Prime Minister

Chapter 689
Wang Anshi kept Zhang Zhi for dinner, but Zhang Zhi wanted to refuse, but Wang Anshi refused.

After that, Wang Yu came back from serving in the palace, and the two met each other.

Zhang Zhi didn't know what to say, but Wang Yu said, "Zizheng, it's good to be back safely, and we can walk around frequently in the future."

Wang Yu's eyes are so high that no one pays attention to them, but he has blue eyes on Zhang Zhi.

Zhang Zhi was even more ashamed, the three of them ate and chatted during the meal, they only talked about old things, and did not mention a chapter about the son-in-law for Lu Gong.

Wang Anshi and his son often like to play machine strikers. When they were in Jiangning, only Zhang Zhi could match them.

At the dinner table, Wang Yu asked, "Does heaven have a surname?"

Zhang Zhi said without thinking: "Of course."

"What's your last name?"

"My surname is Zhao!"

"Why?"

"The emperor's surname is Zhao, isn't Tian also surnamed Zhao?"

After Zhang Zhi finished answering, Wang Anshi and his son all laughed.

Zhang Zhizi also laughed, but for some reason, there was a bit of sadness in the smile.

After a meal, Wang Yu personally sent Zhang Zhi out, but Zhang Zhi didn't know what to say.At this time Wang Yu said: "Zizheng, I heard people say that Uncle Ling and Wang Zichun captured the Tiandu Military Supervision Department this time, and also burned the Tiandu Mountain Li Palace that Li Yuanhao built back then?"

Zhang Zhi nodded and said, "That's true."

Wang Yu stopped in his tracks, and said straight to Zhang with his hands behind his back: "A few days ago, my father received an anonymous letter saying that my uncle and the prince burned down the front of the Tiandu Mountain Palace and collected countless treasures from the Xia people, but they did not report them, but put them in private pockets! "

Zhang Zhi's face changed when he heard the words, Wang Yu patted Zhang Zhi on the shoulder and said: "The most important thing for an official is integrity, please tell Uncle Ling so that he can take care of himself."

Xizhou is about to enter autumn.

Weiyuan Fort is almost repaired.

Taking advantage of the fine weather, Wang Shao rode a horse from Tongyuan Army (ancient Weizhai) to Weiyuan Fort to see the progress of the construction.

Zhang Yue entertained Wang Shao with a meal, and Wang Shao asked Zhang Yue to leave the left and right sides, and then took out a picture and said to Zhang Yue: "After the spring, I reclaimed four thousand hectares of land from Weiyuan to Guwei. This is Tian Tu."

After seeing Wang Shaotian's picture, Zhang Yue was very satisfied and said: "With these [-] hectares of land, no one in the court dares to say anything. We, the pacifiers on the edge of Qinfeng Road, have not made a single hectare of land."

Wang Shao smiled when he heard this.

Zhang Yue said: "The farmland is the foundation. If there is no such thing as regaining the Qingtang homeland and attacking the party, no matter how many Qingtang and Tibetan tribes I defeat, it will be a waste of the country's money and food."

This is also the strategy of the Song Dynasty in Shaanxi, building fortresses in circles, and then farming behind the fortresses, shortening the supply line to compress the living space of party members.

Wang Shao nodded and took out another picture. Different from the previous picture, the fields on this picture were painted in several colors.

Wang Shao pointed to one of the colors and said to Zhang Yue: "These two hundred hectares of land belong to Sheren! They are all good river valley land."

Two hundred hectares!
Zhang Yue frowned when he heard this.

For someone like him who has never been short of money, two hundred hectares is not a small amount.

On Shanxi Road, one mu of good land costs two guan, even in this Weiyuan, a remote land of two or three hundred wen per mu, the two hundred hectares cost at least two thousand guan.

Zhang Yue asked, "I asked the Fan how much it cost to buy the land?"

Wang Shao laughed and said: "The Fan people don't know the value of an acre of land. They know that I buy fields and they compete to sell them. One hectare is only two or three crops. Of course there are some unowned fields, let alone spent money."

Zhang Yue nodded, this is considered to be buying and selling, and Wang Shao still plays by the rules.

