"Sir, General Zhang and others have already set off the camp and set off directly for Guangzhou as they wish."

On the deck outside the cabin, Qiu Shang whispered to Jia Sidao to report.

"Well, I've given all the money to them?"

"I have given all the money. The general told General Zhang that if the prefectures and counties along the way cannot provide supplies, they will be resolved on the spot and purchased on their own."

Jia Sidao nodded and said nothing.

"Sir, the things in Fujian are... like this... just like this..."

"It's over like this? Haha, otherwise what else can it be? I can't beheaded Wu Liang directly, right?"

Jia Sidao smiled.

"Actually, this is good. I have thought carefully on the boat these days. Now it seems that I was too ideal at first. Things in Guangdong are not decided, and there are many constraints in the court. If I hadn't been to Qingyuan Mansion, I believe that the Maritime Office of Qingyuan Mansion would be a person that my grandmother and uncle don't like. In fact, anyone with a discerning eye can see what the ultimate goal of Maritime Office is. I have not made any move before, but I just want to see my joke."

"Look at a joke by the adults?"

"As the saying goes, cutting off people's wealth is like digging people's ancestral graves. The Maritime Bureau extends its tentacles to the canal transportation and foreign countries' transactions, and is not taken seriously by many people. But I also asked the emperor to get the right to have the right to have the salt and iron franchise. This has cut off how many people's wealth? Since the founding of the Song Dynasty, the Sansi envoy has been specializing in salt and iron. The power of canal transportation has been agreed upon for hundreds of years. How many people in the court and the country have relied on the Sansi envoy to have silver?"

"But the power of the salt and iron franchise was handed over to the emperor. The Sansi Envoy himself responded to it. If he was unwilling to do so, he would not accept it? Anyway, the Sansi Envoy has disobeyed the emperor's orders for many years."

Qiu Shang's words surprised Jia Sidao.

But it’s right to think about it. Since Qiu Shang is the imperial guard of the inner palace, he usually has people from the inner palace guarding inside and outside the imperial city. I think there are many things I know earlier than outside.

"Now the war is in chaos, the Sansi Envoy controls the wealth and power of our Song Dynasty for many years. Natural disasters, man-made disasters, military affairs and civil affairs, and money is needed everywhere. If I, the Maritime Commission, came out to share the burden for them, they naturally would be eager to do so. What's more, I promised the Emperor how much money I have to hand over to the court every year. They can solve the huge trouble with just one attitude, not to mention that the Maritime Commission robbed the Sansi Envoy, so naturally there were those who made a fortune by the Sansi Envoy. The Sansi Envoy only needed to give an official promise, so why not do it?"

Perhaps it was because I had been on the boat for too long and had thought too much, so Jia Sidao obviously talked a lot.

Such things are obviously more meaningful to Ding Daquan or Hong Wenhao, but there are many things. Perhaps the martial artists like Qiu Shang cannot understand the profound meaning, but fortunately, what Jia Sidao needs is only an audience.

Many things, when he looked at the people at this time from the perspective of later generations, or he naturally looked at or even despised the officials and officials inside and outside the Song Dynasty court with a condescending eye. Naturally, he was far more sophisticated than those people in any aspect, but he never thought that he was the little monkey who was ignorant of the sky and the earth in the eyes of everyone.

Perhaps in the eyes of the officials in the Sansi Envoy's yamen, no matter how Jia Sidao tossed, he would never be unable to escape the palm of the Sansi Envoy's hand in the end.

It is possible that he had never heard Jia Sidao say these things before, but Qiu Shang didn't react at all for a moment and was a little stunned.

"You go and tell General Hong, speed up and rush to Guangzhou with all your might."

Fortunately, Jia Sidao did not expect Qiu Shang to respond, interrupted Qiu Shang's entanglement and said with a smile.

"I will obey the order."

Hearing Jia Sidao's words, Qiu Shang suddenly felt like he was granted a general amnesty. He quickly bowed and responded. He turned around and ran away, as if he was about to get off the boat.

Many people, including Qiu Shang, actually didn't notice that Liu Ru had no idea when she disappeared on the boat.

"Wu Liang, Wu Liang! Hehe, Wu Liang."

Jia Sidao patted the guardrail in front of him and said with a smile.

...

During the stuttering, the Song Dynasty finally survived the second year of Jiaxi and entered the third year of Jiaxi.

During the New Year, all the responsibilities of the three provinces and six ministries and departments rarely entered the vacation mode. Throughout the year, all kinds of complex personnel, finance, and political affairs were basically concluded before the 30th day.

From the thirty to the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, Lin'an City has truly entered a lively and prosperous festive celebration.

From the three ministers and nine ministers to the peddlers and pawns, whether they wish or not, they will relax themselves well within half a month, visiting others, visiting relatives and friends, visiting teachers and greeting elders. At this time, ordinary common people in common will be no different from royal relatives and minor officials in writing.

However, this year's New Year is destined to be different from previous years.

On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, all walks of life in Lin'an City have begun to arrange the annual Lantern Festival. Vendors and barons from all over the world, opera troupes from all over the streets and alleys, and artists have already begun to gather towards Lin'an City one after another when the New Year Festival was just on the seventh and eighth day of the lunar month.

The people and merchants in Lin'an City have also begun to hang lanterns of different shapes in front of their respective doors, praying for good luck in the coming year.

