Song Jiu first asked something: "Qingyi, what's your surname?"

If you can't, just call it Qingyi, that name is too strange.

The boy wiped his tears and replied, "My surname is Lu."

"Lu Qingyi," Song Jiu shook his head. He was a knowledgeable person. He was so elegant when he named a child servant. Let's see what name he chose because he was cheap. Song Jiu, fortunately he ranked the ninth, not the thirteenth, otherwise he would become the thirteenth Song thirteenth Song thirteenth.

"Can you ride a horse?"

"Can you get a little bit."

Song Jiu nodded and asked Han Xizai to entrust him personally. It seemed that his father was Han Xizai's considerate subordinate, otherwise Han Xizai would not have had this much, so he learned to ride a horse. After all, there were even fewer horses in the Southern Tang Dynasty.

"If you can ride a horse, you have to follow me to Jingnan and then go to the capital with me. If you are willing to learn from me, you will live in my house. If you don't want to, I will find a business boat from Beijing to take you to Shouzhou, and then go from Shouzhou to Hezhou to find your mother."

"I am willing to follow Jiulang to go south, but if I can go south and come back, let me go to Hezhou first."

"OK."

Song Jiu did not ask about his mother's situation. The separation lasted for several years. I think there would be something that Qingyi didn't want to mention. But he had to buy a horse, but he couldn't buy a good horse, but he could buy some southern horses that pulled carts and goods.

The officials of the Song Dynasty had relatively good salaries, but the grassroots officials were much worse. For example, the nine-rank county magistrates had less than six coins per month, and their wives and children were not tired of crumbs. How could the child servants avoid hunger and cold? They never stop redeeming the redemption scriptures and redemption, and never dream of eating wine and meat? But it is also wrong. They were comparing with wealthy families with high officials, how could they compare? The salary was only part of their income, which only refers to the monthly salary, as well as spring and winter clothes, winter cotton, monthly salary, grains, food, firewood, charcoal, and field, etc. The monthly salary accounted for only one tenth of them.

It would be strange if you could only have a county magistrate, raise a family member, and raise a child servant, and raise a few prostitutes. If you don’t embezzle and accept bribes, it would be strange if you could live that life.

As well as another type of people who are drunk today, Su Dongpo was placed under the control of Huangzhou, which means he was demoted and his salary was small. At that time, the money was tight. The court used the wine bags to distribute them to officials as a discount. Dasu had to sell paper bags to make a living. Then he left Huangzhou and went to Ruzhou to take office. Due to the long journey and the journey was exhausted, Su Shi's children unfortunately died and the travel expenses were used up. So he wrote a letter to request to stay in Changzhou.

Su Dongpo was purely self-invested. He had been a high-ranking official, had money, and used money randomly. Besides, why didn't Ruzhou go on land? It was so close to it. And that road was very good. He once created a miracle of the Song Dynasty. He used his quick foot to send the news of Nong Zhigao's rebellion from Guangzhou to the capital in five days. One of the roads was from Huangzhou to Ruzhou. Song Jiu also went south from this road. Now the road situation was not as good as the future. Later, when he was promoted, the same trick was repeated, and he used prostitutes to have fun in Hangzhou. He would have a large group of beautiful girls. How could he not spend money? Yin Zhu was the same, and Han Xizai also had this disease. On the contrary, Fan Zhongyan suffered more than Su Dongpo's life, but he had never lacked money. He even helped many friends and scholars, and bought a lot of land for his tribe.

This involves another income of officials, public use, that is, business trip fees. According to the official rank, Su Dongpo had not yet gotten up and had no spare money in his hand. He also took a family and walked in a circle several times larger in comfort, so he called out on the road that he had no money. Song Jiu also had ministerial money this time, but it was very little, which was definitely not as much as Su Dongpo's money from Ruzhou. However, Song Jiu realized that he took the initiative to bring some money when he went out. In order to be light and not afraid of losing money, he brought some money and exchanged it for money on the road. He did not even embezzle the ministerial money from various prefectures and counties along the way, and would rather pay it out of his own pocket.

These situations also reported to Zhao Kuangyin.

With this move alone, Zhao Kuangyin reversed some of his views on Song Jiu. Although he was greedy, he was greedy and at least he could master everything he should not get.

I paid more than a dozen taels of silver to buy a thin southern horse. It was not very good, but it would be much faster than walking. It was dark and I couldn't cross the river. I found an inn to stay in.

Song Jiu wrote a letter saying that if the common people don’t care, Han Xizai is a big shot, a famous talent, and even in the capital. So he reported today’s incident to Zhao Kuangyin. Will it be the same thing, but what he said is another thing.

The next day, we went south to cross the river.

Once you cross the Yangtze River, it was basically the scope of Song Jiu's inspection, but Song Jiu did not stop. The area along the river was fine. Although he was in the name of an inspector, his main task was to look at the situation of the barbarians.

Continue to go south, detour from Yuezhou to Langzhou, and then to Tanzhou. However, Song Jiu finally saw many problems.

The country is like the family, and it was impossible for the Song Dynasty to achieve monogamy, especially now, there are more men and women. Should those women be allowed to play bachelor together? But one day, if there are more men and fewer women, and reach a certain proportion, maybe the country will achieve polygamy for harmony.

Polygamy will lead to a direct family and a concubine. Although the conflict arising from partial division of property is resolved, this family cannot be united, and the disciples of a concubine cannot be loyal to this family. The same is true for the country. To solve the national problem, all ethnic groups must be equal and integrated, rather than forcibly separate them.

But the most important prerequisite for fusion is people.

No need to do it. Even in the era of Renzong, there were nearly 100 million people. If a smart time traveler came, he would bring all kinds of advanced farming and reclamation techniques, and use some clever means to encourage the people to move and reduce the contradictions arising from migration and resettlement. Not to mention Hunan, Lingnan could also be developed in large quantities. A large number of Han people came, bringing advanced production methods, changing the language and living habits of barbarians, and then carefully governing for a few years, he would be able to fully realize ethnic integration and Chineseization in most areas.

But what Song Jiu saw was even worse than what he saw in Hebei. Li Chuyun pacified the 14 prefectures and 66 counties in Hunan, which was equivalent to three-quarters of Hunan's area later, but the total population was only 90,000 households. Later, Wang Duan rebelled and Liu Yu invaded many times. The barbarians of Xidong, Xiangxi rebelled and harassed each other again, and the war continued, and this pitiful population was still decreasing.

Don’t think about moving people. Not only in Hunan, but also in the Song Dynasty, people were missing everywhere from Lianghuai to Liangjing Hebei. Where can I move?

This pitiful population may not be as large as half of the population in the capital, and there are many refugees, among which only half of the real Han households. It is not that there are few Han households, but that some powerful leaders in remote areas take advantage of the war. Even if the Song Dynasty ruled them now, they do not care about them. They regard the hard work of the Han households and threaten them to become serfs who accept them. Those who do not follow them will slaughter them and are in the fields. After becoming serfs, the serfs must first give their serfs to their masters, and women must also work. They have no right to marry by themselves, and they can live and kill at will, or cut open the pregnant woman's belly, or dig the serfs' hearts and food.

Langzhou City is only more than a hundred miles west, which is Wulingyuan. After hearing this news, there were also barbarians living there. Song Jiu was so scared that he didn't dare to go. Then he was confused. Did he come to the slave society?

The plains were open to the Han people and the war continued to continue. What should the Han people do? So they transformed into barbarians and fled to the mountains, transformed themselves into barbarians. They said the same words and the same living habits as them, and they would be invaded by those powerful people, but they were better than the Han people.

Therefore, many regions have the name of Maiyi, but half of them are likely to be Han people or descendants of Han households. This does not need to be entangled. The so-called Han households, how many people in the north can guarantee that they are truly Han people?

This person became the number one problem.

No one can create wealth, and in order to restore Hunan as soon as possible, the court repeatedly exempted taxes, so there would be no amount of fiscal revenue in the local area. So another problem arises, no money.

But it is not enough to leave money. It costs money to build water conservancy, roads, and schools. Even if the people build a straw shed, they have to buy some wood nails.

Then there is labor. Song Jiu's vocation is still very serious. He is so scared that he dare not go to remote areas. However, passing by a sparse village will be in various names, such as asking for a sip of water and going in to take a look. He was shocked when he saw it. Many villages are widowed villages and daughter villages. Often there are nearly 100 women in one village, but there are only a dozen adult men and a few. No wonder Zhao Kuangyi said the river was miserable, so you can go to the south to take a look.

Seeing these scenes, whether Zhao Kuangyin issued an edict intentionally or someone else misled Zhao Kuangyin to issue an edict, which caused Li Chuyun to misunderstand, Li Chuyun was indeed responsible.

It's really miserable.

Song Jiu is not a bad person, but he is not a saint. He just saw all kinds of situations, and it seems that he was only after he did a good job this year, but he couldn't stand it.

Then there is the terrain. This area is not really the south. There are countless poisonous insects and miasma. However, because of the sparse population, many mountains and forests are densely populated, bushes and thorns are covered with thorns. It is estimated that even when you arrive in Wulingyuan, you will not be able to see the beautiful scenery of Zhangjiajie in later generations.

With such a terrain, how can we dig a passageway?

Finally, he was my pitiful identity. When he came here, he had to understand it. So he met with the officials of various counties in the local county. It is said that he was inspecting the emperor and the real imperial envoy posted in the TV series. However, because he was young, he was as good as his eighth-rank official title, no official took him seriously. When he came, he drank and ate meat. This was the entertainment of the minister Qianfen, but when he asked about the serious matters, he could not hear them at all. He almost wanted to say, "You should go home and have a breastfeed."

It is not possible to rely on one's own questions, and the words are slightly incomprehensible, and it is very difficult to talk. These officials must tell them in order to know more truth.

These are just low-level officials, what if they were Pan Mei and the others?
Chapter completed!