Chapter 289: Unconscious Achievements

The guest officer started to do something and replied viciously: "It turned out that two thieves pretended to be officials. I said why can't you take out the billboard of the Manager's Office? Okay, I dare to go to the Manager to make trouble at the adults' house. If I weren't here, I would have beaten you with a peach blossom on your face."

"Enough!" A brief shout started. After this shout, the stick stopped immediately. Dong Bi fell to the ground, his nose and face were swollen and cried: "Good, good beat!"

Of course, the fight was good. The two officials broke into Zhao Xing's back house and made a noise. If Liao Xiaoxiao bites her back, the two of them would not be able to escape. But being beaten now means paying off the debt of causing trouble in the backyard. Zhao Xing is not easy to pursue them, and the two officials dare not mention the beating, and they will clear each other... However, the two officials have quietly buried their resentment in their hearts.

The person who came was Wan Qi Yong. He hurried to the official house. Looking at the two inspectors lying on the ground, he did not mean to support him. When the two officials got up, Wan Qi Yong said slowly: "I was discussing with Guangzhou Prefect Li Gefei in the backyard. When he heard someone making noise, the servants said that the two adults roared at the back house. Before he could meet, the two adults had already left the mansion.

Next, I heard several Zhuang Dians discussing to teach the adults a lesson, so I rushed over. Unexpectedly, it was still too late... May I ask, did the two adults impeached Zhao Jingluo for not being strict in managing the family and indulging family slaves to beat the imperial officials?"

Dong Bi pretended to wipe the blood from his face, but did not answer. Wang Ying had figured it out now, and he quickly replied: "It turns out that we are rash. Now, we don't owe any debts... Who is the official?"

Wan Qiyong bowed and replied: "I am Wan Qiyong, deputy envoy of the Jingliu Branch of Guangnan East Road... The two adults do not need to take out official documents and edicts. Zhao Jingliu went to Guangxi to deal with the delegated money and carried the official seal with him. If there is no official seal at the lower level, the matter cannot be done, so please wait patiently for Zhao Jingliu to return home."

After Wan Qiyong said that, he bowed and said goodbye to the two adults. Dong Bi scolded behind his back: "I have heard of this Wan Qiyong. I heard that Zhao Liren was fighting on Huanqing Road. He held the official seals. This guy couldn't even help us. It was very hateful!"

Wang Ying looked at Wan Qi Yong's back as he left, and he was beaten to a bruised face, so he could only hum vaguely, "It's only been the third year, right? Zhao Liren has only been in Guangdong for three years, but he has already made the ironclad operation of Guangdong. Without him, we couldn't even get in the official house. Brother Dong, do you still remember Zhao Liren's reputation in the capital? Seeing his subordinates' attitude of being fearless, I'm afraid we are people under the roof. We have to bow our heads."

Dong Bi laughed with a slight smile: "Brother Wang is timid, you go and bow your head. Anyway, I will leave for Guangxi tomorrow and have a lot of money. I didn't expect the amount of money subsidized by the Guangdong Risk Department."

At the beginning of the noise, Zhao Xing was communicating with several vassal merchants at the wharf. After a while, Liao Xiaoxiao rushed to complain. Zhao Xing touched his chin and thought for a while, raised his hand to signal Liao Xiaoxiao to retreat for a while. He turned his face and continued to communicate with the visitors through Kasli's translation: "Several gentlemen, I believe you already understand. I do have the ability to escort, but now the two routes make it difficult for me to choose.

If you pass through the African route, I suggest you disguise yourself as my business partner Pu Yian's ship and explore the way first. According to the information I obtained from Pu Yian, the war has broken out in full swing. In Constantinople, tens of thousands of knights from more than a dozen European countries and millions of farmers are conducting military training, and they are also building ships crazily.

The Arab Mediterranean fleet has been wiped out. But they have begun to build ships crazily, hoping to make up for the losses. The Arab Indian Ocean fleet is still intact, and they have begun to implement the blockade plan. The target is you white people born in the South Ocean. Now no one is allowed to sail in that area except Arab ships. Even our Song merchant ships have been seized and robbed there - I have reported this to our government, and the reply has not yet arrived.

Everyone, the sea routes between the East and the West have been cut off. If you want to return to Europe, I suggest you take the second route. I will escort you to Africa with all your force. However, that continent is also wrapped in war. I don’t think you can rush through a war zone that lasts thousands of miles.

