Zhao Ta sat on the chair and looked at the leaders of the scholar clan in front of him with an indifferent expression.

It is these people's families who control most of the land and wealth in the south of the Yangtze River, and also control many interests and powers of the Great Song Dynasty.

In the south of the Yangtze River, these people are the real masters, as vicious as Zhu Mian, and they dare not offend them.

And these people are intertwined, the gateway climbs, and the generations are passed down from generation to generation is another court in the south of the Yangtze River that is truly independent of the foreign dynasty.

The Great Song Dynasty changed the law several times, and the salt tea reform was difficult to implement in the south of the Yangtze River, and it was difficult to obtain taxes and make it difficult.

These scholars, with Jiangnan as the center, the world as a burden, the court as a vassal, arrogant as the superior, and the meaning of the shepherd.

These scholars, with poetry and books as tools and fish and rice as shields, took advantage of their geographical advantages to support far more scholars than elsewhere, entered the court as officials, and stole the authority of the dynasty.

Up and down the court, the officials of the Jiangnan clan are all over the country, and even in the south of the Yangtze River or even in the southeast, the laws and regulations are not passed, and the law and taxation are difficult to implement.

The land of these nobles was exempt from tax or reduced, but they were still immersed in the same spirit, and joined forces to fight against the dynasty, and even the taxes of the city, bridges, customs, tea, wine, salt, etc., all of which were difficult to pass.

In the entire Great Song Dynasty, the land annexation in Jiangnan was the most serious, and the land tax in the Great Song Dynasty was mainly collected from self-cultivated land and semi-self-cultivated land.

The people were displaced, all of them became tenant farmers, tenant servants, and it was a good situation to be full all year round.

The imperial court could not collect taxes, but it had to go back to buy rice and grain from the Jiangnan scholars, in order to turn over the plight of various places on the northwest border.

However, these scholars said that they would support the people with our strength, and they regarded the world and the court as a burden.

Even the later Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties were all trapped here, and all kinds of changes and reforms that must be passed in the middle of the dynasty were all stuck in Jiangnan, and finally failed.

Even the emperor fell into the water, died by medicine, died bizarrely, the law change was interrupted, the counterattack was counted, and the people died and the government died.

Zhao Ta knew that these people could not be changed, the greed and bloodlust in their bones had long been fixed, and there was nothing they did not dare to do.

At that time, the Guanlong Group was stupid to be able to come up with new spokespersons and reshuffle the world.

These Jiangnan scholars dared to steal the beams and change the pillars, and Li Dai was stiff and directly replaced the emperor.

This stubborn disease cannot be cured, there is no way to do it, it is a terminal disease, a maggot attached to the bones, and a problem of the heart.

Can only kill! Kill a corpse and bones all over the field, kill a bloody pestle!

Even if you can't kill it cleanly, you can't kill it completely, and you will make a comeback if you kill it, but there is no other way but to kill, kill it first!

Zhao Ta looked at the leaders of the scholar clan in front of him, and smiled slightly: "This king came to Jiangning, I have long wanted to see you, but the military affairs are busy, so it has not been completed for a long time, and today I just finished laying out the city defense, and I heard Yan Zhao say that you have something to discuss, just when you see it, as long as you don't damage the military aircraft, you can speak freely." ”

Everyone in front of them looked at each other when they heard this, except for those who had been court officials in Tokyo, others were not familiar with Zhao Ta, but at this moment, seeing his kind words, they all breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.

They just wanted to leave Jiangning, not to mention the destruction of the war and military aircraft, just a matter of opening and closing the city gate, and felt that as long as they said it, Zhao Ta would definitely agree.

Everyone thought that Wang Congying was the mainstay, at this moment he squeezed out some smiles, just wanted to speak, but saw Zhao Ta suddenly picked up the post on the table, and said: "When this king was in Tokyo, I heard your reputation, you were in charge of rural affairs in Jiangnan, maintained local peace, and cultivated my Great Song Dynasty talents, and thought about the court everywhere, this king has long been acquainted, but unfortunately he has not had the opportunity, although the name on this post is complete, but this king only knows two or three people, you still see yourself, so that this king can also be compared." ”

Originally, according to the etiquette, they all had to see themselves after they came in, but unfortunately there were too many people, and Zhao Ta waved his hand just now to let everyone sit down first, so he didn't have time to introduce himself.

But at this moment, Zhao Ta brought it up again, they naturally couldn't help but do it, so they stood up one by one to introduce their own family, in fact, this is also simple, that is, to talk about the surname of the origin, the official to talk about the previous official position, and the official in the family should report the rank.

The following representatives of the scholar clan, you and I got up one after another to narrate, and it took about half an hour to finish describing themselves, Zhao Ta nodded, knowing in his heart, and then his eyes fell on an old man.

This old man was born with a pampered and wealthy face, but at the moment he was quite sad and lacklustre.

The old man just saw that he was Zhu Cheng of Shezhou, and his ancestors had official bodies from generation to generation, and in his grandfather's generation, he was a scholar, but he was a little weaker after he took charge of the clan, and only one son and nephew was a magistrate in Fujian.

