In July and August, it rained.

Zhao Zhen was almost killed by Lao Tian in the palace.

A few months ago, I prayed for rain, but the rain did not come. Seeing that it was a good harvest season, it was raining vigorously. It's deadly rain.

At this time, people harvest very simply, the rapeseed is ripe, dried in the ground, put on a tarpaulin and hit the rape with a rake made of grates, knock the grains down, dry them, and then press them into rapeseed oil. The wheat and sorghum are crushed with stones in the drying field, and the rice is also dried, and then a large wooden grain bucket is used to drag it to the ground, pick up the rice stalks, beat them vigorously, and beat the grains into the bucket. In short, it takes a few days of bright sun. This is also nonsense, if there is no sun for a few days, even if there is a harvester, you can't get rid of all the grains.

This rain is continuous, incomparable, especially in the south of the rice warehouse, after the Huangmei day, it is still rainy, and it is difficult for the rice to be full. Even if half a grain of rice grows, it is still rice, and Guan Jian will not see a few sunny days, how can the rice be brought down?

It's not in a hurry, let's continue next year......

So Zheng Lang doesn't want to enter the Chinese book, if there are not so many big guys to hinder him, he can enter the Chinese book and relieve the disaster with peace of mind, but there are too many big guys, and they have complicated thoughts, and they are looking for guilt when they enter the Chinese book. If it weren't for Wen Yanbo's possibility of getting close to Jia Changchao, he wouldn't want to enter Zhongshu next year.

Zheng Lang's thoughts, no one knows, thinking that he is low-key and humble.

The situation is not very bad, after the inventory of various imperial histories, a lot of grain was recovered, and with food, the ministers also had a thick confidence in their hearts. It was supposed to be a good thing, but the Chinese book was seriously divided, and the disaster seemed to be serious, but in fact it was very scattered, so some problems appeared in various places one after another.

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Gangnam.

Jiangnan is more, now Jiangnan is far better than in history, before and after more than ten years, 40,000 hectares of polders have been reclaimed, from Jiangnan West Road to Jiangnan East Road. Cover large areas. The population is also much denser than it was at this time in history.

The slow change is in Liangzhejiang, where the development is more mature, and there is not much room for development, or compete with the mountains. There is not much room for competition with the sea. Driven by Zheng Lang, he realized the harm of occupying the lake, and continued to occupy the lake, but the speed was slower than in history.

One Jiangdong Wei, one Liangzhewei (The difference between Wei and Wei is that Wei is a little lower than the river surface. There must be a large number of polders, mostly west of Jiangning. It became an important hope for the imperial court.

But this year things are bad.

In Jiangdong, only rice could not be harvested, and when July and August came, the flood season was not so serious. Not only can the rice not be harvested, but also the Jiangdong is the Yangtze River water system, which is slow to enter the sea and has a large water capacity. The flood season is mainly in May and June, but the flood season of the two Zhejiang provinces is different, and its water system is close to the sea. The water capacity is small, the flood season in May and June is not serious, on the contrary, in July and August, affected by typhoons, there are many outbreaks of mountain floods, and the rivers are narrow, coupled with this strange weather, the two Zhejiang provinces will also suffer from the harm of autumn.

After a difficult August, the situation still did not get better in September. Hangzhou, the former prosperous place, has become miserable. It is an exaggeration to say that there is no harvest in the fields, but very little rice is harvested. Originally, the price of rice in Hangzhou was only 300 wen per stone because of the impact of Jiangdong Wei, and then it rose sharply, and soon climbed to 1,000 wen with one stone. Fifteen hundred.

If the price of two Zhejiang and one stone of rice rises to 1,500 Wen, how much will the north that is short of grain rise?

Yin Lu of Hangzhou Mansion eagerly asked the court for help, and there was no way for a few bigwigs in Zhongshu, if there was a shortage of grain in the north, it could still be transported from the south, but there was a shortage of grain in the south, where to transfer it, could it be transferred from Lingnan? Let Lu Xianggao order that the price of rice per stone be controlled within 500 Wen, and if it exceeds this price, its grain shop will be confiscated, and the offender will be beheaded for public display.

