Song Jiu didn't want Wang Xian to go down, Wang Xian was the master of everything in Xifu, but Song Jiu liked it, for no other reason, with Wang Xian, there was no doubt that there was a big tree in front of him to block it, especially now, otherwise he would be particularly conspicuous as the only old minister of the two mansions, although he was not old.

I have to wait for a little recovery this year, and I can go to Hedong to stay in Hedong for two or three years instead of my father-in-law, and then come back and it will not be so conspicuous.

Up and down is the true meaning of the officialdom of the Song Dynasty, one is to reassure the emperor, and the other is to let the officials not blush, thinking that they know how to advance and retreat, so that they will not make a group attack, and the most disgraced will go down.

Therefore, preparations began to be made to launch the plan.

Originally, Song Jiu proposed to let Wang Chengmei also support it, but because there was no rise of Li Jiqian, Wang Jiali of Fengzhou was very large, so Zhao Kuangyi vetoed it, and Song Jiu did not insist on it anymore.

On that day, Zhao Kuangyi came to Xifu in person, and all the officials retreated, only a few governors, and a few senior "staff officers", and only one of them was Zhenyuxun.

In fact, whether it is the Zhe family or the Wang family, they are more loyal to the Song Dynasty, even if there is no Western Xia. This is a geographical factor, the north is the Khitan, not relying on the Song Dynasty, they can make the Khitan swallow the bones at any time.

The imperial court was okay with them, although Zhao Kuangyi had some ideas, but on the surface he gave them a lot of autonomy and the right to govern the army.

Song Jiu said this plan.

Several prime ministers and staff officers were shocked, and Lian Zhen Yuxun was also dumbfounded.

Cao Bin said: "Who can take responsibility." ”

"Jing Si!" Song Jiudao. Of course, Jing Si will not be alone.

Everyone stopped talking, under Song Jiu's hype. The exploits of the front-line soldiers were widely known in the rear, and the most popular person was Li Jilong. That really defeated the nemesis of the Song army twice, Yelu Xiuge, and he didn't admit it. There are several of them. Jingsai Jun Tian Min, Li Jixuan, Yang Yanzhao, Hu Yanzan, Yang Ye, Yin Jilun, and this Jing heir.

Zhao Kuangyi was happy, and having this brave general in his hand was also the happiness of the monarch.

Mi Xin said: "This kid is fierce. ”

Tian Chongjin was even more dumbfounded. Does anyone know Jing Hei better than him? However, he still said soberly: "He is good at charging into battle, short of commanding three armies, at least he has almost no experience in leading large armies, and he is even shorter than governing places." ”

"Kou Zhun."

"Ahh Everyone was amazed again.

Behind this, Zhao Kuangyi and Song Jiu did not explain anymore, it is difficult to choose the prime minister of the Eastern Mansion, it is difficult to choose outstanding talents, and it is also difficult to be the prime minister of the Western Mansion. Now planning is also shared by the General Staff Department in a sense, so the main responsibility is to deal with military affairs, preferably civilian. However, the civilian officials did not understand military affairs, so the two monarchs and ministers immediately thought of the popular fried chicken Kou Zhun. Let him sharpen it for another year or two, that is the front line, then there will be first-hand training in military affairs. In this way, in addition to Zhang Qixian, there is another talent who is both civil and military. In the future, the country will have more candidates for Xifu to choose from.

Elected. There is no dispute.

Begin to talk to each other.

What was said on this day, no one knows. Generally, when the emperor and his ministers spoke, there were living officials to make records, and if there were no living officials, sometimes the eunuchs also made records and then archived them. But the person who made the record that day was Zhang Hong, the dignified deputy minister of the Western Mansion. The archive was also sealed off afterwards.

The next day, he returned to Fuzhou, and Zhao Kuangyi rewarded him lavishly.

The first step of the plan was to start from Fuzhou.

Where is the most important thing to fold Yuqing.

But this plan deviated from Cui Yanjin's original idea, and it had long since become unrecognizable, after all, the situation at that time was completely different from the current situation, but a little bit of Guan Jian's idea was retained.

Then there was a personnel transfer.

Now on the front line, Dingzhou is Li Jilong, Zhenzhou Guo Shouwen is dead, some people are talking about Liu Yanhan to take over, but Song Jiu proposed to let Yuan Jizhong replace him, Liu Yanhan was a little unhappy at first, but after thinking about it, it's okay to stay in the capital and enjoy Qingfu. He also saw that the imperial court was preparing to cultivate reserve talents, and these veterans would be eliminated one by one, unless they could fight to the point of Pan Mei.

