After leaving this suspense, the "Maritime News" turned its pen and talked about the recent war in the West. UC eBook () full text free to read! More than ten countries were involved in the war, using hundreds of thousands of troops. In the tone of "Mr. Udo", the newspaper tells the story of the Crusaders who crossed the sea from near Constantinople into Asia Minor, captured the Seljuk capital of Nikaia, led to the destruction of the Siseljuks, and captured Edessa and Antioch, establishing the Adesab and the Duchy of Antioch.

Subsequently, Mr. Wu You went on to introduce the history of the Seljuks, and the reader suddenly realized when he saw this: "It turns out that this group of barbarians called Seljuk was driven out of the Western Regions by the Tang Dynasty, but it turned out to be our defeated generals. ”

Mr. Uyu vividly described the establishment of the Earl (Count) of Edessa in that year, Baldwin I, Earl of Bryn from Normandy, participated in the First Crusade, and soon after the start of the Crusade, this Baldwin showed his "style" for the first time, leaving the large army without permission and leading his troops alone to the city of Edessa (an ancient city in the valley of the two rivers and one of the holy cities of Christianity). At that time, the city of Edessa had been besieged by the Seljuks for two months, and our Uncle Baldwin was like Song Gongming in Shandong and Shi Shiran appeared.

Reinforcements arrived, and the Seljuks withdrew. The military governor of Edessa at that time was called Theolos, and he was so grateful to Uncle Bao for his timely assistance, and his admiration was like a surging river. At this time, the founder of the Kingdom of Jerusalem showed his style for the second time, and in March 1098, Baldwin formed an alliance with Theolos and recognized him as his adopted son and heir. In March of the same year, Uncle Baldwin attacked his godson's camp and abducted his entire family, demanding that he trade control of Edessa City for his family's life. The poor godson was reluctant to let the whole family agree and hand over the city. But it immediately became the third time that Uncle Baldwin performed his style, and the family, including Theolos himself, was tragically destroyed.

In this way, in 1098, Baldwin established the state of Edsabeth, called Baldwin I.

This overseas anecdote fully satisfies the gossip psychology of the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and it is like a window that is pushed open, and it suddenly lets the Song people know that the outside world is also very exciting, very bloody, and very magnificent......

The overseas anecdotes section then devotes several full-page pages to telling about several Song businessmen who made a fortune overseas. It tells the story of the Song merchants who lived in the village of Kirimaius in Africa, and also told that after the Guangnan Navy attacked everywhere, the attitude of the Nanyang countries towards the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty was completely different, and the countries unanimously stipulated: "Fan people kill Tang people to death, and Tang people kill Fan people will be fined." If there is no gold, you will atone for your sins. ”

To tell the story of these overseas feudal states, it is impossible not to deserve a world map, this early map of the world, which later actually became the "road map of the Great Song Dynasty merchants to catch slaves in the South China Sea", but it let the people of the Great Song Dynasty know for the first time that the outside world was so vast, and the territory of the Great Song Kingdom was in front of the whole world. It's not worth mentioning......

The last few pages of the newspaper were official news, and Zhao Xing officially released an improved version of the "City Change Law" in the newspaper, and the newly implemented "City Change Law" mainly had a purpose--- special funds for trade, and the gentry paid taxes in one place. Zhao Xing did not touch the interests of the majority of the gentry here, he just talked about the efforts made by the Guangnan Navy to protect the overseas Song merchants, and explained to everyone that it was very expensive to raise a navy.

He also said that at present, the Western Xia War is dragging down the imperial court and asking for assistance from all over the country, and the Guangnan East Road has been allocated an amount of 12 million guan. This amount is equivalent to the regular tax of previous years. In order not to cause the economy of Guangnan, which was in the ascendant, to be hit hard, and also to allow the navy to have more adequate funds to protect the Song merchants, he specially announced: From now on. The ban on the gentry was relaxed, allowing the gentry to operate the sea trade freely.

