Zong Ze and Dahui Zen Master passed by at the door, and Dahui Zen Master also gave Zong Ze a salute.

Chao Yong saw Zong Ze come in, poured a cup of tea for Zong Ze with his own hands, and said with a smile: "This is the tea cooked by the monks of Jingshan Temple, Master Zong tastes it." ”

Zong Ze hurriedly took it with both hands, thanked him, took a sip, and praised: "Jingshan Temple's tea ordering technique really lives up to its reputation. ”

Chao Yong said with a smile: "The plaything is demoralized, and it is better to use that kung fu to deal with military and political affairs." ”

For example, the great poet Su Shi spent more time on touring the mountains and rivers, chanting poems, researching winemaking, cooking tea, and eating than dealing with political affairs. It's not that Su Shi is so debauched, but that most scholars are like this.

Zong Ze is a rare scholar who is diligent in government and loves the people, and when he heard this, he said solemnly: "The prince is diligent, and the lower officials have been taught." ”

Chao Yong nodded and said: "The mountains and rivers in the south of the Yangtze River are also beautiful, and it is easy to make people drunk between the mountains and rivers. However, since you are an official, you must regard political affairs as the first priority. If you want to be drunk with the landscape, then it is better to resign and be an idler, so as not to mislead others and yourself. The atmosphere of officialdom must not be broken. ”

Zong Ze heard Chao Yong say this, and he also "knew" why Chao Yong was able to invent so many things. Physics is definitely not a theology, but a science, but it has not yet been published, and the world does not know what physics is studied. Just like the mathematics preached by the prince, in fact, it only introduces some new numbers, symbols, and algorithms, which is essentially arithmetic, not a new science. If you spend all your time on a discipline, you will naturally pay off.

A few days after Chao Yong's expedition, the company began selling small quantities of glasses, magnifying glasses, and telescopes, each of which was sought after by Tokyo's magnates.

For a time, Tokyo Mirror was expensive.

There were shrewd merchants who bought it from Tokyo and sent it to the south day and night to sell it at a price of double or even several times. Although through the Liang Di newspaper. Everyone in the world knows that it is sold by the mirror store, but the mirror store only opens a store in Tokyo, and the supply exceeds demand, so many wealthy people in Jiangnan are willing to buy these things at a higher price.

It can be said that when the Liang soldiers and horses had not yet entered Jiangnan, Yinjing took the lead in entering Jiangnan.

Zong Ze said solemnly: "The prince has good words, and the lower officials have the courage to ask the prince to leave a black treasure and hang it in the yamen, so that the lower officials can always be vigilant." ”

Chao Yong smiled: "Just write it, my words are not as good as Zhao Ji, Cai Jingna and others." I won't be ugly. I have invited you here to talk to you about political affairs. There are many displaced people in the south of the Yangtze River, and if you wait for the imperial court to canonize you, you will have to delay for many days. So I want you to take office tomorrow. First of all, Salesian homes, nursing homes, Anji homes, and leaky gardens were opened in various places to help the people. ”

Zong Ze nodded and said, "The prince is merciful, but he recruited 200,000 soldiers and horses before and consumed the treasury. Now the treasury of the state is empty, the imperial court has exempted the agricultural tax, and the autumn tax cannot be counted on, I am afraid that I can only wait for the imperial court to allocate money and grain. ”

In the past, the girder was laid down on the ground. will kill corrupt officials and shoddy gentry in various places, and the confiscated money and grain will be enough to meet the expenses of the local yamen, and some state capitals will even pay excess money and grain to the imperial court.

After the amnesty, corrupt officials and gentry everywhere were afraid of losing their heads. I want to tie myself up and shut myself up at home, so that I don't do evil. No matter how much the state capitals are liquidated, they can't catch many evildoers, and even fewer can raid their homes.

