After looking at the dressed young lady of Goryeo, Shi Guozhong seemed to have no interest. He waved his hand and said to his wife, Sister Wan, "Madam, take her down for a good life and wait for Gao Qiu to come back from Qingzhou and send her there."

Sister Wan smiled indifferently: "Master, Gao Qiu has already had a lot of wives and concubines, and there are many Gaoli girls. I think she is good and can give birth to a child. Why not leave it to the master and give birth to a son."

Shi Guozhong looked at his wife with a smile and said, "Oh, have you agreed on your son's affairs? Are you going to carry one from your parents' home?"

The miserable prefect of Shi Dazhou, who had been miserable for his wife, Sister Wan, who was over thirty years younger than him, was extremely fond of, for fear that she would suffer grievances after her death. Therefore, when his wife could not give birth to children, she was unwilling to take a concubine, and even more unwilling to adopt an heir at the brother's house, who never contacted her. Instead, she had to choose one of Sister Wan's nephews as her adopted son.

Withdrew his eyes from his wife's still graceful back, Shi Guozhong's brows were already frowning, "Mr. Chen, I can't save all the 40,000 acres of hidden land in your family..."

Hearing this, Chen Xiaotian, who looked like a white-faced scholar, was stunned. He had received all the gifts, why didn’t he do anything yet?

"Prince, I don't know if my wife can tell you that my sister is Xiang Taiwei's concubine, and her father is also an old friend of Xiang Taiwei."

Xiang Taiwei is the brother of Empress Dowager Xiang, the Jiewei governor of Anguo Army. Xiang Zonghui! Although Empress Dowager Xiang has passed away, Zhao Ji still favors the two brothers of the Xiang family, and mentioned their official ranks to the Jiewei. The biggest military officer of the Northern Song Dynasty was the Taiwei (referring to the rank of Taiwei, not the Taiwei who everyone calls him to play), and the second time was the Jiewei.

It turned out that the backstage of the Chen family in Qizhou was Xiang Zonghui, which was indeed strong enough. However, now the Song Dynasty, whose relatives and relatives were suppressed, even Xiang Zonghui himself and confronted the prefect who was a Jinshi like Shi Guozhong, but he had never seen any advantage. Maybe he could still win Shi Guozhong's reputation.

That's why the Chen family dared not resist and asked Chen Xiaotian to come to visit Shi Guozhong with a gift.

When Shi Guozhong heard Chen Xiaotian carry Xiang Zong back, he smiled and asked back: "Will the Taiwei Xiang ask your family to sell some hidden fields?"

ah?

Chen Xiaotian was stunned for a moment. Xiang Zong did mention the sale of land in the letter he returned to his family. But how did the Shi Zhizhou know about it? Is there something else hidden behind this matter?

"But..." Chen Xiaotian was of course unwilling to sell the land. His family's business was only done by having a ranch in Cangzhou. Not to mention that the ranch was gone, even if it became smaller, the business would be greatly affected.

As for the knights in front of the palace, how could the Chen family care? His backstage is Xiang Zong! And no one in his family can be the knight.

Seeing Chen Xiaotian looking embarrassed, Shi Guozhong asked with a smile: "But is there any difficulties? It would be better to say that I can help you think of a solution."

It seems there is a chance!

Chen Xiaotian didn't know if Shi Guozhong really had a solution, but he thought that the other party had prepared less bribes from Sanqian and a beautiful woman before asking for bribes...

Thinking of this, he told Shi Guozhong how his sheep seller needs a ranch and even more.

"So that's it," Old Man Shi laughed after hearing this, "This matter is easy to deal with. Go and find the East Gate of the Maritime Siwu Chongdaowu who is buying fields, and just tell him directly, he must have a way... Listen to me, I promise you can't make any mistakes."

Is this a solution?

Chen Xiaotian was confused when he heard this, but there was no other way, so he had to leave dejectedly and prepare a gift to visit Wu Haogu.

At the same time, in the Cangzhou Tongzong Office next door, Lu Yihao and Ji Yi were discussing in the inner hall to participate in the ancient book of Wu Hao!

The two of them planned to use Chatian Qinghu to create a "terrifying atmosphere" in Cangzhou, forcing the local tyrants and evil gentry to cover the land in their hands.

But unexpectedly, before the check on Tian Qinghu officially started, Wu Haogu had a big name for "selling land for knights". Not only did he buy Hidden Field at a high price in the country, but he also gained the identity of a knight. Wu Haogu's approach must be for the sake of making a big profit! This time, he was really caught with both people and stolen goods, and he could severely punish such villains.

Lu Yihao said: "I really didn't expect that Wu Haogu was so arbitrary, openly betrayed the position of a knight in front of the palace, and even covered up Yintian, instructing the powerful to resist the Qinghu of the Cangzhou Office!"

"The crime is enough. As long as the government does not blindly cover up, Wu Haogu will definitely not be able to escape. At least he must be assigned to Guan Haizhou."

Lu Yihao nodded: "The evidence is conclusive now. Even if the official wants to cover up, he has to surrender Wu Haogu's official position. Unfortunately, he is about to accept all the fields required by the Palace Front Office.

The administration of Cangzhou is really bad! The order of Tian Qinghu has been issued for more than ten days, but the officials below did not make any moves."

"These public officials must have colluded with the powerful Cangzhou, otherwise how did the news about Tian Qinghu leak?"

