Wang Zeng glanced at Du Yan with pity, and did not speak to Du Yan again.
Wang Zeng and Du Yan did not have a deep friendship, but they also knew Du Yan, who he was, his temperament, and he knew that Du Yan could not do things that would harm the officials.
But there is a sentence how to say it.
Don't play hard, don't play lazy, just hit you with no eyesight.
Du Yan knocked down his gun this time.
He had only finished talking to Kou Ji about the purpose of recalling the family of the Wei Dynasty, and something went wrong in the palace.
It is useless to explain it now.
Because Zhao Zhen would not listen to his explanation.
Zhao Zhen, who was furious, would only anger him.
Wang Zeng passed Du Yan and appeared in front of the soldiers who escorted the gold, silver and jewellery. He issued an order and said: "Transfer all the money to the treasury. Lu Xiang and the officials of the household department are already in the treasury. Waiting at the door.
After all the money has been put into the treasury, the court will reward each of you. "
The soldiers all agreed and escorted the gold and silver jewelry to the treasury.
The treasury is not in the palace, but outside the palace.
Sandwiched between Shangshu Province and Xifu.
The treasury is located outside the palace to facilitate the distribution of money by various yamen.
After Wang Zeng sent away the soldiers who were escorting the gold and silver jewelry, he returned to Du Yan and sighed as he looked at Du Yan who was paralyzed on the ground.
"Misfortune comes out of the mouth, it's someone like you."
Wang Zeng sighed, took out a document from his sleeve and handed it to Du Yan.
"You can be regarded as a rare good minister in the court. Neither Lu Xiang nor I want to see you die because of this, so we won a chance for you. Take your family and go to Hexi.
When you get to Hexi, the grain should be harvested.
You will be in charge of the Changping warehouse in Hexi.
When Kou Ji is still in charge, you will be the chief official of Hexi.
Of course, the title of soothing envoy will not fall to you.
Xiang Lu and I have helped you win an identity to be in charge of Hexi's official affairs. "
Du Yan looked at Wang Zeng blankly, not knowing what to say.
When Wang Zeng saw that Du Yan didn't accept the paperwork in his hand, he knelt down and put the paperwork in Du Yan's arms.
When Wang Zeng turned and left, Du Yan suddenly said, "I...in my life...Is there no chance...I will return to the court..."
Wang Zeng turned around and stared at Du Yan and said, "Then it depends on whether the death of Concubine Zhang Guizhou was artificial."
Without waiting for Du Yan to speak, Wang Zeng continued: "Actually, it doesn't matter whether you can return to the court. Even if Concubine Zhang's death is not artificial. The knots you planted in the hearts of officials cannot be solved.
Even if you are still in the court, the officials will not reuse you. "
Du Yan was shocked.
Wang Zeng didn't continue speaking, turned around and walked into the palace.
Du Yan was left alone, slumped on the ground alone.
Du Yan sat slumped on the ground until the evening, when his family members who had come after being questioned helped him back to the house.
When I passed the Zhouqiao, I saw a very luxurious team, banging into the city of Bianjing.
After inquiring carefully, I realized that it was the team that had just been recalled from the Royal Palace of Wei.
…
The wind in Hexi is very strong.
The gust of wind swept the sand and blew all over the Hexi.
The golden crops in the ground fell on the blown side.
Kou Ji and Li Di, each holding a sickle, harvested crops in the field.
Shazhou was the first place where wasteland was reclaimed in Hexi, and it was also the first place where grain was matured.
The golden crops cannot be seen at a glance, and many people are rushing to harvest the crops in the fields.
There are many fields in Shazhou, but few people in Shazhou.
The civilian husbands who helped the people of Shazhou to open up wasteland have been dispatched to various places.
Therefore, not many people help the people in Shazhou to harvest crops.
As soon as Kou Ji visited Shazhou, he was dragged into the fields by Li Di to help the people harvest crops.
From the sun rising in the east to the sun setting in the west, Kou Ji sloppily cut an acre of wheat.
Kou Ji felt that he had put in a lot of effort, but the field owner who was picking up the wheat ears behind him looked sad.
Li Di carried the sickle, hung down, and walked over from the ground. After seeing the crops harvested by Kou Ji, he looked disgusted.
"One mu of wheat, you have ruined half a mu of wheat. You have to compensate others."
Kou Ji was unhappy when he heard this, "I said I won't harvest crops. You have to pull me to help harvest crops. If there is a loss, you will have to compensate."
