Zhao Xing: They are talking about "doing it immediately", but in fact it is impossible for them to complete the work of dispatching troops immediately. Because there is a rainy season problem in the tropics.

Even if Zhao Xing and the others immediately issued orders, and when they had dispatched their troops, prepared materials and ordnance, and arranged preparations for attack, the rainy season had arrived. Under these ancient conditions of marching, the task of marching and fighting could not be completed during the long rainy season. The Vietnam War of the United States was a loss in the rainy season, and the modern American army was still like this in the 20th century, and in the Song Dynasty, it was impossible to achieve the rainy season offensive.

After Zhao Xing and Shuai Fan discussed properly, a huge literary and artistic team was immediately sent to Dali, nominally they will arrive at Shanyan Mansion on Zhengdan, participate in the unveiling ceremony of the bell tower of the Song Chamber of Commerce in Shanxian Mansion, and then take advantage of the joy of the first month to carry out a parade around Dali, and everywhere they go, they will show the rhythm of Dali culture to the people of Dali......

This literary and artistic team was personally led by Liao Xiaoxiao, and set off the next day, and on the night of leaving, Zhao Xingsu was in Liao Xiaoxiao's place, not to mention how he planned conspiracies and tricks in Liao Xiaoxiao's small room, and said that Wang Ying and Dong Bi, the two inspectors made Zhao Xing's Guangzhou mansion slip out of the gray, Wang Ying rolled her eyes up, stood at the door for a long time, Dong Bi did not leave, just stood at the door to enjoy the street scene of Guangzhou.

Since Li Gefei took office, Zhao Xing has begun to reorganize the streets of Guangzhou, widening each street into a cement avenue that can accommodate four horse-drawn carriages running side by side, and adding pedestrian auxiliary roads along the main roads. After the new road was repaired, the biggest change was the change of transportation, the original streets of Guangzhou were mostly walking, occasionally some sedan chairs, but now, the wheel has become the main means of transportation.

Most of the wealthy local families preferred to buy a four-wheeled light carriage, either to drive it themselves or to hire a coachman to help drive it. And even the sedan chair is now installed on the wheel, and a one-wheeled sedan chair is now popular on the streets of Guangzhou. The palanquin is shaped like a modern circus stunt wheelbarrow, with a seat on top and two sedan rails passing under the seat. It doesn't take much effort for the sedan bearers to carry it. As long as two people in front of the other are in control. You can push the wheelbarrow sedan car and run fast.

The two visiting envoys stood in front of Zhao Xingdi's mansion, and the sound of wheels sounded in their ears, and the carriages and wheelbarrows passed by from time to time, and the sleeves of the people on the wheels fluttered. In front of the two envoys was a busy scene, which further dented the idleness of the two officials.

Dong Bi was stunned for a while, and when he saw that Wang Ying was still stunned, he sighed and said, "Brother Wang." I was wrong that day. I didn't know that Zhao Anfu actually used his home as the official mansion and made us call the door...... Alas, that's all there is to it, to tell you, I almost didn't come out of Hainan alive today......"

Dong Bi nagged about his thrilling experience in Hainan, Wang Ying rolled her eyes and listened for a long time, then suddenly interrupted him and interjected: "Brother Dong is so unrighteous that he ran away by himself if something happened...... That's it. You remember last year, Lu Huiqing covered up defeat and turned into victory. Instead, he was promoted to a knighthood, right? ”

Dong Bi replied: "Of course I remember, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty are all talking. The Western Xia people captured our Jinming Village, why did Lu Huiqing still take credit and report it to the imperial court? At that time, you were still saying: Is Lu Huiqing a Western Xia or a Song person? He reported his merits to our court, and in the end regarded our court as the court of the Great Song Dynasty or the court of Western Xia. ”

Wang Ying replied sullenly: "But Zhang Xianggong admits that Lu Huiqing has meritorious.

Dong Bi sighed and said: "Yes, I heard that the official family heard Zhang Xianggong's decision, and they are also saying: Zhang Qing takes care of Lu Huiqing too much. ”

Wang Ying rolled her eyes: "You say, does Zhang Xianggong take care of Zhao Liren?" ”

Dong Bi choked and hesitated for a long time, he replied: "It seems that ......, Zhang Xianggong's affection for Zhao Liren is greater than that of Lu Huiqing." Putting aside others to take care of Su Laozi so much, Zhang Xianggong would have turned his face a long time ago, but he turned a blind eye to Zhao Liren - without him, Zhao Liren was good at making money.