At that time, Zhang Yue and Wang Shao broke through Tiandu Mountain, searched Li Yuanhao's palace, and sold all the gold, silver, and property they got.

The money exchanged now is just used to buy fields, seeds, farm tools, and cattle from the local aboriginal people, and finally makes up for the shortfall owed by Wang Shao's false report on the camp.

It's just these two hundred hectares of land that really make everyone's heart skip a beat.It is the dream of everyone in this era to buy fertile land, even officials.

Because officials are official households, they don't have to pay taxes.

Official positions and titles cannot be passed on to the family, but the two hundred hectares of land can be passed on to the family, just like the Fan's Yizhuang built by Fan Zhongyan, which can be left to the family's descendants.

Let them save their labor and embark on the road of full-time study.

Wang Shao, Zhang Yue, and Gao Zunyu shared [-] hectares, while the rest of the generals took [-] hectares, and the remaining [-] hectares were distributed to the soldiers.

Zhang Yue looked at Wang Shao and asked: "Zichun has been so clean since ancient times, why is it now..."

Wang Shao was taken aback for a moment and then fell silent.

Zhang Yue said sincerely to Wang Shaoyu: "Zichun, I know the reason. When you came to Guwei, you were not famous, so you only wanted to make contributions, so you ate and lived with the soldiers. You don't want to take a cent from it."

"But now that you have won the battle, Gu Wei has also set up an army, you have become a Zhijun, and you have been rewarded by officials and promoted to rank, so I thought it would be no harm to take some at this time, and it can be regarded as a reward for myself. This I can save myself by waiting for an idea.”

Wang Shao was embarrassed when he heard the words, and immediately got up and said: "Sheren, I didn't care about it, and I lost my head for a while, don't worry about these fields, I will give them all to the soldiers who have made meritorious service this time."

Zhang Yue said: "It doesn't have to be like this, everyone keeps a third, after all, there are still people who follow you to resettle."

Wang Shao said, "That's what Yi Sheren means."

Zhang Yue nodded and said: "Okay, there are also pensions for the soldiers who died in battle. The court will come down soon. You can take part of the farmland to support the families of the soldiers who died in battle."

Wang Shao cupped his hands and said, "Obey."

Then Zhang Yue and Wang Shao discussed the distribution of troops and horses.

Weiyuan Fort was built immediately, and Wang Shao left two commanding troops to Zhang Yue. At the same time, he brought the rest of the troops and the soldiers from Rouyuan Village and Sandu Village who almost followed the Guangrui Army to the Tongyuan Army.

Most of the officers of the Guangrui Army were investigated and detained during the mutiny.Zhang Yue asked Wang Hou to appoint an old man from the original army as an officer.

Wang Hou also selected some elites from the local Fan tribe to join, so that there were more than 3000 soldiers and horses.

Although the Guangrui army still had some hatred for the Fan army, Zhang Yue and Wang Hou still insisted on letting the Fan army and the Han army train together like Wang Shao.Wang Hou was responsible for all military affairs.

While building Weiyuan Fort and preparing and training new soldiers, Zhang Yue started camping the fields at the same time.

Camping fields is the foundation for future progress in Qingtang.

Zhang Yue's current shortage of people has been solved with the continuous recruitment of the Fan tribe, the Guangrui Army and their dependents.

Zhang Yue immediately rode a horse and inspected the reclaimable wasteland near Weiyuan with Wang Hou.

Now Huang Haoyi, Peng Jingyi and others have already arrived at Weiyuan Castle with Zhang Yue.Zhang Yue intends to hand over the matter of camping to the two of them.

Zhang Yue looked at it from here and then from there, and he had to say that the source of the Wei River is really good.

Without the destruction of the Loess Plateau in the middle and lower reaches, the river valleys near Weiyuan are mostly fertile, but now they are all abandoned, and only cattle and sheep eat on weekdays, which is really a pity.

But now that the power of the Song Dynasty has expanded from Guwei to Weiyuan, this barren land finally has the possibility of being reclaimed.

Of course, if you want to cultivate, you must have a peaceful environment, like Dangxiang, the Qing, Tang and Tibetan tribes like to plunder during the autumn harvest.

The greatest worry of farming people is the unstable environment.

(End of this chapter)