Chapter 242: Reasons for Likes War

Zhao Xing's answer was slightly relaxed, and there was no intention of refusal in his words. The two adults breathed a relaxed tone. Jing Liangcai quickly pulled Qin Dan and made the way open the way. He replied kindly: "Of course, of course, I'll wait for the news from Lord Zhao."

When Liang Zimei saw this, she immediately stepped forward and pretended to be unfamiliar with each other: "Mr. Zhao, the official escorts the money for tea and medicine to Shaanxi Road. Huanqing Road should be divided into 200,000 guan. The number has been counted. Please use the seal quickly... Alas, Lord Qin has only been here for more than ten days, and the official has been there for four months, four months."

Liang Zimei sighed with a frown.

This guy is just pretending because Zhao Xing's official seal is all in Wanqi Yong's place. If he wants to save trouble, he can just ask Wanqi Yong to put the official seal on it. But he wanders around and has to talk about any secret matters in private.

Qin Dan empathized with Liang Zimei's complaint. He interrupted sympathetically: "Master Liang might as well follow Lord Zhao to the mansion. Since the tea and medicine money has been counted, it will be just an official seal, so it will not take much effort."

Qin Dan didn't know that the official seals were all in Wanqi Yong. Because Wanqi Yong had full control of Zhao Xing's official seals, this was an exception in the Song Dynasty. In the past, scholars were all officials who were officials, and scholars were ignorant and often handed over their official seals to their subordinates, which often made scholars hijacked by their subordinates. After that, a good martial arts official found out that this man was well-known and ranked among the thirteen heroes of ancient China, named Zhang Guaiya. This man drew his sword and killed his subordinates. Since then, he and Qiuyanke and others have been listed as heroes.

Zhang Guaiya's official fortune was also very prosperous. He sat at the position of the prefect of Sichuan Prefecture. When the Song army destroyed Shu, the killings were too great. All previous officials could not suppress the resistance of the Sichuan people. Zhang Guaiya went and the Sichuan people became honest. Then Li Zhichun, a good man, took over his position.

After Zhang Guaiya killed his subordinates, a hidden rule was formed in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty: no matter how urgent the situation was, the official seal would never be mastered. A hundred years have passed, and the first person to break this rule was Su Dongpo, who was careless by nature and loved to travel around the mountains and rivers. When he was in Hangzhou, his official seal was mastered by Zhao Xing, and now in Yangzhou, the official seal is mastered by Chao Buzhi.

Zhao Xing inherited the tradition of Su Shi. As long as he left the state yamen, he would throw the official seal to his subordinates to facilitate their emergency incidents. Liang Zimei knew this habit, so his performance just now was purely a show, but Qin Dan didn't know that, and he was still helping and pushed Liang Zimei to Zhao Xing.

With Qin Dan's words, Liang Zimei followed Zhao Xing with a swagger and entered Zhao Xing's mansion. After Zhao Xing took a bath, she found that Liang Zimei was already drinking wine in his study, drinking small dishes and humming a small song comfortably.

There was a table of Xixia porcelain piled up on the table, and several open boxes were placed on the ground.

No one was in front of him, and Liang Zimei no longer pretended. He turned a tea bottle in his hand and exclaimed: "What a beautiful porcelain, Li Ren has gained a lot this time. I have never seen such a unique shape elsewhere. Where did Li Ren get it? Did you go to the Xixia Palace?"

Influenced by his father-in-law Cai Jing, Liang Zimei's appreciation of art was also extraordinary. He was idle just now and took stock of the porcelain that Zhao Xing had plundered from the Western Xia. Every time he saw it, he was amazed. These porcelains were so exquisite that he couldn't let go of it. Before he knew it, he forgot the taboo of being a guest, and carried Zhao Xing to the study and turned it upside down.

After taking a bath, Zhao Xing felt relaxed all over. He lazily lay on the chair, poured himself a glass of wine, and said lazily: "I can't give these to you. I'll take them back as samples. I've captured those craftsmen and are counting on them to burn good porcelain for me. If you like them, they will make them, and I'll give you a set."

Liang Zimei took a sip of wine, turned her eyes away from the porcelain, bowed and replied: "Then I thank Li Ren... Speaking of which, I haven't thanked you well for the Yangzhou incident. I heard that Mr. Su went to Yangzhou. For the sake of Li Ren, he did not pursue the tens of thousands of acres of silted fields. Now I only have about tens of thousands of acres of mu of silted fields in my family. Those are good paddy fields that can be passed on to the family. This family business is thanks to Li Ren's care."

