On June 27, the fourth year of Jingding, Sima Kao finally returned to Fuzhou. Looking up at the gray sky and feeling the moisture of the rainy season, Sima Kao suddenly missed the sunshine in the north. In the south, even if he could hide from the sun, he could not escape the heat or cool moisture of the carrier. The climate in the north is straightforward. No matter how hot it feels, as long as he stays in the shade, he will immediately cool. With another gust of breeze, he will feel very comfortable.

Let’s just go to the northern expedition! If the Mongolian can be defeated, the Sima family can return to their hometown. Sima Kao couldn’t help but have such thoughts.

Walking on the streets of Fuzhou, Sima Kao found that there were several "one thousand bowls" shops in Fuzhou that had not been seen for a month. The slight curry aroma was emitted from the shops, and the curry taste was mixed with a new feeling, mixed with the meat flavor inside, which made Sima Kao, who was of a bad background, feel a little hungry.

After passing a store, Sima Kao looked back and looked inside. After passing the second store, Sima Kao swallowed his saliva. When he arrived at the entrance of the third store, the other crew members shouted "Go in and take a look" and rushed into the store. Sima Kao originally didn't want to act with these rough people, but this time he followed the crew into the store without hesitation.

Looking at the actions of the men including Sima Kao, Hu Yuelian sighed in her heart, "childish" and continued to go to the yamen of Fuzhou Prefecture. The deliciousness of the curry made Hu Yuelian feel very comfortable, but that's all. What Hu Yuelian thought about was the previous agreement with Zhao Jiaren that as long as Hu Yuelian completed this action, Zhao Jiaren would help Hu Yuelian propose marriage. Compared with the handsome man, curry's desire to beautify nothing.

However, Hu Yuelian was disappointed, and Zhao Jiaren did not see her. In fact, Hu Yuelian was blocked outside the door. The on-duty officer told Hu Yuelian that Zhao Zhizhou was convening a meeting and no one saw him at this time. Hu Yuelian, who had learned of this news, chose to go back to her home first. Before leaving, she couldn't help but look back at the Fuzhou Zhizhou Yamen in the rain. Hu Yuelian suddenly felt that the building that looked dim under the dim sky was very annoying.

Zhao Jiaren, who was in the Fuzhou Prefectural Office, did not know that his official residence was disgusted, but even if he knew, he probably wouldn't have any ideas. Compared with the fact that Hu Yuelian's marriage started to rebel on a large scale, it seemed that the rebellion of the people was more important.

The ma people were later She people. At the end of the Song Dynasty, they gathered in the mountainous areas at the junction of Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi, and used slash-and-burn farming and raised livestock. In the movie, the mountainous areas can be photographed beautifully, but in reality, the mountainous areas are basically backward areas. This is actually easy to imagine. You can walk for a few days by going out to buy and sell something, and the labor productivity is much lower.

Therefore, in order to improve production efficiency, the people often spoke out with ordinary people at the foot of the mountain. The people hoped to get the support of the government, and the government sent troops to fight against the people, which eventually turned into a rebellion of the people.

By reading the documents, Zhao Jiaren has already understood these history. So listening to Xia Jing, the commander of the left wing army, telling the story of the rebellion of the Maimin with a very exaggerated expression, Zhao Jiaren doubted whether the rebellion of the Maimin was incited by Xia Jing or was fabricated by Xia Jing. Anyway, when the Maimin got off the mountain, it was easy to be characterized as going down the mountain and looting. Xia Jing was very resistant to Zhao Jiaren's suggestion to adapt the left wing army. Zhao Jiaren looked at Xia Jing and thought about how to dismiss the commander of Xia Jing.

Xia Jing said for a while, and when he saw the Fujian Road Pacifier Zhao Jiaren, he was unmoved, and he looked thoughtful. Originally, Xia Jing thought that the young Fujian Road Pacifier would be extremely excited because of the sudden arrival of war, Zhao Jiaren's performance made Xia Jing feel a little discouraged.

When Xia Jing fell silent, Zhao Jiaren did not ponder. He immediately asked, "Captain Xia can quell the rebellion of the She people?"

Xia Jing didn't expect Zhao Jiaren to raise such a serious question with a plain expression. He was speechless for a moment and could not answer at all.

