Yingju is the southeasternmost salient of Gyeonggi Road, with Boju to the north, Shouju to the east, and Gwangju to the south, all of which are already under the control of the Yangsan army. It can be said that there are three enemies, and geographically it is like a natural danger to rely on, and the land is a dead land.

What's even worse is that there are many regional rivers such as the Yinghe River passing through there, and water transportation is quite convenient. However, this is a local geographical advantage in peacetime, and when it comes to war years, this is the old birthday star drinking arsenic, lest he die quickly enough.

The north of Yingzhou is Chenzhou, and the famous old Baoxia Chenzhou in the later Yu drama is there. And to the north of Chenzhou is Tokyo.

It can be said that Gyeonggi Province is in danger; Yingzhou is in danger, and its fate hangs by a thread.

Cai Jing sent Zhao Ding here, obviously asking him to die.

It's just that Zhao Ding is not afraid, Yingzhou is not a rich land, relying on a few rivers to cross the border, and they are all flat land, the production is okay, and the population is quite large. Even the recent days are better than before, and the reason is simple, Yingzhou is surrounded by the Liangshan army on three sides, which is both a disadvantage and an advantage. As we all know, under Lu Qian's rule, there were quite a lot of artifacts for the benefit of the people, such as salt and sugar, such as ironware, and leather goods whose prices have dropped sharply recently. Whether it is smuggling or smuggling, there are many people who pass through Yingzhou, and relying on the salt road and trade route, the whole state is also active.

In the end, it is just a military state, and many of the top families have fled, and the remaining gentry are still worthy of being the number one person in the local area, but they are as small as shrimp in front of the Liangshan army. is also mostly obedient people, self-aware, and an order came from the other side, but Nai is more effective than the local government. Especially after they rely on the profit sharing of wealth and goods, they are even more obedient, how dare they have the slightest disobedience?

After Zhang Wei became the deputy guard of Xijing, he was actually the person in power, and Zhao Shu, the king of Su, was a wooden clay sculpture. His first order was to deliver the salt bills. The so-called salt banknotes are the salt transportation and marketing license certificates issued by the Zhao and Song government to salt merchants. Merchants buy salt for sale with salt banknotes, which are divided into long and short leads. Long pin outer road, short pin main road. Strict approval procedures and cancellation periods, with a long introduction of 1 year and a short introduction of 1 quarter. Limited quantities and prices for distribution.

However, with the fall of Hedong, Huainan and Hebei, the Great Song Dynasty lost its salt-producing land. In Jinghu and Kansai, salt prices skyrocketed.

But they also knew that Qilu salt was cheap, and there was a lot of illegal salt trafficking in the country, but they only turned a blind eye. Otherwise, there will be a shortage of salt in the place, and the trouble will be even greater.

But private salt is private salt, and it cannot be sold blatantly.

Zhang Wei is now triggering the salt banknote is to put the secret salt in the dark on the surface, and the price is not much, only one Gyeonggi Road, the local powerful gentry contributed 320,000 yuan to the Xijing Left-behind Division in a very short period of time.

It can be seen that the oil and water of this Gyeonggi Road are still very sufficient.

Zhang Wei got off to a good start. It's beautiful!

But immediately after that, there was a bad news, but it was the emperor's order that the tax in the summer and autumn of this year would be raised by two percent, and it would be difficult to increase the salary.

Yingzhou is naturally among them, and it can be said that Zhao Ding has just succeeded to the throne and encountered such a problem. All the way to the front, the face was very gloomy. The imperial court wants to move south to Jiangling, and it has to increase the level of difficult wages, and it is ruthless, and it is not necessary to regard the people of the Central Plains as the subjects of the imperial court.

It's like the corrupt official who wants to go through the office, and he ruthlessly loots it.

Wuzi does not regard the people as people, and he has not forgotten an old saying: the king regards the minister as a mustard, and the minister regards the king as an enemy. Instead, the king regards the people as grass mustard, and the people regard the king as an enemy.

