The houses are like forests, the eaves are overlapped, and in the night, the lights between the city houses gather into a flowing fire, and in the night of late summer and early autumn, the scene of Bianjing City is outlined criss-crossed.

The time for dinner has long passed, even if the night is deep, the hustle and bustle in Bianjing City does not show the slightest sign of abating, after nearly two hundred years of inheritance of Bianjing City, it is the heart of the Wu Dynasty, bringing together the world's businessmen and customers, and reaching the four directions of the world. Every day, there are countless travelers and businessmen who pass through here to reach the north and south, and the imperial examination once a year or several years brings together the world's talented and heroic people, and here, also gathers a group of the most powerful officials in the whole world, surrounded by the imperial throne, dominating the operation of the world.

Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, commerce has gradually developed, the curfew has been lifted, and the city is basically quiet, even in the early morning, when it is the quietest, there are a large number of lights lit in the center, and at this time it is the end of the day, and the hot weather makes the city people will not go to bed early. On the side of the road, in the 1 small courtyard, between the green buildings, and in the tea shop, people are either quiet or noisy dotted in the meantime, and in the heat and dryness, it is also a prosperous but peaceful scene.

The war in the north did not affect the pace of the city, and the actions of the imperial court to a greater or lesser extent did not stir up much trouble in the city. The movement of troops, the transfer of supplies, everything is carried out quietly under a huge momentum, as if everyone can feel the action, but not many people can really understand the inside story clearly. At most, it is only in the mouths of some insiders that a lot of talking points have been added, or the merchants who have gathered in Bianjing occasionally discuss the prospects of traveling north, but there is not much tension or anxiety in the atmosphere of Qinglou brothels and taverns and tea shops, as in the past, the poetry between the gathering of literati is also Chengping jīang, and the sunshine self-confidence proves this to some extent.

A little in the center of the city, on the side of the imperial city, the plaque of the right prime minister's mansion has just been hung. This is a large mansion that has been around for some years, and it does not look ostentatious, but the layout is solemn and the connotation is very deep. This is the Qin family's industry, Qin Siyuan left office eight years ago, and the house was sold.

In the past eight years, it has changed hands twice, both in the hands of people who had some relationship with Qin Siyuan, this time Qin Siyuan recovered, promoted to the right minister, and when he returned to Beijing, he bought it back by the trend In fact, the pattern of this mansion has not changed in the slightest.

The Qin family was an official in the capital before, and it has been in business for two generations, eight years ago, Qin Siyuan left, dismissed the people in the house, and most of the people in the family were recalled this time, which is enough to prove the fact that Qin Siyuan was not cold when he went with the tea. At the beginning, the various book collections in the mansion were shocked, and this time there were more of them, but Qin Siyuan was not a person who cared about these things. Compared with the Qin Mansion back then, at this time, after all, it seemed empty, such as some relatives who lived here at the beginning,

The family, after all, still couldn't come over at this time, it was only Qin Siyuan and his wife and concubine who lived in the mansion, and the rest, even if the lights were lit no matter how bright they were, they would all be subordinates after all.

These days, Qin Siyuan is busy with official business, and it is rare to have free time every day. At this time, the two people with the highest status in the court, Li Gang was the head of the left minister, leading the overall situation, and Qin Siyuan's right minister was more inclined to some pragmatic things.

Speaking of which, he has not entered Bianjing for eight years, and even though there are still many protégés, his influence and control here have also been greatly reduced. Especially for all kinds of pragmatic things, I'm afraid I can't take it over all of a sudden. Li Gang is familiar with him, although he strongly supports him to enter the phase, but he also said at the beginning that he would share most of the things for him, but Qin Siyuan did not hand over too many things to the other party, but at the beginning of taking over, he took on it with all his might, and within a few days, he planned the various things that needed to be dealt with clearly.

Li Gang is generous, relatively upright and hot-tempered, and has an awe-inspiring atmosphere, he is the biggest promoter of the war in recent years, but relatively speaking, this person is more strict in abiding by the Confucian way, even if his words are fierce, he is a little modest. Of course, this is not to say that he is an old and corrupt Confucian, but his beliefs are more upright, and if it were not for the fact that he needed an extremely determined person to lead the war at this time, he probably would not be able to be the left minister.

