In ancient Chinese history, there was no custom of establishing overseas colonies, especially the establishment of overseas colonies after destroying an overseas country.

The people of the Song Dynasty did not care much about the Great Ryukyu (Taiwan), which was close at hand and developed during the Three Kingdoms period, and had no intention of developing it. As for Hainan Island, it is only used as a place of exile. How can you care about the land of the Cham country, which is not connected to the land?

There was no precedent, and the people of the imperial court naturally did not consider Vietnam's intention to donate land, and they debated: what should be done with this land?

Some suggested that the land should be returned to Vietnam as a sign of benevolence, and some suggested that the land should be given to a brother of the Vietnamese royal family in order to divide the Vietnamese power...... As for the fate of the Bintong King, there is a Southern Barbarian savage, and now he has no identity, who cares?!

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Xing continued to transport the wealth of Zhancheng, and the further news was that when the Great Yue Kingdom besieged the capital of the Chengcheng State, Zhao Xing was invited to participate, and explained to Zhao Xing that they had obtained permission from the Great Song Dynasty. In terms of Zhao Xing, because Guangnan is far away from the imperial court, it will take at least half a year to come and go. When the battle situation was urgent, Zhao Xing didn't have time to send people back to ask the court for verification, so he took Bintong's victorious army to participate in the siege of the royal capital of Zhancheng, and broke through the city first.

Vietnam did not ask the imperial court for troops, and it was impossible for the imperial court to join forces to resist Vietnam in order to be a companion to occupy the city today, and to join forces with Vietnam to capture the city tomorrow, and the imperial court could not pull this face. As for how to deal with Zhao Xing, who sent troops privately, the imperial court is still hesitating, this hesitation, bad thing!

Zhao Xing would not give them time to react, he hurried and handed over the captured seal of the city of Zhancheng, along with the captured map of the city and the household register. Now, the court is even more difficult to express its position.

In ancient China. Handing over a map of the land has an extraordinary meaning with a family register. It means: consecration, submission, annexation, and disposition.

Although the ministers of the court are stupid, they are not stupid enough to refuse the territorial meaning sent to the door, and if the court is connected, they will refuse. Later generations can curse them to death if they read the earth.

With this scruple, the ministers of the court were much more cautious, and the imperial history that originally impeached Zhao Xing quietly burned his own music overnight. They also need to look at the wind.

Then, the wind came, and the court officials pointed to Zhao Xing's description of the map that Zhao Xing presented, it turned out. At this time, the largest country in the southern barbarian land was not Cochin, and there was also a country of Zhenla that was four or five times larger than the country of Cochin, and they were at war with Cochin all year round, so even if Cochin annexed the city, the national strength was still a cut behind that of Chenla.

In this case, what is there to worry about in Cochin?

There is no need to worry that Jiaozhi will pass through this warring country, so that it will threaten the wealth of the southeast of the imperial court, then, the rest of the land is to consider containment. With the academic system of the ministers of the imperial court, it may not be possible to achieve things. But the bad thing is a professional counterpart, in the blink of an eye, the ministers can come up with thousands of containment methods The ministers are pondering, the wealth of the royal city seized by Zhao Xing has been transported to the capital one after another, and the imperial court has quietly discovered that Zhao Xing has miscalculated the value of the booty. In Zhao Xing's recital, he frankly admitted that he had made a mistake, saying that after the final approval, the treasure seized by Bintong was only 110 million yuan. Not as much as he originally said...... However. This is Zhao Xing's algorithm, and Zhao Xing is calculated according to the Guangzhou price. And after those loot were transported to Bianliang, the price increased more than tenfold.

After the imperial court finished accounting for the capture of Bintong, they collectively closed their mouths, and they pretended to be deaf and dumb about Zhao Xing's miscalculation. After receiving this huge amount of money, they took advantage of the situation to take retrospective measures against Zhao Xing's reason for war, the so-called "compensation for Song merchants", and quickly decided to allocate 5 million guan to compensate Guangnan merchants for their "robbery" losses. Its speed is so fast that it seems that Zhao Xing will regret it after discovering his mistake.

