Chapter 264: All sins must be repaid

Zhang Shi was stunned for a moment, and Zhao Xing said slowly: "All the sins in the world will be repaid after all. When Cai Que was exiled in the past, some people once said that the road in Lingnan will be reopened, and there will be people who will be punished by the same kind in the future. The old party asked Cai Que to die in the exiled land in Lingnan. Now the new party has returned three old party members, and the three of them have died in the exiled land.

But don’t the New Party know that all the sins in the world will be repaid after all.”

Zhang Shi looked at the people in the hall. The hall was filled with Zhao Xing's subordinates and the brown-haired and blue-eyed Yizhiye people. Zhang Shi nodded in anger. Before he could say anything, Zhao Xing immediately replied: "It's okay, everyone here is my confidant. Follow me to fight with the north and south. If they betray me, I wouldn't stand here today."

Zhang Qi sighed, but did not answer Zhao Xing directly. He nagged to himself: "Su Laopo was exiled to Huizhou. The Chinese New Year is coming soon. I should send him a pot of wine to celebrate the New Year. I am old and my legs are not good. People say that if you have something to do, I will accept my efforts. Please send it to me. I have just come to Guangzhou and I am not familiar with the road."

Zhao Xing nodded and agreed. Zhang Feng yawned and said lazily: "Depending on your temperament, you plan to manage Guangzhou well. I am old, the climate in Guangzhou is hot, and I am not interested in doing things. I did not bring any subordinates when I came to Guangzhou this time. Fortunately, I know that there are Zhao Li people here, and you have enough staff. I will lend a few people to help me support the magistrate's office. If you have the energy to come over, I will help me get things done in Guangzhou. I only think about living in a cool house before the spring next year, so as not to die of heat in this place."

Zhao Xing bowed: "Don't worry, sir, I will give your wine to my teacher myself. There is nothing big about the small place in Guangzhou. In the state yamen, I asked Wan Qiyong to supervise the old man's house, and I also asked the supervisory supervisor to build the house as soon as possible. If the construction cannot be completed in summer, sir can move into my house."

Zhang Ju nodded and replied indifferently: "I am old. At this age, I only want to live a few more years and be able to live and return to my hometown. My wish is enough. In the future, my main energy will be on resigning. I will give you a resignation form every month and ask Your Majesty to allow me to return to my hometown to support me. Well, what fun is there in Guangzhou and delicious food. Don't be polite, just bring it to me."

Zhao Xing agreed and stepped back. After leaving the prefecture, Wan Qi Yong sighed: "Old Zhang is almost seventy years old, and he has also traveled a long distance through the smoke and mountains of Lingnan to this Guangzhou. It's so hard! Unfortunately, the old man is depressed, and it seems that he will not be able to help him in the future."

Zhao Xing shook his head: "Don't look at this old man's almost seventy. As long as there are any major problems in the Xixia side, the court will definitely re-activate our old ministers in Shaanxi. I don't have to expect that Xie Lin would not want to return to Shaanxi again. The only available thing in the court is Mr. Zhang. Wait, when the court re-activates Mr. Zhang, this old man will run faster than anyone else."

Wan Qiyong and Zhao Xing sighed all the way. The two went home to pack up some things and headed towards Huizhou with people. At this time, December 15th, the last solar term of 1094, the winter solstice.

There are more than ten days left, and 1095 will be here. This year, with the demolition of the last few important Buddhist temples and the continuous internal strife of Indian Buddhism, Buddhism became extinct in India, and Hinduism immediately replaced it. After 700 years, there was no Buddhism in India (the current Buddhism in India was re-introduced from Sri Lanka 700 years later). At the same time, the first crusade began.

Therefore, some historians record the arrival of 1095: In this year, Sakyamuni died in India, where his birthplace was; at the same time, the Su Shi era in East Asia came to an end, and fanatical Western believers held swords and torches and began to attack the holy land in their minds...

"The Su Shi era in East Asia" is an Asian term, while Westerners call it "The Flamingo era in Asia". It symbolizes the pursuit of generosity, fanaticism, boldness and unrestrained pursuit of elegant life.

