Chapter 57: Fantasy

Recently, the small days have been very moist, like a hot spring stream.

If it weren't for the fact that the Jurchens would go south in a few years, Zhao Cheng really didn't want to toss, so he taught his wife and daughter in Chizhou, read and planted fields, and sometimes went out of the city to find the female thief Bai Agarwood to have an affair, which was also a very beautiful pastoral life.

It's a pity that the Song people are destined to be harassed all the time, and after Kou Zhun Xiangye basically settled the Liao people, he faced the threat of Western Xia. After Wang Anshi's policy basically leveled the Western Xia and Qingtang, he faced the rise of the Jurchens.

After the Jurchens were bulldozed, they had to face the most ferocious Mongol Tatars in history.

So the conclusion is that you have to toss and can't stay in Chizhou forever.

Now, in addition to living comfortably and having a stable study, the sales and influence of "Lanruo Temple" are rising. And the new script "Happy Three Kingdoms" is also in production.

Zhao Cheng still has a character, and he didn't scribble because of the sale proceeds, but still racked his brains, because the better "Lanruo Temple", the greater the income of the next "Happy Three Kingdoms". At the same time, as a literati who writes books and lectures, he will also gain greater gimmicks and attention.

"Lanruo Temple" plays suspense, a simple mountain, a temple, a few people, and a woman who never showed up, and a dog who joined later.

The story is simple and compact, the biggest attraction is that the three people can't go away and can't die, with full suspicion, sometimes hostile and sometimes cooperative, afraid to share the same bed, but after separation, they care about each other, every time they meet, the mentality of wanting to cooperate and want to go to war leads to a simple and powerful story tension.

This is the characteristic of "Lanruo Temple", but such a story also means that it is not long to write.

The third episode is being written, and Zhao Cheng has already informed Lao Chen that the entire "Lanruo Temple" will end in the third episode, and he doesn't want to go down the water, this kind of story is not suitable for forced water, otherwise it will hurt the popularity and cause the reader to run out. In view of the fact that the income is almost there, Lao Chen Tou also agreed......

Miss Cai has been very idle recently, and she is chasing "Lanruo Temple", and she is more and more interested in this story. Originally, it was possible to catch the author and dictate it, but Shuang'er caught an illiterate person, and it was indeed Lanruo Temple, but Ghost Foot Seven would only repeat what had been released, and finally drove away in great disappointment.

Ms. Chua is now more and more curious about the people who write the story, not just the story itself.

And Cai Zhizhou has been very busy recently, not busy chasing stories, only worried about more and more cottages under Chizhou's rule.

Recently, there have been incidents of people being killed by bandits, and small caravans being hijacked. If you want to say that you can't bear it, these things are actually very normal in the Great Song Dynasty, they will always happen, and they can be tolerated. It's just that I don't know how long it will last, and it seems that it will detonate sooner or later.

It's not that the thinking of his daughter and Su Zaifang is really wrong, Cai You was very loyal and brave in Weishan Academy at that time, but it may not be all true. If you want to suppress, as an official, of course Cai You doesn't like to have bandits under his rule, so in addition to making officials look stupid and cowardly, the most important thing is that the bandits are diverting the interests that should belong to the officials.

It's just that there is indeed a great risk in suppressing bandits, and it is not clear that the bottom line is not clear, and it will cause more serious problems if there is no good use of generals and elite troops.

It is for this reason that the instructions from the Zhongshu Sect have long been there, but the father Lao Cai Xiangye personally said: can not suppress the bandits, once caught in the war and chaos for a short time and can not win, on the contrary, the coin minting of Chizhou Yongfeng Jian lags behind or even stagnates, then in the case of insufficient copper, the imperial court will definitely fall into a greater financial quagmire and cannot extricate itself.

Cai You didn't blindly listen to his father's words, and even had contradictions and disagreements on some issues. But on this issue, Cai You knew that his father had tried his best, and there was a Song Dynasty, which could not solve the problem of deflation from beginning to end.

When there are reasons for his inconsiderate thinking about the top ten money, there is also his helplessness. If the implementation is good, if the people believe in him Cai Jing, and the officials listen to him Cai Jing, then the currency has always been just a symbol, let alone ten, even if you take a piece of paper as ten thousand, it can also run.

