During the two years that Han Gang served as the transfer envoy of Guangnan West Road, he stayed in the city of Guizhou for a short time, but this did not prevent him from gaining the hearts of the people in Guizhou.

Han Gang looked back at the tens of millions of people who sent him out of the city, and the crowd was like a mountain and a sea, as if it was a light market on the night of Shangyuan. These people of Guizhou were not forced to go out of the city by the officials, but after hearing that Han Gang had left office, they took the initiative to come out to see them off.

As a transit envoy, he was not a pro-people official, and he did not have direct contact with the people, and in the past two years, he first led the army to fight, and then mostly stayed in the south, so it was impossible to get the honor of being sent by all the people.

But the victory he had just won after arriving in Guangxi not only knocked the Jiaozhi invading army back, but also made the officials and people inside and outside Guizhou let go of a trembling heart. After that, together with Zhang Tun, he will destroy the country, and from now on, Guangxi will no longer have to worry about hearing the horn of the thief. In addition, when Li Changjie led the invasion, the reinforcements sent by Guizhou were all wiped out near Kunlun Pass, and Han Gang avenged them, and their families who stayed in Guizhou were grateful to Han Gang.

The big and small officials in the city of Guizhou poured out of the city, and behind them were the people of Guizhou, who were crowded, and several squire fathers and elders who were elected came to Han Gang with crutches.

The custom of Wanmin umbrella has not yet spread, but the program of taking off official boots to show the beloved party of the departing official has already existed at this time. Several elders knelt in front of Han Gang and asked him to take off the boots on his feet and leave them to Guizhou City.

After Han Gang floated them up, he said a few words of modesty according to the rules and shirked it. An old guy said in a loud voice, "Han Longtu is an official for one term and benefits one party." Conquest of Jiaozhi, so that the people of Guangxi will enjoy peace forever. There is also a moral and political legacy all the way, and I am a person in Bagui, and I am all grateful in my heart. ”

Han Gang felt that what he said was very good. He was in Guangxi for two years, and his main energy was focused on exterminating the Jiaozhi State, but he also had a lot of virtue and politics along the way in Guangxi.

Guizhou, Yongzhou, Jiaozhou and other roads in Shangzhou, state schools, sanatoriums, have been established. There is also a drain garden responsible for burying the nameless corpse, since tens of thousands of corpses were buried in Yongzhou, Han Gang also took the opportunity to set up one in Yongzhou, in addition to Jiaozhou. At the same time, there is also a Futian Yuan for the elderly who have no children and no daughters, which was only available in the capital in the old days, but now it has been set up in Yongzhou and Jiaozhou.

These public facilities cost a lot, and they have to be paid all year round. Han Gang can only take advantage of the fact that Yongzhou and Jiaozhou have few people and more land, and can specially allocate official land to provide funds for this.

If it is an official who generally likes to invite the wind and admire the moon, as long as there is some spare money in the treasury, most of them will build some meaningless buildings, or build buildings, or build pavilions, for people to play - naturally, those who have leisure and elegance will not be ordinary people who have no overnight food at home - but there have been some famous stories through the ages, Yueyang Tower, Drunkard Pavilion, let future generations sing.

It's just that Han Gang is not good at poetry and writing, and he has no interest in it, the goal of his governance is to benefit the people, and he does more about life, old age, sickness and death.

From the perspective of the people, this should be regarded as the greatest virtue he left in Guangxi.

Han Gang listened attentively, and saw the old guy say, "In order to save the people all the way, Long Tu ordered the ban on betel nut. ”

'Betel nut?! ’

Han Gang's body trembled, and a feeling of ridicule came up. He was indeed against chewing betel nut. Since arriving in Guangxi, seeing that everyone's mouths are as red as blood, and the puddles of red on the ground are like blood stains, Han Gang personally is very disgusted with such a custom.

As the saying goes, 'the people on the road are like sheep', and it is the people of Liangguang who are ridiculed, saying that they keep chewing betel nut leaves and clam ashes, just like sheep that keep chewing grass leaves.

There are rumors among the people that chewing betel nut can avoid miasma, repel insects, eliminate food, and dissolve phlegm, but Han Gang feels that good living habits are much more effective than betel nut. Eating too much betel nut will destroy the teeth and mouth, and it is easy to become addicted, and if you don't eat it for a while, you will feel tasteless, and spitting juice everywhere will also have hygiene problems, which will bring far more harm to your health than the benefits.

And more importantly, after eating betel nut becomes a habit, a family has to have more than a dozen or even dozens of extra expenses every day, for ordinary people, this makes them unable to save money at all, and lack sufficient resistance to disasters, accidents and diseases. This problem is more serious than oral health.

Therefore, since Han Gang arrived in Guangxi, as soon as he saw that the vice of chewing betel nut was rampant, he strictly forbade the army to chew betel nut according to the customs of the villagers, and when it was necessary to use it for medicinal purposes, he would decoction water to take it. even found a few people who had broken their teeth and mouths because of eating betel nut all year round, and displayed them in front of the whole army as a warning.

Another time, when he had just driven away Li Changjie and rebuilt Yongzhou, he also grabbed the betel nut vendors who were wandering outside the barracks and beat them with 20 boards, and then distributed the land to them, so that they could farm and live.

Han Gang is a disciple of the legendary Medicine King, and since he said that betel nut is harmful to the human body, there are really many people who believe it. With such a combination of soft and hard means, at least on the surface, the phenomenon of chewing betel nut in Guangxi Prefectures has been greatly reduced. Although I don't know if Lu Dao will recur in the future, but for now, it can indeed be regarded as a moral policy.

