Chapter 1141 West of the City
In September of the third year of Yuanfeng, Cai Bian and Shao Bowen, the envoys of the Song Dynasty to Goryeo, successfully completed their mission.
The Song Dynasty officially enthroned Wang Hui as the King of Goryeo, Tejin, Grand Master of Inspection, and Shangzhu Kingdom. He was awarded a seal, certificate of credence, gold book, sandalwood, tortoise shell plate, rhinoceros sword, gold and silver sword, and rattan weaving.
The sandalwood pavilion is decorated with flower mats, white parrots and seven treasures.
A series of agreements were reached between the two countries.
Goryeo agreed to formally and permanently lease two islands, Zhangzidao and Ludao, outside the mouth of the Xijing River to the Song Dynasty, allowing the Song Dynasty to set up customs.
In order to show the vassal's respect for the superior country, Wang Hui took the initiative to reduce the rent to 8,000 guan a year.
In return, the Zhangzi Island of the Song Dynasty was also open to Korean merchants. The Koreans had the right to purchase property on the two islands. The Koreans on the island enjoyed the same rights as the Song people.
The two countries will strengthen military cooperation. For the sake of regional stability, the Song Dynasty will equip the Koreans with armor and swords in equal measure while the Liao people equip the female straight people with swords and axes. They will also dispatch military representatives to help the Korean people train their sergeants.
Culturally, the Song Dynasty would regularly send scholars and monks to Korea to give lectures.
The first period started with Cai Bian and Shao Bowen teaching "Book of Rites" and "Book of Changes" to students in the Imperial College of Korea.
At the same time, as representatives of the Song Dynasty, the two also participated in Yitian's return ceremony to the temple.
Prince Wang Xun of Goryeo was in poor health, so Empress Dowager Renrui ordered her fourth son Wang Yun to welcome Yitian in person at Bongeunsa Temple with the highest standards.
On that day, Yitian began to teach the Korean monks the "Huayan Sutra" newly translated by Zhenyuan and the fifty volumes of "Shu".
Wang Hui ordered Xingwang Temple to set up a teaching and collection prison to collect the Buddhist scriptures that Yitian brought back to the country, as well as his own translations.
Three days later, the Imperial College Printing Workshop was completed. Using the lead movable type code and ink donated by the Song Dynasty, Wang Hui opened the printing plate and printed the most precious gift in his heart - "The New Collection of Su Yuanfeng" privately given to him by Su You.
Because of his contribution to contacting the Song Dynasty and Goryeo and achieving major diplomatic progress, Jin Ti was appointed as the Minister of Rites by Wang Hui, and was appointed as an envoy by the Song Dynasty. He will return to the Song Dynasty again with Cai Bian and Shao Bowen.
After that, they waited for the wind to blow up. Cai Bian and Shao Bowen took turns awarding awards to Goryeo scholars, and regularly traveled with the scholar-bureaucrats to the mountains and rivers of Goryeo to interview customs, political conditions, and national trends.
Shao Bowen is close to mountains and rivers and has superb Taoism; Li Shuanshu is proficient in physics and good at observing the earth's veins.
Wang Hui specially entrusted two people to determine the feng shui for him and search for the auspicious site of Wang Tomb across the country.
Fortunately, Li Shuanshuo and Shao Bowen both had map surveying teams, otherwise it would have been winter before they could even see it. This matter would have been quite difficult to handle in just a few months.
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Bianjing City, outside the Military Aircraft Department, Lao Shi Hu Geng Store.
Su You and Cheng Yue walked one behind the other from the west.
This was Su You's requirement for himself. After turning thirty, Su You felt that it was necessary for him to exercise.
The residence of Duke Fu was still in the same place. Zhao Xu wanted to give Su You a separate residence, but Su You refused again.
The reason is that the family is small, the house is big and living in panic, and the flat pot and colander are naughty, so it is difficult to find them when playing hide and seek.
It was two miles from the residence to the military aircraft, so Su You felt that it was just right to go to work with his legs on.
Walking among the citizens who were busy opening their businesses in the morning, taking in all the fireworks in the world, for Su You, it was a joy to stroll and swim in the "Along the River During the Qingming Festival".
Nowadays, Xicheng is also very lively. After the Liao and Song Dynasties opened border trade, the property prices in the Yiqiumen Embassy District in the west began to rise.
Although it is trade between countries, the framework is managed by the government and implemented by merchants.
Therefore, many smart businessmen who wanted to open up high-rise routes opened their shops here to facilitate business negotiations with Liao merchants living in the embassy area.
After several great victories, the people of Bianjing began to have a different impression of warriors. The Times said it well, the founding kings of the Song Dynasty were pure warriors. The reason why warriors brought trouble to the world in the Tang Dynasty was because they had no national concept and poor quality.
But it doesn't mean that soldiers will never be good.
