Zheng's house is bigger than before, not because of his mother, the family has more people, and the original house is too crowded, so he bought the house on the side, spent a hundred yuan, and the two houses were opened, with an arch in the middle, and ten rooms were obtained, so he barely lived in.

The study room is still in front, and in a rare leisure time, Zheng Lang sat down with four students to read.

Sima Guang suddenly said, "Doctor Zheng, it's still not appropriate. ”

"What's wrong?"

"It is impossible for the victims to be sent back, the court's remedial strategy is nothing more than to give money, once the money is given, more people will pay attention, so many victims, it is impossible for all of them to be arranged smoothly......"

As soon as there is a problem, then the old accounts and new accounts will be cleared, and all the merits will be wiped out.

"Do your best," Zheng Lang said lightly.

He didn't come up with any good ideas in his mind, which was why he made a big deal out of it. If you don't make trouble, a cadre will think that you are submissive, and then things will really go as Sima Guang expected. He also said: "This is also one of the disadvantages of my dynasty, I have seen a few Zhizhou, Liu Zhizhou, Gao Zhizhou and Taishan Cui Zhizhou, the former Zhizhou Wang Zhizhou, etc., all seem to be inactive, but is it really inaction? It is precisely in this way that we dare not make great achievements, and once there is something, there will inevitably be disputes, and it is not meritorious, but it will become a transgression. If I only build two weisters, it will be a political achievement. Repairing Bawei and expanding ports is not necessarily a political achievement. ”

It's not the master of high merit, it's the minister of high merit.

I was so angry that I couldn't do it, and my speech was still very extreme. There will be ministers who are jealous of their merits, but when it comes to the status of Wang Zeng and Lu Yijian, Song Shou, Du Yan and Cai Qi, is it worth their jealousy? The god horse of merit has long become a floating cloud in their eyes. Unless Zheng Lang really takes back the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun and Lingxia, then all the bigwigs will be shocked together.

The two letters arrived in the capital almost incoincidentally.

Zheng Lang's cautious eyes couldn't hide it from Lu Yijian at all, and as soon as he read the letter, he knew that Zheng Lang wanted something, money or silk or grain. I smiled, I see, it almost made me think that you were really some star in the sky.

After discussing with several ministers, Song Shou was a little disappointed and said, "He has no way to ......."

This is very wrong, Zheng Lang has the ability to squeeze out all the resources in his hands to the maximum, and give better play, not only in learning, but also in the experience of future generations, but it will definitely not turn stones into gold.

Wang Zeng thought for a moment and asked, "What about the plan now?" The matter could not be delayed, and the victims immediately arrived in Taiping Prefecture. ”

Wang Sui asked, "How much silk is he going to ask?" ”

Lu Yijian said: "Don't worry, the disaster victims have arrived, we don't bring it up, he has to bring it up." ”

Wang Zeng didn't make a sound, but several bigwigs all understood, and now that he brought it up, Zheng Jiazi would open his mouth widely, and he couldn't follow Zheng Lang's algorithm, so how much would it cost? 500,000 yuan is the base number, and 1 million is not impossible.

There is a million yuan, and the court itself has already solved it, so why wait for you to deal with it?

But if you really have a million dollars, you can only barely solve it in the imperial court. In Taiping Prefecture, without using some means, the effect of one million dollars will be magnified, which will bring greater turmoil to Zheng Lang. Rigid use of money, one million yuan is still not enough in Taiping Prefecture!

Pressed down for the time being.

Wang Zhaoming's recital was handed directly to the palace, and after Zhao Zhen saw it, he couldn't figure it out, what was going on? It turned out that the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty were calculating and calculating Taiping Prefecture, and they were furious and summoned several prime ministers and other important ministers into the palace.

Start asking.

Lu Yijian said four words: "The ancestral legal system." ”

Four words made Zhao Zhen unable to speak.

But tens of thousands of disaster victims saw that they were about to arrive in Taiping Prefecture, and they couldn't delay, so they used fast horses, not Xiaoqing, to write a letter to Zheng Lang, not what you think, the ancestral legal system.

Zhao Kuangyin's brothers left some rules, not to kill the descendants of the Chai family, the speaker is not guilty, not to kill the doctor, this is the most important ancestral edict, and there are others, such as restricting the rights at all levels, not only military power, but also the power of ministers, ministers, including the rights of Taizong, and even the rights of the emperor.

The imperial power is also subject to restraint, if it is an edict, from the knowledge system to the middle book, there is a link that is not passed, and this edict cannot be passed. But it also depends on the fact that if the emperor does something wrong, and you don't agree, I will replace it, if one disagrees, replace one, and if you don't agree with a hundred, you will replace a hundred, then this binding force will lose its effect. can be replaced by a Ming Jun like Zhao Zhen, but he is forced to do so.

