Previously, Wang Ju's poem and Jiaozhi of Li Changjie were not returned to the imperial court on the matter of the captive people.

Zhao Ji was furious and deliberately issued an edict to ask Wang Ju to ask for someone from Jiaozhi, if he didn't pay it back, within four years, he must sacrifice the heads of Li Qiande and Li Changjie.

I don't want to sacrifice the prisoners, but put them to death.

In fact, Zhao Ju's mood is also what Wang Ju needs, what happened made Guo Kui sway in Siming Prefecture for more than two months, Wang Ju didn't know very well, he went to Guizhou to hand over, the original Guizhou Zhizhou was Zhao Wei, but Zhao Ju is also a person with a lot of thoughts, Wang Ju didn't dare to ask more, even if he asked, Zhao Ju may not tell the truth.

Maybe Wang Anshi and Wu Chong did play some very bad negative roles in the middle.

Don't underestimate Wu Chong, if you can come up, none of them are simple, Wang Shao is relatively simple, but he can go down quickly.

With this fact and this poem, even Wu Chong is not very easy to say.

Why do the people around Wang Ju have "different hearts", it is because they feel that this kind of strange drag burden is very bent for the Song Dynasty. But without this strange system, would Wang Ju have done so much? changed the Ming and Qing dynasties, and most of them were stuck.

This is the rule of the Song Dynasty, don't complain, learn to use the rules.

After Wang Ju received the edict, he sent an envoy to Jiaozhi and asked Jiaozhi to release him.

It took nearly two months for Jiaozhi to brawl before the people were released and an envoy was sent to Yongzhou. The people who were released were in Yongzhou, so the envoy stayed in Yongzhou.

Tao Bi sent someone to inform Wang Ju, and Wang Ju rode to Yongzhou.

The people have not yet been settled, and they have nothing. How to place. And where they come from. You must send someone to verify them one by one before you can be repatriated to your hometown.

Wang Ju looked at the people and smiled angrily.

There are quite a few people, more than 20,000 people, but they are all old, weak, sick and disabled.

"Tao Gong, where is the Jiaozhi Messenger?"

"Over there." Tao Bi pointed with his finger.

The messenger came and gave a salute, and he was not too arrogant.

In fact, before he came, Jiaozhi had already sent scouts to secretly inquire. I learned a few pieces of news, one is that this new Guangnan West Road Governor seems to be very capable of fighting, and once defeated Western Xia. Although it is far away, Gyeongju Dajie can still inquire about it.

The second is Wang Ju's official position, and the two Guang Xuanfu envoys. Later generations may be a little vague about these temporary errands, but in this era, everyone can easily understand them. The Xuanfu envoy and the Jingluo envoy are both related to the military, the difference is that the Xuanfu envoy must be the governor of the two prefectures to serve, when Wang Ju came, the imperial court granted a privy councillor officer. In order to let Wang Ju have the authority to take charge of the two Guangzhous and eliminate Jiaozhi. In addition, it can also be regarded as Zhao Ji's compensation for Wang Ju's contributions.

Although he is not a real prime minister. But it is equivalent to a magistrate, so with the Xuanfu envoy, knowing Guizhou has become a judgment Guizhou.

The envoy is not only related to military power, but also can hold power, that is, Wang Ju has the right to manage the government affairs of the two provinces.

What did the Song Dynasty do when it sent this minister who could fight to Liangguang?

said that the Song Dynasty wanted to continue to use soldiers, so Wang Ju also had to bring other official positions, such as Guo Kui's Annan Dao camp and horse infantry army were in charge of recruiting envoys, which was a sword finger. At least Wang Ju has to bring a recruiter, which is the official position of the attack.

In addition, he also learned that Wang Ju was recruiting native soldiers in Guang and intended to attack, but on the other side, he was building a Guan Zhai in Guang and intended to defend.

Then a large number of "black slaves" came from nowhere, some were building Guanzhai, and some were building roads and bridges, as if they were large-scale internal governance of Guangnan West Road.

