Chapter 195 Southern Tour

An hour later, Wenshen took Wang Gang and Li Zhi back to the underground base in Beijing. Wang Gang's face looked extremely ugly, especially when he remembered the miserable situation when General Cat died, his stomach was like a storm and the things in his stomach surged upwards.

"Leader, I think these garbage should have been dying long ago. I think there are many such people in the organization. We should look through old accounts and kill those who should be killed."

Li Zhi is a typical angry young man. Before he gained superpowers, he was powerless to many social evils. Now he has the ability, so of course he wants to show his skills.

Wen Shen looked at him and smiled and said, "Yeah, it's a good idea. It's time to clean up. Your superpowers are said to be able to find out other people's ideas. It's the most appropriate thing for you to do."

"Thank you, leader"

"I hope that there will be no public revenge and indiscriminate killing innocent people." Wenshen smiled coldly, "If I find out, you should know the result."

...

After handling the political affairs, Wen Shen returned to his hometown in Linyi to rest with his family for a few days, and then returned to the capital of the Song Dynasty. He was bored that day, and changed into casual clothes and walked on the road leisurely.

"I've sold newspapers, I've sold the newspapers and the new Song Dynasty Weekly, I only need a copper plate."

Suddenly, a boy in his teenage years old was carrying a blue sack bag, and his schoolbag was full of white bags. He was holding a stack of newspapers in his hand, shouting loudly to the surroundings while swaying the newspapers in his hand.

"Give me one"

Wen Shen was happy and thought to himself that Huang Qianshan had two tricks and had made the newspaper so quickly. So he went up to buy one and started studying it.

When I opened the newspaper, I found that the newspaper had only one page in total, but it was divided into eight sections. The first page was about exempting household taxes and some guiding opinions from the court. The middle pages were all strange stories from all over the country, such as filial son who lie on ice to seek fish, auspiciousness from the sky and abundant grains from the grains, trains crossing through the country, and so on.

The last version is actually a current review, saying that since the northwest was pacified, the northwest trade route was reopened, and a large number of merchants from Central Asian countries entered the Song Dynasty to trade. This was originally a good thing that benefited the country and the people, but due to an order from Song Huizong, things changed.

It turned out that after opening up the northwest, Emperor Huizong of Song ordered all foreign merchants who came to the Song Dynasty to entertain the local officials. This matter added a huge burden to the local area. All the profits from trade were used, and some places even had to pay money from it themselves.

This article is to hope that the court can take back this decree and restore peace to the place.

Looking at Quan Wen, Wen Shen felt depressed and thought to himself: "In ancient times, these emperors were all very happy and praised, and they were fat. For the sake of the vanity of the nations, they gave money and treated foreigners more close to their own people than their own people." Suddenly, they thought of the modern scene and shook their heads, "Not to mention ancient times, modern times are not like this. Their own people can't afford it, and they still support foreign countries. A large amount of gold and foreign exchange is stored in foreign countries, just not for their own people. **, I must change this rule."

Thinking of this, Wen Shen came to the capital hall with a blank expression, summoned the heads of various departments, and threw the newspaper on the table, "You have read all the newspapers today."

"Looked" Zheng Juzhong gently picked up the newspaper on the table, "The Grand Master should be anxious for the last page of the comments, let's come."

Wen Shen smiled faintly and said, "You are right, all kinds of colleagues talk about how we should deal with this matter?"

Since this matter involves the issue of etiquette of foreign vassals, the Minister of Rites first said: "Taishu, this matter is the will of the emperor according to previous practices. If it is cancelled, will it affect the emperor's majesty and the face of the court?"

"Oh, for the sake of face, we waste a lot of money and please those people from small countries in the vassal states, it's funny." Wen Shen smiled, "I see, these people are better than those small countries."

"This is not etiquette."

The Minister of Rites is not a fool. Since the Grand Tutor held this meeting, he must have wanted to cancel this preferential policy. But as the Minister of Rites, he has to mention it. But seeing that the Grand Tutor is so tough, he just insisted on it for a while.

"I agree with the Grand Master that the preferential policy for treating foreign vassals should have been cancelled. Now the northwest routes have long been full of this, and there are great public grievances."

The Minister of Revenue manages the national tax power, and I have long wanted to save such useless expenses. In the past, due to the relationship between Song Huizong, there was no proposal. Now that the Taishi is in power, and he intends to cancel this policy, he is willing to do favors.

"Okay, raise your hands to vote now"

After hearing this, the ministers hurriedly raised their hands. Looking around, they all raised their hands.

"Since everyone agrees, then Lord Zheng will go back and write a draft, which will be officially implemented in three days."

"Tai Shi, do you not know whether you should talk about it or not?"

Wen Shen saw Zheng Juzhong hesitating and said with a smile: "Say it, you don't say anything, how do I know what you want?"

"In recent years, the emperor has collected a large number of strange stones and woods in Jiangnan, wasting a lot of manpower and material resources, so that the public grievances in the Jiangnan region have always been very high. Incidents of falling into bandits often occur. If this kind of thing is not terminated, it will be terrible for people to change."

