Chapter 301: Feeling

The New Year luncheon of the Great Song Dynasty has been held for several years, and in addition to the nobles of the court, there are also envoys from various countries, including the kings of the Fan Kingdom who are always in the Great Song Dynasty, such as the king of Goryeo, Wang Hao, and the lord of the Jin State, Wanyan Shouxu, who became a prisoner of the lower ranks.

In the battle of Caizhou two years ago, Wanyan Shouxu failed to commit suicide after all, but was killed by Wanyan Zonglin, who he passed on the throne, but he himself became a prisoner and was sacrificed to Lin'an. After the victory of the Northern Expedition, Lin'an held a grand ceremony to sacrifice prisoners, and he was an important role in this ceremony. At that point, he can be regarded as seeing it, neither committing suicide nor resisting, just going along with it.

However, Zhao Heju didn't have much interest in abusing the subordinate prisoners, and of course he pretended to be deaf and dumb about the legendary Meng Heng's violation of Empress Wanyan Shouxu, but asked Meng Hui to return the woman to Wanyan Shouxu. Although Wanyan Shouxu and his people were the owners of gold, they committed a great crime in launching the war of invasion of the Song Dynasty, but they suffered the pain of destroying the country and offering prisoners, and Zhao and Ju thought that it was enough. Just as the Jin people kidnapped the second emperor of Qinhui and only humiliated but did not kill, he did not want to put Wanyan Shouxu to death—after all, he was not a murderer like Temujin.

Moreover, Zhao and Ju now found that he had a hobby, that is, to collect the lords of various countries, in the Spring Festival banquet of the seventh year of Yanhuang, in addition to Wanyan Shouxu and Wang Hao, there was also Duan Zhixiang, the king of Dali, who set off from Dali in September of the sixth year of Yanhuang, traveled to Chengdu, went down by ship, transferred to a steam ship halfway, and arrived in Lin'an in November.

Whether to collect the tow mine, Zhao Heju did not hesitate in his heart, he killed Temujin, and the tow mine is a grudge to kill his father, with the character of the tow mine, no matter what, he will not bend his knees and surrender, if he does not surrender, then he will die.

As for the rest, like the great prince of the Wa kingdom and the Chen clan of Annam, they all had to leave a place for them in Lin'an.

Looking at the triumphant Wang Hao and the thoughtful Duan Zhixiang, Wanyan Shouxu sneered, originally Daikin was much stronger than these two countries, but now Dajin is gone, but these two countries still exist, how to make him not jealous.

"Laugh, laugh, I don't think you will laugh for long, the son of Song is so heroic, how can you wait to sleep peacefully by the couch?"

The palace maids shuttled back and forth like flowers and butterflies, one by one the delicacies were served on the table, Zhao and Ju were very stingy in the word "eat", only on the first day of the Lunar New Year at this banquet, he would let those imperial chefs let go of it, all kinds of delicacies and delicacies of the mountains and seas were cooked to the color and fragrance, and the flowing water was generally sent up, and the hundred officials and the foreign vassals sat in the middle, before the emperor came out, they talked and discussed with each other, and they were very leisurely.

Shi Miyuan took a deep breath when he stood in front of the door, not coveting the delicacies in the banquet hall, but he had not been in such a situation for a long time, so he was inevitably a little cowardly. He looked at Cui He, Cui He smiled faintly and stretched out his hand to signal for him to enter, and he stepped over the imperial steps and thresholds.

There are nearly 200 people who came to the banquet, and the whole banquet hall, as well as the side halls on both sides, are full of large round tables, which is the Son of Heaven for "having fun with the ministers, ignoring the noble and lowly" and deliberately so, between people coming and going, Shi Miyuan's appearance did not attract attention at first. It was Zheng Qingzhi who saw Cui He and was about to come forward to salute, but he looked at Shi Miyuan, who was dressed in ordinary Confucian clothes, and was so shocked that he exclaimed: "Shi Xianggong!" ”

This sound of "Shi Xianggong" was like a thunderbolt, which exploded in the hearts of many people, and at least half of the eyes were on Shi Miyuan, who was used to seeing big scenes, and couldn't help but feel a little uneasy at this time.

What is the purpose of the Son of Heaven to summon himself at this New Year state banquet, is he thinking of revenge, or does he want to demonstrate in front of the ministers?

Shi Miyuan didn't know that Zhao and Ju's first purpose was very simple, whether he Shi Miyuan had been the prime minister for a long time, and he had made great contributions to the establishment of policies, although there was no good way to govern the country, but the dignity of the minister always had to be taken into account, this was not the sharp confrontation between you and me when the two fought for power.

Wei Liaoweng also saw Shi Miyuan, as well as Cui He beside Shi Miyuan, he was shocked, he had never heard anything about such a major matter, could it be said that the Son of Heaven wanted to reactivate Shi Miyuan?

