Chapter 285 The "gentleman" with his eyes closed

In ancient Chinese history, there was no habit of establishing overseas colonies, especially to destroy an overseas country and establish overseas colonies.

People in the Song Dynasty did not care much about the Great Ryukyu (Taiwan) developed in the Three Kingdoms period and had no intention of development. They treated Hainan Island as an exile place. How could they care about the land of Champa, which was not connected to the country?

Without the previous example, the people of the court naturally did not consider Vietnam's intention to offer land. What they debated was: How should this land be disposed of?

Some people suggested giving it back to Vietnam to show kindness, and some people suggested giving this land to a certain brother of the royal family in Vietnam to divide the Vietnamese forces... As for the fate of the Bintong King, there is a savage from the Southern Barbarians, who has no identity now, who cares about it?!

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Xing brought the wealth of Chameng City one after another. Further news was: when the Great Yue Kingdom besieged the capital of Chameng City, he invited Zhao Xing to participate and explained to Zhao Xing that they had obtained permission from the Song Dynasty court. In Zhao Xing's terms, because Guangnan was far away from the court, he went back and forth for at least half a year. When the war was urgent, Zhao Xing did not have time to send people back to verify with the court, so he took Bintong's victorious army to participate in the siege of Chameng City and broke into the city first.

Vietnam did not ask for troops from the court, and the court could not work together to resist Vietnam for the sake of today's companions in Chameng. Tomorrow, it would join forces with Vietnam to capture the city. The court could not bear this face.

As for how to deal with Zhao Xing who sent troops privately, the court was still hesitating. This hesitation is a bad thing!

Zhao Xing would not give them time to react, and he hurriedly handed over the seal of Chameng's national seal and attached the seized Chameng map and household registration book. Now, the court was even more difficult to express its opinion.

In ancient China, paying the land map and household registration book had an extraordinary meaning. It meant: donating land, surrendering, and accepting disposal.

Although the court ministers were foolish, they were not as stupid as to refuse the territory they came to their door. If the court refused even the court, the pen of scholars in later generations could scold them to death.

With this concern, the court ministers were much more cautious. The censor who had impeached Zhao Xing quietly burned his memorials overnight. They also needed to see the scenery.

Then, the scenery came, and the court officials pointed to the map presented by Zhao Xing. It turned out that at this time, the largest country in the southern barbarian land was not Jiaozhi, but also a Zhenla country, which was four or five times larger than Jiaozhi. They fought with Jiaozhi for many years, so even if Jiaozhi annexed Champa, their national strength was still much worse than Zhenla.

In this way, what are you going to worry about in Jiaozhi?

Don’t worry that Jiaozhi will be strong through this Warring States, which will threaten the southeastern financial resources of the court. Then, the remaining local affairs are considered to be restrained. With the academic system of the court ministers, it may not be possible to succeed, but the bad things are professional counterparts. In the blink of an eye, the ministers can come up with thousands of restraining methods.

The ministers were thinking. The wealth of the royal city seized by Zhao Xing was transported to the capital one after another. The court quietly discovered that Zhao Xing's calculation of the value of the spoils was incorrect. In Zhao Xing's memorial, he frankly admitted that he had made a mistake and said that after the final verification, the treasures that Bintong seized were only 110 million coins, not as much as he had said... However, this was Zhao Xing's algorithm, and Zhao Xing calculated them according to the price of Guangzhou. After the spoils were shipped to Bianliang, the price increased by more than ten times.

After the court calculated that Bintong was seized, they collectively shut their mouths. They pretended to be deaf and dumb about Zhao Xing's calculation error. After receiving this huge sum, they took ratification measures against Zhao Xing's reasons for the war, the so-called "compensation for Song Shang", and quickly decided to allocate 5 million chunks to compensate for the "robbery" of the Guangnanhai Shangyuan. The speed was so fast. It seemed that they were afraid that Zhao Xing would regret it after discovering his mistake.

