Tokyo is still lively and bustling in autumn, but it's much more lively, and that's what you're used to. From this perspective, this year's autumn, Tokyo city passed with a relatively dull atmosphere.

It has been a long time since foreign envoys, including Korean and Japanese envoys, arrived together. Of course, it was a bit strange, but when envoys from all directions visited Tokyo continuously and repeatedly, people would soon get used to it.

There are also lottery tickets. As soon as this thing came out, all the people flocked to it... Of course, they are also flocking to it now. Even because of the limited limit of the Northern Expedition lottery, it has caused dissatisfaction among the rich. Some people in the government have suggested that Northern Expedition gambling should be launched in the Cuju League.

, allowing large-amount bets on a ticket basis.

The lottery has only been played for a few days, and it is already like this. As for the national debt stalls in Xuande Building, the young crops loans and short-term loan loans in the temples and warehouses, the market is gradually increasing in the Western Regions, grassland goods, and the take-out trucks running all over the streets and the annual

There is no need to say more about the one-time college entrance examination and the palace examination.

People are even used to the Mid-Autumn Festival.

There is no way, although the occasion is serious, the fact is that it is difficult for anyone to be as honest as the first time. This seems a bit sad, but there is nothing to criticize. Because this is life, life itself will

Any past experiences are buried, along with the most intense emotions.

But having said that, this seems to be what the Zhao family, who planted mulberry trees in the harem, was most worried about, otherwise they wouldn't have been calling for the Northern Expedition every day.

But even though the slogan of the Northern Expedition has only been used for a year, everyone has become accustomed to it.

This autumn is the autumn of the seventh year of Jianyan.

In the autumn of this year, Li Gang requested to retire and return to his hometown, but Zhao Jiu refused.

In the autumn of this year, Zongze's eldest son Zong Ying was transferred back to the central government from his position as county magistrate and became a member of the Ministry of Industry.

In the autumn of this year, Zhao Fen, the eldest son of Prime Minister Zhao Ding, still did not participate in the general examination, and he still had not found a wife.

In the autumn of this year, Wang Zhongfu, who had a martial arts background and served as a guard of Zhao Guan's family, left Tokyo and returned to Kansai. He became a preparation general of the imperial camp left army. He had a promising future because of his relationship with the imperial camp cavalry.

The controller Zhang Zhongfu had the same name, so he specifically changed his name to Zhang Shixiong.

Before leaving, he hesitated for a long time. After all, he did not ask his acquaintance Uncle Wu to help him find the little lady in the curtain hat he saw in front of the mountain that day.

In the autumn of this year, Yue Yun, who was fifteen years old, after two years of martial arts training, did not stay in Tokyo and get married directly as he had imagined. Instead, he was sent to his father's army, Zhang Xian's Department, as an ordinary

Conduct military training as a cavalryman.

In the autumn of this year, like her sister Foyou, Princess Shenyou was promised to another handsome minister's son, Wu Fu, the second son of Wu Jie... So far, all the daughters of Zhao Guan's family have been promised to the handsome minister of the day.

The children of the right age in the minister’s family.

In the autumn of this year, from the Taixue Examination before the Mid-Autumn Festival to the Palace Examination after the Mid-Autumn Festival, in addition to the further increase in the share of original studies, there were also quite a few questions that had nothing to do with the classics. The most prominent ones were arithmetic and geography... The Palace Examination was over

Later, the huge map drawn by the Zhao Guan family, covering the East China Sea, the Western Regions, the Northern Wasteland, and the Nanyang, shocked the entire government and the public.

In the autumn of this year, the two supreme emperors and the current emperor began serializing literary and artistic works at the same time. Following Sancao, Sanzhao seemed to be adding a significant mark to the history of literary and artistic creation.

In the autumn of this year, as the veteran general Lu Qing resigned from the army because of his old age and transferred to the imperial court, Wang De's controversial military governor was also officially awarded after the army expansion. Han Shizhong, Yue Fei, Zhang Rong, Li Yanxian, Wu Jie, Qu

Duan, Zhang Jun, Wang Yan, Ma Kuo, Wang De and other ten generals who were serving in the military and had the status of Jiedushi were called the Ten Jiedushi of Jianyan by the people.

In addition, Li Qiong and Li Bao, who did not have the status of Jiedu envoy due to seniority issues, were also called the Twelve Dutong.

