The construction of Jiaoxi City is not that Jingjiao is doing things for Zhao Xing, on the contrary, it is Zhao Xing who takes care of Jingjiao, because Zhao Xing can find anyone to complete the construction.

An Sida accepted this favor and naturally wanted to ask about Zhao Xing's reserve price.

"I don't think you can do anything for me, as far as I know, you entered the Central Plains during the Jin Dynasty and have been isolated from all religions for nearly a thousand years, I have always believed that if civilization wants to develop, it must communicate - the flowing river can be fresh and lively, and a lump of stagnant water will only give out the stench of decay, but you have not had a living water flowing in for nearly a thousand years, what can you do? Of course, if you don't do anything, I think it's time for the demise of Nestorianism. ”

Ansida looked at the surrounding scene and said in confusion: "The time of destruction has come, yes, I have heard its footsteps, how can we redeem the fate of destruction?" ”

Nestorianism was once glorious in the Tang Dynasty, and several emperors in the Tang Dynasty believed in Nestorianism, but then, the spread of Nestorianism in a backwater became smaller and smaller, and in the Song Dynasty, it was limited to Quanzhou and Bianliang.

Zhao Xing seems to remember that after the Song Dynasty, there have been no rumors of Nestorian religion in history, he does not know, he does not know, in normal history, there is a Mongol who believes in Nestorian religion after the death of Genghis Khan, rebellion, in order to retaliate, the victorious Mongols slaughtered all Nestorian people, burned churches and religious texts, they did it so thoroughly, that the history of Nestorian religion in China is shrouded in a fog...... At present, the Nestorian personnel have felt that their situation is becoming more and more difficult, and the scope of their activities is becoming more and more narrow. As a result, several careerists in the church gathered together to discuss reaching out and trying to change their tentacles. In real history, the deputy chief priest An Sida led the local people all the way into the Western Regions before taking root in the Shaanxi and Gansu regions. But now, thanks to Zhao Xing's intervention, history has changed.

Nestorianism is now curled up in Quanzhou, which was a very special existence in the Song Dynasty, because there were too many feudal merchants living there. The local government took a flexible approach to governing the city. Successive officials allowed some wealthy merchants to hire a large number of foreigners to engage in foreign trade, so that later, the Arab giants rose up and controlled all the affairs of Quanzhou. It became a feudal government similar to a "country within a country".

The most powerful in Quanzhou City were Arab merchants, who were rich and naturally willing to spend more money for their beliefs, among which the wealthy merchant Pu Yi'an was the representative. An Sida and the others vaguely heard that this big wealthy merchant had recently contacted a mysterious Song merchant, and gradually expanded his influence to the upper part of the Wa Kingdom and the lower part of Jiaozhi. Ansida heard again: since last year. With the family's most powerful disciples, Pu Yi'an moved to Tamna Island with the support of the Song merchant and began to run "his own country" with all his might. The people of Jingjiao also wanted to find the support of this Song merchant. After several inquiries, Zhao Xing's existence appeared.

The people around Zhao Xing are very mixed, and there are people of all faiths, which makes the Nestorian people feel a sense of hope in their hearts, hoping to get a piece of the pie. But what they didn't expect was that Zhao Xing didn't listen to their incendiary speeches from beginning to end, and automatically promised them a city for them to preach. This gives them hope. Leaving another huge cliffhanger.

What exactly does the other person need?

Look at each other's clear eyes. An Sida felt that he couldn't say anything, he really couldn't make empty promises to the other party. After a moment of silence, he suddenly thought of Zhao Xing's hint, and suddenly rejoiced in his heart: "Change, he is talking about change." We are fellow travelers, and we all want to change the world! ”

"I'll go back to Quanzhou", An Sida said categorically: "Since this city is won by me, it should be me the main sacrifice, I went back and asked to be transferred to Mizhou to serve as a sacrificial wine, just to ask Lord Zhao for advice every day." ”

Zhao Xing smiled silently and stretched out his hand to shake the other party......

After sending An Sida away, Zhao Xing returned home and asked his father-in-law: "Lord Yue, how did you meet this master?" ”

Cheng Laoqi faced this son-in-law and didn't dare to hide it, he immediately confessed to the two of them knowing each other - the ancients have always adhered to the teachings of the master for faith, and would rather believe in it than believe in it. Or the attitude of "respecting ghosts and gods and staying away". This An Sida followed Zhao Xing's fleet to Hangzhou Manor, did enough investigation in advance, and then talked to Cheng Laoqi, Cheng Laoqi saw the other party's profound appearance, did not dare to offend, heard that the other party was going to visit his son-in-law, just when he also received the news of his daughter's pregnancy, he took An Sida to Mizhou, and the monk Buddha Yin temporarily joined the place after hearing the news.

