Jieyue, many people think they will understand, Su Wu shepherd, has been holding Jieyue, some people don't understand, draw a comic book, a small bamboo, hang a few pompoms, this is Jieyue. In fact, it is not true, and the knots include runes and axes. In ancient times, officials or generals were granted as a sign of increased power. "Confucius Congzi" clearly stipulates that the Son of Heaven should be in the south of the steps, and the festival of the decree will be accepted, and the Son of Heaven will be in the east and west.

That is, once you get the Jieyu, even the emperor is three points shorter. Su Wu's is not a festival, but a kind of festival, a kind of festival, such as the appointment of diplomats by the imperial court, or the appointment of officers to send troops cheaply, and the granting of runes, the metaphor of the heavenly patrol hunting, and the exercise of the emperor's edict. This is in ancient times, in the Song Dynasty, if the emperor's holy decree was not passed by the two systems, it was not a holy decree, so there was an official with a talisman who could issue an edict on behalf of the emperor? Qin Hui can't do it either! Even in the past, it was also called a fake festival, such as Su Wu in the Han Dynasty, the Wei and Jin dynasties, and there were many officials who acted cheaply with festivals, but they only held festivals, not the control of festivals and Yue.

To put it mildly, this is a super reward, saying that Wang Shao is Lu Xun, the general of Eastern Wu, if it is ugly, it is Cao Cao! Even Lu Xun, living in the Song Dynasty will also be sad, Lord Wu will be polite when he sees Lu Xun, can it work in the Song Dynasty?

Wang Anshi reacted quickly and said: "You can also change to an official position, and you should wait for the future work." ”

It's a euphemism.

Zheng Langzhi frowned, and then shook his head, maybe Zhao Xuan meant to let Wang Shao hold the festival to do things well, so that he had the right to facilitate the pacification of Zhu Fanqiang, but there is a festival and a month, and there is the right in Wang Shao's hands, which has the right to control the four states and one army in Xihezhong, which is actually the six states and one army, and the two states have been canceled, and the three powers of military finance in such a vast area are handled, and they have the right to control part of the military and financial power of Jingyuan and Qinfeng Road. Hold another knot. Is it a reward or a harm to Wang Shao?

all these years. Zheng Lang has a lot of big truths and small truths, why can't Zhao Ji grow up?

Zheng Lang was shaking his head, and Zhao Ji also came to his senses. Feeling very ashamed, he said, "Gong Zheng, cough cough...... That one...... Ahem...... How about the South? ”

The reaction was relatively fast, and I found a topic to transfer.

Zheng Lang actually hated the barbarians in the Southern Wilderness.

The reason for this is mainly from later generations. For example, Yang Guozhong's expedition to the Southern Zhao, there may be a saying, but in the Song Dynasty, because the Western Xia and the Khitan were distracted, they could not take care of each other, and they always regarded these barbarians as masters, and did not levy taxes, or levy a small amount of taxes. These barbarians were still not satisfied, and raped, burned, killed, and plundered the Han people. But in the afterlife. Many ethnic brick artists blindly overturned the case for Nong Zhigao and his ilk, saying that they were national heroes. So the Han people are regarded as barbarian pigs?

However, his rights are getting heavier and heavier, and the overall situation is getting heavier and heavier, attaching importance to naturalization, don't say anything about national culture, shit! This thing has always been the biggest source of national division, and if you want the country to be stable, you must not only eliminate the etiquette and customs of these barbarians from the etiquette and customs, including cultural writing, but if you don't integrate them, it will always be the bane. And the barbarians were very bad to the Han people, and it may be that the living standards of the Han slaves sold to the United States in the Qing Dynasty were much better than the lives of the Han people who were robbed by the barbarians to the barbarian areas.

Therefore, Zheng Lang's policy methods against the barbarians are, firstly, as naturalized as possible, and secondly, bloody suppression.

Serve, the policy takes care of, and if you don't obey, there is only one road waiting and perishing.

Zheng Lang is a descendant, and there are many people who hold this kind of thinking, including Zhang Dan. The gorge area was submissive, and Zhang Dian did not deliberately kill evil. Repair water conservancy roads, run schools, and change etiquette. After more than a year, it was transferred to Nanjiang.

