Glancing at the little Goryeo lady who was dressed like a flower, Shi Guozhong didn't seem interested, waved his hand, and said to his wife, Sister Wan: "Lady, take her down to live and settle down, and send her over when Gao Yu comes back from Qingzhou." ”

Sister Wan smiled indifferently: "Master, Gao Yu's wife and concubine have long been in a group, and there is no less than a Gaoli girl, the slave looks at her well, she is a child who can be raised, it is better to leave it for the master to have a son." ”

Shi Guozhong looked at his wife with a smile and said, "Alas, haven't all the things about your son been said, just take one from your mother's house?" ”

Shi Dazhizhou, who has been miserable for half his life, spoils his wife Sister Wan who is more than 30 years younger than him to the extreme, for fear that she will be wronged after her death, so when his wife can't give birth to children, he is not willing to take a concubine, and he is not willing to raise an heir from his brother's family, but he has to choose one of Sister Wan's nephews as an adopted son.

Retracting his gaze from his wife's still graceful back, Shi Guozhong's brows were already wrinkled, "Chen Yuanwai, if the old man accepts your gift, it doesn't mean that he can keep all of your family's 40,000 acres of hidden land......"

Hearing this, Chen Xiaotian, who looked like a white-faced scholar, was suddenly a little stunned, he had accepted all the gifts, why didn't he give him an errand?

"Taishou, I don't know if Mrs. can tell you, my sister is Xiang Taiwei's concubine, and my father is also Xiang Taiwei's old friend."

Xiang Taiwei is the brother of the Empress Dowager Xiang, and the Anguo Army is the envoy to Xiang Zonghui! Although the Empress Dowager Xiang has passed away, Zhao Ji still pampered the two brothers of the Xiang family and mentioned their official ranks to the Jiedu envoy - the largest military attache in the Northern Song Dynasty is the Taiwei (referring to the rank official Taiwei, not the Taiwei that everyone shouts to play), and the second is the Jiedu Envoy.

It turned out that the backstage of the Chen family in Qizhou was Xiang Zonghui, and it was really hard enough. However, now the Song Dynasty, where relatives and nobles are suppressed, is Xiang Zonghui himself, and Zhizhou, who was born as a jinshi like Shi Guozhong, has not been able to take advantage, and maybe Shi Guozhong can gain a good reputation.

Therefore, the Chen family did not dare to resist and asked Chen Xiaotian to visit Shi Guozhong with gifts.

Shi Guozhong heard Chen Xiaotian carry out Xiang Zonghui, but he smiled and asked rhetorically: "Then can Xiang Taiwei ask your family to sell some hidden fields?" ”

Yes?

Chen Xiaotian was stunned for a moment, and Xiang Zong's letter back to his family did mention the sale of the land. But how did this Shi Zhizhou in front of him know? Could it be that there is something behind this?

"But ......" Chen Xiaotian is of course reluctant to sell the land, his family's business can only be done by relying on the ranch in Cangzhou. Not to mention that the ranch is gone, it will become smaller, and the business will be greatly affected.

As for the knights in front of the palace or something, how could the Chen family care? The backstage of his house is Xiang Zonghui! And no one in his family can be this knight.

Seeing Chen Xiaotian's embarrassed look, Shi Guozhong asked with a smile: "But is there a difficulty?" It's better to say that from the official's ears, maybe the official can help think of a way. ”

It seems to be a play!

Chen Xiaotian didn't know that Shi Guozhong really had a way, and thought that the other party was asking for bribes - it seemed that the bribes of three thousand and a beautiful woman prepared before were less......

Thinking of this, he told Shi Guozhong how his own sheep selling business needed pastures.

"I see," Old Man Shi smiled after hearing this, "This matter is easy to do, you go to the East Gate of Wu Chongdao, the Gou Dang City Bo Si Chongdao, who is buying land, and tell him directly, he must have a way...... Listen to me, I promise you can't go wrong. ”

Is this the solution?

Chen Xiaotian was confused when he heard this, but he had no other way, so he had to leave dejectedly, and then go to prepare gifts to visit Wu Haogu.

At the same time, in the Cangzhou General Judgment Office next door, Lu Yihao and Ji Yi were discussing in the inner hall to participate in the martial arts!

The two of them originally planned to use Cha Tian Qinghu to create a "terrifying atmosphere" in Cangzhou, forcing the local tyrants and shoddy gentry to cover their land and property.

But I didn't expect that before the official start of Chatian Qinghu, Wu Haogu threw out the big card of "selling land for knights", not only using the state to buy Yintian at a high price, but also taking the identity of a knight - needless to say, Wu Haogu's method must be for the sake of making a big profit! This time it's really a stolen one, and you can ruthlessly rectify such villains.

Lu Yihao said: "I really didn't expect Wu Hao Gu Na to act so recklessly, openly betraying the position of a knight in front of the palace, and also shielding Yintian, instructing Haoqiang to resist the Cangzhou Bureau's investigation of the field and clearing the household!" ”

"The charges are enough, as long as the official family doesn't blindly cover up, Wu Haogu will definitely not be able to escape, at least he will have to manage Haizhou."

Lu Yihao nodded: "Now the evidence is conclusive, the official family wants to cover up, and they have to demote Wu Haogu's official position." It's a pity that the job fields needed by the front division of the palace are about to be collected by him.

The rule of Cangzhou is really too bad! The order to check the fields and clear the households has been issued for more than ten days, but the officials below have not made the slightest move. ”

"These officials must be in collusion with Cangzhou Haoqiang, otherwise how did the news of the investigation of the fields and households leak?"

