In early June of the second year of Jiaxi, Zhao Yun, Lizong of the Southern Song Dynasty, issued an edict: The six ministries had newly established a new Maritime General Office outside the Twenty-four departments, which was in charge of water and sea commerce in the Song Dynasty; Guangzhou, Mingzhou (Ningbo), Quanzhou and other places were all under the jurisdiction of the Maritime General Office;

Water and sea merchants in the Song Dynasty need to register and register at the local Maritime Bureau within two months to wait for approval of cargo tax. If the goods are not reported within the deadline, any ship cargo will be found to be lost; before the sea merchants in various countries enter the port, they need to register and register at the local Maritime Bureau to check the goods and pay taxes to receive the road guide. No road guide will be found to be lost;

The General Office of the Maritime Warship will be set up to recruit 50,000 land soldiers and soldiers, and will be under the jurisdiction of the General Office of the Maritime Warship Warship will be responsible for banning all rivers, rivers and seas. After the training, the military pay will be compensated by taxes from various places;

The direct scholar of Fuwenge, the commander of the Light Vehicle, temporarily led the prefect of Lin'an Prefecture, the Imperial College, and the military weapon supervisor Jia Sidao promoted the General Office of the Maritime General Office (from the third rank), and asked him to revise and revise the tax laws of the Maritime General Office. Before that, the Maritime Ports in various places continued to pay taxes according to the previous taxes, etc.

This sudden edict, like a slap, smashed all the court officials from all over the court and the country to dizzy.

Until this time, those who were rushing around to impeach Jia Sidao understood what the 50,000 militia recruited from refugees was for. Obviously, Jia Sidao had already discussed with the emperor the origin of the militia a long time ago.

It is said that after hearing this edict, the governor Li Mingfu fainted on the spot. The news reached Jia Sidao's ears, but it made him sigh, why didn't Li Mingfu vomit dozens of blood?

No matter what, Zhao Yun's edict made everyone in the court and the country understand that unless there was a big change, Jia Sidao, who had been looked down upon by them before, had already been a major trend and could not be stopped at all.

It is not unaware of what kind of organization the Maritime War Department is. It is also known to everyone. Obviously, the emperor was really anxious this time and wanted to make money from the Maritime War Department.

However, the various market departments involved all aspects from top to bottom, including ministers in the court, and even tyrants from local businesses. If they were really so easy to reach out, there would probably be countless people who would have reached out, so how could it be that Jia Sidao would have made his decisions?

Therefore, after Zhao Yun's imperial edict came out, except for Li Mingfu being fainted by the anger, the majority of people in the court and the country were still watching coldly.

The Maritime Bureau has great profits, everyone knows. But everyone also knows that the high profits in the Maritime Bureau are not so easy to obtain. Why did the imperial court know that the Maritime Bureau has great profits and can only keep the same thing? Isn’t it because there is too much resistance?

Of course, then again, Jia Sidao seems to like what he can do the most. If he can really take down the Maritime Warehouse, it will be of great benefit to everyone in the Song Dynasty.

Since someone takes the lead, it is the best. If you can't take over the maritime merchants from all over the country, the maritime manager is the flower in the mirror and the moon in the water. You can still kill Jia Sidao's aura, so that he understands that even if the emperor supports him, he will not be able to be rampant. Of course, if Jia Sidao really takes over the maritime merchants from all over the country, then the big ones who want to get a share of the pie is naturally not to be angry with the emperor at this time, right?

The only person who was happy about this edict was probably Zheng Mingxuan and others who had already invested millions of taels of silver in Jia Sidao. Obviously, in the Maritime War that had not yet begun, those who had already taken the lead in the critical moment of the war in the Maritime War, who had already taken Jia Sidao's hand.

Jia Sidao was not clear about what the court officials thought. Of course, even if he knew it, he would not take it seriously. The various things of the Maritime Affairs Bureau were too important to his plan, and no matter what, he would not give up easily.

