Wang Zeng glanced at Du Yan pityingly and did not speak to Du Yan again.
Wang Zeng did not have a close relationship with Du Yan, but he also knew Du Yan, knew Du Yan's character, knew Du Yan's temperament, and knew that Du Yan would not do anything that would harm the official family.
But there is one thing to say.
Don't fight hard, don't fight laziness, just hit you for being short-sighted.
This time, Du Yan knocked down the muzzle of the gun.
He had just finished telling Kou Ji about the purpose of recalling the Wei family, when something happened in the palace.
It's useless no matter how he explains it now.
Because Zhao Zhen would not listen to his explanation.
Zhao Zhen, who was in a rage, would only vent his anger on him.
Wang Zeng crossed Du Yan and appeared in front of the soldiers who were escorting the gold, silver and jewels. He issued a prime minister's order and ordered: "Transport all the money to the treasury. Prime Minister Lu and officials from the Ministry of Revenue are already in the treasury."
Wait at the door.
After all the money is put into the treasury, the imperial court will reward each of you."
The soldiers all agreed and escorted the gold, silver and jewelry to the treasury.
The treasury is not in the palace, but outside the palace.
Sandwiched between Shangshu Province and Xifu.
The treasury was located outside the palace to facilitate the distribution of money by various yamen.
After Wang Zeng sent away the soldiers who were escorting the gold, silver and jewels, he returned to Du Yan. He looked at Du Yan who was slumped on the ground and lost his mind, and let out a long sigh.
"It's people like you who do bad things with good intentions."
Wang Zeng sighed, took out a document from his sleeve, and handed it to Du Yan.
"You are one of the few good ministers in the court. Neither I nor Prime Minister Lu wanted to see you die because of this, so we gave you a chance. Take your family to Hexi.
By the time you arrive in Hexi, it will be time to harvest the grain.
Changpingcang in Hexi will be left in your charge.
After Kou Ji returns to the throne, you will be the chief official of Hexi.
Of course, the title of pacifier will not fall on you.
Mr. Lu and I helped you gain the identity of interfering in Hexi's official affairs."
Du Yan looked at Wang Zeng blankly, not knowing what to say.
When Wang Zeng saw that Du Yan did not accept the document in his hand, he knelt down and placed the document in Du Yan's arms.
When Wang Zeng turned to leave, Du Yan suddenly said, "I...do I have no chance...in this life...to return the favor..."
Wang Zeng turned around, stared at Du Yan and said, "Then let's see if Concubine Zhang's death was man-made."
Before Du Yan could speak, Wang Zeng continued: "Actually, it doesn't matter whether you can return to the court or not. Even if Concubine Zhang's death was not man-made, the knot you planted in the official's heart cannot be undone.
Even if you return to the court, the officials will not reuse you."
Du Yan was shocked all over.
Wang Zeng did not continue talking and turned around and walked back to the palace.
Du Yan was left alone, slumped on the ground.
Du Yan sat slumped on the ground until evening, when his family members came to inquire and helped him back to the house.
When passing by Zhouqiao, I saw a very luxurious team entering Bianjing City.
After careful inquiry, I found out that they were members of the newly recalled team from the Wei Prince's Mansion.
…
The wind in Hexi is very strong.
The strong wind swept the sand and soil and blew it all over the west of the river.
The golden crops in the field were blown to one side and fell over.
Kou Ji and Li Di, each holding a sickle, were harvesting crops in the field.
Shazhou was the first place in Hexi to reclaim wasteland, and it was also the first place where food matured.
The golden crops can be seen as far as the eye can see, and many people are harvesting the crops in the fields.
There are many fields in Shazhou, but there are few people in Shazhou.
Civil servants who help the people of Shazhou reclaim wasteland have been assigned to various places.
Therefore, there are not many people helping the people of Shazhou to harvest crops.
As soon as Kou Jijian inspected Shazhou, he was dragged to the fields by Li Di to help the people harvest crops.
From the time the sun rose in the east to the time when the sun set in the west, Koji finished harvesting an acre of wheat.
Kou Ji felt that he had put in a lot of effort, but the owner of the field who was picking up wheat behind him looked miserable.
Li Di walked over from the field with his sickle in hand and his waist hanging down. When he saw the crops harvested by Kou Ji, he looked disgusted.
"You ruined an acre of wheat for half an acre. You have to compensate them."
Kou Ji was unhappy when he heard this, "I said I don't know how to harvest crops, but you had to drag me to help harvest crops. If there is any loss, you have to compensate for it."
