Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

Ju Ming only arranged for a few people personally and took care of the rest slowly. Even Li Gang didn't get a job.

The entire city of Tokyo is temporarily under military control, with the prefect and two county magistrates co-managing civil affairs. The two new county magistrates were promoted from among the military clerks.

Normally this should not be the case. A large number of old ministers must be used to win people's hearts.

But Ju Ming doesn’t want to use these guys at all. It’s already very difficult to pick a few out of the shit!

For example, after the meeting, Li Bangyan came to recommend his cronies: "Marshal, Wang Xiaodi, the Vice Minister of Zhongshu (Deputy Prime Minister), is quite knowledgeable and talented. Before the rebel army entered the city, he also helped build momentum and persuaded the guards of Jingling Palace to expel the rebels. , to ensure the safety of the Kaifeng government office and the provincial government office."

"Wang Xiaodi, right? I've written it down," Ju Ming nodded slightly, "Write down all the names of those who work with you, and list their achievements."

"Yes!" Li Bangyan was overjoyed.

A moment later, Zhu Ming looked at the list and felt that Li Bangyan was indeed a capable minister.

It is not easy for his subordinates to gather so many insects!

What did the Wang Xiaodi he recommended do in history?

They specifically ransacked their homes to give money to the golden people. Regardless of whether they were powerful or common people, as long as they had money in their homes, they all were confiscated. He also threatened the people that if they did not do this, the Jin people would "kill all the men, capture all the women, burn all the palaces, and take all the gold and silver" in Tokyo.

Personal name, Sijinzhongshu.

It happened that this thing could still have a happy ending, but he was dismissed from office by Zhao Gou and thrown into Luoyang to promote Taoism.

Li Bangyan made great contributions to the capture of Tokyo. Since he recommended them, they should all be "reused". When Zhu Guoxiang arrives with his administrative team, Chen Dong can do whatever he wants, arresting a few and beheading them from time to time to demonstrate his determination to fight corruption.

Seeing Ju Ming circle the names with his own hands, Li Bangyan became more and more proud, thinking that his team was already stable.

"You go ahead." Ju Ming waved.

Li Bangyan bowed and left. When he stepped out of the door, he waved his hands to the people outside the hall.

Qin Hui had been waiting outside the palace. When he saw Li Bangyan, he immediately greeted him, and the two of them drove away in the same car.

"Congratulations to Mr. Li," Qin Hui said.

Li Bangyan said: "We are happy together."

Qin Hui said: "I have been ordered to promote the Xicheng Office. The original officials are all Li Yan's confidants, so they must not be used anymore. There are really not enough manpower, so I would like to ask Prime Minister Li to recommend one or two talents."

Li Bangyan helped Qin Hui put in good words in Mingtang, and Qin Hui naturally reciprocated and helped arrange duties.

Of course, Qin Hui is not a fool and knows what kind of people Li Bangyan has. The first job he received under Ju Ming could not be ruined by a bunch of drunkards.

Qin Hui knew very well who could work and who should rest.

As for taking the opportunity to make a few small bucks while working, this has long been an unspoken rule of officialdom, and Qin Hui didn't take it to heart at all. He thinks he has a good relationship with Ju Ming, and as long as the general direction is OK and the greed is not too ruthless, he will definitely not pursue it.

If everything was done according to the rules, nothing would get done.

There are three methods of expropriation in Xicheng: first, let local officials collect it on their behalf; second, set up a dispatched agency to collect; third, plunder a large amount of land to create Huangzhuang and Guanzhuang.

The first two methods can be directly banned. There is no need to deal with it deliberately. The landowner will automatically get the land back.

What Qin Hui needs to deal with is Huangzhuang, Guanzhuang, and even the private estates of Li Yan and those guys. We must cooperate with the local government and try our best to find the original landowners. If we can't find them, we will directly resettle the displaced people, or simply allocate the land to tenants.

Huge operating space!

Although Qin Hui was not deeply involved in the court struggles in the past few months, he was still baptized in his thoughts.

