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    Song Jiu was happy.  So I went back 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 is to continue to regulate the river.  The minister in charge of river management this time was Xie Dequan, a former minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, who was very proficient in civil engineering and water conservancy. Due to the increase in population and the construction of houses in the capital, the streets were crowded, and it was this person who reorganized the planning.  He came to the Yellow River and Bianhe River and did two things. The first was to remove the silt from the river bed. However, Song Jiu did not agree very much. There were no excavators, let alone advanced spirit levels. In this era, it was simply impossible to remove sand from the deep river.  Can't do it.  The second thing is to plant trees and plant millions of willow trees on the embankments of the Yellow River and Bianhe River to strengthen the embankments.  Song Jiu agreed very much with this matter.  What made Song Jiu recognize him even more was his proposal to reopen the Sanbai Canal in Guanzhong. But not only did he reopen the Sanbai Canal, he also put forward an idea to choose a valley along the Weishui River to build a  A steep gate is built on the embankment, and then the Wei River is diverted into this large weir.  Just like Dujiangyan, but more complicated than the Dujiangyan project.  Then build a sand storage tank, first sediment the Wei water, enter the big weir, and inject it into the downstream area. If the Wei water is clear, half of the Yellow River will be clear.  And the same can be done for the turbid Beiluo water. The sediment in the Yellow River will be reduced, and the harm of the river water will naturally decrease.  It¡¯s not as exaggerated as he thought, but it will have some effect.  And there is a basis for doing so. Under Song Jiu's suggestion, this was done at the entrance of Bianhuang, which also facilitates irrigation.  This is an idea.  If you want to start construction, you must send someone to carefully inspect the design.  Besides, the imperial court does not have the financial support now.  Secondly, a supernova exploded this year, shaped like a half moon.  It has horns, which can be used to detect objects, and it is as bright as the moon. Everyone thinks it is a lucky star, so Zhao Heng issued an edict to allocate some money and silk to build a Zishan Hall to support the orphans and elderly people.  ¡°In fact, before this, the court also took many charitable measures, including comforting the victims.  Relief, edicts to reward some charitable households, and Song Jiu developed charity to its peak in Suzhou.  ¡°But when Song Jiu was Prime Minister, a major case broke out, that is, the Duan Inkstone Case.  The four famous inkstones in the early Song Dynasty were not Duan inkstone, She inkstone, Tao inkstone and Chengni inkstone, but Duan inkstone, She inkstone, Taohe inkstone and Hongsi inkstone. In fact, Taohe inkstone was Tao inkstone. In Taozhou, later Chengni inkstone  The inkstone replaced Shandong's red silk inkstone.  Duan inkstone is the first of the four famous inkstones in the Song Dynasty.  But there are many materials for inkstone.  There are rocks, sand, mud, and bricks.  There are tiles, and stone inkstones are also distinguished from high to low. Ordinary stone inkstones are worthless.  However, the best Duan Inkstone is worth thousands of gold.  During the Southern Han Dynasty, the government was in charge of the mining of Duan inkstones, and Song Jiu arrived in Guangnan.  Without waiting for Bao Zheng, he talked about the difficulties and dangers of mining Duan inkstone.  Let the court cancel the people's donations or buy Duan Inkstone.  If you want to purchase, you can buy it in the Beijing market instead of going to Duanzhou to buy it directly to avoid all kinds of disadvantages.  Zhao Kuangyin agreed, and Duan Inkstone was officially commercialized.  This has become Duanzhou¡¯s pillar industry.  However, with the development of business, many powerful scholar-bureaucrats are also doing business. Who dare to collect business taxes from these people?  Not only Duan Inkstone, but also other products.  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 for commodity traders was further reduced.  The commercial tax rate after the new commercial tax law is really very low.  However, there are still many powerful people who are unwilling to pay this tax.  Including two powerful businessmen who operate Duan inkstones, they also pay taxes. They treat Duan inkstones as ordinary stone inkstones and I also pay taxes But they did not expect that Song Jiu reformed commercial taxes and reduced the proportion of commercial taxes. That was to comprehensively  In the implementation of tax payment, he was kind to the front and used power to the back. He was constantly cruel and punished a group of powerful people. Some officials were even implicated and dismissed or demoted.  