Chapter 296: Zhu Ziman changed the crown

Although Meng Xisheng had never seen this person of Aravadin Muhammad, he often heard of it in his dealings with the Great Cannibals. At the age of nine, this contemporary mountain elder became a dark cloud over the Great Eclipse, over Persia and even over Jerusalem, hanging over every Crusader monarch, Muslim general, and even ordinary officials. Most people think that he is a madman, but this does not detract from his prestige, but makes him even more terrifying, after all, the behavior of a madman cannot be inferred by common sense.

Ibrahim sat trembling and sat on the ground, with a disgusting stench coming from his body, and his face was pale, and the smugness on his face was gone.

Meng Xisheng sat back in his place and smiled faintly.

"Ladies and gentlemen, we have an old saying in the Great Song Dynasty, harmony makes money, how can someone who uses a knife and a gun like this want to do a big deal?"

He said slowly, Zhao Yi and the guards came up and dragged the woman's body out, the woman's face was completely devoid of the charm of Fang Cai, when she was dragged by her feet and neck from Ibrahim, Ibrahim finally came to his senses and let out a sharp howl: "Lord Dudu, Lord Dudu, it is not the villain's master, the villain swears by Allah's honor, not the villain!" ”

"I'm sorry, I don't believe in your Allah." Meng Xisheng was still talking, laughing, and feasting, his face was gentle, but his words made Ibrahim despair: "Ibrahim, is your so-called best gift an assassin who wants my life?" ”

She ...... She...... She ......"

"Drag him down, stuff him into the cannon, and shoot in the northwest direction." Meng Xisheng snorted in disgust.

"Spare me...... Rao ......"

Before Ibrahim shouted more words for mercy, the guards who had made a mistake before gagged him and dragged him out, but just before going out, Meng Xisheng changed his mind: "Forget it, just cut off his head, throw the corpse into the sea to taste the fish, use the cannon, don't defile our cannon, if you break the cannon, it will be a loss." ”

The guards didn't laugh, and today's events made them realize that their peaceful days seemed to have passed too long.

"Jekenskai, are you complicit in these men?" Meng Xisheng glanced at these earth-colored food merchants again, and then stared at Jekensky.

Jekensky's cold hair immediately stood on end, and he suddenly remembered the rumor he had heard in the Great Song Dynasty: Genghis Khan, the steppe wolf who roamed the world and made the Arabian monarchs tremble, had his neck broken in the capital of the Song Kingdom because he had killed an envoy of the Song Kingdom.

He stood up respectfully and saluted Meng Xisheng, no longer like when he was received by Meng Xisheng when he first arrived in the Song Kingdom. He hung his head and said in the softest possible tone: "Dear Mengdudu, you know that I personally and the sovereign I represent have great respect for both the Great Song and the Great Song Emperor, and it was the Great Song and the Great Song Emperor who saved us from the threat of the barbarians. I also have a lot of love and gratitude for the Governor, and I will always remember the help he gave me the last time I went to the Great Song Dynasty. If I had known of Ibrahim's plot beforehand, there is no doubt that I would have reported him to the Governor, and even before that, I would have my bodyguards kill him......"

No matter how Jeckenskay tried to defend himself, he was careful not to mention the name of the woman before she died.

The big food merchants who traveled with him didn't know that he was actually familiar with Meng Xisheng, and when he heard him say this, he finally had a hope in his heart, if he could move Meng Xisheng and then intercede for everyone, maybe he could have a way out. Today's matter involves the old man in the mountain, Arawadine, which is really amazing, and they have ten more daring people, and they don't dare to talk to Meng Xisheng about the distribution of interests on the ocean.

Meng Xisheng stared at Jaken Skye for a long time without saying a word. Jekensky paused for a moment, and then forced a smile: "Meng Dudu knows that the villain was ordered by the Great Song Tianzi to return to Dashi to collect books, because he had to hire people to copy books, so he delayed these many years, and now the villain's merchant ship is full of various classics of two large ships, and there are dozens of translators who are proficient in various Chinese languages, which are all proof of the villain's respect for the Great Song Emperor." The villain is not an idiot like Ibrahim, how can he be so mad? ”

Meng Xisheng nodded slightly, in fact, including Ibrahim, he also believed that his people had nothing to do with this assassination, and he was at most used by others. However, neither from the point of view of his own anger nor from the current overall situation, he cannot but attribute the matter to Ibrahim.

The importance of this matter does not only involve his Meng Xisheng's life, but also involves Da Song's attitude towards Da Shi. Since Aravadine sent assassins to assassinate him, Meng Xisheng, that was to challenge the authority of the Great Song Dynasty over this vast sea, although he was only an assassin leader, he had a special position among the Great Food and Persian states.

