Chapter 451: There is only one night left for Lin'an
readx;? Let's say that Yang Jing rarely returned to the village, which did not last long, so Zhao Jingyin summoned him to Yalai in Baling County. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The person who reported the news didn't say anything, only said that Zhao Jingyin had an urgent matter, and after Yang Jing arrived, he found that Mu Zicai, the prefect of Jiangling, had also arrived, and there were still a few civil officials wearing long hats and wings and red official robes sitting in the flower room.
Mu Zicai was originally a close minister of the Son of Heaven, although his official position was not high, but he was a clear stream among civil officials, but he couldn't fight Dong Songchen and a group of traitors, and was finally sent to the place and became the prefect of Jiangling.
However, he got a practical opportunity here with Yang Jing, and now he has carried out local reforms in a big way, organized manpower to reclaim wasteland, tried to plant and promote sweet potatoes, revitalized the local people's livelihood, and gradually accumulated word of mouth.
Seeing Yang Jing again, Mu Zi's eyes couldn't help but light up, because more than half a year has passed, Yang Jing has accumulated a lot of power, although the smile is still warm, but Yang Jing is like an extremely sharp knife, hidden in the deeper and deeper scabbard, but the kind of oppression that occasionally exudes is still terrifying.
Zhao Jingyin's official position is higher than Yang Jing's, and he is a righteous envoy, so naturally he doesn't need to get up, but Yang Jing is now at the same level as Mu Zicai, and the visitor is a guest, so of course Mu Zicai has to get up to greet him, as for Yang Jingting and the heads of other counties and military towns in Jiangling Prefecture, not to mention, they all followed Mu Zicai to stand up.
However, the old men in scarlet official robes still didn't get up, but just stopped talking to Zhao Jingyin, looking at Yang Jing with a strange gaze, Xu was surprised that Yang Jing was too young and had a look of disbelief.
Mu Zicai exchanged a few words with Yang Jing, and then led Yang Jing to introduce those officials, and after Yang Jing saw them one by one, he understood why these old men were so arrogant.
It turns out that these are the officials of the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple, and there are more pavilions such as Chongwen Hall, Zhaowen Hall and Jixian Yuan to be systematized, these are all civil officials among civil officials, and they are typical civil official representatives of the Great Song Dynasty, no wonder Yang Jing will ignore them.
It's not how high their official position is, but their background is better than Yang Jing!
The Great Song Dynasty was a paradise for literati, and the treatment of scholars and civil officials was unprecedented in ancient times.
It is said that Taizu made a rule and built a secret room in the palace, and there was a stone tablet in the secret room, and the heirs of the royal family had to enter the secret room to see the stone tablet before taking over the throne.
And the two rules on the stele are also very simple and clear, so simple that every emperor can remember them at just a glance.
The first rule on the stele is to always be kind to the descendants of Chai Rong of Later Zhou Shizong, and the second rule is that no scholar will be killed because of speech problems.
The rules set by Taizu, as well as the promotion and cultivation of literary affairs by emperors such as Taizong Zhenzong, Renzong and Shenzong, made the status of literati in the Great Song Dynasty skyrocket, and reading has become the most popular thing.
And Yang Jing was born in the wrong place, although he is a Han Chinese, but he grew up in Miao Village, although he has great merit, he does a lot of work, and then although he is appointed, he is a pusher, even if he continues to make great achievements and great merits, he has nothing to do with literary affairs.
After the official family rewarded the baron, awarded the inspection and observation, and even the privy decree and other official positions and honors, Yang Jing became an upstart in the officialdom, but he was a joke in the eyes of civil officials.
In the eyes of civil officials, Yang Jing's position is actually not much different from Dong Songchen and others, and even Ding Daquan and Jia Yidao are not comparable.
It is not clear whether Yang Jing has read books or not, but he has not participated in the imperial examination, and no matter how many books you read, it is the same as not reading them, because he is not recognized by the imperial court and recognized by the literati circle.