Song Huizong was extremely fond of various strange stones, flowers and trees, so he sent people to collect them in the Jiangnan area. This was the flower stone gang incident in history books. Although he was deprived of his rights by Wenshen, many officials did not know about the secrets, and thought that Song Huizong was still in charge of Wenshen. Therefore, the flower stone gang never stopped.

"Well, I will order to stop collecting granite tomorrow." Wen Shen turned his eyes, "I happened to have nothing to do during this period, so I personally led a team to Jiangnan to deal with this matter."

"It's so good," Zheng Juzhong said worried again, "Taishi, Jiangnan is not very peaceful now, you must be mainly safe. The sky is high and the emperor is far away, and nothing can happen in that place."

"You don't have to worry, I will lead a pair of imperial guards to go with you, and I think it will be fine."

...

After several days of preparation, Wenshen led 2,000 troops to drive along the canal to Jiangnan. Although September is not a good day to go to Jiangnan, it is still okay. The autumn wind is still quite comfortable on his face.

The fleet had a total of nearly 200 large and small ships, all of which were propelled with propellers. Passing ships were shocked when they saw the fleet without sails and gave their attention.

"Committee, this canal is really well built."

The Tongji Canal is the main artery of transportation from Kaifeng to Jiangnan. More than 80% of the goods transported from Jiangnan to Kaifeng were transported through this canal. This canal is part of the Grand Canal of the Sui and Tang Dynasties and was built in the Sui Dynasty. It is said that it took three years for Emperor Yang Guang of Sui to mobilize millions of civilians to complete the construction. At that time, Emperor Yang Guang of Sui traveled south through this canal. The thick willow trees on both sides of the canal were planted at that time.

"Yes, the willow trees are as shade as the green water and the clear waves are very delicious."

Wenshen stood at the bow of the boat and looked at the clear river water, sincerely praising. In later generations, most of the rivers were dry, and even if they were not dried, they were filthy.

After a few days of sailing, the fleet entered Suzhou. It has to be said that Suzhou is indeed a Feng Shui treasure land. The double chessboard pattern along the water and land and adjacent to the river and streets greatly facilitates the travel of the people.

The canal passes through the city. Wenshen looked at the small bridges and flowing water on both sides, the pink walls and black tiles, and praised: "Dynasty, this place is really beautiful. I think we will stay here for a few days."

"It's really good to stay here for a few days." The Chao looked up and saw a temple in the distance, pointing at it, "Mr.com, I think we'll stay in that temple."

"Interesting, isn't this Hanshan Temple?" Wenshen stared at the three big characters Hanshan Temple were horizontally above the courtyard gate. "There are so many people in the temple. You tell the soldiers that they can go ashore and find a place to rest on their own, and set off in three days. The crew stayed on the boat to guard the accommodation fee. The accommodation fee was fixed by one yuan."

When the soldiers learned that they could go ashore to rest and there was accommodation fee, they felt happy and talked to each other: "The Grand Tutor is good, and there is still money to get on the trip. I will definitely find a few girls to have fun."

"You are a recruit, you have never read the quotes of the Taishi. The Taishi said that you should fight hard and have fun. Don't just know how to play. If you don't fight hard in a war, you will know how powerful the Taishi is."

"Don't scare the new recruits," a veteran-looking man patted the new recruits on the shoulders, "You don't have to be afraid. If you die in the war with the Grand Tutor, it means you are stupider than a pig. Damn it, back then, we had more than a thousand people against the 50,000 army of Xia Kingdom. In the end, we captured them all, and none of us died."

"Are you saying too exaggerated?"

This recruit still feels a bit incredible, thinking it would be too outrageous to hit fifty people alone.

"Pa" the veteran patted his head, "Exaggerated? It will expand at all. You will know then.

...

The fleet stopped on the shore one after another. Wenshen and others were about to get off the ship, but the two teams moved closer to him. One team was dressed in Zhongshan and the other team was dressed in official uniforms. It seemed that they were local officials.

Among the official uniform team, a man with thick eyebrows and black beards, about 1.8 meters tall but a little hunched waist. After seeing Wen Shen get off the boat, he hurriedly stepped forward and bowed, "Suzhou magistrate Yao Hongming, who is in charge of the Grand Tutor."

Immediately afterwards, a weak man in Zhongshan suit stepped forward and bowed, "Liu Yishou, the shopkeeper of the Suzhou branch of the Song Dynasty, paid a visit to his boss.

Wen Shen smiled and said, "You all get up, don't be so polite."

"What is the Grand Master saying? It's time for the Grand Master to come and greet him." Yao Hongming straightened behind him, "Tai Shi, the Grand Master has prepared a different restaurant and has prepared a little wine. I hope the Grand Master will appreciate his face."

"I originally planned to live in Hanshan Temple. Since Lord Yao has prepared a different restaurant, we won't disturb the temple. As for the banquet, I think it's okay."

"How can this be spread? How can the lower officials still have the face to meet people? The Grand Master must be proud of him. The Grand Master still has the job to report to the Grand Master."

Yao Hongming is not easy to seize a chance to flatter, how could he give up...

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