Xue Bi, the special envoy of the investigation, received the holy order, and after going down to the court, he was naturally called by some bigwigs in the court to praise him and make arrangements for it, and then set off under the protection of fifty forbidden troops.

He and his entourage all rode horses, although they could not be called day and night after leaving Beijing, they were also Xiaoxing staying overnight and hurrying urgently, and did not put the usual Qin Mission's ministers to swagger north, but they did not hide their whereabouts, and passers-by who did not know the inside story saw this team of people and horses rushing by in a hurry, and thought that it was an important official who urgently went to the critical place to go to the rescue, so they quickly came to the Liangshan area.

Xue Bi first went to Jeju Mansion south of Liangshanbo, and then from south to west to north to east, and conveyed the holy decree to the surrounding government offices of Liangshan such as Yunzhou and Dongping Mansion that participated in the encirclement and suppression of the Taohuashan bandits according to the Tianshi Zhongzhong, expressing the emperor's cordial condolences and rewards.

It's just that Xue Bi's mission this time has another purpose, he came briskly on horseback and briskly, except for the holy decree he carried with him, he didn't bring anything else, and the reward naturally couldn't be cashed out immediately.

Whether or not these rewarded governors can receive real money rewards depends on the specific situation of the investigation and implementation of the bandits, and if there is a deception of fabricating merits, the court may not be punished, but there is no need to count on the reward. Of course, these bureaucrats are not uncommon with the little money that the emperor rewarded, and they didn't pay it early to guard Liangshan Commerce, and they wanted an official career.

The specific kind did not give anything to these officials, which was also Emperor Zhao Ji's trickery, in order to gamble on Liangshan's mouth and create prerequisites for Qin Cha to use his mouth to praise him.

Of course, a smart person like Zhao Ji also knows that it is unjustifiable to say it completely with his mouth, which is too foolish.

After all, the people of Liangshan are not officials, they have no duties and obligations to suppress bandits, and there is a great merit in suppressing bandits, Zhao Ji will never reward Liangshan people with official titles, and he will not pay money, but how can he let Liangshan people fall into the specific benefits that can be seen and touched, and on this basis, add empty white teeth and flickering, so that empty good words can make Liangshan people feel the emperor's cordial care and attention, as well as the resulting glory and comfort, and can achieve the purpose of appeasement.

After Xue Bi transferred to Dongchang Mansion, he did not leave in a hurry like in other state capitals, and stayed in Fucheng under the hospitality of Tian Shizhong, the prefect of this errand, on the one hand, to rest and recuperate, and slowly rush all the way to the hard work, to nourish the spirit, so that the entourage members complained less and even resented and got more benefits from the place by the way, on the other hand, let Tian Shizhong urgently make fifty jars of better wine in Dongchang Mansion, and paste the imperial decree seal brought by the Qin mission team from the capital in advance, which is the holy gift of imperial wine to Liangshan.

This is indeed pure foolishness, but it is also plausible.

Rewarding the imperial wine is mainly a name, expressing the emperor's heart, and it is a great honor, just like the certificate of merit, the focus is on the honor rather than the wine.

In this era, the things given by the emperor, it is the dead branches, weeds and soil picked up by the roadside, and even a pile of disgusting stinky dog shit, which is also a supreme precious thing, and you have to be glorified to offer, treasure, be grateful, and commemorate, not to mention how to value a good place of good wine.

Zhao Ji had the heart to get rid of the Cangzhao family, and after secretly turning his face, he refused to give half a benefit, and he still hated that Cangzhao would continue to be loyal and stupid to starve to death until his family was bankrupt and starved to death, so he saved worry and effort as he wanted, and when he still needed people to work hard and have to be patient and appeased, he was not even willing to give some good wine from the imperial court, and he was cut to the place to pass it on, which reflected not only how selfish and ruthless Zhao Ji was the emperor, but that all the imperial power under the characteristics of dictatorship was so ruthless, and it was a ruthless and domineering style.

People are in different social positions, and their perspectives and psychology are also very different.

The emperor and the common people are the two extremes of social roles, and the views of right and wrong are different, or even absolutely opposite, and it would be ridiculous to analyze the emperor according to the consciousness of the common people.

Zhao Ji didn't feel that he was too much to do this.

In his heart, Liang Shan and Zhao Lao Er are not Zhao Zhuang and Zhao Gonglian, how can they be treated seriously by the royal family, and they paid attention to Zhao Lao Er, and it was already a grace of heaven to reward a few good words.

With the addition of the drink, it is a great honor. If Zhao really has no objection, Zhao Lao Er still doesn't hurry up to thank Dade for kneeling?

In the final analysis, he was still accustomed to being arrogant and arrogant as an emperor, and his thinking and acting had become a fixed mode unique to the emperor, and he was not conscious at all.

