just felt that the wind was a little wrong, so he immediately abandoned the army and fled thousands of miles.

It sounds incredible, but for some scholars it is routine, not to mention that it is some selfish people who have started this chaos.

As soon as Zhang Yanran fled with the core personnel, the more than 40,000 bandits who were originally surrounding the west of Quanzhou City and the more than 20,000 bandits in the north of the city immediately collapsed.

After learning of the situation, Uncle Xie Fang issued an order to let Zhao Shijian's department and more than 200 monks and soldiers go out of the city again to persuade these headless flies to surrender and recruit peace.

The monks and soldiers paid a lot of casualties in the battle for the bridgehead, more than 60 people were killed, nearly 200 were lightly and seriously injured, and Elder Yuan Miao was also seriously injured and endangered.

Fortunately, there were military doctors on the Shenzhou who came with the ship, and it was also the headquarters of the military hospital led by Chong Taiyi, so that Yuan Miao's 'incurable wounds' had a glimmer of life.

Shenzhou's artillery attack on Nanguan Wharf, although it was not a serious naval battle, should also be regarded as creating history, and this combat mode that appeared two or three hundred years in advance will be invincible at sea in this era.

In a way, the pirates who were bombarded were honored, after all, they will go down in history for it.

Of course, they probably won't like such an honor, but will only feel fear, doomsday fear.

After only one round of shelling, the surviving pirates lost all their fighting spirit and courage, and were then surrounded and captured by the officers and soldiers.

There were also nearly 20,000 thieves in the east of the city outside the Renfeng Gate, although Zhang Yanran did not send them a letter, but they were not blind and deaf, and they also noticed the change in the situation a little later.

Among them, more than 3,000 core people left the camp and fled to Xianyou County in panic, and most of the remaining people were surrendered.

At this point, the city of Quanzhou, which had been besieged for seven days, was completely relieved of the danger, the haze was gone, and the whole city cheered.

After Zhao Mengqi broke through the Pu family, he urgently arrested his comrades according to Pu Shougeng's confession, and asked Pu Shiwen to appease other merchants.

It was only in the evening that Zhao Mengqi took the Banzhi Guards to Nanguan Port by boat.

On the dock, more than 6,000 people who had been kidnapped by pirates were rescued, and the ground was still shocking after being cleaned.

Uncle Xie Fang and Zhao Jujing led thousands of officials and gentry in Quancheng, clan relatives and nobles, and virtuous talents to greet here.

Although Zhao Mengqi did not like this kind of formalism, he also knew that it was a necessary ritual in the era of etiquette.

Before his ship docked, this group of the most prominent people in Quanzhou visited from afar, and the degree of respect was comparable to welcoming Zhao Guan's family.

defeated and encircled more than 20,000 to intercept the traitors with weak troops, and dared to come to the rescue in person with only 3,000 troops, and it was really like a divine soldier descending from the sky to defeat nearly 100,000 thieves in one fell swoop, which made the whole of Quanzhou at this moment regard King Yan as a god.

When Zhao Mengqi stepped on the dock with both feet, thousands of people bowed deeply again, "Welcome Your Highness!" ”

After patiently walking through the lengthy ceremonial ceremony, Zhao Mengqi breathed a sigh of relief, but Uncle Xie suddenly knelt down.

"The old minister is guilty, His Royal Highness entrusts the old minister with a heavy responsibility, and has high hopes, but the old minister is incompetent, resulting in the chaos of the place, the life is ruined, and it also leads to the danger of His Royal Highness, the old minister deserves to die for his crime, and please punish His Highness severely!"

"Xie Xiang, what's the matter?" Zhao Mengqi stepped forward to help Uncle Xie Fang, and said sincerely, "Why did the chaos in Fujian arise, I know it in my heart, and I just want to say that it should also be Gu Er and others in danger, Xie Xiang has worked hard for the country, and there is no fault in it, how can Lone be punished for his crimes." ”

Uncle Xie Fang was sincerely frightened, and the old tears were rampant, "Your Highness is so magnanimous and gracious, the old minister is ashamed, but he has ...... after he has done his best to die."

An old man and a young man performed the drama of Jun Ming and Chenxian, and it took a while to stop.

