Lin Zhu worked very hard during this time, and after being scolded by Zhao Jun, he went to the counties in person non-stop, and he was also the first to report the situation that An Feng also had problems.

Anfeng has two main problems, one is corruption, and the other is that the disaster is not as serious as reported.

At that time, there was a lake called Spoon in Anfeng County, during the Song and Ming Dynasty, that is, five years ago, Zhang Zhi of Anfeng Zhi County made a large-scale repair of Shaobi, which made the water conservancy facilities here quite perfect.

If it is said that the drought in Huoqiu has caused the yield of seven or eighty percent of the county's fertile land to be reduced or even wiped out, then the impact of the perfect water conservancy facilities in Shaobei is only two or three percent at most, which is not as serious as reported at all.

However, the local officials lied to the imperial court about the disaster and asked the imperial court to allocate about 90,000 pieces of grain and grass, which could be sold for more than 400,000 yuan at the market price at that time.

Most of them were resold by local officials, and only a small part was used for disaster relief.

But precisely because Anfeng was less affected, this small part happened to be barely enough, causing Yang Xuan to be unaware at first.

Or did Lin Zhu find that the accounts and visits were wrong, how could he visit the people and find that there were not so many people affected by the disaster, but there were so many materials affected by the disaster?

After careful investigation, the truth was found.

Therefore, Lin Zhu can also be regarded as a meritorious service, and the black gauze hat of Shouzhou Zhizhou on his head is temporarily kept.

However, if you want Zhao Jun to alleviate his negative attitude towards him, this alone is naturally not enough, and he needs to show more ability, so before leaving, he has to give him a task.

Soon Lin Zhu quickly ran from the state capital Yamen to the transfer envoy Yamen, and it was also thanks to the Huainan West Road Transfer Envoy Yamen and the Shouzhou Zhizhou Yamen in Shouzhou Xia Cai, otherwise if Lin Zhu wanted to come over, his legs would definitely be broken now.

At this moment, he was out of breath, wiped the sweat from his forehead, and arched his hand to Zhao Jun: "Xiaguan see the prefect." ”

"Lin Zhizhou is hard."

When I saw his appearance, I probably knew that the other party ran over almost immediately.

Although I don't know if it's a show or really anxious, there is no need to squeeze the other party, Zhao Jun said: "Sit down first." ”

"Xie Zhiyuan."

Lin Zhu was overjoyed, he didn't even have the qualifications to sit some time ago, but now he can finally sit.

But Zhao Jun didn't serve him tea.

When Yang Zhao came to report on official business just now, he had tea to drink.

Lin Su came over, and he didn't even have tea, which is the difference between a competent and not too tainted official, and an official who has a problem of dereliction of duty.

And Zhao Jun did it on purpose.

Now there is a seat for you to sit, which is a signal released by Zhao Jun, telling you that because of your performance during this time, you can barely pass the test, and the crime of dereliction of duty can be bypassed.

But if I want to see you in my eyes, this performance is not enough, I have to work harder.

It can be regarded as one of the few things that Zhao Jun learned from Lu Yijian, Wang Zeng, and Wang Sui in the Constitutional Yuan from the Cabinet of Officials.

Lin Zhu naturally understood this, and sat aside tremblingly, daring to sit on only half of his buttocks, and then asked, "I don't know what the Zhiyuan sent when he called the subordinate officials over?" The lower officials will definitely go to the soup and fight the fire. ”

He didn't even know anything, so he said that he would not hesitate to go to the soup with a package ticket, which was obviously also showing his intentions.

Zhao Jun said with a smile: "You don't need to go to the soup, here in Shouzhou, I hope you will put things aside and hand them over to the general judgment to do." You immediately go to Bozhou, go to Bozhou to judge Shao Jingxian, at present, the imperial court does not know whether the new Bozhou governor has come, if he comes, take my warrant and check if there is a problem in Mengcheng. ”

"Yes."

Lin Zhu hurriedly got up and replied, "Xiaguan will leave today." ”

"There's no need to rush."

