Judge of the Song Dynasty Chapter 775: Monetization

In fact, most people are not aware of a problem, which is that the public security organs and law are not prepared for the small farmer economy, but for the upcoming commercial society.

The plan to not use Qianlong mainly consists of two parts. The first part is about the public security and law, and the second part is to suggest that the emperor shift his focus from agriculture to commerce.

The two complement each other.

While in Hezhong Mansion, Zhang Fei did not forcefully break through the village's defenses, which was one of the reasons.

Because in a purely small-scale peasant economy, the role played by the public prosecutors and law is actually limited. Only when commerce develops will the role of the public prosecutors and law be truly reflected.

At that time, the rural areas in Hezhong Prefecture did not have that much need for public security, procuratorate, and law, so Zhang Fei only completed the connection between public security, procuratorate, and rural areas.

Now, if we first build the public security system and then activate commercial development, we will get twice the result with half the effort.

"Shopkeeper, bring me two pounds of paper."

Sima Guang, who had just been released from office, was passing by Huang's paper shop and wanted to buy some paper to take home.

"It's Sima Xianggong."

Seeing that it was Sima Guang, the shopkeeper of the paper shop hurriedly went out to salute, and then said: "I'm so sorry, all this paper is sold out."

Sima Guang was surprised, "Sold out?"

The shopkeeper nodded and said: "In the past few days, many people have come to buy paper, and pens and ink, but they are all gone."

Sima Guang frowned and said: "The first batch of tax coins will be issued tomorrow."

The shopkeeper smiled and said: "Now the Ma family can directly exchange tax coins for money. No one is worried about the tax coins. On the contrary, the Recording Lane is overcrowded. Many businessmen have to sign contracts, most of which are paper and ink. They all bought it, and the polytechnics and hospitals all need paper, so they simply can’t supply it."

Sima Guang nodded slightly and asked: "When will your store have paper?"

The shopkeeper said: "Didn't Mr. Sima hear about it?"

"What did you hear?"

Sima Guang said in astonishment.

The shopkeeper said: "That's right. The business office is selling some goods, including a lot of paper. Our proprietor is currently negotiating with Director Cai. Maybe we will have paper in two days."

"Cai Jing?"

Sima Guang thought to himself, didn’t Cai Jing go to Huaizhou?

Alum Tower.

"Fan Yuanwai."

A young man said to Fan Yong: "You can't do this for buying and selling. The court has just decided to issue tax coins. The price of your wine has gone up, and it's gone up a little too much. Did you go crazy with hunger a while ago?" ”

Fan Yong sighed, "Forgive me, Mr. Liu, but you really can't blame me. Didn't the wine tax come out this year? For example, the Hezhi wine you just drank will be taxed at 40%. How else? If the price increases, we will have to compensate for the amount we sell. Fruit wine is cheaper than before, and only has a 5% tax."

A young man sitting with me said: "Everyone has been paying attention to tax coins recently, forgetting that the wine tax has already come out."

Then Mr. Liu said: "The 40% tax is a bit too expensive."

Fan Yong said: "There is no way to do this. It is said that the food supply has not completely recovered, but the weather has been good this year, and it may be reduced next year."

In the largest private room upstairs.

"Director Cai, everyone has signed, please take a look."

A civil servant handed a contract to Cai Jing.

Cai Jing took it, looked at the signature area, stood up, and said to the wealthy businessmen in the room: "The imperial court's inventory can only last a few months, but you will have to rely on yourselves from now on."

"Yes yes yes."

Those wealthy businessmen nodded repeatedly and expressed their gratitude to the court for giving them this opportunity. Huang Can even said: "When my workshop is built and we can supply this ordinary paper, it won't be a problem. Director Cai can rest assured."

This round of fiscal reform mainly focuses on two points, monetization and commodification. To put it more simply, it means changing the supply and demand relationship from the previous self-sufficiency to buying from merchants, and at the same time betting the media on banknotes. above.

It can be seen that Xue Xiang is still very smart. Although the tax currency bill was proposed by Zhang Fei, his reform is actually a systemic one. However, he had already done this when he was in Hezhong Mansion. Reform the salt banknotes, and then implement the tea-horse trade to obtain more horses with the least money.

However, only the production model is changing, and productivity has not improved significantly.

The imperial court can only do this. Next, it depends on the merchants' own abilities, whether they can improve their technology and expand production.