Qin Hui deeply understands that if you want to do things, you must have power, if you want to have power, you must have people, and if you want people, you must form cliques and share benefits.

Joining forces with Li Bangyan, who is favored by Ju Ming, is only the first step in Qin Hui's struggle. If Li Bangyan commits a crime in the future, Qin Hui will definitely cut off the relationship immediately. He does not believe that Li Bangyan can last long.

Qin Hui has now established a new ambition, that is, to be a famous founding official in the new dynasty and create a family of officials that will benefit future generations!

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Mingtang.

Ye Mengde led a young man in: "Marshal, this is my brother-in-law Xu Kangzong."

Ju Ming nodded in approval: "You have quite a bit of grace and talent."

Although the Ye family has been a prominent official for generations, most of them are upright officials and they really haven't done much to save their property.

Even if Fang La didn't burn down his shop, Ye Mengde would still be in a miserable state.

Ten years ago, his sister married Xu Kangzong. Since the folk custom favored generous marriages, Ye Mengde could not even collect the dowry. After selling off the property and shop, he borrowed another three thousand guan and put his wife's dowry on top of it, and then he married off his little girl in style.

Ye Mengde introduced: "Marshal, my brother-in-law is not only beautiful in manners and good at poetry, but also has outstanding political achievements when he was a local official. When he was the prefect of Yingchang, he built water conservancy projects and provided relief to the victims. He was demoted because he obstructed Yang Jian from conquering the fields. "

"The people of Yingchang are so lucky." Zhu Ming sighed.

Yingchang Prefecture had several magistrates in succession, and they resolutely refused to implement the orders of Yang Jian and Li Yan to protect the fields. The first one was demoted, and the next one continued. Anyway, he had to fight against the eunuch.

It's a pity that the Yingchang Mansion is still in trouble for the people. In the end, the only ones who can stay in office for a long time are corrupt officials.

By the way, Ye Mengde and Xu Kangzong were once members of Cai Jing's party, and they were considered two oddballs in Cai's party.

"When the Generalissimo captured Kaifeng, his biggest concern was not in the southeast, but in the Jin people in the north." Xu Kangzong held out a record. "This is the "Envoy Jin's Itinerary" written by me. I would like the Generalissimo to read it."

The full name of this document is "Records of the Journey of Xuanhe Yisi's Envoy to the Kingdom of Jin", which was written by Xu Kangzong when he was ordered to congratulate Wu Qimai on his succession.

It only took more than two months for him to return from the Kingdom of Jin, and the Jin people sent troops south.

Xu Kangzong repeatedly appealed to Song Huizong to rectify border affairs, and the Jin people were already transferring military supplies. The result was: "Walking falsely about border troubles, he traveled three thousand miles, and was fined three thousand yuan, which will not be reduced by pardon. However, he served as an envoy and maintained the country's system. The merits and demerits are equal to the merits, and he will not be promoted!"

Zhu Ming carefully read through this itinerary, and found out what Xu Kangzong had seen and heard along the way.

The description of Yanjing is: "This year (last year), there was a great famine in Yanshan, and the parents ate their children. There were corpses with paper inserted in the market, and they were sold for food. The money, grain, gold and silk were given to the ever-victorious army, and all the teeth and soldiers were bones. Standing, seventeen or eighty of the garrison soldiers died of hunger. The superiors and inferiors were shielded from each other, but the superiors could not hear or know..."

Zhu Ming read that paragraph: "When Wang Anzhong was the prefect of Yanshan, did he really get greedy for 400,000 yuan?"

Xu Kangzong said: "Everyone in the North knows about this, and it must be more than 400,000 guan. The 400,000 guan written below are the supplies and military expenses that were shipped to Yanshan early last year. Wang Anzhong didn't even spend a penny. Because of this, Wang Anzhong and Guo Yaoshi had a complete falling out, and Guo Yaoshi sent troops to rob hundreds of thousands of grains of rice sent by the court. In the end, Wang Anzhong was recalled and Cai Jing was replaced as the prefect, and Guo Yaoshi agreed to give out some of the grain. Relieve the people.”