Therefore, it makes Cochin a little confused.

So he singled out the old, weak, sick and disabled among the captive people and sent them back to the Song Dynasty together, testing the reality of the Song Dynasty by the way.

"You are Li Gui, the messenger of Jiaozhi?"

"Exactly."

"This is the people you repatriated?"

"That's right, last year China sent Guo Gong to attack our country, and my country was small and sparsely populated, so I had to let some strong Ding Zhuang build a defense line, and as a result, many Ding Zhuang died of malaria, and the rest are all here."

"Li Gui, I don't know if the relationship between your Jiaozhi and Champa has improved?"

"What?"

"If I persuade the imperial court to fund 50,000 sets of armor and 50,000 divine arm bows for free in order to fight against you before you recover from the city, will they attack you and force you to return the three states and the Vindra Batmana before you recover?"

Just one sentence made Li Gui's forehead sweat cold.

He was stunned and said, "Prince, our Jiaozhi is a subject country of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"Since you know that you are a vassal country, you should act as a vassal country."

"Yes, yes, but may I ask one thing, what is the intention of the prince to recruit soldiers in Quang Nam?"

"Can you believe your hand-to-heart? Can I not guard against your hand? ”

"The prince repaired the city defense and recruited soldiers, which is somewhat worrying."

"What do you mean, just like Yongzhou before, there is no border defense, no army, and you are allowed to come to burn, kill, and plunder, unimpeded?"

"No, it won't."

"I hope not, you go back, say to your lord, and quickly return the rest of the people to our Song Dynasty. If you don't keep your oath, don't blame us for not keeping your oath! ”

Li Gui and his entourage let Wang Ju send him away.

Tao Bi said worriedly: "Zi'an, I'm afraid these people won't come back." ”

If Wang Ju didn't come to Guangnan, in the end, the Song Dynasty used the five states of Guangyuan ceded by Jiaozhi to build another Qiyuan state to replace some of the people. But even if Wang Ju came, he didn't have any good way now, forcing Jiaozhi to send the people back.

In fact, I can only complain about Guo Kui's retreat, don't sneak away in the middle of the night, and then the three armies fled to the rear in a rout. When Cochin sees this, can he still be afraid?

"I'm slowly trying to figure out how to ......"

"There is one more thing, you should also pay attention to it, although Zi'an has given you a heavy reward, there are still many villages that are unwilling to cooperate with the government to recruit troops, and they have been secretly fighting with Shenglong Mansion."

This is not a piece of good news.

As long as these tribes are the inner line, with the thin defense line of the six southern states, it is easy to be broken through by Jiaozhi, even if those few passes are gradually built, it will not work.

Wang Ju scratched his chin, thought for a while and said, "It's really not good." out of a higher reward. Money is moving. I don't believe that they love their own people as much as they love their children. If it doesn't work, let them deal with it slowly in the future. ”

"It's going to cost a lot of money." In order to recruit these 100,000 native soldiers, the money was spent so that Tao Bi felt pain when he watched from the sidelines.

"No matter how much money you spend, you have to find ways to let their villagers enter the recruitment, as long as they enter the recruitment, I will have a way to deal with them." Wang Ju said.

In fact, it can basically be seen now. In addition to the special closed areas, the rest, friendly to the Song Dynasty, did not need Wang Ju to pay a lot of money, more or less automatically sent some children to be local soldiers, ambiguously saw the benefits, and also sent the children of the village over. The rest can be said to be very tenacious tribes. But Wang Ju also needs time now, he thought for a while and said: "Tao Gong, anyway, most of the native soldiers will be sent overseas for training, and it is difficult for Jiaozhi to find out the specific details. Therefore, it is possible to send someone to threaten. It is said that we are doing this, but we are defending it with heavy troops. It's not about attacking Cochin. ”

"Okay, has General Yan arrived on the other side?"

"Arrived safely."

"That's good, slowly drag on this year."

