At that moment, as if he had a soul in his heart, Zhao Zhen felt a faint pain in his heart.

"Father," Zhao Niannu held Zhao Zhen.

"Nunu, I'm fine," Zhao Zhen straightened up again, staring into the distance. If it weren't for his daughter, Zhao Zhen would faintly regard Zheng Lang as a good friend and brother in his heart, although one surname Zheng and one surname Zhao, one is a gentleman and the other is a minister. He has a broad enough mind and enough wisdom to judge.

Pang Ji and Fu Bi glanced at each other, a little envious, but envy doesn't work, there is no way to do Zheng Lang's step by changing himself, he is not afraid of this hardship, and he does not have the wisdom to do so many earth-shattering things.

Zhao Zhen stroked his hand and said, "I can't see it anymore." ”

"Father, Zheng Xianggong only went down to govern the river, not in Lingnan, and often returned to Beijing."

"Your Highness is right," Pang Ji also comforted.

"You don't understand, I was still young before, when the Empress Dowager Zhang Xian had just died, and I was often unhappy when I learned the news of the Empress Dowager Zhang Yi. Zheng Qing entered the palace to stroke the qin for me, I said that you want to be a courtier, Zheng Qing said that the minister does not want to be a courtier, but the character of the minister can't be a courtier, just want to be a good minister. The minister strokes the qin for His Majesty, for the sake of a good emperor in the future, not to please His Majesty. I asked again, are you ready to be an emperor? ”

Zhao Zhen leaned on the railing, and he was getting old, and when he was old, he liked to reminisce, and when he recalled the beginning, a touch of gentleness appeared on his face

"I didn't understand it at the time, and I didn't understand Zheng Qing either, but his old-fashioned appearance at that time, I often thought about it, and I wanted to laugh. That question was to the point, I didn't know what it meant, and then everything happened, and I knew the difficulty of being an emperor. Then he and I talked about governing the country while playing the harp. In fact, he also thought it was simple at the time, but it was not easy, so it was a little bigger. It really taught me a lot of lessons. At that time, I thought, when he is older, go down to survey and grind, and I will keep him by my side and train him well. Unexpectedly, this time, it went down, and in the past 20 years, eight or nine times out of ten have been floating in the states and capitals below. I'm guilty. ”

"Fu Qing, I heard about him avoiding Chuzhou."

"There is such a thing, because of Han Xin in the past, Zheng Lang was afraid that others would release rumors again, so he went to Sizhou instead."

"Whether Han Xin has objections or not is up for debate, and it is very inconvenient to stay in Sizhou to deal with affairs. Let's write an edict, let the officials of Chuzhou prepare a house for Zheng Qing, don't be too extravagant, it is estimated that Zheng Qing does not like it, you can live in the Zheng family, and quickly go to the dock to pass the edict to Zheng Qing and go to Chuzhou instead. If anyone uses Chuzhou Han Xin to make a fuss, I will ask strictly and not slack off, even if I make a fuss in secret, I will strictly investigate to the end. ”

"Whoa."

"He doesn't like fame and fortune very much, and that's one thing I can do for him."

"Whoa."

However, Zhao Zhen still stood on the city tower and did not go for a long time.

Zheng Lang slowly went south, and many people cheered, the opportunity to make a fortune has come, and it is the wealth of the country. More than 200 million yuan, exchanged for silver, had to be pulled by tens of thousands of horse-drawn carriages. With so much money, if you divide it, you will be developed.

Then the problem arises.

Not only water conservancy, but also land disputes.

The first is the land of the Grand Canal, in fact, the reopening of the new transport has an important role, not only to navigate and regulate the river water, but also to irrigate. A lot of wasteland will be turned into fertile land by the appearance of the Grand Canal. The new canal is more than 1,000 miles long, and the area of cultivated land encroached upon will reach 600,000 to 800,000 mu, but the new cultivated land is enough to make up for the loss of this cultivated land, and in addition, many poor fields will be turned into fertile land. In the sense of farming, it is only good for the imperial court, and there is no harm.

But it can't be adjusted on the spot.

For objective reasons, the newly cultivated land is not necessarily in the vicinity of the encroached cultivated land, and most people are reluctant to leave their homeland. If you look at Jiangnan, you will know that there is so much arable land waiting for the people to cultivate in Liangguang, but some tenant farmers still rent other people's fields to live, precisely because they are unwilling to leave their hometowns.

