Pan Mei said something that made Song Jiu cry and laugh: "Song Jiu, you have repeatedly failed the exam even as a little jinshi, just a move, dare to think, dare to think, and have a commendable spirit." ”

All the officials laughed.

Pan Mei said again: "I'll talk about building roads, you came from the west of Langzhou, where there are more mountains, not as vast as the mountains in the south, and it is not advisable to build roads at all." Go to the miasma, I don't know what Mr. Waiyi taught you, but I don't think you are 100% sure to get rid of the miasma, Hunan is vast and sparsely populated, so many empty places, why bother to confuse those miasma land, you can get rid of the miasma, and the people will not go to farm. Let's talk about trade, the barbarian tribes are already very strong, there are soldiers, people and land, and the court knows that the road is not very good, but it is conducive to speed. If it is a trade and the imperial court levies a trade tax, they will not agree to it, and it will cause disputes. If they are allowed to conscript, they have soldiers, people, land, and money, which is even more like a cyst, and will become a disaster for the court in the future. Just now Wang Zhizhou preached farming and weaving, this is the only place that Lu Xianggong agrees with, but you also see that the finances are lacking, the people don't talk about ploughing cattle, and they don't even have a decent farm tool, and the Han households can't farm with peace of mind, let alone let people cultivate and weave? Familiar, I'll talk about raw again, they are very backward in slash-and-burn farming, but they are used to it. If you work intensively, people must be very busy, and they will not be able to adapt to this busyness. Let me say some more about the mountainous areas, where the people were miserable, and even the women were enslaved. Slash-and-burn farming also gives them a chance to live, which would be completely lifeless if they were intensively cultivated. After being forced to the extreme, anything can happen, and it has nothing to do with the imperial court, but it has become a bandit, not necessarily to trouble the chieftain, but also to vent his anger on the innocent Han Hu and Shu Zi. Have you ever thought about the consequences? ”

What Pan Mei said is not impossible.

Nong Zhigao is similar, he and his father are self-reliant, and then they have a grudge with Jiaozhi, Jiaozhi killed his father, and wanted to pull the Song Dynasty as a substitute for the dead, but the Song Dynasty did not agree, and as a result, Nong Zhigao did not find trouble with Jiaozhi, and came to trouble the Song Dynasty.

This is an assumption, the Song Dynasty in another time and space did not happen at all, but that Song Dynasty also did not specifically teach the advanced cultivation and weaving techniques of the Shengman, and the entire Shengman area of the Song Dynasty has been slash-and-burn farming, and even continued to the Qing Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty governed and really ruled, but it paid a lot of blood for it.

Pan Mei is not unreasonable.

Hunan's top priority at the moment is to stabilize it at the lowest cost.

Song Jiu disagreed, and said, "Uncle." ”

"Don't call me uncle, General Pan, this is government affairs, don't talk about family affection."

The officials laughed loudly, not about family affection, but because this kid fell in love with your daughter, this is family affection.

"General Pan, I still don't agree, it's difficult to open the country, it's difficult to do it in martial arts, how to dominate the world, you need Mingjun alive, and many elite soldiers and brave generals to support. It seems that it is relatively easy to deal with the land, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there will not be much contradiction over land annexation. The people are easily satisfied by the chaos and the rule. As long as the people are not excessively abused like the Qin Dynasty, it is easy to bring about a prosperous era. However, I don't think so, for example, the carpenter makes the chest, and the various carvings are sanded in the back, and the front is only planed. But this is not the case, the front should also spend your head to think carefully, what you want to do in front of the box to think well, although the back can be corrected, the front is planed into a rectangle, can the back be changed to a circle? The founding of the country was in ruins, and you could paint whatever you wanted, but after the painting was done, it would be impossible for future generations to make great changes. You have worked so hard that I am ashamed to think that I am arrogant, but I have to work harder. ”

"Boy, how about I ask the emperor to let you stay in Hunan?" Ding Deyu said.

"This, this...... General Ding, it's better to go down tomorrow to take a look, General Ding, General Pan, can you transfer some generals to me, otherwise I can't go deeper, I won't be able to see more, maybe the kid is careless, he can come up with some trivial little plans, so that you can add to the cake. ”

If you can't stay in Hunan, what should you do about Hezhou, what about the library?

However, Song Jiu examined himself, and he was definitely right, but he committed a common disease, which seemed to be committed by the Song Dynasty scholars and doctors in the future, and he was lenient and strict. Fan Zhongyan almost forced Lu Yijian to hang himself, so he learned from Fan Zhongyan together, Fan Zhongyan convinced Lu Yijian, that is a noble and flawless character, can anyone else? was talked about by these cats and dogs, and they were definitely not convinced, they quarreled first and then quarreled, and then they quarreled in a group, the party struggle began, the Song Dynasty perished, and everyone played together.

