The docks in Guangzhou were very large, and there were many ships of the Song people, and it is said that the Venetian merchants of this era said: The ships of the Song people had masts connected to the masts, and they could be lined up all the way from Quanzhou to Manlaga (Malay local language: Melaa; English: Malacca, also known as Malacca).

The Guangzhou wharf used to be the only Great Song Customs, and the wharf was built to be more than 20 times larger than the Mizhou wharf. The Mizhou wharf winds for eighteen miles, and the Guangzhou wharf is hundreds of miles long. The notes of the Song people also recorded: Riding a horse-drawn carriage to visit the wharves built around the twists and turns of the river, you can't see all the berths in one day.

As for the scale of this wharf, the merchants of the four major maritime powers in the West unanimously admitted: this is the world's largest port.

According to the rules of officialdom, Zhao Xing's boat should be moored at the official wharf, which is not open to the outside world, and usually only docks official ships. The dock area is guarded by countless vans, which is both safe and quiet. The official ship wharf is generally set up in the most convenient place to enter and exit the city, for this reason, Zhao Xing's boat turned around, all the way to the innermost part of the wharf area, along the way, the officials and relatives on the ship widened their eyes, grew their mouths, and stared at this prosperous area in amazement, they saw so many ships, so many sailors, and so many goods for the first time in the interior......

"The World Wealth Association, the World Wealth Association...... Sure enough! Li Gefei muttered.

"I thought Hangzhou was the limit, but I didn't expect that the ships here are endless", Yuan Yeping also sighed: "There are so many ships. How many goods should be carried, and how much should these goods be worth - the wealth of the Great Song Dynasty is unimaginable. ”

"In the future, this beautiful article will depend on us to maintain," Zhao Xing, who had been to Guangzhou, said lightly: "I believe that Guangzhou's current prosperity is by no means the apex." Because we're going to push it even higher! ”

Li Gefei nodded vigorously. Yuanye was flushed with a flat color, and muttered nervously: "The glory of the Great Song Dynasty, the glory of Guangzhou, and the glory of the lord." Send us a body, please rest assured, Yuan swears to dedicate himself to the Lord. ”

"You can't do it yet", Zhao Xing said calmly.

Yuan Yeping's face changed, as if he was ashamed of Zhao Xing's contempt, he was pondering whether it was time to cut his stomach, Zhao Xing added: "You are my last secret weapon - on the ship, have you mastered the training method I told you?" When I settle down in Guangzhou, you go to Hushan first. I trained a thousand Huaiyong there, and you go and recruit another thousand. When these 1,000 recruits are trained, you can take a thousand people from both old and new to Tamna Island to watch my horse herding base and Pu Yi'an. Because I'm going to do something to the South Seas, you can't get him to connect with Arabia. ”

Only then did Yuan Yeping soften his face, bowed down and replied: "Respectful order!" ”

Sun Cong and Li Gefei looked at this in surprise, he didn't know why Yuan Yeping was so respectful to Zhao Xing. In Sun Cong's mind, Yuan Yeping was also a low-grade official in Mizhou who was officially compiled by the Great Song Dynasty. Why did he treat Zhao Xingdi like a retainer to a lord...... He didn't know. Yuan Yeping was precisely Zhao Xing's retainer.

On the Guangzhou official ship wharf, the officials in Guangzhou, who had been waiting there for a long time, saw Zhao Xing's fleet entering the port. Rao is that they are well-informed, and at this time, they are also frequently pumping cold air like Li Gefei on the boat.

Zhao Xing's huge ship got on the gangplank, and the first to disembark was a group of armed family members, who were better equipped than the Guangdong Forbidden Army, and their number was ...... There are 1,200 forbidden troops on the entire Guangnan East Road, and the same number on the Guangnan West Road. And on Zhao Xing's boat, not counting the number of accompanying people, those armed men alone have reached 2,000 people.

Thinking about it, thinking that there were still 500 armed soldiers who arrived with Wan Qiyong and others in the early stage, the officials' faces were no longer good--the armed soldiers brought by this new official were actually more than the number of forbidden troops on the east and west roads of Guangdong combined, and the officials on the shore had seen arrogance, but they had never seen such arrogance.

Yes, Zhao Xing is here to demonstrate this time. He wore a helmet and armor, a long and short knife in his waist, and a one-man high iris shield in one hand, like a mobile tower, with a majestic mobile tower Tyson walked up to the dock, and the other three directors of Guangnan East Road stepped forward to salute Zhao Xing in turn, but Zhao Xing just lifted the helmet ground cover, replied lightly, and then asked Fu Caiyuan: "Fu Caosi, has Lord Zhang Zhizhou arrived?" ”

Zhao Xing asked if it was Zhang Zhang's husband.