The subjective reason is that it cannot be adjusted.

As soon as the Yellow River came, it was washed away, it was a natural disaster, and no one could be blamed. However, the imperial court repaired the river, which was different in nature. Or this is a feudal dynasty, you can forcibly relocate, you can set up a city management, you can use a bulldozer, but if you analyze it carefully, it's not the same thing, the bulldozer dares to shovel the peasants alive, but dare to shovel the house of the township chief and the town head? Although the Song Dynasty was more enlightened in internal affairs, it also did not dare. Don't say that the township mayor and town mayor dare not provoke, and the common people and officials dare not go too far. This is the real early Northern Song Dynasty.

The real peasants, that is, the third, fourth, and fifth class households, are relatively easy to satisfy, have no power and no power, and except for a very small number of ruffians, the majority of the peasants accept it as long as they are properly regulated. The exchange of land is also this group of peasants.

However, more than 70% of the land is owned by the main household, which shows that the annexation has reached an outrageous level.

These people are rich and powerful, and they are not very easy to manage, and if they are not regulated and greedy enough, they can grind officials to death, and all kinds of ugly things will happen. Therefore, Zheng Lang proposed two solutions, the first is to exchange land for land, and the second is to exchange the future bank supervision deed shares.

It is not to give deed shares, but to value the land as the first batch of deed shares in the future.

The Ping An Supervision Deed shares were sold out, and they were speculated to a sky-high price by the banknote bank. As a result, the second batch of bank supervision shares were looted. However, it is also necessary to take into account the income of investors and the future reputation, the imperial court only made it a share of 40 million yuan, but it still needs 80 million yuan, that is, 10% of the deed shares are worth 120 million yuan.

There is a lot of hot money left, which can only be on a first-served basis, the first is first served, and the latter is returned one by one.

It is necessary to have money early, but because of nervousness, it may not work early, and there must be a black box, and this deed stock money is used as the first batch of money to buy shares when the bank increases shares in the future.

The land price is also relatively fair, and Zheng Lang acquiesced and allowed the land price to rise by more than 20% in the surrounding area

Above. The top is loose, the bottom will be looser, and the final increase will be more than 50%. And it is a very subtle one to use He Tan.

You can't use Wang Sui and other Jiangdong Three Tigers to come over, blindly be fair and tough, and in the end you have to make a big mess. He Tan is considered an upright minister in the court, but his family comes from a large family, and he often speaks from the position of the powerful. This is also the reason why he opposed Fan Xiang's implementation of the salt decontamination law.

When using He Tan to implement the policy, he will be slightly soft, biased towards big and wealthy families, this is not afraid, what he is afraid of is the inconsistency between the inside and the outside, that is the worst thing.

Although it is partial, it is enough to be consistent on the outside and inside, then it will reduce contradictions and conflicts.

No matter how biased, he didn't dare to go too far, let alone stop the speed of the imperial court's river repair, Ouyang Xiu might not be able to do it, but He Tan could do it.

Therefore, this land price will not only exceed 50% of the actual land price, but eventually the area will also expand to more than 50% of the actual area.

The imperial court seems to have suffered a loss. In fact, there is no such thing, and another pit has been buried in the middle, and sooner or later the bank supervision will be expanded, and the next step will be extended to most of the state capitals in the country, except for a few states where the imperial court is not well controlled, almost every state capital will have a prison.

This is a long time, and once it is so large, it is necessary to make the officials more familiar with banking affairs. There is a grinding time period. At least after more than ten years, the interest in the middle will make up for the difference.

But the common people don't know that there is also an investment problem. The larger the scale of the bank supervision, the return ratio will decline, when the peak is almost close to 30 million yuan a year, at least more than 20 million yuan, when it becomes 30 percent of the deed shares, the scale is huge, and it is more popular, but the income ratio begins to decline, and the annual income is less than 50 million yuan. Some people can see it, but it is still very considerable, at least better than investing in arable land.

Moreover, under Zheng Lang's repeated publicity, Kaneda's image is not very good. The land itself is disputed, and now it is to make up for the loss, if you meet a rigid minister like Wang Ding, who will not pay anything, what can you do? There will be a lot of trouble, but if the country wants to control the river, dig it will be dug up.

