Take the system back to the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 92
Two days later in the morning, a yamen servant entered the office with a letter and handed it to Zhao Cheng: "A letter from the governor. The sender didn't know the name, so he left without stopping."

Open it and see that it was sent by Bai Chenxiang.

The first is the good news. It has only been a few days since Zhao Cheng taught the dragon slaying operation last time. The letter said that the Yangshan Village has achieved good results, and about 200 people have been recruited from nearby to enter the Yangshan Village. Now, their The scale is close to 300 people.

The trouble is that people have to eat. Yangshan Village originally didn't have much food accumulation, but now it is basically exhausted. The letter said that it is miserable, and they have been eating porridge since yesterday.

The second bad news is that they are not too far away from Wang Xiu's Ganoderma lucidum cottage, and they are also within the range of the "Ultimatum", and yesterday Wang Xiu sent someone to threaten and warn them.

The third is big news: Hongshan Village was attacked, and Bai Chenxiang couldn't tell how many people died. She estimated that nearly a hundred people including a small number of children and old people died, and were burned to residue by a big fire. .

"It seems like something is going to happen!"

Zhao Cheng hurriedly stood up and went over, looking at the regional map hanging in the hall.

"What happened to Hongshan, what is the situation?" Zhao Chengtie asked after a while.

Several scribes in the military office looked at each other, expressing that they didn't understand the situation.

Regardless, it's their fault, but not entirely. In fact, there is no such place as Hongshan Village in the Song Dynasty Administrative Region, it is just a mountain.The government does not recognize that people live there, nor does it collect taxes there.There were no archers stationed there.

What Wang Xiu did will not form a "big case" at the official level, and there will be no news, at least for the time being.

After hesitating for a while, I can't think about it for a while, and Zhao Cheng can't report this matter to the state government.Because sources are an issue.

Zhao Cheng's contact with Bai Chenxiang was the old Pei's acquiescence, not Cai You's acquiescence.Cai You knows that it doesn't mean that he will definitely cause trouble, but because Cai You's movements are difficult to understand, he will add variables to the incident, and it must be tantamount to causing trouble for Lao Pei.Then Zhao Cheng's life must be difficult.

After making up his mind, he casually explained a few official matters to his subordinates, and left the county office in a hurry.

The top priority is to raise the first batch of food as soon as possible to send to Bai Chenxiang, otherwise she will not be able to do it even if she has the legendary Great Ancestor's mentality. At this juncture, the hearts of the people will definitely not be dispersed. Once they are dispersed, the officers and soldiers will be useless. With the existence of a stick, Chizhou is basically Wang Xiu's world.

If this causes further financial difficulties for the imperial court, and chaos in many places creates a general environment, Wang Xiu will definitely rebel in advance, and Chizhou will be on fire in advance.At that time, not to mention the little girl who sold firewood to Zhao Cheng outside the city, it only needed Cai You to make a mistake, and Qin Ming sent troops to defeat once, and the state and city could not be defended, and there would be rivers of blood.

At the earliest stage, Zhao Cheng, as the middleman, reached a preliminary agreement between Bai Chenxiang's department and the county government: the ore-for-grain plan.

The premise of being able to win such a condition is that Lao Pei is not a stupid official, he wants to do something, and he can temporarily tolerate Bai Chenxiang's department.So Lao Pei accepted Zhao Cheng's theory that "this is equivalent to providing productivity for our county".

But now Bai Chenxiang's department is still in the cracks to rectify, and it is temporarily unable to stop the production of the first batch of ore.Without the first batch of ore brought in, it would be impossible to open the warehouse to release grain.

So Zhao Cheng had to pay for the first batch of food himself.

The county government treasury is not under the management of Zhao Cheng, but in the hands of Master Zhu.However, the operation in this area is in the gray area, and Peizhi County acquiesces, and it is impossible to issue an administrative order on the surface, so it is impossible to perform flexible operations.

Walking while thinking, when passing the tea house, Gui Jiaoqi was listening to a book, looking like he was enjoying himself.

Zhao Cheng shouted, "Ah Qi."

"Here comes the boss." Gui Jiaoqi ran over.

Zhao Cheng said: "Go to the wood workshop now and see if the slingshot fork we made last time is ready."

Guijiaoqi scratched his head and said: "It's only been a few days, it should not be finished yet, we can order [-] pairs, the quantity is not so fast."

"I don't care about him, you still go there, count as much as you make, take the first batch, call a few coolies you know, rent three scooters, and then come to see me at Xinfeng Liang in the south of the city."

After Zhao Cheng gave his orders, he hurried to the Xinfengliang...

"Hey, Mr. Zhao Yasi, what's your business in this small shop?"

It's good to have an administrative status. At least you won't be fooled by these guys, and it's easier to talk and negotiate.

So I sat down at the second largest grain stall in Chizhou and drank a cup of tea. By the way, I negotiated a price of three shi per shi and took the first batch of ten shi rice.

This price is basically close to their cost price.

The expected flood this year did not occur as expected, so the closer the new grain market is approaching, the grain price is still slightly lower.The arrival of new grains on the market means that they need inventory, and the old grains of the year before and the year before have been "discounted and promoted".In addition, Zhao Cheng has an administrative status, so even if the quantity is small, he can get preferential wholesale prices.

In addition, if someone else buys them, they must be mixed with sand, how much is the problem.But it would definitely not be such a pain in the ass for Zhao Cheng to buy them.

Almost Guijiaoqi also came with a few coolies, along with a pallet truck, and quickly loaded the hundreds of kilograms of grain into the truck.

"There are only more than 90 pairs of slingshot forks, and I brought them all." Gui Jiaoqi patted the package on his back again.

When passing by the county government office, he went in and called a team of men with swords to accompany him.Otherwise, there is no guarantee that they will not be harassed by mountain people or grass bandits.

Now the balance is barely there, as long as there are officials who accompany them, they will not be harassed, even if the bandits are superior in strength, they will not mess around.

But this is only temporary. When the balance is broken, it will basically enter a state of disorder similar to that of later generations of Africa.Once it really enters, it will be difficult to turn around. It will need to kill a lot of people, and the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty basically do not have this quality.

So this is the reason why the four most lethal rebellions will be formed in this year.When Tong Guan squared La, he mobilized a hundred thousand troops.

As for Zhang Shuye's comparison, the Sanbai city management taught Song Jiang and the others how to behave.

To a certain extent, Cai You's argument against Su Zaifang in the academy at that time was correct.It seems timid to continue to adopt a loose policy of maintaining stability. That’s because Cai You knows the urgency of the government and the army under his rule. It can also make the bandits see the weakness of the government, thus amplifying their courage to plan ahead.

This is the key point of Cai Jing spraying Zhao Tingzhi.

Neither side is a good thing, and each has its own reasons.As for Zhao Cheng, now he is more inclined to Cai You's point of view, don't poke him if you are not sure, the way to grow indecently is king.

Otherwise, once the chaos breaks out, the worst ones will definitely not be Cai You and Qin Ming, nor the court ministers and emperors, but the group of little match girls outside the city who will suffer first...

(End of this chapter)