And the three years of Qiande have not become very calm for Xiao Tao, from a noon after the Mid-Autumn Festival. On that day, Yunshang was a distinguished guest, an official from the DPRK and China from Jinling, who went to Nanchang Mansion to do business, and by the way, the official who came to Yunsheng, who is now famous in Nanchang Mansion, is a fourth-grade official. Xiao Tao is an official prostitute from the third grade, only half a step behind, and it seems too arrogant not to receive it. Xiao Tao found Le Ji, who was the most proficient in Yunshang Silk Bamboo Pipa, to play for the official. Xiao Tao chatted with him for a long time.

The official in his early thirties is also a delicate man, and there is still a lot of news collected everywhere. Xiao Tao didn't return to Jinling for a long time, so she also asked him about Jinling.

When asked about the lady, the official's eyes lit up: "Now the lady is not an ordinary favor, since the queen went, there is no one in the palace who is good at dancing, and the lady is outstanding." The emperor also ordered someone to build a lotus platform made of gold, and let the lady dance on it. I didn't have the privilege of seeing it with my own eyes, but according to those who saw it, it was like a Limbo fairy. ”

Xiao Tao listened to this. will also smile, the lady is happy, and she will be fine. said casually: "The handwriting of the palace has always been extremely gorgeous. Especially a literati like Li Yu is more willing to spend money to create the harmony and atmosphere he likes.

The official shook his head: "Not really, it's still a lady's favor." Now that the Tang Dynasty spends a lot of money every year, the emperor has been much more frugal than before. Even the younger brother of the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty was happy to receive Lin'er, and the gifts prepared by the emperor were far inferior to those given to the lord of the Great Song Dynasty a few years ago. ”

"Oh." Xiao Tao replied casually. The younger brother of the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty? Suddenly, Xiao Tao's face became snow-white, and the indifference in his eyes just now was swept away, replaced by an almost burning burn, "Which brother?" Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, didn't he have two younger brothers? Xiao Tao's voice trembled a little.

The official laughed: "Naturally, it is the current Kaifeng Mansion Yin." The famous Zhao Guangyi is gone. That person is in the limelight in the Great Song Dynasty now—"

What the officials said. Xiao Tao didn't listen to a single word anymore, only the three words "Zhao Guangyi", like a heavy hammer, smashed her heart. He had a child, and the moment he had a child, Xiao Tao's mind was blank, she couldn't think at all, and her heart stopped beating. After a long time, Xiao Tao asked slowly in a hoarse voice, "You." Are you not mistaken? ”

"Of course not." The official drank a glass of wine, "How can this kind of thing be wrong, especially that Zhao Guangyi is also interesting enough, the first son, everything is simple if he doesn't hold a banquet." Even the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty couldn't stand it anymore, so he did it for him in the palace. ”

Xiao Tao asked urgently, "What else?" ”

"And?" The official was stunned, "No, I only know so much." What else would the girl want to know? "Subfield markers.

What did she want to know? Her mind was running wild, she wanted to know too much, she wanted to know who gave birth to her, how many concubines he had, even, whether he was good or not, everything he had - but what did all this have to do with her, and what position did she have to care about it? Xiao Tao smiled, but she was numb and melancholy than crying: "No, no." ”

The singer on the stage was playing the pipa while singing "I wish to be a winged bird in heaven, and I wish to be a branch in the earth", which was very harsh to Xiao Tao's ears. It seemed that someone had once held her hand and wrote this poem one by one, and she remembered it. But this one, it's better not to remember. If you forget, will your heart not be so painful? If you forget, won't you tremble and hurt all over your body? This poem, now it sounds, is a joke, where is there any deep love, where there is no change, will change? Or is it long gone? Xiao Tao suddenly burst out laughing, laughing breathlessly, laughing so much that tears were wanton.

The official didn't know what to do, and looked a little surprised: "Girl, what's wrong?" ”

Xiao Tao raised her eyebrows, and said with a trembling voice: "It's nothing, I'm happy." Saying that, he stood up, walked to the front hall outside and shouted: "Today this girl has a happy event, she has let go of drinking, I have a treat, and I can drink it without losing my life, and if it is a man, don't hide it." ”

There was a lot of applause outside, and you can enjoy free wine at the brothel, which is a once-in-a-lifetime good thing. Immediately there was a buzz outside. Xiao Tao raised her legs and sat down on the nearest table, one foot crossed, the other foot dangled under the table, and poured a pot of wine on the table into her throat, which was so spicy that even her heart was torn apart.

It's just that picture, it's really beautiful, the little peach with a red peach blossom under his neck is drunk on the table and drinking, which has already made many people look crispy, and it is even better than the New Year's painting. It's just that no one dares to make a mistake. Xiao Tao drank a pot of wine, jumped off the table, and smiled at everyone: "You drink slowly, we are happy together today." With that, he swayed back to the backyard. He finally had a child, and since then, he has his own complete home, wife, concubine, children, and her, right?

Xiao Tao was drunk, even crying and vomiting, but after waking up, she was sick and couldn't get out of bed for three months. Lang Zhong only said that his heart was depressed, and he prescribed a prescription, and Xiao Tao refused to take the medicine, but just lay in a daze all day long. Fortunately, Lan Sheng is on the right track, and there are many fewer things to worry about.

Three months later, Xiao Tao's body recovered, but the gaze of people was more hollow. From time to time, I will go out of my mind, and I have to call others several times to come back to my senses. The name Zhao Guangyi, Xiao Tao is trying hard to forget, this person should no longer have anything to do with her from now on.

