"Zhao Xianggong has made a fortune," Zhao Kuangyi said enviously. Don't talk about Zhao Pu's actual income, just these two bribes are enough for Zhao Pu to have a happy New Year. Thinking about himself again, Zhao Kuangyi felt very miserable.

If you didn't have the idea of a flash of inspiration at the beginning, and you couldn't get some dividend money from Hezhou, you wouldn't be able to endure this year.

Then he muttered, "It's not going to fall." ”

Song Jiu thought that Song Chu was also a non-chagrin, but he actually thought wrongly, and killed many officials, some were unjustly killed, some were killed for rebellion or indirect rebellion, and some were victims of various competitions, such as Yao Shu, but the most killed were corrupt officials.

In the second year of Jianlong, Li Yao of Shanghe County was abandoned by stolen goods, and his boss Shen Wenwei was expelled from the people. Guo Yi, the chief secretary of Yongji County, sat on 1,200 stolen goods and abandoned the city. For three years, Xue Xun was in charge of Chang Yingcang, the estimate was heavy, he was dismissed, and several warehouse officials abandoned the market.

In the third year of Qiande, Wang Nuan of Zhixi County was murdered by stolen goods and abandoned the city. Dianzhi Chengde was sent to the pseudo-Shu Military Academy, and he was bribed and beheaded on the way. For four years, Guanglu Shaoqing knew that Guo Xi of Weizhou was corrupt and abandoned the city.

In the third year of Kaibao, Shi Yanzuo, the general of the right leading army, sat in Guangjicang and abandoned the city with the officials.

These officials who abandoned the city and beheaded them were greedy for only a few thousand yuan, and only a few hundred yuan for the few. It is far less than the small half bottle of golden melon seeds of Zhao Pu's family.

However, Zhao Kuangyi then laughed at himself, how to compare, Lu Yuqing can behead the general who cuts the milk of the people's women, but can he kill Wang Quanbin, who has tens of thousands of soldiers, Yin Xun is good at killing more than ten captains, and Li Tao, the secretary of the Ministry of War, is impeached.

Thinking of this, Zhao Kuangyi continued to pretend to be cowardly.

But Zhao Kuangyin was very dissatisfied in his heart, which led to a heavy punishment. Meng Chang surrendered to the Song Dynasty. Hundreds of guards were brought, all of whom were given to the Sichuan Bandian Zhi. The reward is thicker than the royal horse. This time, the Southern Han Dynasty was destroyed, so the winter solstice suburban ceremony was performed. With Yuma Zhinai as his servant, personal bodyguard, Zhao Kuangyin gave each person 5,000 yuan, and there was no share of Sichuan Bandian Zhi. Nearly 100 halls are so generous that they don't know the height of the sky, they are not convinced, and they form a team to beat the drums and express their feelings, Your Majesty, you have done it unfairly. Zhao Kuangyin was furious and beheaded his forty most troublesome Sichuan Bandian directly. The rest of the allotment was subordinate to Xuzhou, and its class was abolished. He also intended to ask Li Chengjin, the minister who had served Li Cunmiao, at the palace banquet: "Tang Zhuangzong used his heroic military force to determine the Central Plains, why did he enjoy the country for a short time?" ”

Li Chengjin understood and replied: "Zhuang Zong is good at hunting, and appeases the soldiers, every time he goes out hunting, the forbidden guards will stop his horse head and say, the sons and daughters are cold, and I hope that Your Majesty will rescue them." Tang Zhuangzong gave as he wanted. If the authority is not good, the reward is unbridled, and the country will not perish! ”

This sentence should be recorded and placed next to the Xuande Gate. Show it to those scholars and doctors after the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Kuangyin sighed: "Twenty years of the Jiahe War, the world has been obtained, but military law cannot be used to restrain this generation. Indulge in its insatiable request, in order to come to the throne. It's child's play. I am raising soldiers today, and I will not hesitate to reward them. If you break my law, you will only have a sword ear. ”

Just soldiers.

But after Zhao Pu received the gift, he threw out this topic, whether it was intentional or unintentional, even Zhao Kuangyi couldn't guess.

