Chapter 41 The Emperor's Strategy, Tests the Hearts of the People
After everything was over, Zhao Kuangyin brought Zhao Dezhao's map back to Funing Palace, and then stood in front of the map all night, looking around with a magnifying glass, this map was really detailed, Zhao Kuangyin was fascinated at the moment, and his great cause of imperial unification was also brewing.
At this moment, the current Wude Si Wude envoy Wang Renzhen entered the palace overnight to meet the emperor.
"Chen Wude sent Wang Ren to meet His Majesty."
Zhao Kuangyin turned around from the map and said, "Get up, come and see this map with me." ”
When Wang Renzhen looked at the map, he was also stunned by the rivers, lakes, seas, mountains and rivers on it, he looked at the places on the map carefully, and suddenly saw a spindle-shaped island, and said in surprise: "Your Majesty, this map is really detailed, including many countries, and this is what His Royal Highness King Liang said!" ”
"Yes, this is Liuqiu."
"Your Majesty, the minister has already learned the situation from the Quanzhou Wude Division, and the two sea ships have now bypassed Quanzhou, and I believe that they will disembark in Yangzhou soon."
"Yes, I'm an impatient, and I really hope that the ship will arrive in Kaifeng as soon as possible. By the way, Ren Zhen, how is the news in the capital recently, is there anyone who is ready to move? ”
"Your Majesty can rest assured that the minister has already planted secret agents in various places, and according to the informant, there is no sign of rebellion."
"Hmm! Continue to monitor everything in the capital, and if there is any trouble, immediately report to me. ”
"No!"
"Ren Zhen, you are my old shogunate, I have something to explain to you, from today I will promote you to the right leading army guard general, as the privy council, and the position of the martial envoy of the Wude Division is still held by you, tonight you go to the Wude Division to mobilize 200 fine works, and then go to the forbidden army to mobilize 500 soldiers, in a few days I plan to mix this group of people into the army in the name of the forbidden army soldiers, and secretly monitor the Champong, Chenla and Annan Ding Dynasty. Remember, only you know about it! ”
Wang Renzhen is his former shogunate, and now serves as a martial envoy and a Zuo Feilong envoy, and this person is insidious, good at the whole person's wrists, and was born in a military school, and his ability to command the army is far above Zhao Pu. Zhao Pu and he were both talents recommended by Liu Ci, after the Chen Qiao Mutiny, in the first year of Jianlong, Zhao Kuangyin appointed Wang Renzhen to take charge of the Wude Division, which was paralyzed in the Later Zhou Dynasty.
And now although most of the forbidden army is in his own hands, but other generals still have some in their hands, so he plans to draw troops from other forbidden army generals to use them for the purpose of occupying the city, if it were not for the Zhou State when Wu Desi was almost paralyzed, and the people who monitored Zhao Dezhao did not play a role, I am afraid that Zhao Dezhao would not have lived to this day.
As a dead party, Shi Shouxin and the palace were ordered by Shi Shouxin and Wang Xianqi in front of the palace, and the guards guarding the palace defected, cutting off the possibility of reinforcing the palace by forces loyal to the Zhou Dynasty outside the palace, and I am afraid that the "Chen Qiao Mutiny" will not be so smooth, and since sitting on the throne, Zhao Kuangyin feels a heavy responsibility, and has worked hard all night to prevent the soldiers of the forbidden army around him from concocting the same way, and then staged a "yellow robe" drama.
Under Wang Renzhen's control, the officials of the DPRK and China were very afraid of him.
"Thank you, Your Majesty, for handing over this important task to Weichen, and the minister will do his best to die!"
"Hmm! Renzhen, you can go out of the palace to do things now. ”
Wang Renzhen received the emperor's order, that is, he went out of the palace to gather people and horses, told his cronies about the matter, and completed the order the next day.
The next day, above the morning meeting. After careful consideration yesterday, Zhao Kuangyin agreed to the request of the envoy of the Champa State, sent 500 soldiers and horses, and at the same time also sent the current Honglu Temple Cheng to hold the Great Song State Book, and on the same day and the envoy of the Champa State, Amu Pineapple, went south to see the king of Champang.
In order to make the two countries more friendly, Zhao Kuangyin also agreed that when the merchant ships of the Champa Kingdom arrived at the port of the Great Song Dynasty, the goods could be exempted from duty, and at the same time, Amu Pineapple also said that if the sea ships of the Great Song Dynasty arrived in the city, he could also ask the king for tax exemption.
Amu Pineapple was very grateful for the generosity of the Great Song Emperor, thinking that although the Great Song Kingdom sent very few personnel, only 500 people, but as a small country, the Great Song Dynasty was a big country at that time, and helped a small country in Zhancheng, so in any case, Amu Pineapple was grateful to the Great Song Dynasty, and after he completed the task of the King of Zhancheng, he stayed in the capital for a day, and Zhao Dezhao introduced the customs of the capital, and then took him to the Guangwei Restaurant for hospitality.
Amu Pineapple is very fond of the food of Guangwei Restaurant, and after eating it once, he can't put it down, and later after knowing that this is the property of Zhao Dezhao, the king of Liang, he was very surprised, "The minister also ate the same food in Quanzhou, and it turns out that this Guangwei Restaurant is the property of His Royal Highness." And I didn't expect His Highness's business to be so big, and the minister had seen it in the port of Quanzhou. ”
"Amumu Noble Envoy, it turns out that you have also been to Quanzhou, how is the Guangwei Restaurant there?" Zhao Dezhao asked, after all, he was just a hands-off shopkeeper, and the affairs of the restaurant were basically taken care of by Bai Gucheng, the general manager, he was just a chairman, just a plan for the big plan and the general direction.