This order came from Chen Zhizhong's hand and had nothing to do with Xia Zhu. From another side, it also reflects Chen Zhizhong's lack of flexibility. …,

Chen Zhizhong made a mistake, and Lu Xianggao's flexibility was even worse, but he didn't expect that after receiving the order from Zhongshu, he would immediately issue the list text. A few days later, he sent his henchmen to inspect the counties, and after a while, his subordinates came back to report that the prefect was not good, and the streets were full of hungry people, some of whom were starving to death. Hurry up and find a way to ask the court for help.

Lu Xianggao didn't believe it and went out to see it in person.

The situation is worse than what the officials reported, it is good, and Hangzhou also implements this policy, and it is raining that there is no way to work if you want to, so you can only organize the victims and set up porridge sheds. There seems to be no problem with this practice, but the price of food is rising vigorously, and ordinary citizens also want to save a province, especially those poor people, and crowd into the porridge shack to queue up. In this way, the porridge shed has become a bottomless pit, and there is no way to effectively provide relief to the victims who really need relief.

That's where piecemeal disasters come in.

It really needs to be like the great disaster a few years ago, and it was a drought, and all the victims can be smoothly organized. But there is still a way, the main root is still in the middle book, the battle between Chen Xia and the two is getting more and more fierce, and even Zheng Lang does not dare to intervene at this time. Therefore, not only Hangzhou, but also other places have seen bad situations one after another.

Hangzhou has financial resources, but it has to be handed over to the treasury, and Lu Xianggao is not as bold as Zheng Lang, Pang Ji, and Han Qi, and they dare not use this financial resources, so the porridge shed is intermittent. This situation only makes the situation worse.

After the price ban was issued, no grain merchant dared to violate the will of the imperial court. However, there are policies at the top, countermeasures at the bottom, and they also have methods. You don't let us raise the price, we don't sell rice. The consequences are even more serious, although it was a little bitter, even if the rice was a little more expensive, and the half-full people were not hungry, they would survive in a day, but now the rice merchants are united and do not sell rice, and they can't buy rice if they have money, how do the people live? Especially because of the emergence of the Ping'an Prison, there are more people in Hangzhou who make a living by working, all of them are "workers", and they all rely on buying rice to get by. All the grain stores closed down together, and it was difficult to organize manpower to rob the major rice shops.

So in the most prosperous city of the entire Song Dynasty, many people starved to death. Some of the people saw that the situation was not good, and fled to other places. Lu Xianggao was anxious, in the Zhao Zhen Dynasty, people who paid more attention to human life, encountered a disaster year, some people were starved to death, there would be happens, but not many. Guan Jian happened in Hangzhou, how did the big guy in the capital think, and what did the emperor think? Regardless of face, he begged the capital for urgency. Zhongshu was also dumbfounded, since the Song Dynasty took the Southern Tang Dynasty, it was the south that transported grain to the north, so there was grain from the north to the south? How much does it cost to come and go? Therefore, Lu Xianggao said that since last winter, Shaanxi and the entire north have been hit by drought. There wasn't much rice in the granary.

This is not right, there is rice in the major granaries in the north, but not much, and I am afraid that there will be another disaster next year. So I don't want to go back to the south. He also said, Lu Xianggao, there should still be food in Jiangnan, you can figure out your own way.

Lu Xianggao was forced hard.

When he was at a loss, one of his subordinates hurriedly came in to report: "Prefect, the big thing is not good, there is an accident in Yan County." ”

"Yan County?" Lu asked Gao Hu suspiciously.

None of them. At this time, there was a famous figure in Yan County, Wang Anshi.

After Wang Anshi's father lost Ding Wei, Zheng Lang went home to Ding Wei, the middle of the court was Jia Chang Dynasty, under his intentional suppression, Wang Anshi was very slow, and deliberately let him wander around the south of the Yangtze River and Zhejiang, away from the important places of Beijing. made a change, and at this time it was not in Yin County, but in Yan County. One is in Minnesota Prefecture. One is in Viet Chau.

knows that he will not be in Yan County for a long time, and with the return of Zheng Lang, Wang Anshi will take office sooner or later. But compared with Yin County, the situation in Yan County is even worse, it is behind the hilly area, rainy and rainy, coupled with the autumn wind killing, the autumn flooding, far worse than Yin County. …,

The staff also felt a headache, Wang Anshi didn't have to worry. But behind him stood a huge giant. At the urging of Lu Xianggao, he took out a government notice stamped with a seal, ignored the imperial court's price limit order, and explicitly announced that the price of rice would be allowed to rise, and he would pay 3,000 wen and one stone to buy rice.