Zhao Xing did not care about the affairs of the gods in the East and West, he only cared about the point of his nose in front of him. He ushered in the arrival of the Gregorian New Year on the way from Guangzhou to Huizhou. There were constant explosions along the way. During the major road repair in Guangzhou, explosives were used as a mountain-opening tool or a building material for the first time, and it appeared in the Song Dynasty. This black gunpowder was not powerful, but it could not withstand a large amount. Zhao Xing controlled Xiaoliuqiu, the number one storage place in Asia, and also controlled the sea trade of Japan, the number one sulfur storage place in Asia. During this road construction, he used an unlimited amount of explosives, splitting mountains and opening stones across the mountains, and taking a straight line from Guangzhou to Huizhou.

This road under construction does not overlap with the existing official road. Occasionally it will be parallel to the existing official road. At this time, those who are traveling will see the smoke and rolling smoke and dust caused by the explosion. Shuai Fan introduced along the way: "From here to Huizhou, we divided a total of 300 villages, each of which is about 1,000 people, and are responsible for the construction of twenty-mile official roads. Among them, there are more than twenty points that need to be done. Fortunately, everyone in our dynasty can light firecrackers, and it is not complicated to do these.

These migrant workers are divided into three shifts, each shift works for two hours and six hours a day. The teams that work are on the job go up and open the mountains. The rocks that are blown up are crushed and laid on the road. There is no shift team or the teams that have already finished work will gather together to conduct simple exercises. In addition, there is still half an hour of teaching every day, mainly hiring local old farmers to tell them about the habits of Guangzhou crops.

So far, we have hired 130 local old farmers, some of which are village scholars..."

Zhao Xing interrupted Shuai Fan and interrupted, "I have discussed with Fang Cipeng that all the old farmers who come to teach the civil servants will be awarded the title of the agricultural teaching in Guangnan East Road. Whether he is literate or not, the government will issue the official position to the official position of the teacher. This official position is not paid, but the list of records of the academic government is not rank, but he can not kneel down when he sees the local officials. If there is a lawsuit involving the academic imperial edict, the local local officials must first report the academic imperial edict and then summon the agricultural edict."

Shuai Fan curled his lips: "Sir, the name of Agriculture is so difficult to pronounce. It is better to just call Agriculture Master."

Wanqiyong stopped him and said, "Don't let go of a nonsense. We can't give the name of a bachelor's name at will. It's better to call it a farming edict."

Shuai Fan muttered something again, but no one heard it clearly. Then he said: "Adults say that by the end of the year, there will be 100,000 migrant workers coming, but now there are only 60,000, which is seriously insufficient. The southerners in Guangzhou are short and have always been unable to stand the battle. Our navy and gunmen still need to be recruited from Shandong and Henan. Adults, it is almost the New Year, and after the New Year, the army cannot be trained, we will not be able to take action."

While urging the horse to rush the road, Zhao Xing explained: "Don't worry, people will have them. I, the Song Dynasty, have 100 million people, and Henan and Shandong have enough population, but this all takes time. Recruiting people requires time, and transporting these people also takes time. These people also take time to arrive in Guangzhou.

Five or six days later, Shaanxi's asphalt will arrive. This batch of goods will be transported to the Bohai Sea through the Yellow River, and then it will come down from the Bohai Sea. It will be transported on the road for a month. When they arrive, they will start paving the road. After paving the road in the spring next year, these people will let them reclaim the land. Only half of the tens of thousands of people who came first will be willing to stay, and our mission this year will be completed.

However, every group of people who come to settle down need training. Anyway, the court has the practice of organizing refugees into the wing army. We should organize these refugees into the Guangnan wing army, and then walk on both sides of the road while reclamating wasteland while protecting the road. When these people take root, Guangzhou will have enough population, and a sufficient population can do a lot of things."

Shuai Fan agreed with each sentence. The three of them walked all the way and enjoyed the mountains and rivers. From time to time, they drove down the official road to the road construction site to observe the construction situation. When they arrived in Huizhou, it happened to be New Year's Eve.

