Zhang Bo's family is a big landowner, and he is also a famous minister.

Although Li Bao's family is a small landlord, he lives in Kuiqiu Lizhuang, even if he has the nickname of "Splash Li San", he is deeply influenced by the patriotic thoughts of loyalty.

If Zhu Ming rebelled immediately, they would probably choose to leave, or even turn around and join the imperial army.

It is necessary to constantly impact their bottom line and slowly change their thinking.

The three tiger squatting cannons were forged, and Zhu Ming did not continue to make cannons, but asked the forging cannon craftsmen to try forging the guns.

Zhu Ming himself, there is more to do: to provide the people with green seedling money!

Only the victims who gathered in the state town last year have no seeds at all, and they will become more and more impoverished if they seek loans from landlords.

During the work-for-relief period, they fabricated a booklet of the victims and asked them to borrow money from their respective county offices before spring ploughing. Zhu Ming directly sent people to various county offices to keep an eye on the government to distribute money.

It's not that no matter how poor the disaster victims are, they won't lend money. Because it is impossible to verify the identity, it is very likely that the landlord sent someone to impersonate him, borrow money and resell it to the poor and lend usury.

In the Yellow Flood area of Hebei Province, there is a lack of such relief measures, and the landlords can only provide seeds.

But the landlords could not take care of too many people, and more and more of the victims who returned to their hometowns begged for food again in the spring, forming large and small groups of displaced people, or simply turning into thieves.

The Song Jiang gang has already begun to make trouble, mainly operating in the Yellow Flood Area, constantly robbing the wealthy families in the suburbs and absorbing young and strong people from the homeless.

However, Song Jiang did not rebel directly, it was purely a wandering and robbery, so there were not many displaced people absorbed. At this time, there were only more than 10 ringleaders, more than 200 bandits under his command, and they didn't even dare to go to the county seat, and they had been going to the countryside to commit crimes.

There are many gangs of thieves like Song Jiang, but Song Jiang finally became bigger.

State and county officials did not dare to suppress it when they got the news, and at the same time, they have been concealing it and not reporting it. Anyway, if you can drag it out, drag it until the thieves go to other states and counties, then it's none of your business.

Uncle Zhang, who forced Song Jiang in history, is serving as a transportation judge on Jingdong Road at the moment.

He accompanied the reception of the second group of UNFIN envoys and was responsible for providing various supplies to the mission.

Seeing the mission crossing the sea by boat, Uncle Zhang sighed at night: "The world will not be restless from now on!" ”

The relatives asked, "Why did the prime minister say that?" ”

Uncle Zhang looked at the seemingly calm sea: "The people of Shandong are about to run out, and Hebei is even more riddled with holes. If the imperial court joins Jin to attack Liao, where will Shandong and Hebei be placed? Then there will be civil unrest. Shandong and Hebei are unstable, so can they hold on to the clouds? The Jin country is cutting-edge, the Liao country is old, and if the Great Song Kingdom is rich and the people are strong, they will join Jin to attack Liao. But the soldiers of the Great Song Dynasty are tired and the people are tired, so they should join forces with Liao to resist Jin! ”

Uncle Zhang turned around and boarded the carriage at night, his heart was extremely dazed, he couldn't see the future of the Great Song Dynasty clearly.

The future of the Great Song Dynasty is not clear, but the fate of the Liao State is obvious.

This year, another uprising broke out, and a few roads close to the Jin country, a bucket of corn was worth several pounds.

Silk is a silk fabric with double warp and double weft, the price is several times that of silk, and the value of the bucket millet is equal to the people don't want to buy food. The hungry first stripped the bark of trees to satisfy their hunger, and then cannibalism.

Han people An Sheng'er and Zhang Gao'er revolted in the prefectures of Liaoguo East Road, gathering more than 200,000 people.

Da Song was also unlucky, and he finally survived until the summer grain harvest, which somewhat replenished the tense grain. The four roads in Liangzhejiang and Jiangnan began to flood again, and the most important grain base of the Song Kingdom was doomed to fail to harvest, which made the finances of the Great Song Dynasty, which was on the verge of collapse, even worse.

