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After the Longxing Northern Expedition, the towns between Song and Jin were gradually reduced, from the original maximum of nineteen towns to less than two or three.

After several years of recovery, the number of towns has reached double digits again, but among the dozen or so towns, there are as many as seven under the jurisdiction of the Jin people in the north of the Huai River.

Since the second year of Shaoxing, the imperial court has forbidden rice, silk and other goods to be transported to the area of the Jin people by water, but even so, there are still merchants who do not go through the imperial court.

Whether it is official money or private business transactions, the city is the real unification of rivers, lakes and seas, I don't know how much money has not been registered in the government, and then after tax evasion and tax evasion, it has entered the private pocket.

Spices, cloth, silk, kapok, ivory, etc., especially tea, are counted in millions of dollars every year.

Tea is regarded as a treasure in the Jin country, and the Jin people even stipulate that officials above the seventh grade are allowed to eat tea in their families, but they are still not allowed to buy and sell and give gifts without permission, and if they violate the law, they will be punished with catties and two.

Even if the Jin people are so strictly controlled, they can still check the equivalent of 300,000 taels of silver for illicit tea every year, not including those who can't be found in the private transactions between high-ranking officials and nobles.

"In half a year, do you know how much tax you get in Sizhou?" Ye Qing took a sip of wine, looked around at the restaurant that was gradually becoming lively, and asked.

"You know?" Yu Yunwen asked.

"One hundred and seventy-eight thousand four hundred and sixty-seven yuan, and the transaction between the city and the Jin people in private can easily be doubled, or even more than." Ye Qing said firmly, it was not that he didn't want to privately check the amount of money that the market had traded with Jinren in private, but because he didn't have a suitable candidate in his hands.

Among the soldiers in the Imperial City Division, they are already literati if they can read and write, and it is simply impossible to expect them to check the fake accounts made by the City Division, and then find out the real transaction amount, and it is a completely impossible task to let them recover the lost territory.

"But the city has the court's business, even if I want to check, I'm afraid I don't have the power, even if I can check, but do you think I can find out anything?" Yu Yunwen looked at Ye Qing with a hint of thought in his eyes and asked.

"Try this dish." Ye Qing pointed to the dish that had just been served with chopsticks, and said to Yu Yunwen: "How is it, is it better than the salt you use at home on weekdays?" Huai salt and Jiezhou salt in the north, if you are asked to choose, how do you choose? Naturally, it's the salt of the state, right? The imperial court forbade merchants to buy Jiezhou salt from the Jin people, but the Jin people allowed the people of the northern land to trade Jiezhou salt, and the city Bo Si bought it from the Jin people, but the price was doubled, but even so, the Shi Bo Si also made a lot ......of money. ”

"You're not so obsessed with the city, are you? Or do you have a grudge with the city? Yu Yunwen continued to playfully.

The Ye Qing in front of him is different from others, if others tell Yu Yunwen this, Yu Yunwen will be indignant at the first time for the city's behavior of eating inside and out, filling his own pockets, and even playing a chapter to the court to impeach the city's shipper.

But if these came out of Ye Qing's mouth, Yu Yunwen didn't think it was a simple matter.

Ye Qing sneered at Yu Yunwen's question, and then said slowly: "Everyone has a patriotic heart, and the ways and methods are different. Now that the City Ship Division is already the misfortune of my Great Song Dynasty, are you willing to watch the City Ship Division become a moth of the country, and eventually endanger the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty? ”

"The land of the Huai River has allowed the city to make such a big profit, if the overseas trade in Quanzhou and other places has the unclean input of the city, the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty is not impossible to destroy in money. This is Ye Shaoqing's pure heart, but my Great Song Dynasty has always shown weakness to the Jin people and begged for peace, I'm afraid that it can't be influenced by a city department, right? Yu Yunwen put down his chopsticks, picked up his wine glass and frowned.

"Do your best, be loyal to the royal law, and resign yourself to fate. But if we don't do anything, just as the so-called thousand-mile embankment collapses in the anthill, what can we use to talk about another northern expedition and the recovery of the old mountains and rivers in front of the saints? Now that there is no need to welcome back the two saints, it doesn't mean that we ministers can't have ambitions to recover the northern land, right? After Tang Si retired from illness and passed away from the court, it is now obvious that he has entered a new pattern, but this pattern is only a symptom but not a cure, and the main battle and force are still evenly matched, accounting for half of the country. As you said, a city division is nothing compared to the Great Song Dynasty, and the political affairs of the court are not something that our courtiers can say, but in his position, he should seek his own government, and the duty of a minister is better than doing nothing and eating a vegetarian meal, right? Ye Qing shook the empty wine jug in his hand, and after bringing new wine to the shopkeeper, he poured it for Yu Yunwen first.

"In his position, he should seek his own government, and he is the duty of a minister!" Yu Yunwen muttered, and then took a sip of the wine that Ye Qinggang had just poured, looked at Ye Qing and said, "But if you want to fight alone against the city as Zuo Shaoqing of Dali Temple, it is a mantis arm as a car." As far as I know, the Imperial City Division will not move the city, and there is no grudge ...... between the two. ”

"Just because I didn't have it before, it doesn't mean I won't have it in the future." Ye Qing rolled his eyelids and continued: "With so many things happening above the court, do you think that the Imperial City Division and the City Division can be at peace?" ”

"So you chose me to help you? Although I work on Huainan East Road, if you talk about the best person who can help you, it should be in the court, right? Yu Yunwen was naturally referring to other yamen such as the household department.

