Song Beiyun

Song Beiyun spit out all the water that he didn't swallow: "Who said that?"

Ding Xiang lowered his eyelids and looked at Song Beiyun: "I don't know, Song Shaobao is in charge of the world's intelligence, isn't there any news?"

Song Beiyun scratched his head: "I'll go check it out, okay, check it out."

Chapter 678: Sunny September 9, Six Years

A month has passed, and the drama of King Fu's defeating the sky is still the most talked about story among the people. Now there are more versions and richer plots, but no one dares to say anything strange. After all, it is Lord Fu, super. Here comes the virtuous king, whose prestige among the people has reached the point where if one bad word about him is said, manure will be thrown at the door in the middle of the night.

But Lao Ding was different. He was originally a scholar, not as good as Zhao Xiang in terms of reputation, not as good as Yan Shu in terms of stories, and not as good as Bei Yun in terms of cruelty, so the voices of the people began to focus on him, mainly because he planned to help in the year of the catastrophe The policy of giving food to other countries is actually intolerable to the people.

"In the early years, the old man went with Lao Zhao for the first disaster relief. At that time, the flood broke and the Yellow River overflowed. When the old man went there, he saw that the ground was full of hunger, but there was meat cooking in the pot. The old man didn't ask what it was He Rou, dare not dare and can’t bear it. Since then, the old man has a great wish in his heart, thinking that we Song people will never go hungry." Ding Xiang sat in the small courtyard, beside Song Beiyun and Zhao Xiang in a wheelchair.

He drank some wine, said something, and tears welled up in his eyes.

"Father also often said that you are a hero among men, but you are a bit pedantic in your work." Zhao Xiang sighed and said, "Don't take it to your heart about the current matter, it's just some idiot's words. .”

"Oh..." Ding Xiangyang sighed, but he felt unwilling: "The whole world is slandering me now, but I don't care. It's just that the same is true for a few old friends. It's inevitable that I feel a little depressed."

Zhao Xiang was comforting Ding Xiang who was drinking a little too much, while Song Beiyun was eating like a binge, so he didn't have much empathy.Where is this? He has been scolded and scolded for the past few years. Fortunately, these people don't know where his ancestral grave is buried, otherwise they will definitely dig out the eighteen generations of his ancestors in the wilderness .

I can't bear this grievance. It seems that this seemingly upright law student is also a little princess who lives in a pink cabin and bubbles with love every day.

While they were talking, they suddenly looked at Song Beiyun, and the two prime ministers looked at a Taizi Shaobao who was eating a lot, and their expressions became subtle.

"Why don't you speak?" Zhao Xiang asked curiously.

Song Beiyun raised his head and wiped his mouth: "There is nothing to say about this. Wild beasts always walk alone, while cattle and sheep form a team."

In fact, this is the case. Throughout history, any great philosopher, statesman, writer, or scientist always seems lonely or even out of place, because in their eyes, most people in the world are stupid, Naturally, at their level, they don't want to be with idiots.

Those who study in Qinglongyuan will gradually begin to break away from the limitations of the vision of this era, at least beyond the limitation of the land, and know that the world is not only Song, Jin and Liao, but also farther countries and the vast sea. As long as you know this, The angle of seeing things is naturally different, and as time goes by, I can no longer bear those people whose eyes are only one-third of an acre of land under their feet.

Yan Shu was already crazy, so let's put it aside.Later, Zhao Xing was like this, and Zhao Xiang was also like this, and now Lao Ding has gradually begun to become like this.

This is a trend. In the end, people of the same kind gather together, so his current gap is nothing at all.

Of course, even for Lao Ding, even if it is heartbreaking, the joys and sorrows of human beings are not the same, Song Beiyun can't feel it, he is just greedy and hungry.

"You are reincarnated like a starving ghost."

Lao Ding was very dissatisfied with Song Beiyun's words, and Ding, who showed his arrogant nature after drinking a little wine, yelled at Song Beiyun, "Have you not eaten?"

"I've been at the Tuntian Division for the past few days. I'm so busy that I can't eat or sleep well." Song Beiyun drank a big mouthful of sour plum soup and let out a sigh of relief: "You always think it's good to give out the food, here There are a lot of things to worry about. How to deliver reasonably, how to keep food prices from collapsing, and how to protect retailers, etc., all have to be calculated.”