This will be the most critical year for the Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin has repeatedly beaten, if Zhao Pu reins in a little, maybe the Song Dynasty will be another direction. But it's not easy to say that it will be better, Zhao Dezhao is basically no play, Zhao Defang grew up in the inner palace, Zhao Kuangyin is not dead, maybe the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun can accept it, but if you want to occupy and then govern, you can directly produce a tight line of defense in the Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun, and Zhao Kuangyin is also mostly a dying old man. Whether Zhao Defang can keep this foundation and whether the Song Dynasty can become better, no one knows......

Zhao Kuangyi continued to pretend to be dead, and he has almost disappeared in the past few years.

Song Jiu wrote a book before New Year's Day.

The Song Dynasty successively sent many officials to replace the puppet officials of the Southern Han Dynasty, there were many reasons, Deng Cunzhong's rebellion made Zhao Kuangyin not very relieved, seeing Liu Gang's various things, Zhao Kuangyin also had serious doubts about the virtue of the Southern Han officials, and there were eunuch officials.

More than seventy percent of the governors of the Southern Han Dynasty were eunuchs, and more than forty percent of the governors were also eunuchs. Whether it is better for a normal person to be an official, or a eunuch is better to be an official, I have seen it for more than half a year.

Gong Chengshu said that after cutting JJ, he was more loyal without family care, but he was actually wrong, less of this thing, less of his family, they were more greedy, and some of them had an abnormal mentality, and they tried every means to harm the people. There are also good ones, although a very small number of eunuch officials are less than those things, they are also good officials, and they are not as many as normal people.

With the merger of these unscrupulous officials, a large number of Song Dynasty officials came to squeeze the quota, and Song Jiu allocated more than a dozen talents who were proficient in water officials to serve as officials, and they were gradually eliminated. The rest may not be good officials, but they cannot be considered bad officials.

It is normal for the imperial court to send officials over, and it is necessary to strengthen its control over this area.

In fact, when these officials came, it became inconvenient, and the officials of the Southern Han Dynasty took it as they wanted, and used it whenever they wanted, which had a strong deterrent effect, forcing them to find ways to do a good job. But the court officials can't, even if there are bad officials, Pan Mei can only report it, and can't easily take it down or kill and dismiss it.

This will produce a new comparison, the eliminated Southern Han officials and the Song Dynasty officials are better, Huizhou has, the eastern part of Guangnan is one Guangzhou, two Shao, three tides and four Hui, Shaozhou is not as populous as Chaozhou, but the geographical location is very important. Huizhou also has a large population, which is relatively weak, mountainous and has a population that is stained with the light of Guangzhou, and has developed commerce and can feed more people. The western part of Quang Nam is one Gui, two Yong and three Rong.

After the reduction, there are four counties, nearly 30,000 households, although there are many mountainous areas, but by the sea, there are incense sticks and rattan boxes, and there are tin fields, iron fields and salt fields, which is an advantage, and the biggest defect is that Pan Mei killed many middle-aged people.

In strict accordance with the number of court officials, from the state to the county to the scene of supervision, a total of 35 officials, the court sent seven officials, the rest are all Southern Han officials. But after comparison, Song officials are indeed inferior to the eliminated Han officials, which is still in the case of a better atmosphere, otherwise it is even worse.

Fortunately, the overall good official style has gradually formed, and it has also given Lingnan more than half a year to make arrangements, and various plans have been set up in a big framework, Pan Mei has a high reputation, and she leads by example, and no official dares to do too much.

It would have been bad if the imperial court had sent a large number of officials south at the beginning.

The official is very important, Hugh said the whole of Lingnan. is a state in Huizhou, and Song Jiu still hands over most of his affairs to his subordinates. Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to keep himself busy.

Lingnan is getting better.

Over the past year, countless benevolent policies have been implemented, and the people have finally entered a happy period of rest and recuperation.

Cotton in the north has not satisfied Song Jiu. Lint is less than thirty percent, or even a little more than two percent, this history of Song Jiu with the help of overhead novels to gain knowledge, including the previous life before the liberation of the planting or from Lingnan after the promotion of coarse cotton, lint one mu fifty catties. In the south, cottonseed was introduced from Hainan, and after scientific planting, how many were there, and finally got the answer. The high-yield acre of land once reached sixty-nine Song Jin. More than 80 catties of lint, an average of 50 catties, the proportion of lint is close to 35 percent. Song Jiu carefully observed, that is, cotton lint in Guangnan is longer, so the lint yield has increased significantly. Because cotton is still not much, the price is still very expensive, and its income is almost equivalent to 20 acres of rice fields.

