Chapter 181: That Wind, Flowers, Snow and Moon

Zhao Xing seemed to prefer his Jasmine Ting.

Sitting in this Northern Wei-style stone pavilion of the Song Dynasty, Zhao Xing drew a match from the Song Dynasty - a candle, and lit a glass lamp made of copper produced from the third copper ore in the world. Then, using this lamp as a medium, he lit a series of glass lamps one after another. Every time he lit one, the female envoy would place it in the corner of the pavilion. After a while, the glass lamps on the ground illuminated the entire stone pavilion.

There was a wind in the stone pavilion, and the breeze gently blew the candlelight, swaying. Several female envoys brought screens made of tulle and swayed one by one around the pavilion, blocking the autumn wind blowing outside the pavilion. These screens had words, and wrote "The Third Running Book in the World" - "Huangzhou Cold Food Post".

Countless lights made the stone pavilion bright, like a falling star in the mountains, jumping, as if shouting to the surroundings.

Zhao Xing drew another match in the Song Dynasty, lit an alcohol lamp, and then gently moved the alcohol lamp to a glass teapot. He watched the green flames burning the water in the transparent teapot, and watched bubbles rise from the bottom of the glass pot and float to the water. Su Shi sat next to him, unwilling to disturb the tranquility of this moment, so he held his breath and listened to the sound of the bubbles rolling.

The water boiled, and the first pot of water was just a glass pot. Zhao Xing picked up the pot and poured the hot water into the sea of ​​tea, and then took out a Song Dynasty thermos from his side and poured the spring water inside into the glass pot. This glass pot was not filled with water for insulation, and the spring water contained there was Lanxi water specially obtained from Xixi.

When the second pot of water began to roll, Su Shi took out a tea ball from his body and handed it to Zhao Xing. Zhao Xing respectfully took it, broke a small piece of tea ball and threw it into the pot. The tea ball slowly sank into the bottom of the pot, and was then carried back to the water surface by the water bubbles. Then, a ball of brown drifted away from the tea leaves like silky threads, and the clear water in the pot slowly turned into a champagne color. Su Shi looked at the fine fish eye bubbles in the crystal clear teapot churned from the bottom of the pot to the water surface, and couldn't help but sigh. Gao Qiu didn't know why Su Shi sighed, but he nodded in agreement.

All the changes were just in the small room, right in front of you. Those who witnessed this magical change couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. Su Dongpo sighed: "I didn't expect that there would be such fun in making tea."

Outside the stone pavilion, Qin Guan's voice sounded: "It smells so fragrant. My teacher and junior brother cooked tea at night. It's a little dragon group. It's such a elegant thing, why don't you call me Qin Shaoyou?"

The Japanese girl lifted the curtain, and Qin Guan crawled in and sighed: "I have been standing by and watched for a while, but no one has greeted me... I thought I had admired all the tea arts in the world, but I didn't expect that using a glass pot to make tea on site was so elegant."

Gao Qiu couldn't speak in front of Qin Guan and other bigwigs, but he felt very happy to be able to sit side by side with these people. So as soon as Qin Guan came in, he quickly bowed to give up his seat and nodded vigorously to express his gratitude to the other party.

Qin Guan came to Hangzhou to serve as Su Shi's chief secretary shortly after Su Shi took office. When he came, Gao Qiu became the chief secretary, mainly managing criminal cases. But soon, Empress Dowager Gao appointed Qin Guan as the chief secretary, and Gao Qiu became the chief secretary again.

Zhao Xing seemed unwilling to destroy the tranquility. He nodded silently at Qin Guan, lifted up the glass teapot and slowly filled the tea with several transparent glass cups. Several people who had already expected it looked at the amber tea filling the cup. Regardless of whether it was in accordance with etiquette, he directly grabbed the tea cup from Zhao Xing and sniffed the fragrance of tea with great force.

This is the Xiaolong Group, and this kind of tea is rarely prepared now. Because Empress Dowager Gao thought that this kind of tea was too luxurious to prepare, he issued an edict to stop serving. However, when Su Shi left the capital, his fan Empress Dowager Gao specially presented him with a silver box to show his favor. This kind of treatment is generally given to his former governor, that is, the prime minister. When Su Shi left the capital, he was just a little secretary who wrote an edict to the emperor.

Su Shi held up the teacup, first smelled the tea fragrance deeply, then slowly took a sip of the hot tea soup, closed his eyes and enjoyed it for a while, pushed a box beside him to Zhao Xing, and tapped the box surface with his fingers.

"What?" Zhao Xing asked.

"Your official seal and official body edict," Su Shi replied.

The teacher was the head of the country, and his disciples became auxiliary officials. Only Su Shi enjoyed this kind of treatment in the entire Song Dynasty. In normal history, Su Shi had Qin Guan around Hangzhou and was transferred to the prefect of Yangzhou. Empress Dowager Gao also sent another disciple Chao Buzhi to Yangzhou as a magistrate...