Subsequently, the imperial court also approved the compensation requests of the city companies, of course, except for Quang Nam, the total compensation of the rest of the city companies was capped at one million. So, this year, thanks to the "Cham War", all the Song merchants made a small fortune. **Jzitagom debut**During this period, Guangdong businessmen were the happiest, they didn't have to do anything, they followed Zhao Xing and shouted that they were robbed, which can get "government compensation", more hundreds of thousands, and fewer tens of thousands. This batch of compensation was paid for by the seizure of Zhancheng and transported to Bianliang according to the sea trade route, and the huge profits made people wake up in their dreams.

Of course, after this incident, the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty all over the country said in unison: That's right, we were indeed robbed by the Cham pirates, so we suffered heavy losses!

As a result, the court's treatment of King Bintong could not be discussed, and then the court arbitrarily rewarded him with the title of an overseas festival envoy, gave him three million yuan, and allowed him to settle in the Great Song Dynasty. After that, this Bintong King disappeared......

After Zhao Xing transported the treasures of the capital of the city to Bianliang, the price of gold plummeted, the price of silver plummeted, and overseas curiosities plummeted. In an instant, the gold jewelry was outrageously cheap, and in order to survive the financial predicament, the imperial court threw out 30 million Champa specialties, gold, precious stones, jewelry, and antiques at one time, which led to the collapse of the jewelry industry in Bianliang City. As a result of this collapse, the jewelry and gold industries of the Great Song Dynasty did not recover until five years later.

But the imperial court had no money, and then successively threw out the Champa jewels, rhinoceros horns, ivory and baskets, coral pearls for sale, and Champa wood carvings and wooden utensils for sale, and all of a sudden, the court became a hawker in the night market, only throwing those rare antiques in the past like cabbage, desperately exchanging cash in the short term to subsidize the financial deficit, which made the gold collapse effect spread from Bianliang to the surroundings......

Of course, this beautiful scene is also decades later, and the people of Bianliang City are also talking about it. This time, the Great Song Dynasty felt the "war dividend" together.

When Zhao Xing returned to Guangzhou, after receiving the news from the imperial court, he regretted that his intestines were blue: "It shouldn't be, it shouldn't!" With so much gold, the imperial court should issue new coins with gold reserves, how come all of them are pouring into the market at once, and this makes people not live! ”

Zhao Xing's staff were all worried, Li Qingzhao, the little girl, was quick to speak, and said what was in everyone's hearts, she twisted her handkerchief and said: "Although Uncle Zhao has controlled Guangnan and made the price of gold here not as chaotic as in the capital, it has still fallen by forty percent in the past few days." Well, my box of treasures turned out to be worth 600,000 yuan. Seeing that the price has fallen day by day in the past few days. Now it's worth 350,000 yuan. It's really not a human life!

Uncle Zhao, I heard that you still have a lot of things that you haven't counted, and I heard that you can often find surprises in your warehouse. You see, I've suffered such a big loss, why don't you let me go to your treasury and surprise me too! ”

Zhao Xing's promulgation of the "equal body gold" reward program made all the soldiers who participated in the southern land acquisition this time a fortune. But this "equal body gold" plan does not cover several of Zhao Xing's cronies. Especially Li Qingzhao. This little girl has been in the palace of Champa for more than ten days, choosing jewelry collections with high value, antique meaning, and research value. These things filled ten boxes, far more than her weight. But there is no way, who asked her to accompany Zhao Xing, and Zhao Xing will not leave enough space for himself? !

Li Qingzhao returned with a full load, and the coke broke Li Gefei.

Li Gefei is now working part-time in Zhao Xing's Economic Strategy Division, and in addition to the imperial court, Zhao Xing also gives a subsidy. As a result, Li Gefei, who had a large fortune, was in no hurry to sell those treasures, and as a result, he saw the price of gold and jewelry plummet, and in just one month, their value had been reduced by 30% out of thin air.

