Liu looked at Song Jiu strangely. These people came from the capital. Haven’t they heard of it? She thought about it and said whispered: “Zhang Zhizhou and Zhao Xianggong have a great relationship. Although Zhao Xianggong is not in the prime minister, he has served as the prime minister of the court for more than ten years. How can the new magistrate not buy Zhang Zhizhou’s face?”

Wang Zhen laughed: "My little lady, Zhao Xianggong also has political enemies. If there is a selfless new magistrate, or his political enemies come..."

"Don't talk nonsense. Those who dare to be enemies of Zhao are all senior officials of the court. How can they serve as small prefects? How dare those who come to serve as prefects do not give Zhao face?" Song Jiu shouted.

Don’t let Wang Zhen continue to talk.

But he finally understood more of the ins and outs and understood what he was worried about.

First of all, the relationship between Cao Han and Zhao Pu. Cao Han and Zhao Pu have always been wrong. This is wrong. Not only Zhao Pu prompted Zhao Kuangyin to suppress military generals, but also personal grudges. Song Jiu was not very clear about what caused personal grudges, but Zhao Pu suppressed Cao Han early on. When he explained the policy of starting from the south and then the north to Zhao Pu, he once said, except for Your Majesty's personal expedition, who can be enemies with the Khitan except Cao Han, but can Cao Han be the chief general? However, if one of the deviant generals first and then the north, he can deal with several countries.

It is better to first south and then north, or to first north and then south. Song Jiu is difficult to judge now, or to use Zhu Yuanzhang to deal with the powerful Chen Youliang first and then Zhang Shicheng to compare. However, the battle in Poyang Lake was too risky, so it is difficult to compare. If Song Jiu changed to the current choice, it would probably be the same as the south and then north, and at least it would be able to unify the Central Plains.

The background of Zhao Pu's words when he said this was referring to the Battle of Chai Rong in the Khitan. Zhao Kuangyin and Han Tong and other generals on the eastern front performed very well, including Cao Han. However, there was a loss on the western front. Using Chai Rong in the attack on the Khitan ranks, among the world's generals, except for Zhao Kuangyin, only Cao Han.

However, is Cao Han the second in the Song Dynasty among the generals of the Song Dynasty?

There are two key points in this sentence. One is that it is too risky to start from north and then south. The country is not stable yet. It is impossible for Zhao Kuangyin to leave the country and lead a large army to conquer the Khitan in person. Secondly, Cao Han has a cruel personality and will something happen if he serves as the chief. It is not to say good things about Cao Han.

When he went to the battle of Pingshu, Cao Han was the second general under Cao Bin. Under Cao Bin's constraints, he did not do anything wrong and made contributions. However, under Zhao Pu's operation, Cao Han did not include Cao Han on the list of rewards. Therefore, when Song Jiu sent Pan Mei to the war, Cao Han once patted Song Jiu on the shoulder intimately. He opposed Zhao Pu, and Cao Han liked it very much.

Zhang Ji is Zhao Pu's person, so there is no doubt that. Song Jiu and Zhang Ji have no intersection. That person is that person. Except that he is already on the table, Song Jiu is not very clear, but Zhang Ji and Judge Gu Tong are colleagues. When they work together, they must have revealed some verbal words. Liu bribed Judge Gu Tong. Gu Tong saw that she looked pretty and gave some heavy gifts. When he was happy, he told the truth. Without this, Judge Gu Tong didn't dare to say it. Besides, even if Zhao Pu went down to deal with ordinary officials, his remaining power was still there, which was enough.

Song Jiu was not clear. Maybe Zhao Kuangyin knew that he was worried that Cao Han would do bad things after entering the city, so he sent Zhang Ji to serve as the governor of Jiangzhou. This was a balanced strategy. After entering the city, the Song army looted. Due to the political struggle, Zhang Ji sent people to capture the looted soldiers, and did not give Cao Han face and killed them on the spot. Cao Han was furious and submitted a memorial, not knowing what was said in the memorial, but because of this hostile relationship, Zhao Kuangyin believed it and transferred Zhang Ji to Raozhou.

