The rainy season is not suitable for going out, the humidity in the air exceeds 00%, as if there is a wet piece of clothing wrapped around the body. With-Dream- . When Yang Liangjie walked up to the third floor of Zhang Shijie's house, he immediately felt that the air humidity had dropped to a completely acceptable level. For his second brother-in-law, Yang Liangjie was very jealous.

Zhang Shijie's house is a Shangshu-level house, a three-story villa. As we all know, among the people who can make Zhao Guan's family look up to him, Zhang Shijie ranks behind Wen Tianxiang. Now the house was empty, and only some of the larger furniture remained in its place.

The third floor is the floor where Zhang Shijie and Yang Shufei live, Yang Shufei sat on the sofa in the house with her second daughter in her arms, and when she saw Yang Liangjie coming up, Yang Shufei first asked her brother to sit down. Then he took out a package, "Big brother, this is what I gave you." ”

Yang Liangjie didn't touch the package, he sighed: "You're really going to Youzhou." ”

"Shijie said his hometown is very good." Yang Shufei replied. After returning from the Hebei campaign, Zhang Shijie decided that he wanted to return to his hometown, and the dry weather was more suitable for this Hebei man. What's more, Zhang Shijie has kept more than half of the Zhang family, and now he is the new patriarch of the Zhang family.

"I heard that Queen Quan is ...... in Dadu, and she is not used to living in Youzhou." Yang Liangjie still couldn't bear to let his sister leave.

Empress Quan is the queen of Song Duzong, and Concubine Yang Shu is the concubine of Song Duzong, and there are always more antagonisms between women in such a relationship. Yang Liangjie saw that there was no expression fluctuation on his sister's face, so he saw Yang Shufei and said indifferently: "Shijie said, we moved to live near Youzhou, there is a hot spring there, and we won't feel cold at all in winter." Besides, there are many people in the Yang family who follow us to the north, so don't worry, big brother. ”

"I ...... Still don't want you to leave. You went to Youzhou, and our brothers and sisters are afraid that they will never have a chance to meet again. Yang Liangjie sighed.

Yang Shufei did not answer this question. She was already manipulated by fate, and in the process, she had become accustomed to obedience. Since Zhang Shijie decided to go to the north, she followed Zhang Shijie to the north.

Opening the package, Yang Shufei probably told her brother about these more valuable things. Then she rewrapped the package, took out an envelope and handed it to Yang Liangjie. "Big brother, you have the money."

Yang Liangjie hesitated for a moment, and finally took the money from his sister's hand. Yang Shufei said again: "Big brother, take away the furniture here if you think it can be used." However, this house is the house of the imperial court, and we will return it to the imperial court after we go to Youzhou. You have to hurry, in another seven or eight days, the court will send someone to seal the door. ”

"Last time, I asked you to help me ask Xiong Shangshu about calmness. How did I hear that the road to Eastern Rome had been interrupted. Yang Liangjie hurriedly asked about the Yang family.

Yang Shufei said indifferently: "Shijie went to ask about this matter, and Xiong Shangshu said that the court is also working this matter." But he refused to say anything more. We can't do anything about it. ”

After speaking, Yang Shufei picked up her daughter and stood up, and Yang Liangjie could only send her sister downstairs. The carriage was already waiting at the door, and Yang Shufei sat at the door to say goodbye to her brother. At this time, I heard my brother say, 'Take care all the way'.

The doors closed, and the carriage started in the smoke and rain. The carriage went straight to the pier, and someone was waiting at the entrance. When he arrived at the boat, Zhang Shijie had already arranged all the formalities, and Yang Shufei went directly to the boat. Zhang Shijie was already waiting on the boat, and when he saw his wife coming, he took the child in her arms. Yang Shufei's eldest son, the former little emperor, greeted him with his eldest sister. Now Yang Shufei's family is reunited again.

Standing on the high deck and looking condescendingly at the docks in Hangzhou, Yang Shufei heard Zhang Shijie say: "This road will be a little bumpy. ”

Turning her head to look at her husband, Yang Shufei smiled, "It's nothing." I can stand it. ”

After that, Yang Shufei saw her son looking at her with some surprise, and she asked with a smile, "Why is it like this?" ”

"Mother. You're so happy to watch. Yang Shufei's son replied in surprise.