Simple open cooking is available, but the pros and cons cannot be distinguished.

The following governors also have general judgments to supervise and restrict, except for the county, the county is too small, and then the restriction does not make much sense.

The decree soon arrived in Zheng Lang's hands, and Zhao Zhen made Lu Yijian's four words frightened, and he didn't understand it, so he used the fastest speed to remind Zheng Lang.

After Zheng Lang saw it, he was silent for a long time.

If you put on a big hat like this, it will be very troublesome, and several students are also speechless, Wang Anshi said: "How can you involve the ancestral legal system?" ”

It will be involved, if you don't do anything and sit back and watch the situation continue to happen, these four words will be said every day for more than ten years, from time to time, and even in the near future.

said: "The real set can be applied, I set a precedent, and in the future, other states will ignore the imperial court, and the states will not be established, one of them." ”

"It won't be ...... like that"

"It can't be so, why don't the victims come and refuse it?"

"I can't stand it."

"I can't accept it, how will the edict be implemented in the future?"

"Doctor Zheng, what you are talking about is not reasonable, it is crooked."

But many people think so...... Not only that, but in the future, if I open an example, what if the following states ignore the orders of the court in order to be in a hurry? ”

"If you don't ignore it, how can you circle it? Doctor Zheng, I understand, this is also the mean. ”

"It's not the mean, it's something far more troublesome than the mean."

"What is it?"

"Internal friction."

After saying that, Zheng Lang wrote a letter, since you want to be reasonable, let's be reasonable together.

"Jingmin's original wei is less than 400 hectares, and the decision has not been decided for 50 years, and the folds and surpluses are like mountains, and the ruler calf rolls spread for more than a thousand miles, and the ministers have expanded three times, and the eight phases of the Buddha have been expanded in the lake one after another, how can it be decided, a hundred years and a thousand years?"

Don't say anything about the ancestral legal system, an original Wanchun Wei, the area is not as big as one-third of my current Jingminwei, let you gang quarrel for more than half a century, and the written folds can be paved for a thousand miles as long, have you discussed an accurate answer?

"Youyun more than ten states are my great hatred, the spirit is the fertile place of the Yellow River, you are a minister, entrusted to one of you, half a year to recover, is it successful? There is a difference between strength and wealth, and wealth is divided into rich and poor, so why should a state accommodate tens of thousands of people of the ninth class? ”

The strength is big and small, the power of the state is also big and small, a small state can actually accommodate tens of thousands of poor victims, who can do it, or let one of you lead the army for half a year to accept the sixteen states of Youyun and Lingzhou for the imperial court? Only the sixteen states of Youyun were recovered, and the Great Wall was repaired with the financial resources of the Song Dynasty, so why should it be subject to the Khitans? Take back Lingzhou and compress Li Yuanhao to the desert Gobi Desert of Xia Yin and Nanhetao, what kind of drama can he sing?

Can it be done?

"There are 30,000 puppet households in Taiping Prefecture, building a large number of people in all directions, centrifuging up and down, how can it be done? The number of wei is completed, everything is stable, and the court is also separated, and all are quite vigilant. The rise of the polder, like the season of grass and trees sprouting, why use big words? ”

Don't talk about the ancestral legal system, this is only Taiping Prefecture, a small state with a little more than 30,000 households, and it can't do anything to read. The ancestral legal system is well-intentioned, and it is also necessary to take matters into account, and don't put a high hat on a small state like Taiping Prefecture. If you want to wear it, you have to wear it when it's over. Otherwise, can such a small state, doing these big things, centrifugal up and down, be able to do a good job?

"The harvest of the two wei is not counted, the mu is out of four Hu, the new cultivated land is more than 1,900 hectares, and the annual grain increase is 700,000 Hu, and the eight wei are combined, what is the number? And there are port tax benefits, which is a small state in the middle and lower for the imperial court, but what is the matter, and the princes are strangled also? ”

At least 700,000 grains will be added to the two weis a year, and if the eight weis are added together, how much grain will be added? There is also a port that increases the commercial tax revenue in a year. This is just a miracle completed by a small and medium-sized state, but why did things just start, big guys, you want to strangle it?

What is the meaning!

