Chapter 320 It's clear that you are bullying

Zhao Xing nodded: "Zhang Xiang supports the Lu brothers?...Hehe, there happened to be a news in my residence: because of a conflict with his boss, Lu Shengqing actually created an unjust prison and prepared to lock the boss - Zhang Xiang supports him!

What Lu Shengqing did, he despised all the superiors and inferiors, and ignored the unspoken rules of the officialdom, as if the Ministry of Personnel of the Song Dynasty and the Ministry of Justice were opened by their family, so that he could commit crimes at will, and even his boss was in danger. His behavior was not only against the generals and the royal relatives, but also against the official system of the whole world. He thought that the little emperor hated Empress Dowager Gao and could use this reason to deal with his superiors. In this way, who dared to be Lu Shengqing's boss in the future?

Zhang Xiang was crazy, even such a person had to be protected. Even if he had provoked such a big deal, Zhang Xiang would have to suppress him strongly. Look, Zhang Xiang used the excuse that Lu Shengqing had just planned an unjust prison, but the unjust prison was not completed in his hands and was impeached. Gao Zunhui had not been truly wronged. This was an "attempted crime". Therefore, after the imperial edict of the cabinet was issued, Lu Shengqing was changed from Hebei to Hedong Road Transport Envoy - he was actually promoted. Such a person actually received the promotion and commendation?!

I really want to know, from now on, who cares about the official system? Now, the administrative system of the Song Dynasty has collapsed. Can our country still be considered "existent"? The Song Dynasty has fallen, alas, Shaoyou, Wang Jinggong's "three fears" finally destroyed the Song Dynasty!"

Qin Guan understood what Zhao Xing meant: Who is Gao Zunhui? He is the head of the Gao family. He has a relative whom all knew from the Song people, who is the famous "Female Yao and Shun". The little emperor was relieved of Empress Dowager Gao and was full of hatred for Empress Dowager Gao, but he still did not dare to provoke the Gao family easily. Lu Shengqing originally wanted to take advantage of the little emperor's hatred to take the opportunity to persecute Gao Zunhui, but he did not expect to kick him on the iron plate.

However, afterwards, Zhang Dun adhered to the hatred of Empress Dowager Gao and suppressed this matter, but he protected Lu Shengqing and An Dun revealed the matter of Lu Wenqing. The three brothers of the Lu family had a series of accidents. Can Zhang Dun take care of it? And after this battle, the reputation of the three brothers of the Lu family was completely terrible. On this hot topic, even if Lu Huiqing jumped out loudly complained about Zhao Xing's persecution of his family, would Zhang Dun still deal with the "Fujianzi" of the Lu family who always caused trouble for him and frequently wiped his butt?

Qin Guan understood this and asked again: "I guess that Fujian officials dared to be angry at the Lu brothers, but they dared not speak out. The three brothers of this family always think about embezzlement and bribery and bullying others. Even Gao Zunhui's family background cannot avoid disaster. Who else in Fujian dares to provoke? Why did Mr. Wang Jing like such a disciple? I heard that Mr. Wang is very upright, why... Forget it. If you don't talk about this, where did the Wanqi Yong beside you go? Could it be that he went to Fujian?"

Zhao Xing nodded: "I used to have a famous gang leader - the geographical ghost Jiao Chu. He runs the Fujian commercial road for me. Relying on him, I am not familiar with Fujian. You know, Fujianese are more xenophobic. Even if our soldiers go to suppress the bandits, they would rather be local bandits, inform them and let them rob themselves, and ambush my soldiers by the way.

This time I asked Wan Qi Yong to hit the clans in Fujian. Let them bow their heads to me. This move was just in line with the thoughts of Fujian local officials. They were also "outsiders" appointed by the court. They couldn't speak in Fujian. Our army dispatched to wipe out the riots in Fujian and took the opportunity to eliminate some clans that they disliked, and gave Fujian local officials room to speak. In this way, I had the certificate of Fujian local officials. Lu Huiqing dared to make trouble, and the fire just burned to Lu Huiqing. I was going to sue Lu Huiqing for bandits and bandits.

