"It's cloudy and sunny in the cold and summer, and there are lessons every day. If the former is not enough, the latter will come back again. This is the bitterness of salt." [A brief poem on the picture of the salt field]
The new governor of Jizhou, Wang Yi, did not keep the emperor waiting for too long, and soon arrived in Yecheng with a simple carriage.
The emperor summoned him in the military camp: "Have the affairs in Hedong been handed over properly?"
"Your Majesty, Du Bohou has served as a county magistrate in Hedong for many years and is familiar with the affairs of Hedong. If he takes over as the governor, he will not make any difference in the new administration of the imperial court." Wang Yi has been busy with government affairs in the past few years. He has become much older and more capable at the same time.
A lot.
"Oh." The emperor simply responded. Du Ji, a native of Jingzhao, was a rare good official with a talent for governing and governing. He was from the first official administration department sponsored by Wang Bin. He was familiar with the emperor's governance philosophy and had been practicing it for several years.
Working in Hedong, it can be said that there is no one who is more familiar with the New Deal and more capable of taking over the affairs of Hedong than him. He began to invite the tired Wang Yi to sit down, ordered someone to serve tea to him, and said: "In these years, Hedong County has been
The taxation and output of the land have always been eager for Sili. The imperial court's eastward expedition and the rebellion of Yongliang required grain, grass, and people's power. Hedong contributed a lot. Now that the eastward expedition is over and Yongliang is about to be defeated, all the warehouses and warehouses in Hedong can be returned.
Enriched? Are the people tired?"
"I dare not hide it from your majesty. Hedong has been prosperous for several years, and the officials and people are rich. In the past two years, millions of grains and grass have been transported for the imperial war. They all rely on the Yellow River, Fen River, and Wei River for transportation to various places. The people are not very tired." Wang
Because of his merits in transporting grain and grass, he was not only promoted to be the governor of Jizhou, but also received the title of Marquis of Guannei. As a newly retired chief official, he naturally knew the specific situation of Hedong County better than anyone else.
, speaking in person is more comprehensive than writing a memorial for the emperor to read: "Before I rushed to Jizhou according to the imperial edict, I checked the warehouse registers with Du Bohou in person, and learned that the remaining grains such as rice, wheat, beans and millet were tens of thousands of dendrobium... It has rained this year.
It is sufficient, and thanks to His Majesty’s great virtue, God has given us a good year, so the taxes should be very considerable.”
"What about the salt policy?" The emperor was concerned about the money issue: ""
"An ordinary salt well can produce four stones of salt in a day and night, and a large salt well can produce six stones of salt. Since the imperial court reestablished the salt official and monopolized it, the government has repeatedly opened salt ponds, increasing from more than 20 to more than 70, with 600 salt wells.
Yukou can produce more than 2,600 shi of salt every day and one million shi of salt a year." Wang Yi said without hesitation and without any hesitation: "Based on the price of salt in Sanfu at 800 yuan per stone, Hedong
The salt official can pay 800 million yuan to the Shaofu every year."
"It's more than that." The emperor said clearly: "The price of salt varies from place to place. I remember that as far away as Dunhuang and Wuyuan, the price of salt was at least a thousand yuan."
"Wei Wei." Wang Yi was shocked and said with shame: "The imperial court originally only had Si, Bing, and Yishu prefectures. There were not enough households. The annual salt production was far greater than what the people needed. In order to keep the price of salt from being too high.
It's cheap to ensure the government's income. Hedong County stores the salt every year and has not sold it completely." Just as Wang Yi finished speaking, he realized that the emperor was staring at him with a playful look on his face, and he lowered his head in fear:
"Now that your majesty has conquered the world in one battle and unified all the seas, the salt from Hedong can be sold all over the world, at least more than three billion every year."
Anyway, now that he is no longer the governor of Hedong, he can exaggerate the data beyond a certain reasonable range. As for whether the data can be achieved specifically, that is the matter of the new governor Du Ji. Wang Yi boasted in front of the emperor that he was
Hedong's various political achievements, such as post roads, farming, official selection, education, expenditures, examination results, etc. If you give any one of these achievements to other county governors, it is enough to become a highlight for them to boast about.
Wang Yi is everywhere. It must be said that in addition to his outstanding personal governance ability, the large number of policies and resource tilt given by the court also played a very important role.
After listening to Wang Yi's unconsciously proud statement, the emperor smiled with satisfaction and said with emotion: "I remember when the imperial court only had Sili, Bingzhou and other places, the annual income was only tens of millions of dollars. Now it is only Hedong Salt Co., Ltd.
There are hundreds of millions, not counting the annual income of salt and iron in other places. Compared with before, the situation is really turned upside down." Wang Yi was about to say a few words, but saw the emperor looking at him with a smile.
, said: "I remember when I summoned you in Hedong, I asked you about economics. You hesitated, but now you are very good at Tao Zhu?"