Song Jiu doesn't have that noble character, but he doesn't care to do this kind of lenient and strict thing. Song Jiu said two words to the Yanei, he would rather die than starve. If you are poor, you can only take care of yourself, and you can't take care of others. When I am rich, I may think about other people in my midnight dream, not what I said, but what Mencius taught me.

In fact, it is the other two sentences, people do not do it for themselves, and the heavens and the earth will be destroyed. If you are poor, you will be good to yourself, and if you are rich, you will help the world.

Zhao Kuangyi was almost so angry that he sent someone to arrest Song Jiu and beat him up, but after thinking about it, he laughed dumbly, these two sentences are the best portrayal of Song Jiu, selfish, greedy, but not useless, although greedy, he knows what he can be greedy and what he can't be greedy, which even many officials can't do. Don't take it seriously in the midnight dream, but after he gradually developed, he did take care of his neighbors and bargained for the country.

So Song Jiu didn't say anything more.

After eating, he went down to rest, and he was in a hurry all the way, and when he arrived in Hunan, he carefully observed, inquired and thought, and was very tired.

Several bigwigs did not disperse immediately, Wang Hu and Pan Mei said all kinds of difficulties, but some of Song Jiu's words were also not unreasonable, Wang Hu said: "This son is indeed not bad, if you carefully carve it, the future is immeasurable." ”

"Uncle Jing, this son is good, but he is too lazy," Pan Meidao, he also received an edict from Zhao Kuangyin, saying some other things, but he deliberately said that Song Jiu arrived in Hunan and asked Pan Meihao to polish and polish.

Pan Mei is worried about this matter, how to "polish and polish" well.

But Pan Mei was very disappointed, it stands to reason that Song Jiu came to Hunan, and there was an opportunity to polish and polish, Song Jiu wanted to go down to see, let him go down and have a look first.

Serious things are the main thing, Pan Mei also has the attitude of a dead horse as a live horse doctor, maybe this kid can really come up with a better way. So he asked Li Chao to accompany him personally, with two small teams, a full twenty soldiers, and a guide who was proficient in various local dialects, to accompany Song Jiu. With Li Chao's bravery, as long as he doesn't cause trouble too much, this trip will cover the entire Hunan, even if it is deep in the north and south rivers, there is no need to be afraid.

Song Jiuzhen went down.

First look at the south of Tanzhou, then to Hengzhou, and then to Chenzhou, see the grass market, see some barbarian tribes in the marginal areas, see pit mines, water conservancy, farming, textiles, all kinds of crops, vegetables, melons and fruits, folk handicrafts, some distinctive handicrafts of a few tribes, and even look at eight or nine large and small law fields.

The court field is the place where the condemned prisoner is executed, and it is used in the south to describe the miasma of the place. The powerful one is called a small law field, and it is so powerful that people don't get close to it, and that is the big law field. Lingnan has the most, Dali is also a lot, there are also in the south of Bashu, and Hunan and Fujian are relatively less. But there are also in Hunan, most of them are small law fields, and there are even fewer large law fields. In fact, the first thing that northerners are afraid of in the south is this Dharma field, and then there is the Gu. There are many things that are not superstitions, but that science cannot explain. Most miasma can be explained, as for the next Gu, most of them are rumors, at most, create some powerful poisonous powder to stand on the upper wind and sprinkle downwind, or use other means to harm people. But I'm not afraid of 10,000, I'm afraid of what if. What if?

Entering the law field, Li Chao and the others were very brave, but they were also frightened. In fact, Song Jiu was also afraid, if there was a winter miasma in that law field, he would never enter it.

After seeing a few Dharma fields, Song Jiu wrote a letter to Wang Hu, in which Song Jiu did not classify it as peach blossom miasma, green grass miasma, new He miasma, yellow grass miasma, yellow grass miasma, and so on, but roughly divided into three types.

The first is poisonous gas miasma, some uninhabited areas are more corrupt, these areas are prone to grow poisonous snakes, scorpions, centipedes and other poisons, some poisonous fungi, if the weather is wet and stuffy, with the water vapor transpiration, and these rotten gases and poisonous gases are heavier than the air, accumulated on the ground, and people are poisoned by inhalation. It's not that if you avoid it, you will be safe, and if the wind is strong, there will be no trouble, and it will be quickly blown away and diluted, and it will not harm the people. Afraid of a small wind, the miasma will move slowly, and the poisonous gas will not disperse, and everywhere it passes is harmful to human beings. Including what peach blossom miasma, peach blossom falling, rotting, and some other substances react, the same harmful. Or sudden miasma, such as dense fog and some accidental events, cause toxic substances on the surface to transpirate with water vapor, which will also harm humans.