Lu Yihao touched his pointed chin, "It seems that if the imperial court wants to use Hebei as a base for the Northern Expedition to Yanyun, it must strictly rectify the prefectures and counties of Hebei and the two roads!" ”

"What Brother Yuan Zhi said is that now the powerful forces in Hebei are too great, and the official offices everywhere are controlled by filthy officials, the civil officials are like fictitious, and the forbidden army is rotten and unbearable in a war, if it is not strictly rectified, the Northern Expedition will be defeated in the future.

Brother Yuan, why don't we join forces and ask the court to strictly rectify the local officials! ”

Ji Yi was filled with righteous indignation, but he knew in his heart that it was almost an impossible task to rectify Hebei. Because if you want to straighten out the place, you must move the rulers. Now the officials in various places are integrated with Haoqiang, and the roots are intertwined, and the foreign officials are simply toothless tigers, and they can't be fierce at all.

In order to change this situation, it is necessary to reform the method of appointing and dismissing officials, and we must absolutely not engage in "officials without feudalism and officials with hereditary inheritance." Otherwise, any new deal will be distorted.

However, the rule of "officials are not feudal, officials are hereditary" has been in practice for an unknown number of years, how can it be said that it will be changed? And how can it be reformed?

Can I use the exam to get a judge? Expand the scale of the imperial examination and let the jinshi start from the officials? This is not operable, because the number of officials in the country is at least hundreds of thousands, and they all have to be produced by examination, so there must be 20,000 or 30,000 people in each subject? How many people do you have to go to Beijing to take the exam? Don't squeeze Kaifeng Mansion out! If you don't go to Beijing to take the exam, but take the exam at the local level, then I'm afraid there will be more cases of fraud in the subject field......

So many jinshi...... Jinshi is about to depreciate! And how should so many non-commissioned officers be promoted to high positions? It's hard to talk about the ancestors again!

If you can't use the imperial examination to get officials, then can you let the officials' doormen and guests act as officials? It seems impossible, not to mention that all the protégés who use officials are impossible, even a third or a quarter of them are impossible...... How can the officials of the Great Song Dynasty have so many people who can be driven? Moreover, will the imperial court allow officials to use Hakka retainers to control the place?

However, even if he knew that the shortcomings of the officials of the Great Song Dynasty were insolable, Ji Yi would still play the court to ask for reform - playing cheating is a good way to grandstand!

Moreover, Ji Yi and Lu Yihao's performance also pointed to the key to the various shortcomings of the Great Song Dynasty......

……

"There's nowhere to herd sheep?"

When Wu Haogu heard what Chen Xiaotian said, he immediately laughed, "It's easy to do, how about setting aside 30,000 mu for you in Jiehe Commercial City?" It's on the north bank of the Jiehe River, close to the pier, and it's easy to transport......"

"East Gate, you said it's on the north bank of the Jiehe River? That's, that's ...... The territory of Liao! ”

Chen Xiaotian was frightened by Wu Haogu's proposal, and before Wu Haogu could finish speaking, he interrupted him silently.

"Jiehe Commercial Market is originally half of the Liao Kingdom and half of the Great Song Dynasty!" Wu Haogu said with a smile, "However, both sides of the boundary river are under the jurisdiction of the merchant market...... For the sale of cattle, sheep and horses, it is more convenient to place the pasture on the north bank of the Jiehe River, right? Your cattle and sheep were originally purchased from Liao, and the forage and fodder for sheep are also cheap in Liao, and they are close to the Jiehe wharf, which can be shipped to Dengzhou and Laizhou. ”

"But, but ......"

Chen Xiaotian didn't know what to say. Wu Haogu is right, raising sheep on the north bank of the Jiehe River has a cost advantage. Not only is it cheap and cheap, it is also convenient to purchase sheep from Liaoguo, and all kinds of forage feed are also cheap, and the most important thing is that it is convenient to transport!

Directly drive the sheep on the boat, you can transport it to Kaifeng Mansion by water, or you can transport it to Jingdong East Road by sea. I don't know how much lower the cost is than taking land transportation! And the transportation time is also short, and there is no need to worry about the sheep losing weight during transportation - the long-distance traffic of cattle and sheep depends on their own traffic, so there is a problem of losing weight and fat. This required the merchant to set up pastures in the middle of the way to fatten them.

If water transportation can be carried out, then the cost of transporting cattle and sheep will be greatly reduced, and the corresponding profits will be high.

But the question is...... Liao is always a place to be feared by merchants!

"Where did you get so much?" Wu Haogu looked at the businessman in front of him and waved his hand indifferently, "How can you be so conformist in business?" You have 30,000 acres of land in your hand, and you sell them to the official, and the official gives you 40,000 yuan, and then allocates 30,000 acres on the north bank of the boundary river to you, and you don't take a penny, this is always okay, right? ”

Wu Haogu is actually not giving 30,000 acres for nothing, he is cultivating industry, and Jiehe Commercial Market can be developed into a trading, transportation, and breeding center for cattle, sheep and horses! Moreover, there is no one who wants the land on the north bank of Jiehe Commercial City now.

Wu Haogu's face suddenly changed again, "If you don't agree, these three acres of hidden fields ...... Cangzhou Prefecture is really more serious, and it is okay to confiscate it, even if it is Xiang Taiwei, it can't be saved! ”

On one side is 40,000 yuan in cash plus 30,000 acres on the north bank of the Jiehe River, while on the other side it may be confiscated!

Chen Xiaotian also knew that he couldn't refuse, otherwise it would be really embarrassing......