With Wang Jinghui's full efforts, the drought in Hebei was highly sanctioned. Before Manager Li crossed the Yellow River, the Xu family's business passed Wang Jinghui's orders in two ways: fast horses and carrier pigeons. The use of carrier pigeons to convey messages was something Wang Jinghui thought of two years ago. After careful questioning, he realized that people in this era had already used carrier pigeons to convey information, but both Song, Xia and Liao used it. However, due to the geographical location of the Song Dynasty, the Liao Kingdom and Xixia not only had carrier pigeons, but also ferocious carnivorous birds such as sea holly and harrier eagles, which played this role. During the war, the enemy country would use these ferocious birds to hunt the carrier pigeons of the Song Dynasty. Over time, the Song Dynasty abandoned this information transmission method and turned back to the transmission of the fast horse.

After all, the delivery of messages by pigeons is the fastest way to deliver messages in this era. Although there will be various unexpected situations in the middle, Wang Jinghui still asked Manager Li to organize manpower and financial resources to tame pigeons. After two years of hard work, with the help of some people who are proficient in this art, the Xu family still established a network for pigeons to deliver messages. Although it is still very simple, this is not to encounter the hunting of birds of prey in the air from Xixia and Liao Kingdoms on the battlefield, and it is still more than enough to deal with this situation.

The carrier pigeon will now pass the order to the Xu family business in Hebei. The person in charge will visit Han Qi's mansion first. After explaining the specific situation of the related industries related to grain to Han Qi, Han Qi began to send special personnel to the company to coordinate disaster relief. In order to cope with the severe drought that could lead to Wang Anshi's resignation in history, Wang Jinghui has been opening grain stores in Hebei to build granaries. Although it has not been long for more than two years, with his strong financial resources and excellent management of the Xu family, his "Food Wetian Grain Industry" business can be seen in the most important cities in Hebei.

After Han Qi took over, he looked at a series of books submitted by the general manager of the business and found that Wang Jinghui's "food is the best" granary in Hebei Province, which was "food is the best", was actually stocked with about 80,000 stones of grain. Such a large amount almost scared him: I want to rebel if I reserve so much grain?!

Looking at Han Qi's surprised expression, the person in charge of the grain store smiled and said, "Don't Wei's Duke is strange about why our store has reserved so much food? This is the arrangement of the prince-consort. The prince-consort often says that the north is not as rainy as the south. As long as river prevention is done well, you will not have to worry about not being able to receive food. It's just a few problems. The north is different. Once a drought occurs, there may be locust plagues immediately afterwards. Afterwards, the people often work hard for a year without any grains, which is very easy to cause riots. Therefore, the prince-consort reserved a large amount of land and grains here. In fact, the whole northern "Food is the Sky" grain number will be more than 100,000 stones of food. It is enough to deal with a relatively large drought in the short term! When the prince-consort received a letter from the Duke of Wei, he sent a letter to ask the villain to cooperate with the Duke of Wei to provide disaster relief?"

After hearing this, Han Qi felt relieved: In the second year of Zhiping, a drought occurred in Cai and the two prefectures. Wang Jinghui was not a wealthy businessman in Bian Capital at that time, but after hearing the news of the drought, he mobilized Wanshi food to the disaster area to provide relief to the victims. He did such things almost every year, and the court was very familiar with this. Besides, the prince-in-law was indifferent to fame and fortune. As a relative of the foreign country, in addition to being unable to take power, there were many people around him who were surveillance. If he could rebel under such circumstances, Han Qi admired him to death.

Having the 80,000 stones of grain in his hand, Han Qi felt much more at ease. So much food was enough for him to transport it to the court for relief. The most wonderful thing for him was that Wang Jinghui's grain shops and granaries were distributed in important big cities. The 80,000 stones of grain would not have to bear further transportation losses, and would be distributed directly to the victims on the spot. So each food in Hebei turned into a stronghold for the distribution of grain for the victims. In this way, Hebei's originally high grain prices were immediately suppressed, which caused a heavy blow to the black-hearted grain merchants who had originally made natural disasters.