After Cheng Laoqi finished the introduction, Zhao Xing deduced the truth from the other party's words, and the father-in-law took out a few gold and silver jewelry, necklace padlocks, and a pair of lotus crosses from his body, and said with a sigh: "This master has profound mana, and he has exerted * force on this necklace, saying that the child can drive away ghosts when he wears it, and Sister Zhu can keep her mother and child safe, brother-in-law, I have never dared to give this artifact to Azhu, you are well-informed, take a look, this thing may be worn?" ”

Zhao Xing laughed: "No problem, go get it to Azhu." ”

Cheng Lao didn't move, and added with a snort: "Brother-in-law, the Xiao family brothers came back a month ago, brought a hundred and ten people, and lived in the house in the fort, I heard that you let him live in it, is there such a thing?" ”

Zhao Xing nodded: "There is something involved in his brothers, I will let them go abroad to avoid it, and then go back to Hangzhou Manor, and after a while, let them leave from Hangzhou Manor to Mizhou." ”

Cheng Laoqi already regarded Hangzhou Manor as his home, and hundreds of Xiao brothers lived in it, which made him feel a little uncomfortable, and when he heard that they were just borrowing an apartment, he breathed a sigh of relief, and went to find Cheng Azhu while chattering. Zhao Xing looked at the back of his father-in-law, put his hands behind his back, slowly raised his head, looked up at the sky, and said to himself in his heart: "What should I do to break the inertia of history?" Aren't the seeds of change enough? I hope ......"

After thinking for a while, Zhao Xing walked back to the study slowly, picked up the pen to record some of his inspirations just now......

The busiest thing for Song Dynasty officials every year was spring plowing and autumn harvest. After the spring ploughing and autumn harvest, the rhythm of life is leisurely.

In this era, officials take more than 100 days off a year. On average, every two days of work gets a day off. After the spring ploughing is busy, the first thing you will encounter is a small long holiday - the Cold Food Festival, which is the time to extinguish the old fire and light the new fire......

In ancient times, there were no matches, and it was very troublesome to light a fire, so once the fire in the ancients' homes was lit, it must not be extinguished for the whole year, and it was not replaced with a new fire until the day of the Cold Food Festival, which is the origin of the Cold Food Festival. But after Zhao Xing appeared in the Song Dynasty match-law candle, he often drew matches to light new fires.

But. Song Dynasty candles belong to sulfur matches, which are both expensive and extremely unsafe. As a Zippo hobby, Zhao Xing knows some of the principles of flint, and he remembers that its main components are some rare earth elements. It is fused with metals such as lead and tin to become a high-quality flint, and rare earth elements in the Song Dynasty are called "monazite", Fujian and Hubei produce a lot, and it is also a flint component often used in ancient fire sickles.

Now, Zhao Xing is idle. I want to "brighten" the new fire sickle before the Winter Food Festival. So, in the interval between the banquets that were ushered in, he gathered a group of craftsmen from the capital courtyard. began to intermittently "develop" Song Dynasty lighters......

After leaving the capital. Zhao Xing ordered the villagers to collect the "monazite stone", he asked the craftsmen to crush the monazite stone, rinse it repeatedly with acid and alkali, and the remaining precipitate that is neither soluble in acid nor intolerant to alkali is burned to remove the ash, and then mixed together with lead and tin, it becomes a new type of fire sickle.

Take it one step further. He had some more military oil for the fire - not long after. More stupid and stupid than modern lighters, the Song Dynasty lighter was born. It was then handed over to craftsmen to continue their research and produce more elaborate samples. From the most common fire sickle to kettle shapes, animal shapes, and more......

Time is like flowing water, and in the blink of an eye, the Cold Food Festival has arrived, and Zhao Xing has this advanced fire-making tool, and the stove fire at home no longer needs to be carefully kept, even if it is accidentally extinguished occasionally, just knock out a new fire again, so the Cold Food Festival has no meaning for him.

What else could the ancients do on the day of the Cold Food Festival? It seems that the Cold Food Festival is also one of the four "national gambling days" in the Song Dynasty, but except for Liao Xiaoxiao, who has a strong gambling nature, no one else has much gambling*. This also made the family a little idle in the days when others were busy replacing the new fire.

Bored Zhao Xing didn't know how to spend this three-day long vacation without TV and mahjong poker.

The main peak of Jiuxian Mountain is 697 meters above sea level, with an area of 55 square kilometers, it is the largest mountain group in Shandong Linhai, there is the famous "Sun Bin Academy" on the mountain, legend has it that Sun Bin succeeded in retreating, he chose to open a academy in this mountain to teach students. This beautiful mountain peak is Su Shi's favorite place to visit when he was the governor of Mizhou, and he once praised this mountain with "strange show does not reduce the wild goose".

