In the mid-Tang Dynasty, this place was Anyi County under Chuzhou. Suzong was in great power, and before and after Emperor Daizong ascended the throne, local people presented nine out of ten national treasures and jade to the court. Because Emperor Daizong was once the king of Chu, this was considered by the court.
In order to be auspicious, the new emperor ascended the throne and the name was changed to "Baoying". Anyi County was also renamed Baoying County.
After the founding of the Song Dynasty, the capital was Kaifeng, and it relied on grain from the south. The amount of grain transferred to Kaifeng every year was as much as six million shi. The Bian Canal, Huai River, and the cities along the canal became rich because of this. Unfortunately, the Song Dynasty later lost the Central Plains.
, this grain-carrying route was abandoned, and the Yellow River frequently broke its banks, causing the river water to flow into the Huaihe River Basin, and floods continued in the Huaihe River Basin. The people of Baoying County could only continue to raise the dikes and compete with the water for land. Even so, near the county seat
Nowadays, it is also surrounded by lakes and continuous water.
Baoying County has become a city surrounded by water, which in turn highlights its position in controlling the Huaidong Military Corridor between the Song and Jin Dynasties. As a result, its vitality has gradually recovered over the years, and even many officials who were supposed to take up posts in Chuzhou have also
I often hang out here.
On this day, Jia She, the father-in-law of Baoying County, returned from official duties somewhere and walked across South Street in a blur, entered the famous garden in the south of the city, and headed towards the Babao Pavilion.
The magistrate of Jiazhi County is in charge of the civil affairs of a county and is considered a prominent figure in the local area. However, he likes to interact with ordinary people and has no airs. Therefore, when people see him, they are willing to say hello.
Not today.
It was all because Jia Zhixian had a gloomy look on his face, and there were large black bruises on his left and right eye sockets, as if he had been punched twice in the face.
So no one dared to encourage his misfortune until he turned to the waterside pavilion behind the Babao Pavilion and sat down. After a while, a merchant in a light coat slowly came in. When he saw Jia She, he suddenly laughed: "County Lord,
What's wrong with you? Could it be that the grape trellis at home fell down?"
Jia She slapped the table: "Zhou Keshan! You can laugh! This is the trouble you Ding Haijun caused for me!"
"Ding Haijun? Isn't that Dajin's Jiezhen in Shandong? I am a good citizen of the Song Dynasty. I just make some hard money at sea. How can I have anything to do with them!"
Jia She sneered, facing Zhou Keshan with two dark circles under his eyes.
Zhou Keshan looked at each other without giving in and said: "These two meals are not light! County Lord, I have heard of a folk remedy. Use cooked chickens to peel off the shells and put them on the eye sockets and press them. Maybe...
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"Shut up!" Jia She became angry and slapped the table and shouted: "How long are you going to lie to me? Didn't Xuesh Ding and his party board your ship? As a result, they boarded the ship and went north to recruit civilian husbands, and all the people who came were yours.
People from the navy! Did you know that these people came to Beijing under the guise of envoys from the Song Dynasty and captured the emperor of the Jin Dynasty!"
"So what? The man who was sailing on the sea happened to be hit by the Ding Navy. It was definitely not me..."
"If you were not the one who ordered the navy, how could you have calculated the return journey of the envoy so accurately? You deceived the people who set up envoys in Huaidong and along the coast as fools, so that's it. Do you think I, Jia Shechuan, don't know how to do it?
Yes!"
"County Lord, don't believe me when I tell you. Isn't this a coincidence..."
Jia She pointed at his house and shouted: "Scholar Ding was scared to death by what you did in Zhongdu. He kept talking about me, Jia She, for harming him all the way back. When we met, he punched me twice! That's right! Two punches!"
Zhou, if you look at me and say something with black eyes, how dare you try to say something perfunctory again!"
"Cough cough, cough cough..."
Zhou Keshan said seriously: "Your Majesty, I am really a good citizen of the Song Dynasty. If you really don't believe me, there is nothing I can do."