These old-fashioned tycoons have absolutely no concept of protecting and curbing commerce. The essence of commerce is money, and money is both a hard-working scalper and a tiger that eats people without spitting out bones. The old scalper has fallen, where will the country get the whole money?And this tiger can't be let out to eat people, so the calculation here is very complicated. Song Beiyun is doing these things these days.

Once September is over, the autumn grain will not be harvested due to the drought, and the subsidy will go down. How to make up for this subsidy, and how to coordinate the ratio of loan and compensation are all learned.

The high loan ratio makes farmers unable to pay back, and the high compensation ratio makes businessmen unable to bear it.The size of the country is large and the ability to resist risks is high, but who can bear it when it is shared equally among individuals?So the thing to be calculated before the subsidy goes to the countryside is not 01:30.

"Old Ding." Song Beiyun raised his head and looked at Lao Ding: "Anyway, you don't have anything serious to do these days, so you can go to the countryside in a few days and walk around Anqing Mansion, Huizhou, and Luzhou without too far away. .”

"Why this line."

"Anhui has been a disaster-prone place since ancient times, and it is also the place where refugee riots are most likely to occur, and it is also close to us. Therefore, it is more representative. Let's go around to see the actual situation and conduct a random survey."

"Open or secret?"

"How can this kind of thing be made public, of course it's a secret." Song Beiyun frowned and said, "We can leave next month, because the surplus food of the people's households will be eaten up around this time, and the rest depends on the execution of the region. gone."

Lao Ding nodded slightly, obviously approving of Song Beiyun's thoughts.

After Song Beiyun was full, he stood up and flicked his sleeves: "Then I'll get to work first."

After all, there is no need to panic when there is food. Now that the drought is so serious, the situation is actually very stable. At least life in Jinling City is as usual, but it is not enough to just look at the city. You must go to the fields to see the real situation of the people. Only then can we know the truth.

Corruption is still not dared at this stage, because the investigation is very tight, and actuarial audits at all levels are not vegetarian.Therefore, officials at all levels do not dare to embezzle, but whether they have accepted bribes or not, just pray that they will not let it happen.

After Song Beiyun left, Ding Xiang turned his head slowly, and took another sip from his wine glass: "A few days ago, I chatted with the prince, and said that I was old and useless."

"Yeah, it's useless." Zhao Xiang was also disappointed: "This man, why does he get old in the blink of an eye."

The two people who were originally rivals in the court suddenly laughed in unison. In the laughter, there was an infinite imagination of youth. They wished they could be younger again and compete with these young people again.

"My father once said that it is easy to conquer the country and difficult to stay in the country, but the difficulty lies in the human heart. I never thought that one day I would be so leisurely in a disaster year." Zhao Xiang raised his head and looked at the shadow of the tree above his head: " The young people of Song Dynasty are strong."

"Extremely." Ding Xiang nodded hastily: "I followed this bastard to look around these days. Those young people are really not to be underestimated. passed."

"If I were 30 years younger, I would definitely have to compete and look down on anyone." Zhao Xiang smiled lightly: "The old man was also a well-known talent back then."

Ding Xiang didn't speak, but felt lost.

And the time soon came to August, which was approaching the Mid-Autumn Festival, and the weather gradually became cooler, but the earth was still a piece of scorched earth, and there was no drop of rain, even if there was no artificial rainfall environment.

Reports from all over the country came in one after another. Almost all places are facing the risk of crop failure. All places are in emergency, and official warehouses have officially begun to open warehouses for disaster relief.

At this time, Song Beiyun and Ding Xiang also came to the Luzhou Mansion, and Song Beiyun felt a little strange when he returned to the Luzhou Mansion, but he found that the new city outside had been completely completed, which fully expanded the Luzhou Mansion. It was more than twice as long, and there was a monument outside the new city, which recorded the story of how they were taken care of by Luzhou when they were trapped here.

Among those who called the names, after the King of Fu, the princess and the governor, was Song Beiyun. When Ding Xiang saw this stele, he turned his head and asked Song Beiyun: "Is it you?"

"Ang." Song Beiyun nodded, pursed his lips and said: "These people are really, let them not mention it, why are they still engraved on the stele, really..."

"I think your tail is almost up to the sky." Ding Xiang curled his lips: "The new city looks pretty good, how did you rescue the disaster back then? I remember that the court had no choice but to drive the victims to Luzhou Prefecture will survive on its own.”

