Song Jiu was so excited.

So I replied to the memorial, Your Majesty, do you still remember the Duan Inkstone Case?

First of all, the national economy is gradually improving.

There are still some difficulties, but the financial pressure this year is not like last year, so Zhao Heng did two things.

The first thing to do is to continue to manage the river.

The minister who led the river management this time was Xie Dequan, the former minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty. He was very proficient in civil engineering and water conservancy. Due to the increase in population in the capital, the large number of houses were built, resulting in the crowded streets. This person reorganized and planned it.

He came to the Bian River to do two things. The first was to wash away all the silt sand on the riverbed. However, Song Jiu did not agree very much. There was no excavator, and there was no advanced level. If you wanted to wash the deep river, you would never be able to do it in this era.

The second thing is to plant trees and afforestation, plant millions of willow trees on the embankments between the Yellow River and Bian Rivers.

This incident made Song Jiu very much agree.

What made Song Jiu even more recognize him was his proposal to reopen Sanbai Canal in Guanzhong, but not only reopen Sanbai Canal, but he proposed a concept, select a river valley on the banks of the Weishui River, build a dike and build a steep gate, and then lead the Weishui River to this Dawei. Just like Dujiangyan, it is more complicated than the Dujiangyan project. Once again, build a sand storage pool, first settle the Weishui River, enter the Dawei, and inject it into the downstream area. The Weishui River is clear and the Yellow River is half clear.

And the turbid Beiluo Water can also do this, the silt and sand in the Yellow River will decrease naturally, and the harm of river water will decrease naturally.

It was not as exaggerated as he thought, but it would have some effect. Moreover, it had a foundation for doing so. At the suggestion of Song Jiu, this was done at the entrance of Bianhuang, which was convenient for irrigation.

This is an idea. If you want to start construction, you must send someone to carefully examine the design. Besides, the imperial court does not have the financial support now.

Secondly, a supernova broke out this year, like half a moon. It has a horn that is brilliant and can be seen, and it is as bright as the moon. Everyone thought it was a lucky star, so Zhao Heng issued an edict to draw some money and silk to build a Zishan Hall to support the elderly and widows.

In fact, before this, the court also had many measures to provide for good, including appeasement of disaster victims, relief, and rewarding some good households. Song Jiu even developed charity to the peak in Suzhou.

But when Song Jiu was prime minister, a major case broke out, that was the Duanyan case.

The four famous inkstones in the early Song Dynasty were not the later Duan inkstone, She inkstone, Tao inkstone, Chengni inkstone, but Duan inkstone, She inkstone, Taohe inkstone, and red silk inkstone. In fact, Taohe inkstone is Tao inkstone. In Taozhou, Chengni inkstone later replaced Shandong's red silk inkstone.

Duan inkstone is the first of the four famous inkstones of the Song Dynasty.

But there are many materials for inkstones, including stone, sand, mud, bricks, and tiles. Stone inkstones are also divided into high and low prices. Ordinary stone inkstones are not valuable. However, top-quality Duan inkstones are worth a thousand gold.

During the Southern Han Dynasty, the official in charge of the mining of Duan inkstones. Song Jiu arrived in Guangnan. Without waiting for Bao Zheng, he talked about the difficulties and dangers of mining Duan inkstones. He asked the court to cancel the people's contributions or buy Duan inkstones.

If you want to buy, you can buy it in the Beijing market, rather than go directly to Duanzhou to avoid all kinds of problems.

Zhao Kuangyin agreed, so Duan inkstone was officially commercialized.

This has become the pillar industry of Duanzhou. However, with the development of business, many powerful literati and officials are also doing business. How dare these yamen runners collect commercial taxes?

Not only Duan inkstones, but also other commodities.

Song Jiu and Wang Qinruo reformed the new commercial tax law and lowered the commercial tax ratio. In order to compromise, the commercial tax ratio of commodity traders was further reduced.

The commercial tax rate after the new commercial tax law is really low.

However, there are still many powerful people who are unwilling to pay this tax.

Two powerful businessmen who operate Duan inkstones also paid taxes. They treated Duan inkstones as ordinary stone inkstones and paid taxes, and I also paid taxes...

