Chapter 167: Women are also considered collections

Zhao Xing pinched Kasili's nose. The nose was very perky and felt good when pinched. He replied with a smile: "Your four sisters went to the south because the south assigned several Yici Leye people. I have rewarded them to the four Yici Leye supervisors. Do you want to get married too?"

"No, I don't want to marry those servants, I would rather stay with my master... But when they leave, what should I do with the music? Who will accompany me when I dance?" Kasli twisted her body, just entangled Zhao Xing, and asked.

Zhao Xing replied: "There will be ten new Arabs coming soon. In addition, those Japanese girls are already familiar with your music, and there will be a few girls who will learn from the new Arab musicians, and you will have new accompanists."

Kasli's eyes turned charmingly, twisted her body like a snake, and said in Zhao Xing's ear: "Master, many people look at us and want to eat us. Why don't you care about those sisters and give them to others?"

Zhao Xing replied meaningfully: "I came to Song Dynasty to catch beautiful women - I only collect the best women."

This answer made Kasli smile, she danced and danced a snake dance around Zhao Xing.

In fact, there was a gentleman who was still in a mess at the scene. Although Zhang Yong was a martial artist, he did not have the problem of Qin Guan. As soon as Kasli came up, he had already sat upright, lowered his eyes and looked at the wine in the glass. Zhao Xing and the other party sang in Hu language for a long time. He turned a deaf ear like an old monk entering Zen. He was really an excellent modern otaku and an ordinary person in the Song Dynasty.

Downstairs, Xu's voice was not loud. After waiting for a while, Liao Xiaoxiao hurried up barefoot in a silk outfit. Her status was the most unstable, so she was most worried about the weirdness of Kasili. Others were still enjoying hot soup baths, and she couldn't soak in the pool. She hurriedly wiped her body and ran up. When she saw Kasili in Zhao Xing's arms, her face changed, and she stepped forward and walked through Kasili's dance steps, splitting the two.

After taking a bath, Liao Xiaoxiao was filled with a fragrance. Zhao Xing took a deep breath, sniffed, and then patted Liao Xiaoxiao generously. Someone came, and Kasli didn't want to dance again. She quickly squatted down and poured a glass of wine for Liao Xiaoxiao.

The pickled pickled vegetables work that was originally carried out in Xiaoxue was delayed until the winter solstice because this work was originally to show the men at home that they were hardworking. Therefore, if the men at home were not there, the women would not have a stage for performance, so they would randomly determine a day, a day when the men at home were present, and perform such pickled vegetables that were almost ritually. Zhao Xing learned the inside story of this "Korean custom" from the TV program, so it was not surprising that Cheng Azhu changed to pickled vegetables on the winter solstice.

Zhang Yong was in the same situation as him. Xiaoxue also went out to sea during the festival, so his wife simply joined Cheng Azhu. After their women took a bath with hot water and drove away the cold air from their bodies, they went up to the roof in groups of three or three. At this time, the legendary Winter Solstice wontons and dumplings also moved into this steaming room.

Liao Xiaoxiao is a performance-oriented woman. In other words, it means that people are crazy. The more people there, the more they like to perform, and like to overwhelm the common people. With Xu also present, her desire to perform is stronger. She sang softly, played the piano and danced to set off the atmosphere. With her, and Kasli, who is not willing to be outdone, the upstairs look lively.

Originally, women were performing for men at home today. On this day, their desire to perform was extremely strong. Those who could write poems wrote a poem on the spot, and those who couldn't write poems wrote couplets, which made Zhao Xing, a fake poet, Zhang Yong, a Zhenwu person a little embarrassed.

Of course, gambling is indispensable in the end. The Winter Solstice is also the four major public gambling days of the Song Dynasty. The women were drunk and threw the copper coins and started gambling.

Song people are quite gamblers. The women in Zhao Xing's family were influenced by him. The gambling nature is a little lesser, but Xu is different. Today she can relax her mind and show her envy for Cheng Azhu and others.