Zhao Xing nodded, and did not open the wooden box, and directly moved the box to his side - he had officially taken over the job, and the procedure was a bit hasty, but this was an exception, an exception given to Su Shi by Empress Dowager Gao.

Before he took over the official imperial edict, Zhao Xing had already set a historical record - the historical record of corruption in Mizhou. He went to Mizhou for one year to sign a sentence, and by integrating the Mizhou forces, he carried out large-scale smuggling activities against the Liao Kingdom... The moment Zhao Xing took over the official imperial edict, the total smuggling of Liao reached a record five million coins. However, this was not the end. Because he owned shares in various industries in Mizhou, in the end, he plundered a huge fortune of 20 million coins from the Liao Kingdom.

In the following years, successor officials were left with the feeling of crying to death when facing Zhao Xing's corruption record. Because Zhao Xing's record was simply incomparable, he had already discovered Mizhou's resources. Through the closely detailed "ring-and-ring" calculation method and the "progressive dividend plan", successor officials would be counterattacked by all Mizhou officials if they wanted to intervene. The only thing they could do was to abide by the rules left by Zhao Xing and share the meager dividend they deserved... Of course, compared with other officials in office, this dividend was rich enough that successors in Mizhou tried every means to seek re-election.

No official in Mizhou has ever bribed as much as Zhao Xing. However, what makes people cry and die is Zhao Xing's incredible support. He has snatched such a huge amount of wealth from Mizhou, and many Mizhou people still offer this corrupt tablet of immortality. During the holidays, these villains also burn incense and pray, begging the largest corrupt official in Mizhou to live a hundred years and protect them from the smooth flow of the world...

This latter record is simply incomparable, and it is impossible to surpass it. Facing this record, why doesn’t it make people cry...

At this moment, the tea in the cup gradually became warmer. Zhao Xing gently handed the cup of tea to Su Shi and pressed a bill of flying money under the tea cup. Su Shi was surprised when he saw the amount of the bill: "Ninety thousand guan. Why are there still ninety thousand guan? I only gave you 30,000 guan in the beginning?"

Zhao Xing took out another flying money without blushing and replied: "Who dares to collect taxes from the disaster relief grain ship? I took advantage of you to bring some private goods to the official entries. This is the bonus of the 30,000 guan."

Su Shi didn't look at the bill. He answered with a teacup and sipped tea and said, "I used labor to provide relief to the money for selling the tuition. I dredged Maoshan and Yanqiao and Erhe River. There is still some leftovers. Next year, I plan to dredge West Lake, build dikes and bridges, and set up free medical treatments to make hungry people get food and sick people get medical treatment. In this major disaster in Hangzhou, there are corpses on the road, and even villagers don't have time to collect the burial. Leaving people, this matter needs to be planned carefully. You are doing this kind of thing, and you will turn back..."

The medical workshop that Su Shi was about to build was also well-known in history. It was called "Anlefang". This institution that provided free medical care to the poor was the first public-funded medical institution in ancient China. After that, Empress Dowager Gao learned from Su Shi's methods and established Anlefang across the country, making public-funded medical care a national behavior - a national behavior of the Song Dynasty.

Zhao Xing picked up the teacup and replied: "This is a good thing that will last forever... I brought back more than 20 Yicaiye people with the boat, and several of them were good at difficult and complicated diseases, so they asked them to go to the medical office for free for two or three days every month. Therefore, it is a practice for those who practice medicine in Hangzhou Prefecture to go to the official medical office for several days a month to attend medical office for medical office."

Su Shi took over the conversation: "This method is good - doctors can take medical treatment for free, so the people don't have to worry about seeing a doctor. Unfortunately, I still need money to buy medicine. It just so happened that my industry in Beijing has handled it, and there is still some extra money, so I donated fifty taels of gold, plus a little public expense in the state government, so I can also allow the people to get medicine for free."

Zhao Xing pointed to the set of glass tea set in front of him and replied: "If I don't argue with the teacher, I will donate a hundred sets of glassware."

Qin Guan immediately dissuaded: "This is not possible. This thing is too expensive. How can those doctors bear to use it?"

Zhao Xing smiled but refused to answer - because he knew how could the hospital have no transparent glassware?

This set of glass cups is Zhao Xing's new industry.

Originally, glassware was indeed a expensive thing in the Song Dynasty than gold... But now the situation has changed a little. By the beginning of last year, some maritime merchants abandoned their long-term trading business and suddenly opened glass shops. overnight, glass shops bloomed everywhere in the Song Dynasty. Soon afterwards, glass mirrors also appeared. With the fierce competition, the price of glass has dropped a lot. Unfortunately, the price of alkaline surfaces has risen sharply, and the price of this raw material of bleached silk has also fluctuated the price of silk...

China lacks natural alkali resources, so Zhao Xing believes that no matter how fierce the competition is or how low the price of glass falls, it will still be a luxury thing within one or two hundred years. So when glass workshops bloom everywhere in the Song Dynasty, he supported Liao Xiaoxiao and invested in one. However, Liao Xiaoxiao is worthy of being an influential person in the circle of literati. She has no idea how to identify this kind of elegant thing that literati and scholars love the most, such as transparent tea sets, glass candlesticks, etc.

