Chapter 3234: Footsteps in the Last Days

"We agree!" The official replied helplessly. With their intelligence, they couldn't see anything abnormal about Zhao Xing's request.

After all of Zhao Xing's requests were satisfied, he immediately put on a smiling face, and he asked with a smile: "Your king has not shown up, he should be responsible for the back of this agreement---- you can rest assured, I will build the city of Song into the most famous building on the whole island, I ask your king of ...... to help me levy two thousand slaves to build the boundary wall, in addition, I will also recruit tens of thousands of stonemasons from the Champa and Angkor dynasties to re-plan the city of Song on both sides of the Brunei River."

Zhao Xing was planning the future with great interest, and the officials muttered in a low voice: "If this Song City really becomes the most majestic and famous building on our Kalimantan Island, then the honor also belongs to the Song people, what does it have to do with us......

Zhao Xing's eyes widened, and the official next to him hurriedly pulled the sleeves of the mouthful official, and a group of people changed their angry eyes, but they were silent.

In this Su Shi era, or "the flamenco era of East Asia", even the natives of Nanyang had an unrestrained free heart, and Zhao Xing took advantage of it and did not sell it. He blinked uncomfortably and spared these natives who had suffered a great loss......

Storms in the tropics are so severe that most countries do not have cities along the coast, and the same is true of Bo Ni, whose capital needs to be thirty or fifty miles deep along Bo Ni City, through the Brunei River to the sea. Zhao Xing's construction of the "Song People's City" at the mouth of the Boni River this time is equivalent to the fact that even the native people of the Boni Kingdom need to be approved by the Song people to enter and leave the capital.

The land promised by Bo Niguo to Zhao Xing was three miles along both sides of the river, but the depth of the river was not specifically indicated. So, Zhao Xing was not polite, and he circled a twenty-kilometer-long flat city with a wooden fence in one go, because the city blocked the mouth of the river. Zhao Xing was also embarrassed to completely close the river, so he built water gates at both ends of the estuary, and the water gates were open all day long. Let people have their own dealings.

Building a city is a big project, and Zhao Xing has enclosed the land. After making a plan, he left two hundred soldiers and three small cannons to garrison him, and turned around and returned to Quang Nam.

As soon as they landed on the shore, Su Ding and Qin Guan greeted Zhao Xing anxiously, and said breathlessly: "Brother Xing (leaving), it's not good, it's not good." The imperial court ordered the demotion of Duke Su (his father) to Danzhou (present-day Hainan), and sent a new Guangnan envoy to investigate Guangnan. What to do? ”

Wan Qiyong poked his head out from behind the two and explained: "My lord, I heard that Su Gong wrote a poem in Huizhou that has been circulated, and there are two lines in the poem: In order to report the poet's spring sleep, the Taoist lightly beats the fifth watch. When the poem reached the capital, Zhang Xianggong (Zhang) thought that Su Gong could be so free in adversity, so he should be demoted to a more remote place......

I heard that Zhang originally planned to send Lu Shengqing (Lu Huiqing's brother) to visit Guangnan West Road. Lu Shengqing is talented and mean, and it is said that he was killed. Fortunately, Zeng Bu, Yushi Xingshu and others vigorously opposed Lu Shengqing's appointment. Xing Shuli Chen said: This dynasty enjoys the peace of the country and surpasses the Han and Tang dynasties, which is caused by the fact that the ancestors have not tried to kill the minister Deze. It is said that His Majesty also objected, saying: "The United abides by the ancestral legacy, and has never killed ministers casually.

After that, the imperial court changed the appointment of Dong Bi to replace Lu Shengqing as the ...... of Guangnan West Road"

Zhao Xing hurriedly asked, "Has the teacher already left?" ”

Su Ding replied: "The imperial court is in a hurry, and my father-in-law has arrived in Hainan. ”

Zhao Xing nodded unhurriedly: "Although the world thinks that degrading Hainan is second only to killing the head. But for me it's the opposite. Su Gong went to Hainan to be safe, and that land is really under my control---- don't panic. Now what I want to know is: Who leaked Su Gong's poems? Dong Bi came to Guangxi, in addition to wanting to investigate Su Gong's affairs, what else did he want to do? ”

Wan Qianyong frequently glanced at Zhao Xing just now, and this is also the reason, Zhao Xing really has too many secrets in Guangdong, and now the imperial court suddenly sent an envoy over, what do you want to do?