"Sister Azhu, your hairpin is very beautiful, blue, and there is a six-edged starlight inside. It's so beautiful, just bet on it," Mrs. Xu said, but she couldn't take out the corresponding value to bet.

Cheng Azhu pulled out the hairpin and handed it to Xu: "What are you going to bet on? Sister Xu looks good and just take it away. It's not worth a lot of money."

Zhao Xing rolled his eyes straight there. My woman really doesn't treat her baby as a treasure.

The hairpin is inlaid with starlight sapphires the size of broad beans. Although this thing is exchanged for kilograms of tea, it is also a treasure. Modern, this thing can be sold for millions of dollars. Cheng Azhu actually handed it to Xu.

Liao Xiaoxiao leaned into Zhao Xing's ear and whispered, "My husband, what a beautiful hairpin, I've wanted it for a long time. Please give me a gem, and I'll also call the craftsman to inlay something."

Zhao Xing nodded slightly, and Xu was in front of him, and he couldn't say anything.

Zhang Yong spoke: "Li Ren, the Mizhou Navy and Jinzhou Navy traded, we only cost 1% commission. How many do you think can it be?"

Zhao Xing touched his chin and replied: "Many, the Mizhou Maritime Manufacturing Corporation will draw 10% of the tax this year, which is 860,000 guan. If 1%, it should be 86,000 guan. We are no longer bigger than the Mizhou Maritime Manufacturing Corporation. It should be more than these."

Zhang Yong's eyes lit up: "Eighty thousand guan, 90 thousand guan, you and I are half of them, this year is 45 thousand guan. Will our magnificent fanfare affect the tax draw of the Mizhou Maritime Bureau?"

Zhao Xing replied: "No! Because the economy has a scale effect, the larger the scale, the more commodities are exchanged... I was about to tell you that since my Mizhou naval army has this money, the service of the Mizhou Maritime Warship Department's incoming and outgoing ships is thoughtful. In addition, it is extremely inconvenient for our naval army to purchase goods, so it is better to come forward to eat the goods of the Maritime Warship Department's vassal merchants.

The Liao people had no knowledge, and they also liked the strange things brought by the vassal merchants. They transported them there and only exchanged for their gold, fur, and war horses. I guess they could get at least tens of thousands of batches every year, and even tens of thousands of batches would be three million guan. It would make more money to transport them to the inland and sell them to 10 million guan. This is a big fortune."

Zhang Yongle was overwhelmed and drank a few glasses of wine in a row, saying with a laugh: "Haha, I will be rich next year, forty-five thousand guan a year, and I can keep my wealth in two years."

What Zhao Xing hadn't said was that a strong economy had a predatory absorption effect on backward economy. The strong economic power of the Song Dynasty would absorb the wealth of Liao into the long dragon and absorb it into Mizhou, which would make Liao more turbulent.

After Zhang Yong finished laughing, he remembered the Liao officials who had been abducted by Zhao Xing to somewhere, and said with emotion: "Unexpectedly, the Liao officials were so corrupt that they abandoned their official positions and left..."

Zhao Xing was also wondering. He didn't know that in fact, an official from Liao had already secretly fled to the Song territory, but was secretly hidden by the official. The collapse of Liao Kingdom began in this year. From this year on, Liao officials continued to defect. At first, they were in groups of three or three, and then they were a big avalanche. So later, Song Huizong had the idea of ​​attacking Liao. He thought that all the officials of Liao Kingdom were eager to surrender, and the people of Liao Kingdom must have looked at the scenery.

"Yes, I didn't expect that the Emperor of Liao was so devoted to hunting, and he was so desolate that he was so..."

"So that the Liao Dynasty's Lin Navy was anxious to sell military horses!" Zhang Yong added.

The men laughed happily, and the women were also relieved, especially when Xu heard about Zhao Xing's settlement, she was even more excited. She gave in a little, and then took Cheng Azhu's gift: "Sister, you said there was nothing in my family that you like, and I don't know how to give me back. It's better..."

Xu was thinking about the words and saw a man's head showing at the stairs. She made a gesture to Zhao Xing. Zhao Xing's face changed, he clapped his face and said, "Okay, all the ladies, please avoid it, there is something serious."