"Well, it should be okay, although our army suffered heavy losses in World War I last year, but once Jiaozhi was in danger of annihilation, and they were also afraid, so they will not settle down in the future, but they dare not be excessive."

"That's right, the Jiaozhi policy is more cunning, and it has not yet invaded our dynasty, so it immediately migrated the people to the three states of Dili, so that the city of Zhancheng could not be captured."

"Champa is not a good commodity either." Wang Ju said disdainfully.

This matter also needs to be written.

Wang Ju wrote the recital and quickly sent it to the capital.

After Zhao Ji saw it, he was furious again, threw the song to the ground, and said angrily: "It's too much to deceive people!" ”

Wang Jue picked up the chapter again and said: "Since the imperial court has sent Wang Ju to run Liangguang, in a few years, he should be insulted by Song Xue, and His Majesty does not need to be angry." In fact, it's okay to do this, the court can't cut down unrighteous soldiers. ”

Zhao Ji walked a few steps and asked, "Wang Ju wrote to build a book to transport kapok by sea, how did you discuss?" Why the long delay? ”

"Some people agree, but some people oppose it, for two reasons: sea routes are unfamiliar, and people still think that it is more risky than inland waterway transportation. Secondly, the monsoon is also a problem, the early-maturing kapok can be transported to the north by the monsoon, and the late-maturing kapok is too late, and it must wait until the next year to be transported back to the north. ”

"Then wait a minute, isn't there a storage warehouse in Quang Nam?"

"Then the old minister will draw up an edict and send it to Guangnan."

Wu Chong said on the side: "Your Majesty, if you use sea ships, I'm afraid that the maritime merchants will be even more unscrupulous." ”

"After a few years, the imperial court will send officials to manage it, what are you afraid of?"

"But who does the imperial court send to manage it, and how does it manage it?"

Zhao Ji was speechless.

This is not only the maritime businessmen, but also Wang Ju.

This year's disasters are still quite severe, especially in the southeast.

Zhao Luan was in Yuezhou, and saw that the disaster situation was severe, so he learned from Wang Anshi, all the states were listed on the roads, and grain merchants were strictly forbidden to raise the price of rice. After hearing about it, the rice merchants in Zhuzhou transported the rice to Yuezhou, but they could not transport it back, so they had to sell it at a lower price, so the people did not starve to death.

In fact, this practice is really harming others and benefiting oneself, food is limited, the people of Yuezhou have survived, and the people in other areas are sad.

Some ministers reported that five or six people died of starvation in the two provinces, and five or six out of ten people died of starvation. It was certainly not so strict, but it did starve a lot of people to death. Not only the drought, mainly the locust plague, the actual disaster is the most serious area is Liangzhejiang, Huainan East Road, the real land of fish and rice, such as Liangzhewei, Jiangdong Wei, the drought will not have much impact, but the locusts came, even the green seedlings in the polders around the field were eaten, which brought a fatal famine.

He wrote to the officials of Chuzhou, saying that the common people had no food, and they began to catch locusts to eat.

In ancient times, the people were in awe of locusts.

Hungry for this.

Zhao Ji asked Lu Bing, the deputy envoy of the shipment, if there was such a thing, Lu Bing said honestly, yes, the people were very hungry, and the dead were in each other's homes.

Zhao Ji was miserable.

It happened that the grain of the maritime merchants arrived, which solved the urgent needs of the imperial court, but because of the non-cooperation of the city, the food raised by the maritime merchants was insufficient, so they left a tail.

The people were so hungry that they had no way out, although the disaster was not as good as Xining for seven years, but the two Zhejiang provinces were close to Fujian Road, so they flocked to Fujian Road together. Ge Shaohua also expressed his sadness, there are too many people coming, where can he get so much food? And what about so many people? He is not Wang Ju, and he may be unlucky to take away so many people at once. And even if the fleet is full, it may not be able to carry it away, and there will be stranded people.