After the expansion of the imperial camp, all the commanders who actually led the troops were counted, and the total number was nearly a hundred. However, there were also a hundred and eight generals cobbled together by the good guys. The first two commanders were none other than

Yang Yizhong and Liu Yan.

In the autumn of this year, there was a slight flood on the east and west roads of Beijing, but Yue Fei and Wan Qixi immediately brought the situation under control.

This autumn, no matter how you calculate it, it is the seventh year since the Mingdao Palace of Zhao Guan's family fell into the well.

And when autumn ended and winter came, Concubine Wu was pregnant again, and Zhao Guan finally grew a beard... He was almost twenty-eight years old.

No matter how long ago I deceived myself, I would be considered middle-aged.

"let's start."

In October, the weather was bright and sunny. After returning from target shooting, Zhao Guan's family walked back to Shiting. After sitting down, they learned that there were no urgent secret letters sent at night, so they directly gestured to Yang Yizhong and others.

At this time, there were only many close ministers inside and outside Shiting, but no important ministers from outside the court... And what the Zhao Guan family wanted to 'start' at this time was, of course, just a daily intelligence briefing.

Many ministers glanced at each other, but Ren Baozhong held his head high and took the lead to step forward and hand over his hands: "Reporting to the officials, there were five things reported by me yesterday... One was an official document sent to the capital province, saying that it was a fire in Hangzhou that burned down people's houses.

Hundreds of houses; secondly, there was a report from the Privy Council that Qianzhou bandits had invaded the county again, and the general manager Guo Zhongxun had personally arrived in Qianzhou; thirdly, Quanzhou's big shipping merchants gathered in the city's shipping department, asking for the same example as the Han merchants, and promised to buy

Official flag-seal documents; four, the chieftain of Gongzhou in the southwest rebelled and was captured by the Yang family of Bozhou; five, the market under the city of Dongshengzhou was burned by the cavalry of the Jin Kingdom..."

Moreover, China is so big that fires, droughts, floods, and even rebellions are all common occurrences as long as they are not large in scale, and the Zhao Guan family has always been fearless of changes in the sky. Even if he is struck by lightning from the sky, as long as he is not killed,

, he didn’t even take it seriously, not to mention that before this year, there were countless military activities... Therefore, such things have always been done in the capital, and the Zhao Guan family would not ask about it.

However, after the fiscal plan was fully launched in the middle of this year, the official changed the procedure of the morning briefing, asking ministers to summarize various military and political news events that affect fiscal revenue and go through them for him, and he got this

The person who received the honor was none other than Ren Baozhong, who was willing to work hard and already had a house in Jingyuan.

Of course, these news are only excerpts and summaries of official documents from public sources, and do not really reach out to intelligence agencies.

"It's the same sentence." After listening to the report, Zhao Jiu looked calm. "It's time to provide disaster relief, and it's time to suppress bandits. Flags, seals, and documents cannot be given to cannibals, otherwise there will be no way to show the Han merchants.

Superior? There are also border disputes. We must retaliate when we should retaliate. We cannot put the cart before the horse and some money cannot be saved... Just Renqing, why do you want to include the chieftain rebellion?"

"So that the officials know that I am worried that the Dali copper mine deal originally negotiated with Gao Mingqing will be affected by this matter." Ren Baozhong explained quickly.

At this time, Lu Benzhong couldn't help but interjected: "The Renshe people think too much... The main transportation between Dali and China is via the Minjiang River. It is separated from Gongzhou by the Luo family and the Yang family, so it won't be in the way."

"

Zhao Jiu nodded immediately.

By the way, let me say a few more words here.

Gao Mingqing is one of the core members of the Gao family, the powerful official in Dali. After Zhao Jiu suddenly sent an envoy to Dali and proposed a diplomatic offensive of "regardless of etiquette, exchange of goods and not", the envoys sent by Dali... talked to the leader of the country.

Unlike He Yu, he is the one who can take charge of his own affairs.

In fact, the Gao family of Dali attaches great importance to diplomacy with the Song Dynasty. Basically, the envoys who come to the Song Dynasty every time are core descendants of the Gao family. The last person who came to the Song Dynasty as an envoy was none other than the current head of the Gao family.

Gao Taiyun was in power in Dali, and Gao Mingqing's father, Gao Taiming, was in power in Dali at that time.

As for Duan Heyu, whom Zhao Guan's family was obsessed with, he couldn't even control the harem... The queen who was born in the Gao family often scolded Concubine Mu and Concubine Wang De, but Duan Heyu could only endure it.

