The man then added that the textile workshops, dyeing workshops, and silk houses he wanted to donate could earn no less than 50,000 yuan a year, and the annual rent collected from 500 hectares of fertile land was also a huge amount.

After the previous village sage finished speaking, without waiting for the officials of the various ministries to speak, another person immediately stood up and said that he would also donate, and he directly donated 5,000 taels of grain, 300 taels of gold, and 10,000 taels of silver!

As soon as the words fell, before he could start his explanation and statement, someone rushed forward and said that he would donate 10,000 taels of grain and 100,000 copper coins to the imperial court!

Before he finished speaking, someone else came out to ask for donations.

The number of donations demanded by the village sages became bigger and bigger, and it was difficult for the officials of various ministries to distinguish the truth from the false, and they did not know whether they could really donate so much, or brag in front of everyone and fight for face.

Seeing that everyone was fighting, the household officials looked at the prime minister Chen Kangbo, and asked him for advice, seeing Chen Kangbo nodded slightly, the household officials immediately stopped everyone, and then said, all the township sages have a sincere heart, and the court sees it, but the number of vacant official positions in Yingzhou is limited, and it is impossible for everyone to get official positions, but in order to live up to the enthusiasm of the township sages to participate in local governance, in addition to the official positions, three founding barons will be awarded, and the court will award official positions and titles according to the contribution of the township sages to the imperial court and personal virtue!

As soon as these words came out, the hearts of the sages of Yingzhou Township were like mirrors, and this was to donate financial resources!

The title of the Great Song Dynasty is a lifelong system, except for the royal family and a very small number of founding heroes, can not be hereditary, although there is no practical use, the symbol of status is indeed a symbol of status, under normal circumstances, it can only be a servant officer or above, that is, an official above the waiting system can be knighted, such as six books, six squires, Hanlin bachelors, and medium.

Nowadays, it is a good thing that has not been done in a hundred years to get a knighthood by donating, and it is even rarer and rarer than awarding specific official positions.

But for ordinary village sages, the specific official position is more affordable than the title, and the actual benefits can be obtained.

The sages of Yingzhou Township soon launched a fierce struggle for financial resources in front of Chen Kangbo and the officials of the Ministry of Officials, Household Department, and Ministry of Rites, and in the selection cabinet!

After fierce competition, the six vacant state and county official positions in Yingzhou were basically confirmed, and the titles of the three founding barons were also roughly determined.

The Zhaoxian Hall immediately made a promise, and after the donation promised by the townspeople was handed over, the imperial court officially awarded the official position and title, and if the donation was not made truthfully within three months, the official position and title would not be awarded.

In order to appease the other villagers who had gained nothing, Chen Kangbo, on behalf of the imperial court, promised them that if they consistently performed well in the local area, the imperial court would give them special attention from other aspects, hoping that they would continue to work hard and continue to play their role in local stability and prosperity!

The selection of Yingzhou is over, and the sages of Suzhou Township enter the selection cabinet for the next round of competition for official positions and titles.

The imperial court uses money, the time is urgent, and the selection pavilion in the Zhaoxian Pavilion does not dare to slack off, and the six state mansions are selected in one day, during which there is no time to rest except for drinking water and convenience.

In less than a month, all the state capitals that recommended themselves were selected.

A rough calculation of the Zhaoxian Pavilion is that if the donations promised by the villagers are delivered truthfully, the income of the household department will be a huge number, and with this money, as long as the imperial court does not spend money lavishly, it is enough to last for two years!

The Zhaoxian Pavilion presented the results to the emperor, and after Zhao Yan saw it, his heart was light.

With this money, Bianjing can last for a few more years, and after surviving the three years of tax exemption, the people live in peace, and the people are rich, the treasury will gradually be rich, and then the Northern Expedition will be carried out, and the sixteen states of Guanzhong, Hedong, Yanyun, and even the land of Western Xia will be recovered, and the world will be dominated!

After the Zhaoxian Pavilion sold vacant official positions and titles in various places, it immediately began to formulate evaluation measures for the official positions that were sold, and supervised the words and deeds of the officials who bought the official positions in the local area, so as to prevent them from doing too many things, hurting the people's hearts, and undermining stability.

Just half a month after the official titles and titles were officially awarded, the new evaluation system for local officials was quickly issued to the state capital.

The new appraisal system stipulates that local officials will be evaluated once a year at the end of the year, and they will be divided into four grades: "excellent", "good", "medium", and "poor"; those who are evaluated as "excellent" may be considered for promotion, and those who are evaluated as "good or medium" will be retained and will continue to remain in office, and those who are evaluated as "poor" will be directly dismissed from office on the spot and will be selected at home.

This new official evaluation system has been revised from the original system, and its purpose is to screen out unqualified officials as soon as possible, including those who buy officials through donations, and of course, more importantly, the reasonable method is to eliminate as soon as possible the unqualified officials who were once officials of the Jin State north of the Huai River, and use the new officials to implement the policies of the imperial court to the localities, so as to completely unify the lost territory recovered in recent years.

The government affairs of the DPRK and China were gradually carried out in an orderly manner, and the influence of Bianjing on the northern state capital also spread rapidly, and the people in the north gradually felt the fact that the Great Song Dynasty returned to the north.

Everything is slowly moving in a good direction, but except for the army.

The Song-Jin peace agreement, coupled with the division of the north and the south, made the Great Song army lose the opportunity to continue to advance north, with the relocation of the capital to Bianjing, the elite troops of the Daimyo Mansion had to go south to defend Bianjing, so that the Daimyo's troops were insufficient, so they could only hold it.

Sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat.

The Great Song army no longer attacked, and the Jin army stationed in Zhending Mansion began to encroach southward, and in half a year, it encroached on the land of the three counties, and the Song army of the Daimyofu was afraid that the Jin army would lure and sneak attack, so they did not dare to move lightly, nor did they dare to divide their troops to garrison the small counties in the north, so they could only watch the land originally controlled by the Great Song Dynasty return to the hands of the Jin people.

Yang Congyi, as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, presided over the specific affairs of the Privy Council, seeing that the land was encroached upon by the Jin people, he was also powerless, and had just moved the capital, and the Bianjing court was too poor to support any war of more than 50,000 people, so he could only order the Daimyo Mansion to control Su Zhong to garrison key states and counties, in case the northern Jin people suddenly broke through the defense line of the Daimyo's Mansion and attacked Bianjing in the south.

Even if the enemy does not reach Bianjing, even if it only reaches the edge of the Yellow River, the people and officials of Bianjing will choose to flee, as long as they escape, they will not come back within ten years, and Bianjing will not want to prosper again. Bianjing is not prosperous, and it is even more impossible to capture Yanjing if you want to go on another northern expedition.

Yang Congyi is now in Bianjing, and he is the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, and there are no special circumstances, and there will be no chance of leaving Bianjing at all, because hundreds of thousands of troops in the north have a relationship with him, even if Zhao Yan trusts him again, the old ministers in the court are still suspicious.

I still remember that when Zhao Yan tried his best to override public opinion and wanted Yang Congyi, who was the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, to continue to lead the more than 200,000 troops of the Daimyo Mansion and Jinan Mansion as the commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army, he was opposed by the ministers in the court, and Zhao Yan defended Yang Congyi, saying that he was a great hero of the Northern Expedition and a loyal minister of the Great Song Dynasty, and there was absolutely no problem in controlling the army, and it would definitely not be unfavorable to the imperial court and the Great Song Dynasty.

As a result, some old ministers bluntly said in front of Emperor Zhao Yan, Yang Congyi and civil and military officials that Taizu was also a loyal minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty back then!

As soon as these words came out, not only Zhao Yan was not good at speaking, but no one dared to speak in the civil and military officials.

Yang Congyi, who originally wanted to personally control the army so as to prepare in advance for the future Northern Expedition, heard this and had to immediately resign from his post as privy deputy envoy and commander of the Northern Expeditionary Army.

However, fortunately, Shi Hao, the deacon, stood up in time to stop those courtiers from talking nonsense, and Zhao Yan calmed down after a short period of thought, and sternly refuted the courtiers who spoke disrespectfully, and the court rejected Yang Congyi's resignation.

Then they each took a step back, and only let Yang Congyi serve as the commander of the defense line of the Daimyo's Mansion as the deputy envoy of the Privy Council, deploy the army, and embankment the Jin army of Zhending Mansion.

After this incident, Yang Congyi became more and more cautious in the DPRK and China, except for matters related to defense and military affairs, all issues in the DPRK and China, he did not express any opinions, and if Zhao Yan asked questions, it was really difficult to refuse, so he would say a few more words.

Although he has a Jinshi background, but after all, he came from martial arts, and has been leading the army all these years, and he has already been branded with a deep military general, in the eyes of the courtiers, he is not a Jinshi, not a literati, or a military general, and if he is a military general, he will rebel, and the possibility of being a rebel minister should be stared at and firmly restrained.

There are not many people in the entire Privy Council who are from the military, and most of them are literati, so Yang Congyi was actually very lonely in Bianjing for most of the year, and he had no friends, let alone friends.

If he had to choose, he would prefer to return to the Daimyo's Mansion and return to the front line to lead the army.

However, he also understood that if he wanted to launch the Northern Expedition again, recover the northern lands, and seize Yanjing, he must stay in Bianjing and stay in the Privy Council, after all, in the Privy Council he had the opportunity to mobilize all the troops of the Great Song Dynasty, command the entire army of the Great Song Dynasty, and win this Northern Expedition War!

To win a war that requires the strength of the whole country, it is far from enough to have a commander in chief of the border army, because although the commander in chief of the border army is the commander-in-chief, he does not have the opportunity and power to participate in the grand strategy, and in order to win this war, he must have the ability to plan the overall situation, formulate strategies, and supervise the implementation of the power.

Therefore, he must stay in Bianjing and accept the supervision and restraint of Wenchen.

If you want to gain something, you have to lose something, and Yang Congyi naturally understands this truth.

As long as you can launch the Northern Expedition and win the Northern Expedition, what is the momentary frustration!

After the release of the government, Yang Congyi left the Privy Council office directly and returned to the mansion given to him by the emperor.

"Husband, seeing that you are so happy, is it a happy event?" Meng Yunniang personally helped Yang Congyi take off his robe.

"Day by day, how can there be so many happy events, but there are many difficult things." Yang Congyi said as he sat down on the wide chair, leaning back on the back of the chair a little tiredly.

Meng Yunniang put down her robe, returned to Yang Congyi's side, raised her hand to rub his shoulders and massage, and said, "I have a good thing here, do you want to listen to it?" ”

"Did your father agree to come to Bianjing?" Yang Congyi closed his eyes and asked casually.

"What's the matter, he said that Bianjing is too dry, and it is cold in winter, but he still likes to be in Jiangnan." Meng Yunniang was slightly lost.

"What's the good thing about that."

"Sister Chongjie has come to Bianjing."