Song Jiu's threat of Li Fang cannot be regarded as a threat. With his position, it is too easy to get Li Fang down, but if Li Fang goes down, let Zhao Pu come to power?

However, Li Fang did not believe in Song Jiu's mentality and believed that Song Jiu was threatening his status, so he took action repeatedly.

Song Jiu did not take him seriously. The facts also proved that Song Jiu's contempt. Zhao Pu wanted to get back to power, so he had to knock down Li Fang. Is there any effort? No, and even Zhao Pu didn't take a breath...

Song Jiu did it as he said it.

He had wind and cold, but he was a little annoying in this era, such as Emperor Jingzong of Liao who died of wind and cold. However, Song Jiu was in good health. If he hadn't had a serious illness last year, the wind and cold would have been cleared long ago. Not many days later, Song Jiu's condition was cured.

Zhao Kuangyi summoned Song Jiu into the palace and was appointed as the Minister of the Central Secretariat Pingzhangshi, Taibao, Shizhong and Grand Secretary of Zhaowenguan.

In fact, there are also above. If you are a member of the Grand Tutor and the Grand Secretary of the Shizhong Zhaowenguan, you will be more glorious, but what is the difference?

Song Jiu immediately refused.

"Your Majesty, the current plan is not the East and West Governments, but the Three Divisions. Last year, the rewards and pensions of the military and civilians have not been allocated yet due to financial difficulties. Therefore, I asked to go to the Three Divisions and transfer Wang Ming into the Western Government."

"Wang Ming has asked me to be transferred to Zhenzhou."

"ah."

"I also know that Wang Qing is a talent, but Hebei is in ruins and will be threatened by the Liao Kingdom at any time. A minister who is both civil and military must go to Hebei."

Song Jiu could not refute this reason, so he had to say, "If that happens, transfer Zhang Qixian back to the Western Palace."

"Zhang Qixian's resume is still shallow, and the Western Palace may not be competent."

It’s because Zhang Qixian has little experience. He is mainly because he is fast in his position and has some lack of experience.

Moreover, the Western Palace is not very good now. Wang Mianchun doesn’t understand, Wang Xian doesn’t care about the matter, and that Zhang Hong doesn’t seem to be okay either.

However, the East Mansion was a little better. Although Li Fang was not good, his subordinate Lu Meng was growing up gradually. Xin Zhongfu was a first-class local official. After entering the East Mansion, he was different from the local one, but he could make do with it.

Originally, the three departments were full of talents. But Xu Zhongxuan didn't know why he was sent to Jiangling as the prefect. Jiangling was also a good place and it was not considered a hard work. Chen Congxin passed away and Wang Ming went down. Who is left in the three departments now?

One of Zhang Xun, his mother remarried Wei Renpu when his father remarried. The son-in-law Wei Xianxin was his half-brother. He was involved in this relationship and of course he became very successful. Then he did something, including the tribute of the country of Cherish, Sanfoqi, Boni, and Chameng, and sent a lot of rhino, ivory, incense and medicine. The rare and rare were placed in the warehouse, and the court wanted to reward him. Zhang Xun asked Zhao Kuangyi to sell it to merchants in the capital, which added 500,000 yuan in a year to the court.

In fact, it was not, the court had paid a lot.

But it was placed in the warehouse. This money can be said to be earned. Now he has become the Sansidu Sub-submission, but Song Jiu is a little skeptical about this person's ability.

Another important official position, Li Weiqing, the Ministry of Revenue, was very good. He made great achievements in the local area.

There are also Chen Xiangyu, deputy envoy of salt and iron, and Dong Yan, deputy envoy of Duzhi. Song Jiu didn't know much about these two people, so they probably were two more people who made up for soy sauce.

Whether Wang Ming went to Xifu or went down, the talents of the Sansi were immediately short of their ability.

Zhao Kuangyi didn't know that Song Jiu was evaluating talents from three important departments of the country, and continued to say with smugness: "I also asked Chen Shuzhi to be the Yingtian General in Chanzhou and Hebei East Road, and Wei Yu was the deputy envoy."

"These two are good officials." Song Jiu said solemnly.