Zhao Xing's strengths are thousands of years more information than others. Other workshop owners are still pursuing the excellence of handmade production. Zhao Xing has begun to use gypsum molds to industrialize and mass-produce them. However, the technology of blowing glass is not mastered overnight. Although Zhao Xing has fine molds, it is not so easy to find the goods with uniform walls of the bottle. This set of glass pots is one of the most popular ones, and it is also valuable.

Zhao Xing didn't mind giving away such expensive glassware. Qin Guan was a little reluctant to leave, so he saw it interesting to watch. He heard Zhao Xing say that he wanted to donate such things, and his expression was reluctant, so he spoke out - this thing is elegant, I haven't got a set yet, so how can I bear to give it to those doctors and patients?

Zhao Xing did not explain, but Su Shi knew that Zhao Xing never did meaningless things, so he picked up the cup and said: "Wang Gong also wrote to him, "You promised that his house had not been built yet. It seemed that winter was almost there, and he still lived in the government office, which was not good."

Zhao Xing knew what Wang Gong wanted, and he smiled and said, "He can move into my house in Mizhou. I won't buy that house, rent it to him, and he will give it to him."

Su Shi had heard the Bixia Pavilion described by Wang Gong. From what Wang Gong described, he had already seen the guy's covetousness for Bixia Pavilion, so he laughed and replied: "Wang Dingguo has got what he wants now."

Zhao Xing sighed.

Today's moon-watching tea party unknowingly turned into a work seminar. Su Shi just now had the intention of medical issues for the people, and the second was to speak about his friend's housing issues, but he didn't talk about himself. Why isn't it sad to think about it?

Su Shi left the capital this time because of two major events. The first thing was because he asked the court to abolish the Qingmiao Law and reduce the debts of the people caused by the Qingmiao Law. Su Shi's suggestion violated the reformists. Immediately afterwards, he did the second thing, almost completely offending the group of people - because of the Zhou Sui case.

At this time, Wang Anshi's followers temporarily lost their power and were all sent to remote places as officials, but they always wanted to make a comeback. Although the leaders such as Lu Huiqing, Li Ding, Cai Que and others had been dismissed, many of their friends were still officials in Beijing. In order to test the court's attitude towards them, they found Zhou Sui, a teacher from the academy, who was named Zhou Sui, on the table, which proposed to place Wang Anshi's spiritual card under the divine card of Emperor Shenzong in the Taimiao, so that they could share their ancestor worship.

If the Empress Dowager asked him, the New Party members could regard it as a clear signal, and they could come out for public activities again. Su Dongpo saw their tentative attempts and immediately attacked these speculators who only wanted fame, wealth and wealth. He cited the names of sixteen of them and scolded them as "machine lice", "fly maggots", and "treacherous villain".

", "The country's stupidity".

This time he no longer tactfully talked about Wang Anshi, but almost openly called him "a fraudster". He told the Empress Dowager that Wang Anshi's reform was to "seek the people for the benefit of the people", and the actual effect was that the people's property was all deceived by the corrupt officials he sent. Because no matter how he modified Wang Anshi's reform, he could not avoid this fact: after the reform, the people became poorer, and the government's financial resources did not increase significantly. Instead, due to the large number of taxpayers escaping, the source of taxes gradually withered.

Su Shi finally said that if a person does not want to join the mate, he can only stay away from him...

Su Shi's fierce words completely angered the reformists. Zhao Xing had vaguely guessed: I'm afraid this is the reason why he was tortured by the new party in the second half of his life. But Su Shi doesn't feel that he is still caring about the people and others.

Zhao Xing could see the future, but he was powerless to do anything about it. The train of history roared forward, and his power alone could not pull the heavy car, so he could only talk about the wind and moon, and could only seize the time and enjoy every moment.

He handed Su Shi another wooden box, and Su Shi took it and asked, "What?"

"The Yue Kiln Phoenix-mouthed Bottle in the Tang Dynasty is a very rare thing. Teacher, please see if it is the real one?"

"The Yue Kiln of the Tang Dynasty?" Su Shi was surprised and inexplicably: "This thing is extremely rare even in my Song Dynasty. Where did you get it?"

"Ma Yi, a little king there regards it as a treasure. I think the teacher must like it, so I asked him for it!"

Su Shi really admired this phoenix-mouth bottle of the prosperous Tang Dynasty. This work was a product from the late Tang Dynasty, but it still maintained the magnificent and grand phoenix-mouth bottle of the Tang Dynasty, full of Egyptian and Byzantine styles, with a slender Arabic brushstroke to draw beautiful arcs. The blue-green color is like the rippling West Lake water, which is intoxicating - this green color is the ancestor of Goryeo secret porcelain, and the "rain passing by the sky" color of Yue Kiln in the Tang Dynasty.
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