Now, disasters have been going on in various places, the imperial treasury is empty, and Chang Pingsi has bottomed out, Zhang Xianggong has to rely on Zhao Liren's money to save the emergency, and he has to rely on the grain from the Guangdong Tunken to save the emergency...... Lu Huiqing lost a Jinming village, and Zhang Xianggong was able to cover up the defeat into victory...... Zhao Liren raised troops to destroy a country without authorization, and Zhang Xianggong once punished him with half a sentence - wasn't he also promoted. ”

Wang Ying nodded, and said as she walked: "Wen Xun is upright, he can't be coaxed with a little money, but he has to get by now...... I have figured it out these days, Wen Xun is not not worried about state affairs, it is really useless to say it, no matter how he says bad things about Zhao Liren, the court will treat him as a fart. Guangnan can only raise more than 1,000 troops in one place, and the southern soldiers are unbearable, will the imperial court be afraid of Zhao Li's rebellion? Now that he is conquering everywhere, the more enemies he makes in the South Seas, the more afraid the court is, as long as the court receives money, it doesn't matter who he destroys. ”

When Wang Ying said this, she glanced at Dong Bi again and added, "...... Of course, the life and death of you and me, the court is also treated as a fart. ”

When Dong Bi heard this, he only felt a cold breath from the tail vertebrae to his neck, and it poured into his mind in an instant, he blinked his eyes, and said with palpitations: "I see, it turns out that you and I are here to die in Guangnan." As long as we offend Zhao Liren and fulfill Zhang Xianggong's wish, that adult may treat us as favors and send Zhao Liren to punish them, so as to reduce Zhao Laohu's anger. ”

Wang Ying nodded: "I've been thinking about why Wenxun is so lazy these days. I figured it out a few days ago - Zhao Liren is ruthless, and he would rather put us on the bright side, trembling and living like a year, than deal with a new visiting envoy. So we are still alive - life is better than death, life is better than death, life is convincing, life is alive, we live every day we must please the tiger, or he will turn our hands and die without a place to bury......"

When Wang Ying said this, she pointed in the direction of the sea. Dong Bi has a deep understanding of this, and that thrilling experience has already made him know that Zhao Xing wants to let someone sink to the bottom of the sea, that is a matter of eyes, as long as he expresses his dissatisfaction with the two visiting envoys slightly, there will be a large group of people panting and sticking out their tongues to rush at them, lest they will be too late to please the tiger.

Dong Bi looked up to the sky and sighed: "That's it, there is wine today and drunk today...... Brother Wang heard that there is a lot of money in Guangdong, and I haven't received much money in Guangxi, so I will come to your land today and eat yours! Say, where are we going to get drunk today? ”

Wang Ying sighed: "It's the same end of the world...... That's it. Originally, I thought that Lingnan was terrible because of miasma, but now it seems that miasma is not terrible. It's the tiger that's scary. That tiger is ten, a hundred times more terrible than a miasma...... Walk. Go to the Spring River, the night of the flower moon, we go to that place to drink the darkness, drink the light of day and night, drink it for a day and night, and drink it for a day and night......"

When Dong Bi heard this, his face was overjoyed, and he shouted: "It turns out that Brother Wang is still qualified to enter and leave that place." Dao: Are we going to Chunjiang? Or a moonlit night? ”

"Spring River Flower Moon Night" is a large-scale entertainment venue rebuilt by Zhao Xing after renovating Guangzhou, which is divided into "Spring River Garden" and "Flower Moon Night". These two gardens are beautifully shaped, among which "Flower Moon Night" is a comprehensive entertainment place for commoners and gentry, divided into 12 courtyards. Each courtyard is named after the month. For example, "February Garden", "July Garden" and so on.

These courtyards are self-contained, such as the "July Garden", which is planted with various plants that bloom in July and the herb jade tree, and the whole "July Garden" has eight independent small buildings to form a combination, each small building is named after a kind of flowering plant of the month, these eight small buildings, there are "Pear Blossom Building" for singing dramas, and "Cherry Blossom Building" for singing puppet shows and sumo wrestling performances. Wait a minute.

in each separate compound. The most famous building is called the "Yuekui Building", and the living areas in this Yuekui Building are all in the courtyard. Due to the elegance of these courtyards. The style is unique, so if you want to board the Yuekui Tower, you need to make an appointment in advance, not only have money, but also have the power to monopolize the Yuekui - because each Yuekui Lou only welcomes one group of guests a day, and it costs a lot of money to charter the entire Yuekui Building, because the supply exceeds demand, and money alone can't do it.

