On the third day of New Year's Day, officials in charge of military security in Quanzhou and Xinghua arrived in Fuzhou at the request of Xu Yuanzhi, the pacification envoy on Fujian Road.

On New Year's Day, they were supposed to be at home to reunite with their families, but they were taken to Fuzhou on the grounds that 'piracy is rampant', and these officials were not in a good mood. Fortunately, Fuzhou is lively, even if it is not as prosperous as Quanzhou, there are many local activities on New Year's Day. For the same big drama, the overall quality of Fuzhou surpasses that of the Yongxing Army. The people in Quanzhou were not interested, but the Yongxing army still felt so-so.

"Recently, Quanzhou and Fuzhou have reported that pirates have robbed ships, and at this time, the big ships heading south have already set sail. It is not easy for the small boats on the sea to resist the Shanghai bandits. As a pacification envoy of Fujian Road, Xu Yuanzhi talked about official affairs quite majesticly.

In addition to Fuzhou, the officials of the three places turned their faces to listen to the appeasement envoy to speak here. Zhao Jiaren, as one of them, was also listening, but he was a little absent-minded. Because of this order, he failed to lead the team to Mulan Pi to worship Qian Siniang's temple. It can be seen that Xu Yuanzhi is determined to call Zhao Jiaren here.

In addition, the meetings in the Southern Song Dynasty were relatively boring, and Zhao Jiaren had already had sufficient experience in the previous life. According to the 'ancestral family law', the Southern Song Dynasty adopted 'different theories to stir things up' and 'big and small systems'. Generally speaking, it is to divide power and check each other.

It is impossible to have a situation where the XX officers are angry and the officials below kneel on the ground. That was a slave situation peculiar to the Manchu dynasty. Even the pacification envoy, who was theoretically the convener of the local military, is now an idle post. The specific implementation is not the responsibility of the pacification envoy. Not to mention that Xu Yuanzhi slapped the table, he just lifted the table and smashed it, and the county lieutenant Zhao Jiaren would not be afraid at all, and there was no reason to carry out Xu Yuanzhi's order.

Just when Zhao Jiaren was waiting for the end of the meeting, the local person in charge of Quanzhou put forward an opinion, "Can you ask the Left Wing Army to send ships to exterminate it?" ”

Zhao Jiaren has not cared about Quanzhou affairs for a long time, and some people think that Xu Yuanzhi is a preconceived idea that he got himself to talk about things, and Zhao Jiaren instinctively thinks that this time the bandits are probably a pretext. At this time, Quanzhou put forward a non-nonsense statement at the meeting, and Zhao Jiaren was quite surprised. I haven't seen you for a few months, are the pirates in Fujian really so ferocious?

"It was the Pu family fleet that was robbed these times, and it seems that the bandits decided that the Pu family was fighting. In this case, asking the Left Wing Army to send sailors to help, it will probably work wonders. The officials in Quanzhou continued their elaborations.

Xu Yuanzhi didn't think that this meeting was very important, he just bluffed, and wanted to get Zhao Jiaren, who was tossing in the Xinghua Army like a wild horse, to Fuzhou to calm down. I didn't expect Quanzhou to really take this matter seriously. Just when most people showed an expression of 'this has nothing to do with me', Xu Yuanzhi saw a happy smile on Zhao Jiaren's face. Although it was only for a moment, the joy from the heart made Zhao Jiaren's whole person look bright.

However, this change did not attract the attention of others, and Xu Yuanzhi did not withdraw his gaze, he swept the faces of a group of Quanzhou officials, and then asked: "The command of the left-wing army has not arrived this time. We will discuss the results first, and then we will discuss them with the Left Wing Army. ”

The meeting was conducted in. After the meeting ended in the afternoon, Zhao Jiaren went to Xu Yuanzhi's side as agreed in advance.