Chao Yong nodded and said, "When I came, the imperial court had already decided to confer knighthood in Jiangnan." Those who donate 100,000 yuan or 50,000 stone of grain to the imperial court can be named a baron. How can you? ”

It's not the first time Chao Yong has used this trick, he changed a lot of money and grain in Western Xia. After that, it was not promoted in various places, but it was because he didn't want to make Daliang's title worthless, and now the imperial treasury was also a little tight, and it took longer to transport money and grain from Tokyo, and only by quickly stabilizing the rear could Chao Yong continue to transport troops to the south.

After the destruction of the Southern Song Dynasty, there were still three families with large troops in the territory of the original Song Dynasty, namely Lu Shinang, who occupied the south of Jiangnan East Road and the north of Fujian Road, and Li Heng, the pacification envoy of Guangdong Road, and the Vietnamese Li Dynasty who stole Guangxi. Jinghu Road and Kuizhou Road in the west are some state capitals attached to Daliang, and some are attached to the Southern Song Dynasty, but they are all nominal, and the state capitals are basically in a state of autonomy. Once the Great Liang swept away the Southern Song Dynasty, Jinghu Road and Kuizhou Road were basically pacified.

The pacification of Guangdong Road enabled Li Heng to master tens of thousands of soldiers and horses on Guangdong Road, although there were not many troops, but they were the most important soldiers and horses of Chao Yong. With the system of the Song Dynasty, even if the envoy was pacified all the way, he could not fully control the soldiers and horses all the way, and Li Heng was able to control all the soldiers and horses on the Guangdong Road because of Liu Huasan.

Liu Huasan was also the leader of the peasant uprising, and the army was still before Fang La. Zhao Ji set up Huashigang for many years, and the people in the southeast were already miserable, so Liu Huasan rebelled on Jiangnan West Road in the first year of Xuanhe. However, it was suppressed by the Song Dynasty, so he could only lead his troops south to Guangdong. Although Liu Huasan's uprising was not as well-prepared as Fang La, he also had some heroes in the rivers and lakes, so he was able to switch from Jiangnan West Road to Fujian Road and Guangdong Road, so that the Song Dynasty could not be exterminated.

After Liu Huasan fled to Guangdong Road, Zhao Ji appointed Li Heng as the pacification envoy of Guangdong Road, and asked him to lead his troops to exterminate Liu Huasan.

Speaking of which, Li Heng is also quite legendary, smart and studious since he was a child, and he is angry and motivated. The county examination and the township examination have been famous, but the three times he participated in the Ministry of Rites examination, he was named Sun Shan.

However, Li Heng did not give up because of this, and resolutely gave up literature and martial arts. In the first year of Daguan, he went to Beijing to participate in the martial arts and won the champion of Wukui in one fell swoop.

During the Daguan period, the ethnic minorities in Yizhou, Guangxi Province rioted, and he was ordered to suppress it, and he was able to make up for his right post because of his merits. Later, he entered Nandan Prefecture, and the local ethnic minority leaders paid money one after another, and Li Heng was promoted to a martial arts doctor.

In the second year of Xuanhe, the peasant rebel army led by Liu Huasan grew stronger and stronger, from Qianzhou and Jizhou on the Jiangnan West Road to Guangdong Road. Song Huizong saw that the generals sent in front of him could not exterminate Liu Huasan, so he hurriedly increased the number of Jiangxi and Guangdong Quanzhi Wuchen to mention one prisoner and one member of the road prison, and Li Heng also served as the pacification envoy of Guangdong Road, and the commander of the troops and horses all the way to eliminate Liu Huasan.

Because there were many heroes under Liu Huasan's command, Li Heng could not quickly exterminate Liu Huasan, but Li Heng also continued to weaken Liu Huasan's forces, and it was not until July of the third year of Xuanhe that Li Heng captured Liu Huasan and completely quelled Liu Huasan's rebellion.

In May, Tong Guan once sent someone to contact Li Heng and ask Li Heng to be loyal to the Southern Song Dynasty. After Li Heng heard that Zong Ze, Jiang You and others had all come out, he was loyal to the Southern Song Dynasty. However, he refused the order issued by the Southern Song Dynasty to attack Lü Shinang, and continued to exterminate Liu Huasan in the territory.

