"Song Jiu, don't tell me in the future that you are taboo or not," Zhao Kuangyin said with a wry smile. Song Jiu won't take it seriously, he really doesn't understand the rules of the court, but taboos are a must, although he doesn't understand, some sizes can't be too exceeded, otherwise he will inevitably attract a bad end. Zhao Kuangyin said: "When will the bridge and wharf outside the East Water Gate be built?" ”

"Your Majesty, Wei Chen will go to see the steel supervisor first, if there is no accident, the court will choose a day, and the construction can start at any time. But before the construction can begin, it is necessary to ask for the assistance of several master craftsmen who are proficient in building bridges, as well as relevant craftsmen, people, and various materials. In this way, let the minister go to the field to calculate, and then write a report of the approximate number and submit it to the imperial court. ”

"Observe first and then do it, although you are nonsense, this method is quite good. Do a good job, and when the dock and the bridge are almost repaired, I will summon your brother to Beijing and let him see what you are capable of. ”

"Thank you, Your Majesty."

"In any case, you can be considered meritorious when you go south, and I will give you a founding baron."

"Thank you, Your Majesty," Song Jiu was overjoyed and said with a bow. In the Song Dynasty, except for the duke, other titles, including the marquis, were the same thing, but there was definitely two different things. Just like Song Jiu's loose officials, they can't be taken seriously, but it's better than nothing. At least with this baron, he can be regarded as a low-level nobleman, and it took a lot of effort to go south in vain.

In fact, if there were no "evil deeds" of him, Zhao Kuangyin's reward for going south this time would be even thicker, and it had nothing to do with the national policy of Pingdali Jiaozhi formulated by him. The second is all kinds of water conservancy and farming ideas. Song Jiu went south and did what many scholars and doctors did not do in their lives.

However, thinking about Song Jiu's lack of progress, Zhao Kuangyin also had a headache. Seeing that no, a baron immediately bowed down and thanked himself, if he was rewarded with a seventh-rank official, would he jump into the sky happily?

Zhao Kuangyin said helplessly: "You get up, don't be angry." I still have something to tell you. ”

"Yes." Song Jiu stood up very satisfied and sat down energetically.

Zhao Kuangyi, Zhao Pu, Xue Juzheng, and Li Chongju glanced at each other, and several people shook their heads and laughed together.

"Have you seen Han Hee-jae?"

"I've seen it, Weichen wrote the story on the fold."

"How's that impression?"

"The bearing makes Weichen feel lost."

"There are also talents in the Tang Kingdom."

"Your Majesty, the minister thinks otherwise. Although Han Xizai has a good bearing and better literature, he is far inferior to Chun Yuyu and Wu Ju. And Weichen thinks that literature only plays a role in education, and being good at literature may not be able to govern the country well. Ministers like Wang Zhizhou who are full of poetry and books are always in the minority, and most literary scholars are just reading dead books. For example, compared with Zhao Xianggong, Weichen has been reading since childhood, and he may not have read fewer books than Zhao Xianggong, but what is Weichen in front of Zhao Xianggong? It's not even as good as a hair of Zhao Xianggong. ”

Zhao Pu was indifferent, only Zhao Kuangyi was forehead in the dark, implying that Song Jiu said this well, but this hint made Song Jiu feel very bad, could it be that this old boy really missed himself?

"You are also reading the Book of the Dead, not because of Wu Ju and Chun Yu, but because King Wei and King Zhuang were forced by the situation to pretend to be mediocre, and the two of them saw that the time was ripe, so they took the opportunity to admonish."

Song Jiu thought for a moment and had to admit: "Your Majesty is wise, how can Lord Tang be compared to these two." ”

"It's difficult to employ people, for example, in the army, some can charge into battle as partial generals, but they can't be the commander, and some can be the commander, but they may not be able to charge into battle. Some have done very well in the local area, no less than Huang Ba, the first good official of the Western Han Dynasty, but they are just as mediocre when they enter the center. ”

This topic is too big, what qualifications can Song Jiu have to say the way of the minister, and listen silently.

