Chapter 254: Shen Kuo whistleblower again

When the army entered Fujian, Zhao Xing looked very proud all the way. com hummed a song in his mouth, and flicked his horsewhip all the way. The accompanying soldiers of the Vermilion Bird Army felt Zhao Xing's happiness and knew that this former Huanqing pacification envoy had nothing to do, and occasionally squatted in their fields to chat with them about crops, so those soldiers also began to joke with Zhao Xing without scruples after Zhao Xing ordered a stroll and marched and could make noise.

"Daguanren, I heard that Hu Ji is going to give birth, okay, good, no wonder Daguan is so happy, I just don't know if Hu Ji is born, whether the eyes are blue or black, Daguanren, what color do you think it should be?"

"Go, go", a soldier reprimanded dissatisfiedly: "Is the Hu Ji Ke clan also what you can say?" The orchid Keshi taught the people to plant apple fruit and teach people to make wine when they were in Huanqing, and there were countless living people, and my family is still using the method taught by the Hakka family, and the days are getting more and more rushing, you dare to blaspheme the Hakka family, believe it or not, I beat you with a peach blossom on your face! ”

Zhao Xing shook his horsewhip and replied leisurely: "I don't care what color this child's eyes are...... Haha, my happiness, you don't understand! ”

"Why don't you understand, the big officials are scattered, and there are many grandchildren, that's a blessing! I don't understand anything else, the big officials are fighting in Huanqing, the casualties are the least, the capture is the largest, we can rest assured that we are fighting with the big officials, this is the blessing, the blessing of the big officials, there are countless people living all the way, we follow the big officials, and we are also a little blessed, this day is so happy! ”

"Hahahaha", Zhao Xing looked up to the sky and laughed.

Happiness is like this, a happiness is shared by many people, so it becomes many happiness.

Although the soldiers didn't know why Zhao Xing was happy, they were infected by Zhao Xing and unconsciously became happy, and then, this happiness was like a flu virus. It spread throughout the army. The happiness of the army was transmitted back, which made Zhao Xing more and more pleased.

Originally, Zhao Xing should not have personally dispatched troops to help suppress neighboring counties, but because Zhao Xing planned to hold Fujian Road hostage, he decided to go into battle shirtless. The messenger of Fujian Road did not know what was going on. I also feel flattered. And Zhao Xing's trick succeeded and enjoyed the compliments and flattery of others, and he couldn't help but steal fun, but he didn't expect the soldiers to misunderstand, and they all blessed Hu Ji's labor, which made Zhao Xingshen proud of his character, at this moment. He felt like he was truly part of the times. \\\\\

It was the best of times, and the beauty of this era was breathtaking.

In the same month, Zhang successfully built Pingxia City in Haoshuichuan.

Although the Tangut people harassed the city repeatedly, Zhang, a white-haired seventy-year-old man, still withstood the repeated attacks of the Tangut people with strong perseverance, and built the city in the throat of the Tangut people. Subsequently, the Song soldiers built forts one after another along the border. The Xia people wailed angrily over this: "Singing and having fun." were all occupied by the Han family, what should I do in the future. ”

After Zhang's success in building Pingxia City, his reputation rose to its peak, and the entire Song Dynasty talked about Zhang's exploits, and since then, the great victory of the Song Dynasty in the south has also become more eye-catching.

The original Guangxi Jinglu appeased Zhang Tian from the south, and returned to the capital after occupying Dali, and did things very low-key. So much so that his victory is often overlooked. And Zhangdi's successive victories reminded people of Zhao Xing, who originally cooperated with Zhang, so although Zhao Xing tried his best to keep a low profile, the people still called him and Zhang "Shao Sheng's second general, North Zhang and South Zhao".

Among them, the chapter is already seventy, and after the chapter, it will depend on Zhao Xing's coquettishness, and Zhao Xing's rise. It also means that there are successors to the military power of the Great Song Dynasty. This can't help but imagine more......

