Song Jiu thought about it repeatedly, and finally resolutely decided that life is precious, love is more valuable, and risk is opportunity, so he raised his head and said: "Second king, I'm going, but the minister can't go to Jingnan as an inspector, just give an excuse." ”

This is not a patrol of a few pit mines, but a journey. The inspector is a bad official, not a permanent bad official, but there is, generally the lowest is to supervise the imperial history such as the minister, or the cabinet minister, or the minister of the two systems, Gao Xi who had an accident in the summer is to inspect Shandong as a knowledgeable system, on behalf of the Son of Heaven to inspect the people's suffering, unjust prisons, pay attention to the performance of officials in various places, understand the thoughts of the people, and even the local military.

Which one is a small loose official patrolling by himself?

"It doesn't matter, just give you a name so you can look around."

Song Jiu went back a little dazed.

Don't say that the four generals make him jealous, this national issue will always be a headache, fortunately, it is in the south, there are foreign interference that makes people more headaches, not to mention later generations, it is the Song Dynasty, the Song Dynasty instigated the Jurchens, the Jurchens made the Khitan sad, the Khitan supported the party, and the Western Xia gave the Song Dynasty a headache.

However, Song Jiu faintly noticed that Ding Pan was not as smooth as the newspaper said in the south, maybe it was because of those barbarians in the south that Zhao Kuangyin used a jade axe to wave the Dadu River on the map in the future, and I didn't want to cross the Dadu River. The mountains and heights are far away, and the imperial court will not benefit, so it may have to transfer a large amount of materials from the Central Plains to support the local area, and it will also have to station troops, increasing the burden on the imperial court, which will make the life of the people in the Central Plains more miserable.

But it doesn't seem to be the case, I don't know how the Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties ruled the south in the history of Lu Dao, he can't remember, but he remembers, the system at that time may not be applicable to the Song Dynasty system.

When he returned home and saw Zhang Lin waiting for him, Song Jiu said hello, and Zhang Lin said, "Jiulang, I'm here to make up the six hundred yuan." ”

"Zhang Dalang, why do you have to be like this."

"My father asked me to make it up." A trace of grievance flashed in Zhang Lin's eyes when he spoke, for this money, he asked Zhang Qiong to beat him hard, and then Zhang Qiong borrowed eight from seven people, borrowed some money, and collected the six hundred yuan, and let his son hand it over to Song Jiu.

"General Zhang's iron-clad hero...... Song Jiu sighed after hearing this, and said: "Zhang Dalang, don't worry, convey a word to your father, there is a proverb among the people that is rich for only three generations, not only your family, including all the Yanei, now there are dozens of families in the shares, but thirty or forty years later, I think that at least ten families are no longer as blooming as they are now, maybe this dividend will become a glimmer of vitality for their children." This is a righteous and bright way to prepare a back road for children, not a scandal. ”

Zhang Lin is not very old, and there is a suspicious look in her eyes.

Song Jiu said again: "Zhang Dalang, don't talk about my dynasty, I will say that the heroes of the Han and Tang dynasties, thirty years later, how many children of the founding heroes have fallen." But you're here to do something with me. ”

As he spoke, he pulled Zhang Lin to Pan's mansion.

Song Jiu didn't dare to enter Pan's house, for fear that Mrs. Pan Mei would trouble him, so she let Zhang Lin in, and there were many internal contradictions in these yamen, for example, Fu Zhaoshou was obviously wrong with Zhang Lin, but Zhang Lin had a good relationship with Pan Mei's children.

The Pan Weigu Weide brothers were asked out by Zhang Lin, Song Jiu pulled them to a restaurant, sat down and ordered a few dishes, Song Jiu said business: "Pan Dalang, Pan Erlang, the imperial court asked me to inspect Jingnan, do you have anything to bring to General Pan, I will bring them to Jingnan." ”

"What Jingnan are you patrolling?" Wei Gu Da Lang laughed.

"Erlang, don't laugh, the second king personally called me to Kaifeng Mansion to say this, last time I wrote a letter to your father, and came up with several strategies, the court thought that some could not be used, and some had new ideas, so let me go to the south to take a look at the field."

"Really go."

"That's no joke."

"But you patrol ......" The Pan brothers and Zhang Lin were happy together, the four people in the south were more ruthless than the other, who was Song Jiu inspecting.

"There's no way, the court asked me to go, how dare I not go, I'll come back after a walk, just return to Beijing next spring, and preside over the repair of bridges and docks."

"Okay, I'll send some luggage to your house tomorrow."

"Pan Dalang, I'm going to the south with little arms and legs, I'm also afraid, how about you write a quick letter for me and ask your father to take care of it?"

Pan Weide wanted to nod his head at first, but suddenly reacted, fell down and laughed loudly, and said after laughing: "Okay, but at least give me three hundred breads." ”

"Pan Dalang, you can't blackmail, I'll leave immediately, the river island must be leveled, and there is also the matter of the study, then there is time to bake bread, how about coming back next year to bake?"

"Nope."

Several people haggled, and then they ate and drank drunk, and then they dispersed.

