"How did Imperial Commissioner Kou get the people to move?"
A supervisor asked Kou Ji very intelligently.
Kou Ji followed his words and said: "The land of Shazhou is very huge. If we occupy it and don't use it, it will be a waste. It should be noted that many of our people in the Song Dynasty have no land to cultivate. We have huge fields in our hands. If we don't use them, it will be a waste."
If you do, you will be scolded."
When the supervisors and others heard what Kou Ji said, they all grinned.
Kou Ji's words were a bit unclear, but they made sense.
Amidst the laughter of the supervisors, Kou Ji continued: "Before you came, I had done a certain screening of the civilian husbands. Some of them are willing to stay in Shazhou."
"I wonder how many people are willing to stay in Shazhou?"
"More than 20,000 people..."
"so much……"
The supervisors cried out.
Kou Ji sighed: "Is it too much? I still think it's too little."
One of the supervisors hesitated and asked: "Did the imperial envoy Kou use women to make those civilian husbands stay?"
"good……"
"Even if there are women involved, it would be difficult for those civilian husbands to abandon their hometown and stay here, right? The Imperial Envoy Kou must have promised other benefits to those civilian husbands."
"..."
Kou Ji smiled and nodded: "That's right...in order to let a large number of civilians stay, I did promise them some benefits."
The supervisors stared at Kou Ji quietly, waiting for Kou Ji's next words.
They knew that Kou Ji sent wives to civilian husbands.
But they don't know the specific details.
They followed Li Zhaoliang to Shazhou and did not know the situation in Shazhou well enough.
When Kou Ji saw the supervisors staring at him, he smiled and said, "In addition to giving each of them three wives, I also promised each of them a thousand acres of fertile land."
"Uh?! Three wives? A thousand acres of fertile land?"
The supervisors were shocked and speechless.
With such generosity, no wonder so many civilians are willing to stay in Shazhou.
A group of people who could not survive in the Song Dynasty suddenly became landlords from poor people after arriving in Shazhou.
It would be strange if they were willing to go back.
Seeing that a group of supervisors were shocked and speechless, Kou Ji continued: "If any of you are willing to stay, I can give him ten wives, a large house in Shazhou City, and 10,000 acres of Shazhou City.
The fertile fields outside.”
When the supervisors heard this, their eyes widened in shock.
Kou Ji said with a smile: "I forgot to tell you... After giving out wives to the husbands, there are still a total of 40,000 to 50,000 women left, many of whom are as beautiful as gods.
If any of you agrees to stay in Shazhou, I can let him choose as he pleases."
"I am willing to stay!"
Immediately, a loyal and honest-looking supervisor stood up and spoke to Kou Jida with a serious look on his face.
Seeing this, the other supervisors laughed and said, "Brother Xia is really kind..."
The other supervisors did not despise the behavior of the supervisor named Xia Yan.
Instead, they all praised him for his true nature.
Food and sex were a good thing to talk about in the Song Dynasty. There was no need to hide it, and no one would despise it.
Xia Yan heard the praise from the supervisors and said righteously: "I am not coveting the beauty of Shazhou women, I am here to help the imperial court govern Shazhou."
"Pooh……"
As soon as these words came out, there was a lot of shouting and scolding.
They all accused Xia Yan of being hypocritical.
After the supervisors scolded Xia Yan, they began to express their opinions in twos and threes.
In the end, four supervisors decided to stay.
Kou Ji has been silent since Xia Yan opened his mouth.
He didn't have much hope of recruiting supervisors to stay in Shazhou.
In the eyes of Song people, Shazhou was a wilderness comparable to Yongzhou, Leizhou, Shamen Island and other places.
Being an official in this kind of place is comparable to exile.
No one should want to self-exile.
He just hit the pole casually, but he didn't expect to get an unexpected harvest.
He thought carefully about why the supervisors were willing to stay in Shazhou.
After thinking about it for a while, he gradually understood.
The status of the supervisors in the army is very different.
The supervisors at the battalion level actually do not have much status in the army.
They are much worse than the military supervisors at the military level and the Xiang level.
Most of the military supervisors at the army level and the chamber level are people who are very favored by the court, or they are people with great backgrounds.
If nothing unexpected happens in the future, he will basically be promoted to the rank of important minister.
In comparison, the military supervisor at the battalion level is like a secretary accompanying the army.
Those who can be appointed as battalion-level military supervisors basically have little career prospects.
Among the civil servants in the army, it is not just the supervisors at the battalion level, but also some promotion officers with higher status than them.
