Chapter 408: The Story of the Romance

Lu Yu answered readily: "Here!"

Zhao Xing continued, "Don't be idle either. Take a navy army, and I will give you another platoon (thirty people) musketeers, go to Suzhou Yingfeng Bureau immediately, arrest Zhu Xie, and investigate Suzhou Yingfeng Bureau..."

After a pause, Zhao Xing added: "But if there is resistance, killing is not allowed."

The magistrate behind Lu Yu no longer struggled. He interrupted and said, "There are also methods of increasing the price and redeeming gold, and the methods of giving up the three-way methods..."

The magistrate was named Hou Meng (1054-1121), with his courtesy name Yuangong, and was from Gaomi, Mizhou (now Shandong). He was promoted to the magistrate of Baoji. After Zongze, he was appointed as the Chief Censor of Baixiang County. Later, he was promoted to the Censor of the Supervisor and served as the Censor of the Palace. During the Chongning period, he submitted a memorial on ten matters and was promoted to the Censor of the Attorney of the Ministry of Justice. He was frank and said frankly that Cai Jing was not upright, so he hated Cai Jing and flattered the emperor and was demoted to the prefect of Yangzhou.

Hou Meng is famous in history because he was a person who offered advice to recruit Song Jiang and participated in the encirclement and suppression of Fang La. This magistrate is actually no longer in office. He was demoted again because he opposed the "price increase and discount method and the method of remuneration of gold" and was released from the magistrate. However, the new official has not yet taken office, so he temporarily stayed in Yangzhou.

The so-called "the method of increasing the price and replacing the method of replenishing gold" is another "Shaosheng" act made by Cai Jing based on Wang Anshi's "Xining Reform". The simple meaning of this reform is: money and things are repeatedly changed, "the money is broken with silk, and the wheat is broken with money. Silk is more than money, and money is twice as much as silk; money is more than wheat, and wheat is twice as much as money. After repeated changes, the people have no complaints."

Simply put, the taxes of the court must be paid in silver and money. When the government distributes the tax, the price is reduced to food and silk, so that the people can pay. During the discount process, the loss must be added. These losses must be borne by the people and are collected by the "reform officials" and packed into their own pockets.

This is not counted. Since grain and silk are not convenient during transportation, they are also easy to turn moldy and deteriorate, local officials have to make a discount. This time, the "demolition" is to change it to silver and money, and then the silver or silk is distributed to the people, requiring the people to "(was) voluntarily" to buy it. This is the "reconciliation". The court used the "reconciliation" method to change the money or silk to money. For transportation, this time, the loss is still calculated. The "reform officials" have the final say.

If the "reforming officials" feel that their pockets have not been filled with one change, they can continue to change. In this way, they will repeatedly exchange cash for food. Then they will exchange grain for cash. Each time they exchange, the "reforming officials" will pounce on the people like a wolf to absorb the flesh and blood of the people, making the people suffer so much that countless wealthy families become beggars overnight. After this struggle, the country's taxes have not increased, and the people's wealth is "a magic trick" to be transmitted to the "reforming officials". In modern times, textbooks abbreviated as "reforming" this behavior.

Hou Meng was out of resentment. He wrote a letter to criticize the "increase prices and discounts, and replenish the law of gold", which once again angered Cai Jing and was demoted. At this moment, when he heard Zhao Xing use the seal of the deputy prime minister, announcing the abolition of the Trade Law and the mutated salt banknote law. Hou Meng, who was originally angry at Zhao Xing's unauthorized dispatch of troops and dismissing the Yangzhou army, also compromised at this time. He spoke to remind Zhao Xing not to forget the other two laws.

In the Song Dynasty, it was common for people with the position of prime minister to return the emperor. As a local official, it was common for announcing that a certain law issued by the emperor could not be enforced and required the emperor to take it back. Zhao Xing announced that he would use the seal of "Tongzhongshu Menxia Pingzhang Military and National Affairs" to abolish Cai Jing's reforms, which was in line with the official system of the Song Dynasty. Based on his own position, Hou Meng naturally had to express his support and also spoke out for instigation.

