"Don't be dissatisfied and want to make trouble because you can't get cheap by raiding your house. Ming told you, if you don't have enough money this time, we and other officials will have to be captured by the pirate army and stripped naked and thrown into the mines as coolies to death. If we scholars who can't pick and hold on our shoulders are still like this, you young and powerful officers and soldiers are more suitable coolies, and how can the pirates let them go? ”

"Don't think about it, Lao Tzu should not ban the army if he robbed and hid enough money, and if he escaped, he could go to seclusion, become a robber, or even simply take refuge in Wang Qing and other thieves, maybe he can work together to overthrow the rule of the Great Song Dynasty and seek a long-term rich future in the emerging pseudo-Chu and pseudo-Jin countries."

"You yourself also know that now all parts of the Great Song Dynasty are almost the same villains and people as you, it is not the time when you had the courage to gather a group of people in the past to occupy the mountains and claim the king, and you can wantonly oppress and rob the people, eat a large piece of meat, drink a big bowl, and live happily and freely. The population has plummeted, the land is vast and sparsely populated, and there are not many people in the world for you to rob. In addition to the fact that there is no shortage of food, there is nothing to grab in various places. You can't buy a good thing to dream of enjoying even if you have gold or silver. All of them were swept away by the previous rebels, and were swept away by the extortion of the pirate coalition along the way. Government officials everywhere are also so poor that they are dinging. Attack the city and break the house, and you don't have a lot of oil and water to grab it. Local officers and soldiers are more bitter than the forbidden army that you enjoy high treatment, and now they are staring at the bandits and robbers to accumulate wealth and then rob them to both meritorious service and money to enjoy, the most enthusiastic about fighting robbers and breaking the bandits' lair, the members of the army around the country are the same as you military ruffians, wealthy slaves, gangsters or members of the local fierce martial arts sects, they are used to fighting, dare to fight and kill, have combat effectiveness, and also like to wear military uniforms to commit murder legally, and can also mix the future of officialdom, and even make meritorious contributions to become marquis nobles, It's not the past, although honest but just want peace, not too tired, have something to eat, the gangsters are useless in the army. If you dare to be a bandit, you are sending money to the local army to find death. Also, the thieves of Tian Hu and Wang Qingzhi were blackmailed by pirates more ruthlessly and cleanly than in Tokyo, and it is the time when the heart aches money and hates the crazy and poor, if you dare to take refuge with money, hum, what will happen to the end, you don't need me to predict more, right? ”

"The anti-thieves are poor, they can only exploit and loot a corner of the place and resist stubbornly, and sooner or later they will be finished if they can't hold on. When the officers and soldiers, especially when the forbidden army with high salaries, is supported by the entire Great Song Dynasty, and they are not thieves and are killed every day and perish at any time, there are more guarantees under the righteousness, and serving the imperial court is the smartest choice in this most difficult period......"

The official's straightforward explanation is that those forbidden troops who get money but are seized and are angry and want to make trouble and even want to kill officials with knives and rebel...... Wilted, lost that heart. Those truths and social forms, the old and new forbidden armies, who were accustomed to doing evil and refused to settle down, understood and noticed before, and now they are seeing more and more clearly. This kind of society is unprecedented, chaotic and unpredictable, even the masters of the world are afraid that they can't see through it, confused, not to mention ordinary little people like themselves, or when the officers and soldiers follow the orthodoxy is the most secure, when the gang bandits are scattered and the wicked are free and happy, but they also die quickly, join Wang Qingtianhu and other anti-kings, make a lot of fun but it is difficult to say that it can be done, and they have to risk fighting every day, and as the official said, there is nothing rare to rob, and the good things are all taken away by pirates.

Later, the money demanded by the pirates was really not enough, and the gold and silver that the soldiers of the forbidden army had were also seized and forced out, and the forbidden army did not have much temper to oppose it.

The forbidden army was held down and all the people's wealth in Gyeonggi was seized, but in the end, together with the gold and silver of the palace and the gold and silver of the treasury and the main copper coins, it was less than one-third of what the pirates wanted.

On the other hand, the only way left was to strictly urge the local government to pay the additional special tax, and to deter the local government in Shandong, Jiangnan and other places that had not been extorted by the pirate coalition army, and at the same time to collect additional taxes from the empty treasury of the capital and pay it to Tokyo. The pirates don't want this money and food, and the court can keep it for daily operations to support state affairs.

The pirate's statement made the Great Song Dynasty court feel more relieved and hopeful, and at the same time had the opposite mood, and was even more afraid that the pirate would keep this part of the money and grain as military funds to destroy the Song Dynasty.

From Zhao Ji of the deep palace cultivator to Zhao Huan, the emperor of the child, to the civil and military ministers below, they can't guess the pirate's thoughts, and they have no bottom in their hearts, and they become more and more frightened as they pay more and more money, food, and materials, but they become more and more frightened, no matter how shrewd and spicy the old thief is, he has no grasp of the future situation changes and the outcome of the Great Song Dynasty, he is anxious day and night, it is difficult to swallow, and it is difficult to sleep.