If the court really thinks highly of them and really wants to reuse them, when they start serving as officials, they will start as county magistrates and will never be put into the army as idlers.
At present, among the important ministers in the court, except for him, most of them started from Quan Zhiyi County.
The reason why Fan Zhongyan was promoted repeatedly was because he was favored by two important officials in the court and promoted him one after another.
If no one promotes him, Fan Zhongyan may have to sit firmly in the position of promoting officials and supervising the army for the rest of his life.
Even if you achieve great success, you may still be limited to the position of Quan Zhizhou.
If promoted according to the standards of the imperial court, it would be difficult for him to enter the center.
Xia Yan and the other four supervisors were willing to stay in Shazhou. Half of the reasons were because of the beautiful women and land, and the other half was probably because of Kou Ji himself.
Putting aside his current status as an imperial envoy.
He also has the title of Cao Shangshu, a powerful official.
In charge of the Ministry of Personnel, in charge of the promotion and scheduling of officials in the world.
If they had a familiar face in front of Kou Ji and Kou Ji casually called them, they would most likely become successful.
They are naturally willing to endure a few years of hardship in exchange for a lifetime of glory and wealth.
After figuring this out, Kou Ji was happy.
Kou Ji looked at the supervisors who were sitting there without expressing their opinions, and said with a smile: "If you have made any achievements during the governance of Shazhou, when I return to the court, I will inevitably mention it in front of the officials.
Everyone."
In an instant, some of the supervisors with no background had their eyes wide open.
"Xiaguan is willing to stay in Shazhou..."
"I am also willing..."
"..."
Several supervisors expressed their stance together.
Under Kou Jilian's coaxing, the nine supervisors agreed to stay in Shazhou.
With the nine of them helping to manage Shazhou, I believe Shazhou will soon enter the situation he wants.
After Kou Ji repeatedly confirmed that no one else wanted to stay in Shazhou, he laughed loudly and said: "After we disperse, you can go to the city and choose any place you want to use as your residence in the future.
I will not only give you fertile land and beautiful women, but I will also select a dozen servants for you from among the captives of the Yellow-headed Uighurs and the women of the Shazhou Uighurs.
From now on, when you are in Shazhou, you must do your best."
"Thank you very much, Commissioner Kou..."
"Okay... let's get down to business."
After Kou Ji promised some benefits, he said: "I am going to divide the civilians into three groups. One group of 10,000 people will stay in the city to clean up the ruins of Shazhou City after the civil war and prepare for the future of Shazhou City.
Rebuild and lay the foundation.
More than 90,000 other civilians, together with more than 10,000 captives from Huangtou Huihe, were sent out of Shazhou City to open up wasteland, farm land, herds, and plant trees outside Shazhou City.
I have brought some of the farm tools that the farmers need and can temporarily distribute them to them for use.
In Shazhou City, we also seized a small amount of farm tools, which can also be distributed to farmers for use.
In addition, I will instruct the craftsmen in the army to melt some of the captured iron tools, make them into farm tools, and distribute them to the people.
When you lead the people to reclaim wasteland, you must first help those people who are willing to stay in Shazhou to cultivate the fertile land they need.
But then cultivate others.
The fertile land allocated to the people, or other cultivated land, must follow the principle of half farming and half planting trees."
"Isn't it good to plant crops together? Why plant trees?"
Some supervisors asked questions.
Without waiting for Kou Ji to explain, Fan Zhongyan said calmly: "To prevent sand..."
Kou Ji nodded in admiration and said: "Yes, in order to prevent sand. If we turn all the land in Shazhou into fertile farmland, when a sandstorm breaks out in Shazhou, the fertile farmland will be submerged.
Everything we do will be in vain.
We need to plant trees and grass when clearing wasteland.
We need to slowly turn the current sandy lands into fertile fields and forests.
Instead of letting the sandy soil turn our fertile fields and woods into sandy soil."
The supervisors stared at Kou Ji in shock.
Changing the world and changing the world cannot be accomplished in a day.
There is a lot of sandy land in Shazhou. It will take at least decades or hundreds of years of hard work to turn that sandy land into an oasis.
Kou Ji saw the thoughts of the supervisors and said with a smile: "I am not asking you to turn the desert into fertile farmland immediately. This is a long-term matter. If we do a little, and future generations will do a little, it will be realized one day.
You don’t need to pay too much attention to this matter.”