Subsequently, the court also approved all compensation requests from the various maritime departments. Of course, except for Guangnan, the total compensation of the other maritime departments was limited to one million. Therefore, this year, thanks to the "Zhanpo War", all the local Song merchants made some money. During this period, Guangdong merchants were the happiest. They didn't have to do anything, so they followed Zhao Xing and yelled that they had been robbed, which would get "government compensation". The most were hundreds of thousands of guan, and the few were tens of thousands of guan. This batch of compensation was paid by Chameng and transported to Bianliang by sea trade. The profits were so rich that they woke up in their dreams.

Of course, after this incident, merchants from all over the Song Dynasty spoke in unison: Yes, we were indeed robbed by the pirates of Champo and suffered significant losses!

As a result, the court discussed the treatment of King Bintong. Next, the court randomly awarded him the title of an overseas governor, and gave him three million yuan to allow him to settle in the Song Dynasty. Later, the King Bintong was unknown...

After Zhao Xing transported the treasures of the Cham City royal capital to Bianliang, the gold price plummeted, the silver price plummeted, and overseas treasures plummeted. In an instant, the cheap gold jewelry was unsurprisingly cheap. In order to overcome the financial difficulties, the court sold 30 million yuan of Champa specialties, gold, gems, jewelry and antiques at one time, which led to a great collapse in the jewelry industry in Bianliang City. This collapse effect made the jewelry industry and the gold industry in the Song Dynasty not recover until five years later.

But the court had no money, so it then successively sold Chameng jewelry, rhino horns, ivory baskets, coral pearls, and wooden carvings in Chameng and wheels sold out. For a moment, the court turned into a night market stall vendor, throwing only the rare antiques out like cabbage, desperately exchanging cash in the short term to subsidize the fiscal deficit, which caused the gold collapse effect to spread from Bianliang to the surroundings...

Of course, this scenic spot was also decades later, and the people of Bianliang City also talked about it. This time, the Song Dynasty and the Song Dynasty personally felt the "war dividends".

When Zhao Xing returned to Guangzhou and received the news from the court, he regretted it so much that he was so blushed: "No, no! There is so much gold, the court should issue new coins with gold reserves. Why did it all rise to the market all at once? Is this still alive?"

Zhao Xing's aides were all frowning. Li Qingzhao, the little girl, spoke quickly and said everyone's thoughts. She twisted her handkerchief and said, "Although Uncle Zhao controlled Guangnan, the price of gold here was not as chaotic as that of Beijing, it still dropped by 40% in the past few days. Well, my box of treasures was originally worth 600,000 guan. Seeing that the price was falling day by day in the past few days, it was worth 350,000 guan now. It really won't make people live!

Uncle Zhao, I heard that you still have a lot of things that have not been counted. I heard that you often find surprises in your warehouse. Look, I have suffered such a huge loss. Why not let me go to your warehouse to surprise you too!"

Zhao Xing issued a reward plan for land "waiting for life" that made all the soldiers participating in the southern expedition make a fortune. However, this "waiting for life" plan does not cover some of Zhao Xing's confidants. Especially Li Qingzhao. This little girl spent more than ten days in the Chameng Royal Palace, specializing in highland value, antique-informed and research-worthy jewelry collections. These things were filled with ten boxes, which were much higher than her weight in terms of weight. But there was no way, who told her to accompany Zhao Xing, and Zhao Xing would never leave enough space for herself, right?!

Li Qingzhao returned with a full load. Coke ruined Li Gefei.

Li Gefei is now working part-time in Zhao Xing's strategy. In addition to the court's salary, Zhao Xing also gave a subsidy. Therefore, Li Gefei, who was rich in official positions, was not in a hurry to sell the treasures. As a result, he saw that the price of gold and jewelry plummeted, and in just one month, their value had been reduced by 30% out of thin air.

However, Li Gefei was still a little self-control. He knew that after this limelight, those jewelry with political significance would slowly appreciate and even exceed their original value. So Li Gefei was not only unhappy, but instead took out the remaining money to acquire some of the jewelry that fell. At this moment, seeing Li Qingzhao squeezing Zhao Xing again, no matter how much he favored him, he had to persuade him: "Qingzhao, don't be so greedy. Only the meritorious minister in Nanyang earned a fortune. Isn't it enough for you to move ten boxes alone?"

