Song Jiu asked one thing first: "Tsing Yi, what's your surname?" ”

If you can't just call it Tsing Yi, that name is too weird.

The young man wiped his tears and replied, "My surname is Lu." ”

"Lu Qingyi," Song Jiu shook his head, people are learned people, and the name of a servant is so elegant, and then look at what name he takes for his cheap Lao Tzu, Song Jiu, fortunately, he is ranked ninth, not thirteenth, otherwise he will become Song thirteen and Song fourteen.

"Can you ride a horse?"

"A little."

Song Jiu nodded, let Han Xizai personally entrust, it seems that his father is Han Xizai's intimate subordinate, otherwise Han Xizai would not have done much about this, which is why he learned to ride a horse, after all, there are fewer horses in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

"If you can ride a horse, you have to follow me to Jingnan and then follow me into the capital, if you are willing to learn from me, you will live in my house, if you are not willing, I will find a merchant ship in the capital to take you to Shouzhou, and then go from Shouzhou to Hezhou to find your mother."

"I'm willing to go south with Jiulang, but if I can come back after going south, let me go to Hezhou first."

"Okay."

Song Jiu didn't ask much about his mother's situation, this separation was several years, and there would be some things that Tsing Yi didn't want to mention in the future. But you have to buy a horse, you can't buy a good horse, but you can buy some southern horses that pull carts and goods.

The salaries of officials in the Song Dynasty were relatively good, but the salaries of low-level officials were much worse. Like the county lieutenant of Jiupin has less than six dollars a month, his wife and children are not tired of chaff, how can the servants be spared from starvation, the ransom has never stopped, and how can he dream of eating wine and meat? But it's also wrong, they are compared with the rich and the big officials, how can they be compared. Salary is only a part of their income, this only refers to the monthly salary, as well as spring and winter clothes, winter cotton, moon millet, clothing and food, charcoal, vocational fields, etc., the monthly salary accounts for only one-tenth of them.

Just a county lieutenant, raising a large family, but also raising servants, and a few domestic prostitutes, if you don't take bribes, it's no wonder that life can go on.

As well as another type of people who have alcohol and are drunk today, Su Dongpo, put it in Huangzhou control, that is, he was degraded and placed on probation, and the salary was small, and the money was tight at that time, and the imperial court used the wine bag as a discount to distribute it to officials, and Dasu had to sell the paper bag to make a living. Then left Huangzhou to take up his post in Ruzhou, due to the long journey, the journey was tiring, Su Shi's young child unfortunately died, and the travel expenses ran out, so he wrote a letter to ask to stay in Changzhou.

Su Dongpo was purely self-inflicted, he had been a high-ranking official, he had money, and the money was used indiscriminately. Speaking of Ruzhou, why don't you go by land, how close is that, and that road is very good, once created a miracle in the Song Dynasty, and sent the news of Nong Zhigao's rebellion from Guangzhou to the capital in five days. One of the roads is from Huangzhou to Ruzhou, and Song Jiu also went south from this road, and now the road situation is not as good as the back. Later, he rose back, and the old trick was repeated, and he was holding prostitutes for fun in Hangzhou, and he hugged a large group of beautiful girls, can this not cost money? Yoon so too, and Han Hee Jae also have this disease. On the contrary, Fan Zhongyan suffered far more than Su Dongpo in his life, but he was not short of money, and even relieved many friends and scholars, and bought a lot of land for his clansmen.

This involves another income of officials, public use, that is, travel expenses. According to the size of the official's grade, Su Dongpo's rank was not up at that time, and he had no money left in his hand, and he took a large family with him to go around several times the size of the waterway, so he shouted on the road that he had no money. Song Jiu also had the minister's money this time, but it was very small, and it was definitely not as much as Su Dongpo's money from Ruzhou. However, Song Jiu realized that he took the initiative to bring some money when he went out. In order to be lightweight and not afraid of loss, I brought some silver and exchanged it for money on the way. And along the way, he did not even embezzle the money of the ministers of the states and counties, preferring to pay out of his own pocket.

These situations are also fed back to Zhao Kuangyin.

With this move alone, Zhao Kuangyin reversed some of his views on Song Jiu in his heart. Although greedy, but greedy right, at least what should not be mastered.

I paid a dozen taels of silver to buy a skinny southern horse, which is not very good, but it will be much faster than walking. It was also dark, and I couldn't cross the river, so I found an inn to live in.

Song Jiu wrote a letter, if it doesn't matter to ordinary people, Han Xizai is a big man, a famous talent, and even in the capital, he has N fans. So I reported today's events to Zhao Kuangyin one by one, whether I would see it is one thing, but it is another thing to say it myself.

The next day, we crossed the river south.

As soon as he crossed the Yangtze River, it was basically the scope of Song Jiu's inspection, but Song Jiu did not stay, and the area along the river was fine, although he was in the name of the patrol envoy, his main task was to see the situation of the barbarians.

Continue south, detour from Yuezhou to Langzhou, and then Bentanzhou. However, Song Jiu finally saw many problems.