Zhao Kuangyin then asked many questions, and Hunan called back and forth, so that even the people were gone, and naturally there was not much wealth. Bashu is the country of abundance, and it has suffered few wars. This time, Wang Quanbin gained a lot from entering Shu, if it weren't for Zhao Kuangyin's erroneous edict and the rebellion of Quanshixiong, the harvest would be even richer. After Lu Yuqing entered Shu, he saw that the treasury was like this, and regardless of Zhao Kuangyin's edict, he forcibly sealed the treasury of Shu, and then a large boat went to the capital to transport money, gold, silver, money, and silk.

Wang Hu didn't agree with all of Song Jiu's ideas, most of them were approved, Song Jiu thought that it wouldn't cost much money, but as soon as he started it, the action was very large, and it would add up to a lot, and the money would not be less. happened to see the large ships and small boats from Chengdu loaded with money and silk to the capital, so he wrote a letter and asked the imperial court to intercept a few ships of money and silk to transport to Tanzhou. Only with money can we do things, otherwise we still can't do it.

Zhao Kuangyin was not reluctant to pay for the money, but the action was very large, and he had to understand it in detail, so he asked Song Jiu one by one.

After talking for a while, Song Jiu left the palace.

It was hard to go south, but it was not bad, and finally got the first embellishment and became the founder of the country.

However, Song Jiu was thinking about a serious problem on the road, Zhao Kuangyin's two edicts.

The first edict was given to Zhou Baoquan, what is the rejection of the king's master, and he brought his own misfortune. If you don't think about it, it's just a warning letter, but what if you think about it seriously? Zhou Baoquan has destroyed all the bridges and docks, and is he still afraid of an edict? This edict will not have any impact on Zhou Baoquan, on the contrary, what will Li Chuyun think when he sees the word charcoal?

It's really devastating.

If the first edict is a mistake, then before Wang Quanbin entered Shu, there was a second edict, the walled city of Fanke, stop its armor and grain, and distribute it to the soldiers with money and silk.

That is to say, in addition to grain, grass, weapons and armor, all the gold, silver, money and silk in the states and counties of Shu are divided among you. It can also be understood Zhao Kuangyin's good intentions, the Song Dynasty banned very few soldiers at this time, only more than 100,000 people, 60,000 people entered Shu, and 40,000 people were divided into Han Lingkun, Guo Jin, Li Hanchao, Li Jixun, Wang Yansheng, and Dong Zunzhi to the north to prevent the Northern Han Dynasty and Khitan. Therefore, after entering Shu, it is necessary to fight quickly and use this to boost morale.

But Zhao Kuangyin really didn't think about one thing.

Once the Shu is successful, according to the previous military practice, it will be handed over to the imperial court, and the rest will be divided by the soldiers, which is enough for the soldiers to make a lot of money. In the early Song Dynasty, the treatment of forbidden soldiers was still very poor, and the war was not fought with the Hu and Qiang people in the north or west, and there would be gains in a battle, so they were like hungry wolves. With this edict, what will become of the soldiers?

There is also a suspicious point, Lu Yuqing was so anxious to go to Shu to extinguish the fire, and also issued an edict to reward Cao Bin, Liu Guangyi and Cao Bin of the Kuixia Road Army did a good job, no matter their military ability or credibility, they were no less than Wang Quanbin and Cui Yanjin, why not let them replace them and continue to keep Wang Quanbin in Sichuan?

Zhao Kuangyin definitely didn't mean to kill first, it was easy to govern after he established his authority, he was not such a brutal person. I also saw it just now, the curtain in the palace is only decorated with green cloth edging, the decoration utensils are very simple and simple, I have seen it several times, the fabric of the underwear under the dragon robe is also very poor, it is said that only three hundred dozens of eunuchs and palace people are used in the palace. To put it mildly, some of the powerful servants and maidservants can have more than 300 people.