In the Nanjiang area, there are three barbarian tribes.

The first is Xiang's. The Xiang clan is mainly in the area of the Youjiang River, a tributary of Yuanshui, that is, in the western part of Meishanman, the northern area of the Peng clan, and strictly speaking, the main stream of the Xiang clan is in the Beijiang area. The northernmost reaches of the Lizhou area, and there are also a few people staying in Meishanman, the first surname of Meishanman is the surname Su, the second surname is Shu, and the third surname is the surname Xiang. Meishanman doesn't need to think about it, Zhang Dan went south from the gorge area, and what he considered was the direction of the North River and the South River. Among the sixteen states of Nanjiang Xitong, the four prefectures of Fu, He, Baoshun, Tianci and Gu are also the locations of Xiang's family. Among these five states, Fuzhou (northeast of Mayang to Tongren in Guizhou) is the largest and strongest.

The second is the Shu family, part of which is in Meishan, which is needless to say, but there are more Shu families outside Meishan, which control the four prefectures of Xu, Xia, Zhongsheng and Yuan of the Nanjiang River (mainly from Zhijiang in western Hunan to Qianyang).

The last and most headache, Tian.

The Tian clan occupied a larger area, a larger population, and was mainly scattered in the territory of Guizhou in later generations, and the imperial court had a weak jurisdiction, and the mountains and terres were far away, even if they were conquered, they were not easy to control.

Before the operation of Zhangdun, Nanjiangman not only burned, killed and plundered the Han people, but also drove out the officials, and even the passing merchants left the money to buy the road, and burned and looted at the worst. Not only externally, internally, the major chiefs have also carried out cruel exploitation, a group of people with lofty ideals can not stand it, first Chenzhou Zhizhou Liu Ce policy, Zhang Qiao and other people to speak, asking the court to send troops to save the people in dire straits. In fact, in the final analysis, the cost of military use by the imperial court is too expensive. ‘

Zhang Dian single-handedly participated in the reform and knew how difficult it was to make money, so he first managed the Three Gorges area well before leading the army to the south. Seeing that the Song army was strong, the barbarian chieftains of Fuzhou surrendered the seats, swords and seals given by the ancestors to Yongyu, Shu Guangyin of Kipzhou (Anjiang) and Shu Guangxiu of Yuanzhou (Qiancheng) followed closely to offer land and became vassals, because Shu Deying of Xuzhou (Hongjiang) had a feud with Fuzhou to Yongyu and did not surrender to the Song Dynasty.

Zhang Dian went south, one was less restrained by Meishanman, and the other Zheng Lang left a very thick foundation, this time Shu Dexuan couldn't escape.

However, there are a lot of problems, not Shu Dexuan, but Tian Yuanmeng, the barbarian leader of Yizhou, who is unruly and often encroaches on the territory of Shu Xiang's two clans. Zhang Dian sent Li Zi to appease, Li Zi is a Liuren in Chenzhou, that is, a Han person, and the Han people in Chenzhou are the lowest ethnic group, so they are called Liuren. He once wrote a letter with Zhang Qiao to let the imperial court capture the people of Wuxi Barbarians, but when he saw that the Song army was going south, all the barbarians were invincible, and they spoke with a very bad attitude and did some bad things. So let the barbarians kill.

Zhang Dian was angry, no matter how bad it was, Li Zi went on behalf of the court officials, obviously the army was coming, and he dared to kill the court officials like before, where is the king's law. So he tore his face open. It can't be said that Zhangdun is wrong. Faces are given to each other. Why is it that as a big country, let some small tribes slap their faces again and again.

led the imperial army, as well as some of the township soldiers who had been continuously trained on Jinghu South Road very early, and fiercely pounced on Yizhou. Killed Tian Yuan, and united some tribes who surrendered to the Song Dynasty, forced to Xuzhou, and killed Shu Dexuan in Hongjiang Village. The three surnames of Hongjiang and Jingzhou Tian Shuyang were finally suppressed by Zhang Dan. Either they fled or died, and finally surrendered one after another. This time, because of the thorough preparation, it was more cruel than the historical methods, killing nearly 10,000 barbarians. And not three thousand. Even except for a few tribal chiefs who were submissive from the beginning, they continued to retain some of their original rights, and the rest of the chiefs were all taken to the capital and forcibly naturalized. Then the state of Jian was abolished, and the two counties of Yuanzhou, Chengzhou and Luyang and Zhuzhu were placed, and the Song Dynasty really sent officials to rule.