Due to sufficient food for disaster relief, the victims in the disaster area did not have to scatter fleeing famines, which was free from the pain of leaving their hometowns. Han Qi also knew that the more famine the land was, the more serious the land merger was. The local tyrants in various places would take advantage of the famine to not only hoard grain to make huge profits when the famine occurred. They also made loans and collected money to secretly bribe the government’s people to sort out the land of the famine’s people’s homes under their own names, and various methods emerged one after another.

Disputes are indispensable in the process of annexation of land, and it is common to get sued in the government. Although landlords have the advantage in most cases, no one wants the number of lawsuits to increase. During the annual official assessment of the Song Dynasty, the number of lawsuits was directly related to the promotion of officials. Wang Jinghui developed the maritime transportation business when he was in Chuzhou. In order to avoid the sudden increase in litigation cases affecting the future of officials below, he concentrated all maritime litigation in the Maritime Bureau to handle. Han Qi also

Afraid of too many lawsuits and the righteousness of loving the people is hanging on it, Han Qi strictly demanded that the officials below conduct statistics, log in and register the land without avail, so that the victims can return the land when they return home. If the victims do not come back, they will be included in the country's common land. Although Han Qi's land policy and active disaster relief have made the large families in Hebei very dissatisfied, facing Han Qi, an old minister of three dynasties, they are not what they can do if they want. The people suffering from the disaster in Hebei are naturally very grateful to Han Qi and Wang Jinghui.

Han Qi was busy with disaster relief in Hebei, and Wang Anshi was not idle in Biandu. The emperor set up a circle for his Sansi Regulation Department at the suggestion of Wang Jinghui. Although he was very annoyed, he had no choice. The Sansi Regulation Department was of great significance to his implementation of reforms. It was not only responsible for the formulation of the Sansi Regulation Department, but also responsible for supervising the effectiveness of the promotion of the new law. Although Wang Anshi tried his best to win the scope of power of the Sansi Regulation Department, the circle Zhao Xu set up for him still could not satisfy him.

However, Wang Anshi was indeed amazing. After Zhao Xu sent him a note and returned the ticket, he wrote another letter within two or three days, making a new amendment to the Sansi Regulation Department. Emperor Zhao Xu gave the green light to it after reading it. Three days later, the Sansi Regulation Department was officially listed for operation. Lu Huiqing, Zeng Bu, Zhang Chun, Li Ding and others became the first officials to join the Sansi Regulation Department as in history. Of course, a familiar Wang Jinghui, Su Che, also participated and served as the prosecutor of the Regulations Department.

The current three-sector regulations are far less powerful than in history. Although Emperor Zhao Xu listened to Wang Jinghui's opinions and successfully "lossed" it, its power is still very large, and it will be a matter of infringement sooner or later. Wang Jinghui also thought about it in his mind for a long time. Then he shook his head - this is the greatest effort he can do, and Wang Anshi also made great concessions on this issue.

For the Sansi Regulation Department, this is a fast way to get promoted. Now the people who are serving in it are either Wang Anshi's students or followers of Wang Anshi's reform proposal. Wang Jinghui has to admire Wang Anshi. Originally, there was not much reform power in the court, and even if Wang Anshi was favored in front of the emperor, it was very weak compared with the opposition's power. After the reform regulations were formulated, it was impossible to effectively use them. But after such an institution, the reform power immediately gained the upper hand and the time was already to begin to implement the new laws and regulations.

Due to Wang Jinghui's secret participation, Wang Anshi is far from Wang Anshi in history. This is not to say that his power is much greater than that in history. In fact, Chen Shengzhi, the current prime minister of the country, is just a personal stamp. Emperor Zhao Xu favored Wang Anshi, and he is no different from the country. The only thing that changed him was Wang Jinghui.

Wang Jinghui's memorials, letters, and arguments. As well as a series of policy proposals implemented in Chuzhou, these are more precious to Wang Anshi than anything else. Wang Anshi is very stubborn. Although Wang Jinghui secretly made a few tricks, his firm will has not changed at all, but he knew that he had learned and gained a lot of useful experience from Wang Jinghui's approach. However, what he saw more from Wang Jinghui was to compromise.

In fact, to this point, Wang Anshi can no longer care about Wang Jinghui's existence as before. On the contrary, Wang Jinghui's attitude is very important to him, because the way Wang Jinghui drew was very obvious - he is the bridge between Sima Guang and himself. Although Sima Guang and Wang Anshi have been friends for decades, they are not vague in politics. Sima Guang and him can be said to be on the same side as him, but he is just more in line with the wishes of the young emperor Zhao Xu. But Wang Jinghui's feelings with Zhao Xu are more important than himself. The relationship between this middle, after the development of various events in the past two months, Wang Anshi still sees it very clearly.

