The officials who were still looking around, secretly thinking about dinner, were immediately attracted by the question raised by Zhang Heng.

Most of them are parents and officials, and they have the best understanding of the public sentiments and public opinions in various parts of Jiangnan, and they also have their own opinions on how to govern the prefectures and counties under their respective jurisdictions, but in the past two or three years since Pingchen, rebellions have occurred one after another in various parts of Jiangnan, and most of the attention of the imperial court has been focused on quelling the Jiangnan rebellion, and has not really begun to govern Jiangnan. In the absence of a unified decree, these magistrates only want to be peaceful under their own rule, and there will be no chaos caused by a large number of remnants of Nanchen, so how can they care about whether the people can eat enough and whether they will loyally submit to the imperial court?

"Since Zhang Changshi mentioned the two major issues of people's livelihood and people's hearts, then this king will ask all of you here today, what do you think is the most urgent problem of people's livelihood and people's hearts that needs to be solved under your rule?" Yang Guang sat in the center and observed the situation at the meeting for a long time, and saw that the question raised by Zhang Heng had attracted the attention of the vast majority of officials, so he put forward the question he wanted to know about in a timely manner.

None of the officials attending the meeting were willing to be in the limelight at this time and take the lead in answering Yang Guang's questions.

Yang Guang saw that everyone was reluctant to speak, and he was not angry, so he said to Zhang Heng: "Jianping, since you are the chief of the palace, and you claim to be throwing bricks and attracting jade, then, throw your brick out now, so that everyone can listen to it, what do you think is the people's livelihood and people's heart problem that the imperial court needs to solve most in Jiangnan at present?" ”

"Lord Wang, ladies and gentlemen, although Jianping has never been to any state or county in Jiangnan to be a parent official, he often accompanies the prince and participates in political affairs, and he also has an understanding of the current problems in various parts of Jiangnan. In my opinion, the most important thing is to give the people land, and to emphasize agriculture and suppress business. Compared with Guannai, the land south of the Yangtze River is less densely populated, and what ordinary people urgently get is fields that can be used for cultivation and supporting their families.

Some time ago, I was ordered by the king to supervise the rebuilding of the Xie clan ancestral hall in Jiankang, and I went to several nearby prefectures and counties to do some investigations, and found that after the wars of recent years, even the former Gyeonggi land has also appeared a large number of abandoned fields, and this kind of strange thing has occurred in the south of the Yangtze River, where there are many people and little land, which is really unexpected to me. So, I found two counties with the most abandoned land in the territory, and learned about the local situation in detail from the local officials and people, according to me, most of the abandoned land before Pingchen belonged to the big families, or the ministers in the Nanchen Dynasty, after the Pingchen, these big families, the courtiers of the Southern Chen Dynasty were either forcibly moved to live in the Guannai by the imperial court, or became the leaders of the rebels, and they were nowhere to be found, and the ordinary people did not get the land granted to them by the imperial court, so naturally they would not open up the wasteland and cultivate these lands, so there were many people who had no land to plant. There are also many abandoned and idle fields......"

Zhang Heng did go deep into the nearby states and counties to do research during the construction of the Xie clan ancestral hall in Jiangshan, so the question he raised immediately resonated with many state and county officials, and someone immediately added: "Zhang Changshi, what you are talking about is only the situation of one place, in the states and counties under the control of the lower officials, there are also a large number of abandoned fields in many places, however, as far as the lower officials know, even the farmers who own the fields, listening to the confusion of the remnants of Nan Chen, do not think of farming at home, and there are not a few who rebel with the rebellion, and there are also some farmers with solid family backgrounds. They had already hidden their family's rations for a year or two in the mountains, fearing that the grain they had worked so hard to grow would either be expropriated by the imperial court or robbed by bandits, and they would not dare to sow or cultivate the fields of their families if they were abandoned......

As soon as someone speaks first, everyone speaks to you, and I speak to myself.

Yang Guang was angry with everyone, and instructed Zhang Heng: "Jianping, since everyone agrees with your statement, it can be decided today, and the field problem will be the first to be reported to the imperial court and the problem that needs to be solved, you will take the lead, with the assistance of the prefectures and counties, list the current total number of fields in Jiangnan and the recent total number of households, and put forward corresponding suggestions." ”

Then he turned to the crowd and asked, "Do you have anything else to say besides the question of the fields?" ”

Pei Yun sat aside, and saw that the field issue raised by Zhang Heng not only aroused great resonance among the attendees, but also got Yang Guang's approval, and was set as the primary issue to be reported to the imperial court. ”

"On the issue of improving the hearts and minds of the people in Jiangnan, Chong Zhi has a high opinion, but he says that it is." Yang Guang was happy to see the benign competition between the two great strategists around him, and offered suggestions on how to better govern Jiangnan, so he smiled and encouraged Pei Yundao.

"In order to solve the problem of the hearts and minds of the people in Jiangnan and make the vast majority of the people in Jiangnan loyally submit to the imperial court, we must start from two places at the same time: first, the imperial court should adopt a positive and tolerant attitude towards the large number of Jiangnan people and those who have been bewitched and led astray by traitors, and make them subjects of the Great Sui by granting them land and encouraging them to return to their hometowns to farm; At the same time, it is necessary to deal with the small number of remnants and remnants of Nanchen who took the lead in causing chaos, especially two types of people: one is the first rebel who openly rebelled against the army, such as Wang Zhongxuan and others; The second category is the remnants of the 'Wild Goose's Nest' hidden in the shadows and repeatedly committing crimes, such as Xiao Rushui, Zhang Zhongjian and others, who are resolutely eliminated by thunderous means, and the officials suggest that they may as well hunt down these people by offering rewards and arrests, so that they are isolated from most of the coerced followers, so that they have nowhere to hide in the south of the Yangtze River.

In other words, if one hand gives benefits to the ordinary people, and the other hand strictly eliminates the culprits of the first rebellion, forming a powerful shock, and planting the seeds in the hearts of the people in all parts of Jiangnan who dare not oppose and do not want to rebel, then the hearts of the people in Jiangnan can be harvested. ”

Pei Yun said that the reaction of the participants was far less enthusiastic than when Zhang Heng talked about the field issue, and only a few officials asked him:

"Pei Du Ji Office, according to what you said, does the imperial court need to list the names of each of the chief rebels who must be resolutely eliminated and mark the rewards, only in this way can it have the effect of isolating them."

"According to what you say, there are too many people who have participated in the rebellion and killed and wounded each other's sergeants in the course of the battle between the two armies?"

Pei Yun was about to open his mouth to explain to several officials who asked them questions, when he heard Yang Guang cheer for him: "What a dare not oppose, unwilling to oppose!" Chong Yi's words hit the nail on the head of the problem of solving the people's hearts, and the rest are all trivial matters, so there is no need to worry too much about it. Chong Zhi ordered you to draw up suggestions for improving the morale of the people in Jiangnan, and Jianping summarized and submitted them to the imperial court. ”