Chapter 308 Shen Kuo reported to him again

When the army entered Fujian, Zhao Xing seemed very proud all the way. He hummed a song and swung the whip all the way. The soldiers of the Suzaku Army who accompanied him felt Zhao Xing's happiness and knew that the former Huanqing comforter had no airs and occasionally squatted on their fields to chat with them about crops. Therefore, the soldiers began to joke with Zhao Xing without hesitation after Zhao Xing ordered a marching stroll.

"Daguanren, I heard that Hu Ji is going to give birth. OK, okay, no wonder Daguanren is so happy. I just don't know if Hu Ji gave birth to his eyes, whether his eyes are blue or black. Daguanren, what color do you think should be?"

"Go and go", some soldiers scolded dissatisfied: "Can you say this guy? When Hu Jike was in Huanqing, Hu Jike taught the people to grow apples and make wine. There were countless living people. My family is still using the methods taught by Keshi, and life is getting better and better. You guy dares to blaspheme Keshi, believe it or not, I will hit you with peach blossoms on your face!"

Zhao Xing shook his horse whip and replied leisurely: "I don't care what color this child's eyeball is... Haha, you don't understand my happiness!"

"How come you don't understand? The great officials have many children and grandchildren. That's a blessing! I don't understand anything else. The great officials are fighting in Huanqing, with the least casualties and the biggest seizures. We don't know how to fight with the great officials. This is a blessing. The great officials have a great blessing. There are countless people living along the way. We follow the great officials and get some blessings. We are so happy this day!"

"Hahahaha", Zhao Xing burst into laughter.

This is how happiness is. A part of happiness is shared by many people, so it becomes a lot of happiness.

Although the soldiers didn't know why Zhao Xing was happy, they were infected by Zhao Xing and became unconsciously happy. Then, this happiness spread throughout the army like an influenza virus. The happiness of the army was passed back, making Zhao Xing more and more happy.

Originally, Zhao Xing should not have been the case of sending troops to help suppress neighboring counties like this, but because Zhao Xing planned to take Fujian Road hostage, he decided to go barefoot. The messengers of Fujian Road were not sure what they knew and felt flattered. Zhao Xing successfully made a trick and enjoyed others' compliments and flattery, and couldn't help but enjoy it. Unexpectedly, the soldiers misunderstood and blessed Hu Ji's birth, which made Zhao Xingshen proud of his character. At this moment, he felt that he had truly integrated into this era.

This is the best time, the beauty of this time is unspent.

In that month, Zhang Yue successfully built Pingxia City in Haoshuichuan.

Although the Xixia people repeatedly harassed each other during the construction of the city. However, Zhang Qi, a 70-year-old man with strong perseverance, withstood the Xixia people's attacks and built the city in the throats of the Xixia people. Then, the Song soldiers built forts along the border areas one after another, and the Xia people cried angrily: "The place where singing and music is occupied by the Han family, what should we do in the future?"

After Zhang Qi successfully built Pingxia City, his reputation rose to its peak, and the entire Song Dynasty was talking about Zhang Qi's achievements. As a result, the great victory in the south of the Song Dynasty was even more eye-catching.

The former Guangxi governor Zhang Tian returned to the capital after winning the victory in the south. After occupying Dali, he was very low-key in his work, so people often ignored his victory. Zhang Shi's successive victory reminded people of Zhao Xing, who originally cooperated with Zhang Shi. Therefore, although Zhao Xing tried his best to act in a low-key manner, the people still called him and Zhang Shi "the two generals of Shaosheng, the north and south Zhao".

Among them, Zhang Feng is already seventy years old. Zhang Feng will look at Zhao Xing's charm in the future. Zhao Xing's rise also means that there are successors in the military power of the Song Dynasty, which makes people imagine more...

Fujian Road thought that it was the best solution to invite the commander Fan under Zhao Xing's name to lead troops to help the fight. Now that Zhao Xing has made his own move, they are naturally overjoyed about it, and they have not noticed the sinister intentions behind Zhao Xing - of course. Maybe Fujian officials are still expecting Zhao Xing to be unkind to them. Because in recent years, Zhao Xingli has hired as many as 30,000 sailors from Fujian, which has made many landless sluts in Fujian more abundant.

The officials under Zhao Xing's name are even more well-off, with high benefits and lots of entertainment... Even if Zhao Xing is really boring to interfere in Fujian, maybe Fujian officials want to go with sugar-coated shells, crying and shouting that Zhao Xing accepts them so that they can enjoy the treatment of Guangnan. As for the Fujian Transportation Envoy, he has been abandoned by Fujian officials at this time.

The Fujian envoys were pleased along the way, and followed the Guangnan army out of Fujian. After that, the road became difficult. The Fujian envoys were already in mind and secretly sent several waves of troops to rule Fujian officials to respond. They tried their best to arrange the stay of the Guangnan army to strive for a good impression in front of Zhao Xing.