You just said that Wang Jinggong was very upright, why did he have such a proud disciple of the Lu brothers - I tell you, that's because he was "unright in his mind". He shouted for reform, not really wanting to make profits for the poor. "Reform" is just a knife in Wang Jinggong's hand. Wang Jinggong used the knife of "reform" to eliminate dissidents and thus enjoy the power of being the only one. Therefore, even if the officials under him force the people, oppress their colleagues, embezzle and bribe, and treacherous enemies..., all this doesn't matter to Wang Jinggong. As long as they obey themselves and let themselves enjoy the supreme power, they are his "proud disciples".

I have been thinking about the behavior of Wang Jing Gong, looking for reasonable explanations for his incredible paranoia - only this reason can explain everything: power, Wang Jing Gong pursues power, not for the benefit of the people, not for the reform, not for the country. With this reason, all the weirdness, stubbornness, persistence, etc. in Wang Jing Gong can be explained. Do you think there is a more reasonable explanation?"

Talking about bigwigs like Wang Anshi made Qin Guan very uncomfortable. After all, his worldview is: his personal morality is good, and everything he does is just. Wang Anshi's self-discipline and integrity are famous in this era. Qin Guan was like a thorn in his back when talking about these topics. He smiled and changed the topic and asked: "This time you hurried back to Guangzhou and didn't even bring Jingniang with me. Is it to arrange the local affairs in Fujian? Or maybe something happened in Guangzhou?"

Zhao Xing replied: "There is no change in Guangzhou. I have some small things: the imperial court issued an edict to ask all officials to report their eldest son, and Guangzhou is also listed. I am afraid that it will be too late to go back, so my wife is happy to report Zhao Feng's name, so she rushed back to stop it.

In addition, the imperial edict also asked me about the affairs of the Nanyang region and asked me to report it - this was a vague question to me whether it could lead to the coming of the country next year. The court made a low gesture this time. If I was not tactful, I would probably be hit by the big sticks of the court one after another. Our meeting of Yizhang Baihe was so popular. It seems that we have to agree to the court's request this time."

Qin Guan shook his head and said with a smile: "Ha, you still have half a year to prepare, why are you anxious? Tribute is a big deal. Wait until you inform the overseas vassal states, wait until they are ready, send envoys to Guangzhou, and you will escort them to the capital... Is there enough time?"

Zhao Xing laughed, laughing thief: "Do you think the envoys from all countries in history books were really sent by foreign vassal states? In fact, most of the envoys were trained by Guangzhou people - this has always been the case.

It is indeed not enough time to find real envoys in foreign vassal states. But in four or five months, Guangzhou Tongrenxing trained a group of foreign vassal envoys, and it was enough time. I rushed back to Guangzhou this time to do this. I trained him as much as the imperial envoys needed by the court, dressed up with strange clothes, and talked about foreign vassals that only Guangzhou Tongrenxing could understand. You said that you were not envoys of foreign vassals, and I was anxious!

These foreign envoys paid tribute once, and may not pay tribute again for a hundred years. But those who understand this kind of "foreign vassal language" have to be offered to the court. Even if they offer 100 years, it is the rule of the court, which is called precautions. If you look carefully at historical books, isn't this the case? Those foreign vassal countries that are not famous say are here to pay tribute. How did the natives of our Song, Tang, and Han learn their language?

I think I am smart and can tell a few languages. But it is still difficult to learn new languages. I have been to Guangzhou for many years, but I haven’t even learned a few local languages. Those local officials who are born and raised can write a few poems. When I meet foreign vassals, I suddenly learn foreign vassal languages, so that they share no barriers with those foreign people. Is it possible? Is it so easy to learn language?"

