Chapter 267: Resolved

Because of his military exploits, Jin Si was promoted to the commander of Wupin, and sent many gifts to Ouyang from Hebei East Road to express his gratitude. There are ginseng, pearls and other things, all of which are high-quality goods. Ouyang instructed Jin Niang: "Send these things to Zhang San and them early tomorrow morning." ”

Jin Niang nodded and asked suspiciously: "My lord, why do you like to date such people?" ”

"Jin Niang, Jin Si mailed gifts to let the family know that his backer was me. How could I not take it? Ouyang Dao: "You see that Jin Si has indeed achieved a lot of results, capturing and killing the chiefs of the eighteen clans. Three of the tribes announced their defection to the Song Dynasty, which was a lot less dead. Although his behavior was selfish, it is undeniable that he has done something contributing, not only for Song, but also for Jurchen. ”

Jin Niang understood this truth, but brought out even more doubts: "Adults want fewer deaths, but why do you want to start a war?" ”

"It's a complicated question. I can only say that not only Liaojin, but also Mongolia will be conquered in the future. Ouyang said: "At least I won't give up attacking them because they surrender." It's not that I want to do it, but I have to do it. Even if the emperor disagrees, I will find a way to change the emperor's mind. ”

"What about Tubo and Dali in the future?"

"......" Ouyang pondered for a while and said, "So at that time, I didn't agree with the emperor to increase tax profits, and to ensure the quantity, quality, and sustainable development of the forbidden army." ”

Jin Niang gasped: "My lord is advocating, the Great Song Dynasty will continue to use troops abroad?" But as the old saying goes: if you are warlike, you will die. ”

"What the ancients said is not necessarily true." Ouyang Dao: "But you don't need that expression, the emperor can listen to me to destroy Mongolia, even if it is very great, the emperor will definitely not do anything to Dali and Tubo." ”

"You Ouyang are so ambitious." Because Ouyang and Jin Niang were in the same room at night, they didn't close the door. A person entered Ouyang's room, took a torch in his left hand and a hand-throwing cannon in his right hand and said: "Don't mess around, I have shortened this line of fire, and it will explode in two numbers." "When he pulled his clothes, he had two pinned to his waist.

"Wan Yanlan?" Ouyang sighed: "You're not tired, just trouble me if you're fine." ”

"Sit down!" Wan Yanlan closed the door with her feet, and pointed to Jin Niang, Jin Niang could only sit next to Ouyang. Wan Yanlan inserted the torch, then took out the rope behind her and threw it over, "Tie up Ouyang." ”

If you are not afraid of the Jurchens playing with weapons, you are afraid that the Jurchens will play with firearms. Why? Because all of them are suicide bombs. Ouyang said to the hesitant Jin Niang: "Tie it up." How did you get in here? "There are four officials on duty at the door.

"Is it hard to get in?" Wan Yanlan said: "Over the wall." For the sake of aesthetics, your subordinates only designed the walls to be more than four feet high. Turn around and I'll see. ”

Ouyang turned around helplessly, and after a while, Yan Lan looked at Ouyang's back-tied knot and nodded: "Sit back." ”

Jin Niang said: "Princess Wanyan, Lord Ou is just a handless ......"

"Haha, he's powerless?" Wan Yanlan said: "I won't fall for him again." ”

"What do you want?" Ouyang asked.

"The formula of gunpowder, the money of your bank, the secrets of the Song attack on the Jurchens, salt, gunpowder, iron, cotton...... I want them all. Wan Yanlan said: "However, as long as you cooperate with me for the first three items, I will let you go." ”

"I'll just name you the gunpowder formula, and you don't know if it's true or not. As for the money bank, I'll do something to ensure that you won't be able to get out if you go in. There is also the matter of Song's attack on the Jurchens, I can also make it up. Ouyang smiled and asked, "Do you want to be practical." For example, a thousand or something. ”

"You call me Hanako."

"Well, I have a secret to exchange." Ouyang asked, "Do you know why the Jurchens were defeated so quickly?" South of Changbai, is there no resistance at all? ”

"Make it up, you make it up, I won't believe anything from you again."

Ouyang smiled bitterly: "Since you don't believe it at all, then what are you going to blackmail me for?" You didn't do me any good by killing me. You should know that with me, the Jurchen will be better off in the future, and without me, it's hard to say. ”

"Gunpowder formula." Wan Yanlan was unmoved and said, "If you give me a fake formula, I'll cut off one of your arms first." ”

"Well, one-to-one."