Li Heng also wrote to state that Liu Huasan was not inferior to Lu Shinang's henchman, and it took him a lot of effort to surround Liu Huasan. Once let Liu Huasan escape. Soon it will be able to make a comeback again. But it still made the Southern Song Dynasty monarchs very suspicious of him.

As soon as Li Heng eliminated Liu Huasan, the Vietnamese Li Dynasty invaded Guangxi. Tong Guan's order to Li Heng was to guard the Guangdong Road, but Li Heng did not resist the order again this time, and actively reorganized the troops and horses and deployed the defense of Guangdong.

As for the Vietnamese Li Dynasty, who stole Guangxi, he is also an old acquaintance of the Central Plains.

Since the establishment of the Li Dynasty, it has constantly harassed the borders of the Song Dynasty and plundered people and property.

Li Gan Duc was the fourth emperor of the Li Dynasty of Vietnam and had just ascended the throne. The Li Dynasty sent troops to invade the Song Dynasty, breaking through the three prefectures of Yong, Qin and Lian, and after breaking Yongzhou, killing more than 50,000 people in the city. After that, the Song Dynasty sent troops to defeat the Li Dynasty and invaded the territory of the Li Dynasty. Captured several state capitals of the Li Dynasty. However, after the two countries reached a peace agreement, the Song Dynasty returned the occupied state capital to the Li Dynasty.

After the peace talks were reached, the two countries remained largely peaceful.

Unable to defeat the Song Dynasty, Li Qiande turned his attention to the Zhancheng State in the south, sent troops to defeat the Zhancheng State, and let the Zhancheng State worship it every year. He also promoted Confucianism in China and opened imperial examinations. Under the rule of Li Qiande, the Li Dynasty became stronger and stronger. The Li Qiande period was also the era when the Li Dynasty in Vietnam was the most powerful, and there were several rebellions in the Niuhao Man (Tai) Masha Cave in the Tuojiang River basin in China. They were all exterminated by Li Gande himself. In the first year of Xuanhe, hundreds of people including Wei Peng, the head of the cave, were captured, which greatly damaged the vitality of Masha Cave.

It was not until June that the Li dynasty learned that Liangshan had captured Tokyo, and Li Qiande immediately gathered 100,000 soldiers and horses. and other accurate news, and immediately on the grounds of saving the Song Dynasty. Sent troops to Guangnan West Road.

The 36 caves in Yongzhou heard that the Central Plains had changed dynasties, and they also followed the Li Dynasty to make trouble. Within a few days, he broke Yongzhou, and then went all the way to the east, trying to capture the Guangdong Road.

It was only under the resistance of Li Heng and his troops that the Li Dynasty offensive was contained.

Li Qiande sent people to recruit Li Heng, and Li Heng, the champion of martial arts in the Central Plains, naturally would not take refuge in a small barbarian country, not to mention that he had not fallen behind.

The southern soldiers have always had low combat power, but the soldiers and horses under Li Heng's command have been fighting with Liu Huasan for more than a year, and their combat power is also quite strong. Therefore, although the strength of the army is not as good as that of the Li Dynasty and the 36 Dongbarians of Yongzhou, it can also resist the Li Dynasty by virtue of its geographical advantages.

Li Gande could not attack the Guangdong Road, so he had to return to his division to capture the entire territory of Guangxi.

By the time of September, the Li Dynasty had already captured the entire territory of Guangxi, and from time to time sent troops to plunder Kuizhou Road and Jinghu South Road, but they all retreated to the whole territory of Guangxi after plundering, and did not steal the city again. Obviously, he knew that the Li Dynasty was not enough to digest more land, and the news that Daliang had sent troops to Jiangnan came, so he wanted to wait for the time to move.

And Li Heng needs to guard against the Li Dynasty in Guangxi, and also against Lu Shibao in the north, but the soldiers and horses in Guangdong can't move anywhere.

At the beginning, Zhao Ziyan and Tong Guan begged to surrender, and Chao Yong asked the two to order Li Heng to also surrender to Daliang, but Tong Guan and the two sent the news only five days. If the messenger wants to bypass the forces of Lu Shinang, it will take a month to go back and forth.

