When Zhao Xing came to Zhang's side, a group of people came down from the three boats on the dock, including men and women, old and young. The "Blue Hat Return" immediately knelt down in front of them, shouting something. Then, three white-haired old men stood out from the group, they held their heads straight and held high, accepted the bow of the "Blue Hat Huihui", and then solemnly stretched out their hands and stroked the heads of the Blue Hat Huihui one by one, stroking and saying something as they spoke.

Zhao Xing saluted Zhang, but Zhang pointed to the dock and asked, "What's the matter?" What are they doing? ”

Zhao Xing glanced back and replied, "This group of blue hats were separated from their priests in the process of fleeing, and I happened to find their priests when I went to Nanyang, and brought them back by the way......"

Zhao Xing didn't want to talk too much about this topic, so he immediately asked: "Why did the cardinal minister come to Hangzhou, I remember that Wengu (Zhang Yuan's character) was in the capital with you, how could he be infected with the epidemic in Hangzhou?" ”

Zhang Yi waved his hand: "Needless to say!" I have resigned from my position as privy counsellor since you left. At the beginning, he was appointed as the Taishou of Hangzhou, and later the old party members believed that the demotion of the official should not be transferred to the big county, and he should be reappointed as the governor of Ruzhou...... When is it their turn to talk about it, we are not impatient to quarrel with them—I simply asked for resignation in order to raise the palace to welcome my father to live in Suzhou.

When I was sent back to my hometown, I accidentally contracted the epidemic in Suzhou. Suzhou quack doctor tied his hands, I remember that you live nearby, Su Laopo said that you are good at treating incurable diseases, so I rushed to Hangzhou, and when I entered the city, I realized: It turns out that you really have a special medicine to cure the epidemic, and it just so happens that you are also back. Good! Get out of here, this bunch of shit......"

When Zhang was scolding, the group of Lang Zhong happened to run to Zhao Xing, and they heard Zhang's scolding and stopped. Laughing awkwardly. Zhao Xing also smiled bitterly, waved his hand and asked Zhang to go in.

Zhang Yuan pulled dysentery to dehydration, and at this moment he had fallen into a coma. Zhao Xing pretended to diagnose and treat the patients, and instructed the group of doctors to replenish the saline for the patients. He took out the necessary medicine and handed it to Lang Zhong, thought about it for a while, and then instructed the doctors: "I heard about the outbreak of the epidemic in Hangzhou in Nanyang, and I have bought enough medicine along the way. You send someone back to tell Taishou: The medicine is enough, don't talk about the money first, let him come and get it quickly, and quickly diagnose and treat the villagers. ”

The doctor left one person to take care of Zhang Yuan, and the rest of the people ran out quickly, and the people who ran out thought excitedly as they ran: This news is a great achievement, tell the good news to Lord Zhizhou, and a bounty is indispensable; And those who stay are thinking: Great. This is a rebuke to the Taiyi and the local medical skills, look carefully.

Zhao Xing ordered to replenish the salt, and the doctors hurriedly lifted up their clothes and wrote down the trick in the corners of their clothes. After a while, after Zhang Yuan replenished the salt, he briefly opened his eyes, which made Zhang more confident. Those doctors stepped forward to ask Zhao Xing for advice on the medical theory of this action, and Zhao Xing took the opportunity to leave a doctor to take care of him, and quit the house to settle the new crew members.

So for a while. The unloading of cargo has begun on the dock, and the sound of pulleys is non-stop. And next to Zhao Xingdi's house, the two teams of strangely dressed warriors were still quietly guarding the carriage, their bodies standing straight, as if the sky could not move them even a little bit. Hearing this, Genyehei stood beside the samurai. Squinting at the scimitar at the samurai's waist. Humming something in his mouth.

