In February, the imperial court's official newspaper published a message saying: "Quan Zhi Kaifeng Mansion Qian Xian, Quan Fa sent Kaifeng Prefecture Governor Bi Zhongyou to decide that a patient died, and he was fined." ”

The meaning of this news is that there is a prisoner in the prison city of Kaifeng Mansion who is sick, and Qian Xian, as the chief official, does not want to cure the prisoner's illness, so he actually intensifies the interrogation, so that the prisoner dies due to the delay in diagnosis and treatment, and as a result, the imperial court fined Qian Xian, and there is a record in the personnel file.

From this news, Zhao Xing learned about the treatment of prisoners in the Song Dynasty, not only did they not carry out forced labor, but once someone pretended to be sick, the local officials also asked the grandfather to sue the grandmother and begged the prisoner to cooperate with the treatment......

"What kind of world is this, the prisoner has actually become the uncle of the official", Zhao Xing was still muttering when he walked into the prison camp.

Zhang Yong was standing on the wall of the cell, frowning at the group of prisoners roaring in the courtyard, and the regimental training of the prison camp surrounded Zhang Yong, with a sneer on his face, quite a bit of a joke attitude. Seeing Zhao Xing on the prison wall, they saluted together, with three points of arrogance and seven points of flattery.

Zhao Xing is a simple person, he glanced at the demeanor of the prison camp and immediately woke up.

It turned out that all the commanders in the Mizhou regimental training were assigned to work, and it can be said that there were no idlers. The income from these regimental exercises has gone up, and in comparison, the prison city camp, which used to have a good income, looks shabby. Although they still enjoy the filial piety of the prisoners, the other regiments have much more extra money to practice fishing than here. All this time, they couldn't speak in front of Zhao Xing, and they didn't even have a chance to complain...... Hence the disturbance this time. The prison camp cooperates but does not cooperate, maybe they are still the ones who instigated it.

What to do?

Repression? The prisoner fell ill and died. Qian Xun has been punished, if there is a big killing here, and Yu Shi is impeached, everyone's black gauze hat will not be saved.

Zhao Xing thought for a while, and said to himself with a gloomy face: "I have never been a persecuted person, and if I am forced to do something, I will not do it...... Who is in charge of the prison camp? Half an hour was given to the prisoners to return to the prison, and only when they were quiet did I sit down and talk about the matter—half an hour, and the problem would not be solved. Then shoot it in two. ”

The regimental training of the prison camp also wanted to demonstrate, and when he saw Zhao Xing's tough attitude, he immediately softened his posture, and within a few minutes. The group of whip-wielding whips rushed into the cell, and after a burst of whips, the prisoners returned to their prisons, and the whole world was quiet.

Zhang Yong also understood the truth at this time, and he looked at Zhao Xing with a blushing face: "What is this, leaving people." How do you pamper them? Today they are like this, we will give way, how do we know that they will not be able to move an inch? ”

Zhao Xing looked at a few guards on the wall who were dodging. He replied without hesitation: "Yes." Originally, there was something to say, but when things got so big, there had to be a scapegoat to come out, and the prison camp had to give us an explanation, and someone had to come up with a guilty verdict. ”

The dungeon guard at the head of the wall shrank his head, and Zhao Xing had already caught a glimpse of a few sneaking backs out of the corner of his eyes, and he deliberately raised his voice to comfort Zhang Yong: "Master Tuanlian." You can rest assured. I have a thousand ways to get them out - I'm a person who is never afraid of threats, who dare to threaten me. Hum. ”

Zhang Yong knew Zhao Xing's reputation in the capital, he nodded with satisfaction, and echoed: "It's too!" There are so many people in Bianliang City, and the hundreds of gangs in Bu Qing have kidnapped women from the clan, and the government is helpless, and it is not in the hands of Liren. What are a few prisoners? ”

Kidnapping a clan woman? Zhao Xingyi frowned, approached Zhang Yong's side, and asked in a low voice: "You are not the county lord of Lezhi!" ”

Zhang Yong's face changed and he replied, "I didn't say anything." ”

Zhao Xing understood.

No wonder when he slashed Bu Qing in the capital, Qian Xian's connivance was great, it turned out that he was using Zhao Xing as a knife messenger at all.

However, in this way, the child in the belly is a problem? This contemporary "Hong Qigong" is not so bold?

No wonder the imperial court is in a hurry to marry Lezhi, which is easy to explain. And Zhan Miao's guy doesn't have X-ray eyes to be able to detect who is pregnant, the truth is: this guy came to the capital early and heard some rumors, so he refused.

It turned out that the fool here was Zhao Xing himself.

