Dress to be a celebrity

As the saying goes, there are three fires for a new official to take office.Since Song Zhifu was born in Sanyuan Jidi and Hanlin, the fire naturally had to be burned fresher and more intensely to be worthy of his status.

As soon as he took over the post of magistrate, he personally took stock of the account books, money and food, fish scale books, and case files left by his predecessor, and he refused to relax at all.In fact, there are always some errors in the account books for foreign appointments, and most of the warehouses do not match up. There are countless things that can be manipulated in the scale book... After careful inspection, it turns out that it is from the former magistrate who was just transferred to the low-level documents in this yamen. There is no one who is innocent.

He picked a whole stack of mistakes, and summoned the assistant officials and chief officials in the mansion to attend a meeting in the hall.

All the officials in the room watched him take stock of these things with their own eyes. Facing the pile of papers in front of him, everyone was nervous, scrambling to speak for themselves, and for the old boss by the way——

It's not that they are greedy too much, but that these accounts have the habit of spending first at the beginning of the year, collecting taxes at the end of the year and then liquidating them.The seasons transferred in the Song Dynasty were inappropriate. They made a temporary inventory, and there were many things that could not be moved, so they were trying to make up for it.

Moreover, the king of Zhou came here suddenly, and their mansion is also responsible for renovating the mansion of the king of Zhou, so it is inevitable that they will spend more money than building an ordinary official residence...

Song Shi sat in the hall and listened to the opinions of his colleagues. Finally, he waved his hands and said leniently: "I followed my father in the early years and let go of foreign posts. I know that it is difficult for us to be officials close to the people. Our Hanzhong Mansion is no more than before, no more than other places—— —The Prince Zhou’s Mansion is just a few streets away, and Huan Qianxian also works in the Prince’s Mansion, and our every move is in the eyes of the Shangguan, and if we make a slight mistake, it is difficult to guarantee that we will be impeached.”

He was rumored to be a romantic and affectionate talent, but when he first came to Fucheng to meet everyone, he looked like a gentle and amiable celebrity.But now sitting in the hall with these evidences, and speaking these slapping words gently and calmly, all the officials in the room are stunned, and they don't even know how to defend themselves.

Song Shi looked around and saw that these people were frightened by Zhou Wang and Senior Brother Huan's name, nodded in satisfaction, and said: "Today, the official took out these things not to embarrass you, but to serve as a warning. Colleagues, please work with me to develop a governance method that can strictly control the progress of government affairs, summarize and clean up government affairs at any time."

He picked up the stack of papers and lit them in the brazier at his feet. He shook his sleeves and said, "I have calculated before that the money and food kept by the yamen can still afford those who are in debt. If there is a slight shortage, my official I hope that I will bear it myself. I don’t need to ask about the past, and I hope that you will help me in the same boat and manage Hanzhong well..."

Also take good care of the prince in the mansion and the censor of the capital.

He beat and appeased him in this way. Although he couldn't move his colleagues to bow their heads like Song Jiang, but everyone looked at him with a hint of gratitude and conviction.

Zhao Tongzhi stood up and cupped his hands in the lead, and the officials of Daihefu thanked him for covering up the feelings for everyone.

Song Shi said with a smile: "We will work together in Hanzhong Mansion in the future. As I sit in the prefect's seat, I should take on more responsibilities. Now that we have settled the conversation, let's ignore the past and look forward to our mansion." What should we do this year?"

He coughed lightly, and the door behind him came up, and distributed several fine and white manuscript papers to the adults.

The manuscript paper is the size of a double-page letterhead, and the first line is dignified and majestic, with slender and powerful strokes "Xintai Twenty-Four Years Hanzhong Manuscript Paper"; there is a very thick sidebar printed on the left side of this line and the leftmost end of the page; in the middle is a thin line All the lines are bright red like cinnabar.

It must be the legendary Song edition printing method!

It is said that this printing method is a literati printing method, which cannot be learned by craftsmen. Mr. Song did not even bring a master to Hanzhong Mansion, so he must have printed manuscript paper for them by himself while checking supplies.

Such exquisite manuscript paper is worth a few taels of silver at least. When a gift is mentioned on someone's door, it is enough. Mr. Song is really a generous and considerate Shangguan.

Everyone got up to thank them, Master Song said kindly: "These papers are the standard papers in our mansion. Our mansion just printed the grids, so it's not worth anything. The paper rolls are held by glue, and you can tear them off with a piece of paper when you need them." One sheet, the rest of the manuscript paper will not be messy, and it may be convenient for you to work."

Naturally it is convenient!

Everyone looked closely at the front of the scroll, and they could indeed see that there was a thin layer of white film sticking to it, and the manuscript paper was neatly arranged, and it was convenient to put it anywhere without fear of slipping and falling apart.