"You should be glad that the assassin did not succeed, and Temujin, who had beaten you and embarrassed the Persian kingdoms, was hanged on the square of Lin'an, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, because he killed one of my fellow disciples and angered our Great Song Emperor." Meng Xisheng finally lost a smile on his face: "If that assassin succeeds, then our emperor will not hesitate to send troops on an expedition and hang all your kings in the capital of the Great Song Dynasty!" ”

Although it was only a lie, when a man who was always smiling and very gentle said such cold and absolute words, Jakensky still felt creepy, and he exchanged glances with two other big food merchants who had been to the Great Song Dynasty and knew about it. They knew that Meng Xisheng was just talking about intimidation here, but if he really died, then this kind of false intimidation would become a reality.

No great empire would sit idly by and watch its overseas governors be assassinated, and Meng Xisheng's title of "governor" was more noble than any governor they knew.

"Take them down, and their goods will be confiscated as a punishment for walking with the Assassins." Meng Xisheng looked at Jeken Skye: "This Jeken Skye is collecting books for His Majesty, and his punishment will be spared." ”

The big food merchants breathed a sigh of relief, and saluted Meng Xisheng one after another, they came to negotiate with Meng Xisheng this time, the goods they brought were not much, and they were still profitable if they only confiscated thirty percent.

After they left, Meng Xisheng was not busy holding the guards responsible, but sat in his seat, patting the seat restlessly.

That Aravadine, for whatever purpose, sent an assassin to assassinate him, must be removed. However, in order to get rid of some assassins hidden in the mountains and dispatch the Great Song army, Mo said that on the side of the Son of Heaven, even Meng Xisheng himself felt that this was a stupid idea.

Meng Xisheng's assassination may not be the most important event of this era, but it is definitely a far-reaching event for the Muslim sects of Dashi and Persia. If Meng Xisheng was only dissatisfied with the trade competition methods of the Great Cannibals, then from this day on, he hated the entire Islamic extremist sect, and he could be regarded as understanding why the Son of Heaven strictly ordered him to expel the Great Eclipse forces of Nanyang and Xilan.

Just when Meng Xisheng was struggling with how to deal with Arawadin, Lin'an, the capital of the Great Song Dynasty thousands of miles away, the residents ushered in the Double Ninth Festival in the fragrance of chrysanthemums.

Chongyang respects the elderly, which is a Chinese tradition since ancient times, therefore, Zhao and Ju on this day to give the ministers over 55 years old in the court wine, food and silk silk, and on the same day, he agreed to the request of the governor Ge Hong and Xue Ji to allow these two to retire and receive.

Among the two, Ge Hong took the initiative to propose Zhishi, while Xue Ji was forced to be helpless. In the past two years, he has been sick and bedridden, and some people among the ministers have criticized him for not being in love, after Ge Hong took the initiative to propose Zhishi, he had to bring it up, originally he still hoped that Tianzi Nian had been able to keep him a step after he had removed a lot of dissidents for the Son of Heaven over the years, but to his disappointment, Zhao Youju happily agreed to his request.

Naturally, after these two people left office, they had to be rewarded by the Son of Heaven above the false title, compared to the previous Xuanxuan of Zhishi, these two people can be regarded as retiring from the scenery.

After they resigned, they left two positions as governors, and in addition, because Xue Ji seized power, during his tenure as governor, he always served as the secretary of the ministry, so the important position of the secretary of the ministry was also retained. The changes in these three positions, as well as the vacancy of a number of important positions in the court during the Huating Min Change, attracted the attention of hundreds of officials, but at this time Zhao and Ju had recovered the Central Plains and almost driven Menghu out of the south of the Great Wall, and their prestige was higher than at the beginning.

On the tenth day of the ninth month, the Son of Heaven proposed at the court meeting that Wei Liaoweng, the secretary of the household department, and Zheng Qingzhi, the secretary of the Ministry of Rites, should be the governor of the political affairs. Wei Liaoweng has been sitting in the position of the head of the household department for a long time, and in the past few years when he was the head of the household department, the financial revenue of the Great Song Dynasty has increased year after year, and even the two wars have not made the treasury empty. Zheng Qingzhi's appointment is somewhat controversial, whether it is in terms of qualifications or political achievements, Zheng Qingzhi is not very prominent, but everyone also understands that after Xue Jishi, the Son of Heaven must arrange a cronie in politics, Zheng Qingzhi is an old man in Qiandi, if he is not up, then it is the current Lin'an prefect Yu Tianxi, Yu Tianxi is even worse than Zheng Qingzhi in terms of qualifications, but he has done a very good job in Lin'an in recent years.

The rest is the position of three of the six books: the household department, the official department, and the ritual department, which are all extremely important functions, and these three books mean that it is also possible to enter the center to participate in politics and even prime ministers. Therefore, the eyes of the hundred officials were scorching, and they were all waiting for the appointment of the Son of Heaven.