The real problem lies in the executive power, Cai Jing in order to maintain an advantage in the struggle with political opponents, the need for party henchmen, coupled with the Northern Song Dynasty's unique rule of scholars and doctors do not die, Cai Jing's policy is basically to use loose "to win the hearts of officials", and too lenient rule of officials has caused him to have a large number of henchmen at the same time, it also represents excessive corruption, which will inevitably lead to the accumulation of wealth has become the norm.

Then every level is fishing, all looking at the money, and when the top ten money is really a failure.

On this issue, the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law is reasonable. How much responsibility should his father bear Cai You doesn't want to theorize now, if the old guy falls now, it will be very detrimental to the entire Cai family.

There is one thing Cai You thinks the old guy is right: now is not suitable for bandits, there is no elite, there is no time to use the generals, and the battle will not be won in a short period of time and a half, in addition to the substantial impact on people's livelihood, Yongfeng Prison may also be closed, when the war is chaotic, copper can't be transported in, and how can life-saving coins be transported out of Chizhou?

Although it looks ugly now, it has temporarily reached a balance with the cottage, and they have not been connected in tandem for the time being, and they dare not snatch the copper transportation team of the government for the time being. At the same time, the copper mines they privately mined and the copper coins minted privately continued to flow into the economy of the Great Song Dynasty, which was also alleviating the money shortage to a certain extent.

"If there is an internal war. The 'copper coins' of the southeastern government and the southeastern bandits have been greatly reduced and flowed into the economy. ”

This is the spirit of Cai Jing's basic instructions to the southeast of the basic plate.

The advantage is that the southeast roads have always been Cai Jing's basic plate, it is a wealthy place, and the squire clan is too powerful, so this area is the least affected by Zhao Tingzhi's policies, and it has not broken with the gang cottages for the time being.

As for the southeast, especially in the north, where the people are fierce, there are already many hidden dangers, and the wanted criminals who are scurrying around have obviously left all over the place under Zhao Tingzhi's intensification policy, and have begun to openly kill officials, openly rob big households, and run away when they do crimes, and there is a tendency to assemble with each other.

How to solve these problems is obviously a political issue rather than a simple issue of the Great Song Law. If it is possible, Cai You knows that his father Cai Jing also wants to make a big move to defeat all the bandits in the world, and the problem has to be beaten by the bandits!

Narrowed down to a specific place, like Zhao Tingzhi, once the army is sent but the bandits can't be defeated, it's not just as simple as the government losing face, it will make the thieves see the weakness of the government, and then more people who want to get something for nothing will join the bandit team for speculation, and even the official army and the generals of the official army have the chance to take refuge in the cottage, which has begun to happen in the northern territory.

From the perspective of human nature, it is very simple to explain this, the official army is also a human being, seeing that he can't beat the bandits, he can lose his life in vain, join the cottage but he can drink wine and eat meat, and wait for Zhao'an with a gold belt of murder and arson, when this climate is formed and the credibility of the court falls to a threshold, the world will be in chaos.

Thinking about it, Cai You picked up the policy from Zhao Cheng and watched it carefully.

It's a really novel idea. Playthings can indeed make people scattered, and now the problem of the Great Song Dynasty is that it is too relaxed, and the government is playing high and drunk by itself. The gangsters, on the other hand, waited for the opportunity with all their might, gradually transitioning from loose to congregated.

To a certain extent, this student named Zhao Cheng is right, let these thieves slowly relax and entertain more, and slowly implant some concepts by the way, if they don't really dispel their thoughts over time, but it is possible to kill their anger and ease some time. It doesn't have to go against the tone of my father's existing policies.

This is the role of the literati. It's a pity that the real literati of the Great Song Dynasty are pretentious, and the things they write and talk about are really not interesting, and they talk at length in the clouds, not to mention the illiterate bandits, and sometimes the special Zhang Ji doesn't know what they are talking about. That's the ungrounded characteristic.

"It would be nice if the author of "Lanruo Temple" and Zhao Cheng were the same person."

In this regard, Cai You had some unrealistic fantasies.