"A planned economy." Song Beiyun sighed: "Using limited resources, we squeezed out the food rations of 30 people. From then on, I made up my mind that I would never suffer from food losses again."

Ding Xiang nodded slightly, and at this moment, a fifteen or sixteen-year-old boy wearing a straw hat and holding a book passed by them, and saw these two strange people standing in front of the stele Basking in the sun, he went up to meet him curiously, sized him up and asked, "Are you two foreigners? Are you looking for someone?"

Ding Xiang turned his head and glanced at him, and Song Beiyun responded urgently: "Yes, I found out that the person has already left, so I have to find a place to stay temporarily."

"Then go to the city, you will be eaten by Qiuhu if you are exposed to the sun here." The young man spoke with a bit of humor: "There is an inn in the city, go in and wait."

"There's even an inn." Song Beiyun said with a smile, "I haven't been here for a few years, and the changes are quite big."

The cowherd said proudly: "The new city is better than the old city. It has everything in it. There are inns, bookstores, and schools."

Ding Xiang followed the cowherd boy inside, and asked curiously, "You cowherd boy can also read?"

"This old man looks down on people." The cowherd boy raised the book in his hand: "What is Luzhou? What about literacy? Besides, my book is not the Four Books and Five Classics."

He spread out the book in his hand, and on it was an introduction to arithmetic compiled by the School of Mathematics, and he also took out two books in his cloth pocket, both of which were books on engineering.

"The books in the bookstore are very cheap and can be rented. There is also a gentleman teaching in the bookstore at night, herding cattle during the day, and reading at night without delay. How can you not be able to read?"

Ding Xiang glanced at Song Beiyun, and Song Beiyun spread his hands to express that he didn't know anything.

After the two were brought to the inn, Ding Xiang also found that Luzhou Xincheng was a bit strange, that is, there were so many scholars, they got together in twos and threes, those who had money sat in the shop and ate some sour plum soup, and those who had no money sat on the tree outside the house. Under the shade, there are some beverages such as mung bean soup at hand, and it is very interesting to argue about some issues from time to time.

"Shopkeeper, why are there so many scholars here?"

"I don't know, old man?" The shopkeeper said with a smile: "Isn't it about to fall? Scholars from all over the country have come to Luzhou. This year, Luzhou is the same as Chang'an. Three exams are held. Ming Jing, Jinshi and science and engineering , In previous years, Jinshi and Mingjing were [-] points, but this year it is said that starting from Luzhou, the three subjects are the same, it seems that there are more people in science and engineering, and one family can account for [-]%."

"Oh?" Ding Xiang asked curiously, "Why are there so many people in science and engineering?"

"My father saw that he was a businessman. It's human nature not to know. The Mingjing subject was hired by the wealthy family, and the Jinshi course was only for those from a wealthy family to go to high school. Only this science and engineering course can be taken by anyone. You don’t need famous posts or teaching posts. Although it is difficult, you will not be bullied. In the first year of this year, many people came to try it out, and some of them had real materials to take the exam. So people naturally That's too much, but I have to thank Mr. Song, and now this poor family is grateful to Mr. Song."

"Which Mr. Song?"

"Hey, who else could it be? It's the savior of this new city, Song Beiyun, Mr. Song. I heard that he was arrested because of the people's petition. I heard many students say that they will go to Beijing to speak up for Mr. Song after the exam."

The store owner has been working here for a long time, so if he listens a lot, he is naturally well-informed, and when he mentioned Song Beiyun, Song Beiyun himself shook his head beside him very proudly.

"The old man knows, go and get some food, let's have some specialties in Luzhou."

"Okay, sir, please wait a moment."

After the shopkeeper left, Ding Xiang looked at Song Beiyun: "Look at your complacent look, can't you cover up what's on your mind?"

"There's nothing to cover up." Song Beiyun's face was full of smiles: "Isn't this the result I want. Starting from Chang'an, it gradually spread all over the country. Breaking the monopoly barriers of education, why is China not strong?"

"You always talk about this monopoly, where is the monopoly?"

Song Beiyun dipped his fingers in the tea, and drew two circles, one large and one small, on the table: "The big one is Ming Jing Ke, and the small one is Jin Shi Ke. Ding Xiang is from Ming Jing Ke, right?"

