June, Jiangnan East Road, Quang Ninh Prison.

Governor Su Xun was an Enke Jinshi in the first year of Kangding, ranking fourth in the first class.

It is worth mentioning that the first class in the Northern Song Dynasty did not have only three people as in the Ming and Qing dynasties, but five people, so there was Zhang Chun's second exam and the fifth place in the first class.

And this year's Enkori, the top champion is called Wang Anshi, the list is called Su Song, and Tanhua is called Huang Shu (Huang Tingjian's father).

Historically, they are all in the second year of Qingli, that is, this year's Zhongjinshi. But historically, it was because of the war with the Western Xia that the Great Song Dynasty was forced to stop the imperial examination for several years, so they were delayed.

Now that the war with the Western Xia has won a great victory, and the imperial court has now opened many new departments, there is a gradual shortage of officials, so Enke is specially added.

Guangning Jian is located in Jiangzhou, which is Jiujiang City, Jiangxi Province in later generations. Copper is produced here, and it has become the main place for copper coins in the Song Dynasty.

Don't look at the prosperity and bustle of Jiujiang City in later generations, but Guangning at this time is quite desolate, except for Jiangzhou County because it is an important trade area, it is more prosperous, and the surrounding county is desolate and remote.

The reason is that the surrounding area is full of lakes and relatively little land, so it can be said that the city and the people live in the low-lying and humid places of the Huangjiang River, so it is naturally difficult to develop.

The environment where Su Xun lives is also very poor, although he is the governor of Guangning, the prison is at the same level as the county, and he should live in the prison, but the local prison is quite dilapidated, similar to the grass hall, and the rain often leaks during the office, which makes people miserable.

At this moment, Su Xun was standing on the Jiangning Wharf and watching.

The wharf is a slightly more prosperous place, because the Yangtze River ships and Quang Ninh's coins have to be shipped out, so a lot of coolies are gathered.

Some people naturally have consumption, so some shops have been opened, such as restaurants, tea shops, wine shops, and even gambling houses and brothels.

It just sounds good, but in fact it is a small street that is in tatters, and the shops opened can be operated with a pergola, and the brothels are basically half-closed secret prostitutes, not to mention how high-end and luxurious.

Behind the wharf is a wilderness wasteland, full of potholes, lakes, and on the distant horizon, you can also see rammed earth walls, the wall is less than seven feet high.

Su Xun stood on a small hill next to the wharf, and the cool summer breeze blew the corners of his clothes and his beard moved with the wind.

In the distance, he saw a large ship slowly approaching, and then began to stop to rest.

Since I didn't know the specific time of my wife's arrival, I could only calculate it from the letters I exchanged, so when I counted the day, I came over and waited to see, but it was really not possible, and I also arranged for servants to wait and see.

At this time, a few people slowly walked down from the big boat in the distance, Su Xun was pleasantly surprised when he saw it, and hurriedly ran down the hill to meet him.

"Madame!"

"Husband!"

Mrs. Cheng also saw Su Xun, she was holding the three-year-old Su Zhe, and the five-year-old Su Shi was next to her.

Su Xun went up and hugged Su Zhe, and said happily: "You guys are finally here." ”

Some of the ancients would bring their families when they were officials, and some would not bring them. For example, Su Shi took Mrs. Wang with him in history, but he died of illness in Kaifeng, Bianliang when he served as the judge of the Dengwen Drum Academy.

Although Mrs. Cheng's family is a wealthy man in Meishan, and their Su family is also a local noble family, Su Xun has not been admitted to the Jinshi for a long time, and he has traveled around, and some people have already gossiped in his hometown.

Now that he has made a fortune and has been admitted to the Jinshi and become an official, he naturally has to take his wife to his side, so that the people in his hometown can see that he Su Xun is also promising.

This time Mrs. Cheng came with her brother Cheng Jun, Cheng Jun looked down on Su Xun in the early years, but now seeing that he has boarded Enke, it is rumored that he has been appreciated by the prefect, and said sourly: "Sister-in-law, this is a carp jumping over the dragon gate." ”

"If the eldest brother is right, come with me to the county office."