When the decree of the imperial court reached Yingzhou, the scribes and servants of the official offices everywhere were in their hearts. This kind of scolded dispatch is just a matter of weekdays, and it is not uncommon for a few lives to be paid during the summer tax and autumn tax. But at the moment, who dares to force people to ask for their lives?

Aren't you afraid of being on the blacklist of the Liangshan Army?

Within two days, the exact instructions of Liang Shanjun came from the opposite side, and the big and small people breathed a sigh of relief. Xu wanted to suffer from the Zhao official family, but he could sell it to Liang Shanjun. The former is only for now, but the latter is for the long term. To endure a moment of suffering, in exchange for future happiness, this is a trade done. What's more, if you squeeze the bones and marrow of the land, and offend people as death, and cause people to die, how can it be that only the people suffer? Now I have been instructed and I am relieved.

Then, Yingzhou has the right to welcome the arrival of the trust Zhizhou, and no one expects this new Zhizhou to do anything, the general trend has been achieved and it is irreversible. This Zhao Xianggong is not an immortal, so he can be as he wishes.

As early as before Zhao Ding arrived in Yingzhou, his background was also known by the people of Yingzhou. He lost his father at a young age and was raised by his mother, and was famous for his intelligence and conduct in the countryside at a young age. Chongning ascended to the Jinshi in five years, when he was twenty years old. Tired official Henan Luoyang order. When the imperial court moved westward, he was secretly promoted by Ming Sheng to supervise the imperial history, and he had to give Wu Min appreciation to the middle of the matter, the Quanzhi Academy and the attendant, and he was friendly with the current deputy of Xijing, Zhang Yu.

After seeing Zhao Ding's history, the old officials in Yingzhou knew that this kind of person was not easy to deal with.

The background is deep, and it is hard in itself, which is the most headache.

Although the situation in Yingzhou is already in danger, as long as the banner of the Great Song Dynasty floats on the head of the city for a day, they are not Zhao Ding's opponents when they are tied together. Not to mention that this man also brought an army with him when he went south. Even if there are only three or four hundred people, they are especially called Alexander from the yamen.

Although the officials of the Song Dynasty were stronger than the corrupt Confucians in the Ming and Qing dynasties, the affairs in the yamen were always handled by petty officials and errands. Who saw the cousin meddling in the affairs? The officials will not interfere either. Especially the new person, who is not familiar with the place of life and does not understand the situation, still needs to look at one or two, and speaks indiscriminately, delaying the 'right thing', and the mistake is not only to slap the butt of the little official, but also to eat the head of the row.

As a result, as soon as this new Zhizhou came, everyone was frightened, this prime minister was not very old, and his face was even younger, and he seemed to be less than thirty years old. The figure is not burly, and a literati elegance comes to his face, but he never leaves his sword all day long.

That's not a fake thing made by a literati doctor, it's a sword that can really cut people, and some people have seen this prime minister practicing boxing and swords in the inner house. In addition to the other one, this prime minister brought two staff members with him, and several elders and subordinates. The staff knew at a glance that he was a middle and old man, and he thought about it, after all, this person who had done the Luoyang Order, and he had been in the office for more than ten years, how could he not know that he was tired of the handover? The attendant servants are all martial arts practitioners, with big shoulders and round waists. There was a comparison in the small school field, and the martial arts were all good. There is no one in the team who can compare.

“…… You may not know, we are too guarded by Xijing Zhang, and I don't know how many favors and connections we have accumulated in Luoyang City......"

"It's just that our lives are good, and life is difficult." Although Zhao Ding has not yet handed over all things, the stubbornness of his personality has been revealed. And he is an old official, and he is proficient in the pickles inside, and he will check the accounts as soon as he comes, which is very extinct.

