Chapter 18: Seed Shiheng

In the chief hall of the yamen of the transfer department, Xu Ping and Yang Xuan were discussing the matter of welcoming the other two divisions. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info When he arrived in Luoyang City, the transfer envoy was the landlord, and the matter had to be negotiated, and the people who came had to be entertained. Luoyang City is the ancient capital of the Nine Dynasties, there are many ruins, people come from afar, and they have to take it everywhere to go around.

As the deputy envoy for transport, Yang Xuji was stationed in Luoyang for a long time, and he arranged these things, and Xu Ping finally took the idea.

A public official walked in from outside the door, saluted, and handed over a post: "Du Cao, deputy envoy, there is a person outside the door who claims to be Chong Shiheng and comes to pay a visit." ”

Xu Ping took the post and said to the official: "I know, you take him to the small flower hall to wait." ”

The official promised and bowed out of the official hall.

Xu Ping opened the post and looked at it, and handed it to Yang Xuan on the side.

After reading it, Yang Xuan asked Xu Ping: "Du Cao, who is this kind of Shiheng?" Can there be a master? ”

"He now lives in Ruzhou, and it was Zhizhou Zhao Yan who recommended him to Caosi. This kind of Shiheng is a hermit after he is planted, and Enyin is an official. When he was sentenced to Fengzhou, he had some disagreements with Wang Mengzheng, the in-law of Empress Dowager Liu, and was falsely accused by Wang Mengzheng and exiled to Douzhou, Lingnan. After returning to the Central Plains from Lingnan, he lived in Ruzhou. Now he is the Sima of Mengzhou, and he has not been sent. ”

Yang Xue nodded: "This person has experienced a lot of twists and turns, and if I think he is a capable person, he can see him." ”

Xu Ping didn't know who Chong Shiheng was, but he read Water Margin in his previous life, and as soon as Lu Zhishen opened his mouth, he was either an old race or a small race, and the caste was not a big surname, so it had something to do with it.

He was a hermit in the time of Taizong Zhenzong, and although his reputation was not as good as that of another hermit, Chen Luan, he was also famous. However, he didn't really care about the world, and when it came to it, he took a shortcut to the south, came out as an official several times, and returned to seclusion several times.

Chong Shiheng is the nephew of Chongfang, and he inherited the incense to Chongfang, and after the death of Chongfang, he became an official. When he was sentenced in Fengzhou, because Wang Mengzheng asked him for benefits, Chong Shiheng ignored him, so Wang Mengzheng found a small official who Chong Shiheng had dealt with before, falsely accused Chong Shiheng in the name of appealing for injustice, and let him seize the official position and exile him to Douzhou, Lingnan. Later, Chong Shiheng's younger brother Chong Shicai donated an official to atone for Chong Shiheng's sins and was able to return to the Central Plains.

Mengzhou Sima is a loose official, Zheng Jiupin, which only means that Chong Shiheng still has an official body, and he is not actually sent, and he has nothing to do with Mengzhou. This petty official was used to house the officials who were to be convicted, but it was also used as a donor and for the replacement of certain public officials from officials. He now lives in Ruzhou, and a few days ago, Zhizhou Zhao Yan wrote to Xu Ping and recommended him.

There are some civil servants under the transshipment envoy who are ready to be dispatched, which can be set up by the transshipment envoy himself. Although this petty official has a low status and heavy affairs, he has finally returned to officialdom and got rid of his previous status as a criminal official.

Xu Ping and Yang Xuan came to the Little Flower Hall together, and saw a forty or fifty-year-old man standing there quietly, with his eyes and eyebrows lowered, waiting quietly, thinking that he was a kind of Shiheng.

Hearing the footsteps, Chong Shiheng raised his head, and when he looked at the official uniform, he guessed the identities of the two people who came, and hurriedly stepped forward to salute.

Xu Ping waved his hand and said, "No need to be polite, sit down and talk." ”

After Xu Ping and Yang Xue sat down, Chong Shiheng sat in the lower seat.

