Song Jiu was happy.

So I played back again, Your Majesty, do you still remember the Duan Yan case?

First of all, the country's economy is gradually improving.

There are still some difficulties, but this year's financial pressure is not as good as last year, so Zhao Heng did two things.

The first thing is to continue to govern the river.

The minister who hosted the river was Xie Dequan, the former minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who was very proficient in civil engineering and water conservancy.

He came to the side of the Yellow River and did two things, the first was to wash away the silt on the riverbed, but Song Jiu didn't agree very much, there was no excavator, and there was no advanced level, and he wanted to dig the sand deep river, which was impossible to do in this era.

The second thing is to plant millions of willow trees on the banks of the Yellow and Bianhe rivers.

This matter made Song Jiu agree very much.

And what made Song Jiu recognize him was one of his proposals, reopening the Sanbai Canal in Guanzhong, but not only the reopening of the Sanbai Canal, but he also put forward an idea, choose a river valley on the bank of the Weishui River, build an embankment to build a steep gate, and then lead the Weishui into this big weir. It's like Dujiangyan, but it's more complicated than the Dujiangyan project. Then build a sand storage tank, first precipitate the Weishui, enter the weir, and inject it into the downstream area, the Weishui is clear, and the Yellow River is half clear.

And the same can be done with the turbid Beiluo water, the sediment of the Yellow River is reduced, and the river water damage is naturally reduced.

Not as exaggerated as he thought, but it would have some effect. And there is a basis for doing this, and at Song Jiu's suggestion, this is what is done at the entrance of Bianhuang, which is also convenient for irrigation.

It's a thought. If you want to start construction, you have to send someone to carefully examine the design. Besides, the imperial court does not have the financial support now.

Second, this year a supernova exploded, like a half-moon. There are mangjiao, brilliant and can be applied, bright as the moon, everyone thinks it is an auspicious star, so Zhao Heng issued an edict to take out some money and silk, build Zishan Hall, and support the lonely and widowed elderly.

In fact, before this, the imperial court also had many benevolent measures, including pacifying the victims. relief, edict to reward some good households, Song Jiu in Suzhou to develop charity to the peak.

But when Song Jiu was the prime minister, a big case broke out, that is, the Duan Yan case.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the four famous inkstones were not the later Duan inkstone, She inkstone, Tao inkstone, Chengni inkstone, but Duan inkstone, She inkstone, Taohe inkstone, red silk inkstone, the actual Taohe inkstone is Tao inkstone, in Taozhou, later Chengni inkstone replaced the red silk inkstone of Shandong.

Duan Yan is the first of the four famous inkstones of the Song Dynasty.

But there are many materials for inkstones. There are stones, sand, mud, and bricks. There are tiles, and the stone inkstone is also divided into high and low, and the ordinary stone inkstone is not valuable. However, the high-end inkstone is worth a thousand gold.

During the Southern Han Dynasty, the official presided over the mining of Duan inkstone, and Song Jiu arrived in Guangnan. There is no need to wait for Bao Zheng, just talk about the difficulties and dangers of mining Duan inkstone. Let the imperial court cancel the people's contributions, or buy Duan inkstones.

If you want to purchase, you can buy in the capital market, rather than going to Duanzhou to buy directly, so as not to produce all kinds of ills.

Zhao Kuangyin agreed, so Duanyan was officially commercialized.

This has become the pillar industry of Duanzhou. However, with the development of commerce, many powerful doctors are also in business, and these people dare to levy business taxes?

Not only Duanyan, but also other goods.

Song Jiu and Wang Qinruo reformed the new commercial tax law, lowered the commercial tax ratio, and even further lowered the commercial tax ratio for bulk commodity trading in order to compromise.

The commercial tax rate after the new commercial tax law is really low.

However, there are still many powerful people who are unwilling to pay this tax.

Including two powerful businessmen who operate Duanyan, they also pay taxes, and they treat Duanyan as an ordinary stone inkstone to pay taxes, and I also pay taxes......

