Chapter 52: Fill Your Belly
Zhao Dongting saw Lu Xiufu drinking Zhang Shijie looking at him with burning eyes, nodded, and said, "I do have a strategy to retreat from the enemy, but I have to wait a little longer." ”
The ministers looked at each other.
Although Zhao Dongting has been in charge of the government these days, his age is here, and he said that there is a way to retreat from the enemy, and they are still a little suspicious.
So many generals in the Southern Song Dynasty were defeated and retreated by the Yuan thieves, what could the eleven-year-old little emperor really do?
Running the government and marching and fighting are two different things.
But they didn't dare to come forward at this time and say that they wanted to leave Jiezhou Island.
A few days ago, even Zhang Shijie was beaten on the board!
Seeing that they didn't speak, Zhao Dongting suddenly asked, "How is the situation in Leizhou?"
Leizhou is not far from Jiezhou Island, but these days, Leizhou's Zhizhou Ge Lijun has not met Zhao Dongting in the future.
Zhang Shijie knew these foreign affairs best, and immediately replied: "Leizhou is still stable, and Zhizhou Gelijun is reorganizing his army for war." ”
Zhao Dongting said again: "How is Ge Lijun and his people?"
If you want to talk about the understanding of the ministers of the court, Zhang Shijie is not as good as Lu Xiufu, so he looked at Lu Xiufu.
Lu Xiufu said: "In the early years in Lin'an, the minister had seen Ge Lijun. His humanity is brilliant and upright, and he should be worthy of the emperor's trust. ”
Zhao Dongting still trusted Lu Xiufu, nodded lightly when he heard this, and said: "In this case, then please contact Lord Lu and Ge Lijun, and ask him to send someone to cooperate with you, and transfer the people of Xianglong County to Leizhou Mansion to be resettled, the big war is coming, and it is inevitable that innocent people will be injured." ”
When the ministers heard this, they immediately understood that Zhao Dongting had made up his mind to stay on Jiezhou Island, and he was helpless.
Lu Xiufu gave up his hand to receive the order, "The minister is the order." ”
"Wait!"
Zhao Dongting suddenly said: "Before the people are relocated, we are recruiting soldiers and horses to see if there are any people in the prime of life who are willing to serve our dynasty." ”
As he spoke, he looked at Su Liuyi, "Master Su, I have full authority to supervise this matter, and it may be done?"
Su Liuyi didn't expect the emperor to trust him so much, he was very happy, and said: "The minister will live up to the emperor's trust!"
He was not afraid that Zhao Dongting would not give him anything to do, but he was afraid that Zhao Dongting would alienate him. Because his performance in front of Zhao Dongting these days is really not good, and he has stood on the wrong team one after another.
Zhao Dongting nodded, "The rest of the departments and departments will make every effort to supervise the preparation for war and prevent the attack of the Yuan thief, and there must be no mistakes!"
Ministers from all departments and ministries should be.
The atmosphere in the council hall was unprecedentedly tense, as if the Yuan army was about to kill on the island of Jiezhou.
Zhao Dongting thought about it, there was nothing missing, he was silent for a few seconds, and asked, "Do you have anything to do?"
No one spoke.
Zhao Dongting announced the dissolution of the dynasty.
The ministers left in a hurry.
Zhao Dongting also took Li Yuanxiu out of the council hall and went straight to the weapons workshop.
And so it went on for another two days.
Early that morning, the craftsmen of the weapons workshop were knocking and hammering outside, and suddenly heard a loud noise in Zhao Dongting's room.
The houses seemed to tremble.
The craftsmen were shocked.
Li Yuanxiu's face changed greatly, and he exclaimed, "Emperor", and was about to push the door and run in.
At this time, I saw Zhao Dongting running out of it with a disgraced face, and his face was full of excitement, "''!
Of course, the craftsmen didn't understand what Zhao Dongting meant by "", and when they saw that the emperor was so happy with his embarrassed face, they were all very suspicious.
Li Yuanxiu also looked at Zhao Dongting stupidly, and then looked at the house.
He was struck by what he saw.
The house was noisy and dusty, and it was not a mess.
Li Yuanxiu sneered: "Your Majesty, this ...... What's going on?"
Zhao Dongting couldn't stop laughing, "It's nothing, it's nothing, hurry, go and announce Yue Peng and Chen Jianghan, the head of the household." ”
With that, he sat down on the ground.
The explosion just now almost knocked his head out.
Li Yuanxiu wanted to help Zhao Dongting up, but Zhao Dongting waved his hand to stop him, so he didn't care and walked out of the courtyard.
After informing the guards outside to Xuan Yuepeng and Chen Jianghan, he turned back again.
Not long after, Yue Peng arrived first.
He was covered in bright silver armor, majestic, and knelt down on one knee and said, "Knock on the emperor." ”
Zhao Dongting asked him to get up, and said with a smile: "Go and change this armor, put on civilian clothes, and go to Leizhou Mansion with me." ”
Yue Peng was a little puzzled, "Go to Leizhou Mansion?"
