Chapter 321: Born at the Right Time

The establishment of the "Legion" threatened the very power of the bureaucrats and doctors, so their resistance, although not very fierce due to the prestige of Zhao and Ju, was quite stubborn and long-lasting. Cui and Ju's controversy with them in the court was not widely recognized, and Zhao and Ju did not dare to push a change that was not widely recognized, otherwise he could be sure that these bureaucrats would have the means to turn this good government into evil law.

It's still the old rule, and the pressure of public opinion comes first.

This time, he was the first to write an article in the newspaper to express his support for the Honors Council system. He has been in this position for many years, and Chien Kang is now a model city. In terms of population, the population of Jinling City alone has almost caught up with Lin'an, and last year's statistics were 2.1 million people, which is almost the limit of the city's population at this time. Industrially, Jinling's heavy industry is far more developed than Lin'an, except for the Jinling smelter, the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau has posed a competitive threat to the Liuqiu Manufacturing Bureau, forcing the Liuqiu Manufacturing Bureau to update its own products, in the bicycle, carriage and other markets, the Liuqiu Manufacturing Bureau has been taken away by the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau most of the share. In terms of transportation, with the expansion of the wharf, now the sea ship can even go straight to Jinling and moor at the Jinling wharf, which robs part of the work of Huating Mansion, and the extension of the railway makes Jinling a transportation hub, even more important than Lin'an. Politically, Jiankang Mansion is also a rare Qingming, Yelu Chucai is wise and intelligent, he has the experience of a local official when he was in the Jin Kingdom, and has accumulated enough strain wisdom in Liuqiu, plus he is strong and energetic - when he is still in Liuqiu, Zhao and Ju strictly ordered Yelu Chucai to pay attention to exercise maintenance, so although he has passed the age of not being confused, he still maintains the health of a thirty-year-old person, which makes Yelu Chucai almost an omnipotent existence for officials at all levels in Jiankang Mansion.

The most important thing, and what is most praised by Wei Liaoweng, is the current income of Jiankang Mansion. With the improvement of the industrial system, especially the completion of the Jinling Smelter, Jiankang Mansion has become the first place in the Great Song Dynasty. In addition to the wealth handed over to the state treasury, the Jiankang Mansion itself also left a large amount of money, Yelu Chucai did not like the traditional officials, this money in the treasury rusty, rotten, but put a large amount of it into various construction, he always adhered to the wisdom of the view of the people's livelihood: money is only living money when it flows, if it is placed in the treasury, then it becomes non-existent dead money.

He even wrote a special article in the newspaper to criticize that the rule of Wenjing and the prosperous era of the Kaiyuan Dynasty, which have always been praised by historians, have the phenomenon of rotting grain in the official treasury and the ropes wearing copper coins, which is actually not a good thing, not a symbol of the country's prosperity, but a sign that the country's economy has lost its vitality. "There is more money in the treasury, less money in the market, and there is a lot of rice in the official warehouse, and there is hunger in the countryside."

"Although this Yelu Chu Caizhi Mansion has extraordinary ability, but the government has seen Yu Intense, and he is another Wang Jinggong."

Huating Mansion has developed very quickly in recent years, although there is still some gap compared with Jinling in the same day, but in the area of Chunshen River, in the past two or three years, shops have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, this street near the river, are all restaurants and pavilions, as a new rising city, the restaurant shops in Huating Mansion City, have long broken the restrictions of the tile bar, and occupied the traffic channel with the most people. Huating Mansion also has a population of nearly one million, and in such a prosperous city, it is natural that there are few newspapers that cannot be sold, and many restaurants are also engaged in this matter. A Confucian scholar took a copy of the newspaper, and after reading the Yelu Chucai article on it, he shook his head and commented.

"Zhizheng, you're still so temperamental."

Another Confucian smiled, his eyebrows mixed with indescribable pride, and he glanced at his former friend: "Even the true father has changed, but you have not changed." ”

"Haha."

The Confucian scholar, known as Zhizheng, shrugged his shoulders and looked a little stunned, and after a while, he said slowly: "I have always regretted that Zhengong failed to be good and stubborn. ”

"I feel sorry for you if you don't eat the ancients." Another Confucian student rolled his eyes: "The three of us, you see that Xie Yue has been in Liuqiu for several years and has come back, no matter how he acts, he is the same as before. Look at me again, I have seen the infinite rivers and mountains of the Great Song Dynasty, participated in the war, and now I am going to sail overseas. It's only you, the flies can't make a living, where did the original spirit go? ”

"Man Qing, you have been in the army for a long time, and you have also been infected with some martial arts habits, and now when you speak, you are as direct as a martial artist!"