Everyone, the war cannot be settled in one year. It is a long war of a century. Why not calm down and wait patiently. For example, under the escort of my fleet, you can go to India first, go to central Africa to trade, accumulate wealth, and wait until the war on that continent has subsided, you can land in central Africa, then walk from land to Jerusalem, and then return from Jerusalem to homeland - for centuries, isn't this your usual trade route?"

"Sir, this road is too long and we can't get through the turbulent and vast Indian Ocean. I hope our merchants have the right to use the trade route you opened, but please lower the escort price on that route. We really can't afford the price you offer."

Zhao Xing nodded and replied: "I always thought that only when the cake is big can each of us who divide the cake share more weight. Let's make the cake bigger together and form a company together, such as "East India Company".

In this company, I set out the route map and was responsible for providing armed escort. I asked for 30% of the shares. This is not an exaggeration. However, since we are the same company, I think our sailors need to be reassigned. After all, I want to send pilots to your ship. In order to keep the chart confidential, I have to send a few guards... So I suggest that we set up a board of directors to jointly manage the company, and at the same time absorb some Song merchants to participate.

The combination of sailors should establish a qualification system: all sailors who serve on our ships need to pass the special assessment of our company. In this way, we have a basis for how many sailors to be on each ship and how to arrange each position, and we can use our power more reasonably."

Several businessmen discussed and immediately agreed to this suggestion that was obviously beneficial to them. Zhao Xing followed the situation and discussed with them a sailing school. The two sides decided to jointly invest and build a large-scale sailing school. The faculty was jointly undertaken by both parties, and the graduated sailors were uniformly allocated by the East India Company...

About an hour later, Zhao Xing reached an agreement with the white people. The white people stood up and said goodbye, preparing to go back to raise shares. Zhao Xing then turned to Cheng Shuang beside him and ordered: "You have been with me for several years. We have talked about the ideal country before. Now Mrs. Chen takes the second son in Jinlan, you go there. Build that into a base according to the ideal country method. Remember to be good at using the locals to consolidate their rule. I left 5,000 local soldiers in the local area, and you must be good at using them.

In addition, be good at using the power of religion. The people sent by Ansda have arrived there. Go and do it. I will throw that land to you. When you are a test field, let you play..."

Cheng Shuang bowed, his lips squirmed for a long time without saying a word. He bowed silently again and said goodbye.

Zhao Xing then called Chen Buqun. He expanded a chart and clicked on Danluo Island in the north. Then he slid northeast and fell onto the Little Liuqiu. Then he turned the pen to the Great Liuqiu (Taiwan), and the tip of the pen slid over the Mayi, Bomu, and flew to Chameng Kingdom. Then he returned to Guangzhou, and then connected to Hangzhou and Mizhou to the north, and closed it with Danluo Island to form a circle.

Zhao Xing pointed out the big circle and guided Chen Buqun: "This is our ocean strategy, and I took down Brunei. All the local links of this big circle have been linked, which means that all the oceans around my Song Dynasty are controlled by me.

But that's not enough. You are now walking south from Chameng. This is the Lion City (Singapore). The South China Sea Alliance has not had the energy to compete with the locals for this land, so it only built a castle and a pier there.

I have hidden thirty sea ships in Mayi. I will give you twenty. There are thirty warships in Danluo Island, which cannot be moved. In addition, there is Xiao Liuqiu, which is saltpeter mine. My Song Dynasty gunpowder is provided by Japan and Xiao Liuqiu. These two places can be regarded as the lifeline of my Song Dynasty. But you can also take away half of the fleet from Xiao Liuqiu and go to Lion City to show off your power in advance. When the locals are defeated by you, you can try to enter the Indian Ocean in the beginning of next spring.

In the Indian subcontinent, the risk of navigation is not high. Indians are not good at sailing. There is the world of Song ships - the key is Arabia. I ask you to spend one year next year to find out all the trends of the Halal, the country of resident, and the hydrological conditions along the coast. If you can buy a few locals on the island and be willing to provide us with anchorage and supplies, that would be even better.

The year after that, I believe that Guangdong’s “spearers” can be successfully trained. I will provide you with more military power to go to Arabia. Yes, it is to go to Arabia. The African continent has been ruined, and the market is not large in capacity. Only Arabs can provide us with more tax revenue. We must open up this trade route.