Su Xun beckoned.

Cheng Jun pointed to the dozen or so big ships behind him that had not sailed into the dock and said: "Forget it, I still have to go to Jiangdong to sell goods, even if it is overnight, I have to go to Jiangzhou Mansion, you can't put so many boats at Jiangning Wharf." ”

Su Xun said with a smile: "There is still time to go to the yamen for a meal, the eldest brother might as well let the steward sail the boat to Jiangzhou Mansion first, and the younger brother will personally send the eldest brother over in the evening." ”

"Yes, uncle, let's go have a meal together."

Five-year-old Su Shi said.

At this time, Su Cheng's two families had not yet become enemies, and Cheng Jun only looked down on Su Xun as a prodigal son in his early years and had always despised him.

Now that people have Jinshi, the natural situation is different.

It's hard to refute the meeting, so Cheng Jun had to agree.

Everyone walked back, Su Shi glanced around, saw this scene completely different from Sichuan, and said curiously: "Father, this place is so dilapidated." ”

"It's a little shabby now, but it will get better later."

"Why?"

"Look over there."

Su Xun pointed into the distance.

When Su Shi looked over, he saw many farmers in ragged clothes and coarse cloth shorts in the distance, who were cultivating by the lake.

In later generations, this piece is actually the Chengmenshan Copper Mine in Jiujiang City, which has been under reclamation.

But in ancient times, like an island, the lake was much larger than in later generations.

For example, the Saihu Lake in later generations was connected to the Yangtze River at that time, and some of the Chengxi Port Area of Jiujiang City were exposed, and some were soaked in the river.

This made the living environment in this area quite harsh at that time, and there was almost no agricultural production except for the copper mining industry.

Cheng Jun was curious: "Is this reclaiming farmland?" ”

"Hmm."

Su Xun nodded: "Now the imperial court is exempt from taxes and allows the people to reclaim, and the government will lend them seeds and farm tools, and the landless people also have land." ”

"Why do you have to farm? There is so much copper in this mountain, isn't it good to dig more mines and make more money? ”

Cheng Jun wondered.

"That's good, of course, but it can't keep people."

Su Xun smiled bitterly: "The grain has to be bought from outside, and there is no one to do business." Many hired workers dug for a while, and then took the money to Jiangzhou City to squander, for a long time, Quang Ninh will always be just a place for copper mining, not even a town. ”

"Isn't that nice?"

Cheng Jun shrugged: "You are responsible for digging copper mines and minting copper coins, so why bother?" ”

Su Xun glanced at him and said, "This is the reason why you can only be a businessman, not an official." With only this little bit of goods in mind, how can it become a big thing? ”

"You!"

Cheng Jun was angry.

This seems to be what he said about Su Xun before.

"Alright, alright."

Mrs. Cheng hurriedly said, "It's not easy to meet, why quarrel again?" ”

"The prefect said that for the official side, it is not only to guard the peace of the party, but also to benefit the people and build the countryside."

Su Xun said proudly: "This time the imperial court allows the local government to withhold thirty percent of the tax, although we Guangning Prison did not need to pay much tax before, only need to pay copper money to the imperial court every year, but the prefect said that if there are more and more people in Guangning Prison, more and more prosperous, copper production will be more, and the money will be more?" ”

This time, Zhao Jun had high hopes for him, and with the development of the commodity economy in the Song Dynasty, the demand for money in society continued to increase. Even if the imperial court placed more than 40 copper coin supervision areas, it still could not meet the demand, so it had to be imported from overseas.

At present, we import not only copper but also silver from Japan, all in order to meet the needs of social development.

In the past, problems such as serious copper shortage, chaotic management, and excessive quota plagued the Song Dynasty court, so Zhao Jun deliberately selected shrewd and capable officials to serve as local governors, and they were not under the jurisdiction of the state government, but directly belonged to the road, first lowered the quota, and retained part of the copper coins to the local government, so that they could develop.