Zhao Jun then said: "I will send someone to inform the transfer envoy of Huainan East Road, so that he can conduct a verification of the whole Huainan East Road and cooperate with your actions." ”

He wasn't worried about the Huainan East Road transfer envoy getting involved, because this person's name was Jiang Tang.

The year before the drought in Huainan, he was the transfer envoy of Jiangnan East Road, which had nothing to do with him, but because of the separation of a river, he was moved by compassion, and opened Jiangnan East Road to help the victims of Huainan.

After that, Jiang Tang was transferred to Huainan East Road as a transfer envoy, and he was also responsible for the transportation of Jiang and Huai.

And Jiang Tang's son-in-law and student is called Shao Bi, he is a jinshi in February this year, that is, Zhao Jun's examination for the exam, and now he is serving as the county magistrate of Gaoyou, and he studied in Guozijian in his early years.

It happened that Wang Zeng had offended the Empress Dowager Liu for a while before, and was demoted to a straight bachelor and sentenced to the prince of the country, so Shao Bi was also Wang Zeng's protégé.

Wang Zeng gave Zhao Jun a letter before leaving, which is the person he is talking about.

Zhao Jun has been on Huainan West Road for more than a month, and he has already sent someone to send a letter to Na Shao Bi, asking him to report on the situation on Huainan East Road and ask him how Jiang Tang is?

Shao Bi also replied to Zhao Jun, saying that his father-in-law was upright and upright, known as a clear name, no matter where he went to work, he was praised by the local people, and he was very keen on education.

I don't know if this evaluation is the son-in-law blowing his father-in-law, or the truth.

But no matter what, Zhao Jun also checked this Jiang Tang by himself, and there was really no black material. And I believe that Wang Zeng should not be wrong, he said that Shao must be fine, then it should be no problem.

Therefore, let Jiang Tang help investigate.

Even if it is found out that Jiang Tang and Shao must have problems, it doesn't matter, and when the time comes, it will be enough to go back to Wang Zeng's trouble.

After receiving Zhao Jun's promise, Lin Zhu was overjoyed, and said: "Xie Zhiyuan, the lower officials will definitely live up to the trust of the Zhiyuan." ”

"Go ahead."

Zhao Jun waved his hand.

Lin Su happily led the new task away.

After he left, Zhao Jun did not stop too much, and asked the remaining deputy officials who were not involved in the corruption case to temporarily take charge of Shouzhou's official affairs, and he ordered to leave for Hangzhou immediately.

It is also simple to go to Hangzhou from Shouzhou, outside the city of Xiacai County is Huaishui, take a boat along Huaishui all the way to the east, enter the territory of Chuzhou.

Later, in Chuzhou, that is, Huai'an City in the later generations, went south to the canal, and crossed the Yangtze River to Jiangdong.

Zhao Jun set off in mid-April and arrived in Yangzhou in just five days, still because of the southeast wind in spring, sailing against the wind. If the southwest wind and northwest wind are blessed, historical records record that it only takes 12 days from Bianliang to Yangzhou.

Yangzhou Wantou Town, because Yangzhou and Zhenzhou are important hubs of Cao and salt transportation, Zhen and Ren dynasties, Cao Yun up to 8 million stones per year, accounting for three-quarters of the country's Cao Yun.

Even the Huainan East Road transfer envoy and the shipping envoy Yamen were all placed in Yangzi County, Zhenzhou, which was originally the location that Zhao Jun wanted to inspect.

However, because Zhao Jun went south this time, mainly to deal with Sun Wei, the governor of Hangzhou, it was inconvenient to go to Yangzhou and Zhenzhou, so he needed to go south directly from Wantou Town to enter the Yangtze River, and did not go to Jiangdu and Yangzi.

It's just that Jiang Tang was only screamed before, so he didn't expect that he was already waiting in Wantou Town with the officials of Huainan East Road.

Zhao Jun had no choice, so he had to get off the boat and have a meal with them.

In addition to Jiang Tang, there were more than 10 officials, including the deputy transfer envoy of Huainan East Road, the transfer judge, the Changping envoy, the governor of Yangzhou, the governor of Zhenzhou, the general judgment of the two places, and the order of Hailing County.

