In the Xiongzhou Official Office, Zhang Ku and Ma Huaide looked at Ding Lingde and were unsure of their minds. Liu Ji's official document said that this was a person sent by the Privy Council and that Xiongzhou and Zhang Ku would cooperate with him in his work. However, he did not mention what he wanted to do and how he did it.

Ma Huaide said: "The general came to Xiongzhou, and I don't know what to do? How do we help?"

Ding Lingde bowed: "The Taiwei sent a subordinate to do only one thing. It is to make the Khitans hate the people who fled south. If there are soldiers and horses coming in winter, they will definitely go to their place. This matter is difficult, simple and simple, but it only takes effort."

After hearing this, Zhang Ji looked at Ding Lingde and said, "If we can do this, no matter how many people come to the Khitan, they will never return! I wonder what means the general should use? How many times should we send to accompany us to do things?"

Ding Lingde said: "I first came here, how could I know? I also asked the yamen to send a few smart and smart people to follow me. After three or five days, I learned about the things in this area and understood the temperament of the Khitan chief in the north, so that I could do things."

Ma Huaide thought for a while and said, "It is not easy for people in the yamen to find a new face. It is better for Taiwei Zhang to select people from the army. I ordered the yamen to cooperate secretly. If the general has any needs, he can tell me."

Ding Lingde smiled and said embarrassedly: "It costs money to do this kind of thing. Please ask two people to borrow one or two hundred guan to start."

Zhang Ji smiled and said, "This is not difficult. I will allocate 200 trump cards from the army to you, so there is no need to pay the Xiongzhou Yamen. If you can really do this, let the Khitans attack the people in the south and flee the people, I will definitely let them go without a return!"

Ding Lingde hurriedly bowed and thanked him, "Taiwei, this matter is to do our best and leave it to fate."

Zhang Ji nodded and said no more. In Liu Jilai's official documents, the Privy Council had already said that the Privy Council was strictly ordered and that the Khitan army should not be allowed to come and go freely this winter. Zhang Ji, who was stationed in Baozhou and Xiongzhou, was the place where the Khitan was most likely to come, and he cared about this matter very much.

After the railway was built in Baozhou, it did not stop and was built all the way to Xiongzhou. The railway was along the north bank of Nanyishui and all the way to the east. The ferry twenty miles west of Xiongzhou City was selected as a station to the north, which was very lively for a while.

The rivers in this area are crisscrossed with ponds and swamps everywhere. Water is taken away where people cultivated, and reeds are everywhere in the uninhabited place. Between the selected station and the ferry, a large area of ​​reeds are being burned and a road has been built.

Just next to the ferry, a new store suddenly opened in the past two days. In addition to guest rooms for travelers to live in, it also sells wine and vegetables. The wine in this store is never watered and is extremely fierce. The food tastes delicious, and the price is not expensive, and the business is very good.

The person who opened the store was Ding Lingde, who brought a few soldiers assigned by Zhang Ji as servants. In addition, the people from the Xiongzhou government office arranged by Ma Huaide were also under his jurisdiction and built an intelligence network.

On the evening of that day, Meng Xuezhao and Wei Xin arrived outside the store and saw that the ferry was still opposite, he said, "It's still early, so we go into the store to drink two glasses of wine. I heard that the wine in this store is good and the food tastes good. Let's go in and taste it."

After entering the store, I saw that it was still early and there were no customers. A few people found a seat and sat down and called the servant.

Ding Lingde recognized these people, who were the Khitan people who came south a few months ago, so he came up by himself. He came here to open a store to familiarize himself with the local geography and to know the local people, and tried every means to make the Khitans remember these people. More than 300 families fleeing south had all the top figures, but these people didn't know.

Meng Xuejue said: "I heard that the wine in the supervisor's store is good, so I brought a dime. Also, what are your specialties? Don't be expensive!"

Ding Lingde smiled and said, "Okay, okay. The most popular dish for wine is braised tofu, which is made of large pieces of dried tofu, and is braised in a soup pot with braised pork. It is full and tastes meaty. It is excellent to drink wine."

