"It's not counting, my father is a lifter, although he has failed to pass the Beijing Provincial Examination several times, he has a little reputation in the township, and Gu Tongju had some dealings with his father when he served in Huangzhou."

"With all due respect, when I had dinner yesterday, I heard that you went to Jiangzhou to do a big thing?"

"It's not a big deal, General Cao slaughtered the people of Jiangzhou, the people of Jiangbei have tight fields, I heard that Jiangzhou has vacated a lot of arable land and houses, hundreds of people and businessmen have flocked to Jiangzhou, and the concubine also wants to go to Jiangzhou to raise a mansion."

No wonder there are so many people, but Song Jiu still doesn't quite understand: "Could it be that the imperial court sold these mansions and cultivated land to you?" ”

"If it is sold, where will there be so many people, if it is not sold, maybe the imperial court has the idea of the imperial court, Jiangzhou is an important town, and it cannot be vacated, so it is used to appease the people of Jiangbei in the past, one is to recover, and the other is to suppress the local people, and the concubine body is not very clear, but how much to give some gifts to the officials."

"I see......"

"I don't know where the three Lang Junyi are?"

"Gangnam." Song Jiudao, then turned his head to look at Da Jiang.

Guo Er whispered: "This Zhang Zhizhou has a way, at least it is not a dead city." ”

"Not necessarily!" Song Jiu frowned, not only is it not a solution, it may be a lot of trouble.

The little maid was also talking to Liu in a low voice: "Lady, why do you want to talk to those three people." ”

"Look at the man." Liu Shi nodded at Song Jiunu.

"He was uneasy yesterday, and he looked at the lady vigorously during dinner."

"Ru'er, Hugh is talking nonsense, that person's personality is calm, not like an ordinary person. And he directly called the names of the two high-ranking officials of the imperial court. ”

"Who are they?"

"The man said he was an envoy."

"What's wrong?" The little maid asked strangely, the Song Dynasty was new to Jiangnan. There are many decrees, and there are many envoys. What's so strange about the three messengers?

"If ordinary post envoys go to Jiangzhou to send envoys, most of them cross the river from Dushupu, why do they start crossing the river from Huangzhou?"

"Who could they be?"

"I don't know." Liu looked at Song Jiu suspiciously, and Song Jiu was lying on the side of the boat looking at the scenery of the Yangtze River.

"The slave thinks he's a bad person."

"There are so many bad people in the world?"

"The Ding family is a bunch of bad people."

"You are talking nonsense, my father is a face-saving person, my husband is gone, how can he let me go back to my parents' house and stay in the Ding family for a day, I am a member of the Ding family." There was a hint of confusion in Liu's eyes. The husband died early, and he didn't leave a child for the Ding family, so now he can't go, he can't stay, so it's better to go to Jiangzhou.

"Jiulang, that lady is still paying attention to you."

"Oh," Song Jiu turned his head, met Liu's eyes, and took it back.

Wang Zhen said again: "Jiulang." Why didn't you inquire more about the situation in Jiangzhou than she did just now? ”

"If you say too much, you will lose, this lady is very elf, she went to Jiangzhou Tongju again, I am afraid that she can mention me when she meets and talks with Gu Tongju." Song Jiu frowned again. Unlike Lingnan, Lingnan was larger and more backward, but behind it at that time was Pan Mei's army. So I can do things with my hands open.

This time I came back to Jiangzhou, and there was no strong backup. The Song Dynasty set up this general judgment with a good use of the assistant, and if it is not used well, it can force Zhizhou to death. Things are a little bad.

"Will she guess Kuro's identity?"

"We didn't alarm the government all the way. It came so quickly that she couldn't guess it, and the reason why she came to talk to me was that she was a businessman and well-informed, and probably thought that I had an extraordinary background and wanted to make a friendship. ”

"Friendship with Kurou set?" Wang Zhen and Guo Er had fun eating together.

"Yes, I listened to some of them yesterday when they spoke, her husband died early, her husband's family was unhappy, thinking that she killed her husband, everyone ran to Jiangzhou together, she thought of her father's friendship with the current Gu Tong Judgment, and also wanted to go to Jiangzhou to try her luck. But that general friendship doesn't necessarily work, if I'm a big person, it's good to get to know each other. ”

Song Jiu didn't say much, although he had been stable for a few years, but he ran a lot of places, if it was said that there was a fate of the crossing, then there should not be too much of the fate of the crossing, and he faintly felt that these lands and houses in Jiangzhou were a big problem. Saying that it is worthless, it is really worthless if it is deserted, saying that it is valuable, if it is densely populated again, with the geographical advantages of Jiangzhou, so many houses and arable land, the value will be higher than the value of Cao Han's more than 100 ships. It seems that Zhang Ji has brought Jiangzhou back to life in a short time, but there are too many cats in it, and there are a lot of troubles, I can't see it now, so I can only look at it after I go to Jiangzhou.