"Ouyang, do you really think I'm joking?" Wan Yanlan pointed at Jin Niang: "Then I'll kill her first." ”

Ouyang asked rhetorically: "How do you know that one-to-one is fake?" ”

"This ......" Yan Lan is a flurry.

Ouyang said: "The first process of gunpowder is grinding, and the second process is accurate formulation. It has to be one-to-one, and mistakes will reduce the power. Why is Yangping gunpowder good? Because there are balances, very fine balances. ”

Wan Yanlan asked, "What is a balance?" ”

"Jin Niang!"

Jin Niang replied, "The scales are like a seesaw. If one side is heavier than the other, it will sink. If both sides are the same, the balance will be maintained. ”

"By the way, this thing has been around for a long time." Ouyang added a note.

"Draw it."

Jin Niang said helplessly: "I haven't seen it, but I've heard adults mention it." ”

Wan Yanlan thought about it and said, "Money! ”

Ouyang smiled bitterly: "Eldest sister, if you tie me up, you can't do anything." I don't need tokens to withdraw money, I use letters. ”

"Then what are you going to do with the Jurchen?"

This can be answered, encroaching on the south of Changbai Mountain. Purge internal resistance. The soldiers forced the Huanglong Mansion and forced the main force of the Jurchens to fight a decisive battle with the forbidden army. Ouyang Dao: "At the same time, Yue Fei will land and lead the Bin Mansion to contain your troops. After destroying the power of Allah, begin to recruit the tribes and divide you. Secure the territory, then head north to drive the remnants of your forces to the sea. ”

"So vicious!"

Ouyang Dao: "En...... is still more vicious, in the occupied areas, if you don't join the Han nationality, you will be killed. This is the opinion of Tong Guan and Zhang Jun, exterminate the Jurchen race. In fact, you Jurchens are only 200,000 people. Back then, Bai Qi killed 400,000 people in one night. So you should thank me and the emperor for their grace, and in the end the emperor adopted my opinion. ”

"Humph!" Wan Yanlan heard the threat, I, Ouyang, will die at your hands, and then the imperial court may change its measures against Jurchen. After all, the cost and effect of exterminating the clan are better than appeasement, and they can be done once and for all.

"Open that cabinet." Ouyang gestured with his head.

"Huh?" Wan Yanlan moved and asked, "What's inside?" ”

"There's what you're looking for."

"Oh?" Wan Yanlan thought about it for a second, and in order to prevent changes, she walked back and picked up the torch, and then walked to the cabinet and hooked it with her little tail finger. When he saw that the cabinet was empty, he turned his head in confusion, but saw a chair flying over. Look at Ouyang's hands again, there are traces of being tied.

Wan Yanlan hurriedly rolled and avoided the chair. Ouyang has already killed. Wan Yanlan lit the hand-throwing cannon with her hand, and watching the fireline of the hand-throwing cannon burn, Wan Yanlan was stunned. Just like that, a pair of hands stretched out, grabbed the line of fire and pulled it out, and the line of fire was pulled out of the hand cannon. Then there was hand-to-hand combat.

Only then did Jin Niang know why Yan Lan wanted to tie up Ouyang's hands, Ouyang's skills were really not bad, although they were not a move, but the move was practical. Soon Yan Lan was completely subdued. Ouyang raised his hand: "Handcuffs!" ”

"Yes!" Jin Niang hurriedly opened a drawer and threw the handcuffs made of stainless steel inside, Ouyang pulled and pulled it very skillfully, and tortured Wan Yanlan back.

Then Ouyang took away the hand cannon before standing up and panting: "Aren't you tired every time you do this?" ”

Wan Yanlan snorted and asked, "How did you loosen the tie?" ”

"It's a little magic." Ouyang said: "Actually, there are two ropes that bind me, and I pulled the rope in the palm of my hand. It's just a little trick. ”

Someone knocked on the door, and a servant on duty said, "My lord, the yamen came to spread the word, saying that someone had come to report that he had seen Wan Yanlan in Yangping." ”

"Got it."

"Are you alright?"

"It's fine." Ouyang said: "You go and get busy!" Kindness...... Let Zhan-sama come over for a moment. ”

"Yes!"

"What do you want?" Wan Yanlan asked as soon as the official walked away.

"I don't know." Ouyang pulled Yan Lan and sat on the chair. Jin Niang helps to sort out the scattered items. Ouyang had a headache and said, "Why can't you get along with me?" I've let you go three times and twice, and I want to ask you, what do you want? You should know that even if you hold me hostage, you won't be able to get out of Yangping, what do you want to do? ”

"We Jurchen ......"

