If you are stupid, this sentence is very incomprehensible, I ask you why you are silent, how do you answer? To those who hold authority shall be their favor, and to whom shall they be resentful?

Sidestep the question.

But Fan Zhongyan is not a stupid person, he also respects Wang Zeng, and when he hears its deep meaning, people who hold authority in their hands want others to say that he is good, and not let everyone say that it is bad, is it possible? Or do the good deeds yourself, and who will do the things of the wicked?

Unless you hit soy sauce, do not act.

There will be a good side and a bad side. Some people will benefit and some people will be harmed. Besides, what you did must be right? In the local area, he controlled the flood and disaster relief, let people set up a shrine, and when they arrived in the capital, they immediately threw themselves into destruction. If you defeat Lu Yijian, who will you defeat?

Wang Zeng still has a lot to say, once the two phases go to war, if it is not your small fight, what will happen to the nearly 100 million people of the country? In fact, Wang Lu Dou later had serious consequences, making a group of old monsters make the country into a miasma.

Zheng Lang was suspicious, why didn't Wang Zeng be suspicious?

Zhao Zhen is very ambiguous in this matter.

Why did Guo suddenly propose to be the queen? What role did her mother's Guo family play in the middle, she had been in the palace for many years, and she also had some cronies, what role did she play? Lu Yijian and Yan Wen should definitely not be relied upon. But what about the Cao family?

It may be that the suspicion is excessive, and if it is true, what will be the consequences if the matter is revealed?

Don't rule the country anymore, just focus on Zhao Zhen's harem!

The harem is the most filthy place in the world, and if you don't do anything, is it worth staring at it?

Twelve words are enough, but at this time, Wang Zeng added: "Go around hundreds of miles and go to Taiping Prefecture to have a look." ”

He was still unhappy with Zheng Lang's king beast, but after Song Zhen came back, he also brought back the reason why Zheng Lang said, which was a little understandable. The place where he is unhappy is that for whatever reason, the place cannot confront the imperial court, and it is also a sign of serious danger.

But Zheng Lang's balance in Taiping Prefecture made him appreciate it very much. This is the talent of the prime minister, without this sense of consideration, the big households are good, the policy is against the big households, what should other groups do? The poor people are good, but what about the poor and other groups?

Guo is good, what about Empress Cao? Is that really good? There is a slap door in front of it, and there is a queen's gate in the back, and she still has to be registered by hundreds of civil and military officials, this woman is really hopeless.

It is better to die early, save like a powder keg, and let the peaceful court explode from time to time.

As for the gentleman villain, to hell with it, whoever is beneficial to the country is a gentleman, Zhao Kuangyin unknowingly let the soldiers forcibly put on the imperial robes, do you believe it? The emperor did it happily. Zhao Kuangyi murdered his brother, and the emperor was equally happy. At this time, where is the gentleman and where is the villain?

Fan Zhong left the Wang family in a daze.

He seemed to see that there was a broader avenue ahead, but he didn't know how to go, and when he left the capital, Wang Zhen and others came to see him off, saying: "Fan Jun's trip is particularly glorious." ”

Extremely, more, especially, three lights!

Fan Zhongyan didn't feel glorious this time, thinking that something might be wrong with him, so he didn't make a generous statement, and said in a trance: "Give me next time, please prepare a sheep, and it will be my sacrifice." ”

After that, take your family on the road.

Although he was a little depressed when he spoke, on that night, a big star rose in the sky, shining brightly!

Fan Zhongyan was reflecting, and the others were still obsessed, or finally went to the opposite path.

Afraid of the prestige of Lu Yijian, most of the officials did not dare to speak, but there were still some people who dared to speak, Yu Jing said: "What Zhong Yan said before is between His Majesty's mother and son, husband and wife, and it is still a reward for its conformity; Today, he sneered at the minister and condemned it again. Fu Qi's words are not in harmony with the holy concerns, whether His Majesty listens or not, can An be guilty? Ji Di is in the court, with Pingjin as a lot of deceit, Zhang Zhao as a general, Lu Su as a rough one, the Han Emperor, the Wu Lord, two uses no guess. Your Majesty has been in power since he was in power, and those who say things three times are afraid that it is not a peaceful government. Please change your life quickly. ”

It seems to be very reasonable, Fan Zhongyan is very loyal to you, he said that he said, Your Majesty, you listen to it, and those who follow the words are not a matter of peace, so quickly call Fan Zhongyan back. Driven to Junzhou.

