Chapter 295: The Cursed Nation

Pan Mei hugged her granddaughter, crying and laughing. He was so depressed that he couldn't put his expression on his face so that his daughter wouldn't see it. He handed Fu Niang to his daughter, and when his daughter was not paying attention, he whispered to Song Jiu: "Xiao Jiu, do you say you can do it?" ”

"Uncle, what should I do?"

Pan Mei Yu Stop.

"Father-in-law, is your daughter bad?"

In this era, daughters may not be very good, one is a family member, and the other is a decent family who has to subsidize a large amount of dowry. Pan Li'er's third child was born, and before she was born, she directly took a masculine name, Song Fu.

It is not an exaggeration, there are too many people who pray for the blessing and safety of Song Jiu's family.

Mrs. Zhang and Mrs. Li came to deliver the baby again.

It turned out to be a girl.

The evil thing is that Pan Li'er gave birth to three daughters, one of whom is healthier than the other. But no matter how healthy it is, it's useless, it's super super money-losing goods. A group of Yanei who were good friends with Song Jiu were so happy that Cao Can ran over directly to ask for his son Cao Yi, but was beaten out of the house by Pan Li'er.

The girl could no longer be called Song Fu, so she had to change it to Fu Niang.

was about to make a move on Nantang, Pan Mei was called back, and he also knew in the letter that his daughter was about to give birth, so he hurried back day and night, who would have thought that she was still a granddaughter.

But losing money is the Song family's business, Pan Mei's daughter can't be regarded as losing money, not only does she not lose, she makes too much, she comes back in front, and she is summoned into the palace in the back, Zhao Kuangyin pointed at him and said: "You have merit in the south, I want to reward you with some money......"

Pan Mei scratched her head, what are you doing with the reward, is there a shortage of money at home? Either reward the officials, they are all temperate, how to reward the officials? waved his hand again and again and refused the reward. The problems don't stop there. The emperor said that there is merit in the south, and there is merit and merit, depending on how to think about it. If it's for money, it's not meritorious. Think about Wang Quanbin's destruction of Bashu like that, and he also transported countless money and silk to the capital by large and small boats. Pan Meipingnan, with Song Jiu Wang Ming and other deputy generals, became a benevolent government attack that can be recorded in history. But what about money? Yes, Lingnan is getting better day by day, and the next year will pay more taxes than a year, if the Song Jiu student's sucrose technique research is successful, the imperial court will get even more benefits. But no matter how you calculate it, how many years will it take to make up for it?

Think so. Pan Mei will be very sad, to know how many years he has been in the south!

If you go down in the first year of Qiande, you will stay for ten years. There is no merit and hard work.

But he didn't dare ask.

However, Song Jiu thinks that Pan Mei is lucky enough, there are not too many generals who can level Nan, but they may not be able to have such a good method as Pan Mei, and whether the fight will be very smooth.

Song Jiu said that his daughter would not be compensated, that was not a lie, Pan Li'er may not be the best married among his daughters, but that is the future. Maybe Pan Meidu died at that time. He couldn't say it either. Pan Mei couldn't answer, so she changed the topic and asked, "Your Majesty has awarded you the deputy envoy of the three divisions, why don't you agree?" ”

The following words are not too easy to say. There are many official positions equivalent to the deputy envoys of the imperial court and the three divisions, which are found in the Chinese book and the Privy Council. There are also other functional departments, but the son-in-law has done so much benevolence. Good thing, only once. No news later.

If Zhao Pu is here, it can be understood, but why didn't Zhao Pu mention his son-in-law for a year?

This does not bode well.

It's really not a good sign.