Qin Siyuan is also a contemporary Confucian, he does a good job in his articles, but his external xìng style is more dignified and elegant, and he never says death. Sometimes arguing with others, he is generous and loud, but he does not seem to be as angry as Li Gang. When it comes to doing things, the means are often upright and gentle. ,

But in terms of results, it is always more effective, pressing people with the general trend, such as boiling a frog in warm water, when others find out that there is a killing opportunity, often the situation has been set, and there is nowhere to go.

During the time he was in Beijing, he took over all kinds of government affairs, the most important thing was to first reconcile the military supplies, and with superb skills, the mobilization and gathering of various military supplies when preparing for war became more mellow and silent, so that at this time, most people in the capital did not even feel the solemn atmosphere in front of them. In less than two months after he arrived in Beijing, he had already displayed great courage and means, so that no one could underestimate the momentum suppressed by his eight years of seclusion.

Of course, all this in front of him is also based on high-intensity work, and even he has done his best to do this. He came out of the imperial city very late today, and had just eaten two bites of food when he returned home, when three old students came to visit, and he received them while eating.

At this time, among the three people, the youngest was thirty-eight years old, named Chen Kai, and his name was Yan...... At this time, he served in the Ministry of Industry and concurrently served as the chief officer of the Wensi Academy. The second oldest was forty-two years old,

The surname is Zhao Dingchen, the word is inherited, and at this time he was appointed as the young Yin of Kaifeng Mansion, and his power is already quite large. The third person is forty-eight years old this year, named Feng Yuan, self-opening, serving in the Yushitai, he is a disciple of Qin Siyuan, and now Qin Hui in the imperial history and self-professed Qin Siyuan's own family, so he is also in the Yushitai fish like water, quite valued.

Although it was the Prime Minister's Mansion, Qin Siyuan only ate a simple bowl of fish and a bowl of vegetables at this time, but let his subordinates serve three bowls of chilled mung bean soup, and each person was given a fan, and the four of them talked casually in the hall. It is not only the teacher-student relationship, but the three of them knew Qin Siyuan's love before, and at this time, it still seems casual that they don't have to speak submissively.

Eight years have not passed, and he can come back at this time, in the eyes of others, it is certainly a great luck for Qin Siyuan. However, in the past eight years, there have been many things that have developed, which he regrets and cannot grasp.

At the time of the Blackwater Alliance, Emperor Zhou Hao of Jinghan had just succeeded to the throne, and Qin Siyuan was considered half an emperor at that time, although he had the fact of an emperor in many things, at most he could only be said to be a minister of the humerus, and he did not have the name of an emperor. At that time, although Emperor Jing Han was indecisive, but also a little pioneering, the Liao army was ready to sue for peace, and then felt humiliated Qin Siyuan was disheartened at that time, but he couldn't help but do the craziest thing, instigating Emperor Jing Han to secretly prepare, provoke and support all the anti-Liao forces, and comforted Zhou Pin at this time is just a temporary forbearance as long as he prepares for a few years, there will be a chance to turn around, this matter, although he arranged a large number of things and plans at that time, but he did not have confidence, who knows that Lu Dao has become a reality at this time.

However, it was also this incident that caused the imperial court to spend a lot of money, and when Emperor Jing Han succeeded to the throne, he originally listened to everyone's opinions, except for things such as Huā Shigang in the previous dynasty, but who knew that after a year or two, the imperial court spent too much, and these things were restarted.

"I'm afraid that Taiwei Gao Yu's gang has a lot of interference in these things, right?"

"Back to the teacher, there are a lot of people involved in this matter. At the beginning, it was just that His Majesty said that he was poor, and some people did what they liked and came up with various methods. Gao Taiwei is one of them, Tang Shilang and others were also supportive at the beginning, and the students had argued on the basis of reason at the time, huā Shigang can not be opened again, but now that I think about it, the imperial court was short of money, and His Majesty wanted to find some subsidies, at first it was only a small range, but after everyone tasted the sweetness, they let go. At the end of the fourth year of Jinghan, the construction of the garden, the repair of the palace and even a series of money after that, all came from this......" Feng Yuan frowned and replied, the Tang shì lang in his mouth was the original Hubu shì Lang Tang Ke Tang Qinsuo, but at this time he had been promoted to the head of the household department, during this time, Tang Ke was the main peace faction, Feng Yuan and others naturally followed the teacher to fight, and Qin Hui at this time was also the main battle faction, so it was not pleasing to the eye to see Tang Ke.

