In fact, Song Jiu has also mentioned this truth before.

Don't think that the Confucian golden mean is mediocre, it's rare to be confused, the master talks about the way of birth, is it the master's intention to let people learn how to be mediocre and pretend to be confused?

So this mediocrity is the one in the avenue of pursuit.

Buddhism has also said that the journey is the same, and all laws are one.

Taoism talks about yin and yang, when the yin is heavy, the yang is adjusted upward, and when the yang is heavy, it is adjusted to the yin. Adapting measures to local conditions, adapting measures to the times, adapting measures to the political situation, employing people according to the current situation, reusing talents who can manage when we are poor, and reusing generals who can lead troops to fight when we are militarily weak, this is the mean.

It's just that Song Jiu can also be said to be "unlearned, unskilled", he is not a theoretician, so he can't tell the big truth.

However, Zhao Kuangyi also understood that what kind of balancing technique in the actual court is a kind of moderation.

Therefore, after reading this letter again after two years, Zhao Kuangyi felt extremely cordial, and then said: "The words are still so ugly." ”

The two eunuchs laughed.

But they finally heard it, the liking in Zhao Kuangyi's tone, but they didn't quite understand, since they liked this Song Xianggong so much, and this Song Xianggong did have a lot of ability, why don't they reuse him?

Zhao Kuangyi said: "You go down to check and report to me what Song Gong has done in the past two years." ”

However, here he made another mistake, that is, not to use the word Song Gong.

The two eunuchs comprehended and went down.

……

"This is heaven?"

Pan Li'er asked curiously.

Maybe in the future, Lu Mengzheng, Kou Zhun and Song Jiu can all enter the ranks of famous people in the history books, but all three of them have a significant shortcoming, that is, their lives are relatively luxurious. Maybe Song Jiu is not as good as Lu Kou and the others in terms of luxury.

But Song Jiu wanted to make money. Taking the lead in management is probably also a stain that will be difficult for him to erase in the history books in the future.

Of course. Song Jiu wouldn't think like that.

We don't steal or rob, and we do so many things. Is it wrong to acquire wealth by legitimate means?

Therefore, Song Jiu and his family went south, hired a good boat to go south, and did not eat hard in place.

However, Pan Li'er is a northerner, and she is very accustomed to being on land, in fact, she also followed Song Jiu south to Liangguang, but compared with Liangguang, Suzhou now has a wider area of water, and there are lakes and rivers everywhere......

It's not too annoying. At least it's better than the northwest, but there is water everywhere, and water is connected to water, which makes Pan Li'er a little unaccustomed.

And the husband said it was heaven.

This is heaven?

Now it is impossible to say that there is heaven above and Suzhou and Hangzhou below.

Although Hangzhou is good, it is not the capital of the Southern Song Dynasty, let alone Suzhou.

Maybe Suzhou is not bad, but compared to the more prosperous northern cities, Suzhou is the same thing. At least it has nothing to do with heaven.

Song Jiu said slowly: "I said heaven for a reason, one is that it has a long history. ”

Pan Li'er shook her head.

Chinese civilization mainly originated from Heluo, which is actually between the lower reaches of Weishui and Luoshui, mainly in the southeast of Shaanxi and Henan. Therefore, the city with a long history is also in this area. Although Suzhou was the capital of the Spring and Autumn Period of Wu. However, Wu was still a southern Yi region at that time.

Of course, it's not just this reason.

"Secondly, the location of the place."

This made Pan Lian'er undeniable.

In the past, when Dayu divided Kyushu, Yangzhou was the last state, and there was a lot of water!

There is a lot of water, a lot of swamps, and a lot of mosquitoes. The climate is humid and humid.

Therefore, including in the Tang Dynasty, the best place in the country is in Guanzhong. But from the Tang Dynasty. The south began to become important, and by the later period, it was a Shu and a Yang. The best is Chengdu, Sichuan, and the second best is Yangzhou.

During the Song Dynasty, the water and soil in the north deteriorated, and the south became more and more important.

"The third is the people here, they are more pure and kind, although pure kindness means that there are not many good soldiers here, but it also means that there will not be many contradictions, good law and order, and suitable for living. Secondly, people here are smarter, and smart also means cunning, but it also means wisdom, and the ability to improve life and create wealth. That's why I say it's heaven, but before the gates of heaven are opened, someone has to open them. ”

"Daddy, are you opening this door?" Nuan Nuan asked.

"I want to try."

In this conversation, Song Jiu's family came to Suzhou.

Over the years, Song Jiu has accumulated a lot of good reputation, and when he heard that Song Jiu had arrived, the old folks in Suzhou were thunderous. But to their surprise, after Song Jiu completed the handover, he left Suzhou City in civilian clothes, handed over the government affairs to the general judge and various officials, and went down for more than a month before returning.

Then gather all the rich people in Suzhou.

That's when governance begins.

The officials of the Song Dynasty lived in heaven, relatively speaking, except for a very few people, who were victims of political struggle, and other people went up and down, in fact, like Su Dongpo, who stayed in the prison for a while and was released, although Lu Duoxun was forced to do so, he was not imprisoned.

In particular, some prime ministers have made many achievements in politics after they were released, but many officials who have performed well in the local areas have not performed well in the two governments.

Actually, the reason is very simple.

In this relaxed political environment, there is no pressure to decentralize to the locality, for example, high school students enter junior high school, unless they are too stupid to be stupid, can they perform badly? However, some junior high school students with good grades will not get better grades when they reach high school, and the difficulty of their textbooks will increase.

