Chapter 153 How can wealth forget the old sages?

"Brother Pingzhong is like meeting: since arriving in Tamsui, everything I have heard and seen has made my brother refreshed. The politics of the flow of seeking, its legalists? What's the king? My brother is shallow and sparse, and he doesn't comment in vain, but he can express what he has seen and heard, in case my brother reads it......"

Deng Ruoshui looked at the letter from Liuqiu, and his expression was extremely focused.

Since the inception of the "Great Song Times Weekly", eight issues have been issued, from the initial free distribution of 20,000 copies, to the current scholars spend money to subscribe, the impact is completely beyond Deng Ruoshui's best expectations. When Zhao Youju instructed him to start entrusting teahouses, goulans, and bookstores to sell on behalf of him, he was worried that this policy would be inappropriate for two reasons: first, he was afraid that the fees would be dismissed as profit-seeking, and second, he was afraid that readers who were used to seeing free would not be willing to take out the money. However, in the fifth issue of the announcement of the next issue of fees, in a publication signed "Zhao Yi", Zilu began with the reputation of the master because Zilu was given the cow and the son was responsible for the master's responsibility, and talked a lot about the fact that the "Weekly" charged fees as an edifying move, and there was also a very detailed "Weekly" expense list, which proved that only 10 articles were charged for each copy, and in fact the "Weekly" was still sticking money.

In the "Weekly" expense table, in addition to labor, paper, printing, delivery and many other costs, there is still a very important expenditure, that is, "polishing pen". The Song people have always had the practice of collecting moistening pens for writing articles, and compared with the brushes they wrote about Shinto monuments and other articles, the weekly magazines really couldn't count as much.

In the sixth issue of the initial fee, only 12,000 copies were sold, but in the seventh issue, it skyrocketed to 25,000 copies, almost doubling, for no other reason, because since the sixth issue, two problems that have attracted the attention of the people of Lin'an have begun to appear. The first is the Liuqiu Xingji, which was sent back by the three leaders of the Taixue who were well-known in Lin'an, introducing the customs and customs of Liuqiu; The second is the new controversy that appeared in the "Harmony and While" version, that is, the debate of righteousness and benefit, the core of both sides of the argument is Zhen Dexiu vs. Yelu Chucai, both of whom are well-educated and quote scriptures, which is convincing.

Zhen Dexiu and a group of physicists almost denounced Yelu Chucai as "the view of the island", "confusing people's hearts", and "harming the country and the people", in contrast, Yelu Chucai himself is much more personable, and the examples cited are far more sufficient than those of physicists. The most typical thing is that he used Zhen Dexiu's own knowledge of Quanzhou to encourage maritime trade, abolish and rejuvenate the matter, to prove that Zhen Dexiu talks about righteousness, but in fact he is chasing interests, but this benefit is not a small profit, but the benefit of the country and the society.

Another general, Chen Zhaohua's style of writing is much sharper, not only criticizing empty talk and righteousness, but also digging out some of the troubles of these famous physicists, such as Zhu Xi's personal grudge for Tang and Zheng to fabricate charges, and implicate the famous prostitute Yan Rui, and Zhu Xi's disciple Zeng Yu and others wagging their tails and begging officials for their inconsistent words and deeds.

Chen Zhaohua didn't need to work hard to collect materials to do this, that is, more than 20 years ago, the ministers of the DPRK and China attacked Zhu Xi as a pseudo-scholar, so he could do it easily. However, most of these parties are still alive, and Zhu Xi's disciples and grandchildren cannot deny it, so they have to stop fighting. And this kind of selfish thing, although Shilin despised it, but it was very much to the appetite of the citizens of Lin'an, so Chen Zhaohua became one of the most popular authors.

In this way, the mask of the physicists is taken off, and people lose their respect for them.