More people will grow cotton next year.

Then there's sugarcane, which is mainly used as granulated sugar, but it's not. This is the crop that Song Jiu values, not cotton.

By next year, it will continue to expand, and the contract period will be longer, including tea forest mulberry hemp. Demonstrate to the people with dots and patches. It was promoted, all the contracted farms were handed over to the people, and the funds were withdrawn.

And then there are the sea vessels. The system of using humane joint names to go to sea is actually a disguised way to encourage people to go to sea. I am not afraid that my family will be ruined, and the profits at sea will be higher than those on land. In addition, the appearance of compartments and compasses has further reduced the risks at sea, and the policy is also encouraging them to go to sea in disguise, and people have begun to build ships one after another, and the distance is still not far, and there are no merchants who even go to Tianzhu, mainly in the South China Sea, and continue to trade with the countries of the South China Sea. But that's a good sign.

The most rearly is the road water conservancy, the road is also important, Yongzhou rebelled, the leader was killed, the troops were escorted up to repair the road, the Leizhou Peninsula is also a forbidden area, take advantage of this momentum to build the road, with the road, the Song army can easily send to the front of the villages at any time, the barbarians will not be unruly, at least most of the Leizhou Peninsula can be truly governed. But it's still difficult, and the western and southern parts of Yongzhou are still headaches.

Water conservancy is also not too much because of financial reasons.

This will not be until next year, and the situation in Quang Nam will be better next year, and with more money in hand, more water conservancy and roads will be built, at least in each state. It also allows the people in other regions to have a model to follow, and the successor officials can also take out some money to govern in exchange for political achievements.

Hence this twist.

The first is to allow the imperial court to send some small officials and craftsmen from the steel superintendent. There are many pits and mines in Lingnan, gold, silver, copper, lead, and tin, but there is a lack of iron pits, and there are very few, and if they are used, they can barely be self-sufficient. Iron has many uses, not only weapons, agriculture and construction should also be used, especially farm tools, livestock situation is better, many barbarian slash and burn farming, but also raised some cattle and horses, as food to eat, the price is not as expensive as the Central Plains, if through some forms of exchange, you can get ploughing cattle, is the lack of related agricultural tools.

The second is cement.

There are several necessary conditions for these two kinds of workshops, such as convenient waterway transportation, the cost of ore transportation will be reduced, and there must be a place with turbulent water flow to set up a waterwheel as a power, which can be achieved in many areas of Lingnan. There is no need to implement them all, and there are three small steel supervisors and four small cement supervisors in several prefectures in Guangchao, which can meet most of the needs of Guangnan without the imperial court transporting them to the south at any cost.

If it weren't for the financial pressure, they would all want to be bigger, so that Lingnan can get out of shape as soon as possible, and it is good to leave this stuffy place. But compared to the other ways, this movement is too great. It is a reasonable request, the Chinese book does not dare to make it difficult, and it cannot be difficult, it is a national policy, and it must be submitted to Zhao Kuangyin, so it is approved.

After New Year's Day, in the name of Hezhou, nearly 100 students, as well as more than 200 farmers who are good at planting and breeding in all aspects, have been sent to Lingnan one after another.

There is a salary to be paid, and it is very thick, although the student delays his studies, but he can also add points. And the imperial court will reuse this group of students in the future, after all, their trip to the south this time is also equivalent to a good grinding.

After the New Year, Quang Nam continued to develop in great strides.

There are many shortcomings, the population is small, the money is tight, there are quite a lot of students, and the culture, transportation, cultivation and technology are backward in all aspects. But there are also many advantages, the tyranny of the Southern Han Dynasty, and the people are easy to satisfy. Seeing the opportunity coming, they are very hardworking. Just like some areas promote the enclosure of the field and the field. Without the orders of the officials, the people came spontaneously with tools. Song Jiu has some advanced theories. Pan Mei and other officials were inspired by Song Jiu in Hunan, and after several years of governance, they modeled a set of practical experience.

These strengths compensate for their weaknesses.

What has become of the last year, I still can't see this year.