Fu Caiyuan was a little dissatisfied, Zhao Xing greeted him like a subordinate, which made Fu Caiyuan very uncomfortable, he endured it for a while, and replied: "Master Zhang Zhifu should still be on the way, this is the current Guangzhou Zhizhou Zu Zhenzu Qingsun, he has been transferred to Chengdu Fulu Zhongzhou Zhizhou." ”

It is a pity that although the transfer envoy has great power, he is indeed a "lower official" in front of Zhao Xing, because in order to contain the transfer envoy, the Song Dynasty set the grade of this official position quite low, which is basically the same as Zhizhou. The responsibilities of the yamen overlapped with those of other officials, resulting in a peculiar phenomenon in the Song Dynasty: the strong transshipment made the yamen able to oversee all local affairs and became a party jiezhen (i.e., a warlord), while the weak transshipment envoy became an officialdom.

Zhao Xing's current purpose is to put on a strong posture and strive to make Fu Caiyuan the most expensive ornament in Guangzhou. He handed the shield to Tyson, and aggressively stretched out his hand to invite: "Master Fu, please lead the way, this official is not familiar with Guangzhou, please Lord Fu lead the way." ”

Fu Caiyuan glanced at Tyson. As the supreme governor of Guangzhou, Fu Caiyuan was no stranger to black slaves, because "the rich people in Guangzhong had many animal and ghost slaves, and they were also called "savages". At that time, the people of Guangzhou could even distinguish the difference between African blacks and Malay blacks, and they specially recorded: there is a kind of offshore savage (Malay black slaves), which are not deprecated when they enter the water, and are called "Kunlun slaves". And African black slaves "are extremely powerful, can bear hundreds of pounds, and cannot understand speech and lust, and do not flee sexually." ”

At that time, the wealthy people of Guangzhou had a habit of feeding the black slaves they bought with hot food, and after eating these foods, the black slaves "exhausted for days", and the rich people in Guangzhou called this kind of diarrhea "intestine change". Black slaves who did not die of diarrhoea were considered to be able to be raised.

Although Fu Caiyuan has seen a tall black slave like Tyson before. But he glanced at it, and a thought flashed in his heart - according to Zhao Jingluo's size, he should find such a majestic guard to accompany him...... Oh, if I turn my face with Zhao Jingluo here, how will the imperial court react? …… Ah Ye, the imperial court got the news of Guangzhou City. It should be half a year later. I don't know how it will be in half a year. But if I turn my face with this big man now, and the black slave next to him beats me, I will definitely be dead, and Zhao Liren will kill his black slave for me afterwards at most-bah bah bah. How can this black guy be worthy of my life?

In the blink of an eye, Fu Caiyuan figured it out, and he knew the current affairs since ancient times. As the world's three major shipping envoys, Lord Zhao has a bad temper, we can't fight with him alone, at least we have to unite the other three divisions...... He immediately bowed his hand to Zhao Xing: "Lord Zhao, please come with this official, my lord has been tired all the way, please go back to the mansion to rest first." I made an appointment with my colleagues to prepare a welcome banquet in Yingjiang Tower, please be sure to enjoy the light. ”

At this time. Wan Qiyong poked his head out from behind the crowd and nodded slightly at Zhao Xing. Get this hint. Zhao Xing took off his helmet, shook off the beads of sweat on his head, and replied: "Very good, when I settle my family, I will definitely change into official clothes and go to Yingjiang Tower to meet you." ”

Zhao Xingken changed into official uniforms, and the officials breathed a sigh of relief, because Zhao Xing's armor was too oppressive. Southerners were originally small. Many people could only reach Zhao Xing's chest. He appeared in the face of an iron giant again, which made people's hearts break out in a cold sweat...... But it's not the same when you change into an official uniform. It made the officials look kind. They said in unison, "Congratulations to Lord Zhao." ”

In addition to Zhao Xingdi's ten giant boats, there are hundreds of large and small wooden boats full of migrant workers in the fleet. With the dispersion of hundreds of officials, these civilian ships docked, among which the Shandong migrant workers had more or less sailing experience and seemed very capable, while those migrant workers in Yingzhou, Henan Province had vomited out of shape, and many of them could not straighten their waists. For this reason, Wan Qiyong temporarily hired a lot of stretchers from the dock and carried them to the nearby military camp - there were too many migrant workers to stay, so they had to live in the barracks.

