Chapter 334 Happiness Index

For this trip to Dali, I did not tell Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu and others the details, but only vaguely said that I would go out for a private visit for two months, otherwise it would attract a burst of righteous words of "dissuasion".

"Minister Xie Daolin, Minister Wen Tianxiang, Minister Lu Xiufu, and Minister Lan Yu see the Queen Mother, see Your Majesty."

Xie Daoqing bowed his head slightly, and said with a smile: "Four Aiqing, don't be polite." ”

"Empress Dowager Xie, Your Majesty Xie."

"Yes." Xie Daoqing stretched out his hand and gestured, "Four Aiqing, please take a seat." ”

Because I went out for too long, I invited the Queen Mother Xie Daoqing to the imperial study, so that she could get acquainted with Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu and Lan Yu.

Xiao Qi made a new pot of tea, poured a full cup for me and Xie Daoqing first, and said respectfully: "Queen Mother, official, please use tea." ”

I took the teacup and said, "Xiao Qi, now that you are the commander of the Jinyi Guard, sit down and listen too." ”

"Yes, official." Afterwards, Xiao Qi poured tea for Xie Daolin and the other four people, and sat aside.

"Queen Mother, during the period of my absence, the administrative affairs of the Central Committee were handed over to Wen Tianxiang, the President of the Government Council, the military affairs were handed over to Lu Xiufu, the President of the Military Affairs Yuan, and the Lin'an City Defense was handed over to Admiral Xie Daolin.

Xie Daoqing nodded and said, "Okay, don't worry, I'll be careful." ”

"With the queen mother in charge, I am relieved." I smiled and said, "Queen Mother, I have already arranged the affairs of the court, if there is any ill intention, the Queen Mother can only mobilize the army to suppress it." ”

Xie Daoqing smiled lightly: "The official family is joking, this Lin'an City is where my court is located, where will anything bad happen." ”

Xie Daolin said: "Your Majesty, the Queen Mother is right, there are only two major military forces in the area of Lin'an City today, the Imperial Forest Army and the Lin'an Military Region, and they are all in the hands of Your Majesty, and the minister guarantees that there will be no trouble." ”

I nodded and said: "Although this possibility is very small, it is better to be careful, the Imperial Forest Army is fine, but among the three major commanders of the Lin'an Military Region, Wu Songhan is the general of the former forbidden army." ”

The meaning of this sentence is very clear to everyone here, the forbidden army was originally under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, and the privy envoy of the Privy Council was Jia Nidao, which inevitably made me suspicious, but everyone did not say it explicitly.

Xie Daoqing said in one sentence: "The official family can rest assured, although the Taishi is surnamed Zhangyang, he is not a rebellious person, and the queen mother still has this confidence." ”

"Yes."

Lu Xiufu said: "In addition to Wu Songhan, there is also that General Zhang Shun, although it seems to have nothing to do with Jia, oh, and the original forbidden army, but when he joined the army, he said that it was very short, why didn't Your Majesty mention it." ”

"Zhang Shun, this person has his own measure, not to mention that the father of the Zhang brothers once received the grace of Mr. Yuan, so I think there is no problem, Junshi, for General Zhang Shun, you can rest assured." Of course, I can't say that this Zhang Shunzhong was brave and brave, and he died bravely in the defense of Xiangyang in history, and he was a great loyal minister.

"Yes, Your Majesty."

"As long as the army is stable, other government affairs will be guaranteed, Wen Aiqing, the affairs of the various ministries will be carried out according to the established policy, and your government affairs will be responsible for supervision, if you encounter difficult problems, please ask the Queen Mother for her will."

"Yes, I understand."

"You must keep abreast of the research of Lin'an University, the Academy of Sciences, especially the Gunpowder Administration, and follow up in a timely manner.

"Yes, I obey."

I continued: "There is also Xiao Qi's Jinyi Guard, we must improve the establishment as soon as possible in these two months, make full use of the special power I have given you Jinyiwei, give full play to the characteristics of flexibility, autonomy, and concealment, and achieve results as soon as possible. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, the little one understands."

"Lan Yu, the defense in the palace will be handed over to you, this time I will take away two hundred imperial guards, plus fifty guards stationed in the gunpowder prison, the number of guards left in the palace may be insufficient, for this reason, I will hand over some of the original young guards of the Imperial Forest Army who are proficient in martial arts to you for unified command, and at the same time, Xie Daolin Xie Aiqing will personally sit in the palace with the original young guard."

Lan Yu said: "Your Majesty, that dare is good, with the addition of Lord Xie and these young guards, the minister can ensure the safety of the palace even more." ”

For later generations, they can choose a variety of means of travel such as cars, trains, and airplanes when traveling, but in the Song Dynasty, people who traveled long distances had only one choice, that is, horses (waterways can be taken by boat), even if it was me, the supreme son of heaven, was not excluded.

There are a lot of emperors who like to travel in history, the most famous may be the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, in the TV works of later generations, there are countless dramas with the theme of Qianlong going down to the south of the Yangtze River, and the deepest impression I have is Mr. Zheng Shaoqiu starring in "Joking about Qianlong", although it has been a long time, but the theme song "Asking Love" is very familiar to me,

The sea never dries up,

The sky can't see through it,

Hongchen smiled and wandered with you,

When I first heard this song from TV, I had an inexplicable sense of loss, at that time, I didn't know Le Lingshan, let alone Fang Ling, I was sad about the fate of the characters in the play, or was there any other reason, I don't know, maybe it's just a perception of fate,

When Fang Ling heard that I was going south to do errands again, he was particularly excited, and shouted, "Brother, I should have gone out a long time ago, Jiangnan is just going out in March, so you can't miss it." However, when I said that the route to the south this time was to go to Guangnan West Road and Dali, Fang Ling also showed a hint of surprise and said, "It's so far, you have to go to Dali, brother, do you know that the land of Dali is now the territory of the Mongols." ”

"Of course I know, the place I'm going to this time is the Tianlong Temple in Shanxian Mansion, Dali."