The broken army is Sun Quanzhao, the deployment of soldiers and horses is Cui Han, and they also have two super capable generals, Yang Yanzhao and Wei Neng. In fact, Song Jiu really wanted to replace Cui Han with Yang Yanzhao and transfer this Cui cannon back, but the relationship between Weng and his son-in-law made him unable to speak.

Baozhou is Huyanzan, and Xiongzhou is Liu Fu. This is also the most dangerous area in Hebei, in addition to these generals, Li Jixuan, Tian Min, Kong Shouzheng and other brave generals are also stationed in this area in different positions.

Compared with this area, Mozhou, Cangzhou, and Bazhou are a little less popular.

At this time, the imperial court suddenly made a change, allowing Jing Si to serve as the deployment of Cangzhou's soldiers and horses, and Kou Zhun knew Cangzhou. The two replaced Zhang Yongde, a veteran who "ruled by inaction and loves peace," to supplement the staff officers of the General Staff Division.

Xiao Kou is inexplicable.

He was a little unconvinced, I didn't make a mistake, why let me go to the border?

Song Jiu could see that compared with Zhang Qixian and Lu Mengzheng, Xiao Kou was a little inferior in mentality, so he deliberately called him to Xifu and said: "Do it well, where is there a possibility of a major incident, otherwise it is impossible for the imperial court to let Jing Hei go to Cangzhou." ”

But Kou Zhun is also a big mouth, and no one tells him the truth.

Xiao Kou went down, and Song Jiu waited for the opportunity.

However, this year was very disappointing for him. In July, heavy floods in Ji, Hong, Jiang, Qi, Heyang, Longcheng and other places flooded many crops and homes, and the waterlogged area stretched from the affluent Jiangnan West Road to the Jinghu area, to Jingxi Road and even parts of Shaanxi. This side is sea water, but there is a desert, Kaifeng, Chenliu, Fengqiu, Sujuo, Yanling and other areas continue to suffer from severe drought, and there is no harvest. The imperial court had no choice but to issue an edict that these disaster-stricken areas would be exempt from taxes for one year.

Moreover, the two-year disaster affected the harvest, and last year's so-called nine-year grain reserves were all used for disaster relief. The price of grain in the capital became more and more expensive, and in order to appease the people's grievances, the state had no choice but to take out some money and buy some grain in addition to the tax grain, and sell it to the people at a flat price, so as not to raise the price of grain by profiteers. Let the people resent.

In such a year, no plan can be launched.

Then continue to stay in Xifu.

In order not to give everyone the feeling of looking up at a high place. In addition to dealing with the government affairs of Xifu, Song Jiu disappeared almost all within a year. If it weren't for an incident that happened in October, Song Jiu would have been almost completely invisible during the year.

First of all, Jiang Yuanzhen, the governor of Baizhou under Guizhou.

The salary of officials in the Song Dynasty was the highest in all dynasties, and there were many rewards in addition to salary, so Wang Yuyan wrote to reduce unnecessary rewards. But it also depends on the fact that the salary of officials has not yet reached the highest point, and some people have calculated the accounts, saying that when Bao Zheng has the highest salary, he will add various salaries and rewards together, and his annual income can reach tens of millions of yuan. But that was the time of Song Renzong. If it is now, even if he is a privy deputy, it is not so high.

Secondly, it depends on the level of the position, if it is a small county, the income is not too much, at least not now.

But it still depends on it.

Just as the civil servants of later generations complained bitterly, many people competed to take the civil service examination, because in addition to the public salary rewards, there were also many gray incomes. even directly embezzled and accepted bribes, or used the power in their hands to do business, and there were many people who did business in the family of the eldest lady of the Song Dynasty.

But if you want to be a real clean official, your official position is very low. Then that little income will not work.

Jiang Yuanzhen is like this, he turned out to be a petty official with a clean and honest style. Then I thought in my heart, I am a decent person. There is no backstage, and it seems that it is difficult to be promoted. But there are many family members, and this big family is living in difficulty, what should I do? Lingnan prices are low, and the development has been quite fast in recent years, so I still ask Lingnan officials. It is difficult to seek other official positions, and it is not easy to seek official positions in Lingnan. So the imperial court transferred him to Baizhou as the governor.

