Chapter 207 Belated Revenge

Zhao Xing hesitated for a moment and replied vaguely: "Today my concubine is introductory...Mr. Mengxi, my concubine has been waiting for a long time. I will talk about the parabola later. What I need now is to hold people instead of throwing them away. Let's talk about it again, how about it?"

A stiff smile appeared on Shen Kuo's face, and he used his actions instead of answering - turning his head and Shen Kuo called out to the two Japanese girls: "Come on the lamp, get closer."

Shen Kuo no longer bothered about this topic, Zhao Xing breathed a sigh of relief. He used a color towards Yuan Yeping, and the two of them left the room without saying a word.

As soon as he left the door, Yuan Yeping blurted out: "I said why..."

The huge echo in the corridor scared Yuan Yeping. He said things casually in his usual tone, but it seemed like a shout in the corridor. After discovering the mistake, Yuan Yeping closed his mouth tightly. When he walked into another reception room with Zhao Xing, he let out a sigh and hummed softly in a child-like voice: "I said why are our cannons not accurate? It turns out that there is still this truth when aiming - Wangshan should be level with the muzzle, not the muzzle sight."

Zhao Xing shook his head: "You are wrong. It is definitely aiming between Wangshan and Wangshan. However, we chose the mathematical model between Wangshan and Wangshan, so we were not accurate in calculating... What Shen Kuo said just now made me understand: We were wrong. The height of the quasi-center should not be measured from the mouth of the barrel. Because the pipe wall is thick and thin, the shape of the quasi-centered star and Wangshan is not in a "argument difference". Because the difference in bronze composition leads to different shrinkage rates, the thickness of each barrel of the barrel is different, so we cannot standardize Wangshan.

This situation is not a problem with the gun, because after all, the gun is not far away, and it becomes a big problem with the cannon. There is a gap of "a little" on the mountain. The shells may be 100 meters away when they are shot out. This is why. Now I understand, his words have made me fully understand the relationship between the mountain and the sight. This has made our mountain scale suddenly get rid of empiricism... Very good, this is a treasure."

Yuan Yeping understood what Zhao Xing meant and immediately replied: "I will keep an eye on him."

Zhao Xing smiled bitterly, touched his forehead and said, "I don't seem to agree to you to come back. If you are back, what should I do in Mizhou?"

Yuan Yeping smiled, smiling charmingly. He half-covered his mouth and smiled brightly: "Do you still have to worry about Mizhou? Your...'Operation Methods of Joint Stock Company' - Yes, it's this name. Your rigorous needle of your 'Operation Methods of Joint Stock Company' can't even insert it. Mizhou merchants see the benefits, and they are afraid that mistakes will occur during the implementation process, which will make others take advantage of loopholes, which will affect their own income. They are very conscious of the maintenance of that set of rules, and you and I don't have to worry about you."

There is only one benefit of commercial civilization. Its trading principles are fair. As long as a framework is established, the people in the framework will do their best to discover the maximum benefits of the system. Once the businessmen in the framework begin to rise, it is no longer possible for one or two people to shake this framework.

Yuan Yeping said this. Zhao Xing had no choice but to spread his hands and replied: "I have moved the house now, and there are no vacant staff everywhere. You may have to make do with the night today. When you choose a house under the castle tomorrow, you will be able to settle it. In addition, after this, I plan to train a group of patriarchs - recruited from Huangzhou, Huainan. People say that the Huainan people are brave. If you help me train five hundred patriarchs, you will not interfere in the matter of suppressing bandits."

Yuan Yeping stood up and banged Zhao Xing outward. He said resentfully: "Go and go, go play with your concubine. This place is very good. If you ask someone to bring a blanket, I will make do with you in this room for one night."

When Zhao Xing went out, the two black women stood in the corridor carrying lights, bowed to salute him. They reported to Zhao Xing in Arabic: "Master, we have patrolled the floors, and the entire building has fallen into a deep sleep. Do you need to look at it again?"

Zhao Xing smiled and waved his hand to order: "Release the dog and cat, and ask the yard to close the door and blackmail, so you can rest as well."

