Chapter 51: A Day's Journey
The Song Dynasty is worthy of being the most prosperous feudal dynasty in history. In addition, the new policies that Hua Yuelong participated and improved over the years have made it possible for the people to work hard and live a life of their family as long as they are willing to work hard. Nowadays, various commodities are pouring into the market, and more and more people are fond of these new things. Moreover, with the development of the country's commerce, the commercial tax has also increased, the country is becoming richer and peaceful, and the domestic is peaceful. For the outside world, the new army after reform has also risen sharply. Since the last time they fought with Xixia, they have recovered part of their territory, the people's self-confidence has also increased. Moreover, with the strengthening of public security, Hua Yuelong found that wherever they passed, it is peaceful, at least on the surface.
"Young Master, we have been on the road for a day. It's getting dark. Let's find a place to have a good rest." Dong Wei walked behind with his horse and reminded him with a word.
Hua Yuelong nodded and walked forward. Before long, Hua Yuelong saw that he was standing in front of an inn. The inn was decorated in gorgeous ways, and some styles looked noveler than the surrounding architectural styles. The plaque of the inn was written with a few big words.
"Longteng Inn"
Longteng Inn formally has a high-end route, with all kinds of things inside. The rooms in the inn are divided into eight levels: heaven and earth, the universe and the universe are prehistoric. Only people in the royal family can live in the highest level.
Seeing the people coming and going in the inn, those who can live here are either rich or noble. Although Hua Yuelong came out and had something to do, he would not treat him badly.
Then Hua Yuelong raised his feet and walked in with the two of them. As soon as he entered, the maid standing on both sides of the house immediately bowed to greet him. At the same time, he walked over from the side with a silk gown that was not bright in color and walked over respectfully.
"I'll ask you a few distinguished guests, what do you want..."
"Go and arrange a room for me and send some food." Before the servant could finish his sentence, Hua Yuelong handed the golden token taken out of his arms to the servant.
The servant was shocked when he saw this. After taking it, he took it and looked it carefully, he immediately handed it back to Hua Yuelong and said immediately: "Your Highness, please follow me, the room is ready."
The servant obviously knew that only the people who could have golden tokens with special patterns were royal people, and Longteng Inn was in various cities and they were also connected with each other. Along the way, Hua Yuelong would live in Longteng Inn as long as he lived in the big city. Therefore, this Longteng Inn had already received news and prepared the guest rooms in advance.
"No need, I'm tired today, I'll talk about it tomorrow," Hua Yuelong said casually as he looked around.
Although he rode a horse south and walked on the official road, it took Hua Yuelong half a month.
Under the guidance of the servant, Hua Yuelong came to the best place in the inn. The room in this room was larger than others. When you opened the door, you could see a small lake and a courtyard. In front of the courtyard, there were two beautiful maids with white skin and delicate skin and tulle clothes. Hua Yuelong frowned slightly when he saw this, but he didn't say anything.
"Dong Wei, go to my Tiancewei branch immediately to find out what happened in the world recently." Hua Yuelong sat upright at the table, drank the tea brought by the maid, and spoke.
"Yes, I'll do it now." After hearing this, Dong Wei quickly turned around and went out.
"Yueshan, go, practice your skills." Hua Yuelong said to Yueshan who was standing beside him after drinking the tea.
During this period, whenever Hua Yuelong has time, he will compete with them. As the saying goes, there are shortcomings and strengths. After this period of practice, Hua Yuelong also has a rough understanding of their strength. Although they are in the middle stage of the innate stage, they are not rivals of Hua Yuelong, but they also have some good things. For example, Dong Wei's qiāng technique is very strong, and qiāng is the king of soldiers. With the qiāng technique alone, he can be on par with Hua Yuelong's swordsmanship. Yueshan mainly practices horizontally, and few people can break a golden bell cover. Even Hua Yuelong cannot break his defense, but he cannot chase or fight Hua Yuelong at all.
"Young Master, these are some interesting things that have happened in the world during this period." Just as Hua Yuelong and Yue Shan were only talking with each other based on their fists and feet, Dong Wei ran in from outside with a piece of paper in his hand panting and said.
After taking the silk from the maid next to him, wiped the sweat, then took the paper and saw it.
"The Wuliang Sword Sect fights swords and invites heroes from all over the world; the three evil people have entered Dali; the prince of Dali runs away from home..." Hua Yuelong looked at the news and said, these things were all known to him, but the things he didn't know were not very important.
"Now, is the world so quiet?" Hua Yuelong asked in confusion.
"Young Master, don't know that before the Tiance Guard was established, the world was still very chaotic and fighting in various ways. However, after the Tiance Guard was established, the great heroes of the country and the people were spread, and the struggles between sects were reduced. Even if there were, they would suppress them within a certain range. Unlike this, more people in the world went abroad to challenge the Xixia or Liao people."
Dong Wei explained.
