Chapter 31 Arrangement

Just when the three booksellers who obtained the "international trade export rights" were so happy that they could not stop talking about the pie falling from the sky, Yingzong Zhao Shu, who was in the Zichen Hall of the Imperial Palace, was not so optimistic. The first month had not passed yet, and the heavy government affairs of the Song Empire had already made Yingzong Zhao Shu lose the festive spirit of the New Year: Beacon fires came from the border of Song and Xia, and Xia Zhuliangzuo once again verified to harasse the border; but this was not over yet. Xu and Cai were famined due to drought. Today, the monarch and ministers had just discussed giving the two states 100,000 yuan in money and appointing the Ministry of Revenue (the official position written in "Xu Zizhi Tongjian" was the Ministry of Revenue, but the author believed that this might be a typo in the layout, so it was changed to the Ministry of Revenue.) Li Xiyi was to provide disaster relief for the promotion...

After Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu handled the emergency, he stretched his waist and took a sip of tea and picked up a memorial on the desk. This was the memorial of Ouyang Xiu, the political governor. In the memorial, he described Wang Jinghui's achievements and talents, and strongly recommended him, hoping that the court could recruit such talents.

This is already the Nth memorial about recruiting Wang Jinghui by Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu, and the recommended officials are also different. From Dali judges, Su Shi, who signed the verdict of Fengxiang Mansion, to Sima Guang, from the political magistrate Ouyang Xiu to the three magistrate envoys, Cai Xiang, and more than a dozen memorials. Even Prime Minister Han Qi wrote a letter to recommend Wang Jinghui, which was a very rare thing since he came to power.

Zhao Shu had already learned some news about Wang Jinghui from his son Ying Wang Zhao Xu. Ying Wang Zhao Xu also strongly admired Wang Jinghui's talent and wanted to recommend him to be an official, but he also knew from his son that Wang Jinghui hated the most was to be an official. Because of this, Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu didn't know what to do when facing these dozen memorials. This is what made the emperor unlucky when he was the emperor of the Song Dynasty: what the emperor feared most was that he was talented but could not summon literati repeatedly. It was difficult for such people to be strong against him, otherwise it would have fulfilled the reputation of the person involved. However, if he could not summon repeatedly, he would not give the emperor face, which disappointed the emperor. This also made the reputation of the person involved's talent. The representative figure among them was Wang Anshi, who is still in Jinling.

This kind of pain is really a unique trouble for the Emperor of the Song Dynasty, especially the Emperor of the Northern Song Dynasty. From his son Ying Wang Zhao Xu, Ying Zong Zhao Shu, he learned that Wang Jinghui was the kind of person who absolutely did not like to be an official. He had repeatedly tried Wang Jinghui. Later, after Wang Jinghui learned about Zhao Xu's true identity, he simply alienated his relationship with him. It seems that Wang Jinghui did not want to be an official because he was determined to be an official. Ying Zong Zhao Shu has been suppressing these memorials for the past few days and refused to approve it. The biggest concern is that he is afraid that Wang Jinghui will not be summoned again and again, so he will be miserable.

And the most serious thing is that the reasons for the sponsorship in these memorials are different: Su Shi, Sima Guang, and Cai Xiang believe that Wang Jinghui's poetry is of peerless talent and is unparalleled in the world; Ouyang Xiu, a political governor, believes that Wang Jinghui is smart and capable and willing to help others, adopts orphans, and has the style of the hermit Zhonglizi and Ye Yangzi in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The court should commend and appoint him to an official position; while Prime Minister Han Qi took a fancy to Wang Jinghui's medical skills. His memorial said that Wang Jinghui can perform surgery and treat diseases, and is righteous and wealthy, with the style of an ancient genius doctor Hua Tuo, and the medical books he wrote are verified by his subordinates. The correction medical bookstore is in need of such talents, so he begged the emperor to invite him over... Yingzong Zhao Shu felt that he was getting bigger and bigger, so he simply asked the eunuch to find King Ying Zhao Xu.