What the chief has printed with such care, the subordinates will naturally praise them very much.

The magistrate of Song was photographed so ecstatically, he took a sip from the tea bowl and said, "Since everyone likes it, why don't you use it? I just sorted out the documents left by my predecessor Yan when I first arrived in Hanzhong. Find out how the household affairs are usually done, and please use this manuscript paper to write down this year—”

He picked up a manuscript paper, clicked on the words "Xintai Twenty-Four Years" on it, and grinned: "How to make up for the money and grain storage in the government, when will the grain department supervise the transportation of money and grain to Beijing, how will the military department deal with crimes, guard against thieves, and how to persuade farmers to cultivate." Sang, open the barren mountains and fields, how to collect taxes, what kind of labor is to be done, how many laborers and craftsmen should be recruited..."

The departments of Tongzhi, Tongju, and Experience are the main ones, together with the Confucianism of the prefecture and the six chambers, each of which has to make a work plan for this year.He wants to compare this plan with Mr. Yan and the situation of the previous prefects to see whether the results of this prefecture will improve or decline this year.

He has just arrived here, but officials below Tongzhi have been working for at least one year. What to do this year can be based on last year, and there is nothing that cannot be written.In addition, now that it is April, if he has accomplished anything in the halls and rooms in the three months before he came, he can also write it down.

He knew that everyone had never written this kind of report, maybe they didn't know where to write it, maybe it was incomplete, but it didn't matter, he, the leader, would definitely take responsibility, lead everyone to learn by doing, and master efficient work methods.Starting today, every morning and evening, after midnight and before the office, there will be a half-hour work arrangement meeting and a work summary meeting for the day.When he was around, he would preside over it, and when he wanted to go to the countryside for inspections or to release his notice, he would hand over to Mr. Zhao, the acquaintance, to preside over it. Unless there were important matters that had to be done outside the government office, they could not be canceled easily.

Everything has been arranged in advance and countermeasures are in place, even if he is transferred to another place halfway like Master Yan, it will not delay the affairs of the mansion and leave behind the mistakes he found in the past few days.

how is it?

Master Song asked his colleagues for their opinions with a smile, but what else could they say?

Zhao Tongzhi, Yuan Tongjuan, and Cheng Jijin all got up and responded: "Master Song's words are very true, and we are also willing to follow up with Your Excellency and renovate the Hanzhong Mansion."

Song Zhifu was very satisfied with their attitude and told them to go back and write slowly according to their own habits.Just hand it in within five days, and don't be in a hurry to hand it over, delaying your job.

The general meeting will not be held for the past few days. If something happens, he will hold a meeting with the official in charge alone to give everyone a period of adaptation.

Very good!

This mansion has never had the habit of holding meetings, and neither has any other office. At most, the lord of the manor asked a few people to go in to discuss something, and he has never been so meddlesome.I am afraid that the "regular meeting" in the future will become a routine, and there is no escape. It is good to relax for a few days now.

Everyone quietly breathed a sigh of relief, and got up to say goodbye to Mr. Song.

Song Shi watched them go out, then summoned the book office of the ceremonial room, and took out his newly written hall rules—he also changed the hall rules he made in Fujian, and added the rule of morning and evening regular meetings, and ordered: : "Copy a few copies and send them to each hall and room for storage, and take a copy of the list and paste it on the wall. Every morning, a clerk is selected to take turns, and he will read it for them before the class yamen arrive at the hall rules. Urge everyone to follow the rules of the government."

Several Shangguans held regular meetings, and they didn't need to hold official clerks and yamen servants. They had to know the rules of his new magistrate.If you know his rules and make mistakes again, don't blame him for severe punishment.

The clerk nodded deeply, returned to the ceremony room with the hall rules in his hand, explained the new hall rules, copied them with his colleagues in the room, and sent the copied ones to several adults first.

Zhao Tongzhi was bitter in his mouth, and secretly pulled out two colleagues. While the adults were in the yamen to approve official documents, the three of them secretly communicated: This Song Fuzun looks like a high-ranking scholar in the mountains who is untouched by the world. Why are you so strict?

Could it be that this is the rule of the Hanlin Academy, he learned it from Beijing, and got this little Hanzhong government office?

Yuan Tongpan sighed and said, "When did you hear that the Imperial Academy has strict rules? Aren't the Imperial Academy all famous and talented, not involved in vulgar affairs, doing poetry and literature meetings all day long, and looking after them in the courtyard?"

This is probably due to Song Sanyuan's strict rules.