Let Song Jiu choose, textile, copper smelting, and steel, these three are all important, and it is difficult to distinguish each other, and the role of steel should not be questioned, especially in the era of cold weapons. Textile is the people's livelihood, once the textile machinery progresses, with cotton, the problem of difficult clothing will gradually be solved. Over the past few years, cotton seeds are gradually adapting to the weather in the north, and there have also been nearly 70 catties of high-yield lint fields, and the general yield is not high, that is, there is no intensive cultivation, there is a lack of fertilizer, it is not planted, and it still has some room to rise. This is ready to wait for the improvement of textile machinery, and cotton cloth will appear in thousands of households. Is it worse than steel? Clothing, food, housing and transportation, why clothes are ranked first, because in ancient times, cloth has always been a big problem, especially warm fabrics, so it is listed above food. The same is true for copper smelting, copper itself may be the same thing, but it is now currency, without sufficient currency, it is impossible for the whole country to enter the commodity circulation time, the economy can not be revitalized, and even without sufficient currency, even if the gold shop starts, maybe Jiaozi and the Song Dynasty Jiaozi will have problems.

It can only be said that sucrose is a little inferior, it is better to have it, and it is okay to do without it.

However, a few people can see through it.

He promised that the steel must be done well, not good steel, good steel he couldn't figure out, and that converter seemed more complicated. It's just not complicated, he hasn't seen it, and if he doesn't understand it, it's complicated.

However, the problem of iron must be largely solved.

There was still no movement at the imperial court.

He couldn't figure it out.

Although it doesn't matter, or even welcomes it, so that it will not be involved in the future conspiracy, but it is inevitable that there will still be some unhappiness in my heart. And if you don't get promoted for a long time, it will cause some misunderstandings among others. The gentleman is not guilty, but Huaibi is guilty. Fortunately, Song Jiu reacted quickly and put his wealth on the sea. The money invested this year is not much, the deed stock has risen a little, and it will rise next year and the year after, but it doesn't matter, the taxes he pays are getting heavier and heavier, not only promising Zhao Kuangyin's land tax, but also the commercial tax of Hezhou's huge industry. In fact, the annual income is not much, and half of the cost of large-scale research and development is obtained by ten ships overseas, otherwise if you don't get promoted for a long time, you will suppress the deed shares of Zhuyan, and maybe Hezhou will rebel by itself.

There is also another sign, Madame Blossom used to come once or twice uninterestingly, but seeing that he had not been promoted for a long time, she had not returned for most of the year. Pan Mei said again: "Could it be that Shi Jue is a ghost?" ”

"No, he's now a rat crossing the street, and everyone shouts and beats, so he has the guts?"

"Are you still ...... for those palace treasury," Pan Mei muttered.

"It's not, it's just that the treasury palace was burned, and the money and silk of the pseudo-Southern Han Dynasty are also limited, although it is huge, a steel and a rapidly developing Guangnan can make up for it in five years and ten years, right?"

"Who else?" Pan Mei was thinking about it, although Zhao Kuangyi was at the head of the class, he couldn't handle the affairs of the two governments, the real ministers of the two governments, Xue Juzheng, Shen Yilun, Chu Zhaofu, and Lu Duoxun, these are the two houses with the darkest starlight. Although Shen Yilun is incorruptible, his ability to preside over the two governments is seriously insufficient. Don't say that it's not as good as Zhao Pu, and it's not as good as Li Chongju. The only thing is that he is incorruptible, not greedy, and has no connection with many forces, which can reassure Zhao Kuangyin, although Xue Juzheng is the prime minister, he is a person from the previous week, and he has the ability and does not dare to make a big move, maybe he has done a good job and has talent to learn. Virtue is good, but this experience limits the development of his talents.

Needless to say, Chu Zhaofu used Chu Kuangyin, obviously wanting to cooperate with Zhao Kuangyi, using some of his grievances with Zhao Pu to jointly erase Zhao Pu's influence and pave a peaceful golden avenue for the future prince.

And this person has always had a good relationship with Song Jiu.

The rest is Lu Duoxun, who is called the Governor of the Governor's Office, but has actually become a deputy minister with real power. He is the one who handles a lot of things. If there is no Lu Duoxun, the Chinese book will be a big mess. Pan Mei saw it, Song Jiu also saw it, and he didn't understand it either. Why was Lu Duoxun so ugly in the history of the Song Dynasty later, could it be that he did something angry and resentful in the future. Sometimes think about what he saw for himself, and then think about some of the poor historical knowledge in his head. I can't help but sigh with emotion, what is true. What is fake? What is right and what is wrong?