Although the situation in the Zhu family sounded inferior to others, Zhao Ta's eyes lit up, and he looked at him and said, "But Zhu Banzhou in person?" ”

This Zhu did stand up again when he heard this, and said with a wry smile: "The prince actually knows this number, which really flatters the old man, but now that Fang La is a thief, burning, killing and looting, the old man can't afford this name anymore." ”

A smile appeared at the corner of Zhao Ta's mouth, this Zhu is indeed not an ordinary person, although this person does not have as much land as others present, but all kinds of side businesses are all over Liangzhe, and even extended to Lianghuai, with countless gold, silver and money, even if it is some families who have been out of Zaifu, they do not have much money from him, and they are with the title of Zhu Banzhou.

Of course, for these scholars, even if they have commercial property, they are not merchants, they are all nobles.

In the early days of the Great Song Dynasty, the imperial examination of merchant nationality was not allowed, and even ordinary Shu landlords could not refer to it, but later this regulation was abolished after conquering the south.

This Zhu did suffer a heavy loss in the Fang La Rebellion, he had less land and more shops, and the land Fang La could not be moved, but those shops were all emptied by the thief army, and then set fire to them, so the loss was greater than that of other families, and it is not an exaggeration to say that the property was removed from ninety percent of five or six.

And there is only one subordinate in his clan who is the magistrate of Luzheng County in Fujian, and there is no one who has entered the office, and the family will have a tendency to slump.

Zhao Ta is staring at this Zhu Cheng at the moment, not only because he has the title of Zhu Banzhou, but also because this person has a daughter, called Wu Niang.

This Zhu Wu Niang is a famous talented woman, although she is not known for her poetry, but she is used to four or six loose sentences, very literary, and full of books, it is not an exaggeration to say that she is rich and rich.

Zhu Wuniang later married a person, who is currently serving as the lieutenant of Zhenghe County, Fujian, and is the subordinate brother of Zhu Wuniang Ren Zhixian.

This person is Taixue Tongshangshe, the first year of the Jinshi, and later served as an official to the Ministry of Servants, presented to the general doctor, and was named the Duke of Yue.

This person was influenced by the Ercheng doctrine in his early years, and was regarded as a relatively well-known physicist in the late Northern Song Dynasty, and had good relations with Hu Xian, Liu Mianzhi, Liu Ziyu and others.

This person later went to Quanzhou as an official, to give lectures to the scholars on "the study of righteousness", someone built a "Aotou Jingshe" for him, as a place for him to lecture, he was the first person to give lectures in Quanzhou, with the title of "the beginning of Fujian learning".

This man's name is Zhu Song.

Zhao Ta praised this Zhu Song's character very much, Qin Hui and Jin discussed peace in the Southern Song Dynasty, this Zhu Song strongly opposed, and said a lot of truths, which can be regarded as ironclad.

But it's a pity that this Zhu Song died early, died in his forties, he and Zhu Wuniang had three sons and one daughter, the eldest son and the second son all died halfway, only the youngest son grew up under the hardships of Zhu's upbringing.

Zhu Song, the youngest son, inherited his parents' talent and has great talent in learning, which is to carry forward the science to the extreme.

But it's a pity that because of Zhu Song's early death, this youngest son did not receive his teachings on morality, full of loyalty, filial piety and righteousness, but he did many things that violated etiquette and shame.

seduces and seduces nuns to be concubines, and even picks up ashes with his daughter-in-law and even gets pregnant, I don't know the so-called heavenly principles in this little son's doctrine, destroying human desires, whose heavenly principles are saved, and whose human desires are destroyed!

This matter is contained in the "History of the Song Dynasty", and there is evidence in the "History of Jin", because at that time, the Jin State sent an envoy Wanyan Chongdao to congratulate Zhengdan, Wanyan Chongdao witnessed him being impeached for "disrespecting the king", "disloyal to the country", "insulting the court", "harming the wind and religion", "private people and property" and other ten crimes.

The youngest son admitted that Nan Nun was a concubine at that time, and he was released as an official to take the nun and concubine to swagger through the market, and also admitted to accepting bribes, so he wept bitterly, wrote again, and repented, saying that he was wrong, and then saying that he was forgiven, confused and forgetful, back and forth, and reversed repeatedly.

Although he is talented, his own character is really difficult to scrutinize.

Later, there was the Yan Rui case, in order to fight political opponents, this youngest son can be described as extremely despicable and unbearable, so virtuous, he is actually known as a teacher.

Zhao Ta himself didn't like Ercheng or science, and when he saw Zhu Cheng present, he thought that this person was Zhu Banzhou, who claimed to have a half-state, that is, the grandfather of the youngest son.

He pondered, according to Zhu Song's morality, if he lived a few more years and taught this little son morality, he might not be so unbearable in the end, then Zhu Wuniang is a woman after all, her own family has a son, and some things cannot be educated so comprehensively, even if she is a talented woman, but how many Meng mothers are there in the world?

