Di Qing would not have a psychological burden to kill no matter how much.

After Kou Ji finished telling Di Qing, he patted Di Qing on the shoulder, "Although the official family will not crown you as the king this time, the official family will definitely remember your merits." ”

Di Qing nodded heavily.

Koji withdrew his hand and got into the carriage.

Di Qing turned over and got on his horse and sent Kou Ji and his party out of Liaoyang Mansion.

At the gate of the city.

Di Qing watched Kou Ji and the others' team disappear before riding back to Liaoyang Mansion.

After Kou Ji and his entourage left Liaoyang Mansion, they led soldiers and horses, escorted gold and silver treasures and other things, and traveled all the way to the west.

I walked along the avenue for about ten miles to the west.

I saw patches of newly cultivated fertile land.

The migrants, who were driving the captives to work in the fields, saw Kou Ji and his party passing by, so they hurried to the side of the road, bowed to Kou Ji's carriage, and shouted loudly.

"Send Kou Gong!"

"Send Kou Gong!"

“……”

Kou Ji and his party traveled all the way, and the people who sent them off shouted all the way.

Wang Zeng sat in the carriage, pulling the curtain of the carriage with one hand, looking at the endless black soil outside the car window, listening to the high-pitched send-off sound, full of emotion.

"In this Great Song Dynasty, there is no one who can compare to you kid."

Wang Zeng let out a long sigh.

Kou Ji lay on his side in the carriage, holding a wine jug in one hand and a pastry in the other, pouting and saying, "Don't talk nonsense...... No one in the Great Song Dynasty can compare to the official family. ”

Wang Zeng smiled mockingly, "If you raise your arms here, I'm afraid that the number of servants will exceed one million." Officials can't do it. ”

Kou Ji threw down the wine jug in his hand and said dissatisfiedly: "Do you dislike me for not having enough trouble, or do you think I don't die fast enough?" ”

Wang Zeng said lightly: "The old man is just telling the truth. ”

Speaking of this, Wang Zeng lowered the curtain of the carriage, stared at Kou Ji, and said with emotion: "Only half a month has passed since the fall of Goryeo, and your kid has already let people reclaim fertile land that is not in sight.

It's so efficient, it's simply appalling.

If other officials in the DPRK and China were to do it, they might not be able to reclaim so much fertile land by the end of summer.

This fertile field, which is far in sight, will surely harvest a large number of crops in the autumn.

The people who have migrated will be able to settle down completely after the autumn harvest.

The two million soldiers and horses recruited by the official family arrived here.

This place has truly become the territory of my Great Song Dynasty.

This place will be occupied by the people of the Great Song Dynasty forever.

Your merits are not exaggerated to describe them in four words. ”

Wang Zeng raised his head, sighed and said, "The old man hates that he was born at the wrong time, and he failed to join the ranks with you and establish a thousand years of achievements together."

The old man is glad that he can live until now, and he can watch you step by step to build my Great Song Dynasty into a real Heavenly Empire. ”

When Kou Ji heard this, he said angrily: "Let's make it clear in Liaoyang Mansion, you don't need to flatter me." ”

Wang Zeng's eyes fell on Kou Ji, "The old man is telling the truth. ”

Kou Ji pursed his lips and said nothing.

Wang Zeng opened the curtain of the carriage again, looked at the fertile fields outside the car window, and sighed sincerely, "Today's Great Song Dynasty ...... It's so nice......"

Kou Ji grabbed the flask again and said, "It will be better in the future......"

Wang Zeng had a smile on his face, and said with a bright smile: "Yes, it will be better in the future." ”

Wang Zeng watched the people farming all the way, sighed all the way, and slowly traveled west.

Since they were escorting a lot of things, they didn't travel very fast.

From Liaoyang Mansion to Shangjing, and it was half a month later.

After entering the boundary of Shangjing City, which had been renamed Linheng Mansion, Kou Ji and Wang Zeng saw different people.

When they were in Liaoyang Mansion and other prefectures, all they saw were patches of newly cultivated fertile land, as well as people and captives scattered in the vast and boundless fertile fields.

After arriving at Linheng Mansion, Kou Ji and Wang Zeng saw patches of fertile fields full of crop shoots.

On the avenue on the edge of the fertile fields, there are people carrying burdens and selling some baskets, baskets and other things.

