"Xianggong, there are three hundred miles to rush the letter." The staff's voice made Jia Yidao's brows furrow slightly.

"Who's the quick letter?" Jia Rudao asked.

"Fujian Road Prison Prison." The staff replied.

Jia Rudao sighed wordlessly. At the age of fourteen, Zhao Jiaren was already able to have a clear view of the general trend of the world, and later he was able to make accurate predictions about the southern invasion of the Mongols. Such a civil official, who was supposed to be strategizing, went to the front line because of his youth and vigor, and fought bloody battles like a warrior.

Probably after he went to the front, he finally knew that the Mongolian naval army was not comparable to the Fujian pirates at all. Jia Rudao thought very unhappily. He even made up his mind that if Zhao Jiaren came to beg for help, Jia Yidao would reprimand Zhao Jiaren. Let this hairy boy know that the sky is high and thick.

Opening the letter, Jia Rudao looked at it. The staff saw that Jia Yidao's expression changed from suspicion to surprise, then some anger, and finally some became angry.

"Xianggong. Did something happen to Zhao Tidian? The staff couldn't help but ask. As a staff member, you have to enlighten Jia Nidao in time. Jia Yidao's mood changed so quickly that his staff had to figure out what was going on first.

Hearing the staff ask this, Jia Rudao slapped the letter on the table and said very angrily: "Ridiculous! It's ridiculous! ”

After speaking, Jia Rudao stood up. He walked up in the official hall with his hands behind his back. The staff looked angry and happy when they saw Jia Rudao, and hurriedly picked up the letter.

The content of the letter is not long. Zhao Jiaren told Jia that he sank three large Mongolian naval ships and captured two in naval battles. 277 prisoners were captured and 194 bodies were obtained. Out of the intention of civil and military harmony, after transporting these prisoners and corpses to Haizhou, he wanted to divide half of the 194 Mongolian naval troops killed in battle to the defenders of Haizhou and Lianshui Army. Unexpectedly, the guards of Haizhou and Lianshui Army snatched all the corpses of the Mongolian sailors who moved off the ship. Fortunately, the prisoner was still on the ship, and Zhao Jiaren's subordinates were able to keep the prisoner by guarding the ship.

At the end of the letter, Zhao Jiaren asked Jia Yidao whether Jia Yidao would send someone to take over the prisoners, or Zhao Jiaren would personally send a ship to send the prisoners to Yangzhou.

After reading the letter, the staff fully understood why Jia Nidao had such an outrageous reaction. Zhao Jiaren, the 18-year-old who raised the prison service, is really speechless. In terms of ability, he personally led the troops as a civilian official and smashed the Mongol naval army at sea. If you know how to be an official, this credit is enough to become famous in one fell swoop.

As a result, this kid actually felt that the generals in Haizhou had meritorious service in defending the city, and he actually wanted to give them some military merits. The cruel reality educated him well. This is the time to put your own interests first.

The staff put down the letter and said to Jia Rudao: "Xianggong, Zhao mentions...... Although he is young, he also knows that mistakes can be changed. Xianggong should let Zhao Tidian send the captives to Yangzhou first. ”

Jia Rudao stopped, "No! Immediately send people to Haizhou to receive the prisoners. Once verified, Zhao Jiaren was ordered to send the captives to Qingyuan Mansion. Let's send someone to Qingyuan Mansion to prepare ships and send these captives to Lin'an as soon as possible. ”

"If Xia Gui and Mao Xing fail to hold the ...... of Haizhou and Lianshui Army," the staff didn't want Jia Yidao to be too big.

