Chapter 292 Armed
Zhao Xing and the others were talking about "doing hands immediately", but in fact they could not complete the work of dispatching troops immediately. Because there is a rainy season problem in the tropical areas.
Even if Zhao Xing and the others immediately issued an order, and waited for them to dispatch their troops, prepare materials and weapons, and arrange their attacks, the rainy season also came. Under these ancient marching conditions, the task of marching and fighting could not be completed in the long rainy season. The Vietnam War in the United States suffered losses from the rainy season. The modern American army was like this in the 20th century, and it was impossible to achieve a rainy season offensive in the Song Dynasty.
The attack by force must be affected by the climate, but psychological warfare is not required. After Zhao Xing and Shuai Fan discussed it properly, a large literary and artistic team immediately sent to Dali. In name, they will arrive at Shanchan Mansion on the Zhengdan to attend the opening ceremony of the bell tower of the Song Chamber of Commerce Hall of Shanchan Mansion. Then, taking advantage of the festive lunar month to carry out a patrol in Dali. Every place they go, they will show the rhythm of the Song culture to Dali people...
This literary and artistic team was led by Liao Xiaoxiao himself and set off the next day. On the night before leaving, Zhao Xing stayed in Liao Xiaoxiao. Not to mention how he planned a conspiracy in Liao Xiaoxiao's room, Wang Ying and Dong Bi, the two inspectors left Zhao Xing's Guangzhou mansion in shame. Wang Ying rolled his eyes and stood at the door for a long time. Dong Bi did not leave, but stood at the door to enjoy the street view of Guangzhou.
Since Li Gefei took office, Zhao Xing has begun to rectify the streets of Guangzhou. Each street has been widened into a cement avenue that can accommodate four carriages, and a pedestrian auxiliary road has been added beside the main road. After the new road is repaired, the biggest change is the change in transportation. It turns out that most people walk on the streets of Guangzhou, and occasionally some people ride in sedan chairs, but now, wheels have become the main means of transportation.
Most local wealthy families like to buy a four-wheeled carriage, or drive it by themselves, or find a coachman to help drive it away. Even the sedan chair is now installed on the wheels. A single-wheeled carriage is now popular on the streets of Guangzhou. This sedan chair looks like a special stunt wheelbarrow used in modern circuses. It is placed on it, and two sedan rods pass through under the seat. It does not take much effort for the sedan chair to carry this sedan chair. As long as two people in front and back control the direction, they can push the single-wheeled carriage to run quickly.
The two inspectors stood in front of Zhao Xing's mansion. The sound of wheels in their ears, and carriages and single-wheeled sedan chairs passed by each other from time to time. The sleeves of the people on the wheel were fluttering, revealing the busy scene in front of the two inspectors, which further sank the idleness of the two officials.
Dong Bi was stunned for a while. Seeing that Wang Ying was still stunned, he sighed and said, "Brother Wang. I was wrong that day. I didn't know that Zhao Anfu actually regarded his family as the government, so we came to the door... Alas, it's fine, let me tell you. I almost couldn't come out of Hainan alive today..."
Dong Bi was nagging about his thrilling experience in Hainan. Wang Ying rolled his eyes and listened for a long time, suddenly interrupted him and interrupted, "Brother Dong is so unrighteous. If something happened, he ran away... Forget it, do you remember that Lu Huiqing covered up his defeat last year and was promoted to the title instead?"
Dong Bi replied: "Of course I remember that all the ministers of the court were talking about it. The Xixia people captured our Jinming Village. Why did Lu Huiqing still regard it as a merit and report it to the court? At that time, you were still saying: Is Lu Huiqing from Xixia or Song? He reported it to our court, and did he regard our court as the Song court or the Xixia court?"
Wang Ying replied depressedly: "But Mr. Zhang admitted that Lu Huiqing was a meritorious."
Dong Bi sighed and said, "Yes, I heard that the officials heard Zhang Xianggong's decision and were also saying: Zhang Qing takes care of Lu Huiqing."
Wang Ying rolled her eyes: "Do you think Mr. Zhang will take care of Zhao Liren?"
Dong Bi choked and hesitated for a long time. He replied: "It seems... that Mr. Zhang treats Zhao Liren more affection than Lu Huiqing. If others take care of Mr. Su like this, Mr. Zhang has long turned aside. But he ignored Zhao Liren - nothing else. Mr. Zhao Liren is good at making money.
