Chapter 683: The Magician (Part II)

Pang Ji was stunned, the emperor spoke to him in such a stern tone, not many times, in a hurry, he could only say: "Rong Chen and others retreat to the Zhongshu to discuss, and they will play again tomorrow." ”

Zhao Zhen continued to say in a dignified tone: "You are not allowed to go to the Zhongshu Palace, only discuss it at the door of the palace, and I will sit here and wait." ”

"......" Pang Ji was speechless, so he had to take a few Zaizhi to the outer hall of the capital hall to discuss, but one Zaizhi didn't speak, and he had bad intentions, he had already seen Di Qing's wonderful use as a privy envoy, and he also saw that Zhao Zhen had made up his mind this time and didn't dare to act against the wind.

Even Fu Bi is no longer the Fu Bi of his youth, the loss of years, ups and downs, grinding away all his edges and corners, silent.

None of the prime ministers spoke, and Pang Ji must not be able to bear it alone, sighed, and re-entered the inner hall of the capital hall into the pair, and played it like a holy decree. Zhao Zhen's expression eased.

Liang Shi's magic was about to succeed, Gao Ruone was successfully taken from the position of privy envoy and retired with the false name of a near-bachelor, and Di Qing also successfully served as the prime minister of the Western Mansion of the Song Dynasty.

There is something wrong that has not yet been revealed.

Moreover, Zhao Zhen served as the prime minister of Xifu for Di Qing, and he had a long dispute with Pang Ji, and some disgusted Wenchen did not dare to be verbose at this moment. Liang Shi was silent, he had to digest it, and then get Pang Ji after a while. He can't do it now, because if he does, his intentions will be exposed.

Then he was so anxious that he wanted to cry.

As the prime minister, Xifu is his former subordinate, and the people who have repeatedly recommended the Baoju are also people from the northwest system, which is not so weird, for example, if Zheng Lang is the prime minister, let Fu Bi be the privy envoy, although it is possible that the ministers can speak, but it will not be too serious. is mainly Di Qing's identity, a real general, not a military minister! If you can't think about it deeply, think about the ancestral family law of the Song Dynasty. I can't stand.

Looking around blankly, he stood in the first place in the east, and the handsome guy Di Qing in the west also stood in the first place, and Pang Ji's body couldn't help shaking. Sweat on the forehead.

In a hurry, he wrote a letter to Zheng Lang.

Letters for help.

The New Year is approaching, and Zheng Lang slid from Yongzhou to Ziqi.

Ziqi is a barbaric world, and has a deep relationship with Dali.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, a line was divided from the Suo and Kunming tribes, called some of the barbarian tribes, and the barbarians were said to be of the same ethnic group. After the annexation of the Eastern Xuan District by Nanzhao. The Ximo Zhiman still lived in eastern Yunnan, and as the population increased, they continued to develop into neighboring regions. At the end of the Southern Zhao Dynasty, it was re-transformed into the Luojia Department, the Yangzong Department, the Buxiong Department, the Rest Department, and the Maitreya Department. It would also be wrong to say that they were barbaric, that they had a lot of contact with the outside world and that they had a transition to a slave society. Therefore, the various tribes of the Mo-barbarian are also listed among the thirty-seven departments in eastern Yunnan. Some of these tribesmen developed to the northwest corner of Guangnan West Road, because of the complex terrain, Dali did not have direct jurisdiction. The Song Dynasty also did not have direct jurisdiction, and the same was true of the Luo clan south of Kuizhou Road, as well as the Wumeng Division, the Wusa Division, and so on. Many of the tribes belong to one of the thirty-seven tribes of eastern Yunnan, or the remainder.

In the future, it will also be very annoying here, a few decades later, the Northern Song Dynasty perished, the Song Dynasty was weak, seeing this, Yu Yabe took Luodian as the center, expanded, unified the southern region of Guizhou, founded the country, and was known as Luodian State. At the same time, the various tribes of the Romans were expanding. It has been taking the current Ziqi Barbarian region and rebuilding the Ziqi country.

