Zhao Defang's road to the virtuous king

德芳40岁王妃41岁长子惟叙23岁次子惟宪21岁幼子惟能19岁

Wei Ling is 17 years old and Zhenzong (Zhao Heng) is 31 years old

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In April of the second year of Xianping, Princess Xu Guochang, the youngest daughter of Emperor Taizu, passed away (the third sister of Defang), aged 43, posthumously named Zhenhui.

On the Chongde Hall in the early dynasty, when Zhenzong asked about politics, Lu Wenzhong, the minister of the Ministry of Industry, said, "I would like to report to Your Majesty that Song Bo, the transshipment envoy from the east of the river, has a memorial to present."

Zhou Huaizheng, the chief servant, submitted the memorial to Zhenzong. After reading it, Zhenzong asked, "What's Aiqing's opinion on this matter?"

"Returning to Your Majesty, the iron ore mined by the Datong Smelter has been mined for many years without interruption. Now it has accumulated a large amount of surplus. According to the records of the Ministry of Industry in recent years, its reserves are enough to supply the smelting needs of the state armies for decades."

Zhenzong thought for a while, "That is to say, even if smelting and mining are stopped now, it will not have any impact in the next few decades?"

"Your Majesty, it is like this." Lu Wenzhong, Minister of the Ministry of Industry, replied

Shinzong nodded, "Well, in order to ensure that this matter does not hinder the future smelting needs, the Ministry of Industry will send someone to verify it. If it is confirmed, I will issue an order to suspend the labor of Datong Supervision and Smelting Iron Mining. To ease the power of the people."

"It's Your Majesty"

(In the same month, Zhenzong issued a decree to stop the work of Datong Supervising and Smelting Iron Mining, which eased the power of the people. In the same month, Geng Wang and Zhu Taifu asked for instructions to camp in Xiangzhou and Ruzhou in the west of Beijing respectively. Zhenzong ordered Geng Wang to be the transit envoy in the west of Beijing Together with the deputy envoy Zhu Taifu, he also took care of the establishment of camp fields on this road. Geng Wang included the barren land in the old land, set up three camp fields in the upper, middle and lower fields, and recruited 1026 civilians to build dikes. In addition, he mobilized soldiers from neighboring states, Two hundred people were resettled each time, and then [-] cattle were bought from Jinghu and distributed to the various people for cultivation. At that time, more than [-] hectares of rice were planted in Xiangzhou. Until the fourth year of Renzong Tianren in [-], due to the long-term There is no profit to be made, and the two prefectures of Xiangyang and Tang are abolished, and the land is transferred to the poor, and only half of the tax is charged per hectare.)

In July of the same year, Zhang Qixian, who was the prime minister at the time, wrote to Zhenzong, suggesting that officials working abroad should be given job land, and official land and escaped land in the past years should be filled, and tax payment should be exempted.

For this reason, Defang came to the Chongzheng Hall to see His Majesty "" Zhenzong "". The minister believed that more supervision was needed for the assignment of positions to foreign officials, otherwise there would be disadvantages.

"Brother Huang is too worried. The purpose of assigning to the field is just to make the food delivery in various places more timely, so that the government can supervise and ensure the supply of food."

"However, Your Majesty, the land of employment is filled with official land and fields that escaped from the past years. If the management is not good, I am afraid that someone will expand the land, charge heavy rent, or oppress the tenants by changing the method."

Shinzong stood up and said with a smile, "Brother Huang is thinking about Zhou Yuan, but from my point of view, this is not the case. Job fields are the duties and benefits given by the imperial court to officials serving outside the country. They are beneficial to state officials and the people. It’s a shame to do something illegal.”

"Your Majesty, I'm still worried."

"Brother Emperor" Zhenzong patted Defang on the shoulder, "Don't worry too much, even if there are such people, I believe there are only a very small number of them, and nothing will happen."

Defang sighed softly and said, "Yes, Your Majesty."