Chapter 307 Winning Back Two Mansions
The next day, Zhao Yulin bid farewell to his parents and Zhao Feiyan and returned to Chengdu.
The young woman was clinging to him all the way, and Zhao Yulin said that he was too clingy, and it was not like they would separate when they returned. The young woman grabbed his arm and said confidently that she would not be alone when they returned, and she had to seize the moment.
Zhao Yulin was completely speechless, and accompanied Feiyan to eat yellow croaker in Xinjin before going back. When they got home, they saw that Huo Fenghuang had returned from Jianchang Prefecture.
Fenghuang had avenged her personal vengeance and was in a good mood. She told him that the Dali soldiers were not good at fighting, so why didn't they continue to advance south?
Yangjin said that if we advance south again, our Phoenix General will attack the Dali Palace directly. Now is not the time to destroy the Dali Kingdom. Dali is not made of clay, right?
Zhao Yulin nodded and told them: The area north of the Jinsha River originally belonged to the Song Dynasty. If we take it back, there will be no problem. If we go south and threaten the capital of Dali, the resistance will definitely be strong. Now is not the time.
He told Fenghuang to get her heart back and cooperate with Lao Cao to reorganize the army. This was the highlight of New Song this year.
The next day, Lord Ding convened a meeting to discuss the matter.
All the gentlemen were in a very happy mood. The New Song Dynasty won two prefectures in one battle against Dali, pushed the national border directly to the Jinsha River, and restored the southwestern control area during the founding period of the Song Dynasty. The whole country was already jubilant.
People have begun clamoring to send officials to the border area of Daliangshan.
Zhao Yulin said that after Jianchang and Huichuan prefectures returned to the new Song Dynasty, they should be governed according to the laws of our new Song Dynasty, and the Ministry of Personnel should come up with a specific operational strategy for discussion by all.
Fan Zhong said with a smile that he already had it, and Yang Jin immediately stood up and distributed the documents to the gentlemen.
He took it in his hand and saw that the woman had already planned it for him. Liangshan restored its administrative divisions in later times, with only one large autonomous prefecture, called Liangshan Prefecture, with its capital still in Jianchang City, but its name was changed to Xichang by the Central Government.
She downgraded Huichuan Prefecture to a county, and changed its name to Huili County in later generations.
Zhao Yulin proposed to set up a new town and designate the area in the south of the Jinsha River where iron ore is produced as a town called Dukou Town, which would be dedicated to the development of the iron ore area.
He originally wanted to change the name to Dukou City or Panzhihua, but after careful consideration, he felt that the current scale of construction was too small, and it would be better to call it Dukou Town.
The gentlemen knew that the area was a production area of high-quality iron ore, which was crucial to the development of the handicraft industry of the New Song Dynasty, so they agreed immediately.
Yangjin then took out the second list of officials to be dispatched.
He didn't say much about this.
Zhao Yulin proposed to use the Dali officials who remained in place as they were familiar with the situation, as well as the families of the chiefs of the vassal states in various places, who could be used.
In this way, the new Song Dynasty reduced the number of officials at the provincial and municipal levels, added counties, towns, and villages, abolished the loose control system, and actually strengthened the most basic governance.
Mr. Ding asked him, who should be sent to be the prefect of Liangshan Prefecture?
Zhao Yulin said that he would not send a provincial governor for the time being. He proposed to send his guard captain Geng Feihu to be the general manager, and the other deputy positions would be Tongpan.
Zhao Yulin explained to the gentlemen: Liangshan has just returned to the New Song Dynasty, the Dali Kingdom is still eyeing it covetously, and the hostile forces on all sides are also very complicated. It is necessary to send a smart and capable person who dares to use force to stabilize the situation for two years before implementing civil governance.
Geng Feihu has been training by his side for many years. He is capable and daring, so let him give it a try.
The gentlemen looked at each other and the big guys on the stage without saying anything.
After experiencing the changes during this period, Mr. Ding understood Zhao Yulin's idea and immediately agreed. He asked Fan Zhong to adjust the officials going to Liangshan and appropriately arrange some people with both civil and military talents to take over the government.
Lao Cao also nodded in agreement. He thought it was necessary for Zhao Yulin to think this way. The contradictions among the border barbarians were prominent, and fights often occurred between tribes. Officials without a bit of blood could not suppress them.
Then Huayue's Inspectorate handed the revised draft of the new law to everyone for discussion. After reading it, everyone made some impromptu comments. Zhao Yulin felt that time was too short and it was difficult for everyone to express their ideas accurately and safely. He suggested that everyone take it back and think about it carefully, and then everyone can speak freely when they discuss it again half a month later.
Everyone agreed with his opinion, but thought that there should be a person in charge of the Ministry of Justice to coordinate inspections, supervision and the Dali Temple.
He suggested that Zhao Yanna take it with him temporarily to help coordinate the three departments to reach a practical draft.
Zhao Yulin thought there was one very important thing that had not been discussed, which was agriculture. In the past, the emperor attached great importance to agriculture. A year's plan begins in spring, and our first meeting of the year, or even the last meeting before the New Year, should be to discuss agriculture.
He said: When the granaries are full, people will know etiquette. Among food, clothing, housing and transportation, the first thing to solve is the issue of having enough food.
He proposed that the Central Council set up a special office to contact and coordinate the various ministries, and send an official document in the name of Ding Gong to all routes, states, and counties, urging them to pay attention to agricultural affairs, attach importance to spring farming production, and quickly complete the agricultural work that needed to be done.