When Li Di heard this, the disgust on his face became even stronger, "How can you be an official if you can't even harvest crops?"
Kou Ji said dissatisfied: "No one stipulates that officials must be able to harvest crops."
Li Di snorted coldly: "All the officials in the Song Dynasty harvest crops."
Kou Ji opened his mouth, but couldn't argue.
Because there is a huge imperial village in Bianjing City.
Every year when spring planting and autumn harvest come, the official family will take hundreds of officials to experience life in person.
Often the officials would tidy up the crops once or twice and then rest aside. The officials were the main force in farming.
Therefore, officials in Bianjing City will harvest crops and plant crops.
Kou Ji has been an official for many years, but he has never participated in this activity.
Kou Ji glanced at Li Di and said, "Even if I ruined other people's crops, it's still your fault. If you want compensation, it's you who will compensate me."
Li Di said confidently: "I am very poor now. I have just settled my wife and children, and I have spent all the remaining money in my hand. How can I have any money to compensate others?"
On the other hand, you are so rich that even if you dig a little bit between your fingernails, you can compensate others."
"Are you poor?"
Kou Ji exclaimed as if he had heard some strange news: "The warrior monks of Thousand Buddha Cave have opened up 300,000 acres of fertile land, of which 100,000 acres are under your name. Will you?"
poverty?"
Li Di snorted: "That's what you forced on me, it's not what I wanted."
Kou Ji rolled his eyes, "Then I'll take it back later."
Li Di immediately shouted: "That's not possible... How can you take back the things you gave me?"
Kou Ji sarcastically said: "Aren't you always greedy for money?"
Li Di cast a sidelong glance, "If I don't take some of it, those fertile lands will be divided up by you black-hearted guys. Each person has 500,000 acres. You really dare to take action, and I'm not afraid of killing you."
Kou Ji rolled his eyes and didn't want to continue talking to Li Di.
An old man and a young man carried sickles and walked to the roadside and sat down on the ground.
After taking a few sips of water, Li Di stared at the endless crops and said with emotion: "Who would have thought that such good crops could be grown in Shazhou, which used to be desolate."
"There is no useless land, only useless people... Not everyone is like me, the descendants of the Yan and Huang Dynasties, who can manage a piece of land in a down-to-earth manner..."
Kou Ji stretched his waist and said casually.
Li Di nodded in agreement, "There are no people in the world who are more diligent than us. Therefore, all the land in the world should be given to us to plant. If others plant it, it will be wasted."
Kou Ji said dumbfounded: "The world is huge, much bigger than you think. Are you sure we can grow it?"
Li Di said dissatisfied: "Why can't we plant more? If we have more children, we will be able to plant more."
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "I heard that there are no prisoners or beggars in the Song Dynasty now. The prisoners and beggars have all been sent to Hexi. There are not many idle people in the Song Dynasty now, are you sure we still have it?"
Can it be planted elsewhere?”
Li Di said boldly: "Then let the people have more babies. In ten or twenty years, when these babies grow up, they can help us plant crops."
Kou Ji stared at Li Di in astonishment and asked tentatively: "You don't plan to encourage childbirth in Hexi, do you?"
Li Di snorted coldly and said disdainfully: "What encouragement? I don't have time to encourage them. I directly issued a decree. If you have a baby, you will be fined and taxed heavily.
If you give birth to two children, you will be fined and taxed lightly.
Three without penalty.
Four tax-free.”
Kou Ji looked Li Di up and down and said in astonishment: "You weren't beaten to death by the common people?"
Li Di snorted coldly: "Why do they have the nerve to beat me? The imperial court gave them thousands of acres of fertile land and three wives. If they can't even give birth to four children, then they might as well go
Death, living is a waste of food."
The corner of Kou Ji's mouth twitched, and he said with a mixture of laughter and tears: "You have become a lot tougher recently..."
Li Di said in a neutral tone: "I drink water from Hexi now, so naturally I have to have some toughness that Hexi people should have."
Kou Ji pondered: "Have you ever thought that your decree will cause many male children to appear in Hexi? When the balance between men and women in Hexi is imbalanced, and the male children cannot marry their wives, what should we do?"
Li Di looked at Kou Ji as if he were a fool, "How did the mother-in-law of the common people in Shazhou come to be?"
Kou Ji was stunned and said in astonishment: "Do you want those boys to go out and snatch your mother-in-law?"