The narrator in the restaurant was Li Shimin and Zhao Jingyun, the two leaders of the Lin'antai students back then, and now they have also passed their prime. Li Shimin's face is a loss that can't be concealed, he followed Zhen Dexiu to Chuzhou, and made some effort when Zhen Dexiu ruled Chuzhou, but as Zhen Dexiu gradually changed and began to accept the innovation of the Son of Heaven, he became more and more lost in his heart, and always felt that what he had insisted on for more than ten years had changed so quickly, he couldn't accept it, and later even had a dispute with Zhen Dexiu, and then resigned and left. Zhao Jingyun is full of wind and frost, he roams the north and south of the river, for the Son of Heaven to observe the people's feelings, every place will have a detailed recital through Wei Liaoweng to Zhao and Ju, he even personally participated in the war of destroying Jin, in the Meng Heng curtain to counsel the military strategy, after the war and resigned from the Son of Heaven to reward the top, continue his traveling life, now, he has a farther goal, ready to take a boat from Huating Mansion, rushed to Gaolang Bucheng in Xilan, as a missionary Confucian, there to serve for half a year.

After deciding to adopt the policy of Zhen Dexiu's inner sage and outer king to treat the vassal states, Zhao and Ju allocated a special fund from the inner treasury every year to send Confucian scholars overseas. In the past four years, more than 500 Confucian students have been sent overseas, and these Confucian students are rotated every six months, and their overseas experience records their future official resumes, and at the same time, they are given priority in the selection of officials.

"Manqing, you don't have to persuade me, I have been like this in my life, today's official family is sage, but the wise man is still a mistake, I am pedantic and stupid, but the fool must have a thousand thoughts, and I can't fill in the gaps for the official family in the future? The official family itself once said that if there is no opposition from the outside, there will be arrogance and extravagance inside, and with opponents like me, the government will not be arrogant and extravagant when governing the government. Li Shimin still held himself as high as ever, he talked about his own house for a while, and then turned to Zhao Jingyun: "It's you, if you want to be a leader, how can you let Xie Yue and Xie Anren be beautiful, why do you want to run thousands of miles away and go to Na Xilan to suffer?" ”

"When the official family was young, he sent people to open up and seek such deeds, such deeds, I often hate not being able to respond to them, and now I go to that fine orchid, it has been pioneered, I go just to do some teaching craftsman's work, where is suffering?" Zhao Jingyun said with a smile: "I am also fortunate in my life, in this great era, I should use my eyes to write down the bits and pieces of this time, and leave them for future generations to learn from." Politics, do you remember that article? ”

Li Shimin was stunned for a moment, and immediately realized the article that Zhao Jingyun was referring to, he nodded, and the two of them recited it softly in unison.

"The sage of time, the murderer of time. This is also the world of ignorance, and this is also the world of wisdom. This is also a bright season, and this is also a bleak season. This is also the year of faith, and this is also the year of confusion. This is also the beautiful spring of the sun, and this is also the poor winter of despair. People may have everything in place, or people may achieve nothing. My generation has risen to the top, and my generation has fallen forever. At that time, people of insight said that the good and evil in the world may be extreme, and they must have a foundation for everything, and there is no way to do it, but the habit of living is also possible. ”

In this era of rapid change, too many new things are produced, too many old things are dead, and characters like them also feel that they are swept away by the flood tide of this era, and they can't help but float and drift. Their old friends, there are those who are ready for everything, those who have achieved nothing, those who have risen to the top, and those who have fallen forever.

The two of them were silent for a while, and before they could speak, suddenly there was a commotion from the stairs of the restaurant, which made both of them who were meditating on frown. A moment later, the footsteps of Grodon approached, and six big men came up from downstairs.

"There's a place here, there's a place here."

Seeing the empty table next to the two, one of the big men shouted happily. They sat down in groups, and immediately slapped the table and shouted, urging Xiao Er to serve wine and food.

"Big brother, although I didn't go to Chengdong Shengzhou this time, it's not bad to go to the Wa Kingdom, at least the specialties I brought have been exchanged for a lot of gold and silver, and after two or three more trips, we can build bigger sea ships, recruit more people, and go to Dongshengzhou, but it's just three or five years later."

The words of one of those men attracted Zhao Jingyun's attention, and Zhao Jingyun turned his face sideways to look, only to see that these Haizi's faces were all red, or they were blown by the sea breeze.

