Great Song Super Scholar

Chapter 325 Formal Debriefing

Fan Ning bowed slightly and said, "I told the rich Xiangguo that the land allocated to the immigrants is actually a continuous piece, which is suitable for planting pieces of wheat. If each farmer grows grain, vegetables, and mulberry on his own land, The entire wheat field will become broken and messy, and it will be inconvenient to irrigate and harvest, so while the humble office distributes the grain fields, it also grants vegetable fields and mulberry fields elsewhere, which is also what they need in life.”

"But you can pay less for grain fields, and count vegetable and mulberry fields in the quota of two hectares of land."

Fan Ning was silent for a moment and said: "Kunzhou has a vast land and few people. Instead of being barren and wasteful, it is better to grant it to the people. It can be regarded as a full use of the land. What's more, they reclaim the wasteland to grow vegetables. Ten years later, the land will still belong to them. It would be better for the government to grant favors, this is a humble idea."

Fu Bi nodded and said with a smile: "Fan Zhizhou has the suffering of the people in his heart, and he has done a good job. I completely agree. I have no other problems."

Wen Yanbo looked at the crowd again, "Which one will continue to ask?"

Seeing that no one answered, he said to Fan Ning: "Then let me ask a question about the brothel. Personally, I think it's unseemly for the government to open a brothel in Kunzhou first. I can't accept this. Can Fan Zhizhou please explain?"

Fan Ning smiled slightly, "First of all, I want to correct Wen Xianggong's statement that the government has never opened a brothel in Kunzhou. What I mean is that there are three brothels in Kunzhou, but they were not opened by the government. They were all from the Nagasaki Song Dynasty. Merchants found business opportunities, not only brothels, but also restaurants and grocery stores opened at the same time, all opened by themselves, and have nothing to do with the government.”

"But it's also encouraged by the government, right?" Wen Yanbo was not satisfied with Fan Ning's answer.

Fan Ning did not mention the brothel in his report, and Wen Yanbo obviously got the news from some source.

Fan Ning knew that Wen Yanbo's question could be answered with a single sentence of business behavior, but it would definitely have a bad influence on his report. After all, brothels can't be on the table, and Wen Yanbo's question represented the thinking of a large part of officials.

Fan Ning thought for a while and said: "The Kunzhou government never encourages the establishment of brothels. From the time when there were three brothels at the beginning, and now there are still only three after two years, we can see the attitude of the government. They run brothels."

"What's the reason for being kind?" Wen Yanbo continued to ask.

"Reporting to Wen Xiangguo, there are two reasons for this. One is the customs of Japan. Japan has strong pornographic customs. You can find brothels no matter where you are. Of course, Kunzhou is the territory of the Song Dynasty. It has nothing to do with Japan. Businessmen have been doing business in Japan for a long time, and they have more or less accepted Japanese customs. This is one aspect, but it is not the main reason.

The real reason is the needs of sailing. Living at sea for a long time, both the crew and the soldiers will have a huge sense of depression in their hearts. Therefore, after arriving on the shore, the first thing for sailors and soldiers is to release the depression in their hearts, otherwise it will be easy. Mania, madness, and cannibalism appear. The reason why pirates are bloody and cruel is related to this depression.

One way to release depression is to get drunk, and the other is to go to a brothel, which is the main reason why there are so many brothels and pubs in various seaports.

Many long-distance merchant ships have ship prostitutes on board, but our fleet does not have them, and the army strictly restricts soldiers from drinking alcohol. In order to relieve the mental depression of soldiers and crew members at sea, the Kunzhou government did not object to merchants opening brothels in Tang County. This is the reason for being kind. "

Wen Yanbo didn't mean to target Fan Ning, but he personally disliked the establishment of brothels by the government. Now Fan Ning gave him a convincing reason.

He pondered for a moment, then nodded and said, "I can accept it!"

"Let me ask a question too!" Han Qi, the privy secretary, laughed.

"Han Xiangguo, please!"

Han Qi pondered for a while and said: "Last spring there was a battle in Kunzhou, and it was also written in the report that the fleet of Nagasaki lord Hirano Yoshi was completely wiped out, but I found a strange thing, there were no prisoners, and there were no prisoners. That is to say, the Song army killed them all, I don’t sympathize with these Japanese warriors, I just want to know why Zhizhou didn’t accept the surrender and wanted to kill them all?”

Fan Ning nodded and said: "It is indeed my order. There are two reasons for this. One is the identity of these samurai. They are the Nagasaki local army in name, but their other identity is the pirates active in the Japanese sea. , everyone's hands are covered with the blood of innocent people, and it can be said that they deserve to die. If they are released in the future, they will only continue to harm merchant ships, and even bring a huge threat to the Song Dynasty fleet.