Li Qingzhao muttered in a low voice: "But Uncle Zhao's things are filled with three large ships, and Uncle Sui also has a ship of treasures. Brother Chen (Chen Buqun) also loaded two ships and left. I took the pitiful ten boxes. In the blink of an eye, their value was reduced by 30%. Is this still going to make people live!"

Li Gefei clapped his hands and smiled: "Girl is content. You followed Lord Zhao to the South China Sea and saw the scenery everywhere. Then he brought back ten boxes of treasures. Chameng Kingdom saved thousands of years, and you can choose from other people's treasure houses. What else do you have to complain about?"

Zhao Xing laughed meaningfully: "Haha, I don't feel sorry for taking away the treasures of Chameng. As long as it is not an illegal item, I believe that the court ministers will not cause trouble. Brother Li, I love the little girl from Qingzhao very much. Unfortunately, I don't have a suitable son to match. If she is willing to marry into my Cheng clan...ah, even if she marrys a disciple of my disciple or a student of Mr. Su, I will give you a ship of spoils as a dowry, how about it!"

Li Qingzhao shook her little head and said, "I don't want Uncle Zhao to give me something again. I just hope Uncle Zhao tells me that when you sent King Bintong away, you seemed to know what would happen later. Why? The students of the Cheng clan said that Uncle Zhao has been studying wisdom. Please tell me that the little girl will also gain wisdom?"

Zhao Xing laughed and shook his legs proudly replied: "Logic - this is called logic derivation ability. If you want things to develop in the direction you want, try to affect several important factors.

For example, after we captured King Bintong, we immediately sent him to the capital and told the people of the capital two news: First, the entire Champaign was destroyed; second, this guy had hundreds of millions of property, which was just used to compensate our Song Shang for the losses suffered and fill the emptiness of the imperial treasury.

Look, I give the ministers a good excuse - compensation; a huge temptation - a huge amount of treasure; a key to neglecting King Bintong's own defense - his country was destroyed, and what he said was no longer important.

In this case, it doesn't matter how King Bintong himself defended himself, so I didn't "serial confession" with him at all, because the rest of the work would be improved for me. Yes, I invaded his country for no reason and destroyed it, but what does it matter? King Bintong would definitely be rewarded with a generous amount of money to keep him silently for life. But in the future, this person was already a waste and no one cared about what he said. He would dare to speak, hehe, who would believe the millions of people in Bianliang City?

I grasped several key points of time, so I knew that things will inevitably develop in the direction I hoped, and this is wisdom - the key to finding things, the key to controlling things, and the key to promoting things..."

Li Qingzhao blinked and asked again: "Uncle Zhao, then why do you want Vietnam to offer the land south of Bintong to the court?"

Li Qingzhao didn't know that the land had been packed into Zhao Xing's pocket in private, but she just wondered. It was obvious that the imperial court could not get this land, so why did Zhao Xing still report it like this?

"The handle - Song is stronger and weaker, the more afraid of the two countries in the future, they are most afraid of not having any excuses to cause trouble. I leave an excuse for disputes on that land so that I can interfere with the fertile plains in the south of Jiaozhi in the future. The Vietnamese must give me this handle, which is what they owe me," Zhao Xing's answer was very vague.

This land was a seesaw on his interfering in Vietnamese affairs. Although Vietnam agreed to transfer it to Chen Yiyi's son, it was confronting the country. Sometimes it was difficult to explain. At this time, Zhao Xing would bring the Song Dynasty court behind him as a backer. The Song Dynasty court accepted his hundreds of millions of war and should do this. On the other hand, as long as Vietnam made this statement, no matter how the court answered, Zhao Xing had the excuse to use the power of the Song Dynasty court to interfere with the ownership of the land...

Li Qingzhao blinked her eyes and thought about the meaning of Zhao Xing's words. Zhao Xing then induced: "Qingzhao, do you want your things to appreciate? You have to learn to promote an iron pot. You have to promote it as the pot king, the pot king, the pot emperor, the pot prince, the pot king, the pot prince, the pot prince, the pot prince, the street stall goods at the price of jewelry. Didn't you say that the things you chose have origins? Then let's promote it, and the publicity is well known.