The corridor in this building is a huge echo corridor. Zhao Xing took off his shoes, twisted his shoes in his hand, walked quietly, and pushed away Chen Yiyi's wedding room. Three maids in the room bowed to Zhao Xing, and there was a maid sitting at the head of the bed. When Zhao Xing saw Zhao Xing coming in, she raised her hand to push Chen Yiyi on the bed. Zhao Xing made a silent gesture and waved to order them to retreat.

Chen Yiyi actually fell asleep. The child was excited for several days. She was laughing all over the wedding. When she sat in her house and calmed down, she couldn't help but fall asleep, and she didn't even take off her wedding clothes.

Zhao Xing sat at the head of the bed, staring at the little face smiling in his sleep, staring at him for a moment, gently took off Chen Yiyi's coat, covered him with a silk quilt, sighed, found a place on the carpet, and lay down and fell asleep.

In the early morning, Zhao Xing was awakened by a scream. When he looked up, Chen Yiyi sat on the bed with sleepy eyes and asked repeatedly: "When is it? Oh my God, I want to serve my husband, what about my husband? Why..."

Zhao Xing lay on the carpet beside the bed, leisurely reminding: "I'm here."

Chen Yiyi rubbed her eyes, her eyes turned, and she rushed up happily, shouting excitedly: "Do you like to be on the carpet? It's great."

After she said that, she lifted Zhao Xing's quilt and crawled in, then hugged Zhao Xing tightly with a happy look on her face and refused to let go...

At noon, Zhao Xing went downstairs to the restaurant downstairs, and only Su Shi and Gao Qiu were left. Su Shi flipped out a newspaper. Gao Qiu saw Zhao Xing coming in and said with a smile: "The results of yesterday's interrogation have come. Do you want to see if you leave?"

Zhao Xing sat at the dining table and ordered the servant to bring lunch. Well, maybe breakfast, and said, "How many gangsters have come in total? Are you sure it is from Fuyang?"

Gao Qiu took a sip of tea and cleared his mouth, flipped the pile of files at hand, and replied with a sigh: "Mr. Mao Pangmao was busy all night yesterday and was reviewed: this group of gangs actually came from nine places, the largest group had ten people, mainly the Lu family in Huliang Mountain. They wanted to find out the situation of the castle several times, but because the situation in the castle was not clear, they had to recruit people...

The entire plan was planned for one year, with a total of 57 bandits, and eleven ships were collected... Unexpectedly, Huqian Mountain was the largest thief leader in the south of the Song Dynasty, and he had been in charge for more than a hundred years. According to the bandits' explanation, they established a sect and social alliance a hundred years ago, and originally planned to help each other when they were invaded by the Hu people, and then gradually transformed.

After our emperor Song Dynasty established, they had already robbed their families and lived. Caoshihedu along the river in nearby counties had never escaped from their palms. In the past, Lord Pu Zongmeng had discovered a little sign, but with Lord Pu's transfer, it was left unresolved..."

Zhao Xing swallowed the food in his mouth and said without any mind: "Mr. Mao worked so hard, so he had to write a few more in the report back."

Gao Qiu curled his lips and replied: "That flattery... Well, since Li Ren doesn't want to take credit, then the credit is my and his, and by the way, Yang Zuren will also add to the matter. But what are you going to do about Huliang Mountain? The rest of the bandits were invited by the Lu family in Huliang Mountain from Fuyang near Fuyang. With Li Ren's personality, I guess you won't let them go."

Su Shi on the table put down the newspaper and sighed and said, "I asked Weng Dayu to stay at the head of Ling, how many times have you seen moving south? Cai Que is over! Poor!"

Zhao Xing asked curiously: "Cai Que has arrived in Lingnan?"

About the time when Zhao Xing first entered Bianjing, that year, Cai Que wrote a few poems, lyrics about "Cheguaiting". This poem fell into the hands of his good friend Wu Chuhou. Wu Chuhou and Cai Que were both teachers and friends. Cai Que learned poetry from Chuhou in his early years and had a friendship with teachers and students. Later, Cai Que was the prime minister. Wu Chuhou wanted to be close to him because of his old friendship, but was rejected by Cai Que and repeatedly excluded him. Therefore, Wu was jealous of Cai Que.