In Hebei, Wang Jinghui took the opportunity to write to Emperor Zhao Xu. On the one hand, he put forward more strict and meticulous supervision opinions on Guanghui Warehouse and Changping Warehouse; on the other hand, he asked the court to set up a special supervision agency to take over the supervision of Guanghui Warehouse and Changping Warehouse in various prefectures, states and roads. To put it bluntly, he wanted to clean up officials who dared to be greedy for Guanghui Warehouse during this drought in Hebei.

The content of Wang Jinghui's book was discussed with Emperor Zhao Xu in advance, and the formal book was just a formality. Sima Guang and Wang Anshi knew that Prime Minister Chen Shengzhi was just a name. At the Zhongshu Conference where Emperor Zhao Xu was present, these two giants stood on Wang Jinghui's side. The meeting had not yet begun, and the conclusion was long ago destined. Without any objection, Wang Jinghui's letter was passed. Next, he drafted a new bill and wrote it according to the letter. When the censor sent to Hebei was inspected, it became part of the law of the Song Dynasty before he stepped out of the gate of Kaifeng, the city of Bian Capital.

The Secretariat Conference also discussed the letter from the Duke of Wei, Han Qi. After arriving in Hebei, Han Qi may have been influenced by his adopted son for a long time and was very concerned about the development of the local economy. Hebei is bordered by the strong northern neighbor of Khitan. Although the army has been halted for a long time since the Shanyuan Alliance, it is still one of the most tense focus areas in the Song Dynasty.

Since the early years of the Northern Song Dynasty, in order to defend against the Khitan's invasion, the Northern Song government issued a "cutting order", stipulating that the mountains and forests here are not allowed to be cut down and the land is not allowed to be cultivated. When General Pan Mei was guarding Hedong, in order to prevent the Khitan's harassment, "ordered the people to move inside, block the ground and do not farm, and called the forbidden land, while Qizhou, Daizhou, Ninghua Army, and Volcanic Army were very abandoned." In the fourth year of Qingli (1044), when Ouyang Xiu inspected Hedong, he suggested lifting the ban on farming order in this area.

He pointed out: "The danger of Hedong is to be in the ban on the edge of the border, and people are not allowed to farm." "The current military land in the four prefectures can be cultivated for 20,000 to 30,000 hectares. If it is cultivated for all, it can get three or five million stones per year." He still discussed the lower border, thinking that the land of the volcanic army could be cultivated, but when Daizhou and Ninghua army approached the enemy, they could not let the people cultivated for all the land. So the imperial edict was issued to the power department, and listened to the people's request to the people to ask for the fields of volcanic army ten miles away from the trench. "Later, because Minghao obstructed it, it failed to implement it."

Han Qi, Duke of Wei, had long wanted to abolish the so-called "destroying order", and wrote: "These are all my fertile lands. The old lands of the people still exist. Now they are not farmed, so they are left to support the enemy. Later, they are all enemies." "So reported to Daizhou, and Ninghua Army was like the Kelan Army. It was ten kilometers away from the northern border as a forbidden land, and the rest recruited archers to live there." "Compared with the imperial court's attempt to ban the mountains and forests near the border, they were not allowed to be cut off, and the road to block the enemy. At that time, the farmland farming land was prohibited, causing the border people to be unemployed. Now the firewood and charcoal are expensive, and the enemy takes advantage of the time to make great profits. I have sent officials to see where they can be blocked, and they can still be blocked for five or sixty miles away. I have also been able to block the land. I have already issued a list of bans to the people who are not prohibited by orders. I have allowed the people to be chopped up."

No one came to care about Han Qi's memorial before. Although it was out of kindness and was indeed a act of patronizing the people, at that time the court had a mess of trouble because of Wang Anshi. Who had the intention to care about this? Han Qi sent him to meet Wang Jinghui's envoy for help, and he also conveyed it to Wang Jinghui, hoping that the prince-consort could take action to promote the memorial to be passed by the court as soon as possible to benefit the lives of the people in Hebei.

