Chapter 304: Zhao Laohu’s advantage is not easy to take advantage

After leaving this suspense, the Maritime Newspaper changed its writing and talked about the recent Western war. More than ten countries were involved in this war and hundreds of thousands of troops were used. The newspaper used a "Mr. Wu" tone to tell the story of the Crusaders crossing the sea from near Constantinople to enter Asia Minor, capturing the Seljuks' Duke Nikea, resulting in the destruction of the Western Seljuks, capturing Edessa and Antioch, and establishing the Edessabo and the Antioch Principality.

Then, Mr. Wu You continued to introduce the history of the Seljuk people. When readers saw this, they suddenly realized: "It turns out that this group of barbarians called 'Seljuk' were driven out of the Western Regions by the Tang Dynasty, but it turned out that they were defeated generals under our command."

Mr. Wu You vividly described the establishment of the Edsau (Earl of Earl) country. At that time, Baldwin I, Earl of Brun from Normandy, participated in the First Crusade. Shortly after the Eastern Expedition began, Baldwin reflected his "style" for the first time. He left the large army without authorization and led his own troops to Edsau City (an ancient city in the Mesopotamian Basin, also one of the Christian Holy City). At that time, Edsau City was besieged by the Seljuks for two months, and our uncle Baldwin appeared on the stage just like Song Gongming in Shandong in time.

As reinforcements arrived, the Seljuks withdrew. The commander of Edessa's military was named Theolos, and he was so grateful for Mr. Bao's timely support. His admiration was like a surging river. At this time, the founder of the Kingdom of Jerusalem showed his style for the second time. In March 1098, Baldwin formed an alliance with Theolos and regarded him as his adopted son and heir. In March of the same year, Mr. Baldwin sneaked into his godson's camp and kidnapped his whole family, asking his godson to use control of the city of Edessa to exchange for the lives of the whole family. The poor godson was reluctant to let the whole family agree and handed over the city. However, he immediately became a practice of Mr. Baldwin's third style. The family, including Theolos, was tragically destroyed.

In this way, in 1098, Baldwin established the Edsaber Kingdom, called Baldwin I.

This overseas anecdote fully satisfies the gossip psychology of the people of the Song Dynasty. It is like a window that is pushed open, and suddenly lets the Song people know that the outside world is also very exciting. It is very bloody and magnificent...

The overseas anecdotes section will be used in a few full pages to tell the story of several Song merchants making a fortune overseas, and the Song merchants who lived in a village in Kirimaius, Africa. They also tell the story of the Guangnan naval army attacking everywhere, and the attitudes of the Song merchants in various Southeast Asian countries towards the Song merchants were completely different. All countries stipulated in the same agreement: "Foreign people killed Tang people and died, the Tang people killed foreigners and fined them, and if there is no gold, they would sell themselves to atone for their sins."

Telling the stories of these overseas vassal states, it is impossible not to be a world map. This early world map actually became the "Road Map of the merchants in the South China Sea for the Great Song Dynasty", but it made the people of the Great Song Dynasty know for the first time that the outside world was so vast. The territory of the Great Song Dynasty was simply not worth mentioning in front of the entire world...

The last few pages of the newspaper are official news. Zhao Xing officially released the improved version of the "City Change Law" in the newspaper. The newly implemented "City Change Law" mainly has a purpose - special trading funds and special storage, and the integrated tax payment order of the gentry. Zhao Xing did not touch most of the interests of the gentry here. He just talked about the efforts made by the Guangnan Navy to protect overseas Song Commodities, and explained to everyone that it cost a lot of money to raise a navy.

He also said that the current Western Xia War has dragged down the imperial court to ask for joint funds from all over the country, and Guangnan East Road has allocated an amount of 12 million RMB. This amount is equivalent to the regular tax in previous years. In order not to cause the rising Guangnan economy to be severely damaged, and to ensure that the navy can have more sufficient funds to protect the Song merchants, he specially announced that from now on, the ban on gentry land will be relaxed, and gentry will be allowed to operate gentry freely.