Fujian Lu originally thought that it would be the best plan to invite Shuai Fan under Zhao Xing's name to lead the troops to help suppress it. Now Zhao Xing is out in person. They were naturally overjoyed by this, and they didn't notice the sinister intentions behind Zhao Xing---- of course, maybe the Fujian officials still expected Zhao Xing's intentions to be unkind to them, because in the past few years, Zhao Xing hired as many as 30,000 sailors from Fujian, which made the lives of many landless and poor people in Fujian more comfortable.

And the officials under Zhao Xing's name are even more famous for their good welfare, high salary, and a lot of entertainment...... Even if Zhao Xing really didn't want to meddle in Fujian, maybe the Fujian officials wanted to sugar-coat the shells together, crying and shouting for Zhao Xing to accept them in order to enjoy the treatment of Guangnan. As for the Fujian transit envoy, at this time, he has been abandoned by Fujian officials.

The Fujian envoys curry favor along the road, followed the Guangnan army out of Fujian, and then the road became difficult, and the Fujian envoys had a clear understanding of the bottom of their hearts, and secretly sent several waves of people to rule Fujian officials to respond, and they tried their best to arrange the accommodation of the Guangnan army, and strive to make a good impression in front of Zhao Xing. Baidu: Look at the latest^^^^

Although the Guangdong musketeers are infantry, but each person is equipped with a horse, such an army mixed with infantry and horsemen, its marching route can only go along the water's edge, the mountain walls on both sides of Jiulong Water (Zhangshui) are sometimes steep, sometimes gentle, sometimes there is no road by the river, only steep cliffs, the team is up and down, Zhao Xing, who is accustomed to the official road, has been frowning, and the Fujian envoy smiled embarrassedly, and explained vigorously: "My lord, I am mountainous in Fujian, the road is the most difficult to repair, the soldiers have worked hard, the front is Longyan County, we can rest there for a while." ”

As the two were talking, a few figures stood up on the opposite cliff, they waved their knives and yelled here, the roar caused a burst of echoes between the mountains, the Fujian envoy squinted his eyes and looked at the few yelling people, shook his head, and explained to Zhao Xing: "This is the Drill Heaven Rats gang, this group of bandits roared in the mountains, the name of the drill sky, I didn't expect him to show up here." ”

Zhao Xingbi measured the riverbank and shook his head slightly. The river bank was too wide, and the artillery of this era was limited, and the shells could not reach such a distance. He turned his gaze to the artillery commander next to him, who shook his head slightly.

Advancing with the army was a three-pounder cannon, such a small cannon, coupled with the power of black powder in this era, there were mostly elements of cannon fire to scare people, Zhao Xing also knew this, he waved his hand and ordered the army to continue to advance. The Fujian envoy next to him was surprised, he sighed, and said with emotion: "Lord Zhao is really strict in governing the army, and there is no noise in this large group of people and horses. The croaking of the rats on the other side was so loud that there were no soldiers in the team who looked up. ”

It was a bit of an exaggeration for the Fujian envoy to say this, but Zhao Xing felt very useful for the disguised compliment of the envoy, and he was half proud. "My army has always been known for its strict military law, and when they train, they stand in the queue, and the overseers will keep throwing stones and even arrows at them. In the midst of this, if anyone speaks nonsense, or flees in fear, he will be severely punished.

Fortunately, these people are veterans of a hundred battles, so they have only been training for a few months, but there is no problem in terms of discipline...... That's right. We asked the soldiers to come here for actual shooting---- passed on the order: Today it is the turn of the first battalion to conduct actual shooting, let the soldiers of the first battalion start to load, regardless of whether they can reach the opposite shore or not, just let me fire the musket. ”

With Zhao Xing's order, after a while, a group of musketeers came to Zhao Xing's side, lined up in three horizontal formations, and spread out along the hillside echelon. \\\\\ waved with the commander's flag. They rushed to the opposite shore and neatly placed three platoons of guns.

The range of the muskets of this era was not far, but the loud explosion completely covered the shouts of the other side, and the aftermath of the guns curled up, causing a series of echoes in the mountains, like a thunderstorm in the typhoon season, and the people on the opposite side could not estimate the range of the muskets, because the speed of the bullet was so fast that the naked eye could not trace the bullet at all. When they saw the musketeers raising their guns and aiming here, they naturally thought that the muskets could indeed hit so far, but the soldiers were not skilled in shooting, so they did not hit them.

