The king rode on horseback and weaved through the surging flow of people in the city of Tokyo.

The situation on the market is a little worse than in previous years, but when you think about the year of the catastrophe, and the silk satin is still on sale, it still seems too extravagant.

Because of Lu Huiqing's methods, Wei Jizong had already gone to Kaifeng Mansion to inquire, so Zeng Bu said several times in front of the Son of Heaven that he could not work with Lu Huiqing. This move was too gaffe, and he rejected his colleagues who were also ordered to investigate the ills of the city, and he was also the only opponent in the struggle for power, so he could not help but think of the Son of Heaven. It is debatable whether Zeng Bu's previous accusations against Shiyiwu and his impeachment of Lu Jiawen are credible.

At least from the king's side, the situation has been temporarily stabilized on his father's side. And Han Gangtuo's words were passed on to him, and Wang Bi also mentioned it to his father and brother after he came back, and he simply asked for money and food, and at the same time bluntly said that under the conditions of Baima County, at most 100,000 displaced people could be settled.

Whether to expand Han Gang's scope of authority, or to return the work of disposing of the displaced people to Kaifeng Mansion, and leave this choice to his father and brother to deal with, Wang Bi immediately left the mansion. Han Gang also entrusted him with one more thing, asking him to check the situation of the displaced people in and around Tokyo.

Gyeonggi was already devastated, and of course it will not be without displaced people. Recently, the displaced people from Hebei Province have been blocked in Baima County. Judging from the number of people crossing the river every day, Han Gang's previous arrangement could accommodate the displaced people who arrived in Beijing from Hebei at least until May.

However, Hebei's harvest this year can be said to be over, and once it is past May, the number of displaced people in Hebei will increase explosively—a word that Han Gang said, and Wang Bian thinks it is very vivid—Wei Pingzhen and Fang Xing both speculate that the number of displaced people going south will be three to five times that of now.

Out of the west side of the south of the city side gate Dailou Gate - this is commonly known, the door on the top of the door hole is engraved with the door - about a mile or more, on the edge of the Cai River, set up a porridge shed. Some were set up by the government, and some were built by wealthy households. It was a long column, almost half a mile long.

Outside the porridge field, the crowd was crowded. And the ragged appearance of the victims makes people feel sorry for them. But the number of displaced people in front of the porridge shed was far less than Wang Pan expected. He looked all the way along the Cai River, and there were almost more than 2,000 people around the porridge fields now set up in the south of the city. If the other sides are such a number, at most it is only about 10,000 people. It's nothing compared to the number of displaced people in Hakuba Prefecture, and there are almost thousands of beggars in and around Tokyo on a daily basis.

Moreover, such a tragic situation of the displaced people outside the city of Kaifeng is due to the inaction of the magistrates of Kaifeng and Xiangfu Erchi County - Kaifeng Prefecture is directly under the control of the city, and the outside of the city is under the county governance - Kaifeng is still a rich land after all, and each county has a warehouse, and it is more than enough to help the local victims. If they could have half of Han Gang's intentions, this mainstream would have been dealt with a long time ago.

The king pouted disdainfully, and if he was to deal with these homeless people himself, there would be no current scene.

Looking up at the sky, the king turned his horse around and turned back to the city. Spend the night at home tonight, and tomorrow I will rush back to White Horse County. Although he was very busy, Wang felt that this kind of life was much better than being depressed at home.

As he approached the city gate, he inadvertently saw a green-robed official standing in front of the ear chamber in the doorway, talking to a soldier.

The king's eyes were sharp, and he saw the man's appearance clearly at a glance, and when he reached the city gate, he turned around and dismounted, walked over and asked, "But Brother Jiefu?" ”

The man was in his thirties, middle-aged, simple-looking, short, black and thin. He raised his eyes to look at the king, and raised his hand to return the salute: "It turned out to be Zhong Yuan, Zheng Xia is polite." ”

Facing the prime minister's son, Zheng Xia's attitude was plain and unenthusiastic, and he didn't look like he met with the old man.