But. Li Gefei still has a little self-control, he knows that after this limelight, those jewels with political significance will slowly appreciate, even beyond their original value, so Li Gefei not only did not panic, but took out the surplus money to buy some of the jewelry that fell in price. At this moment, I saw Li Qingzhao squeezing Zhao Xing again. Ren is his favorite. also had to persuade: "Qingzhao, don't be so greedy." How much does a meritorious man in Nanyang earn, and you moved ten boxes back by yourself, isn't it enough? ”

Li Qingzhao muttered in a low voice: "But Uncle Zhao moved enough things to fill three big ships, Uncle Shuai also has a boatload of treasures, and Brother Chen (Chen Buqun) also loaded two boats and left, I just took the pitiful ten boxes, and in the blink of an eye, their land value was reduced by thirty percent, which still makes people not live!" ”

Li Gefei clapped his hands and smiled: "The girl is content, you followed Lord Zhao to the South China Sea, looked around the scenery, and moved back ten boxes of treasures." Occupy the city's savings for thousands of years, and you are in the treasury of other people's houses, what are you complaining about? ”

Zhao Xingxiao was meaningful: "Haha, take away the treasures of Zhancheng, I don't feel distressed, as long as it is not an illegal item, I believe that the ministers of the court will not look for trouble." Brother Li, I like the little girl Qingzhao very much, but it's a pity that I don't have a suitable son to match, if she is willing to marry into my Cheng clan...... Ah, even if you marry my disciples, or Su Gong's students, I will give you a boatload of loot as a dowry, how about it! ”

Li Qingzhao shook his little head and said, "I don't want Uncle Zhao to give me anything again, I just want Uncle Zhao to tell me that when you sent King Bintong away, you seemed to know what would happen later, why?" The students of the Cheng clan are saying that Uncle Zhao has been studying wisdom, please talk about it, so that the little woman can also grow wise? ”

Zhao Xing laughed, shook his legs proudly and replied: "Logic ---- this is called logical derivation ability, if you want things to develop in the direction you want, try to influence several important factors in it."

For example, after we captured King Bintong, we immediately sent him to the capital, and then told the people in the capital two news: first, the entire Zhancheng country was destroyed; Second, this guy has hundreds of millions of land and property, which is just used to compensate for the losses suffered by our Song merchants, and by the way to fill the emptiness of the imperial treasury.

Lo and behold, I give the ministers a good excuse ---- reparations; a great temptation--- a great treasure; One key point that can ignore the defense of Bintong Wang himself ---- that his country is dead, and what he says is irrelevant.

In this case, it doesn't matter how Bintong Wang himself defends himself, so I didn't confess to him at all, because the rest of the work will be perfected for me by the people in the court. That's right, I invaded other countries for no reason and destroyed them, but what does it matter, King Bintong will inevitably be rewarded with a good sum of money and let him silently serve him for life, but in the future, this person is already a waste, and no one cares what he says. He dares to speak, hehe, the millions of people in Bianliang City, who will believe it?

I grasped a few key points of time, so I knew that things were bound to go in the direction I wanted, and that was the key to wisdom ----finding things, controlling things, and pushing things......"

Li Qingzhao blinked his eyes and asked again: "Uncle Zhao, then why did you want Vietnam to donate the land south of Bintong to the imperial court?" ”

Li Qingzhao didn't know that the land had been privately put into Zhao Xing's pocket, she just wondered. Obviously, the imperial court can't get this land. Why did Zhao Xing still want the Vietnamese to report like this.

"The handle---- Song Qiang is weaker, and in the future, when the two countries deal with each other, they are most afraid that there will be no excuse to make trouble. I leave a pretext for a dispute over that piece of land. so that I may henceforth intervene in the fertile plains of the southern part of the country. And the Vietnamese must give me this handle, this is what they owe me", Zhao Xing replied very vaguely.

This land was a seesaw for him to meddle in Vietnam's affairs, although Vietnam promised to transfer it to Tran Yiyi's son. But the individual is against the state. Sometimes it is unreasonable, and at this time, Zhao Xing has to pull the Great Song Dynasty behind him as a backer. The Great Song Dynasty received hundreds of millions of his war captures, and it should make this effort. On the other hand. As long as Vietnam made this gesture of land dedication, no matter how the imperial court answered, Zhao Xing would have an excuse to use the power of the Great Song Dynasty court to interfere in the ownership of that land......

Li Qingzhao's eyes blinked, pondering the meaning of Zhao Xing's words. Zhao Xing then induced: "Qingzhao, do you want your things to appreciate, you have to learn to publicize, an iron pot you have to promote it as a pot king, pot tyrant, pot emperor, pot emperor, pot boy, so that you can sell the stall for jewelry price." Didn't you say that all the Cham things you chose had a history? Then spread the word. The propaganda place is well known.