He was already thinking about how to admonish in his heart, unlike before, if the Son of Heaven did not listen to the advice this time, then he could only ask to see, Shi Miyuan and other figures, as long as he gave him a branch, he could climb up, in that case, the hard-won situation of the Great Song Dynasty would come to naught, no matter what, even if it was a dead admonition, this situation could not be allowed to occur.

This is the second purpose of Zhao and Ju to let Shi Miyuan come back, after six years of rapid development, the Great Song Dynasty, mainly above the court has a kind of slackness, always feel that the Central Plains has been restored, and has an absolute advantage over the surrounding countries militarily, so it seems that Wen Tianwu can sit back and relax, and release Shi Miyuan, which is to remind them, don't think that all this in front of you will last forever, as long as there are some policy deviations, then the good situation of ZTE will no longer exist in an instant.

Zheng Qingzhi's face was very embarrassed, and he secretly complained to himself in his heart that he shouldn't have shouted out. If he hadn't shouted, he would have been able to pretend not to know and talk to the rest of the people around him now, instead of being in the dilemma he is in now. He is a close minister of the Son of Heaven, so he naturally knows that Zhao Heju has no intention of reviving Shi Miyuan, but he was once an important member of the Shi Party, and he was deeply promoted by Shi Miyuan. But in front of so many people, when he went up to salute, would he be ridiculed?

Zheng Qingzhi cherished his feathers quite much, and others seemed to be just for a moment, but in fact, he hesitated for a while in his heart, and then got up and walked to Shi Mi Yuanyuan, and made a respectful gesture: "Shi Xianggong." ”

"The word Xianggong will never be mentioned again, now you are participating in politics, and I am just a cloth cloth." The contradiction in his heart, Shi Miyuan empathized, when he learned that Zheng Qingzhi had become a governor, he also secretly hated Zheng Qingzhi, Zheng Qingzhi fell to the Son of Heaven at the last moment, so that the generals of the forbidden army in his control were arrested without any reaction, but now when he saw Zheng Qingzhi again, Shi Miyuan suddenly thought that if he had not left the court, how could Zheng Qingzhi become a governor at this time.

"Uncle Wen, do things well, serve Your Majesty, don't learn from me." Full of emotion, Shi Miyuan barely spoke, and then he was speechless.

The second person who came forward to greet him was Yu Tianxi, who was originally Shi Miyuan's guest, and his relationship with Shi Miyuan was not ordinary. Shi Miyuan knew that he knew Lin'an Mansion, and when he thought of the Lin'an situation he saw in his eyes, he couldn't help nodding one after another: "Pure father did a good job, the ancients Yunshi should be impressed for three days, and the pure father is now impressing the old man." ”

There were two people taking the lead, and those who had some friendship with Shi Miyuan in the court came up to greet him, and Shi Miyuan even saw Xue Ji, who was retired, but the two of them now have a deep hatred, Xue Ji didn't pay attention to him, and he naturally wouldn't get up. He looked around and found that more than half of the officials did not know him, and he wanted to come to the Son of Heaven to rectify the court in the past seven or eight years, and the original history party had disappeared.

This is Zhao and Ju's third purpose, by summoning Shi Miyuan back, announcing to the courtiers that the Shi Party no longer exists, and now there is no more partisan dispute in the court, if anyone wants to start this dispute, the result will be exiled overseas, and it will take seven or eight years to be released.

For Zhao Youju, the innovation has entered the eighth year, which is also the most critical period, and he must mobilize all the forces that can be mobilized to promote and consolidate the innovation achievements of the Great Song Dynasty.

"Your Majesty has passed on the history of Mi Yuan."

Cui He followed Shi Miyuan behind, and saw that there were only more than ten people who greeted him, and he couldn't help but sigh a little in his heart, when Shi Miyuan was powerful, most of the people in the Manchu Dynasty were Shi Dang, but now there are only so a dozen people left in the court, and unconsciously, the members of the Shi Party have been cleared out of the court.

Shi Miyuan's appearance at the New Year state banquet was a silent touch for the courtiers, although I don't know what His Majesty said to Shi Miyuan after Cui He led Shi Miyuan to His Majesty, but Wei Liaoweng immediately prepared a twist and turn after going back to impeach Shi Miyuan for leaving the place of exile. This is just his tentative move, I want to see if His Majesty will reinstate Shi Miyuan, Zhao Youju summoned him to see him soon after entering the chapter, his face was heavy when he entered, and when he came out, his face was full of light, and those little officials who were good at figuring out people's intentions immediately understood that Shi Miyuan could not be reinstated.

But in any case, Shi Miyuan returned to Beijing to achieve the goal of Zhao and Ju, and the history of the party in the court became completely history, and all the courtiers were as if they had been pricked by a needle, and they all tightened their strings and began to deal with official affairs with all their might, especially with the arrival of spring, the Northern Expedition plan has been known by more officials, and the preparations for the Northern Expedition have been more detailed, and a cart of quilts, medicines and food has been sent to Xuzhou, and then transferred from Xuzhou to the Daimyo's mansion.

