Jia Rudao's slender fingers gently combed his long beard, standing in the flower hall and watching the drizzle outside. On the table in the flower hall was the Di Bao, which was at the bottom of the list of official appointments, and Zhao Jiaren was appointed as the county lieutenant of Putian County under the Xinghua Military County.

The letter to Ding Danian was written by Jia Nidao, and the activity fee should also be paid by Jia Nidao out of his own pocket. However, from beginning to end, Jia Rudao only participated in this matter with the mentality of gambling. As a former prodigal, Jia seems to be deeply aware that gambling is a heartbeat, if he believes that gambling can make a fortune, he will naturally not study hard, let alone be admitted to the Jinshi at the age of 25.

The right-hand man Ding stood in the flower hall with his hands forked, and he looked at Jia Rudao, who was recognized as having a great future, without saying a word. Forty-year-old Jia Nidao has always been capable, but he didn't expect that after learning that he had successfully helped Zhao Jiaren to seek office, Jia Nidao's mood did not look happy. For a while, I fell into some kind of inexplicable contemplation. Just when Jia Ding felt that this silence would continue, Jia Rudao asked suspiciously: "That Ding Daquan Ding Xianggong didn't say anything else after reading the letter?" ”

"Back to Xianggong. After Ding Xianggong read it, he only pinched the Jiaozi contained in the envelope, and then asked me to return to you, he knows. He tried his best to describe the scene accurately.

Jia Rudao wanted to ask a few more words, but he stopped, he waved his hand to signal the family to leave, and sat down on a chair in the flower hall. The minds of the ministers will never be explained to a messenger, Ding Danian is like this, and Jia Yidao is the same. It would be a big mistake to want to know Ding Danian's thoughts from the errand runners.

What Ding Danian was thinking, Jia Rudao didn't care at this time, he now wanted to know who the mastermind behind Zhao Jiaren was. How could a thirteen-year-old doll understand the calculations of those organs in the court, and know that Jia Yidao could do things with a letter, and he must be a big man who is familiar with the interpersonal relationships in the court. Who the master was, Jia Rudao couldn't figure it out.

Fortunately, Jia Rudao is not a person who drills the horns, since he can't think of a reason, then don't bother to think about it. The water in officialdom is too deep, and the result of self-righteousness is often the opposite direction. Jia Rudao wrote a congratulatory letter to 'Zhao Jiaren, the governor of Putian County'. At the end of the letter, he jokingly told Zhao Jiaren that when repaying the debt, he must not give Jiaozi, but use the silk as the repayment unit.

After writing this letter, Jia Rudao sighed. Recently, the issuance of jiaozi has been larger, and the exchange ratio of banknotes and copper coins on the market has slowly and irreversibly decreased. If it goes down like this, the era of Jiaozi being worthless will inevitably come. Thinking of this, Jia Rudao can probably also see the future of the current Zuo Xiangding Danian.

Today's officials have been impatient with those literati in the court who only know how to speak the big truths for many years, and compared with these people who sit and talk about the Tao, as long as they have actual political achievements among the officials, they can be reported. Ding Danian relied on the real merit of opening up the 'Baiheling Road' and was appreciated and appointed by today's officials. Today's officials are even more looking forward to Ding Danian, who can do practical things, to solve the problem of the continuous depreciation of banknotes. The current issuance method of banknotes can be handed over, and the depreciation cannot be reversed at all. When the current official family is completely disappointed in Ding Danian, those who have been attacking Ding Danian will be able to get their wish.

Ding Danian is finished, and Jia Nidao, who is valued by the government, has a chance. But when he thought of the expectations of today's officials for government affairs, Jia Rudao was timid. If there is really a way to solve the trouble of handing over money, there are many people with perseverance among the successive prime ministers of the Southern Song Dynasty. How could they let go of such a great achievement!

After thinking about it, Jia Rudao could only sigh in addition to sighing.

At this time, Zhao Jiaren received his official position, bid farewell to Ding Daquan, the left-faced minister with blue skin, and went to Qingyuan Mansion to meet his father Zhao Zhizhuo. Qingyuan Mansion is Ningbo, and Zhao Zhizhuo is the governor of Qingyuan Mansion.

Knowing that his son was admitted to Jinshi, Zhao Zhizhuo was naturally overjoyed. But when his son told him that he was going to Putian to take office, Zhao Zhizhuo was also taken aback. Thinking about it, Zhao Zhizhuo only said in the end, 'The emperor's grace is vast!' ’

His son is about to be fourteen years old, and Zhao Zhizhuo also knows that it is not easy to let his son have an errand. So he didn't do much. Money is used in the affairs of officialdom, and those scholars and doctors are particularly concerned about the Zhao clan relatives and relatives. Zhao Zhizhuo didn't want those officials in the court to come up to the table and scold Zhao Zhizhuo for being a clan relative, which would inevitably cause chaos and make the Great Song Dynasty face unforeseen disasters.

Although these words are definitely not aimed at Zhao Zhizhuo, any Zhao clan member who stands out will be attacked like this, and it has been the case for more than a hundred years. Zhao Ruyu was the prime minister in the clan, but in the end he was expelled, belittled, and depressed. Even if Zhao Zhizhuo was not paranoid, he still had a respectful mind for those scholars.

Thinking of this, Zhao Zhizhuo didn't care that his son was still young, and carefully told his experience as an official over the years. From the magistrate to the governor of the state, there are no big or small things to say. Zhao Zhizhuo listened quietly, and occasionally asked. Zhao Zhizhuo cared about his son, and this one talked about it for a few hours. In the end, when it came to being dizzy, he could only let his son go to rest first, and he himself went back to the bedroom first.