Everyone was in awe, and they all thought that what he said was right and that it must be done quickly.
Mr. Ding was very concerned about the proposal he had just made to set up an office for the Central Yuan, and asked him to explain it in more detail.
Zhao Yulin looked at Yangjin below.
Yangjin thought for a while and analyzed for everyone. This office should first serve the officials well, and also coordinate and contact the various ministries. It is equivalent to the largest office of the Central Council that manages the office of each ministry.
She proposed that the person in charge should be equivalent to the Shangshu, who should be directly responsible to Lord Ding. He should be responsible for drafting the official documents of the court, reviewing and filing the official documents of various ministries, and the daily affairs of the central government. Such a person must be loyal and reliable, and Lord Ding should make the decision.
Zhao Yulin nodded and said that this was what he meant. This office was like the brain of our Central Court. All state affairs had to be gathered here and sorted out. The affairs of the directors and deputy directors had to be implemented.
He asked everyone to consider Mr. Ding's case more carefully.
This discussion lasted for most of the day. Not long after he sat down, Lao Cao came to him to discuss military reform.
Zhao Yulin took out the written copy and asked Cao Youwen to review it, and told him that the composition of the military organization personnel was roughly divided into four parts: Shenwei Army, Garrison Army, Patrol, Shunfeng Office, and Logistics Equipment.
The Shenwei Army is responsible for major military tasks such as external warfare and internal rebellion suppression.
The garrison army is responsible for border patrols, maintaining stability in the interior, guarding important barriers and public housing, and general small-scale military missions in battles, and supporting the Shenwei Army in combat.
Patrolmen and constables are responsible for catching thieves and maintaining public security.
The Shunfeng Office is responsible for military intelligence gathering and anti-espionage and anti-treason efforts by the military and civilians.
Logistics Equipment is responsible for the production of logistics equipment, weapons and tools for all military personnel...
Zhao Yulin spoke a long list of things, and Lao Cao kept nodding his head, thinking that his clues were very clear and that the functions of the army were clearly divided. He said that the military chiefs from all over the country were almost all here, so they decided to hold a meeting on a certain day to discuss the matter.
Zhao Yulin nodded and said that he would discuss it with everyone first. He believed that as the New Song Dynasty gradually stabilized and developed normally, adjustments would need to be made based on actual conditions.
After communicating with each other, the two agreed to talk with Mr. Ding and others the next day.
At night, Chen Chen told him that the shopkeepers in Jinguan City were very happy after seeing the new tools in Cuiping Mountain together, and they wanted to use the power of steam engines to make mechanical textiles.
Mr. Chen Xian also proposed doing so. In this way, a large number of steam engines could be built, which would accelerate the widespread application of steam engines. The more steam engines the craftsmen built, the better steam engines they could make.
Is Zhao Yulin worried that this technology is spreading too quickly?
We were worried that the enemy would steal our technology and soon catch up with us.
Wu Yuqi knew his worries and told him to go back and discuss with Master Lu to work out a complete plan to protect the new technology from being stolen by the enemy.
Only then did he make up his mind and agree to do it, and asked them to think about how to utilize the waste heat of the steam engine.
Chen Chen nodded vigorously and told him: The industrial park does not want to move to Shuangliu as it is too far away. The shopkeepers suggested moving it to Wenjiang, which is closest to Chengdu and is also the core production area of sericulture.
This is very different from Zhao Yulin's idea.
He said that Wenjiang is a place with good wind and water supply, and industrial development there will cause serious pollution, which will then cause trouble for those downwind and at the water outlet.
Chen Chen told him that Mr. Liu Yuru believed that facilities such as sewage disposal tanks could solve the problem very well.
Zhao Yulin knew that the current silk reeling, silk dyeing and weaving might be small-scale and not a big problem, which could be basically solved with the sewage septic tank system he designed.
These ancient people did not have a strong sense of environmental protection, so we just had to make do with it. However, the scale of this industrial park must be controlled, and only the workshops that moved out of Jinguan City should be accommodated, and it is not allowed to expand.
The next day, Mr. Ding asked us to visit the housing resettlement area built by Baihuatan for the resettlement households. There were three-story tube buildings similar to single-person staff dormitories, small and exquisite courtyards for each family, and large houses with slightly larger courtyards for shopkeepers and managers to buy.
Zhao Yulin said that as long as the people are willing to relocate, it will be fine. He focused on checking the drainage and sewage pipeline design, which is a must.
Yang Zhishan told him everything. He knew that the third young master cared deeply about the environment and had specially built a culvert prefabrication workshop outside the city. He had already started making culverts and manhole covers according to the construction needs.
Mr. Qiu said happily that he had heard the master chef from Xuzhou talk about centralized sewage discharge, which he found very novel. He did not expect that it would be used in the construction of resettlement community houses.
Zhao Yulin nodded and said that not only was it necessary to have it, but we must also learn from the lessons of Cuiping Mountain and consider how to dredge the silt and ensure that it was done well, usable, and lasting.
As the group walked, they kept exclaiming in admiration.
Fan Zhong and other capable officials who came from Lin'an in Jiangdong never imagined that Zhao Yulin would ask the relocated mechanics and poor people to live in houses built with Xuzhou's high-tech. Although they looked small in area, they were spacious and bright mansions.
Not to mention Lin'an, even in Chengdu, there is no courtyard built with the latest construction technology and materials. Just by renovating the toilet and kitchen with white tiles, the wealthy families are asking around to buy tiles and install glass toilets to enjoy.