This record is mostly true.

Because when Xu Kangzong wrote these contents, Song Huizong was still emperor in Tokyo. Every sentence in it slaps Zhao Ji, Cai You, Tong Guan and others in the face. There is no need for him to lie and ask for trouble.

It was precisely because Xu Kangzong slapped the face of the ignorant emperor and traitorous ministers, and when he was sent to the Jin Kingdom with his sharp tongue, that he made the Jin people speechless, he was sentenced to three thousand miles of exile without pardon, and finally relied on merit. Only by offsetting the penalty can they be exempted from punishment.

Ju Ming immediately issued an order: "Capture Wang Anzhong and interrogate him strictly. If the charges are true, he will be executed. His family members and children will be exiled to the barbarian lands in southern Sichuan. His family property will be confiscated to provide military funds."

This order even spells out the punishment, so why does it still need to be interrogated?

The bad thing about Wang Anzhong was not the amount of corruption, but the fact that he put the life-saving money into his own pocket, but did not use it to buy food relief in Xiongzhou and other places, causing countless soldiers and civilians in Youzhou to starve to death.

Xu Kangzong added: "I heard that Pharmacist Guo voted for the marshal. This beast will become rampant when it succeeds. It must not be reused!"

"You don't need to say anything about the military affairs. I have my own arrangements." Ju Ming said.

"Yes!" Xu Kangzong bowed.

Ju Ming continued to look down: "There are only a dozen households left in Yingzhou City?"

Xu Kangzong said: "Yingzhou suffered from many wars and famines. When I passed by there, there were only a dozen poor families left in the city, and bones could be seen on the streets."

The Yingzhou of the Song Dynasty was located in Changli, Hebei Province, which was also considered a large state of the Liao Kingdom. Unexpectedly, the population of the state city was less than a hundred.

Ju Ming sighed and continued reading.

One section of the content is very interesting. There is a place called Tuosubo Chanzhai in Huanglong Prefecture. Bohai, Tieli, Tuhun, Goryeo, Mohe, Jurchen, Khitan, Uighur, Xiren, Dangxiang... all ethnic groups from all over the world. Miscellaneous. The various ethnic groups do not understand each other's languages. When they get together, they can only communicate in Chinese.

The article is all about what Xu Kangzong saw and heard. It also describes many customs and etiquette of the Jin people, as well as the cities, passes, fortresses, etc. along the way.

However, there are not many involved in the politics of the Jin Kingdom. It is estimated that the time of the mission was short, and Xu Kangzong did not know clearly.

After Zhu Ming read the entire text, he suddenly asked: "Where is Ma Kuo?"

Xu Kangzong said: "Ma Kuo went north to recruit troops to serve the king, but he has not returned yet. Maybe there was an accident."

Ma Kuo went to Liao and Jin as envoys all the year round, and he had a deeper understanding of the north. His life was also very legendary.

He was captured several times and imprisoned several times.

Because of his good relationship with the Jin people, he was allowed to open a restaurant and start a business in the Jin country after rejecting the official position in the Jin country.

The restaurant was running well, and he fled back to Hebei to participate in the anti-golden war, and was elected as the general leader of the rebel armies in Shanxi and Hebei. After being defeated, he fled back to the Southern Song Dynasty and resigned and returned to office many times. Finally, he was dismissed by Qin Hui until his death.

Whenever envoys from the Kingdom of Jin came to the Southern Song Dynasty, the first thing they asked was where Ma Kuo was, and then they took Ma Kuo to drink and reminisce about the past.

Ju Ming regretted that he did not see Ma Kuo when he captured Kaifeng.

Although he was familiar with the history of the Jin Kingdom, he was only familiar with the general direction, and he had to be someone like Ma Kuo who knew the details.

Zhu Ming said to Xu Kangzong: "I will stay in the Grand Marshal's Mansion and work."

"Thank you Marshal for your support!"

Xu Kangzong said excitedly: "On the day of the Marshal's Northern Expedition, I will accompany the army as your guide!"