After carrying Yue Ke's two historical manuscripts, the next thing to upload in the "Weekly" is Ye Shi's posthumous manuscript, which is quite derogatory to the scholars, and the discerning people know that behind the "Weekly" is actually the Son of Heaven, and now the situation is obviously that the Son of Heaven is extremely dissatisfied with the school of science. But Wei Liaoweng and Zhen Dexiu's status in the court is quite stable, Wei Liaoweng is also diligent and has been repeatedly praised by the Son of Heaven, and Zhen Dexiu also wanted to ask for it, but was rejected by the Son of Heaven.

There are already booksellers on the street who have begun to imitate the "Great Song Times Weekly" system and publish some imitation magazines, but there are few that can make the weekly magazine have such an impact.

After reading the letter, Deng Ruoshui picked up the pen and began to scribble on the paper, at this moment, a person broke into the door and shouted: "The Li thief has been defeated, and now Jingdong Road is full of brave and loyal ministers!" ”

This is one of the things that the "Great Song Times Weekly" has paid the most attention to recently, that is, the war between the two Huai. After Li Quan's incident, the second issue of the "Weekly Magazine" carried the news and a series of personnel appointments in the court for this matter. Then the "Weekly" sent two students, one to guard the post station and the other to guard the military headquarters, to wait for news from the front at any time. When Peng Yibin returned to the army and captured Qingzhou, Deng Ruoshui knew that Li Quan's loss of the foundation was not worrying, and he was drunk for it, and then he heard that the Liuqiu Shui Army broke Li Quanshui's division outside Haizhou, and he stopped thinking of going south from the waterway, followed by the siege of Chuzhou by all the troops.

Now that he has finally conquered Chuzhou, Deng Ruoshui suddenly became excited, Li Quan has been rampant in Jingdong for ten years, Jin Guo, Hu Ren and Shi Miyuan are all helpless against him, but when today's son is in power for less than half a year, he will sweep away this trouble!

When the big book was written, he thought to himself, then threw away what he had just written, found a piece of paper again, and carried the pen like a fly in one go.

Zhao Youju naturally got the news of conquering Chuzhou earlier than him, in fact, others didn't know about Li Quan's rapid rout, but he knew it clearly.

At the beginning of the planning of the pro-government, he gave an order, and he asked for the transfer of coastal guard warships to the north, disguised as merchant ships and stationed on the hanging island, first, if he made a mistake in his strategy to bring down Shi Miyuan, he could meet him at any time, and second, he could go north at any time to intercept Li Quan's southward movement. And the messenger who got his secret letter also went to contact Peng Yibin, who had never been very harmonious with Li Quan, with his real secret purpose, if Li Quan had the intention of going south, he would attack Qingzhou from behind and block Li Quan's way back.

As for the so-called Haizhou defeat of Li Quan's army, it is purely a rumor, in fact, the Liuqiu navy only fired more than 10 cannons, sank a ship of Li Quan's army, and then returned to Hong Kong at the convenience of convenience. And when the messenger with Yang Miaozhen and Liu Quan's letters came, Li Quan's water army changed his banner without hesitation. After all, the strength of the two sides in the water war is comparative, and both sides have a part of the old red jacket army that they have friends with in the past, and they are not willing to kill each other.

It can be said that Li Quan thought that he had seized the best opportunity to send troops, but he did not expect that he was actually killing himself.

Ouchi, vertical arch hall.

"I intend to take Peng Yibin as the commander of Jingdong, Jingdong and Lianghuai have been in war for many years, and the people have suffered a lot, so they are exempted from taxes for three years. The Loyal and Righteous Army was originally my child, and it was sown by Li Quan's villain, and even this disaster, I wanted to order it to hoard the field, thinking that it was the capital of war support, what do you think? Zhao and Ju sat on it, and several ministers sat with them.

Make the two Huaiyi armies hoard the land, this is the strategy proposed by Xin Qiji in the "Ten Treatises on Mei Qin", after the last play, all the ministers went to look for it, so they were not surprised to hear Zhao and Ju say this.

