In the blink of an eye, in April of the fifth year of Jiayou, Fan Ning has been in Kunzhou for four years, and his term of office has expired in February, if nothing else, his deputy Yu Xiaonian will take over the post of Zhizhou, which is a candidate recommended by Fan Ning to the imperial court and recognized by the Zhizheng Hall.

However, if the imperial court has not issued an order and a formal appointment letter, he will have to continue to do it in Kunzhou.

The spring in Kunzhou is one month later than the Great Song Dynasty, and it has a bit of the taste of 'the world is full of fragrant flowers in April, and the peach blossoms in the mountain temple are in full bloom'.

At the beginning of April, the Kunbei grassland is full of wildflowers, colorful and violet, making the pasture particularly pleasing to the eye.

Twenty miles west of Bailongchuan, the only natural ice-free port in the north of Kunzhou, the other side of the strait is Whale State, two years ago, when the third batch of immigrants arrived in Kunzhou, five hundred of them were settled here, forming a big town, called Kunbei Town, at the beginning of this year, the approval of Jin County finally came down, Kunbei Town was officially renamed Jin County.

In fact, in the past year or so, this large town has been no different from the county, facing the sea on one side, and digging artificial canals two zhang wide on three sides, nominally preventing wild beasts from invading the town, but in fact it is an invisible city wall.

When the approval of the county was issued, these artificial canals became natural moats, and the county seat was formed by building four city walls.

10,000 Japanese laborers were building the city wall, they were recruited last autumn, the first batch of Japanese laborers had finished their contracts after three years of labor, and almost everyone had received more than 40 taels of silver, and many of them, together with various rewards, had also received 50 taels of silver, and when they returned, they could buy large tracts of land and become rich peasants.

However, a thousand Japanese girls recruited at the same time were basically married in Kunzhou, in addition to marrying soldiers, there were also many people married farmers, most of them have given birth to children, in addition to the general petite figure, their speech, clothing and living habits, are no different from ordinary Song women.

So in the autumn of last year, Kunzhou introduced the second batch of 1,000 Japanese girls, they are mainly engaged in harbor fish drying and commerce, most of them are employed by various shops, which is also a major feature of Kunzhou, Kunzhou does not allow Japanese men to engage in business and service industries, so the shops in the three major counties are basically Japanese women as partners.

These girls are more willing to engage in business than drying fish, for the simple reason that they can learn Chinese better by engaging in business, and even if they can't stay in Kunzhou, they can go to Dasong to find a good job, and finally stay in Dasong.

This is just like the orchids in the Tang Dynasty longed for Chang'an, and the Japanese women in the Song Dynasty longed to go to Bianliang, Tokyo, the most prosperous city in the world.

Fanning arrived in Jin County two days ago to inspect, Jin County directly copied Tang County, the circumference of the city wall will be eighteen miles, three vertical and three horizontal in the city, a total of six streets, the street layout is very neat, can accommodate a thousand households, not with wooden houses excessively, but in one step, all built into brick houses, each family covers an area of two acres of land, the house is very large, the yard is also very large.

Unlike Tang County and Han County, Jin County does not have a village, mainly because it is too cold in winter and covered by thick snow, making it inconvenient to live in the countryside.

In order to encourage the people to come to Jin County to live, the Kunzhou government also gave a lot of favorable conditions, such as a large residential land, and for example, double the land, the people of Jin County can allocate four hectares of land to each household, but instead of growing wheat here, black beans are specially planted and supplied to pastures.

Of course, the favorable conditions can attract a lot of people to settle down, the people of Jin County have increased from the initial 500 households to 800 households, more than 4,000 people, basically to farm and go to the whale state to log for a living, the favorable conditions are enough for the people to live a worry-free life.

The first county commander of Jin County is Li Dashou, he is also lucky, he was assigned to Whale Prefecture before, he is very down-to-earth, with a year and a half, the Whale Prefecture was comprehensively surveyed, although the application for the establishment of a military city in Kunzhou has not been approved by the Governor's Hall, mainly for fear of causing dissatisfaction with the Liao State, but Li Dashou was a blessing in disguise, and the officials were quite sorry for him, so he was appointed as the first county commander of Jin County.

"This is the county school!"

Li Dashou pointed to a building that had just been completed and said to Fanning: "At present, there are five professors and 230 students in the county school, and I will come here every month to teach students, at least three classes a month." ”

Education is the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty, and Kunzhou is no exception, four years ago Kunzhou established a school and a primary school in Tang County, last year Tang County and Han County established a county school at the same time, Kunzhou also established a state school, and hired dozens of professors from the Great Song Dynasty to teach in Kunzhou, and the number of children enrolled has exceeded 1,000 people.

At this time, the county government of Jin County had not yet been repaired, but the county school had already begun to operate, which was what Fan Ning admired very much about Li Dashou, who was undoubtedly wise and foolish, and he was willing to suffer losses in small places, including managing Japanese laborers and going to Whale Prefecture to investigate, but he was never ambiguous on matters of principle.

