"Daddy, this Chinese New Year's Eve, what are you going to call me for?" I also want to celebrate the New Year with the soldiers! Yue Yun saw Yue Fei and said a little strangely.

"Now I have a military task for you!" Yue Fei said.

"I don't know what kind of military affairs it is?" Hearing that it was "military affairs", Yue Yun's face was solemn and he hurriedly asked.

"I just came to the Northwest, and Your Majesty asked me to preside over the affairs of the Northwest! Datong has the Huanqing Army, I am very relieved, the situation in Yinzhou seems to be good, and the only thing I am worried about now is Xiazhou! Zhang Jun was there, and I asked him to come to see me and report on the military situation, but he never came! You bring a thousand soldiers and horses over to see the situation in Xiazhou, and meet Zhang Jun to see why he doesn't come to see me. Yue Fei said.

"Daddy, why don't you go again tomorrow! Today is the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and the soldiers are waiting for the New Year, and the snow outside is so heavy that the road is extremely difficult. Yue Yun said.

The snow had stopped, but this afternoon, the snow started to fall again!

It's dusk, and the snow outside is already falling so much that it's blowing and enveloping the heavens and the earth.

"It's been almost a year since you came to the army, and you still don't know the truth of military orders? The military affairs of the northwest are related to the overall situation of the world, and we must not slack off in the slightest! Now you immediately lead the troops and horses, and I will give you two quarters of an hour, and if you have not left, I will punish you with my own hands!" Also, I have said many times that in the army you can only call the military position, not father and son! There are no fathers and sons in the army! If you do it again, I won't spare you! Yue Fei said coldly.

"The last general knows!" Yue Yun knew that his father was right, so he didn't dare to say more at the moment, and hurriedly walked outside.

After only a quarter of an hour, Yue Yun left Linzhou City with a thousand soldiers and horses under his command and headed towards the west.

The snow was falling, and a thousand cavalry were galloping in the heavy snow, and in Linzhou City, at this moment, there was the cheers of the soldiers celebrating the New Year.

Yue Fei stood at the gate of the city, looking at his son's back, but he was thinking about Zhang Jun in Xiazhou in his heart, he hoped that everything was safe in Xiazhou, and hoped that Zhang Jun was just delayed because of some things, or it was just the arrival of the New Year, so Zhang Jun wanted to stay in Xiazhou and come back after the New Year!

"One more year, a year later, we will be able to launch a counteroffensive! At that time, the Jurchens in Liaodong had only one way to die! But in this year's time, I can't let anything go wrong in the Northwest! I also have to think carefully about how to attack the Jurchens if I go north in the future! In addition, Your Majesty handed over the northwest to me, and many of the cities that used to be Western Xia were handed over to me to manage, and there were war horses in those places, and cavalry could be formed again! To conquer the steppe and the north, cavalry is still required. Yue Fei said secretly.

"Brother Yue, the soldiers are waiting for you." At this time, Dong Xian's voice came from behind.

"Let's go, let's celebrate the New Year with the soldiers!" Yue Fei turned around and laughed.

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At this moment, in Yanjing City, it is also a New Year's atmosphere.

There are lanterns everywhere, but after several wars, the people of Yanjing City are poor, and the materials used in the New Year have just been issued by the imperial court. This year's New Year is destined to be a difficult one, as in previous years, but many Yanyun people have already seen hope.

In the palace of Yanjing City, Zhao Chen is with more than 600 officials at this moment!

These more than 600 officials came from Guanshan, Sichuan, Shu, and Hanzhong, and 300 of them were former local officials, and 300 were young people with management ability who were transferred from the Production and Construction Corps.

These more than 600 people have just come to Yanjing City, and after the New Year, they will go to Yanyun and the Central Plains to serve as the prefects, prefectures, and prefects of various places.

Zhao Chen, Yu Yunwen, Hu Quan and others discussed state affairs with these officials.

"Your Majesty, this trial case was originally a matter of the yamen in various places, but now it has been given to the Military Justice Department, what should we do?" A seven-rank official in his fifties stood up and said.

He was originally a county magistrate in Sichuan and Shu, but this time he was transferred, his position was promoted, and he was about to serve as the governor!

"There's so much more to do! The most important thing is to build a place and stabilize a place! Like collecting taxes, like helping the people, building water conservancy, promoting commerce, and so on! As an official, you are not sitting on the heads of the people and doing things, but serving the people! This is true not only of officials, but also of the imperial court! The world is the world of all the people, and the court is also serving the people, if we can really do this, our Song Dynasty court will naturally be immortal! Zhao Chen said.

"Wechen understands!" The seven-rank official in his fifties said.

"No farming, no stability, no business, no wealth! Now in Yanyun and the Central Plains, agriculture is the most important thing, and commerce is secondary! As long as the farmers can live and work in peace and contentment, and can have food, Yanyun and the Central Plains will be naturally stable, and the people will naturally support us! And then there's the business thing! Therefore, in the coming year, the focus of the imperial court will be on farming! Officials everywhere could not stay in the yamen all the time, but even went into the farmland to talk to the people, or personally helped the people to farm the land to motivate the people! In addition, I also invited some grain experts from all over the country, so that these grain experts can sum up the experience of grain planting, and we must also learn from it! Zhao Chen said.

