Chapter 255 Two Knowing States (Part 1)
Pan Mei asked in a harmonious voice: "What's your husband's name?"
He had no hope in his heart, so he went to find her father. Yuping found her father, who became the official of the Khitan, otherwise he would not be able to find her. As for scholars, there should not be too many scholars in the world.
Mo Quan said, "My husband is Zhou Wei."
"Zhou Wei?" Pan Mei was shocked and said again: "Speak his words."
"The word "husband" means "a minister."
"So it's Mrs. Zhou, please get up quickly." Pan Mei said hurriedly.
There was only one person from Lianzhou, and he was a scholar. He was the Song official Zhou Wei. The Song Dynasty established the country. Zhou Wei fled to Tokyo and wrote a letter to state the current affairs with a lucky mentality. Zhao Kuangyin thought it was good. He could not give him a high-ranking official immediately with a plan. This was a process of grinding and observing. Just like Song Jiu, who had worked so much for so many years, he can only be regarded as the fourth in command in the army. Just as the spring examination began this year, he was asked to participate in the imperial examination first. If he did not win, he would only be admitted.
After a few people, the hit rate was too low. One was talent and learning, the second was luck, and the third was someone to come. Zhao Kuangyin still used it and gave him the same Jinshi as a Jinshi and the title of Baima County Lord. Because of his political achievements, he was moved to the magistrate of Yongji, the magistrate of Xingzhou, and the magistrate of Dizhou. He was an exiled figure and promoted step by step, becoming a dignified magistrate, and a famous figure in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty. He could not be compared with Pan Mei. However, she was the wife of the magistrate, so she could not kneel down.
"Men's girls dare not be."
"You dare to take it. If your husband is not surprised, he will serve as the governor in our court."
"The magistrate... This is a magistrate. He won't send anyone to pick me up after becoming the magistrate." Mo Quan burst into tears. How hard it was to take care of his children.
Pan Mei was at a loss. Even if he ignored his identity, he surrendered to the court to comfort him, and there was still a suspicion of being a man and a woman. He could not slap the gavel like an ordinary person, so he called a yamen runner and asked him to come back and call Song Jiu.
The two were not very far apart, so Song Jiu quickly brought them over. Pan Mei said the situation and said, "Xiao Jiu, you should do this."
Song Jiu walked out of court and whispered: "So what about the magistrate? If he was the magistrate of the pseudo-Han, then eight out of ten would be castrated. Sister-in-law, do you want to?"
It was very effective, Mo didn't cry immediately.
Song Jiu said again: "Sister-in-law, it's not what you think. I am Song Jiu, not a good official, I like to act nonsense and do not abide by the rules. I am far inferior to Zhou Zhizhou."
Mo Shi stopped crying and looked at Song Jiu in surprise. Is her husband better than this god-like good official?
Song Jiu continued, "If it were me, there were money and some people who did not abide by the rules, no matter whether it was the Southern Han or the Khitan, they would definitely send someone to look for it."
Wang Ming also walked out and looked at Pan Mei, shaking his head. In fact, Song Jiu did this, and told the emperor that your ban on merchants does not work. There are countless dealers who smuggled goods on the border, and then publicly purchased wild game that came to the Khitan. My concubine's father was in the Khitan, and he gave them one large bag of gifts. The Yanchen knew that he didn't value the minor details, so he pretended not to hear it, and none of them were impeached.
Song Jiu said again: "He is a clean official, with no money, no one, and no rules. A few years ago, the pseudo-Han has been fighting with our dynasty. How can I find you?"
Speaking of this, he pondered: "Sister-in-law, returning home from Zhou Jin is a great thing in life. Do you want him to return to Lingnan to be a big official?"
"Will it be castrated?"
"No... will." Song Jiu almost suffocated to death and said again: "Get up first, I will send someone to pick up your child immediately, and I will send someone to write memorials to inform your officials."
He asked the yamen runners to take the woman down, and then said to Pan Mei and Wang Ming: "What if I write a memorial and transfer Zhou Wei to Lingnan?"
This is the product of his inspiration.
