After telling his son about work, Zhao Jiaren waited for Li Yun in another office. Li Yun felt that his expression was very serious, and looked carefully at the official family of the uncle generation in front of him, Li Yun first saluted, and then said: "Report to the official family, Li Yun will report to the official family." ”

"Sit." Zhao Jiaren replied.

As soon as Li Yun sat down, he opened his notebook. This is the standard process when reporting work, read the report outline first before speaking. Then Li Yun talked about his combat experience in Shaanxi. The whole context is relatively simple, from Shaanxi County to Shaanxi, conquer Tongguan and Chang'an, and then go west into Hanzhong, and from Hanzhong to the southeast to attack Shangyong, completely solve all the Mongol forces in the Hanshui Valley.

After speaking, Li Yun looked at Zhao Jiaren's slightly relaxed expression, and said cautiously: "Official, we will fight more and less along the way, and we don't have to worry about the reinforcements of the Mongols. So it was quite easy...... This also relied on Zheng Jie's ability to attract the main force of the Mongolian army. ”

As soon as he heard that Li Yun had exonerated Zheng Jie like this, Zhao Jiaren was furious. His voice became much louder, "Li Yun, if you are asked to fight Hebei, how will you fight?" ”

Li Yun was shocked in his heart, he should still come. He was actually ready to answer this question, and after a little hesitation in his heart, Li Yun opened his mouth and said: "Official, I can't say that I will die fewer people than General Song, but my subordinates will definitely let the Mongols die more." I will fight with the Mongols ......."

For such an answer, Zhao Jiaren felt a little better in his heart. This is the problem with Zheng Jie's performance, he did not fight with the Mongols. If you fight with the Mongols, of course, there will be a lot of problems. The casualties of the troops in each battle were bound to increase rapidly, but the Mongols were not unscathed. And in order to meet the attack of the Great Song army, the Mongol army had to pay more strength.

“…… Before attacking Dadu, our army was not familiar with Hebei, so we had to fight extraordinarily. Li Yun continued to tell his opinion. Speaking of this, Li Yun gritted his teeth and said what was in his heart, "Official, our army pays too much attention to large-scale battles. As long as the enemy army gathers a few hundred men, we will fight with a thousand. There are so many Mongols in Hebei, and we don't have cavalry. But we can scatter the troops and become a chain and constantly strangle the Mongol army. It's just that there will always be damage, and I'm afraid that the possibility of the entire annihilation of the small army is also rare. ”

"What do you think of our army's will to fight? Do you dare to face such a situation? "What Zhao Jiaren is most afraid of is that Song Jun is too self-righteous.

"Official, I was fighting in Shaanxi, and there were a lot of local Han people who were married to the Mongols, and secretly reported to the Mongols, and even brought us a lot on the wrong road. Our army was initially attacked several times. However, my army did not hide this, and held meetings, studied, and discussed together according to what the officials said. After that, the troops fought better and better. Li Yun's face pretended to be calm when he spoke, and he was actually very uneasy in his heart. Later, he learned that Zhao Jiaren's eldest son, Zhao Qian, had also been besieged and almost taught the Song army a lesson with his life. If the crown prince died in the army, Li Yun couldn't believe what would become of him later.

Zhao Jiaren's face finally softened, and after such a long time, Li Yun finally said a solution that Zhao Jiaren felt acceptable. In the previous discussion about the war in Hebei, the guys from the military department all led the questions to various specific issues. Of course, there are also many bastards who directly shout 'Ci does not command the army' and fight with the Mongols.

Seeing Zhao Guanjia's expression, a big stone in Li Yun's heart was finally put down, and he hurriedly made a final summary, "Guanjia, I think too many of our generals are still in the Yellow River Battle and it is difficult to get out. At that time, we were fighting against the Mongols, and in the future, we would have to fight on the territory of the Mongols in every battle, and of course we could not use the ideas of that time. ”

"People, they always want more, not better." Zhao Jiaren let out a long sigh.

Li Yun can understand Zhao Jiaren's sigh a little, and his father has also relayed Zhao Jiaren's words many times, and has also said many times, 'I am the end of this, you have to rely on yourself to move on'.

"You go back first." Zhao Jiaren said to Li Yun.

Waiting for Li Yun to leave, Zhao Jiaren returned to the study. As soon as she sat down, Qin Yuzhen walked in, "San Lang, do you think Da Lang is a little weird?" ”

"What's the weird way?" Zhao Jiaren asked. He's been in a bad mood these days, and he really hasn't paid much attention to his son's mood.