In addition to Zhao Yun, who was also crazy about money, his confidence was naturally the 50,000 militia who transformed from militia into soldiers in the Mass General Office.

Zhao Yun didn't take these 50,000 people seriously, because in his opinion, these yamen runners formed by refugees were not even considered to be the fang army, because they were all yamen runners. But for Jia Sidao, these 50,000 people were his first capital to go to this world, and they belonged entirely to his 50,000 army.

Because these 50,000 people were recruited from refugees, and for refugees, the young prefect is already like their rebirth of parents.

With this relationship, it naturally guarantees the loyalty of the 50,000 yamen runners of the Maritime Warriors. Of course, the loyalty of the ministers may not be too high, but this is not a problem for Jia Sidao, and there is a lot of time.

Even Jia Sidao himself did not realize that he had already begun to prepare for the future without realizing it. It was just that he himself was unwilling to believe it. After all, which yamen would have 50,000 yamen runners? And it was divided according to the water and invasion armies of the regular army of the Song Dynasty, and the imperial guards were used to train them?

...

When Shi Songzhi and Yu Tianxi came together to meet, Jia Sidao was rolling his trousers and carrying a group of people to dig wells.

Reclaiming barren mountains and rectifying terraced fields is the only magic weapon that Jia Sidao can create more than 500,000 acres of farmland in Lin'an Prefecture. Terraces make full use of limited land, but terraced fields are not conducive to irrigation. After all, there is obviously no pump in the Song Dynasty today. Of course, there is no pump, and there is a water truck, and it is both manpower and wind power.

However, even if it is a water truck, it is necessary to have water on the terraced fields, right? What's more, who can guarantee that there will be no drought? What's more, Jia Sidao does not intend to use these farmlands for only a moment. Since they have been cultivated, they must make good use of them, right?

Therefore, digging wells, digging deep wells, and using groundwater for irrigation during drought has become the first choice.

At this time, there was no drilling machinery, and the only thing that could be relied on was people to dig wells. Therefore, after feeling that the farmland was almost fully cultivated, Jia Sidao stopped the vigorous land reclamation movement, but instead concentrated his efforts to start the vigorous ditches and digging deep wells.

If he didn't sow the seeds and rushed to the spring plowing, Jia Sidao felt that he was going to declare bankruptcy directly. Although Zheng Mingxuan and others did not ask for interest, and he was trying to save as much as possible. Of course, even if he didn't save, he had to save and had no food to buy. By now, his personal debt was over 2 million taels of silver.

This is also a blessing for Zheng Mingxuan and others to believe him, otherwise more than one million refugees outside the city would have to eat bran every meal earlier. Even so, the food for refugees every day is half of the coarse grain and half of the bran.

Jia Sidao is not sure how many wells to dig for 500,000 acres of farmland. Fortunately, there are professional talents from the Ministry of Works. Not to mention anything else, Jia Sidao can still mobilize many officials in the six ministries. Didn’t he see the officials from the Ministry of Revenue, the Ministry of War, and the Ministry of Works go directly to Lin'an Prefecture to go to work?

"Young Master, Master Shi and Mr. Yu are here."

Jia Quan'er squeezed into the crowd and whispered in a low voice, Jia Sidao, who was pulling his trousers and barefoots.

The boy was holding a basket in his hand. Jia Sidao was bare-handed in person. How dare he stand by and watch? So these days they are still covered with the wind and sun (it's not raining), and Jia Quan'er has finally become much stronger.

Hearing Jia Quan'er's words, Jia Sidao, who was shouting to the people underground to be careful to strengthen it, was stunned.

Shi Songzhi and Yu Tianxi returned to Lin'an City two days ago, so he naturally received the news. However, because Shi Songzhi and Yu Tianxi were both walking through the Xicheng Gate, and he was busy measuring the locations of several wells at that time, so he didn't go to pick them up. He wanted to wait until the matter was done before seeing these two allies who had gone out for a tour, but he didn't expect that the two of them would find the victim camp outside the city directly.