Then the imperial court allocated funds to build roads and water conservancy, and build schools. Carry out thorough naturalization. However, the Tian clan further west still did not move. This is a helpless matter, the imperial court wants to run Hehuang Xixia. There is even a dark cloud in the future, coupled with the arrival of a major drought, Qian Bao is nervous and has to stop. At this point, except for a few dozen barbarian chiefs, there was nothing left, and the people of this area were finally liberated. After more than a year in the south, Zhang Dian restored the entire territory of Jinghu South Road, and also solved part of Kuizhou Road by the way. Earlier than ever.

After this, the Song Dynasty only left western Sichuan, south of Luzhou to Kuizhou, west of Jinghu South Road, including Ziqi of Guangnan West Road, and the area south of Sanguan of Guangnan West Road (in Vietnam), the actual area is less than one-twentieth of that of the Song Dynasty.

Zheng Lang was not very satisfied, but Zhao Ji was very satisfied.

In this year, the martial arts of Wenzhi almost reached the peak of the Song Dynasty. Not only martial arts, but also bunji. In fact, the year of the Song Dynasty was very bad, and there was a disaster in the whole north after July, and in fact, before that, there was still a waterlogging disaster in Jianghuai and Zhejiang.

But there is no crisis in sight at the moment.

The harvest was the best of last year. Although there were locusts in Hebei last year, the autumn harvest came up, and Hebei is not an important grain base in the country.

If the imperial court had not spent a lot of money on the purchase of grain, the price of grain would have fallen last year.

It cannot be said that it has no effect, last year 10 million stone of grain was put down, 5 million stone was put into disaster relief, and 5 million stone was sold at a flat price, at least the price of grain did not rise in winter, and the people's lives were stable. This year, there was a flood in the southeast, but in the summer harvest, the imperial court stockpiled a large amount of grain. Some of them have not been transferred, but they are still in the granaries of various states, and they have issued edicts to help the victims, just in time to build water conservancy. The north needs water conservancy, and the south also needs water conservancy. Steady in the southeast. Finally, the drought in the north is getting worse. However, when the crops were ripe, many areas rushed to harvest the grain before the locusts arrived. Moreover, since the time of Zhao Zhen, the Song Dynasty began not to be afraid of locusts, and wantonly killed locusts to reduce the locust infestation.

The merchants wanted to raise the price of grain, and the edict was issued, and 20 million stone of grain was sold, resulting in the price of grain quickly stabilizing. This is temporary. However, before everyone could react, Zheng Lang threw down another 10 million yuan and purchased a large amount of grain in the south. Especially in some areas of Jinghu South Road, due to the long distance, the local development is large-scale, resulting in the price of rice is not enough to pay 300 yuan per stone, which is the price of rice, not the price of grain. 10 million yuan was smashed, and nearly 30 million stone grain rice was purchased before and after. That is to say, in addition to the normal grain reserves, the state also has more than 70 million stone grain reserves.

At this time, the drought in the north was getting worse and worse, and many smart people in Shaanxi saw that the situation was not good, so they had already abandoned their fields and went to Danshui organized by the government. The price of grain has also gradually risen, and the price of rice has once again recovered to six or seven hundred yuan per stone. However, Zheng Lang was still insufficient, and it was impossible to collect grain from the southeast six roads at this time, and almost all the stored grain was looted by the imperial court. But there is still money, not counting the grain provided by the imperial court, and 20 million stone of cheap grain, rice, and wheat will be exchanged for more than 8 million yuan. This money was not moved, and at the price of 700 taels per stone, merchants were allowed to transport grain from Liangguang to the mouth of the New Yellow River. It was uniformly distributed by the imperial court and transported to all parts of the north. The amount is fifteen million stones, until the full amount is full.