"Flower Moon Night" is like this, "Chunjiang Garden" is simply not open to the public, it adopts the club membership system adopted by the six famous buildings in Bianliang, not members are not accepted at all, and the members of "Chunjiang Garden" are either maritime merchants with a net worth of tens of millions in the Great Song Dynasty, or local officials with more than five grades in Guangnan - they must also be rich local officials.

After the rise of this large-scale comprehensive entertainment venue in Guangzhou, the local wanderers in Guangzhou did not want to get a piece of the pie, but this courtyard was supported by Zhao Laohu, who wanted to create a unique and elegant style of his own, and quickly cut through the chaos to kill those scoundrels who tried to get involved. Since then, "Spring River Flower Moon Night" has become a high-grade entertainment venue in Guangzhou, and people who consume here do not worry about provoking hooligans, nor do they worry about whispering business secrets being eavesdropped. According to legend, the boss behind these two courtyards is the biggest hooligan in Guangdong.

Others don't know who the boss behind these two courtyards is, but the two visiting envoys know because their profession is to inspect - according to the information they inquired, Zhao Xing's concubine Liao Xiaoxiao has 10% of the shares here, in addition to Cai Jing also has 10% of the shares, and the rest of the shareholders are local maritime merchants in Guangzhou, as well as some official gentry and generals in Guangzhou.

The garden design of these two courtyards came from Cai Jing's hand, and Cai Jing, who strived for perfection and great joy, designed an ideal garden with a huge area, and Zhao Xing relied on his strong financial resources to help Cai Jing realize this dream, but Cai Jing had never been here.

Because of this special background, officials in Guangzhou like to plunge into the "Spring River Flower and Moonlight Night". According to the custom of officialdom, in the banquet and in the conversation and laughter, discuss official affairs......

Dong Bi came to Guangdong last time and walked in a hurry, but he didn't have time to enjoy this garden, and now there is Wang Ying leading the way, he looks all the way, and keeps appreciating, like a grandmother Liu who entered the Grand View Garden.

Wang Ying relied on the five-grade official uniform on his body, smoothly walked into the garden, and then walked inside, each courtyard gate has a door, Wang Ying was thinking about how to get in, and suddenly a man in Tsing Yi who covered his face with a fan and walked hurriedly with his head down, he hurriedly stretched out his hand to greet: "Brother Wen, Brother Wen, I'm here, I see you." ”

Wang Ying trotted to Wen Xun in Tsing Yi and a small hat, and asked with a flattering smile: "Brother Wen, why are you dressed like this to visit the garden, I remember that Guangdong does not prohibit officials from coming here to feast and enjoy the beautiful scenery of the garden, why did Brother Wen change into this casual clothes?" ”

Wen Xun took off the fan covering his face, smiled awkwardly, and was thinking about words, when Dong Bi also chased after him. When Wang Ying saw his companion following, he didn't expect Wen Xun to answer, so he simply smiled, climbed and pasted it, and said with a smile: "Brother Wen." It's December ahead, and Brother Wen is also planning to go to the courtyard in December, I don't know which flower building he plans to go to? Xiaguan is feeling that there are few companions to play. Why don't I go and play with Brother Wen too? Get involved. ”

As soon as Wang Ying said this, Dong Bi understood, it turned out that Wang Ying was not familiar with this place, so he ran here. That is, to pull acquaintances to rub rice together - this behavior is called "eating white food" in modern times.

What a shame!

Dong Bi's family is wealthy, and after thinking about Wang Ying's actions, he was so ashamed that he couldn't wait to find a crack in the ground to get into. And Wen Xun on the opposite side rolled his eyes, and at this moment he seemed to have made a decision, and he slapped the fan twice in the palm of his hand. He said thoughtfully, "Both of them are here...... Okay, I'll take you there, but what I've seen and heard today, don't talk about it? ”

As soon as Wen Xun said this, Wang Ying's eyes lit up, and he looked at Dong Bi, Dong Bi saw all the words "outer room", "second wife", "Xiaomi" and so on, but he didn't see his eyes, in fact, Wang Ying was in Dong Bidi's eyes. These are the words that I saw.

Moon Xun opened the fan with a snort. Continuing to cover his face with a fan, he walked into "December" with his head down. Looking at the direction where Wenxun walked, Wang Ying and Dong Bi were surprised and delighted, and muttered in their hearts: "It turned out to be Yuekui Building, could it be that this guy has taken over the December Yuekui." ”

Walking to the vicinity of Layue Yuekui Tower, Dong Bixian, Wen Xun or not the two of them to lead the way, these two people really can't get close to this building. I saw many men in red walking near Yuekui Tower, these men had armed belts around their waists, waist knives, handcuffs, and vigilantly stared at everyone who approached - Wang Ying knew that this group of people was dressed up, this is the famous "Demon Army" in Guangdong, all of them are "generals".

