The Happy Life of Small Officials in Northern Song Dynasty

In March of the fifth year of Qingli in the Great Song Dynasty, and in March of the seventh year of Yanzuo's ceremony, Li Yuanhao was killed by the prince Li Ningling, who then ascended the throne under the support of all the ministers. The year was Yansi Ningguo; At the same time, the leader of the Wuzang tribe who escaped from the capital, the former prime minister of the country, Wuzang Yepang, announced to the world with Yuan Hao's secret edict, announcing that the third prince, Li Liangzuo, was the orthodox heir of the emperor. This was an excuse to entangle several tribes in the north to set up a separate court, and to support the still infancy Among them, Li Liangzuo is the emperor.

Afterwards, Empress Ye Lidulan instructed Brother Li Ning to make an order to suppress the rebellion of the Tibetan tribe. The two sides gathered hundreds of thousands of horses and started a confrontation in the Liangcha River south of Dingzhou. The battle was imminent.

At the end of April, the two sides fought the first fierce battle at the Liangcha River. A few days later, Wuzang Yepang was defeated and fled to Dingzhou. , and then began to kill and eat; Wuzang Yupang saw that the situation was over, and killed himself; the southern army swept the northern tribes, beheaded more than [-] rebels, and quelled the rebellion.

Xia Guo, which was already scarred and scarred, became even weaker after experiencing this catastrophe. Even in September of the first year of Yansi Ning, when the grain was harvested, there were famines in more than ten state capitals. Although the rebellion was quelled, but The country is already at risk.

Su Jin, one of the instigators of Xia's civil strife, took the opportunity to reap the wealth of Xia's national calamity, continuously dumping grain, cloth, tea and other daily necessities at high prices to Xia, and at the same time plundering Xia's leather goods, livestock, medicinal materials, green salt, etc. The goods in short supply in the Song Dynasty returned to the country to sell; in just half a year, the profit was huge, and at the same time, Mingzhu City was also famous in the Song Dynasty for having goods that were banned in the north. The secret channel obtained the wholesale sales qualification of northern goods, which was beaten badly. [

Chengzhou Iron Mine also went into production in June, and the iron ingots were purchased by the three divisions. Except that the price was not too good for Su Jinmny, this time Zhao Zhen was not stingy, and the money was not in arrears; The 300 million big holes embezzled by Suji Yinzhuang, which has been successful, have been filled up.

Su Jin also ordered people to redeem the dowries and private houses of the daughters from the capital, return them to their original owners, and add a lot of jewelry, which can be regarded as a knot in his heart.

The first batch of taxes in the Northwest states and Pearl City has already begun to be collected. According to Zhao Zhen’s promise, the Northwest will be self-sufficient in expenditure. How to collect taxes and the tax rate are determined by Su Jin himself. Of course, it seems that Zhao Zhen’s generosity, In fact, it was Zhao Zhen's technique to squeeze Su Jin to the utmost. Over the past few decades, there has never been a time when the Northwest Fourth Road was not allowed to support the imperial court. sewn.

But the situation has changed significantly this year, mainly because the business tax in Pearl City accounts for a large proportion. There are nearly [-] merchants in Pearl City, and the fourth ring outside the third ring has begun to take shape. For example, when Mingzhu City was first built, everything was paid for by itself, and the construction of shops was the business of the merchants themselves. Not only that, but the land had to be purchased from Li Chong, the director of Lucang. People are still flocking to them, everyone wants to reap the benefits of this unprecedentedly prosperous qgu city, the first batch of merchants who settled in secretly thanked themselves for their vision, because their shops are located in excellent locations, and they have priority after one year's rent-free The right to purchase, despite the astonishingly high prices of the shops, merchants still spend a lot of money without frowning, buying their own shops as private individuals.

The funds accumulated by the huge business operations are enough for the operation of the Fourth Northwest Road. Su Jin has never stopped investing in construction, and has never given up on the transformation of people's ideas; just after the Mid-Autumn Festival on August [-]th, Pearl City welcomes A new thing came, and it immediately became a topic of conversation.

Led by Li Zhong, elite students from various universities were invited to establish the first newspaper in Pearl City

However, today's Su Jin is not easy to be moved by foreign objects, and his heart has gradually calmed down. Even when officials of all sizes greeted him outside the west city, Su Jin was not too excited, but a little sighed. It changes often.