"The Hubei Transshipment Division proposes the following handling measures."

"First, in the coming year, we will use various methods to reduce the number of artisans and miners in Ezhou by more than half. Eliminate the inexperienced and the old and unable to work, make a reasonable allocation of the remaining craftsmen, and the transshipment department will reduce a part of the taxes on gold, silver, copper and iron, but strive to restore the output to the level before Nandu within five years. ”

"Second, in response to the impact of the mine on the township, the state government will allocate a part of the money and grain, hire the miners who have been laid off, and carry out the tasks of treating wastewater, cleaning up slag and maintaining roads, planting trees and transporting ore. Declare the leaders of local artisan households, strictly restrain the artisans and Ding Zhuang under their subordinates, and do not cause trouble at will. A group of miners and villagers were sent to form a group to conduct inspections day and night, and once they found anyone who caused trouble, they were immediately sent to the government. ”

"Is it not possible, Counselor Zheng thinks that it is a joke to suddenly let tens of thousands of people lose their jobs? How many people can be used just to sweep the road and haul wastewater? With so many people losing their livelihoods all at once, the entire Hubei region will be in turmoil. The counselor of Shou Changjun immediately saw the danger in Zheng Yunming's plan.

"This doesn't need Shou Changjun to worry, for the unemployed, this dynasty is already familiar with the road." Zheng Yunming said and glanced at He Yuanshou, the general leader of Huguang, who was silent on the side.

He Yuanshou naturally knew what Lu Dao meant, but like Zheng Yunming, he also couldn't be the master of such a big matter: "Although the enemy is current, it is too much to ask the imperial court to agree to suddenly increase the number of tens of thousands of troops."

"You don't need to accept them all," Zheng Yunming paced in the tent and thought for a while, and said, "First ask the Jinghu Envoy to find a way to give 5,000 people and form an army." Then the other miners who were unemployed and could not find anything to do were organized into ten large villages, and arranged for them to be given rations and seeds to plough cattle in the barren mountains north of Gangneung Province, and the army sent camp envoys to supervise their cultivation and produce military rations to supply the army of Xiangyang Province. ”

Everyone in the tent glanced at each other, this plan is too huge, a solution of this scale, not to mention that the governor of a state can't decide, and even the military and political leaders along the way don't dare to shoot such a big board.

Of course, Yun Ming knew that this proposal could not succeed unless it was supported by an official document from the imperial court. Please rest assured that Zheng should make every effort to promote this matter. Zheng Yunming said in an unquestionable tone, just like the sonorous and powerful speech of the Qing Xianggong in the political hall in the past.

Because there was a story in Huangzhou, Zheng Yunming's life experience, most of the officials in Huangzhou knew it clearly. He spoke as the prime minister of the court, and of course no one could question it.

After making a decision, Zheng Yunming once again recruited the miners and villager representatives into the account, and announced the settlement in public. Although the miner was a little worried, he had nothing to say under the comfort of Zheng Yunming's kind words. The villagers will not complain.

In this game, the government originally assumed the greatest responsibility. The reason why Zheng Yunming adopted this method of covering everything was because of Ezhou's important position in the entire Jinghu defense system. To put it more clearly, the northern offensive is imminent, and instead of letting the money and grain be robbed by the Mongol army in vain a year, it is better to use it now to relieve the people and calm the people's hearts. If the Mongols were in the front and the people in Ezhou were in turmoil, then Zheng Yunming would have been blocked from even the way to escape, so what could he say to save the situation?

"You see, as long as the country shows a little sincerity, the people are still very reasonable." Zheng Yunming stood on the top of the hill and watched the huge crowd slowly disperse, very complacent: "This matter is finally satisfactory, let's go back to Xiangyang Mansion tomorrow!" ”

But the real political affairs are far more complicated than Zheng Yunming can imagine, and the aftermath of this incident forever changed the fate of Zheng Yunming in the second half of his life.

When the speedboat of the Huangzhou guard Ma Junsi caught up with Zheng Yunming's official ship, Zheng Yunming and Xian'er and Han Shilang had already traveled through Yingzhou, and the ship came to Xiangyang.

The officers and soldiers on the clipper boat shouted together to keep Zheng Yunming's boat. The two boats anchored side by side on the riverbank.

Zheng Yunming stood on the bow of the ship, and before he could ask, the hatch of the clipper squeaked open, and it was Meng Heng, the guard Ma Junsi and the commander of Huangzhou, who got out of the cabin.

"Why are you here in person?" Zheng Yunming was taken aback, and hurriedly picked up his official robe and was about to come over to see it.

"That's it, we're already old acquaintances, why bother to be so polite again?" Meng Heng said and jumped into the depths, and had already jumped onto Zheng Yunming's boat. "There is something that must be told to Zheng Guanren in person, come on, let's go into the cabin and talk about it."

Xian'er hurriedly packed up the cabin and hid in the stern of the boat to boil water and make tea. Han Shiro held a spear in his hand and guarded the hatch of the ship.

At this time, when the cold winter has receded and the spring is getting stronger, a little new green grows on the branches of the trees by the river, and snow-white reed flakes are flying in the air.

Meng Heng sat in the cabin, facing Zheng Yunming, a young counselor who was more than 20 years younger than him.