You write, I will help you publish a book, and it is particularly meaningful to say that these things are particularly meaningful. Collecting them is a symbol of taste. If you don’t have one or two trophys in Champa at home, you will feel embarrassed to say hello to others when you go out... In this way, it will be difficult for you to not appreciate the things you collect..."

Zhao Xing was very tempted. Unfortunately, the ministers in the court did not enjoy the treatment of Li Qingzhao, so Zhao Xing did not explain it personally. They were not sure about the truth of the matter. Soon, huge amounts of wealth in Chameng royal city were continuously transported to Yangzhou by sea and then transported to the capital. Before this huge amount of wealth, the court had to make a statement. They first twistedly affirmed Zhao Xing's action to mobilize troops to eliminate pirates, and then pretended to reward the land south of Bintong again to the Vietnamese, but how to implement it will be handed over to Zhao Xingquan to handle it.

In the imperial edict, the commendation style comforted Vietnam's actions of attacking Chameng in order to vent his anger on behalf of the merchants of the Song Dynasty... In this way, no one pursued Zhao Xing's private transfer of troops. Instead, he was promoted to a formal third-rank official for his contribution to the expedition of pirates.

According to the little emperor's intention, this matter should have been celebrated and used as a great contribution to expanding territory to report to the ancestors to pay homage to the ancestral temple, but Zhang Dun stopped it. He believed that this matter was too disgraceful after all. Because of the harassment of a few pirates, he attacked the capital of other people, arrested other people's kings, and swept over other people's property. This kind of thing was recorded in historical books, which would embarrass the court that claimed to be a "nation of gentlemen". Therefore, it would be best to take money and make a fortune. Don't yell.

Zhang Dun's opinion was agreed by most officials of the court, and the little emperor had no choice but to suppress his desire to celebrate.

However, the little emperor became rich, and the things that rewarded the ministers during the New Year and the holidays became richer. This year, all the officials in Bianliang City had a good New Year, because the usual rewards were worthless pens, inkstones, and the rewards were whole pieces of gold, large pieces of gems, and gorgeous and exotic style of Chameng gold jewelry. In the celebration of the crowd, the only disharmonious voice was that the Queen Mother Liang of the Western Xia came again, and she captured Huizhou.

Huizhou was occupied, and it was occupied in spring. Now, no matter how Lu Huiqing defended it, he could not say it was his own "commendation". The court suddenly panicked and had to rush to order Zhang Qing to return to Shaanxi. The position of Guangzhou magistrate also agreed to be Li Gefei, recommended by Zhao Xing. At this point, Zhao Xing completely controlled the control of Guangdong.

When the news reached Guangdong, it was already May, and this was the result of Zhao Xing rushing to assist the court in passing the news. At the official banquet, Zhang Feng raised his glass and solemnly respected Zhao Xing, and said sincerely: "Li Ren, I know you have been caring about Huanqing's situation. Huanqing's situation is very bad now. I heard that since the beginning of this year, the major ticket banks in Huanqing have refused to lend to the government. Now Huanqing's officials can't even pay their salaries. I know that you have a close relationship with several ticket banks. Can you say hello to them and let them open the loans and let Huanqing breathe."

When Zhang Qi said this, he shook his white-haired head, held the wine glass high above his head, thanked him and said, "Lie, Huanqing is in danger. In this way, I will pay a cup to you on behalf of Huanqing's millions of people..."

Zhang Qi lowered his white-haired head, Zhao Xing turned to the side and said that he would not accept Zhang Qi's gift. He crossed his hands and asked coldly: "Zhang Jingluo, isn't Huanqing good?"

Zhang Shi was speechless.

Zhao Xing is not pretending to be confused here, he is not unaware of Huanqing's real situation. The real intention of this sentence is to ask: Who caused Huanqing's phenomenon today?

Thinking about the time when Zhao Xing and Zhang Ju left Huanqing, Huanqing had already begun to turn into defense to offense, and even twice invaded Xixia. The market situation also seemed to be prosperous in all industries, tax revenues were rising steadily, and bank loans were returned very quickly. But how could there be a major economic collapse, a major military collapse, and people's hearts were completely dispersed?

Who caused all this?