"Yes. I didn't expect you to be so happy today. Zhang Shijie was also surprised. He felt that it was the first time he had seen his wife so happy.

Yang Shufei didn't answer, but turned her head to look at Hangzhou again. The city left her with many memories, and those memories all carried with her the feeling of being imprisoned. The imperial concubines in the palace were rarely able to come out and escape from the Mongol siege like beggars. Every time the family saw her, they wanted to get something from her. Zhao Jiaren, a powerful minister, even trapped Concubine Yang Shu in the palace, making her unable to move.

Now, Yang Shufei can finally travel to her husband's hometown with her family. This trip was the first time that Yang Shufei was able to use her due power to go to a distant place without being restricted by anyone.

Turning around and holding Zhang Shijie's arm, Yang Shufei said with joy: "Let's go to Hebei." ”

In the place where Yang Shufei couldn't see, there were still eyes on the family who left Hangzhou. In the evening, the deputy director of the Intelligence Bureau went to Zhao Jiaren to report on the former petty official's family, and now Zhang Shijie's stepson went to Hebei with Zhang Shijie. After speaking, the deputy director of the intelligence bureau said: "Official, do you want people to stare at them?" ”

"Don't be staring." Zhao Jiaren replied indifferently. He had never had any ill will towards the little emperor, and everything that the child experienced was imposed on him by adults. The fallen apples will never fly on the branches and grow back to their original positions, and if the little emperor is successfully restored, it must be because Zhao Jiaren himself has a big problem in power.

"Official, there are more and more big clans going outside Jiangnan now." The deputy head of the Intelligence Directorate reminded.

"Got it." Zhao Jiaren replied.

Population movements have indeed become active in the last year. What the Intelligence Bureau saw was the movement of the big clans that deserved attention to other places, and what Zhao Jiaren saw was that the speed of the migration of ordinary people to the north accelerated with the difficulty of the Tongji Canal to the north. These were brought by Zhao Qian, who participated in the personnel exchange, from Chenzhou, that is, Zhoukou in later generations.

After the report of the Intelligence Bureau was over, Zhao Jiaren dug out his son's letter again. For this heir who wants to inherit the throne of the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Jiaren really can't help but pay attention.

Zhao Qian's good performance in soybean planting led the director of the local agricultural bureau to put him on the list of people who assisted in agricultural construction in Chenzhou, Henan. The reason sounds very serious, Zhao Qian has fought in Henan and is very familiar with Henan. If it is a cadre without roots, this transfer is probably fatal. But Zhao Qian didn't care about the transfer, whether it was in Henan or Sizhou, he would go to college after this year. Judging from Zhao Qian's letter, he likes to be able to walk around.

In addition to growing grain, the Dezhou Grain Bureau, which lacked soldiers and major generals, also asked Zhao Qian to participate in the construction of irrigation canals. Zhao Qian is very fond of the contiguous state-owned land that Henan has developed.

Henan is a large output province, and Chenzhou is a grain producing area in Henan. Zhao Qian said that he met some Jiangnan soldiers here, and the reason why these people came to Chenzhou was because they had given birth to many babies in recent years. It is not easy to feed a child on a few acres of land in the family alone. There's something wrong with being full. When they arrived in Chenzhou, everyone could get fifty acres of land, at least they could eat enough.

After reading Zhao Qian's introduction again, Zhao Jiaren felt that he had been talking about the peace of the Japanese country for too long and the population was increasing too fast. In fact, up to now, the Great Song Dynasty has been peaceful for many years, and the population growth is also considerable. Moreover, the promotion of health and epidemic prevention and the construction of hospitals have greatly reduced the mortality rate of the population in the Great Song Dynasty.

The legendary 'when you hear about the land, you go there immediately' situation has not happened. Parents who are forced to have enough to eat by so many children have compromised with reality and have to choose the path of immigration.

Put down the letter. Zhao Jiaren mentally assessed how much credibility there was in the completely bureaucratic report of the household department. Although Zhao Qian has some first-hand information, the scope is too narrow to be used as a microcosm of the whole country. It is even questionable whether it can be regarded as a sample of the entire Chenzhou.

