Diao's travel is casual and hidden, but it also causes a lot of inconvenience, because there is no political dignitaries around to cooperate, if you want to achieve your goal, you have to afford the edict arrangement, stay overnight, without the strategist by his side, he can only use the oil lamp, his own pen drafting. The muddy muddy mud house of Ula exudes a vigorous atmosphere in the spring, which not only has a simple muddy smell, but also is accompanied by the restlessness of insects and ants. The first edict was Shi Wenqing, and Diao asked him to bring the number of the local treasury to cooperate with him; The second edictor, Guo Jia, was a personal staff officer who was familiar with the operation of the political system, could prepare royal orders, and knew where to send them in accordance with the procedures of the Eastern Xia court...... It is okay for the king to go out for a short time, but he needs to be able to transmit the newspapers from all over the court to him through a certain channel, and he also needs a liaison officer to communicate with the central cabinet ministers so that he can receive the case at any time.

It was almost dawn before he shook his sore wrist, dried the last paperwork, rolled up the stinky bedding, and fell asleep.

However, the landlords who borrowed the house for him were surprised.

I saw that the young man at the head of the lamp kept on until midnight, and there were still several of the men who were arranged to live in the house, and they guarded the door for him outside the station, and from time to time someone would lead the horse out of the house, and he would not see him all night, and the noise made people uneasy and really made people dare not say more; And when it was almost dawn, someone came to ask for food for him, and when he finished eating, he lay down in his own house and went to sleep like an uncle, and his subordinates had to replace the people who guarded the door at night to continue to guard the door for him.

The landlord didn't dare to say anything.

He told the arrow chief these words in his heart, but the arrow chief actually didn't see anyone, only judged that this might be a big official in the court, as for how big, naturally it is not clear.

It was almost noon, and Dia Bird got up.

He led the horse out to carry out activities and activities, and after lunch, he first ran to the countryside to have a look, then ran to the fields to see, and went to the door in the evening, and finished an arrow, either asking how many people there were, or asking people about their harvest, not asking about people's harvest, or asking what problems they had in their lives, and even a few widows did not let go, asking them why they had not remarried, and whether there were any men around who had not married. The arrow commander claimed to have fought with the king, and he really followed, he was injured, his leg was a little lame, he didn't see him yesterday, and he immediately felt a little more uneasy after seeing him today, and when he got home, he asked his nephew to at least go to the countryside to find Ma Cheng.

Ma Cheng touched it in the dark, and when he heard what the arrow chief said, he didn't know the bottom in his heart, and he suspected that it was the king, but he didn't dare to look at it in person, so he said: "Say it's the king, it's unlikely, say no, ask this, isn't it a spy from somewhere else?" But listen to what you asked, it's not like a spy, I think it's okay, you don't see anything when you don't see anything, don't do anything out of the ordinary recently. After saying that, he slipped away again overnight.

Dia Bird stayed here for two or three days, and then went to the county again.

When he inquired in the county, he learned that the county official was Wang Ming, the brother of Liang Dazhuang's daughter-in-law, who studied under the Huashan School and later came to vote. Although he didn't know how the assessment was, he had a good impression of this person, so he stayed at the county post station and asked people to invite him.

When he was young, Wang Ming came to see him.

As soon as he saw Dia Bird, he was simply stunned, and he was incoherent for a while.

Diao repeatedly asked him to reflect on the local situation, and asked him if there were any problems with the treasury and whether the number reported each time was true, so he became more confident and began to talk to Diao.

He reflected on several local problems, consistent with Dia's observations.

First of all, there is no problem with the treasury of their county, but most families can't eat up the grain, the coarse and fine grains are sold together, the county collects them, but the money is not enough, Dongxia has just minted coins for two years, the money is not enough, and when it comes to the grain harvesting season, there is not so much money, there are not so many warehouses, and finally they have to urgently build a warehouse, collect a grain and build a warehouse, because the money is not enough, they can only wait until the superior transfers the silver taels and coins to continue to collect, so they have to stop collecting and stopping, buying and buying and collecting; This problem was spread out in front of Dia Bird, and Dia Bird knew that the country's business was not perfect, and at least encountered several problems, first, the country was still in a shortage of money; Second, it is precisely because of the shortage of money that the state collects surplus grain for storage, or sells it to the steppe tribes after it is coordinated, but because the money cannot be paid, it not only slows down the purchase, but also causes difficulties in circulation; Third, it seems that the grain merchants of Eastern Xia have not yet generally stored zài, as for whether they should be allowed to save zài, there is still controversy, the source of the controversy is that the imperial court believes that grain is also a strategic material, should be purchased by the state, Jingkang's city from time to time grain rises, because these merchants hoard too much grain, so far there is no result.

secondly, there are not enough ploughing cattle, not enough farming tools, not enough iron tools, and the men cannot be liberated; Again, the construction of farmland water conservancy is not enough, although there is a lot of rain in Huangxi and the North Plain, but because there is a lot of wasteland, the people are allocated a large piece of land, and because of the continuous improvement of agriculture, they do not expect to rely on the sky to eat, most of the canals are irrigated or drained, but the supporting water conservancy construction is not enough, so the water resources appear to be lacking, and the people are fighting for it. In the end, the people of Eastern Xia were fierce, and the households with arrows as the unit fought for irrigation water and land, and the local county had no ability to stop it, so they could only turn to the military government for help, and the military government and the local Ma Cheng were inextricably long and inextricably linked, and often a bowl of water was uneven.