Now, disasters have occurred in various places for years. The imperial treasury has been empty, and Changping (national grain reserve warehouse) has also come to an end. Mr. Zhang has to rely on Zhao Liren's money to rescue him and rely on the food he cultivated in Guangdong... Lu Huiqing lost a Jinming village, and Mr. Zhang can cover up his defeat as a victory... Zhao Liren raised troops to destroy a country without authorization. Mr. Zhang has never punished him for half a sentence - he was also promoted."
Wang Ying nodded and said while taking a step, "Wenxun is not upright, it can't be coaxed with a little money, but he has to live alone now... I have figured out this period of time. It's not that Wenxun is not worried about national affairs, but it's useless to say anything. No matter how he says bad things about Zhao Liren, the court thinks he farts. Guangnan can only support more than a thousand troops, and the southern troops are not able to fight. Will the court be afraid that Zhao Liren will rebel? Now he is conquering everywhere, and the more enemies he makes in Nanyang, the less afraid the court is. As long as the court receives money, it will not matter whose country he destroys."
When Wang Ying said this, he glanced at Dong Bi again and added: "...Of course, the court also regards your life and death as a big deal."
When Dong Bi heard this, he felt a chill from his tailbone to his neck, and it rushed into his mind in an instant. He blinked his eyes and said with lingering fear: "So that's it. It turns out that you and I are coming to Guangnan to die. As long as you offend Zhao Liren and fulfill Zhang Xianggong's wish, that adult might treat us as a favor and give us punishment to Zhao Liren to reduce Zhao Laohu's anger."
Wang Ying nodded: "I have been thinking about how lazy Wenxun is so lazy during this period. I only figured it out a few days ago - Zhao Liren is sinister. He would rather put us on the surface, be trembling and live like years, than deal with a new missionary. So we are still alive - life is worse than death, living in obedience and living in lingeringness, and living in lingering life. Every day we live, we must please the tiger, otherwise he will die without a place of burial..."
When Wang Ying said this, he pointed his finger at the direction of the sea. Dong Bi had a deep understanding of this. The thrilling experience had already made him know that Zhao Xing wanted someone to sink to the bottom of the sea, which was a wink. As long as he expressed his dissatisfaction with the two inspectors, a large group of people would pant and rush towards them with their tongues, fearing that they would not be able to please the tiger if they were too late.
Dong Bi sighed to the sky: "Forget it, I'm drunk today... Brother Wang heard that Guangdong has a lot of money for land, but I didn't receive much money in Guangxi. Today I'll come to your place and eat yours! Tell me, where can we buy drunk today?"
Wang Ying sighed: "They are both people who have fallen into the world... Forget it. I originally thought that what is terrible in Lingnan was miasma. Now it seems that miasma is not scary, but the terrible part is that tiger. That tiger is ten times more terrible than miasma... Let's go to the 'Spring River', 'Flower Moon Night'. We go to that place to drink for the darkness, drink for the day and night, drink for the evening of day and night, drink for the evening of it..."
When Dong Bi heard this, he looked happy and shouted: "It turns out that Brother Wang is still qualified to go to that place. I wonder if we are going to "Chunjiang" or "Flower Moon Night"?"
"Spring River Flower Moon Night" is a large entertainment venue rebuilt by Zhao Xing after he renovated Guangzhou. It is divided into "Spring River Garden" and "Flower Moon Night". These two gardens are beautifully shaped, among which "Flower Moon Night" is a comprehensive entertainment venue for civilians and officials and gentry, with a total of twelve courtyards. Each courtyard is named after the month, such as "February Garden", "Qiuyue Garden", etc.
These courtyards have their own system, such as "July Garden", where the plantings are various plants and fragrant grass in July. The entire "July Garden" has eight independent small buildings, each small building is named after a plant in the month. Among these eight small buildings, there is the "Pear Blossom Tower", which mainly performs dramas, and "Sakura Tower" that performs puppet shows and sumo wrestling performances, etc.
In every independent courtyard, the most famous building is called "Yuekui Tower". This Yuekui Tower lives in the courtyard (the top singer). Because these courtyards are elegant and unique in style, you need to make an appointment in advance if you want to climb Yuekui Tower. Not only are you rich and powerful, you must have the power to monopolize Yuekui Tower - because each Yuekui Tower only welcomes a group of guests a day, and it costs huge money to book the entire Yuekui Tower, because the supply is in short supply, and you can't do it alone.