Retracting his thoughts, Zhao Jiaren began to worry about this plague epidemic again. Plague is a virulent infectious disease that has a violent onset and rapid death. Therefore, plague epidemics are rarely heard of in history, and every plague epidemic is a mountain of corpses. The Black Death killed more than 20 million people in Europe, and some say 30 million died. Now that Mongolia has opened up trade routes to the World Island, it means that Mongolia's commercial activities are likely to become a conduit for the spread of the plague. Now the Great Song Dynasty has a population of more than 80 million, and there will be a lot if one is not careful. If it is really as virtuous as Europe, it makes people's hairs stand on end when they think about it.

At the morning meeting the next day, Zhao Jiaren first asked Xiong Sheng to introduce the navigation situation. He himself brought up the previous case of stealing silver from the sink, and the reason for the outbreak of this case was that a small number of plague patients entered the Great Song Dynasty. Although it did not cause huge damage, it sounded the alarm bells.

After saying this, Zhao Jiaren ordered: "In the coming year, we will not send ships to the areas controlled by the Mongols for the time being. ”

"So how do we get the latest news?" The director of the Maritime Administration immediately asked, "We don't have an intelligence station in Mongolia either. Even if there is a plague in Mongolia, we don't know. ”

These words made Zhao Jiaren feel a little embarrassed, and it was rare for him to be directly pointed out to his problems like this. Moreover, Zhao Jiaren has been thinking about this issue for the past few days, if it is the 2nd century, the plague-endemic areas will be helped by the great powers of the international community. There have been several famous plague epidemics in history, and the Black Death is one of the most famous. The other most famous is the Spanish flu, which began at the end of World War I.

At that time, European countries were still fighting each other in full swing, and after the outbreak of the Spanish flu, it spread equally in Europe and the United States, regardless of any camp. The death toll also exceeded 10 million. It is also said that there are more than 20 million. At that time, more than 10 million people had died in World War I, and with the Spanish flu, Europe and the United States, which had lost more than 30 million people in a few years, felt that the end of the world was coming. The abrupt end of World War I also had a lot to do with the pandemic.

According to Zhao Jiaren's view, the Great Song Dynasty should perhaps give Mongolia and Europe some support. The germs can occur regardless of the skin color and country of the infected person. But such a view obviously made Zhao Jiaren feel that something was wrong. He always felt that when he said such things, he always had a sense of disobedience.

Thinking of this, Zhao Jiaren asked the director of the Maritime Safety Bureau, "What does the Maritime Safety Bureau think?" ”

"The Maritime Safety Bureau wants the Great Song Dynasty to crusade against those countries south of Tianzhu." The Director of the Maritime Safety Bureau replied decisively.

Originally, the Great Song Dynasty thought that Tianzhu was a unified and powerful country, but after field investigation, these people knew that Tianzhu had never been a unified country. This region, known as Tianzhu, has not only never been truly unified, but has never even been formally unified. As a result, the Song army, which actually controlled Sinhala, hoped to cross the narrow strait between Sinhala and Tianzhu and enter the country at the southern tip of the Tianzhu Peninsula.

The director of the Maritime Safety Bureau, Zhengse, replied: "Official, the climate at the southern tip of the Tianzhu Peninsula is the same as that of Sinhala. Although there is no place to grow tea at the southern tip of the Tianzhu Peninsula, spices can be grown in large quantities. The minister thought that since the Great Song Dynasty had pacified the Three Buddhas, the small countries in the south of Tianzhu that were unruly to the Great Song Dynasty also needed to let them understand where the prestige of the Celestial Empire was. ”

Zhao Jiaren was not in a good mood, but when he heard this, he couldn't help but gently cover the lower half of his cheeks. This action can effectively prevent Zhao Jiaren from smiling. At this time, the smile will probably contain a considerable amount of ridicule in it.

Suppressing his smile, Zhao Jiaren glanced at the important ministers in the court. At least five people were seen looking at the faces of concern, and the families behind these five people, without exception, all had properties in Sinhala. If the Great Song Dynasty had made the small countries in the south of Tianzhu understand the prestige of the Celestial Empire, those small countries would probably be completely controlled by the Great Song Dynasty like the current Three Buddhas. In Sinhala, it is very likely that the family will get the moon first near the water tower.