When the two met, Xu Yuanzhi said to Zhao Jiaren with a straight face: "County Lieutenant Zhao." You've done a little too much in the Xinghua Army. ”

"I'm worried that the people over there in Mulan Pi will gather." Zhao Jiaren said half of it, he didn't want to take out the prediction above the court together. Ding Daquan offended many people when he was the left minister, and these people did not suddenly become Ding Daquan's enemies one day, but accumulated for a long time. If Ding Daquan himself was under little pressure, Jia Yidao's letter of recommendation would not have worked.

Xu Yuanzhi was calm, "You don't need to care about this matter. The official family is a smart man, and with the sage of Lord Ding, he will be fine. ”

Zhao Jiaren had a very weak impression of Song Lizong, and the old emperor did not perform particularly well in his later years. In the previous life, Zhao Jiaren was studying hard, and when he was admitted to the Jinshi, Song Lizong had already returned to heaven.

Seeing Zhao Jiaren's expression with disapproval, Xu Yuanzhi continued: "County Lieutenant Zhao, I thought that you were young and vigorous, and when you arrived in Putian, you drove the people and forcibly expropriated the rich households. You're a teenager, you can't do it over there. I didn't say anything. I didn't expect you to be able to work in person, so that the local people believed in you, so I called you. When I see what you do, it is a trigram. ”

"Don't use the hidden dragon? Kang Long has regrets? Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but ask.

Xu Yuanzhi was a little surprised, and when Zhao Jiaren said it casually, it can be seen that he has also read the Book of Changes. Teenage dolls are also well-read. Xu Zhiyuan opened his mouth to express his opinion, "The gentleman works all day long, and he is not to blame. ”

Zhao Jiaren did read the I Ching, which means that a gentleman is conscientious during the day and vigilant at night, so that there will be no disaster. Everyone has a different opinion on the book of I Ching, and he doesn't know what Xu Yuanzhi's level is. He could only say tentatively: "The people are angry......

"That's why you have to be able to hold your breath." Xu Yuanzhi interrupted Zhao Jiaren's words impolitely, "Don't look down on yourself, feel that if you can't do it, then the matter will be fruitless." Brother Zhao, the thing at this time is that if you can't hold on, this matter will never be pushed forward. You've done everything you need to do so far, and you'll have to wait for the follow-up. ”

Previous experience tells Zhao Jiaren that the system of the Great Song Dynasty is, in a sense, a succession and defeat. Rigaku, which is trying to occupy the moral high ground with all its might, every once in a while, the nonsense of the people in Rigaku is countered by the doers. The ministers often have accidents and rotate, and if they want to do things in such a situation, they can only rely on themselves. He really has no experience in this area of cooperation. Even someone who can trust and cooperate so much, Zhao Jiaren is the first time to see it. In Zhao Jiaren's caustic view, Da Song has a deal but no cooperation. Looking at Xu Yuanzhi, who was around forty years old again, Zhao Jiaren wanted to see how much of his words were sincere.

"After you return to Putian, you will repair the canal and don't do anything else. As long as the prison is mentioned, the matter can continue. Xu Yuanzhi said his opinion, "Brother Zhao, you must be able to endure it at this time." ”

The emergency meeting lasted for two days, and the officials in charge of the guards in Xinghua Army, Quanzhou, and Fuzhou discussed a result that was not at all urgent. The attacked Pu family was handed over to the sailors of the Left Wing Army to help. As for how the Left Wing Army and the Pu family cooperated, it had nothing to do with the localities.

Because of Zhao Jiaren's radicalism, no one in the Xinghua Army wanted to deal with him. was speechless along the way, and when he returned to Putian, there were fathers and elders waiting for Zhao Jiaren. The local elders of Beiqu who came to see Zhao Jiaren cried after seeing Zhao Jiaren. It turned out that they went to worship Qian Siniang's temple on New Year's Day, and there was a problem in the middle of what was supposed to be a good thing, and the locals in Mulan Pi were noisy.