"Exactly, exactly, we have to hurry up, all the brothers have heard about it, Wang Laojiu and Li Haozi, as well as the sea fang named Guo Lunbu, are now recruiting people and preparing to go to Dongshengzhou. This is just our Lin'an Huating, it is said that in Quanzhou and Guangzhou, there are also some maritime businessmen who are making up for it. Straight lady thief, I don't know who poured out the fact that Dongshengzhou is rich in gold, if they are told to catch up with us, then we are afraid not to look at their eyes? ”

"It's really not good, let's think of opening up the doorway, get some steam ships to go to Dongshengzhou, it is said that the imperial court has a coal station along the south road, and now the coal station has arrived in Xinzhou, and in another two or three years, the coal station will be able to extend to Dongshengzhou, at that time, the south road is convenient, and no one will go on our north road."

"You don't know what the court does? The mouth has always been faster than the hand, and those officials and masters are always accustomed to treating imaginary things as planned things, planned things as things that have been started, and things that have been started as things that have been built--really grandma's. ”

They criticized the government loudly, and the shopkeeper who came to serve the food just listened with a smile, but no one stopped him. Nowadays, the Great Song Dynasty can't help but talk about the people, especially since April, the newspapers are full of criticism and criticism of the government, and no one even pursues those words that have to be sued in the past, not to mention a few complaints from these rough people in private.

However, some of them themselves persuaded: "Don't talk about it, at this age, just take care of your own one-third of an acre, and the affairs of the government will be handled by the emperor Lao Tzu, what do we have to do?" Everyone just cares about the money, and thinks about what other way to get money, that's serious. ”

"Serious fart, floating on the sea for a month, even the old sow Lao Tzu also looks no different from Xi Shi, drink and eat food, and then go to the hook bar to play, Lao Tzu wants to call three or five popular ones, comfort yourself!"

The group spoke unscrupulously, and the rest of the audience couldn't help but look sideways.

"The vulgar is unbearable, the vulgar is unbearable." Li Shimin said in a low voice, but after these many things, he has also improved a little, and he knows when to speak and when not to talk nonsense, only Zhao Jingyun heard this.

"I think I'm a bold guy." Zhao Jingyun said with a smile: "When I was in the army, I interacted with those martial artists, and they all had such a temper, and that kind of cowardice would make people look down on them, but it was true that there was no copper smell of these people." ”

"Only you can get by, don't say that I'm Xie Anren, I'm afraid that I won't get along well with martial artists." Li Shimin muttered.

"Not necessarily...... He got along very well with the guards who begged for him, and he once pleaded with His Majesty for Li Quan's nephew - but unfortunately he didn't know anyone, so Li Rui finally went to Li Quan. ”

"That guy is also stupid, I am a big Song Dynasty, as long as my eyes are not blind, I can see clearly, he voted for Li Quan, isn't it the birthday star who hanged himself, and he is impatient, now Meng Yuan is about to finish, and I don't know if that guy regrets it." Speaking of Li Rui, Li Shimin couldn't help but sneer again.

Of course, Li Rui has no regrets, he still has tens of thousands of horses in his hands, and he is now under Huining City.

"It's really Xiao Li Qianhu!"

Guarding the head of the city was Li Quan's general, who recognized his identity and said in surprise: "Why not, not ......"

"Of course not Möngke and Kublai Khan!" Li Rui replied impatiently under the city: "The two of them saw the opportunity early and ran in the direction of Aodong, and the Song army went to chase them, so that I could get out, open the door quickly, let me in, what about my uncle?" ”

Hearing him directly call out the names of Meng Ge and Kublai Khan, the general shrunk his neck and smiled. Although Li Quan had actually turned his back on Meng Yuan, the Han and Mongolian tribes he had brought in didn't know that Li Rui was a little reckless when he shouted like this. But this is their uncle and nephew's business, Li Rui is young and capable, Li Quan's own sister-in-law is still young, who knows who will be the master in the future.

"Xiao Li Qianhu, please wait, the villain will go to report to the marshal, if the marshal knows that Xiao Li Chitose is safe and sound, he will be very happy!"

Li Rui was not in a hurry, he waited under Huining City, and after a while, Li Quan appeared at the head of the city, and after a few words with him, he ordered someone to open the city gate.

Li Quan felt a little guilty in his heart, he had promised his nephew that he would do something together, but when it came to the end, he was afraid that something would go wrong, so he didn't wait for Li Rui to return from Liaoyang, so he came to Huining in advance. When the city gate was opened, he went down the city tower and greeted Li Rui on the road.

"Uncle." Li Rui saluted him, and then stood up, Li Quan was about to speak, and when he looked at the guards behind Li Rui, his face couldn't help but change.

Note 1: This is the beginning of Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, which was translated into Chinese by an anonymous Chinese translator in the early 20th century, which is really the most beautiful text I think translated. The setting of the story of A Tale of Two Cities is around the time of the French Revolution, which coincides with the fierce social changes in the Song Dynasty, so it is used here. whispered in private, the current national situation is similar to this?