Just for this one thing, he was grateful to himself, and deliberately said it seriously in front of tens of millions of people, but Han Gang really felt like he couldn't cry or laugh.

"It's not just betel nuts." Another energetic person came over to play the round, "After Longtu arrived in Guangxi, he treated a lot of people, and promoted the method of avoiding the epidemic, so that people know how to treat and prevent diseases." In the past two years, there has not been a slightly larger plague in Guangxi, which is all the work of Longtu. ”

The representatives of the elders of Guizhou respectfully retreated, holding the official boots that Han Gang had just taken off. Han Gang put on a new pair of shoes, and another person came up with a glass of water and wine, and then another person folded a willow branch to send it......

After completing a set of procedures, leaving his official boots in Guizhou, Han Gang led the people to set off.

He did not hesitate to mount his horse and set off, leaving tens of thousands of people behind.

The life in Guangxi in the past two years made him unforgettable, and the upcoming new life made Han Gang look forward to it.

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"Jingxi Road is the transfer envoy ......," Lu Shengqing leaned his head on the back of his chair, "I didn't expect that Jingxi Road was divided into two for only a few years, and now it has been merged again." ”

"That's because the Son of Heaven wants him to dig the Xianghan Cao Canal."

Han Gang's new position is to merge Jingnan Road and Jingbei North Road to form the Jingxi Road Metropolitan Transit Envoy.

Fangcheng Mountain is the boundary mountain of Jingnan Road and Jingbei North Road. If you want to dig the Xianghan Cao Canal, from the Han River directly to the capital, for the sake of convenience, it is best to have the same power, so the Son of Heaven will draft the Jingxi Road transfer envoy to the Jingxi Road transfer envoy.

Jingnan Road and Jingxi North Road were still all the way five years ago - Jingxi Road, but they were divided into two in five years in Xining, and now they are reunited into one, which will not make people feel unaccustomed.

In fact, from another perspective, it is also possible to arrange a temporary position. But for temporary positions, once the task is completed, you can return to Beijing. When the time comes, if you want to kick Han Gang, who has made great contributions, out of the court again, it doesn't make sense at all, and it will also make people feel cold, so it's better to let him go, even after the completion of the Xianghan Cao Canal, he can stay in Jingxi all the time.

"Han Gang chose a good topic that could be ingratiated." Lu Shengqing flipped through the information brought back by his brother, and suddenly sneered, "The original ditches have been dug and watered, but the section of Fangcheng Mountain is too shallow." After Han Gang arrived in western Beijing, as long as the section of Fangcheng Mountain was excavated and dug a few feet deeper, the canal could almost be excavated. ”

"If it's that easy, how can no one think about it?" Lu Huiqing had already read the information in his brother's hand just now, and he saw more details than Lu Shengqing, who had ten lines at a glance, "The water in the ditch is the stream water coming down from Fangcheng Mountain, not the backwater after raising the water level with a weir. There is no way to float the boat. ”

Lu Shengqing took a closer look, and sure enough, it was the case.

I heard Lu Huiqing continue: "Han Gang is planning to open up the communication line from Jingxiang to the capital. If the southern Gangyun can go straight to Kaifeng from the land of Jianghan, this is equivalent to another lifeline, and the credit is a few points greater than the elimination of Jiaozhi. ”

Prior to this, the capacity of the Bianhe River had been developed to the extreme, and after the sled came out, it could transport goods even in the snow-covered winter. But Tokyo's safety is all on the Bianhe River, which is often silted up, and the sediment in the river has made the boats on the river much higher than the houses outside the embankment. One bad thing is that the inside and outside of the capital have become Zeguo. If there is another one to divert the stream, it will naturally be much more reassuring.

"Six million stone grains a year." Lu Huiqing flexed her fingers and calculated, "As long as the capacity of this transportation line can reach 30% of Bianshui...... No, two out of ten, one in five, it's a success. ”

"Only 1,200,000 stones?" Lu Shengqing was surprised.

"One million and two thousand stones, a little more, one and a half million stones. It is enough to satisfy the Son of Heaven and prevaricate the mouths of Youyou. The temperature in Nanyang is slightly warmer than that in Kaifeng, which can guarantee 300 days of passage. As long as Han Gang transports 5,000 Shigang grain into Beijing every day, he will win. ”

"Five thousand." Listening to Lu Huiqing's calculations, it's really not a lot. A medium-sized sea vessel in Fujian only needs to carry 5,000 stone of cargo in two trips.

"No, don't forget one more thing......" Lu Huiqing suddenly said again.

"What?"

"Shipping, shipping must be cheap. If the price is too high, it will lose the original intention of the grain! ”

"Big brother, do you think Han Gang can do it?" Lu Shengqing asked.

"If you are not sure, Han Gang will not say it, which is a good thing. Although some people don't think so. Lu Huiqing said with a smile, "Han Gangzhi's actions, whether in Kansai or Guangxi, are to try not to use people's ......."

"Not so in Whitehorse County." Lu Shengqing interjected.

"It is a cash-for-work relief for disaster victims, and it cannot be classified as a category." Lu Huiqing said, "Han Gang has always acted like this. However, this excavation of the Xianghan Cao Canal, the communication of the Cai River, and the direct access to the capital, it is impossible not to levy the people's power. As long as there is a little mess among them, the imperial history can be written immediately. Don't forget, it's in the West. ”

"Wouldn't it be better to just sit and watch?" Lu Shengqing asked again.

Lu Huiqing was noncommittal, but Lu Shengqing was right, this time, just sit back and watch. He had more important things to do.

Since Wang Anshi resigned, he did not immediately appoint a new prime minister, but let Feng Jing sit in the position of prime minister alone, "Feng Dangshi!" ”