In the Peach Blossom Hall, Juicong still looked at the golden seal in a trance. Empress Dowager Jiang and Princess Wu Ying read the biography for a round, and Empress Dowager Jiang said, "I have seen the imperial decree with the golden seal, but it was also fifty years ago that I just married you. Daddy's time."
Juicong said: "Yes, Queen Mother, the imperial decree has not been issued to Saibei for fifty years."
Guan Wei said, "Finally found it?"
Juicong raised his eyes, raised his eyebrows, and said, "Dayong's destiny lies in this. Is he gone?"
Guan Wei put down his cane, sat down, and said, "Let's go. Your Majesty, the old minister remembers that eighteen years ago, when the late king was still alive, he deliberately set this rule."
Ju Ling said: "At that time, there were enemies everywhere in Saibei. How to travel? If you are not careful, you will be arrested and prepared for ransom to replace people."
Guan Wei smiled and said, "That's right, if it wasn't for His Royal Highness Juiciao to conquer the Hu Hu, this proposal would not be realistic. Now is a good time."
Ju Cong knew very well that eighteen years ago, when Ju Lang was still alive, he asked young officials in the DPRK to start a one-year experience before taking office, and traveled all over the Yongguo on their own feet to learn about the people's livelihood. , and the suffering of the people.
Due to the conditions at the time, this method of evaluating officials has not been implemented for a long time, and there are too many obstacles and interference. The civil servants need to travel, should the generals go? Officials are gone, will the royal family go? The prince is gone, will the prince go? The prince is not able to leave the palace casually. What if he falls into the hands of the Hu people
Juicong thought for a while, and said: "Guan Qing's words are good, just draft the charter, but it has to be done step by step, and don't be too hasty. My son of Dayong, must have the courage, and I can't even connect with a young man who came from the Central Plains. The scholars can't compare."
Guan Wei smiled and said, "Exactly."
At the end of March, when the grass in Saibei was flying, Jiang Heng and Jie Gui left Yongdu Luoyan City with their horses and went north all the way. Their first destination was Feng Rong, the largest tribe in the north.
What Jiang Heng rides is the Qianli Horse of the Palace, which travels four hundred miles a day, and can travel across the north of the fortress for a thousand miles in three days. He was born in the south and grew up in the south since he was a child. When he saw the endless grasslands and moss, the snow-capped mountains that never melted for ten thousand years, and the lakes like gems, he was very shocked.
"It's so beautiful," Jiang Heng said, "it's so beautiful!"
Jiang Heng felt a little regretful at first that he couldn't enjoy the beautiful scenery with Geng Shu, but then he thought that after living in Yong State for four years, Geng Shu must have grown tired of seeing it.
Jie Gui replied: "You say that the scenery outside the fortress is magnificent and vast, but the people of Yong are always thinking about returning to the Central Plains. Does this mean that you don't know your blessings in the midst of blessings?"
A large area of uncultivated wasteland can be cultivated and harvested seven months a year. Beneath the flowers and grass, there is black and fertile land. Although the conditions in the north are difficult, as long as the cultivation is suitable, more people will be able to be fed.
Jiang Heng said to Jie Gui, "Jie Gui, do you come out often?"
Jie Gui slowed down his horse, not hurriedly, and followed behind Jiang Heng, Jiang Heng also slowed down his horse and walked side by side with him deliberately, so Jie Gui slowed down again and always fell behind him.
"I don't come out often." Jie Gui said, "What are you doing?"
"What are you doing?" Jiang Heng said inexplicably, "Let's go." It meant letting him walk side by side.
Jie Gui was suddenly amused. When serving the royal family, he had to be a little behind. This was the rule, but Jiang Heng didn't care, so Jie Gui caught up with him and said, "The people I serve cannot walk around at will, and they cannot even go out with me. "
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"Juicy Cong is too much in charge." Jiang Heng replied.
Jie Gui said: "If you were the prince, you wouldn't dare to go out."