Although Guangdong musketeers are infantrymen, each of them is equipped with a horse. Such infantry and cavalry are mixed with the army. The marching route can only be followed by the water. The mountain walls on both sides of Jiulongshui (Zhangshui) are sometimes steep and sometimes gentle. Sometimes there is no road by the river, only steep cliffs. The team goes up and down. Zhao Xing, who is used to walking the official road, kept frowning. The Fujian envoy smiled embarrassedly and kept explaining: "Sir, I have mountains in Fujian, and the roads are the most difficult to repair. Thank you for your hard work. There is Longyan County in front, so we can rest there for a while."

As the two were talking, a few figures stood up on the cliff opposite. They waved their swords and roared here, and the roar caused a burst of echoes among the mountains. The Fujian envoy squinted his eyes and looked at the roaring people, shook his head, and explained to Zhao Xing: "This is the 'Zhishi Rat' bandit. This group of bandits gathered in the mountains, with the name 'Zhishi'. I didn't expect him to show up here."

Zhao Xing measured the river bank and shook his head gently. The river bank was too wide, and the power of artillery in this era was limited, and the shells might not be able to beat such a distance. His eyes turned to the artillery commander next to him, and the artillery commander also shook his head gently.

The three-pound cannons were advancing with the army. Such small cannons, coupled with the power of black gunpowder in this era, are mostly used to scare people. Zhao Xing also knew this. He waved his hand and ordered the army to continue moving forward. The Fujian envoy next to him was surprised. He exclaimed in surprise and said with emotion: "Master Zhao is so strict in governing the army. The large group of people was marching without a noise. The crawling rats on the opposite side screamed so loudly, and there were no soldiers in the team looking up at the ground."

It was a bit exaggerated to say this, but Zhao Xing felt very helpful to the messenger's disguised compliments. He was half proud and half proud, "Our army has always been known for its strict military law. When they were training, they stood in the queue and the supervisory team would constantly throw stones or even shoot arrows at them. During this period, if someone talked and fled in a panic, they would be severely punished.

Fortunately, these people are veterans of the war, so they have only been training for a few months, but discipline is no longer a problem... By the way, we let the soldiers come here to shoot in actual combat - pass the order: Today it is the first battalion's turn to conduct actual combat shooting, and let the soldiers of the first battalion start to load the bullets. Regardless of whether they can hit the other side, just put the musket on me."

Following Zhao Xing's order, a team of musketeers came to Zhao Xing, lined up in three horizontal lines, unfolded along the hillside echelon, and waved the commander's flag. They rushed to the other side to neatly set up three-way gun volleys.

The range of muskets in this era is not far, but the huge explosion completely covered the shouts from the other side, and the sound of gunfire was lingering, causing a series of echoes among the mountains. It was like the thunderstorm of the typhoon season, and it sounded differently.

The people on the other side could not figure out the range of the musket, because the bullet was too fast and the naked eye could not track the bullet. When they saw the musket soldiers raising their guns to aim here, they naturally thought that the musket could indeed hit so far, but the soldiers were not skilled in shooting skills, so they did not hit them.

In horror, the bandits on the other side quietly disappeared...

During the musketeers' rounds, the team did not stop marching and continued to move forward silently. When the gunfire stopped, Zhao Xing observed the effect, shook his head, and said regretfully: "No, the shooting is not neat, the frequency is too slow... Forget it. Anyway, we still have time. Order the soldiers to sing a military song, and we sing while walking. Enter Fujian."

The soldiers born in the Song Dynasty were inevitably infected with a little habit of pursuing elegance. When they heard Zhao Xing's suggestion, they cheered, which made the birds in the mountains frightened. Then, the soldiers sang at the top of their lungs: "Just the master of the Huai River,

Legong Yan Stone,

Promote triumph.

Yushu,

Flower robe squarely removed,

Colorful clothes are in urgent need of

Both loyalty and filial piety are complete.

The purity of virtue is the only one who is tall,

The simple notes of the Emperor's Heart,

The swallow's syllable fragrance is red and red.

The king asked,

Record the last name of the screen,

Interesting in the Golden Luan.”

The loud singing made the startled birds circling. The graceful Song army song made the Shaanxi people sing the tunes in a swaying manner. Zhao Xing couldn't help but roared Su Shi's "The River Goes East". The song ushered in a response. As the song was filled with songs, the Guangnan army passed Longyan. Zhao Xing stopped in a gentle place and turned to ask the Fujian envoy: "There is the most flattering among the thousands of mountains. What is the name of this place?"

The Fujian envoy quickly replied: "This place is nameless. It was originally under the jurisdiction of Longyan County. There are seven villages nearby. They were all the people who moved from the Heluo area during the Three Kingdoms era to avoid the disaster of war. Their language is simple and difficult to understand. People call it "Heluo language."

