Northern Song Dynasty: Starting from the son of Song Renzong

Chapter 113 I am willing to serve His Royal Highness Prince Yu at all costs! !
The temperature was very cold this winter.

In order to prevent him from catching a cold, Madam Miao didn't let him go out.

The weather is so cold this year.

I guess many people will not be able to hold on any longer.

The fact that there were so many peasant uprisings in the Song Dynasty was actually more or less related to the frequent natural disasters.

Late December.

After finally receiving a wave of barbarians from Anhua Prefecture, the year passed like this.

The barbarians in Anhua Prefecture are the best example of a group that, unable to survive the cold weather, rebelled and attacked the Song Dynasty to loot supplies.

The essential……

The other party is still very confident.

I can't make it anymore, so I'll definitely come and snatch yours.

If you don't want to be robbed by me, then you should give us rice and salt. As long as we can survive, we will not rob you.

This reason left Zhao Xin speechless.

Does this mean that in the future, when he makes his debut, he will have to practice with the Anhua barbarians?
However, the output of resources in this world can basically be regarded as constant within a period of time. Once the population increases, there will not be enough things to go around, and naturally there will be more competition for interests, contradictions and conflicts.

one way or another!

Next…

Let's just issue the imperial edict first and talk about it later.

……

Xuchang and Nanyang recruited refugees and people willing to immigrate.

Each household was given 50 mu of land, three thatched houses, and some farm tools, and was exempted from taxes and labor service for three years.

But later...

Zhao Xin changed it to five years.

After all, it’s only been three years, even dogs won’t look down on it!
At least……

When Zhao Xin saw the number three years, she was not moved at all.

Zhao Xin has even wanted to write for ten years.

However, if this happens, it is estimated that half of the people of the Song Dynasty will run away.

I guess all the poor people in the world who can escape have found a way to escape here.

natural!

What Zhao Xin did was no less costly than a war.

Do you think reclaiming wasteland is easy? You have to provide food for the people, as well as houses and farm tools. If conditions permit, it would be best to provide them with oxen.

Each of these items is an expense!

Now, the imperial edict has been issued, but it will probably have to wait until at least the beginning of spring before it can be actually implemented.

As for the person to take the lead in the development, Zhao Xin currently doesn’t have any good candidate.

There were some, all recruited through his previous test questions, but...

These people are too young.

Feel……

Letting them do it is somewhat risky!
That's why Zhao Xin needed to find that person, Zhang Kang, and Teng Zongliang.

After all, these two people have served as prefects.

now……

Both of them have committed the crime of corruption, so it's a good opportunity to help him reclaim wasteland and try to reform himself as soon as possible.

New Year!

Zhao Xin met the two men in the Lecture Hall.

I feel like these two people both have the aura of a knight-errant, and they seem to be very different from ordinary scholars.

After all, Zhao Xin has now met quite a few literati from the Song Dynasty.

These two people do not have the kind of unhurried and steady aura that Lu Yijian, his teacher, or Zhang Dexiang and Wang Gongchen have.

It is also very different from Fu Bi.

only……

It was precisely because of this that Zhao Xin seemed to be able to see the vitality in the two of them.

It is obvious that these two people are practical people.

Inside the Lecture Hall.

Zhao Xin stared at the two of them for a long time.

The two of them looked at each other.

After a long while, Zhao Xin finally said, "You two, did you really embezzle money?"

To say it is corruption is actually not accurate at all.

They just used the money that was originally in the state government in a flexible way.

They probably thought Zhao Xin was here to bring them justice.

The two naturally seized the opportunity. One of them, Zhang Kang, replied righteously, "Your Highness Prince Yu, if you don't use money to reward the soldiers on the front line, how can the soldiers listen to you? Who is willing to fight for you? I just followed the past practice and took the money to let someone run the business. Then I used the profit to reward the soldiers. I really didn't embezzle. And... almost all the generals on this frontier do this!"

Zhao Xin then asked, "Then why were you reported while others were not?"

Zhang Kang said, "It's all because Zheng Jian, the general who deployed the troops along the four borders of Shaanxi and served as the pacification and recruitment envoy, is taking revenge on me out of personal grudges."

Zhao Xin thought, you are quite reasonable!
Then, Zhao Xin turned around and asked Teng Zongliang, "How did you commit corruption?"

Teng Zongliang said, "Zhang Kang and I are similar. We both spent a lot of money to reward our soldiers. But I didn't give the money out to others to make money like him. I just embezzled it directly. The account books at the front are often unclear. Sometimes there is a little more or a little less. If you don't check it carefully, no one will know. Generally, no one will care."

Zhao Xin said, "You two are really a perfect match."

When they first heard this, they thought Zhao Xin was praising them.

There was a look of surprise on his face.

Then Zhang Kang shamelessly said, "Your Highness Prince Yu, using Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chick to evaluate us seems a bit too high, right? Besides... we don't seem to be similar to Crouching Dragon and Phoenix Chick."

Zhao Xin then said, "What I mean is that you two are really a pair of idiots."

Zhang Kang: “…”

Teng Zongliang: “…”

Zhao Xin: "But you are quite courageous, which suits my taste. I heard that you, Zhang Kang, are quite good and strategic. When Xixia attacked us, you were the first to stand up and stabilize the situation. Moreover, several years ago, you expressed your views on Xixia to the court many times and petitioned the court to strictly guard against Xixia."

Zhang Kang didn't expect that His Royal Highness the Prince of Yu knew him so well.

Then he said, "I'm ashamed. It's a pity that no one listened at that time. My words were not taken seriously."

Zhao Xin: "As for you, Teng Zongliang, you are quite courageous to say that my father is obsessed with women!"

Teng Zongliang: "Ahem! Your Highness Prince Yu, I want to correct you. I never said that the emperor was obsessed with women. I just said that the emperor lived in the deep palace every day, indulged in banquets and pleasures, often looked exhausted when attending court, and seemed absent-minded when dealing with state affairs."

Zhao Xin: "What if it's me? If I do the same, will you still be able to persuade me in the future like you persuaded my father?"

Teng Zongliang: "This..."

What do you mean?
Both of them frowned at once.

Zhao Xin added: "In our Song Dynasty, how do we generally punish corruption? I think we should restore the way Emperor Taizu Zhao Kuangyin was in power, and all of them should be executed. My father has already handed over the follow-up of your corruption to me. Come on, since you have admitted it, drag you out and chop you off."

The two looked confused.

Didn’t we agree on this before?

Zhang Kang was the first to speak: "Your Highness Prince Yu! We did that in order to win the battle, and I swear to God, I am not corrupt."

Zhao Xin also said: "Who knows? Maybe you want to make merit, and then use money to bribe soldiers, so as to achieve your goal of merit and promotion. Although you are not corrupt, you are greedy for fame. It is said that you are generous and generous, so it must be to win over people and eventually develop your own power. Come on! Drag him down and chop him off!"

Teng Zongliang saw something was wrong, it seemed like they were really going to chop them off, because Zhao Xun had brought people in armor to drag them away. He remembered what Zhao Xin had said before, so he immediately said, "I am willing to serve His Royal Highness Prince Yu at my utmost!"

(End of this chapter)