In this regard, the Song Dynasty did not care much, just like it did with Nong Zhigao's father back then, but the Southern Song Dynasty lacked horses and had to focus on the southern horses. Self-inflicted horses. Hengshanzhai City has 2,000 horses every year, and there are as many as 1,500 horses. Because the country is rich, the land is expanded for thousands of miles, and the Song Dynasty is more and more arrogant.

One side is growing, and the other side is weak, so Ziqi began to riot the people, and went east to burn, kill and loot many times. When Wu Ju, the governor of Yongzhou, met with the military court of the Ziqi chieftain, Zeng Li shouted: "Ruguo is a small settlement, only because the imperial court Xu Ru Sui came to the market horse, and now for more than 30 years, he has obtained more than 200,000 silver brocade every year, and Ruguo has become rich with this." If you forget the kindness of the court, and dare to have a demand, you will definitely apply for the court, and you will never sell horses in the coming year. ”

This silver brocade is more than 200,000 yuan, not 200,000 yuan, the price of silver in the Southern Song Dynasty rose, even if Lingnan silver, the price of silver is slightly lower, one tael is equivalent to more than 3,000 yuan, and the brocade is only two yuan, and 200,000 is 500,000 yuan. A year piles of 500,000 yuan of money put on a tribe, although half of the amount is passed by other places, and the reflow to Dali and other places is also a large number.

Wu Ju also pointed out: "There are more than 2,000 horses in Hengshan City every year, and there are more than 1,500 horses from Qiqi. …… There are thousands of people to the city of Yokoyama horses. With my caressing, I am becoming more and more arrogant. ”

This is also the reason why Zheng Lang is disgusted with some descendants.

You can't dismiss the barbarians, but the Han people and the familiar barbarians are not owed to the barbarians, after the barbarians invade, let them burn, let them kill, let them snatch their wives and daughters and commit adultery? What a word!

Because of his arrogance, Zheng Lang divided Ziqi to Wumeng, Luo's and other places to the Song realm, and Dali was not very opposed.

This is no way, otherwise this area will have a headache, the division is not clear, Dali is inconvenient to control, the Song Dynasty is also inconvenient to control, so the various departments have repeatedly harassed the neighboring people, to and from the merchants. But after dividing it, Zheng Lang didn't move them.

If you want to govern, you must have a more substantial inner belly, and Guangnan West Road has not moved anything except for the construction of a few roads. If there is no population base, if they are forced, there will be war, and the gains will outweigh the losses. Once the development has a big appearance, you can set up some checkpoints and send soldiers to garrison them, and through these checkpoints, there is no tax, but you can control the various departments remotely. As for naturalization, Zheng Lang really didn't want to count on them to naturalize.

The result of this is that both sides lose. If they don't change, after being forcibly suppressed by Yuan Meng, these barbarians will be closed. By the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, this area was not developing, but the civilization was backward, and once it reached the Qing Dynasty, which was not as good as the Tang Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, and all of them became primitive tribal areas of slash-and-burn cultivation.

After Di Qing suppressed it, the rest of the departments were well-behaved, and Zheng Lang ordered Zhao Xun to divide and rule, support the growth of other clans with different surnames, and gradually replace the Nong clan and become easy to govern, so Zheng Lang came over with the guards to take a look.

However, when Zheng Lang arrived at Wenxiang Bazi, several tribal chieftains from Ziqi came to pay a visit and express their loyalty to the Song Dynasty. Don't think that once the territory line is drawn, it will be the Song Dynasty. It was the territory of the Song Dynasty on the map, but it wasn't.

It is best to be loyal, and the national policy will always be based on Fu. Supplemented by war, these parts are all on the edge of Ziqi, mostly in the north bank of the Nandu Shijiang River (Nanpan River), so Zheng Lang led the guards to Ziqi. Zhou Xin stopped. Zheng Lang said: "It can be seen that the world is balanced? ”

Chong Shiheng is the most effective in resolving the Shaanxi people, not only by force, but also by heart, dating with the head of the fan, sealing the door in heavy snow, and still leading a few guards to visit, a few Tibetan Dayue. Loyal to the imperial court.