Lu Yihao touched his pointed chin, "It seems that if the court wants to use Hebei as the basis to attack Yanyun, it must strictly rectify the prefectures and prefectures and counties in the two routes of Hebei!"

"What Brother Yuan Zhi said is very true. Now Hebei is too powerful and the governments are controlled by defiled officials. Civil officials are like in vain. The soldiers in the imperial guards are in ruins and cannot fight. If they are not strictly rectified, they will be defeated in the Northern Expedition in the future.

Brother Yuanzhi, why not report a joint report and ask the court to strictly rectify local officials!”

Ji Yi was filled with righteous indignation, but he knew in his heart that it was almost impossible to rectify Hebei. Because to rectify the local area, officials must be mobilized. Now the officials from all over the country are integrated with the powerful and intricate. Foreign officials are simply toothless tigers and cannot be violent at all.

To change this situation, we must reform the appointment and removal methods of clerks, and we must never engage in "no feudal officials, and no officials have hereditary ones". Otherwise, any new policy will be wrongly resolved when it comes to the bottom.

However, the rule of "officials are not feudal, officials are hereditary" has been in place for many years. How can we change it just by saying that? And how can we reform it?

Can I use the examination to obtain officials? Expand the scale of the imperial examination and let Jinshi start from the imperial examination? This is not practical, because the number of clerks in the country is at least hundreds of thousands, and all of them must be produced in the examination. Then the number of students in each subject must be 20,000 or 30,000? How many people have to go to Beijing to take the exam? You can't squeeze out Kaifeng Prefecture! If you don't go to Beijing to take the exam, but take the exam locally, then there will probably be too many frauds in the imperial examination...

So many Jinshi... Jinshi will depreciate! And how should so many Jinshi officers be promoted to high positions? Maybe they will be competing for their fathers and ancestors again!

If the imperial examination cannot be used to select officials, can it be possible to let the officials' guest screen act as officials? It seems impossible. Not to mention using all officials' disciples, it is impossible to use one-third or one-quarter... How could the officials in the Song Dynasty have so many disciples to drive them? Moreover, the court would allow officials to use Hakka ministers to control the place?

However, even though I know that the ills of the officials in the Song Dynasty were unsolvable, Ji Yi would still submit the court’s memorial to reform, which is a good way to attract attention!

Moreover, Ji Yi and Lu Yihao's memorials pointed out the key to the various disadvantages of the Song Dynasty...

...

“There is no place to shepherd herd?”

When Wu Haogu heard what Chen Xiaotian said, he immediately laughed, "It's easy to deal with. How about you deducting 30,000 acres in Jiehe Commercial City? It's on the north bank of Jiehe River, close to the wharf, and it's convenient to transport..."

"East Gate, do you think it is on the north bank of the Bian River? Then, that's... the territory of the Liao Kingdom!"

Chen Xiaotian was frightened by Wu Haogu's proposal. Before Wu Haogu finished speaking, he interrupted him without waiting for him to finish his words.

"Jiehe Commercial Market is originally half of the Liao Kingdom and half of the Song Dynasty!" Wu Haogu smiled, "But both sides of Jiehe are under the jurisdiction of the merchant market... For selling cattle, sheep and horses, it is more convenient to place the pasture on the north bank of Jiehe? Your cattle and sheep were originally purchased from Liao Kingdom. The forage feed for raising sheep is also cheaper in Liao Kingdom, and it is also close to Jiehe Wharf, which can be transported to Dengzhou and Laizhou. If you can sail at the mouth of the Ji River, it will be even more convenient, right?"

"But, but..."

Chen Xiaotian didn’t know what to say. Wu Haogu said it well. Raising sheep on the north bank of Jiehe has a cost advantage. Not only is it cheap, but it is also convenient to purchase sheep from Liao Kingdom, and all kinds of forage feed are also cheap. The most important thing is that it is easy to transport!

You can directly drive sheep onto the boat, and you can transport it to Kaifeng Prefecture by water or by sea to Jingdong East Road. The cost is much lower than land transportation! Moreover, the transportation time is short, so you don’t need to worry about the long-distance trafficking of cattle and sheep by themselves during transportation. Therefore, there is a problem of losing weight. This requires merchants to set up a ranch in the middle to gain weight.

If it can be transported with water, the cost of transporting cattle and sheep will be greatly reduced, and the corresponding profit will be higher.

But the problem is... Liao Kingdom is always a place that scares merchants!

"Where are so many?" Wu Haogu looked at the businessman in front of him and waved his hand indifferently, "How can you be so obedient in business? You have 30,000 acres of land in your hand, and you will sell it to me. I will give you 40,000 yuan, and then divert the 30,000 acres of land on the north bank of the river to you. If you don't withdraw a penny, is that okay?"

Wu Haogu actually didn't give 30,000 acres in vain. He was cultivating industries. Jiehe Market could completely develop into a trading, transportation and breeding center for cattle, sheep and horses! Moreover, there are no people who want the land on the north bank of Jiehe Market now.

Wu Haogu's face suddenly became stern again, "If you don't agree, these three acres of hidden land... Cangzhou Prefecture Yamen really needs to be serious, and it is okay to confiscate it, even Taiwei Xiang can't keep it!"

On one side, there are 40,000 yuan in cash plus 30,000 acres on the north bank of the Bian River, while on the other side, it may be confiscated!
Chapter completed!