In the past, the conceited sleeves of the sleeves were full of power and tricks, and it was useless to fight the pirates who only knew that they couldn't do it.

If there is nothing to be done, then go to the end.

Bai Shizhong, an official who could deal with the pirate envoy Zhengda Guangming, became more and more diligent in the post house. The other characters try to do the same......

The forces of the Great Song Dynasty have all kinds of temptations to Zhong Xiang, wondering whether it is possible for himself (his own master) to join the pirates as a high-ranking official and dignitary, what do the pirates want to do with the Great Song Dynasty, and whether the pirates will enter the Central Plains.......

When you speak, you only need to reveal a little bit of meaning and hint at it. We're all very smart enough to understand your intentions and know what to do......

It's a pity that Zhong is not the fierce and tough and terrible that he visited all sides in the Golden Palace, and has become calm and elegant, but it is another terrible silence. Whether it is to come to the door to actively please or even simply express the intention of taking refuge, willing to be an internal response, obey all the arrangements of serving the pirate king, or anything else, it should not be.

In the dialogue, he tentatively cried poor, saying that the amount of extortion was indeed too large, the pirate state overestimated the wealth of the Song Dynasty, and although the Song Dynasty was very rich before, it was really unable to complete such a high demand. Can you take it a slow, don't ask for so much at once, change it to a tribute, and you can pay a certain share every year...... Zhong Xiang only responded with a faint sneer. There is no other word.

After dealing with each other a lot, even if the pirate envoys were mostly silent, a smart person like Bai Shizhong gradually understood: the country title of the pirate's self-proclaimed Great East Asian Empire was inexplicable, and he didn't know what the meaning of the name of the country was, but the pirate country was different from the Song Dynasty, and it was also different from any previous country such as the Liao State and the Western Xia Kingdom. There is no compromise in this country's foreign policy, there is no compromise that should be made in politics, there is no consultation, the rules it sets for itself are the rules, and it has to do what it has set, and if it is said and notified, if it does not work, then it will fight, no matter how difficult it is, how incredible it is, how incomprehensible it is, it must also start a war at any cost, and it will fight to the end resolutely, and it will not stop until the goal is achieved.

Pirates don't know how to turn corners and tricks, they know how to do things hard, and they are really a group of lowly pirates who lack culture and wisdom.

Politics is not played like this, how can it be so hard-hitting?

At least you have to buy off the powerful and influential people of the Song Kingdom to help you achieve those political goals more easily, right?

You actually refuse to nod your head and agree to accept even people who are intelligent, wise, and useful (such as me in Bai Shizhong) consciously and faithfully, without you bothering to spend a dime? I have never seen it, let alone heard of such a game of conquest, especially the newly rising new country that lacks talent and lacks all the foundation.

If your pirate country's foreign policy is a little more flexible, and you accept the services of useful people, how much trouble can you save! The terrible consumption of military spending can save too much.

How can you pirates be so dead-eyed?

The point is, pirates seem to be able to succeed. It is to have the strength to work hard to achieve the goal quickly....... It's too hateful and too ...... It's terrible.

Realizing this, Bai Shizhong was secretly terrified.

Luckily, the first thing he did before ordering the raid of the official's house was to go home and hand over his money, women and children. Of course, only partially. Showing an attitude is also setting an example and silencing other officials who want to be raided. The crying of his wife and concubine dragging his belongings or his not letting go, only snorted angrily.

Gyeonggi's petty officials own their own Kaifeng Prefecture and other members of the central leading group responsible for the looting were responsible for carrying out the raids. Those high-ranking officials and powerful ministers, the weight of others is not enough, so he can only personally lead a team to check it. It's the hardest and most offending job, but the pirate's attitude is there, and he must be resolute in doing it.

Bai Shizhong also has his own political wisdom on this matter.

He, the prime minister, is not an incompetent person who became a man for nothing.

The first one to be raided in person was Cai Jing's house.

Cai Jing is now a retired commoner who has been completely stripped of his official titles, but Cai Jing can't look at the surface, this person has been the prime minister of dictatorship for more than ten years, and he is extremely scheming, and there is no one to compare with the dynasty, and the officialdom relationship network, power network and influence in the officialdom built by him cannot be compared with any other official.

It's really a tiger to death, and it can't be defeated. The power is lost, and the momentum still exists.

For Cai Jing, the old thing, from the emperor to the civil and military officials in the Great Song Dynasty, no one will take it lightly, even if the old thing is reduced to the people, he does not dare to underestimate him in his heart.

At this time, it is the best time to take Cai Jing under the knife, and it is also the best object of Liwei's demonstration and inspection.