Su Dongpo was a highly anticipated person everywhere he went. He heard that he was demoted to Huizhou. Countless scholars made a special trip to wait on his route of demotion, preparing to follow him to Huizhou. One of the Yangzhou students, Zhang Huimeng, had the most tenacious personality. Before he could wait for Su Shi on the road, he actually measured with his legs and touched Huizhou all the way, following Su Shi, and personally served Su Dongpo day and night. Then, the literati and students near Huizhou heard the news of Su Shi's arrival and rushed to Su Shi's demotion residence. Even Hainan had many people crossed the sea to Huizhou to ask Su Shi for advice, including Jiang Tangyou, the first Jinshi in Hainan in history.

At this time, Jiang Tangyou had not passed the Jinshi exam yet, and when he passed the Jinshi exam, Su Shi could no longer see it.

These literati students spontaneously gathered in front of Baihe Peak where Su Shi lived, making the forest where Su Shi was located look full of spirituality. Zhao Xing stood at the foot of the mountain, looking up at the endless pilgrimage students in the mountain road, and listened to Cheng Shuang's report intoxicatedly: "The master said he liked the handsome beauty of this forest, so his nephew bought the mountain and hired more than a dozen tea-growing craftsmen from Hangzhou, hired thirty families from the local area to grow tea behind the peak and grow grain and vegetables in front of the peak. I guess this will make the master have no worries about food and clothing."

"How is the teacher's mood?"

Cheng Shuang replied: "Very good, Master is happy every day! When he first arrived in Huizhou, he wrote "First Arrival in Huizhou": "It seems like he had traveled in a dream, and he was happy to know Xinfeng. The officials and people were surprised by what happened, and the elders came to welcome the old man together. Uncle Qi, you don't know what that was the scene. I was about to cry when I remembered that at that time - all the elders in the city heard that Mr. Su came here and all the elders "wept with him together". It was really tearful.

However, the master was in a bad mood recently. Recently, he received a letter from Lord Zhang Qi saying that he would send six pots of wine. The letter had not arrived. The master wrote a letter complaining: 'White clothes to send wine to Yuanming, and quickly sweep the wind and pavilion to wash the broken goblets. I wonder if the six Qingzhou was engaged in it, and turned into a gentleman Wu Youyi. I held a new crab in my left hand and sniffed the fallen king around the eastern fence. The envoy of the South China Sea is now in the North Sea, and he will definitely divide the 100-beef gulf and pay for spring plowing'."

Su Shi was a hopeless optimist. A friend sent wine. When the letter came, he asked happily: Is the wine sent by the person who sent the wine "Mr. Wu You"? Where did the wine I sent? I took the crab in my left hand and walked around the garden for a few times. I was tired of holding the wine. The wine had not arrived yet. How could I eat crabs? Could it be that the wine was used to water the ground during spring plowing?

In normal history, Su Shi was also very happy during his exile in Huizhou and wrote a famous poem: "At the foot of Luofu Mountain, the spring season is spring, and Lu orange and plum blossoms are the first to be a new one. He ate 300 lychees a day, and he never gave up being a Lingnan person." At the same time, he also wrote to his friends that everything was fine when he lived here, and he hoped that his friends would not worry.

However, the real situation is: he is often hungry, and even his daily meals require this group of pilgrimage students to help him. There is even a modern view that the beautiful girl Chaoyun starved to death in Huizhou!

A generation of literary scholars still remained cheerful in this situation, which made people feel like this, and they couldn't help but cry and sing.

"Have Cheng Zhengfu been here?" Zhao Xing asked withstood sadness.

"I've been here," Cheng Shuang smiled, "When Master first came to Huizhou, he was worried about it and was depressed all day long. The disciple wanted to send someone to block it in advance, but Master Chaoyun laughed and said, "My husband is a great man, how can he be stumped by this little thing?"

The master asked his wife what wonderful method he had. Chao Yun smiled and said: People are not plants and trees, how can they be ruthless? When the master comes, he goes out to welcome him. As long as the master is not too stubborn, rely on his master's reputation and family affection to influence Cheng Xian, Cheng Xian will not be too embarrassed.