Qin Guan asked in surprise: "What do you mean is that the envoys of the foreign vassals are all 'made in Guangzhou'? You mean that a figure like an ah-san and discussed with the Guangdong slogans in advance, and they casually spoke some meaningless bird songs, saying that this was the language of the foreign vassal states. Then, the envoy of the foreign vassals returned with a full load of gifts from the court. However, the envoy of the foreign vassals who translated the envoys of the foreign vassals could stay in the Lifan Academy to serve as an official, right?

Interesting. Only the tongue man understands this kind of language that cannot be described as famous as the foreign vassal language, so others cannot blame or provoke. However, the envoy of the foreign vassal paid tribute once every 100 years. Whether that language is really a foreign vassal language cannot be verified. But the court had to support the tongue man for life, even if the tongue man was not knowledgeable and did not understand literature and science..."

Zhao Xing nodded with a smile: "Yes, creating an envoy from the foreign vassal is the favorite of the tongue people. As long as you create an envoy, a man will have no worries about food and clothing in this life. Do you think no one will be moved by enjoying such a lifelong thing? The envoys from the foreign vassal are all made in Guangdong. It is not surprising that the United Nations award-winning documents are printed in Henan, so there are precedents to follow. Why be surprised!

You didn't notice that since I came to Guangzhou, the court has lost countless tribute envoys. This is because I have a concubine in my family who knows the language of various vassals. People from Guangdong know that I am familiar with matters about foreign vassals, and they can't hide it from me, so they dare not cheat.

This time, the court asked "all nations to come to the court", but foreign vassal kings are kings and dominate their own country, and they are free and free, and I am the only one. If you are such a person, you are willing to send envoys to kowtow to others, kneel down, and make all kinds of charm to please you. Do they all suffer from masochism and like the feeling of being abused?

The prince also has dignity. Although the tribute trade is profitable, will he be short of money as a king? No matter how profitable the king, do you think that as a king, they will come to our country to seek abuse, and the feeling of being despised by the barbarians?

You don't know, I have checked the history of several vassal states and specially searched for the history books to record the tribute period. I found that the history books of vassal states never recorded that they sent tribute envoys, including Dali. Didn't the Dali king Duan Lianyi pay tribute to us? However, there is no record of sending official envoys in the Dali classics.

This shows that all the tribute envoys in the land are fake. Perhaps they are really from the vassal states, but they are only merchants in the country. They come to do business. But because we have business dealings with foreign vassals, there is only a form of tribute transaction, so they have to pretend to be tribute envoys.

Humph, now the court has no place to spend money now, and is willing to make such a "face-saving project", why should I save money for the court? Today I will open a hole to let the Guangzhou Mensacre start to create tribute envoys - I do wholesale trade and never retail. I will give him as much as the court wants, anyway, these mensacres will eventually pass through Guangzhou and return to China. At that time, I will put those envoys in sacks and throw them into the sea. All the rewards from the court are mine... Hehe, it is difficult to not make a fortune now."

Qin Guan was stunned: "You, you... what you said just now makes me dizzy, and let me take a few breaths. Ahhh, aren't you afraid that the court will know about you when you are so blatantly killing the "envoys"?"

"The court will not care about it. The envoy is a 'disposable product' and it becomes waste and garbage after being used. Even if the court knows it, it will be concerned about the face of the Celestial Empire and dare not reveal the truth. They will only pretend not to know. This kind of thing is too wide, and the court needs this kind of public opinion to build momentum. Even if it knows that it is deceived, it will still make such momentum, so... the court will never pay attention to the whereabouts of the tribute envoys in the end."

"Wait, you just said... Then, the three tribute envoys from Goryeo, Japan, Jiaozhi, and the three countries are not fake, right?"

"Of course, these three countries are not fake envoys. These three countries claim to be small China. They are proud to worship our civilization. Moreover, these three countries are too familiar with the imperial court, there is no obstacle to language communication, and it is too difficult to make fakes, so there are no fakes at present, but it is difficult to say whether there will be fakes in the future." Zhao Xing replied with a smile.