The more you go to Linhengfufu, the more people are selling on both sides of the avenue.

After the imperial court moved the people here, only some simple farm tools and some original houses in Liao were distributed.

Nothing beyond that.

The people were diligent, and after they had finished planting their crops, they relied on their own skills to make baskets, baskets, and other things to sell.

The craft of weaving baskets and baskets is not an uncommon craft.

The raw materials are basically branches, bamboo sticks, vines, etc.

It costs almost nothing.

There are many people who know this craft.

Therefore, the most common things that appear on the market are baskets and baskets.

Because the people here were destitute people during the Great Song Dynasty, they didn't have much money in their hands.

Therefore, very little money is used when trading.

Almost always in barter, or in captives.

For example, a small basket is worth five cents.

If someone takes four baskets in one go, he can let one of his captives go to the other's house to work for two days.

Or they can lend the horses they have allocated to others for two or three days.

The crops in the fertile fields are not planted and finished.

In the middle, they also have to hoe grass and loosen the soil, and in times of drought, they also have to carry water for irrigation.

Therefore, after planting the crops, the people have to work in the fields from time to time to help the crops grow strongly.

Therefore, even if the people planted their crops, they needed labor.

Especially in the first year when the grass is cultivated out of fertile land, weeds always pop up in the field inadvertently, so I often have to hoe the grass.

Far away from Linheng Mansion, almost all of them are people hawking.

Near Linheng Mansion, there are not only ordinary people, but also some businessmen mixed in.

Kou Ji glanced at it slightly, mostly salt merchants and fur merchants.

The salt merchants carried salt bags on their backs and walked among the people, putting down the salt bags from time to time and trading with the people.

The people can give money if they have money, and they can give credit to those who don't.

After the autumn harvest, the grain is used to pay off the debt.

If they used grain to pay off their debts, the salt merchants would keep the grain at a very low price.

After the autumn harvest, the salt merchants did not make a little money from selling salt.

Each household of the common people has at least 1,000 acres of land, and the crops harvested in the autumn harvest will inevitably not be less, so they are not afraid that the salt merchants will take advantage of this.

The salt merchants were not afraid of the people paying their bills.

After all, salt and iron are all government-run.

Almost anyone who can do salt business has the shadow of the government behind them.

So the people traded happily with the salt merchants.

Kou Ji and his party entered Linheng Mansion and saw a more lively business field.

Sell everything.

Kou Ji and Wang Zeng even saw two bookstores.

Who would have thought that in just a few months, the once empty Shangjing City would become prosperous again.

Kou Ji and Wang Zeng are almost certain that the future Shangjing will probably be more prosperous than the previous Shangjing.

Because when they entered the city, they saw many merchants carrying large quantities of goods into the capital.

"Can the people here afford it?"

After Kou Ji and Wang Zeng entered the city, a question arose in their hearts at the same time.

After they met the prefect of Linheng Prefecture, the prefect of Linheng Prefecture gave them an answer.

"Of course the people can afford it."

The prefect of Linheng Mansion, a middle-aged man in his thirties, his name is Qian Tong, who used to be a county official in Fangling, and he has not been promoted after being bullied by the Wei Wangfu for more than ten years.

After the Wei Wangfu was disposed of, Qian Tong began to show his prominence.

He served as a county governor and a governor for two terms, and was finally promoted to Linheng Mansion as a prefect.

After Kou Ji and Wang Zeng heard Qian Tong's words, they looked suspicious.

Qian Tong is also a human spirit, after seeing the expressions of the two, without waiting for the two to speak, he hurriedly explained: "Don't hide it from the king, Kou Xiang, the lower officials are going to use money to buy the surplus grain of the people after the autumn harvest."

The officials have already passed the anger with the people on this matter, and now the governors of the prefectures are accounting for the fertile land reclaimed in Linheng Mansion.

Then, based on the fertile land they have cultivated, they will calculate the amount of surplus grain they can sell.

In order to avoid natural and man-made disasters, the lower officials will also reduce the number by 50% after the number is calculated.

After the reduction of fifty percent, the lower officials will use the money to pre-purchase the surplus grain in the hands of the people.

The people will soon have money, and if they have money, they will be able to afford the things here. ”

The reason why Qian Tong called Kou Ji Kou Xiang was because the position of Kou Ji's privy envoy was also a phase, but the nature was different from that of Lu Yijian and others, so few people called it so.