Zhao Xing waved his hand and said a few words to the two columns of warriors, and the warriors began to unload the boxes on the carriage. Cheng Azhu took the female envoy to lead the way to the samurai, and instructed the samurai to carry the box into the basement of the room. Yuan Yeping walked into Zhao Xing's side, and asked for warmth with a delicate shout, so shocked that Zhao Xing couldn't sit still. And he pointed to the group of samurai and asked, "I remember that when you were in the capital, you said that you bought more than 20 mountain samurai...... What's your name...... Gurkha! You say, they're good at scimitar, yes. It is said that you still have Mamluk slaves, who are these people? ”

Zhao Xing nodded: "This group of people are Gurkha warriors, and they are not used to the tropical climate, so I brought them to Hangzhou." As for the Mamluk slaves, they were well adapted to the hot climate, so I left them in the South Seas. ”

Yuan Yeping nodded vigorously and commented: "Very strong!" Look, the rut marks on the ground are very deep, indicating that your boxes are very heavy, each box is afraid of a hundred pounds, these people actually leave with one hand, this strength alone is very scary...... I wonder if their feet are inflexible when they fight? ”

Zhao Xing smiled very honestly, and when Yuan Yeping saw the other party's smile, his heart was cold, because according to his observation, every time Zhao Xing smiled so plainly, it meant that he wanted to harm people again-sure enough, Zhao Xing asked: "How is it, do you want to compete with them?" ”

Yuan Yeping replied quickly: "I don't want to!" Never! ”

Zhao Xing nodded: "Smart!" All eight of them are the survivors of a hundred battles. Originally, there were more than 20 of them, and after fighting with me, only these eight complete people remained. When it comes to the experience of killing, you are not as good as them, because this group of people has passed down the killing technique from generation to generation, and this skill is their family's secret means of making a living, when we are walking, eating and chanting poetry, they are all studying the means of livelihood, they have studied for thousands of years...... To tell the truth, their blood was too heavy, and I panicked when I faced them. Lin Lei"

As he spoke, Zhang walked out. At this time, the Gurkha were moving to the basement, the house where he and his son were staying.

The small building in Zhaoxing is a modern building, all the rooms are entered and exited through the door, and the living room is in the hall on the first floor. Zhang was used to the old-fashioned courtyard, and he was very uncomfortable with this way of entering and exiting through the eyes of the guests, so in order to avoid suspicion, he could only go out of the house. I wanted to come out and chat with Zhao Xing, but when he saw the group of blue hats coming back and hugging three old men walking here, he stopped in front of the small building and pretended to look at the lake and mountains.

In the courtyard, there are several loft pavilions on the slope of the mountain, and in addition to a cluster of flower beds, there are scattered with a stable, two Tang-style octagonal pavilions, two square Wa-style pavilions, and several rectangular Venetian-style stone pavilions. The wall of Zhao Xing's bunker is actually a residential building like a tujia building, so he omitted buildings such as the "maid's room", which made the courtyard appear very empty.

In the distance, many doors have been installed in the walls of the fort, and there are also some hollows that have not yet been fitted to the door and window frames. The inward side of the fort wall. On the ground floor is a warehouse, with no windows and only doors. In the corridor on the second floor, you can see a lot of people swaying. Judging from the location of the chapter, the fortress wall is not a neat square shape, it is shaped like a butterfly, and the city wall zigzags along the terrain. Undulating waves.

At the top of the hillside, workers are building two massive towers that Zhang would have recognized if he had played a video game. These two towers are almost identical in appearance to Ironforges in World of Warcraft.

Halfway up the mountain, there are several stone pavilions that are interestingly built, these stone pavilions are long or square or round, they are distributed like five plum blossoms on the side of two Tang-style attics built on the mountain, and it seems to be the recreation area of the two houses behind. But the bigger role was to defend and protect the kabuki house.

The sound of the blue hat's conversation drifted into the ears of the chapter: the church, the temple, the Bible, the Promised Land, the Covenant Keeper......

These strange words, not a single chapter can be understood. However, looking at the demeanor of that group of people, it seems that Zhao Xing had promised them something before, and now they are asking to fulfill their promise.

"No problem", only to hear Zhao Xing say, he pointed to the opposite side of the river, and added: "I have already bought the wasteland opposite." This place is not inhabited by many people, and it has not been developed much, so I will give it to you. Farming, farming, and building temples are all up to you, and we will build a few suspension bridges on both sides of the strait, and we won't even have to worry about traffic in the future. ”

Zhao Xing's manor is outside the current city wall of Hangzhou, and it is separated from the city by a mountain beam. At that time, Hangzhou was only built around the West Lake, and the Linjiang area was not included in it. On the other side of the river that Zhao Xing refers to is modern Xiaoshan County, which is a desolate tidal flat. It was not developed until the end of the 20th century.