King Zhao Xu of Ying quickly came to Zichen Hall. After celebrating Yingzong, Emperor Zhao Shu of Yingzong gave him the memorials that recommended Wang Jinghui to the court as an official. Zhao Xu quickly browsed the memorials one by one. After seeing him reading all the memorials, Zhao Shu asked, "Xu'er, what do you think after reading the memorials?"

King Zhao Xu of Ying said, "Wang Jinghui has talent in his heart. Such a person will be revealed no matter where he goes. If no ministers in the court come forward to recommend him, it will make the child suspicious. However, there are so many people who recommend him, and there are various reasons for recommendation. This is the first person since the founding of the Song Dynasty." After that, he smiled and continued, "Wang Jinghui is indeed a genius. What is said in these memorials is not wrong, and there is no lie about Wang Jinghui's experience.

Speaking of which, I know him the longest time and contact the most court officials, but the biggest problem now is not what kind of official position he will give him, but how to recruit him! Although this person is not only a talent for poetry, he is also a doctor with excellent medical skills, and is also a businessman with a lot of property, but he is noble in his heart and will not be an official. From a child's perspective, this is not his artificiality. If he can't be summoned again, he may be detrimental to the face of our royal court!"

After hearing this, Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu nodded and said, "The reason why I suppressed these memorials in the past few days is that Wang Jinghui refused to respond to the call at that time is a troublesome thing! Prince, you have any contact with him. Is there any good way? Can you talk to him in private? Let's see his words, will he be willing to be an official?"

King Zhao Xu of Ying smiled bitterly and shook his head and said, "Actually, when I met him, I was moved by his talent and intended to recommend him to the court as an official, but he had already refused in every possible way. If you ask about it at this time, I am afraid this will be the result."

After hearing this, Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu felt a little depressed and remained silent. King Ying Zhao Xu saw his father's appearance and said, "But this matter is not completely unrealistic! According to the observation of the son-in-law, Wang Jinghui did not seem to care much about the most famous poems in the outside world. He made a lot of money in business, but he was not very concerned. More money was spent on the clinic to reduce the medical expenses of poor people. It is reported that the civilian clinic has a monthly deficit of more than 3,000 guan per month. The Commercial Press, his subordinate, recently planned to publish his excellent articles for the talents of this dynasty for free. It can be seen that this person is kind and generous.

It’s not just a false reputation. But what he cares more about is his medical skills. He is very interested in the medical books collected in the Royal Pavilion and once sighed that he could not borrow them. When he saw the memorial of the Prime Minister Han Qi, he sponsored Wang Jinghui to the Correction Medical Bookstore. Although the position of this sponsorship is not very appropriate, this official position will be the most attractive to Wang Jinghui. If other official positions are given to Wang Jinghui, they will definitely be rejected by him. Therefore, he thought that Wang Jinghui would still let Wang Jinghui enter the Correction Medical Bookstore. In this way, he would not refuse, and second, he could block the mouths of the ministers in the court."

After hearing this, Emperor Yingzong Zhao Shu felt that this was indeed a good idea. Although it was not very appropriate to let Wang Jinghui enter the Jiejing Medical Bookstore, he also solved the risk of Wang Jinghui being unable to summon him repeatedly and refused to join the court to become an official. Zhao Shu asked King Ying Zhao Xu to do this and wrote an edict for Zhao Xu to collect it, because he felt that even if Wang Jinghui entered the Jiejing Medical Bookstore at this time, there was still a certain risk of rejecting the edict. It would be better to let King Ying Zhao Xu visit Wang Jinghui again as a friend and issue an edict again, which would be safer.

At this time, Wang Jinghui was asking Liu Chanfang about the disaster situation in Cai and Xu. Although he had read a lot about the history of the Song Dynasty, he knew very little about the various natural disasters that occurred during the Song Dynasty. In addition to the rain and flood disasters that occurred in Bian this year, there were also drought and locust plagues that caused Wang Anshi to stop his prime minister for the first time. For example, the small-scale disasters that occurred in Xu and Cai are probably recorded in the historical masterpieces such as "History of the Song Dynasty" or "Sui Zizhi Tongjian".