Zhao Ta looked at Zhu Qu, tapped his fingers on the table, and said, "Su Wen Zhu Banzhou has a daughter Wu Niang, known as the first talented woman in Shezhou, but did she bring Jiangning?" ”

Zhu did not know what he meant, he had two sons, and his daughter was one, and he regarded it as a pearl in his palm, and he would take Jiang Ning with him to avoid trouble.

"The prince praised falsely, the little girl has only been reading for a few days, where can she be called a talented woman, she is praised in the state, and she can't be taken seriously."

Zhao Ta nodded, it's good to come, it's good to come!

He smiled and said nothing, and turned his head to look at Wang Congying: "Let's get down to business." ”

Wang Congying was already impatient, and hurriedly said: "Lord Wang, in fact, it is not a big deal for me to wait, but I heard that the Fang La thief army is heading north, lest it attack Jiangning, so I want to avoid it for the time being, but seeing that the prince has closed the city gate, I want a note, please let the prince allow me to wait out." ”

Zhao Ta was not annoyed when he heard this, and looked at everyone: "Don't you all believe that this king can hold Jiangning?" ”

"Don't dare, don't dare."

"Lord Wang, we didn't mean that."

"I'm just going to stay somewhere else."

"With the prince here, what is the reason for the thief army."

Hearing Zhao Ta's words, naturally no one dared to say that he couldn't hold it, and everyone replied with a smile.

Zhao Ta said with a smile: "Actually, it's not difficult to let you leave in Kaicheng.........

When everyone heard this, their hearts were relieved, and they secretly thought that it was originally true, and the thief army did not come, what did you do by closing the city gates? Could it be that you are more timid and scared than us? Then don't pretend to be loyal to the king, just go together!

"However, just as the king was going down to the city, he received an urgent report from the front!" Zhao Ta stretched out his hand and took out a battle report from his arms, shook it and continued: "The thief army did not attack all of Xuanzhou, but a small group of men and horses surrounded that side, and hundreds of thousands of troops went straight to Jiangning, and when this king received the battle report, it was already less than a hundred miles away from Jiangning!" ”

As soon as he said this, the expressions of everyone in front of him immediately changed, and many of them were stunned on the spot, they didn't expect the thief army to attack Jiangning so urgently, and Xuanzhou didn't fall, so they directly sent the main force here.

"According to the hour, I am afraid that it is only thirty or fifty miles away from Jiangning now, or it has already arrived, and it is spying on the military situation in all directions of Jiangning, preparing to surround the city!" Zhao Ta said lightly: "Jiangning guards the Yangtze River, and it is normal for the thief army to be in such a hurry. ”

"However, the prince ......" Not everyone believed Zhao Ta's words, after all, Jiangning was closed at the moment, and they couldn't receive the message from the outside, and Zhao Ta didn't say whatever he wanted.

This person Qi Ai said: "According to what the prince said, it is possible that the thief army has not arrived?" ”

Zhao Ta looked at this person, who was from the Xu family of the wealthy family in Hangzhou, and he nodded: "There may be dozens of miles, it may have arrived, and it is spying in all directions, and this king is not sure, after all, the spies sent out cannot come back every time to report." ”

The man said, "If we haven't arrived yet, won't we just take the opportunity to leave?" ”

Zhao Ta was noncommittal: "Maybe...... Or maybe you will encounter a thief army not far from the city. ”

As soon as he said this, the following fell silent, this kind of thing is really hard to say, and no one dares to guarantee that the thief army has not arrived.

Zhao Ta raised the battle report in his hand: "It stands to reason that it is not easy for you to stop this king if you want to leave, but you are all gentry of the Jiangnan Shi clan, but if something happens, the court will suffer huge losses, so this king still has to persuade him." ”

Everyone bowed their heads and discussed, and after a while, someone spoke: "Lord, what if we insist on leaving?" ”

Zhao Ta smiled and said, "If you insist on leaving this king, how can you stop it?" But I think you still have to think carefully, even if you go, don't go together, otherwise the thief army really arrives, and you go out at the same time, won't you let the thief army all be wiped out? ”

Another said: "If tonight, it is difficult for the thieves to march at night, if they do not arrive, then at least it will be safe tonight." ”

Zhao Ta said: "So this king pondered, if you really want to leave, you might as well go out of a few temptations first, if it is okay, then leave together, if you ......"

When he said this, he kept silent, and everyone understood what he meant, if something happened to the one who left first, then these people in the city would not go out again, and if they went out again, they would also deliver food to the thief army.

They knew that it was impossible for Zhao Ta to send someone to explore the way for them, and it was already a great face to be able to open the city gate, if the thief army really arrived, the matter of opening the city gate was very dangerous, who knew if someone would take advantage of the darkness to sneak into the city.

It's just that it's a question of who will go out of the city first to try it, after all, this matter is still risky, thinking of this, these leaders of the clan couldn't help but look at each other.

(End of chapter)