In the third year of Xuanhe of the Great Song Dynasty, the third day of the third month of March, it was the day of the Paper Kite Festival.

But outside Tokyo that day, there was not a single ordinary person playing with it, not even half a paper kite in the sky.

The four cities of Tokyo and the twelve gates of the city thundered, the war drums roared, and the horse infantry army with various banners began to march south in an orderly manner after a short stop to take the oath, because there were too many people, and it was not until the afternoon that it was gradually finished.

Zhilan Xiaozhu, Emperor Daojun looked at a short and fat eunuch in front of him and asked, "What do you see?" ”

The eunuch said in a low voice: "Official, King Yun brought more than a dozen concubines, and several carts of various items and gadgets, and the team left the latest. ”

Emperor Daojun frowned: "What about King Qin?" ”

The eunuch said: "The king of Qin also brought a bunch of people away. ”

Emperor Daojun was curious: "There are also women?" ”

The eunuch whispered: "The king of Qin took Zhao Yuannu and her maid mother, and some others looked like servants, and the slave saw that one of them was thin and withered like a monkey, and he was very flexible in jumping, which should be the ugly behavior of performing a beautiful section on the stage." ”

Emperor Daojun thought about it, this second child has been obsessed with music recently, and he actually brought all the servants there, but this is a war, and there is no order to act like this, and the third child is not good, taking so many women to Liangjiang, and there is no appearance of going to the battlefield.

However, he still sighed, and secretly calculated in his heart that the Western Army plus the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army had a total of more than 200,000 soldiers and horses, and it should not be too much of a surprise to pacify the Jiangnan thieves, even if it was difficult to fight, it would not be defeated or lost, after all, the Western Army has experienced a hundred battles, and the generals have long been experienced on the battlefield.

Thinking of this, his body relaxed, and waved his hand at the short and fat eunuch, this person exited the door after Zhang Di came in, and when he saw him, Emperor Daojun suddenly remembered Master Li, he had not been to Fan Lou for some time, so he planned to go over there tonight to take a look......

The canal flows leisurely, and the light green water color is like the sparkling of silk.

A few big ships had just entered the canal from Bianshui, and for a moment they saw the world and the world leisurely, the four fields were open, and they raised their eyes into the distance.

The ships of the Great Song Dynasty are developed, there are many waterways in Kaifeng, and there is the Yellow River beside it, and there are many ships on weekdays.

But these are all warships, although the warships are more than along the coast, but there are more than a dozen in Gyeonggi, which moored in various rivers every day and never left the boundary of Kaifeng.

In the middle is a large warship, and it is also the best warship in the Great Song Dynasty at the moment, with ten masts, ten sails, one hundred and thirty pieces, and a keel whale frame, even if it is the Yangtze River Zhulu, there is no such warship.

There are only five warships of this kind in the entire Great Song Dynasty, and a total of four in Dengzhou, Tongzhou, Fuzhou, and Leizhou, and the remaining one is in Tokyo.

These five warships were all called "Shenzhou", the most famous of which were "Lingxu Zhiyuan Anji Shenzhou" and "Lingfei Shunji Shenzhou".

In the first year of Yuanfeng of the Great Song Dynasty, the emperor sent envoys An Tao and Lu Mu to hire Goryeo, and they drove the above two Shenzhou.

After arriving in Goryeo, Goryeo had never seen such a big ship, only to see the towering mountains, floating on the waves, the head of the brocade sail, yielding to the cockroach, and they couldn't help but be shocked, the city towered, cheered and sighed, and the whole country greeted each other.

At this moment, although the Shenzhou on the canal is not the two envoys to Goryeo, it is also one of the five Shenzhou, named "Changkong Haozhi Ningyuan Shenzhou".

In front of the Shenzhou, there is a big gilded flag with a red background, which is almost the same height as the main mast, and the word "Qin" is written in regular script on it, fluttering in the wind, and the hunting sounds.

There are sub-flags on both sides of the banner, one side is written, Xuanfu Lianghuai, and the other side is written, the south is to fight for thieves.

