"Official, what's wrong with you?" Pan Li'er asked with concern.

Song Jiu wouldn't answer, so he changed the subject: "Li'er, then why don't you associate with another little lady in his family?" ”

"You said that Xiao'e, she's only a few years old," Pan Li'er chuckled. Song Jiu understood, no wonder he had never seen another little lady of the Song family at one time, but it was like this in this era, there was no planning to have children, and there was no contraception, most places slept as soon as it was dark, where could I sleep in the first half of the night, so I worked hard, and after cultivation, it would blossom and bear fruit, if it were not for the underdevelopment of medical services, many babies would die early, and the population would swell faster. Another result is that there is a huge gap between the long and the young.

Song Jiu ate and went to Hezhou.

The Qingming Festival is coming, and Song Jiu plans to open the theater ahead of schedule before Qin Zaixiong and Pan Mei leave, and is rushing to work and rehearsal. Riding a horse to the river island, the river island began to plant trees and flowers on a large scale, which cannot be called beautiful, and must wait for all the houses to be built before it can be considered beautiful. The other is manpower, Zhao Chengzong has Zhao Chengzong's method, and Song Jiu has Song Jiu's method. After February, Song Jiu sent people to post notices all over the capital and nearby states and counties, recruiting people on a large scale, and the salary of fifty wen a day could not exist, so it rose to seventy wen, originally Song Jiu wanted to rise to eighty wen, and then met with Zhao Chengzong, Zhao Chengzong disagreed, Xiao Jiu, you are not raising the salary, you are cheating me.

At least from beginning to end, Song Jiu was "kind" to Zhao Chengzong, but Zhao Chengzong may not be able to accept Song Jiu's affection, the situation of the two families is different, and Song Jiu's kindness is quite normal.

This salary can barely support a family, but there are still things. For example, some of these trees and flowers require a high level of physical work. There are also ordinary women and the elderly who can do the same, at most with a lower salary. But a family of two or three can earn more than 100 yuan a day, and their lives can gradually improve.

Later, when they came, Hezhou built a temporary house for them, which was the grass shed of Zhao Chengzong, the kind of disaster shed that housed the victims a few years ago, and played a function of sheltering from the wind and rain. At the end of 1,500 working days, Hezhou would buy land in Henan and build the kind of houses that used to house vegetable farmers. This time will be long. Even if the work was not stopped, there were some bad weather days that had to be stopped, at most 250 working days a year, and even less, only 200 days. But it depends on the fact that women and the elderly also count their work, eight points of labor, six points of labor, and in fact, four or five years can wait for the legendary house. There are no commercial areas in Henan. There are even very few tourists who come there, and the land is cheap, but it costs sixty or seventy yuan to build a house. This is not a lot of pay.

There are also welfare conditions. If a strong man who works normally has a serious illness, after confirmation, the sick leave will still be counted as a working day. After the 1,500 working days were completed, all of them were arranged to work on the river island.

After the notice is posted. Some of the extremely poor people in the capital, as well as the floating households and the destitute people in neighboring prefectures and counties, poured over one after another. Not at a distance. They still don't know how valuable this job opportunity is. More than 700 households have come one after another, and it has not stopped yet, and people continue to rush over.

The problem of the labor required by Song Jiu was easily resolved.

There are also conditions, if you do not work hard, eliminate slacking, mix the salary or stay up the number of working days, after being found a warning, two heavy fines, and a penalty of salary and the number of working days, but the competent department is not satisfied, the people can also appeal to the steward. However, after three discoveries, he kicked his family out of Hezhou. In another case, if you take the lead in making trouble, or if you commit a heinous crime, you will be kicked out of Hezhou at the least, and sent to the government for execution. This is to prevent people with intentions from demagoguery, after all, these people come from all over the world, and they are of the same nature as the people of the two rivers.

Song Jiu looked around and returned home, but he still couldn't understand why Zhao Kuangyin fell in love with the little lady of the Song family?

And this time the speed is very fast, the edict was issued in front, and the little lady of the Song family was included in the palace in the back.