Jia Rudao waved his hand, "It's okay." Since 277 people were captured, 194 corpses were recovered. Li Pu's naval army had to lose 2,500 or 600 if not 3,000. He couldn't fight anymore. ”

When the staff thought about it, they also felt that it made sense. Any army with a real loss of 3,000 men will lose a lot of strength. However, as a staff member, he continued to ask: "Xianggong." So is Zhao Jiaren credible? ”

"I can trust him. Besides, if you send someone who is able, you will not be deceived by such a stupid child. "When Jia Rudao talked about Zhao Jiaren's stupidity, he lost his anger." Write a letter to Zhao Jiaren's father and tell him about the good things he has done. Since Zhao Jiaren sent the captive to Qingyuan Mansion, he had to visit his father once anyway. There are some things that we really don't want to say. ”

The ambassador personally ordered the pacification of the two Huai, and the matter was carried out at an astonishing speed. It took only two days for Jia Yidao's right-hand men to rush from Yangzhou to Haizhou. The exhausted personnel did not go to rest and interrogated the captives overnight. After interrogation, it was determined that these people were indeed the Zilai Navy under the command of Li Pu, the governor of Yidu (Shandong).

Among the 277 people were not only 272 Shandongese, but also 5 seriously wounded Mongols. After making sure that Zhao Jiaren was not lying, Jia Yidao's order was immediately executed. Zhao Jiaren did not refuse, and in two days, he did his best to repair the Mongolian warship. The hole made by the three-pound cannon was blocked, and the seawater in the watertight compartment was pumped out. He immediately led a fleet to escort the captives and the two large ships south.

Such a monkey rush even made Zhao Jiaren's subordinates feel a little excessive. Everyone thinks it's good to repair it more. Zhao Jiaren asked them, "When these ships were sent back to Fuzhou, we immediately dismantled them, using only the wood on the ships." Do you want to sail such a ship? ”

This reason can also be accepted, after getting used to the Zhao ship, these people can no longer accept the traditional big ship.

Zhao Jiaren knew what Jia Yidao was most concerned about, and he ordered a 300-ton ship to transport the prisoners to hurry away. I went to Huating County in Jiaxing Prefecture first. It's been a long time since I saw my eldest brother Zhao Jiaxin, and Zhao Jiaren misses it very much.

Zhao Jiaren didn't want to sit in a sedan chair, he walked on the country road in light cloth shoes. Although this was theoretically an official road, and although Zhao Jiaren lived in the Great Song Dynasty for 40 years, he still could not accept the 'country road' of the Song Dynasty at all. It's just that the purpose of his trip is not to inspect, but to meet his eldest brother Zhao Jiaxin. Such uneven dirt roads also give Zhao Jiaren a sense of rural style.

Pedestrians on the road saw Zhao Jiaren walking on the road with six entourages in official robes, and they were immediately frightened to make way for Zhao Jiaren. Give way and give way, these people waited for Zhao Jiaren to walk by, but they followed from a distance. Probably to see where this official, who obviously didn't look like a tax collector, was going.

is in a good mood, and Zhao Jiaren doesn't care about being looked at by others. The group walked for a while, and the road ahead suddenly changed for the better. The potholed pavement was smoothed, the narrow road widened, and on either side of the road were two rows of small trees, five in each row. Looking at the slender wooden trees, or osmanthus trees, Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but smile. This is the osmanthus tree he asked his eldest brother Zhao Jiaxin to plant, in order to refine the osmanthus essence. After that, he forgot about it.

"Headmaster. It turns out that the plains you talked about in geography class are really there. You see, everywhere is flat. Liu Meng seemed to hold back for a long time, and he breathed a sigh of relief happily after he said this.

Liu Meng started, and other personnel expressed their approval. "yes, it's really flat. There is no head in sight at all. ”

"We'll have the opportunity to see more of the Great Plains in the future." Zhao Jiaren replied casually. As a native of Anhui, he has seen a lot of plains.

"Good. We must follow the principal. Liu Meng replied happily.

The group chatted and walked along the wide road, and it didn't take long to see a manor. The white walls and black tiles are all the style of Jiangnan architecture. When they arrived at the gate of the manor, there were already families gathered at the gate. Not for precaution, but as a courtesy to strange officials who suddenly appeared.

Without waiting for Zhao Jiaren to speak, someone inside the door had already walked out quickly. When he arrived in front of Zhao Jiaren, he saluted, and then asked, "I don't know which official it is." ”

"I'm Zhao Jiaren from Fujian Road Prison. is Zhao Jiaxin's third brother. Zhao Jiaren said.