After listening to Qian Tong's words, Kou Ji said in a deep voice: "You must keep an eye on this matter from beginning to end, and you must not have anything to do with officials bullying the people."

Nor can we use this to oppress the people.

If there is a matter of officials bullying the people, or oppressing the people, the forbidden army sitting here will definitely not sit idly by. ”

When Qian Tong heard this, his face was bitter, "Kou Xiang said with a smile, Zhang Xiang will sit here later, and there are inspectors at the same level as the lower officials here."

The lower officials don't have the courage to oppress the people under their noses. ”

Hearing this, Kou Ji nodded.

Wang Zeng stared at the money channel: "Where did you get the money to buy the people's food?" ”

Qian Tong hurriedly said: "Xiaguan sold those ownerless houses and shops in the capital. ”

Wang Zeng frowned slightly.

Qian Tong hurriedly said: "Actually, Xia Guan didn't think about selling those ownerless mansions and shops at first. After the arrival of the lower officials, a group of businessmen came from Bohai Prefecture.

They had to pay for some of the houses here, saying that they wanted to live in the prince's mansion and the princess's mansion in Liao.

They also told the lower officials that Kou Xiang had said that all the houses in Liaodi could be sold.

As soon as the lower officials heard that it was Kou Xiang's permission, they sold the house to them.

Who knows, on the first day they moved in, something big happened.

A businessman found a secret room in the mansion of a Liao noble, and the secret room was full of antique calligraphy and paintings.

The value is hard to estimate.

So as soon as it spread ten, ten, hundreds, merchants from all over the world flocked over.

The houses and shops in the capital were also sold out. ”

Speaking of this, Qian Tong said cautiously: "Xia Guan feels that these houses and shops are empty and empty, and they are sold in exchange for money, part of which can be handed over to the imperial court, and the other part can be used to build granaries, purchase the people's grain, and establish the Changping warehouse in Linheng Mansion as soon as possible."

As long as there are no natural disasters in Linheng Mansion this year.

Xia Guan was confident that he would be able to establish sixteen standing positions in the Linheng Mansion and that he would be able to fill them with grain. ”

When Wang Zeng heard this, he did not speak, but looked sideways at Kou Ji.

Kou Ji shrugged his shoulders and said, "My soldiers and horses are not professional searchers, and it is inevitable that there will be negligence when raiding this place.

So someone took the opportunity to pick up the leak, and I couldn't blame anyone.

As for what Qian Tong just said, the sale of houses and shops is with my permission, and this matter is true.

Now that we have taken this land and are going to govern it, we should let it prosper as soon as possible.

Rather than let the long-term poverty of this place fall. ”

Wang Zeng sighed and said: "The old man knows that when it is extraordinary, he should use extraordinary methods. But those businessmen are cheap, and the old man really doesn't feel good in his heart. ”

In Wang Zeng's heart, cheap people can, but cheap businessmen definitely can't.

Kou Ji said frankly: "People are not those antiques and paintings that have been obtained illegally, but they have sold them legally." ”

Wang Zeng sighed again and did not say anything more.

Seeing this, Kou Ji looked at Qian Dao: "You have done a good job, when I meet with the official family, I will mention your merits to the official family." ”

Qian Tong was overjoyed and bowed to Kou Ji and Wang Zeng.

"Thank you Wang Xiang, thank you Kou Xiang......"

This guy is also a human spirit, not only can do things, but also be a person.

Obviously, Kou Ji said that he would mention his merits to Zhao Zhen, but he thanked Kou Ji and Wang Zeng together.

Kou Ji smiled and waved his hand: "Okay, go down and let your people prepare, let them settle the soldiers who followed, and set aside a camp for the soldiers of the forbidden army who stay here." ”

"The lower official will send someone to do it immediately."

Qian Tong agreed, and immediately ordered an adjutant behind him to do what Kou Ji ordered.

Then he himself took Kou Ji and Wang Zeng to inspect the capital of Shangjing.

In the course of the rounds.

Qian Tong intentionally or unintentionally led the topic to Bohai Mansion.

"Kou Xiang, those two guys in Bohai Mansion are not authentic. Relying on the fact that their Bohai Prefecture has the right to reduce or exempt commercial taxes, they were stunned to clean up the taxes of the merchants who rushed to the outside of the customs.