It can be said that Zhao Kuangyin's life is simple, including marriage, and the cost is very economical, but it can also be said that the little lady of the Song family cannot replace the position of Queen Wang in Zhao Kuangyin's heart, otherwise she can't do it so quickly and simply.

The Winter Food Festival arrived, and the theater opened.

The real place to watch the play is only three floors, and the height of each floor is very low, only two meters and five meters high, but the stage is as high as one meter five, not that you can't see people, but you can't hear the sound, so it must be designed this way. That's it, there are not many spectators accommodating, eight rows of seats on the first floor, tested in advance, this is the maximum, six rows of seats on the second floor, and only four rows of seats on the third floor, otherwise it is not easy to see people clearly in the back. Eighteen rows of seats, a total of 820 people.

The ticket price on the ground floor is cheap, only four hundred wen, six hundred wen, eight hundred wen, and the second floor is more expensive, one thousand wen thousand five hundred wen and two thousand wen three, but there is a welfare condition, one person can bring a servant in for free, they can also sit down to watch the play, but it is not the sofa-style seat in the front row, just two rows of benches, everyone is crowded together. The actual position is the best in front of the second floor, that is, the ticket position of 2,000 Wen, but people in this era pay attention to a high character. The third floor is more expensive, three and four for two kinds, but you can bring two servants in for free.

The ticket price is expensive, I don't know it now, but the time is very long, from ten o'clock in the morning to nine o'clock in the evening, as long as five and a half hours, not all of them are watching the play, starting at one o'clock, to two o'clock is the time to drink tea and watch the scenery. Not yet, there will be many beautiful scenery in Nanbianshui soon, this river is not navigable anyway, and some of the area is enough to be arranged slowly. It starts at four o'clock in the afternoon, and it is dinner time at six o'clock, and the restaurant charges will not be as expensive as Shundian, but it is similar to a high-end restaurant, but the food inside is not much inferior to Shundian. After eating, there are several small sports fields suitable for women's sports in the back, play ball, or sit in the lounge next to play a game of cards and mahjong, and then go in at six o'clock.

This is a treat for the ladies, and of course it costs money. But you can spend no money, stay up, buy cheap tickets, and stay for a day, as long as 400 yuan. It depends on each person's financial situation. Of course, men can also go in, but there are many men and women who are separated and do not need to be shunned.

In the first two days, most of the tickets were divided up in the ya, and only about 100 tickets flowed out, and half were bought by ticket sellers who smelled fishy. Scalping began again. Song Jiu got the most votes, which is a wish. There were more than 20 guests in Chenzhou alone, and more than a dozen tickets were given to the Pan family. He took more than twenty of his own tickets, including two doctors. Three people, mighty to the theater.

It was packed to the brim, not only eight hundred and twenty people, but more than a thousand servants. When it's all there, the curtain is pulled down on time, the inside is darkened, and then a few searchlight-like lamps in front of the stage turn on the lights, and these lights can be controlled. The person who controls it is inside the stage, and it is not visible from the outside, and it can astigmatism, concentration, and distribution. In the back, a huge background picture hangs behind each scene. At the same time, there are various props, a small half of which are prompted by Song Jiu, and most of them are supplementary methods that the heads of the line and the steward came up with. It seems to be a bit nondescript, but after gradual adjustments, it is a little better. But for the current Song people, all this is enough novelty.

The first scene is the Legend of the White Snake.

After the literati irrigated again and again. The story becomes very, long, long.

Now I don't even have a novel, where does the long drama come from, I read it with relish and silently. An hour and a half passed in the blink of an eye. Many people surrounded Song Jiu to ask about the plot, and Song Jiu fled. Don't ask, just read and you'll find out. He only instructed Pan Li'er to entertain good guests. Pan Li'er nodded, her husband had a lot of things on hand. Time is tight. So I continued to look down and saw the evening. After countless joys and sorrows, Xu Xian let Fahai trick him to Jinshan Temple, and then it ended. If you want to know what will happen, let's break it down tomorrow. Qin Zaixiong was in a hurry, and regardless of avoiding suspicion, he stopped Pan Li'er and asked the result. Pan Li'er pursed her lips and protested: "I also want to know the results of the Dao, the official has not said it once." ”