Zhao Jiaren looked at Xia Jing's bear look, and there was no idea to transform this person in his heart. If Xia Jing had the ability, he could understand it even if he pulled it. Zhao Jiaren had no reason to buy a guy who was unable to do so and tried to pull it up. Seeing that Xia Jing did not speak, Zhao Jiaren continued to ask calmly: "Captain Xia cannot quell the rebellion of the She people?"

Seeing that Zhao Jiaren was very unfriendly, Xia Jing quickly replied: "This time the She people are in great power, I'm afraid it's not easy."

"It's not easy, that means it can still be done." Zhao Jiaren continued to compress Xia Jing's scope of activities.

Xia Jing has been an official for so long. After hearing Zhao Jiaren say this, he also felt that things were extremely wrong. If Zhao Jiaren set a time for Xia Jing to complete, if Xia Jing fails to complete it, it would be military law. In this case, Xia Jing decisively turned the defense and attack, "I don't know what Zhao Zhizhou meant?"

Zhao Jiaren was too lazy to go around the circle. He said bluntly: "I mean, if you can pacify it, you can pacify it. If you can't pacify it, then quickly resign to the court and leave. Let you honestly adapt the Left-wing Army, you don't do it. Since you are unwilling to do it, you can't even wipe out the bandits. General Xia, why do you think I want to keep you on Fujian Road?"

Xia Jing has lived so many decades, and he has never heard a magistrate say so clearly. Zhao Jiaren tells the conflict of interest between himself and Xia Jing very thoroughly, and there is no need to guess why Zhao Jiaren could not tolerate Xia Jing to continue to stay in the left-wing army.

After hearing this, Xia Jing felt like he was struck by lightning, full of numbness. Under such intense nerve activity, Xia Jing's first thought came up with was what Zhao Jiaren was. Then he quickly understood that Zhao Jiaren was the Fujian Road Pacifier and had the right to manage the Fujian Road Military.

Xia Jing's second thought was that he would not want to leave and was driven away. Left Prime Minister Jia Sidao has been expelling the army for several years and promoted generals of Lu Wende and his group. Xia Jing was able to maintain his position in the left wing army entirely because Jia Sidao looked down on the left wing army. If Zhao Jiaren submitted a letter to impeach Xia Jing at this time, Jia Sidao would probably immediately send a general of Lu Wende to Fujian Road. Even if the left wing army was very bad, the commander of the left wing army was the commander of the Palace Front Office after all.

After confirming these two points, Xia Jing didn't care about so much. He immediately replied: "Zhao Zhizhou, I thought you were going to show off your power before, so I proposed to adapt the Left-wing Army. As far as I can see, none of the random messes had a good result. However, now I know that Zhao Zhizhou must do it, and the subordinates are willing to follow Zhao Zhizhou Shuilihuoli and adapt the Left-wing Army!"

Zhao Jiaren had heard of the repetitive villain, but he didn't expect that he would see one with his own eyes today. To be fair, Zhao Jiaren didn't want to give Xia Jing a chance at all. However, he had also considered it before. If the adaptation was too intense, something might happen. Since Xia Jing could "get back to the road" at this time, Zhao Jiaren thought that he could keep Xia Jing first at this time.

So Zhao Jiaren said, "Commander Xia, I think it is the only way to move the left-wing army to Fuzhou first."

Xia Jing could fully understand the purpose of Zhao Jiaren doing this. Moving the headquarters of the Left-wing Army to Fuzhou means that Zhao Jiaren can directly order Xia Jing. However, he didn't care about so much at this time. If Xia Jing did not satisfy Zhao Jiaren, Zhao Jiaren would immediately implement the plan to get Xia Jing down. So the commander of the Left-wing Army replied readily: "I have wanted to go back to Fuzhou for a long time. Zhao Zhizhou, I will go back to do this now."

When Xia Jing left, Zhao Jiaren said to Xu Yuanzhi next to him: "Mr. Xu, do you think what I said before can be implemented?"

Xu Yuanzhi watched the young Zhao Jiaren handle things so decisively. When he recalled his experience as a magistrate in Fuzhou, he couldn't help but sigh, and then said, "Jiaren, what you said is right, but it always makes people feel that you have to use your power to suppress others."