Frightened, the bandits on the other side quietly disappeared......

During the rotation of the musketeers, the team did not stop the march and continued to move forward silently. Wait for the gunfire to stop. Zhao Xing observed the effect. Shaking his head, he said regretfully, "Not good." Shooting is not neat and the frequency is too slow...... That's it, anyway, we still have time, order the soldiers to sing a military song, and we will sing it as we go, and enter Fujian. ”

The soldiers born in the Song Dynasty were inevitably contaminated with a little habit of pursuing elegance, and when they heard Zhao Xing's suggestion, they applauded, causing the birds in the mountains to fly in shock, and then, the soldiers sang hoarsely: "Playing Jiehuai,

LE Gong Yanshi,

Preaching triumph.

Zhenggui class jade shoots,

Flower robe square unloading,

Colorful clothes are urgent,

Loyalty and filial piety.

Qingde Dugao,

Imperial Heart Brief Note,

Yan Yu Ning Xiang Zhu Liang.

Wang asked,

Record the surname of the screen,

Fun to Jin Luan. ”

The loud singing made the startled birds hover. Gracefully Song Jun song let the Shaanxi people sing in a procrastinated tone, Zhao Xing couldn't help but roar Su Shi's "go to the east of the big river", this song ushered in a response, the song in the middle of the Guangnan army passed Longyan, Zhao Xing stopped in a gentle place, turned his head and asked the Fujian envoy: "Among the thousands of mountains, this is the flattest." What's the name of this place? ”

The Fujian envoy hurriedly replied: "This place is nameless, it was originally under the jurisdiction of Longyan County, there are seven villages nearby, all of them are the Three Kingdoms era, in order to avoid the disaster of war from the people who moved from the Heluo area, the language they speak is simple and difficult to understand, and people call it Heluo language. *****”

Zhao Xing nodded: "This should be Zhangping." I heard that the area around Heluo (Henan) is the birthplace of Chinese civilization, but later, the real Chinese people no longer exist in Heluo, they all fled to the south during the Three Kingdoms era, that is, the white-clothed crossing of the river recorded in the history of the Jin Dynasty, right? Those people are really Henan people, and the language they speak is the most primitive language of the Chinese Xianming, but unfortunately, the people who still live in the Heluo area do not understand their language, and I know that some of them have changed their surnames to pretend to be Han Chinese. ”

"Heluo language" is not one of the national languages in modern times, and they are called one of the "Hakka dialects" in modern times, and the so-called "Hakka" refers to the pure-bred Chinese people who live in the south of the Yangtze River to avoid the scourge of war. Modern genetic research believes that the Diyanhuang gene in their bodies is the purest. But unfortunately, in the Song Dynasty, no one understands the pure Yanhuang language.

Zhao Xing shook his head, as if he was going to shake something away, and he asked the Fujian envoy again: "What is the place around here?" ”

The Fujian envoy replied: "There is Qingyang Iron Field near the left. ”

Zhao Xing nodded: "This is a good place to raise soldiers, located in the middle of a thousand mountains, the climate is suitable, there is an iron yard nearby, Jiulong water leads directly to the sea, if you build a few dams, build a few iron casting yards, there are soldiers and guns, you are not afraid of anything." ”

The Fujian envoy looked embarrassed, and he asked Guangdong to send troops to defend the city of Fuzhou. As long as Fuzhou City is not harassed by bandits, the Fujian transit envoy will not care about the rebirth of bandits elsewhere. But Zhao Xing only thought about where to hide the soldiers.

After swallowing a few mouthfuls of spit, the Fujian envoy said with a smile: "Although the terrain here is flat and the water source is abundant, it is in the deep mountains. The traffic is inconvenient, in case there is something outside, I am afraid that the response will not be able to ...... for a while"

What Zhao Xing said is the truth, in this place of Zhangping, the Heluo people who lived in seclusion escaped the subsequent massacre of the Jin, Mongols, and Manchus, and have been living freely until modern times. In troubled times, this place is a good place to survive, but it is obviously not suitable for development, because Zhangping in the mountains is really inconvenient to communicate with the outside world. ===And if civilization wants to develop, it lies in communication, in receiving a lot of information.

