Chapter 40 Uniting the Great Rear
The expansion of Cangzhou City is progressing very smoothly, Jiang Yin has wholesaled thousands of tons of stone bricks and cement from modern times, after these raw materials are complete, the construction of the city is simply three changes a day, a big city unimaginable by ancient people, built in Cangzhou at an unimaginable speed. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
Ruan Xiaoqi wiped the sweat from his forehead, the weather was very cold, but he was sweating all over, surrounded by all kinds of workers, everyone was in full swing, the foreman said, if this wall can be built today, then everyone will add a chicken leg to the cannibal tonight.
Thinking of chicken legs, Ruan Xiaoqi worked harder.
Ruan Xiaoqi's work is not complicated, he only needs to take out the burned red bricks from the cart, smear a layer of cement on the red bricks, and then put the red bricks in the position ordered by the foreman.
He has put up hundreds of walls according to this standard.
Ruan Xiaoqi likes this job very much, in the days he has lived for eighteen years, for the first time he feels that he is not doing a lowly thing, in the past, whether it is to be a tooth man for others, or to do things for rich and noble people, it is commonplace to be beaten and scolded, Ruan Xiaoqi studied with the old scholar in the same village for two years when he was very young, so in the face of that kind of discrimination, Ruan Xiaoqi always felt wronged.
So Ruan Xiaoqi finally chose to join the beggar gang, preferring to beg and be free, not to be used by those rich and noble people, and to be beaten from time to time.
But now, after participating in the construction of the big city, Ruan Xiaoqi found that he could be so happy when he worked. The official who hired them gave out a bag of rice every three days, and he never defaulted, and he built that kind of beautiful tin house for these people, not to mention food, one meat and three meals a day.
In the first eighteen years of Ruan Xiaoqi, the days of eating meat could be counted on his fingers, but working here, he could eat meat every day, he really hoped that this big city could be built forever.....
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Jiang Yin stood on the tower of the inner city of Cangzhou, looking into the distance, tens of thousands of workers were breaking ground on the vast plain in front of them, busy figures were intertwined in it, and everyone was doing what they should do in an orderly manner.
The outline of a large city has begun to take shape, and red bricks poured in cement have gradually begun to wrap around the city, forming the strongest wall of the era.
The weather is still very cold, and the north wind whistling over the face will make people feel very cold, but Jiang Yin's heart is so hot at the moment, everything is proceeding according to his own plan in an orderly manner, and the trajectory of the history of the Great Song Dynasty is about to change from this city.
"It's worthy of overseas thaumaturgy, I'm afraid you are the only one in the world who has the ability to make such a big city in just half a month." I don't know when, Wang Sizong walked out, he glanced at the prosperous scene in the distance, and he was a little distracted.
"Brother Xi Ruan." Jiang Yin turned around and patted him on the shoulder.
"Aren't these dozen **** all very busy? Why do you have time to call me here? Wang Sizong looked at it for a while, then shook his head and looked at Jiang Yin with a solemn expression.
"Well, there's something, the news just came from Bianjing." Jiang Yin took out an envelope from his arms, then shrugged his shoulders and handed it to Wang Sizong.
Wang Sizong resulted in the envelope, only to see that it was written in gilt letters, 'Cangzhou Governor Cheng Fengge kissed'.
Seeing this column of words, Wang Sizong's eyes shrank, as long as the heart is written in this kind of gilt characters, it is a letter written by the emperor to local officials on behalf of the official, so this letter was written by the emperor to the prefect of Cangzhou.
Pulling out the envelope in panic, Wang Sizong's eyes widened.
Jiang Yin was standing not far away, looking at the construction site in the distance, and said in a light tone: "Zhao Kuangyin died, the official said that he died in the middle of the night, but he was actually poisoned to death by his younger brother Zhao Guangyi, and now that Zhao Guangyi has ascended the throne, this letter was written by him to Cheng Fengge, the prefect of Cangzhou." ”
Wang Sizong seemed to be unable to hear it at the moment, so he had to tighten his teeth and read the letter in one go.
Seeing the end, his expression was almost distorted, there was self-blame, remorse, anger, and confusion, in short, Jiang Yin looked at his face with so many expressions, and he thought it was very interesting.