"That's not necessarily true," Jiang Heng said. "If I were the prince, I would come out. What can they do to me?"
"Put this on," Jie Gui said, pulling out a lynx fur, "after all, spring is cold."
Jiang Heng looked at the clothes, and it didn't look like Jie Gui would have them. It must have been given to him by the Queen Mother. He felt warm in his heart and put them on. Jie Gui said again: "When you arrive at the Fengrong people's territory, what are you going to do? It's not easy to gain their trust, little Taishi, you'd better be honest, don't talk nonsense, don't read nonsense, the negotiation matters. I."
"I'll listen to you," Jiang Heng smiled, "I'm not a Juicong."
Jiang Heng is very fond of Jiegui. After all, he is willing to travel long distances, to be by his side for the past six months, responsible for protecting his safety, will bear great responsibility, and also very tired. But this candidate couldn't be better, even better than Geng Shu, because Jie Gui was familiar with the languages and customs of all ethnic groups outside the Great Wall. If he wants to deal with people, compared to Geng Shu, who is arrogant and arrogant, if Jie Gui is in charge, the journey will obviously be smoother.
Three days later, they arrived in the north of Luoyan, the first village and town of Fengrong people. Outside the Great Wall was originally the land of the Huhus. Ju Cong tried his best to integrate all ethnic groups, and the weak ethnic groups were suppressed and forcibly relocated. You have to be gentle with big clans like Feng Rong, otherwise, once there is chaos, the backyard will catch fire at any time.
Therefore, within a certain range, the Yong Kingdom retained Feng Rong's living habits and accelerated the circulation of the population. Instead of arresting them all, they were sent to the big city to reproduce and serve as domestic animals. They only levied taxes and implemented laws and regulations. servitude, and occupied their resources, including trees, iron ore, and salt.
They drove the cattle and sheep, and went to several big cities in the north of Saibei to barter, but the royal family and the public officials firmly controlled the market price, and the Fengrong people did not even have the ability to negotiate the price.
The Feng Rong people were very wary of the Yong people. Before Jiang Heng entered the village, he saw the familiar eyes again outside the village - the vigilant and defensive eyes of everyone in Luoyan City.
A group of Feng Rong young men were stationed outside the horse village, drinking horses by the stream. They seemed to be young people from the nearby village, calling friends and friends to go out hunting, staring at Jiang Heng.
"Yongren!" Someone shouted at him, "What are you doing here?"
"Don't do anything," Jiang Heng asked Jie Gui to stop and said, "Heal someone."
"Cure?" The group laughed and said, "Are you a traveling doctor?"
They seem to hold some kind of hostility towards foreigners who enter the village. Jiang Heng saw the people who asked him questions again, and from time to time he looked at a young man who was surrounded by him. The young man was about the same age as Geng Shu, with a navy blue feather on his hat. Looking at Jiang Heng from a distance.
Jiang Heng said to the little nobleman, "Yes! We are here to treat you." He patted the supplies on the carriage.
The noble man said a few words to his subordinates, nodded, did not stop them, but did not follow them into the village, so the crowd stopped embarrassing them and left.
"Your official tour has begun," Jie Gui said, "what are you going to do now?"
Jiang Heng said: "Find a tent and borrow it first."
Jie Gui then counted the silver he carried with him and borrowed it from the Feng Rong people in the village for a three-day period.
Next, Jiang Heng borrowed a mahogany table table, placed it outside the tent, shook out a white cloth, and hung it in front of the tent with a "medicine bag" pattern drawn with a brush on it. Start hanging pot to see a doctor.
"Hey." Jie Gui originally thought that Jiang Heng would go to the village chief first, ask questions, be careful, and even put on the air of an official, but he didn't expect it to be in such a way.
"It really is Luo Xuan's apprentice." Jie Gui said.