Streamers are easy to throw people away, and the spring of the fifth year of Qiande came very early. Xiao Tao is still in Nanchang Mansion, using the rouge cream brought by Qi Zhengxiu to paint the peach blossoms on her neck. Qi Zhengxiu sent her a few letters and secretly asked her, "Where do you send lovesickness?" She also replied to a few letters, but she always avoided the important and trivialized, only talking about life in Nanchang without answering. Her lovesickness should not be able to send it.

At this time, the Great Song Dynasty, which was located in the Central Plains, and the Southern Tang Dynasty, which was located in the south of the Yangtze River, were opposite each other, and the surrounding areas of the Southern Tang Dynasty were eroded a little bit. The panic in Li Yu's heart was not a little bit. Especially when the Great Song Dynasty was attacking the city, it hit the border with the Southern Tang Dynasty, and when it encountered a lax garrison, it took the opportunity to advance to the territory of the Southern Tang Dynasty for another hundred and ten miles, and did not stop until it reached the place where the military was heavily defended. Li Yu dared to be angry but did not dare to speak. I had to send troops to the defenders of the border city to defend again.

Qi Zhengxiu's naval army guarding the northern front refused to withdraw, and Li Yu sent Lin Renzhao to lead his troops to the southern front to defend the border. Lin Renzhao was a fierce general, and when he arrived at the southwest border, he used only 3,000 men to repel the attack of 20,000 people in the Great Song Dynasty. The Great Song Dynasty's public battle against Houshu this time was just a piggyback on the Southern Tang Dynasty and rubbing oil. So he didn't dare to speak out when he was repelled by Lin Renzhao, after all, he didn't dare to speak out.

But Zhao Kuangyin was a little depressed in his heart after all, Lin Renzhao repelled the Song army, not to mention, but also took the opportunity to retract the thirty-mile defense line. The thirty-mile defense line is not an ordinary thirty-mile wasteland, it is very close to the iron mine, that is where Zhao Kuangyin is really red, and it is also the place where Li Yu resists the death and guards.

It's easy to swallow the goods in your stomach and then spit them out, and the taste is even worse than not eating it. Zhao Kuangyin was angry and reduced the military salt given to Nantang.

At the beginning, Zhou Chai Rong attacked the Southern Tang Dynasty and took away the cities north of the Yangtze River in the Southern Tang Dynasty, including Yangzhou and Taizhou. Yangzhou is an important town of salt industry, with Hailing salt as the largest scale, there are countless large and small salt warehouses, and more than half of the salt in the Southern Tang Dynasty is produced from there every year. At the beginning, Li Jing was willing to exchange hundreds of thousands of tributes per year for Hailing Salt Farm, but Chai Rong resolutely refused to allow it. controlled the salt, and it choked a large part of the lifeblood of the Southern Tang Dynasty. Chai Rong only promised to give 300,000 stone of military salt to the Southern Tang Dynasty every year. When he arrived in the Great Song Dynasty, Zhao Kuangyin also continued to practice in the later weeks. But the anger he received from Lin Renzhao this time made Zhao Kuangyin very uncomfortable. On the grounds of territorial expansion, he claimed that the salt of the Great Song Dynasty was not enough. The military salt of the Southern Tang Dynasty was reduced by 100,000 stones.

As soon as the salt decreased, Li Yu soon felt overstretched, and the salt distributed to the salt warehouses in various places decreased sharply. Nanchang Mansion has also been affected, the people have run out of salt, and after a long time, their functions are disordered, and their bodies are gradually weakened. Li Yu had to solve the problem from two aspects, on the one hand, he spent a high price to buy salt from Wu Yue; On the other hand, the salt city was excavated from the territory of the Southern Tang Dynasty. But in these two places, you need money everywhere. The treasury of the Southern Tang Dynasty was empty, and it was already stretched thin to cope with the tribute of the Great Song Dynasty, and it would be very difficult to spend this amount again.

Yin of Nanchang Prefecture mobilized the local wealthy merchants and squires to donate some money, because a new salt pond had been discovered in Lu'an Town, not far from Nanchang Prefecture, and as long as there was silver, some people could be hired to make some equipment to drain salt. Nanchang Mansion Yin placed a donation box in front of the official residence, but it had been placed for more than ten days, and there were only a few broken pieces of silver in it. Fu Yin looked at it and scratched his head.

When I was frowning, I received a letter of worship from my next person, and it was Xiao Tao who asked to see me. Fu Yin hurriedly sent someone to invite in.

After Xiao Tao gave a salute to Fu Yin, he said bluntly: "I came to disturb the adults today, it is for the donation of silver and salt, and the adults must be very worried." ”

Fu Yin sighed and said, "What the girl with sleeves said is right, exactly." Don't hide it from the girl, these days, the donation received is less than ten taels of silver, which is a drop in the bucket. Where can you drain the salt cost? ”

Xiao Tao's eyes were heavy: "Just because those rich merchants and squires have a way, they naturally don't worry about salt." What do they care about others? Not to mention the people of the country. ”

The servant brought the tea, and Fu Yin took a sip of the teacup and said, "The money is theirs, and I can't snatch it from them." After a pause, he looked at Xiao Tao and said, "The girl with sleeves said that she came for this just now, I don't know what the girl thinks?" ”

Xiao Tao looked at Fu Yin and smiled faintly: "Last time, the adults helped build Lanshang and there was nothing to repay." This time to dig out the silver, there is a crude way to try the sleeve, I just hope that the adults can help. ”