Chapter 158: Action to Pick Peaches

After shouting, Zhang Yi opened his mouth and bit it down, chewed it a few times, and before he could swallow it, he jumped up and shouted vaguely: "Inspector Hu, Inspector Liu, Inspector An, take fifteen people to find Ye Xuemin, hurry up and look at the fruit forest..."

Then, he carefully put the fruit on the table and continued to shout: "Supervisor Xu, inspector Ma, inspector Mao, go to the city to transfer soldiers from Yidu..."

Zhao Xing raised his hand and interrupted him: "Immortal things dare not be easily damaged - it's a long time to break your life!"

Zhao Xing's words stopped everyone who was chewing. Cheng Azhu tried it first, and only took two pieces, and then took a bite of the third piece. After hearing this, she carefully placed the fruit on the table. Chen Yiyi later tried to take action and swallowed three pieces. Liao Xiaoxiao pretended to be delicate and bit the fruit with small teeth. She only ate half of it. After hearing this, she didn't dare to chew it again.

Zhang Yong turned his head and asked Zhao Xing: "Since that's the case, why do you want to dig that fruit tree?"

Zhao Xing said this just to maintain the originality of the species. In fact, transplanting fruit trees is not so weird: "I only plan to move three or two plants, so as not to hurt the vitality of the fruit forest. The original fruit forest, I mean to let the government supervise it, for example, set up a Taoist temple in the local area, circle the fruit forest, let the Taoist priests pray for the empress dowager, the official family, and also watch over the fruit forest. The fruit forest is produced as the income of the Taoist temple, how about it?"

Zhang Yong was stunned for a moment and muttered: "It's good, but my Mizhou team training...forget! You go first, supervise the forest as I told you, so that you don't have to damage the idle people. Let me think about the rest."

Zhang Yong was still muttering, and Zhao Xing pointed to the fruit on the table: "Why don't you eat it anymore? It's a good thing!"

Chen Yiyi swallowed several mouthfuls and spitted. Cheng Azhu shook her head and said nothing. Liao Xiaoxiao replied in a soft voice: "My husband, I dare not eat too much of the immortal things, which will shorten my life!"

"No longer life!" Zhao Xing grabbed a black fruit and bitten it: "How can a green food be reduced after eating it? Eat more, it will not be easy to eat this thing in the future. If you miss it, don't regret it... By the way, I have bought all the picked black peaches and took them home to eat them slowly. Children, come and taste a few."

With Zhao Xing's shout, the child who had been looking forward to it came up.

When this happened, everyone was no longer interested in continuing to eat. Zhang used the staff to buy this kind of spades. In the restaurant, due to the small number of black peaches, many children did not get it. Zhao Xing's children looked lost and thought: "Why, how about changing places for our visit today? How about changing to the black peach forest?"

Before the adults could express their opinions, the children cheered.

What are you waiting for? Zhang Yong stood up and sighed. Seeing his wife's longing expression, he immediately ordered with a bold command: "Listen, everyone, soldiers are sent to the black peach forest!"

On the way, Zhang Yong was still doubting Zhao Xing's boldness - even the immortals dared to eat something open. But it seemed that not only he had this question, but several children were also discussing privately. The reply from a Cheng clan child allowed him to truly understand Zhao Xing's boldness. "What is this? My uncle cut the dragon head when he was worshiping the rain. Others respected the Dragon King. My uncle thought the Dragon King was slow and cut off the Dragon Knot to punish him. The Dragon King did not dare to be negligent. As soon as his uncle cut off the Dragon Knot, it started to rain heavily for half a month."

After listening to this, Zhang Yong also showed the expression that Jie Shu had shown that day, and quietly said to his wife: "So... so, no wonder Zhao Liren knew about the existence of this peach."

"What?" his wife asked in a daze.

"I mean... this Zhao Liren," Zhang Yong looked around and immediately changed his words: "Zhao Liren is well-informed and well-known, and he knows everything in the Mountains and Seas. Perhaps, he knows this kind of gods and monsters, right?"