Zhao Xing's team didn't pack up until the evening and followed Wan Qiyong to Yingjiang Tower. Along the way, Wan Qianyong reported all the way: "We have purchased 30,000 acres of land outside Guangdong and are repairing houses. In addition, I bought a few houses in the south of Guangdong for adults to stay in temporarily. There is still a month to build a new house for adults, and they are all according to the requirements of adults - five-foot thick stone walls to ensure that hurricanes do not hang, heavy rain does not fall, and the inside of the house is warm in winter and cool in summer. ”

Shuai Fan reported on the side: "The military camps in Guangzhou are all grass huts, and the climate here is hot, so they sleep on the ground, and they can't freeze at night, so the military camps in Guangzhou are very dilapidated. Xia Guan came to temporarily build some brick houses, and now we are still rich in these brick houses, but fortunately, there is still a winter time, and in winter, let those migrant workers build more houses, and when spring comes, we will repair the houses while reclaiming the wasteland, and there will be time. ”

Wan Qianyong continued to report: "Lord Li Zhiyi and Liao Zhengyi have taken office, and Lord Shuai personally sent them to their posts, they can't come today, and in addition, except for Su Gong, the rest of those derogatory officials have not arrived at the resettlement site. ”

"Why is it so long?" Zhao Xing frowned and asked: "Why hasn't Master Zhang Jingluo Zhang arrived, I've been on the road for almost half a year, and there is no news at all?" ”

Wan Qiyong nodded: "Normal, normal." The Lingnan road is difficult to walk, so this place is considered to be a bitter place. If Su Gong followed the normal route, he would be able to reach Huizhou in eight months, which was already fast. Now the rest of the officials are still on the way, which is normal, but counting the time, they are almost there. ”

"So we have to build the road", Zhao Xing said: "I discussed with Yanlu Zhidianshuai, the refining of the fierce fire oil factory was moved to Yanlu, and the refining of the fire oil was jointly purchased by him and Huanqing Road, and the residue - that is, the asphalt that Shen Kuo said, was all purchased by us." I also know that there is a big oil mine in the South China Sea, and we will develop the oil mine in the South China Sea and pave the official roads with asphalt.

Now that the money supervision of Guangnan East Road and Guangnan West Road is in our hands, I am ready to reform the means of coinage in these places and change to stamping coinage, so as to reduce fire consumption. That's a big income, and with that revenue we build roads. Quang Nam is vast and sparsely populated, so we only care about the food of the road builders and the materials used to build the road. The cost of road construction for migrant workers is compensated with land, and the remuneration for road construction for one year is to allocate 10 hectares of wasteland, tax exemption and labor for 10 years.

Go back and announce this salary to those people, let them go to the land by themselves, and after the land is enclosed, apply to the government for measurement. It is then registered by the government. Confirmed. Tell them that this land is allowed to be bought and sold and transferred freely, and that the government will not interfere.

I also told those migrant workers that the land in Quang Nam was very fertile, and asked them to bring their wives and children. Then my wife and children farmed, and they built roads for me. When I built the road, I had food and shelter, and when they paid off the value of the enclosure by working on the land, they were free to sell the land and go back to their hometown to live the life of a small rich man. ”

Wan Qiyong hurriedly repeated what Zhao Xing had just said, and after speaking, several people had already rushed to Yingjiang Tower, and Su Yu was greeted at the door. A petty official like him can't get together with the chairman's land, so he went to the door to exchange a few words with Zhao Xing. Seeing that there was no one left and right, Su Yu, that is, Su Ding, came to the front and whispered: "My lord, I have inquired, Zhan Fan, the governor of Huizhou, is very good to my father-in-law, and when my father-in-law arrived in Huizhou on the first day, he held a banquet in Hejiang Building, a famous building in Huizhou.

I heard that my father lived in Hejiang Tower for half a month, and then Zhan Taishou arranged for my father to live in a Buddhist temple. A month later. Xiao Shuang (Cheng Shuang) built a house for his father. My father and Mrs. Wang both moved in, and they are doing well now. The money and food are sufficient, and they also give a message to thank the adults for their care. ”

Zhao Xing grabbed Su Ding's hand, smiled indifferently and said, "Don't call me an adult, call me Brother Xing." Now that I'm in Guangzhou, do we still need to talk so sneakily? I, Zhao Laohu, have to take care of someone, do I need to hide it? I think when I took care of Zhang Xianggong and Lu Huiqing, how could I have hidden it? ”

In fact, Su Dingdi's identity and the people present had already guessed that it was not far from ten, and when Su Ding leaned in to talk to Zhao Xing, many officials in the building had already pricked up their ears to listen. They didn't hear Su Ding's words clearly, but they heard Zhao Xing's words clearly, and when they heard that Zhao Xing had a close relationship with Zhang Xianggong, who was in full swing and had a strong desire for revenge, they turned their faces together, as if they hadn't heard the intimacy between these two people.

