"I prepared for ten years in western Yunnan and arranged secretly for ten years before clearing out all the Tubo people in this land, just to give the Song Dynasty a safe horse ranching land.
When Cao Rong was appointed as the pacifier of Jianchang Prefecture, I expressed my objections. Just as the empress said, Cao Rong was kind to me, so I did not stick to my objections to the end.
At that time, I thought that with 14,000 tough Song Dynasty soldiers stationed in a small area, there would be no trouble anyway.
It's a pity that Cao Rong just exploited the local people. After all, Jianchang Mansion is a newly conquered land, and it is reasonable for the laws to be stricter.
I just want to ask your Majesty, the late Duke Cao was a famous general in our Song Dynasty. Didn’t he warn his children how to treat their subordinates?
By sending his subordinates to mine and torturing them like savages, does he not worry about his own safety at all?"
Yun Zheng was good at tapping the topographic map of Jianchang Prefecture and said heartbrokenly.
Empress Cao was sitting there with her majestic appearance like a Bodhisattva. She knew all the things Yun Zheng said. Many of the orders came from her. Cao Rong was a general in any case and knew that he could not overdo his opponents.
Harsh, he himself did well when he was in Shuzhong, and everyone lived a peaceful life with corruption. Although there were some minor grievances, there was no loss in major matters, so the whole Yongxing army was very grateful to him.
Since the emperor's body collapsed, the queen's demand for money has increased more than a hundred times in an instant. She does not have a chicken that lays golden eggs for her like Shuzhong Trading Company. Most of the Cao family's properties are real estate. In a short time,
The government could not provide her with a large amount of financial resources, so the Jianchang Mansion guarded by Cao Rong became her primary target. It is normal for uncontrollable things to happen under the tyranny of excessive taxation.
Empress Cao did not judge Cao Rong's actions, nor did she express her understanding of Yun Zheng's reasons for not sending troops to rescue Cao Rong. She pointed to the eight maids in front of her who were covered with rotten apricots and said: "These eight maids are all virgins."
My body and appearance are pretty good, so you can keep me as my concubine."
After saying these words, he stood up and got on the Xiaoyao horse under the service of the red-clothed guards. He looked at Yun Zheng with a puzzled face and said: "This world is so big, so big and boundless. I heard that you will go there after the war."
To establish your own country overseas, these eight women should be regarded as my early congratulatory gifts."
How could Yun Zheng be fooled by the Queen? He smiled and said: "Wei Chen has a wild temperament. Staying in the Taiping Song Dynasty will make everyone uncomfortable, so he decided to send himself overseas to fish and plant trees there. Maybe he can
Get rid of the hostility in your chest, where does the idea of founding the country come from?"
The queen sighed and said: "You always don't trust me. It doesn't matter. If you stand high, no one will be suspicious of you. I am waiting for you to win the title of king in the battle of Song and Liao!"
Lu Qingqing saw that the queen was gone, and then looked at the eight maids kneeling on the ground shivering. He lifted the chins of these maids with his fingers and looked at them one by one. Then he smiled and said to Yun Zheng: "Husband, I finally have servants at my disposal.
.”
Yun Zheng smiled and said: "No matter what mission they have, they will die of old age in the Yun family. Let's go back home and find some matching people to marry them off. It's better for us not to commit any sin."
Lu Qingqing nodded and said: "I'm really not afraid of the Queen's beauty trap. There are so many beautiful women in the world. What's the point of sending eight unknown women here?"
Yun Zheng stuffed an apricot that was as sweet as honey into his mouth, picked up Yun Zhang who put his finger in his mouth and sucked it, and walked deep into the apricot forest.
The fight with the Queen has finally come to an end. The Queen is not here today to listen to her high-sounding nonsense. What she needs is for Yun Zheng to have an attitude of explanation. Don't say that Yun Zheng used Ma Zheng of the Song Dynasty as an excuse.
Even if Yun Zheng said that he overslept and had no time to save him, the Queen would still have this attitude.
Holding the little son who was dripping with saliva, he peeled an apricot into a small slit and asked him to hold it with both hands and slowly suck it in. When he saw Xiaolin sitting under the apricot tree, drinking wine, he walked over.
Xiaolin took a sip of wine and handed the wine gourd to Yun Zheng. He took Yun Zhang's cherished gift and looked around. Finally, his eyes fell on Yun Zheng's face and said: "The bandits in Taihang Mountain have disappeared. According to legend, there are ten
The Taihang Mountain Bandits with Wan Tiejia disappeared."
"Is anyone scared? Like the Queen?"
Xiao Lin nodded and said, "I just saw that the queen gave you eight maids. It seems that you accepted it?"
Yun Zheng returned the wine gourd to Xiao Lin, took his son who was unwilling to stay in his arms and said: "If you don't accept those eight women, you will die. You see, those female guards in red who followed just now are all
Anyone who has seen blood probably has no problem killing these eight palace maids."
"Vulnerable! The force is not even 30% that of your little wife."