After receiving Cai Que's poem, Wu Chuhou spent two years looking for loopholes in the poem and looking for opportunities to falsely accused. In April this year, he used the poem "Che Gaiting" to use Hao Chujun's advice to Emperor Gaozong in the first year of the Tang Dynasty to allude Empress Gao, and falsely slandered Empress Gao. The old party Liang Tao, Liu Anshi and others agreed with this statement. Empress Gao was furious and decided to exile him to Xinzhou (now Xinxing, Guangdong).

Fan Chunren and Wang Cun believed that they could not demote Cai Que anymore. The Cai Que incident could only be used as a lesson as a warning, but it could not open up the clues of exile of ministers. Cai Que's mother was old and had a long road in Lingnan, and advocated moving to other places, but Empress Dowager Gao said: "The mountains can be moved, but this state cannot be moved."

When Cai Que was demoted, Fan Chunren said to Lu Dafang: "The road to Lingnan has been covered with thorns for seventy or eighty years. It has been reopened today, and we will inevitably have this end in the future." He also asked Zhezong to plead with Empress Dowager Gao, but Zhezong still protested silently. Subsequently, the incident expanded and began to be implicated indefinitely. Cai Que's confidant Li Chang was demoted to Dengzhou, the Minister of War, Peng Ruli, the Minister of the Secretariat, was demoted to Xuzhou (now Xuzhou, Jiangsu), and the Minister of the Secretariat Zeng Zhao was demoted to Yingzhou (now Fuyang, Anhui).

Li Chang and Su Che were among the best accountants in the Song Dynasty at that time. His demotion meant that Zhao Xing had originally suggested that the incident of minting new coins and opening the Jiaozhou Grand Canal was officially stranded...

There was a news about Cai Que in the newspaper that Su Shi read. When Cai Que was demoted to Xinzhou, only one concubine named Pipa followed him, and another parrot. This parrot can learn human language. Whenever Cai Que calls Pipa, as long as he rings the bell, the parrot will call the name of the Pipa.

But shortly after they arrived, their concubine Pipa died because they were not suitable for the land. Since then, Cai Que never rang the little bell again. One day, Cai Que mistakenly knocked the little bell because of something. The parrot heard the sound and called the name of the pipa again. Cai Que felt sad when he was touched by the scene and wrote a poem: "The sound of the parrot is still there, but the matter of the pipa is gone. It is worth hurting the river and Han River, and we go together and return differently."

Su Shi was extremely dissatisfied with the court's handling of Cai Que. He put down the mansion and lamented Cai Que. Perhaps he was recalling his experience in Huangzhou.

Zhao Xing took the newspaper, read it for a long time, and smiled coldly: "You have today too!"

After saying that, he threw the mansion back to the table.

Gao Qiu had already read the di newspaper. He glanced at the newspaper that Zhao Xing threw down and asked in surprise: "Are you talking about Cai Que or Zhang Dun?"

Zhao Xing replied: "Both people are! I mean: All deprivation and sins will never be forgotten in life. This is called the 'law of cause and effect'. A person's behavior determines his destiny. If you plant thorns, don't expect to harvest roses."

"What do you say?" Gao Qiu asked back.

Su Shi had already started to have lunch depressedly. Zhao Xing looked at Su Shi and replied: "The 'Wutai Poetry Case' that day was chaired by Cai Que. He spared no effort to persecute the teacher. Now he has also encountered the 'Che Gaiting Poetry Case'. Isn't this a reward for one report?"

Su Shi shook his head there, but Zhao Xing added in a shocking way: "But, do the people who deal with Cai Que today expect good results in the future? I am afraid that they will not be able to get Cai Que's treatment in the future."

Gao Qiu disagreed with Zhao Xing's statement: "It's not true that Wang Anshi's reform, Changping, and exemption from labor have all become the hands of Cai Que. Now that the new and old laws in the court are quarrels, people cannot do anything serious. Once Cai Que leaves, can't we do a good job?"