Zhao Xing laughed loudly. He grabbed a porcelain bottle, looked over and over again, and said with self-appreciation: "The highest level of corruption is that you are always greedy for small heads and make others greedy for big heads - this others are the people. Yangzhou pioneered 300,000 mu, and I only took 10,000 mu. This is wisdom. If you greedy for 100,000 mu, you are looking for death. My Yangzhou official once greedy for 100,000 mu, and the people still have 200,000 mu in hand. This is the big head. So although my Yangzhou official is unprecedented in corruption, no one praises us for being honest. This is corruption."

Liang Zimei also grabbed a porcelain bottle and admired it, and said with a smile: "This time, Brother Zhao is also greedy on Huanqing Road. Look at these porcelain bottles, it is so beautiful that it makes people feel heartbreaking."

Zhao Xingtie smiled and shook his head to deny: "Wrong and wrong! This is not called corruption, it is called reasonable and legal investment returns. Do you know venture capital? On the way to Huanqing, here is poor and poor, and it is me who is so sad that he is strong and has few strong men. It is me - please remember: I made venture capital, paid for a batch of grass seeds and seedlings, and also formulated an unprecedented plan to regain Huanqing Road's vitality, so that I got rid of the passive beating situation.

So, everything here is the return of my venture capital. This is what I deserve. It is not called corruption. Remember, if you are familiar with it, I will sue you for slander..."

Liang Zimei understood Zhao Xing's joke. While admiring the porcelain vase in his hand, he said excitedly: "Although what you are talking about is a set of fallacies, this fallacies are reasonable. It's funny that the court officials were wondering why they couldn't spend all the money on Huanqing Road. When I went to Huanqing Road, I saw it. The money was like flowing water, flowing in and out so endlessly. No wonder Zhao Xiandi's money was spent."

"Oh?!" Zhao Xing turned over and sat up, and asked in surprise: "I didn't expect that you could understand the mystery of cash flow - yes, money is like flowing, and it takes money to flow continuously. This principle is that simple. I put in a sum of money and gave it to the people for free. It seems that I was at a loss, but in fact, as long as the people entrust me to sell the goods they produced, I will get monopoly profits.

The government quotes money to buy my goods and then sends them to the people with credit. It seems that the government is at a disadvantage, but as long as the market becomes active, the government's tax revenue can increase. As long as the employment increases - that is, the number of people working, and everyone has money in their pockets, the expenses will increase. Once they open one, they have to pay taxes to the government. If the money purchased by the government is lending out, each copper coin can get several times the profit.

The money in the treasury is constantly circulating, spending it constantly, and making money keeps getting it in. As long as the people have money in their hands, the money of the government will never be exhausted, because the government has the right to collect taxes, so the reason is so simple!”

When ordinary people hear Zhao Xing's introduction, they can only simply follow the inertial thinking of the philosophy of struggle to lead this matter to the debate between new and old laws, accusing Zhao Xing of this a variant of Qingmiao Law, so Zhao Xing was unwilling to explain in detail, so he just did not say it. But unexpectedly, Liang Zimei could understand it, and he saw the mystery at a glance.

"It's not bad. The government buys your things on credit, and then buys the goods in the hands of the people. If the people have money and the government has Xinyi, they will buy the machinery in the hands of the government and start workshops. It's equivalent to returning the money from the government to the government. Then, they make money from the four realms to rush to your treasury. No wonder the surrounding counties and counties are calling you poor in unison, no wonder they say you have disrupted the prices, no wonder they cry and shout to join the plan of grass and trees as well as the grass and trees. Wonderful, this thing is tied up one after another. As long as the cash flows into it, the people will never lack money in their hands, and the treasury will always be full."

Liang Zimei's words were purely summarized by himself. The Cai Jing family seemed to have no lack of financial management wisdom, which surprised Zhao Xing. He touched his chin and said thoughtfully: "If you understand this principle, then Su Song and Su Gong also understand, and Su Sanzhang (Su Che) will also understand, why are the people in the capital still surprised?"

