I wish you all a Happy Year of the Horse –

Song Jiu's expression was normal. Zhao Pu wanted to kill himself, but it wasn't that easy. For example, this Zhihe Prefecture, once you know it, it will be dangerous. But Zhao Pu has to pass Zhao Kuangyin first through the first pass, is Zhao Da really a faint king?

He and Yao Shu are two natures, he is obviously Zhao Kuangyi's person, and it doesn't matter if the country has one less Yao Shu. Therefore, it was agreed that Zhao Pu selected Yao Shuquan to make a general judgment in Lanzhou, and even tacitly ignored Zhao Pu's envoy to throw Yao Shu into the Yellow River. Is this okay for yourself? Of course, if you really know Hezhou, the army is sending and the arrows are on the string, and there are serious problems in logistics, and you will die. But there is still a hurdle behind, that is, will you accept the edict?

There is a minister named Ouyang Jiong in Houshu, known as a talent, Zhao Kuangyin reused it, and took it as a Hanlin bachelor to ride a regular attendant, and got Lingnan, Zhao Kuangyin sacrificed to Ouyang Jiong in the South China Sea, because the weather was the hottest time, Ouyang Jiong was said to be sick, Zhao Kuangyin was angry, resigned, and divided the official into Xijing, and sacrificed the South China Sea to Sinong Shaoqing Li Jifang. There are many more such examples.

If he doesn't obey the edict, Zhao Pu will send someone to tie him up to Hezhou?

If you are not afraid of not being an official, you are afraid of being an official, and as soon as you become an official, you will have to make a decision, and when you make a decision, there will be a controversial decision. Just like Yao Shu, he was negligent in reporting, and Zhao Pu immediately sent someone to throw Yao Shu into the Yellow River. But if he is not an official, Zhao Pu wants to deal with himself, there are only two ways, one is Kaifeng Mansion, which is impossible. The second is the Imperial Historical Observatory, whether or not the officials of the Imperial Historical Observatory can only obey his orders are two different things, that is, they will obey it. This is under Zhao Kuangyin's nose, unless he really makes a big mistake, he will seriously anger Zhao Kuangyin. The states and counties are not mentioned. Zhongshu does have the right to govern them, but Zhongshu has the right to govern the transfer of Yushitai? So what does the state appoint a minister to do?

So Song Jiu smiled, but still thanked Fu Zhaoshou.

This notice is also important, which means that Zhao Pu is really starting to prepare to do it to himself.

Fu Zhaoshou obviously didn't take it seriously, but it was only three, the emperor couldn't let Zhao Pu pick this peach blossom that belonged to him, and his brother-in-law would not sit back and watch Zhao Pu strangle this peach blossom.

So we got down to business. Said: "Jiulang, the envoy of the Great Food Sect is here, and the envoy is in Mizhou." There are still many victims in Jingdong, so it is inconvenient for them to watch it, and besides, how to entertain the envoys. For this. A dispute arose among the courtiers. His Majesty was embarrassed and asked the two kings, the two kings didn't know much about this, you were in Guangzhou, and Fanzi had dealt with many times, and the two kings wanted to ask your opinion. ”

"I'll go to Kaifeng Mansion," Song Jiu stood up and said.

There is a reason why Song Jiu was cautious, and that is the ancient tributary system in China.

to it. Song Jiu didn't like it very much.

Envoys from various countries came to pay tribute, if it was really like the kind of tribute from the Southern Tang Dynasty and Wu Yue. Song Jiu may like it very much. Guan Jian is not, overseas tribute came, gave him money and silk, and even taught him skills and civilization, which increased friendship. But to see one thing, you have to look at the result. The first is the reward system, in which the Song Dynasty often converted according to the market value of its tribute and gave it more rewards. Therefore, many merchants pretended to be envoys and transported goods to the capital, and even the transaction was omitted, and the customs duties were exempted, and they were sold to the Song Dynasty at once. The country spends money and gets a lot of useless things, but the actual "friendship" is not obtained, and maybe these businessmen are scolded and stupid. It seems that the Song Dynasty was forced to order all countries not to send envoys to pay tribute. After the end of the Song Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty returned, and after Zheng He went to the West, he reached its peak. And then there's the art of spreading civilization, and the benefits are really great......