Zhao Xing felt stupid, Zhang Yong was shocked by the other party's reasoning ability, he just made a slip of the tongue, and Zhao Xing guessed the truth in a few seconds, which made Zhang Yong feel a little frightened. The companion brought by Zhang Yong was whispering under the wall, probably because the jailer who had secretly run down to the prison wall just now had listened to Zhang Di's dialect and was asking around about Zhao Xing's glorious deeds......

That night, there were cowards in the prison camp who first secretly told Zhao Xing, and Zhao Xing, who was muttering to Zhang Yong, heard it, nodded at Zhang Yong with a gloomy face, and said, "You wait a while, I'll go and talk to them about it." ”

At the gate of the prison camp, Zhao Xing used a military order to open the gatekeepers, and asked in a low voice: "Those people you said are discussing inside?" ”

The informant nodded like a chicken, not daring to say the wrong word.

"Hey, hey, hey", Zhao Xing let out a creepy laugh: "You wait here, I'll talk to them." ”

With that, he opened the camp gate alone and walked in lightly. Two Gurkha soldiers stepped forward to block the camp gates, their eyes fixed on the informers, and they whistled leisurely.

The informant wiped his cold sweat and looked left and right.

Suddenly, a series of terrible screams pierced the night sky of the entire city, and as soon as the informant moved, the Gurkha guards shook their bodies, and the informant hurriedly stood on his feet, wiping cold sweat and never daring to move his feet.

A prison guard ran out dying, stumbling, bruised and swollen, and miserable, and when he saw that the gate was closed and the camp gate was guarded, he rushed to the door with joy and shouted hoarsely: "Help...... Life, brother, help! Hurry up and open the door, please...... Just now, a ...... who looks like a judge No, a vicious beast that looked like a judge broke into the house and tossed us around like a sack...... Brother, open the door. I can't cover it inside......"

The informant continued to wipe his sweat and turn a blind eye; The Gurkha guards continued to whistle and did not listen. The survivor was still trying to call for help, but suddenly, the screams stopped abruptly, and the night sky was so quiet that it made people's hearts furious. A creeping footstep came from behind the survivor, and the man was furious. Suddenly, he understood, rolled his eyes wisely, and spat blood. "Fainted".

The camp gate opened, Zhao Xing walked out softly, and said lightly: "They are asleep." ”

He patted the dust off his hands and wiped the blood from his hands with the fainting body. Let's go.

The next day, a similar incident was repeated. However, the victims this time were the troublemakers, who were not as lucky as the prison guards. The jailers were only knocked unconscious, and a few ribs were broken. However, the prisoners involved in the disturbance all broke the bridge of their noses, leaving obvious marks on their faces.

Reputedly. After a strong man who broke into the camp defeated them, he allowed them to choose for themselves: to break their legs or their hands. Outcome. The last days of these prisoners' sentences. They all spent their hands and feet in plasters......

Since then, the Michigan jailer and the convict have suffered from a common disease, and when they see the tall back, they immediately faint with a conditioned reflex.

Originally, they had suffered such a great grievance that they should confide in the prison army, that is, Zhao Xing, but now who are you asking them to cry to? Instead, he filed a complaint with Zhang. What's the difference between that and telling the prison guard?

There is nowhere to cry. I can't beat it again, and I want the prisoner to make trouble again. Now that the prisoner is sick, he immediately fainted when he heard the name Zhao Xing. What to do?

It turns out that the people in the capital call it "unprovoked", which is not an exaggeration at all!

This title is too subtle! The jailers brought two tears to their eyes when they mentioned it—misleading, this is a serious misdirection, we only know that the judge has always smiled at people, and when he heard the title of "unprovoked", I thought he could speak, so we prepared a gushing speech, just waiting for him to ask, I didn't expect it......

After this incident, who would dare to put forward conditions to Zhao Xing?

Originally, the jailers also wanted to intervene in the sea trade, but now they only begged Zhao Xing not to come to find trouble...... Well, Zhao Xing didn't look for trouble, he violently praised the person who led the troublemaker for his bravery, and everyone was embarrassed.

Of course, such a brave person is really a waste of talent to stay in the rear, Xixia is fighting every day, and the forbidden army in Beijing always wants to transfer the backbone of Mizhou, don't pick it, just him! Then, the Privy Council immediately received Zhao Xing's recommendation, and they were all transferred to the front line to Western Xia with an official document...... Since then, there has been no news of these men, and no one cares whether they exist or not. The rest of the people were afraid that they would be regarded as Bu Qing's second and would be affected by Zhao Xing's anger. Thereupon......

The rest is Zhang Yong's job.