Of course, no matter whether Li Heng surrenders or not, Chao Yong will lead his troops to attack Lu Shinang.

If Lu Shisang is swept away and Li Heng has not yet surrendered, then Chao Yong will lead his troops to sweep away Li Heng, and then attack the Li Dynasty soldiers and horses in Guangxi, and then enter the Li Dynasty.

It can be said that Chao Yong's task of going south is very heavy, although these forces are not as good as Western Xia combined, but the journey is much longer. And the farther south, the hotter the weather, the more likely it is that the soldiers will contract the plague. Therefore, before Chao Yong set out on the expedition, he transferred the divine doctor An Daoquan and ten imperial doctors, as well as a large number of medicines to prevent and control the plague.

The biggest enemy of the Southern Expedition is the climate, not the opponent's soldiers and horses, the elephant soldiers of the Yue Li Dynasty look powerful, but it is a joke to fight, long knives and strong crossbows can be broken, which has been verified by the Song Dynasty. Moreover, after the elephant suffers from pain, it will often turn around and run away, disrupting its own camp. There is fire and thunder in the girder, and it is not difficult to kill the elephant, let alone frighten the elephant.

The thirty-six cave barbarians are superstitious about ghosts and gods, so when Chao Yong went south, he deliberately brought Hou Jian and the spaceship, the main purpose was to deal with the cave barbarians.

Zong Ze nodded and said: "There are many rich businessmen in Jiangnan, and 100,000 yuan is just a drop in the bucket for them. 50,000 stone of grain is not much for large households, and the output of land in the south of the Yangtze River is greater than that of the land in the north, and one mu can receive three or four stones. 50,000 stone is about the rent of 500 hectares of land for a large household, and there are many large households with thousands of hectares of fertile land in the south of the Yangtze River. If it weren't for the two years of drought in Jiangnan and the constant wars, the grain prices in Jiangnan would not be so high. 100,000 guan and 50,000 stone grain are not too much for them, but they are not fools, and the title of Daliang basically has no privileges. In the past, maybe they wanted to curry favor with the court. will also pay money to buy a knighthood, but after the Liang amnesty the world, they don't have to worry about their past sins, and I'm afraid there won't be too many people willing to buy a knighthood. ”

During the Song Dynasty, the status of merchants had been greatly improved, and many high-ranking officials in the court were born in merchant families. In addition, the Song Dynasty was flooded, and many businessmen paid to marry clan women, making themselves relatives of the emperor and the country, and at the same time getting some false officials.

Merchants are accustomed to spending money to buy status, but in the Song Dynasty, it was only a few thousand to marry a clan and county lord. The higher status is only tens of thousands. In the eyes of businessmen who can mark the price of anything, 100,000 yuan for a baron in Daliang is undoubtedly a little higher.

Every change of dynasty is a redistribution of wealth, although it cannot distribute the wealth of the world equally to everyone, but it can bankrupt most of the wealthy families of the previous dynasty and replace them with the powerful of the new dynasty. Otherwise, the rich will continue to accumulate. It is very likely that he will have the wealth of a country that rivals that of a rich country, and it will inevitably lead to the desire to interfere in politics at that time. In the past, commerce was underdeveloped, and there were no big rich people in the Central Plains, but there were wealthy families, and their wealth was a large amount of land and clansmen. Therefore, the Tang Dynasty vigorously suppressed the big clans and let the big clans separate. After the suppression of the Tang Dynasty, the wealthy surnames who used to cover the sky in the local area have disappeared.

However, the Song dynasty produced new factors of instability. That is a wealthy businessman, and his family wealth is often hundreds of thousands or millions. There are also many landlords with thousands of hectares of fertile land, and because of the introduction of Champong rice, the yield per mu has increased greatly. The annual rent is often hundreds of thousands. For the same land, the harvest of the Song Dynasty could reach more than twice that of the Tang Dynasty. In terms of wealth alone, the ordinary landlords of the Song Dynasty were not inferior to the wealthy surnames that had been inherited by the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years.