The second is insect miasma, southerners want to be cool, like to be barefoot, accidentally punctured the skin, and some damp ground has many poisonous bacteria or tiny parasites, adsorbed to people, and then onset, so the more and more demonic, a new small killing field is generated.

The third type is the midge, because it is sparsely populated, and mosquitoes like to produce small eggs on those decay, these mosquitoes carry many germs, and when they suck human blood, they also transmit germs to humans. As long as a person has malaria, it is unlikely that it will be transmitted directly to others, but if he is alive, the mosquitoes will keep biting, and then biting healthy people will also spread malaria to others. This is also the reason why the military is prone to spreading malaria. If someone has malaria, they should not only be isolated, but also pay attention to mosquito avoidance, and the more they get malaria, the more mosquitoes should not be bitten. The most terrible disease has an incubation period of up to half a year, and he seems to be a good person, but in fact he has become the source of infection. Legend has it that miasma is the most severe in autumn, precisely because mosquitoes feed heavily in autumn.

There are measures, and the third is to repel mosquitoes, the more the army, the more mosquitoes must be repelled and mosquitoes must be avoided.

The second is not to be barefoot, let alone drink raw water, pay attention to hygiene, take a bath more, lice are also a source of infection. But it is better to bathe in boiling water, and if you really want to bathe in the river, you must send someone to inquire.

The most evil is the first, but it is easier to govern it.

In order to persuade, Song Jiu chose a small law field in the river valley, and asked the officials to coerce more than 200 familiar villagers in two nearby villages, because it was a spring miasma, and they could enter at this time, so they dug a small river first, not too wide, only ten meters wide, and most of them were half a person deep, and put the excavated soil on both sides to make embankments. The intention was to divert the water upstream, not to flood the valley with damp mud when spring arrived.

Then they brought dry wood and withered grass, burned them in the river valley, burned countless centipedes, scorpions, some poisonous snakes, and other animals, and then carefully burned the putre. Then plough and expose to the sun. The area is not too large, and it took nearly ten days to toss back and forth, and the project is over.

Song Jiu pointed to the villagers and said: "From now on, not only is this not a Dharma field, but it is also a very good piece of fertile soil. ”

Not only did they get rid of the miasma, but even the boundaries of cultivated land in the future were divided, but the villagers were suspicious.

However, in the letter, Song Jiu honestly said that this method of burning, ploughing, and exposure to the sun may not be effective in some areas with very complex terrain and some areas with a very large area. Song Jiu's intention was to explain the cause of the miasma, but not to demonize it.

And there will be headaches.

Especially malaria, there are too many armies that have been destroyed by ancient and modern exchanges, including Guo Kui's southern expedition to Jiaozhi in the future.

But it should not be demonized, not all mosquitoes can transmit malaria, only some mosquitoes can transmit. If it is a moderate prevention, for example, if the army is stationed on a high place and burns some mugwort in a bonfire, the soldiers must sleep under mosquito nets instead of trying to stay cool, and the soldiers on patrol should try to minimize their exposed skin, and if any soldiers have malaria, they should be isolated. Then the harm of malaria to the army will be reduced by more than 70%.

However, there is a serious problem, for example, some Dharma Fields are not Dharma Fields at all, because they are spread evil, and they become Dharma Fields. This mosquito is also, the person in the south has not been bitten by mosquitoes for a year, and even after Pan Mei came to the south, he may have let the mosquito bite a thousand times. If a mosquito bites me, I get malaria, and the army doesn't have to fight, so go home early. The truth must be revealed, how to expose it so that the army will not panic, and let the people and soldiers know the truth of the miasma, instead of being misled by rumors, this is left to the three bigwigs to figure out a way.

Then Song Jiu quickly turned back to the south of Hengzhou, and when the New Year's Day came, he did not return to Tanzhou, but climbed Hengshan, climbed the mountain for two days, and looked at the temple and landscape. These were the only two days off during Song Jiu's long patrol. Then he rushed to Chenzhou and found Qin Zaixiong directly.

In fact, when they received this news, the three of them were shocked, don't think that Qin Zaixiong is a barbarian, this person is very smart and quite courageous. I am afraid that Song Jiu is young and does not know the severity, and he will run the train in his mouth, which will bring bad consequences.

But the news came back that made the three of them laugh.

Song Jiu saw Qin Zaixiong, the two drank and chatted, I don't know how Song Jiu fooled, Qin Zaixiong was drunk, and proposed to be a brother with Song Jiu.