"This is an admission!" Jia She pointed at Zhou Keshan,
"My lord, you are making false accusations based on groundless accusations!"
The two sides quarreled for a while, glaring at each other like fighting cocks. After glaring for a while, Jia She suddenly smiled bitterly and pointed to the seat: "Hey, please sit down."
"Your Majesty, you called me urgently. There must be something important, so you might as well tell me directly."
"Five days ago, people from Sizhou, Shouzhou, Yingzhou and other places in Dajin, as well as the Tang and Deng areas, sent word. What they said was that your Marshal Guo was ruthless and overbearing. He had seized the power of Dajin and gathered a crowd.
Hundreds of thousands, eyeing the Central Plains."
"What about Marshal Guo? What does it have to do with us?"
"You don't understand. Since Jiading, the Song Dynasty has only sought stability from the Jin Kingdom and nothing else. As long as there are no major changes in the two countries, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty can roam freely. But your Marshal Guo broke this stability and
So many generals in the Great Jin Kingdom have pushed them to such a nervous state."
"I still don't understand, what does the people of the Jin Kingdom have to do with the Song Dynasty if they fight life and death?"
The reason is actually very simple. The military force of the Song Dynasty is probably not as good as that of the Jin Dynasty, so what the Jin Dynasty is afraid of, the Song Dynasty is only more afraid of. If a suddenly rising power minister can force the Jin Dynasty to stay in Nanjing to be so nervous, this person
For the Song Dynasty, it was ten times more terrifying.
The Jurchens' force was already a nightmare for the Song Dynasty, but after decades of getting along with each other and enduring it, they gradually got used to it. But the Song Dynasty never wanted to see someone more powerful than the Jin Dynasty appear next to them.
Fierce neighbors.
Jia She could hardly help himself and wanted to come up with his theory that the vicious neighbors had been replaced by evil tigers. This theory would immediately make many people feel sad when it was put into practice, but now that it was spoken out
, but it was too embarrassing. So he thought for a moment and changed his angle.
"Last time you fought in Shandong, the remnants of the Red Coat Army who fled to the Song Dynasty took their families and their families, no less than tens of thousands of them! How much food did the court spend to resettle them! Now, in order to protect the power, your marshal must fight with the generals
Generals from all over the Jin Kingdom are fighting each other, and countless refugees will be running around. How can I, the Song Dynasty, endure this?"
Zhou Keshan asked back: "So, how will the Song Dynasty respond? Since the county magistrate is looking for me, he must have some advice."
"The Song Dynasty can't do anything, but your grain smuggling business on the sea will be greatly reduced. On the other side, although there has always been nothing you can do to deal with the maritime merchants, but the country has been turned upside down to this extent, the Song Dynasty
Something has to be done.”
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Zhou Keshan pondered for a long time.
He did not doubt Jia She's judgment at all. After he opened up maritime trade on behalf of Ding Haijun, he successively had many interactions with border officials of the Song Dynasty, and Jia She was the best among them. Although this gentleman had his faults, but
He is extremely smart and has a very accurate vision. Although he is just a small person in the local area, he can judge the thoughts of many high-ranking and wealthy people in the direction he is going, as if he were looking at the patterns on the palm of his hand.
Since Jia She talked about grain trade, it means that there will definitely be problems in grain trade.
And how important the grain trade is to the navy? Who doesn’t know who is specifically responsible for government affairs?
If the Song Dynasty did this, it would definitely cause great trouble to the Dingjun regime. Not to mention other things, the reorganization of the northern surrender troops, the recovery of the Beijing Road and Liaohai Corridor, the reconstruction of the defense line in the Yanshan area and even the continued wooing of the foreign warlords in the Northeast
, which one does not require food support?
Without food, the Marshal's Mansion can't do anything!