Zhao Kuangyin then reacted and immediately sent an envoy to issue an edict to prohibit Cao Han from killing and stabbing him. However, the envoy was late, and Zhao Kuangyin had no choice but to transfer Zhang Ji back to Raozhou when Cao Han brought his army back to Beijing. If he agreed to come to Jiangzhou, Zhang Ji would return to Raozhou to serve. If he did not agree, there would be a magistrate in Raozhou to take charge of political affairs and would not delay, and Zhang Ji would become the governor of Jiangzhou again.

Zhang Ji would not be satisfied with this mobilization. Jiangzhou is a dead city, and I will come back to seek death.

However, he returned to Jiangzhou and found a surprising scene. Countless people from Jiangbei and merchants flocked into Jiangzhou City, and even took the initiative to salvage the bodies in the well water for the court in order to occupy the farmland of the houses. Jiangzhou had new vitality. Not only did this benefit, Zhang Ji also discovered other benefits. For example, a large number of people from Jiangbei rushed over. They would not hate the Song Dynasty. If they diluted it, the remaining people in Jiangzhou would weaken their courage to resist the court. The government could select reliable servants and yamen, and the business could be restored, and the arable land would not be deserted. The most important thing was huge political achievements...

So Zhang Ji wrote a letter asking the court to exempt Jiangzhou from taxes and to relieve the people. He secretly sent people to promote the benefits of coming to Jiangzhou, and even went to Huangzhou himself. The dock was full of people and merchants who came to Jiangzhou to make money.

It was originally a good thing, but he even solved many problems for Song Jiu.

But at this time, the government team started to build up a lot, and merchants and the owners did not dare to randomly enclose land and houses, and began to bribe like Liu.

Song Jiu did not hate bribery much. He couldn't figure out this thing in any dynasty or country. When he was in Guangnan, he just wanted not to overdo it. However, these were countless houses and arable land. There were 10,000 or 20,000 houses in Jiangzhou alone, and there were many large residences and luxury houses in the middle that had not been destroyed. What was the value? From Hukou to the suburbs of Jiangzhou, 20,000 to 30,000 hectares of arable land became a homeless land. What was the value? So the number of bribery became increasingly large.

The sugar-coated shells knocked down Zhang Ji, and today I saw the tragic scene of the woman. The huge corruption caused serious injustice!

It seems that Zhang Ji made Jiangzhou prosper again, but there is actually a huge crisis hidden behind it. The indigenous people will hate the court more and more. The Song Dynasty has complete laws and regulations on inheritance. After the owner dies, the property will be inherited by his relatives. If the immediate family dies, it will be inherited by the relatives of the sidelines. More than 90% of the people in Jiangzhou city die. However, they have many relatives outside the city. Even if the owner of the house and the farmland are killed, they cannot be regarded as ownerless property without ownerless farmland!

The people of Jiangzhou don’t know yet. Once they know this Song Dynasty, they will get out of fear and cause trouble, and the conflict will be even greater. Should they send Cao Han to slaughter several counties in Jiangzhou in the future?

Furthermore, Zhang Ji was kind to ask the court for tax exemption, so there was no doubt about this. However, the whole province was exempted from tax. It was natural for those victims to be exempted from tax exemption. Even if they exempted from tax for ten years, they could not make up for the harm Cao Han had to them. Why should these outsiders be exempted from tax?

This tax is not as good as not to be avoided. Once it is exempted, it will make the indigenous people even more hated!

But Jiangzhou City should have other problems.

Liu didn't know what Song Jiu was thinking, so he asked, "Several men said they were postmen, so why did they live here?"

"Come all the way, I'm tired, take a break." Song Jiu said lightly.

"How many men are really postmen?"

"Haha," Song Jiu laughed and said, "General Cao Bin made contributions to the Southern Tang Dynasty. After returning, he only said that he was sent to Jiangnan to serve as an official business. The simple words are just a mission, and we are nothing, we can only say that we are a postman."

"Several officials are indeed."

"Don't talk nonsense. I'm a mission to Jiangnan for the court. Before coming, I was a commoner, but when I returned, I was a commoner. Not what you thought, I was a high-ranking official. Do you think we are a high-ranking official?"

Liu also wanted to make a speech, and Song Jiu said: "Don't eat, don't eat."

