Gently putting aside Xia Gui's recital, Jia Rudao smiled helplessly: "Inspector in his twenties? It's also a shame that Xia Gui can come up with it. ”

In the recital, the generals represented by Xia Gui hoped that Zhao Jiaren could serve as the commander-in-chief of Xiangyang. With Zhao Jiaren's current official position, if the imperial court asks him to send troops again, he will have to be given a ruling power, that is, Zhiping Zhangshi. During the Southern Song Dynasty, the president was the military supervisor of the front line or theater of war. Usually concurrently served by the prime minister, it is called the Governor Military or the Governor of the Military Horse, referred to as the Governor. The concurrently held by the ruling is called the superintendent of the military horse, referred to as the superintendent.

In the sixth year of Xianchun, Zhao Jiaren was 29 years old, and he was just 30 years old. Jia Rudao, who is 55 years old, can't help but sigh 'Inspector in his twenties'.

Although he sighed like this, Jia Yidao didn't really think about letting Zhao Jiaren be the overseer of the military horse at all. Not long ago, Ye Mengding, the right prime minister, imitated the case of Du Yan's bicycle in the Northern Song Dynasty and forcibly resigned, and the imperial court reluctantly agreed to let him resign from the post of right prime minister.

Ye Mengding and Jia Yidao were-for-tat in terms of political opinions, but Ye Mengding was quite polite to Zhao Jiaren when he was the prefect of Qingyuan Mansion. When Ye Mengding became the right prime minister, he used the transfer to Lizhou to rehabilitate Wang Fei and fought against Jia Yidao. This Wang Price was impeached and disgraced because of his opposition to Jia Nidao's policies, and his rehabilitation means that Jia Nidao retreats.

In the struggle between Jia Nidao and Ye Mengding, Ye Mengding persevered. In the end, Jia's mother blamed Jia Nidao, and the students also wrote books and said that they were authoritarian. Jia Rudao had to give in. Ye Mengding's successful resignation seems to be Jia Yidao's success, but it actually means that the balance of power within the imperial court has changed dramatically. The anti-Jia Daoist forces in the court were only stronger, and they did not choose to reconcile because of this.

If Zhao Jiaren is allowed to be in power at this time, or if he knows the affairs of the Ping Zhang, Jia Yidao is very suspicious that the treacherous Zhao Jiaren may become a force opposed to Jia Yidao in a flash. This is not impossible, Ye Mengding can be polite to Zhao Jiaren in Qingyuan Mansion, and this former right prime minister is by no means an isolated case.

Recently, Zhao Jiaren, the governor of Guangzhou, has been mentioned more and more, and everyone is not talking about this Guangzhou governor's crazy construction of railways and digging coal, but Zhao Jiaren's excellent political achievements as an official for more than ten years. The 70,000 mu of fertile land in Beiyang in Mulan Pi built by him has increased the output by 200 million catties of rice in the past ten years. Zhao Jiaren's Fujian Road and Guangnan East Road have seen a surge in tax revenues, and Fujian Road, which has been prone to frequent rebellions, has become much quieter in the past four years.

These people did not say this for the purpose of praising Zhao Jiaren, but Wen Tianxiang, the backbone of the anti-Jia Daoist faction, wrote an article about Zhao Jiaren's initial opposition to the Gongtian reform, and the bureaucracy of the Great Song Dynasty was not enough to run the Gongtian reform smoothly.

The successes of Zhao Jiaren in Jiaxing, Qingyuan, and Suzhou were not regarded as the success of the Gongtian reform, but as Zhao Jiaren's denial of the success of the Gongtian reform, and the success of the cooperation between the local gentry and the officials. Wen Tianxiang believes that Jia seems to know that there must be problems with the reform of public land, but in order to make meritorious contributions, compete for power and profit, and appoint private individuals, he irresponsibly forcibly promotes the reform of public land. Therefore, Jia Rudao is a traitor with bad morals.

Even if Jia Nidao knew that this statement could not shake his status at this stage, Jia Rudao still felt that it had opened his eyes. Because this timing was very well grasped, except for Jiaxing, Qingyuan, and Suzhou, which had won a great victory in the reform of Gongtian, there were big problems in other areas. The reformers also believe that the reform of the public land should be adjusted, and many people feel that Zhao Jiaren's model is indeed very useful for reference......

The hearts of the people are scattered, and the team is not easy to lead! Zuo Prime Minister Jia Rudao sighed in his heart. Now no one can shake Jia Nidao's position, that is because Jia Nidao was the leader of the great victory in Ezhou, killing tens of thousands of Mongolian troops and capturing thousands. If Zhao Jiaren really won such a big victory in Xiangyang, Jia Yidao really couldn't do anything more.

After determining the train of thought, Jia Rudao called his staff to give confidential instructions. Soon, the Lin'an court began to discuss the idea of renting public land to local powerful people for cultivation.

