The rainy season in Yongzhou is either rainy or cloudy. The clouds in the sky were not thick, and the gray and white covered the whole sky, and the sun had not appeared since the morning, and the sky and the earth looked lifeless.

In the restaurant by the left river, Wei Zhizhou in Jiangzhou was in a happy mood, and the laughter never stopped.

Raised his head and drank the wine in the cup, smacked his lips and tasted it, put down the wine glass and said: "This liquor is still good in the capital, what does the liquor from the cane sugar service taste like, can you drink it?" ”

Luo Bai Huang Zhixian said: "You don't know, I heard that the best spirits in the capital come from the Xu family, which is our Xu family." His house is full of good wine, but when he arrives here, he deliberately makes some tasteless wine to fool us barbarians. Huh-"

"Our Shangguan, a teenager in high school, has risen all the way, and it has been smooth sailing, and I don't know what my surname is after being an official in the past few years. Young man, you dare to say anything big, you recruited us last time, but it scared me, you have to catch Huang Conggui in a month, otherwise-"

Wei Zhizhou leaned over the table, followed Xu Ping's appearance at that time with a straight face, looked at everyone, turned around and looked up to the sky and laughed: "Haha, it scares me, I can't eat or sleep well this month!" Bah, it's been almost two months now, and it's not! ”

After speaking, he poured a full glass of wine and drank it in one gulp.

Huang Zhixian said: "This time he swallowed his words back, and see if there is any face to yell at us in the future!" Alas, it's a pity for this place—"

Wei Zhizhou also hated, gritted his teeth and said: "Yes, in the past, we used to manage here, and we had to use dozens of dollars a month, but now it is all in Taipingzhai, and I am angry when I think about it!" One day, this young official will hit his head here and bleed, and this place is still ours! ”

Huang Zhixian nodded yes and had a drink with Wei Zhizhou.

Shen Chengrong, who was sitting next to him, glanced at Huang Tianbiao, who was stuffy, and shook his head. The two of them are different from Wei Zhizhou and Huang Zhixian, and have a deeper relationship with Xu Ping, Xu Ping is deflated, and they are not comfortable.

Huang Tianbiao had been drinking with his head bored, and the more he heard Wei Zhizhou and Huang Zhixian talking, the more presumptuous he became, he couldn't help but say: "You two don't talk about Shangguan behind your back, if it spreads, I'm afraid that you will have to suffer." ”

"He-what is the trouble for us?" Huang Zhixian looked at Wei Zhizhou and said exaggeratedly, "Could it be that you call us to scare us again?" It's scary, it scares me to death! Haha-"

The two laughed together.

Wei Zhizhou said to Huang Tianbiao: "County Lieutenant Huang, you have known Xu Pingtong many years ago, and your relationship with him is no better than ours, and you have made a lot of money in the past two years, don't sue us!" ”

Huang Tianbiao said in a sullen voice: "Today you are happy, one day the matter comes to an end, don't say that I didn't remind you." I've known Tong Ju for many years, and I've never seen him talk empty words, so I don't believe this exception! ”

Wei Zhizhou and Huang Zhixian shook their heads and just laughed, where to ignore Huang Tianbiao.

In the Sugar Lifting Division, Xu Ping sat on the chair and quietly looked at the scroll in his hand.

The document is a national decree compiled in the seventh year of the Heavenly Sage, based on the Tang Decree, which distinguishes the current and non-repealed provisions after the amendment, plus the current interpretation, and will not be printed and promulgated until this year.

This is the first printed and distributed law in China, which was later called the "Heavenly Sacred Decree", which is of great significance, marking that the Song Dynasty no longer follows the laws of the Tang Dynasty, and also marks the basic disappearance of the distinction between good and low in law.

