Chapter 18 Old Friendship

Jiangxi's disaster relief is famous

Generosity and affection

At the beginning of his tenure, Xin Qiji asked the officials to post notices on the main streets of Longxing Mansion and its subordinate prefectures and counties.

The main content of the notice is only eight words: "Those who are closed are matched, and those who are strong are killed." "Tell all the merchants and the people that whoever hoards and refuses to sell grain will be exiled and distributed; Anyone who forcibly buys or robs grain shall be beheaded. He also asked the state and county officials to go out of the yamen and sit in the grain store, urging the shopkeepers to sell at market prices. Once a violation is discovered, the severe punishment will not be slackened and will not be tolerated.

Then, he gathered all the copper, iron, coins, gold and silver utensils and other goods in the government, and selected some shrewd and capable people from among the officials, scholars, merchants, and citizens, and the government paid for them without interest, and limited to one month, so that they could show their talents and go to other places to buy grain and sell it to the people of Longxing Province. Those who make profit belong to them, and those who buy more food are rewarded. When these people learned of such a good thing, they all rejoiced, and they all patted their chests and promised. After taking the money, he quickly went out and bought food everywhere. Ten days later, truckloads of rice and flour were shipped back to Longxing one after another, and the price of grain in the territory dropped all at once. The granary of the government was full of bought grain, and the people's hearts were becoming more and more stable, and the common people were all handsome and a good official.

At that time, Xie Yuanming, the governor of Xinzhou, had just arrived in office, and his actions were a little late, and the food within a radius of thousands of miles was bought up by the people of Longxing, and he was panicking because the relief food was not available. Knowing that Xin Dashuai had brought more than 200 boatloads of grain at once, he was very envious, and he heard that Xin Shuai was righteous and helpful, so he boldly sent a general judge to appease the envoy and beg for the distribution of some food to help the people of Xinzhou. The secretary of the pacification envoy resolutely disagreed, and ridiculed the incompetence of the Shinshu officials, who did not try to find a way to buy food, but came here to pick up ready-made bargains, and had no ability to go home to pick up the children, so as not to sit in the lobby and be embarrassed.

As soon as he said this, he was ashamed of the judgment of Xinzhou, so he had to turn back in disgrace.

Xin Qijian learned afterwards that he found Sihu to join the army, and severely criticized him: "The people of Xinzhou are also people, and they are all the people of our Great Song and Jiangxi provinces, and Longxing Mansion has the ability to support it." Xie Benliang is also a talent, there is no major difficulty, he will not open this mouth. Then he was commanded:

"Ride a fast horse, give Xinzhou Tong a judgment, don't chase him back, you go home and pick up the child!"

After Xinzhou came back, he was about to kneel down when he saw the marshal, but Xin Qiji stopped him, "Say, how many boats of grain do you want?" ”

The general judge bowed his head and replied, "Thirty ships will do." ”

Xin Qiji said briskly, "Thirty boats are less, give you sixty boats." ”

With a pop, he knelt on the ground and said with tears in his eyes, "Xie Dashuai, you are the reborn parents of 500,000 people in Shinshu. ”

After that, Xie Yuanming led the main officials of Xinzhou to Longxing Mansion to express his gratitude. In this way, Xin Xie and Xie soon became close friends.

Two years later, Xin Qiji was dismissed and lived in the lake outside Xinzhou City, Xie Yuanming was still in office, and he had visited him many times, so naturally he was indispensable for items such as wine and rice.

It can be seen that sometimes, a kind deed or a warm word that we inadvertently seem ordinary to you, but it is a great favor to others. When your situation changes, you will be rewarded by others, therefore, there is a cause and effect, helping others is essentially helping yourself, and those who can do good deeds should try to do it.

After Xie Yuanming served as a governor of Xinzhou for four years, he transferred to Yongzhou, Hunan, and then served as Yuezhou in eastern Zhejiang, and returned to Xinzhou a month ago. For more than ten years, he has been in office in Zhizhou, but the grade has changed from six to five, and the official rank has been promoted to three levels, and the court doctor has become the Fengzhi doctor.

Talking about court affairs, Xie Yuanming told Xin Qiji that after Xiaozong abdicated, King Gong inherited the unification. At the beginning of his ascension, he also issued many edicts to encourage his subjects to speak up and make progress, but unexpectedly, after playing the court, the mud cow entered the sea, and there was no news. The year before last, I could often go to the north with the queen to visit the emperor, last year only two or three times, the emperor was sick, and did not go to greet him, so that many ministers risked death to advise, 218 students in the Dengwen Drum Courtyard to write a book, and more than 100 people went to the Jinluan Palace, asking the emperor to meet, on the "proposed music table", the capital was a sensation, an uproar.

In the government, it is just step-by-step, no achievements, Queen Li often interferes in politics, to be precise, it is chaotic politics, I don't understand anything, I will give my mother's family to get official benefits, it is said that the stones in the garden of my mother's house are all sent to this Han Lord to buy, compared with Xiaozong, it is not the same.

