Chapter 171 The Great Man of Northern Song

"Me?" Zhao Feng was stunned and confused. "If I have a certain plan in my mind, why should I ask you?"

Gongsun Xuanxu shook his head and said, "The prince is so arrogant! Although I spent most of my time in the Ministry of Justice when I was in Bianliang City, I also knew that the prince's ability to make money in Bianliang City! Soup, betting, Cuju... Well, it should be called football now! All of them were established."

Zhao Qian was stunned for a moment and immediately reacted! Yes! He had nearly a thousand years of business knowledge to advance here, so why didn’t he think of this? Moreover, the emergence of capital will greatly enrich the people, liberate landless refugees, and weaken the control of the landlords on manpower.

Zhao Jin nodded and said, "It's right now, but I don't have any clues for the time being. Let's discuss this matter tomorrow! Gongsun Xuanxu will first talk about the last of the six edicts!"

"For the sake of prison and lawsuit, as the saying goes, people are born from the qi of yin and yang. If they have nature, they have sentient beings. If they are in nature, they do good and emotions will be evil. They care about rewards and punishments. If they don't, the people don't know what is right and what is wrong. If the people don't know these, they will develop a resentment and rebellion. Therefore, what the prince needs to do is to make clear laws and decree! Send envoys to patrol in various places and supervise laws and regulations in various places!" Gongsun Xuanxu said seriously.

After a pause, Gongsun Xuanxu continued: "Especially some devastating scholars, they like to instigate others to sue and make huge profits! If there is a dispute over a thousand loyalty in a lawsuit and many lawyers, they can get four benefits! At least two benefits! If you talk, you can get four or two hundred and thousands of coins in just over a month. Even if you fail, you can get one or two thousand coins as litigation fees!"

Zhao Qian could not have imagined that the income of the lawyers in this era was so high! If you make a fortune, you would be afraid that you would be able to compare with the salary of a prime minister for five or six months!

But Zhao Qian also knew the difficulties and said in confusion: "Although this is good, it is afraid it will be difficult to fall below! It is easy to send out expenditures, but do these expenditures understand the people's conditions below? I'm afraid it is easy to be fooled by the people below!"

Qian Yanyuan sighed and said, "It's a pity that Huangfu Cheng has died, otherwise he would definitely be able to give great help to the prince!"

Zhao Qian also heard that Huangfu Cheng was a wise old prisoner, but he had already died of illness during the Tiansheng period. It was a pity that Zhao Qian thought about it now!

Gongsun Xuanxu recommended: "Zhou Qin, the promoter of Shouguang County, has a good reputation as a father, so he can use it!"

Zhao Qian was stunned and asked, "Who is Zhou Qin's father? He can actually praise him like this!"

"Zhou Wenyuan!" Gongsun Xuanxu said with a serious look on his face. After saying that, he sighed regretfully: "It's just a pity that Zhou Wenyuan could not be inferior to the prince, otherwise this would be even better!"

"Zhou Wenyuan? Who is it?" Zhao Qin immediately moved to win over Zhou Wenyuan when he heard this. After all, his son just has the style of being like a father. After all, it is not as useful as me!

Qian Yanyuan and Gongsun Xuanxu naturally noticed Zhao Jin's thoughts. Gongsun Xuanxu shook his head and said, "It's difficult!"

Qian Yanyuan also nodded and said, "It's just right!"

Zhao Jin was even more curious. "Why do you say so?"

Gongsun Xuanxu had already made a big splash before, so he naturally had to give some opportunities to Qian Yanyuan, so he remained silent.

Qian Yanyuan understood Gongsun Xuanxu's meaning, and was secretly grateful in his heart. He pondered for a while and said seriously: "Zhou Wenyuan was named Zhan. He was a Jinshi in the third year of Tianxi, Emperor Zhenzong of Song Dynasty. He was first awarded the position of Kaizhou Promotion Officer (an official responsible for hearing the lawsuit). He was transferred back to the court to serve as a writer in the Secretariat. However, he was upright and did not take long to offend people, and was promoted to the public and surrendered to Rongzhou as a magistrate."

Zhao Qian was stunned and said in surprise: "Rongzhou? He is afraid he has offended the big shot!"

This Rongzhou is said to be from the Song Dynasty, but it is actually a semi-natural state. Not to mention the local people’s customs, the natives account for 70 to 80% of the population. It is not the officials of the Song Dynasty who have the final say, but the local native cave owner. Even the magistrate can be bullied into a young wife, let alone the magistrate!

Qian Yanyuan nodded with admiration and said, "That's right! In such poor mountains and rivers, Mr. Wenyuan did not give up on himself. Instead, he went to the countryside with his doctor to treat local people who believe in ghosts and gods. He then summoned stonemasons to carve the prescription for curing diseases on large stones in conspicuous places in important roads to educate local people to take medicine to treat when they are sick, and never believe in any ghosts and gods. He also posted notices that wizards and witches were strictly forbidden to pretend to be a god and deceive people and kill people. The customs of the people began to become more open!"

Although Qian Yanyuan said it seemed very simple, Zhao Qian understood the danger.

Although these wizards are charlatans, they have great prestige among the natives, and their status can be said to be on par with the cave master. Not only will you cut off their wealth, but you will also destroy their prestige. Will these forces remain indifferent?

Definitely not!

But Zhou Zhan didn't know what method to use to settle all these! He was a great method! He was a capable official!

Qian Yanyuan continued: "Because Rongzhou is well-managed, Mr. Wenyuan's position has been transferred several times, and then he was transferred back to Beijing by the imperial edict, and served as the official of the Shangshu Capital by the late emperor. This time, Mr. Wenyuan did not stay in the capital for long, and was promoted openly and secretly to Qianzhou."

Zhao Qin was speechless immediately, damn it! Zhou Zhan was able to offend people this time! Although the official Wailang of Shangshudu was a free position, he was easily contacted by the emperor on weekdays and was a very noble official. Generally speaking, if this official position was released, he would definitely serve as the magistrate of Guanyao Fuzhou, or the important officials of Henan Prefecture and Yingtian Prefecture.

And where is Qianzhou? The southern end of Jiangxi West Road is now Ganzhou City, Jiangxi Province. Ganzhou City is now amazing and the second largest city in Jiangxi Province.

However, in the Song Dynasty, although this place was in Jiangxi, in the concept of officials, it was in Lingnan! As mentioned in the previous article, being exiled to Lingnan was the biggest punishment for officials by the Song Dynasty. After all, the Song Dynasty did not kill scholars and officials!

You said how could Zhou Zhan offend people this time? That’s why he went from being a close minister to being exiled to Lingnan?

Zhao Qian can only say that Zhou Zhan is a great man! He is very awesome in terms of governing local areas and offending people! Zhao Qian did not have the idea of ​​retreating about this, but instead the idea of ​​recruiting Zhou Zhan in his heart became even more passionate.
Chapter completed!