The official in the yamen brought tea, Xu Ping invited tea, and then asked Chong Shiheng: "Caosi people have few things to do, and it is inevitable that it will be hard to do things here with me, Zhong Ping doesn't know if he can endure this hardship?" ”

Chong Shiheng said respectfully: "Back to Ducao, being an official in the next office, it is not to hide from leisure, I am afraid that there will be few people and troubles!" What I'm afraid of is just doing things in vain, and in the end it will be in vain! ”

Xu Ping smiled: "Don't worry about these when you come to me, as long as you can really do anything, I will be rewarded for your merits!" Although I have been an official for less than ten years, no matter where I go, I have never wronged my subordinates. ”

"Ducao is famous all over the world for breaking a country in a state, and the lower officials have long heard of it."

Xu Ping and Yang Xue asked about the situation of Shiheng's family, whether there was any housework to drag down, and whether Yu Lu could support the family.

Of Shiheng's eight sons, most of them have reached adulthood, and their youngest son has just been born and lives in Ruzhou. Being a petty official naturally can't support his family, and the family still has to find a way to make a living.

Xu Ping said: "The people in your family will slowly find a way, you just have to work in Caosi with peace of mind, I won't treat you badly." However, I am talking ahead, I will not hesitate to reward those who work hard, if it is just a mess, I am only afraid that it will not be easy to mix here. ”

Chong Shiheng arched his hand: "The lower officials understand that they must work hard." ”

Looking at Yang Xu, Xu Ping said again: "Now the transfer envoy has two things to do, one is to clean up the channels of the Luo River and the Yi River and the Sui and Tang Cao Canals, and the other is the camp field and various government stores on Jingxi Road, which side do you think you are suitable for?" ”

Chong Shiheng thought for a while, and then said: "Back to Ducao, brokerage trading is not a long time, it's better to go and repair the river." ”

Xu Ping thought about it, Chong Shiheng is a native of Luoyang, and if he has business talent, he doesn't need to go to Ruzhou to open up wasteland and farm. The three prefectures of Ruzhou, Tangzhou and Dengzhou have a lot of idle fields, and as long as they are willing to contribute, they will not go hungry. In the past, Sang Yi also went to Ruzhou to open up the wasteland when he was down, and the same was true for the Shiheng family.

Due to the implementation of the household system, the land price in the Song Dynasty has not been high, and the prefectures and counties with smaller populations are even more like giving away for nothing. Unless there is a special policy, once a rural household buys land and upgrades to a household, the losses caused are far from being compensated for by the little bit of land.

In this era, the hukou was also divided into rural and urban, and the urban hukou was called the fangkou household, which was also classified according to the house and other fixed assets. The classification of Fangkuo households began in Luoyang City. This is not because Luoyang is prosperous, but because there are too many high-ranking officials here, all of whom are high-ranking families, they do not pay taxes, and Henan Mansion is even more unable to support it. In history, Wang Anshi changed the law, and the first person to compile a register to be chased for taxes and exempt from military service was Prime Minister Fu Bi, which had political revenge and an inescapable reality.

It is precisely because of this that the land price in Luoyang City is cheap, and the houses are also cheap. When Xu Ping saw Chong Shiheng, he always remembered that the big and small varieties mentioned in the Water Margin in his previous life were slightly fair, and he didn't treat them as ordinary people. If he does well under his own hands, then give him a chance to move back to Luoyang City.

Now Xu Ping's subordinates do lack some capable and reliable people, so they can only slowly envelop them. If you want to do great things in office, you can't help your subordinates. How can a person with limited energy take care of everything? Like Chong Shiheng, who had experience in the past and is now down, is the best candidate. Although it is not appropriate to say that it is not intended to repay favors, it is always appropriate to promote these people to be faithful.

(I'm not in good health, I can't write, I only have one chapter today, forgive me.) I'll make up for it when I'm better in two days. (To be continued.) )