"Um……"

"Great family!"

"Stop talking about yin and yang!"

"Yes yes yes..." Song Beiyun continued: "Ming Jing Ke itself is the imperial court's compromise with the wealthy families. Crazy, I insisted on going into Shike in the end, you see...I was overwhelmed by me."

Ding Xiang snorted coldly: "You mean the old man is an idiot?"

"Are you kidding? If Mr. Ding is an idiot, who in the world is talented?" Song Beiyun smiled and pointed to the second circle: "The Jinshi department is relatively fair, but it is still a channel for the rich. Xiang Ding met a cowherd who became a general, and Xiang Ding met a few cowherds who became champions? So the common people's promotion path was blocked in this way, and over time it became that I am a cowboy and my son is too. , My grandson is still, and my descendants and grandchildren are all cattle herders."

"Well... that's true."

"But it's different once science and engineering are opened. Science and engineering are new, and science and engineering don't pay attention to memory, but more on logic, thinking, judgment, observation and other strange talents. And such a Come on, geniuses can appear even in the valleys." Song Beiyun drew a huge circle outside the two circles: "Did this genius appear because of the emergence of science and engineering? No, no, he In fact, it has always been there, from ancient times to the present, but no one opened a door for him and pointed out a way. Now that someone has pointed out a way for him, more and more talents will follow this way in the future , Will Song Dynasty be strong? Will China be strong?"

Ding Xiang took a sip of tea, pursed his lips and thought for a while: "You are only in your 20s, what kind of brain do you have to come up with these things?"

"Maybe it was born." Song Beiyun scratched his face: "God sent me to save Da Song."

Ding Xianggang picked up the cup to drink water, and when he heard this sentence, the water was sprayed all over the place. He quickly wiped it off with a handkerchief, and stared at Song Beiyun: "Speak out loud!"

"I'm in my 20s, I'm just bragging, what's wrong with me!"

Ding Xiang didn't want to mess with him, but after wiping off the water stains on his body, he asked curiously, "Why is there no sign of disaster here?"

"There will definitely not be one in Luzhou. The new city itself is the boundary after the victims migrate. They have been hungry, and the first thing they do when they get better is to stock up on food. The governor of Luzhou is also a person who has experienced storms. He knows what to do. Prepare in advance and take precautions in advance. Before the official warehouse was opened, I guess he had already started disaster relief. In addition, Luzhou is an important cargo transfer base, and its prosperity is no less than that of Jinling, so how could it be easy to suffer disasters." Song Beiyun He tapped on the table lightly: "But it's hard to say what's going on later. I'm afraid Jiujiang County is in a mess. But fortunately, it's the territory of the Xu family. They can spend money happily after seeing it, and they will definitely be like blowflies. The same pounced on."

"Why is the Xu family so fond of spending money? I remember that they always donated various things to Jinling to repair government offices, set up philanthropic halls, subsidize schools, and open bookstores. These are all unprofitable businesses."

"It's because they can make so much money, so they spend money like crazy." Song Beiyun shook his head and said, "I said no, money is a tiger, and it will eat people when it comes out of the mountain. When the Xu family has so much money, it can shake the country. Now, can you, old man, tolerate it?"

Lao Ding was silent for a moment, then laughed: "So you also encouraged the Feng family, right?"

"What I encouraged was delivered to the door." Song Beiyun's hands clenched into fists: "The era of great competition is about to begin, and this will soon be the beginning of Da Song's journey to complete glory."

Chapter 679: Sunny September 9, Six Years

It has been half a year since it rained last time, and the current drought has reached the point of no return. However, looking at the road in Luzhou, Ding Xiang felt a little surprised, because there were no people fleeing famine on the road, but because There are many more people who do business because they cannot cultivate.

The fruits, vegetables, meat, eggs and other things on the market have obviously increased a lot, but the price of food is still firm, and it has only increased by less than half of what it was before.

Although people's life is more difficult than in previous years, it is not impossible. Their only problem now is that it is relatively difficult to drink water, and they even need to go to deep wells ten miles away to get water for drinking.

But even so, there are still very few people who complain. Instead, everyone praises the actions of the government and the court, because if disasters of this level were encountered in previous years, I am afraid that thousands of miles of people will be hungry now, and there will be no one in the barren village.