Shenzhou pressed the waves on the canal and moved forward steadily, and the merchant ships and passenger boats in the two places avoided one after another.

The incident in the south of the Yangtze River has broken out, and everyone knows about the ships and merchants who go to and from the canal, and they all know that this chaos will not last for many years.

And the news of the imperial court's begging for thieves has also been transmitted, and there have been many discussions among the people, and the three-way army has gone down to Jiangnan with it.

For the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River, the people have different views, as the so-called without the suffering of others, do not persuade others to be kind, most of the markets are to listen to a lively, business travel and the like are silent.

However, this does not affect their impression of the King of Qin, the court is corrupt and corrupt, the officials are corrupt and pervert the law, and the southeast should be like a wolf and a tiger, whether these things are true or false, but as long as they can eat enough, they are still far away from the people.

Of course, this is only limited to Jiangnan, and the opinion of King Qin outside Jiangnan has always been good, as for Jiangnan and Zhejiang, no one knows, and probably everyone will feel that all officials are embarrassed, not to mention the Zhao and Song royal families.

Zhao Ta did not take the land route, although he had the right to two Huai, but this time he wanted to go to Huaidong, because Huaixi and Liangzhejiang Road do not border, and the capital has been moved from Luzhou to Shouzhou, Shouzhou changed its name to Shouchun Mansion, which is farther away from the Yangtze River, and has no strategic significance.

So he took the waterway, went straight down the canal, and went to Yangzhou, the capital of Huaidong.

Originally, Zhao Kai could also take the waterway, but for some reason he didn't fight with him, but took a carriage, as for Tong Guan's side, except for a few people who followed him personally, the rest were all Western troops, and almost none of them were familiar with the boat water, so he couldn't go by boat on his own.

Zhao Ta raised 30,000 soldiers and horses, 10,000 cavalry, 20,000 infantry, and did not bring the Xiang army and township soldiers, which were supplemented by Lianghuai at that time.

At this moment, there were a total of 3,000 infantry on these warships, all of whom he picked out and were familiar with water, and the rest of the horse infantry army followed all the way along the canal.

Zhao Ta walked out of the cabin at this time, came to the deck, saw the green hills on both sides of the river, the green water of the canal, and the boats in the distance looked over from time to time, some lively locals in the capital, or knew him, so they saluted, and shouted "King Qin Chitose Qian'an", "Your Highness is hard", "Your Highness triumphs as soon as possible".

The royal family of the Great Song Dynasty has always been close to the people, and it is not a big deal for the officials to walk around Tokyo, drink in the store, and watch the merchants make a living, until the Daojun Emperor Dynasty did make some changes.

For some reason, the temples of this dynasty were exalted, and the people were alienated, and the simple atmosphere at the beginning of the dynasty gradually disappeared.

There was a joke widely circulated in later generations, saying that two farmers were chatting about farming, and one farmer wiped the sweat on his head, "Farming is so tiring, how can the emperor Lao Tzu survive?" ”

Another farmer said, "The emperor uses a golden hoe for farming, and when he sees Jin Cancan like it, he doesn't feel tired." ”

The two farmer's mothers-in-law were also talking at home, and they were both worried about what to cook for the evening, after all, the farmer's house was shabby, and there were not many ways to eat and drink, so one of the mothers-in-law longed, "I don't know what food to eat in the palace tonight?" ”

Another mother-in-law replied to her, "Donggong Niangniang bakes flatbread, Xigong Niangniang peels green onions, it is very fragrant!" ”

This joke probably first came out of the Shandong folk opera "Xia Chenzhou".

sang it: "I heard that the old bag is going out of Beijing, and he is busy with the East Palace and the West Palace." The East Palace Niangniang bakes flatbread, and the West Palace Niangniang peels the green onions. ”

The meaning of these lyrics is that in order to buy Bao Qingtian, the ladies spent a lot of money to make fragrant and filling flatbread rolls and green onions, in order to bribe Bao Qingtian, but Bao Qingtian still had a black face when he saw the delicious food, Bao Qingtian was naturally iron-faced and selfless.

Later, this play was passed around, and it was involved with the emperor's golden hoe, and it became a joke between the two peasant families.