Now is the era of rule of man. If you want a good place, you must have good officials. Maybe there are good officials in the Southern Han Dynasty. In the era of Liu Yu, you can't help but become Pei Ju in the Song Dynasty. But this possibility is extremely small. If you want a good official, you have to transfer from the north.
But it may not be possible to be transferred to any good officials. Since ancient times, Lingnan has been regarded as a place of exile. Especially in Lingnan, there is still a situation where good things are also bad things, that is, business development.
When you travel north to the Shang Dynasty to the capital, you will be summoned to praise your wealth. This is what the previous generation of the Southern Han Dynasty did. I boasted to Chai Rong. We are richer than you in the Zhou Dynasty. Chai Rong has many reasons. Only when you are angry is Liu Sheng, who is called Xiao Nanqiang. Among them, praising him for his wealth is also one of the reasons.
Whenever I saw people from the north, I praised the strength of the ridge and sea. Not only did I praise the Later Zhou, but also the Southern Tang Dynasty. In fact, it was not as wealthy as the Southern Tang Dynasty, but because of the developed navigation industry, the business was developed, and the rich people were richer than the rich people in the Southern Tang Dynasty. This is a good thing. Only with developed business can the economy of this region be revitalized. In the hands of Liu Yu, even business was gradually destroyed, but the foundation was still there.
There are also many disadvantages. The people have strong financial thinking and a decline in moral foundation. There is also officials who, if they are not good officials, will easily get lost and degenerate in this environment.
In the end, the weather is not necessarily adaptable to the south. Maybe when summer comes soon, Song Jiu will be sad. Pan Mei and others should be better. After staying in Hunan for a long time, the summer is not much different. But the entire Lingnan officialdom cannot be produced. Only these people are slightly stronger and can rest assured. But how to deal with the vast 60 prefectures and 240 counties in Lingnan? Zhou Wei was just right. The officials are not big or small, and they are from Lianzhou. They are not afraid of heat or hardship. They can ask the court to be transferred to the south. Moreover, this person is tough and honest. Not only Pan Mei heard of his reputation, but Song Jiu also heard of it.
Pan Mei said: "This person is really good."
Wang Ming nodded, not short of officials, lack of good officials who can rest assured. First of all, there are several people in charge of the overall situation of Lingnan. There are many civil servants accompanying him, but they are either incompetent, lacking ability, or have too little qualifications and cannot be used. Only those who can be used are themselves, and Pan Yin and the other two regard martial arts as their masters and have a slightly inferior cultural governance. In this way, only Wang Fan and Zhu Xian and Song Jiu are the four people. Not only are they in charge of Lingnan, but also have to control several major prefectures, Guangzhou, Shaozhou, Chaozhou, Guizhou, and Yongzhou. In this way, at least ten officials who can be promoted to maintain this stall. Who would like to come? Even if they had not done this matter and had prepared to clean up the mess, they would not want to stay in Lingnan. Including Song Jiu.
"Southern people are honest and capable, where can Xiaojiu be found?" Wang Ming shook his head and asked.
Song Jiu remembered the two of them. One was Liang Yansi and Yang Yeshi's figure. He advised Gao Jichong to offer land. The Song Dynasty wanted to swallow it. Jingnan had no strength to resist. He could have a good ending if he knew each other earlier. Gao Jichong refused to listen, so he would fight. He was defeated in a big battle with Murong Yanzhao. Zhao Kuangyin believed that he was loyal and trustworthy. He served as the commander-in-chief of the infantry and formation envoy of the Hunan Army. He was also transferred to Haozhou Defense Envoy. However, this person had just passed away. He was a talent and was suitable, but he could not be used. There was another person, Zhou Xingfeng's subordinate.
The number one counselor Li Guanxiang. Zhou Xingfeng was cruel and killed many times. Guanxiang persuaded him, and he encouraged himself. Zhou Xingfeng asked for trouble before his death and became an important official in Hunan. The Song army came. Li Guanxiang advised Zhou Baoquan and said that what we held was Jinghu, thinking that the lips and teeth were. Gao obeyed the orders, and we must not be able to be alone. It is better to return to the court without losing wealth. Zhou Baoquan didn't understand it. Others disagree and he also disagree. Li Guanxiang was not Guo Wuwei, so if you don't agree, just beat him. Zhao Kuangyin used it as the left supplement.