The next day, all the people who watched came, only Song Jiu was coming, and in order to grab time, the eldest sister hired a carriage before dawn, took the family to sweep the tomb, and then came back to watch the play. Song Jiu said on the way: "Eldest sister, it's okay to take a look once in a while, you can't delay your wine shop business." ”

After the White Snake finished acting, he deceived enough tears, plus the previous White Fox, the white goblin is probably the most popular ghost in the capital. But here comes the problem, the story of the West Chamber begins again. This version had a novel in the Tang Dynasty, but how could it be so long and wonderful. made Pan Mei and Qin Zaixiong lose their energy when they had a new fire ceremony the next day, hoping to end it early and ride to Hezhou quickly. It was so tempting for them, and the women. A real ticket is hard to come by on this day.

And it is different from Shundian, want to go up the grade, eat, drink, have fun, at least a few hundred dollars, here, the shot is atmospheric, a dozen dollars for a person is enough, if the ticket is cheap, two or three dollars can also be mixed with scenery for a day. For the poor people, its consumption is still very high, but how many nobles there are in the capital, there are thousands of families just for the families of officials, and there are not too many rich businessmen. There are only 820 tickets, where is there enough to get points.

After the Qingming Festival, Qin Zaixiong and a group of barbarians mixed in for a few days, and they didn't want to leave. But I still have to go, including Mrs. Tian, who is very nostalgic, and I have to leave by boat and go to Tanzhou. The group first arrived at the East Water Gate, two ships, including Mrs. Pan and her subordinates, and a few barbarians. Not only the luggage that Tian carried, but also the gifts given by Song Jiu. spent a lot of money in Pan Li'er's hands, Qin Zaixiong is the eldest brother, if he doesn't spend money, it is called heavy color and light friends.

Allocated 20,000 yuan, bought a lot of Chenzhou necessary items, including a variety of books, and took out some brocade silk from the congratulatory gifts, these are high-quality silk fabrics, far from the kind of cloth used for money, the workmanship is very exquisite, given to Qin Zaixiong and you are familiar with the chief's wife, not only friendship, these exquisite silk weaving past, can open up the vision of the southern women, some of the women are also very skillful, then it will make their weaving art to a higher level.

In addition, there are some gifts from Zhao Kuangyin, all of which have to be loaded onto the ship.

Watching the boat leave, Qin Zaixiong and Song Jiu hugged each other and parted, and they didn't know when they would be able to meet. Pan Mei only said one sentence: "Okay, you kid is no wonder you were so angry at the beginning, this ability to cheat money is the best in the world." ”

The ticket is really expensive, but this ticket may not be available, or it is bought from the person who ticks the ticket, and the price has doubled. Guan Jian knew that the road was very expensive, and there were many people who wanted to go in.

The group rode away on horseback and galloped away.

In fact, some of Song Jiu's practices have had a very good role in promoting the integration of Chenzhou, but where is there a copper pillar that makes people sad.

The previous regime in southern Hunan was Southern Chu, and Peng Shichou, the leader of Xizhou, led his men to attack Chenli and Erzhou, and was defeated by Ma Xifan, the king of Chu. However, the situation outside Nanchu is very tense. Forced by the situation, Ma Xifan signed an agreement with the barbarian leaders. Xizhou, which is now the Beijiang barbarians, belonged to Southern Chu, but Southern Chu had to exempt Xizhou from taxation. If the chiefs of Xizhou are guilty, they can only be punished by the Peng family, and Southern Chu cannot send troops to interfere.

This policy temporarily settled down on the west side of Southern Chu, but it definitely didn't work, not to mention that after the Song Dynasty in history, there were too many examples of the previous dynasty, Nanzhao. In the future, Western Xia, Tubo and so on. When the relationship is tense, this copper pillar can be very useful, but when it is merged, it becomes a glaring chasm.

Not only this copper pillar, but also other problems, but Song Jiu's biggest advantage is that he doesn't think about it when he can't figure it out, and he looks for troubles. Stood for a while. Ride a horse and take Pan Li'er home. In Yuping's words, Pan Li'er is about to become Song Jiu's little tail, and wherever Song Jiu goes, Pan Li'er will go. The relationship between the couple is so good that the people on the side feel numb.