But Wang Pan and Zheng Xia do have an old relationship. Wang Fang was not a character who was good at making friends with people, but Zheng Xia and Zheng Jiefu, the prison officers who came to the door, were his old acquaintances, and it was natural to say hello when they met.

When Wang Anshi was in Jiangning Mansion, Zheng Xia also studied in Jiangning with his father, who was in charge of Jiangning's liquor tax, and worshiped under Wang Anshi, who opened the door to teach apprentices, and was regarded as a disciple of Wangmen. It's just that Zheng Xia's political tendencies are completely different from Wang Anshi.

Two years ago, Wang Anshi wanted to make great use of Zheng Xia and transfer him from Gwangju to the army in Beijing, but as soon as they met, Zheng Xia was full of words to ask Wang Anshi to abolish the new law, so he was arranged to be a prison officer.

Last year, Wang Anshi wanted to compile the "Three Classics and New Righteousness", and estimated that Zheng Xia, a student, should have changed his mind after a year, so he was ready to recruit him into the Jingyi Bureau to compile the new righteousness, but Zheng Xia once again proposed to Wang Anshi to abolish the new law. Wang Anshi had no choice but to give up.

But no matter what, Wang Anshi still attaches great importance to Zheng Xia, a student. Although the position of the prison officer is not high, he is still in the capital after all, which shows that he still has the idea of appointing Zheng Xia.

Zheng Xia's stubbornness, Wang Anshi can be tolerant, after all, unlike the old party veterans, there are too many private interests mixed in the dispute. For the insistence on concept, there are especially many young officials, no more than the old officials who have been up and down for many years, and they are all sharpened and smooth. And the imperial history Taichung uses young and junior officials as the imperial history, which is also because of this reason.

Wang Jian knew his father's thoughts, so he was not alienated when he saw Zheng Xia.

After a few words of greeting, Zheng Xia's expression turned grim, and he suddenly asked Wang Bian: "Zhong Yuan came from outside the city, I don't know if the displaced people by the Cai River have seen it?" ”

Wang Bian nodded: "I see." ”

"I don't know what Zhong Yuan thinks of the people outside the door?" Zheng Xia asked coldly.

"How much is that?" Wang Bi shook his head, "Ruokaifeng and Xiangfu counties have been well organized, but there are only thousands of people, and they should have been settled down a long time ago." If you talk about the number of displaced people, there are still a little more in Baima County. ”

"There are a lot of displaced people in Hakuba County?" Zheng Xia's expression moved, and he immediately asked.

"Yes, there are already fifty or sixty thousand. The younger brother has been in Baima County for a while......"

The king stopped talking abruptly in the middle of his words, he wanted to talk about his merits in the resettlement of the homeless, but if he said so, it would seem too boastful, and he should be modest.

And Zheng Xia's eyes suddenly turned sharp, and his face sank.

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There are more and more homeless people in Baima County, and the number of them has far exceeded the management ability of the archers and officials in the county. Ran Jue has been complaining for a few days, begging Han Gang to make a move as soon as possible.

In such cases, the most common means of doing so is to recruit civilians as soldiers. The part of the homeless people who are strong in martial arts is co-opted and spent money to support them. Otherwise, once the displaced people do something, the strength of the backbone will be all such people. I have to say that this is a good idea and a good way, and the problem that can be solved with money and food is not a problem, it is better than using a knife when something happens. It's just that Han Gang doesn't have this power now.

The magistrate and the magistrate are both pro-people officials, in addition to the different ranks, the biggest difference is that the magistrate has military power - for example, the governor of Qinzhou will also serve as a pacification envoy, and basically will also have a military position - but the magistrate does not. The prefect of the prefecture can directly recruit the people as soldiers, but the prefect of the county is not qualified.