At noon, after accepting the hospitality of Heluo Qizhai, Zhao Xing walked out of the village in confusion. While standing on the side of the road watching the soldiers march. While asking the Fujian envoys: "What did they say?" Do you understand? ”

The Fujian envoy shook his head and replied: "Lord Zhao, Fujian Sanli has different pronunciations, there are no less than a thousand dialects in this place, how can the lower officials know all of them, but this group of Fujian people must understand our words, and that's it." ”

There was a pause. The Fujian envoy said with emotion: "It is said that the lord governs the army strictly, but when I saw it today, it was true. The official army marched and was levied for civilian service, and there was never any need to pay for it, but only to say it to the magistrate, and then deduct it from the conscription. But the soldiers of the adults went all the way. But they have to pay according to the price, and they pay good money in Guangdong...... In fact. Adults are paid for labor at Cantonese prices. Adults don't know that good money in Guangdong is worth more in my Fujian, and one piece is exchanged for five to seven Fujian iron coins. However, my Fujian land is small and there are many people, and the price of labor is low, so adults don't have to pay so much. ”

In the Song Dynasty, the reputation of the Fujian people was not good, and Lu Huiqing, the "Fujian" and his comrades, had already made the reputation of the Fujian people stinky among the gentry, and many literati in the Song Dynasty recorded the habit of the Fujian people who liked to drill into the void. For example, seeing that copper is expensive and copper money is cheap, many Fujian people melt copper coins and cast them into bronze ware, so as to "get five times the profit".

After Zhao Xing arrived in Guangdong, he also found that a large number of copper coins in Guangzhou flowed to Fujian every year, and then precipitated and no longer circulated, so that the phenomenon of money shortage in Fujian has not been solved. For this reason, Zhao Xing had to increase the supply of copper coins to Fujian, and at the same time transferred a large number of copper coins from overseas to ease the price of copper, a phenomenon that was not resolved until he took Dali in Yunnan. The Song Dynasty possessed the Dali copper mines, which were mined by a new industry, which more than tripled the inflow of copper ingots in Guangdong, after which the price of Fujian copper gradually fell and began to return to rational value.

Fujian is also a very rampant cost of the region, many Song people in their own notes to talk about the Fujian people will be the court money after the re-melting, mixed with a large amount of lead, another mint counterfeit coin, this kind of money because of a large amount of lead, the color is white, so it is called "white money". Compared with "white money", the copper coins minted in Guangdong are generally used as five or six Fujian "white coins" because of their high copper content, exquisite casting, and clear money. And Zhao Xing just accepted the hospitality of Heluo Qizhai, and actually used Guangdong money to buy food and water in the village, and paid according to the price of "white money", presumably he went out with his front foot, and his back foot has been laughed at by the people in the village as a fool.

But who is more stupid?

Zhao Xing is here to buy people's hearts, his purpose is to control the whole of Fujian, if money can do things, without blood and sweat, he would rather the other party offer a higher price.

The Fujian envoy sighed there, and Zhao Xing had a smile on the corner of his mouth, standing faintly on the side of the road, witnessing his army marching in streams.

The Cantonese army marched all the way to the town of Shuikou. This is the upper reaches of the Min River, and down the river is Fuzhou, when Zhao Xing arrived at Shuikou Town, the Guangdong Second Fleet escorted the ground marines also arrived in Fuzhou. The army that arrived at the same time on both roads immediately gave the Fujian Road transit envoy full confidence, and he looked around with red eyes: "Where are the bandits, where are those bandits?" Why didn't they come to attack my Fuzhou? ”

This sentence is probably the last language of the Fujian transit envoy in office. Immediately, the Fujian gentry and the imperial court envoys jointly impeached the former Fujian transfer envoys for arson and rebellion, and the response was unprepared...... The transshipment envoy stepped down in disgrace, and his successor was the result of a compromise between Zhao Xing and the local squires in Fujian.