I bury my head to eat, and I rest after dinner. It was very tiring to come all the way.

Liu looked at their backs and said, "Is he telling the truth?"

"My wife, don't worry about him. We quickly got the house deed and land deeds on this trip. It was a complete success. And when they got off the boat, the old slave had carefully observed that although they all brought horses, only one horse was branded with the imperial court, and there was no other two horses or an official. Even the horse with the mark was very shallow."

"Bo Cheng, what's there?"

"Ru'er, this means that these horses are raised by him and are so strong. The family background of this person is not simple. If you look at it, he packs one across the courtyard and eats very delicate food, which means he has plenty of money, but he doesn't want to say that we can't ask, otherwise it may not be a good thing to annoy him."

Mrs. Liu and the maid were still a little confused, and Cheng Bo said again: "Didn't you hear it yet?"

"What do you hear?"

Cheng Bo lowered his voice and said, "You just said that Zhang Zhizhou had a good relationship with Zhao Xianggong. His subordinates were very disdainful. How many people could disdain Zhao Xianggong in the world? Besides, he was a family slave. The old slave also heard that Zhao Xianggong had a fierce battle with the two kings. The water here was too deep. We should get the house deed early to avoid long nights and dreams."

"Bo Cheng is right," Liu was shocked.

Cheng Bo was right. The water here was too deep, deeper than he thought, and deeper than Song Jiu thought.

When he woke up the next morning, Wang Zheng asked worriedly: "Will that lady intentionally follow us?"

"No, it's just a coincidence. Her family's property is probably not small. The boat we hired yesterday was the largest. When sailing on the river, the bigger the ship, the safer it was. Therefore, she got on that boat. This inn is the most luxurious in the city, so she also came to this inn. But she had little contact with her to avoid leakage. Besides, Zhang Ji was probably Zhao Pu's person, and the judge and Zhang Ji got together because of their greed. It was not good for us before the handover."

However, Song Jiu didn't care too much. Although Gu Tongzong and Zhang Ji got together, Song Jiu had a stronger background. His own power and connections, the interests brought by Hezhou and Guangnan maritime commerce, and Pan Mei's power. In the face of this power, Zhang Ji and Gu Tongzong were nothing.

Suddenly, Song Jiu understood that Zhao Kuangyin asked him to come to Jiangzhou. Zhao Kuangyin did not take Cao Han, but he did not think that this was done right, but he did not want it to be arrogant. Including Cao Han escorted a large amount of gold, silver, money and silk to Beijing, and demolished the iron arhat, and first said he was sent to Yingzhou, but then he felt that he was not very good. He could not go directly to the capital when he arrived in Yingzhou. So he changed his words and said that he would send it to Xiangguo Temple. Zhao Kuangyin also agreed to this kind of behavior of stealing the bell.

Letting myself not only like my "love the people", but also like my relationship with Cao Han's family. Whether it is Cao Han or Cao Han's sons, they have a good relationship with the Song Dynasty, so they have to give Cao Han face to a greater or lesser extent.

For the people of Jiangnan, what else should we do when the imperial court sent officials who loved the people?

He hadn't thought of the truth yet.

He started wandering around the city again, and when he moved outside the city, Song Jiu discovered another terrible thing, Soldier!

The court left two battalions of imprisonment in Nanting County on the west side of Jiangzhou. This is easy to understand. Whether in Bashu, Hunan and Guangnan, the court all sent imprisonment soldiers to garrison. There were not only two battalions of imprisonment in Jiangnan, but there were several battalions of imprisonment in other areas. It was best to place them in Jiangzhou. However, Jiangzhou was disabled and could only be placed in nearby Nanting County. There were no damages. The local area may provide food and support for the officers and soldiers of the two battalions. Nanting is close to Jiangzhou. If there is any change, you can arrive as soon as possible.

However, there are still three battalions in Jiangzhou, which is used to protect theft by tribute and water transportation, and it actually plays a deterrent role.

There are all wing soldiers all over the country, and important cities like Jiangzhou must be necessary, but Jiangzhou is disabled, so these wing soldiers were transferred from Jiangbei. Anyway, there are no borders everywhere. If some arable land is moved out for their families, the strong men will be organized into troops.
Chapter completed!