Zhang Yongzi replied seriously: "Officials, I don't say anything strange and powerful. You can't say this casually."

Zhang Yong smiled silly: "That's right, I'm just talking to my wife... I know, I know, let's go to the black tree forest and never talk."

Although Zhang Yong stopped speaking, what he said had already reached the ears of the military officers in Mizhou. In fact, those military officers had some guesses in their minds that Zhang Yong had unveiled the curtain. The military officers had concerns in their hearts. When they were having a picnic in the black peach forest, the scene was a little depressed, and only the children played with them.

On the way back, every family in Mizhou passed the Double Ninth Festival.

In the Song Dynasty, I liked to eat date cakes. The date cake means "early high", which means to be promoted to a high official early. A small red flag is inserted on the date cake. This is a variant of the dogwood planted in the Tang Dynasty. The date cakes of the Song people were shared with passers-by. There were people carrying date cakes everywhere along the way. It is said that the jujube cakes of the family are mostly eaten, which means that the family is popular.

The discovery of spades made the Mizhou group rush back during the training, but it happened to be the Fazao Cake.

In the age of hunger, it was incredible to take out food to share with passers-by. Zhao Xing looked at the smile on the face of the Song people and couldn't help but secretly marvel at the wealth of the Song people. They were caught by the enthusiastic villagers and ate one piece of date cake after another. Until they could not afford to eat, they rushed back to the city amid the complaints of the villagers.

"Who will rush on Double Ninth Festival? Isn't this a starving ghost?" Zhang Yong complained when he entered the city. He was also overwhelmed.

Two days later, several horses rushed to Zhaoxing's mansion with tree species that had moved from the mountains. Several fast horses had already rushed to Bianliang and submitted a request to the court to establish a Taoist temple in the local area. Because monks and Taoists were all people who did not pay taxes, the government needed to issue a certificate of sacrificial certificate in the Song Dynasty, which required money. Each certificate was about a hundred sacrificial certificate.

After a while, Wang Zishao, who was rushing back on vacation, was also alarmed. He led Suo Wendao to Zhaoxing's mansion. After tasting the spades, he hurriedly sent a sea boat to contribute the remaining spades to the court from the water so that the court could make a decision as soon as possible.

After leaving Zhao Xing's mansion, Wang Zishao couldn't help but sigh: "People say that Zhao Li is a lucky star. When I saw it today, it turned out that it was true that for a long time he took office, my Mizhou increased three taxes."

Selling the tribute certificate can make money. This income belongs to the local government. It is no problem to sell hundreds of tribute certificates in a Taoist temple. In the future, the people will also stimulate the local economy. As the end of the year is approaching, the local government has suddenly increased by tens of thousands of guan, and the income of tens of thousands of guan makes Su Wendao happy.

In this era, a brick and tile house was only ten tons. The income was spread to every official, which was equivalent to a few months' salary. So Suo Wendao was very satisfied. After thinking for a while, he added: "I have Banqiao Town in front of my Mizhou and this temple behind me. I expect to be rich in the future. The Duke of the Mansion must be spared a portion of this money. The people of Mizhou have been suffering for a long time. They should also build roads and build school buildings this winter."

Wang Zishao did not object to this proposal, and he sighed: "It's a pity that Lord Li left early and could not taste such delicious food. Fan E should also enter the capital."

In mid-September, Fan E, who entered the capital, brought several memorials, the first one was the memorial to establish the Mizhou Maritime Bureau, and then based on Zhao Xing's words, he asked the court to establish a three-level monetary system. Then he asked Jiaoxi County to be established.

The memorial caused an uproar, and officials from the Political Affairs Hall began to discuss it over and over again.

In the memorial, Fan E omitted Zhao Xing's name. Zhao Xing was completely unaware of the hustle and bustle in the court. He was enjoying the corrupt life of officials at home.

