Chapter 18 Rebuilding Jiangnan

That Yang Dezhi was also stupid when he saw this formation, and now the fool also understands that the current prime minister standing behind Zhao Zheng is the current prime minister who fully supports him, and he annoyed the emperor in the Great Song Dynasty, and it is a big deal to serve as an official, but he provoked this prime minister, and he doesn't know how he died, and it is too late to apologize, so he has to try his best to remedy it now. Pen "Fun" pavilion www.biquge.info but ate a few closed doors at Zhao Zheng's place.

Panyu's county government is in the east of Guangzhou, and Zhao Zheng's Tuntian is also mainly in Panyu County. Zhao Zheng followed Sun He to the garrison of the Xiang Army, entered the yamen, Sun He took out the holy decree and read it again, and the people below knew that the new boss was coming. Just looked at Zhao Zheng very weirdly, this Lord Sun didn't want to take his son on duty, but he didn't dare to ask, so he was ordered to get the roster.

Sun He knew a few words, but it was still a little difficult to read the roster, and Zhao Zheng saw Sun He's embarrassment, so he served him. There are a total of 1,000 and 20 soldiers on the roster, but only God knows how many there are, and it is not uncommon for people to eat empty salaries since ancient times.

"Wang Dutou, go and gather people over, this official will ask for it!" When Sun He's new official takes office, he naturally wants to show some prestige.

Wang Dutou saw that this Qiu Bayi was about to order as soon as he came up, and he suddenly felt a little hesitant, secretly wondering if his etiquette was not well prepared, so he coughed twice and motioned for everyone to disperse, wanting to mean to Sun He, but the two sergeants next to Sun He were unmoved.

Sun He naturally knew what this Wang Dutou was going to do, and smiled, he didn't want to persecute too much: "Wang Dutou, you just have to ask people to gather, as for how many come, it will be counted." ”

Seeing this, Wang Dutou had no choice but to take the order.

After an hour, the talent lazily entered the school field to gather. Zhao Zheng glanced at it, and sure enough, his eyes opened.

There are a few old men who have lost their teeth, they can't stand steadily, and some of them look like sick ghosts, not the slightest bit of anger, and some of them lack arms and legs. The sudden appearance of a few strong men in the team made Zhao Zheng's eyes light up, this picture is not right. Why do such a strong person stay here without being drawn to be a forbidden army? What was normal is not normal here.

"Wang Dutou, what's the way those guys come from?" Zhao Zheng pointed to the men and asked.

Wang Dutou looked at Sun He with some doubts.

"This is ......" Sun He thought for a while, and said that Zhao Zheng was obviously wrong, this was a yamen and the official position was newly established, no one knew what it was, so he had to speak: "This is our boss, who is in charge of Tuntian affairs." ”

Wang Du looked at Zhao Zheng dumbfounded, this is a child!

When Zhao Zheng saw Wang Dutou's face, he naturally knew that he was surprised by his age, and he didn't explain, so he asked again: "Wang Dutou?" ”

Wang Dutou came back to his senses at this time, and hurriedly confessed: "Those are the scoundrels in the city, who came here to eat." ”

Zhao Zheng suddenly realized, and he was not surprised, the Xiang army was also called the miscellaneous soldiers in the Song Dynasty, and the imperial court never expected them to fight, but most of them were recruited from those homeless people and raised them to prevent trouble.

There are not many displaced people in Guangzhou, but the slightly younger and stronger displaced people have all gone to Fujian and Jiangxi, and it is not difficult to understand that the rest are old, weak, sick and disabled.

"That's it?" Sun He frowned and looked at the one hundred and ten people in front of him, this empty salary was too serious.

"There are more than 300 people in total, and more than a dozen of them died a few days ago before they could be reported." During the Song Dynasty, junior eunuchs generally became prisoners.

"Wang Dutou, at this time tomorrow, this official hopes that all the people will be in this school field." Sun He did not hesitate to give an ultimatum, and the prestige of this new official must be brought out.

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Back at the inn, Zhao Zheng saw that Yan Tianwu was still unable to extricate himself from the sea of questions, and threw the holy decree on her desk.

"I'm an official. Ganluo is twelve years old, I'm better than Ganluo, I'm not even ten years old! Zhao Zheng shook in front of Yan Tianwu with some pride.

Yan Tianwu rolled his eyes, and then was a little stunned: "Are you an official here?" Then I'm looking for you, don't I have to run so far! ”

Zhao Zheng was stunned, he didn't expect Yan Tianwu to think from this aspect.

"For the time being, I have to go back after the spring of next year. You've been out for more than ten days, aren't your family worried? ”

"More than ten days?" Yan Tianwu seemed to be taken aback.

Grabbing the test paper, putting it in the package, opening the window and jumping in. Zhao was startled, walked to the window, and saw that Yan Tianwu had already mounted his horse and left.

"I'll go home and put out the fire first, and I'll come back to you." Leaving this sentence, Yan Tianwu disappeared completely.

Zhao Zheng was stunned and left. He turned around and saw that the silver beside Yan Tianwu's bed had not been taken away, he smiled maliciously, and walked so chicly, you still have to come back to get the money after all.