Several people stayed in the south, and they also watched the political situation in the court, including the Southern Tang Dynasty. The Southern Han Dynasty took it, and the next thing was the Southern Tang Dynasty. Li Congshan came to pay tribute, Zhao Kuangyin took it down, and you don't have to go back. Sooner or later your brother will be with you.

Li Yu was shocked, the edict was originally called the edict, and now it has been changed to teaching, the middle book is under the left and right internal history mansions, the book is changed to the Sihui Mansion, and the rest of the official titles are changed together, and the palace is in addition to the royal ornaments such as the owl. Then increase the annual tribute, expand the army, and repair weapons and armor. For the sake of war.

This would have been a life in the midst of a crisis.

No matter how the Southern Tang Dynasty prepared, they were not the Southern Song Dynasty after the Eastern Jin Dynasty, but only owned the later Jiangxi and southern Anhui and parts of southern Jiangsu. The western part of Fujian Province has a limited area. But there's still life, and that's the north.

There is no northern hazard with the Western Jin Dynasty. Or unlike the Southern Expedition after the Sui Dynasty removed the danger from the north, the Song Dynasty also had a behemoth enemy. Khitan. Tian Qinzuo played bloody, and he only protected himself. It was not the real 3,000 that defeated or repelled the Khitan 60,000 army. If Li Yu was diligent in governing and loving the people, attaching importance to talents, and keeping a low profile with the Song Dynasty, the entire Southern Tang army would become a mourning soldier, and the Song Dynasty would have won the Southern Tang Dynasty, which would have been a tragic victory, but the north would have no care? Maybe you can protect yourself.

Moreover, there was no shortage of loyal ministers and martyrs in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

Pan Mei Southern Expedition, Khitan and continuous invasion, relatively speaking, Jianghuai is relatively empty, the Southern Tang Dynasty general Lin Renzhao ran to say, Your Majesty, the Song Dynasty destroyed the Later Shu, and then destroyed the Southern Han, back and forth thousands of miles, even tired and tired of them. Jianghuai is empty, give me tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and I will definitely take Jianghuai back for His Majesty.

Not necessarily, but if he is really allowed to do this, Jianghuai's vitality that he has finally recovered will be greatly damaged, and maybe it can also delay the demise of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Li Yu did not agree. Lin Renzhao said again, if Your Majesty is worried, when the ministers raise troops, you declare to the outside world that the ministers led the troops to rebel, if it is beneficial to Your Majesty and the country, if you don't kill my whole clan and show the Song Dynasty that you have no two hearts, the Song Dynasty will not blame you.

Li Yu still did not agree.

Lin Renzhao left, Lu Jiang came again, he said, our country must not forget Wu Yue, once the Song Dynasty comes to attack Wu Yue, it will be an accomplice, it is better for us to annihilate them first.

Li Yu replied, Wu Yue is different from before, and he is also a vassal of the northern powers, how can we use troops against them.

Lu Jiang replied, it is not difficult, as long as His Majesty agrees, I will immediately spread false news, saying that Xuanshe and Erzhou are in rebellion, and you announce that you will go out to ask for help, and also say that the troops are insufficient to ask Wu Yue for help, Xuanzhou is rich, Wu Yue will be greedy for cheap to transfer the army, and then His Majesty will send troops to cut off their back road, and the ministers will send surprise troops to attack Hangzhou and destroy Wu Yue in a battle.

It may not be successful, but Li Yu didn't discuss it and refused directly.

Lu Jiang is no one to take it seriously, Guan Jian is this Lin Renzhao, he is a brave general who scared Zhang Yongde away with a thousand lives, Jiangnan is known as his Lin Huzi, and he is a tiger. The so-called tiger generals are insignificant to Zhao Kuangyin, and the thesis is not as good as the Southern Tang Dynasty, but in terms of military generals, there are not too many generals at the level of Lin Renzhao, and what Zhao Kuangyin hates is that he instigated Li Yu to send troops to Jianghuai, and how much thought did it take the imperial court to let Jianghuai rest? Moreover, these main battle factions have the right to speak, which will inevitably have an adverse impact on the recovery of the Southern Tang Dynasty in the future.

Therefore, after the scout sent back the news, Zhao Kuangyin sent secret agents to infiltrate Jiangnan to observe Lin Renzhao and draw a portrait of Lin Renzhao and bring it back to the capital.