"Jiulang, don't worry, I have one more thing."

"Let's talk about it."

"There is only one thing left, the third sister brought a bracelet to Wan Niang."

Song Jiu's daughter is quite famous in the capital, first, the 100,000, which is very sensational, and the second is that Wan Niang is beautiful, although small, she is a little beauty, and under the supervision of Pan Li'er, she taught her daughter to be popular and knows a lot of words.

Many Yanai followed Song Jiu, let's get married, Song Jiu will agree.

Pan Li'er called her daughter out.

Song Wanniang shouted in a milky voice: "Uncle Fu." ”

"What a little lady," Fu Zhaoshou boasted, he liked it very much, put the jade bracelet given by Fu on Wan Niang's wrist, and took off his piece of beautiful jade from his waist and wore it on Wan Niang's skirt. Song Jiu thought that the Fu family was grateful, where did he think of the inside story. But Chai Zongxun's deathbed will, even Zhao Kuangyi did not dare to mention it.

Song Jiu rode to Kaifeng Mansion.

Zhao Kuangyi affectionately welcomed Song Jiu to the side hall.

Song Jiudao: "The second king, Weichen deliberately came for the matter of the Great Food Messenger. ”

"Oh, tell me."

"Wechen doesn't know much about the West, firstly, I have heard some things from Mr. Yuan, and secondly, I have also learned some things through Fanshang. Let's talk about Da Shi first, Da Shi was very powerful in the Tang Dynasty and once defeated Gao Xianzhi's army. It is called the Black Clothes Eater, and now it is cowering near Baghdad, also known as the Abbas, although it is powerful, but it is far less than it used to be. Then there was an expeditionary force, which crossed a somewhat long distance, about the same distance as our Korean army to the central area of the river in the west of the Green Mountains, and hit the southwest peninsula of the European continent. The Persian Prefecture and the Hezhong region, which once belonged to the Tang Dynasty, were occupied by the Turks and Persians, and established a Samanid Dynasty, which was once very strong, but at this time it was in decline, and there was a country in the north where the Turks arose, called the Qarakhanid State was rising strongly, turning to the east, that is, the Xichang Uighurs, the Ganzhou Uighurs, and I was facing Shaanxi. To the west of the Samanid dynasty there was another Bouweishi. Then go to both sides of the strait and North Africa," Song Jiu was afraid that Zhao Kuangyi would not understand, so he drew a non-standard map of Asia, Africa and Europe.

"Is there such a vast area in the north?" Zhao Kuangyi asked in surprise.

"Yes, there are still many lands in the north of Murowei and Shengjurchen, but where it is very cold and not suitable for human habitation, there are people, but there are not many human beings. In the civilization zone, China is the leader in the East, followed by Tianzhu, Central Asia, West Asia, Europe, North Africa, Central and South Africa, and many large and small countries, but where they are very backward, even less than some indigenous countries in the South China Sea. Weichen still said that this big food, Guangzhou big food merchants are mainly from this country, the Fatimid Dynasty. The king's name was Muyiz, and he was an eloquent monarch who repeatedly sent troops to invade large areas of North Africa and Western Asia. Founded the capital of Cairo. Because it is still green, it is also called green clothes and big food. Then to the west, it is the Byzantine Dynasty, which has sent envoys to and from our Tang Dynasty, and further west, that is Europe, which the Tang people call Western Qin. There are more real countries, now there are Germany, Hungary. Bulgaria, France, Italy, Norway. Denmark with powerful countries such as Kyiv. In addition, there were many small states and small principalities. Religions are also different, mainly Islam and Catholicism, but there are also many differences between these two major doctrines, such as the doctrine of the people who believe in the tendons of our dynasty and belong to the same line as Catholicism, but it is not recognized by many people in the West. Central and South Africa are more complex, just like the western part of Quang Nam, where there is no unified faith and no developed civilization. There is no strong state. Even a small tribe can claim to be a nation. ”

"This is the World Realm?"