Ge Shaohua had no choice but to buy a batch of grain from the local big grain merchants and landlords at a high price. Fortunately, Wang Ju Yuen is still there, Ge Shaomen is a servant from Wang Ju's mansion, and he has done well in the future, and the main households and grain merchants have not made black money, although the price has increased, but it has not risen too much.

Then Ge Shaohua immediately asked the sea boats, regardless of whether they brought goods or not, to hurriedly take the monsoon to the Japanese slave country and Goryeo, try to get as much food as possible, and return immediately when the monsoon turns.

The officials and officials saw that Ge Shaohua was busy and a little funny, anyway, they have been like this all these years, and there has been no big mess.

With Ge Shaohua writing to Wang Ju.

Sold to the imperial court for a favor before, it was also Wang Ju's order, and four ships of copper were transported, which were also four ships, but this year, most of the ships were obtained.

Ge Shaohua wrote to the imperial court in the name of maritime merchants, saying that overseas people also needed to trade, but there was a lack of copper coins, and the maritime merchants did not dare to mint coins privately, so they shipped four ships of copper to exchange copper coins with the imperial court.

Song Dynasty copper coins are not pure copper cast, but alloys, there are lead, tin and copper, lead tin in the Song Dynasty is not worth much, so the exchange of copper for coins will also make the court profitable. This shows that the maritime merchants are good citizens who abide by the law, so there is no need to be so suspicious.

However, there are more people, and Ge Shaohua is still very worried. Wang Ju also asked Ge Shaohua to write to the imperial court, and each seaman used "their own" sea ships as collateral to borrow 5 million yuan worth of silk silk from the imperial court, which was repaid in two years, and was willing to pay two cents of interest every year. That is, two years later, the imperial court earned another two million guan.

Zhao Ji was puzzled after seeing the twists and turns, these maritime merchants have money, and if they donate a lot of money, it is millions of high-priced grain, so why are they short of money?

So he called the ministers of the two governments and three departments to discuss.

Everyone agreed together, this is called lending, why bother with those ordinary people's green seedlings loans, it is a fool not to make money if you don't make money.

However, they also did not understand why these seamen would borrow.

The results came out, and the silk silk was loaned out and transported to Lingnan together, and Wang raised huge military expenses.

Do such maritime merchants still need to be guarded against?

Isn't it just the migration of some destitute people? Moreover, a few years later, it was successively handed over to the imperial court for management, no matter how the imperial court managed, it proved that they did not have the intention of being an overseas king.

However, because of the favor of the imperial court, how many good deeds did these maritime merchants did and how many difficulties did they help the imperial court over?

Many ministers still agreed, especially Li Changjie's poem spread, and even the moderate ministers were angry.

But you have to use money to fight, so far Wang Ju has not embezzled money from the court, but how much financial revenue can Liangguang have, which is undoubtedly to save a lot of military spending for the imperial court.

However, some ministers were even more worried, Wang Ju's status in the hearts of these maritime merchants was too high. So there is this conversation with Wu Chong. It can't be said that it doesn't make people suspicious, these people are scattered, if they are brought together, plus the people who are stranded in Quanzhou this year and are preparing to migrate overseas, they can all build a small and medium-sized country. And there is still next year......

As a result, some very few conservative or disgusted ministers threatened that this year's Quanzhou maritime merchants said that because of the occupation of the city, there was a shortage of food, which was intentional. The imperial court was waiting for this batch of food relief, because of the lack of food, many people starved to death. In this way, a large number of people were forced to migrate overseas.

But no one takes this seriously, people are righteous deeds, taxes are paid, and taxes are paid, do they really owe the court food?

There are grain merchants and big lords who have grain, and they are hoarding one by one, and if they have the ability to donate grain, then they will not starve to death!

Zhao Ji also disdained this statement, and reprimanded several ministers who wrote to him. But it is inevitable that there will be some suspicions, he wants a minister and a good minister, not an overseas king.

Zhao Ji walked a few more steps, and suddenly asked, "Gong Wu, do you have a past life?" (To be continued......)