So, how to tax the land and sea trade completely liberalized? Zhao Xing decided to abolish the permit system for maritime trade, but required all ships operating maritime trade to open accounts in the three major ticket banks in Guangdong, which were mainly used for maritime trade settlement, because the maritime trade accounts were made by banks, so the maritime merchants could not do anything on the accounts. Wait until the results of the sea trade settlement come out. Bills are issued by major banks. The maritime merchants went to the city to pay their taxes with the tickets issued by the bank.

In addition, the New Market Law controls the unloading and trading of foreign vessels at designated points. That's all in the details...... Zhao Xing's order is full of Nestorian colors, and the Nestorian followers are proclaiming everywhere that "all men are equal, equal pay for equal work" and so on, Zhao Xing also borrowed this argument and said seriously: "Those who do not pay taxes will not have the right to obtain the protection of the Guangdong navy, but want to hide under the gunboats of the Guangdong navy, regardless of the officials and gentry, and pay taxes as one." ”

In order not to anger the gentry, Zhao Xing finally reiterated: "For the gentry's fields and dingkou, the ancestral tax exemption order continues to be effective, and the gentry still do not have to bear the burden of land labor, but the exception ---is the sea trade. ”

This new "City Change Law" was announced under the banner of the New Party, and along with this "City Change Law", there are also regulations on remuneration throughout the country, so Zhao Xing in his "New City Change Law", although the rights and interests of the gentry were touched, but the resistance was insignificant---- after all, the gentry were originally forbidden to engage in maritime trade.

The last few pages of the Maritime News newspaper published several short anecdotal obituaries, including the death of the monk Buddha Yin (Liyuan) and the death of Liu Zhi, the old party boss, in Lianzhou. There is also a paragraph about Huang Tingjian's wind and snow

Since Huang Tingjian's debasement, he has placed his affection in landscape poetry and wine. He created "Ode to the Fountain of Peace", a poetic commentary on the quality of wine. In the poem, Yao Zixue koji wine, the predecessor of Wuliangye, is praised, "the cup color increases the jade, the white clouds give birth to the valley, the clear but not thin, the thick but not turbid, the sweet but not the stinging, the bitterness but not the sting"......

The article spread rapidly throughout the Great Song Dynasty as the merchants of Guangnan Prefecture spread to all parts of the Great Song Dynasty, and the merchants of Hangzhou who initially received the news were only proud of the presence of such an outstanding local official. Then, this newspaper almost arrived in Yangzhou with Sun Cong, Yangzhou officials read this report, collective athetasia, their first thought is: the former Yangzhou official is really not easy to take advantage of, he gave Dali people a golden bell for nothing, as a result, Dali died as a result......

Well. Only our original state official Cai Jing can take advantage of him, and others dare to take advantage of Zhao Laohu? It seems that the whole Song Dynasty can no longer find a second stupid boldness. As for us, is it ...... to take advantage of Zhao Laohu's shipping location?

Yangzhou people want to fork. But when the imperial court got this newspaper, they were undoubtedly surprised, first of all, the description of the world in the newspaper, which made them deeply shocked, and then they realized the power of the navy, it turned out that with the navy, the world became so vast. The money comes so quickly......

So far. The imperial court had a little understanding of Zhao Xing's efforts to strengthen the strength of the navy, and after that, the imperial court half acquiesced and half instigated, supporting Zhao Xing to expand his naval army.

However, the imperial court was a little dissatisfied with the lace news on the last page of this newspaper. First of all. According to the etiquette system, once a court official like Liu Zhi dies, he must first report to the imperial court, and the imperial court allows it to hold a funeral according to the specifications permitted by the imperial court, but Guangnan has not yet submitted a funeral form to the imperial court, so he announced the news of the death of Liu Zhi, a degraded official. Other than that. Huang Tingjian is also a degraded official, judging from this report, this person is still living in Guangzhou very beautifully, and he often drinks small wine, so much so that he writes a wine tasting poem, which is not good.