Li Congshan came to envoy, Zhao Kuangyin hung this portrait in the palace hall, invited Li Congshan to come to the palace as a guest, and accompanied Li Congshan around the palace.

If Li Congshan is smart enough, he will see a terrible truth, Hezhou is so extravagant and prosperous, but the palace of the Song Dynasty is so simple, and even the construction cost of the one hundred and twenty big shops in Hezhou can make earth-shaking changes in the palace, what does it mean.

It's a pity that he didn't see it, although he went to Hezhou to have fun and came to the palace, so that Zhao Kuangyin brought it to this hall unintentionally, Zhao Kuangyin pointed to the portrait and said, "Who is this?" ”

Li Congshan said: "It seems to be Jiangnan Lin Renzhao." ”

Zhao Kuangyin muttered unintentionally: "This person wants to return to our court, and sent someone to send this portrait as a token." ”

He pointed to an empty house outside the palace wall and said, "That house will be given to Lin Renzhao." ”

Li Congshan immediately sent his subordinates to secretly transmit this message back to Jinling. Li Yuxin thought it was true, this old boy I didn't agree with him sending troops, so he plotted rebellion, so he poisoned Lin Renzhao with poisoned wine.

If it does not change, more than a hundred years later, Li Yu likes poetry and songs, piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, is content with pleasure, and likes the habit of Taoism will be passed on to Zhao Ji, and the habit of killing heroes will be passed on to Zhao Gou......

Pan Mei and the others were disappointed when they heard this.

has nothing to do with Lin Renzhao, can Pan Yin and the others put Lin Renzhao in their eyes? They are worried that they will not be able to go back until the day they will go. Before the Song Dynasty, the country had to find an excuse, so Wang Shi came to attack, Hunan was borrowing troops, Bashu was to unite with the Northern Han to invade the Song Dynasty first, and the Southern Han Dynasty had always been the enemy of the Song Dynasty, and it was to rescue the people. Li Yu has always been polite, including when he was cutting Hunan, he also sent envoys to bring a large number of materials to reward the king, and now he has lowered his national character and increased his annual tribute, how to fight?

The two have been going south for a long time, more than seven years.

Song Jiu was also anxious, there were no major problems in Hezhou, but there were a lot of small problems. First of all, the mirror, Yuping handed over the acid technique, does not represent the whole of the glaze technique, such as strengthening the glaze, it is still under research, the money is spent a lot, but the progress is not too obvious, this is the inevitable result, with the current clumsy research and development method, every bit of progress will cost a huge amount of money and effort, and the mirror, is in the laboratory to study the silver-plated mirror.

It is a product that is manufactured, and it doesn't matter if it is not manufactured, there can be many additional chemicals, and cement is also involved, which involves the purification of various ores, chemical production, industrial production and machinery. Song Jiu attaches great importance to this.

The foundation is poor, but under the drive of Song Jiu, he can avoid many detours.

The secrecy of the glaze workshop technique is mainly to treat researchers, including craftsmen and students, in addition to the assembly line production, workers can only master part of it, including mirrors. The same is true for other glazed products, the process is becoming more and more detailed and complex, including blowing, calcining, and processing.

Song Jiu got three more diamonds from Guangzhou, and the price he got was only a few dozen fine silks. Yuping handed over the acid technique, Hebei researched it, and asked for a piece of diamond to make a glass knife. That's okay, Hebei can do low-grade glass, Henan can do high-grade glass. However, within half a year of construction, Hebei got the mirror technique and poached four masters. Forcibly poached.

Then there are the deed shares, after the expansion of the Hezhou deed shares several times, the shareholders have increased, as many as more than 500 Yanei, and some Yanai and Hebei are cross-shareholdings, but not much. However, since Yuping handed over the acid technology last year, Hebei has become half of the people cross-shareholding. Some people even forced ordinary people to sell their deed shares.

If it continues to develop like this, at most a year or two, the river island after he returns will definitely not be the river island he used to be.

Therefore, Song Jiu was also anxious.

Yuping said plainly in the letter, but Song Jiu still saw her anxiety and worry in her letter.

Thinking of this, Song Jiu rode to Guangzhou, saw Yin Chongke and Pan Mei and said: "Two generals, why can't it go on like this, if you want Guangnan to be able to sell to your majesty, it will take at least two to three years, will we stay in Guangnan for the rest of our lives?" (To be continued......)