Today, the wind is not strong, the river is very calm, the boatman hangs the side sail, goes down the water, the speed of the boat is very fast, from time to time the river is stirred, swinging a layer of misty splash, and occasionally a few bright water birds pass over the boat.

If you weren't worried about Jiangzhou, it would be a happy journey.

Song Jiu took out the dry food, as well as beef jerky, and ate it on the ground with Guo Dawang's pillow.

Ru'er said again: "Lady, you see that they are vulgar and vulgar, where are the dignitaries?" ”

Liu watched as they were eating with some puzzlement, but she still had doubts in her heart. The boat soon arrived in Jiangzhou, and the group was carrying goods, Song Jiuchong Liu arched his hand, said hello, and then got off the boat. He didn't say much, he stayed on the ship for several hours, although he didn't interject, but after hearing the discussion of many people, he finally understood what the so-called recruiting shop was all about, it was a disguised occupation. It's just that Song Jiu stared at that pretty face, the river wind blew, and there was a faint and elegant fragrance of fat powder, and he couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart.

There will be another day, but then there may not be the peaceful atmosphere that we have today.

After getting off the boat, not far from Jiangzhou City, Song Jiu glanced at it and found that many city walls were ruined, and even saw the shadow of the Song army behind gunpowder, so he didn't know how the Jiangzhou soldiers and civilians defended it at that time. Regarding the evaluation of this matter, Cao Han must have done something wrong, but Song Jiu, like Zhao Kuangyin, did not like this kind of tragic resistance.

The wharf is at the junction of Huangpu Water and Peng Lishui and the Yangtze River, and Song Jiucai had a different idea when he left the capital, he actually saw that many mansions and shops at the wharf had opened, because many people and businessmen from Jiangbei came, and the business was not bad.

Not far away are fields of crops and vegetable gardens.

There are also many people farming, and Song Jiu can understand the land grabbing. said that Jiangbei was nervous, but it was really done. It may not be so nervous, if it is the entire Jiangdong circle. Enough to accommodate more than twice the population of today. But it's not nervous, it's actually nervous. Since Song Jiu's proposal, Hunan began to be encircled, and the Yangtze River basin, including Guangnan, has successively appeared many enclosed fields and polders. But Hunan is a circle, from the two banks of the Yangtze River below the Hanyang Army, that is Wei.

The wei is only to prevent flash floods, and the polder is below the river surface all year round, although the polder is rich. However, the polder project is even larger, with a polder of several hundred hectares of land at least a dozen miles long and a qualified polder requiring at least 100,000 cubic meters of soil, and the government also has to invest a lot of financial resources to build a steep gate and support other materials. After the construction is completed, the people must not only clean up the cultivated land and ditches in the polder, but also prevent floods and flood control. Therefore, Jiangdong polder is still not popular, and only a few prefectures and counties have some polders.

Without Wei, the entire Jiangdong region would be either a lake or a hilly area. There is not much mature arable land. Therefore, the cultivated land of the people on both sides of the river is still very tight, and these mature cultivated land in Jiangzhou will inevitably attract the coveted of many people in Jiangbei.

Zhang Ji's policy is right or wrong, and Song Jiu is not very good at evaluating it, so you have to look at it to judge. Song Jiu quickly entered the city. Immediately find an inn to live in, he must be low-key in this line, and Zhang Ji will come to Jiangzhou before he comes. He once served as a Beijing official in the capital, although he had no dealings with him. But know each other. Don't let Zhang Ji see it, otherwise it would be meaningless to come to Jiangzhou secretly in advance.

With a sigil. Song Jiu came to the street, the weather was the hottest time, the southeast wind continued to blow water vapor over Jiangzhou City, and after only walking for a while, a layer of sweat appeared on the foreheads of Song Jiu and the others. However, the three of them have good physical fitness, and they don't care too much.