"Since last year's two Wei builders, the state officials said to say, the night also said, everything came to come, and the six Wei opened, everything was twice as much as last year's four or five, the court intended to restrict, up and down centrifugation, everything rested, at that time suddenly up and down the season, the difference between the anthill, the soup pool was all broken, to the state people, the strength is not enough, the number of the court is coming, change the defeat, for the Pifu so, allow the minister to resign and return to his hometown, hope to open two inches, a year of waste sleep and forget to eat, not to the minister is ruined."

It's already very difficult, big guys, you play like a toy again, with a big hat like the ancestral legal system, pressure me and force me, I have to do a big thing, it's better to let me resign and dismiss the official as soon as possible, if you don't dismiss my official, I promised so many conditions, but none of them were realized, let me have a decent result.

Since we want to be reasonable, let's be reasonable together.

Zheng Lang finally saw clearly, what kind of ancestral legal system, don't take it seriously.

That was Lu Yijian's perfunctory words.

It is possible that the big guys are not very satisfied with themselves, and they have done a big thing, but they have not consulted with them, thinking that they have been deprived of their rights. But it's not the main reason, in the final analysis, I don't want to give much money, there are not many disasters this year, but the vitality is greatly damaged, and the treasury is still very tight, so Lu Yijian wants to use the least money and do the most practical things.

At least Lu Yijian may think so, but what will happen after he receives the victims, what does Lu Yijian care?

So there is this discernment.

Changed, there are no conditions to negotiate, I want to resign.

I don't believe it, those Qing ministers in the court, Wang Zeng, Song Shou, Cai Qi, etc., plus a Zhao Zhen, are really all confused.

And the plague will come, and see who will calm down.

Dare to love him, and Lu Yijian both used the victims as hole cards to play.

But Zheng Lang was forced to do so.

The book was written and sent to the capital.

Zheng Lang himself was out of the customs, he really resigned, and he had to wait for the officials in the capital to complete the handover before he could do anything.

Zhao Tongju has been so bitter these days, and when he met, he wanted to cry loudly, and said, "Zhizhou, you finally came out?" ”

"The autumn harvest has officially begun, and we can't ignore it."

"What do you say over there in the capital?"

"Ancestral legal system."

"Ancestral law?" After hearing these four words, Zhao Tongju almost sat on the ground in fright. The officials of the whole state are bent on doing good deeds, for the sake of the people, and for the country, what is the matter of the ancestral legal system?

"We have done a big job, in order not to let the court interfere, we did not report to the court one by one, and some people were not convinced. There are also some people who don't want to pay much money for support, and the ancestral legal system is just an excuse. "Is it worth it? He only changed one state, and he had no intention of promoting it to the whole country, issuing any reforms and changing systems in the whole country, and he had not even started to do what he had repaired, and he had even considered the interests of the big families in Taiping Prefecture.

Even if Lu Yijian is a conservative, he will not attack himself.

"Don't they give?"

"Give to what you want to give, ask me to say, ask me to ask, and want to give less."

"So that's ......" This completely subverted Zhao Tongjuan's understanding of the sacredness of the Chinese book.

"If you don't do that, you won't be able to be the prime minister."

“……”

After Zheng Lang finished speaking, he went to Liangwei again, and it became the center of gravity, and it also became the capital for himself to call out the big guys.

Many people surrounded them, and some people asked along the way, but Zheng Lang didn't say the truth, and he couldn't say it, but said vaguely: "The imperial court was originally kind to settle the victims, but my state is not strong enough to support it." So if you have some disputes with your ministers, don't think too much about it. ”

As before, the state affairs continue to be resumed.

The harvest of autumn grain has come up one after another, totaling more than 600,000 hu, and the actual number may be slightly higher, and over the years, the people have developed many bad habits, hiding the population, hiding the fields, and also hiding the output. But the hidden production will not be much, the actual maximum is sixty-five hundreds.

Although it is the autumn harvest, it is also the main harvest season, and the summer harvest yield is not high. In a year, the output of the two wei will not exceed 900,000 hu, and the actual output will not exceed 1 million hu.

However, this harvest only refers to the newly opened farmland, and the original compensation for the arable land of each polder household was not calculated.

The result was also expected by Zheng Lang, under the intensive cultivation of the people, the total yield per mu in two or three seasons was close to five stones, but less than five stones. The autumn harvest is a little more than three stones. Not particularly good, not particularly bad.

The tribute tax is 60,000 hu, including the summer tax can reach nearly 90,000 hu.

Record these data one by one and hand them over to the imperial court.

It was already very remarkable, and the people in the polder were overjoyed, and the cattle loans and grain loans issued by the state government in the spring were repaid one after another, and only a dozen or so households did not pay off the state loans because of some special circumstances at home.

