After a long time, Zhang Ji said: "Jiulang, the deceased is gone, and the living are still alive." ”

"Yes, if the imperial court hadn't transferred Brother Zhang to Raozhou at that time, such a tragedy would not have happened."

"Jiulang, I'm ashamed too."

"Why should Brother Zhang be ashamed, I have to thank Brother Zhang, if there is no Brother Zhang, it will be very troublesome for me to come to Jiangzhou."

Song Jiu said very sincerely, and the hearts of the two of them were slightly settled. In the current situation, it is very difficult for Song Jiu to do anything, Zhang Ji and Gu Tongju are equally afraid of Song Jiu.

"Brother Zhang, Brother Gu, you have only been in Jiangzhou for more than two months, a dead city, now vibrant, the state is peaceful, Song admires it very much."

Zhang Ji was a little proud.

Gu Tongju fell into deep thought, and immediately Zhang Ji ran away, but he couldn't run, so he boldly said: "It's difficult." ”

"It's difficult, that's why Song admires it a lot."

"It's not this difficulty, something happened today," Gu Tong said the dispute that occurred today, and Ming Qi took the people of the former Jiangzhou to fight a lawsuit, and it was not wrong to ask for houses and farmland, but when Zhang Ji ordered the arrest, the two sides were pushing, and it was definitely not right.

If the order is reversed a little, it will be very unreasonable to see that side.

The reason why Gu Tong said it was because Song Jiu had entered the city, and it was too late to judge these people, looking at Song Jiu's tone, he had no bad impression of the two of them, but Song Jiu was always a good official, so he simply said it generously, so as not to be embarrassed in the future. No matter what Song Jiu does in the future, he has made enough money, so hand over the government affairs to Song Jiu. Could it be that Song Jiu drove so many people back from Jiangbei together, making Jiangzhou a dead city again?

"Tomorrow? White Deer Cave that Mingqi? ”

"That's him."

"It's just a nerd, but he has a lot of influence in Jiangzhou. It should not be hastily handled. Song Jiu pondered, and said, "That's it." After the handover is about to be handed over, I will persuade him. Big things are small, and small things are small. Your Majesty doesn't want to make much trouble in Jiangzhou, you must remember. ”

"Whoa." Gu Tong said loudly.

Song Jiu came from the capital, the emperor must have said something.

But this is good news, the emperor doesn't want Jiangzhou to make a big incident, so he can't punish Ming Qi harshly, and in turn, Song Jiu can't change the current pattern in Jiangzhou.

Zhang Ji thought about it and thought that Song Jiu was telling the truth.

Suddenly, a soft cry came from the crowd: "Hey. ”

Song Jiu looked up and saw Ru'er waving a handkerchief at him. He frowned, but now it was about to be handed over, Song Jiu was not worried about them telling his whereabouts, he raised his forehead, said hello, and began to enter the city.

"Lady, it's really him." Ru'er said excitedly.

"Ru'er, he is the prince of the country, and the gap between us is too far." Liu sighed.

She wasn't quite right, there was a gap between the two sides, and even Song Jiu admitted the existence of the gap.

Speaking of Qi Min, it is really in this era. Can a national prince and the common people be "together"? But he entered the political circle, compared with the previous life, and understood the word politics more deeply. Don't say anythingism. In fact, in the final analysis, politics is divided into two types, one is the centralized dictatorship. One is the separation of powers, just like the Taoists call yin and yang. However, there is no absolute yin and yang, and centralization is also spontaneously decentralizing supervision, and decentralization supervision is also spontaneously centralizing power in order to determine policies.

As for the equality of everyone, Song Jiu does not think that there is a country that can do it.

It is a coaxing or a fool of the people, so that the people will not make trouble.

But relatively speaking, comparing this life with his previous life, he admires Lao Mei very much, people's brains are well washed, and a so-called democracy can withstand millions of soldiers. However, if you take it seriously, you will be fooled.

In fact, this kind of thinking can lead to a lot of thinking.

From the Song Dynasty onwards, Chinese politics gradually fell into a strange circle, including military, civil wars, and foreign wars. The inside is magnificent, but the outside is as clumsy as a clumsy elephant with a broken leg.

Therefore, centralization and decentralization are only a theoretical existence, it is said that the Song Dynasty has done a good job, Song Jiu did not see it, is the so-called ancestral family law, the ancestor is Zhao Kuangyin, and the sect is Zhao Kuangyi? Perfected in the hands of Zhao Kuangyi?

Song Jiu is already at the forefront.