You write, I'll help you out, to say that these things are particularly meaningful, collecting them is a symbol of taste, there are not one or two trophies at home, and I am embarrassed to say hello when I go out...... In this way, it is difficult for the things you collect to appreciate without ...... value."

Zhao Xing was there to be good and persuasive. Pity. The ministers of the court did not enjoy Li Qingzhao's treatment, and there was no explanation from Zhao Xing himself. They don't know the truth of the matter yet. Soon, the huge wealth of the royal city of Zhancheng was continuously transported to Yangzhou by sea, and then transmitted to the capital. Before this huge amount of treasure, the imperial court also had to make a statement, they first twisted and affirmed Zhao Xing's action of transferring troops to eliminate pirates, and then pretended to re-reward the land south of Bintong to the Vietnamese, but how to implement it was left to Zhao Xing's full discretion.

In the imperial edict, the commendation soothed Vietnam's attack on Champa in order to vent the anger of the Great Song merchants...... As a result, Zhao Xing's private transfer of troops was no longer investigated, and he was promoted to the official third-rank official because of his merits in recruiting pirates.

According to the meaning of the little emperor, this matter should have been celebrated, and it should be regarded as a great contribution to the expansion of the territory to the ancestors to pay tribute to the ancestral temple, but Zhang blocked it, he thought that this matter was too disgraceful after all, because of the harassment of a few pirates, he invaded the capital of the country, arrested other people's kings, and swept away other people's property---- this kind of thing is recorded in history, which will embarrass the court that claims to be the "country of gentlemen", so it is best to take the money and get rich, everyone should not shout.

Zhang's opinion was agreed by the vast majority of officials in the imperial court, and the little emperor was helpless and reluctantly suppressed the big celebration.

However, the little emperor is rich, and the things that reward the ministers for the New Year and the festival are also rich, this year, the hundred officials of Bianliang City have passed the fat year, because the usual rewards are some worthless pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and this year's reward is a whole piece of gold, a large piece of gems, and gorgeous exotic gold ornaments of the city. In the midst of the crowd's celebrations, the only discordant note was that the Empress Dowager Liang of Western Xia had come again, and she had captured Huizhou.

Huizhou was occupied, and it was occupied in the spring, at this moment, no matter how Lu Huiqing argued, it could not be said to be his "merit", the imperial court panicked all of a sudden, and had to urgently order Zhang to return to Shaanxi, and the position of Guangzhou Zhizhou was also agreed to be held by Li Gefei, recommended by Zhao Xing, so far, Zhao Xing completely grasped the control of Guangdong.

When the news reached Guangdong, it was already May, and this was the result of Zhao Xing's quick whipping and assisting the imperial court in delivering the news. At the official banquet, Zhang raised his glass, solemnly saluted Zhao Xing, and said sincerely: "Liren, I know that you have been concerned about the situation of Huanqing, and now the situation of Huanqing is very bad. I heard that since the beginning of this year, the major ticket houses in Huanqing have refused to give loans to the government, and now the hundred officials in Huanqing can't even pay their salaries. ”

When Zhang said this, he shook his white-haired head, raised the wine glass high above his head, and thanked him and said, "If you leave people, Huanqing will die." In one fell swoop. On behalf of the millions of people in Huanqing, I will toast you here......"

Zhang lowered his white-haired head, and Zhao Xing turned sideways, indicating that he did not accept Zhang's big gift. He crossed his hands and asked coldly: "Zhang Jingluo, isn't Huanqing very good?" ”

Zhang was speechless.

Zhao Xing is not pretending to be confused here, he is not unaware of Huanqing's true situation. The real intention of this sentence is to ask rhetorically: Who caused the phenomenon of Huanqing today?

I think when Zhao Xingzhang left Huanqing. Huanqing has begun to turn defense into offense, and even invaded the territory of Western Xia twice. The situation in the market also seems to be prosperous, tax revenue is rising, and bank loans are being repaid very quickly. But how can there be a big economic collapse, a military crash, and the people's hearts are scattered?

Who is responsible for all this?

Lu Huiqing did all this, and the court said that he had made great contributions, but now Lu Huiqing was not demoted because the Western Xia people captured Huizhou, and the court knew that he was a waste, so the high-ranking officials raised him, let him just be corrupt and not do anything, and transferred back to sell coolies. And when Zhang Lin left, he asked Zhao Xing to pay for all this.