But they didn't expect that Song Jiu reformed the commercial tax and reduced the proportion of the commercial tax, that was in order to be able to fully implement the tax payment, show grace in the front, move in the back, and constantly punish a group of powerful people, and even some officials were implicated, dismissed or demoted.

Some people were at odds with these two Haoqiang, so they took the initiative to collect some evidence for the government to report.

When Song Jiu heard about it, he sent someone to investigate it.

The amount is not much, but even if there are only tens of thousands of inkstones a year, a small boat will be loaded, but it is worth a lot of money, and it is like this in a year, and how much tax has been evaded in ten years. And how many places do you pass through from Quang Nam to the capital?

This investigation implicated many officials, even the Du family, the old mother of Zhao Kuangyin's brothers, and the Du family. In order to deter, Song Jiu deliberately used this case as an example and severely punished a group of officials.

This is a big case in which Song Jiu was the prime minister, also known as the Duanyan case, which may be recorded in history, which means that the Song Dynasty's Qi Min policy was further implemented, that is, "Qi tax".

Zhao Heng can't be regarded as the fool recorded in the history books, but in fact he is a very smart person.

Without the humiliation of the Yuanyuan Alliance, the country further prospered, and now Zhao Heng is still conscientiously handling state affairs, and the Song Dynasty continues to be on the rise.

Song Jiu only asked one sentence again.

His meaning is simpler, that is, greed is insufficient, and the rich are richer. In fact, some of the powerful people in the Song Dynasty were really rich, and now there are 100,000 yuan of family property in the capital, and there are even many people with a family property of 1 million yuan.

The tax rate on bulk commercial transactions is so low, why should we evade taxes?

Don't think that if the Japanese country is rich, it will not harm the Central Plains, and it will still be harmful.

Zhao Heng then sent a lieutenant envoy to ask, what does Qing mean?

Song Jiu said that he was on topic, Confucianism governs the country, the country is strong and the people are rich, and religion is religious.

You can let the students of the Japanese Kingdom study Confucianism and Buddhism, let their country be peaceful, and learn the gentle and benevolent way of Confucianism and Buddhism, so that they will not invade our dynasty. But the study of physical character does not allow them to learn.

And the state guards the inside and outside, what is the outside? It is not only necessary to remain rational in the expansion of the territory, but also to make the foreign Yi "empty", and if the foreign Yi is weak, it will not be harmful, including the current differentiation of various tribes, and not let one clan become dominant, which is also this emptiness.

Zhao Heng finally agreed.

In fact, Song Jiu carried the hatred of his previous life.

Compared with the shamelessness of the Goryeo people, the unity of the Japanese people, the humble learning and progress of civilization, perseverance, martial arts, and not afraid of death. To make people more respectful, but this race is so cruel. Although Song Jiu is now in a high position, he must let go of some unnecessary disdain. What's more, it was the grievance of the previous life, but thinking of the harm done to China by the Japanese people, he still did not let go of this hatred.

I won't retaliate, but I have to remind everyone, and I won't take the initiative to help them become stronger......

In short, there are good neighbors around China.

There was still war on Youzhou Road in the third year of Jingde, and some people rebelled, especially the Xi people in Zhongjing and the Khitan people in Shangjing, who did not have the original high status. Many rights have been deprived of succession, some heroes are unhappy in their hearts, resulting in rebellions one after another, and some tribes on the desert do not know the height of the sky to harass, but the Song Dynasty stationed the most troops on Youzhou Road, and more than sixty percent are cavalry, which is suppressed in time.

Governance is serious governance, but repression is also serious suppression, like a thunderbolt. It was very decisively suppressed, beheaded and executed.

But in general, Youzhou gradually moved from chaos to governance, especially Song Jiu running around. Looking at it carefully, nearly 2,000 officials from various states and counties in the Song Dynasty had to carefully govern the place, and the entire Youzhou Road showed signs of recovery.

Song Jiu did one more thing. Let the states send some literati to collect information. Write a book of Youzhou Road Gazetteer to record the mountains and rivers of various states and counties. Properties, flora and fauna, climate, suitable planting and breeding methods, and other information.