I expect that within five years, the trade volume on the African continent will not be large. In five years, when the African continent stabilizes, the trade volume may increase. In other words, we have five years to eliminate the Arab Navy and strive to let the Arabs listen to us in that sea. Only in this way can we ensure that the tax on Guangnan continues to grow.

The end of the world is coming. In this end of the world, we are in this country, on the one hand, we are ready to welcome the chaos and recover as much as possible; on the other hand, we try our best to provide the court with more financial resources, so that the turmoil will come a little later, and we will prepare for the welcome more fully."

Chen Buqun bowed and replied: "Teacher, I can do military reconnaissance, but I still need the teacher's guidance when I really face the Arabs. I hope the teacher will command the battle myself... To be honest, although our warships are huge, the skills of sailors in controlling sails are far inferior to those of Arabs. I have no idea when fighting with Arabs."

Zhao Xing pointed to the north and reminded: "Fujian has few land and many people. The people there have always had the habit of exploring the sea. Next year, I will recruit as many sailors from Fujian as possible and strive to arm you 3,000 warships within five years. In this way, we will not suffer too much in number when facing the Arab fleet. As far as I know, the country of Nai fought a war with Sanfoqi not long ago and dispatched 3,000 warships. I believe that the number of Arab fleets will not be less than that of the country of Nai."

Chen Buqun broke out in a cold sweat: "Teacher, don't make things difficult for me. I can command more than 30 warships and still command them. I'm afraid... No, I will definitely not be able to do it."

Zhao Xing smiled bitterly. He replied: "I don't have the experience of commanding thousands of warships, but I think this is also an organizational problem. You might as well try hierarchical management, set up a few squadrons, and explore slowly. Fortunately, we have five years to practice with small countries in the Indian subcontinent - let's start with Zhenla (Angkor Dynasty in Cambodia)."

Chen Buqun looked at Liao Xiaoxiao who was impatient and bowed sensibly. Zhao Xing had time to communicate with Liao Xiaoxiao. He reached out to his arms and hugged Liao Xiaoxiao and comforted the other party, "Don't worry, if these two inspectors came a year earlier, they would still make a difference, but now they are late. I am rectifying the spearmen, which is actually to strengthen the organization and management of various prefectures and counties. When I straighten out the prefectures and counties, they are in Guangdong and Guangxi. If they want to command people, he dares to bully my Xiaoxiao... Wait, I will make him worse than death."

Wang Ying waited for more than 40 days in Hong Kong. During these forty days, he lived like a year.

As an inspector, he has his own seal, but this seal needs to be stamped with the official seal of the Ministry of Education and released it all before it can take effect. Without Zhao Xing's permission, he took the seal to various government offices. At most, others admit that he is an official, but if you want to exercise your power... you should take a break first.

More than forty days later, Wang Ying finally figured it out. He ran to Guangzhou to find Li Gefei. Both of them were Han. They met in the capital. Wang Ying handed Li Gefei the official post in the name of visiting his old friend and waited patiently outside the Guangzhou government.

When the famous post was passed to Houya, Li Gefei was overjoyed when he saw his old friend and hurriedly greeted him: "Please please, please."

"Let's go," Li Qingzhao jumped over and ran over.

Others don’t know Wang Ying’s background, and Li Qingzhao relies on Zhao Xing’s favor in Guangdong. There is no obstacle to entering and leaving the major government offices. She knew Wang Ying’s situation, and while stopping the yamen runners’ actions, she introduced to her father: “Legal Father, I heard that Wang Ying and Dong Bi were on the first day of his tenure, so he went into the inner house without reason when Uncle Zhao was not at home. This matter has spread all over the yamen, and no one in the Tongyamen paid attention to this guy. The legitimate father asked him to come in now, and when Uncle Zhao comes back, I’m afraid his legitimate father can’t explain his face.”

Li Gefei said and said to his daughter. When Li Qingzhao said this, he looked up and thought for a moment and ordered the yamen runners: "Come here, go and tell Lord Wang, just say that Lord Wang has not taken office yet, and it is difficult for me to make friends in private... I offended him, please go to the official house to rest first... Cheng Yi doubled and gave him twenty coins."

Wang Ying was holding the twenty-six-chanyin outside the government office and was amused and whispered to herself: "Old friend, I actually thought I was here to fight Qiufeng, so I was so kind."

Standing at the door for a long time, Wang Ying suddenly remembered someone and slapped his forehead and said, "Ah, why did I forget the manager's successor to Wenxun? Li Gefei didn't see me. Could it be that Wenxun didn't see me?"

