Jinzhou, which is ruled by Zhu Ming, belongs to Jingnan Road, and the road is located in Xiangyang.

However, there is only one transport judgment in Xiangyang, and as for the transfer envoy and deputy envoy, the office is in Luoyang.

This is because Jingxi North Road and Jingxi South Road are all subordinate to Jingxi Road, and there is only one Jingxi Road Transfer Division, and Luoyang is the road governance of Jingxi North Road.

For Zhu Ming, this is good news, without the suppression of the transfer envoy and deputy envoy, he can do things more easily.

Of course, there are still envoys and Changping envoys, both of whom are working in Xiangyang.

Jinzhou has jurisdiction over five counties, namely Xicheng, Xunyang, Hanyin, Shiquan and Pingli.

Among these five counties, Xunyang and Hanyin belong to Zhong County, and the other three are all lower counties, which shows that Jinzhou is generally poor.

Zhu Ming did not hide his whereabouts, and after the Lantern Festival, he took the official ship to swagger to his post.

After crossing the boundary of Xixiang County, it entered the territory of Shiquan County.

The north bank of the Han River is Rao Feng Ridge, also known as Rao Feng Ridge.

Under the Rao Feng Ridge, there is Rao Feng Pass.

The wall is dilapidated and has not been repaired for at least a hundred years. Well...... It should have also been repaired, and it was directly used to paste the cracks with thin mud, which can't fool people, but it can fool ghosts.

Zhu Ming ordered the official ship to dock and rest at Raofeng Pass tonight.

There is a delivery shop here, and when Shi Shuxiao learned that the state was coming, he immediately received him warmly. Immediately, the officers and tax collectors also rushed to meet them.

Zhu Ming led people straight to Guancheng, and asked as he walked, "What military position are you?" ”

The officer followed carefully: "If you go back to Taishou, I will be waiting for you." ”

Zhu Ming stopped when he heard this: "A closed city, but only one Yu Hou came to guard it?" ”

The officer said, "My errand is not to guard the gates, but to patrol thieves and smugglers. ”

"How many men do you have?" Zhu Ming asked.

The officer hurriedly bowed his head and said, "Twenty-five." ”

Zhu Ming knew at a glance that there was a fake: "Say it truthfully, otherwise I will let you gather troops to review." ”

The officer spat out a sentence: "Including me, there are only six soldiers." ”

Zhu Ming wanted to laugh when he heard this, six soldiers guarded a pass, and they were also responsible for arresting thieves and smuggling. This is too serious!

Zhu Ming asked again: "How much is your monthly military salary?" ”

The officer replied, "Six hundred wen." ”

Zhu Ming didn't ask again, it is estimated that it will be difficult to pay the military salary of 600 wen on time.

In this situation in front of him, it is likely to live by fishing for extra money.

They can't stop the smuggling gangs, and most of them are working with the tax collectors to collect the smugglers' favors and then turn a blind eye.

It is also possible to go to Chang'an through the Meridian Valley, and there are two routes. One is the old road built by Wang Mang, and the other is the new road built by Wang Shennian (Southern Dynasty Liang). Since ancient times, smuggling has never been stopped, from the Han Dynasty to the Republic of China, it is a happy land for smuggling merchants, and even businessmen spontaneously repair plank roads.

Zhu Ming became the governor of Jinzhou, and Zhang Guangdao was already making up his mind to open up new smuggling routes.

Take a boat from Daming Village to take the Han River, cross Raofeng Pass to Shiquan County, and then cross Maling Pass to enter the Chi River, and then go north along the Chi River, over the mountains and mountains into the Meridian Valley.

This route is more difficult to follow than Fu Luo Road, but after leaving the mountain, it will approach Chang'an, and by the way, it will exercise the marching ability of the village warriors.

The dilapidated Guancheng, there are weak soldiers, Zhu Ming glanced at it and stopped asking.

He climbed the wall and took out his binoculars to take a closer look at the surrounding terrain.

Immediately, he handed the telescope to Zhang Bo.

