On the morning of May 14, Zhao Jun visited Bi Sheng.

Zhao Jun is still very interested in this man who lives in a junior high school history textbook.

At this time, Bi Sheng was sixty-five years old, but his body was very healthy, and he was neither deaf nor blind, which was very rare in ancient times.

Knowing that Zhao Jun was coming, he hurriedly took a family to greet him.

Zhao Jun expressed his condolences to the great inventor, and then expressed his views on the invention and creation, surrounded by many officials and neighbors at the scene.

He pointed out that scientific and technological inventions and creations are the key to improving the convenience of life, and hoes, bows and arrows, and blades are actually inventions.

Some schools of Confucianism denounce artisan manufacturing as "miraculous skills" and "small insect carving skills", which is certainly wrong. As long as it is an invention that is beneficial to people's lives, it is not a bad thing.

However, the world often misunderstands such criticism of Confucianism, and Confucianism itself has disagreements. In fact, Confucianism does not mean that invention and creation are bad, but that you should not use some useless but novel things to please the emperor.

Therefore, when dealing with inventions and creations, we must have a good sense of innovation and correct ideological concepts.

Zhao Jun emphasized that invention and creation should not be for the sake of pleasure, but for the sake of making life better. Just like inventions such as hoes, zigzag plows, and waterwheels, they change people's lives and make the world go further.

Therefore, the imperial court encouraged everyone to give full play to the wisdom of the working people, and deliberately established a creation bureau for this purpose, hoping that the people of Li all over the world would participate in the invention and creation, and actively carry forward the new style of construction.

This time, Zhao Jun came over to represent the Creation Bureau to Bi Sheng's medal for inventing movable type printing. The imperial court not only issued Bi Sheng with a certificate of invention and creation, but also gave him a cash reward.

Witnessed by many officials and neighbors, Zhao Jun personally handed over the seal certificate and 20 yuan in cash that he had written improvised last night, and temporarily stamped his certificate of the prefect of the Political Academy and 20 yuan in cash, which made the old man burst into tears and sighed that his invention finally had value.

A series of processes are naturally planned by Zhao Jun.

In fact, Bi Sheng's movable type printing was of little significance, at least at that time, or in feudal society, until the late Qing Dynasty, when the publishing industry was strengthened by the use of movable type printing in Europe, and people knew its true use.

Therefore, even if Bi Sheng invented this thing, in the Song Dynasty, except for looking at strange people, people still preferred to use engraving printing rather than movable type printing that he invented.

However, Zhao Jun knows its value, and the clay type is indeed very disadvantageous, but it can be improved to lead type in the future, and the effect is better.

With movable type printing, the publishing industry will flourish and will bring great publicity effects in the future.

In addition, Zhao Jun himself attaches great importance to invention and creation, and puts forward the concept of rejuvenating the country through science and technology, so this time I came to see Bi Sheng, in addition to seeing the characters in history textbooks, the most important thing is to assume a certain political significance and play the purpose of buying horse bones.

In the afternoon, after more than 20 days of investigation and evidence collection, the evidence of Sun Xun's crime was readily available, and the evidence was conclusive.

Sun Wei was shackled, and the entire sentencing process was silent, because he knew that Guo Chengyou had learned from his past, and it was certain to die if he fell into the hands of Zhao Jun, so he simply treated it silently.

After several rounds of trials, Li Cambodia read out his charges and decided to carry out the death sentence immediately.

He panicked when he heard this.

In the hall, Sun Wei shouted that the local prison department did not have the power to judge him, and according to the normal process, he had to report to the imperial court.

This reason is actually quite sufficient.

In the past, although the investigation of local officials was under the jurisdiction of the Road Criminal Prison Division, the trial often had to go through the Yushitai and Dali Temple, so the trial of the local state and county officials could not be carried out until the palindrome of the imperial court.

It's just that this will lead to a very long lawsuit, so there is a lot of room for maneuver inside, so Zhao Jun ignored it and directly issued an order for execution.

The rules are set by people, and Zhao Jun already has the power to break the rules.

So under this ineffective protest, it didn't take long for Sun Wei and his co-defendant Bian Xun, Hangzhou Prefecture second officials, adjutants, and officials to reach more than 100 people.

Sun Wei did not say who was behind the scenes until he died.

Later, there was some other not-so-good news, that is, five county orders involved in corruption on Huainan West Road, four of which were killed.

Moreover, Bozhou Mengcheng and Sizhou Zhaoxin on Huainan East Road have also had serious corruption.

After Lin Zhu and Jiang Tang sent people to investigate, Mengcheng was the same as Shouzhou, which was done by the former governor Guo Chengyou and the two Mengcheng county commanders, but Guo Chengyou was dead, and the former Mengcheng county commander was not killed, but died of illness.

As for Sizhou Zhaoxin, it is another situation, Zhaoxin was not only affected by the drought, but also affected by the plague, many people died under the plague, and there was still a surplus of relief food issued by the imperial court.