Then Zhao Jujing bowed deeply to Zhao Mengqi, "Your Highness did not hesitate to risk his life to save Quanzhou from fire and water, and to solve the sect room in the upside down. ”

"The county is serious, you and I are both descendants of the Zhao family, why should a family speak two words, no matter from which point of view, Lone is just doing what he should do......"

Zhao Mengqi next said two sentences to the important people in Quanzhou, and the conversation was decent, amiable, and made people feel like a spring breeze.

When he was about to reach an eighty or ninety-year-old man, Zhao Jujing introduced to Zhao Mengqi softly, "This old man is also a clan relative, Xi Han, ninety years old and eight, once knew Fuqing County, is upright and strategic, when he was in office, he broke the law, although the children of the secretary of state did not lend money, quite a cool news, in the county, everyone stood sideways, the time number ...... Zhao Yanluo, his temper is a little strange, and he may be offensive in his words, so please take care of your highness......"

It can be seen from the generations that this Zhao Xihan is Zhao Mengqi's grandfather, but this is not unusual, after all, Zhao Jujing is also Zhao Mengqi's grandfather, but it is just a different tribe.

But at the age of approaching 100 years old, he is about to become a human being, and I am afraid that he can do whatever he wants when he arrives in the Chongzheng Palace, and the Zhao official family has to be treated cautiously.

"Xiao Jingzi, you are babbling in the ear of the doll, but what bad things do you say about our old immortality?"

Zhao Xihan's voice was quite loud, staring at his slightly cloudy eyes, but the corners of his eyes were mostly covered by drooping eyelids.

Zhao Jujing is sixty or seventy years old, has the title of duke of a serious county, and is a serious person who promotes the Southern Foreign Sect, but he is called 'Xiao Jingzi', he can't refute it, and he has to laugh.

"How can it, my brother is too careful......"

If he could, Zhao Jujing naturally didn't want this old man to appear here, even if he usually saw him, he would take a detour.

Filial piety and respect for the elderly is an important cornerstone of the Chinese moral tradition, and in the laws of the Tang and Song dynasties, even if a person over the age of 90 commits a capital crime, he or she cannot be punished with additional punishment.

Zhao Mengqi didn't dare to slack off, and bowed respectfully, "My nephew visits the old man." ”

Zhao Xihan held a dove cane, looked at Zhao Mengqi who was wearing a helmet and armor, and looked at it slowly for a long time, with a slight look of satisfaction on his face.

"Your doll is heroic, since Taizong surrendered, basically no one in our Zhao family will be so dressed up anymore, I hope you can fight for the remnants of your ancestors, restore the world, and reopen the prosperous world."

This is very reliant on the old and selling the old, but it is also mostly praised.

Zhao Mengqi was about to be humble, but the old man's expression changed, and his tone became hard.

"Originally, although you don't have the name of the prince, you have the truth of the prince, sooner or later you will have to take on the responsibility of the country, we are stupid and old and rotten are not qualified to point fingers at you, but we have some words in our hearts but we don't vomit unhappy!"

Yo, is this going to teach me a lesson?

Zhao Mengqi was surprised, but his expression was as usual, and he smiled, "It is a blessing for my nephew to be able to get the advice of the old uncle, please give it to me." ”

The old man stiffened his face, "Then we will be presumptuous, you are both civil and military and intelligent, this is nothing to say, but there is always a suspicion of narrow-mindedness and escape, and he has repeatedly used cunning and danger as a plan, or he can win more than a while, but if there is a mistake, it will never be recovered, Meng Sheng said, 'Keep the right in the middle, and go far.'" 'You are the foundation of the country, and you are burdened with a thousand pounds, you should take this as your mind, think carefully and act prudently, and strictly follow the right path for a long time. ”

Zhao Mengqi's face was full of sneer, "What the old uncle taught is that the nephew and grandson should remember." ”

Regardless of whether the old man was right or not, Zhao Mengqi didn't want to make more excuses, after all, people's thoughts are the most difficult to change, and there is no need for everyone to understand their thoughts, just perfunctory past.

