Chapter 49: News like smoke
Bu Ruyan woke up from a dream, only to feel dry mouth and dizzy head. When I looked up, I saw that it was as dark as evening in the window. Turning his head to look at the clock, the hands pointed to the 11 position.
The table clock is a new machine launched by Zhao Jiaren, and it sells very well in the homes of wealthy dignitaries. The job of step by step is to make the wealthy dignitaries feel at home, and naturally they also need to be purchased. Seeing that it was 11 o'clock in the morning, Bu Ruyan fell back into the soft pillow and closed his eyes.
The table clock worked very well, especially in Lin'an. In Lin'an, there is its own official observatory and official timekeeping unit, and there is also a device such as the corona, as long as the time of the grandfather clock is set at noon, there is no difference of a few minutes in a whole day.
After all, he drank good wine, closed his eyes and recuperated for a while, and felt that the strength of the wine went down quickly. She soberly recalled what had happened yesterday. After receiving Zhao Jiaren's letter, Bu Ruyan thought something was wrong. After reading the content, she felt that the content that Zhao Jiaren cared about was a little weird. After thinking about it for a while, Bu Ruyan wanted to refuse Zhao Jiaren.
Finding out information is an unavoidable thing, and things related to the official family need the right way. In the past, there was Dong Songchen, a eunuch, as an internal servant who could find a young lady for the official family, he was simply a roundworm in the stomach of the official family. In other words, if it weren't for the roundworms in the stomach of the official family, Dong Songchen would not have been able to climb to such a high position.
Now Dong Songchen has finally been driven away, and it is Jia Nidao, the leading Prime Minister of Zuo, who has taken him away. As the 'Duke of Zhou' who was generally recognized by scholars, Jia Rudao's action of exalting Dong Songchen was praised, and even critics only felt that Jia Nidao should kill Dong Songchen, a traitorous eunuch, instead of letting him out.
After Dong Songchen was released, Bu Ruyan lost all the channels to understand the official family. The views of those officials in Lin'an on the official family are entirely based on their own needs, and the evaluation based on this attitude has little reference value.
Now that his mind was clear, Bu Ruyan struggled to get up, and wrote a reply to Zhao Jiaren. After making it clear that he could not provide effective help in this matter at all, Bu Ruyan said that he would often write to Zhao Jiaren in the future to talk about the news in Lin'an. Although Zhao Jiaren should also have channels to learn about these news, there is only so much that Bu Ruyan can do.
After writing the letter, I drank the soup of the liquor again, and the time was half past twelve. In the meantime, the bell of Lin'an rang, and Bu Ruyan also proofread the table clock. After a short rest, I began to practice the piano. Recently, she has been learning the song Guanglingsan, but the song is too high and she can't grasp the main point.
I practiced until two o'clock in the afternoon, and I slept for an hour. After waking up, eating, bathing, changing, and getting ready, it was five o'clock in the afternoon. Then Bu Ruyan went to the painting boat, and today there are a few people with a lot of status who come here to drink, and Bu Ruyan has to wait for them early.
At ten o'clock in the evening, the men dispersed. Bu Ruyan returned to his residence, and immediately took out the letter that had been written, and added a large paragraph to the back. This is the news she just heard in the evening, Luzhou Liu Quan surrendered to Mongolia.
It takes more than half a month for a letter to go from Quanzhou to Lin'an, and then from Lin'an back to Quanzhou. This is also because Rentong Express has greatly saved time. At this time, it was still the rainy season, and there was the sound of rain outside, and Zhao Jiaren, who had lit candles, looked ugly after reading the news of Liu Cheng's surrender. In his previous life, he had heard about it, but he didn't know much about it. In the battle of Ezhou, Liu Cheng's performance was very good, and Zhao Jiaren felt that he had no reason to defect to Mongolia.
However, the news provided by Bu Ruyan made Zhao Jiaren see some inside information. At that time, Zhao Jiaren commanded the naval army in Hanyang, and Jia Rudao bravely entered Ezhou to command the defense. There are famous generals in Ezhou City, and there are also Xiang Shibi and others.