However, he was very generous to his subordinates, and he didn't count that time, he made capital for himself, and he had to repay hundreds of times to the court in the future. If Fan is sick, he will be rewarded with 200 taels of gold, 1,000 taels of silver, 2,000 horses of silk, and 2 million yuan, which is equivalent to more than 8,000 yuan. And many more.

Why are there these two extremely unreasonable edicts? Was it Zhao Kuangyin's mistake, or was someone behind the scenes pushing it, or was it a more complicated reason? Or is it your own crankiness?

Song Jiu couldn't figure it out.

It was late March, the spring of March, there were many people wandering around the street, Song Jiu was not in the mood to look, and rode home. What he didn't learn when he went south, it was a riding skill, and now Song Jiu finally dared to ride a horse and gallop wildly, and he could also do some small movements on horseback that were not very difficult. Of course, let him spread his bow and arrows on horseback, but he still can't do it.

When he arrived at the door of the house and tied the horse to the forage house, the southern horse that Song Jiu bought in Ezhou saw the big black horse coming, stretched out his mouth to make love, and was scolded by the big black man, a stack of hooves, and the little green horse was frightened back.

Song Jiu couldn't help but laugh.

Zhao Kuangyi said that it is not possible to engage in the middle of the big river, but the regionality will always exist, such as the differences between states and states, the differences between the north and the south, the differences between the Han and the barbarians, and the horses are like this, and they are people. It's still a bit simple to think about yourself.

But there are smart people who have nothing to do with themselves.

The seventh sister walked out with the child in her arms and said, "Xiao Jiu, you are now an official, and your shelf is also big, and you don't come to see me when you go home, and you want me to come to see you." ”

The seventh brother-in-law said: "Qi Niang, you can't blame Xiao Jiu, he is busy and hasn't eaten yet." ”

"It's better to be the seventh brother-in-law." Song Jiu ran into the house to eat.

There were more people, Yuping's family of three, Zhang Yuanyuan's family of three, three craftsmen, as well as Zhu San and Tsing Yi, became twelve people to eat. Fortunately, now Song Jiu is not short of money at hand, otherwise it would not be easy to feed twelve people with that little income alone, no wonder those county lieutenants have to complain, their family includes more servants!

"The emperor is too, he still called you into the palace so late."

"Seventh sister, the emperor was worried about whether the south was calm, and called me into the palace to ask."

"I heard that Bashu also began to eat human flesh. What's wrong with these soldiers, the two children of the Liu family and the Su family are also in the forbidden army, and they are usually honest, why don't they look like people when they get outside. ”

"Seventh sister, don't talk nonsense." Song Jiu. But he was also at a loss, as if these Song troops were robbing and looting after they arrived in Sichuan, and this time they didn't eat human flesh. But he didn't say much. This era is too tragic, even the Song army eats human flesh, how can you blame those barbarian chiefs? No wonder Sun Erniang and his wife in the Water Margin specialize in using human flesh to make buns and sell them.

Yuping's mother brought the food, her cooking skills were okay, except that she didn't know Song Jiu's novel food, which was no less than Song Jiu and her eldest sister, which made Zhang Yuanyuan feel inferior. However, this old bustard is not evil, he has no children and no daughters, and then buys Yuping back, saying that he is buying, but in fact he also regards it as his own daughter. Otherwise, Jade Apple's innocence would have been ruined a long time ago. Ping moved in and brought her with her. does not reject this Song Jiu, even if it is a scholar, there are all kinds of evil, that is a beggar, and there are also people of noble character, and they can't look at people by their profession.

Song Jiu returned the fat boy of the seventh sister to the seventh brother-in-law, and ate a few pieces of meatloaf before going to the palace. The seventh sister and Yuping talked, Cui'er talked to Tsing Yi, the two children of the Zhang family were playing with the horses, the two old women were cleaning up the tables and dishes, the three craftsmen went into the room early to rest, and the seventh brother-in-law hugged his son and asked Song Jiu in a low voice: "Xiao Jiu, the jade lady has also moved over, what are you going to do?" ”