Xin Qiji asked, who is the prime minister of the dynasty now?

The left prime minister Zhou Bida, the right prime minister stayed, and the Privy Council made Ge Zhu. The day before yesterday, the imperial court reported that Zhou Bida had dismissed the prime minister.

Xin Qiji understood, when he was handsome in Hunan and Jiangxi, he was strongly recommended by Wang Huai, the left minister, and when the Flying Tiger Army was built, Zhou Bida, the right minister, had a lot of whispers, repeatedly emphasizing that he was arrogant and unruly, which eventually led to his resignation and living in the countryside for ten years. Regardless of this, don't worry about him, as long as he can do something for the country and the people, he will be satisfied.

At noon, Xie Yuanming set up a banquet in the mansion, which was not only a congratulation, but also a feast. Xin Qiji's heart was happy, and he was drunk.

Two days later, Xin Qiji led Mrs. Fan, her concubines Tian Tian and Cheng, and five minor children to take a carriage to take up their posts. Many people are going out for the first time, fresh and excited, and it is very lively.

During the break, Tian Tian asked Xin Qiji: Master, do you say, is it better to be at home or to be an official?

Of course, it's good at home, you can play and drink, you don't ask anything, no one cares, and you're so comfortable. Now, running thousands of miles, worrying and working hard, doing a good job, someone will scold you, and if you offend someone, you may have to go to jail.

It's not, what's comfortable, just you eat, drink and have fun alone, even if you have a big situation, buried in the countryside, no one pays attention, a stinky man. How can it be like now, hugging from front to back, majestic on all sides, even our slaves and maids are following to enjoy the light.

Xin Qiji smiled, the woman's opinion, the smell of copper.

Tian Tian stretched out his hand to pinch him, and he smelled copper, who doesn't eat and dress, who doesn't earn money and spends money? I dreamed of going back to Jinan, and now I still pretend to be it.

Xin Qijian saw that she was in a hurry, and hurriedly coaxed: Okay Tiantian, don't be angry, the master said it was serious.

Tian Tian also played along the way, hum, don't arch my quilt at night.

There is a post station reception along the way, and you can stop and go. When passing through Jianyang, I remembered Zhu Xi's old master, repaired a book, and ordered the housekeeper Xin Cheng to go to Kaoting and hand it to Zhu Xi.

After arriving in Fuzhou, Lin Hang, the pacification envoy and governor of Fuzhou, led the officials to pick up the wind and wash the dust for him. Then it was the handover, and the other three major organs were honored.

The official system of the Song Dynasty set up four major supervisors along the way, each of which was not under the control, which not only supervised the prefectures and counties, but also restrained each other. The pacification envoy is in charge of civil affairs, public security and military affairs, commonly known as the Shuai Division, and the transshipment envoy is in charge of Cao Yun and taxation, referred to as the Cao Division, and the Criminal Division is in charge of the trial of cases, commonly known as the Constitutional Division, and the Changping Division is in charge of key industries such as tea and salt trade, water conservancy farms, and mines, commonly known as the Cang Division. The title of the head of the prison department is also different, the pacification envoy is called the pacification envoy, commonly known as the marshal, the transfer envoy is called the transfer envoy, the criminal department is called the criminal prison business, referred to as the punishment, and the Changping Division is called the promotion of Changping official affairs, referred to as the promotion, among which the pacification envoy is generally the governor of the capital of the road, so the status is particularly important.

After the excitement, it is calm and ordinary complicated affairs. Soon after he took office, Xin Qiji immediately immersed himself in handling Fujian's criminal and prison duties, replaced several criminal officers who had frequently been brought to criminal punishment for unjust, false and wrongly decided cases, and sent a number of honest and fair officials who were familiar with the laws and regulations to take up their posts, and ordered them to clear up the backlog of cases within a time limit and correct some unjust, false and wrongly decided cases.

When dealing with the Zhangzhou manager joining the army, there was a conflict with the commander Lin Hang.

Lei Xiaoyou, the manager of Zhangzhou, who joined the army, accepted property from the parties in handling a case of injuring people in a neighborhood brawl, and was partial in the judgment. When Lin Dashuai heard the news, he suggested that Xin Xiantai should open up and demote him to the rank of lieutenant of a small county.

Xin Qiji disagreed, as a judicial official, he bent the law for personal gain, and he should be dealt with strictly, and he should never be lenient, and it would be good if he was not detained.

Lin Hang didn't think so, a seven-rank life official just received less than two thousand things, and he was dismissed, and the ten-year cold window was ruined, so he should be given a chance.

Xin Qijian didn't let go, Lin Shuai saw that he didn't give face, and walked away.

Xin Qiji ordered the officials: send the official documents to the officials.

When Lin Shuai heard the news, he then impeached Xin Qijian for being an official and domineering, harsh and violent; Xin Qiji also folded up, accusing Lin Shuaisi of harboring and conniving at lawless subordinates.