"Please ask them to go to the tent, I'll come right away..."

Before he finished speaking, Jia Sidao turned around and saw more than a hundred-step foreign Shi Songzhi and Yu Tianxi strode with big strides surrounded by a large number of officials. Who is Yu Ci, who is also wearing small clothes, rolling his legs, barefoot and muddy in front of him?

He pulled the craftsman of the Ministry of Works next to him who was checking the location of the well drilling. Jia Sidao gave a few instructions, but after tidying up his clothes, he found that there was nothing to do, so he had to greet him with a wry smile.

"Secretary, I have met Shi Xiang, Mr. Yu." Jia Sidao shouted loudly from a distance.

"Why should Shi Xian do this?"

Shi Songzhi and Yu Tianxi were shocked at the same time when they saw Jia Sidao, who was also barefoot and mud-legged, and then felt relieved. Shi Songzhi took a few steps and helped Jia Sidao up and said angrily.

"Shi Xian really didn't expect Shi Xiang and Yu Gong to come to this place. He originally wanted to wait until the well came out before visiting..."

"Shi Xian, what you said is wrong. You saved millions of disaster victims by your own strength, and you also led the way to cultivate more than 500,000 acres for two days, making a great contribution to the great Song Dynasty. Although I and Yu Gong are old, they are not yet at the time to be unable to walk. But to be honest, seeing this endless fertile land and the more than one million victims with your own eyes, I realized that Shi Xian has really suffered these days."

Shi Songzhi did not dislike Jia Sidao's body was covered in mud, and he intimately picked up Jia Sidao's arm and said seriously.

Shi Songzhi was a little ashamed.

From the bottom of my heart, the two of them left Beijing at the same time. In fact, in addition to really wanting to provide disaster relief and transport food to Ezhou to clear out the bandits, there is another more important reason, that is, they want to avoid the upcoming whirlpool in Lin'an City.

More than one million refugees are besieging the city, the treasury is empty, and there is neither food nor money. No matter who takes over the burden of disaster relief, it is a thankless situation, and a situation where losing the official position may be the best result.

Under such circumstances, Yu Tianxi and Shi Songzhi resolutely decided to leave the whirlpool of Lin'an City and throw the matter to Qiao Xingjian and others for trouble. Anyway, there were not many officials in the Siming Group in the court, and even if there were, they were far from qualified and qualified to take over the burden of the Lin'an prefect.

The two of them did not know in advance that Jia Sidao would be promoted to the prefect of Lin'an Prefecture. However, this also gave the two a chance to see Jia Sidao's ability, so they simply patted their butts and left.

The result was that without relying on the help of the two, Jia Sidao not only successfully solved a major disaster that left the government and the country helpless, but also reclaimed hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land around Lin'an to save the victims. At the same time, in the court, he used his own strength to beat Li Mingfu to bed directly. Even the two of them were amazed and could only sigh that they were afraid of the younger generation.

"Shi Xiang is serious. If there weren't a priest, Shi Xian would have run away long ago."

"...you..." Hearing Jia Sidao's words, Shi Songzhi and Yu Tianxi were stunned at first, and then smiled bitterly: "What can Qiao Xingjian be the prime minister of the dynasty? After all, it's Shi Xian that you can do what others can do."

"Two lords don't praise the officials. The officials owed a lot of debts. Even if the officials were sold, they would probably not be able to pay them back. Even so, it can only ensure that these victims are not hungry every day, alas!"

Shi Songzhi and Yu Tianxi looked at each other.

"I and Mr. Yu are here today, aren't I just coming to deliver food to Shi Xian?"

"Oh? Deliver food?"

"Hasn't Shi Xian prepared for a long time?"

"Hehe, I know that I can't hide it from the two adults. It's just..."