Liangguang has been developed in recent years, three harvests in one season, and the grain is sufficient, but it is too far away from the Central Plains, and can only go by sea, and the sea route is not without sea ships, and the sea ship technology has become more and more developed in recent years, and it can almost be compared with the technology of the early Ming Dynasty. It's not that the sailboat is not fast, the main power is the wind, and perhaps it can surpass the speed of the steamer, but it has a monsoon selectivity, unlike the steam engine ship, which can sail all year round without being bound by the monsoon, and if it sails against the wind, it must use a large number of oars, so it is very expensive. However, the price of a stone of grain can be suspended to 500 Wen, and there is still a slight profit.

After the edict was issued. As a result, some merchants transported grain from Liangguang to the Central Plains.

Almost all of them were dumbfounded.

Not only the nearly 90 million stone grain. Last year, 10 million stones were dropped. That's not counting, but this year 20 million stone was sold at a flat price. It is equivalent to 110 million stone grain. What is Zheng Lang going to do? Even if the entire north does not harvest a grain in the next year, so much grain can barely make the north eat for a year.

The first is the merchant.

Huge food stocks. The merchants were frightened, and when they saw the price of grain rising, many merchants took it when they saw it and quickly put away the grain. Hoarders have become few and far between. As a result, the summer flood in the southeast and the beginning of the drought in the north caused the price of wheat to be only about 30 yuan, and the price of rice was only about 70 yuan.

This grain price will not be wrong, so it is clear that the country has had many disasters this year, but it still looks like the year of great governance.

But many ministers didn't understand, and even blamed Zheng Lang, why the price of rice had risen to more than 70 wen a bucket, you must know that last year it was less than 50 wen, that is, to stabilize the price of grain. If it is expensive, it will hurt the people, and if it is cheap, it will hurt the peasants. You can't play like that.

If we hadn't hoarded so much grain, there would have been a lot of grain in the whole grain, and the price of grain would not have risen so fast. And to stabilize the price of grain, the imperial court recovered it from the mouth of the Yellow River at nearly 80 wen per bucket, plus the transportation cost and management costs, almost 100 wen, is this normal? Although, next year's summer harvest will definitely not be better, and there is no need for so much grain. Zheng Lang's approach, skipped, some plants and trees are soldiers. Zheng Lang was speechless, if he did this, it was very likely that Zheng Daxia would come again next year.

Is Zheng Xia a good person?

It really can't be said that he is a bad person, with a clean and honest style, and his heart aches for the common people. Moreover, the depth of Wang Anshi's reform has deepened, and many bad phenomena have appeared. So he drew a picture of the displaced people with the help of the victims, but did Zheng Xia think of why Wang Anshi wanted to change the law, what kind of national foundation Wang Anshi inherited for the prime minister, and in the face of such a catastrophe, don't say that Wang Anshi, that generation can't stand it. Look at the great drought of the same scale in history, at the end of the summer, Yiluo exhausted and died in the summer, Chengtang was the virtuous emperor, and the drought for seven consecutive years led to the dry of the river and the wells, the red land was thousands of miles, the people had no place to die, and the bones were all over the field. In the second year of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there was a drought in the eastern part of the country, and more than 40 counties were hungry and cannibalistic. Wang Mang Jianping was four years old, cannibalism, and the people died of hunger seventeen or eighteen. In the fourth year of Tang Zhonghe, there was a great drought in the south of the Yangtze River, and people were cannibalistic. In the second year of Zhao Zhenmingdao, there was a great drought, and people did not eat each other, but the dead were twelve or thirteen. This is what Zheng Lang witnessed with his own eyes. Later, in the first year of the Yuan Dynasty, there was a great drought for many years, and the hungry people cannibalized. In the last years of Chongzhen, the era of the extraordinarily large and Xiaoice River, the great drought in the north spread throughout the province, the grass and grass were all withered, the Luoshui was not deep, the grass, trees, animal skins, insects and flies were all eaten, many people starved to death, starvation carried the road, and the land was desolate. In the 50th year of Qianlong, the thirteen provinces were affected by drought, the grass roots and bark were all scavenged, the displaced people carried the road, the starvation was in the wilderness, and the dead were resting. In the third or fourth year of Guangxu, there was a great drought in North China, and hundreds of thousands of people died, thousands of miles of red land, and people cannibalized. In 1920, there was a great drought in the north, with 20 million hungry people and 500,000 dead. In 1929, a severe drought in the north and southwest affected 9.4 million people and 2.5 million died of starvation. In 1942, there was a great drought in the Central Plains, and three million people starved to death in Henan alone. But all of this is less than the three years after the teens, which is unbearable, tens of millions of people......

