Yuping looked at the ten halberds stupidly and asked, "Huang Neishi, what should the slave family do?" ”

There are few ministers in the main Song Dynasty who have a halberd in front of the door, she doesn't know what to do, if she can still make an offering like that Jiahe, how can she offer it.

Huang Gonggong laughed and said, "Jade Lady, this is not for offering, but inserted in front of the door, so let's call a few carpenters to come over, and I will teach them how to make wooden frames." ”

The lord in front of him has to be stammered, and if he rises at this speed, it won't take many years for Song Jiu to enter the two mansions sooner or later.

Yuping hurriedly called a few carpenters, and Huang Gonggong saw that she continued to be ignorant, and said: "This is a great honor, Jade Lady, think about it, how many families in the capital have halberds in front of their doors?" There is no one at the door of Zhao Xianggong's house. ”

"Ahh

"Don't, let's make a halberd." Huang Gonggong carefully taught the carpenter how to make a halberd.

Yuping asked worriedly, "Huang Neishi, what should I do on a rainy day?" ”

"Jade lady, there is nothing to do on a rainy day, it is erected in front of the door, the court has a law, every five years, if you don't understand, you ask the student to consult the gentleman of the academy, there are annotations at the Kaiyuan ceremony."

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"Yes, you have to write to Jiulang, let Jiulang thank His Majesty well, and he is also a doctor, although he is a high-ranking official, but since the court invited a doctor or above, he can be called a real scholar, with Zhongfeng doctor, Jiulang will be a real scholar doctor from now on."

After Huang Gonggong patiently explained, he returned to the palace with the bounty.

Yuping was still looking at the ten halberds stupidly, and suddenly remembered, and said to Liu Hai, "You go and call the eldest sister for me." ”

Liu Hai happily went to Hezhou to call the eldest sister.

The carpenter was making the halberd, and several carpenters were equally happy. Song Jiu is benevolent and righteous, and at the same time, he is also the pride of the river. He was promoted, as a fellow villager. All of them were happy. Apple leaned against the doorway, dizzy. It seems that she is very strong during this time, but no one knows how much pressure she is under. The opponent is Hebei and Zhao Chengzong, but behind him is the most powerful giant in the world, and in his eyes, he is not even as good as an ant. She vaguely felt that Zhao Kuangyi had made a move, and she couldn't figure out how to make a move. She vaguely felt that Zhao Kuangyi was not as cowardly as he looked. But I can't say exactly. And she didn't dare to think about it...... That could be a usurpation...... But Zhilu Dao's current crisis has finally passed.

In fact, no matter how long she is good at dancing, she is always a woman, without a man as a backer, and her heart is very fragile. Nervous.

It wasn't until this moment that her heart gradually settled.

The eldest sister hurriedly came to the Song family, and Yuping said, "Eldest sister, this is a happy event for the Song family. The slave family is a concubine, and she can't worship the ancestors of the Song family, and Pan Niangzi is not there. So let the bangs invite you. ”

The eldest sister pulled her and said, "Go in." ”

Came to the front of the Song family's shrine. The eldest sister pressed Yuping down and said, "Yuping." My father and mother are here, I am the master for you, and you are qualified to worship your father and mother. ”

Yuping hesitated, and the eldest sister shouted, "It's fragrant." ”

After the worship was finished, the two women hugged their heads and cried. Yuping is under pressure, and the eldest sister is not as communicative as Yuping, but she doesn't know the way, and she also knows the way, the same psychology.

……

Song Jiu and Fan Yu walked back to the city, and it was already late at night. Fan Yu looked at the left and right and laughed loudly. This was so relieving that he really didn't give an order, and the people beat dozens of evil witches to death. Rubbing his hands together, he asked, "Jiulang, how to do it, teach me." ”

"Fan Zhizhou, don't learn, this is an evil way after all, there is no helpless way to fight evil with evil, and this toss has used up more than 300 yuan of money. Big mother, are these people worth so much money! ”

"Let's talk about it."

Song Jiu was helpless by Fan Yu, so he had to say all kinds of arrangements, the mechanism is not unusual, but there must be several conditions, one is that the location must be remote, at least two or three nights can be given time to arrange, the second is that there must be a mountain behind it, so as to prevent people from seeing the balloon retract, the third is that the wind direction should be good, and the top of the temple should not be too strong at four o'clock, and the space must be large, so that the power of the organ can be arranged and exerted. The rest is all sorts of organs.

The conditions do not allow it, otherwise the momentum can be even greater, but it is enough to deal with these local fake immortals.

After speaking, he said: "Fan Zhizhou, publicize this matter, so as to deter the evil witches in other regions." ”

"It makes sense."

Next, it's easy to do, fund the construction of a Taoist temple, invite a few more upright Taoist priests to stay, promote the Taoist scriptures, and don't like the temple Song Jiu, but there is no way, the people need faith, there is Taoism, at least they will not make a big living person to sacrifice ghosts, and they will not let the people see the doctor. Then he invited two or three doctors to see a doctor for free at the entrance of the Taoist temple.

This is Fan Yu's business, Song Jiu was about to leave the next day, and said to Fan Yu before leaving: "How is the south?" ”

"South?"

