Zhao Xing seems to have a special preference for his Jasmine Pavilion.

Sitting in the Northern Wei Dynasty style stone pavilion of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Xing drew the match of the Song Dynasty - the magic candle, lit the glass lamp made of copper produced by the third copper mine in the world, and then used this lamp as a medium, one after another a series of glass lamps were lit one after another, he lit one after another, the female envoy took it and placed it in the corner of the pavilion, and after a while, the glass lamp in one place illuminated the entire stone pavilion.

There was a wind in the stone pavilion, and the breeze gently blew the candle flame, swaying for a while. Several female envoys brought screens made of tulle and swung them around the pavilion one by one, blocking the autumn wind blowing outside the pavilion. These screens have words, which read: "The third line in the world" - "Huangzhou Cold Food Post".

Countless *** made the stone pavilion bright, like a falling star in the mountains, beating, as if shouting around.

Zhao Xing struck another match from the Song Dynasty, lit an alcohol lamp, and then gently moved the alcohol lamp under a glass teapot, watching the cyan flame boiling the water in the transparent tea stove, and watching the gas rise from the bottom of the glass pot and float to the water. Su Shi sat next to him, unwilling to disturb the tranquility of this moment, he held his breath and listened to the sound of tumbling air.

The water is boiling, the first pot of water is just to clean the glass pot, Zhao Xing picked up the pot and poured the hot water into the sea of tea, and then took out a Song Dynasty hot water bottle from his side, and poured the spring water inside into the glass pot - this glass pot is not filled with water for heat preservation, the spring water contained in it is specially taken from Xixi "the third spring in the world" Lanxi water.

When the second pot of water began to boil, Su Shi took out a tea ball from his body and solemnly handed it to Zhao Xing, who respectfully took it. A small piece of tea ball was broken and thrown into the pot, and the tea ball slowly sank to the bottom of the pot and was brought back to the surface by the water, and then a ball of brown rose from the tea leaves like wisps, and the clear water in the pot slowly turned the color of champagne. Su Shi couldn't help but sigh as he looked at the fine fish eyes in the crystal clear teapot churning from the bottom of the pot to the water. Gao Yu didn't know why Su Shi sighed, but he nodded in agreement.

Everything has changed in a square inch, right in front of you, and those who have witnessed this miraculous change can't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Su Dongpo sighed: "I can't imagine that boiling tea also has such fun. ”

Outside the stone pavilion, Qin Guan's voice sounded: "Good fragrant taste, the teacher and the junior brother make tea in the starry night." It's the Xiaolong group that is cooking, such an elegant thing, why don't you call me Qin Shaoyou. ”

The widow lifted the curtain, and Qin Guan drilled into it and sighed: "I've been standing by and watching for a while, and no one has greeted me...... I thought that the tea art in the world was also appreciated, but I didn't expect to use a glass pot to make tea on the spot. It's so elegant. ”

Gao Yu couldn't interject in front of Qin Guan and these bigwigs, but he felt very happy to be able to sit side by side with these people. So Qin Guan came in. He hurriedly bowed his seat and nodded vigorously to show his agreement.

Qin Guan came to Hangzhou shortly after Su Shi arrived to serve as Su Shi's head of the office. But soon, Empress Dowager Gao appointed Qin Guan as the pusher. Gao Yu returned to his palm.

Zhao Xing seemed reluctant to spoil the tranquility. He nodded silently at Qin Guan, lifted the glass teapot and slowly filled several transparent glasses with tea. A few people who had been expecting it for a long time watched the amber tea pour into the cup, and regardless of whether it was in line with etiquette, they directly snatched the teacup from Zhao Xing and sniffed the fragrance of the tea hard.

This is the small dragon group, and this tea is rarely prepared nowadays. Because Empress Dowager Gao thought that this kind of tea was too luxurious to prepare, she issued an edict to stop worshipping. But when Su Shi went out of Beijing, his fan Empress Dowager Gao specially presented him with a small dragon group in a silver box to show her favor - this treatment is generally given to the former ruler, that is, the prime minister, and when Su Shi went out of Beijing, he was just a little secretary who wrote an edict to the emperor.

Su Shi picked up the teacup, first sniffed the tea deeply, then slowly took a sip of the hot tea soup, closed his eyes and enjoyed it for a while, pushed a box beside him to Zhao Xing, and knocked the box surface with his fingers.

"What?" Zhao Xing asked.

"Your official seal and official body inscription," Su Shi replied.

The teacher is the head of a party, and the disciple becomes an auxiliary official, and only Su Shi enjoys this treatment in the entire Great Song Dynasty. In normal history, Su Shi had Qin Guan by his side in Hangzhou, and he was transferred to Yangzhou Zhizhou, and Empress Dowager Gao specially sent his other disciple Chao Buzhi to Yangzhou to be a general judge......

Zhao Xing nodded, didn't open the wooden box, and moved the box directly to his side - he was officially taken over, the procedure was a bit sloppy, but this was a special case, a special case given to Su Shi by Empress Dowager Gao.