"It's already very powerful. Four of them can beat my little wife. By the way, is Hua Niang okay? Tell that woman, don't feel sorry for me. I won't rebel, so I won't think about it.
Kill the emperor, so I won't kill you.
We are still friends sitting in Dousha Village drinking and singing together. I only hope that Wugou can come out of meditation this time, and the world outside is still a bright sky, not as dirty as you think."
Xiao Lin suddenly laughed, and his cold face was suddenly filled with smiles that made people feel warm in their hearts.
"There are not 100,000 people in the Taihang Mountains, let alone 100,000 armors. It is not the Buddhist world of the Maitreya Sect. There is only the shadow of a strange woman. After searching around, I found that I seem to know the mysterious woman who controls the bandits in the Taihang Mountains.
"
Yun Zheng looked at Xiaolin and said helplessly: "Even if you know that woman, you don't need to show off to me, let alone tell her everywhere, right?"
Xiaolin chuckled and said: "I don't have any thoughts about that woman..."
"If you dared to have any thoughts about her, I would have torn you into pieces long ago..."
"Why did all the Taihang Mountain bandits go to Liao Kingdom?"
"Because Jiang Zhe's army is suppressing bandits in the Taihang Mountains..."
"Do you know that Li Dongchu is actively recruiting Han people from the Liao Kingdom in Taiyuan Prefecture?"
"Maybe Li Dongchu's family wants to find more servants..."
"This can be regarded as a reason, but the Confucius family opened more than 600 private schools in Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, and taught the Han people in Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures for six years. The most terrible thing is that they did not accept
money.
I have personally visited and found that the people who teach children how to read in those small private schools are all well-educated people. Not only can these people teach children how to read, but adults who are willing to read can also attend the classes.
Those well-educated scholars not only teach students carefully, but also care about children's lives. I personally saw a gentleman take off his shoes and give them to a half-year-old child who had no shoes to wear. It was freezing in the cold weather.
I went home barefoot."
Yun Zheng looked at him and smiled and said, "Isn't such a gentleman worthy of your admiration?"
Xiao Lin said helplessly: "Such a gentleman naturally needs people to admire him. People in those poor and small villages are almost in awe of those gentlemen.
But what happened to the gentleman who just gave the students shoes to wear, turned around and sat drinking with the robbers?
I could see clearly that when he was drinking, the gentleman’s feet were covered with thick fur. After drinking, the gentleman deliberately rubbed his feet on the ground, and then his feet were muddy in the eyes of the villagers.
He went back to his shabby house."
Yun Zheng took a sip of wine and sighed: "It's still not respectful enough. If an elder pops up at this time and takes off his shoes and gives them to the gentleman, and then is sternly rejected by the gentleman, then the gentleman can be regarded as
The village chief is here."
"Are you not very satisfied with the current changes in the Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun? Bandits are rampant in the countryside, the government is levying excessive taxes, gentlemen are bewitching the countryside everywhere, and businessmen are siphoning off wages everywhere. Do you know that today's Sixteenth Prefecture of Yanyun is called the human world?
Hell is no exaggeration.”
Yun Zheng dragged his son back who had crawled away and said nonchalantly: "The current policy of the Liao Kingdom is to keep the people in poverty. They believe that the advantage of this is that the people will not be able to rebel. I like their current policy very much.
"
Xiaolin said: "In the Liao Kingdom today, food, salt, livestock, and cloth are expensive. Only ironware is surprisingly cheap. A pound of pig iron costs six cents. The Liao Kingdom has never been short of ironware. The Song Dynasty still desperately used ironware.
Whose idea was it to export it to Liao?"
"Han Qi! This is Han Qi's idea. He believes that if the people have no food, they will habitually use iron tools to find food. They are all brothers and sisters of the same blood, and we must find a way for them to eat.
ah."
"In that case, why not just transport the grain there directly, which would save the government a huge subsidy to the iron merchants. Those are all national funds, don't you feel sorry for them?"
Yun Zheng patted Xiao Lin on the shoulder and said: "The master of Huanghuang has to be upright and upright to relieve all the people from hanging upside down. It is the law of nature to defeat the unjust with the right way. This is also the general trend. It is like pushing a boat with the current, like pushing a stone down a mountain. By borrowing the opportunity,
The most brilliant method is to use force to fight force. It is impossible for you not to understand this truth. It seems that following the trend is also your Taoist method."
"Taoists are not so wicked. I won't talk to you anymore. We will talk about Hanlin later. Now, it's time for me to go see Your Majesty. He is worried about the bandits in the Taihang Mountains. It's time for me to calm him down. Tell me.
, it is really difficult for a patient who cannot move or speak to worry about the hearts of the whole world."
After Xiaolin finished speaking, he ran up the apricot tree, dropped the largest and yellowest apricot to Yunzheng, and then disappeared into the woods.
Yun Zheng caught the apricots, frowned and looked at the pulpy apricots under the apricot tree, hugged his son and spoke a strange language that only the father and son could understand, and returned to the stream. (To be continued)