"I can't be abolished for the time being. I'm going to give up these three methods..." Zhao Xing said in contemplation.

Hou Meng shouted: "The Three Sache Method abolishes the imperial examinations, and the scholars in the world complain. If this method is not abolished, when will it be possible?"

Zhao Xing suddenly realized that the imperial examination was the dream of scholars. Although he agreed with Wang Anshi's method of giving up the three-way sacrificial power, at this moment, it was the time to win the power of scholars. Abolishing the three-way sacrificial method and obeying the wishes of scholars is the best way to win public opinion.

"As this said, I will order the abolition of the method of increasing the price and retention of gold, and the method of giving up the three-way law... what else?"

Hou Meng shook his head: "That's all for the time being. If there is any more, it will be abolished."

Zhao Xing smiled: "Didn't anyone tell you that I have always been a reconciliation faction. The exchange of money can be abolished, but paper money cannot be abolished. The three major banks issued paper money and established a reserve system. Only the amount of operations can be issued. Nowadays, the credit of the broad banknote is equivalent to gold and silver, and it is easy to carry and easy to trade. Therefore, the exchange of money can be abolished, but paper money cannot be abolished. If the exchange of money is also implemented, it can also be popular all over the world."

Hou Meng stamped his feet: "The Grand Marshal is a mess..."

Zhao Xing waved his hand and interrupted Hou Meng's words: "Our soldiers have been rushing for three days and are tired. Now the night is dark. Let the soldiers land. I will say something tomorrow."

Hou Meng pondered for a moment and immediately answered: "Go together."

Lu Yu smiled awkwardly: "The magistrate is willing to do it... Taiwei, I specially invited Yangzhou 'Yizhangqing' to dance for Taiwei in Changchun Tower, here for Taiwei."

Zhao Xing shook his head: "You go to the matter of Suzhou Yingfeng Bureau in person. This matter is serious, so don't leave anyone."

Hou Meng immediately rushed forward with his chest, pushed Lu Yu aside, and said arrogantly: "Suzhou should be the yamen runners, and tigers and wolves are in power, exploiting the people to do everything they can. Everyone is guilty of all. However, this matter is of great importance, and the Lu commander should take the initiative to welcome the affairs of the commons, and the subordinates will take responsibility."

Lu Yu was stunned for a moment and immediately understood that Zhao Xing was testing him. The thirty musketeers who accompanied him were not so much to assist him, but to monitor him. If his position was a little unstable, I am afraid that the group of musketeers would report "dead when they encountered the enemy" and then bury him.

Lu Yu, who was sweating in a cold sweat, agreed repeatedly, and immediately set up a thousand naval troops at the pier and boarded the boat with great momentum. The night sailing of the Yangtze River was originally dangerous, but his life was at stake, and Lu Yu couldn't take care of it.

On the dock, the soldiers began to land in a row and enter the Yangzhou military camp. The Yangzhou military camp built by Zhao Xing could accommodate 50,000 soldiers. After he left, although the Yangzhou navy had rented out some of the military camps as factories, they were afraid of being too arrogant after all. The remaining houses were enough to squeeze out 5,000 people.

Amid the sound of soldiers stomping, Zhao Xing followed Hou Meng to Changchun Tower. The black man Tyson walked in front of his horse, holding a beacon. Tyson's skin was dark, and in the night, he was completely integrated into the surrounding scenery, so that in ordinary people, it seemed that the beacon in front of Zhao Xing's horse was floating in the void, as if a ghost was walking with a lamp.