So, how to tax the completely relaxed sea trade? This requires the introduction of the concept of the "New Market Change Law". Zhao Xing decided to abolish the sea trade license system, but required that all ships operating sea trade land must open accounts at the three major bill banks in Guangdong. These accounts are mainly used for sea trade settlement. Because sea trade accounts are made by banks, sea trade merchants cannot do anything in the accounts. After the sea trade settlement results are released, major banks will issue tickets. Sea trade merchants will pay taxes to the Maritime Bureau with the bank's bills issued by the bank.

In addition, the "New Market Change Law" regards controlling foreign merchant ships' fixed-point unloading and transactions. That's all the details...

Zhao Xing's order is full of Nestorianism. Nestorians are proclaiming everywhere that "everyone has equal children, equal pay for equal work" and other arguments. Zhao Xing also borrowed this argument and said seriously: "Those who do not pay taxes will have no right to obtain the protection of the Guangdong Navy, but want to hide under the gunboats of the Guangdong Navy, regardless of officials, gentry, and people, pay taxes together."

In order not to anger the gentry, Zhao Xing finally reiterated: "For the gentry's land, Dingkou and ancestor tax exemption orders continue to be effective, and the gentry's labor service is still not burdened, but only the sea trade is exceptional. If anyone gentry operates sea trade, he must pay taxes without paying taxes - in sea trade, no one has the right to exempt him."

This new "City Change Law" was announced under the banner of the New Party. With this "City Change Law" and the regulations of joint salary across the country, Zhao Xing was moved by the rights and interests of the gentry in his "New "City Change Law", but the resistance he encountered was insignificant - after all, the gentry was originally prohibited from engaging in maritime trade.

The last few pages of the Maritime Newspaper published several brief anecdotes, including monk Foyin (Liao Yuan) who died of illness, and the old party leader Liu Zhi died of illness in Yu Lianzhou. There is also a passage about Huang Tingjian's love and romance.

Since Huang Tingjian was demoted, he has devoted himself to the poetry and wine of landscapes. He created "Ode to the Anle Spring", which is a poetic commentary that appreciates the quality of wine. The poem praises the predecessor of Wuliangye, Yao Zixuequ wine, "The cup color increases jade, white clouds grow into valleys, clear but not thin, thick but not turbid, sweet but not irritated, spicy but not hibernating"...

This article was spread rapidly to all parts of the Song Dynasty as merchants from Guangnan, and the Hangzhou merchants who first received the news were only proud of such an outstanding official in the local area. Then, the newspaper almost arrived in Yangzhou with Sun Cong. After reading the report, the officials in Yangzhou read the report and collectively aphasia. The first thing they thought was: the former Yangzhou official was really hard to take advantage of. He gave Dali a golden bell for free, and Dali was destroyed as a result...

Well. Only our former state official Cai Jing can take advantage of him in Manda Song. Do others dare to take advantage of Zhao Laohu? It seems that the Song Dynasty can no longer find a second stupid and bold person. As for us, we have taken advantage of Zhao Laohu's sea transportation, isn't it...?

The people of Yangzhou were distorted. But when the imperial court got the newspaper, they were undoubtedly shocked. First, the description of the world in the newspaper made them deeply shocked, and then they realized the power of the navy. It turned out that with the navy, the world became so vast. Money was so fast...

At this point, the court had a little understanding of Zhao Xing's efforts to strengthen the naval force. After that, the court half acquiesced and half instigated, supporting Zhao Xing to expand his own naval army.

However, the court was a little dissatisfied with the last page of the gossip of this newspaper. First, according to the etiquette system, once a high-ranking official like Liu Zhi died, he had to report the case to the court. Only when the court allowed him to hold the funeral according to the regulations permitted by the court, but Guangnan had not submitted a funeral form to the court. Then he announced the news of the demotion of Liu Zhi's death. In addition, Huang Tingjian was also demoted. Judging from this report, this person lived in Guangzhou very beautifully. He often drank small wine, so he wrote a special poem to tasting. This was not good.

"This is the face of the court." Zhang Dun held the newspaper and was furious: "Zhao Liren is becoming more and more domineering. He is testing the court. A demoted official drinks a small wine every day. Where is the face of the court? Look. The next article must be another disciple of Su Laopo on the stage, and the final stage must be Su Laopo."