This is the progress of the times and the result of the development of productive forces. Improvement of the people's living standards. It is not necessarily the credit of the imperial court, but the progress of the entire human race. If you compare it horizontally with other countries. The more it improves, the more it can prove the merits of the imperial court, but it is only a longitudinal comparison, and if you turn over the old accounts, no nation will stand still.

Most of the big households in the north have been cleaned up, but the rich households in Jiangnan have been amnesty, and there are more rich households in Jiangnan than in the north. Daliang naturally will not let these big families expand unlimitedly, otherwise it won't take a few generations, and these rich families will really be rich and rival the country.

The north has begun to auction land, but before Chao Yong set out on the expedition, the imperial court decided not to sell the land in the south for the time being, and the land in the south of the Yangtze River should be kept and slowly distributed to the retired soldiers, otherwise it is likely that the land in a county is all family, which is unacceptable to the Liang.

The people in the court and the central government have not considered this problem, in the past, the officials could be exempted from labor and taxes, but the Liang has been exempted from all labor and taxes, and the taxes are only commercial taxes, but they can no longer be reduced. It is impossible to give political privileges, and he doesn't want to give privileges, but he also wants to sell his lordship, which really stumped everyone in the court, and finally Chao Yong came up with an idea.

Chao Yong said with a smile: "Tokyo will open a noble academy, only those with knighthoods can enroll, and the academy is me." ”

When Zong Ze heard this, his eyes couldn't help but light up, and he said, "The prince teaches knowledge? ”

Chao Yong nodded and said, "All the courses of the Noble Academy will be formulated by me personally, such as Jingyi, physics, mathematics, riding archery, etc., I will teach from time to time." My children will also study at the Noble Academy in the future. ”

In fact, Chao Yong had the idea of planning a curriculum for his children very early, he knew what the world was like, and naturally he would not let his children only learn poetry, books, scriptures, and meanings.

Once the world is unified, the number of his children will definitely grow explosively, and his children alone may be able to form an academy. Once the lecture starts, the old brother Liangshan will definitely be tempted, and it is not easy for him to run a royal academy and refuse the old brother Liangshan. simply set up a noble academy, anyway, the old brothers of Liangshan will not have a title.

Zong Ze smiled: "Okay, this benefit alone can make the rich people in the world rush to it, even if they don't want it themselves, they will definitely buy a baron for their children." ”

As he spoke, he shook his head and said, "As soon as this news comes out, the houses of the rich families in the world will not be quiet. ”

Chao Yong also knows this problem, there are many wives and concubines of rich families, not only the battle between sons-in-law and concubines, but also the battle between biological brothers is very fierce.

The status of a baron is not valuable, but the opportunity to enter the noble academy is very rare, whether it is the course set by the prince himself, or the opportunity to meet the high nobles in the academy.

It is completely conceivable that in order to grab this place, the rich family will definitely be restless.

Chao Yong smiled: "I can't control this, the concubines of the old brothers of Liangshan may not be able to get the title in the future." Perhaps a rich man sent all his children to the aristocratic academy in one go. ”

Zong Ze nodded and said, "Maybe it's true, if I have money, I will definitely send all my grandsons to the Noble Academy." ”

Chao Yong said with a smile: "With the talent of Lord Zong, you will be able to govern Jiangnan in an orderly manner, and then your officials will be indispensable in the imperial court." However, this knighthood is also of great significance to the imperial court, you sell ten barons, I will ask you for a baron, a hundred, I will ask you for a viscount, a thousand, I will ask you for an earl. ”

Zong Ze smiled: "A hundred should be no problem, if you only let Zhejiang Lu confer a knight, there should be hope for a thousand." ”

"A hundred is 10 million. The emperor pardoned the world and forgave them their sins, and now it's not bad to take out all their money with a false lord. ”

"Being remembered by the prince, it is difficult for them not to pay money, and the things of the mirror line can also make the world's big families generous, I'm afraid the prince will make new things in the future to make money from big families."