Chapter 261: Gambler Li Qingzhao

When Sun Cong saw Zhao Xing, he did not show his success after his promotion. He smiled and bowed and said, "Mr. Zhao, I'm here to ask for something... Your Majesty issued an edict: Liu Zhi's Xinzhou (next to Guangzhou), Su Zhe Leizhou, Liang Tao Huazhou (next to Leizhou), Fan Chunren Yongzhou, and ordered all demoted officials to be sent by a rank officer and a prison officer (in prison). After the changes of the state army, the local officials were closely taken care of. The edict should not be specialized, and the supervision should not be omitted.

I was lucky enough to be assigned to escort Mr. Su. Unexpectedly, after Mr. Su set out from Dingzhou, he only exposed one of his lower bodies in Yangzhou, and then there was no news. He chased him to Hangzhou. Some people said that he had seen Mr. Su enter Lord Zhao's yard. I think that Mr. Zhao's yard is connected to his own dock. Maybe Mr. Su boarded the boat from your dock..."

Sun Cong smiled bitterly and bowed: "Mr. Zhao, the laws of the court cannot be desecrated. If Mr. Su is still in your house, please come out to meet. Lord Zhang also asks Lord Zhao to explain it himself. I believe that Lord Zhang would not mind too much with Lord Zhao's relationship. Lord Zhao, please don't let the officials make things difficult for him."

Zhao Xing leaned behind the chair and looked at Sun Cong gloomyly. He didn't speak for a long time. Sun Cong was calm and waited patiently.

Finally, Zhao Xing spoke: "Yes, my teacher has entered my yard and has already boarded the ship. I am currently in the period of visiting my relatives and can't leave for a while. If Lord Sun wants to complete the task, it is better to accompany me to play in the yard for a few days, wait for me to take office, and then set off together. As for the documents required by Lord Sun, when I arrive in Guangnan, I will definitely do a good job of handing over the documents and let the documents show that Lord Sun is always with Mr. Su. How about it?"

Sun Cong bowed in embarrassment and replied: "Mr. Zhao, I am ordered to follow Mr. Su to hand over to Huizhou. If Mr. Su arrives in Huizhou in advance, the person in the prison will not be there... I am afraid Mr. Zhang will not be able to explain it."

Zhao Xing smiled grimly: "It's hard to explain, so there's no need to explain. When you arrived in Hangzhou, you must have felt why I was called 'Zhao Laohu'. You, a young master, were coming to visit me, but the local officials did not accompany you, but instead let you go into the yard alone... Do you believe it or not, if I bury you in the yard, all Hangzhou will say: I have never seen you come in at all."

Sun Cong's legs became weak and his face was covered with sweat. He shouted repeatedly, reminding Zhao Xing: "Mr. Zhao, we have many years of love, so you can't treat me like this."

Zhao Xing's smile became kind and honest. He said gently: "Well, I'll send someone to send you on the boat so that everyone can see you board the boat and chase Mr. Su... But how did you know that you would not 'fall down the sea'?"

Sun Cong's legs were already trembling, and he continued, "Sir, we have a good relationship. I heard that you have always been righteous to your friends..."

Zhao Xing cut off the other party's words and asked coldly: "There is no need for a junior supervisor to come forward to escort my teacher - do you think I am a fool? What other orders do you have?"

Sun Cong hesitated for less than three seconds and immediately replied: "I knew I could not hide it from Lord Zhao, okay! I am hereby ordered that I would like to instruct Cheng Zhengfu, the prison of the Guangnan East Road, and also to remind the governor of Huizhou Zhan Fan... Lord can guess what order this is, so I will not be able to explain it in detail."

Zhao Xing nodded and replied: "Of course, you know me and I know this kind of thing, but who is Su Gong? Once you do this, your name will be remembered in the world - do you think it is a good name or a bad reputation?"

Sun Cong cried and replied: "Mr. Zhao, you also know the temper of Mr. Zhang. How dare we disobey what he decided?"

Zhao Xing looked at Sun Cong with a gloomy face for a long time, and then said softly: "Can I trust you? If you are worthy of my trust, I will give you two suggestions - the first: It is safest to follow me. Because you are walking with me and fall into the sea, I am not well taken care of. I don't want to take this charge... But it's not certain if you follow others. I never mind letting others take the blame, and you also know my habits.