All localities are restricting the rise in rice prices, and I heard that the price of rice in Yan County has risen to one stone and three thousand meters. It turned out to be 300 tens of Wen, a whole increase of nine times, the rice merchants in all parts of the south of the Yangtze River went crazy, a swarm of hired ships, along the Grand Canal to transport rice to Hangzhou, and from Hangzhou along the Liangzhejiang Canal (Hangzhou to Ningbo Canal) to Shangyu, from Shangyu along the Cao'e River to Yan County. Fortunately, after the Cao'e River passed through Yan County, the water of the upstream Yan River became shallow, and the water level of the Cao'e River was still very deep, which did not affect the navigation of ships. Not only other places, but also local rice merchants in Hangzhou also shipped rice prices to Yan County in large quantities.

After reading the list text, Lu Xianggao was surprised, saying that it was a crime to kill the head, but it was clear that he was confronting the imperial edict, which was a serious crime, but Wang Anshi was a student of Zheng Lang, how could he do such an irrational thing? Although he was puzzled, he was still cautious, took his subordinates, regardless of the taboo of whether he could cross the border, and went straight to Yan County. Human life is at stake, regardless of whether it can cross the line or not.

When he came to Yan County, Wang Anshi heard that he was coming, and led his men to welcome him outside the city gate. Lu Xianggao asked angrily: "Wang Anshi, did you write this list?" ”

"Exactly."

"Wang Anshi, you are guilty of raising prices for profiteers?" As he spoke, he ordered someone to tie up Wang Anshi.

At this moment, a small official ran over and looked at Wang Anshi with a sad face. Lu Xianggao saw that he was sneaky, asked his subordinates to arrest him, and asked: "Your county governor is about to become a death row prisoner in the imperial court, what do you dare not say?" ”

The little officer fell to the ground and did not dare to make a sound.

Wang Anshi said: "It's okay for you to tell the truth. ”

"The prefect, since Wang Zhixian issued the order, rice merchants from all over the country have poured into the county, and they have been sending my county magistrate silver taels in order to thank my county magistrate. However, some rice merchants were unconscious and pretended to be deaf and dumb, so the magistrate of my family sent me to ask them for it, and if they didn't give it, they would not let them sell grain in the county. The rice merchants finally agreed. ”

Lu Xianggao is crazy, we are starving to death every day in Hangzhou, you help these profiteers to raise the price of rice, you also have to extort and collect bribes, even if your teacher is here, we also have to tell a reason. roaring like thunder, he shouted, "Bring those rice merchants." ”

After a while, a few fat rice merchants brought up, seeing this posture, even the county lord was tied up, frightened as earth, a businessman said: "Prefect, the grass people are guilty, but it's not all the grass people's fault, the county announcement clearly allows the price of rice and grain to rise here, I am a businessman, naturally pursue profits, as for gifts, it has nothing to do with the grass people, it is the county magistrate who sent people to forcibly extort, do not give generous gifts, do not let me sell grain, and also said, according to the amount of rice and grain, a stone to give him at least 1,000 yuan." Our grain was transported here, and we couldn't transport it back, and after settling the accounts, in addition to a thousand Wen, it was profitable, so we had to give them gifts. ”

Lu Xianggao was even more dizzy when he heard this, he received a gift of 1,000 wen for one stone of rice, how many bribes have been received in Yan County these days. This is simply the worst case of ink corruption since the founding of the Great Song Dynasty. Looking at the lord Bo, he asked, "How many bribes have you received from the rice merchants, do you have accounts?" ”

"Yufu Yin, there are accounts, all of them have accounts." Under the escort of the officials, the master Bo brought the account book, and Lu Xianggao flipped through it, this is clear evidence of the crime, even if there is Zheng Lang, he can't protect you. Suppress the anger in your heart. Report the matter to the imperial court as it is.

