Chapter 40: I am a Song person, I am proud
Wu Zhi's life was lively and free, and Ximen Qing in prison didn't seem to be bad, because at this time there was a table of good wine and food in front of him.
Although Ximenqing was very hungry, after he saw this table of wine and food, his eyes showed incomparable fear, let alone eating, because the appearance of this table of wine and food meant that he Ximenqing was about to go to the execution ground!
Guillotine rice!
Ximenqing clenched his bite, he clenched his fists, his eyes were red and about to burst out of blood, until he was put on death row, Ximenqing suddenly realized, he didn't know what that poem meant, even if he was drunk, he couldn't write it!
It must have fallen for Wu Dalang's tricks!
But when he reacted, it was too late, the handwriting was his handwriting, he was arrested, and he took the initiative to admit it himself, and there was no half a person outside to help him up and down, so the moment he entered the death row, Ximenqing knew that he was finished!
Therefore, when the Criminal Division came to the trial, Ximenqing knew that no one believed it, so he just blindly emphasized that the poem was his unintentional work after drinking, and he had no intention of rebellion. He hoped that he would be able to escape death with this, even if he was exiled for 3,000 miles to serve the army!
However, when he saw Wang Fei who was escorted up by the officials during the trial, his original hope was instantly shattered, and he would be punished for both crimes, and he would definitely die!
In addition to fear and resentment, Ximenqing regretted the most at this time!
I regret that I messed with anyone, but I got into trouble with such a seemingly honest and honest Wu Dalang, but in fact he is cunning and cunning!
Ximen Qing regrets it! Damn! Unconsciously he was yin, and there was no possibility of a backhand, Wu Dalang was really powerful! If he hadn't seduced Pan Jinlian at the beginning, if he had been cheated by Wu Dalang for five hundred taels of silver, he would have stopped dealing with Wu Dalang, maybe today's fate would not have been so miserable!
"Alas!" Thinking of this, Ximen Qing sighed heavily, everything was caused by himself!
"Hey, if you want to die, you have to be a full ghost! If you don't eat those wines and dishes, bring them to Lao Tzu, and Lao Tzu will eat them! At this time, Wang Fei in the next cell looked at the wine and food in front of Ximenqing and shouted.
Wang Fei has many lives, and he is also going to the execution ground with Ximenqing at this moment, but the wine and food in front of him are more than a star and a half worse than those in front of Ximenqing, and the wine and food in front of Ximenqing are specially arranged for him by Wu Zhi, not only are the dishes delicious, but also give him a pot of golden wine!
Wu Zhi also hopes that Ximenqing can be a good young man with ideals, ambitions, morals, and most importantly, culture!
"Phew! Fuck off! After Ximen Qing took a sip of Wang Fei, he ate the wine and food in front of him like a wolf, and when he tasted that these wine and food were from the proud building, he finally cried with a sour heart......
When Ximen Qing and Wang Fei were taken to the execution ground to be beheaded, Wu Zhi did not go to watch, Wu Zhi as a person who crossed over from a civilized society could not stand that kind of bloody scene, but in the end, after Ximen Qing was beheaded, Wu Zhi gave Ximen Qing's family a lot of funeral expenses, so that they could bury Ximen Qing and then use the rest of the money to make a living elsewhere, Ximen Qing's reputation in Yanggu County is too bad, and it is difficult for them to live here.
"Alas......" Ximenqing's heart disease was finally removed, but Wu Zhi's heart was also depressed for a long time, and Wu Zhi didn't want to do so, but since he had crossed over to Wu Dalang, and Ximenqing was a "natural enemy", and it happened to be the last year of the Northern Song Dynasty when the enemy was attacked on all sides and there were many heroes, if you want to climb to the top step by step to influence the top crowd of this era and change the wheel of history......
You can't be too kind to a woman!
The winter sun is warm and dazzling, and under the sun, all the negative emotions of people seem to be washed away by the warm and dazzling sunshine, and all that is left is peace.
Wu Zhi is sitting leisurely in the backyard basking in the sun, he is leaning on Pan Jinlian's soft and turbulent incense, sitting on the left Xue'er, sitting on the right Hu Sanniang, a mouth has Xue'er fed dried fruits, and then a stretch of hand has Hu Sanniang handed the dried meat, the three beauties have excellent appearance, different styles, amorous young women, girls next door, cold goddess...... They all have a deep affection for Wu Zhi, and this taste of happiness is not something that ordinary people can experience.
And Wu Zhi was not idle, sometimes rubbing Pan Jinlian, sometimes pinching Xue'er, sometimes teasing Sanniang, laughter and laughter...... In this situation, Wu Zhi, who was immersed in it, couldn't help but sigh, his life was really too and extravagant!
But Wu Zhi likes it!