Fang Ling had never heard of the name of Tianlong Temple, and said, "I haven't heard of Tianlong Temple, but Ling'er heard that the scenery of Dali is very different from my dynasty, and it's not bad to have fun. ”

"That is, my Ling'er is a martial arts master, if anyone wants to be unfavorable to me, Ling'er, you can help my brother flatten him."

"Hehe, brother, with me, a free bodyguard, no one wants to touch you."

For this trip, Zhang Quanyi also felt excited, since he was a child, Zhang Quanyi, who followed the old Baiyun Zen Zhang Yun'an to run around, is very accustomed to this kind of life, it is better to read thousands of books than to travel thousands of miles, for this truth, Zhang Quanyi has a deep understanding,

In the early morning, the sky was just bright, and our group of six people and six horsemen quietly left Lin'an, along the official road, and went south at great speed, unlike the last two times, Lan Yu stayed in the palace, and instead of him was the young Zhang Quanyi,

Wen Zhang took the lead, followed by Shen Mo, followed by me and Fang Ling, Yuan Jian and Zhang Quanyi were in charge of the break, my mount is still the best royal horse in the palace named "Feiyan", and the other five horses are also from the palace royal horses in the Western Regions.

After more than a year of practice, I am finally able to master the horseback riding technique proficiently.

Obtained from Yuan Jian's arrangement, Wen Zhang, who opened the road, and Fang Ling beside me controlled the speed of progress, the distance from Lin'an to Dali is about more than 2,000 kilometers, according to the speed of about 300 miles on average, it will take about 20 days, with the speed at which we sit down thousands of miles, the average journey of 300 miles is quite easy, if the horse runs wild, it is not difficult to say that the average is 7 or 800 miles,

On the third day after leaving Lin'an, we came to the largest state capital in the southwest of Liangzhejiang West Road - Quzhou Mansion, and then marched southwest from Quzhou Mansion, which is the original Jiangnan West Road, now Jiangxi Province, in the area at the junction of the two places, there is a military road dedicated to the army, although this kind of military road is not as wide as the official road, but the roadbed is solid, and the people are not allowed to walk on it, so it is often empty.

We galloped down along the military road, tried a day of wild running, to the evening, Yuan Thorn Road, this day's journey is about nine hundred and fifty miles, thousands of miles of horses are really extraordinary, if the rest time on the way is reduced, then it is not difficult to travel thousands of miles, no wonder Guan Yu in order to return Cao Ying to give the Red Rabbit BMW, in Huarong Road regardless of the military order, it shows that the ancient generals for the love of BMW, just the day after I was so proud, but I found that my whole body was sore, fortunately Fang Ling gave me a massage that night, Otherwise, it would be difficult to even get up, and in the next few days, Yuan Jian resolutely did not allow such a wild run, so we had to maintain a speed of three hundred miles per day, and did not try to travel thousands of miles again.

According to the defense plan formulated by Yuan Jian, the eight-armed spirit ape Zhang Zijian and Yun Zhongfei of the imperial guards each led a hundred guards in civilian clothes as our accompanying escorts, among which Zhang Zijian's hundred-man team set off in advance and took control measures along the road, and the other hundred guards were scattered around us under the command of Yun ZhongfeiIn addition, there are nearly 100 members of the Dragon's Tooth Security Department who are also secretly following along the way, and every time they go to a place, they first contact the members of the local Dragon's Tooth Intelligence Station, and cooperate with Zhang Zijian who is moving forward, and take precautions.

Compared with the Song-Mongolian border in the north, the public security environment in the inland areas is relatively much more stable; since I ascended the throne, I have made great efforts to make the country prosperous, develop the economy, and rectify the officialdom; over the past year or so, the economy in various localities has generally begun to pick up, the people's lives have improved, and social order has tended to stabilize at the same time.

Whenever I go to a place, before resting at night, I will go to the street with Fang Ling, Yuan Jian and others, eat local snacks, chat casually with the shopkeeper and Xiao Er, and occasionally buy some gadgets.

For the current living situation, the people's "happiness index" has obviously risen a lot compared with previous years, the people along the way generally said that this year, life has changed a lot, these changes are roughly the same, first of all, I feel that the attitude of the government has become mild, in a remote small county in Jiangxi Province, the owner of a snack bar told me personally, once, he was on the way to buy, inadvertently collided with the sedan chair of the county, although the county has no bad deeds, but very domineering, so he was scared to immediately kneel to the ground, Keep kowtowing and begging for mercy, that knows, after the parents got off the sedan chair, not only did not blame him, but also gently asked him if he was hurt, if it was placed in the past, I couldn't think of it, followed by everyone has land to cultivate, as long as they are diligent, how can they eat enough, again, people with craftsmanship also get the support of the government, many local governments also specially plan a place, with low rent to people who know how to craft, as their production workshop, at the same time, the government also helps them to broaden the sales path, This led to the development of the local handicraft industry, and the surrounding farmers also came to the workshop to work part-time to supplement their families.