Among them, the procurement cost makes people salivate, and it is rumored that after the Northern Expedition to pacify Liaodong and send them to the guards, a large number of cotton clothes and quilts are needed.

The cotton weaving industry is a relatively important industry in the current industrial system of the Great Song Dynasty, firstly, its market is vast, the entire Great Song Dynasty has 144 million people, and the clothes worn are such a huge market, although most of the people can only wear hand-spun numbness, but now at least one-tenth can afford to consume cotton clothes, and this number is still increasing rapidly at a rate of three to forty percent per year - which is also roughly equivalent to the growth of the industrial population of the Great Song Dynasty. The huge market naturally brings huge profits, and the farms near Xuzhou have harvested a lot, and they have changed their grain fields to grow cotton, and the government has sent people to strictly supervise and ensure that the amount of arable land for growing grain has not been sharply reduced. However, due to the impact of the war in the Central Plains, coupled with the fact that the Jurchen nobles who originally owned a large amount of land were deprived of their land, and large areas of land were waiting to be developed, many "smart" people tried their best to go to the Central Plains to enclose land and open intensive farms.

Zhao and Quan are one of them, the last clan turmoil is just a part of his plan, it is best to get benefits from the Son of Heaven, if he can't get the benefits, then the 10,000 acres of grange he bought in Jingxi Province at the end of the Quanzhou business will come in handy, he bought a full set of cotton spinning machinery from the Liuqiu Manufacturing Bureau, and even gritted his teeth and installed a steam engine at a high price, and opened his cotton mill in Luoyang.

But at the moment, he is not happy that the business is doing better.

Luoyang was originally a famous city in the ancient capital of several dynasties, but after the chaos of the Jin State and the tyranny of Menghu, now the population of the whole city is only tens of thousands, and not everyone has the skills of Zhao Ziyue and Zhen Dexiu, and the recovery of the city is far less rapid than that of Xuzhou and Bianliang. Therefore, in the desert and cold of early spring, those dead trees and ruins look extremely desolate, and even the people walking on the street also look weak.

The carriage ran on the dirt road, because the snow had just melted, so the road was extremely difficult to travel, Zhao and Quan became more and more annoyed in their hearts, and began to doubt whether they were right to set up a factory in Luoyang.

"This damn road, the official family will not send anyone to repair it...... I thought that after the railway from Xuzhou to Bianliang was opened, the next step was to repair Bianliang to Luoyang, but now it seems that this official road must be repaired before it can be said that the railway is ......"

Mrs. kept chattering in the carriage, from Quanzhou to Lin'an, they took a steamboat, from Lin'an to Xuzhou, they took a train, from Xuzhou to Bianliang, they traveled on a concrete road, which was very convenient and comfortable, at least much more comfortable than from Bianliang to Luoyang.

"Shut up, if you chatter any more, I'll drive you back to Quanzhou!" Zhao Youquan was in a bad mood in the first place, and when they heard Mrs. nagging like this, they were even more angry and drank loudly.

Madame closed her mouth and was quiet for a moment, only for a moment, and then began to nag again: "It's almost March, the peach blossoms in Quanzhou Mansion are blooming, but this Jingxi has just turned snow, this is a place where people stay, we have been born in Quanzhou, we are poor, and we always have no worries about food and clothing, why rush to Jingxi?" Although the imperial mausoleum is here, can it be said that the imperial mausoleum can be more ......reliable?"

"Shut up!" Zhao and Quan kicked the carriage violently, and there was an exclamation from inside, and then finally quieted down.

Tightening the cotton jacket wrapped around his body, Zhao and Quan got off the horse, although they were wearing cotton clothes, the wind still blew his bones cold, and after walking for a distance, the rubber rain boots that were aborted for childbirth creaked in the mud that was half snow and half water, and the chagrin in his heart was even worse.

Perhaps, like Zhao Xihu, it is a really good way to go to the South Seas to plant rubber, to occupy an island in the South Seas, to plant tens of thousands of acres of rubber, you can be the king and hegemon, as long as you do not trespass and do not rebel, you can speak more effectively on that island than the official family......

He shook his head vigorously and pushed this thought aside, the clans are now looking for their own way out, but there is not one in a hundred who dares to run overseas like Zhao Xihu, most of them still stay in Liangzhejiang, and there are few who come to the Central Plains like Zhao and Quan.

Looking at the faint shadow of the mountains in the distance, Zhao Hequan sighed, that area should be the imperial mausoleum before the Southern Crossing of the Great Song Dynasty, the Seven Emperors and Eight Tombs are all here, I hope these ancestors can bless him, a descendant of later generations, so that he can break a way in the Central Plains.