Song Gexing

Chapter 228 Memorials from Two Places
A few days later, Zhao Fang received a memorial from Jia Changchao, the Fujian Road transfer envoy. This time it was not to impeach Chen Zongyan.

Jia Changchao was also a capable man and a famous official in the Northern Song Dynasty in history. However, this guy was an opponent of the Qingli New Deal, and was therefore excluded from the core of the court.

Over the years, he has also figured out that the New Deal is the mainstream and cannot be opposed, so he can only follow the trend.

This time he wrote a letter suggesting that a large number of Fujian people should be relocated to Dongfan for reclamation, and at the same time, some Dongfan mountain people should be moved back to Fujian.

This idea made Zhao Fan's eyes light up: "What a great idea. This way, the number of Fujian people in Dongpan will gradually increase and the number of local indigenous people will decrease. By complementing each other, we can achieve faster ethnic integration."

There are actually not many natives in Dongfan, even fewer in this era, and there have been a lot more conflicts since the imperial court opened up wasteland, and there have been many conflicts.

It was only because of Chen Zongyan's strength that the Song Army under his command did a good job of protecting the people who were reclaiming the land, and captured many of the natives who attacked the land reclamation regiment.

These people were detained without killing them, because according to Zhao Fang's will, the people of Dongfan Mountain were also his own people, and they were not allowed to be killed unless they committed murder.

Zhao Fang summoned the cabinet ministers and discussed the matter with everyone. They all felt that it was feasible and immediately issued an order: "Arrange matters along the Fujian Road. The mountain people who move back to Fujian must ensure that everyone has land to farm and every family can have food and clothing. People should set an example and prepare Zhejiang East Road and Guangnan East Road to divert the relocation of people..."

Of course, Zhao Fang wanted to nip the problem in the bud and could not gather the returnees together. However, in order to prevent the returnees from being bullied by the locals, he issued an imperial edict instructing the local government to pay close attention to it.

Migration of migrants, the most worrying thing is not the food and clothing of the immigrants. Since it is an official action of the imperial court, it will naturally arrange their daily necessities.

The biggest difficulty is actually that immigrants are easily bullied by locals. China is a patriarchal society, and land is the lifeblood of the people. This contradiction is huge.

Land is not just a matter of ownership. It is impossible for the government to allocate owned land to immigrants. That would be unfair to the locals and would only exacerbate conflicts.

What's more, land in ancient times was privately owned, and the emperor had no right to take away your land for nothing. It was not a question of whether you had the ability to take it away, but a question of the credibility of power.

The emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty wanted to expand the palace, but in the end it was abandoned because the people around the palace did not want to move.

This is clearly recorded in history books, which shows that the emperor could not expropriate land at will. Of course, the kindness of the royal family in the Northern Song Dynasty was also unique in history.

The only thing that could forcibly acquire land in the Song Dynasty was national defense, and everything else was not allowed. This is why Zhao Fang did not dare to develop real estate even though it was not difficult to produce cement and steel bars.

The matter on Fujian Road had made a good start, but at this time, a memorial was issued on Jinghu Road, impeaching Han Zhen and Zhang Dun for killing countless people, cruelly and violently.

Zhao Fang had just been relieved for a few days, and now he was busy again. He ordered the Jinghu Road Supervisory Censor to investigate, and asked Han and Zhang to defend themselves.

A few days later, before the imperial edict arrived, Han Zhen's memorial arrived first, impeaching the governor of Baojing Prefecture for exploiting the mountain people, causing mountain people to riot. The army suppressed the riot, and the patrol censor impeached himself and Zhang Dun for indiscriminate killing.

Now the father-in-law is right and the mother-in-law is right. This is the first time that Zhao Fang has witnessed the wrangling of local officials, but the problem is that he doesn't know the actual situation at all.

He was so angry that he had no choice but to order the Imperial City Division to conduct a secret investigation, and then compare the report with the supervisory censor's report before making a conclusion.