In fact, when Zheng Lang came to these tribes, the chiefs of the tribes were very happy and wanted to kill cattle and horses to entertain them, but they were dissuaded by Zheng Lang.

What is most lacking in Liangguang now is these big livestock, which cannot be killed. To kill, just kill some sheep and chickens.

The cow and the horse made Zheng Lang sad.

Said something and even looked at their terrain. Officials were sent in a few months to assist them in building water conservancy. It has nothing to do with the development of the two Guangzhous, and they should repair it by themselves. The imperial court only sent talents to guide, without expenses or tools.

Then Zheng Lang came to Guanzhou again.

The Song Dynasty's jurisdiction over Guanzhou was still very weak, named Yizhou, in fact, almost all the year round did not send officials, only in the east near the junction of Yizhou set up a village, Gaofeng Village. But when you arrive at Fengfeng Village, there are normal roads leading to all parts of Guangnan West Road, and you can smell a trace of civilization.

Guanzhou Zheng Lang's interest is not high, but he will start a moderate development around Gaofeng Village. At least let it be a block. Not only Guanzhou, but also Yizhou, Yongzhou, Rongzhou and other vast areas, are quite similar to the situation of Meishanman. There is nothing to do without development, and once you develop these strong and tyrannical brutes, you must consider it, and you must understand it.

When I arrived in Guanzhou, Liangguang sent a lot of Zazi.

Many difficulties arise.

This kind of big development. The master plan is certainly good.

Most of the Han households went south, and before they reacted in the barbarian department, they could take root and grow here. It seems that a lot of money has been spent on comprehensive development, and it actually reduces all kinds of waste. It is conducive to the rule of the country, the civilization of the people, and the development of the local economy and planting industry.

But the scale is too large, and there are many problems.

Since the summer, more than 210,000 households have taken the initiative to move to Guangnan East Road, and the number of people has reached more than 850,000. In fact, no, Zheng Lang's strange policy of dividing the land caused most of the families to begin to separate, and the six people together were only 50 acres of land, and it was divided into two to 80 acres of land. Simple accounts, ordinary people will calculate. Apparently there are more than 210,000 households, but in reality it may only be 1230,000 households. The population is more than 850,000, but the actual population may be only about 700,000. In the past, there was also a phenomenon of false population reporting in Taiping Prefecture.

Overall, though, it was slightly better than expected.

But this is Quang Nam East Road, and it is absolutely impossible for Quang Nam West Road to obtain such a quantity. No matter what arrangements Zheng Lang makes, he is still very afraid of the people of the barbarian south.

It's not a labor problem, either.

The number of immigrants is large, and not all immigrants are normal laborers, but young people and women can be divided into six jobs, and many families have put women, children, old and young into construction in order to make a living next year, which is not as good as the prime of life, but produces a large number of labor. In addition, Yuan Qian and Tian Yu mobilized local laborers, arranged nearby, the salary was expensive, and it was a slack time, when the labor force reached more than 600,000 at the least, and more than 900,000 at the most, close to one million people, and invested in construction. The salary expenses alone amounted to more than 7 million yuan, and if the resettlement of immigrants and the provision of tools and daily necessities were added, the cost alone would reach more than 10 million yuan.

Money and silk are not a problem, and even under the careful calculation of Tian Yu and other officials, there is still a surplus in the funds allocated by the imperial court.

Another problem is increasingly coming to the surface, ploughing cattle.

Nowadays, under various support policies in the Song Dynasty, there are gradually more large livestock.

The increase of large livestock, the comprehensive development of Jiangdong Wei, and the new cultivated land generated by the farmland and water conservancy in the north of Sanbai Canal and the north, this is the reason why the grain fell to a bucket of more than 70 Wen, at this time in history a bucket of rice rose to nearly 200 Wen, and the people starved to death, Zhao Zhen had to often allocate the money from the inner treasury to help the people. Of course, there are no other traversers, and no one else knows about this comparison.