Dia Bird asked the people around him to record the problems one by one, and then asked Wang Ming if there was a solution.

Wang Ming was also at a loss, but said: "There is too much wasteland, and when the land is divided, it is divided according to people, and there are people from the government to supervise the cultivation, and there are agricultural teachings in Taixue, and lectures are given everywhere, and the country is not short of grain now, but there is too much grain, and the surplus is too much, so I am afraid that it will become less and less valuable." ”

In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, the grain of the Dongxia Kingdom was not abundant, but I did not expect that after three or five years, the Dongxia Kingdom was facing food overcrowding, and it was necessary to keep building warehouses.

Diao's bird fell into deep thought.

In the past few years, Ding Zhuang has insufficient military training because of his own heavy labor and paid labor in the imperial court, and once the war is fought, it is more difficult to build water conservancy, and iron tools are even more scarce...... He tried to ask: "If we are going to have a big war in Dongxia now, what problems do you think your county will encounter?" ”

Wang Ming thought for a while and said, "If you start a war, maybe it's a good thing. The internal contradictions became acute, and in the winter of last year, they had to water the ground in winter to ensure the moisture of the coming year, and the two arrows earned water, and each invited people and horses, which almost turned into a fight of thousands of people. It's just that although the weapon fight was stopped, I heard that several generals in the military government were at odds. If the Eastern Xia launched a war, it would be able to transfer the internal contradictions to the outside. ”

Dia Bird was taken aback.

He was worried that the coming of the war would cause many people to die and make Dongxia suffer, but he didn't expect that the magistrate of a county sitting in front of him thought that war could solve internal worries.

This is also a look at the domestic shape shì from another angle.

He needed to think again, so he asked who the local national money bank was in charge of, and asked Wang Ming to send someone to call over and have a meal together.

For dinner, first, I want to maintain a good personal relationship with Wang Ming, and second, I need to listen to what the people in Qianzhuang think and whether they can help Wang Ming solve the problem of money shortage.

Wang Ming is a traditional literati, but he is worried about the warehouse and storage, but Dia Niao is not, he is a businessman, he knows the danger of money shortage, and needs to let the money village take care of Wang Ming on this issue.

Qian Zhuang is a dry middle-aged man in his forties, and at first glance he tends to the image of the account room, and when he sees people, Dia Niao can't help but be a little disappointed.

He asked.

Sure enough, he was hired from a private bank, and his specialty was to make the accounts of money and money in order, and he knew little about the state affairs of the money trade.

Dia Niao did not disclose his identity, but he looked at the county respectfully, and took care of it the same, and asked about the situation of the bank, and opened his mouth to know how much money he received, how much he lent, how much interest he lent, and how much balance he had at the end of the year. Originally, they were both serving the country, and Dia Bird originally thought that the two could solve some practical problems together, but now he always felt that something was missing in the middle.

He thought about it for a long time, and then said, "Isn't it cost-effective for the people to deposit all their money with you, but not much to lend out?" I heard from County Magistrate Wang that when they collected grain, they didn't have enough money, and when they went to sell grain with the state, they got livestock and leather goods in exchange, and the turnover was slow, so you can lend him the remaining money? Or do you sign a bond together, secured by your bank? ”

The middle-aged man was stunned for a moment, grabbed the goat's beard for a long time, and said euphemistically: "This government borrowed money for me to guarantee, and I borrowed money to buy cattle and seeds, so I have to be guaranteed by the government?" If the government borrows money, who can guarantee it? There hasn't been one in the industry, unless you can get the upper hand to talk. ”

Dia Bird sighed.

He understood what the problem was, the two systems, and they didn't work together at all.

He stayed in the county for two days, Guo Jia and Shi Wenqing rushed over with their subordinates, but in view of the immediate problem, he needed black and bright, so people like Sima Wei asked Guo Jia to draft again, and then summoned individuals to bring their subordinates; Originally, he thought that it would be enough to summon this one more, but Shi Wenqing was reluctant and said: "The king took a cadre of literati and only brought a dozen or so guards to walk around the country, the danger is too great, and another general should be summoned." ”

Half a month later, when I arrived at Guangwucang, the team had exceeded two thousand, and the guards brought by Lu Chuan were in their early thousands, and travel had become an open secret.

At this time, there was a sudden big event, and in Wang Ming's county, where Dia Niao had stayed, a few arrows fought for water, one arrow was a fierce man to graze and drink cattle and sheep, one arrow was mostly Yongren, to farm, one arrow was more than the party man, anyway, they also wanted water, they invited their clan branch friends, to fight for the water, and more than 40 people were killed and wounded.

Dia Bird was furious, summoned the people who came to the general pavilion and a few military generals involved in it, and announced: "Don't say that this fight has nothing to do with you for a day, there is no one behind you, I don't believe that they dare to openly violate the laws of Great Xia, and the scale of the fight is so large. Lone asks you to find out to the end, how many people involved in the case are punished, and they should be killed, and Lone wants all Dongxia people to firmly remember that the internal struggle is shameful, and the national war is glorious. ”