The bank deed deed stock is very tempting.

Make it lifelike soft.

Still not satisfied, a family surnamed Cao thinks that the land price given by the imperial court is too thin, he is the patriarch surnamed Cao, and he takes the surname Cao up and down to lie down on the construction site, but he is not allowed to dig, and he wants to dig unless he digs it from me. Whoever dares to dig it, if it does, tomorrow the impeachment will become a snowflake floating in the sky.

When Zheng Lang heard the news, he rushed to the scene on the third day and personally saw the hundreds of acres of fertile land of that family, some good and some bad. It can't be compared to the capital, but here, it can be regarded as a high price.

So Zheng Lang rode a horse more than ten miles away, avoiding these troublemakers to ask about the local land price, and the same hemorrhoidal land was only 500 wen, and the fertile land was only two yuan. But it was because of this money that thousands of migrant workers were stuck alive for three days.

Zheng Lang ordered the soldiers to arrest all the troublemakers, and the three felons were sent to Murder Island, which was not too far from here, but the local people also called Salmon Island Murder Island. Seven felons were stabbed in Cangzhou Prison City. The rest were all flogged or roded.

All their land was confiscated.

If the money given is not fair, you can make trouble, and if you give too much, you will make trouble, block the progress of the imperial court to control the river, and drag thousands of people for three days, when will you not be punished?

The punishment is skipped, which is to set an example for the killing.

Something like this happens almost every day.

Not only did the canal cause a lot of turmoil, but there was also a new lake.

Huainan Road is not like Jiangdong, and the fields are repaired in the lake, and the name is polder. There are polders or enclosed fields, not much, the land is high and low, the high slope is not too high, the small soil slope, planting mulberry and hemp, and planting rice in the sub-plain zone. There are also many low-lying areas if the circle is not worthwhile, so rely on the harvest of the sky, there are also some people planted crops, if the Huai River flood season water potential is not large, it will become a high-yield field, if the water potential is huge, one yuan owned. There are also a large number of swamps and reed fields, most of which are barren, and a small number of people have planted some water chestnut and ulva to subsidize their families.

The topography of Huainan Road is very different from that of later generations, and there are not many large lakes now, and if you want to store water, you must dig many low-lying places into lakes.

In fact, this is more helpful to the cultivated land, after a large amount of lake mud is dug up, the silt will pile up the depression, and it will become the first-class fertile land, and it seems that the cultivated land area is reduced, and the actual output will far exceed the original output. However, new problems arise.

Zheng Lang deliberately didn't say it beforehand, and it was even worse if he said it.

If you don't say it beforehand, there will be no one to scatter some seeds indiscriminately, this is my wasteland, the Song Dynasty clearly stipulated, after the wasteland is opened, the landlord will be exempted from taxes for several years. Then the court will slowly compensate.

Now we all know it, but now that it's autumn, what to plant? Do you want to sprinkle winter wheat in the swamp?

But after going down, there are still many people who shamelessly say that this is my Ulva field, this is my reed field, and God knows how many hundred years these reeds have grown here.

There are some poor households who rely on the lake to make a living, but more often than not, it is blackmail. This is all gone, and the area is calculated by real crops, and fields are exchanged for fields. Then the cultivated land that had accumulated silt was redivided and handed over to the fourth and fifth class households.

If you have no choice but to dig up the fertile land, you will be dealt with according to the canal.

There must be people who are not satisfied, and if they are not satisfied, there will be disputes.

Officials spend most of their time not on water conservancy, but on these lands. You can't blame the local officials for their dereliction of duty, and the local officials are also dizzy for this place. Zheng Lang specially used these things to teach Sima Guang and Wang Anshi another lesson.

If you can't learn from Ouyang Xiu, you won't be able to govern the country without a big household, and you won't even be able to collect taxes. To see their greedy side, this is for Sima Guang. But they are indeed powerful and can make trouble, and they have to learn what kind of means to use to deal with it, this is for Wang Anshi. A water conservancy will make them more mature. In Zheng Lang's heart, these two people are probably more important than the river control project. If it gets better, the Song Dynasty will be at least half better, and if it gets worse, the Song Dynasty will also be half better.