Zhang Bo watched carefully for a while, then handed the telescope to Li Bao, and said: "Repair and strengthen the wall, and send 500 soldiers to garrison it, and you can stop the east of Hanzhong." It is best to build some more forts in the nearby mountains, only 3,000 people are needed, even if there are 100,000 troops in this Hanzhong, don't think about passing. ”

"Three thousand people can only block it for a while, and there must be a naval army, and Shiquan County must also garrison troops." Zhu Ming said.

In such an important place, it is normal to only garrison six soldiers, because the Great Song Dynasty has been peaceful for a long time.

Let's put it this way, in history, Tong Guan led a large army to attack Liao, and when he walked to the front line of Hebei, he found that the Hebei fortifications of the Great Song Dynasty had fallen into disrepair and could not be used. This is the case on the Song-Liao border, not to mention the hinterland of Hanzhong.

While observing with a telescope, Li Bao pointed to the mountains on both sides of the river and said: "Along the rivers and mountains, build a pier every few miles. In the northwest and southwest of Raofeng Pass, build a cottage fortress each, and you can completely stuckthe throat of Hanzhong. ”

Zhang Bo and Li Bao naturally didn't know what Zhu Ming wanted to do, they were purely discussing military topics.

Bai Sheng was not interested in this, only looked around curiously, and listened to their chat half-incomprehensibly.

Liu Shiren is a new recruit, serving as Zhu Ming's secretary, rolling up his sleeves and looking at the river. My ears didn't rest, and I listened to them all without missing a word.

Chatted for a while, too lazy to linger.

Zhu Ming re-boarded the ship and arrived at Shiquan County before dark.

"Xianggong, Zhu Taishou is here!" Ran into the backyard of the county government with him.

"I know, arrange for the handyman to clean up the hotel." Elder Su continued to write hard.

He was writing a letter to the Chengdu Fu Road Transit Envoy, advising the civil and military officials in Sichuan not to provoke and treat the barbarians harshly.

100,000 Lunanyi rebelled, although it cost countless money and food, and it took 30,000 Western troops to pacify. But Zhao Yu's promotion because of his military exploits made Sichuan officials see a shortcut, and they all wanted to cater to the great achievements of the emperor and the prime minister.

As a result, the magistrates deliberately abused the ethnic minorities and also engaged in the practice of returning the land to the stream.

If the barbarians do not resist, then the land will be successfully reformed and returned, and the officials will have the credit for expanding the territory. If the barbarians resist, then they will deploy troops to suppress it, which will have the merit of quelling the rebellion.

Next year, it will provoke a rebellion in Mianzhouyi (Mianyang), but unfortunately the Sichuan Xiang Army is too bad, and officials want to make meritorious contributions but can't do it.

Historically, when Elder Su heard about this, he wrote a letter to Sichuan officials and gave a detailed plan to quell the rebellion. The Sichuan officials did not listen, and finally asked the imperial court to come forward and sent a capable general, who actually adopted the same method as the old man Su and quickly suppressed the rebellion.

When the matter is over, everyone is happy, and everyone has merit.

Because after the rebellion was quelled, it really changed the land and returned to the stream.

Stimulated by this, Sichuan officials treated the barbarians more and more harshly, and they were eager to force all the barbarians to rebel, and then put down the rebellion and make meritorious contributions.

As for the heavy burden of the people due to the war, this was not considered by the officials.

After writing the letter, Elder Su put down his pen and asked, "Tai Shou can live in a hotel?" ”

The relatives said: "Living in a post house outside the city, the prime minister should go out of the city to greet him, don't bear the charge of snubbing the official." ”

Elder Su tidied up his clothes and left the back house, and when he arrived at the hall of the county government, he found that the subordinate officials and officials were ready, and he was waiting for him to lead the team out of the city together.

"Let's go." Elder Su was light and light.

Elder Su is selectively lying flat, doing a good job of serious work, and then not caring about anything - it doesn't matter in this life, it is extremely difficult to get promoted.

His parents died when he was a child, and he passed on to Su Zhe as his grandson.

The boy became famous and has been stumbling to this day.

Liang Shicheng claimed to be Su Shi's illegitimate son, and asked for Su Yuan's article, which was nothing more than an attempt to solidify the relationship. Elder Su refused, offending the great eunuch.