There are a lot of things, Song Jiu first took twenty-one personal disciples to Hezhou, and as soon as he left, Hezhou continued to be leveled, where to dig, where to fill, and what height to reach, he had to explain to the students, he was not there, and let them preside over it on his behalf. Otherwise, when I return to Beijing next year, the peach blossom water will come up, and it will not be very easy to do. The amount of work is very huge, not only two or three meters high, the sharp triangle at the top of the river bank to be cut, artificial lake, scenic ditch, and several wharf grooves, the grooves do not need to be manpowered, by the imperial court manpower, but where to dig the grooves, how far from each other, must be made clear. Afraid that the students still didn't understand, he gave Li Zhu an overall picture and a schematic diagram, and then had to write a textbook. In their absence, students can follow these materials for self-study.

He is busy, the court is also busy, Wang Quanbin took 60,000 troops to conquer Houshu, it doesn't sound like much, compared with the battles of hundreds of thousands of people during the Three Kingdoms, destroying a country is still a country that occupies the advantage of the terrain, these 60,000 soldiers and horses are not too much, but too little. But this is almost half of the forbidden soldiers of the Song Dynasty.

With 60,000 soldiers and horses, logistics are difficult, and a large number of civilians have to be recruited.

Fortunately, Shaanxi Road in the five dynasties of war and chaos did not affect much, and there are Weijing and North Luoshui benefits, Guanzhong Plain since ancient times rich, it can be said that Shaanxi Road is now the best road in the Song Dynasty, better than Beijing and Tokyo West, Huainan is not good, although in the recovery, the previous fight was too bad, temporarily can not recover.

Dredging through the water is a small project, which can be ignored, and the problem can be solved in two or three months by sending 10,000 people and thousands of small boats. At most, let the officials pay attention to the safety of the people, and rest when it is cold. But there's one more piece of engineering.

After searching for a few months, I found a coal mine in Xuzhou.

However, whether it is iron ore or coal mine, mainly in Hebei and Shandong, Song Jiu is not very well-informed, but the people in the government heard some news, after the use of gunpowder, the amount of mining surged, how much it increased, there is no statistics now, but the officials of the salt and iron case are dancing one by one. I think it's a lot more.

This is a sad era, if the entire Song Dynasty can increase iron production by 40,000 or 50,000 tons, it is estimated that Zhao Kuangyin can lie on the iron ore and roll. But Song Jiu was silent in his heart, the output may not be so optimistic, otherwise another steel mill could be set up in Huazhou. The current iron ore production can only barely maintain the iron furnace of the steel mill in Chenliu County, and the fire cannot be extinguished. Therefore, the imperial court issued an edict starting from Suozao County, digging a new small canal, running through Fengqiu, the mutinous Chen Bridge, Wuzhang River, and Gubianshui, and reaching the steel prison. This canal was excavated considering the terrain, why did you have to go around the Chen Bridge, could it be that Zhao Kuangyin was weak-hearted? But that dare ask.

Not only will a new canal be opened, but the Yellow River will have a different water level from the Wuzhang River and the Bianshui River, which may allow the Yellow River to pour into the eastern suburbs of Tokyo, and a steep gate lock will be built. The amount of work is not small, and Song Jiu faintly feels that there are still some technical problems in the steel mill that have not been solved, but they will think it is very good on the imperial court's side, otherwise it is impossible to dig a new canal more than 100 miles long for it.

……

It was even colder, and there was a heavy snowfall in the capital.

The snow was getting thicker and thicker, and the cold was pressing, Yuping was sewing a leather robe, which was made for Song Jiu, and the eldest sister sat by the brazier and roasted her hands, and said, "Xiao Jiu, why do you want to go to the south?" ”

After hearing the news, she was anxious, and Yuping was also anxious, what kind of place is the south, those barbarians in the mountains are fierce by nature, full of poison, miasma, and the weather is very hot, and they are fighting back and forth, and the court has not settled down for several years. I heard that Li Chuyun ate human flesh again, but there was no good news.

"Eldest sister, I'm just going to take a look, just like the last time I went to Hebei, I'll come back after a walk."

"Can Hebei be compared with Jingnan?"

"Hebei can't be compared with Jingnan, the north is the Khitan and the Northern Han, if it weren't for General Li Jixun to break the Northern Han and Khitan armies this spring and take Liaozhou, how far is Cizhou from the territory of the Northern Han?"

The nature is different, this is not a map, you can see it close on the map, but the two states are separated by a Taihang Mountain, which is equivalent to a thousand mountains and thousands of mountains, but the people of Hebei are indeed very hard, and the Khitan people go south from time to time and come to Hebei to fight the grass valley. Compared with the people of Hebei on the border, even if it is in Jingnan, it is also a paradise.

The old woman of the Zhang family said coldly: "It's a blessing that your Song Dynasty doesn't attack us, where do we dare to attack your Song Dynasty?" ”

"Zhang Yuanyuan, what are you talking about! If it weren't for your Northern Han collusion with foreigners to fight the Central Plains, how could my father have died after being injured! The eldest sister said angrily.

"The Central Plains originally belonged to the Liu family."

This is a bad debt, but through some words and attitudes of the old woman, the Liu family did well in the Northern Han Dynasty, and fought against the Ruoda Song Dynasty for many years, and was exploited by the Khitan, and it was a miracle in itself. Song Jiu said solemnly: "Zhang Yuanyuan, if you can stay, stay, if you can't stay, you can take your grandson back to the Northern Han Dynasty, but some nonsense can't be said nonsense, so you don't have to implicate me." ”

What the Liu family, even the Chai family has no share.

The old woman closed her mouth and began to do needlework. Song Jiu stood up and was about to teach the students, when suddenly Mrs. Hu broke into Song's house, knelt down when they met, and said, "Jiulang, save my family officials." ”