Wang Yi was happy in his heart and couldn't help but look at Jia Xu, who was sitting beside him. As Wang Yi's recommender, Jia Xu was not proud of the fact that the person he recommended was rising steadily. He seemed to always be Feng Danyun.
His light appearance made it hard for people to tell the difference. Seeing Jia Xu's indifference, Wang Yi's expression calmed down a bit, and he said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty inquired about several articles of Guanzi, but none of them could answer. Afterwards, I felt deeply
I am ashamed and regretful. Your Majesty's words, "The way to govern a country cannot be stuck to one place, but must change with the times." I have kept it in my heart and dare not forget it for a moment. In addition to government affairs, I also study "Guanzi" every day. Now I know it.
Among them, great justice, when we look back at the governance in Hedong, we also know that governing a county is not just about farming and mulberry, but also requires trade and the combined efforts of various industries."
Even the emperor himself had almost forgotten whether he had said the exact words quoted by the other party, but the emperor never hesitated to express his appreciation to a subordinate who always kept his words in mind. His promotion of Wang Yi was originally to balance the situation and implement the Hedong New Deal.
needs, now it seems that there is an additional intention to use him as a flaunt: "It is extremely difficult for you to think of this."
"The salt from Hedong is sold in Jingyu, and the embroidered messengers and Pingzhun inspectors rely on this to be deployed along the way to distract their eyes and ears." Jia Xu added on the side: "The situation in Guanzhong, every move, is as fine as the lines on the palm of the hand, the salt officer in Hedong
It’s a big contribution.”
The emperor agreed with this. The establishment of statistical agencies in various places for information such as the embroidered messengers not only relied on swordsmen and rangers who traveled around the world, but also established a fixed stronghold somewhere to collect information in a legal and formal capacity. In fact, Yan Tieguan
It is a good choice, because any military deployment or measure is inseparable from salt and iron. Sometimes there is no need to deliberately inquire, and predictions can be made based only on the fluctuations in the price of salt and iron. In addition, in addition to Pingzhun's
Some people are also salt and iron officials, and while they are semi-openly inquiring about information on the market, there are also messengers in embroidered clothes who are hiding deeper and conducting information in a more covert way.
These are two sets of intelligence systems that Jia Xu has been running for several years, using the knights and official salt sales scattered all over the world to create two sets of intelligence systems. The Pingzhenjian focuses on statistics, and the embroidered messenger focuses on spying, thus becoming the emperor who has just left Kanto and won.
One of the magic weapons in the world.
Pingzhun Supervisor cooperated with Hedong Yanguan in order to investigate market prices and statistical data. This was something Wang Yi had the right to know, but he did not know how many embroidered clothes messengers there were in the Yanguan team. In addition to external affairs, these people also
Wang Yi couldn't help but broke out in a cold sweat. Did Jia Xu's words just now show his merit for him? Instead, he was warning him not to talk nonsense!
But it was already too late. Seeing that Hedong was prosperous in Wang Yi's mouth, the emperor put forward higher requirements for his political achievements in Jizhou: "Jizhou is rich in products. When our army marched to Bohai County, its coastal beaches were wide and it was windy and rainy every year.
There is little and plenty of sunshine. Many people accumulate seawater on this tidal flat and can sun-dry it to produce salt without boiling it. I think this place can become the second Hedong salt pond in the future. Since I will hand over Jizhou to you, Bohai County
The salt administration in this area needs to be more thoughtful in the past two or three years."
The place where emperors can dry salt is one of the three famous salt fields in later generations, Changlu Salt Field. There are records of "Youqili Fish Salt" as far back as the Western Zhou Dynasty, but it has not been officially developed on a large scale.
We have to wait until the Ming Dynasty. As long as this place is successfully developed, Bohai salt will be famous in the world along with Hedong salt, meeting the salt demand of the entire north in this era.
However, the tidal flats along the Bohai Sea have not been developed and are still a barren land. Only fishermen occasionally dry sea salt here. The emperor made the method of producing salt simple, but Wang Yi was well aware of the troubles involved, which meant that he had to find a way
The people were relocated and a Hedong Salt Pond was built from scratch, and the time limit given was only "these two or three years."
In addition to Bohai salt, the emperor also had other burdens to bear on Wang Yi: "You also know about the floods in Julu for many years. If Director Zhang wants to do something, you should help him more. There are also scattered in Changshan and the Taihang Mountains in Zhao State.
The grass bandits are the remnants of the Black Mountains and need to be carefully appeased. In addition, the last time Yuan Shao led Wuhuan outside the Great Wall and Xianbei invaded Youzhou, there were many Hu tribes entrenched in Shanggu, Daijun, and even Zhongshan. Zhongshan is under your control.
I have assigned Tian Chou to be the Prime Minister of Zhongshan. He is familiar with the Hu situation in the North. You should also put more thoughts on this. By the way, there is also Wei County..."