Yin Zhu was very realistic, and said: "The minister will not return to Fan Zhongyan, and he is both a teacher and a friend." Since he was convicted, the court's cloudy ministers were also recommended by him, and Zhongyan was offended by his friends, and the ministers should sit down, beg to be deposed, and make the constitution clear. ”

Fan Zhongyan is a good person, and many people in the court say that I was recommended by him, since Fan Zhongyan offended by his friends, why should he stay in the capital, please chase me.

Lu Yijian was furious and chased him away.

and then Ouyang Xiu, but he didn't go to the book, but Gao Rune played it, he was very aggrieved, he just took the lead in the performance and defeated Yan Wenying, only three months have passed, how brave he is, how loyal and upright. However, Ouyang Xiu wrote a private letter to him, saying that the seat he was sitting in now was the same as Fan Zhongyan's previous seat, and seeing Lu Yijian running rampant in the court, are you still a scholar? Entering and leaving the court every day, with scholars and doctors, do you still want to be shameless, do you know how the word shame is written?

Gao Ruone was stunned by the scolding, and said: "After Fan Zhongyan was demoted, he obeyed the edict and did not dare to rescue him. Today, Ouyang Xiu moved the book to the minister, and Yan Zhongyan was upright in his life, through the past and the present, and there was no comparison in the class. The rebuke minister can't distinguish between Zhongyan and innocent, but he can still see the scholar doctor with his face, go in and out of the court and call the official, and the minister no longer knows that there is shame in the world. It is still said that the Son of Heaven and the ministers are chasing the sages with their intentions, and the ministers dare not speak. If His Majesty chases him with his will, the minister will advise; The ministers chased them away with their will, and the ministers fought together. Fan Zhongyan is straightforward in his arguments and needs to be used urgently; Now that he is talking wildly and taking shame on himself, how can he be said to be innocent? I am afraid that the Son of Heaven will chase the sages with his intentions, and the damage is not detailed. Please order a priest to summon the precepts so that the people will not be confused. ”

Then he handed the letter written by Ouyang Xiu to Zhao Zhen, and almost cried.

The letter was too vicious.

Depreciate Ouyang Xiu again.

In fact, there is still a right and wrong to deal with Fan Zhongyan, but when one kills the other, Lu Yijian's approach gradually made Wang Zeng unable to hold his breath.

Wang Zeng has not yet had a seizure.

But Cai Xiang couldn't stand it, and wrote a very long poem, called Four Sages and One Unscrupulous Poem. "Right Yu Andao": The strong gentleman's residence in the south, Zhuo Ran's head is lonely. The word judgment has been repeated, and the world has been agitated.

…… The high crown and long wear Cong, and thousands of them are foolish. I know that the eternal world is more eternal, and the heroic wind excites the coward.

"Right Fan Xiwen": He Yiyi, a Chinese and Korean warbler, who is generous and physically capable. People started with Confucianism, and there is nothing left behind in the past and present...... The courtiers reinstated the jaws, and the long beak was called Danqi. The day and night are like guilt, and you are not worried.

"Right Ouyang Yongshu": The ancestors pushed the heavens to the usual, and made up for the Confucianism. The crown of Bo does not know the original, and the oak can be green...... The royal peace has been peaceful for hundreds of years, just to learn from the ancient discipline outline. Virtuous people use the words of advice, and the ancestors say that the holy virtues are boundless.

"Right Yin Shilu": The gentleman will be successful for a long time, and the villain will be good for a long time. The decline of the world is beneficial, so Zhou Ya is called Ming...... If Xi Wenguo is in danger, why is it the same as Jishi. Gao Tan originally wanted to understand the master, how could he just make friends.