"We have lost a lot of money, if we have the ability to make Lingnan better, the tax will be raised, and then we will get the money and silk ......"

"The terrain over there is complicated."

"You can send a few scouts to find out the news first, and if you can, you can fight, and if you can't, you won't fight."

"This," Fan Yu was a little moved, out of this incident, everyone was in no mood, and there were no soldiers in their hands, the terrain of Jiaozhi was complicated, and the composition of the people was more complicated, so they were not in the mood for Jiaozhi, but none of the people who went south were easy to mess with, including Fan Yu, although he was Fan Zhen's son, seeing the courage of the soldiers, he couldn't help but pick up the guys and enter the battlefield many times. I don't want to cut down Jiaozhi, it's too difficult, but it's just for money, not occupation, and I can still consider it. After thinking for a while, he said, "I'll send a few scouts over first." ”

But the two didn't take it seriously, Fan Yu was not in the mood, who wanted to stay in Lingnan? I didn't really commit a crime.

Song Jiu is military considerations, there are not many troops in his hands, the terrain in the south is more complicated, and the people are more complicated, and now he has learned some military knowledge, the war cannot be compared with the size of the country by the number of people, Pan Mei 10,000 thousands of miscellaneous troops, successively defeated more than 200,000 troops in the Southern Han Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin personally led 100,000 troops, has not taken Taiyuan City, is Pan Mei more powerful than Zhao Kuangyin?

If the time is not ripe for the South. It's better not to move, otherwise it's a sin on top of a sin. A couple of scouts anyway. It doesn't cost much, and most of the time in the past was to take a look.

Song Jiu said goodbye to Fan Yu.

Then go back. I continued to look at several states, but when I went back, it was very hurried, it was hot, it was really hot, because there were few people, many areas were not developed, swamps and jungles were dense, not only hot, but also full of moisture. The whole of Lingnan is like a big steamer. And Pan Li'er has also arrived. rushed back to Guangzhou, and sure enough, Pan Li'er arrived, and Song Jiu happily hugged her and hugged her daughter. Then a big one and a small face kiss blindly. The relationship between this little couple is so sweet that Pan Mei and Tian don't see it.

put down the mother and daughter, and met the mother-in-law again.

Pan Mei first talked about the holy decree.

The envoy had just left, it was too hot, and the sun was shining directly on the Tropic of Capricorn. I couldn't stay any longer, so I hurried back to the capital.

Wang Ming had just arrived in Guangzhou, and like Song Jiu, he glanced at each other. A little dumbfounded, Pan Mei and Yin Chongke are a little better, they are both in Guangzhou. What is going on with the two of them, in the end, they want to know Shaohui Erzhou. Or do you want to care about this transporter? Or running back and forth on both sides? Song Jiu is better, Huizhou is not far from Guangzhou. Wang Ming was forced to do so, Shaozhou is hundreds of miles away from Guangzhou.

Wang Ming muttered, "Can't Yanchen see the map?" ”

"What if you see it? They also saw the fire. ”

Song Jiu's sentence, Wang Ming was gloomy.

"But the imperial court ignores the rules, so we just play a big game," Song Jiu said again.

It happened that the four of them were there, so Song Jiu said what he thought on the road. The first is to cut the state and merge the county, Lingnan inexplicably set up 60 states, the entire Song Dynasty only how many states. Therefore, the large-scale cuts were cut into 35 states, mainly because the western region was too complicated, otherwise Song Jiu planned to cut even more. The number of counties has also increased from more than 240 counties to 18 counties. There are two intentions, one is to reduce the number of officials. Song Jiu has already expelled more than 60 officials. But it's not enough.

This must be reported to the imperial court, one after another plus the imperial court discussed, at least two months, Song Jiu has inspected, and said that he will come to inspect once in winter, if the officials below do not learn well, then there is no motivation to repent. During this period of time, one is to pass the review of official documents and unjust cases in various places, etc., and the person who appeals may not necessarily be innocent, but it can be judged whether it is innocent, and now the people's will below is available, or the officials do not do well, the people will inevitably flock to Guiyong Guangshao, or go directly to Guangzhou to redress grievances.

Secondly, there are many "secret agents", that is, the students brought by Song Jiu, they also have a secret mission, secretly inquiring about the officials of various states and counties for Song Jiu, those officials are good, and those officials are bad and mediocre.

The third is its political achievements.

Then send the scribes down to check and review, and eliminate all these officials. In this way, the remaining officials can basically make do, and then cooperate with the officials transferred by the imperial court, and the entire officialdom will gradually improve. And the reduction of officials, but also a lot of savings.

The second intention is that the prefectures and counties are too large, the area and population are very small, and if you want to be good, you must have resources in your hands, and this resource is not only the area, but also minerals, agriculture and animal husbandry, as well as the population.

As he spoke, Song Jiu took out a map.

This is the detailed distribution map of the counties in the states that he envisioned.

It was Song Jiu's first thought.