It was an afternoon, and the sun shone brightly on the Bixia Pavilion. Zhao Xing was lying on the wooden floor, holding a book in his hand. Cheng Azhu sat next to him, stuffing grapes into his mouth one by one. Chen Yiyi was kneeling on the wooden floor like a Tang Dynasty man. The small table in front of her was filled with books. She crackled the abacus in her hand, and she was shouting a series of data from time to time. The three maids next to her were busy recording.

At this time, Liao Xiaoxiao walked up the second floor in a hurry. When she heard her footsteps, Chen Yiyi made a plan with one hand and made a swearing action in the air with the other hand. A female envoy stepped forward to stop her and prevented Liao Xiaoxiao from approaching the pile of books. Liao Xiaoxiao stopped for a moment, walked towards Zhao Xing hatefully, and picked up a few grapes from the fruit plate on the ground to feed Zhao Xing.

Kasli sat next to her and played the piano softly. Cheng Azhu winked at Liao Xiaoxiao and stopped her from interfering. Liao Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment and had to stuff the grapes in her hand into her mouth.

The sun is shining, the wife and concubines are in harmony, and when you are free, you are basking in the sun... This kind of life is really relaxing.

At this moment, Deng Yufu had taken over Zhao Xing's regiment camp and led a group of craftsmen to work hard. Li Zhiyi was leisurely looking for this official to drink and write poems, and then traveling with someone in the city, and was very busy.

As for the Japanese man Yuan Yeping, he is still rushing to train drummers and musicians in the military camp... This guy has been fascinated by this job recently. Zhao Xing only occasionally guides the method, and most of the remaining jobs are left to this enthusiastic Japanese.

Yuanyeping's beauty has also attracted a lot of attention in Mizhou. Now he is surrounded by a group of companions, which comforts his lonely heart and makes his work smoother...

All work has been arranged. Zhao Xing’s current job is to ride a horse to the military camp every day, and according to the requirements of the government office, he sent some regiments to each county to assist in catching theft, maintaining public order, and repairing the city walls. Then, if he had time, he would go to Yuanyeping for a walk, and then go home to enjoy the gentleness of his wives and concubines.

The life of officials in the Song Dynasty was so lazy. It seemed that the only thing Zhao Xing could do now was to gather a group of officials to drink and write poems. But unfortunately, Zhao Xing was not brave enough to play poetry in front of the Song people, so he had to hide at home and hold his wife.

Liao Xiaoxiao sat for a long time and finally found the opportunity to interrupt. At this time, Zhao Xing had just flipped through the book, thinking about something with his eyes straightened. She quickly interrupted: "Officials, at a big banquet, the singers are still short of staff, you have to send me some more people."

Zhao Xing put down the book and said with his eyes straight: "No hurry, that guy Li Yuan will arrive soon. He will leave all his original geniuses for me. We can still get a group of new drummers from Dayue..."

Chen Yiyi's abacus paused for a moment, and suddenly interrupted and asked, "Where is your maid Xiaoqing recently?"

Liao Xiaoxiao's hand shook, and the grapes rolled on the ground. She opened her mouth, looked at Zhao Xing, and sought the latter's help. Chen Yiyi continued to make plans in her hand, and continued without raising her head: "Why are she so careless? Why did she sell the recipe for the marine merchants in Banqiao Town and even let someone follow her to Mizhou City."

Liao Xiaoxiao pouted aggrievedly. Before she could speak, Zhao Xing lazily said: "Since you know, let's help her."

"Of course!" Chen Yiyi said quickly: "If I hadn't wiped her butt, she would have someone touched Xiaoqing's residence."

Liao Xiaoxiao was stunned for a moment, her eyes turned around, and she bit her teeth. She took out two pieces of paper from her arms and said, "Official, you know what selling formulas. The first recipe was sold for 30,000 yuan, the second one sold for 20,000 yuan. The third one, the merchant disappeared midway..."

The two pieces of paper are two pieces of "fly money", which are also called "converted". They began in the middle of the Tang Dynasty and were certificates for saving and withdrawing money by government money cabinets or private money cabinets run by big merchants. What's funny is that the two pieces of "Liu Xiaoxiao" and "Zhao Xing" were printed in Zhao Xing, and the stamps on them were written in Israeli language.