Although Song Jiu did not become the prime minister of the eastern province, how many years he served as the prime minister of the western province, a Suzhou could not defeat him.

However, with his prestige, even if he passes, he can't pass the test, so it's better.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the Master said, "Do not suffer from widowhood but from inequality, and do not suffer from poverty but from insecurity. Not worried about less, but about uneven distribution, not about poverty, but about instability. ”

Song Jiu split the first sentence, which made these squires creepy, this Song Xianggong is a god horse? Do you also want to have a rich and poor equal?

"Ladies and gentlemen, you look through the history books, the time for the unification of China is very short, and Xia Shang Zhou doesn't mention it, it's too far. It is also a system of candidates, which cannot be regarded as a real unification. Either it is the Qin, Han, Jin, Sui, Tang and our dynasties. The Qin Dynasty can't be counted, it was a tyrannical dynasty. The Western Han Dynasty could not be counted, Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, the world was not convinced, and radical reforms arose, which made many people angry and perished. The Western Jin Dynasty cannot be counted, and the eight kings are in chaos, leading to destruction. How did the rest of the dynasties perish? There is no serious merger, is there a horn? Is there any Sun Eun? Is there a tile village? Is there a yellow nest? ”

"But don't worry. I will not deprive you of your benefits and wealth, and Your Majesty will not allow me to do so. But let me say one more thing, if you were allowed to go to the Kuixia area, would you accumulate the wealth you have now? Why, because there is a good environment and foundation. In the past, I said that open source and throttling, some people think that the wealth of the world is balanced, and if you open this source, you will have less stream. However, a simple truth, the income of the country in our dynasty is almost more than four times that of Taizu at the beginning of the founding of the country, why are the people not suffering? The population has increased. Wealth has increased, so taxes have increased, and the people have not suffered. ”

"That's open source, that's what I call the foundation. And what I used to say in court about win-win. If the economic foundation here is better and the people are richer, will you have more opportunities to increase your wealth? ”

There is no such thing as a profound truth. However, it is convincing.

In fact, Song Jiu doesn't need to do this, and the next measures are money. With his family's economy, as well as connections. You can gather hundreds of thousands of dollars to smash into Suzhou at any time, and you will not be forced to do so like Wang Yuyan.

However, Song Jiu did not choose this path, he still wanted to create a model.

Hence today's meeting and conversation.

So there are the next moves.

There is no concern about public security, the people of Suzhou are relatively pure, and the public security situation is far better than that of other places.

The main thing is the economy and people's livelihood.

However it is not a port, although there is the Yangtze River.

However, the situation in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River at this time was different from that of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River in later generations. In later generations, if the estuary is counted from Haimen, it will be counted from Haimen, but the current estuary will be counted from Taixing, so in history, Fan Zhongyan took the people of Xinghua to build a seawall.

Therefore, Suzhou cannot build a good seaport.

The advantage is that it is larger, including part of the Shanghai area, including Baoshan Jiading. There are also in the south, Songjiang, Jinshan, and Fengxian are under the jurisdiction of Xiuzhou, and as for the area east of Chuansha and Nanhui, they are still in the sea, waiting for the river of time to bring out the sediment.

Such a vast and fertile area, which is not populated much today, has a prospect for development.

Song Jiuxian drew a picture that it was good to develop enclosed fields and polders, but indiscriminate development led to the thinning of rivers and the reduction of lakes, often causing countless waterlogging. Compared with the polders to the west, the difficulty of developing the fields is relatively low. The polders are miracles, competing with the lake and the swamps, and the crops and people live under the river.

However, there are also problems in the downstream areas, that is, if a typhoon comes, it will bring a lot of flash floods, even if it is close to the sea, there will be many lakes and rivers that discharge floodwater. This area must be preserved.

In fact, it is mentioned again and again in the large agricultural book compiled by the academy.

This map is a schematic diagram of the width of the rivers and lakes that must be preserved.

The rest can be developed into the enclosure.

It was up to the people to build a wall and then distribute the arable land. However, this requires the government to provide a lot of materials, and it is not possible to withhold taxes, Song Jiu is not Wang Yuyan, just like Song Jiu came to Suzhou in the second year, the income of the three divisions decreased, and Zhao Kuangyi asked. Chen Shu, the third envoy, said: "Today, the country uses military musts, so Fei Haohan, whenever there is a disaster in the states, it is necessary to remove the tax rent as much as possible, and the ministers and other ministers have every right, and the court says that it is a concern to invade the people, and they do not agree." Even if Geng Shouchang and Sang Hongyang are resurrected, they will not be caught. The subordinates were low and clumsy, so they had to do their best, but they would not satisfy the saints. ”

Zhao Kuangyi suddenly thought of what Song Jiu said about throttling.

However, throttling is important, and open source is also important, so he said with strong words: "Qing and others are clear and unclear, and they are dedicated to rope and ink, but they can't increase revenue for the country and solve the trouble of expenditure, just like the owner of the warehouse in the capital when he is re-employed, and he does not deal with one place in the book, which will lead to the inability to make a decision in the next ten or five years, so that he is poor and has no funds to give, and he will die in the light. ”

In fact, it is just a sentence, saying that tax reduction, so what should the country do? But the state must also reduce some unnecessary spending, so that if the expenditure is reduced, the tax revenue will naturally be reduced. If all the officials drive BMWs and raise 72 milks, how can taxes be reduced? How can officials not be greedy?

But this question is very troublesome, at least in the Song Dynasty it was the official-based ideology, Shinong Industry and Commerce! (To be continued......)