glanced at Tong Ming, withdrew his eyes, looked at Han Qi levelly, and said, "Please ask Brother Zhigui for advice." ”

Zheng Lang has been worried about this matter for a long time, so he cordially used Han Qi's words, and added a brother, the occasion is not right, although it is a family banquet, there are several officials, and there are songs and dances here, especially songs and dances, they can go to this banquet, it is also an honor, and after they go back, they will say all kinds of things that happened during the banquet, and everyone's conversation as capital. If Han Qi comes up with a way to prove that he is a cut above Zheng Langzhi today, Han Qi will also have a lot of face when it spreads.

The more Zheng Lang respects him, the more faceless Han Qi has. Already feeling his face, Han Qi smiled on his long face and said, "If you want to know the relationship, please Zheng Xingzhi teach me the method of leniency." ”

Invest in the peach, repay the favor, everyone asks each other for advice, there is no one high and low.

Fu Bi breathed a sigh of relief again.

Zheng Lang swept over Fu Bi's face and said that he was persistent, Fu Bi's inner attachment was a few thicker than Han Qi's, so he had a stunning performance when he went to Khitan, and because of this persistence, there were all kinds of later, not only Fu Bi, but Fan Zhongyan was more persistent. However, not everyone is them...... Dropping this idea, he said slowly: "Brother Zhigui, when the price of salt was lowest in the Tang Dynasty, a bucket was only ten or twenty yuan, and the benefits of wine were either not allowed to make wine due to lack of food, or let the people of the world make wine. But what about now? Dozens of catties of salt, and 50 to 100 catties of smuggling will be executed, is this the law of the peaceful and prosperous world? ”

Wang Gongchen said: "Governor Zheng, the politics of salt and wine in my dynasty were all improved on the basis of the Tang Dynasty. ”

"Also, but has Brother Jun Zhen ever thought about a question, the politics of salt and wine was improved by our dynasty from the Tang law, but when did the Tang Dynasty appear to make profits on salt and wine and use it for the country? Late Tang Dynasty! The Tang Dynasty began to come to an end, and it had to profit from the people. The common people opened the door for several things, firewood, rice, oil and salt, as well as wine and tea alum, and the imperial court was harsh from these things, is it harsh to the people? Is it a disguised tax increase? ”

"No, the work of internal governance, I should be the first."

"I also said this, compared to other dynasties, my dynasty victory is also better in internal governance, diplomacy is dim, military weak, if there is no internal governance to cover my shame, I am embarrassed to say that I am from the Song Dynasty. It is also because of this internal governance that although it is harsh on the people, the people's grievances are not heavy. There is no internal governance, and he was bullied by the Khitans, and soon the party members will be bullied again. How long do you think this country will hold out? ”

"Xingzhi, needless to say, I already understand, but I'm afraid of losing my vigilance."

"It doesn't matter, in addition to the salt case in this case, there are many homicides, salt, which is a malpractice caused by the state profiting from the people, but the homicide is not. Murder pays for life, debts are repaid, and punishment is not related to the law. This is my opinion, and where to go, it is still up to the three Qincha to decide. ”

It is not that simple, this case has attracted the attention of the people of the world, no matter how it is judged, it will inevitably be regarded as a legal basis by officials in various places in the future, and a light sentence will have the sequelae of a light sentence, and a heavy sentence will have the sequelae of a heavy sentence. Zheng Lang only provided a piece of advice. It must be lightly sentenced, and the biggest mistake is the imperial court, which is the people's livelihood, but it makes the imperial court a tool for collecting money, but it is also afraid of bad consequences, some people are involved in murders, and they must be sentenced heavily, and they are used as a warning.

How to do it exactly, whether it is merit or fault, Zheng Lang does not want to participate, let alone fight with Han Qi for the power of this place. He also said: "Please teach me Brother Zhigui, why does the mean have anything to do with the emigrants?" ”

"You write about the mean, and you write about the way of adjustment, including the world, so there is a chapter of the world. Although you are the prefect of Hangzhou, you must also have the world in mind, and the peace prison is temporarily managed by Hangzhou, but it is finally the prison of the imperial court and the prison of His Majesty. ”

"Yes," Zheng Lang sat down.