Li Di nodded very seriously, "It's not like we are robbing our own people anyway. When they go out, they can robbing anyone to be their mother-in-law."
Kou Ji stared at Li Di seriously and said, "Are you still a civil servant? Are you still the civil servant who cares about the country and the people?"
"Pooh……"
Li Di spat and said calmly: "That's not the case a long time ago... Only after I traveled to the Western Regions did I realize that what I did in the court in the past was of no use.
After putting so much effort into handling so many government affairs and implementing so many policies that are good for the people, in the end it is those wealthy families who benefit.
The common people can't get any benefits at all, but instead become more and more miserable.
I have been busy for most of my life and thought I had helped the people get a lot of benefits.
It wasn't until I arrived in Hexi that I realized that all the benefits had been taken up by those wealthy families.
The people got nothing."
Kou Ji opened his mouth not knowing what to say.
Li Di glanced at Kou Ji and continued: "Your method of helping people seek happiness is very useful. I am studying it recently."
Kou Ji shook his head and said, "I'm just entering the officialdom for the first time..."
Before Kou Ji finished speaking, Li Di interrupted him arrogantly.
"Don't say those self-effacing words. There is no need to be self-effacing in front of me. Although you have just entered the officialdom, your thoughts are very low. You have always put yourself in the position of the people and always put yourself in the shoes of the people.
It’s not like us who keep saying that we are doing things for the benefit of the people, but in fact we rarely consider issues from the people’s perspective.”
Li Di highly praised the government decrees implemented by Kou Ji in Shazhou and talked a lot with Kou Ji. He did not return to Shazhou City with Kou Ji until the stars first appeared.
After returning to Shazhou City, the two of them did not go to Li's Mansion, but rushed to a huge wheat field in Shazhou City.
At the critical moment of harvesting grain, the people had many fields and few manpower, so they did not dare to waste any time.
Harvesting crops in the fields during the day and threshing wheat in the wheat field at night.
The people drove their cattle and horses and pulled stone rollers to crush the wheat again and again.
The ripe wheat was ground.
Then he forked out the wheat stalks, gathered the wheat together, and raised the wheat into the wind.
The wind blew away the wheat hulls, leaving golden wheat on the ground.
The wheat was put into animal skin bags and piled up into hills one after another.
Several people in long robes mingled among the people, asking them if they could sell the wheat they had.
If the common people wanted to take action, the two of them would pinch their fingers in private to confirm the price of wheat and decide whether the transaction would be successful or not.
Those who harvest wheat are the people of Koji.
It was Li Di's people who harvested other crops.
Businessmen are not allowed to enter the wheat field during this period.
Neither Kou Ji nor Li Di allowed those businessmen to come in, lower the price of food, and oppress the people.
Large amounts of food are not allowed to leak out.
Bags of grain were delivered to the granary in the city lord's palace before dawn.
The thirty granaries built by Li Di were filled to the brim within two days.
"A bumper harvest...a great harvest...God finally opened his eyes..."
Li Di looked at the grain piled in the granary and sighed sincerely.
Kou Ji stared at the grain in the granary and said with a smile: "It seems that the granary you built is not enough. Not even a tenth of the crops in Shazhou City have been harvested, and your granary is full."
Li Di solemnly said: "That has to be taken back... Take it back and fill up all the newly built Changping warehouse in Hexi..."
Kou Ji pondered for a moment, "I'm afraid Hexi can't digest so much food. After all, the fertile fields we have cultivated in Hexi are huge, but the people in Hexi are very few."
"Then transport it back to Bianjing City and show it to the profiteers who drove up food prices during the disaster. With this large granary in Hexi, they will no longer be able to make money during the disaster period."
Li Di said firmly.
Kou Ji was stunned for a moment and then said with a smile: "The grain merchants in Bianjing City will be in trouble this year..."
Li Di snorted coldly: "That's what they deserve! I still remember the faces of those grain merchants who took advantage of the country's difficulties when the Yellow River flooded."
Kou Ji smiled and said: "Okay...then you continue to collect grain...I will send someone to take away the grain you collected later..."
Li Di rolled his eyes when he heard this, "You came all the way to Shazhou when the grain was ripe, weren't you just thinking about Shazhou's grain?"
Kou Ji said with a smile: "Now that Hexi has settled down, it's time for me to return to Beijing. Eighteen letters have been handed over to me from officials urging me to return to Beijing. I can't go back to Beijing empty-handed, right? If it's empty-handed,
When I set out to go back, others thought I had been struggling in Hexi for nearly a year and had done nothing."