"Huh? As an official, I have to learn these things? "There was an official in his forties who said incredulously.

"If the court and officials serve the people, if they don't know this, how can they serve the people and help the people? In the future, the officials of the imperial court will even have to be proficient in commerce and trade! The imperial court will count the situation of agricultural merchants in various places and promote officials according to the situation of agricultural business! If there are officials who govern the local governance well, and the harvest of that place is far better than that of other places, the imperial court will naturally reward it, and if it is like this for several years, the imperial court will naturally promote it! From now on, the imperial court appoints officials, mainly to see if there is real talent and hard work, if you sit in the official position and achieve nothing, even if he was the champion and Tanhua before, the court will not hesitate to pull him down from the official position! I hope you understand that! Zhao Chen said.

In later generations, the state determined the performance of officials according to GDP and economic development, and now Zhao Chen has also decided to do it according to the methods of later generations, and promote officials according to the development of agriculture and commerce in various places! This is also a means of urging officials, only in this way can the economy of Yanyun and the Central Plains recover in the shortest possible time! He wants officials to advocate hard work, not idleness, or just promote officials based on "morality" and "reputation", as in other dynasties in ancient times!

As soon as Zhao Chen said this, the minds of many officials below became active!

Some officials have already begun to think about how to develop local agriculture! But in this regard, the advantages of young people are clearly even greater! They have been farming in Guanshan for many years, and they have some experience in farming! Of course, governing the local area and developing local agriculture does not mean that you can farm the land, this is just an advantage.

After discussing for a long time, Zhao Chen stopped when it was almost time.

Early the next morning, that is, on the first day of the first month of the seventh year of Xuanwu, he will study farming knowledge and some knowledge and experience of economic development with these officials, and this study will continue until the tenth day of the first month!

Although this kind of learning time is very short and the effect is very poor, Zhao Chen believes that with the promotion of such a system of promoting officials, more and more officials who are good at developing the economy will inevitably emerge, and the excellent experience will slowly spread to the surrounding areas! Moreover, the atmosphere of officialdom will also change a lot, and Chinese officialdom will no longer advocate empty talk as it did in history, which is good for the country and the nation!

These more than 600 officials were carefully selected, and Zhao Chen believed that after they came to Yanyun and the Central Plains, great changes would soon take place in Yanyun and the Central Plains! These officials are also very honest now, and there is an atmosphere of honesty in Guanshan, Hanzhong, and Sichuan! At the beginning, Zhao Chen had cleaned up the officialdom of Guanshan, Hanzhong, and Sichuan Shu, and many corrupt officials were cleared during the rebellion of the White Lotus Sect! However, over time, these people may also change from incorruptible to greedy.

"A bad system makes good people bad, and a good system makes bad people good! What is a bad system, there is no constraint on officials, officials can do whatever they want, the cost of crime is extremely low, this is a bad system! What is a good system, officials have constraints, under layers of constraints and layers of supervision, they do not dare to be corrupt at all, they do not dare to slack off on official affairs, even if it is a bad person, under such a system, he must be conscientious and careful, this is a good system! Therefore, the institutional change cannot be stopped! Late at night, there was a faint sound of firecrackers outside, but Zhao Chen was thinking about this problem in his heart.

He has already stripped the judicial power from the hands of the prefect and the prefect, but this is far from enough.

"I don't know how A-Yao is? Our baby should have been born, right? As the night deepened, Zhao Chen suddenly remembered Song Qingyao, and suddenly had such an idea in his heart.

Thinking of this question, Zhao Chen suddenly became excited.

The incident between him and Song Qingyao happened in more than three months, and he was pregnant in October, so it stands to reason that Song Qingyao should have given birth to a child by now! It's just that Jiangnan is too far away from Yanyun, plus the ancient winter is extremely cold, the sea has frozen, and the land transportation is extremely difficult, it takes at least more than two months to travel from Jiangnan to Yanyun!

"It's time for news!" Zhao Chen said secretly.

He is extremely eager now, and he can't wait to go to Jiangnan by himself to understand the situation in Jiangnan.

It took a long time for him to calm down.

"By the way, how is Yueru?" In such a night, everyone else is a family reunion, he is only one person, and at this moment, he finally remembered the folding moon.

Thinking of Zhiyueru, Zhao Chen suddenly felt extremely guilty.

"Send someone to Hanzhong tomorrow to pick up Yueru." Zhao Chen said secretly.

Early in the morning of the second day, on the first day of the first lunar month, Zhao Chen sent someone to pick up Zhiyueru, and sent someone south to inquire about the news from Jiangnan, which was not mentioned.

In Liaodong, it is also snowing heavily!

Hundreds of Jurchens dressed in thick leather coats were galloping south on horseback, with Liaoyang Mansion in Tokyo, once the Liao Kingdom, in front of them.