In February, before Su Shi entered the Tribute Academy, he specially wrote an article entitled "Liu Xiang is Better Than Yang Xiong" and quietly sent it to Li. Because Li lived in Ma Mengde's place, Su Shi asked him to take the article to Li's house. Unfortunately, Li happened to go out that day, and the servant put Su Shi's article on the table. Soon, Zhang's two sons, Zhang Zhi and Zhang Yuan, came to visit Li's house, and when they saw the article on the table, they were overjoyed, so they took it for themselves and went back to think about it carefully.

After Li went home, he didn't see Su Shi's article, and he was very sad. During the exam, the test questions were very similar to the articles written by Su Shi. Zhang Zhi and Zhang Yuan imitated Li's tone with a wave. Lee, on the other hand, did not perform well due to depression and fell short of his usual level.

When grading. Su Shi thought that the first place must be Li, and when he finished reviewing the examination papers, he found that the first place was Zhang Yuan, and Zhang Yuan, who had the same writing as Zhang Yuan, was ranked tenth...... Lee ended up in first place. Su Shi regretted this incident.

However, the Song Dynasty had a law: all the sons and daughters of the prime ministers of the court were not allowed to be listed as the head of the imperial examination. Therefore, during the palace examination, Zhang Yuan changed from the first to the fifth, and in this way, Zhang Yuan also passed by the champion. The Zhang family was very angry about this, and entered Zhang Yuan as the "champion" into the family tree to commemorate the ......

At the end of March, the imperial court issued another decree ordering all roads to pass through the strategic division to protect the cultivation - this work is the work of group training.

Under the farming culture, the annual farming is a major event, and the existence of the group training is to protect the peasants from bandits at the beginning of farming, and from robbers at the time of harvesting. This activity is the primary task of the group practice every year, and it kicks off with a dance.

In fact, the snow has not yet melted, but the imperial court can't wait, for fear that this year's farming will be late, resulting in a famine. Local officials are also worried. Looking at the snowy fields, sigh.

The Nu (n) dance, also known as "Da Da" and "Dancing Wu", is commonly known as "ghost show" or "dancing grimace". It originated from the Tuteng belief in the ancient clan society, and the Zhou Dynasty called the Wu dance "Guowu" and incorporated it into the national ritual system. The ritual is to regulate the yin and yang of the four seasons, in order to be suitable for cold and summer, smooth wind and rain, abundant grains, safety of people and animals, and wealth of the country and people's livelihood. During the Han and Tang dynasties, the court ceremony was grand. and spread to Vietnam, the Korean Peninsula and Japan. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, a new system was adopted for court rituals, and the ceremony developed in the direction of entertainment.

In the field, several group practitioners are holding a grimace mask and dancing the ancient Nu dance, which the dancers call "Tuan Jiang". He wore a hideous mask, dressed as the legendary "Fang Xiang", held a ge in one hand and a shield in the other, and shouted "......, " while dancing, running to all corners, jumping and dancing. Search for bad things to ward off plague spirits and pray for a safe year.

After the exorcism ritual is over. The highest local magistrate stepped forward to burn incense and pray. And after offering a cup of wine to heaven and earth, sprinkle it on the hoe and the plow...... Then, everyone was dumbfounded.

Where do you hoe from the snow?

Zhao Xing's identity at this time was the judge of the regimental training, and he and Zhang Yong were patrolling the fields on a tall horse, and a team of horse archers followed them, patrolling left and right. Zhang Yong pointed to Tian. is also worried: "I'm afraid this year is a famine year......"

Zhao Xing looked back at the group training team and replied casually: "Yes." I heard that the Liao State has given relief seven times, and we have also given relief here more than ten times, so if this continues, the farmers should be worried. ”

Zhao Xing's words had that lazy tone, which made Zhang Yong very surprised, he raised his eyes to look at Zhao Xing, and came to his senses: "Yes, we don't have to worry too much." There are not many people left in Mizhou's group training to farm the land, and the income from Haimao is enough to support themselves, but as for the farmers, I am still worried that if the farmers are hungry and the Mizhou bandits are everywhere, I am afraid that my group training will be uncomfortable. ”

Zhao Xing shook his horsewhip, pointed to the team behind him, and said, "Look behind you, do you still need to worry?" ”

The Mizhou regimental exercise is now underway.

Since the Chinese New Year's Eve banquet, the Mizhou regiment practiced beating the big drum to play "Yellow Emperor Yan", and the drum sound spread to the capital in the blink of an eye. Subsequently, the troupe of the performance was recruited into the forbidden army and incorporated into the front division of the Beijing Palace, which played for the emperor. Zhang Yong was rewarded by the imperial court for training this group of people. A year later, the center of gravity of the defense of Jingdong Road in the imperial court gradually tilted towards the naval army, and Zhang used the weaving of seven newly obtained commanders here, so that the number of troops under his command reached fifteen commanders.