But they did not expect that Song Jiu reformed commercial tax and reduced the proportion of commercial tax. That was to be able to fully implement tax payments, give kindness in front of the front and force behind the scenes, and constantly use harsh actions to punish a group of powerful people. Some officials were even implicated, removed from office or demoted.

Someone was in conflict with these two powerful families, so he took the initiative to collect some evidence for the government.

After hearing this, Song Jiu sent someone to investigate.

There are not many, but even if there are only tens of thousands of Duan inkstones a year and a small boat is loaded away, it is of great value. In this case, how much tax has been evaded in ten years? And how many places have passed from Guangnan to Beijing?

This investigation involved many officials, including Zhao Kuangyin's brothers' mother's family, Du family, and was involved. In order to intimidate, Song Jiu deliberately used the case as an example and severely punished a group of officials.

This is a major case in which Song Jiu became prime minister, also known as the Duanyan case, which may be recorded in history. It means that the Song Dynasty's policy of Qi and Civil Affairs was further implemented, that is, "Quality Tax".

Zhao Heng cannot be regarded as the fool recorded in historical books. In fact, he is a very smart person.

Without the humiliation of the Chanyuan Alliance, the country will further prosper. Today, Zhao Heng is still dealing with state affairs conscientiously, and the Song Dynasty continues to be in the rising stage.

Song Jiu only asked one more question.

His meaning is simpler, that is, greed is insufficient, and when you are rich, it becomes richer. In fact, some powerful men in the Song Dynasty were really rich. Now there are all the property of the capital with 100,000 yuan, and many people even have million yuan.

The tax rate of the commodity ** is so low, why do you still have to evade taxes?

Don’t think that if Japan is rich, it will not harm the Central Plains, but will still harm it.

Zhao Heng then sent a middle-level envoy to ask, what is your intention?

Then Song Jiu talked about the main topic: Confucianism governs the country, materialism and learning to strengthen the country and enrich the people, and religion transforms the people.

It is possible for Japanese students to learn Confucianism and Buddhism, to make their country peaceful, and to learn the gentleness and goodness of Confucian Buddhism, so that they will not invade our dynasty. But the study of matter cannot allow them to learn.

And if a country protects the internal and external, what is the external? It is not only to maintain rationality in expanding territory, but also to make foreign barbarians "empty". If the external barbarians are weak, there will be no harm. This includes the current division of tribes and not allowing one tribe to dominate the entire family. This is also the empty one.

Zhao Heng finally agreed.

In fact, Song Jiu was carrying the hatred of his previous life.

Compared with the shamelessness of the Goryeo people, the Japanese people are united, humble in learning and progressing civilization, perseverance, martial arts, and not afraid of death. They want to be more respectful, but this race is so cruel. Although Song Jiu is now at a high position, he must let go of some unnecessary discrimination. Moreover, it is a grudge from the previous life, but when he thinks about the Japanese's harm to China, he still has not let go of this hatred.

I won’t take revenge, but I must remind everyone, and I won’t take the initiative to help them become stronger...

In short, all the good neighbors around China are all around it.

In the third year of Jingde, there were still wars on Youzhou Road, and some people rebelled, especially the Xi people in Zhongjing and the Khitans in Shangjing, who did not have the status of being arrogant. Many rights were deprived of one after another, and some powerful people were unhappy, resulting in rebellions one after another. Some tribes in the desert came to harass them without knowing the height of the world. However, the Song Dynasty had the largest number of troops stationed on Youzhou Road, and more than 60% were cavalry, so they were suppressed in time.

Treatment is serious treatment, but suppression is also serious suppression, like thunderbolt. It is very decisive and decisive, and beheaded and executed.

But in general, Youzhou gradually moved from chaos to governance, especially Song Jiu running everywhere. Looking carefully, nearly two thousand officials of all prefectures and counties in the Song Dynasty had to carefully manage the local area, and the entire Youzhou Road showed signs of recovery.

Song Jiu did another thing. He asked the states to send some literati to collect information. He wrote a book of Youzhou Road Geography to record the mountains, rivers, rivers, properties, animal and plant resources, climate, suitable planting and breeding methods, and various other information.