"Ju Jian, go and ask Cong Ji to come." As Li Xian left, the eunuch beside Zhao Fang now was Gao Ju Jian. This was originally an eunuch with imperial equipment, and he was also a man of great military exploits.

It's just that he didn't fight in the northwest, but in Sichuan and Guangxi, and participated in putting down rebellions many times, because this guy is from Cantonese.

There were few eunuchs from Guangdong in the Northern Song Dynasty. There were not many people serving in the imperial palace of the Northern Song Dynasty. There are two reasons. One is that most of the emperors in the Song Dynasty were simple.

The second reason is that the imperial palace in the Northern Song Dynasty was very small, only one-third the size of the imperial palace in the Tang Dynasty, and could not use so many people.

Therefore, most of the internal servants in the Northern Song Dynasty were from Kaifeng, and there was no need to recruit personnel from other places. Even if there were, most of them were from the area west of Beijing.

Gao Jujian, a native of Panyu, Guangdong, entered the palace as a eunuch, which was rare in the Northern Song Dynasty. However, this guy was very outstanding. After his death, he was granted the title of Governor of Zhongzhou and the Observer of Yaozhou.

After Wang Zhongzheng left, Zhao Fang re-appointed Liang Congji in the Imperial City Department. This was also a famous martial eunuch in the Northern Song Dynasty. He originally served as a military commander on Huanqing Road.

Yes, you read that right, this is a general who directly leads the army as a eunuch. In the last battle when Zhong E and others defeated Tie Yaozi, this guy made great achievements and was promoted to the governor of the capital.

The next year, he was transferred to the Imperial City Department. After Wang Zhongzheng went to the northwest, he was promoted to the Imperial City Envoy. This person was from Kaifeng, like Li Xian.

After Liang Congji hurriedly entered the palace, Zhao Fang said in a low voice after a few words: "Tell Zhang Dun to use more gentle methods and don't kill blindly. Those people are chaos now, but they are not my people. Let him give the land to Wuzhai." Miao sent a few beautiful girls to Beijing with a message to restrain the tribesmen from returning to their native land."

Liang Congji was shocked and immediately lowered his head: "I obey your order!"

Liang Congji was uneasy when he walked out of the palace. What if the ministers knew about this? But the emperor was not a lecherous person, so why did he issue such a ridiculous decree.

The so-called Wuzhai refers to the Wuxi Man, Miao and other mountain people in the western Hunan region. In the Northern Song Dynasty, a management office was set up here and the local heads of the Tu and Miao ethnic groups were appointed as managers.

This is actually the chieftain system of the Yuan Dynasty, but it did not have this name in the Song Dynasty. The Wuxi barbarians were called the barbarians or the Tu people at this time, but the barbarians were a contemptuous term, and the official would not call each other this way.

And it’s not just the Wuxi Barbarians, it also includes the original Ba people, Pu people and other ethnic minorities, which were integrated into the Tujia people during the Yuan Dynasty.

But in the Song Dynasty, there was already a title of native people, and it was these people that Zhang Dun suppressed at this time. Historically, Zhang Dun was in Hunan, and it was stable for decades without causing trouble.

But Zhang Dun is indeed suspected of killing too much. This guy was originally ruthless, and now that Han Zhen is also ruthless, it should be true that he was impeached this time.

Zhao Fang didn't want to be so simple and crude. Although this method was the least labor-intensive, with Qian Tianhe, he could do whatever it took to fight externally, but not internally.

The idea of ​​letting them send beautiful women into the palace is precisely to let them have a spokesperson, so that if the government oppresses them too much, someone can speak for them by the emperor's side.

He believed that the other party would understand what he meant, but he was worried about Liang Congji, because the emperor of the Song Dynasty never selected women from ethnic minorities, and it was another matter for the vassals to pay tribute.

(End of this chapter)