At this time, reading is not simply reading and studying certain books, and only those who have participated in the imperial examination and been recognized by the scientific examination are called scholars.
This is the Qing Gao Song literati, if literacy is called a reader, then such a reader is too cheap.
This is also the reason why Yang Jing has made such a great contribution in Dali, but Zhao Jingyin and others and even the imperial court are unwilling to let Yang Jing be this hero.
In the eyes of civil officials, and even in the eyes of the imperial court, Zhao Jingyin is more in line with the image of a hero than Yang Jing.
This kind of diplomatic incident should be like Zhang Yi and Su Qin, it should be a serious scholar full of wealth, using the etiquette and law of the Heavenly Empire to educate, using talent and wisdom, and using the cultural heritage and cultivation accumulated by the Great Song Dynasty to impress those barbarians!
And like Yang Jing, who fights and kills, and wantonly promotes military merits, will make the soldiers of the entire empire become restless, if Yang Jing, a person who is biased towards military generals, becomes a hero, the generals of the Great Song Dynasty will be excited, and the civil officials will not be able to suppress it!
And at present, the contradictions within the Great Song Dynasty are also very intense, and they have even reached the point of precariousness, plus the princes in the court are very clear about the physical condition of the official family.
Once there is any sudden problem in the official family, or the struggle in the court reaches the point of being out of control, the great hero Yang Jing they erected will become the last straw that crushes this court!
It was precisely in order to stabilize the authority of the imperial family that Emperor Taizu released his military power, solved the division of feudal towns, strengthened the centralization of power, improved the status of civil officials, and suppressed military generals, also to stabilize the country.
Emperor Taizu, who was born as a military general, because he knew how much of a threat the military generals were to the country, deliberately suppressed the military generals who put him on the throne, which sounded a bit like crossing the river and demolishing the bridge to unload the mill and kill the donkey, but suppressing the military generals was the same as not killing civilian officials, which was the consensus of every Great Song Emperor.
So it's no wonder that the civil officials among these civil officials look down on Yang Jing so much.
Mu Zicai also knew the twists and turns here, so he tried to ease it out as much as possible to avoid the atmosphere being too embarrassing, Zhao Jingyin was also grateful to Yang Jing, and praised Yang Jing a lot, so these old civil officials didn't have too many cold faces.
Yang Jing didn't have much interest in this, his ambition never lay in the intrigues in those courts, nor did he have any disputes of will, let alone any interest in dealing with these old civil officials.
Yang Jing's low profile and easy-going attitude also made these old civil officials unable to find any stubble, and this meeting passed uneventfully.
Even so, Yang Jing still felt an uneasiness about the coming rain.
Because these people came to Baling, they urged the festival group to hurry up and hurry up and hurry up to enter the Beijing Saint, which is really a bit unreasonable.
Face saint is not a casual thing, even if the Great Song Dynasty has been weak, people say that weak countries have no diplomacy, but in fact, there are many envoys from many countries who stay in Lin'an City all day long, just to wait to see the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty.
The envoys of many small countries, even after living in Lin'an for several years, have spent all their savings, and they may not be able to see the emperor when they lie in the hotel like Hanako.
Some of these envoys, because they couldn't see the emperor, were idle, and they simply followed the Great Song Dynasty people to do business, and accidentally became a rich man, so they simply didn't even make envoys, and they didn't return to China, and lived directly in the Great Song Dynasty, which is also a situation.
A country like Dali has always admired the Great Song Dynasty, and the Great Song Dynasty has a relationship, has accepted the canonization of the Great Song Dynasty, and the trade is also frequent, and the land area is large, and the international prestige is not low, this time there is a defeat of the Mongols, and in the future, it will form an offensive and defensive alliance with the Great Song Dynasty, whether it is military, economic and trade or cultural, it is urgent to build a cooperative relationship.