Since February and March, the imperial court has gradually mobilized military forces to Mizhou, allocated a lot of troops from the Xiang army, and gradually returned to Zhangyong here. The wealthy Mizhou regiment selected 500 people from among them, and formed a commander of the cavalry army, and six commanders of the infantry archers. All of them are elite soldiers.

As for the others, Zhao Xing has been diverted according to their strengths, and now this group of well-paid soldiers, with the furniture that the box army can't think of, is looking for an opportunity to vent with great ambition.

According to the imperial court, Zhang Yong's task is to train ten commanders at the end of the year, and if he can complete this work, the ten commanders who have been trained will be transferred to the forbidden army, and the imperial court will increase the total number of troops under his command to 20 commanders next year, and the naval army will always be under his command to conduct naval combat training.

Since this group of recruits would have to be returned to the imperial court sooner or later, neither Zhao Xing nor Zhang Yong intended to let them know about the private work done by the old group trainees, but on the other hand, the families of those group trainees were assigned to workshops and served as laborers. This has increased their family income quite a bit.

The cavalry blew across the field like the wind, and when the local officials finished the play, Zhao Xing and they also called it a day and returned to the camp.

When Zhao Xing finished his work in the county, he began to call the agricultural personnel under the group to start farming on his own. On this day, he was standing on a strange plough and was explaining the control of the new plough to the farm leaders of the regimental trainers.

"People say: ten acres of land and a cow, wife and children hot kang. This shows that ten acres of land is enough to raise a cow, and it can also make a small life very moist. Today I will tell you about this horse and this horse-drawn plow.

Don't laugh, this strange-shaped thing is a horse-drawn plow, do you see it, its plow head is three discs placed obliquely, this is called a disc plow, it is a distant western country. In a country called Germany, the farmer's favorite horse-drawn plough was used. Lo and behold, it's like a tricycle, where a person stands on a stand behind him, and the weight of his body presses three discs into the earth, and then he holds the plow with one hand and whips with the other, and so on and so forth.

Last year, I asked you to raise horses, and you said you couldn't afford them. Because horses have to eat grass, if they want not to lose fat, they have to eat grass for six or seven hours a day, how can there be so much grass in Michigan? I tell you. This horse is not a grazing animal. It is stocked on the grassland, and it is born to grow and need to eat grass. If you want it to work, you need to eat millet – the best barley millet.

People say. I will tell you an account to-day: horses are twenty times as fast as oxen, and this plow has three plowshares. It can plow three times out of the furrow at a time. With this horse and this plow, it can be sixty times more effective than an ox in plowing...... Moreover, more than sixty times, the old-fashioned plough breaks through the frozen soil by means of a plowshare, which is a disc that rolls on the frozen soil, which is light and fast.

Plough with cattle. How many acres of land can be cultivated in a day? …… Someone just said it. The ox is good, the plow is good, and the man is more diligent. It can work three or five acres a day, and one person can take care of ten acres of land, so that it can be sown in time for the season, and it can also ensure harvesting. So how much can you do with this horse and this plow? The same amount of time and the same strength, sixty times over. You used to be able to plough ten acres of land with one cow, but now you can plough a hundred.

Ten acres of land can raise a cow for a family of three, and with a horse, you can now cultivate an additional ninety acres. Ninety acres of land, is it enough to raise a horse? ”

Enough! A peasant at the bottom shouted: "Ninety acres of land to raise one horse, too much, ten acres of land can raise a horse to fertilize the land, and the remaining eighty acres are all net profits." ”

Zhao Xing nodded and continued: "I used a word just now, I don't know if you understand: efficacy." A man can plough a hundred acres in the same amount of time, so what does he do the rest of the time? The man said just now that if you can cultivate 20 acres, you will not lose or win. But twenty acres of land, one horse, and one person farming, does it save a lot of time, and what do you do with the rest? ”

Let me continue to settle the score: "Having a horse at home means, first of all, that your range of activities has expanded. In the past, you could only go around 20 miles in front of your house at sunrise and rest at sunset, but now you can go around 100 miles in front of your home. Having a horse allows you to complete the plow in less time. The wife and children at home will have more time to weave and take care of the livestock. You have horses, but your neighbors don't have horses, and the things they spin out have to be sold in the surrounding counties with your horses, and you don't take these things for nothing, for each pack of goods, you can earn two cents and fodder...... Don't be embarrassed, you spend fodder on horses, and you deserve it.