Second: When you walk with me, you only need to bring your eyes but not your ears. You can keep your eyes to see the way, but you cannot say anything you see with your mouth, and you forget everything you hear. Only in this way can your life be guaranteed.

You must always remind yourself that my name is Zhao Laohu! Originally, this tiger was just an "admiring tiger". If others don't mess with me, I won't roar, but now this tiger is a "jungle tiger". Don't talk about it. Even if I look at me, as long as I'm in a bad mood, I can swallow it alive. If you don't believe it, just wait and see.

In fact, if you only walk with your eyes, you will find many benefits. For example, I am a kind person and never care about my friends' spending money. This is one of the benefits. Also, my warehouse is spread all over the canal, and few people can compare with it when it comes to being well-informed. I don't need to explain the benefits to you in detail.

What can Mr. Zhang give you is just an official position. I can't give you an official position, but you can continue to be your official position and enjoy the benefits that Mr. Zhang gives you, and I will take it. As long as I don't tell you, who will know the secret between us. In the future, I am in Guangnan, you are in the court, and you are your official, and occasionally you will inform me of the news I want to know - this is not harmful to Mr. Zhang, it is also a benefit to yourself, and it is a friend to me, and it is a good thing to the three things."

Zhao Xing's words were already very explicit, but Sun Cong dared not refute it. Because Zhang Dun's preference for Zhao Xing was very obvious. Not to mention that when Zhao Xing was in Beijing, Zhang Dun would invite the other party at a big banquet, and Zhao Xing would sit in the seat every time he went there. As for this party dispute, almost all the old party members were punished, but although Zhao Xing was demoted to Guangnan, his official position was promoted without being demoted. Moreover, there were rumors that this was what Zhao Xing asked for...

Sun Cong also knew some inside stories, and it was rumored that Zhang Dun often had some things that were not related to party disputes, such as consulting Zhao Xing's opinions on local financial issues. As long as it had nothing to do with party disputes, Zhao Xing would give some advice and help. Sun Cong knew that Zhang Dun was a little sensible person. If Zhao Xing took this opportunity to provoke a few words at the future, he would not be able to take advantage of it. Even if Zhang Dun didn't care at the time, who knew how he would torture people in the future.

If you obey Zhao Xing, you will save your life now. In the long run, you will also give yourself an extra way out and an extra income. After all, in the short term, the interests of Zhao Xing and Zhang Dun are consistent.

After figuring this out, Sun Cong bowed and said, "It depends on the arrangements of Lord Zhao!"

As soon as this sentence was said, the transaction between the two people was reached, and Zhao Xing became kinder. He smiled and said, "Why do you have to see Zishu? Let's call me to leave as usual. We are poor and humble friends, so you don't need to be so polite. Hehe, but the officials in the court who do intelligence are all as brave as you, no wonder our intelligence is always inaccurate!"

Sun Cong rolled his eyes straight in his stomach, and he was sweating coldly and despised in his heart: "I am still a poor and humble friend. I just wanted to bury me in the yard, and then tie a Shanghai boat and throw it into the sea. At this moment, I became a poor and humble friend, and my face changed too quickly!"

In the next few days, Sun Cong followed Zhao Xing. He was afraid that he would let others say a few words behind his back when he left occasionally, which led to Zhao Xing changing his mind. Then someone would knock him on the back... There was no way, Zhao Xing's yard was too big, and hiding hundreds of people was a slight meaning for him, and it was not a problem to find a place to bury one or two hundred people. In order to save his life, Sun Cong had to follow Zhao Xing without hesitation.

He watched Zhao Xing hold a singing and dancing banquet, watched Zhao Xing go out to explore the West Lake scenery, and watched Zhao Xing tease his children to enjoy the joy of family... This kind of life lasted for more than a month. After the autumn harvest in September, Zhao Xing's entourage slowly gathered towards Hangzhou, and then Zhao Xing had the intention of getting dressed up.

The one who set out in advance was Shuai Fan. He led 300 armed servants and 2,000 craftsmen to go south, preparing to build a house for this group of people in Guangzhou. The second group of people who went south were Wanqi Yong, Li Zhiyi, Liao Zhengyi, Su Hui and others. These people took their respective official bodies and imperial edicts and Zhao Xing's official bodies to go to Guangzhou to greet local officials and lay the groundwork in advance.