The big livestock in the north gradually improved, and the two farms began to suppress the price of the big livestock in the Western Xia, and on the other hand, the Khitan took a lot of hard work to finally suppress the rebellion in the north, but after so many years, the country withered, and was ready to use the name of the New Year's Day to send envoys to continue to the Song Dynasty to sell a batch of livestock, which was obtained from the north. There are quite a few to ease the country's economy. But they still have the psychology of blackmail, and even so, the Khitans still think that they are big brothers.

But livestock in the south is still far from ideal.

So many years down. The number of cattle alone could more than triple, but there was too much shortfall.

New Year's Day arrived, and spring plowing and production would be officially carried out in two months, and all officials were anxious when they saw the scarcity of livestock on cultivated land. Since it was developed, it was no longer possible to use the foot plough like the barbarians, but to use the more advanced Koto plow.

But what about cows?

Horses on dry land. But under the operation of the Song Dynasty, the price of the horse was extremely expensive, and now it has fallen, and a southern horse still needs fifteen to twenty taels. There are cattle, mostly cattle, which are suitable for dryland cultivation and not suitable for plowing in paddy fields.

So the purchase price was raised, and the cattle price was divided into five to seven dollars for purchase. It was then transported back to Guangnan East Road and loaned to the people, up to ten years. Repay the loan for one dollar a year. In fact, combined with transportation and death, it is actually equivalent to an interest-free loan.

More than 30,000 buffaloes were acquired.

All of a sudden, the price of Jiangnan buffalo soared, and a good cow reached eight yuan. Another result is that the cow is docile and fine, and the bull is irritable, and most families castrate it to make it docile. There are not many bulls that can be bred, and the price of cattle has risen, and many farmers see this way of making money and take their cows out for breeding. The bull becomes expensive, and the fee for a successful breeding is 500 yuan, and if the cow is successfully conceived, another 500 yuan is charged. Some families only earn more than a dozen dollars in winter and spring, relying on their own bulls. The government can't suppress it. Not only the two Guangzhou, but also caused a commotion in most areas south of the Yangtze River. Some people saved a little money and wanted to buy a cow back, but when they saw that the price was so expensive, I didn't buy it.

Not to mention the waste of a lot of money, it is almost impossible to buy back the cattle with money.

However, there is too much difference in ploughing cattle, at least more than 50,000 heads, in order to barely meet the use of cultivated land on Guangnan East Road.

Even if it can be solved, what about Quang Nam West Road? And what about the Xiangshui Basin? Ploughing cattle will get more and more nervous.

Most of the people have become tenant farmers, living a life of half-starvation and lack of clothing, even if hundreds of thousands of households have migrated over, there are more tenant farmers and desperate poor households in the rear. After seeing the changes in Quang Nam East Road, I will be tempted and migrate. As for where those monasteries and big landlords' families will find tenant farmers in the future, Zheng Lang doesn't care.

But where do you get the livestock to plough the land?

This is the first problem, and the second problem is the businessmen who come to develop.

When the scale of immigration is close to the end of the year, it begins to decline, and after the new year, most of the people who should come will come, and those who don't come will not come. Or watch the autumn queen. Water conservancy has benefited 300,000 hectares of arable land, but barely 200,000 hectares of new cultivated land has been generated. There is still room for development, and at least more than 200,000 hectares can be developed. The latter was not touched, and if no one cultivated, no one would maintain the water conservancy. After the water conservancy is built, it must be repaired from time to time. In addition to handing over more than 100,000 hectares of cultivated land to immigrants, part of it was rewarded to the local people and distributed to the barbarians, and the rest was given to the merchants.

You can't sell it for money, and once you sell it, the merchant will scare them all away.

Even if you get this arable land, it is still a wasteland, and your hometown is not without it. Why did you come to Lingnan? Zheng Lang doesn't value the money from selling land, but the development results. Merchants used less for farming, more for planting, tea trees, fruit trees, sugar cane, mulberry hemp, and some workshops, shops, and carriages. Land cannot be sold, and commercial tax may be levied.