"Right Gao Rune": People are born in harmony with heaven and earth, and those who are righteous are sincere...... People say that Gao Jun is like a tart city, and he has no face when he sees a gentleman. Gao Jun brought a book to play the Son of Heaven, and his face was still pleasant. On the contrary, it is said that Fan Wen is scheming, and it is appropriate to invest in the south...... The four princes are called virtuous, and slander is easy to enter the sky and difficult to deceive. If there is a wind watcher in the court, please write with the wind people.

He has the best relationship with Ouyang Xiu, so he writes Ouyang Xiu's poems for the longest time, and the most vicious is to write Gao Ruone, the words are exempted, and the name is called directly.

As soon as this poem came out, Luoyang paper was expensive, and all the scholars rushed to circulate it.

Together with the Khitan envoy to the capital, it was really lively, or the culture of the Han Dynasty was prosperous, and even the scolding people could be written in poems, it seemed to be quite good to write, fun, and it was spent to make people copy a copy and put it outside the Song Dynasty embassy in Youzhou, so that all the Hu and Han people in Youzhou could watch the breadth and profundity of the literati culture of the Song Dynasty.

……

Fan Zhong flooded to Taiping Prefecture.

When the court and the central government were arguing about the emperor's harem and almost used the knife, another miracle happened in Taipingzhou.

Wang Zeng was resentful, but he didn't know how much burden the seven thousand households brought to Zheng Lang.

The Jiuwei circle is good, almost a miracle.

It's not last year's Daxu, if it can squeeze out 9,000 hectares of arable land, and any disaster victims will be arranged. can circle out, but Zheng Lang doesn't dare, then almost all the lakes will be encircled, there will be no flood channels, no lakes with water storage, what will be the result?

In fact, the circle is ruthless enough, and it turns out that fifty percent of Huze has become a large polder.

However, except for the two polders that are similar to last year's Youmin polder, the rest of the polders are only medium and large polders, and two polders are only 200 or dozens of hectares, which is only one-eighth the size of Jingmin polder.

Therefore, the total cultivated land area is only 5,200 hectares, and the eyes of many officials around it are all red, but the biggest crisis in Taiping Prefecture has come.

A lot of land was obtained, and more than 3,400 hectares were given to the people, which was a promise made in the winter of the previous year, and the major households had to compensate for nearly 600 hectares of small polder fields, leaving less than 1,200 hectares. The Outer California government paid for 400 hectares of land, which ranged from fat to thin, and it was only 1,600 hectares, but it had to settle 7,000 families of the victims, and one family only had 23 acres of land.

Either let them wait, but the results are not optimistic either.

Five or six polders can be reopened this year, but one is smaller than a small one, and some may only be about 100 hectares. The total cultivated area will not exceed 1,2300 hectares.

At the limit, it can no longer be opened. These have been compensated, and there are still a few small polders that must be forcibly demolished and compensated, so the proportion taken out is even more, and less than 800 hectares are available for distribution. The rest of the water surface, let Zheng Lang circle, will not be circled.

Still not enough.

The truth of the matter did not come out, otherwise the victims would have "revolted".

The magic begins.

After the Lantern Festival, more than a dozen richly dressed businessmen came to Wuhu and Lake City. Zheng Lang also summoned all the big households in Taiping Prefecture, the second and third households, to Wuhu and took them to the mysterious workshop.

It occupies an area of more than 100 acres, but now except for a few buildings, it is empty everywhere, and many people in Taiping Prefecture have a lot of discussions about it.

After entering, the "Bang Dang" door was closed.

After three days, no one came out, except for the food brought in by the officials, and after three days, everyone came out.

All of them behaved very strangely on their faces, most of them with smiles, but Zheng Lang looked at everyone and said, "You are all old horsemen!" ”

All of them laughed proudly, some twisted their beards with joy, and some bent over with laughter.

Zheng Lang shook his head helplessly.

This makes others very curious, what did you say to make Zheng Zhizhou angry like this?

Nor did anyone answer.

Then, very strangely, these families began to hand over the land deeds to the government, which amounted to nearly 1,100 hectares. However, there are more than 200 hectares of small polders, including those that are ready to be forcibly demolished, 300 hectares of barren slopes, and 300 hectares of large polders. There are also nearly 200 hectares of water that can also be obtained, which is not considered poor land.

There is no need to think about the nearly 300 hectares, and I can't afford to wait.