It is logical that if Zhao Xing didn't rush to hand over, it would be useless for Wanqi Yong and others to rush over, and others would not hand over to him. However, the other three departments of Guangnan East Road are now complete, among which Cheng Zhengfu is the Xiansi and Zhao Xing appointed the position of the Supervisor. After the Guangnan East Road came from Guo Kui's southern expedition, it was not appointing other people. Therefore, Wanqi Yong rushed over in advance, because he wanted to retake some of the power originally belonged to the Supervisor from others, and let him, the subordinate, come forward, and it would be easier to negotiate.

The first-level officials of the Song Dynasty were divided into four main officials: "Cao, Supervisor, Xian, and Cang". Among them, the Transportation Envoy was actually the residue after the Song Dynasty reduced the vassal states. If the Transportation Envoy was tougher, he was actually equivalent to separating the vassal states in the local area. Because the Song Dynasty stipulated that the Transportation Envoy, in addition to having no military power, "border defense, thieves, criminal proceedings, Jingu, and according to the responsibilities of Lian, were all entrusted to the Transportation Envoy", "Therefore Transportation Envoy was all in charge of everything along the way."

Fortunately, Zhao Xing also had an official position as the deputy envoy of shipping, which was originally used to restrain the transfer envoy. In addition, the current transfer envoy of shipping Fu Caiyuan is not a tough person, so it is obvious that Zhao Xing was going to take over him, so Wan Qi Yong brought people over in advance, which could make his face slightly better.

After Wan Qiyong set off, he then left teams of people from the same place. They were responsible for the establishment of the new yamen - the Tuiju Money Cash Division, the East and West Road of Guangnan. Following them were hundreds of children from the Cheng clan in-laws. These children would learn mathematics and accounting with the same people, and act as minor officials in the Tuiju Money Cash Division... It seems that after Su Che was demoted, accounting studies are now a banned theory and an evil "left-door".

In October, a large number of migrant workers came from Mizhou and Yingzhou and gradually gathered in Hangzhou. These migrant workers planned to take advantage of the 100th winter idleness, and responded to Zhao Xing's call to go with him to Guangnan to earn some hard money, and then return to his hometown to farm with the money earned by working during the spring plowing.

The migrant workers from Mizhou are better organized, which is the landless farmers hired by Zhang Yong from the vicinity of Mizhou. They have a team of 100 people, and each team has a team leader. There are five teams of 20 people under the team leader, which is very disciplined.

The people who came from Yingzhou were organized by the Yingzhou Magistrate. This guy had no organizational ability. The farmers who came spontaneously formed a team of people in the village. They were poor in organization and boarded the ship in a mess on the dock. The noise made the people in the castle unable to sleep. Zhao Xing had to send all his students out and organize these people to board the ship...

In mid-October, Zhao Xing was finally about to set off. Two thousand Huainan children boarded ten large ships with him. Another brigade of migrant workers took various ships of different sizes and drove out of the port in a vast array. The fleet was too large, and it took half a day to sort out the formation on the sea. When they finished the whole team and set sail, it was already noon.

This time, Cheng Azhu, Chen Yiyi, Liao Xiaoxiao and Kasli stayed in the manor to recuperate. Zhao Xing was riding on the largest giant ship. In addition to the couple, there were Sun Cong, Yuan Yeping, Li Gefei and others. In addition, there was a small official. He was wearing an eighth-rank official uniform and had a very contented smile on his face. He was immersed in his memories from time to time, and often burst into laughter unconsciously.

This little official came with Yuan Yeping. Yuan Yeping has been managing Zhao Xing's property there in Danluo Island in recent years. This time Zhao Xing went south to officially establish his foundation on the mainland. Yuan Yeping brought some backbone of Danluo Island, including this little official - the former Yingzhou City Gate Tax Publicist Rwanda.

Rwanda finally realized his lifelong dream - he set foot on the land of the Song Dynasty, and this time he followed Zhao Xing to become an official. Zhao Xing was preparing to migrate tens of thousands of people from Mizhou (Shandong), Yingzhou (Henan) and other large-scale states, setting up a separate county by the sea, and giving it to Rwanda, his own people to manage. Now that county is still a castle in the air, so although Rwanda wore the costumes of an eighth-rank county magistrate, he did not have a specific official title.