On September 12, the sixth year of Yanhuang, the Son of Heaven appointed Zou Yinglong, the former secretary of the Criminal Department, as the secretary of the Ministry of Officials, and Fan Zhong, who had served as a Lang official in the Criminal Department and was transferred to the Ministry of Household Affairs three years ago, as the secretary of the Ministry of Households. Zhao Kui, who made great contributions in the restoration of the Central Plains, was appointed as the secretary of the Criminal Department, and Zhao Kui was appointed as the military envoy of the Governor of the Northwest Chang'an Military Region, which was succeeded by Meng Heng, and Yu Jue was his deputy envoy. The appointment of the former Ministry of Rites Lang Hong Counselor as the Ministry of Rites Shangshu, this appointment is also not controversial, in the past few years Hong Counselor Kui has been sent several times, not dishonoring the mission, in the Ministry of Rites also did a conscientious work.

At the same time, there is also a candidate for the position of Zhengqing of Dali Temple, which has been vacant, that is Yuan Shao.

Among these appointees, Zou Yinglong was 59 years old, Fan Zhong was 60 years old, Zhao Kui was 45 years old, Hong Shikui was 55 years old, Wei Liaoweng was 53 years old, and Zheng Qingzhi was 55 years old. Only Yuan Shao, the head of Dali Temple, is over seventy years old, but the position of Dali Temple was originally in charge of judicial trials, and it is better for the elders to become older. Compared with the previous two who participated in politics and were over 70 years old, it can be said that the center of the Great Song Dynasty has quickly achieved rejuvenation.

At the same time, there are certain changes in the functions of various ministries, the largest of which is the criminal department, since Zhao and Ju separated the state capital's mentioning prisons directly under the central Dali Temple, the functions of the criminal department are somewhat ambiguous, this time Zhao and Ju clearly delineated, the criminal department manages public security and the escort army transferred from the Xiang army, and the local public security, government guards, criminal investigation and arrest are all its duties. In some unformal wills, Zhao Heju even called the Criminal Department the Ministry of Public Security, and at the same time, the subordinate of the Criminal Department was the escort army, and it was the reserve of the forbidden army, so it was appropriate for Zhao Kui to serve as the commander.

The biggest controversy is Fan Zhong, although he has been in the court for many years, but his political achievements are not obvious, for his sudden appearance as the head of the household, many people think that this is actually paving the way for another person who is covering up in this series of appointments.

Chen Zicheng, the head of the household department, this appointment means that in addition to Xiao Bolang, the head of the Ministry of Industry, another official from Liuqiu entered the high-level civil officials of the Great Song Dynasty, and unlike Xiao Bolang and Yelu Chucai of Zhijiankang Mansion, Chen Zicheng completely relied on the so-called "wisdom" to enter the high-level, Xiao Bolang was still a showman, and Yelu Chucai was quite famous when he was in the Jin Kingdom.

However, this appointment is really inconspicuous in a series of appointments, and, judging from the arrangement that the Son of Heaven replaced him with Chen Guiyi after Qiao Xingjian's death, instead of supporting Xiao Bolang as the secretary of the Ministry of Works, it is very likely that this Chen Zicheng is doing practical things to make up for Fan Zhong's lack of ability in practical work, rather than using it as a supplement for the head of the household - even so, waiting for him to be the head of the household department will be at least twenty years later, and it is not within the scope of the current ministers.

Naturally, this is also related to the books published by Chen Zicheng in the past few years, and his "Theory of Circulation", "Examination of the Origin of Money", "Theory of Industry" and "Silk Pavilion Night Talk" have almost become must-read books for officials who want to obtain political achievements and businessmen who want to chase profits. In particular, "Silk Pavilion Night Talk", through his night discussion with Hu Fulang, clearly put forward the standardized management of the industry and assembly line operations, so as to improve the production efficiency and management level of the factory, which can be said to be a must-have reading material for businesses and the government.

This series of official appointments and dismissals came out, some people were happy and some were worried, and Zhao Heju had to hear some rumors in his ears, such as the Son of Heaven appointing private people without scruples, and his reaction was to pretend not to know. Anyway, no one dares to mention this matter in front of him now, as long as he gets the benefits.

On September 16, the sixth year of Yanhuang, the first great court meeting after the six chief officials Qi Gu, looking at the civil and military affairs of the Manchu Dynasty, especially seeing Chen Zicheng who was among them in official uniform, Zhao Heju sighed with emotion, and was a little stunned for a while.

Note 1: "My generation is my lord...... The sentence "sacrifice" is a historical fact, in history, Arawadine sent people to assassinate the commander of Ganga City, and entered the castle with a bloody blade to kill the prime minister of the Sultan at that time, but was stoned to death by the local residents, and shouted so before he died, so it can be seen that the monotheistic extremists have a tradition of terrorism.

Note 2: In most cases, the place names such as Dashi, Persia, and Tianzhu in this article exist in terms of regional significance, rather than countries.