Water Margin farming to become powerful

Chapter 318

Sun Xin was already mentally prepared when he heard that Zong Ze decided to retire and return to his hometown.

In fact, when Sun Li told Sun Xin that Zong Ze had accepted the generous gift from him yesterday, Sun Xin felt something was wrong.

With Zongze's temperament, he has never been involved in such things, so he accepted such a valuable gift without any reply, and today when Sun Xin came to Zongze's house, he also asked the dealer to pick out a load of gifts. Zongze didn't show any sign of refusal when he heard about it, he was so hot that someone picked him in through the back door
It turned out that the person was leaving, so there was no need to pretend about this kind of thing.

Zong Ze told Sun Xin very bluntly that he wanted to open up the land and he could help in the last days, and Sun Xin quickly said that he would give corresponding gifts.

Zong Ze shook his head, looked at Sun Xin with a bit of drunkenness and said with a smile: "I really don't know how big a career you should start..."

Sun Xin and Sun Li were taken aback when they heard the words, looking at Zong Ze wondering how he would react.

The next moment, Zong Ze laughed out loud, as if it was very interesting to play with the two of them.

"If I am still in the Dengzhou General Judgment, I will definitely not be able to do this for you. I am also afraid that the surname of Dengzhou will no longer be Zhao, but your grandson. But since I will not be a Dengzhou General Judge, I will be an official for one term." Thinking about it, to be honest, I'm afraid this Dengzhou surname is better than Sun."

Sun Xin and Sun Li were shocked when they heard the words, and Sun Li hurriedly said: "Master Zong is drunk."

Zongze shook his head and laughed, and then asked, "Sun Xin, you always said that you want to expand the land, and now Dengzhou has four front lines, and you have almost eaten three. Where else can you expand?"

"The land of the foreign government."

"where?"

Zong Ze was drunk when he was supposed to be drunk, but when he was supposed to be sober, he suddenly changed into an expression of doing business.

Sun Xin said two words slowly: "Haizhou."

Zong Ze thought for a while, then frowned.

Sun Xin thought about where to open his next farm, including Yuncheng, Lingzhou, and even Jinzhou and Yingzhou in the Liao Kingdom, but in the end Sun Xin decided on the sea in the south of Dengzhou. state.

The reason is very simple. Sun Xin's idea is to use Liangshan's chaos to expand his power. If Liangshan messes up a place, he will intervene in a place. Whether it is in the novel or in history, the southernmost side of Liangshan's power expansion is the sea. Continent, then for the time being, Haizhou is the southern boundary of his future sphere of influence.

In the future, the scope of influence of my own plan basically covers the entire Shandong. The east and north are surrounded by the sea, the west is the front line bordering Hebei, and the south is naturally the Haizhou line. The power that he has occupied will be impregnable.

Zong Ze read Haizhou several times, thought carefully, and then nodded with a meaningful smile on his face.

Sun Xin was also relieved to see that Zong Ze had no objection.

Then he tentatively asked: "I wonder if my lord can help me plan one more thing?"

"What's the matter?" Zong Ze asked, shaking the wine bowl.

"The taxes in Wendeng County, our Supervisory Committee wants to cover them."

Zong Ze glanced at Sun Xin, then shook his head: "Don't even think about it!"

Sun Xin was quite surprised. Zongze was willing to ask for a piece of land for him in a place so far away from Haizhou, but Zongze was willing to help him ask for a piece of land. Why did Zongze in Wendeng County, which was already under his control at this time, categorically not allow it?

Zongze said naturally: "Haizhou is not under my rule, but Wendeng is under my jurisdiction. If I decide to give you the tax wallet of Wendeng County, you kid will make trouble in the future. Wouldn't it be necessary to take me as well?" Get involved?"

Sun Xin understood in an instant that Zong Ze was thinking of letting go because he wanted someone else. After all, Zong Ze was from Zhejiang. Even if Sun Xin really took over Shandong in the future, it would be after he left, and it had nothing to do with him. The land in Haizhou will not leave any records. Out of Zongze's thinking, he may think that Sun Xin can bring some benefits to the people of Shandong. When the court investigates in the future, he himself will never be able to get rid of this relationship.

Of course, Sun Xin’s contracting Wendeng County was not in the idea of ​​being loyal to the imperial court. More than [-]% of the land in Wendeng is now managed by the Supervisory Committee. All landlords, big and small, follow Sun Xin’s lead. The ultimate goal is naturally to empty Wendeng's county government office entirely, and the government office locked in the county seat will be responsible for collecting taxes and dealing with officials. However, except for Chengguan, the entire county's operating power will be in the hands of the supervisory committee.

And Zong Ze didn't say much about it, meaning that Sun Xin would do what he wanted to do by himself, but he wouldn't help.

The discussion between the two sides ended but did not end, but actually started to drink.

Zong Ze was about to leave, and he had many things on his mind.

From the heart, Zongze stayed in Dengzhou for the past few years, Sun Xin watched Zongze's career step by step, and judged Zongze as a good official from his perspective, but due to the time limit, Zongze's vision That's all there is to see.