However, the scale of the Xining drought is far more serious than the drought in the second year of Mingdao, Wang Anshi can make the people not have a large-scale uprising, not starve millions of people to death, and not have a tragedy of cannibalism, which can be regarded as a ninety points. Zheng Xia didn't think about it at all, only saw some bad situations in the reform, as well as the tragic images of the victims, and put on the calligraphy and painting pictures, and knocked down Wang Anshi alive.

He is a good official who is honest and loves the people, but he is a small-sighted clean official, and his ascension to the throne was brought up by Wang Anshi and his son. Wang Anshi also mentioned it to Zheng Lang several times, but Zheng Lang only said one sentence, Jiefu, what do you think, talk to this person.

Later, some people said that the Qing official Yiguo was referring to officials like Zheng Xia, Fan Zhen, and Lu Xu. When encountering such an official, it is better not to use it, because it is better not to use it, because it will not only harm the country, but also harm oneself. I don't know how Wang Anshi's father and son talked about it, and since then, Wang Anshi has never spoken again.

Zheng Xia is a white-eyed wolf or a psychopath, Zheng Lang doesn't care, could it be that with his careful preparation, Zheng Xia can still make a diagram of homeless people?

Soon after, however, the opposition subsided.

Last year, although there were drought locusts, there was some rain.

Since July this year, not a few drops of rain have fallen in the entire north, and the reluctant autumn harvest has been half harvested. Otherwise, there would already be a catastrophe.

It doesn't rain for a month, it's normal, but in February, March, and May, it's not normal. Many of the floors are cracked.

A disaster has struck.

However, the warehouses of the imperial court were prepared with grain stores that had not been seen since ancient times. Everyone wasn't nervous at all. But something bad happened below. There is a situation of grabbing for parity grain. Some officials and businessmen even colluded to directly dump grain at a high price to the businessmen and sell it at a high price.

In order to curb this ugly phenomenon, Zheng Lang was ruthless this time, anyway, he tried to use the official system three times and twice to sponsor him. So he sent many officials and three thousand officials to investigate. All grain at an affordable price must be supplied on an account basis, whether rich or poor. Each household is set to receive a certain amount of food per day. Those who take advantage of their power will be exiled, and those who collude with officials and businessmen to seek profits will be beheaded, and the officials will be removed from all official positions and will not be admitted for life.

Really slashed.

By the time of New Year's Day, thirty-five merchants had been killed, one hundred and ninety-eight officials and merchants had been exiled, and ninety-seven had been dismissed.

But by then, the situation had become even worse.

Subsequently, a series of measures were implemented.

By October, no one knew that a catastrophe had struck. The hardest area for disaster relief is Shaanxi, and Zheng Lang knows one more thing. Because of the impact of the disaster, Liang Yihui sent people to lure Huanqing familiar households with money and property next year. There were many returnees, and the Song Dynasty was endless.

Therefore, the first step is to organize the people of Shaanxi to eat.

It is impossible to transport grain into Shaanxi one by one, and the cost of transportation is too expensive.

Instead, they organized the people and let them come out, and some of them went to Danshui to build roads, and they ate Danshui and stored grain. However, this speed was very fast, and at the end of the year, the Dan Waterway was completed, so the grain was transported to Guanzhong on a large scale from the Dan Waterway.

Not only at the end of this year, but also for the whole of next year, the first half of the year after that. Shaanxi must reserve a large amount of grain, and this moving fee has also been saved, anyway, it is to eat, waste is wasted, and the common people transport grain and provide food. Grain will be transported to all parts of Shaanxi.