Zhao Xing didn't know that Liang Zimei in front of him was known as the only person in the history of ancient China who was proficient in currency wars. According to normal history, he was the Hebei Transport Authority during Huizong's time. He heard that the Khitans liked the Jurchens' Beizhu. Liang Zimei "took the grain to serve the money and donated three million yuan to enter the Beizhu. The Northern Zhu came out of the Jurchens, and Zimei was in the Khitans. The Khitans were fond of their profits and abused the Jurchens to capture Haidongqing to seek the pearls. The disaster between the two countries was based on this, and Zimei used it to show her position."

This record comes from the history of the Song Dynasty. The history of the Song Dynasty despises the Cai Jing family very much. Even Cai Jing’s own deeds are often slandered and distorted, but he only showed mercy to Liang Zimei’s writings, recording the fact that he used the currency war to trigger the war between the Liao and the Jurchens. Liang Zimei is the “Shu Liang” in the Water Margin. The “100,000 Birthday Gift” comes from the hard-earned money of the Khitans to buy the Beizhu. He earned 3 million yuan of the Khitans at that time. This happened to be the dumping method used by Zhao Xing to use against the Khitans during his tenure in Mizhou.

Liang Zimei discussed with Zhao Xing a few more words and instead introduced the reason why he had not returned yet. He put down the porcelain bottle, looked outside the door, and whispered: "Is it safe to leave the mansion?"

Zhao Xing nodded: "Don't worry, if you can enter the inner courtyard, you will be the Japanese girls and the children of our tribe."

Liang Zimei continued with confidence: "At the beginning of the year, the saint fainted once, and when he woke up, his health was not as good as before. Although he was trying hard to support it, everyone knows that there were not many days. Some court officials had already discussed it privately, or some people recommended Zhang Dun and Zhang Shu to enter the court again. Zhang Shu is now living in the village and watching from both sides. The villagers are full of resentment towards him, and the stranger cannot get close to him. My father-in-law said that only Zhao Xiandi can enter and exit his house freely. I heard that you two families are walking frequently. It is better to let the people go to him by leaving the people, hope that Zhang Shu can form a large party, support the government and the people, and determine the matter as soon as possible."

Zhao Xing stared at Liang Zimei for a moment, and smiled slightly: "If you say this to me, it means that you and your father-in-law are both marginal people. You may not know that since Cheng Yi retired, the new party has formed a very strict small group, echoing each other and communicating with each other. Do you think that someone recommended Zhang Dun this time, but it happened suddenly for no reason? They have been planning for a long time."

Liang Zimei was happy and asked anxiously: "Since Brother Zhao knows that there is this organization, he will definitely talk to them..."

Zhao Xing interrupted the other party: "I can't help but say anything. They have now determined that I am a hardcore Shu party. How could I talk to me? I know that these scholars really don't have the talent to engage in conspiracy. You know, my home in Hangzhou has been attacked several times, and since then I have been a little more careful about the things around me. After this, I found that the scholars had close contact with each other. These letters were delivered through my express delivery warehouse.

I checked them and found that these people were discussing major events in the brothels and till they did not know how to avoid them. From the inquiry, I guessed that their organizational situation was nothing more than a few leaders leading a group of students to re-rule. And Zhang Dun is the flag they held up - in this regard, your father-in-law has been slow to get news, but I suggest that your father-in-law find another way to join in. Because those people are not people who have accomplished things, and if you join in now, you may be affected by disasters..."

Zhao Xing said this and stopped. He picked up a teacup casually and said with emotion: "You must know that your father-in-law's design talent is really nothing. I don't know what kind of design inspiration he should burst into when he sees these things?"

Zhao Xing changed the subject, obviously he didn't want to talk about this anymore, Liang Zimei was still secretly surprised. He reminded himself: What a terrible Zhao Liren, the New Party's secret discussion, I didn't even hear any news, but Zhao Liren could tell them how they sent the message... Yes, the way of sending the message, what secrets do we have in the future? If we want to avoid Zhao Liren, we must not pass through his express delivery warehouse.

Liang Zimei only thought in her heart. He thought Zhao Xing had made an unintentional mistake just now, so he casually told the secret of his warehouse. But he didn't expect that what Zhao Xing said just now was actually warning him, warning the other party not to make small moves in front of him.