At the meeting, Zhao Jun talked with everyone about Sheng Huan, talked about the governance of Huainan East Road, and also talked about some problems encountered by Liangjiang Caoyun and so on.

Among them, Hailing County Ling Zhao Luan aroused Zhao Jun's interest.

Because Jiang Tang's words were both intentional and unintentional, he introduced this person to Zhao Jun.

After asking about his political achievements, I learned that Jing Yu was a second-class jinshi in the first year, and he was the commander of Chong'an County before, and his political achievements were outstanding.

At the beginning of last year, he was transferred to Hailing, and in just over a year, Hailing's public security, agriculture, and economy were all raised to a higher level, although Jiang Tang did not know him, he admired him very much, so he specially called to introduce Zhao Jun.

Zhao Jun naturally didn't know that this person was also a great talent in history, and he served as a governor when Wang Anshi was the prime minister, but he was resolutely opposed to the Qingmiao Law, but he could not deny his ability to govern the local area.

Therefore, Zhao Jun wrote down this person's political achievements, and when he came back from Hangzhou and inspected Huainan East Road, he would take a good look at the situation in Hailing.

At the end of the luncheon, Zhao Jun set off again, taking a fork in the road from Wantou Town to the mouth of the Yangtze River, and then south to Hangzhou.

Ten days later.

In the evening, Linping Town, it was the early summer of April, and it was less than 20 miles away from Hangzhou.

On the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, two big ships slowly went south.

It only takes five days to travel more than 200 kilometers from Shouzhou to Yangzhou, but it takes 10 days to travel 270 kilometers from Runzhou (Zhenjiang) to Hangzhou.

This is because most of the distance from Shouzhou to Yangzhou is Huaishui, and the speed of the boat is extremely fast in the case of the water, which can reach more than ten kilometers per hour, and it can be from Shouzhou to Chuzhou in almost one or two days.

In the canal section of about 100 kilometers to the south of Chuzhou, the water flow of the canal is relatively slow, and in the absence of the coastal slender, it can only achieve four or five kilometers per hour, and it takes almost three days from Chuzhou to Yangzhou alone.

The section from Runzhou to Hangzhou is full of canals, and it is about 40 kilometers to walk for ten hours a day, and sometimes it is difficult to sail in blocked or bad weather, and it is common to delay time.

Therefore, from the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, there are many records that from Hangzhou to Bianliang, the shipping is basically within 15 to 25 days. From Hangzhou to Beijing, it takes more than 50 days.

It's the end of April, close to May, the weather is getting hotter, and standing on the bow of the boat, you can see the fertile fields outside the town.

The farmland is lush and green, rice seedlings sway in the wind, and the occasional croaking of frogs can be heard.

Unlike the agricultural revolution in the north, which is currently in the process of alternating rice and wheat, the south completed the alternating cultivation of Champong rice and native rice during the Song Zhenzong period, so the south is basically paddy fields.

The Taihu Lake basin in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River was the granary of the Great Song Dynasty, full of overflowing rivers, lakes across the wilderness, and crisscrossing canals.

Under their nourishment, the dense farmland in the wilderness wafts with a faint fragrance of rice flowers, and in the turbid rice fields, there are field fish churning from time to time.

Zhao Jun hadn't seen such a beautiful scenery in the south for a long time.

The last time I saw it, I went home from graduating from college the year before last, and then left home in the second half of the year before to look for a job.

In this way, he has not seen his parents for more than two years, nor has he seen the spring of Jiangnan.

I just don't know if there were already people living in that mountain nest in Hunan before the ancestors of the Southern Song Dynasty migrated, and whether there was that small village that made people think about it.

"Zhiyuan, the dock in front."

Jiang Dalang noticed that there were a large number of people standing there at the wharf facing Pingzhenzi in front of him, thinking that it should be an official on Liangzhejiang Road.

After all, when they passed through Runzhou, Changzhou, Huzhou and other places, it was impossible for local officials not to know, but Zhao Jun refused all the entertainment of local officials and went straight to Hangzhou, so he could come over so quickly.