After hearing this, Hua Yuelong shook his head slightly. If it is so calm, is it still the world? If it is not the same as Yanziwu in Suzhou, Mantuo Villa, Lingjiu Palace and other people in the world who have turned a region into their own territory. Are they like those who are afraid of the court? It’s just that because the Tiance Guard has a strong power, they don’t want to cause trouble.
Although Murong Fu was still determined to restore the country and carefully trained the navy and soldiers in Yanziwu, the Song Dynasty today is not the Song Dynasty before. After suffering twice, Murong Fu was much more restrained. Unlike the original work, he could actually spend 500,000 taels of silver to buy military supplies.
At this time, in the Shenhe Village of Yanziwu, Suzhou, Murong Fu stood in front of the lake with a gloomy face, and beside him were the four ministers of the Murong family. At this time, they were standing behind without saying a word. They knew that the young master was in a very bad mood now and could not be disturbed.
"Alas, the Song Dynasty has changed a lot in recent years, and the court has become increasingly tight. Although our industries outside have developed greatly and our income has increased by three levels this year, I am unwilling to be just a rich man."
After a long time, Murong Fuxin said unwillingly.
"The Xixia really declined. Even the Song Dynasty, which had always been weak in military power, could not defeat it. It was beaten and retreated step by step. It lost a large area of territory. It was really a waste."
Murong Fu's heart trembled when he thought of this. Do you know how much effort he spent to get Xixia and the Song Dynasty to fight. Through Li Qingluo, he successfully got into the first-class hall of Xixia and could even talk to the Emperor of Xixia. The Emperor of Xixia was not a foolish monarch. They couldn't sit still when they saw the Song Dynasty becoming stronger year by year. Murong Fu took out one million taels of silver to fund Xixia, so he hit it off and took the initiative to launch a big war more than a year ago. Unexpectedly, this time it was not the Song Dynasty that defeated this time, but them, which could be said to be a thousand miles of collapse. If the Song Dynasty had not been very afraid of the Liao Dynasty, they might have occupied more territory.
This result also made Murong Fu's hardship go to waste. Moreover, because the internal scrutiny of the Song Dynasty became increasingly strict, the hundreds of thousands of taels of silver that Murong Fu bribed the imperial ministers were wasted, and he was so angry that he couldn't eat for several days.
"No, no, no, no, no," Bao Duo subconsciously spoke the catchphrase after hearing this, but suddenly realized that he had said the wrong thing, so he raised his hand and slapped himself.
“Yes, yes”
"Young Master, I heard from the servants some time ago that the court wanted to train the navy in Taihu Lake, and specially sent Tiance Guards to protect."
After changing his words, Baodian immediately walked forward and said carefully.
After hearing this, Murong Fu's eyes flashed with anger and he slapped his backhand: "You still need to remind me again about this matter?"
Bao Duan covered his face and stepped back with a depressed look on his face, and the other three people on the side laughed. They all knew that Bao Duan was also concerned about Murong Fu, because many things had happened during this period, which had a great blow to Murong Fu. Years of hard work were wasted, and Bao Duan just wanted Murong Fu to vent, otherwise he could completely avoid this ordinary slap with his martial arts, but he was not good at expressing himself.
After Murong Fu slapped this time, his mood improved a little. He knew that he still had a group of people who cared about him, and that if he failed this time, he would have another next time.
"Alas, the Song Dynasty is becoming more and more powerful, and the world is much calmer than before. Xixia is now afraid of being beaten. Although the Liao Dynasty is eyeing the Song Dynasty, it has no determination to invade the Song Dynasty. At most, it is just fighting for Qiufeng."
After venting, Murong Fu's tone also eased a little.
"Young Master, there is nothing difficult in the world. I'm afraid that those who are interested will fail this time, but it doesn't mean we won't succeed next time."
After hearing this, Fengboya came out to persuade him to stop.
"Young Master, Miss Wang is here to find you." At this moment, Bao Duan saw Wang Yuyan who was coming with Azhu and Abi not far away, so he hurriedly stepped forward and said to Murong Fu.
After hearing this, Murong Fu showed a hint of helplessness on his face. As a famous young generation master in the world, why didn’t he know that his cousin liked him? But now he only wants to restore the country. He will not think about other things except for restoring abroad. He does not want Wang Yuyan to delay himself because of him.
Moreover, in order to make Wang Yuyan dislike him, he always intentionally stayed away from her. Even if he was together, he would not talk to Wang Yuyan about any romantic affairs. He only had martial arts and national affairs, because he knew that ordinary women did not like these things, but he never expected that Wang Yuyan would change himself for him. For him, Wang Yuyan went to Langhuan Yu Cave to see various martial arts books that she had never liked, and became a theoretical master of martial arts, which also made Murong Fuyue even more trouble.
Just when Murong Fu was struggling, Wang Yuyan had already brought Azhu and Abi over, and Murong Fu had no choice but to bite the bullet and meet him.
Chapter completed!