The thought of Wang Yuyan and Mu Wanqing being beaten all day long after marrying Duan Yu, not only caused a huge mental shock to Zhao Guan's family, but of course they stopped all their thoughts and focused on wooing Gao Mingqing.

Faced with Zhao Guan's favor, the Gao family behaved appropriately and directly agreed to the special trade of tea and copper materials... But they also pointed out that this kind of trade would be very disadvantageous for Dali, so they hoped that in a five-year period, in the future,

Fair dealing.

The Zhao Guan family agreed to this.

In fact, it's not just Dali, South Vietnam is also going well... The latter is now in the stage of doubting the sovereignty of the young country, and the country's power is declining day by day. Lai Shizai was slightly intimidated by Zhao Guan's family, and then he agreed to the so-called "

Feet of cloth and buckets of rice' trading.

In other words, it is a direct trade of cloth and rice. The Guangzhou maritime merchant who wins the bid will travel between the north and the south, delivering rice from South Vietnam directly to Jiaoxi (Jiaozhou Bay) in Michigan, and then to the reserve storage of the Royal Camp Youjun, the Former Army, and the Navy.

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It can only be said that everything depends on whether you can make a fool of yourself, and once you make a fool of yourself, there is always a way... Even the closed Japan and the Goryeo Zhaoguan family, who are closely related to the Jurchen Kansai, can handle it, let alone these two families.

said.

Turning back to the front, Ren Baozhong was originally ready to withdraw, but Zhao Jiu thought for a moment and spoke again: "The two chieftains, the Yang family and the Luo family, are said to have always been very loyal. They are also a powerful clan that has been divided for hundreds of years, but they

I never pay taxes, so can I borrow some money from them?"

"Official family."

Ren Baozhong's spirit was shocked, and he immediately stopped and raised his hands. "I think this move is inappropriate... Although the Yang family and the Luo family are both Han ministers, and the Yang family is the heir of the Yang family of this dynasty, after all, they are military and political

There is no difference between the independent chieftain and Li Ni's family in Xiazhou in the past in Xixia... The reason why such a person is docile and loyal is because the court has not threatened him. And once you ask for something from him, it is certainly possible to directly accept the promise loyally.

, but it is also possible that he despised the imperial court and became rebellious."

Zhao Jiu thought about it for a while, nodded directly, and then looked at Yang Yizhong: "Zhengfu should keep in touch with your family more..."

Yang Yizhong could only say yes, and then took a few steps back... This puzzled many people for a while, because it was Yang Yizhong's reporting time, or Zhao Guanjia originally meant to let him speak, but

Because I remembered that the Bozhou Yang family and Yang Yizhong were theoretically from the same clan, I said this casually.

But soon, everyone's doubts became more serious - Yang Yizhong took a few steps back, took a box from a Ban Zhi behind him, opened it in front of everyone, and actually took out a standard version of the Di newspaper.

He printed the newspaper in his residence and carefully presented it to Zhao Guan's family.

But Zhao Guanjia just looked at it and laughed on the spot: "Have the Jurchens already reached this step?"

Several core ministers around were shocked for a moment, but they didn't know that this newspaper was actually printed by the Kingdom of Jin. However, this morning's intelligence gathering had always been careful and avoided, so they couldn't go forward to see it with their own eyes.

What does the Dibao look like?

"Reporting back to the officials, that's exactly what happened." Yang Yizhong had already reported seriously. "This first Di Bao was divided into sixteen pages, and a total of more than 3,000 copies were printed. All the official figures in the Jin Kingdom could get it.

…”

"The Kingdom of Jin can still adapt to local conditions." Zhao Guanjia looked at the newspaper in front of him and shook his head with emotion. "They are not short of money, nor are they short of good craftsmen... Unlike us, it took many years to come up with separate printing.

We have broken through the cost of printing and can print one plate every ten days, but what about others?"

The people around looked at each other. On the one hand, it was difficult to interrupt, and on the other hand, they also knew that the official was telling the truth... It seems that the Jurchens are richer?

Of course, after all, the Zhao Guan family had talked and laughed in the forum eight hundred years later, but they could see more clearly than these people, that is, the current economies of the Song Dynasty and the Jin Dynasty were actually very deformed.

If you look at the property and so on, that is, when calculating GDP, the Song Dynasty, which is south of the Huaihe River, has definitely defeated the Jin Dynasty in a crushing manner. The population is here, but because of the robbery, it encountered such disasters again.
To be continued...