Jews are not afraid of isolation. I am not afraid of inconvenient transportation, and I have heard that there is a land for me to decide, no matter how desolate it is, it cannot stop the footsteps of the Jews. So, hearing this reply, cheered in unison. They sang a wacky song. The tune is not similar to Song Song, but the singing is a bit solemn.

In song. One by one, the blue hats stepped back, leaned over and kissed the corners of Zhao Xing's clothes, and then left one by one with their heads down...... When they returned to the other side of the fort wall with the newcomers, the courtyard fell silent, and the sound of trumpets and pulleys on the docks became clearer.

Zhang looked around, saw the Northern Wei Dynasty style stone pavilion in the middle of the mountain, there was a big character tablet standing next to the stone pavilion, and the word tablet was engraved with two big characters "Jasmine".

These two words are huge, and there are not many people who are good at big characters...... It turned out to be Cai Jing's handwriting!

When did Zhao Xing meet Cai Jing?

New Party! This guy is dressed in the coat of the Shu Party, and he has a close relationship with Cai Jing, the backbone of the New Party, who travels with Zhou Bangshi and the old man...... What is this guy's political position?

Thinking of the word jasmine, Zhang took a deep sniff of the air and immediately distinguished: the rich fragrance wafting in the air was indeed jasmine. Looking at the past, the unknown flowers and trees on the roadside are full of buds, and they are waiting to be released.

Jasmine is native to southwest Asia and Persia, and it is the national flower of the Philippines and Indonesia. The Jin Dynasty was introduced to China around the time, and it was said in the "Southern Grass and Trees" at that time, "The Ming Flower (Frangipani) and Jasmine were transplanted by the Hu people from the Western Regions to the South China Sea, and the Nanren took pity on their fragrance and planted them." Until the Qing Dynasty, "Persian jasmine" is a precious and extravagant rare flower species, "Qianlong Years Chronicles" recorded that women at that time "tufted up to seven inserts, but for the entertainment of the young time, the cost was as much as dozens of coupons." ”

The Tang people admired peonies, while the Song people loved Persian jasmine the most, calling it "the first fragrance in the world". The Song Dynasty poet Jiang Kuiyong Jasmine said: "The spirit seed is rumored to be in Yueshang, who mentions the barbarian voyage." If I cultivate the history of flowers in his year, I will be listed as the first incense in the world. He also said: "Although there is no glamorous state to surprise the crowd, fortunately, there is a strong fragrance to press Jiuqiu." It should be the return of the Xian'e banquet, drunk and falling off the jade scratching head. ”

Zhao Xing's garden planted 100 acres of jasmine, and countless cherry blossoms were planted on the side of the street trees on both sides. In addition, there are some rare flower species that have not yet been introduced to the Central Plains in this era, scattered in the corners. As a result, the whole garden becomes a jasmine garden!

In this way, Zhao Xing became the "first fashionable person in the Great Song Dynasty".

In the jasmine tree, there are a few women wearing blue and white checkered cloth skirts from time to time, looking at the movements, they seem to be picking flowers in the tree, Zhao Xing came over again to greet the salute, Zhang pointed to the jasmine from the women who worked and said: "This kind of blue and white checkered cloth is the most popular in the Wa country?" I heard that the women of the capital all wore this kind of clothes in their spare time, and they swaggered through the market in groups of three or five, and the prodigal son always followed him to please and flatter...... Do you also use widows in this courtyard? Are those widows? ”

The question of the chapter is ambiguous. Because after Zhao Xing left, the matter of the widow coming to the Great Song Dynasty to "cultivate seeds" has caused an uproar in the entire Bianliang City. Those literati who had been to Zhao Xing's mansion - now Ma Mengde's mansion - took advantage of it complacently boasted to their colleagues that those who had good deeds had already written this kind of behavior into the print, so when Zhang inquired, he looked ambiguous.

Zhao Xing shook his head: "No." It was a peasant woman in the countryside. They come to work in my garden, and I don't pay them. The conditions were: I distribute their clothes for four hours, eat them three times a day, and dispose of all the withered jasmine petals. It is reported. The sun-dried jasmine petals are sold to the market, which is very profitable.