Ding Xiang and Song Beiyun walked slowly along the official road to the distance, exploring all the way, the area affected by the disaster this year is obviously larger and deeper, but fortunately all emergency preparations are relatively proper, and there is no special shock Heartfelt scenes.

"The old man lived in Bianliang when he was young. If there was a drought at that time, the voices of children selling children would be heard along the street, which made people cry."

"Really." Song Beiyun came out of the grass, pulled up his pants and scratched his butt: "I was bitten by a mosquito on my butt, it's very itchy."

"You!" Ding Xiang was furious all of a sudden: "You are simply an insult to gentleness!"

"I was bitten by a mosquito. Why did I insult the gentleman?" Song Beiyun asked with a puzzled expression, "Then it must be the mosquito insulting the gentleman."

"Don't talk nonsense with you, continue on the road." Ding Xiang really couldn't control the thoughts of this little bastard. No wonder even King Fu, Zhao Xiang, and the Zuo Shumi envoy were screaming like a little bastard. This man really sometimes Can make people unreasonably irritable.

It's good for him to have a good chat. When he came up, he said something that made the mosquito bite his ass.

"Oh, officials don't shit anymore? Aren't people just eating, drinking, and sleeping all their lives, and nothing else. Ding Xiang, you are so high in the temple that you can't look down on this shit." Song Beiyun said while breaking his fingers : "This envoy still has so many mosquitoes, which means that the temperature is not normal this year, and another is that the nearby water source is polluted. What is the most important thing after the disaster? It is epidemic prevention and anti-epidemic. Mosquitoes are the biggest source of disease transmission. From just now Judging from that frequency, it is likely that there will be a small plague in the near future."

Seeing that he was speaking clearly and logically, Ding Xiang spread out his fan and shook it lightly: "Oh? Then why are you talking about Xiaowen?"

"First of all, there are not many residents here, but they are relatively dense. The water source is polluted, breeding mosquitoes, and mosquito bites spread the plague, but it is limited to this area, because a large area of ​​nearby water sources has dried up. Only the small lake can be maintained." Song Beiyun waved his hand and said, "So I conclude that there will be a small plague in this area in the future."

"Then how should it be governed?"

"There is no way to deal with the matter now, because the treatment of the lake means that they will not even have the last water source in this area, so now we can only encourage them to drink more boiled water, and then use more fumigants to drive them away. Mosquitoes and flies. So there is no way, and if it is a normal season, there will be no such problem." Song Beiyun spread his hands and expressed helplessness: "This is the choice in emergency management."

Ding Xiang also sighed, since the emergency management first appeared in the court, he has paid attention to this thing, it is really useless to look at it normally, but it can be said to show great power when things really happen.

Just like this drought, the granaries set up in various places have solved a large part of the problems. The granaries that are collectively owned and governed by clans are much less likely to have problems than official granaries. After all, if there is a problem with these granaries, the accountability system will Directly pointing the finger at the individual, the individual has no way or dare to bear such a responsibility, so there has been a phenomenon in many places that self-help is more active than court relief.

People are selfish, but no matter how selfish they are, they cannot stand up to the rigorous laws. When the responsibility is directed at the individual, no matter how greedy the person is, they will have to be coaxed. The performance of Yushitai depends on these people Hold on.

As the founder of Song Dynasty law, Lao Ding quite agrees and is satisfied with this.

As for what Lao Ding said just now, he didn't have too much panic when he encountered a disaster year. This is actually due to years of reserves.

Since Song Beiyun had just experienced the flood of disaster victims in Luzhou, he had already started to prepare for the fight against natural disasters. The real establishment of a national grain reserve plan was after he left Qimen County. The entire line of Shuoshu was taken away. , The grain reserve line was built along the path.

There is one thing about the centralized Song Dynasty that is good, that is, it can mobilize national resources very well to carry out a certain major event suddenly.

Even though this is the case, the food reserves are only enough for half a year, but didn't the Tuntian Secretary who scavenged food from all over the world get up later?

It took the Tuntian Division four years and 20 years of military expenditure to hoard enough food to support any disaster. No one would believe this story.

But Song Beiyun knows that the Tuntian Division is actually a kind of predatory hoarding. They rely on various means to purchase relatively saturated food from all countries they can contact, eat as much as they can, and smuggle it if they don’t sell it. There is a way to undertake the land, anyway, everything is for food.