Secondly, the people were organized to the west of Beijing. Needless to say, the Xiangzhou area itself can get grain from the south, and even between Zheng Cailuo, they can also get grain from the southeast from the Yellow River, and vigorously develop the relatively backward water conservancy in western Beijing. After the disaster, some people were intercepted, and the water and soil in Shaanxi were too bad, and it was not necessarily a good thing for the people to be overcrowded.

The last part is to open up the Shaanxi-Shu road.

Due to the unique topography of Sichuan, it is very inconvenient to travel with the Central Plains, and the main trade route is the Three Gorges. But because of this Three Gorges, many people die every year, and some boats capsize. There is also communication with the southwest region, which is not within the Central Plains. There is also a road to Guanzhong. It is divided into two categories: North Sichuan Road and South Road, the first of which is Chencang Road, which is named after Chencang County at the north end of the road; And because of the way along the Jialing River on the way to the source of the old road water, also known as the old road. Its route goes west from Chang'an to Fengxiang, Chencang, Huanghuachuan, along the old road to Fengxian, through Mianxian, Baijiaoguan, along the Jinniu Road into Shu or through Baocheng to Hanzhong. The entry of Han Xin's soldiers into Guanzhong is this road, a small road.

The second is the Bao Slope Road, which is the main road in Sichuan and Shaanxi, and the history is also the longest, this road is because it travels along the two river valleys of the Inclined Water and the Praise Water, the north end is in the Slope Valley of Meixian County, and the south end is in the Treasure Valley of Hanzhong, so it is called the Praise Slope Road. Its route starts from Chang'an, enters the Qinling Mountains from the mouth of the valley, passes through the Taogu River, Taibai County, the mouth of the two rivers, and goes south to Hanzhong through Shimen or beyond the Qipanling Ridge to the mouth of the Baogu Valley.

The third and important road, the Meridian Road, has two ancient roads, the old and the new. The old road was built by King Mang of the Han Dynasty, out of Chang'an, along the Meridian Valley, over the Qinling Mountains through Shiquan, Raofeng Pass to Hanzhong. The new road is rebuilt in the Liang Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, starting from Chang'an, along the Meridian Valley, passing through the Feeding Ziping and Meridian Pass; Turn over the Qinling Mountains through Jiangkou, Waist Ridge Pass and so on to the old city of Ningshan, go south through Raofeng Pass to Ziwu Town, along the Golden Gorge, Yangxian, Chenggu to Hanzhong.

The fourth is the fastest and most precipitous, that is, Fu Luo Road, the southern end of the intersection is located in the mouth of the Fushui River in Hanzhong Yang County, and the north end of the intersection is located in the west of Zhouzhi County.

There are also three avenues on the south road, the first is Yinping Road, from Yinping in Gansu (now Wenxian County), through Minshan East to Hanzhong, south to Zitong, to Sichuan Pingwu, Jiangyou and other places. Passing through the side of the Golden Bull Road to bypass the danger of the sword gate, passing through Mianyang, Mianzhu and other places to reach the capital. It can also enter Nanping and Songpan in the west, and connect Wudu and Longxi in the north. In 263 A.D., Wei general Deng Aiva Shu, dug a mountain on the original mountain path and opened a road to smuggle Yinping to destroy Shu. After that, this road is one of the main roads of Qin and Longchuan, and it is known as "Deng Aihua Shu Road" in history.

The second is the Golden Bull Road, the history records that the Qin State wants to take Bashu and it is difficult to overcome the resistance of the mountains and rivers, so the King of Qin lied to be able to give the stone ox of gold to the King of Shu, the King of Shu was greedy and sent Wuding to open the road to meet the stone ox, in 316 BC the Qin army entered the Sichuan to destroy Ba and Shu, so the road is called the Golden Bull Road or the Stone Ox Road. Its route starts from Shaanxi County. Pass the seven pans to Guangyuan. Then pass through the sword gate to pass out the sword pavilion, Wulian, Zitong and go straight to Shiniupu. Go south to Chengdu. This is the largest road on South Road.

The third is Micang Road, starting from Nanzheng in Hanzhong, turning over Da and Xiaoba Mountain, and entering Shu through Micang Mountain. From Nanjiang to Bazhong. then along the Ba River and the Qujiang River to Chongqing; It can also reach Jiangzhou through Nanchong and Hechuan; It can also go directly to Chengdu through the south, Santai and Zhongjiang.