"This is the face of the inciting court", Zhang held the newspaper. Angry: "Zhao Liren is becoming more and more domineering, he is testing the imperial court, and a degraded official drinks a little wine every day at his place." Where is the face of the imperial court? You look, the next one must be another disciple of Su Laopo on the stage, and the last one to take the stage must be Su Laopo. ”

Zeng Bu smiled, shook his head and said: "I'm surprised how this newspaper was printed, haha, there should be more than 30 editions, I'm afraid there are 100,000 words of content." It is said that this newspaper has a page every ten days, with more than 100,000 words, and it takes thousands of craftsmen three to five months to print the photoengraving plate. How can Zhao Liren be able to do a version every ten days. ”

Zhang and Zeng Bu were discussing in the political hall. Now the dog-eat-dog within the New Party is more serious, and the original members of the New Party. were all fought out of the court. Only Zeng Bu, Cai Bian, Zhang, and General Xu were left in the political hall. At this moment, Cai Bian Xu will not be there, only Zeng Bu and Zhang are left.

Zhang snorted and replied: "You don't know, Zhao Li's concubine, that is, there is a printing workshop under the name of Liao Xiaoxiao, who is one of the top ten in Bianliang City, I have heard that this printing workshop uses lead movable type printing technology, and I heard that Hangzhou Printing Bureau has also begun to use lead movable type printing technology. With this new printing method, as long as there are many lead words, it is not a big deal to discharge a version of 100,000 words at a time. ”

Zeng Buyang raised the newspaper in his hand and said meaningfully: "I heard that Zhao Liren began to write books and lectures last year, preaching the application of knowledge and the unity of knowledge and action, that is, practical learning. Look at this newspaper, with new punctuation, new printing, and new news...... I also heard that Zhao Liren funded the construction of library buildings and mourning halls for the schools of various prefectures in Guangdong. If he continues like this, Quang Nam may become a nest of the old party. How did Master Zhang allow Zhao Liren to run a newspaper? ”

Zhang slapped the newspaper in annoyance and argued: "Zhao Liren is not the old party, he is implementing the new law...... I knew that Zhao Liren couldn't take advantage of it---- he promised me 12 million yuan in compensation, so he took advantage of such a big loophole in me, and I hated it very much! ”

A burst of footsteps came, this is the little emperor, he finally got up from the belly of the concubine, stood at the door and looked at the political hall, found that Zhang was inside, he raised the newspaper in his hand, and asked while walking into the political hall: "Zhang Qing, Zeng Qing, have you read this Guangnan "Maritime News", is it true?" ”

Zhang asked sullenly: "Your Majesty, what are the things you asked that are true...... I'm afraid that everything published in the newspaper is true, and Zhao Liren has never heard of a habit of deceiving people. ”

Zhao Xu walked over, found a chair to sit down, and raised the newspaper with emotion: "This world is so big...... Well, it's incredible that Zhao Liren said that the West Ocean was in such a mess. Zeng Bu nodded: "A few years ago, I heard Cai Jing say that Zhao Xing was always worried that once a war broke out in the West, the trade income of my Dasong City Shipping Division would be reduced. ”

Zhao Xu nodded with satisfaction, and said as he got up: "This big man, there are still some means to make money. Two Aiqing, after the next newspaper is delivered, let him send a few more copies to the palace. The palace is idle and boring, and my concubines like to take a look...... By the way, it's almost the end of the year again, and Zhao Aiqing's family gift should also be sent, this time, I want to see what strange things he sent. ”

The so-called "family gift" sent by Zhao Xing is actually a strange thing sent by Zhao Xing to the Great Song Palace in the name of Zhao Qin'er. The palace also set off a wave of external heat, and the original trophies of the Cham country immediately became the object of everyone's pursuit.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xu couldn't help but be full of expectations for the captives of Dali, he walked to the door of the political hall and stopped. Tilting his head sideways, he asked: "Where has the lord of Dali arrived, can Zhengdan rush to the capital?" ”

Zhang Chui replied: "Your Majesty, Sun Cong's fleet has passed through Hangzhou three days ago, and it is said that there are many spectators along the way, because he wants the people to patrol along the way, so he walks very slowly, but he will definitely be able to enter Beijing before the New Year." ”

Zhao Xu immediately asked again: "Have you thought of the reason on the official notice?" ”

Zhang Li replied confidently: "Sun Cong is here to report." Zhao Liren said that there is no reason, Taizu Zu Xun: The side of the couch does not allow others to sleep soundly, it is the reason. The minister also thought of several reasons, such as the usurpation of the throne by the ministers of Dali, and the reason that the king did not pay tribute for several years---- and the minister thought that it was reluctant. ”

Zhao Xu looked up to the sky and laughed: "A good Zhao Liren, how can someone sleep soundly on the side of a good couch...... The reason why Zhang Qing thought. It's quite a spring and autumn style, very good! ”

Zhao Xu burst out with a long laugh.