"Shi Xian, I and Mr. Yu have not helped you anything before. Now that I am back in Lin'an, can you still be angry with me? If you have any plans, just say it directly. I and Mr. Yu will follow your arrangements."

Jia Sidao looked at Shi Songzhi with a serious face, turned his head and glanced at Yu Ci who lowered his head and said nothing, as if he understood something.

He had been waiting for Shi Songzhi and Yu Tianxi to come back to collect the money, Wen and Wen, the three families, who are still willing to endure unsold grain merchants. Yu Ci knew the most about this matter. Although the plan might not be clear, he did not expect that Yu Ci brought Shi Songzhi and Yu Tianxi directly to the construction site.

Shi Songzhi and Yu Tianxi escaped the whirlpool of the victims by taking advantage of disaster relief and bandit suppression, and threw him alone in the top of Lin'an City. Jia Sidao naturally knew it very well.

He was angry at the beginning. After all, the relationship between the allies had just been established, and the two old guys ran away when they saw that the situation was not good, which really made him feel a little disappointed with their behavior.

If you leave when the situation is not good, is it still a trivial matter? If it is related to life and death, then don’t you just sell yourself?

However, as the progress of the matter progressed, Jia Sidao slowly became clear. It is normal for human beings to seek profit and avoid harm, not to mention that Shi Songzhi's power has long been inferior to the past, so it is also appropriate for him to protect himself first.

After all, if he had not participated and had he been pulled out by Qiao Xingjian, then the only person who could be pushed into the tank after Shi Songzhi left was Qiao Xingjian or the Neo-Confucian school. What's more, Shi Songzhi didn't know that Qiao Xingjian and others would push him out, and he didn't expect that Zhao Yun would agree to Qiao Xingjian's request, so these are actually nothing.

Now, he came to the door in person to apologize to himself. With his status as a prime minister, it is enough. What's more, Yuan Fu can compromise. Shi Songzhi was originally his ally and was very good to him. There is no need to catch a little thing that has passed.

"In this way, Shi Xian thanked the Prime Minister Shi and Duke Yu and invited him to speak in the account."

Thinking about this, Jia Sidao said quietly with a smile.

Seeing Jia Sidao like this, Shi Songzhi and Yu Tianxi finally breathed a sigh of relief.

After this incident, Jia Sidao was not only not defeated by Qiao Xingjian, but instead became more and more courageous and more powerful. The two naturally hoped to build a stronger relationship between their allies.

"What are the plans for the three Shixians who are still stocking up food?"

"Uh...it's not yet time..."

"Oh? How do you say this..."

The group said as they gradually moved away.

...

Time passes quickly.

In mid-June of the second year of Jiaxi, there was another good news on the battlefield in Xiangyang.

Meng Gong's general Zhang Jun recovered Yingzhou (now Zhongxiang, Hubei), He Shun recovered Jingmen, Liu Quan defeated the Mongolian army three times in Zhongtou, Fancheng, and Langshenshan, recovered Xinyang army, and captured Guangzhou (now Huangchuan, Henan). Mongolian general Zhang Rou was unable to rescue him. Seeing that the Song army was in great power, he had to gather tens of thousands of remaining troops to retreat to Caizhou.

When the news came, Zhao Yun was very happy and issued an edict on the same day: Meng Gong was promoted to the Chief of Staff of the Governor (similar to the Chief of Staff), Zhang Jun, He Shun, and Liu Quan were all given the title of Qingche Duwei (from the fourth rank), and all the other generals and soldiers were rewarded in various ways; Dong Ningchen, the governor of Guangzhou, surrendered to the enemy and stolen the country, was sentenced to death, and Liu Chen, the clerk of the Sihu, was exiled to Leizhou.

It was at this time that news about Dali Kingdom finally came. After nearly half a year after entering Dali Kingdom, more than 100,000 Mongolian troops finally withdrew before the arrival of Ku Xia. When the Mongols retreated, half of the Dali Kingdom's country was already covered with vast land.
Chapter completed!