Chaoyun's wife's words made the master suddenly enlightened. The master immediately wrote a letter to tell Cheng Xian about his previous relationship, missing family affection, and also meant that he was in a situation where he was inconvenient to go to greet him. Cheng Xian was moved by the letter. He had already arrived not long ago."

Zhao Xing laughed. Cheng Zhengfu came to Su Shi directly after returning from Guangzhou, but no matter what, Cheng Zhengfu and Su Shi were relatives. In the Song Dynasty of the patriarchal society, the two could not kill each other. Zhang Dun was wrong now. He didn't understand this era even more than Zhao Xing.

"As soon as Dongpo was exiled to Hainan, the world dared not to be small Huizhou. Before Po Duke, who knew Huizhou? After Po Duke, who didn't know Huizhou? This is the power of 'culture'!" Zhao Xing said leisurely: "Ashuang, you said you wanted to 'sniper'... Don't say this again in the future. Thinking about the situation when I wanted to sniper, why should I fall into this situation today? But sniper cannot be used at will.

Everything has its own operating rules. Rules may not be good, but the rules are not good. You can ask for changes to the rules. However, before the rules are changed, we must maintain the rules, not breaking the rules. Otherwise, why do we have to change the rules? Because aren’t the changed rules also rules? Who will maintain the new rules we set? Rely on us rule breakers?

Xiaoshuang, don’t traverse that bottom line at will. No one has ever achieved great things by assassination—never! So, this weapon cannot be used at will. Otherwise, the final victim will be us... Look, this is what happened, it could have been solved well, but if we embarked on that final path... everything will be different!"

"The last road!"

Cheng Shuang remembered Zhao Xing's reminder and continued to explain: "When the master met Cheng Zhengfu, he told him: Guangzhou's military preparations were slack and the barracks were damaged, and the soldiers had to stay at the homes of the people, so that the people could not live in peace. The master hoped that Cheng Zhengfu would ask about this matter, and repeatedly reminded Cheng Zhengfu not to let others know that this matter was brought up by himself..."

Zhao Xing also smiled. Since he arrived in Guangzhou, he has built houses of migrant workers. Thanks to the bombing of mountains and stones, the residents now have lived in thick stone houses, and the living conditions of the soldiers have not improved at all. It is not that Zhao Xing didn't care about it, but that he sincerely made things difficult for the soldiers and waited for them to make their own retirement requests. But unexpectedly, Su Shi, a hopeless person, noticed this.

Su Shi was a criminal official and was under surveillance. The one who monitored him was the Xiang Army in Guangzhou. There were three armed forces in Guangzhou, the first one was the imperial guards, with 1,200 people; the second one was the Xiang Army, including the Xiang Army that had been moved over the years, with a total of 20,000 people. The remaining one was the civilian armed forces, called the gunmen.

Like the Shaanxi archers, these civil armed forces were in trouble. Because they did not have formal salary and were frequently dispatched, the rich gunmen often liked to spend money to recruit people to replace others. As a result, the word gunman later became synonymous with money to replace others in doing things.

Guangzhou is located in a remote area. The marching costs of the Xiang army arrived in Guangzhou alone can recruit countless gunmen in the local area. Therefore, the number of Xiang army in Guangzhou is not large, and it is ignored by officials at all levels, and even their barracks are too lazy to build. Su Shi himself relies on others to support his life, and he is still concerned about the housing problems of the Xiang army. This behavior is said to be kind in nature, and to be bad, it is said to be sympathetic.

Zhao Xing stood at the foot of the mountain and sighed, waved his hand. Cheng Shuang understood and led the way first. Zhao Xing followed behind and walked towards Su Shi's residence on the hillside.

Su Shi's exile reminded Zhao Xing of Huangzhou. The house he designed for Su Shi on the hillside was still painted white and named it the White Crane Snow House. Su Shi was a romantic person. Zhao Xing painted the walls pure and flawlessly. He was free and had painted the walls with graceful white cranes, making the whole room look like a holy land living in a group of cranes. The holy land was surrounded by scholars coming to pilgrimage.