The textile merchant Mao Mian asked again: "Director Cai, now that the imperial court issues tax coins, will the weaving workshops in the imperial court sell them?"

All the businessmen present pricked up their ears.

In the past, everyone was self-sufficient, and the court also had its own workshops. Now it has been changed to currency, and these profiteers have taken aim at the workshops of the court.

Moreover, as long as the imperial court buys the workshop, they will feel more comfortable doing this business.

Cai Jingdao: "I have not heard any news about this yet. I estimate that these matters will not be dealt with until at least the tax currency law is officially promulgated."

When I came out of the building, I happened to meet Zhang Fei coming out of the charity foundation.

"The student has met his mentor."

Cai Jing hurried over and bowed.

Zhang Fei said happily: "Cai Jing, when did you come back?"

Cai Jingdao: "I just came back the day before yesterday. There is a lot of things going on in this department, and the student is thinking about visiting his teacher in a few days."

"It doesn't matter! It doesn't matter! You know my temper, just get things done." Zhang Fei waved his hand nonchalantly and asked, "Then why are you here?"

Cai Jingdao: "Now the court has changed to issuing tax coins, but there is still a lot of inventory in the warehouse, and now the market is in short supply, so we plan to gradually sell the inventory in the warehouse to merchants. We just talked with Huang Yuanwai and the others The contract is signed."

The imperial court is really not without money this time. It has no choice but to issue tax coins. It is purely to adjust economic policies. In other words, the court has inventory. These inventories were originally intended to be distributed to officials, but now they are issued tax coins. Wang Anshi It was decided to gradually sell these goods through the public service agency in exchange for some cash to use as capital for the WFP.

Of course Zhang Fei knew this too, nodded and said, "Has the matter in Huaizhou been dealt with?"

Cai Jing nodded and said: "Everything has been taken care of. Now all the coal mines in Huaizhou belong to our business office. Our business office cooperates with the mining businessmen, and those coal businessmen also realize that the demand in the capital is If the amount increases, coal production next year should rise sharply."

The coal in Bianjing mainly comes from Huaizhou, but according to national laws, these coal and iron ore mines belong to the state, but in the past, they turned a blind eye to those who mined secretly. Eye, now it is necessary to make it contractual and legal.

Due to the serious shortage of coal supply last year, Cai Jing went there at the end of last year to deal with the coal mine matters. Those coal merchants were not easy to deal with. These people must be local snakes, or there are powerful people behind them, but they had to Admit it, Cai Jing is very good at handling this kind of thing, Zhang Fei is far inferior to him.

Zhang Fei nodded and asked: "Then when will you go south?"

This WFP's main mission is in the south, not the north.

Cai Jingdao: "According to Wang Xianggong's arrangement, after these goods are processed, I will go south with the money exchanged for these goods."

Zhang Fei suddenly smiled and said: "You won't blame me, will you?"

Cai Jing was stunned for a moment and said: "Why did my mentor say this?"

Zhang Fei said: "I will arrange such a hard job for you."

Cai Jing said hurriedly: "My teacher helps his students so much that the students can't even express their gratitude."

Although he is only half an official now, the prefect still has to look at his face. Nowadays, many of the goods coming and going from the government have to go through his hands. He has actually replaced the shipping department, and he does not have to abide by the system of the shipping department. He can take either the official path or the business path.

This is power!

He enjoyed it.

The next day.

"Wow.!"

Gao Wenyin just let go and was going to have breakfast with Zhang Fei, but Zhang Buzhi burst into tears in the nurse's arms.

"You kid, mom is just going to have breakfast with daddy, and you will be back soon."

Gao Wenyin gently scraped Zhang Buzhi's little face with his hand. Seeing that it didn't help, he could only hug him again and looked at Zhang Fei helplessly.

Zhang Fei smiled and said: "Madam, if you continue to spoil him like this, you will spoil your son rotten."

While patting her son's back gently, Gao Wenyin said to Zhang Fei: "My son is still young now and doesn't understand anything. When he grows up, I will educate him strictly, but I will never let him go. ”

After speaking, the tone was very firm.

Zhang Fei smiled and said: "As a husband, I really look forward to seeing my wife being angry."

Gao Wenyin was surprised and said: "Does Sanlang really want to make me angry?"