Many of the prison districts are located deep in the mountains and forests, and there are almost no people except the mining workers, and Zhao Jun told them the direction of development, one is to build roads, and the other is to reclaim fields.

If you have land and food, you can stabilize local prices and attract people to settle down. After the road was repaired, there were many people, and it was also convenient for the imperial court to transport. In this way, it will gradually develop into a town settlement, where there will be more and more miners and more and more craftsmen making copper, won't it be able to drive the upgrading of the entire industry?

Therefore, gold, silver, copper and iron are not things that you can get rich immediately if you have a mine, but you need to do a good job of local supporting facilities to attract more people in order to increase production.

Otherwise, the mine is there, and it will not even be able to dig it out, let alone get rich.

"But it's still so shabby!"

Su Shi looked at the rammed earth and dilapidated city wall in the distance, and felt that this place was much worse than his hometown Meishan.

"It's going to be okay, everything is going to be better."

Su Xun looked at the past, there are already people in the wilderness who are cultivating fields, and people are repairing roads, and now there is no plan to repair the city, first get the infrastructure right, so that the local area can produce grain and copper, this is the long-term solution.

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After the new policy was issued, the state capitals and county governments in various places were engaged in political achievements.

Liu Yong, the governor of Xinzhou, found that there was a landlord surnamed Liu in Yiyang County, relying on the high mountain of Qingshan Township, and colluded with Li Zheng and the head of the household to fill his pockets.

He outwitted the landlord's dog's legs, figured out the situation in the village, and then mobilized the people to arrest the landlord surnamed Liu and other people on the spot.

Ruyin County ordered Li Xiaoji to find that his boss Bai Zhipeng connived at his younger brother Bai Zhiyuan to buy and sell and evade taxes.

So he pretended to welcome him, but in fact, after seizing the evidence, he immediately reported it.

In August, with the issuance of the new national policy, all parts of the country flourished, agriculture and commerce flourished, and even the rebellion was a little less.

In Bianliang City, singing and dancing were leveled, and the cotton shipped from Guangzhou was quickly sold out once it was on the market.

With the drastic reduction of the summer tax, the amount of food available in the market has also skyrocketed.

For a time, the price of grain plummeted to more than 200 wen and one stone.

It is expected that in a few years, I am afraid that when I return to the period of Song Zhenzong, it will be a matter of time before I lose forty or fifty wen and one stone.

Under the rest with the people, the whole country appeared to be prosperous.

On August 6, in the Constitutional Yuan, Zhao Jun looked at official documents from various places.

He has already dealt with the affairs of Yoo Yong and Lee Hyo-gi, killing those who should be killed, exiled those who should be exiled, and severely punishing criminals.

But such people can't be killed, especially under the New Deal, it is easy to have loopholes.

Therefore, during the period when the supervision was particularly strict, such things were reported almost every day, so that recently the Dali Temple and the Inquisitor's Court have been busy.

"This new deal has brought out a lot of corrupt officials."

Li Jian shook his head and said.

He has just dealt with a tax evasion case, and as the secretary of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, he must take on the responsibility of strictly investigating commercial issues with the tax department under the Ministry of Finance.

Now counterfeiting and selling counterfeits are a small problem, because the new policy is too easy to evade taxes, it is expected that this year's commercial tax will drop sharply.

"It's all officials who evade taxes for relatives and friends, and this is just the one who has been caught, and there are even more who have not been caught."

Zhao Jun shook his head: "Corrupt officials can't be caught." ”

"The old man has long said that this new business tax is not reasonable, how can it be obtained if it goes on like this?"

Lu Yijian sighed.

Zhao Jun spread his hands and said: "What can be done, there are always advantages and disadvantages in everything, as long as the advantages outweigh the disadvantages, it is a good way, remember what I said?" Make the cake bigger. ”

Yan Shu turned his head and asked, "Then is the cake bigger now?" ”

"It's not big enough."