The joke naturally refers to the shallowness of the common people's knowledge, and the poverty of life limits their imagination.

But is that really the case? Under Chenzhou, Chenzhou put grain, Bao Zheng put grain, this kind of folk repertoire has a long history, what gold hoes, baked flatbread, is the original author short-sighted, or the people really have no knowledge? Then why didn't you arrange to go to other dynasties and write it only in the Song Dynasty?

"Geographical Chronicles of Song History", there are Guanjia Hall and Silkworm Palace in the back garden of Miyagi.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the emperor in order to show the thrift and love the people and the importance of agricultural affairs, set up the Guanjia Hall and the Silkworm Palace in the palace, in the Guanjia Hall of the Houyuan, the emperor planted rice in front of the palace every year, harvested after the autumn, the queen as the mother of a country, held the silkworm ceremony in the Silkworm Palace every spring, and completed the whole silkworm raising process.

"History of the Song Dynasty", in the fifth year of Dazhong Xiangfu, Emperor Zhenzong promoted Zhancheng rice to Liangjiang, Lianghuai and Liangzhejiang at the same time, he planted small fragrant rice and Zhancheng rice in Houyuan Yuchen Hall and other places, and speculated and observed.

"The Queen's Concubine in the History of the Song Dynasty", "Empress Cao regained crops, often planted grain and silkworms in the forbidden garden".

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, the farmland in the palace was widely distributed, and the Houyuan was the most concentrated, and the scenes of Si Nong could be seen everywhere.

According to the ancestral system, the Song Emperor had to observe the crops every year, and the Song Dynasty had to kiss the silkworms, but the Daojun Emperor had never been to the field except for the first few years of his accession to the throne.

However, "Song History Huizong Benji IV", it is recorded that after the disaster of Fangla was pacified during Xuanhe, Emperor Daojun didn't know what to think, pulled up his trouser legs, carried a hoe, and personally went to the field to work.

But it stopped there, until Jingkang, Emperor Daojun never touched the hoe again.

It can be seen that the matter of the emperor's golden hoe is very likely to be true in the Song Dynasty.

As for Niangniang's pancakes and peeling onions, although they are mostly laughing and talking, in the early Song Dynasty, the simple and people-friendly style prevailed, and there may be similar things.

Zhao Ta stood at the bow of the boat, carrying his hands behind his back, thinking about these things, and couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart, these things, even if they are to buy people's hearts, are good, but this Emperor Daojun doesn't pay attention to it, and even refuses to even make a show in the end.

If Shenzong and Zhezong are here, will there still be an incident in Fangla? Will there still be a maritime alliance? Can you resist the Jurchens going south and protect the Yellow River Tokyo?

The efforts of several generations and more than ten generations are often squandered in one generation.

But Jiangshan Sheji, there is no assumption about military affairs, and if it doesn't work, it won't work......

At this time, Zhao Yuannu came out, came to the front, and saluted: "Lord, what scenery do you see?" ”

Zhao Ta smiled slightly: "Thinking about riding a crane down to Yangzhou, how to spend that 100,000 yuan." ”

Zhao Yuannu said: "The prince is going to fight, and he knew that the slave family would not follow him if he disobeyed the order, so as not to spoil the prince's affairs." ”

Zhao Ta glanced at her and said, "If you don't come this time, you won't know what year and month next time, don't you want to go home and see?" ”

Zhao Yuannu said in a low voice: "The slave's home is in Tokyo, and Yangzhou has no home, just thinking about things for a few hours." ”

Zhao Ta chatted with her before, knowing that she was born in a boat household in Yangzhou City, and her mother died early, and later her father Xuxian married a butcher's daughter and gave birth to two sons, and sold her.

And she was seven or eight years old at the time, so she naturally remembered all of this, and vaguely noticed that her father actually knew and acquiesced in this matter.

In the Song Dynasty, buying and selling human beings was a serious crime, but for families who were too poor to raise and sell their children, the government conveniently implemented a decree of redemption, took money to redeem them, and used public funds to redeem their children for those poor families.