Another reason is that these samurai are extremely murderous, and none of them will surrender. We fought fiercely with them when we captured Tamna Island. In the end, no one surrendered, and they fought to the end.

Therefore, rescuing them on board rashly will only cause harm to our soldiers, so I ordered that they are not allowed to be rescued on board, but I did not order them to be exterminated. Most of the Japanese samurai drowned in the sea. "

"well said!"

Han Qi praised: "War has always been life and death. Too many bodhisattvas can't be tolerated. Forgiving a vicious enemy is a crime against my own soldiers and kind people. I have always advocated killing the enemy. I am very satisfied with Fan Zhizhou's answer."

The debriefing had gone through three prime ministers, and there were still two deputy prime ministers who did not ask any questions. The emperor Zhao Zhen who was sitting in the back just listened and did not interrupt Fan Ning's debriefing.

Wen Yanbo looked at Deputy Prime Minister Cheng Lin and Wang Yaochen, and asked with a smile, "Do Cheng Xianggong and Wang Xianggong have any doubts?"

Cheng Lin smiled and said, "Fan Zhizhou did a good job, I have no doubts."

Wang Yaochen also smiled and said: "There are a lot of compliments, I will speak slowly later."

Both of them stated that they had no doubts, so the inquiry of the five prime ministers could end.

Wen Yanbo nodded, and was about to report to the emperor, at this moment, Gao Ruona, a senior scholar, said, "I have a question to ask Zhizhou Fan."

Gao Ruona was the former deputy prime minister. Due to his advanced age, he resigned from the position of prime minister and is now a bachelor of Wenyuan Pavilion.

Generally speaking, state officials do not need a bachelor to attend the debriefing, but today, because the emperor is present at the debriefing, a bachelor is required to participate in the audit.

Han Qi and Fu Bi glanced at each other, and their expressions became serious. This Gao Ruona was Lu Yijian's lackey back then, he strongly opposed the Qingli reform, and crazily attacked Fan Zhongyan. Moreover, this person firmly opposes opening up overseas borders, and severely criticized overseas opening up borders at several court meetings as a waste of people and money.

However, his opposition to opening up overseas territories is only superficial. In essence, he opposed Zhao Zongshi, the former overseas economic strategist, to inherit the general rule, and supported Concubine Zhang's adoptive son, Zhao Wenyun, as the heir of the emperor.

Gao Ruona also knew that he was not qualified to participate in the Zhizhou report, so he said to the emperor Zhao Zhen: "Please allow it, Your Majesty!"

Zhao Zhen nodded, "If Gao Aiqing has any doubts, you can ask them!"

Gao Ruona then said to Fan Ning: "I haven't seen Fan Zhizhou's work report, so I don't ask about Kunzhou, I just want to ask Fan Zhizhou, did he lead the army to attack Korea on the way home?"

As soon as this question came out, there was an uproar in the court, and Zhao Zhen frowned, thinking to himself, 'What's going on? '

Wen Yanbo asked anxiously: "Fan Zhizhou, is there such a thing?"

Fan Ning was also surprised, how could Gao Ruona know about this?The soldiers who participated in the war were all in Jiangdu, and did not follow him northward.

He himself reported the matter to Di Qing, obviously none of the prime ministers knew about it, so it must not be Di Qing's report.

Fan Ning recalled that when he was reporting to Di Qing, there were two counselors beside him, and Fan Ning immediately understood that one of these two counselors must be Zhang Yaozuoan's eyeliner in the Overseas Economic Bureau.

But he had no choice but to answer Wen Yanbo's question, so Fan Ning bowed and said, "Is this really the case?"

Wen Yanbo was displeased immediately: "Then why didn't you report to the imperial court, why didn't you write this matter clearly in the work report?"

Fan Ning said calmly, "I would like to report to Wen Xiangguo that the debriefing report was written in Kunzhou, and the incident in Koryo happened on the way home, and the debriefing is to perform the duties of the deputy envoy of economic strategy. I don't think this is the content of the debriefing.

Secondly, I have already reported this matter to Envoy Di Jinglue, who should report to the Privy Council and the imperial court. I cannot overstep my authority, not to mention that I just returned yesterday and have not had the opportunity to formally report this matter to the court. "

Wen Yanbo's face softened a little. It was the right thing for Fan Ning not to mention this matter in front of the emperor yesterday. This matter is not an idea or a suggestion, but a matter of state affairs between Song and Koryo, and it does not go through the court. So he reported to the emperor without authorization. This is a taboo in the court, and even the emperor cannot accept it.

Wen Yanbo said again: "Then you will describe in detail the cause and effect of the attack on Goryeo now!"

Fan Ning said indifferently: "First of all, I would like to say that it is a bit of an exaggeration for a senior scholar to attack Korea. I really cannot bear the lowly position."

(End of this chapter)