Chen Shu was from Hongzhou. Before he was a Jinshi, he met Wang Ming, the governor of Hongzhou at that time. Wang Ming talked to him. Wang Ming was a first-class good official who could make him very strange, which shows how capable he was. After taking office, he had great achievements. In the past, he was aware of the Daming Mansion for Zhao Changyan. The Liao people invaded and established city defense. However, there were not many supplies in the treasury, so he set up a collection of tools from the wealthy families. The wealthy families were not convinced, so Chen Shu immediately arrested one of the wealthy families and wanted to kill him on the spot. The heroes kowtowed and bleeded, and pleaded for him. So he limited the time for the heroes and put the man in shackles and paraded the streets. In fear, the people completed the construction one by one. Seeing that the Daming Mansion was prepared, the Liao people did not invade the Daming Mansion.

Wei Yu was the official of the Southern Tang Dynasty who Cao Bin destroyed Jiangnan and surrendered in Xuancheng, but he was also a good official.

Wang Ming was in northern Hebei, Chen and Wei were in southern Hebei, and the three good officials went down to play a great role in the recovery of life in Hebei.

However... Song Jiu said: "But in this way, the three officials lack talents. I wonder who will replace Wang Ming?"

"How about Zhang Xun?"

"I don't know much, I guess I can't match Wang Ming's ability."

“Hebei is also important.”

"Hebei is indeed very important, so I ask Your Majesty to let me go to the Three Divisions."

Zhao Kuangyi was angry: "You have no fault of demoting the Three Sessions, how can the people in the world view me?"

In the end, there was no way, so Song Jiu learned from Li Chongju, and was also a member of the three sects as a Privy Councilor, so he ran to both sides.

Of course, it's not a problem.

When Song Jiu saw Zhao Kuangyi talking, he became more and more angry, so he had to agree and do it first, and then see what talents there were, and let him replace him. He could only take care of one side, not both sides. But he still refused the position of Shizhong and served as the Minister of War as the Minister of War.

Li Fang breathed a sigh of relief.

Although Song Jiu did not give him face, he also said something realistic. Why do you do if you do something wrong with me? I won’t do anything wrong with you if you don’t do something wrong with me. The person who wants to do something wrong with you is your old leader Zhao Pu!

Who is better? It’s not Song Jiu or Zhao Pu.

I have to figure out the goal. Sure enough, this time Song Jiu arrived in the Western Prefecture and even brought the three departments. Li Fang did not cause trouble for Song Jiu from beginning to end. After a while, he was in a mood to make trouble for Song Jiu...

Song Jiu was very quiet in the Sansi. As he expected, neither Zhang Xun nor Chen Xiangyu nor Dong Yan were as good as Song Jiu's intentions. However, Zhang Ping, the newly appointed salt and iron envoy, was not bad. However, when he was in charge of Qin Longmu City, he had embezzled and accepted bribes. After he found out, he wrote a memorial to impeach. Zhang Ping was worried and angry, and like Liu Tingrang, he was sick. Then Song Jiu continued to look for his brother and cried, and finally transferred Chen Shu back to the Sansi to assist. Only then did the Sansi stabilize.

But what Song Jiu did was fine-tuning like before.

It is not a large-scale reform, but some details of the reform. For example, it continues to reduce the layoffs of Fangchang Hedu, which makes little profits, which is the most speechless place. No matter what workshop, no matter how good the profit is, as long as it is all run by the government, it will gradually become less profitable due to corruption. However, Song Jiu did not give these Fangchang Hedu money to the powerful and powerful in disguise, but only auction the management rights. In fact, this effect is better. First, save unnecessary officials and officials. Second, save a lot of labor, and third, profit has increased slightly.

Then adjust some unnecessary waste and remove some harsh policies.

Some are more complicated, such as the Guangnan Salt Administration in spring.

There are many large salt farms in Guangzhou. Song Jiu promoted salt drying in Lingnan. Guangnan operated salt administration through commercial laws. Later, Song Jiu re-planned the salt industry in some prefectures in Zhongshu. For example, Jiangnan West Road Qianzhou and other places, all the salt industry in southern Hunan was handed over to Guangsha, making the people's salt convenient and cheap.

However, Guangshen's output is too large, and the production is greater than sales, so many finished salts were stocked up. The officials below said that it can supply 60 years of salt, which means that Guangshen's production is no longer available, and this salt is enough for 60 years of consumption.

Therefore, Wang Ming stopped the salt farms of Guangyan together, so that the salt households could make a living. The actual cost of salt is very low, especially salt drying and lake salt. A pound is often only one or two cents, which is expensive. One is the freight, and the other is the profits of the Song Dynasty court.