Tong Ming drank a glass of stuffy wine, Zheng Lang was convinced, he was not convinced, all this was brought by Zheng Lang. To put it mildly, Zheng Lang has the world in mind and benefits the court, otherwise the sugar workshop and overseas mineral deposits are selfish, and they will not be handed over to the court to operate, and the court will be helpless.

The idea is a bit biased, it is okay not to hand it over to the imperial court to operate, there are many troubles, and the results are slow, especially for overseas mineral deposits, any family and one household have no way to manage a mineral deposit well, and they can find out, but they may not be able to keep it. can keep it, the benefits are too thick, and some people in the court will be red-eyed, and they won't be able to keep it in the end.

Rich is a beautiful word, in which country, if there is a person in the country who has more wealth than the country's wealth, what will be the fate? The Song Dynasty is not good, it will sit back and watch you have millions of assets, but can you sit back and watch you have tens of millions, hundreds of millions of assets?

Besides, what do you do with so much wealth?

In short, Zheng Lang's attitude temporarily satisfied Han Qi, including the unhappiness caused in the court, Han Qi temporarily forgot about it, and said: "Hangzhou has no manpower, but this prison is the prison of the state, and it is related to a lot of wealth of the country, and it is not necessary to allocate manpower from Hangzhou." Across the country, there are many forbidden soldiers, van soldiers, and floating households. ”

"Yes, why didn't I think of it, it's best to ban soldiers, among the redundant numbers of the imperial court, redundant soldiers are the most harmful, in fact, move a move, have income, and adapt to the local weather, which is equivalent to solving a part of the redundant soldiers for the imperial court, and the forbidden soldiers are good, they themselves have a certain combat effectiveness, loyal to the country, to overseas, if there are aborigines to attack, you can take up arms at any time to resist, and the supply point is safe. Brother Zhigui, when you return to the capital, you must say a lot of good things for me. ”

"For the sake of the country, of course, but Xingzhi, the south must have a quasi-letter, so that I can advise you in front of Your Majesty, otherwise I can't easily mobilize the people."

"Don't worry, there will be news soon," Zheng Lang said.

Yuan Meng's two expeditions to the Wa Kingdom left a thick shadow in Zheng Lang's heart, and after arriving in Hangzhou, he carefully interrogated and found that there was an incident in which the sea sank. After all, this was in the Song Dynasty, but it was not as serious as he thought. If a ship sinks every once in a while, how can anyone go to sea? Not to mention that the ship technology of the Song Dynasty was developed, even in the Tang Dynasty, there were not many shipwrecks on the ship. Later generations salvaged shipwrecks, which were accumulated over many years, or even more than a thousand years. That's it, there are not many large ships of the Song Dynasty excavated, without him, it is not sunk to the end of life, but to the age of scrapping to disassemble the end of life, so descendants rarely find large Song Dynasty shipwrecks.

I was in a hurry to go to the South Seas, and even if I ordered a ship, I didn't have time to build it, but I bought several large new ships in advance for mobilization. In addition to the many soldiers, there were also a large number of top miners from various mines in China, who never returned, and were looking for mines, and it was impossible for all of them to have accidents.

After speaking, he clapped his hands and let the singer sing and the dancer dance.

After dispersing happily, Tong Ming stayed, and said ashamedly: "Governor Zheng, I am not as far away as Han Zhifu." ”

Zheng Lang shook his head and smiled.

Don't talk about you, I have countless golden fingers, and many places are far inferior to Han Qi. But Tong Ming's performance today made Zheng Lang a little disappointed.

Today, Zheng Lang's humble concession is the first step in Zheng Lang's huge plan, some of them said it to Fu Bi, and they also listened to Fu Bi's advice, and some did not say it. This plan is the weight loss plan.

Zheng Lang was puzzled for a long time about the relocation of people, what Han Qi said, Zheng Lang had thought about it a long time ago, but it was not as simple as Han Qi said. The three redundancies of the state were not proposed by Zheng Lang first, but by the ministers who had the foresight to mention them a long time ago, including Fan Zhongyan.