With the assistance of the three big shopkeepers, Wu Zhi naturally has a lot of free time, as for Xue'er and Jin Lian, today is also a rest and does not need to go to the restaurant to "work", Wu Zhi treats the employees under his hands very caringly, not only the salary is high, but also according to the later generations have arranged sufficient holidays for employees every month, not only that, the staff guys have bonuses every month, and there are all kinds of expensive benefits and red envelopes at the end of the year, and Wu Zhi will also have dinners every once in a while, lottery or something......
This kind of treatment is unique in this era, and it is even more enviable, not only the people under Wu Zhi are deeply happy, but also countless unemployed young people dream of entering the proud building to find a job......
Although the sun is dazzling, Wu Zhi is still looking at the far-reaching sky in a daze, a gust of wind blows, there is not much chill, but Wu Zhi smells the wind with the unique breath of the Song Dynasty, it is prosperous, leisurely, enlightened, and thriving!
Wu Zhi has been in this era for a while, and the current situation of the Song Dynasty has gradually become clear...... But these are insignificant compared to external troubles!
Compared with the era of crossing with Wu Zhi, the territory of the Song Dynasty at this time only occupied the hinterland of China, bordering Dali and Tubo in the southwest, and Western Xia and Liao in the north.
Moreover, the northern border was perennially invaded by Liao and Western Xia, and wars were repeated; What's even worse is that the sixteen states of Yanyun in the north, that is, the area of Beijing in the later generations, this dangerous place to block the ethnic minorities in the north, has long fallen into the hands of the Liao, and without the natural barrier of the sixteen states of Yanyun, it directly led to the Song Dynasty being naked under the iron hooves of the Liao!
Not only is the Song Dynasty always under a huge threat from the Liao State, but Wu Zhi also knows that at this moment, the Jurchens occupying the northeast have risen, and the Mongolian tribes are also unifying, and in the near future, the Jurchen Jin Kingdom will destroy the Northern Song Dynasty! In the near future, the Mongol Empire will destroy the Southern Song Dynasty......
After all, Wu Zhi is from China in the 21st century, and in his opinion, China's land is complete only when it looks like a chicken! So Wu Zhi feels that the current country is still broken......
Dali Tubo? Isn't that my country's Yunnan and Tibet? Jin Guo? Isn't that the northeast of our country? Western Xia? Is it obviously Gansu and Ningxia there? And Inner Mongolia, Xinjiang - these are all my Chinese territory!
In fact, it is not to blame Wu Zhi, any Chinese crossing here will have this feeling, after all, the national concept and the consciousness of equality of all nationalities have been deeply rooted, so Wu Zhi expects reunification, and it must be unified by the Great Song Dynasty!
Because Da Song deserves it!
After Wu Zhi crossed over, he had a lot of contact with the society of the Song Dynasty, and he found that this was not a poor and weak country at all!
It is an indisputable fact that the industrial and commercial prosperity of the Song Dynasty brought not only huge taxes, but also the wealth of the people.
What Wu Zhi didn't know was that in the current era, 70% of the world's GDP was created by the Song people! Its one-year tax is equivalent to the sum of more than five years of tax revenue in the Ming Dynasty in later generations!
The prosperity of the people, so to promote the prosperity and development of culture, the Song people attached importance to culture and education, the imperial court also swore not to kill scholars, the entire Northern Song Dynasty did not have a scholar doctor killed, the high-quality civil official group was strong also affected the general wisdom of the common people, those kneeling, foot binding, blind superstition, forced widowhood...... And many other bad habits are not there here in the Great Song Dynasty at all!
It is not uncommon for women to divorce, where will they be forced to be widowed?
As for kneeling, the Song people only worship heaven and earth, except for criminals, the Song people do not kneel when they see the emperor, in fact, before the Song Dynasty, Chinese they were all unhappy to bow down, and it was only the Yuan Dynasty that began to impose it......
As for women's foot binding, the Song Dynasty was popular, but this kind of foot binding is definitely not as terrifying and disgusting as the Ming and Qing dynasties, at this time, women's foot binding is only slightly restrained, and its damage to the feet is not as good as the high heels of later generations.
Pan Jinlian has a pair of small and beautiful feet like mutton fat and white jade......
All of these made Wu Zhi see a prosperous and civilized Song Dynasty, a dynasty that Wu Zhi liked and slowly fell in love!
Although the emperor is very mediocre now, and there are many traitors, the emperor's mediocrity is just greedy for pleasure, and the traitorous ministers are only the same party and dissent, and they do not compete with the people for profit and ruthlessly exploit the people, so the destructive power to the whole society is extremely weak.
In fact, in Chinese history, there are only two dynasties that have not had a nationwide uprising, one is the short-lived Western Jin Dynasty, and the other is the Great Song Dynasty!