Such an envoy group is naturally very welcome to the Great Song Dynasty, but even if it is so eagerly welcomed, for a ceremonial state like the Great Song Dynasty, it also needs to go through a whole set of complicated procedures.
This set of procedures has made trouble, and if you want to really face the saint, it will be at least a month or two later.
But now the envoys have arrived in Baling, there is still a long way to go from Lin'an, and Lin'an has already sent people down to receive and urge, which is an abnormal thing!
Yang Jing had already obtained Zhao Zongchang's secret information earlier, but I was afraid that this time this Song Lizong Zhao Yun, would his body really not be able to hold on?
Or is it that Dong Songchen and Jia Yidao are traitors, and what kind of moths are making trouble in Lin'an?
Or is it Tang An'an, a famous prostitute in Lin'an, who is actually the Holy Maiden of the White Bull Sect, or the Yan Guifei who is gradually falling out of favor, what big things have happened in the harem?
Thinking of these unsettling factors surrounding Zhao Yun, Yang Jing was also a big head, although the emperor is not easy to be, but the danger around Zhao Yun, the emperor, is also too much.
In short, these civil officials came to Baling to urge the envoys, but not only that, they thought that the land route was too slow, and this time they came to let the envoys go back by water, and for this reason, they also asked the local authorities to form a large fleet, and set sail for Lin'an the next day!
Yang Jing thought that he would be able to stay at home for a day or two, but now that everything is in vain, it would be good to go back tonight and enjoy the warmth of the house, and to be able to be safe and secure with Xia Solstice and others.
After meeting with these civil officials, Yang Jing was about to go back, but was stopped by Yang Jingting, saying that he had set up a family banquet and called Mu Zicai over, and he must give Yang Jing a pick-up.
If it were someone else, Yang Jing would have resigned, but Yang Jingting has the grace of knowing himself, and has always treated himself as a nephew, because of the matter of Miao Village, Yang Jingting has always blamed himself, if Yang Jing refuses, what does Yang Jingting think?
In addition, Yang Jing also had to find an opportunity to say hello to Yang Jingting in advance, and told him that he would go to Juzhou to take over the matter of Zhizhou, and Yang Jing only had to go to the banquet.
Yang Jingting saw that Yang Jing was coming to the banquet, and his heart was naturally happy, so he asked his wife and concubine to come out to greet Yang Jing, but he didn't see it at all, and then he retired from the idle people, and he and Mu Zicai and Yang Jing chatted while eating, drinking.
"Virtuous nephew, although your uncle has read some books, but there are some words on paper, the things in this place are not satisfactory, and the things in Lutouyuan are also messy, and Uncle Shi is not feeling good, and he can't even do a good job in the county, hey"
Yang Jingting is not a person who pities himself, he also has the arrogance of a literati, he thinks that nothing can be difficult for him, and rarely complains in front of others, but Yang Jing has become a patrol and observer of the southwest roads from a pusher, and he has become a baron of Qu County, and he will definitely make great achievements in the future.
If Yang Jing didn't see the outside, he would naturally cheer and say some praise, and he would naturally not treat Yang Jingting as an outsider in the future.
However, Yang Jing smiled and said, "Since you can't do it, then don't do it." ”
As soon as Yang Jing's words came out, Yang Jingting's wine glass was fixed in mid-air, his embarrassed face froze, and Mu Zicai's chopsticks also stopped, as if he didn't know Yang Jing, the two looked at each other, and they didn't know what kind of foolish medicine Yang Jing had taken today.
Yang Jing saw that the two of them were like this, and he was also secretly happy in his heart, and raised his glass to Yang Jingting and said: "Uncle Shi, the little nephew is good at making claims, and he has found an errand for Uncle Shi to know the right to know Juzhou, so Uncle Shi wants to work in Baling, but he can't do it, but Juzhou is a mountainous place, but Uncle Shi is a little wronged."
When Yang Jing said this, Yang Jingting and Mu Zi were suddenly surprised and delighted!