Xiang Shibi is not simple, when Mongolia went south, the official issued an edict: "Jinghu system makes Ma Guangzu move to Sixia Prefecture, and Xiang Shibi moves to Sishaoqing Mansion." Xiang Shibi immediately threw himself into the war and donated millions of dollars to his family for military expenses. However, in Ezhou, Gao Da can look down on Jia Nidao, who was born as a literati......
Gundam relies on its martial arts, it is very easy to be like the way, every time he sees the battle, that is, the play says: "How can the scarf be done!" "In battle, you must start with a personal effort, otherwise the sergeant will be in an uproar. Lu Wende said like a fool, making people say: "Xuanfu is here, how dare you Erye!" ”
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After reading Bu Ruyan's letter, Zhao Jiaren recalled that Sima Kao had talked about Lu Wende in the same year. The back and forth confirm, the information provided by the concession like smoke looks more reliable.
And Xiang Shibi also led troops in Ezhou at that time, plus Xiang Shibi was not a soldier, but Shaoding Jinshi, and the official was Dali Qing Zhilong Tuge. Jia Yidao seemed to be particularly fierce to him, and after becoming the prime minister of Zuo, he ordered an audit of the accounts. It's easy to find out if there's something wrong with this kind of thing. So Xiang Shibi was reduced from a famous anti-Mongolian general to a prisoner of corruption within a year. After he died in prison, Jia Yidao's courtiers actually arrested Xiang Shibi's wives and concubines and forced them to fill the gap.
Seeing this, Zhao Jiaren could already roughly guess what Bu Ruyan was going to write. Knowing the tragic incident of Xiang Shibi, Zhao Jiaren really didn't want to watch it anymore. Whether Xiang Shibi is really corrupt or not, the accounts are not clear, Zhao Jiaren does not want to say that Xiang Shibi is innocent. However, Xiang Shibi's current fate is only because Jia Rudao is fighting political opponents. This cruel method really made Zhao Jiaren feel very uncomfortable.
Recently, the political disputes in the Great Song Dynasty have become more and more cruel, and Ding Daquan, who is recognized as a wicked man, was sent to Qiongzhou, and was actually 'squeezed into the sea by a sergeant and died' on the boat. The former prime minister still had such a way of dying, and Xiang Shibi, who offended Jia Rudao, was killed alive. Liu Quan, who was also in Ezhou at the time, probably didn't have much respect for Jia Nidao at that time.
Sighing, Zhao Jiaren, who calmed down a little, finished reading the letter. The part written by Ru Ruyan does have the content that Zhao Jiaren expected, but Bu Ruyan also wrote other content. Jia Rudao even asked the official family to kill Gundam, but the official family did not agree.
Zhao Jiaren sighed and put the letter down. If he was allowed to catch Liu Quan at this time, he would definitely kill this traitor without hesitation. However, Zhao Jiaren felt that Liu Quan's treason was not simply because of the backbone behind his head, and some external reasons did prompt Liu Quan's rebellion.
It's nothing for a Liu Quan, the problem is that some of the military ships that Zhao Jiaren sold to the Great Song Dynasty have been sent to Luzhou. The ship was loaded with a pound of cannons. Zhao Jiaren knew that the Mongols were very sharp militarily, and Kublai Khan suffered such a big loss in the naval army, and now Kublai Khan was finally able to get the warship with the Great Song naval army. How far could the Mongols advance artillery?
As Zhao Jiaren expected, at this time, the detailed drawings of the Song naval ships and two one-pound cannons were sent to Kublai Khan. Touching the two cold iron cannons, Kublai Khan's eyes suddenly burst into tears. The bloody battle of crossing the river in the final stage of the Battle of Ezhou resulted in tens of thousands of casualties for the Mongol army. Zhao Jiaren of the Song Kingdom relied on such a weapon to run rampant on the river.
After crying a few times, Kublai Khan wiped away his tears and shouted: "Let the craftsman imitate it immediately!" ”
Because it was Mongolian, the Hanchen did not understand. The Mongol generals immediately replied in Mongolian: "Yes!" ”
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