Zhang Fei said hurriedly: "That's not true, it's just that Madam has never been angry. I just want to see her."

Gao Wenyin rolled her eyes at him lightly, "You are already a father and you are still so poor. You can go ahead and I will eat in the house."

Zhang Fei nodded and said, "I have a day off today and will come over to accompany you after dinner."

"Yeah."

When they arrived at the hall, Xu Zun and his family were already sitting inside, waiting for the couple.

While eating breakfast, Xu Zhiqian suddenly winked at Zhang Fei and asked: "Prosecutor Zhang, are you going to collect your salary today?"

Zhang Fei was stunned for a moment, "Our salary is still paid by the imperial court."

"That's you, not us."

Xu Zhiqian showed her salary slip.

Zhang Fei said in surprise: "Where did you get the salary slip?"

Xu Zun said angrily: "Isn't this all thanks to you?"

Zhang Fei said sarcastically: "But she didn't have a salary in Hezhong Mansion before!"

Xu Zhiqian said: "You have forgotten that our salaries in Hezhong Mansion are all earned by ourselves. It doesn't matter whether we pay them or not, but the capital city is different."

"That's true."

Zhang Fei nodded, feeling a little bitter inexplicably, and asked: "Are you going to get it?"

Xu Zhiqian nodded and said: "I also made an appointment with Ling'er and the others. After receiving their salary later, I invited them to have a meal at the Ladies Pavilion."

Zhang Fei said: "Is your salary enough? The Ladies' Pavilion is notoriously expensive, and now the price of wine has increased a lot."

This Ladies Pavilion is a place specifically for these ladies of the Northern Song Dynasty to exchange poems and songs. These ladies of the Northern Song Dynasty also had good wine, poems, songs and fun cards.

However, in the Northern Song Dynasty, businessmen were basically in demand. They had baths, back rubs, pedicures, takeaways, any service industry you could think of, and they also had services you couldn’t think of.

Xu Zhiqian said: "A little saving should be enough."

Zhang Fei nodded: "Then you'd better bring more money when you go out, lest you don't have enough money and get detained."

Xu Zhiqian said: "No! The copper coins are too heavy, but paper money is more convenient."

Xu Lingxiao suddenly asked: "Brother-in-law, little sister, don't you need to go to the Yamen today?"

Zhang Fei said: "We have a holiday today."

Xu Lingxiao said: "But I heard that the imperial court has been very busy recently, and there have been no interruptions in lawsuits throughout the day."

Zhang Fei said with a smile: "Those are all civil lawsuits. The bookstores and the Legal Aid Department are busy. Our procuratorate can just send a few people to the imperial court. Nowadays, everyone is busy making money and has no time to commit crimes. ”

Xu Lingxiao nodded and said: "I almost forgot, your procuratorate is generally only responsible for criminal proceedings."

Xu Zun suddenly said: "Zhang San, when do you plan to go to the imperial court?"

When Xu Lingxiao heard this, he thought to himself, my brother-in-law is really awesome. Whether someone gets promoted or not depends on other people’s faces, but it’s not up to him whether he wants to or not. Alas.

Zhang Fei said: "At least we have to wait until He Zhizhong can take charge of himself."

This may be just an ordinary salary day in normal times, but today is particularly special.

Because this is the first day that the imperial court officially moved towards monetization.

Starting from today, ordinary prosecutors and royal policemen will come directly to Jiekupu to collect their salaries. Why not let officials come here to collect their salaries?

That's because considering the face of officials, we can't let gentlemen line up in a long line in front of a shop to ask for wages from a businessman. How unpleasant that would be!

Shops will not be willing to hire people to pay salaries to officials. The cost is too high.

But the prosecutor and the Royal Police don't care.

The Royal Police, who were on vacation today, came to Ma's house early to wait in line, and everyone was very excited.

The leader is none other than their superintendent Cao Dongdong.

"Yameni, do you also need to come here to collect your salary?"

The two royal policemen who had just arrived here saw that Cao Dongdong was also there. They quickly came over to salute and asked curiously.

"Originally, it was not necessary. I requested it myself. I did the same thing in Hezhong Mansion. It is more convenient to come here to collect money."

"Is it true?"

"I can't lie to you. You just need to hand them your household registration and pay slip and wait for a while."

"Yameni, I heard that I can also deposit money in it and withdraw it when I need it."