The entire Lin'an City is filled with joy and satisfaction of the New Year.

Ordinary people are always the most forgetful and easiest to satisfy. It seems that the ******* and even the wars on the frontier that happened last year have all gone away.

The people are so lively, and even more so in the imperial city.

The enthronement ceremony of Prince Zhao Wei has just passed more than a month, and Meng Gong has achieved an unprecedented victory in Caizhou. Zhang Rou also failed in Caizhou. Someone wrote a letter to ask Zhao Yun for Zhang Rou's head and body. Although Zhao Kui's Huainan East Road has been full of war since the twelfth lunar month, there is a natural chasm of the Huai River and Zhao Kui is in charge, which does not make the court and the country worry too much.

For Zhao Yun, the first half of the second year of Jiaxi was difficult for him, and with the successful birth of the crown prince Zhao Wei, it seemed that even the national destiny of the Song Dynasty began to change. Therefore, Zhao Yun, who has regarded Zhao Wei as his lucky star, attached great importance to the first Lantern Festival since Zhao Wei was born.

Therefore, as early as the seventh and eighth day of the lunar month, the entire imperial city began to be busy, and countless eunuchs and palace maids began to be arranged under the leadership of Dong Songchen and Lu Yunsheng.

Zhao Yun, who has always maintained a frugal habit because of the difficult situation in the court, was a rare luxury. The treasury was not enough, and even a rare request for a sum of silver from the Minister of Revenue Xie Jubo. Xie Jubo was also rare without saying a word, so he offered the full amount of silver from the Ministry of Revenue warehouse to Zhao Yun, which made Zhao Yun happy.

But Zhao Yun's long face obviously won't be happy for too long.

On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month, the entire Lin'an City was still in the festive atmosphere of the New Year, but the Song Dynasty was anxious because of an urgent report from the Sichuan commander Zhao Rongrui.

Duanming Palace, Li Zongmian, Shi Songzhi, Li Mingfu and the six ministers all gathered together, and everyone had a little heavy face.

"Everyone tell me, how should I deal with this matter?"

Zhao Yun, wearing a robe on the dragon chaise, rubbed his forehead and said weakly.

The cause of the matter is not complicated. The urgent report sent by the Sichuan commander Zhao Rongrui was an urgent request for reinforcements.

The four Mongolian mastiffs, one of the ten heroes, Subutai, suddenly commanded a 200,000 army at the junction of Lizhou Road and Guanzhong. Since the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, the 200,000 army of Subutai divided into three groups, passing through Ziwu Valley, Luo Gu, and Xigu, and crossing the Qinling Mountains. In just over ten days, more than 30 cities of Lizhou Road were successively crossed, sweeping over half of Lizhou Road, and the peak of the military peak pointed directly to Xingyuan Prefecture, the capital of Lizhou Road (later Hanzhong).

Once Lizhou falls, Mianzhou (later generation Shaanxi Lueyang) adjacent to Lizhou will become an isolated city, the Han River will become a smooth road, and there will be many choices for the army that is fast-paced.

Lower. You can directly follow the Han River to capture Junzhou (the Danjiangkou, Hubei), and then directly threaten Xiangyang, the important border town of the Song Dynasty today; above, you can directly and easily take Mianzhou in the upper reaches of the Jialing River; in front, you can drive along the Jialing River and attack Lizhou (the later generations of Guangyuan, Sichuan), Bazhou Bazhou (the later generations of Bazhong, Sichuan), and Dazhou (the later generations of Dazhou, Sichuan).

It can be said that Xingyuan Mansion moves the whole body with one move.

Even when the Song Dynasty was the most difficult time against Mongolia, it never caused Xingyuan Prefecture to fall once. It was precisely because once the Xingyuan Prefecture, a key area, was lost, the Song Dynasty would not only face the Mongols in Sichuan, but also completely fell into an absolute disadvantage. Not to mention the situation in the southwest, the entire southwest was collapsed. More importantly, only Xingyuan Prefecture had enough piers and ships that could be used by the unfamiliar Mongolian army.

Once Taiwan captures Xingyuan Prefecture, the collapse of the war situation in the southwest of the Song Dynasty will no longer be the only one in the battle situation in the southwest of the Song Dynasty. Even Meng Gong's Jinghu Prefecture will face threats from behind at any time.

Because no one knows when the Mongols would go straight to Xiangyang along the Han River.

The collapse of the war in the southwest of Sichuan will at most make the Song Dynasty a little worried. However, if Xiangyang is in trouble, it means that the Mongolians have put a sharp sword on the throat of the Song Dynasty. From Xiangyang City to Lin'an City, the terrain is dull and will no longer have any obstacles to the Mongolians. The elite Mongols' cavalry can choose to easily sweep the entire Jiangnan land whenever they are in a good mood or are not good.

The fertile land in Jiangnan was the foundation and important place of the Southern Song Dynasty court. If something happened in Jiangnan, the Southern Song Dynasty court was not far from the destruction of the country.

What's more, the bald snow on the north bank of Huainan East Road has also changed from the previous appearance of the mud, as if I had taken spring and medicine, and now I am still catching Zhao Kui's Huainan East Road and biting it.

The east and west ends of the Song Dynasty seemed to have made an appointment as long ago, and they advanced together and attacked the Song Dynasty at the same time.
Chapter completed!