In the Song Dynasty, the envoy was equivalent to the later minister, who came down with the emperor's mission to investigate, and had the power to report directly to the emperor. Zhao Xing had too many secrets that he didn't want the imperial court to know, so he hoped that the later the visiting envoy came, the better.

But he couldn't stop it now.

In recent years, the imperial court has known the convenience of taking the sea route, and important letters are sent to Guangnan from the sea route, and Yangzhou is a large departure terminal, because of Zhao Xing's reclamation plan, no matter who buys a ferry ticket in Yangzhou, can take a sea boat directly to Guangnan. Once the ship was anchored, Zhao Xing could not notify the other party to seize it, so he couldn't stop Dong Bidi from coming at all.

"Immediately train the gunners in Guangnan", Zhao Xing was silent for a moment, and suddenly talked about this topic in a foggy manner: "We are about to bring a large number of slaves from Zhancheng, and in the past three years, the people of Guangzhou should have rested enough, organize the gunners from all over the country, and distribute them along the newly built roads---- this matter will be started immediately......"

Shuai Fan hesitated for a long time, and then persuaded him: "My lord, according to the plan, we should equip the musketeers this month, and if we start to train the gunners again......"

Shuai Fan wanted to speak and stopped.

What he wanted to say was: We fought and occupied the city, and we embezzled half of the spoils of war privately; Although the imperial court did not prohibit the muskets, we did a lot of transgressions privately, and seeing that Quang Nam came with an inspection envoy, we did not want to cover it up, but instead reorganized the army in Quang Nam with great fanfare, which seemed a little inappropriate.

Zhao Xing understood what the other party meant, his eyes widened, and he asked rhetorically: "Could it be that it is not my duty to reorganize the army on the East Road of Guangnan...... I know what you're trying to say, but don't you smell the end times? Shaoyou, if there is anything else, you can tell it together! ”

Qin Guan was stunned for a moment, and added: "The imperial court has set up a Yuan Dang monument, and all the people who advocated the abolition of Wang Jinggong and the new law were listed on it during the Yuan period, and the names of the teacher and the four of us were all listed on it, and in addition, the imperial court has ordered the burning of the works of the Yuan Dang people. This envoy came to Guangzhou. It is to oversee the burning of the earth. Leave people, those you gave to the academy, all the writings of the Yuan people, are among the burned. ”

Zhao Xing smiled coldly. He added: "Including Su Sanzhang (Su Zhe) wrote China's first accountant, including Su Gong's "Shadow Imaging" book, and also includes the Yangma and keel waterwheel invented by the teacher. Including Lu Dafangdi's "Lantian Township Covenant", including the poetry articles of the prosperous Song Dynasty described by these people. All of this is on the list of incineration, isn't it? ”

The crowd was silent.

Zhao Xing took a breath and replied, "This is the end of the world. There are many reasons for the demise of a dynasty, but the suppression of speech and the denial of access to the most comprehensive information are necessary ---- not sufficient conditions for the demise of a dynasty.

Let's take stock: the Qin Dynasty burned Confucianism and soon perished; The rebellion of the Eastern Han Party began to suppress speech. Soon the capital fell, and within a generation it began to perish; The Jin Dynasty was in turmoil, let's not talk about it, but the rebellion of the Eight Kings caused the Wei and Jin people to only sing and cry, and as a result, the Central Plains Taoist system fell into a foreign race; The Tang Dynasty was also like this, Wu Zetian made a cool official denunciation, Li Linfu was a honey-bellied sword, and began to make party battles to imprison speech, and soon the national capital fell. The glorious Tang Dynasty went into decline.

Although imprisoning speech is not a sufficient condition for the death of the country, it is at least a symptom: whenever a certain dynasty begins to imprison speech and eradicate dissidents, it means that the country is about to die. We already have three dynasties as proof, do we still need to drag the Great Song Dynasty as evidence? Could it be that the Great Song Dynasty also went from imprisoning speech to the country? ”

What Zhao Xing has not said yet is that the demise of the Ming Dynasty also began with the Dongming Party's party strife......