Before he took over the official position, Zhao Xing had already set a historical record - the historical record of corruption in Michigan. He went to Mizhou to serve as a signatory for a year, and through the integration of Mizhou forces, he carried out large-scale smuggling activities against Liao...... At the moment when Zhao Xing took over the official position, the total amount of smuggling to Liao reached a record 5 million. However, this was not the end, because he owned shares in various industries in Mizhou, and in the end, he stole a huge fortune of 20 million guan from the Liao State.

In the following years, the successor officials were only left crying to death in the face of Zhao Xing's corruption record. Because Zhao Xing's record is simply unsurpassed, he has exhausted Michigan's resources, and through the closely detailed "ring and ring" calculation method and "progressive dividend plan", the successor officials who want to intervene will be counterattacked by all Michigan officials. The only thing they can do is to abide by the rules left by Zhao Xing and share the meager dividends they deserve...... Of course, this dividend is generous enough compared to other officials in office that Michigan's successors are looking for re-election.

No official in Michigan has ever embezzled as much bribes as Zhao Xing, but what makes people cry to death is Zhao Xing's incredible popularity. He took such a huge amount of wealth from Michigan, and many Michigans still have this greedy immortal tablet in their homes. During the New Year's holidays, these small people also burn incense and pray, praying that the biggest corrupt official in Michigan will live a long life and bless them with smooth sailing......

This latter record is unsurpassed. There is no way to surpass, how can it not be tearful in the face of this record......

At this moment, the tea in the cup gradually warmed up, Zhao Xing gently handed the cup of tea to Su Shi, and pressed a flying money bill under the teacup, Su Shi was taken aback when he saw the ticket amount: "Ninety thousand." Why do you still have 90,000 yuan, I only gave you 30,000 yuan to buy grain? ”

Zhao Xing's face was not red, and his heart was not beating, and he took out another piece of flying money, and replied: "Disaster relief grain ship." Who dares to levy taxes, I took advantage of you to bring some private goods to the official guide, which is the dividend brought by the 30,000 yuan. ”

Su Shi didn't look at the bill, he replied with a teacup. Sipping tea, he said: "I used the money from the sale of Du Mu to work for relief, dredging Maoshan and Yanqiao two rivers, and now there is still some leftover, next year I plan to dredge the West Lake, repair the embankment and bridge, and set up a free clinic." that the hungry may be fed, and the sick may be healed. In this catastrophe in Hangzhou, there are corpses on the road. The villagers didn't have time to collect the funeral. Leave people. This thing needs to be planned well, you can do this kind of thing, and you ...... back."

Su Shi's upcoming medical workshop is also famous in history, it is called "Anle Fang", this institution that provides free medical care to the poor people, is the first publicly-funded medical institution in ancient China, and then the Empress Dowager Gao borrowed Su Shi's methods. Set up Anle Fang all over the country. It made publicly-funded medical care an act of the state - the state act of the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Xing picked up the teacup and replied, "This is a good thing for a hundred generations...... I brought back more than 20 people from the ship. Among them, several doctors are good at incurable diseases, so they let them go to the medical clinic for free for two or three days a month, so that it has become a common practice for those who practice medicine in Hangzhou to go to the government-run medical clinic for consultation a few days a month. ”

Su Shi took over the conversation: "This method is good - the doctor is free to sit for consultation, and the people do not have to worry about seeing a doctor." It's a pity that money is still needed to buy medicine, and it just so happens that the industry in my capital has been disposed of, and there is still some money left, so I donated fifty taels of gold, plus a little state government fund, which should also enable the people to get medicine for free. ”

Zhao Xing pointed to the set of glass tea sets in front of him and replied, "I don't fight with the teacher, I will donate one hundred and ten sets of glassware." ”

Qin Guan immediately dissuaded: "This can't be done, this thing is too expensive, how can those doctors be willing to use it?" ”

Zhao Xing smiled but didn't answer—because he knew how could the hospital not have transparent glassware.

This set of glasses is a new industry for Zhao Xing.

Originally, glassware was indeed more expensive than gold in the Song Dynasty...... But now the situation has changed a little, and since last year, some maritime merchants have invariably abandoned their long-standing trading business and suddenly opened glass mills. Overnight, glass workshops bloomed everywhere in the Great Song Dynasty. Soon after, glass mirrors also appeared. With fierce competition, the price of glass has dropped a lot. Unfortunately, the price of alkaline noodles has skyrocketed, and the price of this raw material for bleached silk has grown wildly, which has also caused the price of silk to fluctuate......

China's trona resources are scarce, so Zhao Xing believes that no matter how fierce the competition is and how low the price of glass is, it will still be a luxury in one or two hundred years. So when the glass mill in the Great Song Dynasty was blooming everywhere, he supported Liao Xiaoxiao to invest in opening one. However, Liao Xiaoxiao is worthy of being a person who has been cultivated in the literati circle, and she has taken a fancy to this kind of elegant gadgets that are the favorite of literati and scholars, such as transparent tea sets, glass candlesticks, and so on.