The entire Changchun Tower was brightly lit but empty, and the floor lamp stand in front of the building was full of red lanterns. The entire street was illuminated by the lights, as if burning. In front of the quiet building, several musketeers in red uniforms were standing guard. This was Zhao Xing's vanguard army. They arrived in Yangzhou a day early and took over the military and political affairs of Yangzhou. At this time, when they saw Zhao Xing coming, an officer stepped forward to salute and hinted: "Master Taiwei, everything is fine."

Zhao Xing nodded with a smile, and several samurai warriors with their waist knives and holding pistols immediately rushed into the door and patrolled the building. While getting out of the sedan chair, Hou Meng looked at Zhao Xing's guards' actions, and embarrassedly defended: "My husband, why do you have to do this? This is still under the rule of the Song Dynasty!"

Zhao Xing did not explain, he jumped off the horse. When the madam at the entrance of the building saw Zhao Xing coming, he opened his mouth in surprise and immediately shouted: "Can you be the Grand Marshal, the former guards of Yangzhou, the Grand Marshals, the Grand Marshal is here. Come out and greet..."

As the madam shouted, a group of beakers flashed out and greeted Zhao Xing with laughter. The madam approached Hou Meng and asked in a low voice: "Master, is it considered a regular banquet today?... We didn't know that the guest was the Grand Marshal."

Hou Meng rolled his eyes: "Is it considered the official position? You are not at a disadvantage. If you serve the Grand Marshal, you are still afraid of losing money."

The madam Lian Sheng agreed: "That's that's it. The girls cheer up."

Zhao Xing walked into Changchun Tower without looking back. He went straight to the third floor and sat upright on the head. He immediately clapped his hands and shouted: "Yangzhou Yizhangqing, the world is famous all over the world. Come out and greet me quickly. I'll have a closer look at the unique skills of Yizhangqingdi today."

Yangzhou Yizhangqing, the nickname "Yizhangqing" is actually the omitted statement of "Yizhangxuan".

As Zhao Xing shouted, a woman dressed in costume danced out of the screen. She bowed to Zhao Xing with a magnificent voice and sang sweetly: "I personally sent a request for advice, which attracted Hu Dao. Everyone offered a letter of public security, which was younger than Luoyang.

The official lawsuit was filed with the Yue Temple, but it collapsed together. It was a lot of troublesome people, many people were misleading, many people were misleading, and many people were misleading!"

This is a small lyric at that time, which was the predecessor of the Yuan Song. This small lyric was made by an unknown person. It is rumored that the author was a member of the New Yuan You party. He wrote a letter bravely because of the national policy issued by Emperor Huizong of Song. He was also recently transferred to another book by the land edict of Emperor Huizong of Song, and was guilty of remarks.

This song is a little lyric who satirized Song Huizong without any trust, but a singer used this song to welcome the Grand Marshal of the dynasty as soon as he came on stage. The Deputy Prime Minister of Emperor Song was a little bold.

This is the Song Dynasty, when the singers Yang Shu, Liu Jingniang and Guan Miaomiao existed. These singers were braver than later generations imagined, and their unrestrained personalities were beyond their imagination.

"Yizhangqing" Song Xinxin finished singing and dancing, knelt gracefully in the middle of the lobby and kowtowed to pay homage: "The little woman Song Xinxin paid homage to the Taiwei Lord. The Taiwei Lord won every battle and fought for the Emperor Song. Did you ever think that the empress and turmoil were everywhere in the territory of the Emperor Song, the flower and stone gang destroyed the family and the salt banknotes were the law of..."

Zhao Xing interrupted the other party and waved his hand and said, "I am tired today, late at night, hungry, and I will come to eat. Song Xingshou, your 10-meter-long skill is here."

As he was talking, the servant held several square porcelain basins. There was a shallow layer of water in the porcelain basin. There was a layer of petals floating on the water, and it seemed that a little Indian perfume was sprinkled. The whole basin was fragrant.

The slaves brought the square porcelain basin to Zhao Xing's feet. Zhao Xing raised his feet. Several female players stepped forward to remove their boots and took off their shoes and socks for Zhao Xing, took out the white steps, put Zhao Xing's feet into the perfume basin, and wiped them carefully - this is called "washing feet", which means washing dust.