He took a deep breath and continued, "The demise of a dynasty. ::.com first-hair**:: There can't be only one reason. But once the silence of speech begins, eradicate dissent. Next, without supervision, the winner of the party struggle will be unscrupulously corrupt and oppress the people without scruples, so all kinds of evils will arise, and the people will have to vote with their feet and choose to abandon them. It's a simple truth, and it has always been, without exception. ”

Zhao Xingchong arched his hands to everyone present, and said with a decadent face: "Everyone, we have now entered the end of the world, and we need to prepare early. ”

After Zhao Xing finished speaking, he led everyone back to his house, Wan Qiyong followed him all the way, and added all the way: "My lord, the new party has also begun to fight there, Cai Jing has been dismissed, and he has returned to Suzhou to settle down." A few days ago, the summons came, saying that they were planning to come to Guangzhou to see you. ”

Zhao Xing was silent, Qin Guan was the most impatient, he couldn't stand this oppressive atmosphere, and was the first to break the silence and say, "Is there no way to leave people?" ”

Zhao Xing shook his head slowly and replied: "I don't know, what I'm trying to do now is to let history change its direction, but this matter is too difficult, thousands of times I have promoted the development of history, trying to make it deviate from the inherent track, but it always stubbornly returns to that inertial road---- it is difficult." ”

Qin Guan hurriedly said: "Leave people, what do you need me to do, as long as I can help, I will do my best." ”

Zhao Xing gritted his teeth and said with all his strength: "Okay, since I can't change the entire Great Song Dynasty, let's work together to change the entire Liangguang ---- lend me all your strength, and let us work together to maintain the situation in the two Guangzhous." ”

It is the wish of all the degraded officials to maintain the situation between the two provinces, because although they have been degraded to Lingnan, in fact their treatment is better than in the interior. Due to the existence of these degraded officials, Zhao Xingqiao set up a name and used various forms to issue subsidies to government education, and these allowances were cumulatively calculated, which is equivalent to a current Zhizhou Dilu Lu. This is unthinkable in the mainland. Therefore, Zhao Xing's statement reached the ears of the degraded officials through private channels, and those degraded officials were immediately grateful.

In addition to degrading officials, Professor Fu Xuedi also agreed with Zhao Xing's proposition. They also know that because the degraded officials have no money and no source of livelihood, in order to take care of those degraded officials, Zhao Xing often gives some indescribable subsidies to the professors, and these subsidies are issued to the degraded officials, and the state capitals with degraded officials have subsidies, and there are newly built roads, and the states and counties that do not have degraded officials have been reduced to second-class citizens. This means that if the official is demoted and leaves the school, the standard of living of the professor will be reduced.

As a result, all prefectures and counties are busy placing their own degraded officials, and originally degraded officials exist as gatekeepers in various state schools, but after Zhao Xing broke the news in private, they have transferred the degraded officials to the backyard of the hospital. A new wall separates the compound, but the small door is always open......

Zhao Xing's actions were also dissatisfied, and after he released the news, he watched with satisfaction that all the states and counties hid the degraded officials in the backyard of the school. Then, in order to hide the cadastrals of those Yuandang people, Zhao Xing began to donate a large number of books to various prefectures. These books were given to schools in various provinces under the banner of private donations. Zhao Xing not only sent it himself. The Guangzhou squire was also mobilized to donate, for a moment. The entire Guangzhou Fuxue was submerged in a massive amount of land gifts, and in just one month's effort, the collection of most of the Fuxue exceeded 100,000 volumes, 3 million volumes.

After Zhao Xing received the letter, he had rushed to Guangnan East Road in 40 days, and Wang Ying, the visiting envoy of Guangnan East Road, was accompanied by Wang Ying, the envoy of Guangnan East Road. The two went ashore in Xianggang. Immediately posted to the Guangdong Economic Strategy Pacification Division, and Liao Xiaoxiao, who greeted him, replied apologetically: "Two adults, it's really unfortunate, my family officials happened to go to sea early this morning, saying that they were going to Guangxi to urge Qian Gang, and it would take about a month to come back, and the two adults can wait in the official office, and wait for my family officials to come back, and the concubine must notify the two." ”

Dong Bi's face was full of displeasure, and Wang Ying raised her face. Answer: "Everyone Liao, since Lord Zhao left this morning, it is too late to catch up now, please send someone to chase after Lord Zhao, and say that the imperial court has a will......

