Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty was particularly fond of strange stones, and ordered the rare cultural relics in the southeast region to be looted.

In some places, bridges were demolished and castles were chiseled to allow fleets to pass. Therefore, it often makes the people of Jiangnan miserable.

There are also many historians who believe that Song Huizong's action of mining strange stones was the beginning of the death of the Song Dynasty, and Zhao Kai also felt that it was not nonsense.

Song Huizong liked strange stones. If it is an ordinary person, give up everything to play with stones, it will be enough, at most it will ruin a family. However, as an emperor who likes stones, it is a big problem, because his home is the country, and his people are the people. Song Huizong likes stones, and the people below have to cater to them, which gives rise to the word Huashigang in history.

These strange flowers and stones were greatly appreciated by Song Huizong, and the tribute was rewarded by the promotion of officials and knights.

As a result, the emperor's personal hobby became a state act, and the state act was to achieve the goal at all costs, in order to collect and transport more and more exotic flowers and stones, to build large ships and levy labor.

This kind of expenditure of human and material resources can neither strengthen the country nor enrich the people, if only this is to increase fiscal expenditure and the people's labor. Officials at all levels also used the name of tribute to eat the common people to feed themselves, and because of the emperor's sword, they were like wolves and tigers to the people. Officials searched everywhere for exotic stones, and wherever they found something they liked, the ownership went to the royal family free of charge.

The original owner had to protect these things as royal objects, and then tear down the walls and destroy the house and ship them out. In order to ensure the integrity of this exotic stone, there are countless bankrupts. Ordinary people who did not have such exotic flowers and stones had to be conscripted as coolies for transportation.

The people are very suffering, especially in the southeast of Zhejiang, where there are many strange flowers and stones, and the damage is even deeper. This led to the Fangla Uprising. The royal army's conquest of the rebel army is an internal struggle between the Chinese and the Chinese, and the alien race will not have an opportunity?

For more than 20 years before and after the Huashi Gang, there were hundreds of thousands of strange stones transported to the capital, among which the most expensive stone, the freight alone was 300,000 yuan, which was equivalent to the annual income of 10,000 ordinary families at that time.

In the midst of rough seas during transportation, there were countless people and ships, and it was followed by six years of construction of Genyue (a garden where flowers and stones were stored) and a large construction project of the princely family.

No matter how the economy, science, and culture of the Great Song Dynasty reached its historical peak, the finances could not bear such huge expenditures, and the people could not bear such huge suffering.

said that it was the beginning of the death of the Song Dynasty, and Zhao Kai felt that it was not an exaggeration at all.

Halfway through, Zhao Kai was afraid that he couldn't help but smash these strange stones, so he found a reason to leave.

Zhao Kai walked in this high-walled compound, and thought of the shame of Jingkang that was still coming in three years, and he had a lot of thoughts.

Today, Zhao Kai can be regarded as seeing the decay of the Northern Song Dynasty, Song Huizong is greedy for pleasure, and traitors are in power, how can he resist the iron hooves of Dajin.

Zhao Kai has an idea, that is, to rectify the military of the Northern Song Dynasty, after all, only strong soldiers can protect the country.

But this is not easy to say, the Northern Song Dynasty emphasized literature and light military affairs, and used civil ministers to control military affairs, which led to the weak military strength of the Northern Song Dynasty.

This also happens to show that Song Huizong was afraid of the appearance of people like Zhao Kuangyin and rebelled.

"Oh my God, what the hell am I going to do?" Zhao Kai couldn't help but look up to the sky and sighed, losing confidence in the Northern Song Dynasty.

"Brother." At the corner in front, a big girl and a small girl walked out, and the little girl saw Zhao Kai with a happy face and ran towards Zhao Kai.

This eldest and youngest two daughters are Roufu and Zhao Kai's love at first sight, a short-haired and cold woman.

Roufu was dressed in palace clothes, and she looked quite Wenxiu, and plunged into Zhao Kai's arms, and said coquettishly, "My brother entered the palace to see Huanhuan?" Huan Huan originally wanted to go out of the palace to see her brother, but her father did not allow Huan Huan to leave the palace. ”

Zhao Kai touched Roufu's hair and said with a faint smile, "Does Huan Huan want to hear the truth or a lie?" ”

"Truth." Roufu raised his head and looked at Roufu with very beautiful eyes open.

"Tell me the truth." Zhao Kai paused, showing a helpless look: "The truth is that I actually came to ask my father for peace this time." ”

When Roufu heard this, she was unhappy, frowned, and snorted coldly, "Hmph, stinky brother, Huan Huan still listens to lies." ”

Zhao Kai saw that Roufu was so cute, smiled, and then said, "It's important to ask my father for peace, and it's equally important to come to see Huan Huan." ”

When Roufu heard this, he smiled, Zhao Kai raised his head and looked at the cold woman standing not far away, and his little heart was pounding again.

The glamorous woman is wearing a women's military uniform today, with dark red as the main tone of the clothes and dark gold lines as decorations.

Zhao Kai vaguely felt that he seemed to have seen this costume somewhere, but he couldn't remember it, so you didn't think about it, and showed a smile that he thought was very sunny at the cold woman.

As a result, the cold woman directly ignored Zhao Kai's smile, stepped forward, clasped her fists and saluted like a Jianghu person, and lightly spit out two words, "King Yun." ”

Zhao Kai didn't care at all that the cold woman was so cold to him, so he felt that the cold woman had a lot of personality, you have a personality, I like it.

Zhao Kai squatted down and whispered in Roufu's ear, "Huanhuan, that cold beauty is your guard?" ”

When Roufu heard this, he pointed at the cold woman, "Do you mean Sister Ran'er?" Sister Ran'er is the teacher that her father slowly found to teach Huan Huan martial arts. ”

Roufu's voice was neither big nor small, but it was enough for the cold and glamorous woman to hear it clearly, and she looked at Zhao Kai lightly.

Where did Zhao Kai think that Roufu was so uncooperative with him, looking at the cold and glamorous woman, he suddenly had a feeling that he had done something bad and had been discovered, and his face was slightly red.

The cold woman spoke slowly, and her tone was extremely cold, "If King Yun wants to know something, he can ask Xia Guan directly." ”

Zhao Kai's face became not ordinary thick under the blessing of love, the cold and glamorous woman said so, Zhao Kai got up without saying a word and said, "What's your name?" ”

"Chu Ran."

"Chu Ran, yes, both clearly understood, good name." Zhao Kai pretended to be very knowledgeable and exclaimed.

However, Zhao Kai's acting skills are very bad, very bad, and the appearance of admiration is very exaggerated, and the cold and glamorous woman, that is, Chu Ran, after glancing at Zhao Kai, don't look over, which makes Zhao Kai very embarrassed.

Roufu was very unhappy when he saw that he was neglected, standing between Zhao Kai and Chu Ran, and said angrily, "Brother, Sister Ran'er, Huan Huan does not allow you to ignore Huan Huan." ”

Chu Ran looked at Roufu and nodded.

Zhao Kai smiled, "Ha, don't be angry, Xiao Huanhuan, my brother didn't ignore Huanhuan, how could my brother ignore Huanhuan." ”

Roufu's angry appearance eased a little, "Huan Huan, for the time being, I believe in my brother." ”