Zhao Jiaren smiled and said, "Mr. Xu, I really want to rely on discussions with you to resolve disputes. However, this commander Xia Jing would not do this. For him, the left wing army is his territory. We officials left for three years, and this commander Xia Jing has been staying in the left wing army. It is really a left wing army that is fighting, and the flowing magistrate of Fuzhou."

Xu Yuanzhi did not want to comment on such a sharp evaluation. Because at this time, Xu Yuanzhi was no longer the governor of Fuzhou, nor the resigned governor of Guangzhou. But Zhao Jiaren's "supervising teacher".

A month ago, Xu Yuanzhi visited Zhao Jiaren's place and was so angry that the girl felt after reading history. He took Zhao Jiaren's fastship to Lin'an. After arriving in Lin'an, Xu Yuanzhi received a message from the Censorate that if Xu Yuanzhi was willing to retire, he could receive a sacrificial salary and live a comfortable retirement life. If Xu Yuanzhi refused to do this, he would wait to be included in the Ding Daquan Party. Anyway, Xu Yuanzhi was an official from Ding Daquan, so no one would be surprised if he said this.

Xu Yuanzhi was not unpredictable about this. He accepted the request of the Censorate and decisively wrote a letter to request retirement. The Song Dynasty rarely had such high efficiency. He wrote a letter on the same day and ordered the letter on the same day to reply. On the second day after entering Lin'an, Xu Yuanzhi became a retired person.

After being humiliated so much, Xu Yuanzhi felt that he had no shame to stay in Lin'an. But he didn't want to go back to his hometown, so he simply came to Zhao Jiaren to relax. He was invited by Zhao Jiaren to be a teacher and gave Zhao Jiaren some unreasonable aspects of being an official. If it were in the past, Xu Yuanzhi would probably refuse decisively, but now Xu Yuanzhi was filled with anger that was difficult to relieve, so he decisively agreed to Zhao Jiaren's request.

The civil servants of the Song Dynasty always looked down on the soldiers, and Zhao Jiaren's approach to Xia Jing did not make Xu Yuanzhi feel anything wrong. Xu Yuanzhi put aside this topic, "If you are not afraid of Xia Jing suing you, then you can do this."

Zhao Jiaren is not afraid of Xia Jing's lawsuit at all. In fact, even though Xia Jing decisively bowed to Zhao Jiaren, Zhao Jiaren still felt that he didn't want to let Xia Jing go. If Xia Jing sued Zhao Jiaren, Zhao Jiaren would not have a reason to let Xia Jing go. And what did Xia Jing sue? If it were the past, Zhao Jiaren could still worry about Jia Sidao and know the speed of Zhao Jiaren's development. The latest battle report was published in the previous section.

Xia Gui led his troops to attack Shandong and Henan, and finally chose to retreat after a series of failures. The Mongols built a castle in Xiangyang area, and Lu Wende was very guilty of this. As for Zhao Jiaren's previous life, the major landmark event in which Mongolia began to invade the south was that they captured Lu Wende's greedy personality and built a fortress in Xiangyang area.

One or two fortresses is nothing. Building a fortress means that the Mongols continue to advance the strategy of going south to destroy the Song Dynasty. As the war was held, Jia Sidao faced heavy military pressure from Xiangyang, so how could he dare to tamper with Zhao Jiaren? If Jia Sidao didn't know Zhao Jiaren's maritime power, it would be fine. The more Jia Sidao knew Zhao Jiaren's power, the more he had to cooperate with Zhao Jiaren. Because Jia Sidao could only give Zhao Jiaren the official position.

"Of course I'm not afraid of Xia Jing." Zhao Jiaren replied decisively.

Without talking about soldiers, Xu Yuanzhi changed to his favorite topic, "Since you are not afraid, you can handle this matter naturally. What I really care about is Jiaren's view of the official system. Others think that there are many redundant officials in the Song Dynasty, so why do you think this is not the case?"

After hearing Xu Yuanzhi discussing the system with him, Zhao Jiaren immediately said enthusiastically: "There are really not many officials in the Song Dynasty. How many more than 20,000 people are? Mr. Xu must have seen the yamen runners. A yamen runner actually has dozens or hundreds of errands under him. All the specific things are controlled by these people. Let me not talk about whether they are born to be ill-hearted. Just to support these errands, the yamen runners are not ill-hearted. Can he get so much money?"