Zhang Yong was already soaked. He shook his wine glass and said, "On the winter solstice, all officials are on holiday, what are the important things?"

Zhao Xing whispered: "My student just spoke sign language to me and said that Wang Zishao was visiting an imperial guard officer. In addition, Mr. Liu, the defense envoy of Jingdong Road, Mizhou, was also accompanied by his entourage - who do you guess the person coming?"

Zhang Yong asked drunkenly: "Do you know me? It's from this heavy snowy day!"

After Zhang Yong finished speaking, he saw Zhao Xing's cold gaze, and slowly, cold sweat came out, and the wine gradually woke up. He said tentatively: "Can it be..."

After a while, the magistrate Wang Zishao, dressed in casual clothes, led two strangers up. He first pointed to a thin and concise middle-aged man among the two and introduced: "Li Ren, this is the Yu Hou Shiqian, the disciple of Lord Liu Yi, the defensive envoy of Jingdong Road. I knew him before, and I have checked the people he brought. Now he has something to tell you."

The man bowed his body, smiled all over his eyes, and with the unique philosophical voice of the merchant, he said respectfully: "I am here to deliver the newspaper."

After hearing this, Zhang Yong quickly stood up and said in cold sweat: "Please go to the toilet!"

Zhao Xing was still wondering, and Wang Zishao and Shi Qian said in unison: "Go together!"

The "postman" who came to deliver the newspaper actually waved his hand and replied: "Yes!"

Zhao Xing felt something was wrong, so the man turned to Zhao Xing and whispered: "Di News and News!"

Zhao Xing also sweated, and he understood that the person in front of him was a secret spy of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the rank of the

The visitor took out a few newspapers from his arms in a hurry - Zhao Xing was not short of this thing, and no one was left behind in the government office. However, Zhao Xing had a headache with such words without punctuation and no segmentation. Usually, these newspapers were read to him. Listening to Liao Xiaoxiao with poetry in his singing voice was a pleasure. But recently she was too busy and left this job behind.

Zhao Xing kept thinking about the current situation as the other party was doing it slowly.

Wang Zishao and the Jingdong Road Defense Envoy sent someone to prove the identity of this person. Zhao Xing's status in the army was equivalent to that of the later military supervisor. Therefore, although Zhang Yong was a fifth-rank official, he was not qualified to listen to the question, so he took the leave under the pretext of going to the toilet. The questions asked by this person seemed to be confidential, so even Wang Zishao had to avoid them.

"There is a secret message, and Liu Zhi reported, "I heard that there was a commander nearby. The deputy envoy of the Mizhou Tuanjiao, and the residence of Jianzhou, Lu Huiqing, Xu, lived in Mizhou. Eavesdropping on the court, people's hearts were raging and uneasy. Huiqing was worried about greed and dangerous, and was evil in nature. He was evil and treacherous. He was enough to slap the small fans and the dangerous side was enough to threaten the upper and lower sides. When he was in power, he led the evil people and listed the Chinese and foreign parties. The remnants had not yet declined. Suddenly, he heard that Huiqing was in the Jiang River. The leisure of Huai River was encouraged to celebrate.

Jiahuiqing was cruel and greedy and reckless. Since he got close to the ground, he had to call on the party day and night, make erroneous rumors, and plot against the government. The evil people grew, and his momentum was worrying. He hoped that the court would still be ordered to live in Jianzhou.'" The visitor learned from Zhao Xing's kneeling posture and knelt on the floor, arranged the newspapers one by one in front of his knees, and picked up one of the newspapers to read.

After reading it, he asked, "Is this true?"

A burst of anger surged in Zhao Xing's heart. Lu Huiqing was uneasy everywhere. He must have deceived Liao Xiaoxiao and asked Liao Xiaoxiao to help him communicate with his accomplices, regardless of the risks that Liao Xiaoxiao bears.

But his woman had to protect her, and Zhao Xing shook his head: "I don't know about this matter. But I don't know who told me secretly, but I'm so frustrated."