Wang Jinghui didn't know about military affairs, but he had Guo Kui and Wang Shao. Now Wang Shao has gone to the northwest to serve. After visiting Guo Kui and obtained detailed information, Wang Jinghui thought this was indeed a very good idea. According to Ouyang Xiu's evaluation of this area when he inspected Hedong, he could imagine how many soldiers would be placed in 20,000 to 30,000 hectares of land would be placed, and how much food could be provided to the Song Dynasty? What's more, this year's drought is just an early preview of the drought in a few years, and can obtain food locally in Hebei. The cost is naturally far lower than that when he transported grain from Chuzhou or the south to Hebei to hoard it. This account is obviously very beneficial.

For this reason, Wang Jinghui exchanged opinions with Sima Guang. Although Sima Guang had a dislike with Han Qi in the past, he still agreed with Han Qi's memorial. The two wrote letters on this to support Han Qi. It happened that the Secretariat Conference also discussed the issue of disaster relief in Hebei. Although Han Qi was about preventing local tyrants from taking advantage of the disaster year, many victims suffered great losses and lost their land, and their livelihoods had nowhere to settle after the disaster. Wang Jinghui proposed that "rather than joining these victims into the wing army according to the rules, it is better for the imperial court to provide loans to provide agricultural tools and seeds to the victims to reclaim these wastelands."

One of Wang Anshi's important goals in the reform was to cut off the wing army. In this regard, he admired Wang Jinghui's ability. After consulting the suggestions of military generals from Hebei backgrounds, he also agreed with this proposal. Although Han Qi is one of the important giants of the conservatives, he still advocated the abolition of the "destroying order".

The head representative of the local tyrants in Hebei was Han Yi's family. Han Jiang also joined the Regulations Department of the Three Departments at this time. Although he was dissatisfied with Han Qi's policy of strictly controlling land annexation during the drought, he was even more angry that Wang Jinghui used so much food to calm the grain prices in Hebei and let local tyrants hoard grain for huge profits be wasted, but he was even more worried that the victims of Hebei would become fugitives and flock to Kaifeng, the capital of Bian. If that were the case, no one could bear to be able to bear to be impeached by the Censorate. For such considerations, officials from Hebei represented by him voted in favor.

The most interesting thing is Emperor Zhao Xu. From the secret message given to him by Han Qi, he learned that Wang Jinghui hoarded Hebei and subsequently transported more than 100,000 stones of land for disaster relief during this drought. After relieving Han Qi's embarrassment, he was also worried about how to make up for this hole like Han Qi. You should know that even if you transport grain from Kaifeng, Biandu to Hebei, the freight and the loss on the road alone were a very large number. Now the court's finances are relatively relaxed, and paying money is a small matter. The key is how to reward Wang Jinghui for timely disaster relief. In the end, Emperor Zhao Xu decided to reward Wang Jinghui with 10,000 acres of the wasteland in Hebei to Wang Jinghui, and then inform the world of rewarding Wang Jinghui's righteous act is a matter. Anyway, Wang Jinghui does not need to be promoted to another official position, but he has a very deep interest in the land. Such a reward is the best for him.

Wang Jinghui was not qualified to attend this Zhongshu Conference, but his shadow flashed behind all the regulations passed at this meeting. It can be said that he manipulated the meeting behind the scenes. Before the meeting, he had sufficient exchanges with the emperors Zhao Xu, Wang Anshi, Sima Guang and other major figures, which also made this Zhongshu Conference the most efficient meeting since the founding of the Song Dynasty. There were no too many differences and bickering in the meeting. The speed of passing resolutions formed the bill was dumbfounded, which made the officials in the court dumbfounded. Han Qi, who was far away in Hebei, was also sighing after receiving the news of the meeting.

The results of this Zhongshu meeting also made Wang Jinghui very satisfied. No, it should be said that he was very proud. This was the first time that the two factions of officials gave up the dispute and worked together, and it was also the best reward for his continuous wandering and persuasion during this period. Although the differences between the conservatives and the reformists could not be eliminated because of this cooperation, at least on the surface, the storm caused by the dispute between the two factions in the past few months was calmed down, and the tension in the court was calmed down. It was Wang Jinghui's greatest luxury to achieve such an effect.
Chapter completed!