Wang Ying said very politely, who is Liao Xiaoxiao, one of the top ten in Beijing. In the past, Lu Dafang, Liu Zhi, Cai Jing, Su Shi and other prime ministers and literati all gathered around her to please her, and they had never heard of a little person like Wang Ying. It's already a good temper to be patient and smile perfunctory. Hearing Wang Ying speak so unkindly, Liao Xiaoxiao's face sank. replied conciliantly: "The two adults, the concubine is not a person in the officialdom, and she doesn't know the rules of officialdom, since the adults are free to arrange, the concubine is just retiring, and it is polite." ”

Liao Xiaoxiao flicked his sleeves, led the maid out of the mansion door slowly, angrily the two visiting envoys rolled their eyes, and when Liao Xiaoxiao walked out of the door, the two reacted, Dong Bi shouted: "Come on, come on, where are they all dead!" ”

Dong Bi's shout, thirty or forty people rushed out at once, they stared coldly at the two visiting envoys with their arms crossed, and one of them came forward and arched his hand, and said politely: "The two adults should be respectful, this is the inner house, don't deceive my family The adults are not there, otherwise, I recognize the two adults as officials, and the fist does not recognize the two adults." ”

"Inner House!" Wang Ying jumped to her feet and asked: "This is the Guangnan East Road Jingluo Pacification Division, when did it become the inner residence of your family?" ”

The official snorted and grinned: "The two adults may wish to go out and inquire, this is clearly the private residence of my family, when did it become the Guangnan East Road Jinglu Pacification Division, my lord is not messing around, please be decent, otherwise, I will ask the courtyard to fork you out." ”

As an official, of course, you can't let your subordinates fork out. The two visiting envoys walked out of the gate in a huff surrounded by the courtyards, Dong Bi didn't believe it, grabbed an old man passing by, and asked: "Uncle, isn't this the Jingluo Pacification Division?" ”

The old man glanced at the two officials in confusion, looked up and down the official robes of the two of them, and replied categorically: "Official, this is indeed the mansion of Lord Zhao who was appeased by Jingluo. ”

This is equivalent to not saying this, Dong Bi was angry, grabbed the old man, and asked: "I know that this is Lord Zhao's mansion, but isn't it Jingluo to appease the yamen?" ”

The old man looked at the two of them stupidly for a long time before he came back to his senses: "Oh, the two officials asked where the people of the Yamen were working in the Jingluo appeasement, and the Yamen was in the east of the city, and the room was relatively small, not as comfortable as Lord Zhao's room...... Tsk, Lord Zhao is rich, I heard that there are several official positions on his head, and the monthly salary alone is enough for me to work for 20 years. ”

Dong Bi angrily interrupted the old man's sigh and asked, "I didn't ask you about Lord Zhao's salary, I asked where is the Yamen of Jingluo to appease you?" ”

Wang Ying heard something strange, and he waved his hand to stop Dong Bi: "Wait, old man, you said that Jingluo appeased the Yamen and made the Yamen small, and the people there didn't work in the Yamen, right?" ”

"Of course, those adults are all comfortable, and they all went to the side courtyard of Lord Zhao to work, I heard that it is comfortable there, and there is a big swimming pool in front of the door...... Hey, I haven't finished talking yet, why did the two adults leave? ”

"We're just leaving?" Walking on the road, Wang Ying asked unwillingly.

Dong Bi's post was in Guangxi, but Wang Ying needed to be in Guangdong, and he did not hand over the official letter to the Jingluo pacification envoy Yamen. It means that he can't exercise his power in Guangdong, so Dong Bi can go, but he has to go in again.