However, there were also tricks in the tributary envoys of the Three Kingdoms - in the Ming Dynasty, one of these things was discovered. Two groups of envoys came from Japan, saying that they were real tributary envoys and came to the Heavenly Kingdom to pay tribute... However, these two groups of merchants were fakes, and they were fakes supported by the Japanese government. Because of China's tribute trade, the Japanese government allowed merchants to come to China for trade. The government even issued holiday letters to merchants, asking them to pretend to be tributary envoys. Japan calls this kind of document "seal letters" and "red seal letters". This kind of document is distributed to merchants. It is not reclaimed and can be used repeatedly as trade certificates. Relying on the tacit understanding between Japanese merchants, merchants took turns to China to impersonate envoys every once in a while to trade.

The sea is far away, and the chances of merchants crashing are very small. Therefore, although the Japanese tribute envoys reached the frequency of several trips a month during peak hours, which made the Ming Dynasty suffer and the emperor and his ministers suffer. They were poor enough to deal with it, but the Ming Dynasty has not been repeated for a hundred years. Unfortunately, there was an accident that time. Two Japanese merchants crashed and appeared in the Central Plains as tribute envoys at the same time...

Zhao Xing could not disclose this information, and Qin Guan was comforted by the news and relieved a little. The rest of the journey. Qin Guan did not dare to talk about official duties, for fear that his fragile psychology would be hit again - he talked about poetry. This thing is Zhao Xing's shortcoming and Qin Guan's advantage. When Qin Guan spoke in this regard, Zhao Xing was speechless, so Qin Guan enjoyed the joy of abuse of Zhao Xing and entered Guangzhou in a relaxed mood.

Previously, Zhao Xing had insisted on separating tribute from trade, blocking the way for the man who was cheated by the tongue in Guangzhou. This time, under the heavy pressure of the court, he finally opened a hole. After he returned to Guangzhou and announced that he would arrange the tribute envoy, the man who was in Guangzhou was immediately jubilant. Without hesitation, he began to acquire Kunlun slaves and Nanyang merchants from overseas according to the quota allocated by Zhao Xing, dressed up as tribute envoys and trained them, and conceived various national names for them...

At the same time, the diplomacy of the Song Dynasty became busy in the capital.

After obtaining Zhao Xingdi's consent, Zhang Dun immediately sent an inquiry to Goryeo and Japan. It happened that the envoy of Jiaozhi was apologizing to the Song Dynasty in the capital. Zhang Dun hinted that the envoy of Jiaozhi did not dare to ask too much, and only proposed that if the Song Dynasty returned three of the five northern provinces of Jiaozhi, Jiaozhi agreed to congratulate him.

Later, Zhang Dun received news: Goryeo and the Japanese envoys agreed very readily, and did not mention any request, so he agreed to send an envoy to congratulate him.

After dealing with these three countries, Zhang Dun asked Xixia and Liao again, and Liao refused. The envoys of Xixia believed that if the Song Dynasty restored the annual tribute to Xixia, which the Song Dynasty called "Suiqi", Xixia was willing to send envoys to participate in this celebration. However, the people of Xixia demanded that the envoys appeared in Bianliang this time, not with the attitude of tribute, but with the identity of subjects of the following countries, but with equal diplomacy.

Zhang Dun agreed without hesitation. He also confirmed that the past equal countries were Goryeo and Japan, which were the same countries as the Western Xia, but Jiaozhi was not included. They had to visit as subordinates. Jiaozhi received Zhang Dun's promise to return the three cities. They were worried that Zhao Xing would be in trouble, so they immediately replied that they would use their vassal states to pay tribute, and only asked Zhang Dun to come forward to restrain Zhao Xing and supervise Zhao Xing to return the three cities in the north.

Zhang Dun agreed again.

The edict was submitted to Guangdong. Zhao Xing glanced briefly and saw that the edict was not in line with his wishes. He turned his hand to throw the edict into the trash can. Then, he complained to Xuan Weijun: "The children fought and were bloody, and then they took down the fertile northern area of ​​Jiaozhi again. Why did they return it to them easily? Xuan Wei, don't you know that a wife in my family is a Jiaozhi person, and I still make trouble in order to seize the five northern cities of Jiaozhi.