And the two have really stood out, but Zhao Zhen deliberately did not reuse it in order to protect himself. But reuse is a matter of time.

In addition, I also handed over the big and small Su to them, I didn't say it explicitly, but the meaning was very clear, this is your little junior brother, you must take them well and teach them well. However, Xiao Su was very distressed, and a few months later quietly reacted to Zheng Lang with a question, very confused, the two had two different political ideas, kind, and wanted to take care of the little junior brother, so they desperately forcibly instilled, and Xiao Su made the two of them fill in the ducks and fill in the stupidity.

The controversy below also spread to the court.

No one said anything for the time being.

The weather is relatively good this year, since the winter of the year before Zhao Zhen's illness, the winter has been very cold in the past few years, including last winter. However, since the fourth year of Jingyu, that is, from this winter, there will be no cold winter for several years. Not only this year, but there will be no cold winter in the next few years, Zheng Lang knows, but there is no need to say it

It doesn't have to be a warm winter, as long as it's not a cold winter, the Northern Song Dynasty is still in a warm winter environment on the whole, and the winter construction time will be extended, especially in Huainan, the winter rest time will be shortened to half a month, plus the Wudan Festival, the work break period will not exceed one month.

Although the construction site is not as dense as Liangzhejiang Road and Jiangnan West Road, it can also be regarded as a relatively densely populated area in the Song Dynasty, and the population of the Zhuzhou Prefecture through the construction alone is close to one million households, and if you add the people of the neighboring prefectures, and then add the people of the Bianhe River Basin and the capital to it, it will reach more than two million households.

This is what Zheng Lang calls labor.

Without a dense population, there would not be enough labor to carry out the construction. Even if it is nearby, for example, the people of Chuzhou can be transferred to Sizhou for support, it cannot be regarded as support, and during the winter break, if there is not much work at home, they can also get an extra income by labor. However, the people of Chizhou cannot be transferred to Sizhou, the distance is too far, the consumption is serious, the finances will be tight, and it will not be very convenient for the people to go back and forth by themselves.

At the beginning, we were still looking, but the construction did not start in August, and the plan was not fully determined. It was not until the end of September that it was officially started, but it is still being seen, and the confirmed part of the project will start first. This view will not be settled until next fall.

At first, there was not a lot of labor, but the people gradually finished the autumn harvest, and all the winter wheat and rape were planted, and the labor gradually increased. Together with the organization of officials, the peak of labor once reached more than 1.4 million people, which is already about the same as when Yang Guang built the Grand Canal.

This is not the peak season, and once the construction of the northern project begins, the number of laborers may double.

The money is spent like flowing water.

At this time, it was only some main households making trouble, and it was undoubtedly a mantis arm as a car, and they were beyond their strength.

Zheng Lang's approach is also very gentle, except for a few severe punishments that make a lot of trouble, he still handles the contradictions in various places with a gentle attitude, which makes it difficult for some opponents to find excuses.

didn't expect a small Cao family to bring some trouble to Zheng Lang.

The Cao family is not the Cao family of Queen Cao, the Cao family is the Zhending family, and the two families have nothing to do with each other for eight lifetimes, but Zhending Cao is now extremely prominent, I don't know, the two families have actually climbed to a layer of relationship, eight lifetimes can't be recounted, can eighteen lifetimes be recounted? Still not narrated. It's just that I sent some gifts in the past, and let a steward of the Cao family accept them, so I came back to publicize, and the two of us recognized each other.

Empress Cao didn't know about this either.

The patriarch of the Cao clan sent it to Shamen Island, and the Cao family was anxious, and the relationship hit the Cao family in Zhending, and gave some generous gifts. But he didn't say what happened, he skimmed it and complained about the improper handling of the officials. Obviously, other people's land is compensated for five yuan per acre, why do we only compensate three yuan, is it possible that the Cao family is inferior, so there is an opportunity to instigate.

Moreover, they did not ask for compensation, but only for the people to be retrieved from Salmon Island. When Steward Cao heard this, he accepted a generous gift again, and felt that he could make it by fishing for one person, so he agreed.

But I didn't expect to run into trouble.