Meng Xuezhao said: "Okay, then let's have a plate of braised tofu and a few pickles, so let's drink."

Ding Lingdedao: "There is a train in Baozhou, and there are fish from Dengzhou sold here. The fish in the sea are not as popular as we usually eat. They are meaty and have few thorns. They are very fried and they are very delicious. Do you want a plate?"

Meng Xuezhao shook his head: "We ordinary people, it's hard to make a penny, but where can we afford to eat? The owner, as long as they are cheap and full, there are some better dishes. We ate wine."

Ding Lingde smiled and ordered the servant to serve the food as instructed.

When the wine and food came up, Meng Xuezhao and everyone drank two glasses. Ding Lingde had nothing to do, so he turned around and stood aside.

Seeing everyone put down their wine glasses, Ding Lingde said, "I don't know where you guys come from? Why do you have to cross the river?"

Meng Xuejue said: "The railway is being built in the north, and we went there to work. We have been away from home for a long time, so we went home together today. It's still early, so we can drink two glasses of wine here to get rid of the cold."

Ding Lingde nodded: "So that's it. Isn't it easy to make money when working in the north?"

Meng Xueshou said: "We, like the middle-aged people, can do heavy work, and have 120 cents a day. In addition, there is also a two meal a day, which is still good. How many cents of money can you get when you make it for dozens of days?"

The land is vast and sparsely populated. When the railway is built here, in addition to the wing army that builds the road, it also has to hire local people to work. Because there are few people, the wages are high. Even in Kaifeng City, odd jobs are only about 100 cents a day, and they don’t care about meals. Meng Xuezhao and these people are paying 120 cents a day and still have two meals in charge, which is already very good.

Since the railway station started construction, almost all young and middle-aged people within dozens of miles have squeezed to work near the station, and Meng Xuezhao and others are no exception. I don’t know how many times have you encountered such easy-to-make money in your life, so how can you miss it?

After saying a few gossips, Ding Lingde said: "Several guest officials, are you the Khitan people from the north who came from the summer?"

Meng Xuezhao was stunned for a moment and asked, "Why did the master say that?"

Ding Lingdedao: "When you listen to your words, some of them are different from those of us Song people. Although their accents are similar, some of the words are different."

Meng Xuezhao nodded: "Yes, we came from the Khitan, but we are all Han people, not Khitan people. My father-in-law, we live in the Song Dynasty, so we will naturally be the people of the Song Dynasty."

Ding Lingde nodded repeatedly: "What you mean is that you are naturally the Song people in the Song Dynasty. During the Song Dynasty, I wonder if you were in the Khitan with you, or not?"

Meng Xueshou said: "We are poor people and have no savings. When we arrived in the Song Dynasty, the yamen borrowed agricultural tools and good varieties. Now it is naturally much better than before. Not to mention anything else, hundreds of families can eat enough, so how dare they think about it before!"

Wei Xin said: "Yes, everyone can eat enough food that comes from the yamen. Moreover, these loans are not as profitable as the loan will be paid for the next year. After another three years of taxes, it is of course much better than before."

Borrowing money is not about interest, which is a very large discount in this era. For the poor, there is no remaining money to lend, and there is no interest, which is equivalent to the person who borrows it. For rich people, lending money is profitable, and borrowing money is risky.

The governments of the Song Dynasty widely lend to the people. However, they generally have special conditions and need to be mortgaged. Qingmiao Loan is special because the mortgage is Qingmiao in the fields, which is relatively risky. Moreover, Qingmiao Loan is also of interest, and it is not low. Xiongzhou does not need interest loans for the people fleeing south, which is a preferential measure.

Several people were chatting and talking about the current situation of the people fleeing south. Ding Lingde heard it one by one and thought in his mind how to integrate this information so that the Khitans would regard them as thorns in their eyes. The purpose of this matter was to let the Khitans attack these people in winter, instead of running to other places. How to make the Khitans hate them? Of course, the more comfortable they live, the more hated the Khitans.
Chapter completed!