Zhao Xingdi's strength is that he has more information than others for thousands of years. Other workshop owners are still pursuing the excellence of handmade production, and Zhao Xing has begun to industrialize and mass produce plaster molds here. However, the technique of glass blowing is not something that can be mastered overnight, and although Zhao Xing has a fine mold, it is not so easy to find a product with a uniform wall of the bottle. This set of glass jugs is one out of a thousand, and it is also very valuable.

Zhao Xing didn't mind giving away such expensive glassware, Qin Guan was a little reluctant, he just looked at the fun of making tea, and when he heard Zhao Xing say that he wanted to donate such a thing, his expression was so reluctant, so he persuaded - this thing is elegant, I haven't got a set yet, how can I give it to those doctors and patients.

Zhao Xing didn't explain, but Su Shi knew that Zhao Xing never did meaningless things, so he picked up the cup, changed the topic and said: "Wang Gong also wrote from there saying that the house you promised him has not been built yet, and it is almost winter, and he still lives in the official office, which is not good." ”

Zhao Xing knew what Wang Gong wanted, he smiled and said: "He can live in my house in Mizhou, I don't buy that house, rent it to him, and he will pay the rent." ”

Su Shi had heard Wang Gong's description of Bixia Pavilion, and from Wang Gong's description, he had already seen that the guy coveted Bixia Pavilion, so he laughed and replied: "Wang Dingguo has got what he wanted." ”

Zhao Xing sighed.

Today's moon-viewing tea party has unconsciously turned into a work seminar, Su Shi just now was the first to have a heart for the medical problems of the people, and the second was to speak for the housing problems of his friends, but he didn't talk about himself. It's sad to think about.

Su Shi went to Beijing this time because of two major events, the first was because he asked the imperial court to abolish the Qingmiao Law and reduce the debts of the people caused by the Qingmiao Law. Su Shi's suggestion offended the reformers. Immediately afterwards, he did a second thing, almost offending that group of people completely - because of Zhou Sui's case.

At this time, Wang Anshi's henchmen temporarily lost power and were all assigned to remote places as officials, but they always wanted to make a comeback. Although those leaders such as Lu Huiqing, Li Ding, Cai Qu and others have been deposed, many of their friends are still officials in Beijing. In order to test the court's attitude towards them, they found an unknown teacher, Zhou Sui, to try a table, in which they proposed that Wang Anshi's spirit card be placed under the god card of Emperor Shenzong in the Taimiao, so that they could share the ancestor worship.

If the Queen Mother grants her invitation, the New Party members can see it as a clear signal, and they can come out and act openly again. Su Dongpo saw their attempt to be so tentative, and immediately attacked these speculators who only sought fame and fortune. He named sixteen of them and scolded them as "machine lice," "maggots," "traitors," and "great fools of the country."

This time, he no longer spoke tactfully to Wang Anshi, but almost openly called him a "hypocrisy". He told the Empress Dowager that Wang Anshi changed the law under the pretext of "seeking benefits for the people", and the actual effect was that the property of the common people was defrauded by those corrupt officials and corrupt officials he sent. Because no matter how Wang Anshi's reform is modified, it is impossible to avoid this fact: after the reform, the common people became poorer, and the government's wealth did not increase significantly, but because a large number of taxpayers fled, the source of tax gradually withered.

Su Shi finally said that if people do not want to be in the company of flies and maggots, they can only avoid ......

Su Shi's fierce words completely angered the reformers, and Zhao Xing had vaguely guessed: I am afraid that this is the reason why he was tortured by the powerful New Party in every way in the second half of his life. But Su Shi doesn't think that he still cares about the people and others.

Zhao Xing can see the future, but he can't do anything about it, the train of history is roaring forward, and his strength alone can't pull this heavy car, so he can only talk about it, he can only seize the time and enjoy every moment.

He handed Su Shi another wooden box, and Su Shi took the wooden box and asked, "What?" ”

"The Tang Dynasty's Yue kiln phoenix mouth bottle, a very rare thing, the teacher will see if it is genuine?"

"The Yue kiln of the Tang Dynasty?" Su Shi was surprised inexplicably: "This thing, even in my Great Song Dynasty, is extremely rare, where did you get it?" ”

"Ma Yi, a little king there regards it as a treasure, I think the teacher must like it, so I asked for it!"

Su Shi really appreciates this Tang phoenix mouth bottle. This work is a product of the late Tang Dynasty, but it still maintains the magnificent atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty, full of Egyptian style and Byzantine style phoenix mouth bottle, with Arabian style slender brushstrokes to draw a graceful arc, blue and blue color like rippling West Lake water, intoxicating - this emerald color is the ancestor of Goryeo secret porcelain, the Tang Dynasty Yue kiln "rain after the sun" color.

"It's priceless, how can you get this thing without people? How could he sell to you and how much did you spend? Su Shi admired it in ***, and his favorite expression appeared on his face.