All the people in the village have come, and the Han people are very famous outside the fortress. However, as the Juicong court's control of the northern land became more and more strict, the villages and towns were only allowed to move to the city, and it was forbidden to return. In recent years, there have been fewer and fewer doctors visiting doctors, and many people have fallen ill. They have to drag trolleys, carry patients, and go to Luoyan or other cities to rent and see a doctor, which will delay their treatment.
Jiang Heng yawned and looked at them one by one.
"Can you speak Chinese?" Jiang Heng said, "No, okay, it doesn't matter. Come on, ah."
Jiang Heng held the tongue depressor, while Jie Gui restrained his condescending appearance and sat aside to help Jiang Heng translate. People’s sufferings are always the same, and so are illnesses. Jiang Heng has been by Luo Xuan’s side for a long time. He used to go down the mountain with him every month and go to Fenglin Village to see a doctor. Many symptoms can be seen at a glance.
In addition, in Saibei, most common diseases such as yellow fever, septicemia, wound infection, and infantile fever are common diseases. Entry?"
The patient answered woohoo ah ah ah ah, Jie Gui translated it from the side, Jiang Heng was extremely patient, everyone asked about the situation at home in detail, and inquired about the situation in the surrounding area.
"If you keep reading like this," Jie Gui said, "you can't finish reading it in three or five days."
Jiang Heng was taking the pulse of a pregnant woman. The pregnant woman spoke angrily. Jiang Heng asked Jie Gui, "What did she say?"
"She said," Jie Gui said, "her man was conscripted away from the army, and died in Yubi Pass a few years ago. The state owes her a pension, and now that she has no money, she can't pay the consultation fee."
"It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter..." Jiang Heng said, "Your body is very healthy, eat more eggs, drink more cow and goat milk, you will be a good baby, how many people are there in the village like you?"
Jie Gui translated to the pregnant woman, and said to Jiang Heng, "Twenty-seven households."
Jiang Heng: "Write a letter to Guan Wei and ask him to do it right away. Withholding the pension, someone in the court will be unlucky."
"Here." Jie Gui said.
Six days later, the second letter was sent to Lama Temple. Geng Shu marked it on the map and handed the other letter to Guan Wei. Juicong was immediately furious and ordered Zeng Yu to take charge and investigate the military mansion thoroughly. .
After all, pensions were the most important thing for Yong Kingdom, how could they bear the grievances of the common people and the mutiny within the army at worst
Jiang Heng's first letter exposed the reality mercilessly. A few days later, Luoyan City executed six officials from the Imperial Commander's residence, took them to the sandbar, and asked them to be executed.
On the last day, Jiang Heng sorted out the situation of Gahana Village, wrote three pages in a booklet, met with the village chief, carried goat cheese, wind meat and medicinal herbs sent by the people, and set foot on the way to the next A town road.
"Feng Rong people are very good and understand things," Jiang Heng said, "and not all barbarians."
"The Feng Rong people are indeed." Jie Gui said, "but if you bump into the Lin Hu people, you have to be careful. They are different from the Feng Rong people."
"Huh?" Jiang Heng asked.
Jie Gui said casually: "Lin Hu has a family saying, it is 'song of sorrow and joy, whoever sings it, I would like to listen; I can tell who guards the gate of life and death.' compensation."
Jiang Heng went all the way north. Every time he went to a village and town and asked about people's livelihood, he would send Haidongqing to send a letter to Luoyan City, reporting that he was safe, and by the way, he would also bring a letter to Guan Wei.
After this letter arrived, it became a nightmare for the court—Yiyue every time a letter came, Juicong would order someone to investigate, then he would be dismissed from office and imprisoned, or the car would be cracked in front of the city and displayed to the public. For a while, the people of the country and the wild were panicked, and Jiang Heng's letter became a reminder for corrupt officials and corrupt officials.
Originally, Juicong still held a skeptical attitude towards Jiang Heng's report, but the more he investigated, the more frightened he became.
Jiang Heng's letter after letter revealed Yong Guo's scars over the years, and the bloody facts were presented in front of Juicong's eyes.