But the government conjured up another 200 hectares.

So many polders rise at the same time, there will inevitably be some changes, such as houses, need bricks, tiles and wood, timber business is good, there are some small kilns, many families see a number of polders, a large number of mulberry seedlings are transported, and they have to prepare workshops, what did the Jinrust Garden do last year, they are ready to do. This year, there will not be so much labor to repair Dawei, the grain will inevitably be exported, and the rice store will also have to prepare. So the city also flourished in eating, drinking, and playing.

There are even iron tools, medicinal materials, there are many people, the port of 10,000 yuan is very luxurious, it is convenient to stop the ship, attracting some foreign merchants to transport the goods over, taking advantage of the Qingyi water, to Xuanzhou and other inland rivers to transship.

The new city gradually came to life.

But people are needed.

Last year's Jianghuai harvest made it more difficult to bewitch the people from other places, so the people in the state, mainly the fifth-class households, went into the city to help. This batch of land asked the government to take out more than 30,000 yuan to eat a batch.

Ma Zhizhou of Hezhou was very puzzled by this, Zheng Lang said: "It is to take the money, but what can be created is a group of fourth-class households, and it is also the main tax object of the imperial court." It only costs more than a penny to pay for an acre of land, and it is handed over to the fourth-class and fifth-class households, and it is necessary to collect 30% of the harvest, and the cost will be recovered in five years. The gap between the rich and the poor was alleviated, and the imperial court received more taxes. It's just a little bit more long-term, so why not? ”

For example, before Zheng Lang won the exam, his family had to bear a lot of taxes a year, but big households are big households after all, and it is impossible to make real friends with them, otherwise it is impossible to leave only 200 million acres of land in the country in the end, where are the 400 million acres? If the imperial court has sufficient spare money, such an investment will not be recovered in five years, and seven or eight years, at most ten years, will be enough, and it will be recovered by taxation. It can also reduce the gap between rich and poor.

This is this year, and by next year if you have money, you will be able to reclaim more land.

In fact, as tenant farmers are difficult to recruit, the employment gap has increased, and ...... Some large households have also lost interest in the fields. It is also one of the reasons why Zheng Lang wants 1,100 hectares of land from them, he can't wait, he can't wait, he can ask for a little more.

It is amazing that 1,600 hectares of dominating fields suddenly became 2,600 hectares. And Zheng Lang still seems to be dissatisfied, what happened?

But it is still not enough, according to the previous distribution, at least 3,800 hectares will be needed to satisfy the victims.

So with this order, each household in Dawei is 30 acres for 5 people, 35 acres for the upper ones, 35 acres for those who are not 5 people in Dawei, and 40 acres for those who are not in Dawei. In order to allow them to increase their income, each household was allowed to carry 10 acres of sugarcane, and those who were not victims of the disaster could only carry 1 mu in order to meet the grain production, and the government confiscated more than that. The purchase price was also marked, and in order to reassure the people, the government signed an agreement with each household, and the government gave money and silk to the people in October, and never defaulted.

For the sake of fairness, for those who are not in Dawei, because of the exchange, the formation of patches, the organization of manpower, and the construction of water conservancy, so that irrigation becomes more convenient, and the sloping fields and fertile fields are strictly divided together. Mulberry is planted on sloping land, and grain and cane are planted on good land.

The income is also enough, the original family of more than 60 acres of land, sounds terrible, the yield is low, the tax is heavy, farm tools, cultivators, fertilizers and seeds, hire short-term workers, after the loss of the disaster year, etc., the income is only two or three percent, three or four hundred yuan income, a household a year is only twenty yuan. If you look for some side hustles, it may be a little higher. But when you encounter a corrupt official, or if you are assigned a servant, the disaster will come again.

According to the price set by Zheng Lang, one mu of sugarcane can earn four yuan, and the income will reach three yuan in the near future. Ten acres of land is thirty acres, plus the income from other fields, it is enough to feed a family.