"People don't play with me, I want Xin Qiji to play with me, but Xin Qiji doesn't look down on me, and he admires Zhu Xi very much, and there is a big tree called King Xin, so I can only look for you." Ye Qing said frankly, not feeling that he was too popular in the court, which was a shameful thing.

Yu Yunwen smiled bitterly, in the face of Ye Qing's honesty, he didn't have even the slightest hint of wanting to mock, not to mention that Ye Qing was in the eyes of others or in his own eyes, he was first the commander of the Imperial City Division, and then the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, so no one wanted to "play" with him, which was an extremely normal thing.

"And how are you going to let me help you?" Yu Yunwen took a long time before he spoke.

"First of all, let's make it clear, this is not to help me, but to help the imperial court and the Qing monarch ......."

"Could it be that you still have to erect another banner of King Qin?" Yu Yunwen smiled helplessly, for Ye Qing's extreme seriousness and seriousness, he felt a little bit in his heart that Ye Qing was a little taken for granted.

The court is already like this, from top to bottom luxury has become the norm, whether it is officials or ordinary people, or saints, I am afraid that in the entire Southern Song Dynasty, few people can still be like Yue Wumu back then, and they have always pretended to have lost half of the country in their hearts.

And even himself, who has been immersed in the court for many years, has gradually become accustomed to the leisurely style of the court that is now in a quiet corner and has been influenced by other officials and the entire court.

Now that he suddenly said that he wanted to do a good job, it was no wonder that Yu Yunwen felt weird.

"Okay, even if you say that you are on the side of the imperial court, then I don't know what I can do next?" Yu Yunwen looked at the seriousness in Ye Qing's eyes, and his expression became solemn and asked.

"Two things." Ye Qing stretched out two fingers and said, "There is a person under me, maybe you will be familiar with it, nicknamed Li San......." ”

"Li Bao, I know, I knew who he was the last time I was here, what's wrong with him?" Yu Yunwen frowned, when he picked up Ye Qing at the dock today, he also saw Li Bao, it didn't look like something was wrong.

"Li Bao used to be the commander of the coastal imperial navy, so he knows more about the waterway than you and me, and helps him take the waterway to find out how many ships go north to deposit gold ...... every month." Ye Qing said as he drew the trend of the canal on the table.

And Yu Yunwen didn't wait for him to finish speaking, he suddenly looked at Ye Qing and said: "So you gave up going north by water and chose to go north by land, in fact, you want to find out, where will the merchant ships of the City Shipping Division dock and who will trade with?" ”

Ye Qing glanced at the surprised Yu Yunwen with disdain, and wrote lightly: "If Ben Shaoqing is so thoughtful, let you guess Ben Shaoqing's purpose so quickly, Ben Shaoqing might as well buy a piece of tofu and kill him." ”

"What other purpose do you have? What else do you have to do? Yu Yunwen instantly felt a shock in his spirit, not to mention the purpose that Ye Qing did not say, that is, as soon as he went to account for the merchant ships of the city's shipping department going north, Yu Yunwen felt that it was already very remarkable.

Therefore, seeing Ye Qing's understatement and light-hearted appearance, he inexplicably asked with a trace of greater expectation in his heart: "Tell me quickly, what is the purpose of your envoy to the Jin Kingdom this time?" ”

"There are many purposes." The corners of Ye Qing's mouth pulled out a sneer: "Chashi Bosi is just piggybacking. The Jin people are not good at water warfare, good at horse warfare, if we want to recover the northern land, it is obviously impossible for us to rely only on the water division, right? ”

"So what?" Yu Yunwen could deeply feel that his whole person was a little excited and impatient.

"I'm a general of the Great Song Dynasty, I'm afraid that no one remembers the style of losing land, right? Not to mention those small roads when I crossed to the south back then, I'm afraid that if it was the official road in the northern land of my Great Song Dynasty, there will not be many generals in the army who can remember it now, right? Those mountains, those waters, where can we camp, where can we set up villages, who knows what is going on in Nanjing Yingtianfu? Is Kaifeng Mansion in Tokyo still as prosperous as it was back then...... Presumably, the court that has been away from the Northland for many years has almost forgotten it, right? Ye Qing said as his fingers suddenly knocked on the table.

Looking at Yu Yunwen, who turned from excitement to contemplation, Ye Qing knocked on the table twice again, and then said, "Don't talk about things that are so aimless and distant." But no matter what, I have another meaning by land, that is, I want to see how many people in the Northland are still looking forward to Wang Shi. ”

"No." Yu Yunwen raised his head and shook his head.

"Why?" Ye Qing asked.

"If you enter the Northland, you will make a big show in the name of Shaoqing of Dali Temple in the Great Song Dynasty, I am afraid that if you can't go to Yanjing, you will be ......."

"Then it seems that you also know that the people of the Northland are not all looking forward to the king going north." Ye Qing smiled playfully: "But if we don't try, what if we may go north to regain lost territory in the future?" So if you go with great fanfare, at least you can know what you know? ”

"But it's dangerous." Yu Yunwen said solemnly.

Whether it was his envoy to Jin Guo back then, or the current right minister Wei Qi's envoy, they were all quietly low-key to the point that they couldn't be more low-key.

Like Ye Qing, who wanted to be high-profile to the point of fanfare, they didn't even think about it at the beginning.

But if they were like Ye Qing said before, if they could send an envoy to the Jin Kingdom with great fanfare, would they also be able to save the hearts of some people in the north who were looking forward to the king's master?

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