Song Huizong issued a holy decree and ordered relief to the disaster areas in the southeast, but did not allocate money and food, and let the local officials solve it on their own.

What is the Emperor doing?

A decree was issued to allow monastics to attend state and county schools. "The Yellow Emperor's Neijing" and "Tao Te Ching" are the major classics, and "Zhuangzi" and "Liezi" are the minor classics, which are included in the local official school textbooks and are exclusively used by monks who enter the school. At the same time, the Daoist ascending tribute method was established, and the monks were allowed to ascend to Taixue.

Lin Chong and Sun Li are neighbors, and they suffered from Liang Shicheng's shantytown renovation and got some demolition fees for them to rent a house to live in.

"I can't live in this Tokyo," Lin Chong said, "I'm going to Yangzhou to join Zhu Xianggong." ”

Sun Li said: "I will go by myself." ”

asked several other sworn brothers, and Li Jinyi, Hua Rong, Chai Jin, and Guan Sheng immediately responded. Zhang Qing, Xu Ning and others, after a little hesitation, were also willing to advance and retreat together.

They also called their friends, took their families, and escorted Yang Zhi's wife and children, a total of nearly 100 people left Tokyo in batches.

……

It was summer when Zhang Gen arrived in Jinzhou, and he took a wife, two concubines and a daughter. The eldest son, Zhang Tao, stayed in the capital as an official, and the four sons studied in their hometown, waiting until the next exam, and then letting the second son and third son go to Xiangyang to participate in the first exam.

"The Golden State is really poor." Entering the boundary of Xunyang County, Zhang Gen couldn't help but sigh.

However, Xunyang County is already a wealthy county in Golden State.

His wife, Huang, said: "Remote states and counties cannot be compared with Huainan and Jiangnan. Xianggong wants to recruit Na Zhu Chenggong as his son-in-law, but the slave has not seen it, and he doesn't know what his appearance is. ”

Zhang Gen said: "I haven't seen it either, and I heard that it is quite heroic. No matter how he looks, a good man is talented, but his appearance is secondary. ”

"Of course it's better if it's a beautiful man." Huang laughed.

The Huang family is also not small, her father's name is Huang Fu, and the official is the deputy prime minister.

Huang Fu initially firmly supported Wang Anshi, but offended Wang Anshi because of his criticism of the city's change of law, and finally eased the relationship and supported the change.

In addition, Li Gang is not only Huang's son-in-law, but also Huang's cousin.

These families are married for several generations.

The family landed at the pier and did not cause much sensation.

It is true that Zhang Gen is a court official, and he is a straight dragon pavilion, but he is now demoted to the deputy envoy of the regiment, and the power in his hands is not as good as that of the state officials.

This kind of degrading official, ordinary people don't want to get in touch with it, what if they offend a certain big guy?

"The order is in order," Zhang Gen nodded approvingly, "There is no private column along the way, Zhu Chenggong not only controls the state city, but also governs the subordinate counties, which is really commendable." ”

They rented a mule cart and went into the city, and Huang asked the coachman: "I'm here to join a relative, who is an official under Zhu Taishou." What is this Zhu Taishou like? ”

The coachman smiled: "As an official under Zhu Taishou, you have to be careful." ”

Zhang Gen asked, "How can you be careful?" ”

The coachman said: "Zhu Taishou can't rub sand in his eyes, and dozens of the dukes of the state and county governments were escorted to Xiangyang by him, and I heard that many of them were going to be killed and exiled." It's not easy to be an official, and you have to be scolded if you don't do things well. is a general sentence, and they are all scolded by Taishou so that they have no temper. ”

"Isn't this the likes of cool officials?" Huang asked.

