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"Woo woo woo ......"

"Whoop, whoop, whoop......"

When the train, which seemed to be an ancient beast that had been sleeping for countless years, roared from afar with the momentum of swallowing heaven and earth.

Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan, Yelu Yanxi, Yang Bumadie, Li Yanghuan and others who had never seen a train, not to mention how shocked they were when they saw such a behemoth coming at such a fast speed.

"Click!"

When the train stopped at Nanjing Station, Zhao Ji, Zhao Huan, Yelu Yanxi, Yang Bumadie, Li Yanghuan and other people who had never seen a train on the platform saw that it was not only tall, but also seemed to be unable to see the train at the end, so they stopped in front of them.

Although this latest generation of trains has rarely broken down, but just in case, the train of the Daqian Dynasty is almost twice as large as Li Cun's previous life, so it must need more power, and the current locomotive horsepower is not enough, so it can only be found in quantity, so this train is also composed of four locomotives and ten carriages.

After the train stopped, Li Cun and 800 guards of the Tiger Ben Army and 200 high-ranking officials of the Daqian Dynasty walked out of the first five passenger carriages.

——This train has been tested countless times, and Yang Yizhong even personally participated in the test several times before agreeing to let Li Cun ride.

Seeing that only half of the train was loaded with a full 1,000 people, the people present to participate in the opening ceremony were all shocked.

When General Lu introduced Li Cun on behalf of Li Cun, if a train carries people alone, it can carry at least 2,000 people at a time, and if it carries goods alone, it can carry at least 20,000 stone of grain at a time. It only takes two days and one night at most to get from Nanjing to Beijing, and that's not counting the time for resting and adding water and coal at more than a dozen stations on the way, getting off the car and getting on the bus, and loading and unloading the goods.

Hearing such data, Zhao Ji had mixed feelings in his heart!

Back then, when Zhao Ji and Jin destroyed Liao to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun, it took at least a month to transport troops, and the key soldiers and horses could not fight a hard battle after this long journey, and if they did not rest well for a few days.

Even more troublesome is the transportation of grain and grass materials.

At that time, all the Song troops and government agencies that went to recover the sixteen states of Yanyun had to rely on the Zhao and Song courts to solve the problem.

What's more troublesome is that due to the war, the people on the front line were unable to cultivate and produce, so the consumption of the people, especially food, also needed to be solved by the Zhao and Song courts.

It can be said that Lianjin's destruction of Liao and the recovery of the sixteen states of Yanyun brought an extremely heavy burden to the Zhao and Song dynasties.

In the later period of Zhao Jilian's Jin annihilation of Liao and the recovery of the sixteen states of Yanyun, Xu Kangzong, the official of the Fenglang Shangshu Division, sent an envoy to the Yanyun region that was already under the control of the Daqian Dynasty, and discussed with Li Cun that Li Cun would fulfill the contract and hand over the Yanyun region to the Zhao and Song dynasties.

When passing by the front line, Xu Kangzong was shocked to find that there was a great hunger on the front line, and there was even a terrible phenomenon of parents eating their children, and the corpses of those who died of illness were inserted into paper labels and sold in the market.

Knowing that the shortage of food at the front was so serious, under Zhao Ji's instructions, the Zhao Song court urgently ordered Hebei, Shandong, and Jingdong to transfer grain to the front line.

In other words, at that time, the Zhao and Song dynasties assigned the task of ensuring food supplies to the front line to Hebei, Hedong and Jingdong, which were close to the front line.

In order to complete this harsh task assigned by the Zhao and Song courts, the officials of the various transportation departments of the Zhao and Song dynasties distributed the amount of grain to the common people.

Due to the serious lack of transportation power in the Zhao and Song dynasties at that time, the officials of the various transportation departments of the Zhao and Song dynasties also specifically required the common people to transport grain to the front line to pay.

In addition, the rivers in Hebei and Hedong have become silted up due to the lack of use for many years, and many areas have been blocked, and there are many bandits and rebels along the road, so it is not practical to transport grain by boat, and it can only be transported by land by manpower.

As a result, in order to transport one stone of grain, the freight along the way had to cost more than a dozen or even twenty stones of grain.

This brought great distress and even disaster to the common people of the Zhao and Song dynasties.

In addition, since the fifth year of Xuanhe, Hebei, Jingdong and other roads have experienced famines, poor harvests, and starvation everywhere.

The common people of the Zhao and Song dynasties really had no way to live, so they had to revolt or become robbers.

As a result, a number of anti-donation storms or peasant riots broke out in various parts of the Zhao and Song dynasties.