Wenxun really had to see Wang Ying. He greeted Wang Ying in the back hall of his yard. Wang Ying looked at Wenxun wearing a dress of potato shiny shiny and holding a teacup freely. He sighed: "Wenxun is a good official. I have been in the Transportation Office of Guangnan East Road for more than 40 days, but I haven't seen you work for one day. Do you think you are still an official in the Transportation Office now?"

Wenxun waved his hand casually, asked Wang Ying to sit down, and said lightly: "Who said I am not from the Transshipment Department? If you go out and ask, who in Guangzhou dares to say that I am not from the Transshipment Department's Office?"

"Duh! If the imperial officials all work like you, they will be in chaos," Wang Ying said, while looking for a rattan chair and lying on the chair.

Wenxun's room was filled with a few rattan chairs, including chairs made of golden fine rattan, and some rocking chairs made of snow-white rattan trees like silver. Wang Ying lay on a white rattan chair, touching the smooth armrest of the chair, and said, "What a beautiful rattan chair, is this made in Guangdong? How valuable?"

Wenxun saw Wang Ying sitting down, and he also found a rattan chair to sit down. While answering Wang Ying's questions lazily, he asked people to make tea: "This rattan chair is made of Ma Yishu rattan, two types of golden vine and silver vine. My rattan chair in this room is not the best. Zhao Jingluo's house is so gorgeous... Oh, I heard that you offended Zhao Jingluo, and his concubine Liao Xiaoxiao is advocating you to go to the inner house to make a fuss. Haha!"

Wang Ying was blushing and was about to defend her, but Wenxun had already followed up the topic: "You said that I was relaxed at work, haha, I am not the only one in Guangzhou. The Transport Department Office and the Management and the Comfort Department Office are busy with Zhao Jingluo's confidants. It is better to be free and easy for an official like me."

Wenxun's words implicitly warned. Wang Ying understood the other party's meaning and said frowningly: "Then Liao everyone promoted us to go to the inner house to make noise. She must have said that later, she ordered the servants to beat us...

Alas, I was careless for a moment. I was fooled by Dong Bi. Dong Bi said on the road that Guangnan East Road is a fat road, so we should act like a gesture. Let Zhao Liren please him, but he didn't expect that Zhao Liren is so tough and so fearless."

Wenxun smiled and picked up the tea, took a sip, refuting, "You said that Liao instructed the servants to beat you, you want to say this in the court, and then Zhao Fun. After you left, Liao went to the dock to say goodbye to Zhao Fun. So you said that Liao instructed the servants is another lie - someone has witnessed it, and thousands of people have seen it. Do you have it? Humph, even if you are really beaten, it will be useless."

Wang Ying slowly broke out in cold sweat. He asked carefully: "Mr. Wen, what we have already spread is well known?"

Wenxun nodded: "Everyone in Guangzhou knows about the officialdom. It's funny that you two look like you are ignorant. Let me tell you, if you endure this matter honestly, you can turn a big deal into a small matter. Once you submit a memorial to the court..."

Wenxun paused, looked at Wang Ying's expression and asked in surprise: "Can you have submitted a memorial to the court... Could it be that you really impeached Zhao Jingluo to the court to be abstained from the family management? Liao everyone instructed the servants to beat you?"

At this time, Wang Ying seemed to have just come out of the bathhouse, covered with water marks. Wenxun sighed and said, "You know why I didn't go to work... It's a pity that you came one year later. If you came one year earlier, you could still make a difference in Guangnan's affairs, but now, Zhao Jingluo has become a southern town. Outsiders can't get involved in Guangnan's affairs at all."

The so-called "Friends and Towns" are what modern times call warlords.

Looking at Wang Ying's dazed eyes, Wenxun continued, "I know what you are here for. The vocational department has already reported to me and asked me to cooperate with you. Unfortunately, I can't use it with strength.

Let me tell you about the current situation in Guangdong and Guangxi: Since last year, the Guangxi General Zhang Li has been hooking up with Zhao Jingluo. Zhang Li has moved the General Secretary to Qinzhou, where Zhao Jingluo saw a city for Zhang Li and built a naval dock. Since then, all prefectures and counties in Guangxi have reached out to ask Zhao Jingluo for money, saying that it is to repair the road. Now half of the prefectures and counties in Guangxi have to rely on Guangdong. I see, Dong Bi has gone to Guangxi and life is not easy.