The gardener here of mine is a family of seven: four sons and three daughters, and the bride and maid are the laborers of the fields, and her family lives in my tower. Men hoe and dredge ditches, women tend the garden, and old fathers and mothers help feed the hounds. As for the blue and white checkered cloth, hehe, it is my family's calico, unfortunately it was loved by the Japanese people! ”

In the Song Dynasty, the price of jasmine was more expensive than in the Qing Dynasty, and it was even extravagantly consumed. Zhao Xing treated them like this. Not only did this group of women not lose, but they felt that their masters were very kind. Zhang also felt so, he nodded approvingly, pointed to the boat on the dock and asked: "It seems that you don't plan to go to the post after leaving the people, you bring the feudal merchants into the country, go to the sea to operate the sea trade without permission, and so on, the Great Song Dynasty has committed a lot of rules, and impeachment must be indispensable, how dare you go to the post?" ”

"More than that", Zhao Xing was very calm: "I didn't just violate these rules...... Mr. Zhang, please go here. I'll show you something. ”

Standing in the Banshan Pavilion with Cai Jing's handwriting, a small table on the wooden floor, several large and small, short guns of different shapes are placed on it, Zhao Xingxian picked up the simplest bronze copper pipe among them, and showed Zhang: "The monk and monk Buddha seal of Huangzhou Doufang Temple once mentioned it to me. It is said that a weapon is depicted in the Dunhuang murals. It's called Demon Transformation - This is the original Demon Transformation I purchased from the Western Regions, and it is said that it is in the Western Xia Army. There are officials who make this weapon. ”

Zhang took it, looked at it carefully for a while, and asked, "How?" ”

Zhao Xing talked about fire guns in an open place like the Stone Pavilion in the middle of the mountain, so that he could demonstrate it on the spot. He beckoned first, and ordered the two servants to carry out a large wooden box—the size of which was similar to the one distributed by the Song people when they married their daughters—and lifted the lid of the box, and took up a wooden box and placed it at his feet. In addition, there are various kinds of wooden pipes and bamboo pipes. Ivory horns, horns, and tail ends are sealed with copper caps, and the tips of the horns are sawn off to make a cork. Wooden and bamboo pipes are cylindrical.

Zhao Xing took out a pair of horns, unscrewed the tip of the horns, and poured out some yellow particles from the pointed mouth, Zhang Yi sniffed, and exclaimed: "Gunpowder? ”

Gunpowder has a strong smell of sulfur and nitrate.

Zhao Xing replied: "Exactly! ”

Then, Zhao Xing picked up the wooden pipe and bamboo pipe, he first broke the bamboo pipe, took out a piece of round cotton paper with the same thickness as the barrel, poked the cotton paper from the muzzle into the barrel, tamped it with a strip, and then took two or three iron beads and loaded it, and then took out a few round felt pads from the wooden tube, still stuffed into the barrel, and tamped it with a strip. A candle was taken and the rope was lit, and the gunpowder of the copper torch was ignited with the rope......

There was a loud bang, and the target erected outside the pavilion crackled.

The sound of black powder was not violent in Zhao Xing's ears, but Zhang was startled, he stabilized his body, looked at the target, couldn't sit still, and rushed out to the target in person to inspect the shooting effect. When he came back, his face was cloudy and he could wring out the water: "These are all acquired by you in the Western Regions?" Can I take a boat to the Western Regions? How dare you go to sea with a weapon? ”

Zhao Xing was very calm, he straightened up and remained motionless: "The Western Regions are leading to the sea - now that the territory of the Tubo Kingdom has penetrated deep into the western sea, I acquired the land through the Tubo people. ”

In the past, Zhang pointed to the most ornate short gun in the pile, and asked, "This is also the case?" ”

The torch that Zhang refers to has already had the prototype of the later handcuff, it is made of ivory for the handle, a hammer can be tied to the fire rope, and there is even a crosshair at the front of the barrel...... After Zhao Xing's operation, he raised the fire gun with one hand and fired another shot at the target - still with a loud bang.

The people in the castle are looking at it. But the dock workers were unimpressed, and they continued to unload without raising their heads.

Zhao Xing put several firecrackers around him back into the wooden box, pushed the box to Zhang's side, and said, "Master Zhang." This is a militaristic weapon, if the ordnance supervisor can imitate it, it will definitely be able to double the military strength of my Great Song Dynasty......"

Zhang squinted his eyes at the pile of weapons in front of him, and his mind was overturned.

"Why don't you give this to your teacher?" Chapter asked.