No one dares to move the disadvantages of redundant officials, and this involves the interests of officials themselves, including redundant administration. The only ones who dared to move were redundant soldiers, who neglected an important point, the emperor's wishes. Since the Song Dynasty Zhenzong in the Northern Song Dynasty, the emperor gradually became weaker and gave his power to the ministers one by one.

Regardless of the good or bad, there are advantages and disadvantages, but the more this is the case, the more insecurity will arise in the hearts of several emperors. Therefore, there has always been a reluctance to reduce troops, and this is the essence. It took a long time for Zheng Lang to gradually understand this section. That's where the hardest part becomes.

Let's talk about Zhao Zhen's mental path, when he was in charge at the beginning, he was like a reckless young man, rampage, this will definitely not work, either become Emperor Jiajing and fight with the ministers of the court for a lifetime, or become Emperor Longqing, hand over the power of the military state to the ministers, and be a veritable puppet emperor. But Zhao Zhen is neither, no matter which one he is, he will not become a famous Renzong in history.

He is also growing, growing rapidly, first he was disheartened, almost like Emperor Longqing marched into the army, but the battle between the "gentlemen" and "villains" gave Zhao Zhen a wedge opportunity and regained control of the government.

However, at this time, Zhao Zhen was still immature, and for fear of trouble, he chose a few elders as prime ministers, and Zhao Zhen was very disappointed, but he did not re-enable Lu Yijian and Fan Zhongyan. However, Zhang Dexiang and others made the court too quiet, which made Zhao Zhen a little uneasy.

Standing in the bureau, it is difficult to see whether a person is good or bad, that is, Zheng Lang can see who is a good person and who is a bad person with a history book? So Zhao Zhen obeyed Han Qi's advice, because Zhao Zhen intuitively felt that he also needed a person who dared to speak to stand in the court, so that the officials could be clear. It's not the mediocrity written by Zheng Lang, but that Zhao Zhen has grown to this realm. By the time Fan Zhongyan and others presided over military affairs and launched the Qingli New Deal, Zhao Zhen had already fully matured. So at this time, Han Qi's speech was more effective.

Zheng Lang's plan is aimed at this redundant army.

Why did the van soldiers appear in order to adopt the homeless, to support the homeless people and the floating people, there will not be a large number of homeless people, and these homeless people are the main army of every uprising, including Huang Chao and Zhang Shun Wang Xiaobo, all with the homeless people as the main army.

The Song Dynasty punished the disadvantages of the Tang Dynasty and stationed a large number of forbidden soldiers in the important places of Gyeonggi, which were strong and weak, and there would be no warlords and towns, but there were Khitan in the north and party items in the west, so a large number of troops had to be stationed. The more troops on the border, the more troops in the capital. The land annexation was serious, which caused a large number of displaced people, and the number of soldiers increased. That is, the redundant soldiers have become more and more in the future, and they have lost the original role of the army.

When Zheng Lang saw Han Qi, he came up with a way to see if he could borrow Han Qi's strength to join forces with him to persuade Zhao Zhen to send soldiers or forbidden soldiers overseas, as a pioneer of the supply point, plus the original stationed army, which is tantamount to carrying out a small slimming plan for the country's redundant soldiers.

If it succeeds, it will bring back a large amount of metal in the future, and overseas mineral deposits will have a higher status in the eyes of the monarch and ministers, and you can find other reasons, you can grow fruits and vegetables, rice, and some precious timber and spices here. In order to accumulate wealth, more soldiers will be sent to reclaim, not for the colony, but for the purpose of reclamation. When there are more people, they can be mobilized on the spot and join hands with each other to protect security.

If it is well paved, all the way to Oceania, you can get a large number of empty prairie grazing, and bring back excellent war horses, cattle and sheep.

It is mainly Zhao Zhen's idea.

I stayed in Hangzhou, not six years ago, and the two could talk casually and make some persuasion. can only rely on Han Qi.

Therefore, showing weakness, Han Qi is very good-looking, he is not as good as him, and he will mobilize Han Qi's positive surname.

However, Tong Ming's performance slightly disappointed Zheng Lang.

The person who presides over military affairs, he wants to elect Zu Zhongru, and the person who presides over government affairs can't choose courtiers in the court, Lingnan is not willing to go, who would be willing to go overseas. Or call another eunuch? He wanted to elect Tong Ming, and for the overseas natives who could not learn from those ministers in the court, benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, and faith, they should be 'yin' a little. However, Tong Ming's idea is too bad, and he is not qualified to hold this position.