Fanning walked around the county school and asked, "How is the gold panning situation in Whale State?" ”

Last autumn, dozens of young people from Jin County ran to the Caojia River section of Bailongchuan to pan for gold, and the Cao family's guards clashed, five young people were injured, this incident triggered the protest of the people of Jin County, hundreds of people of Jin County ran to Bailongchuan to protest, resulting in the suspension of work in Caojia Jintian for a month, and finally Fan Ning personally came to mediate, because the cold winter is coming, the two sides reluctantly reached an agreement, Caojia Gold Mine compensated the injured people 300 yuan each, and the people of Jin County also promised not to go to Bailongchuan to make trouble.

Although the situation has subsided because of the arrival of winter, the people's yearning for gold in Jin County is still difficult to suppress, which is also the issue that Fan Ning is most concerned about.

Fan Ning never expected that the people of Jin County would abide by the agreement reached last year, anyway, there would be compensation for the injuries, maybe the people of Jin County would follow one after another, this is the real reason why Fan Ning rushed to Jin County to inspect soon after the beginning of spring.

"There is a solution to the lowly position, and I don't know if it can be done?" Li Dashou hesitated for a moment.

Fan Ning perked up and hurriedly asked, "You say, what is the solution?" ”

"Considering lowly duties, instead of blocking, it is better to be sparse and lead the people's willingness to pan for gold elsewhere."

"Do you have any specific plans?"

Li Dashou nodded, "I'm thinking, can I stop going to Whale State to log and go to Whale State to pan for gold instead?" ”

Fanning thought for a while and said: "This is indeed another way, feasible but feasible, but Whale State must first have gold, have you considered this question?" ”

"The humble duty knows that when the humble duty was exploring in Whale State, he found many rivers rich in gold sand, among which the closest river to Kunzhou is fifty miles north of the Whale State military camp, and the small river is not long, only more than forty miles, and the humble duty wants to open this river to the people of Jin County to pan for gold."

Fanning pondered for a long time and said, "You write a written report, and if it is feasible, the state government will approve it." ”

Li Dashou was overjoyed, let the people of Jin County go to Whale Prefecture to pan for gold, he did not have this power, arranging for the people of Jin County to go to Whale Prefecture to cut wood is a matter decided by the state government, so changing to gold panning must also be decided by the state government.

He took out a report and handed it to Fan Ning with both hands, Fan Ning was stunned, and immediately laughed and said: "Okay, you Li Dashou, you have already dug the pit, just wait for me to jump down, right?" ”

Li Dashou scratched his head embarrassedly, "This matter has been thought about for a winter, and of course it is not a problem to write a report." ”

"Alright! For the sake of you still knowing that you have to report to the state government, I will approve this matter. ”

The state government has its own set of processes for doing things, first instance and second instance, and finally it is the turn of the governor to approve, but if the situation is special, the governor can also approve it directly without going through the process.

Of course, Fan Ning will not easily break the rules of the official office, but he understands in his heart that it is already the middle of spring, and the people of Jin County will go to Bailongchuan to pan for gold anytime and anywhere, and there is really no time to drag on this matter, so he can only take the road of special approval.

Fanning read the report and directly approved the gold panning application.

"Implement it as soon as possible, the better, understand?"

"I understand it, and I'll release the news today."

"Wait!"

Fan Ning said solemnly to Li Dashou: "You have to tell the people that it's okay to pan for gold, but you can't mistake farming and sowing, if there is no black bean harvest in the autumn, there will be no grain next year, and you can't buy or sell gold." ”

"The lowly understands it, in fact, everyone also knows that you can't buy things with gold and silver, you can only store them."

This is actually the rule of the Song Dynasty, gold and silver can only be collected and stored, can not be circulated in the market, when you want to use, you must first go to the money shop to exchange for copper money, but the regulations are regulations, but in fact it is difficult to prohibit, take the silver to the restaurant to consume, who will not accept it?

Therefore, this rule basically exists in name only, but it can be strictly implemented in Kunzhou, no shops are allowed to accept gold and silver, only copper coins can be used, and violators will be expelled from Kunzhou, which is also to ensure that the people can live with peace of mind, and not be crazy about gold and silver, all run to pan for gold, and take gold and silver can not be used, after a long time, everyone is not interested in gold and silver.

In fact, the people of Han County had a gold rush, and later found that the gold rush was of little significance, this trend soon subsided, and the people of Jin County were the same, don't look at them are now obsessed with gold, and soon they found that the gains and losses of gold mining outweigh the losses, and the gold from the gold can not improve their lives, but because it takes up too much time, the living standards will decline.

This is a clear thing, the cut amber wood can be sold to the government for money, but the purchase price of gold is very low, far lower than the price of amber, and the shops and money shops dare not accept it, and finally the family copper money is insufficient, firewood, rice, oil and salt will become a problem, after a long time, who is willing to go to the gold panning.

Fanning knew that the people couldn't persuade him, and he would only wake up after suffering a big loss.

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