In the Song Dynasty, the academy of the Warring States period no longer teaches the art of war, and has become a small abandoned courtyard similar to a temple, and the guardians in the courtyard are dressed without monks and morals, making people confused about their identities. Originally, this small temple should have been abandoned, but the endless stream of pilgrimages made it barely maintain, but it was barely maintained.

The small temple is already very dilapidated, the thatched hut is leaking rain, there is no statue in the main hall, but a portrait of Sun Bin is painted on the wall, and some battle scenes of the Warring States period are painted on the walls on both sides...... However, in Zhao Xing's view, the techniques of these paintings seem to be the products of the five dynasties, far from reaching the Warring States period.

Under the big tree of Sun Bin Academy, the civil officials gathered together and felt nostalgic while drinking tea, but the only people who were willing to pay homage to Sun Bin were Zhao Xing, Yuan Yeping and Zhang Yong. Deng Yufu and Lin Ji, as well as the adjutant of Jiaoxi County, would rather enjoy the shade under the trees.

After rewarding the guardian of Sun Bin Temple, Zhao Xing and Zhang Yong walked into the courtyard, Yuan Yeping was still muttering prayers in the temple, and sat on a straw mat, maintaining his portable sword, he seemed to show his sword to the ancient god of war, and his movements were straightforward, as if Sun Bin was really sitting in front of him.

Out of the small temple, Zhao Xing and Zhang Yong had no interest in going to frolic with the civil officials, Zhao Xing with a thoughtful look, asked a question that he had always had in his heart: "I heard that in ancient times, there was a saying that there were generals and generals, and in the Tang Dynasty, there were still people who said that they would be generals and be phased, so it can be seen that generals and phases are two training methods...... Have you heard of Yang Wenguang? How is the Yang family now? ”

Zhang Yongyi clapped his hands: "You asked me this, it is right." My ancestor Zhang Tinghan was the founding general, and he was the third government in charge of the army for two generations...... Well. That's what you call the gate. My family is not as good as the Cao family and the Shi family, but it also lasts for several generations. At the time of Shenzong, my family also had Taizu Zhang Zhaoyuan as the envoy of the Yang family, and when it came to Yang Wenguang's generation, it was also three generations of generals, but it was a pity that their descendants abandoned martial arts and followed literature. I heard that the child of their generation is named Yang Zuren, who entered Beijing three or four years ago to take the imperial examination, and also came to visit my family. ”

Zhao Xing nodded and said casually: "The imperial court newspaper said that Yang Zuren is the new general judge of Hangzhou. It just so happens to be a general judge in my house...... It's a pity that his ancestor Yang is invincible in martial arts, and his descendants have abandoned ......"

Zhang Yong snorted and laughed: "Yang Wudi, this name is interesting...... You mean Yang Ye. He is also called Yang Invincible, ridiculous! Who gave him this name? ”

Zhao Xing raised his face in surprise: "Didn't you say that he won all battles against the Khitan......"

"Don't be funny! He fought with the Khitan more than 100 times, and every battle was defeated, and once he lay down in the pile of corpses under the city and pretended to be dead, and it was only by the people on the city wall who threw down the ropes that he was saved from death. This man has fought with my Great Song army more than 30 times. There was no victory, and the victory in his life was achieved after he took refuge in my Great Song Dynasty, and that time he beheaded the Khitan horse. But in the next battle, he gave his own life. However, he was captured and did not give in, and died without eating, which made people admire his integrity. The imperial court greatly commended his family for this, and it can be regarded as a shadow and a child......"

I understand, it turns out that the ancestor of the Yang family has fought a hundred battles in his life, and the first ninety-eight times were all defeated. Ninety-ninth victory. The hundredth time he was still defeated, and that time he gave his life.

How can such a person be Yang Invincible? Who said he was nicknamed Yang Invincible?

"Tianbo...... I heard that his family is in Bianliangdi's mansion, which is very magnificent. What is Tianbo Mansion called, it was renovated by Yang Ye's family temple, is there such a thing? Zhao Xing asked unrelentingly.

Zhang Yong was puzzled: "Family temple? That's not true! The custom of establishing a family temple seems to be the custom of the Tang people, but it was not popular at the beginning of the establishment of our Emperor Song Dynasty. It was only after His Majesty Shenzong issued an edict and the children of quasi-meritorious men established a family temple that there was a family temple, but His Majesty Shenzong could not go to the place where Yang Ye was alive to issue an edict, so the Yang family must have a family temple, which must have been built later.

But how could Yang Ye build a mansion in Bianliang, he died in battle with the Liao people when he was in charge of Zhidai Prefecture, he didn't fight on the front line, what mansion did he build in Bianliang? His son also did not serve in Bianliang, his younger brother was in Taiyuan, and his grandson was not in the capital—it was impossible for his family to build a mansion in Bianliang.

