The Rise of the Song People of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 1011 Political Monster
Cai Jing, with a long character, was the head of the six thieves in the late Northern Song Dynasty, and the only one under Song Huizong's court who could do things.

To say that Cai Jing is so bad that smoke is coming from the soles of his feet, black heart and black lungs, in fact, he is really wronged.

If this person had died a few years earlier in the Northern Song Dynasty, he would not have been named the Six Thieves if he had not been so greedy for power.

In this time and space, Cai Jing does not have the prestige of "the head of the six thieves". On the contrary, he has made outstanding achievements in Jingnan, is loved by the people, and has the name of Cai Qingtian.

If Lu Heng didn't know Cai Jing's deeds in the Northern Song Dynasty, he would think that he summoned a fake Cai Jing.

But the reality is that under the Ming Lord, people like Cai Jing will change themselves to cater to the emperor, and they will find it very useful as a king.

Zhuge Liang, Fei Yi, Dong Yun, Jiang Wan and other first batch of ministers who governed the Western Regions made great contributions, and they were also pioneers who made the Western Regions an inseparable part of China from the perspective of thought!

'Three years of recovery, six years of development, and nine years of economic completion in the Western Regions, the desertification control of the Western Regions will last forever. '

This was the political program proposed by Lu Heng back then. After a few years, the Silk Road in the Western Regions and the Maritime Silk Road became important export economic lines of the Song Dynasty.

While countless businessmen shuttled back and forth on this business road, it also brought countless economic stimuli to the local area.

You must know that although the safety factors of these two roads are constantly improving, they are still life-threatening, and businessmen are still in an endless stream.

Commerce and trade have become the necessary lifeblood for the development of the Western Regions. Local species such as raisins, cantaloupe, cotton and Tianyu are very popular in the Song Dynasty.

In addition to local production in the Western Regions, other specialties such as Persia, Shendu, Rome, and Shuanggui also entered the Song Dynasty.

Zhuge Liang laid the foundation for six years in the Western Regions, which restored peace in the Western Regions. The early desert bandits, the remnants of the nobles of the Western Regions, and the defeated chaos of the Liao Kingdom were all wiped out.

In the first six years of the Western Regions under Zhuge Liang's governance, they kept their doors open at night, and it was on this basis that Cai Jing took over as the second Prime Minister of the Western Regions.

Cai Jing, a political monster, was also a speculator. It was only a few years after Lu Heng regained the Western Regions. At that time, many people thought that the Western Regions were a desert and they didn't want to go there to be an official.

But Cai Jing took the initiative to ask for orders to go to the Western Regions as an official!

Because this person is keenly aware that the Western Regions are a shortcut to climb up!
However, Lu Heng did not agree to Cai Jing at that time, but sent him to Koryo, which is now Hanzhou, for the purpose of assessing this person.

Regardless of his character, there is no doubt about Cai Jing's ability. Although he has some ambitions to be a powerful minister, his loyalty is not a problem.

Not to mention that this guy has never left Song Huizong in history!

Therefore, Lu Heng asked Cai Jing to test the border of Goryeo for six years. Zhuge Liang resigned as prime minister of the Western Regions before letting Cai Jing take over for the second time.

Lu Heng is really not afraid of Cai Jing's monopoly, without him, Da Song's current talent is really at its peak!There can be substitutes for anything!
Cai Jing and his two deputies arrived in the Western Regions, saying that the next two deputies are Li Gang and Han Qi, and they will vigorously develop commerce and sand control on the basis of Zhuge Liang.

That’s right, it’s sand control!
Cai Jing discovered that Lu Heng was very concerned about the desertification of Northwest China and Bingzhou. In the 12th year of Kaiyuan, the Ministry of Natural Environment was established and Zhuge Xuan was appointed as the director to specialize in observing natural disasters across the country.

Among them, desertification control in the Western Regions has become a key project. Cai Jing is not incompetent. This person has specially set up farming areas and grazing areas in the Western Regions to resolutely deal with excessive grazing and cultivated land.

Even because of desertification control, farmland was once converted into forests, and a large amount of land was given up for grass planting.

Cai Jing's actions made Li Gang the first to read a book, and Chen Dong in the capital followed immediately.

However, Lu Heng still supported Cai Jing in this matter, which made many ministers very confused. Most people in this era still don't have a long-term vision.

Many people see immediate vested interests, just like Yang Guang's opposition to digging the Grand Canal for various reasons.

For this reason, Lu Heng seldom resisted all opinions, preferring to transfer the Western Region commercial tax to make up for the losses of the Western Region farmers, and insisted on supporting Cai Jing.

At the same time, Cai Jing was ordered to do a good job in the reemployment of the people who returned the farmland to forests, and vigorously developed a series of measures to develop the Western Regions, such as reducing commercial taxes and business taxes.

In the end, it was Lu Heng who personally popularized the science of desertification at the Royal Academy, and what kind of harm it would bring to future generations, and then used the public opinion of the Ministry of Rites to reverse the direction of the wind.

In short, Cai Jing made a big gamble this time, but he succeeded. This person clearly saw that Lu Heng attached great importance to desertification control.

In addition to sand control, Cai Jing made another gamble!
This person borrowed an army from Lu Heng, the Xiling Army from the Jinyi Guards.

This army is not so much an army as it is a grave robber.

It is said that Cao Cao is the patriarch of tomb robbers, and established Mojin Xiaowei and Faqiu Zhonglang, but in this era, there are two other people who are not inferior to Cao Cao in this line of work.

One of them was Lu Heng's old father-in-law, the late parachutist Lu Bu, who was not much weaker than Cao Cao in tomb robbery.

Moreover, there are so many rules and regulations compared with those Mojin Xiaowei and General Faqiu. Lu Bu's army exists like the autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves.

Maoling was dug up by Lu Bu's troops. As for why the reputation of Lu Bu's army is so much weaker than Cao Cao's?
Because most of the hatred was blamed on Dong Zhuo, except professionals rarely knew about the good deeds Lv Bu did.

Under this circumstance, in addition to Lu Bu, Sun Quan was also a rampant tomb robber.

In this time and space, Lu Bu was defeated, and Lu Heng took Lu Lingji and took over most of Lu Bu's inheritance. This army also became Lu Heng's command.

However, Lu Heng didn't use tomb robbers as military resources, but used tomb robbers to restrain tomb robbers with poison, and to rescue cultural relics.

Some people say this is too whimsical!
In fact, it is not the case. Don’t forget that the era that Lu Heng lives in is 2000 years ago. set.

Some burial crafts are current crafts, and they can be reproduced as long as those cultural relics are taken out for special storage.

However, some ancient tombs are thousands of years away from this era. Opening them with today's crude archaeological technology will also damage the cultural relics, and only tomb robbers will be prevented.

The black area of ​​tomb robbery cannot be blocked by the law alone. It is necessary to deliberately leave holes and traces of tomb robbery by means of heresy to let other tomb robbers know that someone has already visited here, so that no one will have the heart to dig.

And it takes a notorious existence in the world of tomb robbers to deter future generations, so the Xiling lineage was born in this way.

Cai Jing wants to second Xiling because of Loulan and Jingjue. Now Shanshan and Jingjue have become two counties in the Western Regions, and the civilization is still continuing. With the governance of desertification, it is likely that these two civilizations will not disappear.

But already in this era in the Western Regions, it was rumored that Jingjue and Loulan had great treasures, and Lu Heng's first order made Cai Jing think that this was another opportunity to cater to the Holy Majesty.

(End of this chapter)