But that's it. Rwanda was already very happy. He was not on the boat at all. He often sat alone on the deck, making giggles like hens eating from time to time. This behavior made the little girl Li Qingzhao extremely despise her. She occasionally gave her cold eyes to Rwanda, but unfortunately Rwanda didn't care at all.

When Li Qingzhao first went out to sea, she was surprised by the big ship. She climbed up and down and looked curiously. After a while, she became bored and turned around to look for her father.

The ancient cabins were far less comfortable than modern luxury passenger ships. Without electricity, the cabin was stuffy and black; and the ventilation was not good. With too many candles lit, the air in the cabin was suffocating. So in this era, most people stayed on the deck when they had the opportunity, including Li Qingzhao's father, Zhao Xing and others.

Among the officials' families, Cheng Azhu only went out of the sea once, which was when she went to Zhaoxing Mizhou. In addition, Chen Yiyi went out to sea more often. The experiences of the two of them were already rare among the officials' families, so many officials surrounded them to ask about their experiences.

Although Zhao Xing's ship was big, the waves were still shaking. Many officials and relatives had already started to get seasick, but they still didn't want to go back to the cabin. Li Qingzhao ran to the stern of the officials and relatives. Seeing this situation, his eyes turned and immediately asked Zhao Xing: "Mr. Zhao, do you have a 'horse' on the boat? I know that once a person hits a horse, his spirit will not be on the bumpy road, and he will definitely not feel dizzy in the sea boat."

Zhao Xing asked strangely: "What is horse racing?"

Li Qingzhao hurriedly replied: "That's a bamboo shoot game..."

As soon as Li Qingzhao explained to Zhao Xing, Zhao Xing immediately understood: "Isn't this mahjong? Maybe it's a little different from modern mahjong, but the difference is already very small."

Zhao Xing immediately replied: "I know the 'horse pendant', and I usually call it 'mahjong'. Although there is no ready-made mahjong on this ship, my ship is a sea supply ship. In order to repair the ship damaged by the storm at any time, I also have lathes on the ship, various woods, and complete woodworking equipment, so I will make it for you immediately."

Li Qingzhao tilted her head and asked Zhao Xing in surprise: "Mr. Zhao has also studied the 'ma dan'?"

Before Zhao Xing could answer, Li Qingzhao immediately held Zhao Xing's hand, neither big nor small, and the name became intimate: "Uncle Zhao wants to talk to me well. I always feel that everything in the world is not knowledge. There are also great questions in this gambling. I am studying various gambling techniques. When I grow up, I will ask some 'the world's number one gambling book'... I am recently studying horse racing and preparing to write a "Preface to the Horse Racing Picture". Uncle Zhao also talks to Qingzhao about what research Uncle Zhao has on here."

Zhao Xing looked at Li Qingzhao curiously. As he remembered, in this era, no one has studied gambling scriptures. Whether in China or overseas, there is indeed no gambling books. Could it be that the "No. 1 gambling books in the world" was really written by Li Qingzhao, and the little girl in front of him is the founder of the "scam" world?

But Zhao Xing remembers that in traditional history, it seems that Zheng He invented mahjong when he went to the West, so why did the "Preface to the Horse" come from the Song Dynasty? Could it be that this time, the history in textbooks "remembered wrongly"?

Carving wood was not an excellent skill in the Song Dynasty. Carpenters also had it. After division of labor and cooperation, with the help of the lathe, more than a dozen pairs of mahjong were completed in a short time. Among them, the mahjong made by Ma Yilong Blood Tree was red, the mahjong made by African ebony was black as iron stone, the mahjong made by green sandalwood was green, and the mahjong made by ivory was as white jade. It felt warm to touch the fragrant milk of a woman...

As soon as these pairs of mahjong were prepared, Li Qingzhao refused to teach others to play. She held several wooden boxes for mahjong, blocked others with her body, and shouted: "Uncle Zhao, Uncle Zhao, if you are willing to promise me something, I will teach others to play horses (mash mahjong), otherwise, no one would think of touching these treasures."