Once this book is successful, it will be conducive to the further centralization of the Northeast, and it will also help the state and county officials to easily govern the localities, and the generals will not blindly use troops.

At this time, Li Jilong died in Yunzhou, his death shook the government and the opposition, and Zhao Kuangyi left two pillars, one is Song Jiu, and the other is Li Jilong. Therefore, Zhao Heng mourned solemnly and spent three days to express his respect and recognition for Li Jilong. At the same time, he also sent an envoy to pass on the decree, telling Song Jiu to take care of his health. In fact, Li Jilong's death also made Zhao Heng's suspicion replaced by worry.

Li Jilong's death made Pan Li'er worry and persuaded Song Jiu to pay tribute. A minister who has done this is worthy of the country. After all, the north is bitterly cold, and Song Jiu has endured a lot of hard work in order to manage Youzhou Road.

But Song Jiu still couldn't let it go.

First, there are still many problems on Youzhou Road that have not been solved, and the officials who come are all junior officials, and they have not grown up. The second is Goryeo......

Song Jiu had been silently watching Goryeo's covert expansion.

But after the autumn, Zhang Zhibai of Luyang Mansion was a good brother, and he couldn't bear it anymore and asked Song Jiu.

For no other reason, from the mouth of the Yalu River to the depths of the northeast to lead the Binfu, there are three major tribes of the Yalu River, the Changbai Mountain and the Filthy Tribe, as well as a number of small tribes, but these three large tribes are not a whole, and can be divided into several tribes.

The Koreans were divided into filthy tribes.

However, as the Northeast gradually moved from chaos to governance, not all tribes defected to Goryeo, and some tribes were not satisfied, so the shrewd ones sent people to the Song Dynasty officials for help. However, Song Jiu's attitude was ambiguous, only kind words and comfort, but no actual action, so most of the tribes gradually defected to Goryeo nominally under the coercion of Goryeo.

It can't be said to be governance, with the strength of the Song Dynasty and Goryeo, at this time can not actually govern many tribes in the Changbai Mountains, the mountains are too big, the forests are too mao, and the people are too wild, but Goryeo has done one more thing, the Bohai Kingdom once established Longyuan Mansion in the Tumen River, and took Longyuan Mansion as Tokyo (near Hunchun). After the Liao State destroyed the Bohai State, this city disappeared.

The Goryeo slowly encroached up, and after the autumn of this year, they built a small city on the Tumen River, and moved this small city to the vicinity of Tumen in later generations, and named it Tokyo Prefecture again, and then began to divide the various ethnic groups of the former Balhae Kingdom in the north.

Zhang Zhibai was also dumbfounded, this is my territory, you are building Tokyo Mansion here, only one step away from Luyang Mansion, what kind of system is it?

If he wants to send troops, he must get Song Jiu's consent.

After Song Jiu received his report, he was noncommittal.

It happened that Song Jiu came to Luyang Mansion to inspect, Zhang Zhibai mentioned this matter again, Song Jiu was still silent, and he was in a hurry, and said: "In this way, reflect this situation to His Majesty, and see how His Majesty will deal with it." ”

Zhang Zhibai sighed, can you still deal with it well?

"Then let them continue to expand, and even let them give up the Commandery's Mansion and Changbai Mountain, and let their officers and soldiers approach the city of Luyang!"

Zhang Zhibai was about to protest, but suddenly woke up and was happy.

The weak part of the Song Dynasty was not the rule of culture, there was no Song Jiu in terms of governance, and the Song Dynasty almost achieved the extreme, but the weak was the military.

Therefore, Song Jiu did only three major things in his life, the first was to further develop the economy, there was no money, how to fight a war, especially the recruitment system of the Song Dynasty, and the third was to strengthen the military.

In fact, his strength is still in internal governance, although he has made achievements in the military, but he is only responsible for reforming some military defects, and is responsible for planning some strategies, even if these strategies are mostly improved by generals such as Pan Mei, Yang Ye and Li Jilong, and the details are implemented by these important generals.

But because of the illusion, later generations called Song Jiu a military strategist...... (To be continued......)