Jiang Yuanzhen put his family in Tanzhou, not far from Lingnan, to provide for them, and then sent them his salary. But his income was still not enough to make the family live happily, so he had to boil himself, sip water, and sew paper for clothes.

But he was simple in government and was quite loved by the people. The best time in Lingnan was when Song Jiu Pan Mei was in Lingnan, at that time, he walked out of the tyranny of the Southern Han Dynasty, and it was easy to be satisfied, coupled with Song Jiu Wang Ming Pan Mei and their careful governance, the people of Lingnan at that time were full of happiness. Up to now, there are still hundreds of people who miss these people, especially Song Jiu's goodness.

Later, when life came up, it was not so easy to be satisfied, and I also knew that the officials of the Song Dynasty were not necessarily officials like Song Jiu, although they were better than the Southern Han Dynasty, but the same good and bad were uneven, there were good officials and bad officials. It is rare to have a good official, so the people of Baizhou support Jiang Yuanzhen very much.

According to the system of the Song Dynasty, he was about to be reappointed when his rank expired, but the Guangnan transfer envoy considered that there was no suitable official to replace him, so he was forced to stay, and he could not be replaced for seven or eight years. Jiang Wuzhen didn't make a sound, his family was not happy, it happened that the imperial court sent an interview envoy to go down, so he reflected to the interview envoy, it is good, my family Yuanzhen has become a Zhizhou, but Baizhou is a small and poor place, the income is low, my family Yuanzhen is so bitter, can you bear to watch it?

There is also an official Yao Yigong, who was sentenced to the Xingguo Army at the beginning, because of his honest style and love for the people, the imperial court summoned him to Que to transfer his post, and more than 1,000 people of the Xingguo Army covered the road and did not let him leave the Xingguo Army. Yao Yigong had no choice but to ask the soldiers to open the city gate at night and secretly leave the Xingguo Army. Then I went to Xucheng, because of the good governance, the yatang did not even use the whip, and for three consecutive years, Xucheng was governed, and as a result, when I was transferred, hundreds of people knelt down and begged the transfer envoy to leave Yao Yigong.

The interviewer reported the deeds of these two officials to Zhao Kuangyi, and Zhao Kuangyi read out the deeds of these two officials at the court meeting, and then gave Jiang Yuanzhen 30 horses of silk and 50 stones of rice, and Yao Sigong 20 horses of silk and 20 stones of rice.

Song Jiu suddenly raised his teeth and said, "Your Majesty, the minister is guilty." ”

Zhao Kuangyi is inexplicable.

Song Jiu said again: "The minister estimated that a horse of silk is more than a penny, although the rice is expensive, now a stone is only four or five hundred yuan. Jiang Yao is honest and capable, and the minister believes that there are thousands of local officials in the entire Great Song Dynasty, and there will be no more than 200 people who can compare with them, but His Majesty gave Jiang Yuanzhen no more than 60 yuan of silk rice, and Yao Sigong gave more than 40 yuan. However, some time ago, the minister went to Shundian with his family for a small meal, and he ate more than 200 yuan. The minister is guilty. ”

Everyone laughed, and Zhao Kuangyi was also dumbfounded, so he changed the edict and gave Jiang Yuanzhen 300 horses of silk and 500 stones of rice, and Yao Sigong 200 horses of silk and 200 stones of rice, and at the same time promoted two levels of officials to serve as an example for local officials.

Song Jiu slowly retreated.

In fact, he also wants to say one thing, that is, the transfer system of local officials, the transfer of officials in the Song Dynasty is becoming more and more frequent, which is also not right, if you want to excel in politics, you have to stay for at least three or four years, such as in Jiangzhou, it is not easy to solve the contradictions, and begin to prepare for governance, and the imperial court will transfer itself to the capital. If you give yourself another two years to govern, then you will let the people leave lovingly in Jiangzhou. Such frequent transfers not only changed the order overnight, making it impossible for the people to adapt, but also the officials began to do superficial work in order to be promoted as soon as possible, resulting in the inability to implement the benevolent government in various localities.

But this was the responsibility of the Eastern Mansion, so Song Jiu didn't say it.

Song Jiu's approach finally made him not so different among the ministers. However, not everyone is like him, Zhao Pu went down, Song Qi and Li Fang and other old ministers also left, Wang Wei looked around, Lu Mengzheng above, and Xin Zhongfu next to him, he had an idea in his heart, why can Lu Mengzheng be the prime minister, but I can't be the prime minister? (To be continued......)