Chapter 292 The country is shaky and rainy

The education problems of the capital and the children all bothered Zhao and Ju, making him feel very troubled. Soon after Ge Hong went back, he wrote an article in the "Great Song Times Weekly", analyzing the pros and cons of the capital in detail, pointing out that now is not the best time to return to Bianliang.

There are four main reasons for him, the first is that the treasury is not yet abundant, and it is still Bianliang, and the cost of palace construction alone is tens of millions, which will inevitably drag down the economy of the Great Song Dynasty; The second is that Bianliang is not well prepared, and it is not something that can be done by shouting, and those who are clamoring for the return of the capital with all their strength have never thought that after the return of the capital, including the Son of Heaven, the clan, the hundred officials, the guards, the forbidden army, etc., there are four or five hundred thousand people who will move to Bianliang, and how to solve the problem of these four or five hundred thousand people; Third, at this time, the capital is still in Bianliang, the railway is not open, the Central Plains grain is not yet self-sufficient, and the pressure of water transportation has increased sharply, which will inevitably lead to the emergence of new problems; Fourth, the important reason for returning to the old capital was to fight against the Jin Yu here, but now that the Jin Kingdom has been destroyed, Menghu has also been beaten so that he does not dare to peep south, and there is no longer the urgency of returning to the old capital.

When Zhao Youju finished reading this article, he still scolded the old slippery head. Although Ge Hong was determined to take over the anger of the Great Confucianism in the north for him, he still played a small trick and did not clearly propose that Bianliang would no longer be the capital, but cleverly said that Bianliang did not have the conditions to be the capital of the Great Song Dynasty for the time being.

As for when Bianliang will have the conditions to be the capital of the Great Song Dynasty, it is naturally up to the imperial court to decide.

After Ge Hong's article was published, there was not much controversy, although those Confucian scholars in the north were inevitably allowed to send him letters, accusing him of being opportunistic, but public opinion generally supported his views. He said what the vast majority of people want to say but don't know how to say, and now almost all the officials in the court are from the south, and no one is willing to move to the north, as for the Confucian scholars in the north, although their ideas have been written into articles, they can't find newspapers to publish, and the influential newspapers in the country are all from the south without exception, and the investors of several newspapers in the north are also big businessmen from the south.

In a fit of rage, the Confucian of Peking University raised funds to set up a newspaper in Chang'an, and the name used the word "crossing the river" that Zong Ze shouted when he was dying, implying that the imperial court had forgotten the Central Plains. This newspaper is more vigorous than the newspaper run by the conservatives in the south in Chengdu, and most of the Confucian scholars in the north will read it regularly, but the influence cannot go out of Tongguan, that is, Bianliang, which they claim should return to the capital, and this newspaper cannot sell a few copies.

The "Jinghua Secrets" newspaper resolutely stood on the side of the imperial court at this time, it was not a newspaper like the "Great Song Times Weekly" that should pay attention to its influence, scolding people without taboos, and bluntly satirizing these Confucian scholars in the north as "ambitious and talented, seeing beautiful women without lifting, drinking fine wine and vomiting, writing thousands of words and quoting scriptures, doing everything without merit and seeing the present day", although there are no dirty words, but they speak heartily, which makes people feel happy. At this time, "The Secret of Jinghua" has also become a national newspaper, and it is sold everywhere the railways and steam turbines are passed, so the southern readers all laugh when they see it, while half of the northern readers say that it is not kind, and the other half are silent.

Zhao and Ju tried their best to win the hearts and minds of the people, but his efforts were limited, and the conservative and self-interested Confucian scholars in the north also really angered the south, so the southern newspapers inevitably regarded themselves as victors, and there were many denunciations of the northern Confucianism between words, and the two sides did not give in to each other, and the war of words in the newspapers temporarily replaced the debate on whether to still be in Lin'an.

"It would be nice if these Song people were in chaos."

Tuo Lei drank hot milk, put down the newspaper in his hand, and said to Li Rui with a smile.

In the war two years ago, Polu fled back to Yanyun, although he failed to achieve the goal of occupying Xuzhou, but also brought two major gains, one is that along the way, Polu exerted his talent of Menghu captivity and took everything he could see, and the monk Wanyan Chen failed to intercept Polu in time because of the decisive battle with the army of Wokotai, and robbed him of 200,000 people and wealth.

The second is artillery, Polu did not snatch the artillery of the Jin people, but robbed a group of craftsmen from the Jin camp, and after returning to Liaoyang, these craftsmen were sent to Li Rui. Li Rui lived up to the hope of dragging mines, and finally built Meng Yuan's first cannon last year.

It's just that this cannon, like the cannon of the Jin Kingdom, is too bulky, and the range and power are far inferior to the cannons of the Song Kingdom.