The coachman said: "It's not a cool official, Zhu Taishou is very good to Xiaomin." A public opinion box was set up at the entrance of the state government, and whoever had a grievance would write a letter and throw it into the box, and Zhu Taishou would let the court judge him. When Zhu Taishou first came, he personally retried an unjust case, which involved several lives. Let me tell you, that case is very bizarre......"

The unjust case tried by Zhu Ming himself is estimated to be passed down forever, because it contains all the popular elements. Adultery, murder, extermination, false accusations, seizure of property...... Together, these are enough for ordinary people to talk about the ancients, and after telling them to their sons, they can also tell them to their grandchildren.

The coachman spoke as if he had witnessed the trial of Taishou.

Huang whispered to his youngest daughter, "What does Qi Niang think? ”

Zhang Jinping's face turned red, lowered his head and lowered his eyes, and said, "It's up to your parents to decide." ”

Zhang Gen said: "The method of public opinion box is excellent, if I recover, I will also set up a public opinion box at the entrance of the yamen." ”

Zhang Gen lifted the curtain and observed all the way, and suddenly asked, "Why don't you see beggars?" ”

The coachman said: "The disabled beggars have gone to the almshouse, and they are not allowed to be idle, and they can do whatever they can." If you don't have hands or feet, you can learn to sing ancient songs, and you have to make some money by yourself anyway. Those beggars who are not disabled are all sent to the mountains to mine. ”

"Can the mine hold so many people?" Zhang Gen asked.

The coachman said: "If the guards are removed, there will be more merchant ships." Many poor people can go to the docks to work as coolies. I really couldn't find anyone to make a living, so I arranged for them to go to the mountains to open up wasteland, and the Taishou would lend seeds and farm tools. The five counties of Golden State are full of mountains and wasteland, and as long as you are willing to work, you will not starve to death. ”

The coachman didn't stop talking: "Those ruffians are all gone, and they are afraid of being punished." By the way, Taishou opened an iron smelting yard by himself, and the prices of iron pots, kitchen knives, and hoes have been reduced, and my family can afford to buy iron pots. ”

Zhang Gen said with emotion: "This is really a capable minister, one year in office, a state of great governance!" ”

The coachman said: "The state city is very good, but the other counties are not good." I often drive to pick up and drop off merchants, and they all say that Jinzhou City is good and I met a good official. The county officials are still collecting taxes indiscriminately, and they are afraid of offending the Taishou, so they dare not raise taxes on the merchants, so they will raise taxes on the merchants in the county. ”

"There's no way to stop that." Zhang Gen expressed understanding.

As a governor, it is not easy to make the state city governed, how can the following subordinate counties be managed?

chatted all the way to the state government, and Zhang Gen's impression of Zhu Ming was extremely good.

He asked his wife, concubine, daughter and entourage to wait, and went to the state government to go through the formalities.

First of all, Fan Zhun was in charge of the reception, and found that Zhang Gen was actually a court official, and he was also straight, so he didn't dare to be careless.

Soon, Wu Mao, secretary general of the state government, came in person and said respectfully: "Wu Mao, the envoy of Jinzhou, meet Zhang Tuanlian!" ”

"Well said." Zhang Gen nodded.

Wu Mao asked again: "Did you notify Taishou?" ”

Zhang Gen said: "Let's go and spread it." ”

After a while, Zhu Ming came out laughing and said, "I have admired Mr. Chang's name for a long time, and when I see him today, I am fortunate to have three lives!" ”

"I have also admired Zhu Taishou for a long time!" Zhang Gen was suddenly more satisfied, because Zhu Ming was handsome, and his daughter would not be wronged if she married her.

Zhu Ming said: "Please enter the Yellow Hall and sit down." ”

Zhang Gen said: "This is not necessary, the family is still waiting outside the yamen." ”

Zhu Ming asked, "Have you found a place to live?" ”

Zhang Gen replied: "I just arrived in Jinzhou today. ”

Zhu Ming immediately shouted: "Bai Sheng, find a good house for Zhang Tuanlian, and then hire some servants!" ”

"I'm tired." Zhang Gen looked at Zhu Ming more and more.

(End of chapter)