"It seems possible. In Hezhong Prefecture, everyone does the same thing, but because the money is flying and the border guards send the money back, the family members may not pick it up immediately, so it will be stored in Jiekupu for the time being."

"I heard there is interest."

"Then you have to sign a contract and save for a year or two to get interest."

"Why is this?"

"Because you have saved for one or two years, Jiekupu dares to lend out your money."

"What if we lose?"

"Forget it, they paid for it, it has nothing to do with us."

Cao Dongdong came to join in the fun, actually just to show off. They had already seen it in Hezhong Mansion.

After chatting for a while, the Ma family finally opened the door. When the steward saw it was Cao Dongdong, he hurriedly said: "Ouch! Who is this short-sighted person? He actually asked the Yameni to line up outside."

"Hey, hey, hey!"

Cao Dongdong said indifferently: "What are you yelling about? Didn't you see that I am chatting with my brothers? Moreover, they have not received any money. I am here to set an example for them."

"So that's how it is, please go inside the yamen, please go inside."

"Stop talking. Withdraw money, withdraw money!"

Cao Dongdong swaggeringly threw his household registration and pay slip on the counter.

After a while, the accountant behind the counter handed back some tax coins and household registration.

"That's enough!"

"Is it fast?"

"Hurry, hurry, hurry!"

"Then hurry up and get the drinks. I'm here to treat you."

"Thank you so much."

The police chiefs were so excited that they immediately came forward and followed suit.

At this time, a royal policeman suddenly said: "Yamen, why didn't you see anyone from the tax department?"

Cao Dongdong was stunned for a moment, and immediately called the shopkeeper over and said, "Will the tax department come here to collect his salary?"

"No."

The shopkeeper shook his head and said: "I also asked yesterday. It is said that the tax department has specially prepared it for them, and it is arranged by the officials themselves. It has nothing to do with us businessmen."

Cao Dongdong curled his lips and hummed: "These tax policemen just like to do something special. What's the big deal?"

Nowadays, the tax police are really precious. All their information is known only to the emperor and Zhang Fei and is kept confidential. In fact, they also received tax coins instead, but the emperor opened a separate one for them from the inner treasury. Window, let them go there to get it.

In any case, after this round of tax coins was issued, it immediately detonated the entire consumer market. Whether it was restaurants or markets, they were all people from Wuyang Wuyang.

In fact, the productivity of merchants at this moment cannot keep up. Fortunately, the imperial court is also monetizing it, selling some of the inventory in the warehouse to merchants, who then sell it to officials and soldiers, so it can still be maintained for the time being. Live this supply balance.

But it is only temporary. Businessmen must quickly expand their productivity.

This will have to wait until the new town’s workshop.

Household Department.

"Look, I personally planned this. In the first phase, a total of thirty large workshops and forty small workshops will be built in the east and west towns."

Wang Anshi said to Zhang Fei proudly.

Zhang Fei said: "The first issue?"

Wang Anshi said: "I plan to build it in three phases. If we build it in one piece, we will definitely not be able to sell it at a good price. Furthermore, many businessmen are also waiting to see the market. What they are anxious to buy now is what they were anxious to buy last year. I want to build a workshop."

"So that's what happened."

Zhang Fei smiled and nodded. He was no stranger to this kind of trick. He suddenly pointed to the circle in the middle and said, "What is this land used for?"

Wang Anshi said: "This is a market, and some stalls, restaurants and tea shops will be built. But I won't buy these places, I will just rent them."

Zhang Fei asked again: "Why is this?"

Wang Anshi said: "A large workshop like this has to support a lot of people. Restaurants and tea shops don't have to worry about no business, and the rent is a lot. Moreover, those businessmen are all very smart and cannot let themselves go. I Only the workshops will be sold, and the rest will not be sold. The river next to it also belongs to the imperial court. If they dare to have any wrong ideas, the imperial court can use the market and the river to intimidate them."

Wow. You are too insidious. Zhang Fei felt his hair stand on end, "Ms. Wang, you are really the nemesis of businessmen. You are so damaging. I mean."

Wang Anshi didn't take it seriously and hummed: "It's a loss, but you also forced me to do it."

Zhang Fei said aggrievedly: "What does it have to do with me?"

Wang Anshi said: "In the past, there was no need for the court to think of such tricks. Wasn't it all your public prosecutors? If I don't keep an eye out, these businessmen will not be able to take advantage of us in the future."

