The west wind blows on the four-gill perch, and the thunder pine is crispy and greasy.

In autumn, the Matsue sea bass is plump, which is a wonderful wonder. The current Songjiang Mansion is still called Huating County, which belongs to Jiaxing Prefecture. It is generally believed that Zhao Jiaren, the cotton minister, has a great influence in Jiaxing Mansion. In Lin'an Zhao Zhizhuo's mansion, Zhao Jiaren not only brought delicacies such as Songjiang four-cheek perch, but also brought a chef to make a banquet for his parents.

The seafaring guilds' molasses separation technology has become more and more mature, and the production of white sugar and rum has increased, and the influence of these two on the table has become more and more important. Coupled with a large honeycomb coal stove, plenty of cooking oil, and plenty of seasonings, this table is delicious.

Seeing that his father and mother were eating happily, Zhao Jiaren poured wine into his parents' wine glass again, and said very casually: "Dad, mother, Quanzhou has changed a lot now. I think after waiting for my father, you should move back to Quanzhou. ”

"Every year there is a strong wind in Quanzhou, and I think Lin'an is much better." Zhao Zhizhuo's answer was very willful, obviously not seeing his son's intentions.

Mrs. Zhao likes rum very much, and what Zhao Jiaren brings out to her family is the best grade, not a cheap product blended with bagasse after making alcohol. It must be noted that this blended rum sells very well in Mongolian-controlled areas.

Picking up the wine glass and taking a sip, Mrs. Zhao said with a smile: "I went to Xiangyang this time, do you think the situation is not good?" In terms of understanding her son, Mrs. Zhao is a hundred times better than her husband, and she can easily see Zhao Jiaren's worries.

When it came to such a clear level, Zhao Zhizhuo was surprised.

The Southern Song Dynasty has always been in a state of war, which is about survival, and even if the literati look down on the soldiers, they will not be ignorant of military affairs. Xiangyang was a matter of life and death in the Southern Song Dynasty, and the court was very concerned about the military action to aid Xiangyang. Xia Gui and other generals broke through the Mongolian walled city and sent a large amount of supplies into Xiangyang City. The once seemingly impregnable siege of Xiangyang has finally opened a gap. This news made the Lin'an court greatly relieved.

However, Zhao Zhizhuo did not know the role of his son in the battle of Xiangyang. Xia Gui is a general that Jia Nidao attaches more importance to, and he has given Jia Nidao a great help this time. Since Zhao Jiaren himself did not want to publicize his military exploits, Jia Yidao did not mean to do it deliberately, and no one in the court paid attention to what position Zhao Jiaren was in this battle.

Hearing what his wife said, Zhao Zhi asked in surprise: "Didn't we repel the Mongols?" ”

Zhao Jiaren wanted to quietly persuade his parents to stay away from Lin'an, a place of right and wrong, but he didn't expect the old lady to show amazing straightforwardness. The old lady was not such a person, Zhao Jiaren felt strange at first, but after thinking about it, he understood that his father Zhao Zhizhuo was clearly expressing his love for Lin'an, and the old lady was very implicitly expressing her idea of not wanting to leave Lin'an.

Faced with such a situation, Zhao Jiaren felt that it was not easy to speak. He could have recounted his experience to his parents in detail, although the Mongols were defeated, the army of more than 100,000 always maintained strict discipline. In the face of the seemingly uncontainable Zhao Jiaren, the Mongolian army did not adopt the tactics of hard confrontation, but adopted various counter-encirclement measures outside the range of the gunboats of the Hanshui Zhao Jiaren army.

The enemy is so calm and tenacious, and Zhao Jiaren has no way to completely solve the war in the short term. He could only escort a large amount of food and supplies into Xiangyang, assemble the captured return cannon parts into usable return guns, and provide Lu Wenhuan with return paper. There were even two technicians left behind to help build an earthworm treatment plant in Xiangyang. All kinds of domestic waste and wild grasses in the city can be converted into feed through earthworms, so as to provide more chicken.

Even after doing so much, Zhao Jiaren was still convinced that the combat effectiveness of the Mongol army was higher than that of the Song army. With sufficient supplies, there will probably be no problem for Xiangyang to hold for a few more years. However, as long as the Mongol army was given a chance, Xiangyang probably still couldn't hold it.

With a smile, Zhao Jiaren replied: "If my father and mother like Lin'an, then I will live in Lin'an." I've only been operating in Fujian for so long, and I'd like to ask you two to go back and have a look. ”

The son boasted so much, Zhao Zhizhuo smiled: "I heard that there are many complaints in Fujian......

Zhao Jiaren also smiled: "It's just a factional attack, but they treat me as Jia Xianggong." ”

These words are all true, although Zhao Jiaren has never regarded himself as a person who is like Jia in his heart, but those who are against Jia like Tao don't think so. If you want to bring down Jia Nidao, the best way is naturally that Jia Nidao's policy will make people angry, but Zhao Jiaren uses practical actions to prove that Jia Nidao's policy is not so bad. As a result, many behaviors related to Zhao Jiaren have been very exaggerated.

Mrs. Zhao listened to her son's cheerful tone, and knew in her heart that her son was very unhappy, she sighed: "The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it; Heaps out of the shore, and the flow will be turbulent; Walk above men, and the crowd will not. San Lang, don't take it to heart. ”

Although Zhao Zhizhuo has also been a governor for many years, he is far from the level of Zhao Jiaren, and the Great Song Dynasty has not been besieged like this for many years because of his good political performance. He could only sigh.