Now, with Zhao Xing coming to Shaanxi, the Flying Beasts Warehouse has completely escaped from the constraints of the canal and began to extend its tentacles to the land transportation. They divided a branch to the west, directly extending to the Shaanxi area, and to the east, covering Shandong and Hebei. Under the cover of this big net, any movement in the northern area cannot be hidden from Zhao Xing.

Zhao Xing was warning Cai Jing that his interests cannot be violated before his freight network was destroyed, and to destroy this freight network, unimaginable consequences would be borne...

Liang Zimei didn't know this, and he was still thinking about how to avoid the surveillance of the Internet. When he was determined, he turned the topic to the artwork according to Zhao Xing: "Brother Zhao might as well find a few painters to draw these things. I will pass the drawings to Jiayue through my own channels, so that Jiayue can appreciate them, so that I can give Zhao Xiandi an idea."

Zhao Xing laughed and picked up the porcelain one by one, asking Liang Zimei to taste it.

The next day, Liang Zimei handed over official duties and said helplessly to leave and return to Beijing. From Zhao Xing's vague hint, he already knew that the group of new party members was entrenched in Xi'an. That place was originally the base where the old party occupied after Sima Guang was demoted, but now the new party is also gathered in Jingzhao, lurking and waiting for the opportunity. But unfortunately, now that the old party is in power, they are looking for every opportunity to call others new party members in order to crack down on persecution. Sometimes they are not the new party and they will turn black and white to make you a new party. In this case, Liang Zimei only dares to find an excuse to discuss privately with Zhao Xing for half a day. Now that the excuse is gone, he dares not stay for a moment. Seeing the lurking base of the new party is right in front of him, he has to return to Beijing unhappy.

Liang Zimei left, and Qin Dan, another official who was betting on the Qiangang, was even more anxious. From the appointment of the court, we can see how much hope the court has for the reduction of military expenditure. Originally, according to the official system, Qin Dan only needed to hand over to the transfer envoy Jing Liangcai, and the latter left the capital with Qin Dan. But now Fan Chuncui is jumping very high. The old man had just seized the Xixia Suicu, but the court could only pretend not to know. Now the limelight is in full swing. He holds the power of the state envoy and firmly disagrees with the court to reduce the allocation of one copper coin. With him on the front line, officials on Jingyuan Road and Fuyan Road simply ran to the border on the excuse of fighting on the front line, and the only remaining Zhao Xing is left. So the two officials discussed in private and visited the door helplessly.

Zhao Xing was not idle here either. Almost all the people participating in the battle in Luochuan gathered at him. Even if he was not in the scene, there were representatives who could make decisions. They were making noises. Before Jing Liangcai and others entered the courtyard where the meeting hall was located, they heard the noise through the wall.

Cheng Shuang placed the two adults in a small hall next to him. Zhao Xing hurriedly came with Wan Qi Yong. After he saluted the two adults, Jing Liangcai couldn't help asking: "What are the noise in the hall? When I came in just now, I heard someone shouting 'unfair' and saying that he would rush into Helanyuan first. Could it be that Li Ren is rewarding merits, why is Sun Cong not here?"

Zhao Xing grinned and replied unconsciously: "It's not about rewarding merits and deeds. We are sharing the spoils. Some people think that the distribution method I gave is wrong..."

Qin Dan's face changed before he was about to stand up. Jing Liangcai knocked his knee and interrupted, "After a war, the army of the court is always fighting, and the court always has an explanation!"

Jing Liangcai was a hidden reminder to Zhao Xing. Zhao Xing asked thoughtfully: "Sir, I know that the imperial court has been suffering for the money for sealing piles for many years. I really want to know, do the people of Xixia have money for sealing piles? Do the people of Liao have money for sealing piles? Why do the people of Xixia and Liao do not allocate an extra fee for the war, and they can also enter the Song territory every year and rob. But we, the court spends more money every year than them, and can only wait for them to rob each year?"

Jing Liangcai was stopped and Qin Dan was also stunned. The two men were stunned for a long time before stammering: "These two countries are soldiers when they go out and farmers when they go in. Their soldiers do not need to pay military pay, and all of our great Song dynasty are hired..."

Zhao Xing stared at him and asked again: "Why are the people of these two countries willing to 'get out as soldiers and enter as farmers', and the soldiers of our Song Dynasty, who should let them defend their homes, and they still need tattoos on their faces to prevent them from escaping?"
Chapter completed!