"My lord, my lord, I promise." Cold sweat dripped from Wang Yi's forehead. The confidence he had when he came here has long gone. With the emperor's eloquent words, he only felt that the burden on his shoulders was getting heavier and heavier, and even a little bit...
overwhelmed.
Sure enough, we still have to try to start from Xiaozhou first. The emperor mentioned these things. Isn’t there a lot of resistance behind them? The simplest one may be the remnants of Montenegro, but since those remnants of Montenegro did not choose to surrender with Zhang Yan.
The imperial court is obviously a group of die-hard elements, and given the current situation in Jizhou, which has finally put an end to the war, everything must be stable. Since the emperor has not hinted that he can use violence, Wang Yi can only rely purely on political skills
, when he thought of the difficulty behind it, Wang Yi couldn't help but look towards Jia Xu for help.
Wang Yi's dilemma was not difficult for Jia Xu to handle. In fact, Wang Yi could do it, but he was not close to the emperor, so he did not dare to do it.
"Jizhou is a big state in the world, so it naturally has the weight of a big state." Jia Xu took advantage of the emperor's words and immediately said: "First, farm and mulberry, then output, we must turn Jizhou into the second Hedong.
It is worthy of His Majesty’s expectations.”
"That's what it is." The emperor said, as if he didn't notice the eye contact between Jia Xu and Wang Yi: "There are 300,000 households in Jizhou, but there is not a single county as good as Hedong! Yuan Shao's rule of the state is lenient and strict, which causes suffering.
The people now have to change his past bad policies one by one. Many of the systems and rules in Hedong are different from those in other counties. The new policy was originally implemented to be temporarily tried in Hedong. Now that the results are remarkable, it is exactly what is planned to be tried.
In one state, when the time is ripe, it can be promoted to the world. During this period, countless efforts and efforts are made, and it is definitely not the work of one or two people. You and I, the emperor and our ministers, should work together to encourage each other."
Jia Xu was undoubtedly the one who was most familiar with the emperor's words, and could always figure out the other party's true intentions from the emperor's words. After hearing these words, he responded promptly: "What your majesty said is that this matter is indeed not the work of one or two people."
, although Wang Wendu is the governor of Jizhou, it is the prefects of each county who govern the place. Now that Jizhou is newly attached, none of the prefects appointed by Yuan Shao in the past can be retained. Now is the time for Jizhou's reform. It may be better to choose another wise man after he is deposed.
appoint."
Wang Yi also came to his senses, raised his hands and said, "What Mr. Jia said is that my ministers are dull in intelligence. Please ask your majesty to designate a wise minister to support his unwise ministers."
Naturally, the emperor would not let Wang Yi fight alone in Jizhou. He had already planned to transfer Wang Yi's original subordinate Liu Wan from Hedong County to serve as the prefect of Wei County, and then transfer Man Chong, who was famous for his harshness, from Yanzhou to serve as the prefect of Anping.
With a group of ruthless officials and good personnel, I believe Wang Yi will soon be able to open up a new business in Jizhou.
The monarch and his ministers then explained some things about Jizhou's affairs, and the emperor asked him to go directly to Yecheng and take up his post.
"I heard that Wang Yi was very popular among the people in Hedong. When he left Hedong, many Hedong officials and people led their horses to try to stay. Duke Jia rarely recommends people to me. This Wang Yi is indeed good, but he lacks courage and broad-mindedness."
The emperor judged and judged.
The lack of courage meant that Wang Yi couldn't stand up to the emperor and was almost at a loss; the lack of broad-mindedness meant that Wang Yi only showed off his political achievements and ignored the merits of his deputy, Du Ji, the county magistrate, and instead gave him the opportunity to succeed him.
The pressure was put on the job afterwards.
If Du Ji can only keep Hedong in its current state, then the merits of a 'Xiao Gui' and a 'Cao Sui', Wang Yi, a pioneer, and Du Ji, a defender, will naturally be judged. What has been developed and perfected in Hedong
Under such circumstances, it is already difficult for Du Ji to build on the good achievements of his predecessor.
Wang Yi's behavior of stepping on his successor after leaving office was not considered a magnanimous person in the emperor's eyes. He vaguely remembered that Du Ji seemed to be a little self-reliant on his talent when he first became the governor of Hedong.
Not going to Wang Yi?
"Are there any perfect people in the world? They just use their strengths." Jia Xu smiled disapprovingly and replied softly, without going out of his way to explain the previous discord between Wang Yi and Du Ji.
Hedong is the first county where the New Deal was implemented. In the future, as the New Deal is gradually promoted, there will be many people like Wang Yi and Liu Wan who are familiar with the New Deal's operational procedures and policy concepts and will come out of Hedong County to serve as local governors, county magistrates and even
Governor, Jiuqing.
As the first governor of Hedong, Wang Yi's political potential will be almost unlimited in the future. Compared with those who often recommend this virtuous person or that reclusive person, Jia Xu only needs to recommend one person.