After eating, Zhao Jiaren returned to his residence in the Lin'an trading base. After seeing the military strength of the Mongolian army, Zhao Jiaren was not optimistic about the future of the Southern Song Dynasty at all. He didn't want to show off his exploits, so he kept a low profile at this time. The Fujian Road was able to obtain huge benefits from maritime trade, and the Guangnan East-West Road, which was regarded as a place of exile, was far away from the Tiangao Emperor. Because of the border with the outside world, Zhao Jiaren had the opportunity to form his own standing army. If he had done this on Fujian Road, I am afraid that the impeachment of Zhao Jiaren's rebellion would have been overwhelming.

Before Zhao Jiaren could sit on the stool, Jia Yidao's cronies came to visit. After meeting, the cronies solemnly told Zhao Jiaren, "Zhao Zhizhou, Jia Gongran, I came to tell you that the matter of Yunnan's recruitment envoy is just not good." And recently, someone wanted to make a fuss about this, so Jia Gong asked Zhao Zhizhou to leave Beijing quickly. ”

Zhao Jiaren was stunned. The most inconspicuous of his new envoys is actually such a Yunnan envoy, how can the envoy become the key to others making a fuss?

A cronie is worthy of being a cronie, and the explanation he gave really involved a lot of insiders.

In the second year of the Western Han Dynasty, that is, in 109 BC. Emperor Wu opened the west to Nanyi, placed 24 counties, and Yunnan was one of them. Although this area has always been considered a gathering place for barbarians, it is also one of the earliest traditional areas in China. In the late Tang Dynasty, it became self-reliant, and the Duanshi soon established the Dali Kingdom here. Zhao Guangyi did not recover until 1253 when Dali was destroyed by Kublai Khan, and in 1260 the governor of Dali was established.

Yunnan's recruitment means that Zhao Jiaren has the errand to mobilize troops against Yunnan, and now that the Great Song Dynasty is on the defensive against Mongolia, the mobilization of troops against Yunnan means that the Great Song Dynasty will launch a counteroffensive. If someone else gets this errand, the officials who oppose Jia Nidao probably don't take it seriously. Now that Zhao Jiaren is going to take this errand, many people in the court have an idea.

In the eyes of officials who support Mr. Jia, this may mean that the counteroffensive has changed from hopeless to 'maybe possible'. Because the Gongtian reform was on the opposite side of Jia Nidao, those officials thought that Jia Nidao might be able to gain more through this policy of expanding the territory.

As far as Jia Yidao is concerned, he has no counteroffensive plan, and he does not think that Zhao Jiaren has such a plan. Because Mongolia also attacked the Guangnan West Road through Dali, this Yunnan envoy actually just wanted to express that Zhao Jiaren could cross the border to attack Mongolia. So Jia Rudao shrank according to his own interests.

After giving some explanations, Jia Rudao's cronies persuaded: "Jia Gong said that since Zhao Zhizhou is already the ambassador of Guangnan East and West Road to pacify Guangzhou, and the envoy of Liangguang coastal control, he can already lead the local forces of Liangguang to fight against Mongolia, so there is no need for this Yunnan envoy. If you really need it, you can give it to you at that time. ”

Zhao Jiaren didn't expect to trigger such a big reaction, Jia Rudao was ready to take a low profile, and Zhao Jiaren didn't want to be this up-and-coming bird. He laughed, "That's very good." Then I will leave Lin'an tomorrow. ”

Zhao Jiaren had already obtained the letter of appointment from the Ministry of Officials, and at this time he was officially the ambassador of Guangnan East and West Road to pacify Guangzhou, and the envoy of the coastal system of Guangzhou. And the credit for aiding Xiangyang made Zhao Jiaren a third-grade level. In the Manchu Dynasty, there were many first-class officials. Unlike the uneducated Manchu Qing Dynasty, in the tradition of the Great Song Dynasty, the symbolic meaning of the first and second products is very large, so the third product is already a very unbelievable official product. Although Jia Rudao did not vigorously publicize it, he was not stingy in rewards. Zhao Jiaren also felt very satisfied, if Zhao Jiaren was really shaped into a hero who could dominate the sky with one hand, he would be miserable because he had to save the Lin'an court.

So Zhao Jiaren, a member of the Sanpin who was dressed in a scarlet robe and a goldfish bag, slipped out of Lin'an in the dark night, and when the boat he was on disappeared into the canal, everyone in Lin'an didn't know.

Stay in Gusu Mansion, Jiaxing Mansion, and Qingyuan Mansion, meet and hold meetings with local partners, and make arrangements for everyone's fortune plan. Zhao Jiaren rushed back to Fuzhou, and then told his wife about his new position.

This is the first time Zhao Jiaren has seen a shocked expression, and it is still the shock from the bottom of his wife's heart. She was holding her daughter in her arms at this time, but she looked at Zhao Jiaren directly, and she didn't even know that her daughter's diaper had fallen off. It was Zhao Jiaren who took his daughter and wrapped a clean diaper around her, and Qin Yuzhen barely recovered from the shock.

"Who have you offended?" When Qin Yuzhen asked, she took her daughter into her hand again, and her voice was full of incomprehension and a kind of chagrin.

"I'm going there myself." Zhao Jiaren replied decisively.

"You're going to go yourself? Why? Qin Yuzhen hurriedly asked.

"Because I'm going to earn ten times as much as I've earned on Quang Nam Road. People die for money, birds die for food, I just want to gamble like this! Zhao Jiaren replied neatly and categorically.

Qin Yuzhen was shocked more than before, Zhao Jiaren was afraid that she would accidentally let her daughter slide to the ground, so he simply took her daughter from his wife's arms and coaxed her gently. His daughter was still young, and Zhao Jiaren didn't want her to go through this hardship, so he wanted to leave his wife and children in Fuzhou. Thinking that he hadn't been able to see the child for a while, he felt quite melancholy.