If you don't believe me, look at the days when Huan Yushi came to the local area, didn't he stay in the mansion all day long to run errands, and only occasionally followed the king of Zhou to inspect several guards and forts in the mansion?He is also a Jinshi in the top ten of the second class, and he was famous in Fujian at the Lecture Conference. If his family is not strict, how can he not love to drink with his predecessors, swim in the river, give lectures, and compose poems?

It must be Mr. Song who tames his husband well!

Zhao Tongzhi was a few years older and had more seniority. He shook his head deeply: "That's not necessarily the case. Think about it, two virtuous brothers, Mr. Huan was born as a censor. Where is the Metropolitan Procuratorate? It is a place for admonishing the emperor and checking the conduct of officials. It must be stricter than the Imperial Academy where talented scholars gather. I think Mr. Huan's family law is strict, and Mr. Song has naturally become a habit of controlling it."

Wouldn't it be the duty of a husband to ask for safety report sooner or later?If not, why did Lord Song leave the Yamen at night to look for Lord Huan, and didn't Lord Huan come to serve Lord Song?

These two lords are in harmony with each other, and they are so fearful of internal fear that they are aboveboard. Only Cheng Tong, who is not afraid of internal fear, said something fair: "Perhaps Master Song's behavior is not a family rule, but just to make Hanzhong more governed. Well, let the King of Zhou see it?"

The two superiors gave him a pitying look, as if they were pitying him for not knowing the joys of the boudoir.

Mr. Zhao explained to him personally: "Mr. Song has all kinds of rules in his family. Now that he is out of Beijing, his parents are not in the hall. Why don't you want to take it easy? Why do you have to be on time and leave the office? It must be Mr. Huan who can manage it." Yan, he made these rules only after he had to earn face in front of King Zhou."

The three of them felt headaches when they thought of the "plan" that Fu Zun had given them, so they could only rely on this kind of discussion to relieve their boredom.While talking in the co-prefect hall, an officer outside suddenly knocked on the door and said "Lord Song".

The three adults closed their mouths in unison, feeling ashamed and nervous, their cheeks turned red and their movements were a little stiff.Fortunately, the next sentence quickly came from outside the door: "Master Song wants to take workshop Yu Shuban to inspect the firing process of the bricks and plaster for repairing the Prince Zhou's Mansion. Please, Master Tongzhi, take charge of the affairs of the mansion."

Zhao Tongzhi responded, let out a long breath, and sighed: "Sure enough, you can't talk about people's right and wrong behind their backs. Alas, Mr. Song is really a vigorous and resolute person. I'm going out of the city to check the brick kiln. I'm afraid I will have to rush us in five days. If you want paperwork, you should rush out earlier, there are many people in the regular meeting, if you can't get it out, it will be too embarrassing."

The three of them felt sorry for each other, and each went back to the second hall, holding the red-headed manuscript paper presented by Mr. Song to worry about it. However, Mr. Song took the book office, the stonemasons and masons who were in class in the house, and went to Shiyan Temple in the north of the city in the spring. OK.

He spent 15 yuan to buy a new thesis containing a map of Hanzhong's mineral resources, in which it was written that there are large limestone mines hidden in the area around Shiyan Temple in Tiantai Mountain.The local limestone is rich in mineral deposits. There are also two ore veins in the upper and lower Liangshan Mountains outside the city. He specially traveled dozens of miles out of the city to Shiyan Temple, not only for the limestone, but more importantly, the limestone here is accompanied by a medium-sized dolomite mine. .

He has just checked this mineral, mixed it with cement and fired it, it can shorten the curing time of cement, and after it is calcined into dolomite, it can be used as paint. this stone.

And how to use it after being transferred is up to him to decide.

This kind of dolomite is not only useful as a building material, but also as a refractory material, as a lining for a steelmaking furnace, and as a refractory brick, so that he can make a lot of steel!

Not only for industry, but also for agriculture.Dolomite is rich in magnesium and is also a mineral needed for plant growth.It is only slightly alkaline, and it can neutralize the pH of the soil when applied to some acidic yellow-brown soil in Hanzhong. It is very simple and easy to use.

Not only does Tiantai Mountain have dolomite that can be used as fertilizer, but it also has phosphorous manganese ore closer to Fucheng—let alone manganese ore, phosphorous rock is a rare fertilizer!These phosphate rocks can be directly ground and put into acidic soil as base fertilizer after being mined, and then refined and refined, it may also be applied to neutral or alkaline soil as phosphate fertilizer.Then intercropping beans to increase the nitrogen content in the soil, and applying more potassium fertilizer from plant ash...

Wouldn't this be inferior to the gold and rubbish advertising everywhere?

As long as the fertilizer can keep up, the land in Hanzhong can implement rice-wheat rotation, or the method of grain-bean-wheat rotation, and the entire agricultural output can be more than doubled.