Just arrived home. Seeing that Xiao Huangmen was waiting for him, Xiao Huangmen said: "Your Majesty, please go to the Inner Palace." ”

It's getting late. However, it is normal for Zhao Kuangyin, who often does not summon ministers on time. also often runs to the minister's house, not only Zhao Pu. Other ministers have also been there. In fact, he was also bored in the palace, and took the opportunity to see the minister to come out for a stroll.

Song Jiu entered the inner palace.

Zhao Kuangyin asked him to sit down and said, "Song Jiu, Qin Zaixiong, are they leaving?" ”

"Wechen just sent them away."

"You have done a good job, Jinghu has gradually become peaceful in recent years, last year Zhancheng rice was promoted, and some enclosed fields were built, Tanzhou was ripe, and the people were peaceful, including the barbarians of the North and South Rivers also successively sent leaders to surrender to our court, and you also have credit for this."

"Your Majesty, don't dare, this is what Weichen should do."

"However, you also gave me a headache, Zhao Chengzong deceived people in Hebei, you are tempting in Hezhou, and the summer tax will come up immediately, where will I use people?"

Many ministers reported this in their letters, only saying that the labor was tense, and others did not dare to say anything. Zhao Chengzong didn't dare to say it at all, and Song Jiu didn't say it here, with the prosperity of Hezhou, not only did Hezhou's industry pay heavy taxes, but also a large number of transactions generated by various shops were also paying taxes, and the monthly tax reached more than 30,000 yuan. Song Jiu and they haven't actually received much money, and the capital has not been recovered, or Song Jiu has more money, but it doesn't seem to be much. Therefore, it will not be blushing. So I looked at the tax, and when I saw the tax, I didn't dare to impeach one by one.

But this labor problem must be raised, otherwise the goods will be left on the ship if no one unloads them?

Song Jiu said slowly: "Your Majesty, there is a way, the intention of the country's initial placement of soldiers is nothing more than to reduce the labor of the people, increase the source of forbidden soldiers, and appease the victims. But there were many old and sick people, or cowardly people. If there is a large-scale water conservancy project or road, the imperial court still has to mobilize the people, or use disaster relief methods to implement it. If it is to catch thieves and thieves, enrich the strength of border defense, guard the prison city, and select forbidden soldiers, these soldiers are not very suitable. In fact, it is to build ships, transport taxes, and they are not very motivated. But these people can still do ordinary work, it is better to eliminate three or four thousand people, return the soldiers to the people, and let them come to Hezhou. ”

Zhao Kuangyin did not speak, the elimination was simple, and the placement was difficult.

Song Jiu said: "Use them as service households, limit the labor time every year, and let them work freely for the rest of the time. Manpower is needed everywhere. Casual workers are unstable, but they are paid relatively well. Now there may not be many opportunities for casual workers, but it doesn't hurt, only the imperial court labor is the mainstay, and the rest are incorporated into the construction of Hezhou by Weichen. Then there is the problem of housing, when the time comes, as long as the construction is completed in 500 days, Hezhou will build a house for them. ”

"That's a lot of money."

"Weichen doesn't care, what I'm worried about is that the various yamen, the problem is not big, there is a lack of labor, so they will be forced to make some humility."

"Just play it up to you," Zhao Kuangyin said, and said, "What are you going to do about the academy?" ”

"Wechen is waiting for His Majesty's edict."

"Build it according to your drawings, and the ministers may not agree."

"Your Majesty, you allocate the money, and I will suggest that the rest be contributed by the government, and Weichen can also contribute money, in the name of Hezhou, not in the name of individuals."

"Do you need to be so careful? There are people everywhere who donate to education, and I have been rewarded many times, and it is a good thing to be able to donate, so there is no need to be so taboo. ”

Song Jiu didn't take it seriously, and said: "Your Majesty's wedding, Weichen will give your Majesty a congratulatory gift." ”

As he spoke, he took out the congratulatory gift from his bosom. (To be continued......)