Guide to traveling through the Northern Song Dynasty

Twenty-six days ago.

The Zhang River will be frozen, making it impossible to ride horses on the ice, and it will be difficult to sail boats due to ice floes.

The fast horse passed through the ankle-deep snow, and the cavalryman shouted at the door of the delivery shop: "The prince has won a great victory, two hundred miles to hurry!"

The delivery official immediately brought people to hand over the goods, and while sending cavalry to continue delivering the message south, he also had people holding the cloth high and riding into the county seat.

Not long after, there were official servants and delivery soldiers running back and forth in Feixiang County.

They announced the success of the front line along the street, and then put up the rubbish as a notice.

The owner of a stationery store was named Jia Zongfu. He rolled up his sleeves and turned to the fire in the store. He vaguely heard keywords such as "big victory" and hurriedly ran to the street to inquire about the situation.

A moment later, Jia Zongfu took his wife and children out of the city in a donkey cart and arrived at a country house in the suburbs.

He ran wildly into the inner courtyard, knelt in the snow, cried and screamed: "Father, Master Wang has won a great victory, and I, the Jia family, can return home!"

The Jia family is the most prominent family in Zhending.

His ancestor was Jia Dan, Duke of Wei State in the Tang Dynasty, who lived in Nanpi for generations. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the whole family moved to Zhending and gradually became an ordinary family.

One of his descendants, Jia Wei, was recommended during the Five Dynasties and gradually rose to prominence, and even participated in the compilation of the "Old Book of Tang".

There was another descendant, Jia Yan, who was Zhao Guangyi's late minister and became the deputy envoy of the third department.

The Jia family was truly established and prospered again.

Their marriage families are spread across Sichuan, Jiangxi, Hebei, Henan, Shandong, Shanxi, Jinghu, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and their marriage partners include civil servants, military generals and clan members.

Jia Fan was Fan Zhongyan's second son-in-law. Because he opposed Wang Anshi's reform, he encouraged the people under his rule to leapfrog their superiors to petition.

Fan Zhongyan's son Fan Chunren, privy councilor Wen Yanbo, bachelor Han Wei, imperial censor Zhongcheng Yang Hui, and supervisory censor Liu Zhi cooperated with this over-level petition, and they all joined forces to obstruct the implementation of the new law.

Since then, the Jia family has been involved in the old and new party disputes, and has become a key target of the new party. The Jia family has gradually declined.

One of the last two senior officials of the Jia family couldn't stand Cai Jing's misuse of tin coins, so he resigned angrily and went to retire. He died of illness seven years ago. One was the deputy shipping envoy to the Yangtze River and Huaihe River. He actively supported Hua Shigang and undermined the southeast transfer method. He was appreciated by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty. He died of illness while serving as the Minister of Punishment.

When the Jin people established a puppet emperor in Zhending Mansion, the Zhending Jia family fled south one after another, unwilling to serve as officials in the puppet government or to be dogs for the Jin people.

In terms of the country's national interests, the Zhending Jia family is still clear about it - there are also a few ethnic minorities who have not left, but there is not much family power left. Those Jia clan members who stayed could only rely on Huang Qianshan, and were taken care of by Liu Yu.

The Zhending Jia family ran to join the Kaifeng Jia family. As a result, after the two Jia families merged, more than a thousand members of the family were targeted by the court and became the third group of families to be separated and relocated.

After these split families obtain their household registration in a new place, they are not allowed to change their household registration at will for thirty years.

The Jia family who moved to Feixiang County totaled more than thirty people.

Some bought shops in the county to do business, and some spent money to buy fields for farming in the countryside (it was free to open up wasteland, and the government would provide seeds, but you had to pay to get unowned fertile land).

After learning that Master Wang had regained Zhending Mansion and moved to Feixiang County, the Jia family ran to the county government together to request to return to their hometown.

Because in Zhending Mansion, the Jia family once owned tens of thousands of acres of fertile land!

Compared with the Zhending Jia family, the majestic Dong family in Gaocheng is just a small country tycoon.

"You want to go back to your hometown?" Feixiang County Magistrate Wang Dalin frowned.

The Jia clan who moved to Feixiang, with Jia Yijian as their leader, bowed and said: "It's hard to leave my hometown. I'm old and dying. I just want the fallen leaves to return to their roots and be buried beside their ancestors' graves."