The second idea is inspired by Wang Anshi's exemption law, it seems that Wang Anshi has many changes, most of Song Jiu don't know the way, but there are some major changes, such as the Qingmiao method and the exemption law, I can still remember some, but I don't remember it very clearly. If you have an official, you have to have officials, and you have to have a difference. That is, the service in the exemption law.

The policy of the Song Dynasty was to carry out errand service for third-class households and above, which seemed to be Qi people, reducing the pressure on poor households, and it was an errand for rich households, and corruption would not be serious. In fact, there are many inconveniences, for example, some businessmen, how much business they have to do in a year, but now they are placed on the errand service, so it has caused several consequences, many second- and third-class households go bankrupt, and the powerful and powerful state and county clerks who are comfortable directly set aside the governors of the prefecture and county, or add the errand to the fourth and fifth class households in disguise, so that the society is unfair, or the officials forcibly raise the households, etc., and the assets of a cow and a tree in their hands must also be calculated, so that the people dare not build houses, raise cattle, or plant trees.

Either it is the poor law of the Southern Han Dynasty, which evolved from the Tang Dynasty, some of them are forced errands, and some of them are raised officials. It's also not good, the pressure on the poor is increasing, the taxes are heavier, and so on.

But without them, it can't work, just like the Chinese book, there are officials behind the court, the chief officer, the recorder, the driving officer, the main secretary, the official who guards the official, the head of the line, the deputy head of the line, the official of the court, the official of the province, the official of the edict, the regular script, etc., they are stained with official characters, but they are not officials, but officials. In each state, there are Kongmu, Hook, Hook, Charge, Forward, Backward, Post, Accounting, Waiting, Scattering Officials, Courtyard Waiting, Miscellaneous Duties, Buckets, Pickers, Pickers, Warehouses, Blockades, Yaqian, Prisons, and Soldiers. All of that is indispensable, such as barricades, how can they collect business taxes without them? The coarse division is one for officials, such as Confucius, and the other is for public officials, that is, rough and clumsy work such as yaqian, prison, weighing, rubbing, and straightening. There are also many counties, and there are also in the countryside, such as Lizheng, the elderly, the head of the household, the strong man, the person who undertakes the poster, the head of the tax collector and so on.

There are so many names, I'm afraid even Zhao Pu can't figure it out.

Song Jiu divided them into three, some of them can work part-time, such as the elder household chief Li Zheng and so on, these are all local rich households, usually idle, it is okay for them to cooperate with the government. Song Jiu called them part-time servants.

The rest is essential.

For example, in addition to their usual service and training, they can also spare some time to participate in farming, which can be compensated in the form of tax exemptions.

Still, a state plus the counties would require at least a hundred to four hundred permanent officials. An ordinary one or two hundred people is enough, and a few dozen people in some small states are enough, but four hundred people in Guangzhou may not be enough. Fortunately, prices in Lingnan are relatively low.

Therefore, the two service methods are not used at all, but to hire errand officials, brave and powerful illiterate people to do rough and stupid work, and scholars to be scribes, like Song Jiang and the like who have both civil and military skills can be the secretary. Then the servant money was levied according to the household level, and the official was given an annual salary of 20 to 50 yuan. The amount is somewhat large, and the normal two hundred errand officials are at least five or six thousand yuan, but it is not heavy to spread over hundreds or even nearly a thousand households. The most important thing is that there is a good foundation, that is, the Southern Han Dynasty has heavy taxes.

At this time, the implementation of the exemption law, including the wealthy, will not complain.

However, as a precautionary measure, it is necessary to give some compensatory measures, promising to build water conservancy roads in the future, so that their income will increase, and the procedure for collecting commercial tax will be simplified. If it is sold to Fanren or Southern Tang Fujian and Hunan, Dali, Jiaozhi, and then make up a tax, the remaining miscellaneous taxes shall not be increased, if there are officials who are harsh taxes, they can be sued in the states, and the states cover up, and come to Guangzhou to litigate, and those who are the facts will not only refund the overcharged taxes, but also make up for the losses and travel expenses. Carry out some price difference subsidies, and the rich state governments will slightly levy more money for exemption from military service to subsidize poor mountainous states and counties, and the imperial court will not embezzle a penny to reduce the pressure on poor states and counties, and then adjust it once every five years according to the situation.

"It's a good idea to spread it to the whole country," Mr. Wang muttered. The benefits are obvious, small and medium-sized landlords and small and medium-sized businessmen are all released, and they may be able to make a few hundred yuan of money by doing a business, so Lingnan will be richer. Most of them are hired, and the officials of each state and county have the right to speak, which is conducive to the imperial court to strengthen its control over the locality. It will give the scholars in various states and counties a chance to survive, and they can continue to study hard while doing things for the imperial court, then there will be more and more talents, and even officials can be promoted among these scholars after grinding. It also better reflects the Qi Min policy of the Song Dynasty.

"It can only be executed in Lingnan, and it has to be screened, and it is better not to provoke those barbarians. As for the whole country, that won't work, because interest groups have already been formed. The implementation is too late, and if in a few years, Lingnan will be stable and interest groups will be formed, and it will also not be implemented. Song Jiu gave another example: "Wang Zhuan, can you make Zhao Puxiang's father and son pay the commercial tax?" (To be continued......)