This person has little handover with Song Jiu, but there is definitely no contradiction, and he has grievances with Zhao Pu, and Song Jiu also has them, and the two are in the same trench. That is to say, these bigwigs have no evil thoughts towards Song Jiu, not Qian Bao, not the number one brocade guard Shi Jue, then who else, of course, there are other ministers, such as Liu Wensuo of the Imperial Historical Observatory After his death, Bian Guangfan took over, and after Bian Guangfan's death, Feng Bing took over, but Feng Bing was not the imperial historian, but judged the affairs of the imperial historical platform as a servant of the imperial history. In the early Song Dynasty, the official was not active, which was also different from Song Jiu's memory. Inactivity, of course, has no rights. Liu Bian and the others don't have much real power, besides Feng Bing?

Or others, and that new minister was reused by Zhao Kuangyin? It doesn't seem to be either.

Pan Mei couldn't figure it out, not to mention anything else, it was the merit of governing Lingnan, and her son-in-law should also be reused, and her son-in-law was getting more and more calm, and he was no longer the hairy boy who made people laugh at the beginning. Or be afraid, Song Jiu is not a general, but he is good at managing government affairs and financial management, can he be feared? On the contrary, not only do you not need to be afraid, but such talents are easy to appoint.

Pan Mei was uneven, but Song Jiu didn't care too much.

When he saw his father-in-law, he suddenly thought of something.

The Song Dynasty wanted to make a move against the Southern Tang Dynasty, and Zhao Kuangyin issued an edict, first letting Cao Han lead the troops to Jingnan, and Cao Bin and Li Hanqiong led the troops to follow. Pan Mei, Liu Yu, and Liang Zhen led the troops to Jingnan, and Xu Zhongxuan, the Jinghu transfer envoy, was also the transfer envoy of the army in the south. The first person to leave was only Cao Han, and the others had not yet left, these three edicts were just an appointment and preparation, and some generals were still outside, such as Pan Mei. But before, Zhao Kuangyin still wanted to recruit Li Yu. When Zhao Kuangyin was electing the envoy, he valued Lu Duoxun's fellow disciple Li Mu, and had doubts in his heart, so he said: "Li Mu is very good, but he has not done anything other than drafting the edict, and I am afraid that he will not be competent." ”

Lu Duoxun said: "Li Mu is upright, he does not change life and death in the face of things, and he is benevolent and brave." ”

Zhao Kuangyin was silent, because he thought of another "benevolent" who didn't want to die. After Li Mu arrived in Jiangnan, he almost moved Li Yu. But at this time, Chen Qiao, the minister of the Southern Tang Dynasty, came out to stop him, saying: "The minister and His Majesty are both under the orders of Yuanzong (the lord Li Jing), and now and now, you will see and stay, what should you do with your society?" Although the minister is dead, there is no way to see Yuanzong in Jiuquan. ”

Zhang Yi also objected.

Li Yu saw the opposition of the two confidants, and immediately changed his words, and said to Li Mu: "I am wronged and begged to curry favor with the big country, so that the big country will let us live." At this point, I have to work hard. ”

Li Mu had no choice but to persuade him in the end: "It is the decision of the lord of the country to decide whether to enter the dynasty or not, but my dynasty has elite soldiers and rich material resources, and you are not the one who can stop it, I advise you to think clearly and don't regret it in the future." ”

After speaking, Li Mu rode back and forth, and it took less than a month to go back and forth.

Zhao Kuangyin thought that Li Mu did a good job, he didn't force it, he didn't press, he just reasoned, but Li Yu didn't listen. This envoy is also the last envoy of the Song Dynasty, it is better for Li Yu to surrender, Li Yu is okay if he does not surrender, Zhao Kuangyin asked Li Mu to send an envoy, one is to surrender, and the other is to correct the name of the teacher!

The two great lords of the south of the Yangtze River, Qian Yu's unconditional surrender, and he did not do anything wrong, that is called knowing current affairs, although he died later, but the Qian family was very expensive in the Song Dynasty, and continued to continue the glory of the Qian family, even to the Southern Song Dynasty. Li Yu didn't do anything wrong, could it be that Sun Quan did something wrong to resist Cao Cao? But what Li Yu did wrong, since he resisted, he had to be ready to resist, but what did he do? But from Song Jiu's point of view, I don't like it very much, because a lot of people will die again.