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This incident has a far-reaching impact, at least Wang Anshi and Zhang Fangping have a not very good idea, they don't believe in businessmen, and think that businessmen are treacherous. Therefore, in their economic thinking, they are all in favor of the national economy. Therefore, Wang Anshi later had an average loss and a market change, and this experience was not unimportant. …,

For the time being, the imperial court didn't know that it was raining too much, so Zhao Zhen had to send a ceremonial official to pray for the sunshine. It's not praying for rain, so that God makes the immortals want to die.

In fact, Zheng Lang wanted to remind him several times. But at this time, Chen Zhizhong and Xia Zhu were red-eyed in the middle book, and Zheng Lang had no way to participate, so he had to manage his own one-third of an acre. When September came, Zheng Lang came to the spy camp again.

Wang Song made Zheng Lang so forced that he was about to jump, so he had to select fifty more clever people from the middle and keep training in small stoves. Bring these fifty people, and at Zheng Lang's request, use medicine to erase the tattoos on their faces. There is still a little trace. But it's not obvious anymore, and it won't be obvious after a while.

Zheng Lang looked at the fifty people and asked, "Are you ready?" ”

"My subordinates are ready." Answer in unison.

"It's going to be a long time. The imperial court will recall you in three or two years, and you may not be able to return to China in ten or eight years. If not, it's too late to leave. ”

This time is not easy to determine, some may soon complete their mission and return to China, and some may be more than ten or eight years. Some are one-time tasks, while others are multi-tasking. As for the effect, Zheng Lang is also not sure.

None of them answered.

In fact, during this time, Wang Song and Wang Yong mentioned this matter many times. If you don't make it clear, you can't do it. Otherwise, when you reach an enemy country, you will immediately rebel, and it will become a big joke.

Zheng Lang looked at their determined expressions and was also very satisfied in his heart. At least for now, it's reassuring. Pulled Wang Song aside and whispered for a while, Wang Song bowed. After all that's said. Wang Song came back and ordered twenty people to come out. These are the best of the fifty, not only are they clever people, but they also know a lot of words. The latter is very rare for ordinary soldiers. In fact, the screening has reached the point of these fifty people, and none of them are bad. After speaking, Wang Song left the capital with the remaining thirty people and went to Shaanxi.

But it was not as important as the remaining twenty people, and Zheng Lang did not say much about the specific task, but took them back and stuffed them into the guards patrolling the palace. This is to cultivate their momentum, at least to see that the noble big man will not have stage fright.

Then let them enter Taixue for some superficial learning after the value is lowered. In order to further cultivate their momentum, let them live in Zheng Lang's own mansion at night. At least I often see the emperor, and if I see that Zheng Lang is not stage frightened, then I will not have stage fright when I see that I am not hiding it.

Zheng Lang was still not very relieved, and often called some beautiful prostitutes to perform songs and dances at home, and let the twenty soldiers watch. Zhao Zhen didn't know the insider, he heard that Zheng Lang was unusual, and often called a large number of beautiful prostitutes to perform songs and dances in the house, he wondered very much, could it be that Zheng Lang also began to degenerate? He went to the Privy Council in person to inquire about the situation.

Zheng Lang replied: "These people, the minister let them defect and did not hide the false Pang. ”

"The new prime minister of Western Xia?"

"It's him, the minister got some news, Yuan Hao was mediocre, Yu Ligong ignored government affairs, coerced beauty for fun, and handed over government affairs to this person. His sister was originally the wife of Yeli Yuqi, who took a fancy to Yuan Hao for a while, and got a son by luck and became the new queen of Western Xia. However, at this time, Yuan Hao did not favor this woman, but only favored the Wu Yi family. Because of this, the brothers and sisters were squeezed out, and the original Queen Yeli was deposed, but the crown prince was the biological son of Queen Yeli. ”

"Zheng Qing, you mean ......?"

"That's why the minister set up the spy battalion precisely for this purpose. The private salt channel has been preserved, and some of the people in my dynasty are not ashamed, and want to learn from Zhang Yuan, and often flee into Western Xia, but these people are like Gao Yanei, and they have no talent and cannot be used. Therefore, the minister asked these twenty people to do some training to see if they could get close to Wuzang. Your Majesty, once the Wuzang clan becomes the empress dowager of Western Xia, her husband will be killed by our dynasty with a counter-plot, and I will have a bad feeling towards my dynasty. ”

"That's right." Zhao Zhi became cautious. …,

"Your Majesty, don't worry too much, once there is a change in Western Xia as the minister thinks, the Khitan will take the opportunity to pick up the cheap, but it may not be able to really pick up the cheap. But one way or another, there will be some minor troubles at the border. It depends on whether these spies can use small and big. Now the question is whether they can fall down in the face of glory, wealth, and beauty once they are not hidden and reused. The minister didn't say it, but deliberately used these glamorous prostitutes to perform, looking at their expressions, if they could pass the beauty pass, they could get close to Wu Zang. ”

"I see, but I used the ......"