Someone was at odds with these two powerful families, so he took the initiative to collect some evidence for the government and reported it.  After Song Jiu heard about it, he sent someone to investigate directly.  The quantity is not large, but even if there are only tens of thousands of Duan Inkstones a year, it can be loaded on a small boat, but it is worth a lot of money. If it is like this for one year, how much tax has been evaded in ten years.  And how many places does it pass from Guangnan to Beijing?  This investigation implicated many officials, including the Du family of Zhao Kuangyin¡¯s brother and his mother.  In order to shock, Song Jiu deliberately used this case as an example and severely punished a group of officials.  This is a major case involving Song Jiu as prime minister, also known as the Duanyan case. It may go down in history. It means the further implementation of the Song Dynasty's policy of equalizing the people, that is, "equalizing taxes."  Zhao Heng cannot be regarded as a history bookThe fool in the record is actually a very smart person.  Without the humiliation of the Chanyuan Alliance, the country has further prospered. Today, Zhao Heng is still handling national government affairs conscientiously, and the Song Dynasty continues to rise.  Song Jiu only asked one more question.  His meaning is simpler, that is, greed is not enough, and the rich will get richer.  In fact, some tycoons in the Song Dynasty became really rich. Nowadays, everyone in the capital has a fortune of 100,000 guan, and many even have a fortune of 1 million guan.  The tax rate for bulk trade is so low, why do we still need to evade tax?  "Don't think that if the Japanese become rich, they will not harm the Central Plains. They will still harm the Central Plains.  Zhao Heng then sent another envoy to ask, what do you think?  Song Jiu then got to the point, Confucianism governs the country, Wuge studies strengthened the country and enriched the people, and religion transformed the people.  "You can let Japanese students study Confucianism and Buddhism to make their country peaceful and learn the gentle and good way of Confucianism and Buddhism, so that they will not invade our country.  But physical science cannot let them learn.  And what is the country's deficiency and abroad, what is the virtuality?  Not only must we remain rational about the expansion of territory, but we must also make foreign barbarians "weak". When foreign barbarians are weak, they will not cause harm, including the current division of tribes, and not allowing one tribe to dominate.  This is empty.  Zhao Heng finally agreed.  In fact, Song Jiu carried the hatred from his previous life.  "Compared with the shamelessness of the Korean people, the Japanese people are united, modest in learning and progressing in civilization, perseverance, martial arts, and not afraid of death.  To make people more respectful, but this race is so cruel.  Although Song Jiu is now in a high position, he must put aside some unnecessary discrimination.  What's more, it was the grudges from the previous life. However, thinking of the Japanese people's harm to China, he still did not let go of this hatred.  ¡°I won¡¯t retaliate, but I must remind everyone, and I will not take the initiative to help them become stronger¡± In short, there are all good neighbors around China.  There was still fighting on Youzhou Road in the third year of Jingde. Some people rebelled, especially the Xi people in Zhongjing and the Khitan people in Shangjing. They no longer had the superior status they had before.  Many rights were deprived one after another, and some powerful people were unhappy, which led to rebellions one after another. There were also some tribes in the desert who did not know the heights of the world to harass them. However, the Song Dynasty stationed the largest number of troops on Youzhou Road, and more than 60% of them were cavalry.  , suppress it in time.  "Government means serious governance, but suppression also means serious suppression, like a thunderbolt."  They were suppressed very decisively and executed by beheading.  But in general, Youzhou gradually turned from chaos to rule, especially with Song Jiu running around.  Looking carefully, nearly two thousand officials from various states and counties in the Song Dynasty had to carefully manage the place, and the entire Youzhou Road showed signs of recovery.  Song Jiu did another thing.  Let each state send some literati to collect information.  Compose a topography of Youzhou Road to record the mountains, rivers and rivers in various states and counties.  Products, animal and plant resources, climate, suitable planting and breeding methods, and various other information.  "Once this book is successful, it will help the Northeast further regain its focus, and it will also help state and county officials to easily govern the region, and generals will not use troops blindly."  At this time, Li Jilong died in Yunzhou. His death shocked the government and the public. Zhao Kuangyi left behind two pillars, one was Song Jiu and the other was Li Jilong.  Therefore, Zhao Henglong mourned for three days to express his respect and recognition for Li Jilong.  At the same time, he sent an envoy to convey the message, telling Song Jiu to take care of himself.  In fact, Li Jilong's death also caused Zhao Heng's suspicion to be replaced by worry.  Li Jilong's death worried Pan Lian'er and persuaded Song Jiu to become an official.  For a minister to do this, he is worthy of the country.  After all, it was bitterly cold in the north, and Song Jiu had to suffer a lot from running around to manage Youzhou Road.  But Song Jiu still couldn¡¯t let go.  First, there are still many problems on Youzhou Road that have not been resolved. The officials who came here are all junior officials and they have not grown up.  The second is Goryeo Song Jiu has been silently watching Goryeo's secret expansion.  But after the fall, Zhang Zhibai of Luyang Mansion was regarded as a good man, and he finally couldn't bear it anymore and asked Song Jiu to question him.  For no other reason, from the mouth of the Yalu River to the Binfu in the deep northeast, there are three major tribes, the Yalu River tribe, the Changbaishan tribe, and the Huiqi tribe, as well as several small tribes. However, these three tribes are not a whole and can be divided into  Several tribes.  What divided the Korean people was the filthy part.  However, as the Northeast gradually turned from chaos to rule, not all tribes defected to Goryeo. Some tribes were dissatisfied, and the smarter ones sent people to ask Song Dynasty officials for help.  However, Song Jiu's attitude was ambiguous and he only offered words of comfort but no actual actions. Therefore, under the coercion of Goryeo, most tribes gradually defected to Goryeo in name.  It cannot be said to be governance. With the strength of the Song Dynasty and Goryeo, it was impossible to actually govern the many tribes in the Changbai Mountains at this time. The mountains were too big, the forests were too lush, and the people were too wild and fierce, but Goryeo was alsoOne thing is that the Bohai Kingdom once established Longyuan Prefecture on the Tumen River and used the city of Longyuan Prefecture as Tokyo (near Hunchun).  After the Liao Kingdom destroyed the Bohai Kingdom, this city disappeared.  The Koreans slowly invaded, and after this autumn, they built a small town on the Tumen River. They also moved the small town to the vicinity of Tumen in later generations and named it Tokyo Prefecture again. Then they began to divide the leadership of the former Bohai Kingdom in the north.  All ethnic groups in Binfu.  Zhang Zhibai was also dumbfounded. This is my territory. You are building Tokyo Palace here, only one step away from Luyang Palace. What kind of dignity is that?  If he wants to send troops, he must obtain Song Jiu's consent.  After Song Jiu received his report, he did not comment.  Just when Song Jiu came to Luyang Mansion for inspection, Zhang Zhibai mentioned this matter again. Song Jiu still remained silent. Finally, he became anxious and said, "Let's report this situation to Your Majesty and see how Your Majesty handles it." Zhang Zhibai sighed and asked Your Majesty.  Can it still be handled well?  "Then let them continue to expand, even give up the Bin Mansion, give up Changbai Mountain, and let their officers and soldiers approach Luyang City!" Zhang Zhibai was about to protest, but suddenly he woke up and laughed happily.  The weak part of the Song Dynasty was not the civil administration. There was no Song Jiu in the civil administration. The Song Dynasty almost achieved the ultimate. What was weak was the military.  Therefore, there were only three major things that Song Jiu did in his life. The first was to promote the study of materialism. The second was to further develop the economy. Without money, how to fight wars, especially the recruitment system of the Song Dynasty. The third was to strengthen the military.  In fact, his strength is in internal governance. Although he has made achievements in the military, he is only responsible for reforming some military deficiencies and planning some strategies. Even these strategies are mostly assisted by generals such as Pan Mei, Yang Ye, and Li Jilong. As for the  The details are implemented by these important generals.  But because of the false image, later generations often called Song Jiu a military strategist (To be continued)
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