"How do I hoard the fields?" Wei Liaoweng frowned and said: "The treasury is empty, where does the capital for hoarding land come from, this is one of them; Most of the loyal and righteous soldiers are homeless people, and since the beginning of the army, they have eaten food and salary, and they are made to hoard fields, fearing that they will not be satisfied, and this is the second; Peng Yibin is undoubtedly loyal, just for the sake of the general, presiding over the hoarding of land, I am afraid that he must also appoint a competent person, but can Peng Yibin tolerate this person? ”

The two Huai hoarding fields are easy to do, since the southern invasion of the Hu people, although the Jin State said that it intended to seize the Song Dynasty land to self-fertilization, but it was repeatedly frustrated, and now it is too busy to take care of itself, so it is not enough to worry, the key is Jingdong East Road, here is the loyal army entrenched for many years, it is very easy to say that hoarding fields, how to do it specifically, but it makes people headaches, and the relationship to be implicated is too wide.

"That's what I think." Zhao Youju smiled slightly, Wei Liaoweng took out the emptiness of the treasury to talk about things, it was nothing more than that he wanted him to pay for money, and he did accumulate a lot of wealth for him, but those gold and silver were not wasted on this matter.

"The loyal and righteous army selected its elite and organized it as a forbidden army, and since then it has been paid, not just by reward-Wei Qing is in a hurry, and this money and grain is out." Seeing that Wei Liaoweng was about to speak with a calm face, Zhao Heju hurriedly waved his hand: "Those who have been eliminated will be organized into a box army, and they will be divided into ......."

Zhao and Ju's plan is to take advantage of the defeat of Li Quan's rebellion to rectify the loyal army, that is, the former Red Jacket Army, and the elite troops will be officially incorporated into the forbidden army, under the command of Peng Yibin, in order to appease his heart - Peng Yibin So far, his loyalty to the Great Song Dynasty is completely reliable, and in the later history of Zhao and Ju's memory, he was defeated and won by the Mengren, and died unyieldingly. The old and weak were not made to be the people, but were organized into an army, which hoarded fields along both sides of the canal to provide for the loyal and righteous army, and second, repaired the canal, so that this almost deserted water vein was revitalized again.

He asked people to unfold the map, which was the most accurate map of the Great Song Dynasty, and he pointed to a place on the map and said: "Zhuqing, I intend to open the state prison again!" ”

As soon as this remark came out, everyone was shocked.

Li Guojian was originally the most important iron production area of the Great Song Dynasty, in Xuzhou, Jingdong East Road, not far from the old canal. However, since the southern crossing, this place has been under the jurisdiction of the Jin State and belongs to its east and west roads.

"Official, this matter is not allowed, the official family is pro-government, and it is really not appropriate to provoke the border!" The first to oppose was Xuanxuan, who left his seat and knelt down: "The old minister's corpse meal is a vegetarian position, and the Son of Heaven will not abandon it, and he will not ...... to fill the temple."

"Xuanqing!" Zhao and Ju thought that Wei Liaoweng and others would be the first to object, but they didn't expect that the first one to come out was Xuanxuan, and from his words, he actually had the intention of hanging up the crown and leaving if the Son of Heaven had to capture Xuzhou.

With the prestige of Zhao and Ju at this time, as long as they are not rash and impatient, it will take another three or five years to consolidate their power. But Zhao Youju was unwilling to wait, time was precious, and he was not allowed to wait any longer.

After stabilizing his expression, Zhao Youju continued: "You get up, didn't I use it to discuss with you now?" ”

"The minister opposes the reopening of the State Prison!" Xuan Xuan said in a deep voice.

Immediately afterwards, Ge Hong, Zheng Qingzhi, and Yue Ke all objected, but Xue Ji and Wei Liaoweng were silent.

"I see." This is the first time that Zhao Heju has been opposed by so many ministers, and the reason why he did not mention this matter at the court meeting was originally to avoid some opposition, but now that he thinks about it, although his reputation in the court has been established, these courtiers do not trust him very much in military affairs.