Even if Guangxi is like this, Guangdong will not mention it. Since the year before yesterday, Zhao Jingluo has implemented a policy, wherever there are demotions, roads will be renovated and desertified fields will be renovated. There are more than 20 demoted officials in Guangdong and Guangxi, distributed in six states. It took Zhao Liren three years to build these six major roads, which he called the "interstate highway". Since then, Zhao Liren began to re-locate the county, town, township, and village along the highway. Not long ago, he began to organize gunmen and establish the so-called "reserve" system.

After finishing these tasks, I realized that Zhao Liren did this. There were at least six states in Guangdong, namely the six states that built roads. He had re-planned them both in the countryside and county towns, and all the people were from him. As for the Guangdong Gunman, he sent his local servant Jin Buer three years ago to start building Tang Shou Gymnasiums in various counties. Now, the leaders of gunmen from all over the country are trained by Tang Shou Gymnasiums. You say that in this situation, he is not a town, who is a town?

In this case, if you provoke Zhao Liren in Guangdong, isn’t you seeking death? As long as Zhao Liren winks a little, you will be unable to move in Guangdong. I heard that you went to Li Gefei’s mansion and he didn’t see you, right? Are you still unaware of it?"

Wang Ying sweated all over and gradually became no longer afraid. The situation had deteriorated to this. What else was he afraid of? He mustered up the courage and asked, "Where is the government school? How is the situation in the government school in various places? I heard that most of the Four Books and Five Classics re-examinations by Zhao Liren were edited by the Yuanyou Party. The court planned to destroy the works of the Yuanyou Party. Did Zhao Liren ignore the laws of the court?"

Wenxun shook his teacup and chuckled: "Don't you know how many books there are in the local governments? This year, the local governments received less than 600,000 books. You have to search through those books one by one and investigate and punish banned books, but even so, can you beat Zhao Liren? He is nicknamed "Zhao Laohu", and is known as "can't be provoked".

The books on the official school are so complicated that you found one or two banned books. He could shirk it, saying that his official duties were complicated and he didn't have time to check them one by one. This was at most a mistake. I could think of the punishment from the court, but the fine of dozens of kilograms of copper. Is Zhao Liren short of money? If you fine him dozens of kilograms of copper, he can bring you a boat, and you will not be angry."

"Wait," Wang Ying quickly interrupted Wenxun's words: "What do you mean is that every public school collects millions of books, and is the case with every public school in Guangdong?"

Wenxun nodded: "Zhao Liren has been donating the famous schools in various places since last year, and has begun to encourage merchants to donate library buildings. Nowadays, library buildings in various places are donated by merchants, and the library books in them are also donated by Zhao Jingluo's wife and concubines. This is the first thing this summer. Starting this autumn, Zhao Liren began to rectify the schools of each county and require the children of each place to go to county schools and receive enlightenment education. So if you want to check books, you must not only check the provincial schools, but also the county schools and township schools.

The three systems of state school, county school and township school are called the "three-level education system" by Zhao Liren. Brother Wang, if you come to Guangzhou to search books, just the books in various places, I am afraid you can't finish them when you step down."

Wang Ying wiped his cold sweat dry and said, "Brother Wen, what I asked is not this. How much money would it cost to donate so many books? This is not counting. How many officials do you need to raise at the third-level education? You just said that Guangdong has built six roads a year, how much does it cost?"

Wenxun proudly picked up the teacup and said leisurely: "You will know after you take office. There is no other benefit in Guangzhou, but you are paying a lot of money.

Guangzhou's prices fluctuate extremely violently. Every spring, hundreds of thousands of people come to Guangzhou to build roads and open up the wastelands, and grain prices rise three times a day. At this time, the Guangzhou government will issue additional rice and grain money, called "grain and oil subsidies". By autumn, the fields that have been reclaimed mature, and then grain prices will fall sharply - grain prices will also be paid. Officials' positions will share the grain of land production, and the losses caused by the sharp drop in grain prices will be given to you at this time. At this time, the "protecting grain prices" will be paid.

Guangzhou has a lot of money. I watched Zhao Liren for three years. I couldn’t understand where he got so much money. For example, in summer, the government paid 'cost and cooling money' to all officials; it was windy and rainy, and the government had a 'house repair fee' and 'raincoat purchase fee'... The money was too much, and I couldn’t explain it to you at once. You’ll know when you took office."
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