Chapter 17: The Theory of the State
"In Da Song, as long as you have money, you can go anywhere. Even if it is a palace, you can go in and go around for a thousand coins, and if you can get 100,000 coins, ask His Royal Highness the King to set up a stage for you to sing. In short, the Great Song Dynasty is the land of the rich, and money is omnipotent here. Xiao Er of the inn led Mo Yun and his party towards the courtyard rented by Gu Rongyuan.
"Has anyone asked him to sing?" Chao Gong asked.
Xiao Er was stunned for a moment: "What?" ”
"Have your Royal Highness the King of the Great Song Dynasty ever been sold for money to sing, I don't understand this?" Gu Rongyuan said with a smile.
Xiao Er laughed: "Isn't the guest officer joking, with the voice of His Royal Highness the King, who will buy this sin." Look, this is the Jiakuan Courtyard rented by the guest officers. ”
Gu Rongyuan selected six large open houses in the Jiakuan Courtyard for everyone, with an empty courtyard in the middle, transparent from north to south, and flowers and trees flourishing. The master bedroom also has a small second floor, which is climbed up the stairs and overlooks a lush area in the eastern part of the city.
Mo Yun lives in the same house with Xiao Qian and Ning Wan.
He was about to change Xiao Qian's dressing when Gu Rongyuan walked in from outside to stop him.
After listening to Gu Rongyuan's explanation, Mo Yun asked, "You have been in the rivers and lakes for so many years, and you can easily believe what a stranger told you?" And this man is still a fat man. ”
Gu Rongyuan said with a smile: "What's wrong with the fat man, the fat man can also throw Yuan Mouliang in prison." This courtyard was laid down for us by strangers in your mouth. He saw that Xiao Qian had only woken up a few times since she was unconscious, and the time was shorter and shorter, the smile on his face disappeared, showing a worried look: "You also know that if Xiao Qian can't stay awake and accept the treatment of Ice Spirit Grass, with the domineering medicinal properties of this medicine, she is only afraid that she will die of stiffness when she is unconscious." ”
"Now let's find a medical center to treat her unconscious." Mo Yun thought for a moment and admitted that Gu Rongyuan had a point.
Gu Rongyuan had already negotiated with Mo Yun before renting this courtyard, and after the accommodation was arranged, he would find a few old friends in Lin'an to catch up, and he would not be able to come back for a short time.
Mo Yun knew in his heart that Gu Rongyuan tried his best to cut off their relationship in order to avoid the struggle for power within the Ranger Association from causing trouble to Mo Yun, who was carrying out the entrusted task.
Gu Rongyuan always thought that he could take a gamble on Chaogong's task, he was eighty percent sure that Chaogong's identity could help him return to the Ranger Association.
What if it fails? Gu Rongyuan didn't say it, and Mo Yun didn't ask either.
"Take care of everything." Mo Yun said.
"Please pay more attention to the rent here, three hundred jun yuan a day, I have already paid it in advance for five days." Gu Rongyuan reminded before leaving.
Gu Rongyuan, who was gone, didn't hear Mo Yun scolding his eighteenth generation ancestor at the gate of the courtyard.
Mo Yun asked Xiao Yu to take good care of Xiao Qian, and then went out to find the shopkeeper.
"Where's the best medical clinic here?"
"Hit our inn to the south for three blocks, turn the three river steps, look up is a restaurant, no matter what is written on the restaurant, pay fifty coins, go straight to the end of the third floor on the left-hand side, the person sitting there is the best doctor in the Great Song Dynasty." Xiao Er's mouth is piliso, and he finished the path in a few words.
"By the way, who did His Royal Highness the King of Song sing to?" Mo Yun thought of Chao Gong's question before leaving, and seeing that Xiao Er pretended not to understand, he said: "I haven't sung before, how do you know that listening to him sing is a sin." ”
Xiao Er laughed a few times, looked left and right to see that there was no one, and stepped forward and muttered three words in Mo Yun's ear: "Your Royal Highness." ”
Mo Yun pretended to be aware and sighed, Xiao Er seemed to understand when he saw it, and was about to say a few more words, when there was a guest over there who wanted to settle the bill, so he had to go first.
