Prime Minister

The fierce general must be sent from the army, and the prime minister must be from the state.

This is a sentence that Zhang Yue has always believed in, and it was also the criterion for selecting prime ministers in the Tang and Song Dynasties.

In order to weaken the power of the prime minister (cabinet minister), the Ming Dynasty chose Hanlin, who had no local official history, as the prime minister, which was actually not a good way.

Zhang Yue wants to turn his ideals into reality, but he can't even manage a state or a county. It's better to write novels instead of becoming an official.

At the end of September in the sixth year of Xining.

In Xizhou, the Tongyuan Army ushered in a bumper harvest, which reduced the price of grain in Xizhou and Hezhou from more than 120 renminbi a bucket in February and March last year to about [-] renminbi.

Taking advantage of the low grain price, Zhang Yue asked local treasuries to collect grain from various places to enrich the military supplies.

Guizhang attacked Huizhou, Hezhou, and the land west of Taoshui in the Song Dynasty. Due to the spread of the war, many people lost their crops. However, the east of Taoshui in Xizhou and the area from Weiyuan to Tongyuan Army were not affected by the war. Influence.

So with a good harvest, taking advantage of the slight relief of the people's strength, Zhang Yue hired laborers with money to start repairing roads, laying bridges along the Taoshui and Weishuishui, and digging canals.

Zhang Yue inspected the harvest of Taohe River and the mobilization of the people along the way, and was very happy.

Six or seven years ago, the Tongyuan Army where Gu Wei was located was still a barren land, but now thousands of hectares of land have been reclaimed on both sides of the Wei River and the Tao River. The ten thousand hectares of farmland Zhang Yue promised to the emperor is almost the same.

Many acquaintances have completed the household registration of Qimin. In the past, acquaintances were based on clan accounts.Small clans have hundreds of tents, and large clans have tens of thousands of tents, but no one knows exactly how many people are in one tent.

After the registration of households and the registration of the people, one account was changed to one household, and the number of people and names of each household, as well as the number of fields and cattle and sheep were all registered in the register.

Zhang Yue appointed someone who was familiar with writing from the Fan people to carry out the task. However, the Fan people had little education after all, so he transferred officials from Qinfeng Road to carry out the task.

The most important thing among the registered households is Qimin. There are no tribal leaders, elders or slaves. Everyone is a citizen of the Song Dynasty. Except for the emperor, your identities are generally equal.

For the people who accepted the registered households, they could freely enter and leave the city walls, and even lived in the city walls. They could serve as officials and patrolmen, and at the same time, they had to bear taxes and labor.

After one year, almost 20 Tibetans completed their household registration, which also means that there are 20 more people under the rule of Xihe Road.

As for the living and living scattered under the rule, the family must also be attached to the family, that is, the family should pay lighter taxes to the Song Dynasty, and obey the dispatch point of Xihe Road, so that they can get in and out of the city or trade with the people of the Song Dynasty near Guo. qualifications.

The bottom line is attached to the family, it must be a requirement, and if you don't agree, you will fight.However, Qimin, a registered householder, was only encouraging.

The Fan people on Xihe Road have always been half-cultivating and half-grazing, so the part that is willing to farm is relatively easy to manage, but it is not easy for the nomadic tribes who live by water and grass. You cannot force them.

Zhang Yue was not in a hurry, and subtly changed the foreign people for the time being.

How to integrate the Han and Fan is a difficult problem.

How to manage multi-ethnicity?Zhang Yue learned from Khitan's experience and built Buddhist temples in every prefecture and city on Xihe Road, allowing Zhiyuan's disciples to go to various places to abbot to preach, and at the same time to understand the situation of the local tribe.

In this case, religion has become a bridge of communication.

In the past, it was said that the great affairs of the country were enshrined in Rong.

This is very reasonable, what is a country?The product of irreconcilable class contradictions.

What does it take to blend people of all classes and nationalities together?One is a violent institution, and the other is a shared ideology.

The ancestors realized this very early on. The Shang Dynasty was a country where politics and religion were united. The king of Shang was called king during his lifetime and emperor after his death.The emperor is a god, and the king is a man.

In history, when Pan Geng moved to Yin, Pan Geng, as a dignitary under the Shang king who refused to move the capital, used the name of the former king to persuade him, emphasizing that his decree was correct in the name of the former king.

Therefore, the dignitaries below listened to the meaning of the former king, so they obeyed Pan Geng.

After the Zhou family replaced the merchants and the Duke of Zhou established rites and music, Huaxia had its own ideology through humanistic methods, and then gradually stopped using grand sacrifices and emphasized the theory of ghosts and gods to make the whole country united.

But for Zhang Yue who wanted to govern the Qing, Tang and Tibetan tribes, to achieve the unity of Fan and Han, he had to adopt this method.

Chongrou ruled not to kill, so Zhang Yue issued two hundred certificates in one year.Any conflicts between the Han and Han people were mediated through monks. In many cases, a monk was more useful than a soldier commanded by Zhang Yue.

At the same time, Zhang Yue also awarded all the monks and officials of the Fan tribe themselves.

……

In an alley in Chengji County, Qinzhou.

A Tibetan man dressed as a Han man with a parcel on his back looked around vigilantly. After confirming that there was no one around, he came to the back door of a courtyard and waited for the door to be knocked three times before he opened the door and entered.

The foreigner went into the house, took off his coat and waited for a while before he heard a voice saying: "Why are you here again?"

The Tibetan stood up and said, "Shan Yasi is polite."

The other party shook his head, moved a chair and sat down.

This room has been in disrepair for a long time, and all the furniture in it is dilapidated, and the prisoner is also sitting temporarily.

Shan Yasi asked, "How did you know about this place?"

The other party said: "I heard Mu Zheng say that you are one of the few Han people who value loyalty."

Shan Yasi frowned and said, "This fellow Mu Zheng... Yes, I used to do things for him, but that was in the past. Now that he has returned to the Song Dynasty, he can be regarded as a gentleman who knows the current affairs. Then what happened back then is also written off." Now, treat this place as if I haven’t been here before, and you don’t want to come to me again.”

The other party laughed and said: "Why is Shan Yasi in such a hurry to leave? Our Fan Lord heard from me that Shan Yasi once worked for Mu Zheng and admired you very much, so I gave you some gifts."

Shan Yasi said: "It's been a matter of many years... What are you talking about him..."

The other party opened the bag and said: "Please take a look at it."

Shan Yasi saw that it was a bag of jewels.

Seeing this scene, Shan Yasi calmed down and said, "Your Fan Wang is now the new leader of the Guizhang Department, Bian Sibojie. What does he want me to do for him with so many jewels?"

The other party smiled and said: "If the single abbot knows everything, then I don't want to hide it. When Wang Shao and Zhang Yue led the army to attack Xizhou and Hezhou, Mu Zheng asked the abbot to send news to Beijing to explain what the two had done. What happened spread throughout Tokyo, making the ministers of the court and the emperor jealous of the two. Today, our boss wants the Yasi to do the same."

"As for the reward, we are twice as much as Mu Zheng! We must force the emperor of the Song Dynasty to become suspicious of Zhang Yue and transfer him away!"

Shan Yasi said: "Yes, I have some acquaintances in Tokyo, but the risk of doing so is not small. Zhang Duzhi is not comparable to two years ago?"

"How about Ashi?"

Shan Yasi said: "I can think of a way for you, but you have to pay more!"