Chapter 218 Shocked to hear the demonic atmosphere in Huating

What Ge Hong and Qiao Xingjian said, only the two of them knew, when Ge Hong came out, his face was even more gloomy, he did not stay in Guozijian for more, but went directly out of the gate of Guozijian and took a sedan chair back to his home.

"Ge Hong and Qiao Xingjian met in Guozijian, and before that, a stranger came out of Qiao Xingjian's courtyard?"

Huo Chongcheng whistled, looking at the secret report, the corners of his lips sneered slightly.

Since the last "Jinghua Secrets" incident, he has strengthened surveillance of several ministers who are suspicious, and for a long time, these people have behaved normally. He even used various means to get a letter written by Wei Liaoweng to Zhen Dexiu to confirm whether there was anything wrong in it. Ge Hong and Qiao Xingjian are also the focus of his surveillance, but these two are old foxes, and they have a clear eye for doing things, and there are almost no loopholes to drill.

"That stranger bought a ticket for the steamship China Merchants on the same day and rushed to Chuzhou tomorrow."

The following article made Huo Chongcheng vigilant, Chuzhou is the base camp of conservatives, and most of those who oppose the reform of the Son of Heaven gather here, so Chuzhou is also a key area for him to monitor.

"When Chuzhou is notified, pay attention to this person's movements." Huo Chongcheng quickly wrote down a series of characters, but there was not a single coherent sentence, this was the password that Liu Qiu, only he and his subordinates could compile. He did not dare to neglect this, so he called a man, and gave him the paper, and the man hurried away.

Soon, Zhao and Ju also got the news from Huo Chongcheng, every day, Huo Chongcheng would report to him the whereabouts of the courtiers he suspected, and Zhao and Ju could not raise a huge spy agency, so they could only focus on it. Zhao Youju didn't pay much attention to this report, and the handling measures attached by Huo Chongcheng were already very thorough, so he didn't need to pay attention to everything.

"Daoqing." After reviewing the official document, it was already late at night, and Zhao Youju stretched his waist and said hello.

Xie Daoqing replied in a low voice, quickly came over, and separated the official documents he had approved. The largest stack that belongs to the one sent to the minister tomorrow, and the number sent to the liuqiu through Li Yunrui is not much, but it is very thick, and it is handed over to Huo Chongcheng for processing.

After nearly a year, Zhao Youju has some trust in Xie Daoqing, she is really a good role as a secretary. When he got up, he moved his hands and feet, walked around the room, and was about to go to bed, but he felt no sleep for a while.

"Daoqing, these days the concubine is not here, and Zhaorong is going to raise a fetus again, your school has stopped, right?" He asked casually.

Xie Daoqing lowered his eyebrows and said, "Yes." ”

"I thought about it that day was very lonely...... Zhao Youju thought for a while, it was not a way for these palace maids to stay in the palace and waste their days, after thinking for a while, he asked: "Daoqing, how do you spend your free time?" ”

Zhao and Ju, the son of heaven, did not have a high degree of command over the palace maids, and although Xie Daoqing served closely, he didn't have much to do. Hearing the Son of Heaven's inquiry, Xie Daoqing finally quietly raised his eyes and looked at Zhao Youju's face, but quickly drooped down: "The slave is reading." ”

"It's good to read, but Yuju still has to play, I see that you seem to be ...... with the rest"

Zhao Youju originally wanted to say that she seemed to be a little out of place with the rest of the palace maids, but then she immediately figured it out: Xie Daoqing waiting by his side would definitely summon the jealousy of those palace maids who rarely saw him every day. Zhao Youju shook his head and smiled bitterly, he looked at Xie Daoqing, the Queen Mother insisted on placing her beside her, but it might not be good for her.

Now that his prestige has been established and his foundation has been consolidated, the Queen Mother is no longer as important to him as it was at the beginning of his pro-government. But although Zhao Youju has a cold appearance, he is not the kind of person who is unkind, and his etiquette greetings to the Queen Mother are not only not reduced because of this, but are more cautious.

Therefore, although the Queen Mother still hoped that he could really accept Daoqing into the palace, she was not as eager as she was at the beginning.

"Daoqing, when you came to the palace, were you willing?" Thinking of this, Zhao Youju asked softly.

Xie Daoqing's body trembled, raised his head again, and stared at the Son of Heaven without blinking.

In her early years, she had a physical illness, there was something in her eyes, and her skin was rough, and after being treated by a famous doctor, the foreign body in her eyes was lost, which gave her a pair of eyes that had not been polluted by the world, like a baby. Opposite her gaze, Zhao Heju's heart jumped suddenly, not because he was emotional, but because he found that there were tears like a clear spring in Xie Daoqing's eyes.

"The slave is unwilling, the Houmen is as deep as the sea, let alone the emperor's family?"