"Misunderstanding! It's all a misunderstanding!"

Zhang Fei laughed and changed the subject: "Since Wang Xianggong has already planned it so well, why are you calling me here today?"

Wang Anshi said: "Why else? Of course it is to draft a contract. The rights and interests here are more complicated. The contract drawn up must ensure that what I just said can be legally realized, so as not to disturb the emperor again. Go to court."

These landlords have no conscience. Zhang Fei couldn't help but feel a trace of contempt in his heart.

Wang Anshi added: "There is also the problem of the land. If the land is sold to them, what if some people demolish the workshops and build football fields, gambling houses, or brothels?"

Zhang Fei pondered for a moment and said: "The imperial court can pass a decree to give all these lands industrial attributes, which is to ensure that these lands can only be built for workshops and cannot be used for other purposes unless approved by the imperial court."

Wang Anshi nodded slightly and suddenly thought of something, "I remember that there is only a farmland protection law in the "Provisional Law", and no houses can be easily built on farmland. Then why not distinguish between industrial land and commercial land, and they cannot be easily converted between them. ”

Zhang Fei explained: "We have discussed this issue, but currently most workshops and shops are in their own homes. The only difference is their size. It is difficult to distinguish commercial land, industrial land and residential land.

But if the scale becomes larger in the future, there will definitely still be distinctions, because large workshops will inevitably compete with agriculture for river channels, but there is no need yet. ”

Today, industry and commerce are still in their infancy, and they should be given encouragement and freedom to control everything from the beginning to how they can develop.

Wang Anshi nodded and said, "As long as you have this plan."

After Zhang Fei helped Wang Anshi draw up the land contract, the Ministry of Household Affairs immediately started buying it.

In less than seven days, all seventy workshops were sold out. Among them, the buyers of the large workshops were mainly paper, wine and textiles, especially textiles and paper, and the imperial court received one hundred and seventy from them. Wan Guan's income, of course, also includes construction costs.

Although the price is not high compared to the housing prices in the inner city, it is an inner city after all, and you are building in the suburbs.

In fact, the price is already very high.

In the whole world, perhaps only Bianliang in Tokyo can do this.

First of all, there is no shortage of powerful people here. It is still worthwhile for them to spend tens of thousands of dollars betting on a future.

Secondly, there is no shortage of consumption here.

After all, the capital is sucking the blood of the whole country, and the majority of them are soldiers of the Forbidden Army. Seventy-eight percent of the money is used for military expenses.

Although the salary of the prime minister is high, there are only two or three prime ministers. How much can they spend? The main consumption power is those soldiers.

As long as the imperial court continues the monetization reform and expands production, it will definitely not lose money.

The second and third issues are the highlights.

Because we have to wait until the final tax currency bill comes out. Businessmen will have confidence in their hearts and will fight for it desperately.

The first issue is just a starting point.

But then again, Tokyo and Bianliang used to be unique, but not now. Now there is another phenomenon-level city in the Song Dynasty, which is Xizhou.

The reason why Xihe opened a border was, of course, to form a two-sided attack on Xixia. However, at present, the center of the Song Dynasty has turned from the outside to the inside, and the expansion of the border only ends here.

However, this opened up the Silk Road, which had been closed for hundreds of years.

Xizhou has shouldered the burden of the entire Silk Road. Coupled with the emergence of the Public Security Bureau, Xizhou has been changing every year.

As soon as Privy Councilor Han Jiang left, Cai Yanqing, the prefect of Hezhong Prefecture, came to Xizhou. He couldn't help but be dumbfounded. Outside the city were herds of cattle and sheep, as if he were in Mobei, but as soon as he entered the city, there were silks again. All over the place, it felt like I was in Bianliang, Tokyo.

"Brother Zhong Yuan! Brother Zhong Yuan!"

Suddenly hearing two excited shouts, Cai Yanqing looked up and saw Wang Shao waving his hands and trotting towards him.

Before he could salute, Wang Shao grabbed Cai Yanqing's sleeve and said from the bottom of his heart: "Brother Zhong Yuan has been really suffering in the past few years!"

In the past few years, Cai Yanqing has been responsible for all the logistics in the Xihe area, while Yuan Jiang is mainly responsible for the northwest logistics, one in the south and one in the north.