So Han Gang is now thinking about whether to organize the displaced people into a temporary armor and organize a joint defense team among them; It is better to wait for another day or two, and wait for the word to be spread by the king's side, and there is an edict as a basis, and the people who come are soldiers.

However, early the next morning, an angel with an edict came from the direction of Tokyo City, and it was Lan Yuanzhen, a courtier beside the Son of Heaven, who was summoned, so that Han Gang didn't need to think about it anymore.

“…… With the right Zhengyan and Jixian school management, Han Gang, who knows the affairs of Baima County, has the right to send out the official affairs of the counties and towns in Kaifeng Prefecture, and take measures to deal with the displaced people in Jinnei...... Kaifeng Prefecture Jie Tidian Division and migrated to Baima County......"

In the Baima County Palace, Lan Yuan read the edict in a frustrated manner. Han Gang was stunned when he heard this, and he couldn't believe his ears for a while.

Mention the official affairs of the counties and towns in Kaifeng Prefecture, which is the position that Wang Anshi once held. From the point of view of the terms of reference, it is equivalent to a transfer envoy and a prison envoy on the outside road, but it can't be in charge of the city of Tokyo. However, in addition to Tokyo City, the rest of the counties, towns, prisons, thieves, soldiers and civilians, warehouses, treasury, ditches, rivers and other matters are all presided over by the prefecture boundary. The authority is far greater than that of a slippery state.

Han Gang has worked hard in Baima County for several months, and after the displaced people really began to move south, his arrangement not only proved his ability. It also paved the way for him to fight for more power.

It's just that power is not so easy to come by.

There must be a name for presiding over the pacification of the displaced people. It is absolutely impossible to restore Huazhou, and it will only take a year to return to its original state. The change of the imperial order is tantamount to slapping the faces of the princes of the court who agreed to this change of administrative division, and it will also make the people of the three counties that originally belonged to Huazhou oppose it in unison.

Therefore, Han Gang originally thought that the imperial court would give at most a temporary send, such as an inspection envoy, a governor envoy, and an official position such as managing disaster relief and pacification in the boundary of the Gou Prefecture. Prior to this, whether it was Taizong, Zhenzong, Renzong, or today, there were similar appointments. There are precedents and stories, as long as the Son of Heaven and the Prime Minister believe in his Han Gang's talents, it is not difficult to get this position.

But Han Gang never expected that the Son of Heaven would let him come to the government to raise points. Just look at his rank from the seventh grade, and add the prefix of the right to dispatch, you can know that this position is at least equivalent to the rank of the governor of Shangzhou. Although it is not enough to reach the level of Wangzhou or the sub-government, it is also a real Zhizhou seniority.

There is no general judgment in Kaifeng Prefecture, below the prefect, there are two judges and two pushers, and Han Gang supervises the official affairs of counties and towns outside the capital, and his power is second only to the prefect, especially above the pusher and judge. Moreover, the Son of Heaven even ordered the administrative office to be moved to Baima County, which was equivalent to giving Han Gang the power to act cheaply, so that he would not be interfered by the Kaifeng prefect when he took measures to deal with the displaced people.

got far more than he imagined, so much that Han Gang hesitated whether to accept the order.

Seeing Han Gang standing up and not moving for a long time, Lan Yuan was shocked and thought that Han Gang was going to resign from this edict. Busy urging, "Han Zhengyan, if there is a disaster today, the displaced people are all over the road, the officials are lamenting all night, and the two palaces are also uneasy, but the worried people can't be appeased and cause chaos." The talent of righteousness is famous all over the world, and the official family pays the righteousness with heavy responsibilities. Please also say that you don't want to shirk, quickly accept the order, and live up to the hope of the Son of Heaven! ”

Han Gang came back to his senses and sighed: "Those who are ministers are worried about the ministers, and the kings are humiliated and the ministers die." Now that all roads are in trouble, the Son of Heaven and the two palaces are restless, how dare Han Gang stay out and not do his best to repay him? Han Gang didn't dare to refuse, and Han Gang obeyed the edict ......"