Zhao Xing nodded: "This should be Zhangping. I heard that the Heluo (Henan) area is the birthplace of Chinese civilization, but later, the real Chinese no longer existed in Heluo. They all fled to the south during the Three Kingdoms era, which is the "White Crossing the River" recorded in the history of Jin, right? Those people are real Henan people, and what they say is the most primitive language of the Huaxia Xianming. Unfortunately, people still live in the Heluo area but cannot understand their language. I know that some of them have changed their surnames and pretended to be Han people."

"Heluo language" is not one of the national languages ​​in modern times. They are called "Hakka dialect". The so-called "Hakka people" refer to pure-bred Chinese people living in Jiangnan to avoid war disasters. Modern genetic research believes that the Yanhuang gene in their bodies is the purest. Unfortunately, in the Song Dynasty, no one understood the pure Yanhuang language.

Zhao Xing shook his head, as if he was going to shake something away. He asked the Fujian envoy again: "Where are there nearby?"

The Fujian envoy replied: "There is Qingyang Iron Field near the corner."

Zhao Xing nodded: "This is a good place to raise soldiers. It is located in a thousand mountains and has a suitable climate. There is also an iron yard nearby. The Kowloon Water leads directly to the sea. If you build several dams and build several cast iron yards, you will be afraid of anything if you have soldiers and guns."

The Fujian envoy looked embarrassed. He asked Guangdong to send troops to defend Fuzhou city. As long as Fuzhou city is not harassed by bandits, Fujian Transportation Envoy would not care about the rebirth of the bandits elsewhere. But Zhao Xing only thought about where to hide the soldiers.

After swallowing a few mouthfuls, the Fujian envoy smiled and said, "Although the terrain is flat and the water is sufficient, it is in the deep mountains and the transportation is inconvenient. If something happens outside, I am afraid that the response will not be enough for a while..."

Zhao Xing said that the land is a fact. In Zhangping, the Heluo people who lived in seclusion here escaped the subsequent massacre of the Earth Jin people, the Mongols, and the Qing people. They have lived freely and freely until modern times. In the chaotic times, this place is worthy of being a good place for survival, but it is obviously not suitable for development, because it is really inconvenient to communicate with the outside world among the mountains. If civilization wants to develop, it depends on communication and accepting a large amount of information.

At noon, after receiving the hospitality from the people of Heluo Qizhai, Zhao Xing walked out of the village in confusion, standing on the side of the road watching the soldiers march, while asking the Fujian envoy: "What do they say? Do you understand?"

The Fujian envoy shook his head and replied: "Mr. Zhao, the Sanli in Fujian has different pronunciations, and there are no less than a thousand dialects in this place. How could the officials know all of them? However, these Fujianese must have understood our words, that's it."

After pausing for a moment, the Fujian envoy said with emotion: "It is said that the adults are strict in their military governance. When they see it today, it turns out that way. The official army marched and recruited civil servants. There was never a need to pay. They just need to say a word to the local officials and then deduct it from the corvee service. However, the adults' soldiers have to pay at the price along the way, and the payment land is good for Guangdong... In fact, the adults pay labor service according to the price in Guangdong. The adults don't know that the Guangdong good money is worth a lot in Fujian. One coin is exchanged for Fujian iron coins for five to seven. However, the Fujian land is small and the labor service is low, so the adults don't have to pay that much."

In the Song Dynasty, the Fujianese were not well-known. Lu Huiqing, the "Fujianzi" and his accomplices, had already made the Fujianese famous among the gentry. Many literati in the Song Dynasty recorded the habit of Fujianese who liked to take advantage of loopholes. For example, seeing that copper is expensive and copper coins are cheap, many Fujianese melted copper coins into copperware to "get five times the profit."

After Zhao Xing arrived in Guangdong, he also found that a large number of copper coins flowed to Fujian in Guangzhou every year, and then settled down and no longer circulated, which made the money shortage in Fujian not resolved. To this end, Zhao Xing had to increase the supply of copper coins to Fujian, and at the same time transferred a large amount of copper coins from overseas to facilitate the price of copper. This phenomenon was not solved until he took over Dali, Yunnan. The Song Dynasty court owned the Dali copper mine to adopt a new industrial mining site, which immediately increased the inflow of copper ingots in Guangdong by more than three times. Since then, the price of copper ware in Fujian gradually fell and began to return to rational value.

Fujian is also a region with very rampant cost. Many Song people talked about the Fujianese who remelted the imperial coins and mixed a large amount of lead and minted counterfeit coins in their notes. This kind of coins are mixed with a large amount of lead and turned white in color, so they are called "white coins". Compared with "white coins", the copper coins minted in Guangdong are high in copper content, exquisite in casting, and clear in the money text, so a Guangzhou coin can generally be used as five or six Fujian "white coins". Zhao Xing just accepted the hospitality of Heluo Qizhai, and actually used Guangdong coins to buy food and water in the village, and paid at the price of "white coins". I believe that he had gone out on the front and was laughed at as a fool by the people in the village.