They didn't miss a single tax they could collect.

It's hard to collect taxes from the lower officials. ”

Qian Tong complained quietly.

When Kou Ji heard this, the corners of his mouth twitched.

Su Xun and Bao Zheng's hearts are really black, and they actually collected all the taxes they could collect.

Aren't they afraid that the prefects here will unite and kill the two of them?

Without waiting for Kou Ji to speak again, Qian Tong said again: "More importantly, they have allocated a large area for merchants in Bohai Mansion to store their goods.

So much so that the merchants regarded Bohai Mansion as a place to take root, and Linheng Mansion as a post station.

Don't look at the many merchants in Linheng Mansion, almost all of them came from Bohai Mansion.

Not only do they have to collect taxes from the merchants now, but they will continue to collect them for a long time to come.

Don't give the official a way to live at all. ”

After listening to Qian Tong's words, Wang Zeng said to Kou Ji without being salty: "If you let your two students continue to do this, they will become the target of public criticism here in the future." ”

When Qian Tong heard this, he nodded vigorously to the side.

Kou Ji smiled indifferently: "By next year, Bohai Mansion's tax revenue will return to the same as before." ”

When Qian Tong heard this, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Wang Zeng didn't say anything more.

After dark.

Qian Tong set up a table of wine and food to entertain Kou Ji and Wang Zeng.

The food and drinks are not luxurious, but they are delicious.

It can be seen that Qian Tong has put a lot of thought into this matter.

Wang Zeng praised Qian Tong with a very rare opening.

When they had eaten and drunk, they went back to their rooms and went to sleep.

Following.

According to the pre-agreed arrangement, Koji left a forbidden army to sit here, and then left the place with the rest of the soldiers and horses.

Before leaving.

Qian Tong handed over some of the money he had earned from the sale of his house and shop to Kou Ji, and asked Kou Ji to help escort him back to Beijing.

Kou Ji thought that Qian Tong was good, so he sold some of the remaining fabrics they had seized earlier to Qian Tong at a very low price.

The group hit the road again.

The farther west you go, the more prosperous the prefectures, states, and counties you see.

One of the most prosperous is Bohai Province.

Su Xun and Bao Zheng, taking advantage of the coastal advantages of Bohai Mansion, have developed everything that can be developed commercially.

Not only did they take advantage of the tax revenue, but they also attracted many businessmen.

Several wharves were also built along the seashore for merchant ships to berth.

It also looted a number of boats and craftsmen, built a number of shipyards, and developed a fishing industry.

Su Xun and Bao Zheng made Bohai Mansion too good and took advantage of it, and some people naturally became jealous.

As a result, after Kou Ji and Wang Zeng and his entourage crossed the Gubei Pass, they did not see any scenes of greeting each other.

On the contrary, someone secretly sent someone to send a 'report letter' to Kou Ji and Wang Zeng.

The letter mentioned that Su Xun relied on his being the prefect of Bohai Mansion and the power of tax reduction and exemption in his hands to open the door to his old Taishan Cheng family.

The Cheng family used to be just a moderately wealthy businessman in Meishan.

Now after moving to Bohai Province, he has become a wealthy businessman.

In addition to a fleet of five large ships, it also has five shops covering a large area in Bohai Province.

Now the Cheng family is involved in many businesses, and it is not an exaggeration to describe it as making money every day.

After reading the 'report letter', Wang Zeng handed the letter to Kou Ji and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Kou Ji said disapprerovitically: "I don't have any opinions, it's mediocre not to be envied." ”

Wang Zeng hesitated for a moment and said in a low voice: "Cheng family ......"

Kou Ji glanced at Wang Zeng and said, "When Su Xun first served as the prefect of Bohai Mansion, it was still when the year was approaching winter. I didn't leave him much food at the time.

In order to feed those captives in Bohai Province, he tried his best.

The head of the Cheng family did not move to Bohai Mansion willingly, but was deceived by Su Xun to Bohai Mansion.

The five houses of the Cheng family, as well as several big boats, were all forced to the Cheng family by Su Xun.

Su Xun took this opportunity to take out a large amount of money and food from the Cheng family,

fed the captives and the people who subsequently migrated.

They only saw that the Cheng family was up now, but they didn't see that Su Xun almost tossed the Cheng family's property clean at the beginning. ”