"You say, if this Zhao Xianggong wants to settle the difficult salary, how can he live? I heard that many people in Chenzhou made a windfall. ”

"Joke, who dares not to listen to the grandfather in the east, if you have to make money, you are not afraid of spending it? You've got to think about it. ”

Several officials in front of the door were happy to talk about it, and at this time a subordinate dressed as a person was walking towards the inside, glancing at it at random, and several people hurriedly silenced it, this Sun Xianggong has been in office in Yingzhou for less than ten days, but everyone is afraid, and everyone is very careful.

Covering Mo Gongsheng is bright and honest, and this is not the case. Although Zhao Ding has not yet done things, looking at his style and bearing, people dare not underestimate him.

In the inner hall, Zhao Ding sat there, a staff member was flipping through the account books on the side, and on the right side stood the wardens of the household and the barracks, with a bitter face. The reason is simple, this Zhao Xianggong is really a shrewd person, not to mention that the staff around him is more refined than a monkey when he is stained, and it is very difficult to fool.

I am familiar with this set of joints in the yamen, and I can't hide it.

In just a few days, the wardens of the workshop were found to be greedy for money and food, and they were found to be on the board, dismissed from their posts, and sent to prison in chains, and now they are still in prison to recuperate, which is really miserable.

"It's a loss to the official popular case, otherwise I really have to suffer a big loss, the stone bucket written on the account, I didn't know that Yingzhou also had a warden who dared to change the measuring tool, it was really bold. The real number can be two percent worse than that! If they are not practical, they are really deceived by thieves. Zhao Ding said indifferently. The two wardens below and the small officials in the barracks and households were all laughing awkwardly, but the laughter looked similar to crying.

The big bucket goes in and the small bucket goes out, and the landlord will be the old money. How will they not use?

What's more, the rise of the Liangshan Army, the program is often abandoned, the local people are panicked, the constraints are much worse, and there are not too many opportunities to get up and down. As long as there is still in the storeroom.

Zhao Ding glanced at it and said in an indifferent tone: "You don't have to be afraid." The soldiers in the city can get more than half of the money and food, and the generations have a conscience, and there are also six or seven percent of the ten grams deducted outside. "They are all veterans of accounting, and some methods can't hide from the staff, and they can't hide from Zhao Ding.

Yingzhou relies on bandits, so it naturally needs to recruit soldiers to fight thieves. And the population is large, with a little care, three or five thousand people dare not say, but three or two thousand people do. But there is no equipment, and there is no effective officer training, and it is said that it has been more than a year since he became an army, but it looks like it is not as good as those brought by Zhao Ding. The latter is Zhao Ding's soldiers and horses from Zhang Wei, which are also newly recruited, and they are only in March and May, just because they have capable people to train them, they are already decent.

There really can't be anything to hide, and everyone is terrified and doesn't know what to say.

When it comes to military salaries, money and food, don't think they can swallow it in a big gulp, the big head is the former prime minister who has left. When people eat meat, they just drink some soup.

Xu is Zhao Ding also knew, so he easily let them go.

Then he changed the subject, said a few idle words, and waved his hand. His eyes were looking to the east, but the officials of the military department and the household department hurriedly retreated.

Without outsiders, the staff would talk a lot more casually. He said, "Xianggong is going to the east for a walk?" ”

"If you don't see it with your own eyes, you will eventually be distorted."

The staff looked at the resolute look on Zhao Ding's face and wanted to dissuade him, but he finally kept his mouth shut. He has always known the character of this prime minister, and he has already decided on something, and he must not change it.

His own persuasion can only start from safety, but he is not concerned by Zhao Ding.

Soon, there was a sudden news in Yingzhou, and the governor of the state wanted to go down to the county and walk away. Although the countryside outside the city is the world of the gentry and the powerful in today's Yingzhou, these people are more respectful of the orders of the east. But you can't stop it, right?

As the governor of a state, it is natural for Zhao Ding to go out of the city to inspect the people's situation and supervise the agricultural mulberry.

This is this 'micro-service private interview', which is a real deal. From the officials to the gentry below, who is not scolded when they hear it, it is not good to be an honest official, and they have to learn the things that are out of tune, and they cause trouble to others.