The intervention method of redemption also means that the Great Song Dynasty acquiesced in the inconvenience of punishing the poor family and selling their own children.

This makes the people mix "employment" and "trading", and most of the people who sell it will probably be in the name of employment, otherwise they may be redeemed by the government, and the two sides will be embarrassed, and the buyer will find trouble with the seller.

Zhao Yuannu's stepmother wanted to hide from his father, it was almost impossible to sell her alone, and it was impossible to sell her so far, even to Fanlou in Tokyo, it was impossible for her father not to know, after all, to sell it in the name of employment, it was necessary to sign a contract, and even this contract was for a lifetime, so there were things such as human redemption and self-redemption.

Zhao Ta looked at her and knew that she was very sad about the original house in Yangzhou, and whoever was sold since she was a child would not have any good feelings about the original house, not to mention that it was not sold to the normal portal, but the Cailou Huanmen.

Zhao Yuannu just missed Yangzhou where she grew up in her heart, so she always wanted to come back to take a look, but Zhao Ta felt that since she was back, it would be okay if it was possible to see her family, just look at her own meaning.

He said: "Let's talk about it, I don't know if Yangzhou's Qionghua is open." ”

Zhao Yuannu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and a look of memory appeared on his charming cheeks, and he said, "It seems that it is still half a month." ”

Zhao Ta said: "Yuan Nu has seen it? ”

Zhao Yuannu nodded hurriedly: "It's in Yangzhou Houtu Temple, it's a big flower tree, I used to go there when I was a child, and the flowers are crystal clear, like snowflakes falling in the Heavenly Palace." ”

Zhao Ta saw that she was funny, and said with a smile: "I've been admiring her for a long time, so I might as well go and have a look when we leave." ”

Zhao Yuannu looked happy when he heard this, but then he said: "The slave family heard that this flower is a little ominous, it seems to be the identity of the prince, so it's better not to see it." ”

Zhao Ta knew what she was talking about, shook his head and said: "What does Yang Guang have to do with flowers, he has been reckless in his life, so brave and ruthless, do you really think that the canal is opened to see Qionghua?" ”

Zhao Yuannu didn't understand this, and said: "Both the embroidery book and Mr. Speech said so......"

Zhao Ta said: "It is also written in the history books, but how can you take it seriously, it is just to use such words to cover his tyranny and unreasonableness, and do whatever he wants." ”

Zhao Yuannu could understand this, and seeing that there was no one on either side, he couldn't help but quietly pull the corner of Zhao Ta's clothes, and said softly: "The slave family accompanies the prince to see Qionghua." ”

Zhao Ta looked at the blue waves in front of him, and suddenly said: "In fact, what this king wants to see most is the Confucius Temple, Wuyi Lane, Vermilion Bird Bridge, the bank of the Qinhuai River, and the ten miles of wind and flowers......"

Zhao Yuannu's eyes fluttered, and he grabbed the corner of the robe tighter, and said, "The prince wants to see the Qinhuai River?" ”

Zhao Ta nodded, and Zhao Yuannu said again: "The prince is not Xuanfu Lianghuai this time, but the Qinhuai River is on Jiangnan East Road......"

Zhao Ta shook his head, and a shallow smile appeared at the corner of his mouth: "What two Huai Jiangnan, under the Putian, it is not the king's land, the shore of the land, it is not the king's minister." ”

Then he said nothing, turned and walked back to the battleship's cabin.

This Sky Hao Zhi Ning Yuan Shenzhou was carrying about five or six hundred people at the moment, except for the Scarlet Pioneer Group, the thirteen selected by the Broken Jade Building were also there.

These thirteen people are headed by Ding Da Crab at the moment, and the rest are Ding Er Crab who visited the Ghost Fan Tower with him back then, Lu Ping, Han Jiao, Jiang Zhang, Xu Daqing, and the three brothers of the Bai family who have been secretly protecting the palace, etc., Shi Qian also came with him this time.

Zhao Ta sat in the cabin for a while, then got up and went to the attic over there, thinking about having a small meeting for the people in the Broken Jade Building.

(End of chapter)