But knowing that she still didn't come back on the third day after she left, Zhao Zheng was a little panicked, and hurriedly asked Sun He to send someone to send Yan Tianwu's entanglement.

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It is easy to find three acres of fertile land in Panyu, and the seedlings of potatoes and sweet potatoes are cultivated during transportation, just waiting for the soil.

Zhao Guangle read out the emperor's decree and organized the opening ceremony, Panyu officials of all sizes were present, in addition to the two agricultural officials from Lin'an Mansion, the promotion of these two crops in the future depends on these two agricultural officials.

Zhao Zheng did not go to the soil in person, but pointed out a few old farmers found from the exiled prisoners, Zhao Zheng mentioned a little and they quickly understood, some problems can be inferred, Zhao Zheng is not very familiar with farming, they are all learned from books, for these prisoners in agriculture has a high understanding, Zhao Zheng is of course happy to see it.

Zhao Zheng said that there were people next to him who recorded with a pen, for fear of missing something.

Hundreds of soldiers, and more than a dozen prisoners to deal with these three acres of land is more than enough, in order to prevent the possibility of typhoon damage, with mud masonry to make a wall to enclose these three acres of soil, if there is a hail and heavy rain, you can also cover it with bamboo mats, and every day there are ten people to keep vigil to prevent wild beasts and thieves.

After some arrangement, these three acres of land have been taken care of in an all-round way. Zhao Zheng suddenly found that he seemed to have nothing to do. So he went with Sun He, the place where the prisoners were exiled, and these people were nominally under his control.

When Zhao Zheng went, it was lunch time, and from a distance, the place where the exiled prisoners were held was a few shacks, hundreds of people wearing shackles and holding a broken bowl, waiting in line for soup porridge, all with yellow faces and thin muscles, and candles in the wind. The living environment is even more chaotic and dirty, and urine and urine are discharged at will.

A bowl of porridge and a steamed bun are the standard food for prisoners here, and someone doesn't know what to say offended a soldier and was whipped to death.

Zhao Zheng frowned slightly, he didn't sympathize with these prisoners, the people who were sentenced to exile in ancient times were not good birds, and even if there were wronged ones, they would not account for much. But now that these people are in his charge, he just thinks that such random executions are too wasteful of these laborers.

Zhao Zheng scolded the soldier and asked him to lead the way to see the place where these prisoners worked.

A quarry, stone used to build a seawall, a city wall and a post road. At the moment, construction has not yet started, and the stone yard is basically empty, except for a few corpses that have not yet had time to be collected. In ancient times, exile was basically equivalent to the death penalty, and in ancient times, the concept of the countryside was extremely heavy, and leaving one's homeland was regarded as an extremely heavy punishment. Therefore, the development of remote areas by the imperial court actually relied on these prisoners to a large extent.

Lingnan has been a place of exile since ancient times, and these people in Panyu are only a very small part, and they have some ways to stay in this place, after all, this is a "developed area" in Guangnan. Most of the others are mining in some mines, or logging wood.

Zhao Zheng stayed for a while, feeling a little bad, and prepared to go back to the inn.

Sun He is still helping him find a house, so he can only live in the inn temporarily.

When he passed by the shack on his back, Zhao Zheng found a strange phenomenon, everyone else went to the stone field, but there were still a small number of people left in the shack, about a hundred and ten people, men, women and children.

Zhao Zheng asked Dutou what the situation was, but Dutou only said that it was not the turn of these people yet, and Zhao Zheng went back without thinking too much.

Two days later, Zhao Zheng came here again and found that those people were still idle in the shack, so he came to Dutou and asked.

Those were either rich or in the officialdom. The family has money, so they open up the joints and let them suffer a little less.

Zhao Zheng and Sun He smiled, didn't speak, and went straight back. That night, Dutou handed hundreds of dollars to Zhao Zheng and Sun He's arms.

The next day, Zhao Zheng went to the shack and took out the money in public, saying that it was to improve the food of the people, and then took this opportunity to improve the sanitation in the shack.

Public toilets were built, the shacks were thoroughly disinfected with quicklime, new shacks were built, and new bedding was added. The promulgated regulations on hygienic practices, work and rest time, and the system of rewards and punishments shall not be whipped at will, and each person shall add a steamed bun and a stack of pickles to each meal.

After only five days, the shack was completely new, and the prisoner's face was bloody.

Sun He didn't understand Zhao Zheng's behavior, what kind of hearts did he buy from those prisoners, and besides, he would leave here at the beginning of spring tomorrow, so I am afraid that everything will have to be abolished and return to normal, and there is no point in doing so.

Zhao Zheng replied with two words: "Make money." Of course, he didn't say anything deeper.

He wants to create another Jiangnan.

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The two merchant ships that Zhao Zheng asked Shi Songzhi for sailed into the port of Guangzhou, and Zhao Zheng asked Sun He to order the organization of those box troops and prisoners to go to sea.

In the Song Dynasty, the development of marine resources was too small, except for fishing in the shallows, there was basically none, not that they did not want to go to the deep sea fishing, but the big ships that could sail far away, ordinary people could not afford it, and the large families who could afford it disdained fishing, or subconsciously ignored it.

So when Zhao Zheng went out to sea and slowly loaded two boats of fish and came back, Guangzhou City was a sensation.