Chapter 1,294 Bi Zhongyou

Zhao Xu nodded: "Then Zhongshu will send documents to several transshipment departments to ensure that the grain and military supplies are transported to the front line. Although through the efforts of Duke Fu, the army has been able to transport three months of military grain, which is much better than before, but the things that follow are still unclear.

It’s very complicated and we can’t let the good situation be ruined by delays on the road.”

Cai Que bowed: "I accept the order."

Sun Gu said: "Li Ji, who was transferred to Yanyan Road, begged for brocade robes and silver belts in order to be rewarded."

Zhao Xu said: "The silver from the South China Sea has been put into the treasury, so I will order the Third Division to give two thousand brocade robes, and see that all the silver belts will be given to them. The Third Division will still plan and purchase it, and always be prepared."

Sun Gu added: "Several major leaders who have surrendered, Yu Zanghuama actively dealt with military needs and helped transport grain and fodder; this strategic adjustment was proposed by Yu Zangyingchengsi; and Ma Nuheng, the case officer of the Puppet Privy Council in the western border

Duo Ge, who is familiar with the roads of Xing and Ling prefectures, the location of grain cellars, and the number of soldiers in charge of the Twelve Supervisory Military Divisions. Now he has been replaced and sent to the front of the army. Su You asked to report the merits of the three of them, but the three did not ask for credit.

Reward, just beg your Majesty to give you a name, your Majesty, look..."

"Oh?" Zhao Xu's vanity was suddenly satisfied: "Do they have any ideas?"

Sun Gu said: "The two Yuzang leaders admired the Duke of Lu as a man and asked for the surname Wen; as for the Ma girl Yuan Duoge, they respected Su Taiwei of the Hoan Army and wanted to follow the surname Su."

Zhao Xu smiled and said: "Now in our Song Dynasty, we have a military minister who makes the Tibetan people want to adopt the surname."

Cai Jing added interest at the right time: "I don't know if Ma Nuang Duoge knows that Su Jiedu's surname was also given by the officials of the Song Dynasty."

Speaking of this scratched Zhao Xu's itch: "It's not surprising that the Yi people produced military ministers, but it is difficult to produce Jinshi. Cui Zhiyuan, the Jinshi of Silla in the Tang Dynasty, can be regarded as the best. But in the Song Dynasty, the Jinshi of the Yi people whom I personally recruited

Among the civil servants, there are already Su Yuanzhen, Li Wensheng, and Yang Shi, and their achievements have already surpassed Cui Zhiyuan."

Cai Jing cupped his hands and said, "When Your Majesty conquers Xixia, I'm afraid there will be scribes from Qilian and Xiliang who will also come to Beijing to take the exam."

Zhao Xu said: "When Yu hid the flower hemp, he gave it the name Wen Sigong; when Yu hid Ying Cheng Si, he gave it the name Wen Sili; when the hemp girl had a lot of leather, she gave her the name Su Shoujie."

"You all still need to work together to defeat the Western thieves and return a culture of civilization to our homeland of the Han and Tang Dynasties!"

All the ministers bowed their heads together: "How dare you disobey me!"

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At the Shaanxi Road Transfer Office, Bi Zhongyou is calculating the import and export of grain and grass.

His elder brother, Bi Zhongyan, is now highly regarded by the old scholar Su. He is working with Chao Buzhi in the back hall of the Military Aircraft Department to sort out the diplomatic documents and boundary demarcation documents of the Liao Dynasty over the years, as well as the Liao Dynasty archives that Chao Buzhi stole from his memory.

Coupled with the information obtained from the North by Xue Zhong's caravan and Zhang Shangying's charity rescue team, the mountains and rivers geography of Yanyun's Sixteen Prefectures, and the military defense of passes, under the auspices of the old bachelor Su, on the sand table in the back hall of the Military Aircraft Department

, gradually becomes clear and distinct.

And his official career also began to see some improvement. He served as an official in the Fanchun shogunate. In fact, he was mainly responsible for cooperating with the logistics of the army.

The affairs were very complicated. When the army left the border, it only carried three months' rations, and subsequent transportation had to rely on local transshipments.

Fortunately, His Majesty has decreed that this expedition is different from the past. Reasonable remuneration will be given for transporting supplies, so the people do not think it is onerous yet.

Even so, Bi Zhongyou still collected a large number of horses and reported to Su You: "If the people are easily defeated, they will not be able to return to service later. If they are not dispatched carefully, the horses will be abandoned first to carry food."

Different from the history, the Song army was extremely well prepared for money and food for this expedition, and they fought steadily and captured a large number of military and civilian horses, which Su You allocated to the Transportation Department for use.

Bi Zhongyou recruited familiar people to form cavalry and convoys, and provided timely support, which won the Shaanxi Road Transport Department several awards.

So Fan Chunchun, the transfer envoy, and Richard simply passed on the important matter of logistics dispatch to Zhongyou.

Clerks came in and out, coming to report from time to time. Bi Zhongyou's ability was similar to that of his brother. He kept flipping through the account books in his hands, listened to the subordinates' requests for instructions, and casually gave instructions and replies without any delay.

There were hurried footsteps outside the door again, the sound of official boots. Bi Zhongyou finally raised his head: "Hey, Brother Zhao, why are you here?"