Thinking of this, Zhao Jiaren couldn't help but ask the director of the Maritime Safety Bureau, "Have those places been investigated?" Is there really a spice product like Sinhala? ”

Hearing that Zhao Jiaren agreed, the director of the Maritime Safety Bureau couldn't help but say: "Of course! The Maritime Administration has been investigating it for a long time. ”

As soon as he said this, almost all the important ministers stared at the director of the maritime safety bureau. The director understood that what he said was not quite right, and he immediately changed direction, "Official, if we can set up a telegraph station in Tianzhu, the news from all over the country will be unimpeded. At that time, our Great Song fleet can be stationed in Tianzhu, and set off immediately after receiving the telegram from the official's family, where will there be the current difficulties. At least along the southern tip of the Tianzhu Peninsula to the west, you can go to Burma, and through Burma you will reach Yungui. It can save a lot of distance. ”

Hearing this statement of looking at the map and telling a story, Zhao Jiaren didn't answer, he was very suspicious of how much money the people on the Sinhalese side had earned, which gave these guys the urge to continue the war.

After talking about this, Xiong Shang went to receive the envoy who had returned from Mongolia. Although he didn't dare to trust the Mongols, Xiong Shang still wanted to talk to the Mongols. If Mongolia agreed, the people of the Great Song Dynasty could go straight to Tianzhu Ocean without crossing the Atlantic.

As soon as the two sides met, the Mongol envoy first expressed the decision of the Mongol Great Khan to agree to the resumption of the mutual embassies between the two countries. This was followed by the strong protest of the Mongol Great Khan against the Song Dynasty's constant invasion of Mongol territory. "If the Song State continues to advance westward, and wait for the Mongol Great Khan to conquer in person, I am afraid that the surrender of Lin'an will reappear! You wait......"

Xiong Shang almost laughed out loud when he heard this non-threatening nonsense. Before you don't know geography, this is probably a bit of a deterrent. There is a globe with a diameter of 40 centimeters in the office, and there is a same globe at home, and of course Xiong Sheng knows how far Mongolia is from the Great Song Dynasty. The so-called expedition is simply a joke.

At first, I thought the performance of the Mongolian envoy was very interesting, but it didn't take long for Xiong Shang to get bored. He couldn't help but think of Zhao Jiaren's words, big countries are not afraid of whale swallowing, but only cannibalization. Now the Mongols are very angry, because they have no ability to resist the advance of the Great Song Dynasty.

The anger of the Mongol Great Khan was conveyed first, and the Mongol envoy sat down to catch his breath and drank a cup of tea. Then he said: "The Song Kingdom is still not satisfied, is it difficult to continue to go west and go north?" ”

"After the Mongols destroyed the Jin Kingdom, they were not satisfied, so they continued to go south." Xiong Shang replied bluntly.

Of course, the Mongols, who could be used as envoys of great powers, were not given in vain, but after hearing this, they no longer argued. The only thing that could make Mongolia seek peace was the more brutal Great Song Dynasty. It was the more ferocious Mongols who could make the Great Song Dynasty seek peace. At the moment, no language is used, if the Mongols can kill tens of thousands of Song troops on the front line, it can be very effective in bringing the Song army to a halt. He continued to convey Kublai Khan's message, "The Great Khan asked the Song State to teach him how to prevent the plague. ”

Xiong Sheng felt a burst of joy in his heart. If this cooperation can be reached, then the problem of the evacuation of the Great Song Dynasty personnel can be solved. So Xiong Sheng replied with a calm face: "It's difficult that the Mongolian plague is rampant to the point where I have to ask the Great Song for help." ”

"Of course not." The Mongol envoys immediately objected.

"If you don't, why ask for this?"

"Song Guo refuses?"

"It's not that I won't. I just think it's weird. ”

"We are very envious of the cities of the Song Kingdom, and we know that epidemic prevention is a very important thing for the city."

