The straight-line distance from Manila to Guangzhou is not far, only about 1,000 nautical miles, but there is no port for docking on the straight channel, once there is a storm, it is difficult to survive the test of nature with the performance of the ships of the Northern Song Dynasty, so Zhao Lei led the ship to the north to sail directly to Lumen Island, and then diverted to Guangzhou. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info\qΒ5. //

Although the journey was smooth, it still took Zhao Lei and others a month and a half before returning to Guangzhou Naval Port.

Today's Guangzhou Naval Port is famous all over the world, in the case of the Great Song Dynasty 6th Army being firmly suppressed by the Western Xia and Liao, the Great Song Dynasty Navy has become the Great Song Dynasty to boast of its own powerful façade, in this case, the Great Song Dynasty official Zhao Zhen is to increase the investment in the Guangzhou Naval Port, the imperial court invested one million taels of silver, not only built a 6 upper passage from Guangzhou City to the Naval Port, but also spent a huge amount of money to build several huge docks in the Naval Port, and mobilized many skilled shipbuilders to build warships for the Navy.

The huge fleet led by Zhao Lei slowly sailed into the harbor under the guidance of the lighthouse of the naval port, and Zhao Lei, who was standing on the flagship ship, looked at the bright naval harbor and was very excited.

"Finally back, Brother Mingyun, look at those busy docks, remember that when we left, it was still a wasteland, but now it has become a busy dock in a short time, and the port over there, remember when we first came here, it was still a desolate grassland, and now it has become a port for unloading goods, changing with each passing day!" Zhao Lei pointed to the ever-changing scene in the naval harbor and said to Su Xun with a sigh.

After Zhao Lei finished speaking. didn't hear Su Xun next to him answer, turned his face strangely, but saw Su Xun frowning and contemplating.

"What's wrong? Brother Mingyun! You've returned to Guangzhou, aren't you happy! Zhao Lei looked at Su Xun's strange expression and asked him suspiciously.

Zhao Lei's inquiry woke up Su Xun, who was thinking hard, and he raised his head and whispered suspiciously: "Strange! The closer it is to Guangzhou. The more uneasy I felt in my heart, as if something had been missed, had something been forgotten in Manila? ”

Hearing Su Xundi's words, Zhao Lei laughed and said: "Okay, don't think about it so much, I think Brother Mingyun is a hometown timid, after all, he has been away for more than a year, and the naval port has become much stranger." ”

Just as Zhao Lei and Su Xun were talking, the huge fleet began to dock one after another, and the commander of the naval logistics force left behind in the naval port made Pang Song's brother Pang Bai. He had already led the admirals and generals to the port to greet Zhao Lei and other admirals who had returned triumphantly.

"The last general, Pomber, see your lord! Congratulations on your triumphant return! Seeing Zhao Lei and the others walking down from the flagship, Pang Bai hurriedly greeted him and congratulated him.

"General Pang, I haven't seen you for a few months, I seem to have gained a lot of weight!" Zhao Lei saw the fat Pang Bai and patted Pang Bai on the shoulder and joked.

"The adults took everyone to make a contribution. Leaving the last general here to guard the naval port, there was no chance of meritorious service, and the last general was bored and used food to eliminate his sorrows, so he gained a lot of weight. "I was in a good mood to see Zhao Lei. Pang Bai pretended to be very aggrieved and complained to Zhao Lei.

Hearing Pomber's words, Zhao Lei laughed and said: "Okay, it is also a credit to stay in the Navy Port so that the Navy can go on an expedition without worry." This official will ask General Pang for merit at the official's house. ”

"Thank you for the promotion! The last general had already heard that the adults were coming back, and he had already invited the chef of the Chunfeng Building in Guangzhou City to come to the banquet in advance to celebrate the adults! Pombo heard Zhao Lei's answer and said loudly with joy.

"General Pang has a heart, by the way, the soldiers have also worked hard, let the soldiers slaughter pigs and sheep, and celebrate the triumphant return of the navy!" Zhao Lei looked at the attentive Pang Bai and said with a smile.

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The Naval Harbour is bustling with activity. Everywhere around the bonfire shouting five and six naval sergeants, on the huge bonfire, a clean whole sheep skewered on various sticks, set on the bonfire and kept roasting, the golden whole sheep is bubbling with aroma, a drop of butter dripping on the bonfire, leading to a little spark, next to the bonfire is a huge iron pot, which is stewing fragrant pork bone soup, although drinking low-cost turbid wine, but the face of the navy sergeant, there is a happy smile.