Zheng Lang had already expected this, he didn't expect another Cao family to come to fish for people, but he expected that someone would come to fish for people, not only the Cao family, in order to have a deterrent effect, nearly 100 people were exiled, the front was arrested, and the back was released, the court lost its prestige, and there were bound to be more disputes below. Therefore, it is strictly ordered that no matter whether it is sent to Shamen Island or Cangzhou Prison City, as long as it is for the sake of water conservancy, anyone who comes to intercede must not be released.

An unknown steward of the Cao family is important, and he is still solemn and respectful, and the prison officials of Shamen Island do not dare to release the prisoner.

The steward of the Cao family felt that he had lost face, so he quietly went to Beijing to report to Empress Cao, and tampered with it again, which was far from the truth.

Empress Cao is not a good person, she is a good person, but she is far less qualified and intelligent than Liu E, and it can be seen from her life that she has let the ministers play in the palm of her hand many times, Zhao Zhen is not happy with Zhao Zhen, Zhao Shu is on the throne, and she can't protect Zhao Zhen's harem concubines, fortunately, Zhao Ji talked about her conscience, otherwise her life would be more miserable.

And she also has a shortcoming, protecting her mother's family, including protecting Gao Taotao, it is this shortcoming that caused Wang Anshi to fail to change the law.

After hearing this, she didn't dare to plead with Zhao Zhen, it didn't work, so she asked someone to find Ouyang Xiu. Why is it Ouyang Xiu, the reason is very simple, first, Ouyang Xiu's fame is getting bigger and bigger, and second, he has some disagreements with Zheng Lang.

did not oppose the governance of the river, don't talk about the Cao family, even if it is his own Cao family, he also dare not stop the major right and wrong of governing the river. It is only said that the officials below have done something unfair, although the Cao family is stubborn, but Zheng Lang does not punish the ground, and also stabs several people, the punishment is too heavy.

After Ouyang Xiu heard this, he understood that Ouyang Xiu couldn't do it before, but now he can really do it. What's more, the emperor has never had a child, who will be in the East Palace, Zhao Zongshi, who is Zhao Zongshi's wife Gao Taotao, and the niece of Empress Dowager Cao.

Another thing also made Ouyang Xiu a little resentful, Zheng Lang used the future deed shares of Ping An to buy An, why didn't he say it to himself beforehand? Can you do it well if you keep talking? But Ouyang Xiu wouldn't think like this, thinking that Zheng Lang was deliberately cheating him.

The case went to his mouth and further processed. As for the evidence, Minister Xu of the imperial court heard about it, and as long as he heard a trace of wind, it rained heavily. Moreover, not only was the wind blowing, but there were already five or six strong winds blowing below. Editing and processing, a tearful unjust case was concocted.

The early dynasty will be repaid.

Farther away from the truth, there is no matter of the Cao family forcibly stopping the construction, so that thousands of people have been delayed for three days, and there is no matter that the compensation given by the imperial court far exceeds the local land price, and there are many tricks of torture, knowing that the Cao family is a relative, and deliberately using a relative to establish authority.

When Zhao Zhen heard this, he immediately said: "Stop, stop, stop, you said that family is a relative." ”

No, the Cao family is in Zhending, of course, the Cao family's real estate is not only really fixed, but also in other places, but all in Hebei, not in Jingdong Road, Hebei will start construction in the future, but this year did not start construction. I don't understand.

Ouyang Xiu said: "This Cao family is the distant clan of King Wu Hui.

As soon as Zhao Zhen heard the reaction, he didn't blame him, he heard about it, and Ouyang Xiu didn't make a mistake. said: "Well, you go down and check." ”

Ouyang Xiu was dumbfounded, and had no choice but to go down, only to be scolded by Zheng Lang bloodily. There was no explanation at all, but a series of reprimands: "Uncle Ouyang Yong, you consider yourself a gentleman, what a big deal it is to repair the river, do you know it?" Cao Bin has been cautious all his life, and several Cao Wei brothers and Queen Cao are even more ancestors of Cheng's father, cautious, and respected by the world, as a pillar of the country, but you let the villain pollute the innocence of the Cao family, is there any dereliction of duty? In the past, you ridiculed Lu Yijian, but now this move is more suspicious of being attached to the powerful, where is your integrity? As a scholar of Hanlin, in charge of the emperor's decree, without asking questions, and reading books indiscriminately, do you have the way of a courtier? ”

scolded bitterly and obediently fled to the capital.