This is the case with "Flower Moon Night", but "Chunjiangyuan" is simply not to the public. It adopts the club membership system adopted by the six famous buildings of Bianliang, and members are either not welcomed by members at all. The members of "Chunjiangyuan" are either maritime merchants with a net worth of tens of millions of dollars in the Song Dynasty, or officials of fifth rank or above in Guangnan - they must be rich officials.
This large comprehensive entertainment venue rose after Guangzhou. It is not that the local raiders (rogues) in Guangzhou don’t want to get a piece of the pie, but this yard is backed by Zhao Laohu, who is determined to create a unique elegant style and kill all the rogues who are trying to get involved. Since then, "Spring River Moon Night" has become a high-quality entertainment venue in Guangzhou. People who consume here are not worried about provoking hooligans, nor are they worried about whispering commercial secrets to be eavesdropped on. According to legend, the boss behind these two yards is the biggest hooligan in Guangdong.
Others don’t know who the boss behind these two yards is. The two inspectors know that their profession is to inspect. According to the information they found out, Zhao Xing’s concubine Liao Xiaoxiao holds 10% of the shares here, and Cai Jing also holds 10% of the local shares. The remaining shareholders are local marine merchants in Guangzhou, as well as some officials, gentry and generals from Guangdong and Guangxi.
The garden designs of these two yards were designed by Cai Jing. Cai Jing strives for perfection. Cai Jing, who is very fond of merit, designed an ideal garden with a large area. Zhao Xing relied on his strong financial resources to help Cai Jing realize this dream, but Cai Jing has never been here.
Because of this special background, Guangzhou officials like to hang out in the "Spring River Moon Night". According to the customs of the officialdom, they discuss business affairs during banquets and chat and laugh...
Dong Bi hurriedly came to Guangdong last time and didn't have time to see the garden. Now Wang Ying is leading the way. He looks around and keeps admiring, just like Liu Laolao entering the Grand View Garden.
With his fifth-rank official uniform on his body, Wang Ying walked into the garden smoothly and walked in. Each courtyard gate had a door. Wang Ying was thinking about how to get in when he suddenly found a man in green who covered his face with a fan and walked hurriedly with his head down. He quickly reached out and greeted: "Brother Wen, Brother Wen, I'm here, I've seen you."
Wang Ying ran to Wenxun in a green hat and asked with a smile, "Brother Wen, why are you dressed like this and visiting the garden? I remember that Guangdong didn't prohibit officials from coming here for banquets and enjoying the scenic scenery of the garden. Why did Brother Wen change into this casual outfit?"
Wenxun took off the fan that covered his face, smiled awkwardly, and was thinking about the words, Dong Bi also chased him. When Wang Ying saw his companion follow, he didn't expect Wenxun to answer. He simply smiled and crawled up along the pole, and said with a smile: "Brother Wen, there is 'December' in front of him, and Brother Wen is also planning to go to the yard of 'December'. I don't know which flower building to go to? Xiaguan felt that there were few companions to play with, so I might as well go with Brother Wen and get some part."
After Wang Ying said this, Dong Bi understood that Wang Ying was not familiar with this place. He went here to bring in acquaintances to eat together - modern times call this behavior "eating for free."
Too embarrassing!
Dong Bi's family is rich. After thinking about Wang Ying's actions, he was so embarrassed that he wanted to find a crack in the ground to get in. Wenxun, the opposite side, turned his eyes and seemed to have made a decision. He patted the fan on his palm twice. He said thoughtfully: "You both are here..., okay, I'll take you there, but what you see and hear today should not be said randomly?"
Wen Xun said this. Wang Ying's "broken inquiries" eyes lit up and looked at Dong Bi. In his eyes, all Dong Bi found words such as "outdoor room", "miss wife", "small girl", etc., but he did not see his own eyes. In fact, Wang Ying also saw these words in Dong Bi's eyes.
Wenxun opened the fan with a silence, continued to cover his face with the fan, and walked into "December" with his head down. Seeing the direction of Wenxun walking, Wang Ying and Dong Bi were surprised and happy, and murmured in their hearts: "It turned out to be Yuekui Tower. Could this guy have taken over Yuekui in December?"
Walking to the vicinity of Yuekui Tower in the twelfth lunar month, Dong Bi found that if Wenxun didn't lead the way, the two of them would really not be able to get close to this building. I saw many men in red dress walking near Yuekui Tower. These men had armed belts on their waists, knives, and pistols, staring at each person approaching with vigilance. Wang Ying knew the dress of this group of people. This was the famous "Demon-Suspending Army" in Guangdong, and they were all "generals".
