Chapter 37 Knowledge is Power
No matter what, Xu Meng is the authentic Youzhou governor. If you want to do things in the Youzhou area, it is best to get the approval of the other party. Although Sima Ji has the title of General Zhendong, this title is actually not about Youzhou, but about controlling the Pingzhou army that manages the Korean Peninsula. What is the situation in Pingzhou? The entire Pingzhou population is 20,000 households.
So strictly speaking, if the title of General Zhendong is serious, it will have no value in Xu Meng's eyes.
Although Sima Ji is a local snake, in principle, he is more willing to live in peace with Youzhou Tsang and his sect. This is also a respect for the authority of Luoyang. This is the original intention of finding Xu Meng to come over and discuss it.
"I heard that the governor is good tea, which is quite like the style of Wu and Shu in the south of the Yangtze River. I specially prepared it. As for whether it is good tea, I know very little about tea. If there is anything wrong, I will forgive you." Sima Ji said that the governor who is fresh in everything. Compared with Sima Ji's life, the furnishings of the King of Yan's mansion have changed a lot.
"Good tea!" Xu Meng replied absent-mindedly, whether he was sincere or false. He was still a little uncomfortable when he sat on the chair. Tables and chairs were only popular in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, so Xu Meng was certainly not used to it.
However, Sima Ji would not come to sit on the ground and sit on that, which was not in line with his habits at all. However, his situation in the past was basically the stage of being a prince who would always be the prince, and he was forced to adapt to the lives of the people of the Jin Dynasty. Now he has inherited the King of Yan, at least in Youzhou, no one can care about himself.
Now Sima Ji said that a week is seven days, which means seven days. He believes that tables, chairs, benches, sitting directly on the ground is better than sitting on the ground. He is here to change the Jin Dynasty. If there is a conflict with the habits of the Jin Dynasty, the Jin Dynasty should adapt to him. If he cannot do this, he should try hard to face the female relatives of the Yan Palace.
"To be honest, I have some ideas recently and want to discuss them with you." Sima Ji said while thinking.
"Please speak with Your Highness, King Yan!" Xu Meng took a sip of tea, his face changed slightly, as if he was aftertaste. Why is it completely different from the tea he had drunk before? The taste was better and more strong, which made the aftertaste endlessly. For a moment, he ignored Sima Ji's question and asked, "Where did King Yan get this tea?"
The tea leaves were fried, but Sima Ji did not tell the other party, but said to him, "I am also a slave in the mansion to go to Jiangnan to purchase them. I got it by chance. But since I know the place and the governor needs it, I will just ask him to go there again. If you know the place, I will tell the governor."
Sima Ji almost forgot about the main business after being interrupted by this. After a while, he remembered that he was not here to discuss the tea ceremony with Xu Meng, and not to mention that he couldn't discuss anything, he really didn't understand.
"Your Highness, although trading with each other is a good thing, the Hu people should not take advantage of it." Xu Meng said in front of Sima Ji again, "and money, grain, cloth and silk are related to the foundation of the country, so you should still stay within the ban."
Fart! Not to mention that this is a typical small peasant economic thinking, the gentry of the Jin Dynasty had nothing to do with the country's foundation. How did he see that they used various means to make money and had extremely ugly eating habits, and they also left the idiom of selling plum and drilling cores. They said that people from the Jin Dynasty planted many excellent plum trees at home. The plums were big and sweet, so before selling plums, they dug out all the cores of the plums and drilled a hole, for fear that others would get the seeds of excellent varieties.
"I am exchanging things that can be reproduced, and the governor is too worried." Sima Ji patiently said that the other party was an ancient man, and he was unwilling to be angry with the other party. To be honest, Xu Meng did not have the qualification to make him angry.
In order not to let the other party continue to interrupt, Sima Ji spoke directly, "After the autumn harvest, all the tenants and slaves of the country were idle. The king decided to collect corvee labor, link all the rivers of Yan State, and build new houses to resettle the people who re-entered households. In addition, the environment in Youzhou is too poor, and a new boss should be established. I have already named a new cell for the new cell, prison!"
After finishing the words in one breath, Sima Ji almost passed away. If Jia Nanfeng's time of power remains unchanged, ten years of long or short, many things will start to lay the foundation from now on.
But Xu Meng was still shocked by the series of projects that Sima Ji mentioned. Everyone seemed to require a lot of labor. They did it just after the autumn harvest? Unconsciously, the hat of not caring about the people's strength had already been put on Sima Ji's head. Well, it was just right for Sima Ji's head that had just broken his hair.
"I wonder which one His Highness Yan wants to make first?" Xu Meng asked with a breath of cold air, "Do you want to do it at the same time?"
"No, start digging the canal first." It is of course the best to be able to do it at the same time, but it is not the optimal solution. There must be front and back. This is not that every drop of blood is black. Sima Ji Lianxin discovered it, but because of the weather.
From now on, the weather will turn colder in more than a month. If the people of Yan State were asked to dig a canal at that time, considering the infiltration of the groundwater of the canal and the temperature at that time, it would be equivalent to letting the people of Yan State die.
So the order is to dig canals, build houses and households, build prisons, and finally when it is cold and freezing, it is still to dig canals, because at the coldest time of the year, although the cold wind is biting, the water freezes into ice, which can also avoid the problem of groundwater penetration and avoid the hidden dangers of people going into the water. The conditions are a little harder, but the people who are in labor will not die because of the cold water.
The reason and reason was beyond Sima Ji's expectations, and Xu Meng agreed so happily. He came to Youzhou to make some political achievements, not to come here to cause trouble under Yang Jun's order. I have to say that this is the wise man who judges a gentleman.
So that's the case? Sima Ji slowly stood up, and he decided to let Xu Meng, an ancient man, see what mobilization force is. The next day, a notice appeared at the gate of Jicheng City, expressing his determination to dig a canal. At the same time, the three counties and eighteen counties under the Yan State, the guards and servants of the Yan State began to spread the news. In each village and village, there were slaves of the Yan State's Mansion beating gongs and drums and shouting, "All slaves and tenants listen, the King of Yan ordered the digging of the canal to connect the major rivers of the feudal state. Each household had a seven-day solution. Under the leadership of Chief A, he went to Jicheng to report. Those who read the text and snippets were exempted from labor service?"
"Why do you need to be exempted from labor service when you know the text and write?" Qiaoxi asked behind Sima Ji like a curious baby.
"This is to tell the people that knowledge is power. In this way, the people will have the motivation to read." This is to first snatch all your things, and then tell you what standards you meet, and I can return the things to you. Give the snatched person a thought.
This is why the verbal verbal verbal verbal was not within the scope of the collection. This is why the people had an illusion that as long as they also knew the verbal verbal, they would be gone next time.
Chapter completed!