Comparatively speaking, the three roads in the south are easier to walk than the four roads in the north, and they are still in the Song Dynasty, because the western region is mostly controlled by the Tibetans. Traffic is sluggish. Including the north road, there are four roads to the east, and several roads are gradually becoming deserted. As a result, Su Dongpo and others entered Beijing, sometimes from the Three Gorges, around 108,000 miles, to the capital, instead of entering the capital by dry road. It also led to a result, the condition of Lizhou Road itself is not bad, because the traffic is inconvenient. The imperial court was not strictly managed. Poor management means that the region is backward.

With Wang Shao operating the river Huang. Taomin and other prefectures have been fully recovered, and it has become possible to rebuild seven avenues. In addition to these two roads, Zheng Lang organized the victims to rebuild two roads, the first one started from Yizhou, passed through Guanghan, Zhongjiang, Tongchuan, and Yanting to Guangyuan in the north, and went northeast to Huangba Station in Shaanxi. The second road is from Yizhou, through Deyang, Mianzhou, Zitong, Jianmen to Guangyuan east out of Shaanxi. This is the famous Ming and Qing post road.

Renovating seven avenues and building two new roads would be a staggering figure if it were not possible in normal times, just for the use of labor. But now it's not much of a problem. The drought is getting worse and worse, and labor will not be a problem. In addition, if the victims go south, they can also use the grain from Sichuan and Lizhou Road to eat.

The first to be arranged were the victims of the disaster in Shaanxi.

The second is Hedong Road.

The cost of transportation determines the priority.

The victims of Hedong Road mainly opened coal roads, and Zheng Lang did not care about the coal mine. Its source is still domestic, and it is too expensive to ship it back from overseas. The mining technology is relatively unscientific, and all that is found is shallow ore.

More people use coal, and the steel supervisor is also using coal. Zheng Lang welcomes the use of coal, no matter how cotton is promoted, it is still very cold in the north in winter, and most people continue to use charcoal to make fires for heating. Using charcoal means cutting down a lot of wood.

It's not that there is no coal, but most of the coal mines found are inconvenient places, and Hedong Road is the most, but because of the inconvenient roads, the transportation cost is very high. In fact, there are many areas of coal mines, such as Huainan and Shandong. However, it is buried relatively deep, and deep mines can be opened at this time, but it is extremely dangerous. And at this time mining, the waste is also serious. Therefore, taking the opportunity of this disaster, the people were organized to build roads and water conservancy, and by the way, coal roads were built. So that the coal on Hedong Road can be transported smoothly and at low cost.

The same is true for Hebei Jingdong Road, overhauling water conservancy roads, improving the water conservancy that was not able to be repaired before, even at any cost, so that Hebei and Hedong Road can open up the roads of Taihang Mountain. This is the first opportunity that the drought brought to Zheng Lang. The entire northern part of the country overhauled water conservancy roads, completely solved all the hidden dangers of water conservancy, comprehensively opened up the Sichuan-Shaanxi traffic, reduced the pressure on the people of Shaanxi, and comprehensively developed the roads in western Beijing. Disasters are difficult, but if they get through, the whole north will be renewed.

There is a greater opportunity, which I dare not say for the time being.

After the implementation of various measures, the relief grain rolled down, and another 10 million stone was allocated to regulate and control grain prices. And issued an edict, except for those who die of illness and old age, or who are forced to die of work-related accidents, if any citizen dies of starvation, all the officials of the prefecture and county where they are located will be dismissed. No matter how the disaster is relieved, but the people must not starve to death, starve to death, and officials from the state to the county should not expect to be officials again.

What is the heaven and the earth, and human life is the greatest. This is the greatest human life.