The group of scholars looked at the people dressed in surprise as they walked up the hillside by several officials. Behind them was a team of soldiers with bright armor. These soldiers also walked on foot with their hands. Halfway through the walk, the soldiers had spontaneously dispersed and vaguely protected the entire hillside. The students could not see the origin of the team. When they saw the soldiers surrounding the hillside, they became panicked. They whispered. The brave student was about to step up and scold the military officer who came, but saw the man turning around and giving a few words to him. The soldiers immediately began to gather the team and stopped under the hillside.

The residence designed for Su Shi this time was an open house. The entire mountain was Su Shi's property, so there was no need to use the courtyard wall to seal the house. On the hillside, a pointed stone house stood up, with huge bright floor-to-ceiling windows, from which you could see the outside scene and the view of the entire mountain. When Zhao Xing was about to walk to the door, two people walked out of the door to greet him. Su Hui was the first, and Su Guo was following him.

Su Guo was obviously ordered by Su Xi. When he saw Zhao Xinglai, he did not call him his official title, but just bowed to greet him: "Brother Xing, the year is approaching, and you are not at home to accompany your wife and children, why are you willing to come to Huizhou?!"

Zhao Xing stood at the door, looked back at the view of Su Shi's residence, nodded with satisfaction, and then pointed to the house and told Cheng Shuang: "Build two rows of houses on both sides, one row into a lecture hall, let the teacher teach, and the other row into a dormitory-style house, so that the students who come here will spend their stay... How good is the teacher's life?"

The latter sentence was asked about Su Shi's two sons. Su Hui smiled bitterly, but there was no answer. Su Guo shook his head and said embarrassedly: "It's okay, the place where Lingnan exiled has such a good living environment. I have already thanked Brother Xing for his care, but I don't have enough food and my father is still not full."

Su Shi was a person who was very loyal to his friends. His own life was entirely due to his disciples' support, but as long as guests came, he would definitely entertain him warmly. Those students who came to visit him often enjoyed his entertainment. There were too many people visiting him, and as a result, the students' funding dropped from the drop in the bucket, which made him and his family often hungry.

Zhao Xing nodded and replied: "I just went to meet the governor of Huizhou Zhan Fan and planned to build a dock in the bay so that ships can dock. Once the dock is completed, I will dispatch 30,000 people to Huizhou to enrich Huizhou's household registration. When my dock is completed, the teacher will not have to worry about food. Now please bear with it... Please inform the teacher and I will visit you."

Su Hui turned around and Su Guo talked with Zhao Xing about their coming to Huizhou. Huizhou was a small number of people and thalassinate. The government routinely killed a sheep every ten days. The mutton was purchased by official officials of the government. Criminal officials like Su Shi had the only power to buy sheep bones. During his exile in Huizhou, Su Shi happily recorded his anxious mood in waiting for the market to kill sheep, and talked about using his talents to renovate the sheep bones and sheep, making various flavors of delicacies. For this reason, he also wrote many poems to boast about his talents.

A literary master of a generation has devoted all his talent to thinking about how to make food. After hearing Su Guo’s story, Zhao Xing, as a person of this era, had fever on both cheeks.

After a while, Su Xu welcomed him and invited Zhao Xing to go in: "The legitimate father is giving lectures. The empress asked Brother Xing to go to the central hall to rest first. She said she was cooking and Brother Xing was not an outsider, so she would not come out to greet him."

While walking into the house, Zhao Xing asked curiously: "Why, have you hired a few servants to serve the teacher?"

Su Hui smiled bitterly, turned his face and did not answer Zhao Xing's stupid question.

The criminal officials are not allowed to hire servants. This is a hidden rule in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty. The mountain of Zhao Xing was bought by Cheng Shuang. Hiring servants to serve the manor was also carried out in the name of Cheng Shuang. It is not convenient for Su Shi's home to hire people directly, so Wang Chaoyun had to cook in person to take care of Su Shi's diet, and sometimes he had to take care of the diet of dozens of students.

At this time, Wang Chaoyun had officially become Su Shi's wife, but she was not Su Su Guo's legitimate mother, so the way they called her unconsciously adopted the word "Empress". Before the Song Dynasty, this word was used by servants to call the hostess, but after the Song Dynasty, it became the term "Empress" in the palace.