After washing his feet, the female players carefully replaced Zhao Xing with new shoes and socks. At this time, a large layer of paper had been spread out in the hall. The paper was more than one meter long and five feet wide. There was also a square porcelain basin for washing feet on one end of the paper, but the porcelain basin contained light ink.

At this time, the wine and food were being served one after another. Yizhangqing carefully lifted the corner of her skirt and stepped into the square porcelain basin. She was wearing a pair of white socks, and the shallow ink dyed the pair of white socks. When the socks were sucked ink, Yizhangqing carefully stepped on the silk paper with the corner of her skirt and left footprints on the paper.

The sound of the flute was added to the accompaniment, and Yizhangqing gradually moved faster and faster. As she walked, she danced. As her body rotated, her skirt opened, like a dough fan, or a lotus leaf floating on the water, swaying in the water with the wind. She danced and sang, as graceful as a geek, as fast as lightning. Her body was dancing quickly, but her waist and arms were dancing soothing and elegant, as if a soprano singer sang to the highest notes, and the singing was connected into a string, but each note was heard vividly and clearly.

Zhao Xing appreciated the chorus. It seemed that Yizhangqing had finished dancing. She was like an elegant swan, kneeling on the picture, and the spread skirt was her wings. She sat there gracefully, stretching her beautiful neck, and posing in a beautiful shape. Under her feet, the footprints were messy, but very orderly. She stepped on a giant dragon with thick and thin shapes, shaped like ink paintings, with traces of dragons, dragon tails, dragon horns, dragon hands, and several feet with very clear marks, but at the same time, the picture was so harmonious.

The whole painting time is just taking a piece of music, and the music is finished playing. The ink on the paper has dried up, and the 10-meter-long green on the painting has become the embellishment of the whole picture, and it just happens that the ink will not pollute her brilliant cloud skirt... Of course, to explore the essence of this painting in this way, it will ruin the artistic atmosphere and make the whole scene tasteless.

This is the famous folk skill of the Song Dynasty - Yizhangqing. A female genius who was proficient in this skill was most favored when Song Huizong, the art emperor, was in power and became a popular target for literati and scholars.

After the dance, Zhao Xing and Hou Meng did not dare to breathe for a long time, for fear of breaking the atmosphere on the scene. After a long time, Zhao Xing shook his head and said in amazement: "Good kung fu and great skills, come here, pick up this painting and hang it in Yangzhou Academy, so that future generations can appreciate it."

Hou Meng breathed a light sigh.

Yizhangqing painting was based on Hou Meng's arrangement. What did the martial artist Lu Yu know? He invited Yizhangqing to dance to Zhao Xing on the spot at Hou Mengdi's suggestion.

In the Song Dynasty, although dragons were not as sacred as modern times, for example, when people prayed for rain in Hangzhou and Yangzhou, they often danced grass dragons as a sacrificial ceremony. When they were sunny for a long time, they often used grass dragons to whip grass dragons to perform rain. However, one zhang green and one zhang of ink dragons were offered to Zhao Xing, and her meaningful speeches before constituted a test to test Zhao Xing's intention to come to Yangzhou this time and do all kinds of extraordinary behaviors.

Zhao Xing withstood the test.

Hou Meng felt relieved. He left his seat and crawled at Zhao Xing's feet, and bowed vigorously: "The people of Xiaguan Mizhou were originally poor. Since the elders left, they built roads and factories to find a way out for the people of Mizhou. The relatives and brothers of Xiaguan were deeply favored by the elders. For a long time, Xiaguan wanted to pay homage to the elders himself and say thank you in person: Grandmaster, Xiaguan thanked the elders on behalf of their hometown."