But who is more stupid?

Zhao Xing is here to win people's hearts. His purpose is to control the entire Fujian. If money can do things without bleeding or sweating, he would rather the other party offer a higher price.

The Fujian envoy was feeling that Zhao Xing had a smile on his lips, and he stood lightly on the side of the road, witnessing his army walking in a row.

The Guangdong army marched to Shuikou Town. This is the upper reaches of the Minjiang River, and Fuzhou is down the river. When Zhao Xing arrived at Shuikou Town, the Marines escorted by the Guangdong Second Fleet also arrived in Fuzhou. The army that arrived at the same time immediately gave enough confidence to transfer Fujian Road. He looked around with red eyes: "Where are the bandits? Where are those bandits? Why don't they come to attack my Fuzhou?"

This sentence was probably the last word of the Fujian Transportation Envoy during his tenure. Immediately, the Fujian gentry and the imperial court inspector jointly impeached the former Fujian Transportation Envoy and rebelled against the bandits and responded to the trouble... The Transportation Envoy stepped down in disgrace, and the successor was the result of Zhao Xing's compromise with the local gentry in Fujian.

Fujian is full of mountains, and it is impossible to search every cave and every stone. Zhao Xing did not intend to do this. His army came from land, putting empty guns all the way and spilling money all the way. When he passed through half of Fujian and arrived at Shuikou Town, he walked across the land, and the bandits miraculously disappeared, and the rest were all "good people".

The new Fujian Transportation Envoy was grateful to the new Fujian Transportation Envoy to Shuikou Town to thank him, but Zhao Xing had already set off to rush back to Guangdong. On the way to Zhao Xing's trip to Fujian, he just missed the apology envoy from Jiaozhi Country. The apology envoy from Jiaozhi Country was led by Chen Gongchuan. When this man met Su Shi, Huang Tingjian and others in Zhao Xing's mansion, he immediately forgot what his surname was. He quickly transferred the position of the apology envoy to his deputy envoy, and led the team to continue to Bianliang. He stayed behind Su Shi, like a puppy wagging his tail.

However, the Jiaozhi incident was not the reason why Zhao Xing hurried back.

This month, the court established a special agency for the demoted officials who were demoted during Yuanyou and also cracked down on anti-reform officials. There were as many as 830 officials re-liquidated that year. The new party decided that all officials who were demoted during the Yuanyou period would be rehabilitated and entrusted with important tasks. At this time, Shen Kuo, who was in Hong Kong, could not bear the loneliness when he heard the news and began to act secretly.

Shen Kuo was knowledgeable. When he was teaching students, he also won over several boys who admired him. Although Zhao Xing was surveillance strictly, Shen Kuo still used the students to submit several letters. However, Shen Kuo had been staying in Guangzhou for a long time and knew that Guangdong was controlled by Zhao Xing, so he did not dare to submit his letter to Wang Ying and Wenxun. He went directly to Hangzhou by sea, intending to submit it to Zhang Dun through Hangzhou officials.

But Shen Kuo did not expect that Zhao Xing had stricter control over Hangzhou. Although the chief officials in Hangzhou were appointed by the court, all the minor officials came from his subordinates. Many of the yamen runners were still the army recruited by him and Su Shi when he was reclaiming in Hangzhou.

Shen Kuo's letter was directly intercepted by the minor official, who sent the letter to Guangzhou. Wan Qi Yong, who was left behind in Guangzhou, was shocked and immediately sent a letter to Zhao Xing, asking Zhao Xing to go back and handle it himself. So Zhao Xing had to turn back halfway. However, his purpose of coming to Fujian had basically achieved his goal, and it would be better if he was not present for the rest of his hands and feet.

Shen Kuo knew too many secrets. All Zhao Xing's mechanical inventions were Shen Kuo. Not only that, Shen Kuo also knew the secret of Zhao Xing's gunpowder formula. This made Zhao Xing anxious when he rushed back to Guangzhou, because he didn't know how many letters Shen Kuo had sent, and how many people were bewitched by Shen Kuo.

"It seems that I'm still soft-hearted." Zhao Xing rushed back to his residence in Guangzhou and expressed his heart to Wan Qi Yong: "When Mr. Mengxi and I were with me, he wanted to commit suicide several times. If it weren't for me, he would have probably died of depression. Now he is lively and he is still able to mess with his back... What should I do?"

Wanqi Yong smiled and said, "There are two strategies for adults to choose from, one is slower and the other is urgent. However, if these two strategies are used, there will be no big problems.
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