But when the order was issued, all doubts arose. A simple truth, you can take it, but sell it to whom? Not one acre or two acres, but tens of thousands of acres, or even hundreds of thousands of acres. There are also measures introduced, cane seeds have been bred, and they will be provided free of charge this year, and more than a dozen experienced cane farmers will be hired from Siming at a high price to come and guide, and at the same time a contract will be signed, as long as they plant, one mu of land will be given three yuan first, and they will be repaid at the price of cane in October. No matter how I sell it, I'll give you thirty taels first.

What else do you need to suspect!

The sugarcane seeds were snatched up, and even the people in Dawei asked for some, but their economy gradually slowed down without any subsidies.

Cui Xian laughed at Zheng Lang at home, otherwise the nearly 20 yuan earned by working for relief last year was far from enough, and the extremely poor family could not be solved by giving some clothes and quilts, as well as ploughing cattle, farm tools and houses, and this year's food sources before the arrival of the harvest after the autumn, fertilizer, seeds, etc.

With fifty taels of money, I basically got it.

One is given first, one is given later, the surname is different, the people have survived the most difficult difficulty, and sugarcane has also been promoted.

However, knowing that there would be a lot of controversy in this matter, Cui Xian didn't say much.

I had no choice but to use this to settle the victims, otherwise I would not be able to squeeze out the land.

At that time, there was a lot of quarrel in the court, and no one had the heart to care about him. What seemed to be a very controversial thing was miraculously passed. Then he persuaded the victims, if you have money in your hands, do you want to buy some piglets, chickens and ducklings to raise, improve food, and increase income, as well as fertilizer sources, especially sugarcane, which need fertilizer more.

This victim has a deep understanding of the disaster, and visited Liangwei last year.

There is a side hustle.

When the summer harvest came, seeing the benefits of rapeseed transfer, not only Taiping Prefecture was carrying rape, but other states were also carrying rapeseed, and the cake and fertilizer officials were taken back from various oil mills, some government and some private, and more than a dozen sugarcane farmers preached the need for cake fertilizer.

Such a large-scale load of sugarcane is almost unprecedented in Taiping Prefecture, not only saying that it is necessary to spread bread and fertilizer, but also saying that it is necessary to sprinkle wheat bran on it. Not only is the sugarcane growing, but so is the sweetness. But the results will not be fully unveiled until the autumn harvest, and will not be fully revealed until the beginning of spring next year.

When Fan Zhongyan came, he could see part of it.

I didn't go to Taipingzhou City, but first came to Wuhu County. At some point, Zheng Lang is also regarded as a little brother, take a look, Raozhou has big lakes and big rivers, maybe learn some experience and benefit the local people. At this time, Wuhu and Hu counties have been very interesting, and many silk weaving workshops have appeared. Last year, mulberry seedlings were raised, and the amount was too large, so they had to be produced locally. Just as the mulberry trees are getting bigger, the mulberry branches on the top should be cut off to make the mulberry trees grow horizontally, and the mulberry trees have not really grown, so they cut off the branches and raise seedlings on the sparse ground below.

It happened to be spring and moved to each polder and slope.

The time when Fan Zhong flooded was June, these small mulberry trees did not grow, and the silkworms that could be produced were very considerable, and they would be even more considerable next year, and then they would reach Dacheng, and now the workshop is not profitable, mainly for skilled craftsmanship.

It is the pillar industry that is the first to rise.

There are also other shops, and many people have moved in one after another, unlike last year, when Zheng Lang came, there were empty houses everywhere.

Also, they are desperately building houses.

Fan Zhongyan invited a local person and said, "Come and let me take a look at the old county seat." ”

The local people didn't know him either, so they took him to the old county seat, and after comparing it, Fan Zhongyan was silent for a long time. Somewhat sensational, in just two years, a county town has almost increased in size by five or six times, and houses are stretching out into the distance.

Standing there for a long time without speaking, Wang Zeng's twelve-character mantra inspired him a lot, and the biggest change in thinking was to do practical things. What's the use of fighting around? In the end, both sides will lose, and the country will be lost. So I began to meditate, some of them could figure it out, some of them couldn't, and some of them thought that they could make it better.