The Zhaoxin county magistrate and the rest of the county officials did not save the extra disaster relief food back to the regular position, but embezzled it themselves, which is a bit similar to eating empty salaries, but it has nothing to do with it.

It was precisely because of the empty salary that the former Zhaoxin County Commander did send relief food, instead of not sending the food down, so that the people starved to death, so they actually hid it from the world.

This time, Zhao Jun investigated the corruption case on Huainan West Road, and brought this matter out of the grass and rabbits.

The former Zhaoxin County Commander was naturally arrested by Zhao Jun's order.

It's just that as the relevant personnel were killed, Sun Wei didn't speak, Huang Wei was too far away, and he didn't know the situation over there, so everyone involved behind the scenes was still a mystery.

At present, what has surfaced is a few county orders, Sun Wei, a Zhizhou, and Huang Wei, the former Huainan West Road transfer envoy.

By 17 May, Yang had sent an official document back quickly, and Huoqiu's former county magistrate had been arrested from Sichuan.

And on the road, he was also attacked by "water bandits", if it wasn't for Yang Xu's quick response and personally led the army, I am afraid that he would be killed again.

In this case, the former Huoqiu County Commander was scared to death, and finally Yang sued for interrogation, and he asked to meet Zhao Jun before he was willing to let go.

Zhao Jun then took a boat north and headed for Zhenzhou.

During this time, he didn't do nothing, when Li Khan Zhi was trying Sun Wei's case, Zhao Jun was visiting the people to understand the people's feelings.

In addition to the agricultural situation in the Jiangnan region, the most important thing is the economy of the south.

In later generations, the southern coastal zone was the economic center, and the Song Dynasty was similar, and the frequent foreign trade exchanges made the commercial atmosphere of Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangzhou extremely developed.

According to historical records, the number of large shipping ships that could only reach more than 2,000 per year was carried out by the Guangzhou Shipping Company, and the trade spread to more than 50 or 60 countries in Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and West Asia at that time, and even Japan and Korea were among them.

As an important hub of maritime trade, the Song Dynasty established the city of Hangzhou and Mingzhou (Ningbo) as early as the Zhao Guangyi period to manage foreign merchants from Guangzhou.

In addition, Japanese and Korean merchants also went to Hangzhou and other places, which was the main gathering place for Japanese merchants, and Korean merchants were mainly concentrated in Mizhou (Qingdao).

For example, Japan's famous degree plan took place in Taizhou, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, which shows how much radiation and influence the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions had on Southeast Asia and East Asia at that time.

During this time, Zhao Jun inspected the Hangzhou City Bo Division, and also visited the commercial guilds in Hangzhou, chatted with some of the more famous businessmen in Hangzhou, and asked them for their opinions and opinions on the current business of the Great Song Dynasty.

He even met with some Japanese businessmen, which made those Japanese excited, and casually asked them about the situation in the country, which was like pouring beans from a bamboo tube, and said it cleanly without noticing.

In addition to commerce, agriculture was also the focus of his concern, and Zhao Jun traveled around Hangzhou, inspecting several villages and towns around Hangzhou, such as Anxi, Chi'an, Linping, and Chang'an.

Learn about the land annexation situation here, find out the difficulties that the peasants are encountering now, and go to the fields to see how productive agriculture is in the south.

As a child who grew up in the southern countryside, Zhao Jun did not feel that the agricultural development in Jiangsu and Zhejiang was not very developed, the planting interval in the rice field was far less than that of later generations, and the rice ears produced by early rice were much less than those in later generations.

Not full, less rice, and short rice seedlings are all problems.

You must know that one mu in the Song Dynasty is about the same as one mu in later generations, which is about equal to 0.91 mu in later generations.

According to Fan Zhongyan's recital to Zhao Zhen, "Answering the Edict of Chen Shishi", it can be seen that at that time, two to three stones per mu were obtained.

In the Song Dynasty, one stone was about 50.2 kilograms, even if it was calculated as three stones, the yield of one mu per mu in the Song Dynasty per quarter was actually equivalent to about 150 kilograms in later generations.

In later generations, it has basically been able to achieve a general yield of more than 500 kilograms of rice per mu, and super hybrid rice can reach a yield of 1,000 kilograms per mu.

Therefore, in later generations, the grain output per mu was at least three times that of the Song Dynasty, and the gap in productivity between the two sides was obvious.

This is still the south with relatively high grain production.

If it is in the north, the grain production per mu is basically about two stones, about 600 million mu of cultivated land, to feed the country's nearly 100 million people, and to prepare for war, the survival pressure of the people at the bottom is very difficult.

Moreover, many people do not have their own fields, they are tenants and long-term laborers who have become landlords.

Zhao Jun has been looking at the people's suffering all the way, and dealing with those corrupt officials can be regarded as paving the way for changing all this in the future.

On May 26, Zhao Jun arrived in Zhenzhou.

