Chapter 18: The Dialectical Relationship of the Fish
There is a thin bamboo strip net on the water outlet, which blocks the possibility of those koi carp running downstream. At the same time, it also creates a very rich bait for the koi carp here. In addition, there is no trace of people here, so it becomes a koi fish.
The carp's favorite place to stay. Of course, the time when the eunuch throws food is not included in this time statistics.
After Yun Zheng caught a few fish, he became impatient and pulled down the bamboo net from the fence. The released group of koi immediately swam downstream along the stream.
The monkey, who has always been very discerning, immediately put down the condiments he had just brought, and ran downstream with the bamboo net. After finding a good and narrow place, he lowered the bamboo net again. No matter what, he could not let the food go.
Ran away in vain.
The stupid cow is killing and grilling fish, and the monkey is carrying a rice bowl and throwing food into the water. No matter what, these delicious fat fish must be left in this wretched place where only damn monks can stay.
Yun Zheng was studying the railings on the waterway. These railings were very thick, as thick as his own arms. Both ends were embedded in the boulders on the city wall. When he kicked them with his feet, he found that the inlays were very strong.
Because it has been left in water for a long time, a thick layer of patina has grown on the top of the railing. This thing is actually made of copper.
Sitting outside the water channel and looking into the imperial garden, I looked at it very seriously, as if I was stealing fragrance and jade, at least that's what the guards on the wall thought.
Yun Zheng was somewhat regretful that he didn't see the emperor's wives, big and small. It is said that the women here were carefully selected from the places where beauties were produced throughout the Song Dynasty. They were of high quality. Yun Zheng was right with the emperor's harem.
I have always been interested in researching it.
Yun Luoluo quickly summoned the whole family. The family sat around a beautiful table and ate beautiful fish. Their mood immediately improved a lot. Although they had just eaten, this still did not hinder Ge.
Qiu Yan ate two slaps of fat fish by herself.
Yun Zheng took the grilled fish sent by Hanniu, but he always felt that something was missing. He looked up at the guard standing on the high wall and shouted: "Throw down the wine!"
Palace guards are not allowed to drink while on duty. This is an iron rule. However, there are such iron rules everywhere, but they have never been strictly enforced. As long as nothing happens, drink some wine to refresh yourself at night, even if Chen Lin sees it.
I won't say anything.
Of course, if something happens while you are on duty, the person who drank will automatically become the scapegoat.
Knowing that there was such a danger, how could they stop the Song Dynasty people who loved alcohol, so soon a black and shiny wine gourd was hung down by the guards with a rope.
Yun Zheng took a sip of wine and frowned and said, "What a piece of wine. Tomorrow I'll go to Yun's house and ask the butler to make some wine. Only if you have the ability to bring in the wine can you be considered capable. Prepare a little for me every day, and the extra will be an advantage for you."
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The guards quickly thanked them. They were the guards of the palace, not the guards of Tianlao. Although they were very familiar with the guards of Tianlao, they were not under the command of the same officer, so the ban of Tianlao could not affect them.
Yun Zheng lives in the sky prison, and these guards know it. It does not say that General Yun is a prison officer, and the appearance does not look like a prison officer. This place has never held any prisoners. If someone lives here
If the people are criminals, then the previous emperors of all dynasties are nothing.
The guards know the rules in the palace better than the officials. Yun Zheng being able to live in the place where the late emperor lived is definitely not a punishment, but a reward, a supreme reward.
Marquis Yun didn't want to do anything else by himself. He only asked to get some wine and bring it back. This was not a big deal. They naturally knew the rules of vegetarianism in the prison.
The young and old of the Yun family happily had a meal of grilled fish and went back to the hut. Yun Zheng had a lot of secret music to read. Lu Qingqing thought that he must also take advantage of the opportunity of the whole family being in Tianlao to read it carefully.
Educate several of your children, including Ge Qiuyan, of course.
The secret agents of the Song Dynasty penetrated the Liao Kingdom to a greater extent than Yun Zheng expected. The news mentioned in these secret reports was indeed shocking. In just four years, the Liao Kingdom's court had collapsed to such an extent.
The Liao Empire is now in chaos, and the northern tribes are declaring independence one after another, including the Blackwater Jurchens and Goryeo. They not only refused to participate in the Liao Kingdom's Chun Nai Bo, but also formed alliances with each other.
The Blackwater Jurchens and Goryeo refused to pay tribute. This cannot be blamed on others. The taxes of the Liao Empire were excessive at that time. Because Yelu Hongji believed in a dogma: the tired people will be difficult to shake the rule of the kingdom. In order to make them tired
, so they imposed heavy taxes on them.
The Liao Empire's ruling power over Liaodong was actually very weak. They did not regard the residents there as their own subjects, but simply regarded the white mountains and black waters as a tax collection area.
Yunzheng has always been very strange. The Khitan people are obviously closer to the Jurchens in terms of blood or habits, but it is precisely these people who they exploit with heavy hands. And those Han people in the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun enjoy
However, their treatment is much higher than that of those barbarians.