I spent money to buy 100,000 mu of rice, which had nothing to do with the victims, and the grain and tax grain I bought could only provide the rations of the laborers who built the polder.

Officials were sent to organize and buy breeding pigs from other places, a total of 8,000 piglets, 50,000 chickens, ducks and geese. Improve the people's food, increase their spare income, and have a source of fertilizer.

It's a normal arrangement, Zheng Lang told the people about it a month ago.

Other than these, I didn't see what Zheng Lang had provided to the victims, or what he had planned. Cao Xiumu asked, but Zheng Lang didn't answer.

Zheng Lang's recital was folded to the Chinese book, Lu Yijian was annoyed when he saw it, and sent a person to ask Zheng Lang, boy, what do you want?

Zheng Lang replied, I don't want anything, or you arrange for the victims to let me resign. Either let me go on and send the victims back.

The two sides are tug-of-war, so that the people of Taiping Prefecture see the two bumper harvests, but they are not happy at all.

Even the people of Jiang and Ning heard about it.

Wei Wuniang took Wei Shiniang to Taiping Prefecture. After meeting, Wei Wuniang bowed and saluted: "Thank you Zheng Zhizhou last time." ”

"It's the duty of the official, don't thank Wu Niang."

"Those bad monks!" Wei Shi Niang kicked the pomegranate tree hatefully.

Wei Wuniang's face was slightly red, she had been thinking about coming over to say a few words of thanks after the incident, but after her husband heard about it, he became suspicious for no reason, and the couple had some dirty things, and it took a year for them to reconcile.

But it's scary to think about it, these monks are so bold that they dare to kill people and imprison women in caves.

sat down and asked again: "The concubine heard that Zheng Zhizhou had a dispute with the imperial court?" ”

"There were some misunderstandings between the two sides, and it will be clear if the explanation is made." Zheng Lang said lightly. Then he looked at Wei Shi Niang and frowned.

After a year, the big wave girl is more choppy than last year, but she can't help but run too diligently. Then he looked at Shi Congguang again, and he had to be reminded that day. With the status of the Wei family, it is impossible for her to marry herself as a concubine, and the concubine is not called a marriage. Could it be that they have taken a fancy to their two students, Wang Anshi and Yan Rongxiao, Lu Gongshu and Sima Guang can barely talk about marriage, but their two families have noble status, and in turn, they may not be able to value the Wei family, a rich man.

This look disappeared in a flash, and several people did not pay attention.

Wei Wuniang said: "My family also has a boat, and I saw the disaster victim boat in Yangzhou a few days ago, and it was about to reach the Yangtze River at this time. ”

This is the intention of her to come here in person, to express her gratitude, and to report another letter.

Sima Guang and Wang Anshi glanced at Lu Gongzhu at the same time.

It's no one else, your father dared to pull the queen off the horse for the sake of his own power, why can't he be flexible?

"Thank you, Wu Niang," Zheng Lang's expression was very light, and he turned his head to the four students and said: "The three court officials who came at this time are all very knowledgeable, if you don't understand something, you can ask them for advice, it will be beneficial to you." ”

Wei Wuniang couldn't see through Zheng Lang's thoughts, how could this be this sentence.

But the victims soon arrived.

There are not a few people, and along the way, all the state capitals have sent people to provide escorts, so as not to be afraid of any mistakes.

After Jiangning Mansion, it is the surface of the Taiping River.

A cadre of officials stood on the bow of the boat, arched their hands at Song Zhen and the others, and led the boat back.

Cai Xiang looked at the river in front of him and said, "I didn't expect it to be so troublesome." ”

Jia Changchao and Song Zhen were silent. Some thoughts turned in the minds of the two, could it be that a certain bigwig in the imperial court wanted to deliberately rectify the Zheng family?

But when you think about it, it's unlikely.

Then more than 100 victims from the ship poured onto the deck of the ship, excitedly pointed to the river and said, "Taiping Prefecture has arrived." ”

Along the way, nearly 300 people were crowded into each boat, and it was inconvenient to eat, drink, and live, and they endured a lot of hardships, and finally arrived at a beautiful place. Along the way, Jia Changchao and other officials had heard what had happened, but the victims didn't know it, and jumped up on the deck one by one.

It made the three of them frown.

I don't know what arrangements Zheng Lang of Taiping Prefecture has, but the ship has been going upriver for nearly half an hour, and I haven't seen a ship sent by Taiping Prefecture to meet him, and he has already shown signs of bad behavior.

But the ugly daughter-in-law wanted to see her in-laws, and faintly saw the city of Taipingzhou on the south bank of the Yangtze River, and the mouth of the Shuiyang River arrived.