I remember that Yang Wenguang's son Yang Tan was born in the imperial examination, and once led the army to fight a battle, in the fourth year of Huangyou, Guangxi rebelled, Yang Tan was still mourning at home, Yang Wenguang had just passed away at that time, Fan Zhongyan and Wen Guang were kind, and recommended Yang Tan to be rehabilitated. But Yang Jin's guy has a bit of a problem, he can't walk steadily when he is dozens of years old, leading the army into Guangxi, he can't hold down the army, he walked into the ditch carelessly, and fell on a big rock - fortunately, there was thick grass on the stone, and he didn't fall to death.

Afterwards, the court accused him of not being able to subdue his soldiers, and he was degraded by defeat, and he would never be used again. But Fan Zhongyan tried his best to exonerate him, and the court only derogated him. Soon, Yang Zheng died of depression, and his mother took Yang Zuren to live in Hangzhou......"

Zhang Yong said that Yang Jin's walking is a bit of a problem, if it is described in modern language, it is: the fourth generation of Yang family's descendant Yang Jin's cerebellum is not reached, and even almost crippled cerebellum, and he has no sense of direction and balance when he walks.

But who is Yang Jin, he was born in the imperial examination, and through the relationship between the master, the protégé, the same year, and his colleagues, he established close friendships with the Song court's scholars, and the relationship between the Yang generals and the military ministers, so that he has a very extensive communication network. It doesn't matter if his great-grandfather is defeated in a hundred battles, the ministers will create a nickname for his great-grandfather, called "Yang Invincible". It doesn't matter if he himself is brain-dead, but the literati will portray this brain-dead as "the first master of the Great Song Dynasty", no one is as good as him in martial arts, and if he is more powerful than him, he will be written as not as good as him.

However, the Great Song Dynasty Jiangmen was much more prominent than Yang Ye, for example, Zhang Yong in front of him, his family background was more prominent than Yang Men, but they were not familiar with the literati, and the literati disdained to portray them as glorious and tall.

The truth of history is full of humor.

Fortunately, Zhang Yong also knows Zhao Xing, a literati! Zhao Xing's eyes rolled, and he had already decided to take out the "Zhangmen Female General" to disgust history, and he cheerfully suggested: "Now that the forbidden army is training the Rainstorm Pear Flower Gun, why don't I say that this Pear Flower Marksmanship is Zhang's secret tradition, and it will be called Zhang's Pear Flower Gun in the future, what do you think?" ”

Zhang Yong squinted his eyes, shook his head and replied: "Recently, I have been pondering what happened to the Ordnance Supervisor to send such an important matter to Mizhou to do...... I watched this matter carefully, Zhang's pear flower gun, although the name is good, but who knows how much water there is

Zhao Xing looked left and right, and said in a low voice: "Zhang Shuxiang once told me that there is a deeper inside story in the weapons supervision case, and they not only involve corruption, but also involve theft and sale - stealing and selling weapons to enemy countries. ”

Zhang Yong shuddered: "That's it, the water is too deep, it's better for us not to know anything." ”

Zhang Yong actually got through Zheng Banqiao's rare confusion without a teacher, which made Zhao Xing feel slightly surprised, he paused for a moment, feeling that it was best to accept Zhang Didi's suggestion, quickly put aside this topic, and turned his face to beckon Lin Ji and Deng Yufu to go up the mountain together.

There are also female dependents of all families in the mountains together, and the female dependents burn incense in the temple, and the group walks very slowly. Especially Cheng Azhu, who has just become pregnant, naturally thanks to the blessing of the Buddha, and even gave charity when she saw the Buddha statue, making the trip slow and slow.

On the last day of the holiday, the officials walked down the Wulian Mountain with satisfaction under the gift of the monks, and the female dependents had a lot of blessing charms, and the officials had more jade pendants sent by the monks, which were said to have been enshrined in front of the Buddha, and were deeply spiritual, so that the cost of a copper plate required the officials to spend a thousand copper plates to buy it......

The officials swayed all the way back to the county seat, and each parted and returned to the house, Zhao Xingcai entered the mansion, and the servant came to report: "Dalang, there is another group of people in Hangzhou, saying that it is your relatives and relatives who are waiting in the house, do you see you first, or see you after dinner." ”

Zhao Xing nodded and replied, "It's the Xiao brothers, I guess they should also arrive, invite them to come, I just have something to order." ”

After a while, Xiao Feng walked into the living room respectfully with his brother, he first solemnly kowtowed to Zhao Xing, thanked Zhao Xing for taking care of his relatives, and then asked carefully: "Master, is the matter of Jinzhou over, we received a letter from the official and rushed to come immediately, and now that we have appeared, is it okay?" ”