Zhao Xing knew the girl's scrupulousness. He had already discovered that Li Qingzhao was a little woman with extremely strong collections. She was already very young. Everything she liked must be moved back home. Hyundai was just a shopping maniac. Zhao Xing looked at Li Gefei helplessly and found that Li Gefei's eyes were full of appreciation. He sighed and said, "You want these mahjongs, right? No problem, when you log in, all these things belong to you."

Li Qingzhao jumped up happily and hurriedly grabbed a few women to go to the cabin to practice. At this time, she didn't care about the narrowness and stuffiness of the cabin, and just wanted to play a good game of mahjong. Zhao Xing said with emotion behind her: "Uncle Zhao doesn't have many other things here, and you can't imagine that there are too many woods. Although your mahjong is exquisitely crafted, as long as the machine is started, why don't you produce hundreds of pairs in a day?"

Li Qingzhao was walking into the cabin. After hearing this, he quickly stopped and ran back to Zhao Xing, shook his head and begged: "Uncle Zhao, when you land later, you must ask the carpenter to engrave the name on the mahjong plaque, and let them write it: This is the first mahjong they have produced."

The officials present laughed.

With mahjong placards, the journey seemed to be insufficient, and the officials opened their eyes and played mahjong. Before they knew it, Zhao Xing's big ship had entered Guangzhou, and the ladies realized that the end of the journey had arrived.

When Zhao Xing's fleet entered the port, the ladies' faces were joyful and sad, and some were full of regrets. The happiest one was Li Qingzhao. She had three big purses on her waist, and she walked jingling. The purses were so swaying that she couldn't walk steadily, but she smiled happily, her face was like a flower, and all her expressions were blooming.

"How much did you win?" Zhao Xing put away his telescope and teased Li Qingzhao.

Li Qingzhao was very happy. She patted the three purses on her waist, heard the sound of the rumbling sound in her waist, and then proudly raised her face to show off at Zhao Xing: "There are all gold coins, gold coins... My father, if Guangzhou is not good, we will not be officials anymore, and my daughter will earn you the money for the trip home. We will buy land and farm, read and recite poems, and we will be happy in the future."

Li Gefei smiled, and he pointed out Cheng Azhu and Chen Yiyi: "Your little money, look at your uncle Zhao's house. How can people care about this little money on their faces? It's funny that you are as proud as how much you have won?"

Li Qingzhao took a picture of the wallet around her waist and said, "There is another box of gems, which I beat Mrs. Chen. If the wife loses, she will give me a gem. Now the whole box is full."

Zhao Xing clapped his hands and said with a smile: "Now, Qingzhao has a dowry, but I don't know which man has such a blessing to move this 'living gem box' home."

Li Qingzhao was a little shy and hurriedly hid back into the cabin - she was asking the carpenter to carve letters on the mahjong plaque.

Li Gefei mentioned Zhao Xing’s two wives just now. Chen Yiyi stood at the stern of the boat, Yingying bowed and replied to Li Gefei’s words: “Uncle Li, everyone says that Yangzhou is the world’s largest gold-selling cave, but the person who said this has never come to Guangzhou. Buying goods in Guangzhou is about ships. A ship of goods is worth about 500,000 guan. To Duli, there is no limit. A ship of pearls is worth three million guan, and a ship of ivory and red sandalwood is worth about 5 million guan.

If you get a small amount of tens of thousands of yuan in the Guangzhou Yasper, you won’t look at you. I remember that when the Song Dynasty closed the local markets, the only one retained the Guangzhou markets. So this is the 'World Wealth and Goods Collection'. Miss Qingzhao won our little money away is nothing. It’s just a child’s thing, just to be happy. I hope Uncle Li won’t blame him.”

Chen Yiyi did not remind Li Gefei not to blame his daughter. She was not blind, so she could see Li Gefei's spoiling clearly. However, Li Qingzhao just told her father that he would not be an official anymore. Chen Yiyi didn't like to listen to this, so she secretly asked the other party: the little money won on the mahjong table is really nothing, the real big money is in Guangzhou.

Li Gefei could not understand Chen Yiyi's words, but he had been reminded by Chen Yiyi's words. He turned around and looked at Zhao Xing's fleet and said thoughtfully: "A ship of cargo is worth 500,000 yuan. How much should Lord Zhao's ten fleets be worth? Hiss--"
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