"It can't be called the world realm, and there are many large islands in the depths of the South China Sea. Some of them can resemble my court, some of them are more than twice as large as my court, and if the ship is big enough, there will be one to the east, but if the ship is big enough to resist the wind and waves, and then it will go east and east...... The two kings will have a surprising scene, that is, they will sail to Europe, Africa, and then go around to Tianzhu. ”

"The earth is round."

"Also. There are religious disputes in the Western world, there are many races, different civilizations, and the Great Eclipse has declined, and there will never be a strong country to unify them, let alone pose a threat to our DPRK. Unless the physicology advances to the point where the ordinary speed can be raised to a high-speed era, that is, the emergence of the train that Weichen said. Our dynasty has not really been unified, and after the unification, there is a strong Khitan in the north, because of the Tang Dynasty's internal relocation policy, a large number of Qiang people and Tibetan people in the northwest exist, and they are so close to us. Maybe it could become a new threat. Therefore, in the same way, I am in the Uighurs and in the river, and I am even more out of reach. Song Jiu said this, staring at Zhao Kuangyi.

Zhao Da and Zhao Er both began to dethrone Wu Chongwen, and Zhao Er went even further.

Therefore, he said: "There is not much controversy about the shrinking of the rights of military generals in our court due to the rebellion of the Tang Dynasty, but if it is overkill, our dynasty can only become a country that attaches importance to internal affairs and is cowardly in diplomacy and military." The Khitan does not boast of wealth, but no one dares to underestimate it. No matter how rich Nantang is, no one will regard it as a strong country. One of the controversies, the Great Food Messenger is coming, how to deal with the victims? The two kings, the big food, the little land, the Gobi Desert, try to ask them if there are no disasters? We are not afraid of disasters, but we are afraid that disasters will occur, and the country will turn a deaf ear. Disasters occur normally, and disaster relief capabilities are a manifestation of national strength. Why drive away the people for the sake of one mission? ”

First, Guangnan grain was transported to Mizhou.

If it is transported from Mizhou to the capital, it will be very troublesome. One is the distance, hundreds of miles of dry roads, and the other is that the navigation capacity from Jishui to Wuzhang River is limited, and the boats are smaller.

But there is no need for that, the prefectures of Shanzhou, Daimyofu, Caozhou and other prefectures are all in the east of the capital, and they are directly allocated to the affected prefectures and counties, and even let the victims register themselves to transport grain for the country, and after transporting the grain, they will carry it on their shoulders or push the grain to their homes.

A part of the grain from western Beijing and Shaanxi was directly transported to Zhengzhou, Mengzhou and other places, and the grain from Jianghuai was supplied to the victims of Songzhou on the spot.

The Song Dynasty was not short of food, but that there was not enough transportation for food, and it was allocated to the victims in time. Now that the food is delivered in three places, the shortage of transportation can be reversed immediately. At this time, it doesn't make much sense for Zhao Pu to restrain him, he didn't get Chu Zhaofu last year, can he still get it this year? If you look at it silently, Zhao Kuangyin will definitely not like it. It was terrible for the Chinese book machine to start, and as soon as Zhao Pu moved, officials from various states and counties went out one after another.

As a result, during the most critical spring famine, the famine of the people was alleviated.

Zhao Pu made amends, but he did it late, but even Zhao Kuangyi couldn't judge it, let alone Song Jiu.