When the person who came out heard this, his face was immediately full of surprise, "It turned out to be Brother Zhao." I've heard of the name for a long time, but I only saw it today. I am Wang Yixing, the second brother of your sister-in-law. ”

"I don't know if my eldest brother can be in the village?" Zhao Jiaren asked.

"Brother Ling went to Qingyuan Mansion half a month ago." Wang Yixing replied, "Don't stand and talk, go in and talk." ”

I drank a cup of tea in the Wang Zhuangzi, talked for a while, and met the family members in the Wang Zhuangzi. Zhao Jiaren took his leave. Hearing that Zhao Jiaren still has military affairs, these Wang family children all sighed that Zhao Jiaren has a great future.

Since the eldest brother was not there, Zhao Jiaren immediately got on the boat and rushed to Qingyuan Mansion. On the way back to the ship, Zhao Jiaren realized that he had miscalculated. The eldest brother Zhao Jiaxin is a very smart person, he keeps the business of pyrethrum and cotton in two places, so that only one crop needs to be planted in one place, which helps to keep it secret.

Because of the delay on the road, Zhao Jiaren arrived at Qingyuan Mansion one day later than the person who sent the captive, and the captive had already been picked up at this time. The fleet was ordered to leave a ship of more than 100 tons, and the other three ships escorted the big ship south. Zhao Jiaren then went to the mansion of his father Zhao Zhizhuo.

The butler who greeted him saw that it was Zhao Jiaren, and immediately led Zhao Jiaren straight into the main hall with a smile. Let Zhao Jiaren sit down, the housekeeper went straight to the backyard, Zhao Jiaren heard the housekeeper shouting from a distance: "The owner, the owner, the third son is here!" ”

It didn't take long for footsteps to sound. Zhao Zhizhuo strode out, and after seeing Zhao Jiaren, he said, "Come with me!" ”

Led Zhao Jiaren into the study and let the servants leave, Zhao Zhizhuo asked, "When did you catch Jia Yidao?" ”

"After getting a jinshi, I met Jia Nidao. Please ask him to help me be the lieutenant of Putian County. Zhao Jiaren also told his father truthfully.

"Who gave you the idea of Xiu Mulanpi?" Zhao Zhizhuo continued to ask.

"I've heard about Mulan Pi, and I've heard about Cai Jing. That's when I thought about it. Zhao Jiaren told half the truth.

"You are ...... young" Zhao Zhizhuo said openly, but he couldn't continue. It is not wrong to plan for being an official at a young age, as a scholar. But what Zhao Jiaren has done over the years is too appalling. After reading Jia Yidao's letter a few days ago, Zhao Zhizhuo knew that his third son actually led a warship to fight against the Mongolian naval army in Haizhou.

It wasn't until yesterday that he saw the more than 200 wounded prisoners brought down by Zhao Jiaren's boat that Zhao Zhizhuo dared to believe that this was true. He didn't believe Zhao Jiaren, but the people who saw Jia Nidao hurriedly escorted these people to Lin'an to sacrifice prisoners, Zhao Zhizhuo believed that Jia Nidao would not do anything to destroy his future, so he had to believe that this matter was true.

Seeing that his tall and talented son was wearing a well-fitting official uniform, he sat calmly in front of him. Zhao Zhizhuo felt mixed feelings, but he couldn't grasp the key point of his mood. The third son, Zhao Jiaren, has not followed Zhao Zhizhuo since he was a child, and Zhao Zhizhuo is very unfamiliar with this son. Now that he knows more about his strange son, Zhao Zhizhuo feels that his son is more and more unfamiliar. The two older sons who were personally raised by himself could not be compared with the young sons who had only met dozens of times, and Zhao Zhizhuo felt that his mood was quite heavy.