When Li Di heard this, the disgust on his face became more intense, "You can't even harvest crops, how can you be an official?"
Kou Ji said dissatisfied: "No one has stipulated that officials must harvest crops."
Li Di snorted coldly: "My capital from the Song Dynasty will harvest crops."
Kou Ji opened his mouth, but could not argue.
Because there is a huge imperial estate in Bianjing.
Every year when the spring planting and autumn harvesting comes, the official family will bring the hundred officials to experience life in person.
Often the officials cleaned up the crops a couple of times and then rested on the sidelines. The hundred officials were the main force in farming.
Therefore, officials in the city of Bianjing will harvest and plant crops.
Kou Ji has been an official for many years, and he has never participated in this event.
Kou Ji glanced at Li Di, "Even if I ruin other people's crops, it is still your fault. It is your compensation to compensate."
Li Di said frankly: "The old man is very poor now. The old man has just settled his wives and children, and the remaining money in his hand has been completely spent, so there is no money to compensate others.
It's you, rich oil, and a little bit from your nails is enough to compensate others. "
"Are you poor?"
Kou Ji screamed as if he had heard an anecdote: "The monks in the Thousand Buddha Caves have opened up 300,000 mu of fertile land, of which 100,000 mu has been put under your name. poor?"
Li Di hummed: "You forced it to the old man, not what the old man wanted."
Kou Ji rolled his eyes, "Then I'll take it back."
Li Di immediately yelled: "That's not okay... How can I go back with the things for the old man."
Kou Ji sneered: "Aren't you always greedy for money?"
Li Di glanced horizontally, "If the old man doesn't take up a bit, those fertile fields will not be divided by you black-hearted guys. A person of 500,000 mu, you really dare to start, and you are not afraid to kill you."
Kou Ji rolled his eyes and didn't want to continue talking to Li Di.
The old and the young, carrying their sickles, walked to the side of the road and sat down on the ground.
After drinking a few sips of water, Li Di stared at the endless crops and said with emotion: "Who would have thought that the deserted Shazhou in the past could grow such good crops."
"There is no useless land, only useless people... Not everyone is like my descendants, who can manage a piece of land in a down-to-earth manner..."
Kou Ji stretched his waist and said casually.
Li Di nodded very approvingly, "There is no one more diligent than us in the whole world. Therefore, the land under the whole world should be handed over to us to plant. Others plant it and it will be ruined."
Kou Ji couldn't laugh or cry: "The world is huge, far bigger than you think. Are you sure we can plant it?"
Li Di dissatisfied: "Why can't we plant it? We have a little more, and if we have more, we just planted it."
Kou Ji was taken aback for a moment, and laughed: "I heard that there are no prisoners or beggars in the Song Dynasty. Prisoners and beggars have been sent to Hexi. Right now, there are not many idlers in the Song Dynasty. You are sure that we will pay. Can it be planted elsewhere?"
Li Di boldly said: "Then let the people have more babies. After ten or twenty years, when these babies grow up, they can help us grow them together."
Kou Ji stared at Li Di in amazement, and asked tentatively: "You don't plan to encourage childbirth in Hexi, do you?"
Li Di snorted and said disdainfully: "What encouragement? The old man did not hesitate to encourage them. The old man directly issued the decree. Give birth to a man with a fine and heavy tax.
Two children with a handle are fined lightly.
Three impunity.
Four tax exemptions. "
Kou Ji glanced at Li Di up and down, and said in astonishment: "You weren't beaten to death by the people?"
Li Di snorted coldly: "What face do they have to beat the old man? The court has given them thousands of acres of fertile land and given them three wives. If they can't even give birth to four of them, they might as well go Dead, alive and wasting food in vain."
The corner of Kou Ji's mouth twitched, and he said dumbfounded: "You have been a lot tougher recently..."
Li Di said neither salty nor indifferent: "The old man now drinks Hexi water, so naturally there must be some sturdy Hexi people."
Kou Ji groaned: "Have you ever thought that your decree will cause many boys to appear in Hexi. When the time comes, there will be an imbalance between men and women in Hexi, and boys will not be able to marry a wife. What should you do?"
Li Di looked at Kou Ji like a fool, "How did the mother-in-law of the people of Shazhou come from?"
Kou Ji was taken aback for a moment, and said, "Do you want those boys to go out to grab the wife?"