Most of the Jinshi family are powerful people, and the officials in the court are basically Jinshi. As soon as this initiative came out, it immediately attracted the attention of a large number of powerful people. The political wind immediately changed to how to rent out the public land that had already been collected.

Although Jia Rudao is still a ten-day dynasty, he has an extremely accurate grasp of the news within the imperial court. He sneered at the actions of these bureaucrats. These people used Zhao Jiaren's 'inability of officials in the imperial court to operate the public land reform' to criticize Jia Yidao. Jia Rudao actually agrees with this, because he knows very well that the incompetent officials Zhao Jiaren refers to are the current group of people who are vying for power and profit.

Let this group of incompetent people focus on the distribution of public land for the time being. Jia Rudao already has a clear vision for the future development in his heart. He has a way to deal with these guys.

Seeing the latest news about Gongtian in the Lin'an Imperial Court, Zhao Jiaren just sighed. In the previous life, there was a similar statement, and that was because the public land was not operating well. This time, there was such a statement, and Zhao Jiaren had to feel that someone was probably making trouble.

No matter what Jia Yidao knew about himself, Zhao Jiaren knew that the Lin'an Imperial Court at this time was going through an unprecedented stage of stability. The reform of the public fields in the previous generation made the income and expenditure of the imperial court roughly balanced, and the income and expenditure of the imperial court of the Great Song Dynasty in this generation still had surplus without fighting. So far, the reason for attacking Zhao Jiaren is only that he supports Jia Nidao, and no one has attacked Zhao Jiaren personally. Because the officials in the court knew that if Zhao Jiaren left the cotton work behind now that the war was tight, and lost 120,000 copper coins and those grains every month, the Lin'an court would wait to drink the wind.

At this time, he was still playing this trick of redistributing public land, and Zhao Jiaren had to praise Jia Yidao's skill. This vitriolic Prime Minister is indeed a politician, not the kind of politician who has no ideas and backbone. As long as there are no problems with fiscal taxation, the only thing that can shake Jia Nidao's position is war. Zhao Jiaren did not know when the Mongols would be able to conquer Xiangyang, but he had already decided to 'fight against the Mongols' at this time.

In August of the sixth year of Xianchun, the Lin'an court received Zhao Jiaren's recital. The Mongols launched an attack from Yunnan, and Jiaozhi, which had become a Mongol vassal, also sent troops to help. Faced with a vicious enemy, Zhao Jiaren asked the imperial court to give him the errands of 'Yunnan Envoy' and 'Jiaozhi Envoy'.

Envoys began to appear in the first year of Tang Zhen, and were temporarily set up in times of war, often serving as local military and political chiefs such as ministers, generals, or jiedu envoys. In the errand of the Great Song Dynasty, the envoy was not a permanent official position, and he would be given a title whenever he suppressed the rebellion and recruited the rebellion. After becoming a recruiter, the army was in a hurry to report it, so it was cheap.

Part of Zhao Jiaren's recital is true, such as the fact that there was indeed an armed conflict on the border between Dali, which was ruled by the Mongols, and the Guangnan West Road of the Great Song Dynasty. Zhao's report cites the 'Mongol invasion' of local magistrates.

As to whether it was a Mongol invasion, the Navigation Guild believed that it was just a rebellion by the natives. As for the Jiaozhi State sending troops, it was Zhao Jiaren's frame. The real reason is that the Nautical Guild has penetrated deep into Cochin in the past few years, and has roughly traveled all over Cochin under the leadership of the 'Cochin Rape'.

Xianchun's six-year sailing profits have declined, and the board of directors who feel extremely stressed gets the report. Seeing that King Jiaozhi controlled such a large piece of land with his 30,000 households, everyone thought that this was a tyrannical thing. Therefore, at this board meeting, Zhao Jiaren put forward a plan for the navigation guild to help Jiaozhi in an all-round way.

The plan is old-fashioned. There are probably three steps.

1. Violently fight against Jiaozhi, and eliminate as much as possible the armed forces provided by 30,000 families to the king of Jiaozhi.

2. Capture the royal family as much as possible. By imprisoning the royal family, a new pattern of 'coercing kings to order princes' was established.

3. Begin to make full use of the land in Jiaozhi for commercial operation. Specifically, it is to establish various estates in Jiaozhi and engage in production according to the needs of the Great Song market.

In addition to option A, there is also option B.

If you can't kill the king, then go from whale swallowing to cannibalizing, and take it down step by step.

Plan B looks like it takes a long time, and no matter how you look at it, you can't get back to the problem. Zhao Jiaren gave a speech at the board meeting.