Mo Yun pouted and walked out of the inn.
The Song Kingdom was so prosperous that it had reached the point where the whole city was run by merchants.
Mo Yun followed the path pointed out by Xiao Er to find the medical hall, and felt that all the fat people he could see in his life had been seen along the way. And the fatter the person, the bigger the business.
In Mo Yun's eyes, these fat men are all businessmen.
The Song Kingdom regards fat as beauty, and the fatter people are, the more respectful they are, which shows that you have something to eat and eat well, which is an external manifestation of wealth. Of course, in Mo Yun's opinion, this kind of fat may have other effects.
Because he was too fat, he could only stay in the Song Kingdom and work hard to earn money in order to maintain his status.
The more money you earn, the more wealth you can bring to the Song treasury and maintain diplomatic relations between the Song and the two empires.
Otherwise, once he was thrown away from the Song Kingdom, the fat man would become a fat "two-legged sheep" in the eyes of other vassal states and Youkou.
This world really eats people.
"No wonder Concubine Jin chose to be held in the Song Kingdom, only the countries that the two empires take care of will not be invaded by the vassal states under the control of the two empires." Mo Yun said to Chao Gong, who he met shortly after going out.
"For Beijin and Nanjun, the Song State is the biggest 'two-legged sheep', and when they can't supply their greed one day, it will be when the Song State will fall. You see, although these fat businessmen are all fat and big-eared, their sorrow is gloomy. It is because the tax discount of the Song State has been so high that they are about to be unable to bear it. Chao Gong is very willing to communicate with each other on matters that do not involve him, and he has certain opinions about the vassal states of Dongzhou.
Mo Yun never thought of going so deep: "How do you know? ”
"Observe." Chao Gong hesitated for a moment and replied.
"Do you think Song Guo can still be saved?" Mo Yun asked.
"Let's see if this golden concubine meeting can be successful. I believe that the current lord of the Song State must be more worried than his subjects, and he has to make a choice. Chao Gong spread his hands and said expressionlessly.
"If you think about it along your lines, even the crossbow machine and the luminous bead, these are not to show off their wealth." Mo Yun looked clear.
"If you want to make it die, make it crazy. This is generally good in the Song Kingdom. Chao Gong sighed, "It's a pity that the Plains of Zhuzhan is the only pure land." ”
"What kind of pure land, a tyrant that even his own people are unwilling to protect." Mo Yun was full of unhappiness when he thought of the former nationals who were driven away from the Song State on the border line.
"At least in this land, order is far better than chaos. The people need to live in peace, not to be displaced. Chao Gong disagreed with Mo Yun's statement.
Mo Yun pursed his lips and diverted away from this topic that he was not familiar with: "Why did Luo Xiaoyu participate in this Golden Concubine Meeting?" ”
He is also not familiar with this topic.
Chao Gong pondered for a moment and said, "Sacrificing her alone can save thousands of trainees. Her family thought it was worth it. ”
Mo Yun stopped and looked at Chao Gong with a surprised expression.
Chao Gong shook his head: "It's not Song Guo." In short, she is just a moth to a fire and does not change anything. So I came to save her. ”
Mo Yun then shook his head: "Correct, I helped you rescue her." You can only stand stupidly in the face of the knife, which is far from it. ”
Chao Gong's face remained unchanged: "My skills are not as good as others, I am worthy of it." ”
Mo Yun was stunned for a long time, and corrected it casually, but when he got such an answer, he began to admire this son-in-law who was a little single. No wonder Yuan Mouliang doesn't like him no matter how he looks at him, it turns out that he is almost the same kind of person.
The two of them didn't say anything all the way, until Mo Yun walked to the door of the restaurant where Xiao Er didn't care what he wrote, he just paid fifty Jun coins to enter, and he was embarrassed to find that he didn't bring any money.
He looked at Chao Gong. Chao Gong still had a paralyzed face, and spread his hands: "My last five Jun coins were accepted by the shopkeeper as a fee on the eve of yesterday." ”
"And what are you going to do?" Mo Yun blurted out.
"You brought me here, I'm just out for a walk." Chao Gong shrugged.