Zeng Bu pointed to the newspaper again and asked, "Master Zhang." Sun Cong's chapter was first published in the newspaper, but before the others arrived, the chapter was not handed to the imperial court, how can this be said. ”

Zhang Yin's face was gloomy and he denied it: "Sun Cong's recital has arrived, and the true appearance has been received." ”

Zeng Bu was a peacemaker, he laughed and stopped insisting.

Originally, Zeng Bu wanted to remind Zhang. The newspaper published Sun Cong's recital in advance. This shows that Sun Congdi's recital was reviewed by Zhao Xing in advance...... When Sun Cong was still in Hangzhou, his recital had already been published in the newspaper---- but now Zhang has to say that the newspaper arrived at the same time as Sun Cong's recital. That's what Dezhang said.

On the fifteenth day of the lunar month, the imperial court officially announced the reason for the conquest of Dali: the ministers usurped the throne and did not pay tribute for several years.

Zhao Xing laughed happily when he saw this statement from the imperial court: "Haha, it's really good, in the Spring and Autumn Period, the countries attacked each other, and they fought under the banner of not paying tribute for several years, and now my Great Song Dynasty has also restored the domineering spirit of the Spring and Autumn Period." Okay, all the small countries in Nanyang have not paid tribute for several years, from now on, I want to fight which one to fight, and it is very beautiful! ”

Zhao Xing laughed and got carried away, Kasli held her big belly, kneading Zhao Xing's shoulders, and whispered softly: "Master, Edwin, a merchant has been asking to see him for many days, and if you are free today, you can meet him." ”

Zhao Xing was in a cheerful mood, waved his hand and replied: "Okay, then see ---- you are heavy, just rest, I'll talk to that fan." ”

Edwin, a white businessman with an aristocratic temperament in the Fan Ren Pavilion in Guangdong, also held the first issue of the Maritime News in his hand when he came in, and after greeting him with courtesy, he bowed down and asked, "Dear Zhao Xing, can I ask, has the second issue of your newspaper come out?" ”

When Zhao Xing heard the other party's title, he jumped up all of a sudden, he looked left and right, and carefully persuaded: "Honorary Edwin, you can't call me by that word, please change the way of calling me." ”

In the Middle Ages, there were three levels of honorific titles in the West: honorable, revered, and honored. Among them, "respectful" is used to address the king or duke, the word was originally born in the Roman Republican period, and after it was introduced to China, the Chinese people sometimes translated this word as "Your Majesty"; And "revered" is used to address the earl or governor, and the word translated in China is "Your Highness"; "Honorable" is used to refer to the viscount and the mayor, and in Chinese it translates to "Your Excellency". The viscount was called a local official or nobleman, and the word was originally translated as "foot". As for the common people, there is no honorific title, especially not to be called "sir".

Therefore, according to Western grammar, there will be no such thing as "respected Mr. so-and-so", because "respected" and "sir" are two different levels of honorific titles.

Although foreign words were introduced to China, they were rapidly weakened in a process. But in the Song Dynasty, Edwin suddenly used the word "respectful" to refer to Zhao Xing, which was extremely inconsistent with Western grammar. Fortunately, there were no other tongue people around, Zhao Xingyi insisted, and Edwin immediately changed to the honorific title of "revered", and asked tentatively: "Revered Zhao Xing, I am very eagerly looking forward to your next issue of the newspaper, and I am even more eager to visit Mr. Wuyou, who wrote this manuscript, and his brushstrokes make me feel the breath of my hometown."

It's just that I have a little doubt, revered Zhao Xing, haven't you always claimed to me that the news from the East and the West has been cut off, but how can he pass on what happened last month back to Guangzhou so quickly, and it is all extremely secret personal privacy issues...... I wonder what magic he used, can you introduce me to this amazing person? ”

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