At that time, there were hundreds of people, tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands of people, who rebelled against the rule of the Zhao and Song dynasties one after another, and even simply played the banner of "overthrowing the rule of the Zhao and Song dynasties".

At that time, the influence was relatively large, Zhang Wanxian in Shandong, with a number of 100,000; Zhang Di in Shandong, with more than 50,000 people; Gaotuo Mountain in Hebei Province, which claims to have 300,000 people; The other twenty or thirty thousand are innumerable.

In the face of the increasingly spreading situation of civil unrest in the north, Zhao Ji hurriedly adopted a two-handed policy:

On the one hand, Zhao Ji sent officials such as Li Zun, a doctor of Chaosan, and Zhu Dingguo, a Fengyi lang, to Hebei and Jingdong Zhulu with his own imperial pen edict in hand to appease the rebels, thieves, and displaced people in Tang, Deng, Ru, Ying, and other places, and adopted various preferential policies such as releasing prisoners, reducing taxes, and recruiting people.

On the other hand, while sending officials to appease, Zhao Ji secretly ordered Liang Fangping, an inner servant, to lead the army to conquest.

Liang Fangping ordered Yang Weizhong, Liu Guangshi, Xin Xingzong and other generals to encircle and suppress the rebels and rebels of Zhang Wanxian, Gao Tuoshan and Zhang Di.

This greatly involved the energy and strength of the Zhao and Song dynasties.

The key point is that the common people in the north complained about the rule of the Zhao and Song dynasties.

Li Cun seized that opportunity and decisively led a large army to attack the Song Dynasty.

Dissatisfied with the terrible rule of the Zhao and Song dynasties, the people of the Lianghe region surrendered and turned their guns and began to engage the Song army.

As a result, it only took Li Cun more than ten days to lead the army to the foot of Bianliang City in Tokyo.

It is good to say that Zhao Ji is to escape for his life, to say that Zhao Ji is to apologize, to say that Zhao Ji believes in the minister's nonsense and naively thinks that as long as he abdicates Li Cun will retire from the army, all in all, Zhao Ji hurriedly gave up the throne to Zhao Huan, a good son, and finally led to the destruction of the Zhao Song Dynasty by Li Cun.

If the Zhao and Song Dynasty had a transportation artifact that did not require much manpower at that time, which could consume so much food in time and without consuming so much food on the road, and transporting all the food needed by the front line, then there would be no food shortage on the front line, and then it would probably not happen that Li Cun would easily destroy the Zhao and Song Dynasty later.

So no one understands the importance of this train better than Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji was sure that since this train, the Yanyun region in the north would be an inseparable piece of territory of the Daqian Dynasty.

No.

Not only the Yanyun region in the north, the Sichuan-Shaanxi region in the northwest, and the original Li Dynasty and Champa region in the south will also be an inseparable piece of territory of the Daqian Dynasty.

It can be said that as long as the train can reach the place, it will definitely be firmly controlled by the Great Qian Dynasty.

As a once very ambitious emperor, Zhao Ji thought further, he transposed himself with Li Cun, and judged that Li Cun was definitely going to start a war, and the object of the war was likely to be the very restless Jin State in the north, which would most likely threaten the frontier of the Great Qian Dynasty in the future.

Zhao Ji looked at Li Cun, who looked much younger than Zhao Huan or even Zhao Gou, and then glanced at Zhao Huan, who was an insider and a layman in the fight, and then thought about Zhao Gou, who was half a pound or two with Zhao Huan, and smiled self-deprecatingly: "You still want to fight with Li Cun for these two wastes?!" ”

Then Zhao Ji put away his smile and thought lonely: "I once pinned my hopes on these two waste sons, I am also a waste, and I will die in the Song Dynasty." ”

Although everyone believed that the Daqian Imperial Court would not be convinced, the data reported must be true.

But then again, seeing is believing, hearing is false, and if you want people to believe 100%, you still have to be real.

So, in the presence of all the elites in the city of Nanjing, only five carriages loaded 10,000 stone of grain.

That's it, it's still flat, if you pile it up and load it with one or two thousand stones of grain, there is no problem at all.

Then, the officials of the newly established Ministry of Railways recruited volunteers on the spot to go on a three-day tour of Yanjing, that is, go to Yanjing for three days and three nights and then return.

Although some people are reluctant to be this test subject out of stability, and some people are worried that the train will break down in the middle of the road and leave them in the barren mountains and mountains, and dare not participate in the experiment, there are also many people who are willing to see with their own eyes how amazing the train that Emperor Li Cundu himself has ridden.