Song Jiu didn't care too much about this matter, the Southern Tang at this time was not Li Jing's Southern Tang, what did Li Yu's Southern Tang use to resist the elite soldiers of the Song Dynasty? What he saw was that Cao Bin finally walked to the stage. I didn't think much about it at first, it had nothing to do with him. At most, a few boys of the Cao family have a good relationship with him. If it weren't for the birth of his daughter, I don't know what the future would be, and he would welcome the two families to get married. It wasn't until Pan Mei came to Song's house that Song Jiu suddenly thought of a terrible thing.

That was the doom of the Northern Song Dynasty.

Not to mention the Khitan and Jurchen, Western Xia became a nightmare for the Northern Song Dynasty, only to talk about the fate of the generals who founded the Song Dynasty, Li Chugeng was reduced to Shandong and died of depression, Wang Quanbin was not very happy, just died. Cao Bin didn't talk about military ability, and said that morality was still above Pan Mei, and he suffered a great humiliation in the Gaoliang River. Pan Mei did not do badly, whether in Hunan or Lingnan, she did not do anything evil, and even implemented a lot of good governance under her own leadership, but in history, she was saddened by Yang Ye's death, and let a literati make up the Yang family to infinitely scandalize.

This is the fate of the heroes who destroyed the country.

And then to the emperor, Zhao Kuangyin will die unexplained, Zhao Kuangyi was wounded by an arrow and died, Song Zhenzong is a golden mean, although he has a good death, there is also an alliance of the Yuanyuan. Song Renzong was a good emperor, but he died early in his life. Until Song Yingzong, the king of the mean, died when he got a Puyi dispute. Song Shenzong was heroic and heroic, and he didn't die well. Song Zhezong was also not bad, but he died earlier. If you talk about the excellence of the emperor, none of the dynasties can compare with the six monarchs of the Northern Song Dynasty, except for the two emperors of Huiqin before the destruction of the country, no emperor is considered bad. But what about fate?

I don't remember the history book Song Jiu very clearly, in fact, it can only be said that the five emperors are good, Song Yingzong is not counted, he has no good governance except for the Puyi dispute, on the contrary, he is arguing with the ministers, Han Qi and Ouyang Xiu are two prime ministers, and the Song Dynasty's finances are poked into a big black hole, which forced Zhao Ji to jump up and down in a hurry, and forcibly change the law with Wang Anshi. However, Zhao Shu was in power for a short time, only a few years.

The other is the underestimation of Song Zhenzong, this person's talent is far from what Song Jiu can imagine. Later, it didn't work, and that's because of a truth that many people can't imagine, Rapid Change! Or a serious neuropathy! Otherwise, Song Zhenzong in the early years, even Song Taizong may not be able to reach it!

If Song Jiu lived a long life, he would be able to see a different Song Zhenzong, a different Kou Zhun!

But it is okay for Song Jiu to think so.

Thinking about it in terms of fate, the Northern Song Dynasty is not that the emperor did not work hard, although the ministers were wrong and right, they were considered to have worked hard, but the country seemed to be cursed by God, no matter how hard the monarchs and ministers tried, it was full of disasters and difficulties.

But if this is the case, Song Jiu's efforts may not be a good thing, because Song Jiu thought of a legend again, when Li Shimin, there were folk rumors that there should be a heroine, King Wu, and the world. Li Shimin found Li Chunfeng, and Li Chunfeng said that there was a son of heaven in the harem. Li Shimin wanted to punish the harem women, Li Chunfeng said a word, no, if His Majesty stays, although the emperor is temporarily absent, and the society is extended, if His Majesty kills him, he should become a man, that is, he will destroy the royal family.

In feudal history, the internal governance of the Northern Song Dynasty almost reached a formidable height, and it can even be said that without the Northern Song Dynasty, the entire Jiangdong would still be a lake, but there are so many disasters that it is unimaginable. Appearing on his own, making the Northern Song Dynasty icing on the cake, will become even better, so will this disaster turn into a more terrible man? (To be continued......)