As I said earlier, with a horse, your range of activity is a hundred miles around, and your neighbor's goods cannot be available every day, so you can ride a horse and go to the surrounding area of a hundred miles to find work, and earn a few pennies for each package of goods, which is equivalent to everyone helping you raise horses together.

Let's go back and think about what I just said, with horses, you can plough your fields in a shorter time, the elderly and children at home can have more time for weaving and breeding, and if you are idle, you can go to farther places to pick up work. ”

There was a whisper below, and every farmer's face was full of excitement, and they discussed for a long time, and finally came to this conclusion: "No loss, twenty acres of land to raise two horses is not a loss, because two horses can cultivate faster, go out to do the work, at least you can earn a horse's fodder." ”

Zhao Xing waited for everyone to finish discussing, and said slowly: "All of you here are good farmers selected from the group training, I have already told those who have land, let them subcontract the land to you, you can take our horses, take away a plow, and don't ask for a penny...... Come, sign these documents. You hurry up and go to farming, and the old people and children will come to me to receive spinning machines and plant presses, and you don't need a single penny. ”

Maybe Zhao Xing's prestige in the group training was too high, and few people could understand the thick stack of documents, but they still signed the documents obediently at one time according to Zhao Xing's instructions, and took away the horses and plowshares, and the women in their family also received the looms, and even the old people got a few spindles to spin wool at home.

Deng Yufu is a serious person, he carefully read Zhao Xing's pile of contracts for a few hours, but he still didn't understand, and Zhang Yong was simply confused. He listened to Zhao Xing's explanation over and over again, and was still asking: "Liren, what you just said, can you repeat it again?" ”

"Oh, it's very simple, we have 30 percent of the farmer's shares by providing them with horses and farming tools, and we have taken 30 percent of the shares by the navy in charge of shipping - we don't pay for the horses. However, the land used by the navy was cultivated by the farmers, so the farmers took up 30% of the shares of the utility fleet, which was done through share exchanges, but they were all controlled by a company called Nagato Investment and Development Company, also in the form of share exchange;

However, two percent of the shares of the Changmen Investment and Development Bank are controlled by the "utility fleet", because the freight they send to the Japanese country, the Changmen Investment and Development Bank does not pay, and pays with shares, and the "Changmen Investment and Development Bank" is controlled by a company called Dolphin Trading Company, which is an empty box in finance - this is mainly to deal with the government tax inspection, as well as the City Shipping Division - its main financial support is still the Changmen Investment and Development Company, but its tax payment is reflected in the take-off ticket line opened by a Ci Le Ye people. And the Take-off Ticket House invested in farm tools and ploughed horses, did not pay, and was controlled by the utility fleet 30%, and at the same time, the utility fleet rented the ships of the Take-off Ticket Company, and was controlled by the Take-off Ticket Company, and the plough was also provided by the Take-off Ticket Company, so it owned 30% of the farmer's shares - isn't it, very simple? You understand as soon as I say it? ”

"I understand", Zhang Yong was dizzy when he heard it, but he finally understood one thing: "I can't understand it in 10,000 years." ”

Zhao Xing patted his chest and said with relief: "You don't understand? I really don't understand! Great, you just have to trust me, come, sign this pile of documents, and wait for the year-end dividend. ”

"What? Do I want to sign it too? Zhang Yong finished signing the document in a daze, and Zhao Xing stuffed the document into his arms like lightning, for fear that Zhang Yong would ask to read it again.

Deng Yufu was busy asking the group trainers to sign the documents, and said in deep thought: "I understand, you didn't pay for this plow, you didn't pay for this horse, and those boat guys didn't pay for it, well, it seems that the plow, horse, and loom came to the group training, and they didn't pay for it, but who paid for it?" And this income, in the end, the income will go to whom? ”

Zhang replied with a bitter face: "I can't figure it out for 10,000 years." ”

Deng Yufu raised his face, Zhao Xing's existence could no longer be found in the crowd, and the noise of the group trainers covered the sound of his departing horses' hooves, Deng Yufu had to sit down with a bitter face, and said with a sigh: "I also signed a bunch of documents, I don't understand." Fortunately, he never treats people badly, although I don't understand, but I trust him. That's enough! ”

Zhang Yong shuddered, chanting a scripture like self-hypnosis: "Yes, yes, fortunately, we are not treated badly...... Why am I always frightened, am I in danger? By the way, a few monks came up from the house, and I went to ask him to recite the field sutra and drive away the trouble. ”

"Count me in!" Deng Yufu hurriedly got up.