Zhao Jun shook his head and said: "This is just the beginning, if you want to make a big cake, it will take a few years for private commerce to be more prosperous." ”

"I'm afraid that in a few years, the treasury will be empty in two years."

Wang Zeng said: "This year, we have begun to prepare for a major repair of the Yellow River, as you said, the government will pay for the employment of the people, dig and build canals, and divert the amount of water, so as to avoid the embankment from bursting, but if this continues, the cost will be like flowing water." ”

"Spending money is like flowing water, and you have to spend it."

Jiang Tang walked in with the official document and said with a smile: "This is the official document that the Audit Department and the Ministry of Education have just sent again, and now every county in the country has basically built a school, and the teachers are already in place." ”

"There's finally good news."

Zhao Jun took a long breath and said, "I suggest that from next year, mathematics and a certain amount of physical and chemical knowledge should be added to the imperial examination, so as to cultivate the soil of science." ”

In the past few years, Bianliang has opened schools, convened many experts and professors, and began to establish a verification system that is missing in the middle.

And also promote Arabic numerals, the Arabic numerals of the Song Dynasty are actually a little different from later generations. For example, 2 is like a Z, and 3 is like a reverse ∑. The comparison is relatively straight, not as mellow as in later generations.

Zhao Jun has also made improvements to make it easier to calculate.

As for the contract, the imperial court stipulates that the contract contract is still mainly based on Chinese 壹菰三動動, Arabic numerals are only convenient for daily life, and strict official documents, handovers, contracts, etc., naturally cannot be sloppy.

Therefore, the missing mathematical system was slowly established, and after archaeological research, basically the mathematics level of the Song Dynasty was enough for a high school knowledge, and there was no problem.

The enrolled students graduated successfully in a few years and began to go to schools around the world to become principals, and gradually deepened their science knowledge into the hearts of the people.

"At the end of the day, there's still a lack of money."

Yan Shu sighed.

"Yes, there is a lack of money, but I still say that if I want more money, the first thing is to adjust the patient's body, recover first, and then talk about other things."

Zhao Jun looked around and said seriously: "Healing diseases and saving people is a process, and creating a prosperous era is actually simple. As long as you recuperate, reduce taxes with light forced labor, and persuade farmers to be cautious in punishment, even if there are natural and man-made disasters, it is not impossible to do it, and the difficulty is how to maintain it. ”

"Because this kind of prosperity itself is very fragile, like the so-called prosperous Kangqian era in the later Qing Dynasty, official corruption was rampant in the middle and late periods, and the people were displaced.

"Therefore, in many cases, supervision and rectification of officials must be maintained, and the embankment of thousands of miles is destroyed in the anthill, and the officials who should be killed and punished must not be tolerated and cultivated."

"Now is just a good start, and in a few years, the people's livelihood in China will really stabilize, which is the real key to reform."

"Da Song, it's going to get better!"

Zhao Jun said with a firm gaze.

In the previous chapter, Li Xiaoji is Li Di's grandson, which is actually not a bug, because I said before that in ancient times, a father was a grandfather, and calling a grandfather was a father. However, in the Song Dynasty, there were slowly changes, in some places Ah Weng was a grandfather, but there was a Ah Weng who called his father, a father who was a father, and a grandfather who was a grandfather. There are also those who call grandpa daddy, and father is called grandpa, anyway, the customs are different in different places, and the names are different, but now it does seem a little ambiguous, so I changed it, because the Song Dynasty called Ah Weng a grandfather a little more.

The last few chapters are excessive chapters, I don't know if it's water, but I still have to describe the current situation after the New Deal reform, and pave the way for the big ones below. After all, it's really big now, and once you want to solve the three redundancies, I'm afraid you're going to have to kill on a big scale, let's go step by step, you can't kill more than 700 people if you can't get started, and the old Qin people can't blow up the pot.

(End of chapter)