However, Wang Jinghui knew that in the historical stage of the Song Dynasty, China had a wide range of famines and various natural disasters appeared, causing troubles again and again to the rule of the Song Dynasty. Almost every year, it was either drought or flood, or just went together. Even if it rained heavily, the emperor's palace would be soaked in the water, and the common people would suffer even greater losses.

In order to deal with these frequent natural disasters, Wang Jinghui built a granary on the land he bought in the suburbs of the city and slowly stored grain. So far, 50,000 stones of grain have been stored in the granary. In order to ensure that the grain in the granary has always been in the edible stage, in addition to working hard on the design and management of the granary, he also opened three grain stores near Biandu to ensure the freshness of the grain in the granary, which invisibly made him a grain merchant and a big grain merchant.

Wang Jinghui spent a lot of effort to build the granary: although the price of the 50,000 stone of grain is not in his eyes, the rice price is roughly at the level of 50,000 cents per stone, and it only costs less than 30,000 stagnant of the total, but the grain is not seawater, you can get as much as you want. If Wang Jinghui purchases grain too fast, it will easily cause the price of grain near Kaifeng, Biandu, and even the entire Jingji area to soar. This is not what he wants, and it can easily cause disgust among the officials of the imperial court, and even cause trouble for you to hoard goods. So it has been almost seven or eight months since Wang Jinghui started purchasing grain and has been hoarding the 50,000 stone of grain. This speed obviously made him feel uncomfortable. In the next step, Wang Jinghui even wanted to buy land from the landlord to grow grain by himself.

Xu and Cai are not far from Bian, and Wang Jinghui heard Liu's accountant say that the court had allocated 100,000 guan of money for disaster relief. He also wanted to do something about this. As for the summer rain and flood disasters, it would not be enough to use 50,000 shi of grain, mainly because it needed a large amount of medicinal materials. So Wang Jinghui asked Liu's accountant to allocate 10,000 shi of grain from the granary to transport it to Xu. Cai and Cai went to open a porridge shed to provide disaster relief, and then allocated 20,000 guan from the book to the south to buy various disaster relief materials urgently needed in the disaster area.

These two prefectures were distributed to the affected poor. If it were not for the fact that taking more money to provide disaster relief could easily cause taboos from the court, Wang Jinghui could mobilize more power to provide disaster relief. However, he thought of the story of Zhu Yuanzhang and Shen Wansan. Although this was a fictional story made by the Qing ruling class in order to vilify the Ming Dynasty, it was not without reason. Since ancient times, people who were rich and able to compete with the country still had no good ending. For the sake of his own mind, he still gave up this tempting idea.

But Wang Jinghui refused to do so. After all, he had won such a large family property, in addition to providing food and clothing, the most he thought was to help those poor people who were struggling at the bottom of society. In the past, in the 21st century, the programs that his parents asked him to watch the most were news documentaries that reflected the disadvantaged groups in society. This was done to cultivate his medical style and ethics. But at that time he had no strength and could not do anything. Now it is different. Although he was not the richest man in the Song Dynasty, he could be regarded as a wealthy businessman with a large family property, and he could do more.

Wang Jinghui sent Liu Chanfang, who was about to fall into a rampage, out of the study. Before leaving, he had to give Liu Chanfang a lot of advice and let him implement his decision without any fault. Liu Chanfang was not unaware that his boss did this as a great thing to do good deeds and accumulate virtue, but he felt that spending so much money at once was a bit too much, so he advised Wang Jinghui to restrain himself and save money. But Wang Jinghui always sent him in one sentence: "What do I have to do so much money now? Why should I take it out and do more good things, and save my future generations to say that I am unkind to be rich..."

After sending Liu's account room away, Wang Jinghui sat alone in the study, staring at the candle, but he soon thought of a genius' idea: to acquire land. This method is thanks to his understanding of the history of the Han family in Hebei. The most famous of the Han family in Hebei are Han Yi and Han Jiang, Han Wei and Han Zhen among his eight sons. Han Yi and Wang Jinghui didn't know much, but he only knew that he was a good official who cares about the suffering of the people. He was far less famous than his son in history. Except for the three brothers Han Jiang and the three brothers in the court, the other five sons were local owners at home.