Fujian is mountainous, it is impossible to search every cave and every stone, Zhao Xing did not plan to do so, his army came by land, all the way with empty guns, all the way to sprinkle money, and when he crossed half of Fujian to Shuikou Town, the road he walked, those bandits miraculously disappeared, and the rest were all "good people".

The grateful new Fujian transfer envoy was ready to come to Shuikou Town to express his gratitude, but Zhao Xing had already set off to rush back to Guangdong---- and on Zhao Xing's way to Fujian, he just missed the Jiaozhi country's thanks. The envoy of Jiaozhi was led by Chen Gongchuan, who saw Su Shi, Huang Tingjian and others in Zhao Xing's mansion, and immediately forgot what his surname was, and hurriedly transferred the position of the envoy to his deputy envoy, who led the team to continue to Bianliang, and he stayed behind Su Shi, like a puppy wagging his tail.

However, the matter of Jiaozhi was not the reason why Zhao Xing hurriedly went back.

This month, the imperial court set up a special agency to rehabilitate officials who had been demoted during the Yuan Youshi period and at the same time crack down on anti-reform officials, and as many as 80 officials were reliquidated that year. The New Party decided that all officials who had been demoted during the first year, regardless of the reason for the derogation, would be rehabilitated and entrusted with important tasks. At this time, Shen Kuo, who was in Hong Kong, heard the news, couldn't bear the loneliness, and began to act secretly.

Shen Kuo is very knowledgeable, when he was teaching students, he also recruited a few children who admired him, although Zhao Xing was strictly monitored, Shen Kuo still used the students to deliver a few letters. However, Shen Kuo had also been in Guangzhou for a long time, and knew that Guangdong was controlled by Zhao Xing, so he did not dare to deliver his letter to Wang Ying and Wen Xun, and directly delivered it to Hangzhou by sea, intending to forward the seal through Hangzhou officials.

But Shen Kuo didn't expect that Zhao Xing's control of Hangzhou was stricter, although the chief officials of Hangzhou were appointed by the imperial court, all the small officials were from his subordinates, and many of the officials were still the troops recruited by him and Su Shi when they were in Hangzhou.

Shen Kuo's letter was directly intercepted by the little official, and the little official sent the letter to Guangzhou, and Wan Qianyong, who stayed in Guangzhou, was shocked and immediately sent a letter to Zhao Xing, asking Zhao Xing to go back and deal with it personally. As a result, Zhao Xing had to turn back halfway. However, the purpose of his visit to Fujian has basically been achieved, and it is better if he is not present for the rest of his hands and feet.

Shen Kuo knows too many secrets, and all of Zhao Xing's mechanical inventions are handled by Shen Kuo. Not only that, Shen Kuo also knew the secret of Zhao Xing's gunpowder formula, which made Zhao Xing anxious when he rushed back to Guangzhou, because he didn't know how many letters Shen Kuo had sent, and he didn't know how many people had been bewitched by Shen Kuo.

"It seems that I still have a soft heart", Zhao Xing rushed back to the mansion in Guangzhou, and confided in Wan Qianyong: "When Mr. Mengxi was with me, he wanted to commit suicide by throwing himself into the water several times, if it wasn't for me, it is estimated that he would have died of depression, and now he is alive and kicking, and he still has the ability to do things behind his back...... What am I going to do? ”

Wan Qiyong said with a smile: "My subordinates have two strategies for adults to choose, one is a little slow, and the other is a little urgent, but there will be no big problem when these two strategies are used."

Adults know that Mr. Mengxi has a withdrawn personality, and his illness has not been completely cured, as long as the adults replace all the people around him, and then use words to provoke, hitting Mr. Mengxi's self-confidence, it is estimated that he will relapse from his old illness--- Mr. Mengxi has a history of committing suicide by throwing himself into the water three times, and it is estimated that if he throws himself into the water again, people will not blame the adults. The second strategy of the subordinates is aimed at Mr. Mengxi's illness, as long as Mr. Mengxi throws into the water, it will be a hundred. ”

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