Zhao Xing said this and made no mistake. He actually asked the other party who reported the secretly, just to muddle the water. However, he never expected that the other party would answer his question: "The Censor General Hu Zongyu, the Left Censor General Kong Wenzhong, the Censor General Wang Wei, and the Left Censor General Han Chuan."

"Ah!" Zhao Xing looked at the other party in shock. He had vaguely guessed something. The latter faced Zhao Xing's questioning gaze, smiled gently, and did not answer.

"There is a secret message: Dengzhou has recently come to many horse-wrapping horses. It is rumored that a pirate broke the city of Yingzhou not long ago. The Liao Kingdom claimed that the first bandit was tall, with white faces and no need to break, and had courage." While saying that, the man took out a list document from his arms and handed it to Zhao Xing: "This is a sea capture document issued by the Liao Kingdom. There is a picture of the thief Zhao drawn based on the description of the people of Yingzhou. Does the verdict know about this?"

Zhao Xing couldn't even look at the captain's document. On the one hand, he had firm confidence in the ancient painting level and believed that the other party could not draw a very similar avatar; on the other hand, the people always liked to speak exaggeratedly, and the images of bandits described according to the mouths of the people were almost the same as those of the devil. The people's favorite words were: they were eight feet tall, their eyes were like copper bells, their noses were like gallbladders, and their mouths were like blood... The above descriptions were not so much about people, but rather about people describing human-shaped naval landing ships.

The most important thing is that he knew clearly that the Liao Kingdom had already blocked the mountain with heavy snow, and it was impossible for the people who had not escaped in Yingzhou to find the Liao Kingdom's government and inform Zhao Xing of the image. Therefore, this list is most likely drawn by the staff of the Office of the Office and the Ministry of State based on the description of the Yingzhou people who fled, and then pseudo-entrusted the Liao Kingdom.

Zhao Xing showed an honest and honest smile and nodded gently: "It has been heard that it is not easy for the thief to be so fierce. It seems that it is very necessary to strengthen the Mizhou navy."

The visitor looked at Zhao Xing with a lot of laughter and tears. No abnormality could be seen from Zhao Xing's face. He kept that honest smile for a long time until the other party lost his temper and had to continue talking about the next question: "Xuan Qi, the inspector of Jinzhou Water Army, secretly ran to Dengzhou to surrender. He said that when fighting with the pirates, the pirates used a new weapon, which sounded like a thunderbolt, exploded and blew up, and looked like the firecrackers I used to remove the scale to the New Year."

Xuan Qi ran away? This is a new situation. This guy... this guy is too bad. He actually fled with some leaders in Zhuhai.

I understand that Xuan Qi was the intermediary in both transactions. This guy must have lost his money. After Zhao Xing finished the transaction, he left. He took a smuggling boat from Dengzhou and ran away.

Zhao Xing was so angry that his teeth were itchy. As a result, his plan was completely disrupted.

Fortunately, Xuan Qi didn't know much details. In his guess, Zhao Xing was at most a maritime merchant with close ties with the Mizhou military. Because the ship Zhao Xing drove was just a soft sailing ship, this kind of ship entered the Bohai Bay for the first time...

But this person's existence is a major concern.

Zhao Xing asked tentatively: "Where is Xuan Qi?"

The visitor smiled: "After Xuan Qi submitted a letter to the defensive yamen, he stayed in a brothel overnight. Unexpectedly, he encountered a thief and died in the fight!"

Zhao Xing was grateful to the Dengzhou navy from the bottom of his heart. Xuan Qi knew this guy only as a Dengzhou navy who was involved in smuggling activities. Once this guy fell into the hands of the official Fangsi, many secrets would not be kept, so the one who killed him must be the Dengzhou navy.

Although he was applauding in his heart, Zhao Xing's face was full of regret. He asked leisurely: "Where is the items Xuan Qi carries with him? Are there any confidential documents inside?"

The person who came laughed meaningfully: "Didn't it mean that Xuan Qi encountered a thief? After the local police inspected, Xuan Qi was naked, with only one of his calves left, and other items disappeared."