It is not a piece of cake for the once prosperous Dongchang Mansion to gather dozens of jars of similar drinks, and it will be finished in less than an hour.

Tian Shizhong had a little blood from the mansion, and he had less financial money that could be embezzled, and he despised the emperor for slamming the door, but he was very happy from the bottom of his bones, and he could even be called extremely excited.

From this matter, he completely saw the emperor's bad mentality towards the Cangzhao family, saw the fate of Marquis Wencheng's family being raided and exterminated, and saw the prospect of revenge and official career.

He knew the weight of these fifty jars of wine, and he didn't dare to fool around with inferior quality, and he made all the good wine that could be obtained locally, but he felt very uncomfortable.

When he thought of how the people of Liangshan were triumphantly drinking these fine wines, Tian Shizhong's heart was as uncomfortable as a needle prick, so spittle, snot, and other dirty things inevitably got into the wine.

That is, knowing that the emperor still needs to be able to use it at this time, he tried to coax Zhao Gonglian as much as possible, so he didn't dare to play ruthless, and finally forced down the idea of taking the opportunity to poison the people of Liangshan.

He didn't poison it, and he also prevented accidents.

According to the holy will, he was also a member of the Qin Mission, and he had to enter Liangshan with the Qin Mission, one was to cheer Xue Bi for his bravery, and the other was to cooperate with Xue Bi to reconnoiter Liangshan. In case if the people of Liangshan insist that he share this so-called imperial wine glory with Qincha, it will be a stone to shoot himself in the foot, and he is afraid of poisoning himself first, and the last time it will be a big trouble.

After the wine was quietly prepared, Xue Bi waited for two days and notified Liangshan that the angel was coming, and asked Liangshan to prepare in advance, and then set off for Liangshan.

When he left the capital of the Emperor of the Beijing Dynasty to reward the prefectures around Liangshan, the prefectures had already received orders from the imperial court in advance and sent capable spies to monitor the movements of Liangshanbo to see if Liangshan could learn of the imperial court's intentions in time, or get the letter to secretly transfer the men and horses out of Liangshan in advance to evade inspection in order to hide his troops and disobedience.

After all, the resolution to "commend" Liang Shan was held openly at a court meeting with many officials, and it was not deliberately arranged in secret for the sake of secrecy, and it was easy to leak the news.

Of course, this is not that the emperor and Bai Shizhong are too stupid or careless.

The Confucian and arrogant Han regime is good at conspiracy and internal fighting, and it lacks political vigilance and a sense of secrecy in the external big mouth, and there is no shortage of "its own people" in the internal struggle, and it is very ruthless.

The imperial court did this on purpose, thinking that by the way, after the Wencheng Marquis Mansion evacuated Tokyo, there were still Cangzhao comrades in the court and Tokyo secretly echoing with Cangzhao, in order to be eradicated. Including the emperor, he also believed that with the strong financial power of the Cangzhao family at the beginning, there would be no fewer officials who secretly clinged to and befriended him, and it is normal to still have the same party.

The imperial court and Tokyo do have the same party and manpower of Cangzhao, and the officials are not small, and there are many people, and thousands of palace maids can take advantage of the chaos to escape from Tokyo It is thanks to this force, but there is no need to send people out of Beijing in an old-fashioned way to report the news. The imperial court secretly strictly controlled the city gates, focusing on monitoring the homes of some officials in Tokyo, and wanted to take the opportunity to discover the same party as Cangzhao, can it be useful?

The radio waves had already informed Liang Shan and the relevant people. The court is just blindly and shrewdly calculating and busy.

The result of outdated technology is not only ignorance and passive beating.

Tokyo has worked hard, but naturally nothing has been achieved in the government and the opposition, and both the officials and the common people are still busy with their own work, and there is not a trace of changes related to Liangshan.

The emperor and Bai Shizhong didn't know whether to be happy or disappointed by this unexpected result.

However, the civil and military dignitaries of the prefectures around Liangshan were in good spirits, not only keeping an eye on Liangshan, but also secretly arranging troops to lurk and prepare to raid and encircle and transfer the Liangshan people at any time.

However, this is also a blind mind.

The people of the government who participated in this operation, from generals to pawns to spies, except for eating and sleeping in the wild to feed the terrible fierce autumn mosquitoes, they all suffered hardships, they stinged their faces, and they complained with annoyance and sullenness, but they did not get anything, neither caught anyone who came to Liangshan to report the news, nor did they see a single figure who left Liangshanbo, let alone the people who were transferred by the raid.

Liang Shan got the letter and immediately responded, and even the people who usually went out to buy daily necessities stopped working and no longer went out. Who can the government arrest?

The Dongchang Prefecture closely monitored Dulonggang, which had always had economic ties with Liangshan, also found nothing.