Qin Siyuan just ate the fish: "You are in Bianjing, I am in Jiangning, they are both rich places, but I have heard of them, but I have seen them less." Huā Shigang was rampant, suffering those people, fattening those officials, Tang Qinsuo, who followed Gao Yu, was not a greedy person, but just followed by a large number of eating mouths behind his back, but Li Bangyan and Wu Min, the family is powerful, and there are many officials Alas, I think about it now, probably like this, I can't stop at the beginning...... But what are those Taoist priests? In the past six or seven years, no one dared to participate in the performance? Except for one Don Kejian. "When Emperor Jinghan Zhou Gu believed in Daoxuan all these years, he was very favored by Taoist priests, and he had already bō come to political affairs, no one dared to speak in recent years, except for Tang Kejian in Qin Siyuan's mouth, even Qin Hui in the imperial history did not dare to speak for this matter, and Tang Kejian was exiled two years ago and died on the road. Qin Siyuan sighed when he thought about it, but after a while, he shook his chopsticks. ,

"That's it, let's not talk about it today, has the batch of military rations from Zhenzhou arrived?" "The students didn't participate, but I heard that the afternoon was there." "That's good......"

At this time, he simply talked about some trivial political affairs, and after a while, he thought of a question and asked casually: "The Tianjian sent a message from the Tianjian side the day before yesterday, saying that there was an earthquake in the southeast, but there is no definite news about this matter at the moment, do you know the truth?" The three of them have also heard a little, and now Chen Yantang, who is in the Ministry of Industry, said: "At this time, I will not get the exact news for a while and a half, and the geodynamic instrument is at most to determine the direction of the earthquake, and the distance or how strong the earthquake is can not be measured, after all, the geokinetic instrument will not go, and if it is too far away, it will be a big earthquake, and there will be less measurement here." However, the previous Si Tianjian Yu Qi'an had an idea and discussed with our Ministry of Industry, saying that it was to make three identical geodynamic instruments, which were placed in three places separated by hundreds of miles or more, and in the event of an earthquake, their orientation, distance, and intensity could be calculated earlier. But the ground motion instrument is a fine thing, to say that three are the same, how is it possible, at that time Lord Yu said that it is okay to set three different ones, as long as you make a value, and then collect the earthquake values of several years or more than ten years to compare, and then there is an earthquake, it can still be calculated from this. However, this thing was not done later, after all, the geodynamic instrument has been placed for many years, and there is also wear and tear......" Chen Yantang regarded the matter of the geodynamic instrument as an interesting matter at this time, but then saw Qin Siyuan's solemn expression, and said: "There is no need to worry too much about the teacher at this time, the disciple has asked, the southeast line, there is no major earthquake on weekdays, this matter must not be too serious." The most important thing for the teacher at this time is to prepare for the big event, so don't worry too much about this matter. ”

Qin Siyuan nodded: "I've already asked." It's just that the earthquake is together, and many people in the court are afraid that it will be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take the opportunity to make a fuss again, but these people only know the interests of the Daoist family, and they must first ask Fang La, Wang Qing, Tian Hu, and Song Jiang first. I just thought that if Jinliao started a war, we could solve the internal troubles first, and then wait for the external troubles to lose both, and then reap the profits. Alas, the court has used too much power, and in state affairs and wars, it is only a matter of power sè......"

When he came to Bianjing, Qin Siyuan encountered the most troublesome things, which were these things. The majority of the people do not support war, and of course there are those who are pure pacifists who believe that once a war is fought, the people will have no livelihood, but they are in the minority. Most people support war, but they question the timing of it.

At the time of Chengping, these people, for the sake of various interests in their families, could restart the huā stone gang, expropriate and gather a large number of interests, and also make the various interests involved huge and friendless.