Zhao Xing didn't care at all, he took Su Yu's hand and walked into Yingjiang Tower, just like Su Yu was in Huangzhou when he was a child, Su Yi shed tears as he walked, and when he entered the hall, he found Cheng Zhengfu waiting for him, with a thoughtful look on his face.

Sun Cong didn't have a chance to get close to these officials on the dock, and when he saw his target Cheng Zhengfu at this moment, he quickly poked his head out from behind Zhao Xing and made a look, but before Cheng Zhengfu could express his position, he had already slapped Sun Cong on the shoulder, and said with a smile: "Lord Sun, I have long had the intention to talk to you, this moment is just right, come and come, let's go to that table to drink, don't drink you today, this official is not a man." ”

Shuai Fan now has the confidence to talk to Sun Cong like this, because the official position given to him by Zhao Xing in the south this time is: Guangnan East Road Jinglu Jinglu Commander and Deputy Envoy of the Military Case, Commander of Soldiers and Horses.

The capital supervisor of the Economic Strategy Division is the prefect of the state and county orders in the Yamen of the Economic Strategy Division, and is nicknamed "the supervisor of the Supervision Division". And Wan Qianyong's official position is the deputy envoy of the Department of Economic Strategy - the weight of this official position is not much different from that of the envoy himself, in the center of the imperial court, such officials are no different from the ruling powers, known as "Ji Xiang"; In the local economic and strategic division, it is called "planning division".

The capital eunuch and the deputy envoy of the degree branch are both "Cong Liupin officials", which are equivalent to Sun Cong's young eunuchs, but these two people control everything in the Sipin official office. Shuai Fan is a reckless person, so he didn't go up or down when he communicated with Sun Cong - this guy didn't talk to Zhao Xing, let alone Sun Cong, a secret agent leader.

Cheng Zhengfu saw that an official in Zhao Xing's entourage glanced at him, and immediately this official was ripped away by Shuai Fan Shuai Jian Si, who he knew, and brought five hundred family Ding over to show off his might in Guangzhou City, and went around preaching his glorious deeds of following Zhao Xing to fight side by side into Western Xia, and he also liked to find generals in Guangzhou to compete at every turn, and the harassed Guangzhou generals had no temper. Cheng Zhengfu knew that this person was Zhao Xing's confidant, and he couldn't understand how an official who was so close to Zhao Xing's confidant could look at him. Judging from Shuai Fan's actions, this person's actions were already under Zhao Xing's monitoring, so as soon as the other party moved, Zhao Xing's cronies ripped him away.

Thinking of this, a cold sweat broke out on Cheng Zhengfu's forehead, and it was his turn to toast, so he hurriedly picked up the cup and saluted Zhao Xing: "Xiaguan Guangnan East Road mentions a little prison (Xiansi), and rushed to Guangzhou three days ago to greet Zhao Shuaisi." ”

The officials of the "Four Great Supervisors" at the road level are not in one place, perhaps because these people are used to being the king and hegemonic in their own field. reluctance to meet other officials of the same rank; Perhaps it was a containment policy of the Great Song Dynasty, so the four official offices of the "Cao Shuai Xiancang" in various parts of the imperial court were not in the same city. The sentencing station of Guangnan East Road is Shaozhou; The director of Changping Division (referred to as Cangsi) is stationed in Duanzhou; The Yamen of the Transshipment Division is in Panyu, and there are only the Yamen of the Jinglu Division and the Yamen of Guangzhou Zhizhou in the city of Guangzhou. Therefore, it can be said that the officials here all arrived from other places, and Cheng Zhengfu was the farthest away.