The country is the same as the family, it is impossible for the Song Dynasty to achieve monogamy, especially now, there are many boys and girls, is it possible to let those women fight singles together? However, if one day there are more men and fewer women, and a certain proportion is reached, perhaps the country will also achieve polyandry for the sake of harmony.

Polygamy will produce a descendant and a concubine, and although the contradiction arising from the partial division of property is resolved, it is impossible for the family to be united, and it is impossible for the concubine to be loyal to the family. The same is true of the country. In order to solve the national problem, it is necessary for all ethnic groups to be equal and integrated, not to forcibly separate them.

But the most important premise of integration is people.

Not much, even in the era of Renzong, there were nearly 100 million people, if a smart traveler came, brought all kinds of advanced cultivation and reclamation techniques, and then used some clever means to motivate the people to migrate, reduce the contradictions arising from the relocation and resettlement, not to mention Hunan, Lingnan can also be greatly developed. The arrival of a large number of Han people, bringing advanced production methods, changing the language and living habits of the barbarians, and seriously governing for a few more years, can fully realize ethnic integration and sinicization in most areas.

But Song Jiu came all the way and what he saw was even worse than what he saw in Hebei. Li Chuyun pacified 66 counties in 14 prefectures in Hunan, equivalent to three-quarters of the area of Hunan later, but the total population was only 90,000 households. Later, Wang Duan rebelled, Liu Gang invaded many times, and the barbarians in Xiangxi Xitong rebelled and harassed, and the war was endless, and this poor population was still decreasing.

Don't want to move people, not only Hunan, but also the Song Dynasty from Lianghuai to Liangjing Hebei, there is a shortage of people everywhere, where to move?

It is this pitiful number of people, maybe less than half of the population of the capital, and there are many displaced people, of which only half of the real Han households are few. It is not that there are few Han households, but that some powerful leaders in remote areas take advantage of the war, even if it is the time when the Song Dynasty rule does not care much about them, they take a fancy to the industriousness of the Han households, and lure the powerful Han households to become serfs who accept them, and those who do not obey are slaughtered and confiscated into the land. After becoming a serf, first of all, the serf woman must dedicate the ** to the master, and the woman must also work, and she has no right to marry on her own, so she will kill at will, or cut open the belly of a pregnant woman, or dig the heart of the serf.

There are only more than a hundred miles to the west of Langzhou City, which is Wulingyuan, after hearing these news, where live are also barbarians, Song Jiu was so frightened that he didn't dare to go. And then very confused, did you come to the slave society?

The plains are open and the war in the Han area is going on and on, what should the Han people do, so they became monstrous, fled to the mountains, and turned themselves into barbarians, saying the same words and living habits with them, and they will also be invaded by those powerful people, but it is a little better than the Han identity.

Therefore, many areas are nominally Shuyi, but in fact half of them are likely to be Han Chinese, or descendants of Han households. There is no need to entangle this, the so-called Han households, how many people in the north can guarantee that they are the real Han blood?

This man became the number one problem.

No one could create wealth, and in order to restore Hunan as soon as possible, the imperial court repeatedly exempted taxes, so it was impossible for the local government to have much financial revenue. Then another problem arises, there is no money.

But it can't be done without money, it costs money to build water conservancy, it costs money to build roads, it costs money to build schools, even if the people build a straw shed, they have to buy some wood nails.

Then there is labor, Song Jiu's line is still very serious, and he is so scared that he doesn't dare to go to remote areas, but when he passes by sparse villages, he will go in and take a look in various names, such as begging for a sip of water. I was shocked at first sight, many villages are widow villages, daughter villages, often a village has nearly 100 women, but adult men are only a dozen people, a few people. No wonder Zhao Kuangyi said that the river is miserable, you go to the south to take a look.

Seeing these scenes, whether Zhao Kuangyin intentionally issued an edict, or someone else misled Zhao Kuangyin to issue an edict, which caused Li Chuyun to misunderstand, but Li Chuyun was indeed responsible.

It's really miserable.

Song Jiu is not a bad person, but he is not a saint either, even if he sees all kinds of situations, and it seems that he still came to see it after the efforts of many officials in the imperial court, and he did a good job this year, and he can't stand it.

Then there is the terrain, this area is not the real south, countless poisonous insects and miasma, but because of the sparse population, many mountains and mountains are densely forested, shrubs, and full of thorns, it is estimated that it is to Wulingyuan, and you can not see the beautiful scenery of Zhangjiajie in later generations.

How can such a terrain be carved?

The most embarrassing is his pitiful identity, when he comes here, he must understand, so he meets with the local county officials, it stands to reason that he is patrolling for the Son of Heaven, and he is the real Lord Qincha in the TV series, but because of his young age, and his title of Bapinsan, no official treats him as the same thing. came, drank wine and ate meat, this was the minister's money's entertainment, but when he asked about the matter, he couldn't hear it at all. I almost want to say, you better go home and feed.

It is not possible to listen to questions on your own, and the language is slightly incomprehensible, and it is very difficult to talk. It must be said by these officials that we can know more about the truth.

This is only a low-level official, what if it is Pan Mei?

However, he also had to admit that the officials appointed by the Song Dynasty were doing better than he imagined and were creating a miracle.