"Your Majesty, you can't underestimate it, such as Wang Song, Wang Yong, and Lu Ling...... And it doesn't matter, the scholars and doctors are all holding prostitutes for fun, so what's the harm if the ministers invite a few beautiful prostitutes home to perform? ”

Zhao Zhen laughed at one sentence.

In fact, many ministers are puzzled, and it can be said that ministers cannot be impeached. If this is also impeached, two-thirds of the doctors will be shot.

Except for this incident, the Privy Council was quiet, but the flames of war soon spread to Zheng Lang.

Zhang Kang moved to Weizhou because of his merits and was in charge of Jingyuan Road.

The rewards in the southern suburbs of the Song Dynasty were money, money, and things, and the front line also shared a lot. However, the price of goods in Beijing is definitely different from the price of the border, sometimes the price is good and the valuation is cheap, and sometimes the price is high when the object is low. This caused some disputes at the front.

In this regard, the attitudes of several border ministers were completely different, and the three divisions sent special branches to Gyeongju, which were overestimated by the evil, and the army was turbulent, so the superior people played it. Sun Wei shouted angrily: "This court is a special gift, how dare you speak presumptuously to move the public." ”

Ordered to be dragged out and beheaded. The crowd will intercede, this drama is not enough to be a deep sin. Sun Xun called back, and the cane spine was distributed with Lingnan. Therefore, the soldiers did not dare to speak. This is Sun Wei's approach, and he forcibly suppresses the dissatisfaction of the soldiers.

It can't be said that it is wrong, it is rare for three divisions to have three divisions, and it can be comprehensive.

Zhang Kang's approach was different, trading with those with high valuations and those with low valuations, and both of them were directly given to sergeants. This also seems to be a good strategy, and the transfer envoy will be Zhang Kang's good at reducing the three divisions to the imperial court. Xia Zhu played Zhang Kang's violation of discipline.

Xia Zhu's statement cannot be said to be wrong.

Jingyuan Road still maintains the market trade, but there is no longer a war, Zheng Lang automatically took it back, it is limited to commercial market trade, and the sergeant only has the right to escort and is not allowed to participate. After all, such a market will have a lot of bad consequences. Moreover, the intention of maintaining the market is not only to collect money, but also to have some military purposes, which has not yet been seen, but it is aimed at the entire Hexi route, and Zheng Lang deliberately explained. It may not be successful, but it is good to collect a sum of money, and you can get some big livestock and war horses. Success, better.

Zhang Kang's practice clearly violates this regulation, and directly trades military rewards, which seems to be a good strategy, but it is often a bad example.

Xia Zhu said that Zhang Kang did something wrong, and he could also say it.

But things are definitely not that simple, Zhao Zhen looked at Xia Zhu and then at Zheng Lang. Zheng Lang didn't make a sound, so he had to announce the decree and lower Zhang Kangzhi Cizhou.

The matter did not rest, and the imperial history Song Xi discussed it again, saying that when Zhang Kang was in Daizhou, he used the treasury silver market. There is also this matter, Zhang Kang cherishes the soldiers more and wants to improve some of the living conditions of the soldiers, so he studied Zheng Lang in Daizhou and did some things similar to the city, and the money was not put into his pocket, but all the money was given to the soldiers. It's very hidden, but people don't know it, it's impossible. Song Xi turned over Zhang Kang's deeds in Fuzhou again, and then impeached Zhang Kang for embezzling public money.

It's all true.

So Zhang Kang was released in the middle book, and then demoted to the right leading army, Wei Dajun, and the general Zhishouzhou.

Hearing the word Shouzhou, Zheng Lang's eyes were furious, staring at Xia Zhu and Chen Zhizhong. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )