Chapter 355 Overseas Situation

The winter of the thirteenth year of Yanhuang was colder for some people than in previous years. It's only been October, and it's a miserable and panicked, and the thick new cotton jacket on his body can't stop the biting chill.

Fang Zhixing smacked his lips: "The wind has changed." ”

A few days ago, it was a warm south wind, but now it is a terrible north wind, the howling wind, the leaves of those deciduous trees in Lin'an City are all rolled off, almost overnight, the streets of Lin'an City are covered with a thick blanket of leaves, so that the little officials in charge of sanitation are vigorous.

Fang Zhixing is naturally not a small official in charge of sanitation, he shoulders the mission, followed Lin Xi's fleet to Dongshengzhou, and after coming back, he was promoted again, this is already his second promotion in three years. Although his colleagues were envious, they also knew that this was the credit of his desperate life, and no one thought it was unfair.

Today is a good day for him, the old father of the family saw that he ran to Dongshengzhou and couldn't make up his mind, so he told him about his family, and today is the day of marriage. Fang Zhixing is dispensable for this, he also needs a woman to preside over the family, now his official position is getting higher and his knowledge is rising, he is no longer a dispensable role in the family at the beginning, there is a woman who looks at his hard-earned belongings when he is not at home, so as not to make his brother and sister-in-law find such and such an excuse to take it away.

According to the rules of the Great Song Dynasty, if he has not yet separated from his brother, the belongings he earns will naturally have his brother's share. His brother still needs some face, but his sister-in-law doesn't care a lot, always thinking about how to take advantage of it. Especially after he came back from Dongshengzhou, whether it was the gold and silver he shared, or the rewards of the official family, his sister-in-law's eyes almost stood out.

The sedan chair team followed him, although he had a smile on his face, his mind was flying out of the sky, and others were so happy and excited when they were happy, but he felt bored.

A copy of yesterday's Da Song Daily was blown up by the wind and flew to him, and the entourage next to him immediately took the newspaper away, but Fang Zhixing still saw the big headline on the newspaper: The Son of Heaven Decrees the Reform of the Official System!

For some people, this should be the reason for the change. Fang Zhixing thought boredly.

Some time ago, his secret spies stared at the hundreds of officials in the court very tightly, and constantly sent him the grumbling words of the officials' meetings, conversations, and even banquets, and then sent them to his top boss, Huo Chongcheng, after summarizing. Watching those useless scholars jump up and down, as if they were cats with their tails trampled, Fang Zhixing felt bored. These people don't even know how to conspire, except for relying on the momentum, they are almost useless, and when others are louder than them, they are silent one by one, and they don't even dare to let out a fart.

The sedan chair team was moving forward to the crossroads, and suddenly Fang Zhixing's eyes lit up and he reined in the horse.

This is the grace of the Son of Heaven, and when the bridegroom is married, he rides a horse on the royal street, and other than that, the royal street only allows the carriage to run at a limited speed. Fang Zhixing reined in his horse, and the propaganda team and sedan chair driver who followed him also stopped, and they watched a large group of people pass in front of them, and the momentum of the guard of honor was clearly the royal drive of the Son of Heaven.

Then Fang Zhixing saw Huo Chongcheng who was accompanying him, and saw his subordinates, Huo Chongcheng nodded at him and made a gesture, Fang Zhixing understood that it was Huo Chongcheng's intention to come to his house to eat wine at night.

"Strange, I haven't heard that the Son of Heaven has travel arrangements, why did I meet this on the street?" Fang Zhixing thought curiously.

Zhao and Ju's imperial chariot were not covered all around, and he felt that with his merits, he did not need to rely on a piece of cloth in front of his subjects to maintain a sense of mystery. He saw Huo Chongcheng's gesture, and also looked at Fang Zhixing's side, and when he saw Fang Zhixing dressed as the groom, he smiled, and then signaled to stop.

"Guangliang, go and call that Fang Zhixing forward, look at his appearance as a groom, since I know, I can't help but express it."

Zhao Heju instructed Huo Chongcheng.

"Yes."

Huo Chongcheng beckoned to Fang Zhixing, Fang Zhixing's spirits perked up, and he understood that the Son of Heaven wanted to see him, so he immediately dismounted, and then stepped over respectfully. He had been summoned by Zhao and Ju twice alone, once before going to Dongshengzhou, Zhao and Ju personally explained his tasks, and the other was after Dongshengzhou returned, Zhao and Ju listened to him report on the situation along the way.

"I remember that you brought a lot of gold and silver back from Dongshengzhou, and I also gave you a lot of rewards, why is this wedding still so frugal, doesn't this make the bride think that I treat the heroes lightly!"

As soon as Zhao Heju opened his mouth, Fang Zhixing was startled, but looking at Huo Chongcheng's face, he knew that the Son of Heaven was just joking with him, and he was also an interesting person, so he responded with a smile: "The minister is guilty, the minister is stingy, so he is reluctant to spend, and the minister has to save money to buy the shares of Dongshengzhou China Merchants Bureau. ”

"Money has to make money, and money is wealth?" Hearing him say this, Zhao Youju smiled dumbly, this is a limerick poem circulated among the people, and the Chinese people have a bad habit for a long time, that is, they like to bury their money. In the past, the jar was filled with gold, silver and copper coins and buried in the ground, and later it was wrapped in oiled paper and hidden in the kang hole. For this reason, those tabloids who love to hunt for curiosity have reported that rats eat money or that family members inadvertently throw away things containing money as garbage. Now it seems that the effect is still good, at least people like Fang Zhixing can quote casually when they speak.

"I won't miss it when I see it...... Guangliang, tonight you go to the guy on my behalf to ask for a cup of happy wine to drink, and by the way, send a message to the bride, so that the bride knows that her family official is a decent person who can talk in front of me! ”

Fang Zhixing was originally smiling, and when he heard Zhao and Ju talking like this, he couldn't help but be greatly moved, although his attitude towards this marriage was dispensable, but the Son of Heaven valued his family so much, and it was not because of him! He saluted and was about to say thanks, Zhao Heju said again: "Fang Zhixing, you don't want to say thank you, I will use you a lot in the future, I am afraid that it is indispensable to make your husband and wife fall in love, this is regarded as my confession to the bride in advance." ”

Fang Zhixing was the most happy to hear this, he was calm on the surface, but in fact he was a good person, otherwise he would not have joined the secret agent. Seeing Huo Chongcheng signaling to him, he thanked him, and then retired and left.

This little tidbit in the middle is just a whim for Zhao and Ju, but it is a great event for Fang Zhixing and his welcoming team, the welcoming team saw the Son of Heaven, and the Son of Heaven came to call the groom to speak, which made them feel fortunate to be honored, and they played harder one by one, and when they arrived at the ground, they were stunned by the woman's family.

"It's weird, it's just dozens of people, how did you make such a noise?" After hearing that the groom was called by the Son of Heaven for questioning halfway, they smacked their tongues one by one, and said hello to the woman's parents: "This is a good uncle, Jane is in the emperor's heart, it will be of great use, it is your Yue's family, and you can also stain a lot of light in the future!" ”

Fang Zhixing's father-in-law's beard was cocked, and the mother-in-law heard that her daughter had just married and had been ordained, looking at Fang Zhixing's eyes, she was so eager that Fang Zhixing's hairy son-in-law couldn't stand it.

Originally, the woman's mother was afraid that her daughter would be troubled by her brother and sister-in-law after she got married, but now that she has a fate, she can steadily suppress Fang Zhixing's sister-in-law, and she is not afraid that she will make waves in the inner courtyard.

In the evening, Huo Chongcheng really went to Fang Zhixing's house with an order, he was a distinguished guest, so Fang Zhixing invited his father to accompany him. Fang's father was a little roundabout, Huo Chongcheng didn't have anything to say to him, but he was perfunctory, after the banquet, Fang Zhixing did not enter the cave room, but came to see Huo Chongcheng first.

"Governor, the Son of Heaven said that to me today...... Are you going to assign me a task again? Fang Zhixing asked tentatively.

"No hurry, no hurry, it is estimated that it will take another year and a half." Huo Chongcheng said with a smile: "You kid hurry up and work hard first to plant a baby on the bride, and there will be almost news at that time." ”

Listening to Huo Chongcheng's tone, it seemed that he really had a good bad luck for his appetite, Fang Zhixing was overjoyed, and he only felt itchy, so he asked again: "Supervisor, I'm your old subordinate, what's the good messenger, let's reveal it first!" ”

This is not a big secret, and the function of the Israeli Zhixing is also within the scope of what he can know. Therefore, Huo Chongcheng said: "Today, the official family left the palace to go to Gushan and meet the big food merchant Jeken Skye. ”

"Is that the big food merchant who sold a few boatloads of books to my Great Song Dynasty?" Fang Zhixing naturally knew this name.

"Exactly, this guy is also an inverted frieze, he was instructed by the Son of Heaven to collect books from the Great Food, Persia and the Tessie countries, but fell into the hands of pirates in Tessie, fortunately saved our Western Expeditionary Fleet, and was ordered by Duncan Polo and Yu Zhu, the two naval governors, to pass through the Great Eclipse by land, and then from the Great Eclipse to Xilan, and finally came to my Great Song Dynasty, to return to Your Majesty."