"Why do you say that Taizu was not killed violently, but poisoned by Zhao Guangyi?!" Wang Sizong gritted his teeth and asked one last question.
"Hey, I'm glad I knew you'd ask that, so I took a picture." Jiang Yin smiled slyly, and then took out a stack of photos from his cuffs.
The angle of these dozen photos was taken at the height of the beams, and one thing was taken from those photos, that is, when Zhao Guangyi turned around to toast, he sprinkled a bag of poison in the wine jug, and the light at that time happened to hit the faces of Zhao Guangyi and Zhao Kuangyin perfectly, as well as the white powder that flowed into the wine jug, which made people see it very clearly.
"This! ... This! ... This!! ..... "When Wang Sizong saw these photos, he was shocked, he had seen King Jin, and he had also seen Zhao Kuangyin, but these two people actually appeared on a piece of paper! And this piece of paper is recording the moment when Zhao Guangyi was poisoned!
"Don't do this, that's it, now I say, your emperor was killed by his own brother, will you still respect such a person as the emperor?" Jiang Yin asked confidently.
"Kill your brother to take his throne, this kind of person naturally can't be respected as the emperor....." Wang Sizong's tone became more and more powerless.
"That's good, then now that Zhao Guangyi killed his brother and took the throne, I fought for Zhao Kuangyin's two sons and raised troops to resist, is there any reason?"
"There is no wrong reason to crusade against unrighteous people and seek the world for the prince...."Wang Sizong felt as if he was experiencing a molt, oh my God, Emperor Taizu was poisoned by his own brother! This made him a little unacceptable for a while, no matter what.
"Okay, since I am a righteous teacher, and now the two princes are young, I will build the city defense in this Cangzhou city, and I will fight with Zhao Guangyi to the death in the future, will you join now?"
Wang Sizong's face was pale at the moment, and in the end, he nodded with great difficulty, as if he had exhausted all his strength and said, "I... Join ....."
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The high-level leaders of Cangzhou City have all been controlled by Jiang Yin, and before showing their loyalty, Jiang Yin showed them photos of Zhao Guangyi killing Zhao Kuangyin, and announced at the same time that he would make thousands of copies of these dozen photos and then send them to the palace.
Now they only have two ways to go, either they are loyal to Jiang Yin and follow Jiang Yin to resist Zhao Guangyi, who seized power by murdering his brother, or they are loyal to Zhao Guangyi, and now they are immediately covered and left, Jiang Yin no longer welcomes them to appear in Cangzhou.
Since ancient times, standing in line is a problem, which of these Cangzhou high-level officials is not a human spirit, they are also watching now, Jiang Yin They don't look at it, but Jiang Yin represents the camp of the two princes to a certain extent, once they can help the prince ascend the throne, this is a thousand years of merit, enough to eat for a lifetime.
But now the emperor in the court is still Zhao Guangyi, he has more rights to use the army, they don't know if Jiang Yin is a general who can win battles.
So after some weighing, the management of Cangzhou still ran for the most part, and everyone still thought that Jiang Yin, a hairy boy, couldn't do the old fritter Zhao Guangyi, who now owns the world.
This is actually not out of Jiang Yin's expectations, these ancients, there are not many who have a long-term vision, and the officials are more of a generation of wine bags and rice bags, these people are gone, Jiang Yin actually doesn't feel anything, he believes that selecting a group of people from the bottom to manage the Great Song Dynasty can make his policies more close to the people.
However, in the management of Cangzhou, some people did surprise Jiang Yin, such as Cheng Fengge, the prefect of Cangzhou, who did not leave when he made the final decision.
After he confirmed that Zhao Guangyi killed Zhao Kuangyin, he was full of anger towards the new emperor, and listened to Wang Sizong say that the reason why Cheng Fengge was able to become the prefect of Cangzhou was largely due to the fact that he and Zhao Kuangyin fought together in the past, although he did not have such a deep friendship with Zhao Kuangyin like the ten brothers of the Yishe Society, but Zhao Kuangyin took good care of him and admired his talent.
In Wang Sizong's original words, 'how can you not repay the grace of knowing the encounter.'" ’
For the very paranoid character of the ancients, Jiang Yin actually just wants to clap his hands and praise, and now there are high-ranking officials in his camp, I believe that soon, there will be more and more such officials! ...
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