Xu Ping didn't know the historical significance of the scroll in his hand, and the provisions in it were nothing new, most of them had already been implemented, and now they were just a collection of many scattered contents into a book to facilitate officials to learn and memorize. At the end of the general judgment, the most important content of the examination back in the capital is the legal provisions, Xu Ping doesn't know which bastard formulated this rule, and he doesn't know the meaning of this. Na Zhizhou took the exam before taking office.

If you don't understand it, you can't do it, Xu Ping still has to recite and study honestly.

Another significance of this scroll to Xu Ping is the movable type printing technique used in printing. Since he used movable type to compile a small record of the same year, he has not kept this technique secret, and later simply dedicated it. The court is convenient to use, and most of the documents have been used with this technology in recent years, and the court only remembered that Xu Ping should be rewarded at this time, which is nothing more than adding a first-order official. As a result, Xu Ping was promoted every year with his political achievements, and the addition of officials was a bit dazzling, so it was added to Xu Ping's father Xu Zheng. Xu Zheng was earlier than Xu Ping, and after so many years, he finally relied on his son to rise to the next level.

Not far away, Duan Yunjie and Xiuxiu were typesetting. Xu Ping and Han Zong extracted some provisions from the new version of the law, mainly those that are often used in daily life and have close ties with the local area, and are ready to be printed and distributed in pamphlets.

Xiuxiu is still like that, the whole person is dumbfounded, rarely speaks, there is no brilliance in his eyes, and he often looks at a place in a daze. I often have nightmares at night, and I wake up suddenly, like wood on the bed, and I can sit until dawn.

Afraid that something would happen to Xiuxiu, Duan Yunjie moved in with her, only to find that she couldn't even figure out whether Xiuxiu was sleeping or waking up at night. Whenever it's time to sleep, Xiuxiu lies down on the bed honestly, sometimes with her eyes open, sometimes with her eyes closed, but sometimes she is awake with her eyes closed, and sometimes she sleeps with her eyes open.

With no one around, Xiuxiu would sit alone and sit in one position for a long time, until someone came to greet her, she stood up woodenly, and she did what others told her to do.

Duan Yunjie tried to chat with Xiuxiu, she just sat there quietly and listened, but she didn't know if she heard it, and her expression didn't change. Occasionally, a sentence pops up, but it is also whimsical and boundless.

In the end, Duan Yunjie realized that she had to arrange things for Xiuxiu constantly, and she couldn't be idle. When there are things to do, Xiuxiu is very serious, as if she can completely forget the outside world, and sometimes she can even say two normal words, such as asking: "Sister, how should this be?" ”

Of course, most of the time she still thinks about it by herself, and if she can't find a word, she can search through all the places, and she won't be impatient to find it for most of the day, so she keeps looking for it.

Someone else asked, "Xiuxiu, what are you looking for?" ”

Xiuxiu replied blankly, what word am I looking for, why can't I find it?

Others replied: "The word Xiuxiu is in the used version, but it is not available anywhere else." ”

Xiuxiu nodded loudly, went to the old version to take down the word, and continued to do things.

In the past, Xiuxiu Xu Ping was also a little annoying, how many times did she want to discipline her well, but she always couldn't spare time. In fact, Xu Ping didn't know how to discipline, and his lack of time was just an excuse for himself in his heart.

Xu Ping finished reading one volume of the law, took another volume in his hand, and was about to open it to read, but saw Han Zong hurriedly walking in from outside.

When he went to Xu Pingqian to salute, Han Zong said: "General judgment, last month's recital was approved by the imperial court, and the Chinese book will come down below, everything will be in order!" ”

Hearing Han Zong's words, Xu Ping stood up from the chair, took the document handed by Han Zong, read it carefully, and held it in his hand.

More than a month has passed, Huang Conggui is nowhere to be seen, Xu Ping has not made any moves, and it is inevitable that there will be rumors outside, ridiculing Xu Ping for not knowing the height of the sky. These words also reached Xu Ping's ears, and he pretended not to hear it, and did what he had to do, as if he hadn't said anything a month ago.