However, the government paved the roads and built water conservancy for them, which does not mean that they can immediately plant, open up wasteland, cut down mountains, plough cultivated land, and then plant, cultivate, and strictly protect and manage. Livestock are also needed, and this is up to them.

But there's one more problem, people.

Liangguang has changed up so much land, since he has come to Liangguang, why should he be a tenant. Some people brought tenants and saw the appearance of Guangnan East Road, and they slipped away together. These merchants are not barbarians and dare not forcibly control the personal freedom of tenants, what should they do?

Someone came up with a way to catch slaves from overseas.

The family certainly did not have this power, but many merchants came, and with their strength they could easily set up dozens of slave hunting teams. However, the slave trade was strictly forbidden in Liangguang, so they found Tian Yu and Yuan Qian to beg. Tian Yu and Yuan Qian did not dare to agree, Zheng Lang's rules could not be broken, the peace prison came overseas, the minister didn't care, if he brought it back to the mainland, Yanchen would definitely be impeached.

There are still many matters that cannot be solved, so I sent people to send them to Gaofeng Village together and handed them over to Zheng Lang for adjudication.

Zheng Lang first made a judgment on the rest of the affairs one by one, and then stared at these two issues. There is really no way to solve the problem of ploughing cattle, and there is a talent to conjure it up, for example, if this large cultivated land, there is originally it, but it is not developed. It became wasteland, tidal flats, hills, and swamps, and when it was turned out, it was cultivated land. But how hasn't it changed?

I had to give an order to raise the price of cattle to six to nine dollars to buy. It is impossible to get 50,000 ploughing cattle, but it is necessary to get 30,000 or 40,000 ploughing cattle to relieve the livestock that plough the land. It doesn't matter what kind of turmoil such a bull price will bring to Jiangnan.

Then look at the second one.

The problem is not very serious, but in the second half of the year, it will be developed to Guangnan West Road. In many places, large landlords will lose more than half of their tenant farmers, and it will be lively when the time comes.

They have no tenant farmers to rent and cultivate the land, and they must have quarreled with each other.

There is also a way to deal with this, the key is the businessman's part, which is mostly an intensive industry, especially now that it is inefficient and requires more labor. After contemplating for a long time. Finally, an order was issued that made posterity controversial.

They were allowed to catch slaves, and they didn't care about it overseas, but they had to take care of it when they arrived in Guangzhou. One can only be aimed at overseas. When the time comes, soldiers who are proficient in the indigenous language will be sent to Guangzhou to inquire one by one, and if they catch slaves in Liangguang and pretend to be overseas crooks, they will be severely punished.

The second is the five-year system, in which the status of these overseas slaves is a tribal, but they must be guaranteed basic food, clothing, and shelter, and at least two taels of money per year are given as a reward for their free purchase of daily utensils, and the punishment for the lazy can only be with thorn stripes, and the number is not allowed to exceed 50 strokes. If the penalty is exceeded, the government will punish him. Severely punish those who kill the subordinates, and there must be no cruel activities such as the right to the first night. This was also read to the tribe by the soldier, so that the tribe would know the order.

After the expiration of five years, they must be revoked and converted into tenant farmers.

When they agreed, they were allowed to go overseas to capture slaves. It just so happens that the southeast wind has not yet risen, and it will take a few days to reach the islands of the South Seas. After the slaves were captured, the southeast wind picked up, and they would soon be able to return to Guangzhou. If you agree, you will be allowed. If you don't agree, find a way to go on your own. I've already built roads and water conservancy for you for free, what else?

Then two more orders were issued, one was to let the officials of Guangnan West Road return together, and after several months of training, they should have some foundation, and after returning, cooperate with themselves to further carefully explore the water conservancy and roads of Guangnan West Road. Secondly, we are going to bring a large number of livestock and poultry from Jiangnan and hand them over to the people for adoption. Increase people's income, improve people's food, and fertilizer.

Send these commands one by one.