Zhao Xing laughed a little terrifyingly: "Cai Que is there, and there are two noisy sounds in the court. Once Cai Que leaves, there will be a hundred people in the court. This is called 'thinking inertia'. Therefore, in the future, there will be no chaotic courts, only more chaotic."

Su Shi opened his mouth and wanted to say something, Zhao Xing shook his head quickly: "Teacher, don't say that now is not the time to speak. In the limelight, silence is golden."

Gao Qiu shook his head and smiled, half persuading and half self-deprecating: "To govern a land, we should ensure peace and prosperity. That's all we can do. Sir, if you speak randomly at this time, you may even lose the opportunity to govern a land."

Zhao Xing could not allow Su Shi to think carefully and divert the topic further and further: "By the way! Keep a safe place, we were attacked just now, let me complete the subsequent work."

Gao Qiu hurriedly said, "You can't take all the ten archers away. After yesterday's incident, I have found that the remaining five archers are useless and can't count on them at all."

Gao Qiu talked about the ten archers composed of the children of the Cheng clan. Zhao Xing’s archers are of high quality, with large practice venues and many equipment, so the ten Cheng clan archers showed great combat effectiveness when they were attacked yesterday, which was much higher than the five original archers in Hangzhou. Due to the attack, Mao Pang had taken away half of the Cheng clan archers to protect his safety when he left. Gao Qiu was worried that another accident would happen, so Zhao Xing was not allowed to transfer the ten Cheng clan disciples.

Su Shi was finally attracted by Zhao Xing. He immediately called someone to come and said, "I will sign an order for you right away. You can transfer a wing army to your place, and there are other people... I think you don't lack people here, so you can use yours to make up for it."

After a pause, Su Shi immediately said: "Master Yan is going too. I ask Zemin (Mao Pang) to send a sea arrest document.Master Yan goes to Fuyang to submit it to avoid misunderstandings."

Su Shi, Gao Qiu and Zhao Xing were all there, and they could almost decide 80% of the matter in Hangzhou City. The three of them got together and after a while, they filled up the documents that should be reissue. Zhao Xing immediately sent someone to the Xiangjun to select personnel. As for the people in his castle, they had already prepared them.

Zhou Bangshi had already been waiting on the dock, and he seemed to be speechless. Zhao Xing sighed: "I can't help with my brother Zhang. You came to me, but you found the wrong one."

Zhou Bangshi smiled bitterly and replied: "I also know that this must be the case. It's just that things happened. I was a little bit unruly. According to Li Ren, what else will there be follow-up?"

The content of Zhou Bangshi's conversation with Zhao Xing was about Zhang Dun that Zhao Xing had just seen in the diary newspaper. The diary newspaper also recorded the court's punishment of Zhang Dun and Cai Que. Zhang Dun was forced to buy the land of twenty-one households of villagers at a low price in the village, and then carried out some violent demolition methods on the villagers. The villagers sued the county, but the county officials did not dare to accept the complaint and just used delay tactics.

Originally, the villagers had to sue the state, but those villagers changed their minds halfway and went directly to the capital to "gliding the level of petition".

There was no precedent for cracking down on "going to Beijing to go beyond the level" in the Song Dynasty, and these villagers actually sued the former Minister of National Defense.

Then he stabbed the hornet's nest. When he heard Zhang Dun, the former Minister of National Defense, return to his hometown to bully grassroots people and force the purchase of common people's houses for violent demolition, the entire court was in an uproar. All the censors, regardless of the party, demanded severe punishment for Zhang Dun... But Empress Dowager Gao raised her board high and fell gently, and only sentenced her to return the land to the people, and fined Zhang Dun ten kilograms of copper.

Because the punishment was too light, the court kept shouting "Seriously punishing Zhang Dun" and Zhang Dun's side was still arrogant. He returned the land of the farmers according to the court's request and paid the fine copper with ease, but threatened the villagers' exports, which made the villagers panic.