Once this book is successful, it will help the Northeast to further regain its heart and also help the officials of various prefectures and counties to manage the local area, and generals will not blindly use troops.

At this time, Li Jilong died in Yunzhou. His death shocked the court and the people. Zhao Kuangyi left two pillars, one was Song Jiu and the other was Li Jilong. Therefore, Zhao Heng mourned grandly and spent three days to express his respect and recognition of Li Jilong. At the same time, he sent an envoy to pass the imperial edict, asking Song Jiu to take care of his health. In fact, Li Jilong's death also made Zhao Heng suspicious and worried.

Li Jilong's death made Pan Lian'er worried and persuaded Song Jiu to retire. A minister was worthy of the country to do this. After all, the north was bitter and cold, and Song Jiu had a lot of hard work to run around in order to govern Youzhou Road.

But Song Jiu still couldn't let go.

First, there are still many problems on Youzhou Road that have not been solved, and the officials who come are all experienced officials, and they have not grown up. Second, Goryeo...

Song Jiu kept silently watching Goryeo's secret expansion.

But after autumn, Zhang Zhibai from Luyang Mansion was considered a good guy, and he could not bear it anymore and asked Song Jiu for questioning.

For no reason, from the mouth of the Yalu River to the depths of the northeast, leading the Bin Mansion to the east, there are three major tribes, the Yalu River tribe, the Changbai Mountain tribe, the Fog Tribe, and several small tribes. However, these three major tribes are not the same as one, and can be divided into several tribes.

What the Goryeans differentiate is the filthy tribe.

However, as the Northeast gradually moved from chaos to rule, not all tribes turned against Goryeo. Some tribes were dissatisfied and sent people to ask for help from Song Dynasty officials. However, Song Jiu's attitude was ambiguous, and he just comforted him with kind words and no practical actions. Therefore, under the threat of Goryeo, most tribes gradually turned against Goryeo in name.

It cannot be said to be governance. With the strength of the Song Dynasty and Goryeo, it was impossible to actually manage many tribes in the Changbai Mountains at this time. The mountains were too big, the forests were too thick, and the people were too wild and fierce. However, Goryeo did another thing. The Bohai Kingdom once established the Longyuan Prefecture in Tumen River, and used the Longyuan Prefecture City as Tokyo (near Hunchun). After the Liao Kingdom destroyed the Bohai Kingdom, the city disappeared.

The Koreans slowly embezzled them. After this autumn, they built a small town on the Tumen River, and moved the small town to ancient times to the Tumen of later generations, and named it Tokyo Prefecture again, and then began to differentiate the various ethnic groups of the Rubin Prefecture, the former Bohai Kingdom in the northern region.

Zhang Zhibai was also stunned. This is my territory. You are building Tokyo Prefecture here, just one step away from Luyang Prefecture. What kind of style is it?

He had to send troops with Song Jiu's consent.

After receiving his report, Song Jiu did not comment or not.

Song Jiu happened to visit Luyang Mansion. Zhang Zhibai mentioned this matter again. Song Jiu still didn't say anything. Finally, he was anxious and said, "Let's do this, report this situation to Your Majesty and see how Your Majesty deal with it."

Zhang Zhibai sighed, can His Majesty handle it well?

"Then let them continue to expand, and even give up Rubin Mansion, Changbai Mountain, and let their officers and soldiers approach the city of Luyang!"

Zhang Zhibai was about to protest, but suddenly woke up and was very happy.

The Song Dynasty was not weak in civil governance, and there was no Song Jiu in civil governance. The Song Dynasty almost achieved the ultimate goal, and the weak in military governance.

Therefore, Song Jiu did only three major things in his life. The first is to promote materialism, the second is to further develop the economy, without money, how to fight, especially the recruitment system of the Song Dynasty, and the third is to strengthen the military.

In fact, his strength is still in internal governance. Although he has made achievements in military affairs, he only reformed some military flaws and was responsible for planning some strategies. Even for these strategies, most of them were assisted by generals such as Pan Mei, Yang Ye and Li Jilong to improve them. As for the details, they were implemented by these important generals.
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