The concubine served Zhao Zhizhuo and lay down, but Zhao Zhizhuo tossed and turned and couldn't sleep. He simply got up and asked his concubine to grind ink. But this one was against a stack of papers, but Zhao Zhizhuo couldn't write it. He let out a final sigh and went back to sleep. Writing down the way of being an official can indeed make his son ponder from time to time. But then you can't write about the dark side that really matters. If this kind of thing is stolen by someone, it can easily cause a lot of trouble. For the sake of his son and for himself, Zhao Zhizhuo can only take the path of oral narration.

In three days, Zhao Zhizhuo felt that he had told his son Zhao Jiaren everything he could say. Even if there are all kinds of uneasiness in his heart, Zhao Zhizhuo can only do this. When his son said goodbye, Zhao Zhizhuo repeatedly emphasized that Zhao Jiaren must write from time to time, don't panic in case of trouble, and don't act arbitrarily.

Zhao Jiaren still had the same serious expression, and finally he kowtowed to his father to say goodbye, "Father must take care of his body." ”

Looking at his son's back, Zhao Zhizhuo was proud and worried. It is of course a joy to have a son like this. But his son embarked on an official career that he firmly believed, and as a father, he naturally felt sorry for his son. The mood of suffering from gains and losses made Zhao Zhizhuo sigh again and again.

Jia Rudao sighed, Zhao Zhichu sighed, and Zhao Jiaren didn't want to sigh. Zhao Jiaren saw a joke before.

'What do you think we'll win?' ’

'The odds are zero! ’

‘…… That is, no matter what we do, it won't make the odds worse. ’

If the fall of the Southern Song Dynasty is inevitable, the result of Zhao Jiaren's conservatism is that the Southern Song Dynasty will inevitably come to an end. If he didn't want to be killed like in his previous life, Zhao Jiaren had to do everything he could. Even if you die in the end, you must die without regrets. With this mood, Zhao Jiaren went straight to Quanzhou.

Putian is halfway between Quanzhou and Fuzhou, about 200 miles away from Quanzhou in the south, and about 200 miles away from Fuzhou in the north.

Back in Quanzhou, Zhao Jiaren immediately contacted local businesses. In the Song Dynasty, gunpowder was already used for propulsion, and in the Northern Song Dynasty, a propulsion tube was tied to the bow and arrow, so that the arrow could be accelerated like two kicks. By the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, artillery appeared. When Yue Fei recovered Xiangyang, he used artillery. It's not hard to get the raw materials for gunpowder.

One sulfur, two nitrate and three charcoal, using buckwheat juice as a binder. After the gunpowder dried, Zhao Jiaren asked Zhao Yong to crush the gunpowder with an iron rod and process it into large particles. Then he found a wooden barrel and filled more than 200 catties of gunpowder particles. Only then did he leave for his post.

I first went to Fuzhou to meet Xu Yuanzhi, the newly appointed governor of Fuzhou. As soon as they met, Zhao Jiaren got straight to the point, "Xu Zhizhou, when Ding Xianggong invited us to drink in Lin'an, he asked the two of us to work together to open the canal. But I don't know what Xu Zhizhou's plans are? ”

Xu Yuanzhi has a big face and big eyes, and he looks quite handsome. Listening to Zhao Jiaren's straightforwardness, he didn't speak, but asked Zhao Jiaren first, "I don't know what County Lieutenant Zhao has planned?" ”

Zhao Jiaren had no scruples and went straight to the topic, "This matter is related to Ding Xianggong's reputation, if you want to break into fame, you have to be touted by someone in Shilin." Now there are two ways, one is that we are now looking for someone to publicize this matter, and we are doing it, and naturally there are more and more people touting it. The second is to do half of it first, and then find someone to publicize it. I don't know what Xu Zhizhou thinks? ”

Xu Yuanzhi was taken aback by Zhao Jiaren's straightforwardness, he really wanted to earn prestige through this matter. However, Zhao Jiaren's attitude is not at all gentle and elegant and humble and subtle as a scholar, but as straightforward as a Qiantou. Xu Yuanzhi took a long time before he spoke: "None of them." ”

"Why?" Zhao Jiaren asked.

"This matter needs to be done before we talk about it." Xu Yuanzhi expressed his opinion.

Zhao Jiaren's current temperament is very disapproving of those indecisive people, after careful thinking, he climbed Ding Daquan, who was going to do bad things in a few years, not that he wanted to save Ding Daquan, but that he knew that Ding Daquan must be eager to make achievements in order to stabilize the phase. Seeing that Xu Yuanzhi, whom Ding Daquan valued so much, turned out to be a timid person, Zhao Jiaren asked a little unpleasantly: "I don't know what Xu Zhizhou is worried about?" ”

Zhao Jiaren asked bluntly, and Xu Yuanzhi simply said bluntly, "At this time, too many people want to frame Ding Xianggong, and it won't be a few days too late for me to talk about it after I finish it." If you can talk about it early, someone will inevitably get in the way. Even if it is a few days late, as long as the canal is completed, how can the world not know. ”

"Very good." Zhao Jiaren's heart fell back into his stomach. It can be judged from these words that Xu Yuanzhi is by no means a forward-looking person. He is a man who can be called prudent in his work. As long as it's not waste, prudence is a virtue. Zhao Jiaren likes to work with people who are virtuous.