Soon, 1,000 volunteers, led by officials from the Ministry of Railways, boarded the train to Yanjing.

In a short time, the train set sail at an auspicious time......

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Zhao Ji thought that he would return to Siguo City if he couldn't see the train coming back from Yanjing, especially when he heard that Zhao Huan, Yelu Yanxi, Yang Bu Madie, and Li Yanghuan had returned to Siguo City immediately.

But to Zhao Ji's surprise, Li Cun actually left him alone, and sent a message to the chamberlain to let him go to Lingxiao Pavilion to wait.

Lingxiao Pavilion is the place where Li Cun practices Taoist health kung fu on weekdays, and is presided over by Li Cun's uncle Zhang Xuzuo.

In other words, after so many years, Li Cun has never found his master.

It is rumored that his master died in the fire in the Jade Palace.

There are also rumors that the fire in the Jade Palace was actually set by Li Cun's master, in order to force Li Cun to take the path of the God King.

Over the years, Li Cun has never given up looking for his master, but his old man is like a stone sinking into the sea, and there is no news at all......

Zhao Ji used to often come to Lingxiao Pavilion to discuss Taoist health preservation with Li Cun.

Sometimes, Li Cun would also ask Zhao Ji for advice on the way to govern the country, the way to be a king, and the art of an emperor.

It was from then on that Zhao Ji was really afraid of Li Cun from the bottom of his heart.

Li Cun did not look down on Zhao Ji at all because he was the victor and he had no power to fight back against Zhao Ji, and he couldn't listen to Zhao Ji's words, but every time he listened carefully to the experience and lessons summarized by Zhao Ji, who had been in charge of the Zhao Song Dynasty for 25 years, and learned from it what was useful to himself and the Daqian Dynasty.

Man is a sword, I am a fish.

Zhao Ji didn't dare not teach Li Cun seriously, and he didn't even dare to deceive Li Cun with false things, and he didn't even dare to influence Li Cun's judgment with private goods.

As the emperor who has been in charge of the Zhao Song Dynasty for 25 years, Zhao Ji knows better than anyone what it means to accompany the king like a tiger.

The key is that Zhao Ji, who was beaten by Li Cun so well and had no power to fight back, and the Jiangshan Sheji of the Zhao Song Dynasty, as well as the royal daughters and the daughters of the clan of the Zhao Song Dynasty, were all taken away by Li Cun, and he never dared to doubt Li Cun's terribleness, he knew very well that Li Cun would definitely be able to see what he taught Li Cun.

There was no way, Zhao Ji could only take out the things he wanted to teach Zhao Huan but Zhao Huan disdained to teach Li Cun.

Li Cun is definitely a good student, Li Cun can not only easily comprehend what Zhao Ji taught, but also draw inferences, and even dig deep into what Zhao Ji taught Li Cun.

Looking at Li Cun like this, Zhao Ji couldn't help but think about how good it would be if Li Cun was his son.

What makes Zhao Ji like Li Cun even more is that Li Cun, like him, likes to practice Taoist health kung fu.

And if Li Cun is different from Zhao Ji, Li Cun doesn't believe in the Taoist ghosts, ghosts, gods and immortals.

But this still does not prevent Zhao Ji from liking and appreciating Li Cun.

Based on this kind of heartfelt liking and appreciation, although Zhao Ji knew very well that Li Cun was his mortal enemy, he sometimes couldn't help but say more about his experience as an emperor.

may be to repay Zhao Ji's teachings, Li Cun will summon Zhao Ji out of the Four Kingdoms City from time to time to chat, so that Zhao Ji can see the outside world and not have to be trapped in the Four Kingdoms City all the time.

This also made Zhao Ji the only exception in the Four Kingdoms City.

When he came to Lingxiao Pavilion, Zhao Ji made a Taoist salute, and then took the initiative to ask: "Your Majesty summoned Xiaodao to come here, is it to discuss the Taoism, or is it to dialectically prove the emperor's technique?" ”

I didn't want to, but Li Cun shook his head: "Next time, let's discuss the Dao method or the dialectical emperor's technique, this time I called you over to ask you to see someone, that person is in the middle, you go by yourself." ”

With deep doubts and deep curiosity, Zhao Ji obeyed Li Cun's order and turned around and came to the inner room.

Lifting the curtain and entering the inner room, Zhao Ji saw a figure lying on the bed at a glance that surprised him!

——The former Empress Zheng of the Zhao and Song Dynasty Xiansu, that is, the Empress Dowager Zheng!