Song Jiu observed carefully while walking, if you look at the surface, Zhang Ji did a good job, after he returned to Jiangzhou, he immediately salvaged all the dead bodies in the city's wells and buried them outside the city, these wells were polluted, so they all knocked down, and re-ordered the people to open wells, for the time being, these waters are not edible, and they go outside the city every day to bring drinking water, and the new well water is only for washing, that is, he did what Song Jiu was supposed to do in advance. Countless outsiders came, and Jiangzhou City also had a little bit of vitality, rather than becoming a dead city.

But most of the houses were empty, and Cao Han did not burn them, but because of the wanton looting and killing, traces of the battle could still be seen everywhere.

It's good that it didn't burn, otherwise it would have really become a dead city.

Song Jiu kept watching, although Zhang Ji did a good job, he always felt that something was wrong, and after only a while, he realized where this was wrong. In front is the north city wall, a large area of the city wall is about gunpowder bombardment collapsed, and was blocked by the city guards with a fence, after the Song army entered the city, the city wall will not be repaired in the future, Song Jiu is estimated not to repair, along the edge of the city wall A large number of houses were knocked down by flying stones, and they were also not cleaned up. Along the rubble, a little dark red blood can be faintly seen. Wearing a fence, there is a clear water in front of you.

Suddenly, there was a cry, and Song Jiu said, "Go." ”

The three of them turned around the piles of rubble, and a woman holding a baby at the door of a shop in front of them was crying in Haotao, and Song Jiu said: "Wang Zhen, you go and ask what's going on." ”

Wang Zhen came back after a while, and reported: "Jiulang, that woman said that on the day General Cao killed people, she escaped from the gap with the child in her arms, and hid in the house of relatives in the countryside, and after coming back, the family was killed by General Cao, and the shop was also occupied by a businessman surnamed Zhu in Jiangbei. ”

"Let's take a look."

Song Jiu walked over, and most of the onlookers were the people and merchants from Jiangbei and the servants in their families, who laughed one by one.

"Self-inflicted, don't live, let you resist the army of the court, this is your fate!"

"Little lady, hurry up and remarry, this is Zhang Zhizhou, if General Cao is here, even you will not let go."

……

The woman ignored them, the Zhu family couldn't bear it, a few uncles walked out of the store, pulled up the woman and dragged her into the distance, Wang Zhen couldn't stand it and wanted to rush out, and was pulled by Song Jiu.

"Kuro."

"Little pillow, don't get excited, there should be more people who have escaped."

"Isn't Zhang Zhizhou a good official, why do you want to endure these things?"

"I don't know Lu Dao either," Song Jiudao, with Lu Yuqing's great power and relationship with Zhao Kuangyin, he only killed a colonel when he went to Yizhou, and then he didn't care, and Zhang Ji heard that Cao Han's men were looting, and said that he would kill him, it stands to reason that he is a good official, at least an official who loves the people of Jiangzhou, why these things can happen, Song Jiu really doesn't understand.

"Look again."

The sky was getting dusk, and the uncomfortable dampness and heat were relieved, Song Jiu returned to the inn, called for wine and food, and was about to eat and rest, when suddenly a crisp voice came from his ears: "What a coincidence." ”

Song Jiu turned his head and smiled bitterly: "It's a coincidence, Mrs. Liu, can the matter be done?" ”

"There is an eyebrow," Liu said happily, the condition of Jiangzhou City is better than Song Jiu expected, and it is better than she expected, with her vision, she believes that the city will be fully restored in a year or two, at that time, it is difficult to think about Jiangzhou, and this line of work She only used a small price to obtain a shop with an excellent location, and Gu Tong also promised to give her a few acres of fertile land outside the city.

"That's not good." Wang Zhendao.

"This Langjun, the concubine also knows that the Tao is not good, but those people are dead after all, the sin is done by the imperial court soldiers, what does it have to do with the concubine, if you get these mansions to cultivate the land, the concubine must make a grand wish, take out some money every year to relieve the original people of Jiangzhou."

"Your conscience has not been extinguished."

"What did you say, so many people from Jiangbei came, don't they all have a conscience?" The little maid said angrily.

"Little lady, aren't you afraid that Xinzhizhou will come to check?" Song Jiu stopped Wang Zhen and asked lightly.

"Xinzhizhou has to buy Zhang Zhizhou's face."

"Why?" Song Jiu is confused, why do I want to buy Zhang Ji's face? I don't buy Zhao Pu's face, what is Zhang Ji? (To be continued......)