This is probably the first time Xie Daoqing has confessed his heart to Zhao Heju, and when Zhao Heju saw that she only said one sentence, he wanted to hang his head again, so he encouraged: "Say it, I want to hear the truth." ”

"When a slave entered the palace, he was involuntarily self-serving, and he was ordered to serve the official family, but he was also involuntarily. It's just that the official family works day and night, although the slave is from a family, he also knows that it is not easy for the people to give birth and raise, and the official family is working hard, just to find a way out for the people. ”

Xie Daoqing did not have a high status in the Xie family because of the early death of his biological father and his ugly appearance, although he did not suffer any great hardships, but he still knew a little about the hardships of the people's livelihood. She is a woman, although the tutor, read some poetry books, but for the people's livelihood has no own way, to Zhao and Ju side, heard and witnessed, are the Son of Heaven for the common people and strategize, he has to deal with not only the difficult situation of the Great Song Dynasty, not only the tiger-eyed Hulu, but also the court hundreds of officials criticism and embarrassment.

At the beginning, Xie Daoqing thought that the princes in the hall were gentlemen, and it was really unreasonable for the Son of Heaven to be stubborn and self-serving, but with the passage of time, her feelings changed.

"Your Majesty is dedicated to the people, and you can serve Your Majesty if you are not a man." After a while, Xie Daoqing finally said the words in his heart, and then lowered his eyes again, no longer looking at Zhao Heju.

"Aren't you working for me? If it weren't for you, I wouldn't know what would have happened to my daily life. Zhao and Ju Wen said.

It's really not a way to put these girls around like this, you have to find something for them to do, so as not to cause another trouble. Thinking about it, Zhao Heju smiled and said: "Daoqing, you are all the daughters of a family, you should be familiar with poetry and books, right?" ”

"I don't dare to praise the Son of Heaven, I just skimmed one or two." Xie Daoqing returned to his unimpeccable appearance.

"I have something to hand over to you, the Boya Building has a floating astronomy to read at night." Zhao Youju said with a smile.

"Yes." Hearing that the sisters had something to do, Xie Daoqing was also happy in his heart.

The next morning, Zhao and Ju Yuan were in a very good mood, but the twists and turns from Huating Mansion made his good mood come to naught in an instant.

Wandering people's livelihood, these four words were like a heavy hammer, hitting Zhao Heju's heart, making his blood surge, and his head, which had not hurt for a long time, hurt again.

"Flowing people's livelihood" is already the most tactful phrase that Yuan Fu, the prefect of Huating Mansion, can think of, in fact, the second half of the sentence "Xiaoju Huze" He repeated it a few times in the rush before adding it.

Although the area of Huating Mansion is not large, but since Shaoxing opened more than 200 miles of coastal tributaries in four years, salt transportation is convenient, agriculture is developed, grain output increases year by year, Jiading reaches the highest peak in 15 years, and the autumn grain is about 60,000 stones. But since then, the trend of grain growth has begun to stop, Jiading 16 autumn grain levy 55,000 stone, 17 year levy 50,000 stone, Baoqing first year even more sharply reduced to 40,000 stone, and this year autumn grain levy 32,000 stone. The key reason for this is that a large amount of farmland has been converted into mulberry and cotton fields. The decline in grain production for four consecutive years has made the people's grain stocks already tight, and the financial turmoil in Lin'an some time ago has also affected here, causing the price of rice to soar wildly, and illegal profiteers to hoard and make profits, and those peasants who have lost their land or are impoverished can hardly continue. Taking advantage of this opportunity, several big businessmen took the opportunity to go to Lin'an to ask for bank loans and collude with officials to buy fields.

If it is like Lin'an, the landless peasants can enter the factory and be properly resettled, then the matter will not be big, but although Huating Mansion is not far from Lin'an, commerce and trade are also developed, but the factories of Liuqiu are concentrated in Lin'an Zuo Zuo, this Huating Mansion in addition to the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau in the relocation, there is only one cement factory. This made a large number of landless people have nowhere to live, seeing that the merchants are rich, and hating them for taking away their own fields and industries, under the clamor of people with intentions, they actually gathered all people to do things, and elected a person named Zhao He to seize Shanghai Town in one fell swoop.

This Zhao He also has some brains, but he is fraudulently called Zhao Hong, and only said that he never died in the hands of Shi Miyuan. He seized the town of Shanghai, immediately recruited troops, took the town of Shanghai as his line, and even sent an "edict" to Yuan Fu, appointing him as "the secretary of the household department and the envoy of the coastal system", so that he could come to the post quickly. Because of the dealings between merchants in Shanghai Town, they robbed him of a lot of money and grain, recruited displaced people to die, and in just five days, there were 10,000 people, known as 100,000.

In Zhao He's "edict to the world" of the "text", Zhen Dexiu was appointed as the left minister and the affairs of the world, and Wei Liaoweng was the right minister and the privy envoy, and he also "ordered" that all the armies in the world responded quickly and forced Lin'an, "King Qin eliminated the traitor, and helped the monarch to reinstate".