"Fortunately, County Lieutenant Zhao had already said that he was afraid that someone would make trouble, so we couldn't help but do nothing. It's just that I can't swallow this breath. The people over there said that Qian Siniang's temple has nothing to do with us! It's clear that he doesn't want to share the water with us. The elder said indignantly.

This is what Zhao Jiaren is most worried about, in such an era, there will be a lot of conflicts between people in different villages. Things have come to this point, and Zhao Jiaren, a small county lieutenant, has no room to play. Zhao Jiaren suddenly felt that Xu Yuanzhi, the governor of Fuzhou and the pacification of Fujian Road, was a very smart person, and when he got Zhao Jiaren to Fuzhou for a meeting, it meant that Zhao Jiaren actually lost this gap period.

As for the explanation of the Qiangua, it is probably expected that Zhao Jiaren will not continue to make trouble in the future. Such a two-pronged approach is really quite stable.

No matter what he thought in his heart, Zhao Jiaren was facing those emotional villagers. Zhao Jiaren squeezed out a smile and said loudly: "Everyone." Even if we don't have the water of Mulan Creek, we still have the water of Yanshou Creek. If we can repair the canal of Yanshou River first, we can also make this year's harvest better. After the death of the Zhang butcher, I will not eat the hairy pig. ”

The mood of the people has been boosted by Zhao Jiaren's efforts in the past few months, and the poor life has finally seen the end, and the people are naturally a hundred times more courageous. Seeing that Zhao Jiaren showed no signs of admitting cowardice, their mood quickly recovered.

In the following half a month, Zhao Jiaren insisted on repairing the canal. However, one day, someone suddenly ran over in a hurry and told Zhao Jiaren, who was directing the excavation, that someone had been killed in an accident in the former village. Zhao Jiaren was taken aback, and he hurriedly rushed to the front village.

Like normal people, Zhao Jiaren is also afraid of death. It would be better if he died in the battle with the enemy Pu family, but if he died in such a seemingly meaningless matter, Zhao Jiaren felt that he would not be blind to death. Since he was worried about this, he found some clever guys and taught them the technique of blasting. Anyway, it was just a few basic points that Zhao Jiaren considered, and the key technology of granular gunpowder was not passed on, and learning these small skills was of limited significance.

Along the way, Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but feel a little worried in his heart, after something happened, what would happen to the families of those people? Will you pounce on Zhao Jiaren to fight, and at the same time shout 'It's all your fault'? Or are more people staring at Zhao Jiaren like a murderer, comprehensively questioning the use of gunpowder blasting as an evil way to kill people, and then making many unrealistic demands?

When I arrived at the former village, I saw that not far from the blasting point, someone was placed on the ground. Looking at the blood stains on his body and that posture, it made people think that he was hopeless. I checked my pulse and didn't respond. Listening to the heartbeat, I opened my eyelids and saw that there was no sign of life.

At this moment, an old lady came with the help of others. When the old lady saw the man on the ground, she pounced on him and tried to wake him up.

The elder next to him sighed, "County Lieutenant Zhao, the gunpowder didn't explode." I waited for a while, and this one leaned in. Unexpectedly, as soon as he passed, the explosives suddenly exploded......"

Zhao Jiaren could think of this, but what he was worried about was not to get into trouble. It's a human life, after all. So Zhao Jiaren said: "The matter has come to this, let's arrange the future." ”

When the old lady next to her heard this, and she couldn't wake up her son even after trying her best, she burst into tears. The emotion came from the heart, and everyone around sighed.

To Zhao Jiaren's surprise, although the deceased's relatives hugged their heads and cried, no one rushed to Zhao Jiaren to 'settle accounts'. It's not that they don't dare, it's that no one thinks that way at all. This surprised Zhao Jiaren.

The next day, the construction of the canal was suspended for one day. Those who were engaged in more dangerous jobs were concentrated, some of whom could read and some of whom could not. I saw that the rock wall behind the main seat was written with clay juice and a few big words, "safe production is more important than Mount Tai".