Song Jiu said again: "As for the latter, this is like a metaphor, my family has relatives, if they are in the river, they usually look down and don't look up, naturally it doesn't matter." But if there are relatives from afar, even in Quang Nam, it is a relative who is rarely seen once in decades, and when he comes, he will definitely be grandly entertained, and even when he goes back, he will send a lot of gifts for him to take back. It's human nature. However, Da Shi attaches great importance to business, and it is far away and cannot be verified. Merchants value profit over righteousness, and pursue profits, and the big food merchants, whether by land or sea, every time they traffic, it is a journey of thousands of miles with uncertain life and death, and they are even more courageous. If the court gives it a generous amount, there will be merchants pretending to be envoys, and they will come in an endless stream to pay tribute in order to ask for rewards. The country is not beneficial, and the distant dynasty may not be gracious, and Wynn is not beneficial to us. National strength will inevitably suffer. What's more, there are still so many poor people in our dynasty who can't even maintain food and clothing. ”

But Song Jiu's words were not listened to much by the imperial court.

Soon after, he sent guards to protect the Great Food Messenger to Beijing, expelling the victims all the way, and deliberately went to the most prosperous place. After coming to the capital, officials were sent to take them to visit the lively and prosperous places in the capital and settle in the post house.

Then he set up a banquet in the palace to entertain him.

I don't know much about overseas monarchs and ministers, but I know some big food records from some historical records of the Tang Dynasty, so I called Song Jiu to accompany him. The envoy first presented the letter of state, and King Mu Yizi greeted the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty with some polite words, but hoped that the merchants of their country would get more soju and mirrors. For this national letter, Song Jiu is also difficult to distinguish between true and false, saying that it is true, it should be said that this Mu Yizi is an eloquent monarch, is it just for a mirror and soju, deliberately the two countries are good? said that it was fake, and it was not an elephant, and the tone of the national letter was respectful, and there was no god horse who was a minister, so Song Jiu would definitely conclude that it was fake. The Great Food Tradition also values commerce. If you get more soju and mirrors, you can make a lot of money on the Song side, and Fatima will make more money as a transit station. Therefore, it may be true or false.

Song Jiu sat down, I don't know who arranged it, and happened to sit with the merchant who accompanied the Great Food Envoy.

It may be kind, you met when you were in Guangzhou, it may be sarcasm, you Song Jiu is actually a businessman. But Song Jiu didn't think much about it, and whispered to the businessman. Zhao Kuangyin looked at them and asked curiously, "Song Jiu, what are you talking about?" ”

Song Jiu stood up and replied, "Your Majesty, Ah Qi asked Weichen why Weichen was removed from his official position. I'm answering. ”

"Tell me."

"Weichen said that my country's civil servants rule the world, and use one more book, called Analects, some people saw the loyalty, so they went to the battlefield, regardless of life and death, to serve the country. Someone saw the ceremony, so they replaced the rules and regulations of the state system. Someone saw Ren and became a good minister. Someone saw wisdom and became a counselor. I am not good at learning, I only see that I love people and love the people, and I have no talent, so I have to take matters into my own hands to lead the people and make up for my own shortcomings. Among all the positions, I am the most pleasing to the people, and I can't love the people when General Ku Wu Pan and other soldiers fought bloody battles on the front line. But it's unfair that I take all the fame. In fact, it is not me who really loves people, but Your Majesty. Weichen said that you have been in the capital for several days, and you should see the prosperity of the capital, but then look at the palace. Many of the private houses are more luxurious than the palace, not like some Western countries, where the people are poor, but the palace is splendid. This is the true lover. The way of employing people in the country, meritorious service will be rewarded, and if there is a fault, the punishment will be punished, and the ministers will not get carried away with merit, and they will not be frustrated if they have faulty, so let them continue to correct. This is the way of the Ming monarch to use his ministers, so I have had it, and I have been removed from my official position, and I have no complaints. ”

Song Jiu can only answer like this, did I say that the reason why I was dismissed from office was the product of a victim of political struggle?

But the same sentence has different meanings in the ears of different people, especially the Analects, as soon as Song Jiu finished speaking, the hall was silent...... (To be continued......)