Su Hui did not explain Zhao Xing's mistake in detail, but he had Wan Qi Yong around him. Wan Qi Yong whispered to Zhao Xing: "Do you remember Lu Huiqing? Did he not hire servants when he was placed in Mizhou? Mr. Su's current situation seems to be like Lu Huiqing at that time."

Zhao Xing understood, and he grinned. Can this little threshold stop him? He quickly ordered Cheng Shuang: "Hurry to recruit a few smart and diligent servants from Japan and let them serve the master."

The Song Dynasty did not allow criminal officials to hire servants, but we couldn't resist having slaves. Zhao Xing had many slaves under his name. Who would blame him if he sent Su Shi a few slaves? After three years, the slaves had to restore their freedom, and Zhao Xing would send another batch of them.

As he was speaking, Su Hui came over and invited: "Brother Xing, the legitimate father has finished his studies, please come over."

Zhao Xing raised his foot and left. After walking two steps, he suddenly remembered something. He took off his official hat, untied his belt, took off his official robe, and went to see Su Shi in the underwear in the official robe. When Su Shi saw Zhao Xing's appearance, he smiled. He didn't care about Zhao Xing's image and was in a mess. He sat on a chair and accepted Zhao Xing's teacher's courtesy. Then he pointed to the three people in the room and introduced: "This is Zhang Huimeng, a student from Yangzhou. These two are from Hainan. This is Jiang Tangyou and Fu Yuanqing."

The three students frowned and looked at the untidy man who broke into the hall. When everyone's eyes moved to the official boots on Zhao Xing's feet, they understood and quickly stood up and bowed to Zhao Xing: "Sir, students are waiting."

If Zhao Xing wore an official uniform to meet Su Dongpo, the criminal official Su Dongpo would welcome Zhao Xing with the etiquette of paying homage to Shangguan according to the rules. But Zhao Xing took off his official uniform and came to meet Su Dongpo with a cow-nosed pants and sweatshirts, that would be different. Su Dongpo did not have to salute Zhao Xing, but Zhao Xing could salute Su Shi. This scene made Su Dongpo very proud. What he was most proud of in his life was his exile life in Huangzhou. That period was not only the peak of his creation in his life, but also won Zhao Xing, a loyal student who had no regrets and was willing to follow him to the ends of the world.

The proud Su Dongpo still couldn't change his big mouth temper. Zhao Xing came to see Su Shi in casual clothes. The whole process was not reported, but Su Dongpo reported for him: "This is my student... what should I call you? Is it? "Imperial City Envoy, Baowen Pavilion Bachelor, except for Guangnan East Road, and the military commander of the General Road, and the Strategic Instructor of the Goufufu Company; the deputy envoy of the Transport of the Power of Jiangnan and the capital raised the money minting in Guangnan East Road and Guangnan West Road; the official of the Central Fengfu, the General Attendant of the Right Sanqi'."

After reporting Zhao Xing's long list of official names, he smacked his lips and felt that he had not missed anything. He added: "The former student of my school was the Huanqing Road recruitment envoy. It was him and Zhang Qi who fought against the Western Xia army alone, and even counterattacked and entered the Western Xia territory. It's a pity..."

Zhao Xing hurriedly interrupted Su Shi's words: "Teacher, Zhang Zhifu Zhang has also arrived in Guangzhou and is currently the governor of Guangzhou. He asked me to bring a few bottles of wine to congratulate the teacher on the New Year."

When Su Shi heard the wine, he sucked it in his mouth a few times and said regretfully: "It's a pity that there is wine but no meat."

Zhao Xing quickly stood up and replied: "The student has ridden hundreds of horses. The teacher wants to eat them. The student will order someone to slaughter them!"

"Nonsense!" Su Shi scolded sternly: "Your entourage is riding precious Dayuan sweat-blooded horses. How can you slaughter me? If this is spread, am I a sinner?"

Zhao Xing grinned and joked: "Teacher, aren't you and I now sinners?"

Su Shi was stunned and laughed loudly, shaking his head while laughing, tears flowed out of his eyes: "You, my master and disciple gather together in Lingnan, but I didn't expect that you and I became sinners."
Chapter completed!