Liao Xiaoxiao chose this "Fenglong Store" silver cabinet because this silver cabinet was newly opened and easily hidden. It is said that behind this silver cabinet is a businessman in Fujian, Hangzhou, Quanzhou and Huangzhou, the shareholders also have foreign merchants, who can manage the above regions and exchanges in Goryeo and Japan. But she didn't know that the major shareholder behind this silver cabinet is Zhao Xing.

Now, the major shareholder behind the scenes is still mocking her: "It took so long to sell two recipes, and the efficiency is not high... Well, this recipe is a combination of glass recipes and silver mirror recipes. It only sells for 30,000 guan. You really lose money."

Liao Xiaoxiao said resentfully: "Officials, those maritime merchants are here to sell goods. They all said they don't have that much cash and want to give me the goods. I want to troubleshoot those goods..."

Zhao Xing interrupted: "Leave it to Yi Yi, eat the goods, just..."

Zhao Xing pushed the two pieces of paper back to Liao Xiaoxiao and said, "It's just that selling the recipe in the future will have nothing to do with you."

Liao Xiaoxiao looked at the two pieces of paper and was surprised and happy: "Official, this... are you saying that you are giving me this money?"

Chen Yiyi waved her hand and asked the servant to leave. She didn't even sort out the account books on the table. She moved to Zhao Xing, poured a glass of wine for herself, listened to the movements around her, and then said, "Since you have been with my husband for a long time, I will explain the situation at home to you: 50,000 yuan is not a big fortune for this family. My husband is pitying you for not having money in your hands and let you make some money. It seems that you don't have the ability.

That's it. In the future, this money will belong to you. You will have a thousand coins of powder money every month. When you have a child, you will also have milk powder money, servant money and other items. Let's talk about these later. Now you have proved that you are not the steward's material, so you will spend it yourself with the money given by the official. As for the accounts at home, don't think about peeking. You have been traveling around the account door for a long time these days - why? I didn't give you monthly money before, but isn't the pocket money given to you enough by my husband?"

Cheng Azhu seemed to have not heard Chen Yiyi's words, and kept a fixed frequency, stuffing grapes into Zhao Xing's mouth. Zhao Xing vaguely persuaded him, "You can eat one too." Cheng Azhu smiled and shook her head.

Liao Xiaoxiao glanced at the people present, and saw everyone's peaceful attitude, and she was shocked and couldn't hold her mouth together for a long time: "Fifty thousand coins are also small money? My husband..."

At this time, the title of the husband had gradually scattered among the people. Although the court repeatedly made calls to stop him, the people had begun to call him the husband. However, this title is now just a nickname with intimacy intimacy and has not been scattered on the heads of outsiders.

Chen Yiyi took a few sips of light wine, ignored Liao Xiaoxiao's shock, and asked Zhao Xing again: "Official, I have summarized the accounts very clearly. I don't think I need to report all the matters in the future. However, my husband should also pay attention to the Nanyang area. This month we were robbed of seven ships by the country stationed in Nian. In addition, Pu Yian's face began to be useless, and the pirates in Abbas also began to rob our ships."

Zhao Xing stretched, threw the book aside, held his head with his hands, and said on the ground, "The situation in these two places should be different. With the care of Pu Yian's family, it is safe to enter the port in Abbas. When sailing, our ships were fast and pirates could not make any cheaper. But in the country of Nian... they like to rob ships parked at the dock, and the officials and soldiers who took action were all officials and soldiers. Should we teach them a lesson?"

"The situation in the country of Nai will probably change soon," Chen Yiyi replied: "There is news that they have organized 3,000 warships. It is rumored that they are still trying hard to build ships, preparing to fight with Abbas and Sanfoqi, and dominate the South China Sea. Officials, our new navy army has been training in Mayi for four months. It is also time for them to go to the country of Nai to stalk and break into Jugang, so as not to let the barbarians think that the tiger is not showing its might and is actually a cat."