Zeng Bu laughed and shook his head and said, "I was surprised how this newspaper was printed. Haha, there should be more than 30 editions. I was afraid that there would be 100,000 words of content. It is said that this newspaper has one page in ten days, tens of thousands of words, and the printing of the engraving plate takes three or five months. How could Zhao Liren achieve one page in ten days?"

Zhang Dun and Zeng Bu were discussing in the Political Affairs Hall. Now, dog bites are more serious within the New Party. At first, the members of the New Party were all beaten out of the court. Only Zeng Bu, Cai Bian, Zhang Dun, and General Xu were left in the Political Affairs Hall. At this moment, Cai Bian and General Xu were not around, only Zeng Bu and Zhang Dun were left.

Zhang Dun snorted and replied: "You don't know that Zhao Li's concubine, that is, the name of the "Ten Jue Liao Xiaoxiao" in Bianliang City, has a printing workshop. I have heard that this printing workshop uses lead movable type printing technology. I heard that Hangzhou Printing and Bookstore has also begun to use lead movable type printing technology. With this new printing method, as long as there are too many lead types, it is not a big deal to discharge a 100,000-word version at a time."

Zeng Buyangyangyang's newspaper in his hand and said meaningfully: "I heard that Zhao Liren began to write books last year, promoting 'to apply what he has learned, and integrate knowledge and action', which is practical knowledge. Look at this newspaper, new punctuation marks, new printing methods, and new academic news... I also heard that Zhao Liren invested in the construction of library buildings and mourning halls for prefectures in Guangdong Provinces. If he continues like this, Guangnan will probably become a nest of an old party. How did Lord Zhang allow Zhao Liren to run a newspaper?"

Zhang Dun took a photo of the newspaper in annoyance and argued: "Zhao Liren is not an old party, he is implementing the new law... I knew that Zhao Liren could not take advantage of it - look, he promised me a 12 million yuan salary, so he took advantage of such a big loophole for me, and I really hate it!"

A sound of footsteps came. This was the little emperor. He finally got up from the concubine's belly. He stood at the door and looked at the political affairs hall. He found Zhang Dun inside. He raised his hand and walked into the political affairs hall. While walking into the political affairs hall, he asked: "Zhang Qing, Zeng Qing, have you read this Guangnan Maritime News News? Are the words written on it true?"

Zhang Dun asked in a depressed manner: "Your Majesty, what are the things you asked for are true... I'm afraid the newspapers are all true. Zhao Liren has never heard of such a habit of bullying others."

Zhao Xu walked over, found a chair and sat down, and sang the newspaper and sighed: "The world is so big... Well, it's incredible that the West is so chaotic as Zhao Liren said."

Zeng Bu nodded: "A few years ago, I heard Cai Jing say that Zhao Xing was always worried that once a war broke out in the West, the trade income of our Song Dynasty Maritime Bureau would decrease. Now, seeing that he is pioneering everywhere, you can imagine that the situation in the West is serious, and it is not easy for him to search for copper coins everywhere."

Zhao Xu nodded with satisfaction, and stood up and said, "This big man has some methods to make money. After the next newspaper is delivered, he will ask him to send a few more copies to the palace. I am bored in the palace, and my beloved concubines like to take a look... By the way, it's almost the end of the year again, and Zhao Aiqing's "family gift" is also delivered. This time, I want to see what strange things he has sent."

The so-called "family gift" sent by Zhao Xing is actually a rare thing sent to the Song Palace by Zhao Xing in the name of Zhao Qiner. Originally, these strange things overseas could make the women in the palace happy, but they had the overseas scenery. The story of many Song merchants who went overseas who bought an overseas strange thing and became rich overnight also caused an extra fever in the palace. The original trophy of Champo Kingdom immediately became the target of everyone's pursuit.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xu couldn't help but look forward to the prisoners of Dali Kingdom. He walked to the gate of the Political Affairs Hall, stood up, and asked with his head tilted, "Where is the king of Dali Kingdom? Can Zhengdan arrive in the capital?"

Zhang Dun lowered his head and replied: "Your Majesty, Sun Cong's fleet had passed through Hangzhou three days ago. It is said that the visitors along the way were blocked. Because the people were going to patrol along the way, he walked very slowly. But he would definitely enter Beijing before the dynasty."