There is a gap, but Song Jiu is very approachable, not what Liu thinks. However, Song Jiu was very unhappy with their disguised occupation of the property of the original people in Jiangzhou, although they had the fate of crossing, there would not be much intersection in the future.

What would the Liu family think, what would they do, but Song Jiu didn't think that the gap between the two was too big, could the elephant consider the idea of the ants?

After entering the city, the handover begins.

From the beginning, Song Jiu showed enough kindness to Zhang Gu and the others, so the handover was fast.

After the handover, Song Jiu said: "Bring Mingqi up, Brother Zhang, it just so happens that you are still in Jiangzhou, how about we settle this dispute together?" ”

"It's hard to do, that Ming Qi is a person who admits death."

"It doesn't matter."

Song Jiu ordered to bring Ming Qi to the inner hall, since the emperor said that he didn't want Jiangzhou to make a big incident, so he must focus on appeasement, and Song Jiu's approach can be understood. And Song Jiu asked several major officials to sit together, and Zhang Ji and Gu Tongju did not have other ideas.

After Zhang Gu left, the officials arrested, the people did not let them arrest, the two sides pushed, the people had an inch of iron in their hands, but there were many people, and they began to make trouble from the gate of the state government, and pushed and shoved to the second intersection of hundreds of steps, and saw that many people were beaten, and Ming Qi took the initiative to stand up and let the officials arrest, and the incident subsided. When he was escorted to the cell, the official was also beaten several times by the people during the tugging, so he vented his anger on more than a dozen prisoners, including several students from Mingqi. The front went into the cell, and the back was punched and kicked.

Song Jiu frowned.

Zhang Ji understood and scolded: "Who told you to beat him?" ”

Song Jiu waved his hand, hit and beat, and it was useless to investigate, and said, "Chief Mingdong, please take a seat." ”

Ming Qi snorted and ignored it.

Song Jiu said again: "Chief Mingdong, I just want to ask you a few questions, did I just come to Jiangzhou, and I have served as an official before, and my reputation doesn't seem to be evil?" ”

I can't answer tomorrow.

Zhang Ji and Gu Tongju glanced at each other, and their faces were a little happy.

Song Jiu came suddenly, and there were many things they hadn't thought about yet. This sentence seems to be very fair, and Song Jiu's official reputation is not evil. And just came, there was no division of interests. Therefore, you can speak from an objective and neutral standpoint.

However, Song Jiu was preconceived and was very happy to see the changes in Jiangzhou, this kind of neutral position was no longer neutral. So it's good for them.

Song Jiu said again: "Mingdong Chief, why did Zhang Zhizhou move to Raozhou?" ”

"This time and that time."

"Yes, but you have to know that if there are no people from Jiangbei coming over, what is the situation in Jiangzhou now? Ghost town! ”

"If there are no people from Jiangbei to come, it won't take a few years. Jiangzhou can naturally recover. ”

"Mingdong Chang, wrong, that is, the people of Jiangbei came over, after this cripplement, Jiangzhou is not the former Jiangzhou, just like Bashu, the original wealth is not evil in Jiangnan, after turmoil, the country is governed for ten years. However, it has not yet recovered. You are the cave master of Jiangnan Sinology, since you want to be reasonable, let's be reasonable, don't reverse black and white. Then we can't go on. ”

Mingqi couldn't answer.

In fact, after Cao Han's disability, as the second largest state of Jiangnan West Road, the Northern Song Dynasty and the First Dynasty were not as good as Hongzhou. It is not as good as Ganzhou, Fuzhou, and Jizhou, which are slightly less geographically advantageous, and even less than the Linjiang Army of Xiazhou, which was later in Xiazhou. At the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, when the number of households in the Song Dynasty reached its peak, the number of households in Jiangzhou could only be regarded as middle and lower class in Jiangnan West Road. Not as many as some small states with a lot of mountains.

Song Jiu is not very clear about this.

But this trend is clear.

Song Jiu was reasoning, and Ming Qi was also reasonable: "Song Zhizhou, Ming has also heard of some of your deeds, and I also recognize Zhang Zhizhou's merits, my requirements are not high, and the desperate house and the desperate land are subject to the handling of the imperial court, but there are living relatives in the house, please do not hand it over to the imperial court." ”

"Myeongdong, as you said, but have you ever thought about it. When General Cao was unscrupulous, there were still some people in and outside the city who escaped, and after they fled, they went their separate ways, some of them would come back, and some of them had taken root in a foreign land, and the imperial court was unable to find them one by one, so it was impossible to identify what was a desperate homestead, so should Jiangzhou be barren for decades before making a decision? Do you think it's possible? ”

"If people don't come back, forget it, and when people come back, they have to back down."