Yang sue took the waterway, the former Huoqiu County Commander served in Sichuan, and the people sent out by Huainan took Zhao Jun's warrant and captured the people on Chengdu Fu Road, and then took a boat down the Yangtze River to Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Originally, it was supposed to go to Shuzhou, and then take the land through Huaining to enter Shouzhou. However, Zhao Jun has already arrived in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, so he can only continue to move forward and wait for him in Zhenzhou.

At the Zhenzhou Wharf on Huainan East Road, when Zhao Jun's ship arrived, Jiang Tang, the transfer envoy, led many officials to greet him.

During this time, Zhao Jun was also quite tired from running around, and he should have had a good rest, but he still politely refused Jiang Tang's banquet, and under the leadership of Yang Xu, he went all the way to Zhenzhou to transfer the envoy Yamen to meet the former Huoqiu County Commander.

From when Zhao Jun discovered the existence of the Huainan corruption case in March, to late May, more than two months, this major case finally had an eyebrow and a key person was arrested.

Although Huang Wei is estimated to have been arrested, he is in the north, too far away, and the news cannot be delivered as soon as possible.

Therefore, Zhao Jun desperately wanted to know all the prisoners from the mouth of the former Huoqiu County Commander.

In the cell, in the interrogation room, Zhao Jun sat behind the table, next to him on the left and right were Yang Xu, the shipping envoy of Huainan West Road, and Jiang Tang, the transit envoy of Huainan East Road.

The rest of the guard leaders such as Jiang Dalang and Huang Sanlang were protected on both sides, and many forbidden troops stood during the period, and the momentum was quite large.

The room was dark, except for a small window high on the wall behind Zhao Jun.

The sunlight shone in from the window, and when the former Huoqiu Wang County Commander was brought in, he was first stabbed in the eyes by this sunlight, and he couldn't open it.

After a while, he got used to it, and saw a young face sitting behind the table in front of him, staring at him seriously.

I've long heard that the prefect is not very old, only in his early twenties, but now I finally see the real person.

Wang Xianling was shackled in his hand, escorted to Zhao Jun, and after glancing around, he saluted Zhao Jun with a slightly frightened look and said: "When the criminal officer Wang Yingshi, he saw the prefect. ”

"Hmm."

Zhao Jun looked at him and said in a deep voice: "Wang Yingshi, I know why I arrested you." ”

"Ugh."

Wang Yingshi sighed and said, "The criminal officer has long known that there will be such a day, and when he dreams at night, he can hear the wails of the people of Huoqiu who are starving to death. ”

"It sounds like you have a bit of a conscience, but in Shouzhou, you Huoqiu County has the most deaths, can you still be a little ashamed?"

Zhao Jun looked at him sternly.

The drought in Huainan has affected Huainan West Road and Huainan East Road.

According to historical records, tens of thousands of people died.

There are no statistics on the specific number of people, but nearly 20,000 people died in Huoqiu County alone, and every household is hanging, such a crime, if Wang Yingshi really had a conscience, the disaster would not be so serious.

Wang Yingshi smiled bitterly: "The prefect is high, how can he understand the difficulties of lower-level officials like me." If Huang Wei and Sun Wei were not promised at that time, the criminal official would have been demoted to a remote area long ago and would have been an idle official. ”

"So in order to keep your official position and flatter your superiors, so many people live in disregard?"

Zhao Jun asked, "That's thousands of lives, not weeds on the side of the road." Compared to your official position, can't so many lives be compared? ”

The king hid his face in shame and could not answer.

Zhao Jun glared at him, and after a moment, he said in a deep voice: "Okay, it's time to move." Who is involved, 1510, all say. Confess and confess, and the family can be exonerated from responsibility. Otherwise, Sun Wei's fate will be your footsteps. ”

He did not say that what the king had told him would pardon the death penalty, but that he could pardon the exile of his family. Unlike Sun Wei, not to mention that he was beheaded, his home was raided, and all his family members were confiscated to set an example.

"Yes."

Wang Yingshi trembled and said: "In addition to Huang Wei and Sun Wei, there were also Li Yu, the shipping envoy of Huainan Road at that time, Guo Chengyou, the governor of Bozhou, Yang Chongxun, the governor of Chenzhou, and the transfer judge of Huainan Road."

He confessed the names of more than a dozen people in one go, and the lowest official positions among them were all judged by the state government, and in addition to these senior officials of Huainan West Road at that time.

If we include the local county magistrates, chief bookkeepers, county lieutenants, and lower-level officials, I am afraid that the number of people involved in the case can reach hundreds or even thousands.

Such a huge amount of money embezzled state assets and harmed the people of Lebanon is really a crime that cannot be punished.

Zhao Jun listened to these names, and the murderous intent in his eyes gradually rose.

Among them, Yang Chongxun, the governor of Chenzhou, recalled in his mind that this person, who was born in the military, was even a privy envoy during the Heavenly Sage years, with a high position and decisive killing!

There's another chapter after 12 o'clock.,I slept too late last night and didn't get up this afternoon.,And then my nose hasn't been good.,My stomach is bad again.,I feel like I'm about to become sick.,Uncomfortable.。

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