The things that officials can do to the people these days are firstly to educate the people, secondly to persuade farmers, and thirdly to organize disaster relief. Like Zongze, after finishing his job, he also wants to claim land for the people, so as to alleviate the transfer of the powerful to them The taxation is a first-class good official.

If there is no Sun Xin in Dengzhou, maybe the people in Dengzhou would like Zongze well now, but Sun Xin has done too many things in the past few years, bringing earth-shaking changes to the lives of the people outside Dengzhou. As a result, although Zongze's actions have aroused a lot of criticism for himself in the court, they are not well known among the people of Dengzhou.

Sun Xin knew that the efforts made by an upright official like Zong Ze could only slightly reduce the oppression suffered by the people of the world, but could not eliminate it at all. The only way is to develop.

If the change in productivity of agricultural development is not enough to preserve the Song Dynasty, then industrialization is necessary, and there is no other way.

Zong Ze has already made up his mind to retire. According to him, he will leave Dengzhou for half a year, but his heart is very painful. It is precisely because he finds that no matter what he does, he can't change the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty. In his opinion, Xin is such a tyrannical man with wolfish ambitions, but he really makes the lives of the people much more comfortable.

He is too old, tired, and has fought all his life. Now there is a long and confused journey ahead, and behind him is a group of powerful and powerful people bitten by him. In the end, he can only decide to let go of his old age and return home.

With drunken eyes, Zong Ze suddenly asked Sun Xin: "Do you really want to go to Haizhou?"

Sun Xin nodded.

"It's not so easy to save in this world..." Zong Ze said suddenly.

This is a piece of advice, and it is also Zong Ze's heartfelt words. Sun Xin nodded sincerely, but still said with burning eyes: "I want to go to Haizhou."

Zong Ze looked at him for a long time and laughed.

The wine was exhausted, and the three of them were already drunk. Zong Ze began to sing, and Sun Xin listened carefully, and what he sang was Tao Yuanming's poems that were tuned to Pu's Yuefu.

Tao Yuanming talked about retiring, and Zong Ze also wanted to retire, but what Sun Xin heard from the poem about picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence was not freedom and ease, but a kind of vicissitudes of powerlessness.

Sun Xin looked at the drunken old man in front of him and sighed in his heart. Before Zong Ze resigned from office, he was willing to help Sun Xin to expand his career. He had selfish intentions, but most of them were out of public interest that he might be able to change the fate of the people in the world.He has done his best, and he feels that this is how the world leaves things to those who come later, so he goes home to farm.

But Sun Xin knew that Zong Ze did not succeed in enjoying that kind of life in the history of his previous life. When the situation was unstable at that time, he stood up again, traveled all over the country, and finally defended Bianjing alone at the age of more than 70 years old. On the front line of the anti-golden war, a person with the whole world in his heart can't go even if he wants to leave.

Sun Li is a person who doesn't talk much in front of outsiders, but when he listens to his younger brother talking to Zong Ze, he also feels majestic in his chest. He has a heroic character, and since he is enjoying himself, he will not stop drinking. Drink and drink Zong Ze fell first, and Sun Xin and Sun Li soon collapsed like mountains.

Sun Xin and Sun Li woke up one after another at dawn the next day, and saw that they had been moved to the guest room to rest. They went out to ask Zong Ze's family and elders how they were, knowing that Zong Ze was still asleep, Sun Xin and Sun Li Say goodbye and go home.

When Sun Xin came to the city wall on horseback, just as the gate of Dengzhou city was opened, he whipped his horse back to the ten-mile card.

That afternoon, after Zong Ze sobered up, he sent a family member to the ten-mile card, found Sun Xin and told him to go to Haizhou to see the place first.

Sun Xin finally breathed a sigh of relief, and after a few days of preparation, he took a few dealers to Haizhou.

Haizhou is the area of ​​Lianyungang in later generations.

It took four days to go to Haizhou by boat from Dengzhou. When Sun Xin went to the place, he found that the terrain of Lianyungang at this time was completely different from that of later generations. In his memory, it should be because of changes in sea water level and the sediment impacted by the diversion of the Yellow River. In this era, Haizhou is still a relatively remote place. Because it does not rely on the consumer market, although there is a large port, the sea trade is not very prosperous.

The mountain roads to the inland are where the big income here lies.

The most important industry is salt making. Although the industry is a bit single, the salt industry is the biggest business these days, so the state city of Haizhou is also rich.

There are many mansions with winding paths in the city, all of them are the mansions of the big salt merchants here.

Because this place is full of salt merchants, the merchants at this time like to buy land when they grow up. During the inspection, Sun Xin felt that it was a bit difficult to deal with. After asking, it turns out that although the land here is barren, it relies on most of the land in Haizhou City. Most of the arable land in several counties under the jurisdiction of Hexia is owned land, and wild places like Ten Mile Pai in Dengzhou can only be found on the edge of Haizhou.

(End of this chapter)