Not to mention, Hebei and Zhongdu were battlefields where the Mongols swept back and forth for two years. Tens of millions of acres of fertile farmland and countless water canals and irrigation systems were destroyed. To restore farming in these places, it takes more than just one or two.
If we cannot continue to import a large amount of food from the outside world as a supplement, millions of mouths in these two places will have nothing to eat, and these people will not be able to survive this year's drought!
Zhou Keshan's forehead was slightly sweaty.
Now there's trouble.
It is necessary to report to the Marshal's Mansion immediately to see what Marshal Guo has to do.
In addition, I don’t know to what extent the influence of the Song Dynasty court on maritime merchants can be overcome. If the grain trade is reduced by 12% and the marshal’s government tightens its belt, it can be overcome. If it is reduced by 34%, the account books will be reduced.
A big hole appears. If it is reduced by 50%...
Zhou Keshan wanted to jump into a rage, but he was unwilling to lose his composure in front of Jia She.
If this person can warn you in advance, he is already a good friend.
Zhou Keshan wanted to explain that Marshal Guo was not hostile to the Song Dynasty, and the Ding Haijun regime was also sincere in doing business with the Song Dynasty. As Ding Haijun's power expanded, business could be bigger, and everyone would make money. But
What does it mean to say this to a magistrate now?
The two were silent for a while, and Jia She approached cautiously.
"I have nothing to do about things at sea. However, there are still several companies transporting grain along the canal. They can scrape together more than 20,000 stones of grain in bits and pieces. I can find a way to clear the channel and let them move as soon as possible.
Cross the Huaihe River before the imperial court’s intention becomes clear..."
Zhou Keshan's eyes lit up: "Okay!"
Jia She was a little embarrassed: "However, this kind of thing must be taken care of along the way, and money cannot be lost..."
"Three thousand strings!" Zhou Keshan immediately reported a number.
"I want copper coins! I don't want treasure money, and I don't want to be a professional!"
Seeing that at the market price, one stone of rice only cost one hundred and sixty cents for two huizi. This guy opened his mouth to pay one-fifth of the price of rice. It can be said that the lion opened his mouth! After Zhou Keshan thought about it, he knew that he was paying according to the price of rice.
Naturally, I couldn't help but complain about the standard tax collection in the market.
But he had a huge smile on his face: "The treasure money is of course just waste paper, and I have never used Huizi to deal with the county magistrate! Of course it is copper coins! Delivered tonight!"
The two immediately clapped their hands and made an appointment. Zhou Keshan said nothing more and left.
Thinking about the changes in the grain trade, he had to inquire from various channels, not just Jia She.
Jia She himself did not leave, but continued to drink tea slowly in the waterside pavilion.
Half an hour later, several more merchants came in. These people were the ones Jia She mentioned earlier who transported grain along the canal. Each of them had a backer, and in the past, they didn’t think much of Jia She.
The magistrate of sesame and mung beans takes it seriously.
But for some reason today, there are rumors in the city that something earth-shaking has happened in the Jin Kingdom, and the imperial court will respond immediately, or at least tighten the smuggling trade between the Song and Jin countries. There is also a nose that has an eye.
It doesn't look fake.
Whatever the court does, the impact may not be very great. In the past many years, every time the court tried to put efforts into trade, it always ended up being nothing. It was just that the people in charge collected a little money, and then the subordinate staff took the bulk, and the government took the majority.
Xiaotou, I've got my point, that's all. But in a short period of time, the fleet of these grain merchants is still slowly heading north on the canal. If you don't want to make this trip in vain, you have to trouble the Lord Jia County in front of you to come forward and get through it.
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Several merchants were polite and flattering, and chatted with each other for a long time.
Until the sun was about to set in the west, one person finally couldn't hold back his temper and stretched out his finger to signal: "Three thousand guan! Mr. Jia County, we will send out 3,000 guan and we need the grain boat to cross the Huaihe River within ten days!"
Jia She slapped the table: "You guys are really happy! However, I want copper coins! I don't want precious coins, and I don't want to be a professional!"