Wang Dalin said: "This is a filial piety and righteousness, why not let the old gentleman's descendants escort the coffin back to his hometown for burial on the occasion of a hundred years?"

These words almost made Jia Yijian's lungs burst with anger. He wanted to return to his hometown alive to take home his property, rather than lie in a coffin and return to his hometown to be buried!

"Please let the county magistrate make the decision!" Jia Yijian bowed again.

Wang Dalin wondered: "The separation and relocation of large clans is a decision made by the ministers of the court. How can I, a county magistrate, change it? You have settled in Feixiang, and your descendants will not be allowed to move again for thirty years. If you want to return to your hometown, you must The Minister of Hubu agrees, why don’t the old gentleman write a letter to the Hubu?”

Jia Yijian was finally furious and pointed at Wang Dalin with his crutch: "The Jia family has been a distinguished official for generations, with in-laws all over the nine states, and countless talented descendants. You, a small county magistrate, dare to humiliate the Jia family. Don't be afraid of the future." Will there be retribution?"

Wang Dalin was also angry, slammed the table and said: "You Jia family was an official in the Song Dynasty, but I am the county magistrate of the Ming Dynasty. Don't use the wealth and honor of the previous dynasty to show your authority. If you dare to yell in the court again, you will be punished." Fork it out!"

The two sides broke up unhappy.

Wang Dalin also came from a prominent southern family, and he originally sympathized with the Jia family.

But it was a central government decree to split up the large and migrating clans. How could he go to the court to ask the Ministry of Household Affairs to change the order overnight in order to help the Jia family return to their hometown?

In the next year, the Jia clan members who were separated in various places began to communicate with each other and sent people to Kaifeng to beg their old friends for help.

But it's no use. This matter needs the signature and seal of Qian Chen, the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue!

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There are many similar families, and the Jia family is one of the most powerful.

Because of their power, they were targeted by the court, so the smaller families were able to run back to their hometowns on their own.

Ju Ming said to Zongze: "In many cases of property disputes, we should give more preference to the families who fled south. They knew the justice of their family and country and were unwilling to surrender to the Jurchen barbarians, but because their families fled to the Ming Dynasty, they were thrown into the family. Seizing property. This is unreasonable and we cannot let them suffer!"

"yes."

Zongze doesn't care about this. Although his family has been scholarly for generations, they are still far from becoming a wealthy family.

Zong's ancestral home is Nanyang, and he moved to the south of the Yangtze River during the Five Dynasties. Unable to bear the heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes, the family moved to the mountainous area of ​​Yiwu, where they struggled to survive and multiply by opening up wasteland and farming.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, taxes were slightly lighter, and the Zong family moved out of the mountains.

But it was still a family from a small place in the countryside, and after more than a hundred years of reproduction, the family was unable to survive with too few people and so Zongze's father moved with some of his clan members.

Ju Ming said: "Whether it is a wealthy family that invested money or a wealthy family that returned to their hometown to Ming Dynasty, everything will be based on the land deed. If the land deed cannot be obtained, the land property will be fully distributed to the homeless tenants. Hebei officers and soldiers and the anti-Jin rebels should give priority Get the unclaimed farmland!"

"Yes." Zongze wrote it down.

Ju Ming continued: "Those who have more than 300 tribesmen and still haven't divided their families will be ordered to divide their property and households immediately. Those whose tribesmen have more than 500 people and still haven't divided their families, will be forcibly separated and moved to other places. Taking advantage of the fact that the war has just ended, we must cut off the mess quickly. They hold it down!”

Zongze reminded: "Your Highness, this kind of thing is difficult to handle. The local big families must unite with the officials to disobey orders. They dare not defy openly, but they can do it in disguise. The county magistrate and the chief registrar will be deceived if they are not careful. If the county magistrate, The chief bookkeeper is not capable enough, and even government orders cannot leave the county seat."

Ju Ming said: "Then I will send an order to the county chiefs and officials. If they cannot control the local big families, they can apply for the deployment of troops to handle the matter. I will give them three hundred troops in each county. I will not think that they are incompetent. If they can handle the matter well, Instead, they will be rewarded!"