In this case, Zhang Dun still felt that others had let him down, and the only correct thing in the world was himself. So he sent Zhou Bangshi to find Zhao Xing because Zhao Xing's thug Tyson was so famous. Zhang Dun hoped that Zhao Xing would rely on his extensive friendships and hire a few people like Tyson to educate the villagers for him.

After all, Zhou Bangshi still has morality in his heart. He himself felt that this request was too much, so he was embarrassed to speak. When he heard Zhao Xing's rejection, he did not continue to ask. He just frowned and reminded Zhao Xing: "Li Ren, where is Zhang Laozi... You know, this person, alas, why did I tell you? You have the strength to suppress bandits across borders, but no one helps Zhang Laozi. I'm afraid you will be jealous of him in the future."

Humph, after this incident, Zhang Dun's arrogance was completely defeated. What else did he do in the countryside? What's more, Zhao Xing has always suspected that the "inspinning incident" is not that simple. He suspected that there was a shadow of Zhang Dun behind this incident, but unfortunately he had no evidence. Of course, even if there was evidence, Zhao Xing could only pretend not to know.

What he needs to do now is to be farther away from Zhang Dun, the better. That person is not a person who can be dated, because he regards other people's efforts as natural and treats occasional rejection as an insult. Such a person...

Zhao Xing spread his hands and sighed: "There is nothing to do. You know this. My family was attacked and the bandits missed the net. I can't let go of this matter, let alone this incident alarmed the Fa Cao and the Xiang army are no longer my own business. The responsibility lies. How can I not deal with these bandits first?"

After Zhao Xing finished speaking, he supported Zhou Bangshi with one hand and helped him walk towards the springboard. He said as he walked: "What's more, there are three thousand tenants in Zhang Laozi, and he wants to find someone. Where can he find hundreds of hands? Do you still use me to take action?"

Before he knew it, Zhou Bangshi followed Zhao Xing to the boat. When Zhao Xing shouted to drive the boat, he woke up as if he was dreaming and screamed: "Lian Ren is going to sea now? Put down the springboard quickly. I still have something to do at home, so I can't go with Li Ren."

"Small matter!" Zhao Xing narrowed his eyes and observed the afternoon sun and replied: "Suppressing bandits is just a small matter. We will arrive in Fuyang tonight and resolve the battle tomorrow morning."

Zhao Xing's men rode on five big loach boats. The ship of the loach boat was swaying in the water and made a clamor. In the blink of an eye, he left the dock and rushed upstream. Zhou Bangshi saw this scene and his legs were a little trembling, but when he saw Gao Qiu coming out of the cabin, his legs stopped shaking.

Gao Qiu, who was born in Xiao Shi, was wearing a Japanese armor on his official robe. The Japanese girls dressed him up in a majestic and handsome manner. He stood on the deck with a Tang sword and curled his lips at Zhou Bangshi. Seeing this scene, Zhou Bangshi immediately felt courageous and asked: "Put my armor too. I saw that the armor was so beautiful, so I would wear it all."

The scholars had a desire to whistle and rebuke in their bones. They thought war was just an idea, so fighting was a journey of romance. Zhou Bangshi was aroused by Gao Qiu's outfit and immediately forgot what he did when he came to Zhao Xing. When he put on his armor, he also found a wooden stick and stood beside Zhao Xing with great enthusiasm, saying passionately: "I had been interested in visiting Huqian Mountain, but unfortunately the thieves were entrenched... Ah, I remember, Liren said yesterday that he wanted to burn the mountain, so I have to stare at you. You can suppress bandits. Don't destroy every grass and tree on the mountain at will."

The loach boat walked very quickly and arrived in Fuyang in the evening. Gao Qiu went to the county government office in the city to submit documents and returned to the boat to rest. The next day, at dawn, Zhao Xing sent someone to Fuyang City to collect carriages and horses. Unfortunately, there were not many carriages and horses in Fuyang City. When Zhao Xing transported war horses from Jasmine Garden, it was already dark and everyone had to stay on the boat for a day.
Chapter completed!