Li Di nodded very seriously, "Anyway, it's not about robbing our own people. They go out and they can rob anyone as a mother-in-law."
Kou Ji stared at Li Di earnestly, "Are you still a civil servant? Or the civil servant who is concerned about the country and the people?"
"Bah..."
Li Di sipped, and said faintly: "It's long gone... The old man went to the Western Regions to find out that what the old man did in the courtroom before was not good enough.
To deal with so many government affairs with great care and to implement so many government decrees that are good for the people, in the end it is the big wealthy people who have benefited.
The common people can't get any benefit, but they get more and more bitter.
The old man has been busy for most of his life, thinking that he has helped the people to get a lot of benefits.
It wasn't until after arriving in Hexi that it was discovered that all the benefits were taken up by the big wealthy families.
The people didn't get anything. "
Kou Ji opened his mouth and didn't know what to say.
Li Di glanced at Kou Ji and continued: "Your method of helping the people for the good is very useful. The old man is learning recently."
Kou Ji shook his head and said, "I'm just a newcomer to officialdom..."
Before Kou Ji had finished speaking, Li Di arrogantly interrupted him.
"Don't talk about self-humility, in front of the old man, you don't need to humble yourself. Although your kid is new to officialdom, your kid's mind is very low. He has always put himself in the position of the people, and has always put himself in the place for the people.
It’s not like those of us who keep saying that they are doing good for the people, but in fact, they rarely consider problems from the people’s perspective. "
Li Di highly praised the decree Kou Ji implemented in Shazhou, and he dragged Kou Ji to talk a lot, and did not return to Shazhou City with Kou Ji until the stars first appeared.
After returning to Shazhou City, the two did not go to Li Mansion, but rushed to a huge wheat field in Shazhou City.
At the critical juncture of food harvesting, the people have many fields and few manpower, so they dare not waste a little time.
Harvest crops in the field during the day, and harvest wheat in the wheat field at night.
The people drove the cattle and horses, pulled the stone mills, and ran over the wheat again and again.
The ripe wheat was crushed out.
Then fork out the wheat stalks, gather the wheat together, and raise the wheat against the wind.
The wind blew away the wheat husks, leaving golden wheat on the ground.
The wheat was put into animal skin pockets and piled up into hills after another.
Several people in long gowns huddled among the people, asking the people if they could get the wheat in their hands.
If the people wanted to make a move, the two of them would squeeze their fingers in private, confirm the price of the wheat, and decide that the transaction would not be concluded.
Kou Ji’s people harvest the wheat.
Li Di's people harvest other crops.
Merchants are not allowed to enter the wheat field during this period.
Neither Kou Ji nor Li Di did not allow those merchants to come in, lowering food prices and oppressing the people.
Nor does it allow a large amount of food to leak out.
Bags of grain were delivered to the granary in the city lord's mansion before dawn.
The 30 granaries built by Li Di were completely packed within two days.
"Good harvest... Great harvest... God finally opened my eyes..."
Li Di looked at the grain piled in the granary and sighed sincerely.
Kou Ji stared at the grain in the granary and smiled and said: "It seems that the granary you built is not enough. The crops in Shazhou City are not harvested even one-tenth, and your granary is full."
Li Di solemnly said: "That also has to be collected... Take it back to fill up the newly built Changping warehouse in Hexi..."
Kou Ji pondered, "I'm afraid Hexi can't digest so much food. After all, the fertile fields we cultivated in Hexi are huge, but there are very few people in Hexi."
"Then transport it back to Bianjing, and show it to those profiteers who were driving up food prices during the disaster. With this large granary in Hexi, they will no longer want to make a fortune during the disaster."
Li Di said firmly.
Kou Ji froze for a moment, and said with a smile: "The grain merchants in Bianjing are going to be unlucky this year..."
Li Di snorted coldly: "That's what they deserve! The old man still remembers that when the Yellow River was flooding, the grain merchants took the opportunity to make a fortune."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "Okay... Then you continue to collect grain... I will send someone to take away the grain you collected..."
Li Di rolled his eyes when he heard the words, "When you came to Shazhou when the grain was ripe, didn't you just miss Shazhou's grain?"
Kou Ji smiled and said, "Now that Hexi is stable, I should go back to Beijing too. Eighteen letters from the officials urging me to return to Beijing have been handed over. When I return to Beijing, I can’t go back empty-handed, right? When I set out to go back, others thought that I had been tossing in Hexi for nearly a year without doing anything."