"You said it lightly, the land and crops taken over by the people of Jiangbei are half barren, and after they take over, they have to plough and invest, in exchange for you, will they be willing to hand it over? The house should also be cleaned and renovated, especially the store. If you don't act, you are not satisfied, and if you do something, what about the people and businessmen in Jiangbei? ”

"This ......"

"So you have to weigh it, maybe you think that Zhang Zhizhou is not doing well, Zhang Zhizhou came over to take office, and it is not easy to make Jiangzhou come alive in a short period of time. Please trust the imperial court, and please believe me, I will give you a satisfactory answer in the end. But I want to say two things, desire is the source of progress, but don't get lost in desire, people should be content. Article 2: Whether you are justified or not, you have already collided with the officials, which is against the law. I will let you go back now, and I will even write a recital to the imperial court to restore Jiangnan Guoxue, but it can't be called Jiangnan Guoxue, but Bailudong Academy, which will allocate money and silk, and will allocate some arable land for school fields, and will also give the original people of Jiangzhou a justice to the greatest extent as you wish, but I am too guarded and must take care of it. This requires your cooperation and take the initiative to appease the people for the court. If you don't do it well, I'll judge you for not scheming. Please go back. ”

Ming Qi was reluctant, but at least Ming Song Jiu made sense, so he thought about it and said: "Okay, Ming will cooperate with you to let the people wait for two months, if two months are still like now, Ming will go to the capital to appeal." ”

After saying that, he left.

"This guy doesn't know the height of the sky," said one of the officials.

"Zhu Gou, the imperial court wants to be quiet......"

"Yes."

"Let's get down to business, I just entered the city and saw a lot of ruins and ruins around the city walls, which must be cleared."

"Okay, I'll send someone to do this right away," Gu Tong said.

"Secondly, I want to go to the imperial court and set up a money prison in Jiangzhou. Casting money needs four kinds of ores, copper, lead, tin, carbon, now more than ninety percent of the copper ore is produced in Jiangnan, Jiangnan also has some areas to produce carbon, and Hunan and Guangnan produce more lead and tin, just Jiangzhou is the place where the two places meet, set up a coinage supervisor here, will save a lot of transportation costs, but also will bring more vitality to Jiangzhou. What do you think? ”

"Jiulang, can your copper smelting technique be put into production?"

"Not yet, but to set up a prison, with the approval of the imperial court, back and forth writing, and then to the agenda construction, it will take at least a few months, and then it will be officially put into production. But I don't know how many people there are in Jiangzhou. ”

Several people were silent.

Song Jiu's idea was right, since the capture of the Southern Tang Dynasty, the imperial court implemented many policies, among which copper was placed at the forefront, and many craftsmen went to various copper pits, or looked for new copper mines. The imperial court also brought a lot of gunpowder, and Jiangzhou did not produce copper, but these ships had to pass through Jiangzhou.

The copper smelting technique itself was improved by Song Jiu, and it happened that Song Jiu was there, and there was no problem with the technique.

The country lacks coins. If this matter is done well, it will be a great political achievement.

But it is very difficult, if such a coinage prison is set up, it must be near the wharf, where there is a shortage of people, and without the people, there will be no craftsmen. It's what kind of treatment there is with a craftsman.

"I'm coming quickly, Zhang Zhizhou is not ready, it will take a few days to leave, you are familiar with Jiangzhou, please cooperate with it in the past few days."

If you want to go, you won't go, he got so many bribes, whether it was transported to his home or to Raozhou, it wouldn't work in a few days, but Song Jiu just said that it was cooperation, that is, everyone carried the sedan chair in the officialdom, and everyone shared the function, which made Zhang Ji and Gu Tongju even more relieved, so they discussed it together.

It was not until evening that everyone dispersed.

Zhang Ji also wanted to hold a reception banquet for Song Jiu, but Song Jiu refused, he hadn't found a house yet.

Song Jiu took Wang Zhen to find a house, and Zhang Ji said to Gu Tongju: "Brother Gu, don't worry about it this time." ”

Gu Tong smiled.

"Let's go, go to Zuifeng Tower, I heard that there are a few pretty heads inside."

"I'm in for a treat."

The two were about to leave, when the two stewards hurriedly ran over, came to them and said, "It's a big deal. (To be continued......)