Zhao Lei, Mahati, Fan Zhongyan and others were sitting in the main hall, around a table of exquisite banquets, laughing and talking.

"Lord Zhao has won a great victory in this expedition to Mayi, raising the prestige of our country, expanding my territory, and after returning to Beijing, I will definitely be promoted to the third level of the official, and the position is a minister, which is gratifying! Xiaguan salutes Lord Zhao with a cup! On the banquet, the most active person was still the fat and lively Pang Bai, who held a wine glass and congratulated Zhao Lei loudly in front of everyone.

Just when Zhao Lei picked up the wine glass and was about to drink, his eyes swept and Su Xun, who suddenly appeared beside him, turned pale when he heard Pang Bai's words, and a drop of cold sweat actually appeared on his forehead in the hot room.

When Zhao Lei saw Su Xun's appearance, he already knew that something was wrong, and after quietly drinking the wine in the cup, he turned his head and whispered to Su Xun: "Brother Mingyun!" What's wrong? ”

"It's a big deal, go out and talk about it!" Su Xun's face was pale and frightened and said to Zhao Lei.

Zhao Lei nodded calmly, and after entertaining Fan Zhongyan and others, he found a gap and came to the side room with Su Xun.

"Go outside and keep guard, don't let anyone come!" After Su Xun followed Zhao Lei into the side room, he said to Zhu Dali and others, who were responsible for protecting Zhao Lei behind Zhao Lei.

Zhu Dali was originally arranged by Zhao Lei to serve as the battalion commander of 500 soldiers in the New Army, but after the New Army followed the naval expedition to Mayi, he stayed by Zhao Lei's side to protect Zhao Lei's safety.

Zhu Dali heard Su Xun's words, did not move at all, turned his head to look at Zhao Lei, and saw Zhao Lei nodding slightly, Zhu Dali slowly withdrew from the side room with a few strong guards behind him, guarding all the passages.

In the secret room, Zhao Lei sat casually on the only Taishi chair in the room, looked at Su Xun and frowned and asked, "Brother Mingyun!" Something happened. Makes you so frightened? ”

Hearing Zhao Lei's inquiry, Su Xun bowed to Zhao Lei with a ashamed face, and said in a deep voice: "I have betrayed the trust of Brother Sanshi, if it weren't for Pang Bai's words just now, I wouldn't have remembered such an important thing to make such a mistake!" ”

Pomber's words. What did Pomber say, and what mistake did Brother Mingyun make? Zhao Lei looked at Su Xun in confusion and asked suspiciously.

Puzzled by Zhao Lei, Su Xun sighed and shook his head and said to Zhao Lei: "Brother Sanshi, have you ever heard one of the unspoken rules of officialdom in the Privy Council: 'If there is merit, there must be a merit, and a great merit must be great!'" ’。 ”

"There must be merit, and great merit needs to be great!" Zhao Lei muttered what Su Xun had just said, pondered for a while, and still didn't understand and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

"Brother Sanshi can know that there is a great difference between the promotion of Wenchen and the military generals of the Great Song Dynasty, and the military generals often have military merits in war, so they are promoted very quickly. There are often military generals who have made great contributions but cannot be promoted, and later passed down such rules, according to the promotion conditions of the military general system, Brother Sanshi's merits can now be promoted to three levels, dare to ask Brother Sanshi how many grades of official residence now? Su Xun asked Zhao Lei in a deep voice with a face full of remorse.

After listening to Su Xun's words. Zhao Lei was slightly stunned, and immediately understood the meaning of Su Xun's words, and his face changed at the same time, and he began to turn pale.

The conditions for the promotion of military generals in the Great Song Dynasty were very advantageous in wartime, expanding the territory, killing the enemy's generals, capturing the enemy's civilians, and capturing the enemy's materials. These are all conditions that can be promoted.

And Zhao Lei went to Mayi this time, directly opening up 400,000 miles for the Great Song Dynasty, killing more than 10,000 enemies, increasing the household registration of the Great Song Dynasty by nearly 600,000 households, and seizing countless gold, silver and jewelry. Even King Ma Yi was arrested by Zhao Lei.