One of the supervisors gritted his teeth and said: "But if we plant half the trees, the food produced in the fertile fields will be reduced by half, and our purpose of reclaiming wasteland will also be reduced by half."
Hearing this, Kou Ji smiled and said: "You can also get profits by planting trees. Walnuts, grapes, pomegranates and other fruit trees that can survive in Shazhou can be planted.
We can choose to plant sand-proof trees such as Populus euphratica on roads or at the junction of sand and oasis.
It doesn’t have to be planted in the field.”
When the supervisors heard this, they suddenly realized.
"As for the pastures for grazing sheep and horses, we can place them deep in the green space... Even, in addition to horses, cattle and sheep can also be kept in pens..."
"..."
Kou Ji explained to the supervisors in detail how to cultivate fertile fields in Shazhou, how to prevent sand, how to graze cattle, how to guide the people to dry walnuts into dried fruits and make walnut cakes, how to guide the people to brew wine and dry fruits.
Do things like that.
Regarding the future governance of Shazhou, the supervisors listened very carefully.
The more they listened, the more frightened they became, and the more they listened, the more impressed they became.
Under Kou Ji's explanation, a barren Shazhou, a desolate Shazhou.
It suddenly went from nothing to a desert oasis.
Once all the decrees explained by Kou Ji are implemented.
Shazhou will become a very prosperous place.
A moment.
The supervisors felt that their years of service had been in vain.
They also felt that many officials in the imperial court had served as officials for many years, but their work was in vain.
There are obviously ways to make poor places rich and rich places even richer.
But since the founding of the Song Dynasty, many places have not changed.
The supervisors deeply felt the inaction of officials in the DPRK and China.
Some officials had utilitarian intentions at the beginning and wanted to stay in Shazhou to work.
But after listening to Kou Ji's story, they decided to stay down-to-earth in Shazhou without asking for anything, and implement each of Kou Ji's decrees.
Let's see if Shazhou will become rich and prosperous.
If Shazhou can really become rich and prosperous.
They will definitely laugh loudly at all the officials in power under the sun.
at the same time.
The expressions of the supervisors towards Kou Ji changed from fear at first to admiration.
When Kou Ji finished speaking.
Fan Zhongyan stood up first, and under everyone's attention, he stepped in front of Kou Ji, held the disciple's ceremony, and bowed deeply to Kou Ji.
"Listening to your words is worth ten years of reading. Thanks to your teachings today, students know that they can do so many things for the people when they are officials. It turns out that they can still be officials in this way.
Sir, I am here to receive my respects from the students."
Kou Ji's words had a great impact on Fan Zhongyan.
Big enough to overturn Fan Zhongyan's three views.
Although Fan Zhongyan has not verified whether what Kou Ji said is right or wrong.
But through Kou Ji's attitude and the decrees proposed by Kou Ji, he has already felt what a real official is.
Kou Ji stood up with a look of astonishment on his face and said regardless of his identity: "Brother Fan, what are you doing? Get up quickly."
Fan Zhongyan shook his head and sighed, "In the past, when I lived in Bianjing, I saw all the officials in the Song Dynasty and the deeds of all the officials in the Song Dynasty. The students thought that they already knew what it means to be an official.
What does it mean to make decisions for the people?
Now after listening to the teacher's words, the student realized how ridiculous the way of becoming an official, which was regarded by students as the ideal in the past, was.
If all the officials in the world are like Mr. Wang, who keep the court and the people at heart, think about the people in everything, and think about the court in everything, why should I, the Song Dynasty, be unhappy?"
As soon as Fan Zhongyan said this, other supervisors came out one after another to salute Kou Ji with the disciple's ceremony.
"Students meet sir..."
Kou Ji looked at Fan Zhongyan dumbfounded, "Brother Fan, I am not as good as you said. I am just a common man who is greedy for money. I have made great achievements in making money, so I know some ways to make people rich.
"
Fan Zhongyan shook his head solemnly and said: "Sir, there is no need to be too modest. The civil and military officials in the court usually regard themselves as loyal ministers and good generals, and are famous for their ability to manage ministers. But they have governed our Song Dynasty for decades.
My Song Dynasty didn’t change much.
In the past, students did not know how to help the court or the common people, so they thought that the way of being an official by the civil and military officials in the court was the real way of being an official.
Now after hearing what the teacher said, the students understand.
The way civil and military officers in the court function as officials is to do nothing.
Because of their inaction, my country has not changed much in decades.
If they were like Mr. Geng and really worked for the court and the people, I am afraid that the Song Dynasty would have undergone earth-shaking changes."