"yes!"

Zongze sighed in his heart, the disobedient Hebei clan was going to suffer, and His Highness the Crown Prince actually directly used the army.

Hebei is in a state of disarray, and the counties are full of wastes waiting to be revitalized, just in time to set up stalls. (Initiating a plan to increase the number of tenants into acres now is actually not conducive to the resumption of production in Hebei, because it will dampen the enthusiasm for opening up more wasteland. But it is conducive to the recovery of the population in Hebei, and the people will be more willing to register for household registration and have more children. When the population increases, one or two Ten years later, I will naturally be keen on opening up wasteland.)

Zongze, as the political envoy to Zuobu in Hebei Province, finally moved the provincial capital to Zhending a few days ago.

The right chief envoy is in charge of the relocation of the provincial capital. All officials will be on duty before spring begins.

The prince is here and located in the palace of the puppet dynasty.

The Chief Secretary's Yamen was located in the Dazai's official residence in the Puppet Dynasty.

Zongze returned to the Chief Secretary by car. Dong Ti had been waiting outside the door for a long time.

"Go in." Zongze said angrily.

Dong Ti quickly lowered his head to follow and entered the Chief Secretary's Yamen together.

As soon as he arrived at the inner hall, Dong Ti knelt down and cried, "Please save the Dong family!"

Zongze asked, "What happened to the Dong family?"

Dong Ti said: "The county magistrate of Gaocheng asked the soldiers to replace the yamen, and set up a room next to the county yamen lobby to receive complaints. He also ordered all the members of the Dong family to hand over their land and house deeds to the county yamen. Register..."

Zongze pretended to be confused and said: "Isn't this the right thing to do? If the Dong family's properties are not submitted to the county government for registration, is it possible that you are still planning to evade taxes?"

"No..." Dong Ti said anxiously, "Many shops and properties have been damaged and lost over time. How can we get them back at once?"

Zongze sneered: "It's not just these things, right?"

Dong Ti said in a panic: "The prince had orders when fighting the Jin people, and past sins should be forgotten. But...but the county magistrate of Gaocheng, after receiving the complaint, went so far as to open up old scores. This is to destroy the prince's reputation and prestige!"

Zongze said: "The prince's words of letting go of the past are referring to someone in particular. Your Excellency helped to seize Zhending and made meritorious service. Of course, the prince will let things go. But you can't make a great contribution and the entire Dong family has contributed, right? In that case, if there is a Dong in the future, The clan members commit murder and violate the law, so you just abide by the law and don’t deal with them?”

Dong Ti was speechless because what Zongze said made sense.

Zongze said: "The magistrate of Zhending County is about to take office. The Dong family in Zhending County must also produce the house deeds and land deeds. If they cannot be produced, those properties do not belong to the Dong family. If someone comes to complain, say If the Dong family has occupied their property, then the deed written by the Dong family will be invalid."

Dong Ti felt weak after hearing this and almost collapsed on the spot.

The Jia family, the largest family in Zhending Prefecture, fled south to join the Ming Dynasty. All the properties they could not take with them were divided up by the officials of the puppet dynasty.

Now, whatever you eat must be vomited out!

How can there be such a good thing in the world? You treat the golden man as a dog and take the opportunity to seize other people's property. Now that the Ming Dynasty has returned, you have become successful ministers again. Not only have you not suffered any losses, but your industry has also expanded several times.

Zongze stared at Dong Ti and said: "His Royal Highness, you are true to your word. Since you have made meritorious service, let bygones be bygones. If you honestly hand over the property you have embezzled in the past two years and stop caring about other people's bad affairs, the prince will definitely not do it." I will investigate your faults again, and even let you continue to be an official. The entire Dong family is limited to you!"

Dong Ti knelt on the spot for a long time, and finally made up his mind: "Please recommend me, Mr. Zong, to recommend me. I am willing to take my wife, children, and children to live in the place where I am serving, and never return to Zhending Mansion and Gaocheng!"

"That's right." Zongze said with a smile.

This means that Dong Ti moved with his parents, wife and children, cutting himself off from the entire Dong family. From now on, he will no longer be able to contact his hometown, not even Dong Ti's biological brothers.

In this way, the Dong family was dealt with and the credibility of the prince was ensured.