As early as fifty years ago, the northern Blackwater tribe's tax contribution to the empire exceeded that of the Yanyun Sixteenth Prefecture, and the population of the Yanyun Sixteenth Prefecture was twenty times that of Liaodong. It is conceivable that those barbarians were exploited
What did it look like?
Finally, a Jurchen civilian leader, Ugunai, formed a local militia and drove away a group of Khitan tax officials, and then drove away the second and third groups.
The Liao Empire was angry and issued an order to the tribal leaders in Liaodong, asking them to assist with tax collection. Those tribal leaders were actually just some larger tribal leaders who had long been dissatisfied with the heavy tax policy. They perfunctoryly ignored the Liao Empire's envoys.
Privately, he supported the local expulsion of Liao tax officials, and even reached an agreement with the rebels and tax-resisting savages.
In the past, a tribe had to hand over horses, cattle, sheep, sea turtles or anything worth so much money to the Liao Empire every year. Now he only needs to hand over cattle and sheep to the local chiefs, and he can be like the tribal masters.
As the saying goes, "You can do whatever you want on your land." In this way, as long as a barbarian works hard, he can save a lot of wealth in a year, which can buy him three sheep.
, two ewes and one ram, of course, we are talking about lambs here.
On the other hand, the local tribal leaders were originally only responsible for "guarding Liaodong for my king." If a Jurchen turned over cattle, sheep or other things, they only had to fulfill their obligations and deliver them to Khitan officials.
Then they waited for the generous gifts from the Khitan nobles - for every 10,000 sheep, they were given fifty sheep. This was equivalent to a Jurchen, and they could only get a pitiful one sheep hoof a year.
Now they can get a leg of lamb, and what they have to do is to acquiesce to the barbarians to continue to expel the Khitans and give them money or cattle and sheep; on the other hand, they have to continue to explain to the Khitan officials that the public resentment is boiling
, it is really impossible to collect even a single sheep.
This situation lasted for three full years. The Khitan people received less and less goods in Liaodong. What they received now was only 20% of what they received during the peak period of the Khitan.
The Khitan Emperor Yelu Hongji was extremely angry at the greed of these tribal leaders. Unfortunately, he could not mobilize enough troops to deal with these people. He could only select some outstanding people from the nobles to lead his own tribal troops.
Go to Liaodong to deal with those tribal leaders who are like vampires.
The contest between Sun San Cao and Su La Hague is a microcosm of such a general situation. Yun Er is unlucky. In Suzhou City, Sun San Cao won, but in more places, local forces won. The Khitan nobles
Not everyone is as wise as Sun Sancao. A bear bag like Wu Gudu is the normal state of a Khitan noble.
Ever since Yelu Xin's Zhulijin tribe became God's people in Jinlian River, Yelu Hongji had developed a heartache and his temper had become very bad.
In the past, his favorite things were hunting, reciting poems, and flying Haidongqing. However, since Hong Zhuer married Ye Luxin and his white jade kite king died, he no longer likes these more elegant activities.
It seemed that he had returned to his most barbaric atavistic state overnight.
The richest Jinlianchuan and Dagahaizi areas no longer receive any taxes. The treasure he originally counted on has now become the commonwealth of all Khitan people. Such a result is more disturbing to him than if the treasure is snatched away by the enemy.
Uncomfortable.
If the treasure is robbed by the enemy, you can still grab it back. Now that you have become communist, getting back even a piece of gold from it has become a luxury.
In order to alleviate the pain, he indulged in craziness, drunkenness and sex, and increased the extortion of everyone under his rule. The business tax became a terrifying two-to-one tax, and the head tax quadrupled compared to five years ago. In such an environment
Below, the merchants disappeared, and then the small freedmen quickly disappeared from sight.
The Khitan nobles welcomed the emperor's move very much, because the ordinary merchants were gone, leaving only their own caravans alive, and the free people were gone, because those free people had now become their own slaves, so there were not many
People came to admonish the emperor, but those who dared to speak were buried in the ice and snow by Yelu Hongji and froze into ice sculptures.
Yun Zheng looked at these materials and unknowingly saw the dawn. Lu Qingqing waited for her husband to finish washing, and then brought bacon to Yun Zheng for breakfast.
Looking at the crystal clear meat buns, Yun Zheng smiled, grabbed one and ate it. The Yun family's life in the prison finally returned to the rhythm it had at home.
Those guards were much more capable than Yun Zheng thought. As Bamboo said, the entire kitchen at home was moved to the sky prison. From now on, they will have everything to eat.
Yun Zheng smiled and said to Lu Qingqing: "Go back and thank Concubine Shu, she still takes good care of us."
"You mean those guards?"
"I'm talking about those fish. Whose koi can you fish out easily? Don't you think those fish are stupid?"
Yun Zheng smiled and continued to devour. (To be continued)