Look, both myself and the soldiers of Guangdong and Guangxi have made great sacrifices for these five cities, and the court is not sympathetic at all."

Li Yuan and Chen Gongchuan came together with the imperial envoy. The two of them were worried that Zhao Xing would refuse to return the three northern cities, so they came to impress Zhao Xing with family affection. Unexpectedly, Zhao Xing was not ashamed and talked about the unhappiness at home. Chen Gongchuan had already encountered a disgrace, and Li Yuan was not willing to give up. He said tentatively: "I am here this time, and 'Lezhi' also has something to bring to Lord Zhao..."

Zhao Xing raised a finger: "Stop, you can't just say this word... Let's do this. For the sake of that person, I promise to return the three northern provinces, but I need some time to remove local officials and troops and migrate local followers."

Zhao Xing agreed so happily that Li Yuan and Chen Gongchuan expected it, and Li Yuan quickly agreed: "It should be, it is not possible for the army to withdraw from the defense site in a day or two. I wonder how long it will take for Lord Zhao?"

Zhao Xing replied carelessly: "I want to say that it takes one hundred years, that is clearly bullying you... Let's do this, I will shorten the term of one hundred years ten times, and tentatively set it to ten years."

After Zhao Xing said this, Xuan Wei turned his face green, and Li Yuan's face turned pale, so he wanted to roar. Zhao Xing casually added: "Actually there is no need to be so troublesome. My people have built two castles at the mouth of the Mekong River. My loach boat can pass through this river and reach the Shenglong Mansion of the King of Jiaozhi. As long as Jiaozhi opens Shenglong, my boat can walk upwards and pick up the army and the people.

Well, I forgot, this cannot be withdrawn in vain. Not long ago, Jiaozhi launched a fierce attack on my soldiers. How much life did I lose for that war? I also spent a lot of money. This money must be compensated for the Guangdong-Guangdong area by 10 years of tax. Otherwise, I would be worried that the soldiers would be dissatisfied.

Yes, mutiny, it's so terrible! I have never lacked mutiny in Song Dynasty. Unfortunately, in order to deal with emergencies, I have very good equipment for those soldiers. Each of them has sufficient ammunition and bombs. If these soldiers are dissatisfied, they will take a small boat and run to Shenglong Mansion and throw a few bombs in the city, it has nothing to do with me."

Zhao Xing is threatening, a naked threat.

Li Yuan asked in a deep voice: "Is the Song Dynasty still a gentleman's dynasty? Not long ago, the Song Dynasty suddenly sent troops to Dali and attacked the country without guilt, which made me feel disheartened. The king and ministers of our country were all guessing: Is the next target of the Song Dynasty my Dayue? I am also wondering, is the next target of the sword swing of the people, and are we former friends?"

Zhao Xing's expression became solemn, and he replied: "In terms of personal friendship, we are friends and relatives. Because of my in-laws and Chen Gongchuan, you and I can also get along with relatives. However, it involves state affairs and does not talk about personal friendship.

First: Jiaozhi controls the five northern cities, like a fishbone stuck in my throat. Because once you follow that river deep into my Dali and Guangxi, I will definitely be caught off guard if I send troops from land.

Second: You have had a history of sending troops to invade, Guo Kui has encountered you, Di Qing has encountered you, and now it is my turn. And you have indeed invaded my territory - Xianglinlu of the Song Dynasty. I believe you have nothing to say about this.

So I have to control the upper and lower reaches of that river, so the five northern cities must be kept in my hands to ensure the safety of Dali and Guangxi. But the imperial court has issued an order now that I am an imperial official and must abide by the laws of the court and agree to return the three northern cities. But there is a reason why I hesitate now. The five northern cities are a whole. If I return you three, the remaining two cities cannot be managed. So, if you want to take back those three cities, let me manage the five cities for ten years. When I stabilize the two cities, I can only return the other three cities to your remaining cities, otherwise..."
Chapter completed!