"Those Song people in the Central Plains, it's okay to let them move their mouths, and if they really start a war, it is absolutely impossible." Li Rui replied respectfully.

Tuo Lei sighed, it was only two years, he had gone from a heroic king in the prime of life to middle age, he rubbed his forehead vigorously, expelled the headache caused by worry, and after a while said, "Is there any money in the treasury?" ”

"Not for the time being, just waiting for trade with Goryeo merchants." Li Rui smiled bitterly.

The so-called Goryeo merchants, Tuo Lei and Li Rui both knew that it was actually a fake by a Song businessman. This group of bold and reckless Song merchants took advantage of Goryeo to smuggle between the Mengyuan and the Great Song Dynasty, sold the luxury goods of the Song Kingdom to the Mengyuan, and then exchanged the furs and medicinal materials from the Mengyuan, and added the item of giant wood since last year. For this reason, Tuo Lei went on another northern expedition, conquered the former large forest of Liaoyang, and forced the Jurchen and other tribes who were hunting in the forest to cut down wood and go down the mountain.

The entire Mengyuan treasury relied on two incomes: Li Quan's Tuntian and Li Rui's trade routes. If you are diligent and thrifty, you can get by, but the Song people don't let Meng Yuan live well, and every other day, the troops of the two military regions of Hedong and Hebei of the Song people will harass Yanyun. Forcing Yanyun's farming and grazing to stop, Meng Yuan moved hundreds of thousands of Yanyun ethnic groups to Liaoyang and Liaodong, and had to increase the number of artillery on the border, spending all the surplus of the treasury in the arms race with the Great Song Dynasty.

As a result, Tuolei's pockets were always empty, and even to the point that every day the smugglers from the Song Kingdom came and went, his hundred officials had no salaries. Li Rui is already good at managing money, but he is still accused and scolded by Mongolian nobles, Li Rui has taken two months of sick leave for this, and entrusts everything to others, but the Meng Yuan nobles soon found out that what they inherited was a mess, except for Li Rui himself, no one could sort out the clue.

"Li Qing, what about your promotion of Chinese characters and Song language...... Can you slow down and ...... that money first?"

"Your Majesty, by all means!"

Hearing the idea of Tuo Lei wanting to fight this money, Li Rui immediately changed color, and his original deference was swept away, replaced by a stubborn face: "This case cannot be opened, today Your Majesty embezzled this money for other things, and other noble relatives will also come to the door tomorrow." Your Majesty should know the importance of studying the Chinese character Song language, and the minister has already kept its expenses to a minimum, and it really can't be cut any longer! ”

Tuo Lei looked at Li Rui, sat down in the chair dejectedly, and sighed again.

For this young Hanchen, Tuo Lei is very satisfied, since he defected, he has worked diligently, and he is more heroic than the rest of the Hanchen, and there are more people than Meng, and they have no elegant style. He has a wide range of knowledge, and he is very practical, and he is good at financial management, which is really a rare practical talent. But there's one thing he's too stubborn.,It's to spare no effort to promote sinicization.,The last time he sued for illness,It's because the nobles moved the money used to promote sinicization.。

After the two defeats of Taizhuang and Zhengqu, the Mongolian nobles also realized that if they could not catch up with the footsteps of the Song people, then not only would they not be able to hold Yanyun, but the land of Liaoyang and Liaodong would sooner or later be owned by the Han people. And to catch up with the Song people,You have to accept the sinicization,Follow the Mongolian nobles who dragged the thunder,Like Polu, etc.,And they are all relatively young and enterprising,So the opinions on accepting the sinicization are very consistent,It's just that they are nomadic robbers who lack long-term vision and rational thinking habits after all.,Sometimes things are in a hurry.,Will put the matter aside.,First satisfy the immediate appetite for words.。

"There's no money for anything...... I, the emperor, deserve to be too depressed. Why is the emperor of the Southern Dynasty so rich? Tuo Lei thought about it and was a little unwilling: "The musket of the Southern Dynasty, how is the progress of imitation?" ”

After the defeat of Zheng Qu, rumors of the new weapons of the Song people spread back to the Meng Yuan with the rout, and the Meng Yuan initially called it "hand-held artillery", and later saw in the Song newspapers that this weapon was called "musket", so it was renamed the musket, and the imitation process immediately began. It's just that at that time, even the imitation of artillery was not sure, let alone this musket, until this year, it seems that the musket was dragged into the agenda.

"Your Majesty, this matter is not easy, only if my Dayuan has an industrial base, can it be imitated, and before that, we have to use the measurement ...... that the Song people are using today."