This man is still alive, but his ability is too strong, and Zhao Kuangyin may not be able to put him in the south.
Then I couldn't think of it.
In fact, it is considered good to think of Zhou Wei. At this time, from chaos to governance, not only Lingnan, but also people are short of talents everywhere.
Several people began to gather to discuss, and Song Jiu general's plan said that the situation in Lingnan was more special, especially in the barbarian area.
Men in this era are the happiest, and they will not mention machismo everywhere. For example, if the Song Dynasty had a promising future, they didn't even have to worry about marriage money. The woman rushed to pay. If she was good, she would pack it and cheat the dowry money. She cheated the family and then divorced. The Song Dynasty was still civilized. Women in the Dangxiang people could do everything inside and outside. Such a capable woman also obeyed her husband's command. But she was not as happy as the barbarians in some areas in the south.
Men not only have the right to speak, but also do not do things. They carry children all day long, and they are all women working in the fields. If this is easy to manage, but if it is really managed, these men are rebellious and are very good at causing trouble.
This is a thousand-year tradition of others. Although Song Jiu couldn't stand it, he had to respect it, and he didn't dare to cause trouble at the moment. The one who made the decision was more than 100,000 Chinese households in their household registration. He was forced to do something big, but if something happened, it would be a crime to rebel everywhere in the barbarian area.
Several people began to discuss improving and supplementing.
The first group of people arrive first, they must be fast, otherwise they will miss the sowing season.
This is the plan mentioned by Song Jiuxin at the end of last year.
Now Song Jiu’s plan is still an enhanced version of this plan. Lingnan is too complicated and dare not move, so it can only be done.
The measure is to guide the Song Jiu's feed farm. It is a large-scale farm. From time to time, students will go to inspect and guide them. They will add credits when graduation. At the same time, those who have made meritorious will also be rewarded. There are many problems, but if they make problems, they cannot find solutions without problems. What should I do if I explore and promote them? Anyway, the money is piled up to death.
It is not mature yet, but it is a large-scale farm. Lingnan does not need to be like this. It is a small-scale farm. Therefore, it may be unacceptable to bringing some experienced tenant farmers to Lingnan, but it may be rewarded for them and you can go home after staying for two years. At that time, the task was over.
First, promote advanced planting and breeding. Most areas of Lingnan are very backward in planting. Except for the slightly developed areas in the southeast of Guangzhou, other areas are all slash-and-burn farming. It is still the old method, but this time it is a contract. There are many areas but the scale is relatively small. The land of farmers is contracted and farmers are hired. After two years of planting, all of them are withdrawn. However, local farmers are familiar with this method of planting and breeding. From point to surface and surface to surface, it can be achieved in most areas in less than ten years.
In addition, it is to pursue efficiency. Lingnan was too poor under the plunder of the Liu family. There are two shortcuts in this. One is cotton. Last year, the letter was sent to the capital and sent people to Hainan Island. Now it is going to go openly. No one dares to stop him and buy almost all the cotton seeds in Hainan. It is not necessary to sprinkle fabrics, but to sprinkle cotton and turn them into solid lint. Its price is still very high. It has been a profitable industry for at least ten years.
Then transport it to the Central Plains, and they can even be used to block the Dangxiang people from the Khitans and exchange them for goods with Goryeo.
But this time will not be too long. Once the seeds in the north adapt to evolution and are widely promoted, the price will drop immediately. But it doesn’t matter. There is a second thing, that is sugar cane. There are three forms of sugar, purple sugar, black sugar, which is slightly sticky. The quality cannot keep up with the quality of later generations. The second is stone honey, rice milk and milk. Similar to milk candy, it is fried into large pieces, and the quality cannot keep up with the milk candy. The third is frosting, which is a precipitation crystallization product. Why is Suizhou and Wuyue good in quality, but Lingnan not good. Song Jiu came to Lingnan and someone planted it. He took it out and tasted it. It looked thicker than northern sugar cane. But it was indeed a problem of planting, and it was not very sweet. Secondly, Lingnan has many frosting periods, and it is not easy to crystallize without frosting periods, so frosting is the most secondary. But it doesn’t matter. Lingnan has a long history of making sugar. If the cultivation method keeps up and the sweetness increases, sugar is also an income.