At this time, many local people were struggling to make a living, and there were uprisings in various places, so they first asked the imperial court to use the accumulated strength to quell the civil strife, after all, the civil strife was real, and it was the various stakeholders below who were screaming, as for what to recover Yanyun, in the eyes of these people... Now that Jin Liao is in a mess, of course these things can be done at any time, so that they will lose both, and they will use the people on both sides here... These people are very good at playing power in the court, and even in the national war, they just feel that the power is enough, but they don't know the way, if they can't show their strength, no matter how much they try to play, it's just annoying to others.

But right now, he can only follow them all the way, and he can hold on until he can send troops and be able to defeat, so that Qin Siyuan can breathe a sigh of relief and deal with the people he wants to deal with. Thinking of this, I remembered some of the conversations I had with Ning Yi when I left Jiang Ning.

At that time, Ning Yi gave him a messy booklet, and there were some things on it that he didn't understand very well. Some of them are like this, probably because the state regulates and controls all kinds of commerce, so that most of the commerce and agriculture are linked to the war industry, and the focus of various interests is directed to the war, and then those who have various family interests will give up their original position and shout that the country will go to war, because as soon as the country fights a war, they can sell grain and military supplies.

However, at that time, Ning Yi was just following

"It takes a year or two for these things to happen, and it's very complicated to deliberately balance the business chain. It's going to start fighting this year, and I guess it's not going to be needed."

He said it in a joking way, and the young man always had a lot of ideas, but as he said, this method was no longer useful. But there were still a few small tricks in that booklet, which he used in the mobilization of various military supplies, and they had an effect. , Thinking of Ning Yi, the old man compared the young man with the few students in front of him while talking, and the conclusion was naturally not good for a while, and while chatting, the porter outside ran in to report that Li Xiangye had come, Qin Siyuan had not answered, and on the other side of the field, Li Gang and Li Wenji had already entered the front yard without being communicated, and it seemed that he was even tidying up his clothes.

At this time, Zuo Xiang Li Gang was already over 70 years old, his appearance was thin, his beard and hair were white, but he was in good spirits and in good health. His eyes were serious, his hands were tightened, and as he walked, he was already giving his hand: "I have come in without notice, I forgive me, the matter is really urgent, and after reading this official document............... he took out an official document from his sleeve "I have to enter the palace immediately." ”

Several disciples got up to salute Li Gang, Li Gang just waved his hand, Qin Siyuan glanced at the official document a few times, and his face had changed: "How can this be...... How many people have read this document? ”

"I'm afraid that I can't hold it back, the knight who delivered the letter was injured in the front hoof, and I am afraid that many people have already known about this eight-hundred-mile expedited letter, at this time, maybe someone has already brought Si Tian Supervisor Cao Lingrou into the palace" The current Si Tian Prison Chief Officer Cao Lingrou is a student of Wu Min, one of the not very firm internal factions.

"Take my coat and hat." Qin Siyuan said a word under the eaves on the side, and then he had already stepped out of the door, "Let's go quickly." ”

In the evening of the beginning of autumn, the ground cracked in Suzhou and Hangzhou, the houses were damaged, and the casualties were incalculable, this proclamation was sent from Suzhou, the Grand Canal may have been damaged, and the area south of the Yangtze River is the richest over there. During the carriage driving towards the palace, Qin Siyuan thought about this, and then thought of something,

muttered: "Hangzhou, Hangzhou, ......"

The proclamation says that it is mainly Suzhou, and Hangzhou must have been affected, but it is not clear what the situation is.

Li Gang frowned and asked, "How is Hangzhou?" ”

Qin Siyuan sighed: "Heh, I just remembered a little friend, he happened to be over there, if..." He thought of Ning Yi's disaster relief booklet, if Ning Yi could take the overall responsibility in Jiangnan at this time, maybe he would be able to reduce the impact of the matter Of course, this thought just flashed slightly in his mind, Ning Yi had no merit and no background, and it was impossible to meddle in it after all. Moreover, the booklet had already been distributed, and the officials in Suzhou and Hangzhou were not all incompetent, so they could only hope for them at this time, and on their own side, they had to withstand the heavy pressure of the court.

With the Imperial City imminent, he put aside his assumptions and began to focus his mind on all the practical problems that would come next......

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Well, I don't think it's a break!.