Cattle! Awesome!! Real Bull Fork!!

The "Demon Army" saw Wen Xun from a distance, so he nodded and bowed to the "Walking Horse Bear" of the Yamen of the Transfer Division, and made way of the way, Wang Ying and Dong Bi exchanged glances at each other as they walked, and their eyes were full of admiration: This person is angry compared to others. Look at this walking horse, even coming out *are "armed*", mobilizing so many troops in advance to surround the courtyard he is going to, this is simply too strong.

Following Wen Xun, the two visiting envoys walked into the small building, and suddenly, singing and dancing, music, the delicate laughter of the maiko, the sound of silk strings, mixed with the fragrance of flowers, fat powder, and a faint mint fragrance, came to the face, this Yuekui Tower under the shade of the tree, as if it was a laughing elf, hooking people's hearts itching.

Inside, the two envoys were already in the room, laughing with the kabuki, and some were listening to the kabuki singing, which was an ambiguous one-on-one singing, in which the kaki stood beside you, or sat on your lap and sang in a low voice, just for you.

There were a total of six people in the hall, one was Li Gefei, as soon as he saw Wen Xun coming in, he raised his hand, and when he saw the two visiting envoys behind Wen Xun, he was stunned for a moment and stopped waving his hand.

Next to Li Gefei is Liao Zhengyi, the governor of Lianzhou, these two are one of the "Four Bachelors of Sumen", and they are Taixue classmates, so they sit very close, a female actor next to Li Gefei is showing him a painting, and the ink and brushes on the table in front of the two are there, it seems that the female artist has just painted on the spot, and presented it to Li Gefei for appreciation......

Liao Zhengyi sat next to a lonely old man, and the lonely old man was singing a script to Liao Zhengyi with a single glance, but there was a noise around him, and the two inspectors couldn't hear what the rap was.

The two men were a man, about forty or fifty years old, and on his knees sat a female dancer, one of whom was feeding him a glass of wine, and the other was twisting his waist on his lap and performing a snake dance. The man's attention was still very active, and when he heard the movement in the doorway, he pushed away the writhing maiko, and peeked out of the cracks in the human body, and opened his mouth to greet the visitor, but when he saw the person clearly, he opened his mouth wide and could not speak.

When the two visiting envoys saw this person's face, their heads were erected, and they pointed at the man with their fingers, their lips trembled, and they couldn't speak for a long time, but in the end, it was Wang Ying who reacted first, he jumped to his feet and shouted: "Why are you?" How dare you, how dare you be here, still armed*

With a swoop, Wen Xun closed the fan, gently knocked the straight arms of the two visiting envoys one by one, gently knocked these two arms off, and then opened the fan with a slurp, and said unhurriedly: "What are you panicking, Dong Cha visit, Wang Cha visit, it is convenient for others, it is convenient for yourself, why should you be serious?" Sit, come, please take a seat. ”

The two inspectors stayed for a long time, and slowly came back to their senses, Wang Ying spoke first: "Qin Guan Qin Shaoyou, I only saw the report of the official in your resettlement place last month, saying that you are not in good health, have a bad appetite, and are depressed all day long—I see that you have a good appetite!" ”

Li Gefei slapped the table and replied with a smile: "Of course he has a bad appetite, and he has a very bad appetite." ”

Wang Ying lowered his eyes and was stunned for a moment, then he turned to the man sitting in the first seat, who was whispering to the kabuki puppet, and on the table of the two of them was a pile of fruit and a pot of fragrant tea—the teapot was Zhao Xingming's kind of glass pot.

Wang Ying took a breath and continued: "Huang Tingjian Huang Luzhi, I just saw the news from Kuaima this morning, saying that you are in the Huizhou resettlement site, and you are eating sour horns with your left neighbor to teach his children - Huizhou is away from here, I'm afraid it will be more than a day's way." You're not going to get any faster than the court letter from the fast horse, are you? ”

Liao Zheng interrupted the singing beside him with a wave of his hand, slapped the table, and shouted in a low voice: "What a noise!" I came to Yuekui Building today to be happy, what's wrong? Who wants to be uncomfortable? This is Huang Luzhi, he is sitting below Chao Buzhi, and then down is Zhang Lei, the Sumen disciples are all here, and there is one missing, he stays in the office of the Guangdong Navy Yamen, what's wrong? Was there anything dissatisfying about the two visiting envoys? ”

Wang Ying held back for a long time, picked up a glass of wine on the table, and replied weakly: "This is also ...... Too, too unscrupulous, right? ”