Even those heroes of Liangshan, none of them rebelled because they were as poor as Zhu Yuanzhang and were about to starve to death, and the heroes of Liangshan all drank and ate meat, and after arriving in Liangshan, the banner they played was only "doing the right thing for the sky", not "the sky is dead, the yellow sky should stand" or "Qinwang Qingjun's side", "fighting local tyrants and dividing the fields" and the like......
In this era, the Great Song Dynasty is synonymous with wealth, elegance, civilization and nobility, and the nomadic peoples in the north have always coveted the Great Song Dynasty, which is nothing more than "envy, jealousy and hatred".
Whether it is Liao or Western Xia, they have occupied part of the plains, there are a large number of Han people in the country, and there are border markets, no longer because of the lack of necessary daily necessities to invade as before, and the fundamental motivation for their invasion is from the incomparable yearning for the heavenly richness of the Great Song Dynasty!
The Song Dynasty was a kingdom of heaven and a great kingdom in the eyes of barbarians and aliens in this era.
Every country around the Great Song Dynasty, no matter how hostile they were to the Great Song Dynasty, their dignitaries and nobles used the porcelain of the Great Song Dynasty, wore the silk of the Great Song Dynasty, imitated the tea ceremony and etiquette of the Great Song Dynasty, and recited the latest Song songs, which was the embodiment of aristocratic status.
and madly admired the brilliant literati of the Great Song Dynasty, Fan Zhongyan, Su Shi, Ouyang Xiu, Liu Yong......
Every time a Song caravan arrived in these countries, not only would the high-quality goods be snapped up, but young men and women would be chased after them to ask if there were any newly published books such as poetry collections, and if so, they would inevitably be purchased with a lot of money and spread quickly throughout the country.
Especially the Japanese, the worship of the Great Song has reached the point of madness!
Every year, they send a large number of young girls to the Great Song Dynasty to ask for seeds!
The so-called "seeking seeds", also known as "degree seeds", is actually the common name of self-recommended pillow mats, which is a unique phenomenon that has appeared in China since the Tang Dynasty...... In neighboring countries such as Japan, Korea, Cochin, and Uighurs, many small nobles and commoners would try to send their beautiful daughters to Chang'an in the previous dynasty, or Bianjing in the Song dynasty.
These women volunteered to serve the famous doctors in the capital for free, and when they became pregnant, they would leave and return to China. Before leaving, they would ask the men they had served to write a letter to prove the noble lineage of the child in their womb......
It is not a brag to say that it is noble, not to mention the Tang Dynasty where all countries came to the dynasty, even if it is now, the 'weak Song', which is despised by later generations, is a place where barbarians compete to come to "grab seeds"!
Wu Zhi's restaurant is well-informed, after hearing these strange news, Wu Zhi can't help but secretly speak, it is really feng shui in turn, in the 21st century, it is my country's otaku to ask for "seeds" from the island country......
The Song people were excellent and noble people in the eyes of foreign countries. Therefore, it is not surprising that foreign countries and barbarians look so highly up to the Song Dynasty and the Song people.
In Japan, where the 'degree of breeding' is the most fanatical, most of these babies born from the Song Dynasty can become the heirs of the family if they are boys, and if they are girls, they will be hired as the main wife......
And the Han nationality is also the most inclusive nation, the Song people do not only refer to the Han people, the ethnic minorities who have entered the household registration in the Great Song Dynasty are also extremely proud to be able to become the Song Dynasty people, so only the Great Song Dynasty is qualified to unify the complete China in the heart of Wu Zhi!
The more Wu Zhi heard about it, the more he loved the Great Song Dynasty, and the more he loved it, the more worried he became, worried that he would not be able to reverse history in the future, and worried that he would watch the Jin Kingdom destroy the Northern Song Dynasty!
I am even more worried that such a country with the rapid development of commercial handicrafts and full of endless hope and light will be blown away by the extremely destructive, barbaric and backward "hurricane" blowing from the north!
Even if Wu Zhi did not learn and did not know how to do it, he also deeply remembered a description in the history books of later generations: the Mongol rulers resolutely refused to assimilate and tried to rule China by governing the steppe desert, which immediately brought the Song Dynasty's society to a screeching halt to the pace of market economy capitalism, and China also lost the possibility of the earliest industrial revolution!
At this point, Wu Zhi finally understood why after the defeat of the Yashan Naval Battle, which represented the demise of the Southern Song Dynasty, 100,000 soldiers and civilians collectively jumped into the sea and died in the country!
100,000 people! What is the concept? There are only 10,000 or 20,000 people in a county-level middle school at most, which is equivalent to five or six middle school people jumping into the sea and dying their country!
Because the Song Dynasty deserves it!
And the Song Dynasty is also worth Wu Zhi's hard work!