It seems that he has to leave it to the imperial court, and he will not interfere in this matter, although it is his business for now.

But not many days later, the ships from the south returned.

It must not be so smooth, how convenient it is to draw a picture on the map, but in reality, it is a vast area, and after looking for a long time, only three mineral deposits have been found. But this result made Zheng Lang very satisfied, there were many people, and he knew the exact location, otherwise he would not be able to find these three copper mines in ten years if he blindly searched for them. In addition, there are copper mines that are still being searched, and by taking advantage of the trade winds in the south, they will send people back to report that these three mines can be mined.

Not only three copper mines were found, but also iron mines, and there were many rainforests around, whether it was fire or water, all of which created conditions. The so-called fire copper method is to use charcoal as fuel and reducing agent, which is also an ancient copper treatment method in China. Water treatment of copper is later, take bile water, that is, copper sulfate solution, put it in the stone trough, put the broken iron sheet or scrap iron bar in the stone trough, after a chemical reaction, iron replaces copper, copper is free from the solution, after a little smelting, pure copper is obtained. This method has been circulating among the people before, and it was Qian Xun, the official of Dongtou, who reported this technology to the imperial court a few years ago. The imperial court has verified that there is no formal promotion, but Xinzhou has this technology, which can smelt 380,000 catties of copper a year. This method has the lowest cost of copper smelting and has been used for generations to come. But the water is poor, the soil is endless, after all, the bile water is less, more is solid ore, so on the basis of fire copper smelting and water copper smelting, the folk invented the technology of pouring copper in bile soil.

The imperial court did not promote it, but at the request of Zheng Lang, craftsmen like these craftsmen with advanced prospecting and metallurgical technology were brought out one after another.

Therefore, if you want to smelt copper, you must have iron ore nearby, and it is impossible to bring scrap iron bars from the country, although scrap iron bars are not valuable, but after crossing the sea, the loess has also turned into gold. There should be trees. The backwardness of technology requires more labor.

All three are available, but there are also disadvantages. There are aborigines nearby, who can be forcibly taken to work as miners in the future, and they are labor resources, but the language is not understood, the customs are different, and along the way, there have been five small battles of different sizes.

There is copper, which is better than expected, and even some copper mines find a lot of bile water, which is relatively easy to mine. However, there are many indigenous people in the area, and if you want to mine safely, you must also garrison a large number of troops to defend it. Moreover, although the copper mine is large, it is the poorest porphyry mine, and the area is large, and it can be mined in multiple places at the same time to make up for the barrenness of the mineral deposits. Therefore, if you want to produce a high output, you must bring in more labor.

Zheng Lang couldn't cry or laugh.

Poor?

Unless the whole ready-made copper mountain is stacked where, it is like Yongxing Field and Cen Water Field, there are mines, boom, thousands of people poured over, or how many years, it will be "finished", in fact, it is not finished, it is the bile water used up, the remaining solid ore, the cost of copper pouring method is high, and the people are not willing to continue mining, so the mine is scrapped.

Anyway, Zheng Lang can't imagine what these large copper mines will make the miners look like. Fortunately, several mines are very large, although they are so-called poor mines, and that mine is also hundreds of times the reserves of Shinshu copper mines, even if they are bad, they can be bad for many years. It's really not good, go inside, Oceania is more abundantly distributed.

Three messengers and two transport envoys were called and explained the situation.

Han Qi stared at his two eyes and asked, "Is there really a mine?" ”

Zheng Lang couldn't help rolling his eyes.

"Xingzhi, you misunderstood what I meant, it's a good thing for the country, you immediately write a report to Your Majesty."

"Okay," in the absence of a conflict of interest, Han Qi has no need to doubt his loyalty to the country.

There is no need to be in such a hurry, once someone is officially sent to open the mine, there will be many people who go, and there will be a lot of baggage supplies, which is not like going to the Japanese country, where you can get a lot of food and materials from the Japanese trade. There is a preparation time, and each deed stock should also be arranged. It is necessary to wait for the will of the imperial court, which will provide soldiers, weapons, and gunpowder. It is also necessary to wait, there are many typhoons in July, and the navigation is not very safe, and there are many southerly winds, the speed of the ship is slow, not a cargo ship, and some ships are loaded with many people, so it is better to pay attention to safety and arrive at the destination quickly, so it is best to wait until the end of September.

