The overtime pay application document signed by the person in charge of the port department was handed over to the relevant department, and Yuan Hongjie went outside the yamen of Fuzhou Zhizhou. Zhao Jiaren is a Zhizhou anyway, and he must have a job in Zhizhou. For example, the large-scale outflow of people, even if it is known that this is the fortune of Fuzhou Zhizhou, the following counties and counties have also been reported by Zhizhou.

Knowing that Zhao Zhizhou was holding a meeting for the county commanders, Yuan Hongjie chose to wait at the office of the Navigation Guild near Yamen. Yuan Hongjie felt that such a meeting could not be held for too long.

Zhao Jiaren originally had the same idea, but those county magistrates didn't seem to be as flexible as they imagined. Everyone's opinion is quite unanimous, 'the decline in the population of the county will affect the evaluation'.

Dry! Zhao Jiaren had irrepressible anger on his face, and he roared angrily in his heart. For example, although the Great Song Dynasty did not prohibit land annexation, it believed that if the population of the county was greatly reduced, there was something wrong with the work of the local magistrate.

If this was still in the era when the Great Song Dynasty government controlled a large amount of public land, it may be said to be a more reasonable evaluation. But now the local government no longer has any public land. The land that is still in the hands of the government is basically uncultivable land, and in the current situation of fierce land annexation, it is a completely conflicting choice to insist on population increase.

However, the county magistrates also had an expression of 'seeking knowledge and calling the shots' at this time. Zhao Jiaren also knew that he couldn't avoid it, so he forcibly suppressed his anger and began to ask the county magistrates, "I don't read much, so I don't know why I have to be so strict with the population in the county." Which county magistrate can not hesitate to teach. ”

Although Zhao Jiaren is the youngest among the officials, although Zhao Jiaren has the highest official position among the officials. But everyone is a jinshi, which has given the governors and counties a basic basis of equality. Zhao Jiaren asked so sincerely, the magistrates first looked at each other, and finally the new magistrate of Linqing County replied: "As far as I know, probably because of the large loss of population, there will be the problem of displaced people. If some people go to other places during a natural disaster, the imperial court can still allocate money and materials for disaster relief at that time. But when there was no natural disaster, there were such a large number of displaced people, and the court would definitely blame it. ”

It can be seen that this forty-year-old magistrate has a lot of ideas, and the reasons he said are very convincing. Zhao Jiaren felt that he had found the real reason, and the other magistrates also nodded. However, this did not make Zhao Jiaren feel happy, he said very unhappily: "This land annexation is too much, it is a man-made disaster that is more terrible than a natural disaster!" ”

Although from the logic of interests, Zhao Jiaren has no reason to say so. Without excessively annexed land, where did Zhao Jiaren easily get 70,000 or 80,000 people who were willing to go overseas to farm? But at this time, Zhao Jiaren was very dissatisfied with the land annexation from the bottom of his heart.

The magistrates did not come to Fuzhou to listen to Zhao Zhizhou's expression of his personal political attitude, but to ask Zhao Zhizhou to take responsibility for his population migration. At this time, if Zhao Zhizhou dares to shirk his responsibility, these jinshi will have to find a way to deal with it through their own channels.

Looking at everyone's eyes, Zhao Jiaren knew that he had no way to escape. The entire Fujian Road has a population of only 7 million, and Zhao Jiaren and his gang have taken away one percent of the people, and this matter must be explained to the imperial court. Zhao Jiaren swallowed the criticism of politics back in his stomach, and said to the magistrates: "At this time, I will write a recital." If you are not at ease, you can stay in Fuzhou. After I finished writing, I will have you all co-sign it at the end of the piece. ”

It was determined that Zhao Jiaren would assume political responsibility, and the magistrates expressed their willingness to stay in Fuzhou and sign with Zhao Jiaren and Zhizhou. Seeing these shrewd monkey-like jinshi, Zhao Jiaren sighed, "Everyone should disperse now, I will invite everyone to come over tomorrow." ”

After the magistrates left, the house was empty, Zhao Jiaren did not feel relaxed, and the invisible pressure still existed, which was the pressure brought by taking political responsibility. Zhao Jiaren told the imperial court, Lao Tzu, I have expanded my territory in the north and controlled a huge island. And send the people of our Great Song Dynasty to the island to Lao Tzu, and I will work hard. Probably the imperial court will immediately ask Zhao Jiaren to report what happened, and that is a bad start.

However, Zhao Jiaren knew very well that under the system of the Great Song Dynasty, it was impossible for any official to cover the sky with one hand from below. Our Great Song Dynasty has avoided the possibility of this kind of thing from the system. As long as one of so many magistrates in the county pokes things out, Zhao Jiaren can't do anything. And from the institutional point of view, Zhao Jiaren has no possibility of private revenge. The only way to take revenge is to use his own killer to do things like the previous prime minister Shi Miyuan killed Han Yanxuan.

And Zhao Jiaren is just a governor now, and Shi Miyuan is the most powerful minister in the world. Shi Miyuan can do this, but Zhao Jiaren is not qualified to do this.

While thinking about it, someone asked Yuan Hongjie, the secretary of the Navigation Guild, to see him. Zhao Jiaren invited Yuan Hongjie in.

As soon as he saw Zhao Jiaren, Yuan Hongjie immediately said: "I didn't expect that the shipbuilding on Jeju Island would be as fast as the Lantern Festival." Six new ships were completed in just a few months. ”

Zhao Jiaren was not surprised by this, the Yankees used cheap and high-quality wood in North America to build hundreds or thousands of wooden ships every year. It was the peak of Yankee shipbuilding. With the popularity of steamships, the U.S. shipbuilding industry entered a downward spiral. Now, Jeju Island uses timber from the Wa Kingdom and the Liaodong Peninsula to follow the path of the rise of the shipbuilding industry of the Yankees. Building six ships in a few months is nothing.

I don't care in my heart, and naturally I don't have any special expression on my face. Yuan Hongjie saw that Zhao Jiaren didn't care about it, and he hurriedly asked, "Zhizhou, are there any difficulties?" ”

Zhao Jiaren also knew that Yuan Hongjie actually wanted to have the opportunity to enter the official career, so he couldn't help but tell Yuan Hongjie about the problems he faced. Yuan Hongjie couldn't help but smile after hearing this: "Zhizhou is really an honest man." ”

"Uh......" Zhao Jiaren felt that Yuan Hongjie's evaluation was a bit poisonous, but he also heard that Yuan Hongjie had a solution.

Sure enough, without waiting for Zhao Jiaren to ask, Yuan Hongjie said: "Zhizhou just said that those people would go to the South China Sea to explore." ”

"Huh?" Zhao Jiaren was stunned. This kind of lie is not quite the right way to go, no matter how you look at it.

Yuan Hongjie didn't dare to sell Guanzi, so he immediately explained: "Zhizhou only needs to say that those people are scattered on the islands that the fleet must pass through. Stumped, would those people in the imperial court really take a boat to Nanhai Zhudao to take a closer look? ”

"Will they really believe it?" Zhao Jiaren was afraid that the imperial court would take this matter seriously.

Faced with Zhao Jiaren's question, Yuan Hongjie asked rhetorically: "Why don't they believe it?" ”

This sentence has somewhat gotten rid of the narrow purpose and entered the sense of universality. Zhao Jiaren was stunned for a moment, and then felt that he was related. In fact, the imperial court doesn't care about that person at all, and if it did, it wouldn't let the merger run rampant. Therefore, what the imperial court needs is not the truth, but a reason that can be said. As long as Zhao Jiaren gives this reason, the matter can pass. As for whether the reason is true or not, who cares in the court.