"Your Highness, although the scale there is not as large as that of Kaifeng, there are still quite a lot of merchants from the vassal kingdom who go there, such as the big cannibals, the Tianzhu people, and the Annan people...... It's all there, and they even like His Highness's food. Amumu said this, he looked at Zhao Dezhao with admiration, and at the same time, he was a little reluctant to leave the Great Song Dynasty in his heart.
"Ahem, this Xiao Wang has been investigated, and in order to take care of so many people with different tastes, Xiao Wang has put a lot of thought into it." Zhao Dezhao's face was very embarrassed, and he rubbed his hands embarrassedly.
"Your Royal Highness, compared to our cooks in the city country, there are not so good cooking skills, since eating His Royal Highness's food, my Amu pineapple wants to stay in Kaifeng and not leave, alas--but the king's order is difficult to follow, since the mission of the envoy has been completed, the minister plans to leave the capital tomorrow morning and go back to resume his life."
"By the way, Amumu Noble Envoy, since you leave tomorrow, it is better for Xiao Wang to give you two cooks, and you can taste the food of the Great Song Dynasty during the long journey."
"No, no, no, Your Highness, this matter is really frustrating for the ministers." When Amu Pineapple heard that His Royal Highness King Liang was going to give him two cooks, it was too late to be happy, but this shirk still had to be done.
"Don't worry, this is not a bribe, but what Xiao Wang asked again. Xiao Wang plans to make a deal with the noble envoy, and Xiao Wang also plans to open a Guangwei restaurant in Zhancheng State. It's just that now Xiao Wang has something to do, and Xiao Wang is not easy to come forward, and plans to let the noble envoy serve as the owner of Guangwei Restaurant in Zhancheng State, as for the distribution of interests, Xiao Wang only needs two achievements to be enough. "After all, the city is too far away to be involved at once.
"No, no, Your Highness, you regard Amumu as a mercenary businessman, if Amumu does this, His Majesty the King will not be able to pass that level."
"Since the noble envoy of Amumu said so, it should be regarded as if this king had never said it." Zhao Dezhao said this, with a slight helplessness and anger in his tone.
"Your Highness, Amumu shouldn't say that, if Your Highness is like this, Amumu has a way. A man named Cayenne under Amumu is a good helper, and some of Amumu's things are entrusted to him. "Amumu is also a good person, he is afraid of Zhao Dezhao's purpose, and as an official in the Zhancheng State, he is still a person valued by the king, if he is in business, he is afraid that he will be condemned and suspicious by the king.
"Really? Where is Cayenne? Take Xiao Wang to meet him. Hearing Amumu say this, Zhao Dezhao also knew that Amumu was accepting this matter tactfully, and in front of interests, no matter who it was, he would be driven by interests.
Amumu summoned Cayenne, and Cayenne, after meeting His Royal Highness King Liang, also knew King Liang, and he decided that cooperating with King Liang would definitely go smoothly and succeed immediately.
Zhao Dezhao's natural instinct determined that Cayenne was a talented and intelligent businessman, under Zhao Dezhao's test, Cayenne was even more unexpected than Zhao Dezhao imagined, such a person with a businessman's mind should be in business, but unfortunately Amumu couldn't give him such an environment, and this time Cayenne was also surprised, he was actually valued by His Royal Highness King Liang and gave him a chance to do business, so he was even more grateful to Zhao Dezhao.
"Cayenne, all the restaurant business in Champa will be handed over to you to take care of, and if you run it properly in the future, you can also develop abroad."
"Thank you Your Highness for your trust, it's just that Cayenne is a person from the Champa Kingdom, why does His Highness believe in a person who has only met once, His Highness is risky to do this, and the Champan is separated from the Great Song Dynasty by such a long distance, if Cayenne has a selfish intention and directly swallows the restaurant of the Champa Kingdom, isn't His Highness busy in vain."
"Cayenne, this is my instinct for a person, this king believes that he will not see the wrong person, and you just said why this king will believe you at will, in fact, if you look at a person's eyes, you will know whether he is lying, and what this king finds in your eyes is not deception, but sincerity and gratitude. As for what will happen then, this king will still believe you. ”
"Your Highness, you trust me so much, and leave the entire business of the Champa Kingdom to me to take care of, the villain doesn't know how to speak, but please rest assured, Your Highness, Cayenne will not disappoint Your Highness."
"Very well, you remember what you said today. The king of tomorrow will send you two cooks, although the number is small, but the king believes that with your strength, it will definitely surprise people. ”
"Thank you Your Highness for your kindness, Cayenne will definitely surprise Your Highness."
"Alright, take care."
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The next day, Zhao Dezhao sent two Amumu and two Cayenne, a total of four people. And Amumu also took the 500 "forbidden army" soldiers sent by the Great Song Emperor and the officials of the Great Song Honglu Temple from Kaifeng and walked south.
And at this time, the boat that Liuqiu came back to change the inland river ship in Yangzhou, loaded a total of four, and the waterline is still very deep, it seems that this harvest is a lot, and in Kaifeng, the emperor attaches great importance to it, and has sent court officials and forbidden soldiers to the south on the same day to protect these four ships.
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ps. Wang Renzhen (917-982), a native of Fangcheng (now Henan City) in Tangzhou. In the Song Dynasty, he successively served as the Wude Envoy, the Left Feilong Envoy, the Right Leading Guard General, the Privy Envoy, the Jingnan Inspection Envoy, the Inner Guest Provincial Envoy, the Privy Deputy Envoy, the Judgment Left-behind Division, the Tokyo Stay-at-Large, the Judgment Third Division, and the Inspection Taibao.