Regardless of whether he likes it or not, Li Rui's answer to him always disappoints him like this, after half an hour, Li Rui, who was a little tired of dealing with various problems of Tuolei, went out, he looked back at the house of Tuolei, although Tuolei was called the emperor, and the palace was also expanded on the basis of the original Jinguo Palace in Huanglong Mansion, but in general, he was a heroic, thrifty and diligent emperor, but ......

"After all, it's just the emperor of Menghu, and that's all there is to it." Li Rui hid this thought deep in his heart, summoned his carriage, and ordered the coachman to return home.

Because he is completely trusted, and because Li Quan has added two more children, he has now moved out of Li Quan's mansion, but the two mansions are very close to each other, and there is only a small alley in between, so it is no different from living together. When he got out of the car, he saw a group of people gathered in front of Li Quanfu, and couldn't help frowning, and sent a personal guard to find out what was going on.

"Lord Qianhu, it's a nation that is drunk and making trouble."

Of course, Li Rui's personal guards are Han Chinese, but the Han people say that the Mongols dare not say that they are Menghu, and can only call them "national", and they can only call them "national", and they are Mongolian people, Li Rui frowned again, and his heart was irritable.

Li Quan is the envoy of Liaoyang Tuntian and the Han army, if you look at the title, he is a big official, but in the eyes of those Menghu, he is always just a Han man, one level lower than them, so there are always some stunned young people who are not convinced. In particular, Li Quanguan was in charge of the settlement and cultivation of Tuntian, and some of the Mongolian people under his jurisdiction were not accustomed to this way of life, and their management of him was always with raised eyebrows and noses, so that he spent most of his energy on entanglement with them.

"Go see what's going on." Although he is not afraid that Li Quan will suffer losses, the so-called brothers who fight in the war are father and son soldiers, and if his uncle has something to do, he naturally has to go as a nephew. He led the people to Li Quan's door, and he heard one of the Mongolian people crying and shouting, as if someone had slashed him.

"What's going on?" He quickened his pace, and he asked as the guards parted the crowd.

"Bang bang, I'm not dead, bang bang!"

The man who was rolling and crawling on the ground was a Mongolian man, his body was dirty, and he smelled a smell of wine from afar. He muttered something drunkenly, making a "bang-bang" sound repeatedly, Li Rui asked, but he didn't seem to hear it.

"Who is this person?" Li Rui asked again.

The Mongolian man next to him was holding his hands and smiling and looking at the excitement, smelling Li Rui's inquiry, and seeing Li Rui's gorgeous costumes, he knew that it was a Han official, so he pouted and said: "This is Zaguzhide's Battle, who was drunk and came to ask for wine money from Han officials." ”

Li Rui was furious, although the Zaguri Debu was also a descendant of Lady Ajanhoa, how could such a lowly herdsman dare to go to his uncle's door to mess around! He was about to order someone to drive that guy away, when the guy named Battle suddenly stood up, got up from the ground, and stared at Li Rui: "You...... You're the Guard! ”

Li Rui's words retracted when he reached his mouth, and he closed his mouth tightly, and Battle's words were said in Song language, so he could hear them clearly.

"Spare your life, spare your life, don't kill me, bang, don't kill me...... I, Battle, am the warrior of Zaguzhd, Genghis Khan himself gave me a golden sword, devil, come, kill me, I will ...... with you I'm going to fight you face to life! ”

Nabatel just said a word of Song, and then he began to get drunk again, panting and rushing towards Li Rui, one of Li Rui's guards stepped forward to push him away, but he was hugged by his waist and fell to the ground cleanly. Li Rui saw that although he was drunk and staggering, but his skills were still very agile, he couldn't help but move in his heart, he claimed to have won the golden knife given by Genghis Khan himself, it seemed that it was not a lie.

It's just that Genghis Khan only gave the sword and the bravest warrior, the kind of veteran warrior, why did he fall to such a point?

"What's going on with him?" Li Rui asked the Mongolian people who were watching the excitement again.

"He was originally also a hero on the grassland, but the last time he went south with King Polu, he came back a little crazy." When it came to the last southern expedition, the masked man also showed a look of horror on his face, and his original smiling appearance was gone, and he lowered his voice: "I was stupid by the Song people's muskets." ”

Li Rui was stunned, looking somewhat uncomfortable.

If Temujin's defeat at Taizhuang divided the huge empire he had built into four, then the defeat of Polu Zheng at Zhengqu wiped out the last bit of martial courage that maintained Menghu's face. Although Tuo Lei Polu and others are still struggling to support, they understand like Li Rui that this can only be supported under the premise that the Song people have not gone north with all their might, and if the Song people attack north with all their might, let alone Meng Yuan, even if the four khanates join forces, I am afraid it will be difficult to resist.

It is precisely because of this realization that Tuo Lei is so eager to cast guns.

Sighing slightly, Li Rui didn't bother to bother with this, he turned around and walked towards his mansion.