He sighed, he was still a little anxious after all. With the Song system, if all the ministers of the court and the central government oppose it, and he forcibly implements his own strategy, the result will be a raging crowd, and some of the prestige that he has accumulated with great difficulty will be swept away because of it. Without going through the court, it would be difficult for him to mobilize even a soldier, let alone the Northern Expedition.

"This matter will be discussed later, and today I will talk about my marriage." Thinking of this, Zhao Heju could only give in temporarily: "Liuqiu has a messenger, Concubine Xian will be able to arrive at the end of the month, counting the time, that is, these few days, can you arrange to greet it?" ”

Regarding Yang Miaozhen's treatment, Zhao and Ju Li overrode the public opinion and directly named her a virtuous concubine, which is the second class in the harem, which is equivalent to the rank of the first grade. Some courtiers wanted to oppose it, Zhao Heju took the Empress Dowager Liu of the Renzong Dynasty as an example, and praised Yang Miaozhen for overseas expansion, "I get rid of the traitor, and I have to ask for help, Miaozhen is the queen also deserves it, and the situation is a virtuous concubine", there are both ancient and modern examples, and it is a family affair of the Son of Heaven, and the ministers are not good to oppose too much. However, Zhao and Ju also knew that if they had to make Yang Miaozhen the queen, they were afraid that they would make trouble again, so they could only figure it out slowly.

Several ministers exchanged glances, and then Xuan Xuan was the first to come out: "The matter of the virtuous concubine has been handled by the Ministry of Rites, and Your Majesty does not need to worry." It's just that His Majesty is the weight of the country, and now there is only one virtuous concubine and one Jieyu in the harem, and the ministers and others implore the official family to recruit the daughter of the innocent and virtuous family to the harem, so as to give birth to a dragon son as soon as possible and settle the hope of the people in the world. ”

Zhao Youju was stunned at first, and then smiled bitterly.

Obviously, these people do not object to Yang Miaozhen entering the palace, but they are still afraid that Yang Miaozhen will become the queen, so they want to "pimp" for themselves, and before Yang Miaozhen comes, they will stuff some people into the harem to share favors.

Zhao Youju suddenly felt a little disheartened.

When he came to this era, he would never pretentiously think that he could "start from the beginning", and after eating Yang Miaozhen and Han Yu, he didn't feel too much psychological guilt - it was all the natural development of love and desire after reaching a certain level, as for the rest...... Now there are many palace maids in the harem, and there are also those who can be called stunning, but he has never touched them.

"It's just like the meaning of waiting." He said lightly that these ministers could stuff those women into the Ouchi, but they couldn't stuff those women into his bed.

The Son of Heaven has no interest in women, which is originally a good thing, in fact, the Son of Heaven of the Great Song Dynasty, the harem is dissatisfied most of the time. But after experiencing a few sons of heaven with few or no blood heirs, the courtiers desperately hoped that Zhao and Ju would be able to have many sons.

For the bureaucrats of the entire Great Song Dynasty, they were the rulers of the empire, and the Son of Heaven was only a tool to maintain their rule, and the most important thing for the Son of Heaven was to "share the world with the scholars", not to rule the world himself.

When the ministers withdrew, Xue Ji walked last, and when he finished saluting, he glanced at Zhao Heju. Zhao Heju's heart moved, knowing that he had something to play alone, so he went to the side hall and called an attendant and asked him to call Xue Ji.

Sure enough, after a while, Xue Ji turned back, and after he finished saluting, he said, "Official, the matter of the national eunuch...... Although His Majesty cannot mobilize the forbidden army, he can mobilize the loyal army and the Liuqiu army, both of which do not need to go through the military department. ”

He once served as a squire in the military department, and he knew the joints best, and as soon as he said it, Zhao Heju immediately realized: how could he forget the most reliable force at hand!

Note 1: Runbi said, from the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Wen of Sui ordered Li Delin to make an edict, Gao Ying joked to Zheng Yi: "The pen is dry." Zheng Yi also joked: "If you don't have a penny, how can you polish your pen?" ”