According to the promotion conditions of the generals of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Lei's current merits are enough to be promoted to the third level of the official, and he is a minister, but think about it carefully, Zhao Lei's current official position, the virtual position is the prince and master of the second grade, and the actual position is the naval commander of the fourth grade. There is no land to rise again, at present, there are only three false positions in the entire imperial court, one is the Meng King Zhao Yuanyan who manages the clan, and he is appointed as the third division and three princes in the middle of the Situ position, and the two prime ministers Wang Zeng and Zhang Shixun are respectively appointed as Taifu and Sikong, in addition, it is the governor Yan Shu, the privy envoy Chen Yaozuo, and the three envoys Ye Qingchen are all the eight important ministers of the imperial court, and the governor Li Ruoshui and the privy deputy envoy Chen Xiliang are only the two products, these people are seventy and eighty years old, The youngest, Chen Xiliang, is also in his early forties, and they have only mixed up with the second grade.

But what about Zhao Lei! If you return to Beijing this time and be promoted to the third level, and directly sit on an equal footing with the two prime ministers of Mengwang, Zhao Yuanyan, Zhang Shixun and Wang Zeng, is there such an easy thing in the world! Although Zhao Lei's credit is big enough, his qualifications and age are too young, if he is really promoted to the first grade, I am afraid that even the official family will see Zhao Lei unpleasantly and press him hard.

Since the founding of Taizu, the most feared thing is that his ministers have learned from Taizu's yellow robe, so all the real posts above the second grade have been vacant, and the eight important ministers of the imperial court, whether it is Zong Zhengqing of King Meng, or the two prime ministers' Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhangshi, or Chen Yaozuo's privy envoy, these four official positions are all from the official positions of the second grade, which is already the peak of the court's substantive position, and Zhao Lei is the fourth grade, if he is promoted to three levels, it is just from the second grade, and he has not been promoted since then.

Zhao Lei's current situation is very embarrassing, once he returns to Beijing, he will definitely be promoted to three levels in a row, and when the time comes, the official Zhao Zhen will definitely not reuse Zhao Lei, because once Zhao Lei is used, what reward can he get for meritorious service! King or Ripper? It's not something that the official Zhao Zhen can tolerate, but if he doesn't reward him, it will chill the hearts of the courtiers, so the only way is to hang Zhao Lei up and hang him up.

However, the generals of the Great Song Dynasty are not without a way to deal with this situation, they have thought of a way to deal with it since the time of Taizu, that is, meritorious service plus mistakes, all in all, every time they make a great contribution, they try their best to commit a big deed, the merit is offset, plus the emperor is happy, there is a reward and will not commit taboos, all are happy, this kind of rule has been passed down in the Privy Council, but Zhao Lei is a smuggler, he does not understand the rules of the Privy Council at all, and Su Xun is familiar with the military, But he didn't attach much importance to this rule of the Privy Council, so it wasn't until Pang Bai mentioned that Zhao Lei would return to Bianjing and be promoted to the third level, that Su Xun remembered that Zhao Lei couldn't just return to Bianjing.

"Luckily, it's early! We can make amends! Su Xun happily comforted the pale Zhao Lei.

"How to make up for it?" Zhao Lei heard that it could be remedied, and hurriedly asked Su Xun about countermeasures and said.

"Simple! It is difficult to make meritorious contributions, and it is easy to make mistakes! It's easy to make a few mistakes that are easy for the imperial envoy to impeach! Su Xun changed from the initial panic to said to Zhao Lei confidently.

"You say, that kid from Pomber, what he said at the banquet today, is it really casual!" Seeing Su Xun's confident expression, Zhao Lei also calmed down, remembered the role that Pang Bai played in this matter, and suddenly asked Su Xun suspiciously.

Zhao Lei's inquiry made Su Xun slightly stunned, and then his eyes narrowed and pondered carefully.

"Pang Bai is very careful and has a good way of doing things, he is also a naval admiral, Pang Song's own brother, he is his own person, if possible, take him to Bianjing!" Su Xun thought about it and said to Zhao Lei.

Thinking of Pombai's every move today, Zhao Lei felt that this fat, strong and tall admiral was a smart master, smiled slightly, and decided to take him back to Bianjing, and when he committed it, he must pull this interesting guy with him.

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