At this time, the Empress Dowager Zheng was lying quietly on the bed with her eyes closed, her face was pale, her breathing was weak, and she looked like she was dying.

Zhao Ji was shocked, and hurriedly came to the edge of the bed and gently held the hand of the Empress Dowager Zheng.

may have felt the familiar big hand and guessed who was coming, and the Empress Dowager Zheng, who was dying, slowly opened her empty eyes.

After seeing that it was really Zhao Ji, Empress Dowager Zheng's eyes suddenly had a little brightness, and at the same time, her face suddenly became rosy.

Empress Dowager Zheng showed a heartfelt smile and said softly: "The official family is here?" ”

Zhao Ji nodded and asked with concern, "Why are you so sick?" ”

Empress Dowager Zheng shook her head, signaling Zhao Ji not to guess, this is none of Li Cun's business, she said slowly: "Five years ago, the concubine was sick, and all the imperial doctors came to see the concubine's body, even Concubine Chen De personally called the concubine's body, and they all said that the concubine had an incurable disease, and it was His Majesty who called the imperial medicine Lao Shan Ginseng to hang the life of the concubine for so many years, and then the concubine came to Jiangnan with His Majesty, and the condition improved a little. ”

"This time, I'm afraid the concubine is really not good."

Speaking of this, Empress Dowager Zheng moved slightly, and then held Zhao Ji's hand vigorously, with affection, tears welling up: "The concubine was born in a humble background, and she has been favored by His Majesty for three or twenty years, and she has made the concubine a queen, and her wish is enough, although she has no regrets in death!" ”

Zhao Ji also cried silently when he heard this.

Zhao Ji remembered the scene when he first saw the Zheng family in the Empress Dowager Xiang's palace.

At that time, Zheng was the head of the female officials in the Empress Dowager's palace, and he was still King Duan.

Every time Zhao Ji went to the Empress Dowager's Cide Palace to ask for peace, the Empress Dowager Xiang would order the Zheng family and the Wang family to serve and wait by Zhao Ji's side.

Later, Zhao Ji ascended the throne, and the Empress Dowager gave the Zheng family and the Wang family to Zhao Ji.

After Zheng entered the palace, he was favored by Zhao Ji because of his talent, humility and courtesy.

Zheng gave birth to four daughters and one son for Zhao Ji in his life, and there were three daughters who survived.

Later, Zhao Ji's favored Mingda Empress Liu died, Zhao Ji was sad, and posthumously named Liu as the queen, so Zheng asked Zhao Ji to be willing to raise Liu's still very young children.

This is just one of the many things that Zheng has done for Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji knows very well that the reason why his heirs are prosperous is that the Zheng family's virtue and generosity are indispensable.

Therefore, after the death of Queen Wang, Zhao Ji made Zheng the queen.

The relationship between the two has always been very good until the Jingkang Change.

Although after Jingkang's change, Zheng once had the idea of sleeping with Li Cun, but she gave up because she was too old, and later she tried every means to please Li Cun, hoping to win Li Cun's favor.

And Zhao Ji was also imprisoned in the Four Kingdoms City by Li Cun, so he couldn't protect himself, he couldn't take care of the Zheng family, and even forgot about the Zheng family for a while.

But that's just survival instinct, forced by the living environment, not to mention that Li Cun hasn't touched the Zheng family, even if Li Cun really touched the Zheng family, the person is about to die, Zhao Ji has experienced so many things, and what should be put down should be let go.

Now, only a couple of old couples who have walked hand in hand for 35 years are left to say their final goodbyes.

Zhao Ji held Zheng's hand, and the two talked a lot, recalling a lot of things that Zhao Ji had forgotten about Zheng but remembered.

In the end, Zheng said very unsatisfactorily: "Although the concubine is buried in Jiuquan, her soul does not leave the official family, and I hope that the official family will not be obsessed with the Great Song Dynasty Jiangshan Sheji, this matter has become a foregone conclusion, and it is difficult to change, the official family should let go for the common people in the world, reconcile with themselves, and spend their old age in peace." The concubine couldn't bear to leave, but the fate was here, and the official family should take care of the Holy Communion, and don't miss it too much......"

Zheng actually had a lot to say, but her voice stopped abruptly.

At this moment, Zheng's face is still ruddy, his hands are warm, and his body is still soft.

Zhao Ji didn't believe that Zheng was leaving like this, he hugged Zheng's body and sobbed......

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It's the last day of the month.,Let's give the big bird a commuter pass.。

Otherwise, after today, it will be wasted.

A good man has a safe life!

(End of chapter)