Liao Xiaoxiao was so surprised that she couldn't speak. What were these two people talking about so calmly? They were talking about challenging a country with one person?

This information alone is enough. How can people with the strength to challenge a country care about 30,000 to 50,000 yuan... Well, this little money is indeed a small amount of money.

In fact, Liao Xiaoxiao exaggerated the words she heard. Zhao Xing is not yet capable of challenging a country. The naval army that Chen Yiyi mentioned is actually an armed merchant ship. Since the situation in Nanyang has become worse, it has become more and more difficult to do business, so Zhao Xing began to train armed merchant ships, intending to change the previous cargo transportation habits of single-ship navigation, contact maritime merchant fleets to sail, and armed trafficking to reduce risks.

Zhao Xing answered Liao Xiaoxiao's questions next.

"Four months of training for a fleet is far from enough, and it requires at least one year of training. Also, if we want to start fighting with the country stationed in Yan, our money is not enough," Zhao Xing said slowly: "In the sixth year of Yuanfeng, a small-scale conflict between the imperial court and Xixia, and the income of the financial resources was reduced by 33 million taels of silver that year. In other words, three thousand jin of wealth is not enough to fight a small battle. If we challenge a country with one person, we cannot afford to consume and fight this naval battle?

What I mean is: They are very arrogant now, and because my Song ship is not allowed to be equipped with weapons, they are regarded as the main target of robbery. Now the sea area is robbed by Song ships - we cannot let them develop this habit, and let the armed merchant ships go down to teach those people a lesson... It seems that we should contact more Song merchants in the future and make the Song merchants one by one. We must plan this matter as soon as possible."

"It just so happens that my brother and the others are going to take a boat home, so let them take it to Vietnam." Chen Yiyi was eager to try: "Although the Dayue navy is weak, it's okay to get a hundred boats out. Let's let the Dayue navy lead the way and go there to have fun."

Chen Yiyi is selfish.

Vietnam is very close to India and feels the invasion of Arab culture more deeply. If Vietnamese were not proud of their Yanhuang civilization, they would probably have been quickly Arabized. In this case, Yi Yi hopes that the fox will pretend to be powerful and quickly test the power of the country in Nai. By the way, he will also help Vietnam declare its sea sovereignty.

In ancient times, information transmission was slow, and Zhao Xing wanted to appear in Nanyang with Dayue. Who could tell whether Dayue was the leader or Zhao Xing was the leader?

"We need time. Wang Zishao came to me the day before yesterday and told me that the Jinzhou Jurchen merchants and the Goryeo merchants hoped that we could escort them into the Bohai Sea. I had already made a promise and was planning to use this time to practice troops and wait for me to come back." Zhao Xing replied, thinking for a while, he said again: "I still have a plan and need manpower. By the way, let the children go to the coast of Dengzhou quickly and tell them to start the 'Quick Horse Plan'."

Azhu tightened her hands and asked, "How many officials can leave?"

"Five days later! I will take five ships to you. Yiyi, hurry up and ship the goods, plus our batch of liquor, and prepare to ship."

Chen Yiyi turned to Liao Xiaoxiao and asked, "Tell me, who have you ever looked for?"

Liao Xiaoxiao hummed and talked about the situation of her selling. What could a woman have? She was just using the former prostitutes sisters to whisper to those merchants, claiming that they were secret recipes obtained from a certain merchant. However, the official prostitutes had low trust and the merchants could not pay a large price, so many merchants simply proposed to use goods as collateral. However, when the two parties valued the goods, there was a big deviation again, which led to the delay of this matter today.

But it was different if Chen Yiyi came forward. She used some dental dealers to come forward to serve as a guarantee and ate all the goods of those people. Then she used a group training to transfer the goods to the ship, ending the entire transaction in the blink of an eye.