Hou Meng took two steps and bowed again: "This bow from Xiaguan is to thank the people of Yangzhou for their thanks to the people of the world for their search for Suzhou Yingfeng Bureau, abolish the changes to the Salt Bank of China, and abolish the Trade Law."

Hou Meng took two steps three times and thanked him again: "The third bow of the lower official is to thank the scholars all over the world, to thank the Lord Sima, to thank me for my long Song Dynasty!"

Zhao Xing stood up from his seat and said uneasy: "I can't afford it. I should thank Chen Yingzhong, a Ph.D., I will thank you for this third bow."

Hou Meng's third bow is about Zhao Xing's abolition of the Three Sacrifice Law and the temptation to block Cai Jing from launching a new literary inquisition.

Cai Jing was obsessed with attacking the Yuanyou party members who were against his teacher and father-in-law. Originally, this persecution should have been initiated by Zhao Tingzhi, spreading from Huang Tingjian to Su Shi's head, and then spreading to the world. However, due to the emergence of Zhao Xingdi, a history of accidents, Zhao Tingzhi disappeared, and Cai Jing did not dare to attack Huang Tingjian and others easily. He turned his target to Sima Guang and Lu Dafang and others. The first move he made was to investigate and destroy "Zizhi Tongjian".

Thanks to Chen Yingzhong, PhD, the Imperial Academy, this allowed us Chinese to read "Zizhi Tongjian", which made this masterpiece no longer become a Japanese and Korean sacred like most Chinese folk customs and traditions, and our descendants do not need to read this masterpiece of national sages from Japan and South Korea.

At that time, the person responsible for destroying the Zizhi Tongjian and its printing plate was Cai Jing's younger brother Cai Bian, Xue Ang, Lin Zi and others. After Chen Yingzhong, a Ph.D. of Imperial College, learned the news, and specially quoted the preface written by Huizong's father, Song Shenzong, when he was asked about the preface written by Huizong's father. Lin Zi was ignorant and a native of the Song Dynasty and held a high position. He had never read the greatest book of the Song Dynasty, the greatest book of the Song Dynasty. He didn't know that Emperor Shenzong had really written this preface, so he ran to Chen Ying to revive his troops and asked him: "How could Emperor Shenzong write this?"

Chen Yingzhong asked back: "Who dares to say this is a false place?"

Lin Zi was vague and said, "Even if it is true, it is just a composition written by Emperor Shenzong when he was young."

Chen Yingzhong asked again: "What do you mean is that the emperor's saint's learning is not based on nature, but also between young people and adults?"

This time, Lin Zi really lost his temper and went back to tell Cai Bian quietly. Cai Bian didn't dare to take action, and secretly ordered the Taixue to put the printing plate on the shelf, and never dared to mention the destruction again.

In this way, people today have the opportunity to read this immortal historical masterpiece.

What Hou Meng said about thanking Zhao Xing for Sima Guang was actually expressing obedience to Zhao Xing and loyalty. Because after Cai Jing learned from Wang Anshi to cover three ministries and six provinces, the whole country was in a turmoil, and no one could restrain Cai Jing. Seeing that the glorious Song Dynasty was about to slide into the abyss of disaster, Zhao Xing took action. No matter what purpose he made this time, as long as Zhao Xing blocked Cai Jing's new law, Hou Meng decided to cooperate with Zhao Xing's actions.

Zhao Xing's Xun Xie also expressed his opinion to Hou Meng that he had no intention of overthrowing the Song Dynasty. He was willing to be a defender of order, so he fully stated Chen Yingzhong's official title, which shows that he still regarded himself as an official of the Song Dynasty and did not want to fight against the entire Song Dynasty system. His purpose of sending troops was to make things right and let everything return to the right path of the Song Dynasty.

Hou Meng understood what Zhao Xing meant, and he paused his head and bowed again: "The world is clamping and not talking, only the Taiwei, no, only the grandfather will create a righteous act. What order does the Taiwei have? Meng should go through fire and water."
Chapter completed!