Chapter Seventy-Five: What the King Sees and Hears

Wang Daxin was very unhappy, but he had no choice at all, because Wang gradually wanted to take a good look at the Hami Kingdom, so he had to follow the dead eunuch to run around in the Hami Kingdom. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Wang Gradual, who has grown a beard, has become accustomed to talking with his hands holding a two-inch-long short beard, and the beard is glued with fish glue, which is very strong, but it is not very comfortable when washing his face.

Eunuchs sticking their beards is a big problem in Tokyo, but in Hami, after getting the emperor's permission, Wang gradually found a real beard to glue himself.

Among the Qing officials of the Ministry of War, Shi Lang was already a high-ranking official of the fifth grade, and he was also a member of the scholars, so Wang Dayong naturally couldn't get used to all the things that Wang gradually did in Hami.

The emperor did not say what Wang gradually was responsible for, so Wang Dayong did not allow Wang gradually to meet Ouyang Xiu and the rest of the Great Song officials, including those who were assigned here for crimes.

Wang gradually naturally didn't care about Wang Dayong guarding himself, if he needed the real situation of Hami Kingdom, he just needed to see Zhao Wan, the eldest princess who had grown up since he was a child.

Wang Dayong naturally didn't know that Wang Yan and Wang Rouhua, Tie Xinyuan, and Zhao Wan were familiar with such a thing as a family.

"The banquet of the Empress Dowager Hami in the evening, the eldest companion doesn't have to go, right?" Wang Dayong felt that eunuchs should not appear in such the most formal official banquets.

Wang gradually smiled and said: "Our family will naturally not go, after the banquet, our family will go directly to the Empress Dowager's bedroom to drink tea and talk with the Empress Dowager." ”

The eunuch entering the queen mother's bedroom is not an excessive matter, Wang Dayong only deeply doubts whether Wang gradually has this face.

Before coming to Hami, Wang Dayong did not take this newly established country into account, and there was no need to pay attention to a country with a large state capital in the Great Song Dynasty, if it were not for the common will of several ministers in the center, he would not be willing to run five or six thousand miles to this broken place.

After entering Hami territory from the desert on the Khitan border, Wang Dayong adjusted his position and way of thinking in the shortest possible time.

Just the endless farmland under the snowy mountains and the warm atmosphere of the autumn harvest made Wang Dayong dare not underestimate the country.

The most important thing is that he has already been interrogated by the Hami army in the desert, because he has a national certificate, he can borrow the post station of Hami in the desert and come to Hami comfortably.

These two things told Wang Dayong that Hami was a very normal country, with border defense and agriculture, which there were not many countries he had heard of.

Along the Hami River boat up the river for four days, he came to Hami City, four days to walk more than 200 miles, although the road is not long, the farmland on both sides of the river and the dense crowd, completely let Wang Dayong recognize Hami from the bottom of his heart.

Even the Khitan does not have such a large area of farmland and dense population, even if he passes by in a hurry, he can see that the people here are living well.

The peasants on the ferry, who spoke Chinese and rushed to sell fruits, chickens and ducks to the envoys, made Wang Dayong, a Song man who had already run thousands of miles on the wasteland, almost burst into tears, and at that moment, he felt as if he had returned to the Great Song Dynasty.

He bought a lot of things at the ferry, from straw hats to straw sandals, from straw mats to robes, to leather goods, salt, and even all kinds of knick-knacks and small furniture made by farmers in their spare time.

If nothing else, these things will accompany him back to the Great Song Dynasty, and finally appear on the Daqing Palace, the political center of the Great Song Dynasty.

These little things are more effective than saying 10,000 words to themselves, and the ministers have all been promoted from the Fumin officials to the center, and they can distinguish the current situation of Hami from these small things, and they can see whether Hami is rich from these things.

When the official ship docked at a ferry port called Hongliu Bay, it happened to be the day when the market was open.

He deliberately went to the bazaar to hang out, the bazaar here is not much different from the bazaar of the Great Song Dynasty, they are all grass markets, the only thing that surprised Wang Dayong is that he can meet the tax collector here.

Two big men carried a huge basket, and a fat Song tax official scolded in front, and from time to time he had to catch up with the vendor who tried to escape, and asked him to pay the tax, although the hawker was very dissatisfied, while scolding the tax officer, he was very reluctant to throw the tax into the basket.

This scene made Wang Dayong extremely happy, and he even followed behind this fat tax official to watch him collect taxes the whole way.

A tax official with a Tokyo accent appeared in Hami, which surprised Wang Dayong inexplicably, and after reporting his name and official position, the fat tax official hugged him and cried for a while, and then dragged Wang Dayong and asked him to go to his own office anyway.

Wang Dayong happily went, there was a small city not far from the grass market, even if it was a small city, the city wall was made of stones, and the cracks in the stones were full of thick cement, and it could be seen that this small city was newly built.

The lintel of the city head is written with the word "grass pass", and the pen is strong.