Lu Huiqing did all this, and the court said that he had made great contributions. But now Lu Huiqing was not demoted because the Xixia people captured Huizhou. Everyone in the court knew that he was a waste, so high officials and generous salaries supported him, so he asked him to just embezzle and not do anything, and transferred Zhang Qing back to sell hard work. However, when Zhang Qing left, he asked Zhao Xing to pay for all this.

Why?

Zhang Qi stood up straight, held the glass of toast for a long time, and saw that Zhao Xing had no intention of taking it, he sighed. He raised his neck to drink the glass of wine, and then bowed his hand to say goodbye.

Zhang Feng walked out of the city for less than two miles. Shuai Fan rushed over and asked Zhang Feng to stop while running. He rushed over and jumped off the horse and handed the package in his arms to Zhang Feng: "Zhang Jingluo, it's not that my elders are not helping, but this matter is too annoying - Lu Huiqing took the money and hid aside and laughed. He led to the danger of Huanqing and the country, but he had to pay the bills, and he just counted the stolen money himself.

My master sent me to ask Mr. Zhang two questions. First: Can Lu Huiqing spit out some of the stolen money? No matter how much, as long as he starts to spit out money, the three major ticket banks will have an explanation."

Zhang Qi was silent for a moment. Answer: "I am incompetent. I can't do this."

Shuai Fan sighed and asked again: "Money does not fall out of thin air. You must have 'entry' to 'out'. The second question my family wants to ask is: Can Mr. Zhang let Huanqing officers and soldiers conduct another assault? Even if you go deep into the Xia realm and break through a small village, it means that Huanqing officers and soldiers still have the ability to repay, which is enough."

Zhang Qing sighed again and replied: "I heard that in February last year, the court sent out tea and medicine money, but Lu Huiqing dragged it down, and the three major bankers immediately cut off the supply. Since then, Huanqing's generals and officials have cut off their salary. Lu Huiqing also said that Huanqing's soldiers were rich and the court had provided too generously before, even if they did not provide for several months, they would be worthy of Huanqing's soldiers.

Most places in Huanqing have not paid any salary for more than half a year. Until now, some soldiers have not paid any salary for a year. The generals are quite resentful. Now they have not had a mutiny and are already very considerate of me. If they drive them deep into the Xia realm, I am afraid... Let me tell you, my elders, I will do my best, and I just hope that he can also care about the people of Huanqing."

Shuai Fan bowed: "Mr. Zhang, in business, there are more than one shareholder of the three ticket stores, and my family can only talk from the side. But my family said: Anyway, Mr. Zhang wants to launch a 'deep and shallow attack'. As long as Zhang Jinglue counterattack begins, he is willing to help. But this is Lu Huiqing..."

Zhang Qi took over the conversation and answered firmly: "Since I took office as the strategic and pacifier of Huanqing Road, the finances of Huanqing Road will no longer allow Lu Huiqing to intervene."

Shuai Fan Gong bowed: "So, Mr. Zhang, don't worry. My master has prepared a small boat in Hong Kong. Mr. Zhang can go straight to Yangzhou by sea, and then go to Beijing to meet the sages and go to Huanqing."

Zhang Qi bowed and took off his hat and thanked him solemnly: "I have thanked you for your grandfather for Huanqing people. I know that Li Ren is good at planning. With him in Guangnan, I will not suffer any losses in the Song Dynasty. I hope your grandfather will make a great fortune and achieve his ambition for the whole life. I just don't know if I can see it!"

Shuai Fan thanked Zhang Feng for his hymn, and was not polite, so he bowed and said goodbye.

When Shuai Fan rushed back to Zhao Xing's mansion, the official banquet at Zhao Xing's mansion had become a welcome banquet. Li Ge took office officially and controlled 50% of the population in Guangdong and more than 70% of the tax revenue. His colleagues kept raising glasses to congratulate him. The little girl Li Qingzhao was running around on the table, constantly looking for people to chat and exchange feelings.

Shuai Fan's eyes turned around and looked for Zhao Xing's traces. At this time, everyone was very happy to drink, but they didn't pay attention to Shuai Fan's arrival. Shuai Fan could not find Zhao Xing in the figure, and he didn't say hello to everyone, and quietly moved to the backyard.
Chapter completed!