After hearing Zhao Jiaren's words, Xu Yuanzhi felt uncomfortable. It was not because Zhao Jiaren said something wrong, but because Zhao Jiaren proposed a solution that made Xu Yuanzhi uncomfortable. In previous discussions, Xu Yuanzhi knew that Zhao Jiaren's solution was to integrate officials. Local work was completely implemented by officials. If this system was implemented, it would be impossible for more than 20,000 officials in the Song Dynasty to have redundant officials, because Zhao Jiaren estimated that the Song Dynasty would need about 200,000 officials. In other words, what is needed now is to recruit more than 170,000 officials through various systems to fill the gap. Instead of the traditional official system reform route of laying off officials.

Thinking that the officials were going to do something like a minor official, Xu Yuanzhi sighed: "If this is the case, it would be too unkind to treat scholars."

Zhao Jiaren was very satisfied with the result of this conversation. After talking about this last time, Xu Yuanzhi slapped his head and left. This time, Xu Yuanzhi was at least willing to talk to Zhao Jiaren about the official system.

Zhao Jiaren immediately said, "Mr. Xu, I think the fundamental problem of our Song Dynasty official system is that officials do not work. The reason why they made contributions is to be able to be arrogant and call others in the future. Take Jia Xianggong as an example. If Jia Xianggong first comes up with a clear plan to discuss with various departments based on his own experience in doing things. After passing, he will propose various support for the executive officials. In other words, he is not a person who allows everyone to serve, but as a backer for everyone, as a supporter and a person who supports everyone, what do you think his status will be?"

After hearing this, Xu Yuanzhi thought of the shame of being forced to retire. Even so well-educated Xu Yuanzhi couldn't help but say hatefully: "What Jiaren said is all delusions."

Zhao Jiaren nodded, "Even if it's my delusion, if I become my husband and do it like this, Mr. Xu thinks the officials will listen to me?"

Xu Yuanzhi continued to shake his head, "The Song Dynasty is the prime minister. Jiaren did this, I am afraid that someone will look down on you."

"It's not that I was punished without being taught. At that time, those people were dealt with, but were there really someone calling me tyrannical?" Zhao Jiaren said with a smile.

Xu Yuanzhi was made to feel chilled by this tiger-like smile. It was Zhao Jiaren's smile from the bottom of his heart, so it was extremely contagious. Xu Yuanzhi could feel a strong willpower from it, and Xu Yuanzhi also felt that there was a sense of justice in this smile. Indeed, if Zhao Jiaren could really do what he said, the officials who violated him would lack justice.

Just as Xu Yuanzhi was pondering, Sima Kao entered with a flushed face. Seeing his chest and belly folded, he had a full meal. Seeing that Xu Yuanzhi was still there, Sima Kao asked in surprise: "Why is Xu Zhizhou still in Fuzhou?"

When someone poked the pain, Xu Yuanzhi's expression was not as excited as talking about the reform of the official system with Zhao Jiaren. He tried hard to tell his current situation indifferently. After hearing this, Sima Kao felt that there was nothing to say. As an official who was forced to retire, Sima Kao thought he could not accept such a result at all, so any comfort was useless. After holding it in for a moment, Sima Kao said, "I'll invite Mr. Xu to have curry noodles."

This is quite interesting, and Zhao Jiaren and Xu Yuanzhi couldn't help but be amused.

There was a food delivery industry in the Song Dynasty. Zhao Jiaren and Xu Yuanzhi were having a meeting with Xia Jing, and they were hungry. So they went to the restaurant outside to order food. Not long after, the delivery guy came in with a food box. After opening it, there were three steaming bowls of noodles and golden silk pancakes inside.

The three Jinshis were eating and talking while eating. At this time, the protagonist became Sima Kao. Sima Kao told about his followers to Hebei for war. Sima Kao sighed very much about the land of Hebei, "The Hebei Plain is really endless. And there are really no people in Hebei. There are so many landless people on our Fujian Road, so it would be great to send them to Hebei."