"We Jurchens, you Jurchens, I'm tired of hearing them. I have already been shown to the emperor, and in the future, there will be no Jurchen, Khitan, Qiang, or Han people, all of them will be called the Chinese nation. Accustomed to your tail cocking to the sky, what do you think is different about your Jurchen clan? Do you think you Jurchens are a godsend? You Jurchens were oppressed by the Liao people, so how can we Han people still be messed up by the Five Hu and almost wiped out? Ouyang was very angry and said: "He, your farming technology was not invented by the Han people, gunpowder was not invented by the Han people, you Nuzhen should be so amazing, don't use the technology of the Han people." Damn, *** intermarried people think they are so good. ”

"You ......"

"Am I not telling the truth? Your capital city is built in imitation of Tokyo. Jin Niang also asked me why I supported the war. I tell you, I support the war because they see the rich life in the Central Plains, but they are not willing to create it themselves, and if they don't destroy you, they will be destroyed by you sooner or later. "Among the countries, the Western Xia was influenced by the Central Plains and had actually slowly become a feudal state, while the Liao State was a semi-feudal and half-slave. The Kingdom of Jin is half-slave and half-primitive. Although there are also objective reasons for not having time to build, the inferior Ouyang who is plundered and occupied by the Jurchens can see it very clearly.

"Your Excellency!" Zhan Ming shouted outside the door.

"Come in!"

Zhan Ming pushed the door in, saw the chaos and was locked, Yan Lan wiped her cold sweat and asked, "Are you okay, adult?" ”

"It's fine."

"Kill it, and avoid future troubles." Zhan Ming said: "Even if you send it back to Ouchi, you will be secretly executed. ”

"Hu Wansan said it well, he can't watch Jin Niang die in front of him." Ouyang Dao: "You help me send her to Cangzhou Prison and be an unregistered prisoner." ”

The basic prison of the Song Dynasty was very interesting, and it was only used to hold the defendant and witnesses and those who were related to the case. None of the convicted prisoners are serving their sentences in prison and are temporarily detained. The reason for the appearance of Cangzhou Prison has something to do with Emperor Wu of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

There was a Confucian scholar who wrote to Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty about the unity of heaven and man, and one of them was to ask the prisoner to be beheaded after the autumn, the reason was of course nonsense, or that he could not trust the ancients. In the Song Dynasty, in addition to the rebellion, such as subordinates killing their bosses, slaves and maids killing their masters, such a big crime. No other capital offense may be carried out in the spring. However, there were temporary prisons everywhere, and these facilities were not perfected, so a Cangzhou prison was designed on each road, and the executed prisoners were escorted to spend the spring in the prison.

Later, not all the prisoners in the prison were beheaded, and some of the prisoners' crimes could not be implemented, that is, the trial court, or the Dali Temple asked for a new trial, or there were those who shouted grievances and had to go through the procedure before pushing, so they were temporarily detained in various prisons. Unless troops are sent to attack these places, there is no possibility of escaping from prison. Each prison is supervised and managed by a special person stationed by the Criminal Department, which can be said to be the most rigorous place, and it is more systematic than several prisons in Tokyo.

Ouyang was planning to secretly detain Wan Yanlan in such a place, Ouyang took out a stack of silver tickets and handed it to Zhan Ming: "Don't be bad at food, let her take a bath every few days." Tell the people inside not to mess around. ”

Zhan Ming nodded: "I understand what adults mean, that is, eat and drink well, but you must not take half a step out of the cell." ”

"Yes!"

Zhan Ming said: "I'll go find a carriage and let Zhang San help me." ”

"Good!"

"Kill me." Wan Yanlan gritted her teeth, she knew that in those places, the cells were all made of iron and embedded in the stone walls, and the ground was made of big blue stones. There is only a small window at a height of four meters. She also knew that Ouyang was definitely not intimidating, with Ouyang's ability, he could do it easily, and even let himself die in prison.

"There is glory and wealth for you, but you don't cherish it." Ouyang said: "Don't think that you are a princess, Ouchi will not do it." Ouchi has already been murderous several times. I am protecting you in front of the emperor, and the emperor looks at my face, and specially sends a few internal guards to monitor you. Don't worry, you don't have to stay for a long time, when the Jurchens are finished, I will let you out. Jin Niang, help get some food and send her on her way. ”

"Good!" Jin Niang nodded and left.

Ouyang said: "If you have any needs, just say it." ”

"Nope!" Wan Yanlan is very stubborn.