The other is planting and breeding. Even Song Jiu was planning to bring winter wheat over, but it was too far from the capital, so it was impossible to collect grain taxes from Lingnan, either money taxes, distribution taxes, or future cotton taxes and sugar taxes.
It is easier to order, but Lingnan is vast and sparsely populated. If you give a few dollars, you can "contract" a lot of wasteland. The labor force will have a headache. Song Jiu shouted to keep people under the knife, but the battle was over. Tens of thousands of labor force died.
Can no one succeed?
Pan Mei pinched her nose and couldn't make a sound. He killed tens of thousands of people.
Then there is people from Zhongyuan. The middle school students from the academy are not in vain. One is to train and the other is to internship, but they will add high credits and also give rewards. Change every year. The second is to experienced old farmers, including farmers who have grown cotton, who have sent them to Suining to invite sugarcane farmers to come at a high price. The third is that the yamen, one by one, stayed in the capital and was bored. I invite you to visit Lingnan. At the same time, I advised them to invest. The money was also spent on your hands, so it would be better to spend it in Lingnan. It may not be possible to make much money, but now the cotton profit is very high, and you will make a little money. I made money and did good deeds, and traveled by the way. Why not do it? Song Jiu didn't know how much he came. In order to grab the time, Song Jiu asked Yuping to spare no expense and asked them to come by carriage by land.
Some people can’t do it, but they still have money and capital.
Let Yuping gather the money from her family, but instead of bringing the money, it turns into glass and wine, transported to Guangzhou by ship, and then sold to foreigners. Then the money can be turned into three or four stakes, and at the same time saves freight, and then transported money and silk from merchants to various places and smashed them into various farms. Not only did the Song family come out, but they also lobby for all the yamen to invest in the name of Hezhou to do good deeds. Xiang Shi Baozheng, didn’t he worship Buddha every day? If he doesn’t have to worship Buddha, it doesn’t work, just do good deeds.
Song Jiu still doesn't know how many people come and how much money comes.
Originally, the plan was this plan. I believe that in one or two years, there would be a qualitative change in Lingnan. Not only did he and his father-in-law match up with the Southern Han, but he also left a gold stall for the court. The task was completed and he could return to the capital. Who expected this mistake? So Song Jiu wrote a second letter back, which was a big deal...
The people came first, Shi Baozheng, who was bored and Wang Kui, and some students who could ride horses, came first. Some of the yamen were in charge of work, or studied in the Imperial College, and they all went to a long holiday. At that time, the court had not received any news that the Southern Han Dynasty was pacified and all the palace treasury was burned, but the noise was too great. Zhao Kuangyin was also alarmed and it was difficult to ask, so he asked Empress Song to summon Pan Lian'er to the palace to talk, and then he came over embarrassedly, "What are your Xiaojiu going to do?" Pan Lian'er handed the letter to Zhao Kuangyin to read.
After seeing it, Zhao Kuangyin said, "Your Xiaojiu doesn't do well in the Sansi, but when you arrive in Lingnan, you will work hard."
Pan Lian'er replied: "Your Majesty, Lingnan has been decided at first, there is no dispute over interest. Every government affairs of the three departments will involve various interests. The official is just a judge, how dare you propose?"
Zhao Kuangyin didn't say anything, just smiled, which was a kind of default and appreciation.
Shi Baozheng and Han Chongye picked up Song Jiu and shouted: "You guy is so arrogant to Lingnan."
Those who don’t have money are not jealous now. They can’t even use up their own money, so why should they be jealous? The key is to jealous.
Pan Mei is training her two sons not far away. I am in Lingnan, why do you run to Lingnan too? I guess the Pan Weide brothers may not understand it, because there is a secret that cannot be told in the middle, that is, the hostages!
Song Jiu said: "I won't mention it. It was a great achievement, but it could have made Liu Yu burn the palace treasury together. It might be 50 million guan, or it would have reached 100 million guan, and it would have burned all of them."
"Ah!" More than a dozen yamen shouted together.
Chapter completed!