Cheng Zhengfu then toasted to show his attitude, and hurriedly looked at Su Ding beside Zhao Xing. said with emotion: "This is Su Xian's nephew." My Cheng clan and the Su family haven't heard from each other for 42 years, but I didn't expect Su Xian's nephew to grow so big. ”

Cheng Zhengfu was because Zhao Xing pulled Su Ding into the door without scruples, so he made such a statement. An official rushed over next to him, and he approached Su Dingtao: "Lord Su originally knew Zhao Shuai?" Why didn't Cheng Xian talk about it? ”

Then, the official turned to Zhao Xing, smiled flatteringly, and introduced himself: "The old man Fang Cipeng is a scholar on Guangnan East Road. It happened to be Lord Su's official land. ”

"Okay, Shangguan is good", Zhao Xing said with a grin: "I just told Shuji (Su Ding)." In the land of Nanban in Guangdong, there should be more schools. Teach the locals how to read and learn characters, and teach all kinds of skills...... I intend to invest between 1 million and 3 million in the next 10 years, of which 500,000 to 1,500,000 will be spent on the construction of school buildings, and the other half will be spent on improving the salaries of the professors of learning—but I do not intend to teach the students the art of sainthood entirely. ”

"Three million guan-" Fang Cipeng took a deep breath, but this breath immediately leaked again, and he asked in surprise: "Zhao Shuai, isn't Lord Su's expression Zhongyu?" What do you call him uncle? ”

"Boundless!" Zhao Xing replied unhappily: "Lord Fang." I'm talking about a three-million-dollar investment. But you care about Master Su's words...... The word "Uncle Ji" is from Lord Su's father, and the word Zhongyu is from Master Su's teacher. I studied with my father. Naturally, he is called by his uncle - this question is not worth three million yuan. That's it, you're not a successful person, and I won't look for you to set up a school. ”

Guangdong Xuezheng happened to belong to civil affairs and was managed by Zhao Xing. So Zhao Xing had a lot of confidence in reprimanding him. Su Ding hurriedly saluted Zhao Xing to redeem his boss's mistake: "Lord Zhao...... No, Brother Xing, Fang Xuezheng is rigorous in his work, good at thinking from a small point of view, and leaving the matter of investing in running a school to Fang Xuezheng will definitely not waste money. "It's good at thinking small – that's how you do things!

Zhao Xing nodded lazily, Fu Caiyuan had already led the rest of the officials on Guangnan East Road to meet him at this time and beckoned Zhao Xing to take a seat. Behind him, Fang Cipeng grabbed Cheng Zhengfu and asked: "Cheng Xian, the lower officials are shallow, I don't know who this Zhao Shuai is trained from?" Who is Lord Su's father? ”

These two questions are one question, Cheng Zhengfu replied while getting rid of Fang Cipengdi's entanglement: "Zhao Xing and Zhao Liren are the disciples of Su Shi and Su Zizhan, and the seven scholars of Su Men know it, don't Lord Fang know?" ”

Fang Cipeng shook his head: "I heard that in the past, Wang Jinggong wanted to change the imperial examination and build a school, and Master Su persuaded His Majesty Shenzong to slow down, thinking that all changes should be based on not disturbing the people, and if it disturbs the people excessively, it is not a good law...... Why did the disciples of Su Shudi want Guangnan East Road to take out millions of runs to run schools? What is the power of the people? The lower officials don't believe it! ”

Cheng Zhengfu's face changed suddenly. When the people around heard this, they all dodged - at this time, Fang Cipeng also said bad things about Wang Anshi, didn't he want to die? He wants to die, but no one else wants to die with him.

Zhao Xing walked halfway, listened to Fang Cipeng's words, and saw the officials who ushered in him change color, he smiled - this stubborn donkey, I like it!

Zhao Xing turned around and arched his hand at Fang Cipeng: "Lord Fang, come and sit together." So that Lord Fang learned that the money for the education on Guangnan East Road did not need to be paid by the government. The money was all sponsored by the gentry, to be specific: this gentry is also me...... If Lord Fang is interested, we will talk about it in detail at the table. Zhao Xingcai sat on the table, Fu Caiyuan was already in the lead, he held a glass of wine to salute Zhao Xing, although his attitude was humble but resolute: "Zhao Shuai, in the next generation of Guangnan East Road officials to salute the adult, and then on behalf of the Guangzhou Bosi officials to the lord of a glass." ”

Fu Caiyuan: This is to show his bottom line.

It is customary for the Guangzhou City Ship Division to be led by the Shuai Chencao Envoy to raise the city's shipping affairs, which is called the "City Shipping Envoy". That is to say, Zhao Xing and Fu Caiyuan both have the power to supervise the city and serve as the "city port department promotion", but Guangzhou has not set up an economic envoy for more than ten years, and it has become a practice for the transfer envoy to manage the city ship department. Fu Caiyuan is telling Zhao Xing that he can let go of all his power, but only the power of the city is not allowed to be touched by others.

Zhao Xing opened his teeth and smiled......