Zhan Ming and Zhang San arrived soon, Ouyang asked them to wait, Jin Niang's red bean porridge was boiled, and after persuading Yan Lan to finish eating, Wan Yan Lan was taken to the carriage. The carriage set off at night and headed for the prison.

Wan Yanlan's matter has finally come to an end. Soon it was the annual Chamber of Commerce. Before the meeting, it was still a secret meeting of the three. This time, the focus of the discussion was on the dream of life. Ouyang Dao: "According to the survey, people, especially young people, can accept such a society now. The most intuitive thing is that many young people have begun to rebel against the family affairs arranged by the family. eloped to some of the more developed areas of Yangping to work, and found a way to settle down. Earn a living with your own hands. ”

Su Qiandao: "Some people in the imperial court have begun to pay attention to sleepwalking. ”

"I heard that it was the waiter of the Ministry of Rites who proposed it first." Zhou An said with a smile: "Before his daughter got married, she eloped with a private school gentleman to Yangzhou. No wonder he gets angry and says that Sleepwalkers are demon books. ”

Ouyang asked with interest: "Looking at the tone of Shopkeeper Zhou, it seems that the matter has been resolved?" ”

"Well, Mr. Na is now teaching at a private academy in Yangzhou. Worship the church to get married, and the belly is also big. So I asked the gentleman to write a letter to the squire. Tiger poison does not eat children, the squire can only admit it when he sees this, at least he has a good reputation, and it can be said that he is married to the outside world. ”

Su Qian nodded and said, "Now is the second step, but I think the second step, the emperor has already done it for us." It's the economy that's weak. ”

"Don't do it for the time being, let the situation develop on its own, now there is a war. A backyard fire is troublesome. Ouyang said: "This year, the court will vote seven times, and it has done a good job. "Including whether there is amnesty or not, border clan relations, Changshu immigration and other national events. The enthusiasm of the ministers can be seen from the level of liveliness. Not only that, but the court was also divided into several factions. Friends and political parties have always existed, and even Ouyang Xiu said: The villain is naturally in the company of the villain, and the gentleman naturally befriends the gentleman, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the friend.

Now there are two types on the side of the imperial court. The first is the peasant and commercial faction, and the second is radical and prudent, which is similar to the opposition between the hawks and the doves. For example, in the case of amnesty, the peasant faction supported it and increased the labor force, but the merchant faction expressed opposition for the sake of law and order stability. Since the amnesty included a large number of people who were assigned to the frontier and the army to work in prison, the hawks represented by the Privy Council naturally disagreed, but the Ministry of Rites, who paid attention to Tianhe and said that killing too much would hurt Tianhe, agreed.

Zhao Yu said that the public is justified to these people, and it doesn't matter if the mother-in-law says that the mother-in-law is reasonable. But for example, on the issue of the border clan, although it is still ***, I first expressed my own opinion. In the end, because of her views, the radicals lost the game, and the border clan did not change anything except some compensatory measures to protect the minimum interests of the merchants.

Although this is the case, Su Qian put forward the point that he was most worried about: "The prestige of the emperor is too high. Not to mention the forbidden armies from all walks of life, even the ministers of the imperial court, except for the officials of the Imperial Historical Observatory, no one is willing to speak ill of the emperor. Otherwise, we would have already had a full list of votes on the border issue this time, and we would not have ended up with three votes against maintaining the status quo, just because she had expressed her views in advance. ”

"In fact, the emperor himself is also worried about a question, what should the descendants of the Song Dynasty do not fight? But, make no mistake. The Zhao family has to sit in this world. That's not going to change. Ouyang Dao: "I think the emperor is more inclined to what we call a constitutional monarchy. But her claim for royal rights was greater than we expected. But I also hope that the future courtiers will be able to *** the future emperor's incompetent measures. I suspect that it is for this reason that the emperor would like to see Mengsheng. ”

Many people say that the Song Dynasty already had the rudiments of capitalism, if it were not for the invasion of foreign enemies. There are also many people who say that the DPRK already has a relatively complete prototype of capitalism, if it were not for the invasion of foreign enemies. Ouyang You thinks that he believes that the conditions for the current capitalist revolution are actually ripe, but there are two big troubles, the ideology of the common people, and Zhao Yu's incomparable prestige.

Zhou An said thoughtfully: "It seems that some things can only be done naturally. ”

Su Qiandao: "If it comes naturally, we don't have to be unlucky." Especially Mengsheng, the shopkeeper Zhou should pay attention to it. ”

"No problem, I won't have trouble with such a knot." Zhou An said: "Besides, it's just one of my unknown cronies who came forward." Even if the matter is revealed, it may not be involved. ”