Xu Ping was waiting for his reply, and in order not to be rejected, he even wrote a private letter to Prime Minister Lu Yijian, detailing what happened, the situation in Yongzhou, and the consequences and benefits of doing so. I also sent letters to my own who were more familiar with the same year, and asked them to help build momentum. In the fifth year of the Heavenly Sage, in addition to the champion Wang Yaochen, there are several others who have already emerged, such as Han Qi, such as Wen Yanbo, such as Wang Zeng, these people together have already gained weight.

After all these efforts, I finally waited for the news that everything was correct.

This result was all presided over by Lu Yijian, and all opposition voices were suppressed, so that in the eyes of many people, Xu Ping had become Lu Yijian's person, and in fact, the two had no personal relationship.

The main contents of the recital are as follows:

The first is the division of labor between Xu Ping and Zhizhou Feng Shenji, which clarified that Xu Ping also promoted the affairs of Zuojiang Daoxitong, and Feng Shenji concurrently promoted the affairs of Youjiang Daoxitong, and was in charge of the affairs of Jianzhou County. When Cao Keming was the governor of the state, he also promoted the Xitong affairs of the entire Yongzhou, and Feng Shenji concurrently inspected the three states of Yongqinlian, and did not bring this office, but now it is clear. At this time, Xu Ping's own official was no longer under Feng Shenji, and the ministry of the general judgment was basically represented by the judge, and Xu Ping only held the seal to grasp the major affairs of the state, so the division of labor would not make Feng Shenji embarrassed.

The second is to imitate the story of Feng Zheng in Duanzhou during the Chunhua period, Yongzhou left and right rivers, except for Tianzhou and Bozhou and several small counties around them, all of them carried out the "expansion method". From now on, the tribes, households, and people of the indigenous chiefs were all included in the imperial court, and the slaves could only be hired, and the plunderers were beheaded as slaves. In civil litigation, where the cane is punished or above, it shall be decided by the officials of the imperial court of the prefecture and county, and the local officials no longer have this power. If the people under Tuzhou and Tuxian are dissatisfied with the trial, they are allowed to file a complaint in the prefecture or county at the next higher level, and the local officials are not allowed to obstruct it.

The third Taipingzhai was changed to Taiping County, and the official section of the original management of sugar was the county. The newly established Taiping County has tens of thousands of household registrations, which are directly the upper counties, and they are also the counties, and Duan Fang is no longer comparable to the time when he was in Ruhe County.

The Fourth Taiping County was commanded by the two commanders of the Zengxiang Army, recruited by Fujian, and went to Yongzhou three months later, and the money and grain needed were allocated to the Fujian Road by flying tickets from the Cane Sugar Service.

The fifth Taiping County increased the two commanders of the township soldiers, recruited from the local strong men, and the township military service could replace the errand service. These two commands gave the township soldiers a number, built a banner, and taught the state and county.

The sixth set up the Taiping Army, commanded the subordinate soldiers and horses, and promoted Xu Ping and the Taiping military envoy.

Xu Ping let out a sigh and looked up at the sky, the clouds were already thick, and the wind was blowing again, and the shape of the clouds changed thousands of times, just waiting for a thunderclap to turn into rain and fall.

(There is another shift in the evening, which may be late.) ）

Note: The army of the Song Dynasty was divided into two kinds, one was at the same level as the state, and the chief officer was the Zhijun, who was in charge of the military, government and civil affairs, which was equivalent to Xiazhou. The other is at the same level as the county, and the chief officer is a military envoy and is in charge of military affairs. The magistrate or county commander does not care about the regular army unless he brings soldiers and horses to inspect the army. The two kinds of armies were unified in the early Northern Song Dynasty and were called armies, and they were distinguished after the middle of the Renzong Dynasty. In the book, due to the relationship of the times, it is still collectively referred to as the army, and the higher-level officials are also military envoys, not the county governors.