Han Yi, the sons of the five local owners in his hometown, relied on the name of being an official in the court by his father and brother, took advantage of the frequent outbreak of natural disasters to annex the land. His family has been famous landlords in Hebei for 20 or 30 years, but they are much better than the Han Qi family, who also served as prime minister in the court. These guys took advantage of the famine when the people fled to famine and relied on the local government forces to incorporate the land of the famine into their family's real estate free of charge, and also purchased a large amount of land of bankrupt farmers at a low price, becoming one of the top landlords in a short period of time. "I was determined to seize intensive taxes and invaded the south, and at that time, I would eventually give it to the Jin people for free!" Wang Jinghui thought of this and thought of it.

The solution Wang Jinghui thought was to purchase land. Although it was also annexed land, he did not want to do a big landlord like his brother. He wanted to return the purchased land to farmers for cultivation, and of course he also had to submit grain as land rent, but it saved the risk of food hoarding himself causing a surge in grain prices. Although the speed of hoarding grain in this way would be relatively slow, it would eventually benefit the farmers who cultivated it.

The solution was to think about it, but sending someone to execute it really gave Wang Jinghui a headache. Liu's accountant was already in a state of rampage because he spent money like water. It was obviously inappropriate to send him to the house now, but there was no one else around him who could trust to do this, which gave him a little headache.

"There are still too few people around you who can do things. You must train more when you have the opportunity! Look at Wang Anshi, he usually pays more attention to talent reserves. He even gave lectures when his mother was in Dingyou in Jinling, and even ignored the emperor's edict. He earned a reputation for himself and cultivated and accumulated a group of reform talents. By the beginning of the reform, his "Three-Section Regulation Department" was almost all his friends and students. Although the historical evaluations of these people are not very good, at least there is one who helps with errands." Wang Jinghui lamented in his heart, scolding Wang Anshi a little unkind, and he didn't know what Wang Anshi would feel if he knew.

"Let's go to find my old friend Xu's Jewelry Store!" Wang Jinghui couldn't help but see that respectable boss Xu appeared in front of him. I remember that if he hadn't had such an honest senior to help him when he first came to Kaifeng, even if he had great skills, he wouldn't have reached this point so quickly.

Early the next morning, Wang Jinghui got on the carriage and went straight to Xu's jewelry store to seek help from Boss Xu. Because Wang Jinghui asked the housekeeper Wang Fu to send a letter to Boss Xu to stay at home today and he had something to discuss, as soon as Wang Jinghui arrived at the Xu's jewelry store, he was called by the servant who was waiting for him at the door and led him into Boss Xu's study room in the backyard of the jewelry store. As soon as he entered the study room, Wang Jinghui saw Mr. Xu who was waiting for him specifically and Li Zhenquan, the manager Li who he regarded as his own.

"Old Xu, Brother Zhenquan, long time no see!" Wang Jinghui greeted them very enthusiastically. Thinking that when he first came to Kaifeng, Biandu, he was unfamiliar with the place. If he hadn't received the sincere help from the two of them, how could he have been today? So when he talked to them, Wang Jinghui was filled with gratitude.

Seeing Wang Jinghui visiting him, Mr. Xu and Manager Li were also very happy and responded enthusiastically. Mr. Xu said: "Change it, what's the important thing? Last night I specially sent someone to pay a visit?"

Seeing Mr. Xu so straightforward, Wang Jinghui didn't say much polite words: "Old Xu, I've been here for a long time. I'm here to see you. I don't know if Mr. Xu heard that Mr. Xu and Cai were affected by the disaster. I heard from the accountant Liu that the court had allocated 100,000 ounces of money specifically to provide relief to the victims of the two states."

Manager Li said: "This matter is probably spreading in Kaifeng, the entire Bian capital, and I don't know what happened. In recent years, it has either drought or floods everywhere, but it has made the people suffer! Why? Do you want to donate some family property to help the victims?"
Chapter completed!