The tax amount of Mizhou Shizuochang last year was 860,000 guan, and one out of ten maritime transaction taxes was taken. The goods that were prohibited were not paid, and the prices of the government and the purchases were often higher than the market value, which is the characteristic of the longbow trade. In other words, the transaction volume of Mizhou Shizuochang last year was about 8 million guan, at least not less than this amount. Several silver mirror technologies sold a total of 500,000 guan, accounting for about 5% of the annual transaction volume.

These goods may not be sold for others, but Zhao Xing has more than one logistics system, and in the blink of an eye, the goods were diverted. Soon, every official prostitute involved in the matter received a generous dowry and disappeared into the vast crowd.

October 10th, Tianning Festival. It is the birthday of Emperor Zhezong. Zhao Xing took Zhang Yong on the boat. Zhang Yong got on the boat and muttered: "Tianning Festival, it should be on holiday this day... I really miss the Tianning Festival in Bianliang City and the elephant dance in front of Xuande Tower."

The elephant dance in front of Xuande Building is the favorite scene of Song Dynasty painters, and many Song lyrics have such scenes. It is an elephant tribute from Vietnam. Every year on the Tianning Festival, dozens of elephants are controlled by elephant slaves and dance in front of Xuande Building. All officials watch the scenes on Xuande Building. The people also rent the best viewing location nearby to watch the cute dance of the huge elephant.

Liao Xiaoxiao was also recalling: "Yes, the group of elephants stomped on the ground and danced, and sometimes they stretched their noses and sang, and sometimes they kowtowed on the front hooves. The sound of silk and bamboos, and the crowd held their breath. After the dance, the heroes cheered, and the people shouted long live... I don't know when I will see this scene again."

Zhao Xing didn't care much about this large-scale circus performance. He thought to himself: "It's a holiday, I worked overtime on the Song Dynasty festival, and I don't know if there is any overtime pay."

Deng Yufu obviously also watched the dance, and he also stood at the dock and recalled: "It is said that hundreds of elephants were singing together, but now there are only more than forty elephants left. It is really regrettable that they can't see the spectacular past again."

Zhang Yong missed not only these, but Tianning Festival had more special significance to the officials of the Song Dynasty: this day was also a public and legal "prostitute day". During the Song Dynasty, there was a certain ban on officials staying in prostitutes. "Only, the Holy Day (the emperor's birthday) was allowed to go to the prefectures and counties to hold banquets on one day, and there were no prostitutes when sleeping." On this day, officials drank and had fun with the prostitutes, and stayed in prostitutes.

Zhang Xuan took office in Mizhou. He finally waited for this day, but was pulled onto the boat by Zhao Xing. How could he not be depressed?

Zhao Xing was also very depressed. He hugged Cheng Azhu, lowered his head, stepped onto the springboard in dejected manner, and walked towards the deck. Yuan Yeping was wearing a Tang suit, dragging wooden clogs, and three long and short knives in his waist. He jumped onto the deck with a crisp body. Deng Yufu thought for a while and followed him onto the boat. Wang Zishao bowed to him onto the shore. Zhang Yong twisted for a long time, muttering, "I don't know how to water yet", while asking several flowers to hold him onto the boat with their arms.

As soon as Zhang Yong got on the boat, his general flag was raised on the boat. The Song Dynasty Shang Huode, the military flag was made of red characters on black background, or black characters on red background, and the military uniform was made of black trousers and red shirts. The soldiers wore a Fanyang hat.

The people on the boat were pulling the deck, and the Jurchen guest jumped over. He stepped on the deck, stopping the crew from pulling the deck, and then shouted: "I want to get on your boat, Aka, my brother is on his own boat, I want to go with your boat."

This person speaks fluent Chinese language, which is what the court calls "maturity Jurchen". They often trade with the Han people and have gradually become sinicized. Of course, they also knew some Han people's plans, so they asked the two brothers to act separately, one manipulate their own ship, and the other ran to Zhao Xing's command ship.

Zhao Xing had a calm face and waved his hand to ask the crew to collect the springboard. Wang Zishao did a good job of dissuading him: "Judge Zhao, Wen Gang must first take your boat, and let him get on the boat, so what can he do?"
Chapter completed!