Speaking of this, Huo Chongcheng sneered, and said: "Those big cannibals are bold, the Western Expeditionary Fleet has sent messengers to report five times, all of them disappeared in the big food, I think they were stopped and killed by them halfway, Jeken Skye is a big cannibal, so they are not guarded, and they arrived in our Great Song Dynasty." Because of his merits, His Majesty has granted him naturalization. ”

"Big Food...... Or Cessio Europa? Hearing this news, Fang Zhixing's first concern was where he might be sent.

"It has not yet been decided, Your Majesty will send special envoys to the Ministry of Justice in Taixi, Dashi, Dongsheng, and Xinzhou, and you will have to have a place at that time." Huo Chongcheng Road.

"How's the situation of the Western Expeditionary Army?" Fang Zhixing asked again.

The Western Expeditionary Fleet was headed by Duncan Polo and Yu Zhu as the chief and deputy governors, and the size of their fleet was no smaller than that of the Eastern Expeditionary Army joined by Fang Zhixing. Moreover, because of the confirmation of water and food supplies along the way, this fleet outnumbered the Crusade Army, including marines who had trained for more than a year. After passing through Wangsong Jiao, there was no news from the Western Expeditionary Fleet, which has always made Zhao Youju very worried, and even once doubted whether he was too eager and couldn't wait to go to Europe to show off his national prestige.

This is not to blame him, in the history he traveled, the towering China suffered countless humiliations from the Taixi countries, until the era he traveled through, the Taixi countries still tried their best to stir up trouble on the Chinese frontier and ethnic issues. Although Zhao Youju is not an ultra-nationalist, he is very stubborn in believing that the Anglo-Saxons are the most wall-riding villains in the world, and the source of all the disasters in the world in the future, so after he has strength, he is eager to make this nation suffer.

Therefore, in the order to the expeditionary fleet, Zhao and Ju made it very clear that the British Isles must be divided into more than four countries, and no signs of unification should be allowed.

"Jeckensky brought with him the recitals of the two governors, and he himself brought some hearsay rumors." Huo Chongcheng pondered for a moment, and then said: "The two governors arrived in Taixi a year ago, and beat the naval armies of the western countries in Taixi. ”

Fang Zhixing's heart was hot when he heard this, and he knew that although what Huo Chongcheng said was simple, in fact, bloodshed was indispensable. The expeditionary fleet had limited supplies and could not use a large number of artillery to fight every battle, but with the iron armor on the huge ship, it should be able to sink the small sampans of the Taixi countries.

"There were only two battles in the land war, one in which the king of England was captured and prepared to be taken prisoner, and the other was fought against the allied army of the Taixi countries, and the 60,000 allied troops were wiped out with a single bombardment of artillery. Now half of the kingdoms of Taixi have surrendered, and Yao respects His Majesty as the emperor, it is said that what sect leader of Taixi will send someone to my Great Song Dynasty, and give the Son of Heaven the honorific title of Roman Augustus - inexplicably wonderful, our official family doesn't even want his own honorific title, and still cares about what Roman Augustus he is? ”

"A mere sect leader dares to point fingers at my Great Song?" Fang Zhixing was also surprised when he heard it: "Who does he think he is?" ”

His Majesty also sneered after hearing this, saying that the guy was impatient, and he actually played with a knife to kill people. What is the benefit of Augustus, it turned out that I wanted the Great Song Dynasty to send troops to destroy the Muslim countries that ate the Great Food for them. Huo Chongcheng said: "Your Majesty sent the Western Expeditionary Fleet to unify the Taixi countries, so that they could fight with the Muslim countries and bleed more than once, my Great Song Dynasty is good to profit from it, what kind of sect leader is good, he actually wants my Great Song Dynasty to help them take millet from the fire, it is really arrogant and stupid!" ”

Hearing him say that Yelang was arrogant, Fang Zhixing glanced at him with a smile, and Huo Chongcheng glared: "What? ”

"The superintendent is familiar with idioms now, hehe." Fang knows the way.

"If it weren't for your big day, I would have beaten you into a pig's head today." At this time, Huo Chongcheng slightly revealed the nature of his youth, but he immediately retreated: "We are now going to carry out official reform, there are many events in the country, and we have no time to entangle with the big cannibals, I just hope that the two governors can successfully drive Menghu to the west, and let Menghu scourge those big cannibals." ”

The two governors he is talking about here are, of course, Li Ye and Wang Qinian, who are on the front line of the Western Regions, and the Western Regions are of course closer to Lin'an than Taixi, but because the telegram has not yet arrived there, Lin'an cannot grasp the movement of the front line in the first time, and he does not know what the situation is over there. If the weather is warm, Huo Chongcheng will not be worried, but this winter will come early, the temperature will be lower, in the Western Regions, I am afraid that it will be even colder, for the Great Song Guards, the biggest enemy is not Menghu, but the bad weather and environment.