Anyway, the Dazheng court only manages metal deposits such as gold, silver, copper, iron, tin, lead, and mercury. The mines he opened are just ordinary stones in the eyes of ordinary people, and the management is not strict. Power mining.

Now open in violation of the regulations, wait until the pesticides are produced, open up experimental fields to try out various new chemical fertilizers next season, and present high-yield and multi-seeded rice and wheat ears as tributes by the end of the year.The Dazheng Dynasty was an agricultural country. When the Holy One met with the princes of the court, they would definitely support him in agricultural science, and his fertilizer factory could be made public and large-scale.

This is only the minerals near Fuzhi, and then expanded to the entire Hanzhong Prefecture under the rule, Xixiang County and other places also have pyrite, which can be made into sulfuric acid after processing...

He first asked someone to buy some yellow iron, and he personally went into battle to produce sulfuric acid, just like potassium permanganate, and his three-acid and two-alkali project could begin!

In the car, he was imagining the future industrial and agricultural development of Hanzhong Prefecture, feeling extremely excited.If it weren't for this fleshy body falling down, it could have penetrated the roof of the car and floated up.Fortunately, the car drove fast, and it took him to the foot of Tiantai Mountain in a short time.

There is a small quarry in the middle of the mountain, and the limestone for building walls and houses is transported from here, and then sent to the kiln for disposal.In the Song Dynasty, when he came here wearing a five-rank official robe, the quarry steward and the stone diggers were horrified, and they knelt down to pay their respects.

Song Shi told them to get up, what to do, and only called the manager of this place to come over and ask——asked if there were some stones with white stone powder or molten grooves on the stone surface mixed with the limestone here.

He is also not sure that the mineral deposits marked in the modern book are inconsistent with the scope of the ancient quarry, so he can only describe the characteristics of dolomite for him to recall.If there is dolomite in this quarry, everyone will be happy. If not, we should ask someone who understands stone here to be a guide, and then look elsewhere.

The steward had never seen a fifth-rank official like Fu Zun, and he dared not raise his head in front of him. He hesitated for a while before he smoothed his tongue: "This kind of stone is indeed born here. Just to the west of the mine, there is a small piece of stone. Mixed with lime. It's just that this kind of stone is not as good as lime, even after being calcined and watered, it can't stick to bricks and tiles, so what's the use of it?"

Yu Shuban, who was accompanying him, scolded: "You just have to say if you have something that your lord asks. Is it possible that you know more than your lord?"

The steward Wei Wei lowered his head, but Song Shi waved his hand lightly, stopped Yu Shuban, and said with a smile, "The mansion is not looking for lime, it's that kind of stone - that's called Dolomite. You don't know the purpose of this thing, It is actually a good material for repairing the palace, but ordinary people don’t know how to concoct it, so you ask someone to pick up a few of these stones for the mansion and send them to the kiln, and the manor will personally watch them deal with them.”

First get some to the Zhou Palace to make paint, burn cement, and mix it with quartz to burn glass...

Speaking of quartz glass, there are really quartz mines in this mountain.On the way back, there should be a Xiajiagou quartzite mine. I don’t know if it’s called this name now, but you can look for it according to the location on the map.

Quartz glass has good permeability, heat resistance and wear resistance. It is the best material for making telescopes. First, make a pair for Brother Huan Xiao and Zhou Wang, and then consider expanding production to supply the armed forces.We also need to make some anti-wind and sand, protective flat glasses, and experimental equipment...

There will be more experiments to be done in the future, and using quartz glass as the experimental material is also more assured than ordinary glass.

Now that he has already left Fucheng, he has seen enough of what he should see this trip.He circled Tiantai Mountain from morning to night, turned around all the places marked with mines on the map, and took a few pieces of phosphorite that looked like ordinary mountain rocks, and many transparent and beautiful quartzites in the bag. Here, the leisurely attitude is a bit like an official who came to Tiantai Mountain for a spring outing.

It's just that when people go outing, he steps on bare mountains and rocks, where there is not even a tree or a piece of grass, and he has to ask people to dig the soil to find rocks.

But the old man had just established the rules in the mansion, and even the masters of the food, military, and criminal departments did not dare to disobey, and Yu Shuban and the accompanying craftsmen did not dare to persuade them.It wasn't until the sky was getting late and the red sun was sinking that Yu Shuban asked timidly: "Sir, do you want to go back to your residence, or do you want to stay overnight outside the city?"

Naturally, he returned to the city.

But instead of going back to Fuzhi, he had to meet His Royal Highness Zhou Wang and Huan Qianxian, report the mines he found outside the city, and discuss with them how to mine and utilize them.