But the logistics in the Xihe area are really not easy. It is troubled internally and externally. The tribes here are constantly harassing, and the warlords on the northern front are also very unhappy. It is all thanks to Cai Yanqing who works around it and tries his best to provide food and grass for Xihe.

Wang Shao was filled with emotion.

When Cai Yanqing saw Wang Shao's enthusiasm, he was immediately flustered and complained immediately: "Wang Xuanfushi, there is only so much I can help. To tell you the truth, I came here just to take a look. , can we reduce the supply of food and grass? How many troops are there on the northern front?"

"That's enough! That's enough!"

Wang Shao nodded hard several times, then pulled Cai Yanqing and said: "Come on, come on! Brother Zhong Yuan, come with me quickly."

"Where to go?"

"You will know when you come."

Cai Yanqing followed Wang Shao and ran across two streets and came to a big market, where he saw a lot of food, which was bright white and much sexier than those thighs.

"So much food?"

Cai Yanqing exclaimed.

Wang Shao said very proudly: "Now the price of rice in our Xizhou is five hundred cents per stone, which is one hundred cents more expensive than in the capital. Not to mention Weizhou and other places, even Xixia merchants risk their heads. The risk of smuggling food here."

Cai Yanqing was shocked and said: "A businessman from Xixia."

Isn’t this capitalizing on the enemy?

Wang Shao nodded and said: "Now the profit from selling grain is no lower than that of salt. In addition, our people only check for private salt and not for grain. Those greedy party members are working hard to transport grain here to get We bought silk tea from here with our banknotes.

Not only that, in the entire Xihe area, an additional 200,000 hectares of fields were added last year. There is no need to pay land tax here, and the price of rice is still so expensive. Everyone is working hard to farm. This year Xihe's food supply can be reduced by half, and next year it may only need one-third. And if there is no need for food, just give some silk. ”

The more Cai Yanqing listened, the more mysterious he became, "You don't charge agricultural taxes, and rice is so expensive, how can you supply the army?"

"As long as you have money."

Wang Shao laughed and said: "We only have buying and selling here, but they all use my banknotes for transactions. Once a transaction is made, we charge a small fee. This is more profitable than collecting agricultural taxes, and we don't need to There are too many people, and a hundred or so counting rooms can handle it, and there is no need to leave the door."

The tone was full of pride.

After several years of frustration, winning battles and asking for more military pay seemed like life-threatening consequences. Especially the defeat last year made Wang Shao almost depressed. He was frightened every day. He dreamed of being self-sufficient.

Now the dream is slowly becoming a reality.

Over the past six months, after a lot of hard work, he has repaired his relationship with the Zunsiluo regime. Of course, the main thing is to win the battle.

Based on this, everyone will get rich together in the future, so why bother to fight and kill. And the local people are actually very war-weary. The key point is that the world has changed. To fight for the chief, it is better for everyone to build a caravan and go to the Western Regions to sell goods. If everything goes well with the silk and tea leaves of the Song Dynasty, after a few trips, you can get several wives.

Wang Shao likes adventurous people like them. The more they do trade, the more he earns.

Wang Shao is really high-spirited now!

Cai Yanqing said: "But with such an expensive rice price, can people living in the city afford food?"

Wang Shao said: "Go and take a look. The foot shops in this city are almost catching up with private houses. They all eat in the shops. No one cooks at home. The price of rice is included in the price of vegetables. You can't feel it at ordinary times. , and I also make money when they go to restaurants to eat, because they want to use my banknotes."

Cai Yanqing nodded and said: "Wang Xuan's envoy is really good at it. To tell you the truth, the northwest has been able to continue to provide you with food and grass recently. The success of Xizhou is also crucial, precisely because the goods from the west have changed. This will make the business in the northwest more prosperous, and this tax revenue can continue to grow."

After the opening of the Silk Road, a large number of goods from the Western Regions continued to enter the Central Plains, and the entire northwest region benefited greatly from it.

Needless to say horses and livestock, there are also leather, wool, rouge, jewelry, and medicinal materials.

This is what China needs.

Coincidentally, the northwest had just completed its reform at that time, and this wave of goods entering the country made northwest business more prosperous.

But when it comes to this matter, Wang Shao's arrogance calmed down a little, "I have to admit that I only take 30% of the credit here, and 70% belongs to the public security, procuratorate, and law, and it's not just about buying and selling. It is precisely because of the existence of the Public Security Bureau that the surrounding small tribes are willing to join us."