However, Zhao Jiaren is his son after all, Zhao Zhizhuo retracted his mood and asked Zhao Jiaren: "Do you know the truth that the credit should be attributed to the coach?" ”

"This ......" Zhao Jiaren had already heard from the people sent by Jia Nidao that Jia Nidao was very dissatisfied with Zhao Jiaren's distribution of credit to the generals. Zhao Jiaren has his own reasons, this Xia Gui was also a very famous brave general in Zhao Jiaren's last life, and Zhao Jiaren naturally had some thoughts of making friends.

Zhao Zhizhuo saw that his son did not suddenly realize, he continued: "Jia Nidao transferred you to Lianghuai, you are Jia Nidao's subordinate. If you have merit, you will not share it with Jia Nidao, but you will share it with the generals below. What do you think Jia Rudao will think of you? ”

"I see." Zhao Jiaren agreed. However, the reason for agreeing was not because he knew that he should do this, but because he was very disappointed in Xia Gui. can educate a group of subordinates who rob other people's prisoners, Xia Gui's level of army management is really uncomplimentary. It's not a matter of the prisoners, it's that Xia Gui hasn't established basic morality in the army at all.

Although he didn't know what his son was thinking, Zhao Zhizhuo also relied on experience to see that his son did not understand the seriousness of the problem at all. He no longer scolded angrily this time, but said to his son quite sincerely, "Jiaren, although Jia Nidao is not a person who must be repaid, what you have done makes Jia Nidao extremely unhappy. If you get along again in the future, Jia Rudao will definitely remember you in his heart. If Jia Rudao wants to help you, you can also see how far he can go. If Jia Rudao holds a grudge against you, you should also know what will happen. I don't know how you're going to go. ”

"Now the Mongols are going south, just like the Jin soldiers attacking Bianliang. I can be sure that I will be able to do more. At that time, even if Jia Rudao didn't like me, he had to think about Da Song and his own net worth. When I make great contributions, it doesn't matter what Jia Rudao thinks. Zhao Jiaren spoke frankly about his thoughts.

Zhao Zhizhuo was extremely disappointed after hearing this, and he could see that his third son probably would not make the stupid mistake that was not attributed to the coach. But his third son was ambitious and had no fear of those in power. Jia Nidao was dissatisfied with this matter because he felt that Zhao Jiaren only had the idea of cooperating and using each other for Jia Nidao, and did not support Jia Nidao. Although under the system of the Great Song Dynasty, Jia Rudao had no way to kill a son of the Zhao family who was born as a jinshi because of his likes and dislikes. Jia Rudao has a way to deal with Zhao Jiaren.

can look at Zhao Jiaren's performance now, he probably won't want to regain Jia Yidao's trust with dignity. Zhao Zhizhuo couldn't help but close his eyes, he suddenly felt that his son might be very similar to himself, Zhao Zhizhuo also thought that he could guide the country and dominate the government when he was young, but he made a mistake. The good future was interrupted. If it weren't for the mistakes he made when he was young, he would have been able to enter Lin'an a long time ago, and he would not have been the governor of various states like he is now.

wanted to blame his son, and even grabbed his son's neck to make him bow to Jia Yidao. Zhao Zhizhuo found that he couldn't do it. It's hard to be stumped just because Jia Rudao is now powerful, do you have to kneel and lick it? Is it difficult for Zhao Jiaren to be admitted to the Jinshi by himself, build water conservancy by himself, build a lighthouse by himself, defeat the Mongolian naval army by himself, and then give up his integrity?

Sighing, Zhao Zhizhuo said: "Write a letter of apology to Jia Rudao." Forget it, you probably can't write it, let me write this letter, you can copy it. ”

After speaking, Zhao Zhizhuo asked Zhao Jiaren to go to dinner first, and he sharpened his ink and pen and began to write this letter of accusation. Letting go of his son so gently, Zhao Zhizhuo was not very happy. However, he was also young back then, and Zhao Zhizhuo knew that his young self would not bow his head no matter what. Even if he knew his current fate, he would choose to fight hard instead of kneeling and begging for mercy.

Today, after paying the price, Zhao Zhizhuo still feels that this attitude is not necessarily wrong.