"Ladies and gentlemen, all dynasties have stood by strength and died by weakness. The reason why the Han Dynasty stands alone and dies by force is because the Han Dynasty does not have the imperial power to say that the county is not down. Through a strong bureaucracy, the Han was able to collect taxes, levy troops, and fight wars. We may think that we are outsiders to the Jiaozhi people who work for the locals, but you don't think that for the Jiaozhi people who work for the locals, aren't those who are powerful on their heads outsiders? As long as we, the outsiders, treat the locals better than the upper class of Cochin, there is no reason why they should not support us. So the target of our attack is not all the Cochins, but a small group of ......."

The directors and cadres of the Nautical Guild had no experience in external expansion, and even if Zhao Jiaren spoke insightfully, they could not help but be suspicious. However, the truth is inherently convincing, because the truth itself can be self-consistent. The comments about 'who are the outsiders' made the directors and officials nod their heads again and again. Even if there is only this one point, everyone feels that Jiaozhi no longer seems to be a monolith.

Seeing that everyone had no intention of objecting, Zhao Jiaren ordered, as the chairman of the Navigation Guild, "The army is needed to fight a war, and you should all know some fourth-class and fifth-class households." Let's tell them as a nautical guild that they are willing to follow us to open up, and each household will be divided into two hundred acres of land. Make it clear to them that we don't want them to pay taxes. We just want them to work well on the land and sell us what they produce. ”

The directors have seen a lot over the years, and although Zhao Jiaren has not pierced the last window paper with a word, everyone understands what success means. That meant that the Maritime Guild was no longer just a dynamic non-governmental organization in the Great Song Dynasty, but also a real political entity. These civilians of the Great Song Dynasty who have no official status will be the home of Jiaozhi officials who hold real power in that glorious future.

So the proposal passed. The directors went to do their job, and Chairman Zhao Jiaren also started to do what only he could do. The Nautical Guild is like a machine.

In the Great Song Dynasty, even Zhao Jiaren, the ambassador of Guangnan Dongxi Road to pacify Guangzhou, and Zhao Jiaren, the envoy of the coastal system of Guangzhou, did not have the slightest right to appoint personnel in Liangguang. In addition to sending a message to Zhao Jiaren asking for help, the state officials who had a local riot also sent a document to the imperial court. The Great Song Dynasty did a good job in this regard, because the officials did not have the attribute of mutual subordination, but did not need Zhao Jiaren to deliberately write anything. If the recitals on both sides can match, Zhao Jiaren's request is considered reasonable.

War broke out in Lingnan, and Jia Rudao had no reason to refuse Zhao Jiaren's request. The previous opponents did not have the insistence of Zhao Jiaren before he went to Lingnan to take up his post, and in November of the sixth year of Xianchun, the imperial court issued an edict to let Zhao Jiaren get the errands of 'Yunnan Recruitment Envoy' and 'Jiaozhi Recruitment Envoy'

While the chairman did his best, the various directors also did their best to recruit 30,000 poor families. Of course, these 30,000 households did not immediately go to Guangnan East Road, but each family sent a strong man first. So there were 30,000 strong men on paper.

Qi Rong and his cousin Qi Ye drank tea, and the two brothers no longer had the previous estrangement. Qi Rong, who was exhausted, sighed: "I used to think that there were so many poor people on our Fujian Road, but now I find it difficult to find the poor. ”

Qi Ye laughed. There is always a limit to the number of poor people. There are many scholars on Fujian Road, and those scholars hope to be able to jump over the dragon gate in one fell swoop through the imperial examination, and they don't want to mix rice under Zhao Jiaren. So the vast majority of the members of the seafaring guilds were poor. Over the years, Zhao Jiaren has absorbed about 100,000 poor families from Fujian Road, with a total of one million. There are so many people who are willing to leave their hometowns, and it is really not easy to find the poor people who are willing to leave their hometowns.

"Big brother, you can still find 40,000 households, I admire it." Qi Ye expressed his praise from the bottom of his heart.

"In the early years, there were often rebellions on Fujian Road, but now I can't even get people together for rebellion. Those rich people or scholars probably refused to rebel. Qi Rong also expressed his thoughts. After talking about these topics that could be used as pastime, Qi Rong asked his cousin tentatively, "I heard that you want to go to Jiaozhi?" ”

"How so?" Qi Ye couldn't find a suitable expression for a while. Frowning and thinking for a while, he suddenly gave up looking for accurate words and adopted a very straightforward explanation, "Zhao Zhizhou talked about the financial system, you see that I am forty years old, and the children have grown up. So I wanted to have a chance to try it before I died. ”

These words did not reflect the country's financial system that Qi Ye longed for in his heart, but Qi Rong was already completely clear about his cousin's wish, that is, to become an important minister in a country. Qi Rong found that although he was curious about this, he wanted to be a rich man even more. If the Navigation Guild controlled Cochin, Qi Rong also hoped to be able to live in the Great Song Dynasty instead of running to Cochin outside the territory.

"Gorou, you still have the energy!" Qi Rong praised his cousin from the bottom of his heart.