Awesome! It's so awesome!!! It's so awesome!!!
The "Demon-Suspending Army" saw Wenxun from afar. He nodded and bowed to the "Zhumao-bearing" of the Transportation Office. After making the way, Wang Ying and Dong Bi shook each other while walking. The eyes were full of admiration: This person is so angry that he is so angry. Look at this person who comes to pay for prostitutes. Even when he comes to visit prostitutes, he is "armed prostitutes". He mobilized so many troops in advance to surround the yard he was going to. This is simply too powerful.
Following Wenxun, the two inspectors walked into the small building. Suddenly, singing, dancing, music, and soft laughter of the dancers, silk strings, mixed with the fragrance of flowers, powder, and a faint mint fragrance, came to their faces. The Yuekui Tower, hidden under the shade of the tree, seemed to be a laughing elf, making people feel itchy.
When they entered the door, the two inspectors found that there were a few guests inside. They were teasing the genius and listening to the genius' singing. This kind of singing is an ambiguous one-on-one singing, which means that the genius stands beside you, or sits on your lap and sings in a low voice, only for you to listen to.
There were six people in the hall, one of which was Li Gefei. When he saw Wenxun coming in, he raised his hand and saw the two inspectors behind Wenxun. He was stunned for a moment and stopped waving his hands.
Next to Li Gefei is Liao Zhengyi, the governor of Lianzhou. These two are one of the "Four Bachelors of the Later Sumen" and are also classmates of the Imperial College, so they sit very close to each other. A female artist next to Li Gefei is showing him a painting. The ink brushes on the table in front of them are all there. It seems that the female artist has just painted on the spot and presented it to Li Gefei for appreciation...
Next to Liao Zhengyi was a lonely old man (a male musician who talked about crosstalk). The lonely old man looked at him with a singing technique and chanted a storybook to Liao Zhengyi, but there was a noise around him, and the two people who investigated and investigated could not hear what was raping.
The two men were attacking a man. The man was about forty or fifty years old. A female technician sat on one side of his knees. One was feeding him with a glass of wine, and the other female technician twisted his waist on his legs and performed a snake dance. The man was still very active. When he heard the movement at the door, he pushed away the twisting maki, and showed a face from the crack of the man, opening his mouth to say hello to the person who came, but when he saw the person clearly, he opened his mouth and couldn't speak.
When the two inspectors saw the man's face, their hair stood up. They pointed at the man with their fingers, their lips trembled, and they couldn't speak for a long time. In the end, Wang Ying first reacted. He jumped and shouted, "Why are you? You are so brave. How dare you be here? You are still 'armed prostitutes'..."
With a swish, Wenxun closed the fan and gently tapped the two archivists' straight arms one by one, knocked them down gently, and then opened the fan again with a swish, saying calmly: "What are you panic? Dong Chawen, Wang Chawen, it's convenient for others, and you are convenient for yourself, why should you be serious? Sit, come, please sit down."
The two inspectors were stunned for a long time and slowly came to their senses. Wang Ying said first: "Qin Guan, Qin Shaoyou, I only saw the report from the official in your resettlement area last month, saying that you are in poor health, have a bad appetite, and are depressed all day long - I think you have a good appetite!"
Li Gefei slapped the table and replied with a smile: "Of course he has a bad appetite, he has a bad appetite."
Wang Ying lowered his eyes and was stunned for a moment. He turned to the man sitting in the first seat. This man was whispering to the genius. There was a pile of fruit on the table of the two men, and a pot of fragrant tea. The teapot was the kind of glass pot invented by Zhao Xing.
Wang Ying took a breath and continued, "Huang Tingjian, Huang Luzhi, I only saw the news of the fast horse report this morning, saying that you were in Huizhou's resettlement and were eating sour horns with your neighbors, teaching his children - Huizhou is afraid it will take more than one day to get away from here. You will never arrive faster than the imperial letter delivered by the fast horse, right?"
Liao Zheng waved his hand and interrupted the singing beside him, slapped the table, and roared in a low voice: "What's the noise? I'm here to come to Yuekui Tower today, what's wrong? Who wants to feel uncomfortable? This is Huang Luzhi. Chao Buzhi is sitting down below, and Zhang Lei is here. All Su Jun disciples are here, and there is still one left. He is staying in the Guangdong Naval Army Yamen office. What's wrong? Are the two inspectors dissatisfied with anything?"
Chapter completed!