Zhao Xu immediately asked again: "Did you think of the reasons in the official announcement?"

Zhang Dun replied with confidence: "Sun Cong came to report, and Zhao Liren said, 'Why do you need a reason? Taizu Zushu's teachings: How can you allow others to sleep soundly on the side of the bed? It's a reason'. I also thought of several reasons. For example, the powerful minister of Dali usurped the throne and the king did not pay tribute for several years - this reason is barely enough."

Zhao Xu laughed at the sky: "What a Zhao Li person, what a 'will let others sleep soundly on the side of the bed'... Zhang Qing's reason is quite like the spring and autumn wind, very good!"

Zhao Xu smiled a long time ago.

Zeng Bu pointed to the newspaper again and asked: "Mr. Zhang, Sun Cong's memorial was first published in the newspaper. The others had not arrived yet and the memorial was not handed over to the court. What do you say?"

Zhang Dun denied, "Sun Cong's memorial has arrived, and the original minister has received it."

Zeng Bu was a peacemaker. He laughed and stopped insisting.

Originally, Zeng Bu wanted to remind Zhang Dun that the newspaper published Sun Cong’s memorial in advance. This shows that Sun Cong’s memorial was reviewed by Zhao Xing in advance... When Sun Cong was still in Hangzhou, his memorial had already been published in the newspaper - but now Zhang Dun insisted on saying that the newspaper and Sun Cong’s memorial arrived at the same time. That was why Zhang Dun said it.

On the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the court officially announced the reasons for conquering Dali: powerful ministers usurped the throne and did not pay tribute for several years.

When Zhao Xing saw the court's statement, he laughed happily: "Haha, it's really good. In the Spring and Autumn Period, all countries attacked each other and attacked land were the banner of not tribute for several years. Now, our Song Dynasty has also restored its domineering spirit in the Spring and Autumn Period. It's very good. All the small countries in Nanyang have been 'not tribute for several years'. From now on, I will beat whoever I want to fight, and it's very beautiful!"

Zhao Xing laughed so hard that he was so angry that Kasli held his big belly and kneaded Zhao Xing's shoulders while saying softly: "Master, the foreign merchant Edwin has been asking for a visit for many days. If you have time today, you can see him."

Zhao Xing was in a cheerful mood and waved his hand to answer: "Okay, then see you-you are heavy, just rest, I'll discuss with that fan."

The foreign merchant Edwin, the aristocratic white businessman at the Guangdong Fanren Pavilion, came in, holding the first issue of the Maritime News newspaper in his hand. After finishing his greetings attentively, he bent and asked, "Dear Zhao Xing, can I ask, has your second issue of the newspaper already come out?"

When Zhao Xing heard the other party's name, he jumped up. He looked around and carefully persuaded him: "Honorable Edwin, you can't call me with that word, please change the way of calling me."

In the Middle Ages, Western honorific titles were divided into three levels: noble, respectful, and honorable. Among them, "respected" was used to call kings or dukes. The word was originally born during the Roman Republic. After it was introduced to China, the Chinese people sometimes translated this word as "Your Majesty"; and "respected" was used to call the earl or the governor. The word was translated as "Your Highness" in China; "Honorable Place" was used to call the viscount and mayor, and in China it was translated as "Your Excellency". The officials or nobles under the viscount were called "Mr.", and the word was originally translated as "First Low". As for ordinary people, there was no honorary title, especially "Mr.".

Therefore, according to Western grammar, there will be no title of "'respected's's 'sir'" because "respected" and "sir" are two different levels of respectful titles.

Although foreign words were introduced to China, they were quickly weakened. However, in the Song Dynasty, Edwin suddenly called Zhao Xing by "respecting", which was extremely inconsistent with Western grammar. Fortunately, there were no other tongues around. As soon as Zhao Xing insisted, Edwin immediately changed to the title of "respecting" and asked tentatively: "Respecting Zhao Xing, I am very eager to look forward to your next issue of newspapers. I am even more eager to visit "Mr. Wu You" who wrote this article. His brushstrokes made me feel the breath of my hometown.
Chapter completed!