The salt owners work harder and get more. When completing the task, the floating salt will be purchased at a slightly higher price, but the price within the task is pitifully low. Of course, the court also gave it cows and tools, etc.

If the officials below do not take or deduct the income of the salt household can maintain a family's income, how can it be done?

The salt stopped, which was quite beneficial to these salt owners.

Wang Ming did a good job.

However, Song Jiu made a step further. It was actually impossible to meet for sixty years. The population gradually increased in the future. It would be great if it could meet for three decades.

Song Jiu encouraged officials from Hunan and western Guangnan to transport salt to various barbarian areas and barter with them. Especially in the areas where the Song Dynasty and Dali bordered them, the imperial court had very weak control over it. The salt they ate was well salt, which was the most expensive and was dangerous to excavate. The goods transported were mountain goods, and if they could operate it, they could make a profit. What were the salts here for?

Moreover, the opening of the salt road is also conducive to the culturalization of these tribes and gradually integrates with the court. The court will be familiar with the terrain of these areas and will be easier to manage in the future.

But Song Jiu in the Western Prefecture has a lot of movement and is not enough to think about it. The Liao Kingdom invaded at any time, just like a demonic shadow pressing on everyone's hearts.

First, he proposed to replace Yang Ye and transfer Zhang Qixian back.

When you go to Xifu, you must first understand the military.

After Song Jiu repeatedly reminded the facts, everyone realized that it was difficult for candidates from Xifu, and later the candidates from Xifu caused many people to have a headache.

Then he brought Wang Mian to the East Mansion. Originally, he had a good relationship with Song Jiu in the West Mansion, but this guy also wanted to take office, so he joined Li Fang. Song Jiu thought about it, don’t you want to take office? Zhang Qixian is here, you go to the East Mansion. So he told Zhao Kuangyi that Wang Mian does not understand military affairs, but civil affairs are OK, and it is a waste to place him in the West Mansion. Zhao Kuangyi transferred him to the East Mansion as the chief political affairs. Wang Mian was confused, not knowing whether Song Jiu was kind or malicious.

Zhang Hong was not good yet, Wang Xian continued to make soy sauce, but with Zhang Qixian's help, Song Jiu finally took a breath.

First, Li Jipeng was transferred back, and the court transferred him back. Later, the Song and Liao war started, and in order to prevent the recurrence of the northwest, he transferred him back. But he might have seen the Song Dynasty suffer a loss. A small Li Jiqian gave the court a headache and had thoughts. But he was not Li Jiqian, and he had small moves, but his ability and courage were insufficient. These small moves were not big, so that the Northwest secret agents knew that Song Jiu quickly proposed to transfer this person to the south.

Then, the enlargement of the imperial soldiers in the northwest was to transform some of the Fanzis who volunteered to be the imperial soldiers into the Fanzis. Unlike history, the Fan soldiers of the Song Dynasty had been staying in the northwest. Now, many of the imperial soldiers died in the two battles and were insufficient, so some of the Qiang soldiers were recruited. If their families were willing to stay in the northwest, their treatment would be slightly worse. Similar to the rural soldiers in Hedong, Hebei. If they were willing to settle down near the capital, those who could farm and go to the countryside, and those who could not farm and go to the city to settle down, and try to let their families go to workshops to do things.

Anyway, Song Jiu made up his mind and did not want the ban on soldiers to make his wife a military prostitute because of poverty, even if it was a Fanzi Qiang person.

This unit has few troops, and there are even fewer troops in the village.

They and the imperial guards of the court were trained in the northwest, and this was a hard work to build a powerful cavalry in the future. It is not possible now. At least five years later, the Song Dynasty would have a population of 50,000 cavalry alone.

A cavalry made the Song Dynasty cheat.

Moreover, because of the carelessness of the Liao Kingdom, Song Jiu and Yang Ye and Li Jilong were awarded the merits and seized a large number of war horses, which also laid the foundation for this military system reform.

The Northwest Imperial Forces are trained to become quasi-cavalry. The foreign soldiers themselves are foreign cavalry. They are fast and have strong combat power. They also effectively deter all ethnic groups in the northwest and allow the northwest to continue to integrate.

Song Jiu attaches great importance to the northwest. There can be no accident in the northwest. When something happens, Song Chao sighs when he looks at Yan Yun.

Then we arrived in Hebei.
Chapter completed!