Zhao Xing shook his head: "First, this thing is too sensitive, so escort it along the way." I'm afraid of missing it; Besides, I carry these weapons on board, and if I don't reveal this experience, I'm afraid I'll sacrifice it. Not only is it useless, but it is sinful; Three,...... I do need this thing. The Great Song Dynasty forbade shippers to carry weapons abroad, and with the prosperity of maritime trade, there were more and more pirates in the Nanyang region. They deceived us that the Song boat had no weapons, so they swarmed up, robbed and killed people. My ships come and go to the South Seas a lot and need weapons to defend themselves.

So, I brought these weapons in the hope that I would have a privilege to use them on my ship...... At the very least, it should not attract the attention of the military, and our ships should be inspected every day. lest I go out with my weapons. If that were the case, would I be asking for trouble.

Xianggong, I am not suitable for this matter, but Xianggong to do it, it is a great achievement......"

Zhao Xing is talking about Arab pirates, who, in recent years, have become pirates and become the most vicious animals on the medieval seas due to the shrinking volume of transit trade. This state of affairs would continue for many years, until the rise of Europeans six hundred years later. But then. Muslims have penetrated deep into the South China Sea, established many Muslim states, and moved the frontier of looting to the coast of China. Then, they maintained the custom of robbing Chinese ships and lands to the modern day.

Zhang was silent for a long time, and slowly replied: "Before Wang Jinggong died. Su Laopo once went to visit. I heard that he asked Jing Gong: After retreating to the forest, have you ever seen the suffering of the people more closely? was willing to persuade Lu Huiqing to stop. Day. How did Jing Gong answer? ”

Zhao Xing cried and laughed, and replied: "Wang Xianggong said to my teacher: These words come out of your mouth and enter my ears!" ”

Zhang nodded: "That's right." Jing Gong replied this way that day because he was not in his position and did not seek his own politics - I also answered this today. ”

Zhao Xing lowered his head and thought for a while, then raised his head and replied: "Prime minister, I will make an agreement with you today, but the day when the prime minister has a recovery, I can't transfer my craftsmen!" ”

Zhang was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood what Zhao Xingdi meant. Zhao Xing's thinking jumped too much in this sentence, and he meant that since Zhang was unwilling to report this weapon to the top, he would have to organize craftsmen to imitate it. And when Zhang Qi recovers, this weapon will be offered by Zhang himself, and the credit will fall to Zhang, on the condition that he will not talk about Zhao Xing's private imitation, or even come forward to cover it up.

What kind of person is Zhang, he is ruthless. Dare to give up everything for the sake of profit. Zhao Xing's small request was easy in his opinion, but he was grateful in his heart that Zhao Xing could keep this credit for the day he recovered.

Although Zhang is ruthless, in the Song Dynasty, even the notorious corrupt officials still have a little moral law in their hearts. He pointed to the north and said: "The old man will tell you something inside: Since the outbreak of the ordnance supervision case, the ordnance prison has been purged several times, and now, there is no work in the prison that dares to take care of himself. So, even if you take out this weapon, it's useless, the ordnance superintendent knows, and just discussing it can take years.

Do you think the Ordnance Warden doesn't know about flamethrowers? What is a medicine puppet (Song Dynasty fireworks)? Isn't it just a paper-wrapped fire-breathing object? The Ordnance Superintendent has studied it for a long time, but it has not been finalized for one or two decades. I'll give you an idea, don't you want to make weapons on your own ship? You've forgotten there! ”

Zhao Xing looked blankly in the direction of Zhang Zhi: "There, what's there?" ”

Seeing that the other party didn't understand his hints, Zhang Yi pointed to Zhao Xing's arms and reminded: "You still have an official letter on you......"

Zhao Xing reflexively covered his pocket, and said in a snort: "This is not good, it is my souvenir, it is not easy to get into the Jinshi, I get this official letter, and I plan to use it as a family heirloom......"

In fact, the official letter was not in Zhao Xing's arms, he only subconsciously covered his pockets. What he wants to say is: That official letter is his tourist souvenir, and there is nothing better than this official letter to show that his visit to the Great Song Dynasty is worthwhile. Presumably, even his children and grandchildren will be satisfied with this tourist souvenir......

Zhao Xing said a few words, his voice gradually deepened, and he understood Zhang's hint: "Mizhou! ”

Zhang replied: "Michigan! ”