Dong Bi shook his head and said, "How to get in." The one we made trouble in someone's house is now going back to the past, in case we have a closed door. Wouldn't it be a loss of decency? Brother Wang might as well go to the official office with me, and let's inquire about the situation. ”

Guangnan East Road appeased the official office and the official residence did not allow the two adults to live. The guest officer raised his face and replied calmly, but with a resolute attitude: "Two adults, I know two adults, but my rules in Guangnan are different. Last year, the Department of Economic and Pacification issued a notice, saying that the reception expenses of the officials who came and went were all measured digitally......

What is digitalization, isn't it money? The two adults can take the official letter to the yamen to register. The yamen will give you a sum of money, and then give you a notice board. Register with the official residence, and my official residence will arrange accommodation for you, but you have to pay for the food and lodging in the official residence, and the yamen will not give you money---- and that money is your accommodation expenses.

There are regulations on how much the daily subsidy for officials of several grades is, and there are regulations on how many days an official can stay for a few days, a few days for running errands, and a few days for a post. You will be given a subsidy for room and board according to the regulations. Enjoy free reception.

The two adults don't have a notice issued by the strategic division, I can also live here, but the two adults need to pay for themselves, who stays in this official house every day, and how much food there are rules, and the two adults don't pay for it, so I have to pay for this money out of my own pocket...... Actually, the two adults don't need to worry. If you are really officials. It's your money that can't run away.

Well, you can pay for your own accommodation first. When Lord Zhao comes back, you will hand in the official body documents, and the Economic Strategy Division will definitely send you money. This means that you will first pay for your own food and lodging, and then send the money to you when you go back to the yamen, sooner or later. My lord, do you understand my explanation? ”

"Shw!" Dong Bi snorted. Wang Ying's attitude has softened now, and what he thinks of is that he needs Zhao Xing to cooperate with him before he can take office, otherwise, Zhao Xing may hang him for several months. Thinking of Zhao Xing's notoriety in the capital, Wang Ying decided to ease his attitude.

With a plan in his stomach, Wang Ying smiled at the guest officer, and asked with a pleasant face: "I heard that the officials of the Economic Strategy Department like to go to Lord Zhao's mansion to work, yes, we just went to Lord Zhao's mansion, and I heard that Lord Zhao has just gone to sea, is there any way for your official to inform Lord Zhao to ......?"

The guest official of the Song Dynasty is equivalent to the director of the modern government reception office, he shook his head and said: "The two adults laughed at people, the sea is vast, there are roads everywhere, who knows which way Lord Zhao goes." Chasing people at sea is basically no play. The two adults have no experience in going to sea, not long ago Lord Zhao was chasing a pirate ship at sea, I heard that the eyes can clearly see each other's ship, but it took a day and a night to chase into range.

Chasing people at sea is not a joke, who can catch up, unless it is a fairy. ”

A cold sweat gradually broke out on Wang Ying's back, he knew that if the sea chase could not be done at all, then he had a seizure in Zhao Xing's mansion just now, and ran to someone's house, taking advantage of the master's absence, to lose his temper at someone's concubine, this matter was a big problem, and it was decided that it was a scandal.

If Zhao Xing's mansion is just a private courtyard, it's okay to say, Wang Ying won't admit it afterwards, but if there are still some officials in that mansion, then as soon as those officials come out to testify afterwards, the two of them can't deny it.

Thinking of this, Wang Ying glanced at Dong Bi, his eyes were full of despair, Dong Bi shrugged his shoulders like no one else, and replied: "Lord Zhao is leaving, I don't know when I will come back, Brother Wang has to wait here for a few more days, and the next official will not wait." Tomorrow morning, he will leave for Guangxi. ”

Wang Ying's face was ashen, and when the two were relatively speechless, they saw an official rushing over with a few servants, and scolded as they walked: "Those two thieves, they didn't inquire about what Lord Zhao was doing, they dared to run into the inner courtyard of my house to make trouble, come, come, sons, beat me hard." ”

Before Wang Ying and the others had time to justify, they were knocked to the ground with a stick and a stick, Wang Ying screamed miserably and shouted for help at the guest officer: "Kesi, is there still a king in Guangdong?" Why did you openly beat up the officials in front of the official residence, you petty official actually watched the thugs commit murder, hurry, hurry up and stop them! ”

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