Zheng Lang himself was shaking his head, and many orders would generate countless controversies. Now that the state has invested a large amount of money, officials will not be wordy. But after doing it, the officials have also seen and heard it, and before the time to settle the accounts, when it is time to settle the accounts, all the things they have done will be turned out, and the old accounts and new accounts will be settled at once.

Continue to Yizhou.

Yue'er also rushed to Yizhou to celebrate the New Year's Day together. I received a letter from Pang Ji.

After reading the letter, Zheng Lang was furious, Di Qing returned to the court to suffer, and he was mentally prepared. But you can't get Pang nationality down, although Pang nationality is more selfish, but understand the general situation, if there is no Pang nationality, he may not be so smooth in Liangguang last year.

A strong rear is the capital for the development of the two Guangzhou.

Liang Shi, can Liang Shi do a good job?

was about to write a recital to Zhao Zhen, when he suddenly put down the pen.

Looking at the mountains like mountains, Zhao Zhen felt the weakness of the Song Dynasty and wanted to promote Di Qing to change the weak situation of the Song Dynasty, so he promoted Di Qing to be the prime minister of Xifu.

Looking at the mountain is not like a mountain, Liang Shi's promotion is the reason why Di Qing is the prime minister.

In the end, the mountain is still a mountain, and it returns to the pattern of looking at the mountain like a mountain.

Didn't Zhao Zhen want to change the weak situation of the Song Dynasty, so why was the funeral object just a jade horse after death?

But what should he do? An exception was made to set up four roads on the border, giving the border ministers the greatest command power, and preventing the central government from hindering the border generals. However, Wenchen's performance was ineffective, and he was defeated in World War I and World War II. So he used the general, Ge Huaimin. Can't blame Zhao Zhen for having no eyesight, if you don't open the golden finger, you can see whether it is a talent, for thousands of years, only a few people Pei Xingjian, most people have such eyesight? I can only ask the prime minister, what kind of vision does Lu Yi Jian Yanshu have, so I have to think about the people I usually come into contact with, the Ge family has a good background, and Ge Huaimin is boastful, so he unanimously recommended Ge Huaimin. Fan Zhongyan said no, but Fan Zhongyan's performance was not very good, and he would not do anything except repair the fort. Can it be believed? I had to use Ge Huaimin. But Ge Huaimin was even more defeated. Wenchen can't do it, and the military generals can't do it, he has been fighting for several years, spending more than 100 million yuan, and the people in the country are not making a living, and they are revolting everywhere, so how can Zhao Zhen choose?

Di Qing's appearance made Zhao Zhen seem to see a glimmer of dawn from the night.

Zhao Zhen really wants to reuse Di Qing, this is the fundamental!

This is the strongest Zhao Zhen.

Immediately, Sister Zhang died, her daughter went crazy, and after this blow, Zhao Zhen gradually went downhill, and even said crazy things in the court.

Wenchen began to attack Di Qing, Zhao Zhen had no mind, and was besieged more frantically for protection, and after protection again and again, Zhao Zhen didn't want to fight wits with Wenchen, so he had to demote Di Qing.

And with the wisdom of Zhao Zhen at the peak, I really can't see how embarrassing Di Qing will be as the prime minister of Xifu?

Why?

In the past, he was in charge of the two mansions because there was a good chess move in the northwest, and then Pang Ji was in charge of the two mansions, which was the rebellion of Nong Zhigao. Now the northwest has come to an end, and the south is calm. Zhao Zhen didn't want someone else to be in charge of the two mansions at the same time. After all, this example will form a power minister, and even Li Linfu and his ilk.

But there was nothing wrong with Pang Ji, so he watched Liang Shi and Pang Ji fight wits and methods. If you mix it in, you don't know the general situation. Protecting Pang's status is equivalent to continuing to protect his qualifications to govern the two governments in the future.

Thinking of this, Zheng Lang broke out in a cold sweat.

Liang Shi may not be able to see this, and if he doesn't know the jade horse that accompanied the burial, he can't see this either.

But Liang Shi secretly combined Zhao Zhen's imperial way, no matter how he stopped it, Liang Shi's great magic trick would inevitably change and succeed!

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