Zhao Zhen still didn't blame.

The truth behind the beauty that Zheng Lang said refers to the fact that behind the prosperity of the country, the ills are accumulating more and more, especially the minister's integrity is getting worse and worse.

Many ministers have changed, not for the better, but for the better, but have become sophisticated, and this is a problem of the system. The ancestral family law is good, and meritorious service is rewarded, and mistakes are punished, so that the ministers of the DPRK and China will be degraded and promoted, and there will be no phenomenon of power controlling the country and taking power. It also makes ministers more cautious in their work.

However, the system has undergone a bad change, and it has changed from being degraded when there is a mistake, but now it has become that no matter whether there is a mistake or not, as long as the ministers compete for impeachment, they will be demoted, leading to indiscriminate impeachment attacks in the court. Of course, if you go down, you can also rise back, and it turns out that you can only rise back if you make meritorious service below. Now it's not a meritorious service, as long as you grind it down and have qualifications, you can quickly transfer back to the court. Therefore, the minister became more and more sophisticated.

You know, how can you solve it?

Besides, how to judge this merit or demerit?

Therefore, Zhao Zhen was at a loss, although Zheng Lang's story was told for half an hour.

Wudan has arrived. Fu Bi was tired of his mother and begged to retreat, Zhao Zhen did not allow it, also known as the sick family, Zhao Zhen sent an envoy to forcibly summon it, but it was a double sight. According to the reason, the festival degree makes the town to be gaunted, and it is necessary to resign repeatedly in the above table before receiving the favor. Xu Huaide only made one table, and Ouyang Xiu impeached him for contempt for the imperial court. The edict was shown by Ouyang Xiu, and Xu Huaide apologized, but it was still not on the table.

The scholar ridiculed it, but Xu Huaide had Xu Huaide's statement, or he would not accept it, why should he be false and coy, this is not what a gentleman does. Therefore, Liu Chang played, the ministers saw the reason and fell, and the officials, or one let, or another let, or three lets, their traces were fake, and their etiquette was annoying, and they should be stopped by a middle system. Xi Shun ordered nine officials, Kui Long did not let it, and other Bo Yi only let it, and now every scholar doctor has a life, regardless of the high or low tired, although some people are out of sincerity, snobbery, but too much benefit. If it is a custom to follow the ingenuity, take false names, and want to be fascinated by the public, it is hateful. In the past, Zheng Gongbei resigned as a secretary, and he retreated and let Taishi order himself, and his son was evil. Subsequently, Gongsun Duan was in turmoil. This is still a small one, Wang Mang replaced the Han, and he started with a good name, and finally fell into the evil way. has an indifferent personality, the former is none other than Zhong Yan, and the latter is none other than Zheng Lang. Although Lang is light, it is difficult to see his concessions, and he often asks for officials because of things. I hope Your Majesty will think twice.

It's interesting.

Learn from Zheng Lang, rarely give up officials, and sometimes in order to do things conveniently, he takes the initiative to ask the court for official power. But who dares to say that Zheng Lang is not indifferent?

Gao Tao didn't dare to say it.

He has not yet gotten to the point, which makes it easier for ministers to develop an atmosphere of hypocrisy.

The Khitan sent envoys Yelu Sining, Han Zao, Yelu Yan, and Wang Tang to celebrate the Wudan Festival. However, during the banquet, Wang Tang suddenly said a very strange word, looked at Zhao Zhen and said: "Your Majesty, my lord entrusted the minister with a message to say hello to the teacher." ”

No name is mentioned, but who in the Song Dynasty is qualified to be the teacher of the new emperor of Liao.

Zheng Lang did teach Yelu Hongji, but is he a teacher of the Liao Emperor? The monarchs of the first hall opened their mouths.

After a question, Wang Tang said again: "My lord asked the minister to bring some gifts to the teacher, and asked the minister to ask His Majesty to allow the minister to go and look at the teacher on behalf of my lord." ”

ps: A few days ago, I saw a bulldozer in Henan pushing farmers to death, and when I watched it today, I actually saw that there are also those in Sichuan and Guangxi, can this thing still grow into mushrooms after the rain? This one is even more than yesterday's.

To be continued

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