After hearing these words full of expansionary thoughts, Zhao Jiaren just smiled and continued to ate curry mutton noodles. He actually wanted to make beef noodles, but Fuzhou magistrate took the lead in breaking the law, so this was a bit over.

Xu Yuanzhi lowered his head to eat noodles with a serious expression. He was a man who was in his 50s and his appetite was far inferior to before. Since he started eating curry rice, he could continue to eat. Xu Yuanzhi finally regained the joy of eating.

"Xu Zhizhou" Sima Kao had just eaten a big bowl of noodles, and was not in a hurry to have another bowl at this time. Seeing that Xu Yuanzhi's expression seemed not to support him enough, he said, "You haven't seen the power of artillery, so you think the Mongols are not easy to fight. Artillery is extremely useful when attacking the city."

Xu Yuanzhi didn't like radicals like Sima Kao. He swallowed his nose and looked up and asked, "Do you want to be a military officer?"

In the Song Dynasty, joining the army was not a glorious thing, and being a military officer was not glorious. This sentence choked Sima Kao.

Zhao Jiaren didn't want to make the meaningless dispute between the only two Jinshis in his team. He interrupted, "The artillery may be good for the Mongols, and it is better for the barbarians in the South China Sea. I told the court before that I would recruit landless refugees to open up the South China Sea. Now there are vaccines for smallpox and cholera, so I am going to hire the people to open up the South China Sea. At first, I naturally wanted to build a castle and control the land outside the city. I have chosen all the places."

Since Zhao Jiaren interrupted, Sima Kao did not continue to argue with Xu Yuanzhi. He asked with a little unhappy, "But where is it?"

Zhao Jiaren took out a small map and pointed to the place in Bangkok in later generations and said, "Our fleet has left people here. This place is very close to Langya Xiuguo, and Langya Xiuguo does not control this place. If we open up here, it will be of great benefit to our business."

Xu Yuanzhi looked at it and asked, "How far is this place from Fuzhou?"

"More than five thousand miles." Zhao Jiaren gave an estimated answer casually.

After hearing this number, Xu Yuanzhi made a statement without hesitation, "It's a waste of money."

"You can't calculate that." Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but be serious. He hurriedly finished the noodles, and then took out a blackboard, "Build a boat to be 1,000 guan. As long as it can control the route, 20 sailors on a boat are enough. A sailor can be 50 guan a year, which is 2,000 guan. Rice without shelling can be stacked at will, and the requirements for the structure of the ship are not high. A boat can transport at least 2,000 guan. According to the money of one stone and three guan, the inheritance is 6,000 guan. If you use spinnades, a boat can run two or three times a year. With such a large profit, how can it be called a waste of money and money?"

Xu Yuanzhi listened to Zhao Jiaren's story while eating noodles. After listening, he raised his head and said calmly: "Jia Sidao is carrying out public land reform, and I think the same is true for him."

When talking about Jia Sidao, Sima Kao felt very unhappy. And Sima Kao didn't like Xu Yuanzhi's conservative and steady personality. Even though Sima Kao respected Xu Yuanzhi very much, he couldn't help but say unhappy at this time: "This is not possible, that is not possible. How can you know if you don't do it?"

Xu Yuanzhi turned his head and looked at his nephew, then said: "Many things have lessons from the past. The better the plan, the more missed it."

"What did Xu Zhizhou think that missing is all?" Sima Kao contradicted it.

Zhao Jiaren immediately said loudly: "I know where the missing is."

Sima Kao turned his head to look at Zhao Jiaren, and even Xu Yuanzhi turned his head to look over. Zhao Jiaren said loudly: "The reason why it must be failed is that there are not enough officials or cadres to do things. They ask others to work for them with high standards, and this kind of thing will definitely not work. If these officials can work in person and lead the people to work together, there will be no unsuccessful things."

Zhao Jiaren said seriously because he knew that there was really such a cadre team in this world. Sima Kao and Xu Yuanzhi stared at Zhao Jiaren’s serious face. After observation, the two found that Zhao Jiaren was not joking. First, Xu Yuanzhi smiled, and then Sima Kao burst out loud. Even laughing could not express Sima Kao’s impulse at this time. He simply pounded the table with his fists while laughing.
Chapter completed!