He only thought that Zhao Dongting was still childlike, couldn't bear the loneliness, and wanted to go to Leizhou Mansion to play. He thought that if the emperor wanted to go to Leizhou Mansion to play, then he would have to persuade him to be scolded, the big war was imminent, this moment was not the time to play, and he had to call himself as a general.
Just thinking about it, he heard Zhao Dongting say: "Go and buy something! Something that can give our army a big victory!"
Yue Peng was shocked, although he was puzzled, he was also overjoyed, and nodded again and again, "The last general will take the order!"
Then he hurried back and went back to change his clothes.
Later, Chen Jianghan, the head of the household, also arrived, and when he saw Zhao Dongting's disgraced face, he was full of doubts and confusion, but he didn't dare to ask, so he worked hard.
Zhao Dongting said directly to him: "Lord Chen, give me some silver taels, I want to go to Leizhou Mansion to buy some things." ”
Chen Jianghan blinked his eyes, "What is the emperor going to buy?"
He also thought like Yue Peng, and thought that Zhao Dongting was going to Leizhou to play.
Zhao Dongting replied: "Porcelain jar." ”
"Porcelain jars?"
Chen Jianghan blinked his eyes again, and he was even more suspicious.
He was born with this habit of blinking an eye, whether it is eating or talking, if he doesn't blink, then the food will not taste good, and the words will not be good.
Zhao Dongting knew that if he wanted to tell them "mines" and "bombs", he couldn't say it clearly, so he didn't bother to say it, so he put on the emperor's shelf and said: "I have my own wonderful use, you can quickly prepare silver taels." I will probably have to buy tens of thousands of porcelain jars of this size, and you can calculate how much it is. ”
Saying that, Zhao Dongting also used his hands to compare the size.
Although the Song Dynasty had paper and pen, at this time, the war was chaotic, and the imperial court was in danger, and only copper coins, silver ingots, and gold ingots were hard currency.
When Chen Jianghan saw Zhao Dongting say this, he had to blink his eyes and retreat.
Zhao Dongting took Li Yuanxiu back to the dormitory, and the two also changed into civilian clothes.
Not long after, Yue Peng came, and Chen Jianghan also sent silver ingots.
The group of three left the forbidden palace, walked out of the settlement of the "refugees" in the Southern Song Dynasty, rented a boat at the ferry, and went to Leizhou Mansion.
Zhao Dongting has never left Jiezhou Island, and when he arrived at the sea, he looked back and saw the ancient and fragrant imperial city, and he also felt a little emotional.
Unexpectedly, being killed by that cheap woman actually came to the Southern Song Dynasty.
Such a clear sea and such a blue sky are really hard to see in modern times......
He lay on his back on the boat, squinting at the various scenes near and far, and gradually fell asleep.
When I woke up again, I was woken up by Li Yuanxiu. It turned out that the ship had arrived at Leizhou Mansion.
Leizhou Mansion is in the southernmost part of the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty, is a peninsula, at this time has not been involved in the war, is quite lively at the ferry, passenger boats, fishing boats coming and going.
Zhao Dongting asked Li Yuanxiu to pay and took the two of them ashore.
Here at the ferry, there are many vendors selling small items, including porcelain.
However, Zhao Dongting did not stop here.
Tens of thousands of porcelain jars are not something that such small traders can make casually. You have to find a big workshop to take over this kind of business.
Two horses were rented at the ferry, Zhao Dongting and Li Yuanxiu rode together, Yue Peng rode one alone, and the three of them went straight to Haikang County, which is under the jurisdiction of Leizhou Prefecture.
After several inquiries along the way, it took several hours to finally arrive at Haikang County.
Haikang County is the county of Leizhou, the city gate pedestrians come and go, hawkers sell, so lively.
Zhao Dongting sat on the horse, and Li Yuanxiu and Yue Peng led the horse and walked into the city.
Then they found a tavern in the city to fill their bellies, and asked where the largest porcelain workshop in the city was, and the three of them left the tavern again.
Zhao Dongting saw those vendors selling snacks on the road, and he couldn't help but buy some to try. This ancient snack tastes different from each other.
It took dozens of minutes to stop and go, and finally arrived at the porcelain workshop.
The three of them were about to enter, but at this moment, several fast horses came galloping on the road. The leader is a rich boy, who scolded loudly and whipped again and again, so he was not chic.
Zhao Dongting was eating snacks with taste, but he didn't notice it. By the time they were discovered, the horses were near.
The rich boy shouted at him, "Don't get in the way! Get out of the way!"
But his horses had already rushed a few meters in front of Zhao Dongting, where could Zhao Dongting hide?
Fortunately, Li Yuanxiu reacted very quickly, took two steps across, and stopped in front of Zhao Dongting.