"Something happened in Ezhou again." Meng Hui's understatement made Zheng Yunming's heart sink.

"The commander sent by the Jinghu Metropolitan Commander whipped several disobedient miners during the recruitment of troops, killed one and wounded a dozen, and the miners rebelled on the spot and almost beat the commander to death. He also blocked the officers and soldiers of Jinghu in my capital yamen and did not let them out. It was I who stepped forward and arrested dozens of troublemakers to calm things down. ”

Zheng Yunming rubbed his hands, and his anxious mood was all written on his face: "I will go back to Xiangyang Mansion immediately, and ask Zhao Zhizhi to send another powerful official to the past, and I will also go to Ezhou with me, so that the recruitment of the army can be successfully completed!" ”

Meng Heng shook his head and said: "It doesn't work, now the miners in Ezhou are in a lot of emotion, they say that the government has no credit, and recruiting troops is just a delaying tactic." The purpose is to trick them into going to a remote place to execute them together, and if the capital of Jinghu or Huangzhou sends someone again, they won't believe it. Except for one person."

"Who is it? Du Tong quickly told me the name of this person, as long as these miners can be successfully recruited into the army, Hugh said that he was invited thirty times, and Zheng Yunming would also invite him out of the mountain! ”

Meng Heng stared at Zheng Yunming with both eyes, and said word by word: "You are the one who can serve the Ezhou miners and unite them to serve the country." ”

A sentence made Zheng Yunming sit in the cabin in shock: "Me? ”

Meng Heng nodded solemnly: "It's you Zheng Guanren." ”

"No, no, don't be kidding," Zheng Yunming kept shaking his hand, as if he had received some hot charcoal: "Fighting a war is a desperate effort to risk your life, I'm just a gentleman in the Prime Minister's Mansion, a little scholar who can't carry a three-foot sword in his hand, where can I lead the army to kill the enemy?" ”

"How's the scholar?" Meng Hui said loudly: "Cao Youwen of the Lizhou Metropolitan Division, who was originally just a professor of the Tianshui Army? Now isn't it a hand-held army, making achievements? In the face of the great enemy, the autumn of national crisis, what kind of scholar and martial artist do you have? Where are the ways that the fathers and sons taught you to sacrifice your lives for righteousness and seek mercy to go through hardships? ”

"That being said, after all, I have only been in Jinghu for more than ten days, and I have not even recognized the names of local governors. I myself am just a mere counselor, and I am of a humble position. If you lead the army alone, you have to deal with the relationship with other armies, you have to raise military salaries, food and grass, you have to straighten out the personnel relationship with the upper peak, and you have to take care of the local area."

Meng Hui shook his head and said, "Do you know what Lu Dao is for, these miners refuse to ask others to lead the army, just you?" ”

"That's because of all the officials who went to mediation, you were the only one who didn't use whips and sticks against them."

"In the past, the officials who went to Ezhou for mediation either used whips to open the way, or they used sticks to expel them, in short, they were mercilessly regarded as thugs."

"Only you, Zheng Yunming, arranged for the army to drive in cautiously. Even when they cursed and reprimanded, they did not return fire when they were thrown stones and tiles. In other words, only you treat them as if they were human beings. ”

"Do you know what is the most important thing in the army? Courage can motivate the three armies, discipline can purge the troops, and rewards can make people serve their lives, but these are not the most important joints. ”

"The most important thing in an army is trust, the trust between the generals and the soldiers, the trust between the generals and the officials, and even the trust between the generals and the generals."

"Fighting a war is the most dangerous thing in the world, and fame and wealth are not only obtained from the heads of the enemy, but also from the lives of comrades. After a vicious battle, tens of thousands of lives were buried on the battlefield, only in exchange for the promotion of the living to the knighthood. If you were a soldier, what do you think? ”

"If a general doesn't treat his soldiers as human beings. The soldier's life is likely to become a meaningless number to be exchanged for a high-ranking official, and in order to win an official promotion, he can exchange tens of millions of lives. Who wants to be a soldier under such a person? ”

"So the only official they can trust is you, Zheng Yunming. They believe that you will not casually throw them on the battlefield like slag, and believe that you can value them, treat them well, and if you really need to fight for your life on the battlefield, you can exchange your head for fame. Then they're only willing to do it for you. ”

"This is a wholehearted trust from 5,000 people, in the face of this trust, do you choose to retreat?"

Zheng Yunming slowly recovered from the shock, he planned several times in his heart, and decided that there was already a situation where there was no advance or retreat.

"It's not difficult to get an officer to lead this army." Zheng Yunming replied to his posture of sitting upright: "But all of them have to rely on me for three things." ”

Meng Hui breathed a sigh of relief and said, "If there are any conditions, just open them, the guard Ma Junsi will find a way to do it." ”

"First, Yun Ming has no experience in leading troops, and when he encounters a difficult place, he must guide me regardless of the trouble."

Meng Hui laughed: "The method of fighting can't be taught, who is not crawling and rolling in the sea of swords and blood." But don't worry, there is confusion in the construction of the army, Feishu came to Huangzhou to report, and Meng should know everything. ”

Zheng Yunming stood up and bowed down in the cabin: "Professor Dutong's kindness, the students thank you here first." ”

(Yesterday's sent was swallowed up again.,Make up for it today.,Ask for a red ticket reward)