But the magistrate will definitely send a fast horse to Liangzhe Road to report the news first, so the yamen of the four divisions of Liangzhejiang Road will naturally react.

The ship slowly arrived at the dock.

On the wharf, Zhang Xia, the transfer envoy of the two Zhejiang roads, Wang Yong, the envoy of the inspection, Li Cambodia, and Xu Yuan, the transportation envoy, and other twenty or thirty officials of the four divisions and yamen rushed over and bowed to Zhao Jun.

"See the prefect."

"No courtesy."

Zhao Jun got off the boat, glanced around, and asked, "Where is Li Cambodia?" ”

"The lower official is here."

A middle-aged official in front of him walked out and saluted Zhao Jun, "I've seen the prefect." ”

"Huh."

Zhao Jun stepped forward and said with a smile: "I heard that Wang Xiang said that you have both ability and political integrity, you are a rare genius, and your future achievements are limitless." ”

This compliment obviously had another meaning, and everyone's gaze at Li Cambodia suddenly became different.

I heard that Li Cambodia's father, Li Di, was driven out of the court by his political opponent Lu Yijian, and later hugged the thigh of the Zhiyuan, and now he has firmly sat in the position of the secretary of the Criminal Department, and he knows that the court is heavy.

Now that Li Cambodia has been praised again, the Li family is about to turn over.

Li Cambodia hurriedly replied: "This is all praise from the king." ”

"Alright."

Zhao Jun looked at everyone, and then said: "This Zhiyuan is here to Hangzhou on an errand, so you don't need to make such a big move. ”

Zhang Xia, the transfer envoy of the Liangzhejiang Road, came over and said: "Zhiyuan, we have set up a banquet in the city, and please invite the Zhiyuan to enjoy the light." ”

"Well, let's go into town."

Zhao Jun nodded, and was about to turn around and get on the boat.

Li Cambodia hurriedly came over and said in a low voice: "Governor, the lower officials have something important to report." ”

"Get on board."

Zhao Jun whispered.

A number of officials then boarded their own boats.

Li Cambodia took a few of his subordinates and carried one person to Zhao Jun's boat.

The boat slowly opened.

The group entered the cabin, and Li Cambodia put the people on the bed in a room in the cabin.

Zhao Jun walked over, glanced down, and saw a middle-aged man with a pale face, his left arm was broken, wrapped in bandages, and there were strangulation marks on his neck, and a smell of medicine came to his nose.

"What's going on?"

Zhao Jun asked.

"This person's name is Xu Ming, who was originally a wealthy businessman in Hangzhou, and was imprisoned by Sun Wei, the governor of Hangzhou, for treason. A few days ago, the lower official was arraigning a prisoner in prison, and he kept complaining about injustice, so the lower official brought him to the court, but he did not expect that he would cut off his arm to show his innocence. ”

Li Cambodia smiled bitterly: "The lower official felt that there was a grievance in it, so he checked the case, but he didn't expect that a large number of official documents in the treasury were stolen. Xia Guan was helpless, so he wanted to let him go, but he hanged himself to restart the case, and as a last resort, Xia Guan could only take him with him, protect him, and go to the Zhiyuan. ”

"What, is it hard to reopen a case?"

Zhao Jun frowned and asked.

Xia Guan thought that in fact, before Xu Ming, he also intervened in a case, which was also sentenced by Sun Wei. As a result, when he wanted to reopen the case, Xia Guan's relatives, friends, old friends, and even the Fujian Road transfer envoy all wrote to him, asking Xia Guan not to ask about this matter again."

Li Cambodia said helplessly: "Xia Guan knows that the inside is not simple, and he is afraid that there will be many obstacles to forcibly restart, so he can only bother the Zhiyuan." ”

"Huh."

Zhao Jun laughed, raised his head to look at the river flowing between the windows on the side of the room, and said softly: "People are sophisticated, it's a big net." ”

Fortunately, he didn't have any relatives and friends in Da Song.

Those corrupt officials don't dare to look for him personally, but he doesn't even have friends, so who will help those people to find out?

(End of chapter)