Why?

Zhang straightened up. After waiting for a long time with the toast, seeing that Zhao Xing didn't mean to take it, he sighed, raised his neck and drank the wine, and then said goodbye.

Zhang went out of the city and walked for more than two miles, Shuai Fan patted his horse and hurried over, beckoning Zhang to stop while running, and wait to catch up with the team. He rolled over and jumped off his horse. Hand the package in his arms to Zhang: "Chapter Jingluo." It's not that my family doesn't help, it's just that this matter is too annoying---- Lu Huiqing rolled up the money and hid to the side and snickered. He caused Huanqing to be in danger and the country to be in danger, but others had to pay for all this, and he only counted the stolen money himself.

My lord sent me to ask Mr. Zhang two questions, first: Can you make Lu Huiqing spit out some of the stolen money, no matter how much, as long as he starts to spit out money, the three major ticket houses will also have an explanation. ”

Zhang was silent for a moment and replied, "The old man is incompetent, so he can't do this." ”

Shuai Fan sighed and asked again: "Money doesn't fall out of thin air, you must enter before you can get out." The second question my family wants to ask is: Can Mr. Zhang let the officers and soldiers of Huanqing carry out another assault, even if they go deep into the summer realm and break through a small village, it means that the officers and soldiers of Huanqing still have the ability to repay, and that's it. ”

Zhang sighed again and replied: "I heard that in February last year, the imperial court sent down the money for tea and medicine, but Lu Huiqing dragged it and refused to give it, and the three major ticket houses immediately cut off the supply, and since then, the salaries of the generals of Huanqing have been cut off. Lu Huiqing also said that the Huanqing soldiers were rich, and the imperial court used to provide too much, even if they did not supply it for a few months, they were worthy of the Huanqing soldiers.

Most places in Huanqing have not been paid salaries for more than half a year, and now, some soldiers have not been paid salaries for a year, and the generals are quite resentful, and now they have not mutinied, and they already look up to the old man, and then drive them deep into the summer realm, I am afraid...... Let's go, tell your family, the old man did his best, I just hope he can also take care of the people of Huanqing. ”

Shuai Fan arched his hand: "Master Zhang, in business, the shareholders of the three ticket houses are not only my family, and my family can only talk about it from the side." But my lord said: Anyway, Boss Zhang wants to launch a deep and shallow attack, as long as Zhang Jingluo's counterattack starts, he is willing to help. It's just that this Lu Huiqing ......"

Zhang took over the conversation and replied categorically: "Since the old man took office as the pacification envoy of Huanqing Road, the finances of Huanqing Road will no longer let Lu Huiqing interfere. ”

Shuai Fan arched his hand: "In this way, Master Zhang can rest assured." My family has prepared a small boat in Hong Kong, and Mr. Zhang can go straight to Yangzhou by sea, and then go to Beijing to face the saint and transfer to Huanqing. ”

Zhang arched his hand, took off his hat and thanked him solemnly: "The old man has thanked your family for the people of Huanqing." I know that Liren is good at planning, with him in Guangnan, my Song Dynasty will not suffer, I wish your family a grand plan, and then the ambition of Qingyun in life. I just don't know if the old man can see it! ”

Shuai Fan thanked Zhang's eulogy, and was not polite, arched his hand and patted his horse to leave.

Waiting for Shuai Fan to rush back to Zhao Xing's mansion, the official banquet in Zhao Xing's mansion has become a banquet for officials, Li Ge took office unofficially, controlling 50% of the population of Guangdong, more than 70% of the local taxes, colleagues kept raising their glasses to congratulate, Li Qingzhao The little girl was scurrying around on the table, constantly chatting with people and exchanging feelings.

Shuai Fan's eyes turned around, looking for Zhao Xing's trace, and everyone was very happy at this time, and they didn't pay attention to Shuai Fan's arrival. Shuai Fan couldn't find Zhao Xing in the shadow, and he didn't say hello to everyone, and quietly turned to the backyard.

In the backyard, the first thing Shuai Fan saw was Wan Qianyong, who was exchanging documents with several Vietnamese, Shuai Fan sighed and asked Wan Qianyong: "Brother Wan Qian, what are the Jiaozhi people doing here?" ”