However, it is good news, and it finally brings a joy to the gloomy Hangzhou.

Therefore, the main thing was to see them off, and they could not wait for the envoys of the Japanese slave country to return, so Ma Sui first sailed to the Japanese slave country with various supplies.

With the issuance of the pardon, an individual prisoner was dealt with lightly, and Hangzhou gradually returned to peace. That's when something happened again. There is a mountain temple in the north of Qiancheng, the name is Yanwei Temple, and its temple stands in Yanwei Ridge, so it is also named.

This temple incense is very prosperous, it is one of the big temples in the city of Hangzhou, and there are many fields under the temple. There is a field property that encroaches on the river of Tianmu River, which not only occupies the river, but also encloses it with a small lake by the stream, becoming fertile land.

Zheng Lang did not expect these great monks to have this consciousness, and would take the initiative to cooperate with the government and return the fields to the lakes and rivers to clear the waterways. Fu Bi and a number of other officials tried, some successful, some unsuccessful. Zheng Lang didn't ask, just drew a map, indicating that the land was illegal, but did nothing and forcibly demolished it.

It wasn't until the news of the Dharma debate spread that some of the great monks began to loosen. Because Zheng Lang didn't do too much, he was exchanging fields for fields, not really forcibly demolishing fields. But Zheng Lang still hasn't said anything. As a matter of fact, after last year and this spring, the fertile land encroached upon by large households in many localities has been returned to lakes and rivers or to the people one by one, and the waterways are much better than last year. Including this year's rainy season, the West Lake has been safe and sound, all thanks to water conservancy.

However, these encroached fields still pose a local threat, and the land of Yanwei Temple has caused harm.

At the beginning of July, a typhoon arrived, bringing heavy downpours, because of this enclosed field, the upper reaches of Tianmu River could not be discharged, flooded from the side, flooding more than 2,000 acres of fertile land, including three people let the flood drown.

The typhoon passed, the flash flood stopped, but the left side was a mess, before the change, they thought they were unlucky, the people cried, and when they met good-hearted officials who were exempted from taxes, it was good. However, some people saw that Zheng Lang intended to invade the fields of these monasteries, so they bewitched them, and the three lawsuits found these bitter masters, including the three family members who were drowned in the flood, and filed a lawsuit for them, claiming to give them money, and they did not pay no fees.

More than 100 bitter owners listened to the words of the three lawsuits and came to Yuqian County to file a lawsuit. After Sima Guang took over the case, he made a judgment, ordering Yanwei Temple to immediately demolish the enclosed field, and at the same time compensate the victim's family with 1,000 yuan to compensate and bereave.

Under the verdict, both parties were not satisfied, and the bitter lord thought that the compensation was small, and Yanwei Temple did not want to compensate at all, let alone demolish the fields without compensation.

So he went to Hangzhou again.

After Zheng Lang took over the case, he made a judgment again, and immediately demolished it, not a sentence, but immediately demolished it, regardless of whether there were crops that were about to mature inside, and asked the state officials to dig up the enclosed field with a group of officials. Not only that, but the Yanwei Temple was heavily sentenced to compensate the people for the loss of 3,000 yuan.

This time, the bitter lord was willing, and the great monks of Yanwei Temple were not happy. It happened that the three Qincha were still sentencing the prisoners one by one, and they did not leave, and several monks, under the leadership of the host, stopped Yang Anguo and forcibly sued.

Yang Anguo called Zheng Lang, I don't know what to say, after a long time, he said: "Even if it is demolished, you have to wait for them to harvest the crops, you have not only harmed these monks, but also harmed the monks who planted." "Master Yang, as soon as this case is over, I will clean up the encroachment of these monasteries. In mid-September, I think Hangzhou really returned to calm. Zheng Lang replied.

Yang Anguo couldn't keep silent, he finally heard that it was not the verdict of this case, it was Zheng Lang who sounded the horn of another major event.