Today's soldiers in the Song Dynasty, especially those who have been reorganized and selected, have a rough knowledge of writing, understand principles, and have excellent skills. Miao Honggen's Shangsi New Army has a spiritual outlook, moral character, and the slave soldiers and servant soldiers of the past.
Compared with the refugee soldiers, they are in two completely different situations.
Especially in the disaster relief process in July, the key role played by the soldiers made the people of Bianjing truly feel what it means to be a "young soldier."
The Times has published numerous reports on flood fighting and rescue heroes. The golden qualities and touching deeds of those children, mainly from families of civilian martyrs, burst out at critical moments have won the praise and tears of countless people in Bianjing.
When Tong Guan received the appointment of being demoted to Shaanxi Province, he was still leading the New Army soldiers to help the people in Xuanfang Village rebuild their houses, and quietly left two months of his salary on the table in the middle of Xuanfang Village, saying that this was
Time and money, hoping to use this money to rebuild the house and live a better life;
When Zhang Dun left Chanzhou, his elders ran along the road, crying bitterly. When Zhang Dun arrived at the border of the state, more than 20,000 fellow villagers gathered behind him;
Wang Kechen went to Taiyuan Prefecture, and the people in Yunzhou City worshiped the portraits every day and burned incense every day;
The mission of the Shangsi New Army this time was to rescue the prefectures and counties along the river. However, every time they came and went, they really made no mistakes!
Not only did nothing happen in Qiu, but many ruined temples and abandoned houses were transformed into camps. When the new army left, they were handed over to the local government as primary school buildings!
Children who join the Fourth New Army have high incomes, good reputations, are loyal to their duties, and can read!
The wealthy families in Bianjing City still have some scruples, and they will not deal with the New Army soldiers like they would catch a son-in-law under the Jinshi Ranking, but among the ordinary people's families in Bianjing City who are not well-off, this is the best son-in-law candidate!
The junior commanders above the rank of squad leader and team leader of the New Army are Xiangmomo.
The students of the Royal Military Academy are even more amazing. As long as the academy has the word "royal", the children in it will have higher breasts when they go out - disciples of the emperor!
The layout of the Song Dynasty's left-wing civil servants and right-wing military forces was stubbornly reflected even in the layout of Bianjing City. With the middle line of Xuandemen Street as the boundary, the west side of the capital has now become the settlement area for the military families of the four new armies of the Song Dynasty.
Needless to say, the salary of the Fourth New Army is generous. The income of a soldier is comparable to that of a county lieutenant in Zhongxian County. Moreover, there is a huge benefit for military families, that is, their family members have priority to enter military industrial enterprises such as Sitong and Royal Neiji Workshop.
The rights of workers in state-owned enterprises.
The income of workers in these enterprises is also considerable.
Therefore, a huge consumer group has formed in Xicheng District of Kaifeng Prefecture. Soldiers have a straight temper and spend money readily and generously. These are the best potential customers.
Merchants took action upon hearing the news, making the relatively dilapidated West City increasingly prosperous.
Soon, the merchants discovered that there was another huge benefit to settling in Xicheng - the public security situation was surprisingly good!
Anshi Xianggong's Baojia Law was only implemented in Bianjing City, and there was a situation that made people laugh and cry.
The same law does not apply in Dongcheng.
Baojia in Dongcheng is all assigned on a rigid basis, either by fat businessmen with names, or by weak families with missing arms and legs who have no choice but to be forced to take up the job.
It is a pure joke to ask them to assume the sacred obligation of protecting the home and country that was tailor-made for the Baojia in Xianggong Anshi's ideal.
However, in Xicheng District, Baojia Law has become a good law of course.
In Xicheng District, where families of active servicemen and veterans gather together, these people who have been tempered by military camps are very familiar with this routine.
The new Kaifeng governor Wang Anli gave the order, and in three days, in just three days, the Xicheng Baojia team was fully established. Even the intelligence room, liaison office and staff department were there. Can you believe it?!
There was an incident in Xicheng last month. A thief from Dongcheng wanted to steal something. The merchant who was stolen shouted: "Catch the thief——"
As a result, before he finished speaking, the thief was pinned to the ground by a roadside soup cake stall owner, a police car driver, an old man walking birds, and a man eating noodles.
Wang Anli received the case and called the victim, the thief and the brave person to the government office to inquire about the case. It turned out that the owner of the soup cake stall was an old veteran of the Western Army; the handlebar style was designated by Zhongmu Zhuangzi for Xicheng Hotel
The man who pulls the dishes is a former envoy of Tianwu in Kuanyi; the man who eats the noodles is a member of the Zhenguo Army who delivers letters from Shaanxi to the military aircraft; the uncle who walks the birds is the most powerful, and he used to be the head of the palace guard team of Lord Renzong!
Chapter completed!