"I can't tell what he thinks. But I don't think Da Lang even wants to retire. Qin Yuzhen said a little anxiously.

"Don't want to retire?" Zhao Jiaren didn't pay attention. He just felt that Zhao Qian looked much calmer now, and he was less bookish than the student's anger. That is to say, there is less impulse to oppose the other party when encountering anything.

"Hmm. I guessed too. Qin Yuzhen said with some anxiety.

"If he can also be an emperor on horseback, it will be a great joy for me." Zhao Jiaren made his attitude clear to his wife.

Seeing Zhao Jiaren's attitude, Qin Yuzhen's eyes were red, and she was already full of tears, she grabbed Zhao Jiaren's arm, and said in a trembling voice: "The soldiers are in danger, if he has a case, even if he doesn't care about the Great Song Dynasty, how can you and I, as parents, live." ”

"You ......" Zhao Jiaren was unhappy at that time, and he couldn't help but say: "You are worried about being a mother, but my mother was not worried back then?" I've never seen her like that. ”

Qin Yuzhen never expected Zhao Jiaren to say this, first stunned, and then angry eyebrows. After thinking for a while, Qin Yuzhen said angrily: "You are like a donkey's head not in the horse's mouth!" When your mother is worried, she must be talking to your father, how can she pull you to cry! ”

Although tears fell as he spoke, the panic and anxiety dissipated in an instant. Zhao Jiaren saw that his wife had changed so quickly, and after thinking about it for a while, he also felt that what his wife said was logical. When Zhao Jiaren's wife was unhappy, of course, she talked to Zhao Jiaren's father, Zhao Zhizhuo. Thinking about it carefully, after Zhao Jiaren led the troops, Empress Dowager Chen has been living with Emperor Zhao Zhiclumsy. Never lived separately again.

And all Qin Yuzhen's emotions at this time have been detonated by Zhao Jiaren's words, she glared at Zhao Jiaren, looking like she was about to have a domestic violence. However, Qin Yuzhen didn't have a big attack in the end, she just pushed down a chair angrily, and then completely ignored Zhao Jiaren's call, and slammed the door angrily.

Zhao Jiaren stood up and wanted to catch up, but finally sat back on the chair and stepped on the chair that fell to the ground with both feet. This distraction was just the beginning, there were so many things for him to think about, and none of them would be pleasant.

Daughter Zhao Ruoshui sneaked in, saw that there was no one else in the house, and called in a low voice: "Dad." ”

"What's the matter? Come in and say. Zhao Jiaren responded.

After entering the house, he picked up the chair first, and Zhao Ruoshui said, "Dad." When the eldest brother came back, he couldn't think about it. He said that he was sorry for the comrades around him who had died so many in battle. He said he didn't want to fight anymore, but he wanted to avenge them. ”

After listening to the words of this little informant, Zhao Jiaren was immediately relieved. However, Zhao Ruoshui was very touched, and she asked a little anxiously: "How should this be?" ”

"You don't have to worry about your big brother. This is true of all those who come down from the battlefield. Zhao Jiaren comforted his daughter.

"Why? Big brother didn't do this before. Did he have a heart disease? Zhao Ruoshui obviously didn't see as much as Zhao Jiaren.

"Auntie. I told you about materialism. Tell me what the basic idea of materialism is. ”

"Matter comes first, consciousness comes second. Matter exists first with consciousness. Zhao Ruoshui recited the basic theory.

"Materialism still has a point. Can you remember? ”

"Hmm. I can't remember. ”

"The world is knowable. But we, as human beings, don't know many, many things. Through study and research, humanity will eventually understand everything in the world. ”

Zhao Ruoshui frowned slightly, after her father said this, she remembered this sentence. But this sentence sounds too mysterious, or so mysterious that it is extremely straightforward, and it is no different from nonsense.

"Auntie. People are abnormal, but that's based on **. The vast majority of people are normal, and what makes them unique is their experiences. You think your eldest brother is strange, it's just that you haven't experienced what he went through, so use what you know to forcibly explain your eldest brother's behavior. So the more you think about it, the weirder it gets. This is the question of defining the unknown and the known. As long as you define what you don't know and what you know, you won't feel strange about your big brother. ”

"Daddy. Isn't that big brother...... Is it getting farther and farther away from us? Zhao Ruoshui asked sadly.

Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but take his daughter's hand and patted it, "You all have your own lives, and you will definitely go farther and farther away from your original home." So is your brother, and so are you. When you finally have a foothold on your own, you will begin to understand this. ”

"Daddy. I don't want to go. Zhao Ruoshui replied very sadly.

finally persuaded his daughter well, and Zhao Jiaren was finally able to return his attention to official business. The latest news seems to be in order, and the price of silk, which was once lost due to the sale of officials, has begun to rise, and the rising price line has risen and fallen. Several times, the price of silk seemed to return to the original point of the initial decline, but each time it rose, it would be followed by a wave of decline. The lows in the last month or two have surpassed the original lows.

This made Zhao Jiaren very happy, silk and cloth have borne the responsibility of currency for thousands of years, and paper money is a new thing that has only appeared for two hundred years. Now paper money has been able to become the pricing currency unit of silk, which shows that paper money has begun to gradually take away the monetary attributes belonging to silk. It's like some kind of fantasy setting, the more you absorb the monetary attributes of the commodity, the more powerful the paper money becomes.

After reading this, Zhao Jiaren looked at the plan submitted by the household department again. After digging the Tongji Canal, it will take hundreds of millions of yuan to pay money. The cost of the Shandong Canal is only 10 million yuan. If the Shandong Canal route is taken now, it will become the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal route. However, the Shandong Canal has a problem, it requires a large number of locks to allow ships to cross different waterlines. The biggest problem is how to provide enough water to the locks.

After reading a few more documents, it was already dark at night. Zhao Jiaren went back to the bedroom to rest, but the door was plugged in from the inside. Zhao Jiaren knocked on the door, but no one answered. I knocked again, but no one answered. knocked three times, but Qin Yuzhen still ignored it. Zhao Jiaren ordered the guards: "Bring the mosquito net, and the marching bed, and I will sleep at the door." ”

At this time, the weather was no longer cold, and Zhao Jiaren fell asleep. Listening to the chirping of small insects, I soon fell asleep. Knowing that someone shook him, he saw that it was Qin Yuzhen who was carrying a lamp. Looking at the dark sky, I don't know what time it is. Zhao Jiaren didn't talk nonsense, and went back to the room with his wife to sleep. When I woke up the next day, I heard Qin Yuzhen say, "You will never be allowed to make such an analogy in the future." ”

"Okay." Zhao Jiaren replied. He also felt that the analogy was completely illogical to comparison.

"I don't want Da Lang to go to war again." Qin Yuzhen continued.

"I can't promise you that. The young man always can't think about it, if he knows what a soldier is, he must continue to serve in the army, and I can't stop him. But I promise that I will not force him to continue to be a soldier. ”

gave his wife a promise, and Zhao Jiaren got up to eat. Then go to the morning meeting. The Ministry of Rites Shangshu Xiongshang asked himself to be the first to make a briefing. This is a rare thing, and everyone doesn't rob him.

"The Mongols have sent back some of the Great Song nobles who they have taken captive from Lin'an, and these people have been screened. It is indeed Xie Daoqing and the concubines in the palace. We've got their families to pick them up. At least half of these people's relatives refused to come to pick her up, especially Xie Daoqing, who said that if we forced her away, she would kill herself. ”

Xiong Shang Shu concisely introduced the situation, and a kind of high-ranking officials stared at Xiong Shang with incredible eyes. Xiong Sheng regretted it a little now, if only Wen Tianxiang, who was in charge of this matter, could come to the meeting. At least Wen Tianxiang can bear everyone's strange eyes, and Wen Tianxiang will never care about everyone's opinions.

At this time, Sima Kao asked: "Official, are you going to bring these nobles from the palace home?" ”

Zhao Jiaren didn't pay attention to this matter at all, and it was the first time he heard of such a disposal method at this time, and he also felt very puzzled. Unexpectedly, Wen Tianxiang's disposal method was not to ask for guilt, but to directly sweep these people out of the house. Whether it is appropriate to do this, Zhao Jiaren does not know.

Sima Kao frowned and said, "Official, these people have been away from home for more than ten years or even decades. The affection of relatives has long faded. And what good things do their relatives have? After these women entered the palace, they regarded themselves as uncles. Later, these people were attacked, so let them go alive or dead. These people ...... These people are not as good as Yang Liangjie! ”

Hearing the name of Yang Liangjie, a nasty ghost, many people couldn't help laughing. But this metaphor is no problem, Yang Liangjie at least hasn't given up on Yang Shufei. But those people don't have such relatives.