Fu Bi listened to the edict and sighed: "Xingzhi, fortunately the court has you." ”

Zheng Lang said: "Luck, luck." ”

Fu Bi asked suspiciously: "Xingzhi, do you know that there will be a catastrophe?" ”

"No, last year it was prepared to calm the grain. However, this year, there is a lot of rain in the southeast and little rain in the north, so I am not sure in my heart, so I have further prepared grain. Until the rain did not fall in July, I was also afraid of accidents, the disaster in the second year of Mingdao, the people were too miserable. It's a restructuring again, if there is a real disaster, I don't know how many people will talk about it, not afraid of 10,000, just afraid of what happens, it's better to be prepared, so I prepared more. Luck, luck. Zheng Lang prevaricated.

However, some people have doubts in their hearts, it is good to be prepared, how much food can be prepared from last year to this year? 110,000,000,000 stones. If you say that you are prepared, you have gone too far.

When the disaster came, but under the effective organization of the imperial court, it was actually in order, as if there was no catastrophe coming, and everything was very calm.

In fact, to do this, coupled with side work, many people have to sing the praise, this is a rare prosperous era.

That's when something happened.

In a fifth-class family in Hongzhou, the husband and wife went to work in the city, and the industry and commerce became more and more developed, and there were more people working. Leaving behind an old mother with three children. It is a fifth-class family, the family life is very bad, the old mother has reached the age of the sixtieth year, but the family is poor, still hired to cultivate more than a dozen acres of land, from old to late, hard work. There were many people like this in the Song Dynasty. But something happened that day, she was working in the fields, and the three children were locked in the house, and I don't know why they didn't lock it properly, so they escaped, ran to the pond to play in the water, and fell into the pond together and drowned. The grandmother came home at night, looking for the children but could not find them, so she was in a hurry to shout, someone helped, and found the dead bodies of three children in the pond.

The old grandmother went crazy.

When the tragedy came out, Zheng Lang was very sad, and then wrote a letter of self-blame.

What is the prosperous era, if you say that the poor areas can still understand, what is Hongzhou, the place of prosperity since ancient times, even this kind of tragedy can happen, can you still use the prosperous era to put gold on your face, and even the officials continue to spend all day drinking and prostituting, and also prostitutes, young students, do not want to be ashamed. It's the official's fault, it's the prime minister's fault. Starting from himself, including the relevant officials in Hongzhou, all of them were demoted to the third level of official rank.

Zhao Zhen didn't know why, and said: "Gong Zheng, this requirement is too harsh. ”

Zheng Lang replied: "Since ancient times, officials have been rich and expensive, which doesn't matter, but there are a lot of rhetoric, how many people take the people to heart? ”

This is a trivial matter, Zheng Lang is too strict with himself, and it is the officials in Hongzhou who are sad.

But this further interprets the concept that the sky is big and the world is the greatest.

The end of the year is approaching, with blind Wu Qi and Ba Yujiao as the deputy envoy of Chongyi, Dong Gu as the deputy envoy of protocol, Dong Gu is the second brother of Mu Zheng, and his mother Ying Chengjian is the concubine of the blind felt, and the concubine is a child, Wang Shaobing entered Hezhou, Mu Zheng was defeated, and Ying Chengjian and his brother took their son Dong Gu to surrender Jing Sili with the city of Nakelei. Therefore, the history books say that the two kings were lowered, not the three kings. The three of them came to Beijing to meet Zhao Ji, who saw that Dong Gu was polite and obedient, and then moved another capital, like his two younger brothers, to be the deputy envoy of Chongyi. The Liang family also sent an envoy to Beijing to offer horses and invite the Tripitaka. Zhao Ji did a thing that greatly increased the morale of the people, it was okay to ask for scriptures, and to give scriptures, but the horses sent to us were not rare in the Song Dynasty, and they were all returned.

However, then something happened that made everyone very unpleasant, the Khitan sent an envoy to congratulate the New Year's Day, Yeluhong and his envoys were Yeludong and Dou Jingyong, and his mother envoys were Yelurong and Liang Zhu. What was the situation in the Song Dynasty, the Khitan didn't know, but they knew some big things, such as the wanton use of troops in the river and the drought in the entire north of the Song Dynasty. The drought also had some impact on the Khitan, but it was a nomadic country and its impact was far less than that of the Song Dynasty. Therefore, believing that there would be a crisis in the Song Dynasty, Yelu Hongji learned from his father and sent an envoy to blackmail the Song Dynasty. (To be continued.) )