I went to the grid courtyard again to see the more than a dozen strange things, the viewers are like mountains, almost all to Wu, the first choice of tourists in Lake City, now the scenery has become very beautiful, several pavilions have been built by the lake in the south, there are a few water pavilions, a bend of the stone road, two and a half rows of weeping willows, the cyan lotus leaves in the lake are connected to the sky and the leaves, and the red flowers are scorching like the morning glow. There is a row of corridors on the side, for tourists to write poems and nostalgia, if it is done well, the county government sends people to carve stone steles by the lake.

Fan Zhongyan and his entourage also saw a group of young scholars sitting in the pavilion, chanting, wondering if they could compose beautiful poems.

Along the way, Fan Zhongyan heard the word miracle and miracle many times, and at this time he had to admit that there was some kind of miracle happening in this city alone. even made him very stunned, a group of locals occasionally heard someone say that Zheng Lang was not good, and angrily beat this person up, until the official came to persuade them to disperse.

His eldest son, thirteen-year-old Fan Chunyou, and nine-year-old second son, Fan Chunren, watched all this with wide eyes and curiosity, and his father did a good job in Suzhou, and it seems that he had never won the hearts of the people.

This is the change in the city, and then take a boat to Jingmin Wei, the largest polder in the whole Song Dynasty at present, the mulberry willow has been officially shady, the polder is staggered, the rice is heavy, very spectacular. There was also a scene that made him frown, sugar cane.

In the Song Dynasty, food was always very tight, and it was possible to grow sugarcane, which was inevitably too much.

Overall, spending three days walking around helped him a lot.

This is an extremely intelligent person, and once he adapts it, he will be very fast.

While looking and thinking, came to Taipingzhou City, Zheng Lang was not there, patrolled the polder, the flood season has not passed, after each Dawei up, it really had an impact, the water level has risen by half a meter, this is also a data, take a look, I am close to the Yangtze River here, and there are enough rivers left, but the water level is still nearly two feet higher than the rainfall in the same period in previous years. If your states are upstream, and the waterways are not smooth, and there are not many waterways, and there are not many impounded lakes, what will be the effect?

As a result, more small polders were broken.

But there is not much left of Xiaoxu, and the losses are not heavy.

Look at Daxu, each Daxu is still very safe. However, soil erosion, subsidence of the polder, and the upstream ring will raise the water level, and it will have to be heightened and strengthened after a few years.

After a year and a half of growth, the willows of Jingmin and Youmin gradually grew up, and some villagers cut them down to make pig sheds or cow sheds. Zheng Lang immediately ordered that anyone who cut down a river willow without permission would be fined.

No kidding, this is the god of berms.

After ten years, the thick ones are selected to be cut down, and the government selects officials to carry out the execution, and the number cannot exceed one-tenth, and the roots must be dug out after felling and the seedlings must be reloaded. The living willow tree is the god of the embankment, but the dead roots are the demons of the embankment.

The tree monument is on the river embankment.

Fan Zhongyan was again led by the official and found Zheng Lang.

Zheng Lang said: "Go back and say." ”

Then he looked curiously at Fan Zhongyan's family, he was late in the exam, his family was poor, and he got married very late, but the Li family he married was a real good wife and mother. Over the years, he has been standing behind Fan Zhongyan and supporting Fan Zhongyan in obscurity.

Unfortunately, after arriving in Raozhou, he died of illness soon after. There is no way for this Zheng Lang. But after arriving in Raozhou, Fan Zhongyan married a famous Zhen Jinlian as his wife, although he was a record, he was also virtuous, and later gave birth to a fourth son, Fan Chun, for Fan Xuanyan.

In addition to Mrs. Li, there are three sons, an old servant, and the family is very frugally dressed.

In the face of such a moral gentleman, what else does Zheng Lang have to say? In addition to respect, it is still respect. Unexpectedly, Sima Guang was in trouble, sat in the cabin, and said to Fan Zhongyan: "Fan Tianzhang, your virtue makes the late students very admired, but you did something wrong in the capital." ”

Fan Zhongyan was not angry, and said with a smile: "Let's talk about it." ”

"You want to do justice for the queen, but the death of Queen Guo is the one you harmed."

When Fan Chunyou heard Sima Guang comment on his father like this, he was so angry that he wanted to beat Sima Guang, but he didn't beat him, and said angrily: "Nonsense! ”