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After some nonsense, Xiong Shang summoned the officials of the Ministry of Rites to discuss the matter. More than 1,000 people were evacuated this time, and the officials also knew about it, and everyone did not dare to express their position. Xiong Shang asked everyone to speak, and the first attendant to speak said, "Mongolia was able to detain two of our Great Song envoys who officially went to meet Kublai Khan, but they have not released them until now." What if Mongolia detains thousands of us? Is it really going to hit Baghdad? ”

This statement fully represents the voice of the people. Now the Great Song Dynasty is thousands of miles away from Mongolia, and if the people of the Great Song Dynasty fall in Baghdad, it will be really difficult to save. Not to mention Zhao Jiaren's meaning, Da Song will never stop easily. The contradictions between the two sides will probably only get worse and worse in the past ten years. At that time, there was no way to save the diplomats of the Great Song Dynasty.

Xiong Sheng originally thought that Mongolia might really bow his head because of epidemic prevention, but one of the people who spoke behind him said: "Now we don't give Mongolians epidemic prevention knowledge, they probably can't help it." If the Mongols detained our people and threatened us with the lives of these people, how could we give the Mongols epidemic prevention knowledge at that time. ”

At this time, Xiong Shangden felt a nervousness in his heart, and he no longer had the same ease as before. When the bottom line of the Mongols was pulled so low, Xiong Sheng already felt how ridiculous his previous thoughts were. Keeping promises is the requirement of the Zhao official family, and stressing benevolence and righteousness is the Chinese tradition. The Mongols cannot be considered with such an idea.

Based on the contradictions and deep-seated distrust between Mongolia and the Great Song Dynasty, Xiong Sheng recounted the Mongolian envoy's request at the morning meeting the next day and expressed several of his concerns.

"If the Mongolian plague breaks out, will many people die?" The eyes of the people in the military department were a little sparkling when they spoke.

The ministers also have a good feeling about this statement. Zhao Jiaren shook his head, very unhappy. Seeing Zhao Jiaren's attitude, the guys from the military department immediately asked, "Why did the official shake his head?" ”

Zhao Jiaren responded coldly: "Our army is recovering the homeland of China, and those who are in front of it are all the soldiers of our army. If the plague is raging in Mongolia and our army penetrates deep into Mongolia, it will be those field troops who will be killed first. You think you know it's powerful. ”

The army is generally divided into two categories: garrison troops and field armies, and field armies are undoubtedly the elite of the army. Listening to Zhao Jiaren's emphasis on the field army, the guys in the military department didn't understand the logical relationship for a while, but after thinking about it again, they immediately understood. Several people bowed their heads and stopped talking.

Others quickly figured out the joints. Liu Meng, the secretary of the ministry, couldn't help but laugh and said: "Only then did I understand that although we want to kill the Mongols, we hope that the Mongols can be clean and hygienic, so that we will not encounter trouble when we kill." This is also a bit difficult for the Mongols. ”

"Haha!" Many of the important ministers couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Zhao Jiaren didn't laugh. Doctors instinctively did not want the plague to spread, even to the Mongols.

Xiong Shang felt that he could often gain insight in meetings, for example, he would not consider the dangers of invading a plague-endemic country. And the army at the front must be an elite field army, and that kind of loss is greater than imagined. However, from this point of view, did the Great Song Dynasty really want to help the Mongols?

"Bears. Ask the Mongols what benefits they could give to the Song Dynasty if they received assistance from the Great Song Dynasty. Zhao Jiaren finally ordered.

If there had been no previous discussion, I am afraid that many people would have opposed this decision. After the discussion, there was no objection.

After the meeting, Liu Meng and Xiong Sheng went out together, he touched his chin and smiled.

"What's so funny?" Xiong Shang asked a little angrily.

"In order not to cause us trouble, we helped the Mongolians to be healthy. Ha ha. Liu Meng couldn't help but laugh when he said it.

Xiong Sheng glanced at Liu Meng, feeling that this guy was really too uncultivated.

Liu Meng didn't stop laughing, he quickly dispersed the smile, and said to Xiong Sheng with bright eyes: "Xiong Shangshu, we only think so about those animals." ”

Xiong Shang's initial reaction was that he wanted to laugh, but when the smile came to his mouth, he couldn't laugh at all. No matter how ridiculous the logic of the essence of the game may seem, the cruelty of war is so cruel that people can't laugh at it.