Grimace Duchen secretly strengthened the defense of the castle, and then led his subordinates Zhuang Min and the "militia" to arm the people who should do the work, and the "thief" to catch the thief and control the security of Dulonggang.

In fact, the vast majority of the two or three thousand descendants of Liangshan were not in Liangshan at this time.

When Zhao Yue went north to Tai'an, these men were already under the leadership of the military advisor He Xuantong, under the leadership of Meng Futong, Ma Bao, Diao Gui, and Ma Yuan, who was good at water warfare, and other halal six King Kongs, with almost all the larger ships of Liangshanbo, went out separately to participate in the huge cheap grain and copper money plan accumulated by the people of the Great Song Dynasty by exchanging silver or smuggled salt.

If the country loses morality, people's hearts will collapse and be chaotic; If the country is going to fall, there will be only a home and no country in the eyes of the public.

This has been the case since ancient times. The Northern Song Dynasty would be an exception.

At present, from the high-ranking officials and nobles in Beijing, including the princes and royal families, down to the local bureaucratic families, large and small, and down to the landlords, merchants, and local tyrants among the people, they have all organized various forms of fleet caravans.

They are all seizing the opportunity to desperately dig into the corners of the Great Song Dynasty, exchanging the lovely silver or other benefits of Baihuahua from the pirates, and few people really care about the interests and safety of the country.

There are also major causes of madness in terms of objective life needs.

Pirates ran rampant on the sea, destroying the control and operation of the coastal salt works of the Great Song Dynasty, and the sea salt was in the hands of the pirates.

In recent years, the salt needed by the Great Song Dynasty was mainly provided by pirates, especially in the eastern part of the country, which was highly dependent on pirates because there was almost no salt to be mined on land, but it was highly dependent on pirates for monopoly.

The Song court was passive and had no way to do it, and if he couldn't destroy the pirates, he could only let it go.

In desperation, in order to adapt to this situation, Cai Jing also deliberately set up a salt bureau to specifically seek smuggling salt taxes to make up for the huge tax shortfall, which is tantamount to recognizing the legalization of salt smuggling in disguise, so that the princes, nobles, dignitaries and bureaucrats with power have the opportunity to make a windfall. The Cai family itself naturally benefited amazingly from it.

But this time in a national disaster, the pirates only cared about looting and stopped salt smuggling for several months, which was a matter of personal life.

How can people be starved of salt for a long time?

If you don't eat salt, a young and strong man will become weak in a few days.

How can you work if you are weak? How do you have the strength to make a living in various industries?

Emperor Zhao Ji's salt was naturally guaranteed with the highest priority.

The Great Song Dynasty lacks anyone's salt, and the emperor's can't.

Zhao Ji shrank in the high-walled courtyard of the palace and was blinded by the ministers to enjoy happiness, naturally he couldn't see the people's suffering, and he didn't have the heart to care about such a trivial matter. But the people have no salt to eat, and they can't live this day, and they want to go crazy thinking about salt.

Finally, the disaster and chaos passed, and the pirates began to smuggle salt again, and the generous and kind people did not take the opportunity to hoard Juqi and raise the price of salt for huge profits, but still supplied it as cheaply as ever.

Salt is essential for life and is easy to store. And grain is not conducive to long-term storage.

The common people who remained in the Great Song Dynasty and some of the local ruling class received more grain and copper coins from the disaster, and they deeply learned the lesson of salt shortage, and naturally wanted to accumulate more salt when they had the opportunity, so as not to raise the price of salt by pirates with bad intentions on the basis of their monopoly position, or if there were any unfavorable changes, which further contributed to the smuggling frenzy.

The overall order of the Great Song Dynasty is gradually becoming normal, but the waters and related areas with convenient transportation are getting even more out of control.

The local government has to create conditions to participate in smuggling even if it has no conditions, and it has no manpower, and at this dangerous time, it does not have the courage to arrogantly seize smuggling and rob people's property as in the past.

The Liangshan fleet took advantage of this crazy and chaotic opportunity, and at this time it was active in the canal, the Yellow River and other areas in the north that were convenient for transporting and purchasing grain, and the various fleets and caravans that saw the opportunity to make a fortune and were more and more red-eyed to participate in smuggling.

At present, Liangshan is presided over by the left-behind armed chief, Mogo Golden-winged Ou Peng, and the foreign affairs chief, Hulu Zhu Gui.

Iron Flute Immortal Malin is responsible for guarding the water park. Hercules Feng Jinbiao, Zhang Biao, and Wang Yong were responsible for commanding the deterrence and continuing to train the Taohuashan bandit captive army.

More than 6,000 bandits are still stationed on the rocky beach and have not evacuated and hid elsewhere.

This is Yangsan's biggest weakness.

If they want to hide their tricks, Ou Peng and other leaders have to take some trouble to deal with the ill-intentioned Qincha team.