Outside the post house, Elder Su shouted: "Elder Su of Shiquan County, bring the county officials to greet Taishou!" ”

After shouting twice, Zhu Ming stepped out of the door, and the officials greeted each other.

Elder Su said, "Please Taishou enter the city." ”

Before Zhu Ming took office, he inquired about the situation in Jinzhou, and said with a smile: "I have been admiring the name of Su County for a long time, and when I saw it today, I have a shining demeanor, and I deserve to be the queen of the famous family." ”

Elder Su arched his hand and said: "I have also admired the name of Taishou for a long time. ”

For a person who is half-lying flat, the basic etiquette is enough, and he will not greet the official.

What's more, he is almost forty years old, and he is only a county order. And Zhu Ming is less than twenty years old, and he is already a Zhizhou. Can Elder Su balance his heart? The more I thought about it, the more angry I became.

Everyone flocked to Zhu Ming into the city, sounding gongs along the way, attracting people to watch on the streets.

When he arrived at the door of the hotel, Elder Su said: "The food has been prepared, and the county is barren, so there will be no banquet to entertain you." ”

Shiquan County is quite poor, which is also a valid reason.

The more Elder Su was like this, the more Zhu Ming felt that he could communicate, took his hand and said, "Others can leave, Su Xian Ling will dine with me." ”

immediately withdrew from the officials and dragged Elder Su into the hotel.

Elder Su had no choice but to drink with Zhu Ming.

The family and entourage were arranged by Zhu Ming to eat in another room.

After drinking two glasses, Zhu Ming said: "There are only you and I in this room, and Brother Ziting can speak freely." ”

Elder Su smiled: "What is the matter asked by the Taishou Office?" ”

"Of course, it's a matter of governing the people." Zhu Ming said in a sincere tone.

Elder Su said: "Huashigang must stop. ”

Zhu Ming asked: "The flower stone gang in Jinzhou was offered by local officials on their own initiative, right?" ”

Elder Su nodded and said: "The transfer envoy ordered Jinzhou to offer white gum incense, and the county officials made the people go to the mountains to collect incense regardless of cold and summer, and the people who were requisitioned were miserable. ”

White gum incense is a kind of resin, which invigorates blood and relieves pain, clears heat and detoxifies.

However, as a tribute to the class of flowers, it is not important for its medicinal effects. But when refining the pill, you need to burn incense to calm down, and white gum incense is one of the raw materials for making danxiang.

Zhu Ming immediately said: "The first thing I did when I took office was to order the five counties of Jinzhou to stop the dedication of Huashigang. ”

Elder Su was quite surprised, although he heard that the Zhu family's father and son had a good reputation, but after all, they belonged to the fortunate generation, and he didn't expect to really dismiss Hua Shigang for the sake of the people.

Elder Su reminded: "Song Sheng, the transfer envoy of Jingxi, is Cai You's brother-in-law. ”

Zhu Ming sneered: "Don't say that he is Cai You's brother-in-law, he is Cai Jing's brother-in-law, and I'm afraid that he will do anything!" ”

"I am too proud and admired." Elder Su finally smiled.

When he returned to Yangzhou last winter, when Zhu Ming passed by Luoyang, he happened to meet the Taiji Palace there.

In order to curry favor with the emperor, Song Sheng, who was a transfer envoy, actually went to supervise the construction of the Taoist temple in person.

Moreover, Song Sheng also used cow ashes to paint the walls, just to make the exterior walls of the Taoist temple smoother and more beautiful.

Kill the cow, kill the cow, kill the cow!

In various villages near Luoyang, cattle are slaughtered everywhere, and the bones of the cattle are sent to the Taoist temple to be painted.

Hundreds of people wailed and cried, and killed their ploughing cattle.

There are not enough cow bones, and some officials have suggested that human bones in the cemetery should be dug up instead!

Then, Song Shengzhen ordered the grave to be dug up and the bones were removed, and human ashes were used as the whitewash material for the Taoist temple.

This guy has made people angry in Luoyang.

(End of chapter)