The person who came was none other than Zhao Ji, Tongzhilang, who was in charge of the Gouxi River and Qinfeng Road transfer director.

In the seventh year of Xining reign of Emperor Shen Zong, Zhao Ji once wrote a letter: "The river is shallow and the transportation has been abandoned. Since then, things have been cheap and harmed the farmers. It is better to discuss its restoration for the sake of public and private affairs." At that time, it attracted Su You's attention.

Many officials in the Song Dynasty had no idea about managing the canal and thought it was a waste of money and people. They once called for a halt to the canal and once prevailed.

It was not until Zhang Fangping, Su You and others successively educated the big guys about what macroeconomic regulation is and what it means to stimulate domestic demand and promote economic development that such voices gradually died down.

Zhao Ji was able to see the importance of water transportation in regulating prices and materials during his seven years in Xining. This alone was enough to gain Su You's discernment.

The West Road was about to start, and the Sixth Road needed talents who knew economics, transportation, and warehousing. Zhao Ji and Bi Zhongyou were transferred to the West Road at the same time.

Zhao Ji took out a document from his recruitment bag and said anxiously: "Uncle, uncle! This time you and I will take the sword!"

Bi Zhongyou took the document: "Three hundred thousand stones! Deliver Weizhou?! Why is it so urgent all of a sudden?"

Zhao Ji had a look of panic on his face: "I don't know how many requests the Sixth Route Transportation Department has made. They only said that the military situation ahead has changed and it will last for ten days. What should I do now?"

Bi Zhongyou folded up the document and said: "Brother Zhao, please don't be impatient. Fan Gong sent me several letters asking me to use the feeder husband several times before, but I refused. I only used horse power to prepare for today!"

Zhao Ji was about to burst into tears: "How can we not be in a hurry? We have 300,000 people in eighty counties in Shaanxi Province. Our fortune is so critical. Once we gather them all and receive their gifts and food, it will take a long time."

But, how can it be prepared in ten days?"

At this moment, a man in red also ran in on horseback outside the door. Before he could get off his horse, he shouted loudly: "Uncle, is he here?"

The two men quickly saluted: "I have seen the deputy envoy."

The person who came was Richard, the Deputy Envoy of Shaanxi Road Transportation: "Did you see that the Director General of the Capital Affairs Bureau transferred the document?"

Bi Zhongyou said: "I just learned that I was about to discuss with Brother Zhao..."

"What are you still discussing?!" Richard was like an ant on a hot pot: "The Ministry of Economic Affairs is messing with its fate. Why doesn't Mr. Fan in the shogunate argue with reason?! This is too much!"

"The Transportation Department has just discussed it, but there is nothing we can do! Uncle, my life will be left to you!"

Nowadays, transporting food is not as simple as imagined.

Theoretically speaking, the Transshipment Department itself does not manage warehousing. It is a matter of elevating the Changping Department. When faced with the current grain transportation task, the Transshipment Department must first go down to each county and order county officials to recruit the counties to undertake the tasks this year.

The integrity of the service.

When the Li Zhengmen get the assigned tasks, they collect grain in the countryside, organize manpower to be transported to the county government for concentration, and after completing the grain collection, they automatically turn into "yamen".

Then the yamen will send the collected grain to the destination according to the tasks they received from the county. After obtaining the voucher, they will return to their own county yamen to cancel it, and the service will be considered completed.

The management work in the center has nothing to do with the yamen. The yamen in the two places are only responsible for sending and receiving. No one cares whether the people in the middle are alive or dead.

Similarly, the military does not care about how the local government operates. It only cares about whether the food has arrived. In Wang Zhongzheng's words, "If the food cannot be transported, there will be sword ears."

The management style is really rough.

Therefore, when the Sixth Route Capital Strategy Department issued an order, the Transport Department had to complete the three tasks of collecting grain, organizing manpower, and transporting it within ten days. No one thought it could be completed.

Bi Zhongyou handed over his hand: "Fan Yunshuai is not here, Zhongyou dares to love Li Gong's seal and letter flag."

Richard dragged a chair and placed it next to Bi Zhongyou: "Don't talk about the seal, I will sit here today!"

"Mr. Li, you..." Bi Zhongyou couldn't help but laugh a little: "Well, the first thing is to summon officials from all counties to come to the Transportation Department to accept the task."

Richard told the clerk who came with him: "Hurry!"

Bi Zhongyou quickly explained: "The most important thing is to let them carry the warehouse account books of each county!"

Half a day later, all the officials on the road arrived, and Bi Zhongyou ordered them to open the account books: "Now we start counting the warehouses in each county. I will read the numbers and you will count them. If there is something wrong, you can interrupt me at any time."

"In Longshou County, there are 1,300 Dingfu who have not yet been commissioned this year, and the county's central warehouse has 100,000 stones..."

"In Huating County, there are 851 Dingfu who have not yet been commissioned this year, and the county's central warehouse has 73,000 stones..."

Next, Bi Zhongyou recited the numbers while filling in the records in the form on the big blackboard behind him.

For the data of more than eighty counties, the only sounds in the capital hall were Bi Zhongyou's clear counting sound and the squeaking sound of chalk on the blackboard. The county officials looked at the account books and couldn't help but be stunned.
Chapter completed!