Zhao Xing nodded slightly and did not comment on this matter.

The man opposite continued: "Zhang Shu Prime Minister Zhang had secretly reported to the court in August that it was during the Yongle War that it was discovered that the officers of the Western Xia Dynasty used a fire-breathing weapon, which was quite similar to the medicine-haired puppet we used. This time Xuan Qi also mentioned the medicine-haired puppet. I heard that many of the people who fled from Yingzhou were hired by Lord Zhao. Has Lord Zhao heard about this?"

Zhao Xing smiled. This time he smiled kindly from the bottom of his heart - this is his own person.

The ancients paid great attention to other people's titles, such as Zhao Xing's three wives and concubines. Their names of Zhao Xing changed, but each of them represented their mood and context at that time. This person did not call Zhang Dun's current official position "Tiju Palace Temple", but called "Zhang Shu Xiang". In addition, the person who just reported the name of the whistleblower truthfully... There is no more obvious hint than this.

Zhao Xing clapped his hands, Cheng Shuang ran up, and he whispered a few times. After a while, Cheng Shuang brought a box with a gun and a few grenades in the box.

Zhao Xing first showed the pistol to the other party: "This is the tubular fire-breathing weapon mentioned by Zhang Shuxiang, and it is also the Foyin, a monk monk in Doufang Temple in Huangzhou. He once mentioned the Demon Subduing Transformation painted on Dunhuang murals. This thing was born in the Five Dynasties and unknown who invented it. It has been continued to this day. It can use gunpowder to push the iron railing and hurt people within twenty steps.

This is what Xuan Qi talked about. This thing is not far away, but when it is filled with small steel beads and the heat of gunpowder will burn the steel beads red and spray them on people's body like rainstorms blocking pear blossoms. In addition, this thing can be filled repeatedly..."

Zhao Xing stopped, took a gunpowder bag of white cotton paper from the edge of the box, stuffed it into the gun chamber, and then took another medicine bag of yellow paper bag, and continued to stuff it into the gun chamber... After demonstrating the loading as usual, Zhao Xing handed the pistol to the other party.

"Is this over?" The visitor was surprised to fiddling with the gunpowder-filled hand gun.

"It's not over, I have to light a fuse, sprinkle a little gunpowder outside the medicine pool, and then use the fuse to light the gunpowder..."

After Zhao Xing finished explaining, he took a white cotton paper bag and a yellow paper bag from the wooden box and continued, "The important thing is this gunpowder." After that, he gently tore open the cotton paper bag, and the granular black gunpowder inside spilled a plate.

After picking up a few gunpowder particles, Zhao Xing showed people: "The main secret is this gunpowder. I tried it with the recipe from "The General Yao of Wu Jing", but it couldn't achieve such an effect. Also, look at this gunpowder..."

The visitor looked at the three gunpowder on Zhao Xing's hand carefully. At first, he couldn't see what Zhao Xing wanted him to pay attention to, but for a moment the man understood. He immediately pulled the gunpowder particles on the plate and piled them together to look at him one by one. After watching for a long time, he raised his eyes and stared at Zhao Xing, and asked in surprise: "Everyone is almost the same size?"

Zhao Xing nodded: "I checked. Each gunpowder bag contains fifteen such gunpowder, one not more, one not less. Then I tried to reduce the gunpowder particles one or more. The effect was very different. The distance of steel ejection was completely different from the penetration power. Moreover, if the gunpowder was filled too much, it would be easy to explode. Look at this..."

Zhao Xing then opened the ammunition pack, and a few lead balls rolled out, each of which was about the same size. Zhao Xing pointed to the lead balls and gunpowder with a small size, and said with a wry smile: "I use the common scales I am now, and I can't scale these weight differences at all. This is what I'm worried about - I found eight silver codes, and these eight silver codes do not have the same weight. What's going on?"

"Silver code" is a standard measuring weight cast into the shape of a silver ingot.

The spy smiled bitterly, but he couldn't answer.
To be continued...