As soon as this letter came out, there was an uproar in Lin'an City. Yu Tianxi dispatched all the messengers, and in coordination with Huo Chongcheng's eyeliner, he arrested seventeen spies sent by Zhao He to spread rumors overnight, and all seventeen heads were cut off and hung above the city gate to deter those treacherous people with bad intentions.

"Zhuqing, the clown who jumps off the beam also dares to be rampant, it seems that after I ascended the throne, I have not killed enough traitors."

Handing over this document to Cui He, Zhao Youju said lightly.

Cui He raised his eyebrows slightly, and glanced at Wei Liaoweng, he had already read this text, in which he was one of the traitors of the "Afu Usurpator", he didn't open it, and handed it to Ge Hong.

Ge Hong opened the text calmly, and in the text, he was one of the three Zaifu, but he was not listed. Cui He and Xue Ji are all villains, Zheng Qingzhi and Cheng Jue are renegades, and almost all important ministers are on the list, either entrusted with false positions or denounced as traitors, only he Ge Hong, but he seems to have been forgotten.

He looked over the crowd and looked at Qiao Xingjian, who was sitting quietly in his chair, his lips squirmed, and then turned the words into a wry smile.

Should I thank this fellow disciple and his master, or should I hate them, or should I sell them?

Just thinking about it, he felt that something was wrong, it seemed that a pair of eyes were staring at him, he turned around, and met Xue Ji's suspicious question. Ge Hong realized that the text had stayed in his hands for too long, which had aroused Xue Ji's suspicions, so he handed the text to Xue Ji, got up and bowed down in front of Zhao Youju.

"Your Majesty, old minister, there is not much time left to serve Your Majesty." When he said this, Ge Hong suddenly felt a little sad, but he quickly calmed down: "Even in this stupid thief's inscription, there is no name of the minister, the minister is really not angry, he asked himself to oversee the army, destroy this stupid thief, and after returning to the dynasty in victory, the minister begs ...... Beggar bones. ”

His voice trembled as he said the last sentence, but quickly regained his composure. He could feel that all the eyes in the Daqing Hall stopped at him in disbelief, but it was better for him to pick out this mystery by himself than to be picked out by Xue Ji and the Imperial History Counselor.

Zhao Youju looked at him lightly and shook his head: "I'm not allowed." ”

"Your Majesty!" Ge Hong's heart froze, and there was no emotion in the tone of the Son of Heaven, as if he was driving Xuan Xuan away that day.

"Ge Qing, I can trust you, go back to work."

The words of the Son of Heaven made Ge Hong's heart suddenly warm, he was an old fox who had been floating and sinking above the court for decades, but this feeling was not common. But he immediately controlled his emotions, and when Shane returned to his seat, when he looked at Xue Ji again, he found that he seemed to be thoughtful.

"Ge is just nameless in politics, and the ministers are capital crimes, and some false names are used by traitors." Wei Liaoweng couldn't sit still, he went out and said: "Ge is old in politics, he can't go into battle, the minister is invited to the post of the head of the household department, and the overseer will fight and capture him!" ”

"At the beginning, Li Quan's rebellion was huge, and I had not sent important ministers from the court to attack, let alone these rebellious people?" Zhao Youju shook his head: "I have 200,000 forbidden troops to guard Lin'an, and I can just transfer one to destroy these thieves." Yue Ke. ”

"The minister is here." Yue Ke came out of class awe-inspiringly.

"Can the Japanese army fight now?" Zhao Yoju asked.

Among the armies in Lin'an, the number of Japanese troops is the largest, and the rest of the armies are now in training, and half of the generals and colonels of the forbidden and compartmental armies have arrived in Lin'an because of the reform of the military system, and are learning how to use artillery tactics from Li Ye. If you want to fight, except for the Guards, this Japanese army is indeed the only force that can be used immediately.

"Yes." Yue Ke said loudly: "After the minister learned of the Huating Rebellion, he immediately went to the Japanese army to check, and the food, salary, and ordnance were all in order. ”

"Then 50,000 Japanese troops will go to war." Zhao Youju frowned and thought about it, the Japanese army and the Gongsheng Army were the same elite troops in the forbidden army, and there was a gap between them and the Guards in terms of combat strength, but compared to the chaotic people who had just gathered in one place, they must be much stronger. Now the problem is that if those bandits break up when they hear the news, or even cross the river north and plunder Huainan, Zhen Dexiu's two Huai systems will concentrate their forces in the Huai River area, and they may not be able to encircle and suppress them in time.

"Order the Yangtze River to be blocked, and don't let thieves cross the river." Thinking of this, Zhao Heju ordered again.

Note 1: In the first year of Duanping (1234), Huating County ordered Yang Jin to carry out the "meridian law", and the county's autumn grain was levied 57,810 stones. and built a flat warehouse.