No matter how influential Cai Jing is, he is also a people, and he has no direct power and prestige to resist the raid at the door, and there is no legitimate reason to refuse to confiscate.

The important thing is that the Cai Fu thief has money. only raided Cai Jing's family, and I am afraid that I will be able to fill most of the holes in this debt. So, on the other hand, the wealth hidden in the palace that the Emperor Taishang wanted to rely on in the past was saved from the old Bai family's own family, and there was no need to dig it out? At this time, if you don't give priority to sacrificing the Cai Jing family, who else will you sacrifice?

People in the world, no, no, at least in the officialdom, who doesn't know Cai Jing's greed.

has been in power for more than ten years, just the birthday gang known to the world, and every year I don't know how much filial piety to Cai Fu will be.

The Cangzhao family is known as the richest in business and is often regarded as the richest man.

But in Bai Shizhong, who has been in phase for many years, he knows that Cai Jing's family is really rich.

The officials of the world, the gentry with heads and faces, and the big landlords are powerful and powerful..... Countless rich. I am sending it in filial piety. It's all for nothing. is not as busy as the Cangzhao family, and there is a lot of effort to lose and earn by yourself. Cai's money came too easily, it was too real, and it didn't need to be bothered.

The richest man in the Great Song Dynasty should definitely be Cai Jing. Cangzhao is famous for business, and he has a lot of tossing and turning, but he has been the richest man for so many years......

Since the fall of Cai Jing, Bai Shizhong has never been to Cai's Mansion again, and this time, Cai's Mansion is still so magnificent, still has a deep courtyard, winding paths, and people don't know where to go. Cai Mansion, which occupies such a large area and has a complex and mysterious built-in complexity, outsiders come in, if no one leads them, there is no one who does not turn confused, even if they have come a few times. If an assassin wants to touch in and steal or something, let alone successfully assassinate Cai Jing and Cai's descendants, I am afraid that he will sneak in in the dark, and he will not be able to figure out where to go.

But Bai Shizhong, who has been a distinguished guest on the Cai Mansion for a long time, has entered the Cai Mansion, and the feeling is another taste.

He was shocked.

In the past, the servants of Cai's Mansion were like clouds, the doormen were like rain, and there were not 1,000 but 800 people in the house every day, and Cai Jing himself was afraid that there were 130 or 40 concubines who possessed and seriously rewarded their identities, which could be compared with the 72 concubines of the three palaces and six courtyards of the amorous emperor Zhao Ji. Cai Jing is not only powerful in politics, but also outstanding in playing women. Coupled with the many women possessed by the descendants of the Cai family, Cai's mansion is really beautiful like a cloud, a warbler is like weaving, in the past, the fragrance is everywhere, the group is wandering, I don't know how many mysterious arrangements of the garden are in the house, so I don't know how many beautiful faces and delicate warblers are hidden......

But now, it's gone.

Cai's Mansion is deserted, not only are the visitors so scarce that they seem to be extinct, but there are also desolate and miserable people in the mansion.

The door was closed, and there was only an old servant who opened the door, and only one young servant who led Bai Shizhong into the mansion should be a slave of the thugs in the house, and he twisted all the way through the corridor of the grove and flower forest...... After walking for a long time, I hardly saw anyone moving. As far as the eye can see, there is smoke from uninhabited people...... Countless gardens along the road were closed and locked, and there was no sound inside. Looking at the dust on the walls of the door of the house, it seems that these former mansions full of infinite luxury and infinite mystery and allure have been abandoned for many days.

The more Bai Shizhong looked at it, the more shocked he became, his brows furrowed, surprised and lost and uneasy.

He felt that his excitement and anticipation for this trip would be disappointed due to an accident.

Sure enough, he saw Lao Cai in his familiar Lao Cai's study, and Bai Shizhong was shocked to see Taishi Cai, who was dressed in fine clothes and jade food in the past, sitting behind the table and reading a book, but the gorgeous clothes on his body were gone, and the precious treasures and ornaments, and the luxurious and noble furnishings in the room, half of them were missing, and there was only a copper hairpin on his head, and his body was actually an old silk dress...... A down-and-out look.

Bai Shizhong was shocked, disappointed and suspicious, and he didn't know how to call Cai Jing for a while, Lao Cai has no official and no lord, Bai Shizhong and Lao Cai have long been out of order, and now he is conceited as the prime minister and refuses to call the honorific title of the past, and finally smiled lightly and hugged his fists and said: "Guoyan." ”

This is a good name, there is no official power mark, and it is very appropriate to call a high-ranking official who has been brilliant but lost power and fell to the people, but has not become a prisoner.

Cai Jing's complexion was very poor and seemed to be malnourished, but a faint sense of prestige and confidence remained.

He looked up and looked at the sound, and sighed, "It's the middle of the time." ”

Before Bai Shizhong could react, he said indifferently: "I know your intention. So be it. You just search. Just take the money you find. ”

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