Before the Song Dynasty entered, this area was in chaos. Whoever had a big fist would listen to others. It was very difficult for small tribes to survive. After the Song army entered, they first defeated several large tribes.

The Public Security Bureau pursues fairness and equality. Of course, small tribes are willing to follow the Song people. Not only do they not have to pay taxes here, but they can also be protected by the Public Security Law. Any dispute with anyone is a lawsuit. Everyone is the same. If you hang around with Zuosiluo, you have to pay a lot of protection fees every year. .

Cai Yanqing smiled and said, "I wonder if Ambassador Wang Xuan had any quarrel with the imperial court or the procuratorate?"

Wang Shao was stunned for a moment, "It was quite noisy, especially the old man Fan Zhen, who was stubborn and didn't understand anything."

Cai Yanqing chuckled: "Mr. Fan is old after all, and his energy will inevitably be insufficient. When Prosecutor General Su is transferred one day, you will know that Mr. Fan is actually quite kind."

The more the two chatted, the more they became more and more speculative, criticizing the president of the court and the chief prosecutor to every detail.

It’s really a love-hate relationship.

Although the Song Dynasty could not be said to have a vast land and rich resources, it could still be filled with joy and sorrow every day.

The west side is prosperous, but the river bank in Hebei Province has burst again.

Although the resolution is not big this time, it is not a problem if you keep doing this.

I have to say that the people of Hebei are really suffering!

If you are lucky, there will be one disaster a year; if you are unlucky, there will be two or three disasters a year.

No one should live.

But for now, the depressed atmosphere in Hebei is slowly dissipating, and the seeds of hope are being planted.

The reason lies in the arrival of the Public Security Bureau. With the efforts of Cheng Yi and others, Hebei Public Security Bureau has also developed very well.

Of course, this actually comes from last year’s disaster relief. How could the imperial court allocate so much money to Hebei in the past? It would be nice to ask you to pay less.

But in the eyes of the people, this is all the result of the public security, procuratorate, and law, because the rule of law is to protect their legitimate rights and interests.

Nowadays, people in Hebei actively support the public security organs, prosecutors and law.

Lu Huiqing came to a small hill, and saw more than thirty people standing or squatting on the top, observing the flood below and drawing on the soil.

These people are Hou Shuxian, the dean of Daming Water Conservancy Institute, and his students.

"Envoy Lu is here."

When Hou Shuxian saw Lu Huiqing, he immediately came over and asked, "How many people were affected by the disaster?"

Lu Huiqing said: "There are about seven hundred households. Fortunately, we had early warning and most of them saved their lives. However, the fields and houses were washed away by the flood. Fortunately, the court just allocated another one million yuan to Hebei. , which can be a good relief to them."

Hou Shuxian nodded.

Lu Huiqing asked again: "Has the dean discussed the result?"

Hou Shuxian sighed: "The siltation of the east flow is difficult to remove. If you want to return to the east flow of the river, it is really difficult to reach the sky."

Lu Huiqing said: "Should we still go to Beiliu?"

Hou Shuxian asked again: "But now that the Northerners are stirring up trouble at the border, will the court agree to change the river course?"

Lu Huiqing said: "Maybe I will agree this time."

Although he is in Daming Prefecture, he has been paying attention to the capital. He has also heard about the Legislative Council. The party struggle is not so fierce. Even if the flow is diverted eastward, Wang Anshi will not be in too much danger.

In fact, he has been staying here just to wait for the final decision, whether to flow eastward or northward.

This time the dam bursts, to a certain extent, it can be said that they are expecting it.

After research, the Water Conservancy Institute still believes that the North Current is relatively stable, but the problem is that the East Current is of political and strategic significance, and they do not dare to choose the North Current easily, in case the North Current also encounters flooding.

Last year for disaster relief, they strengthened the east-flowing river and dredged the north-flowing river. However, there was no increase in wealth in this river through work-for-relief work. This is why, only in Hebei, there was no increase in wealth. A bubble.

Now that the embankment has burst again, the river still flows north. That is the river's own choice and has nothing to do with them.

It’s not that they don’t have the responsibility and dare not take this responsibility, it’s just that they haven’t been able to use science to prove whether it’s the eastward flow or the northward flow.