But the old man did not stop there, and continued, "I heard that you are quite good at business, a little stone into gold, and even in the folk there is a 'wealth king' said, to pursue profit as a thing, but 'the world is governed by righteousness, and if there is no righteousness, there is chaos, the righteous victor is the ruler of the world, and the righteous are the troubled times. Righteousness is the foundation of profit, and you blindly value profit, isn't it putting the cart before the horse!? At the beginning of the chaos of profit, the so-called 'righteous are the right for the righteous, and the good are for the sake of human affection. If you want to rule the world, you must reform the desires of people and restore the principles of heaven, which is the right way! ”

The old man's words are actually Zhu Xi's admiration of 'preserving heavenly principles and destroying people's desires', and most of the later generations sneered at this, thinking that this was ignorance and decay.

However, this statement was not first created by Zhu Xi, but ran through the entire Confucian thought, and all the so-called Confucian sages, including the later Wang Yangming, expounded similar views.

The real connotation of it has been tampered with or misunderstood in later generations, and the vast majority of people are too lazy to understand it in depth, and it is enough for everyone to follow the clouds, after all, later generations will pursue the supremacy of money.

"In today's world, material desires are rampant, but profit is the goal, which has caused the Great Song River to decline, more and more decaying, the cause of this Fujian turmoil, in the final analysis, is not it that some people see selfish interests and forget the righteousness? At present, Quanzhou, the sea trade is extremely prosperous, the merchants are 'pearl and rhino dots', the rich and the giant rooms abound, but in addition to the industry and commerce related to the sea trade, everything else is withered and scattered, the villages are desolate, the acres of land are poor, the government is exhausted, the scarcity can not be done, the people are in a hurry, that is, the clan is also the most poor, except for a few people who chase the smell! ”

Speaking of which, the old man deliberately set his eyes on Zhao Jujing.

Zhao Jujing smiled awkwardly, "Old brother...... Isn't it also for everyone, the current financial resources of the imperial court are scarce, if it is not supported by the city, it is even more difficult to supply the expenses of this clan, and the income from our business is also subsidized by the clan? ”

Nearly 130 years after the Nanwai sect moved to Quanzhou, the population of the sect has reached more than 3,500 people.

The supply of the clan is mainly Yulu, orphaned money and rice, and the dowry of the clan daughter, and its standard has basically not changed from the Northern Song Dynasty to the Southern Song Dynasty.

The clan that lives in the courtyard of the sect, the largest one has a monthly money of thirteen guan, the middle one, the monthly money is nine guan one, and the rice is one stone, and the small one has a monthly money of four guan seven and four buckets of rice; At the end, the monthly money is consistent, and the rice is four buckets.

Those who live outside the hospital, the big one, has two dollars per month, one stone of rice, and the smaller one has the same monthly money, and five buckets of rice.

This does not include clan officials, as they receive a salary according to their rank and position.

Sect daughters over the age of 20 can also get a dowry money, 100 yuan for those who live in the courtyard, and only one-third for those who live outside the courtyard.

The source of supply was the local finance, and at the beginning of the population was small, it cost 50,000 or 60,000 guan a year, but at this time it was almost 160,000 yuan, plus the administrative expenses of the Zongzheng Division and the Zongxue fund, which also cost more than 10,000 yuan.

Among them, the Quanzhou government bears about 90,000 guan, the Xinghua army shares less than 10,000 guan, and the rest is supplemented by the city shipping department.

To be honest, compared with the expenses of the Ming Dynasty, this expenditure is simply the gap between fireflies and the moon.

But in the eyes of the Song Dynasty scholars, it was still a heavy burden, and they often complained bitterly, saying that they were worried about the country and the people, but how many of them were sincere, it is unknown, after all, whether they had legitimate or improper income, they had much more income than the clan.

From time to time, there are prefectures and counties that do not increase the amount of money and rice for orphans in accordance with regulations, and there are also state officials who are in arrears with the clan's salary, ranging from a few months to a year or two.

The Song Society wanted to record that officials profited from the reduction of allowances, and if the allowance of a clan was delayed, the life of the whole family would become unstable, but the state and county did not think that there was anything wrong with this.

The emperor had to repeatedly issue edicts ordering the main division of the great sect and the main division of the western and southern foreign sects to inspect the state and county delays in the issuance of the clan money.

But there are not many that can be really solved, and I have to say that the clan of the Song Dynasty is really a little humble compared to other dynasties.

Some people died, but not completely......