"This is Ouyang Xianggong's words, Caoguan City has only been built for less than 20 days, the door shafts are all new, and the rotation is very loud, and the door shafts will not make a sound after the oil and water soak them.

In the past, it was built spontaneously by the people here, but it was not completed for more than a year, but it was finally completed after the Uighur refugees increased......"

Tax officer Li Tui accompanied Wang Dayong all over the city, and finally led him into a small courtyard with a tax sign and asked Wang Dayong to sit down and said: "Caoguan City is also the seat of Mingyuan County, and the Xianggong in the county government is also our Song people, now is the harvest season, Ming Gong went to the countryside to collect grain, and now he is not here, otherwise, if I know that you are here, I don't know how happy I am." ”

Wang Dayong took a sip of tea and said with satisfaction: "The autumn harvest is a big event there, and the Ming Mansion goes to the countryside to work on state affairs, so what is there to regret." When the old man returns, he will visit the Ming Mansion again. ”

Tax customs Li Tui said with a smile: "Actually, when Xianggong returns, maybe he won't have to take the Khitan road, and he will walk faster and more comfortably from Western Xia." ”

"Huh? What do you mean by that? ”

"The general Meng Yuanzhi and the general Li Qiao of Hami have led an army of 300,000 to conquer Western Xia, and the official report from the day before yesterday said that they have captured the city of Guazhou, and now, they are marching towards Suzhou.

It is estimated that it will not take long to open up Hexi, and when the time comes, officials will be able to walk half of the road from Hexi. ”

Wang Dayong gasped, although he didn't believe that Hami could get through Hexi, he was very shocked by the number of 300,000 troops.

Li Tui saw that Wang Dayong didn't believe it, and hurriedly said: "The 300,000 army is really not much, and the military rations of one of the battalions are handled by my Mingyuan County, and the quantity is real." ”

Wang Dayong frowned and said: "When the country is first established, I am afraid it is inappropriate to raise the country's troops to go out to fight." ”

Li Tui smiled bitterly: "Although the king of Hami is young, he is a very insightful king, before the arrival of the Uighur refugees, Hami is definitely a rich country, after the influx of 1.5 million refugees, the food is naturally not enough to eat, the king has no way to personally lead the troops out of the Tianshan Mountains to the Uighurs to grab food, and the two generals have to take the refugees to Western Xia to find food." ”

Wang Dayong was not interested in the life of the Hami people, he asked directly: "How many households are there in Hami now?" ”

Li Tui said with a smile: "I don't know elsewhere, just my Mingyuan County has 8,475 households, this was a statistic a month ago, and now, it should have exceeded 10,000 households." ”

Wang Dayong still can't understand why there are 10,000 households in a county in Hami, and you must know that the population of a Wang county in the Great Song Dynasty is only 4,000 households.

The conversation with the tax official Li Tui was recorded by him word by word, without any embellishment, and these were also the contents he was going to show to the ministers in the court.

Hami City is a huge construction site, and once this city is built, it will not be smaller than the city in the Great Song Dynasty. Judging by its size, it should be a large city capable of holding 200,000 people.

Ouyang Xiu was working on this huge construction site, and Wang Dayong naturally wanted to visit this first minister of Hami.

It's a pity that he didn't see Ouyang Xiu, and because of the autumn harvest, Ouyang Xiu went to the Balikun Lake District, the largest grain producing area in Hami, and only saw Su Shi who stayed in Hami City.

This famous genius of the Great Song Dynasty has now become much thinner. When I saw Wang Dayong, I complained the most about the food here.

Naturally, the king of these small sections will not record them, but he only records the fact that the king of Hami and the people share weal and woe.

The country was in trouble, and more than a million mouths suddenly poured in, and if they wanted to collect these refugees, they naturally had to suffer a little, besides, Su Shi became thinner, and people became more energetic.

After entering Qingxiang City and living in the pavilion, Wang Dayong was no longer surprised by the prosperity of Qingxiang City.

With a population of two million, there is nothing surprising about the emergence of a city like Qingxiang City.

He devoted all his attention to the upcoming court banquet, repairing his appearance in strict accordance with the etiquette of the audience, studying what he was about to say at the banquet, and thinking about how he could skillfully accomplish the tasks of the ministers and at the same time maintain a good personal relationship with the Hami royal family.

Eunuchs were an unpopular group in the Great Song Dynasty, and he naturally wanted to eliminate scourges such as Wang Yan, the overseer, from this visit, lest the Hami royal family feel humiliated because they saw a eunuch appear in the envoy group.

Wang Dayong deliberately showed indifference, Wang gradually saw it, he couldn't tell Wang Dayong this fool about his intimate relationship with the Hami royal family, since Wang Dayong didn't want to participate in the audience by himself, he might as well go to the princess's bedroom to see the little girl who had just married.

See if she's happy.

He still learned the word happiness from Tie Xinyuan, who used to raise a glass in the New Year to wish his mother and the world a happy and healthy life. (To be continued.) )