Drinking wine and returning to the emperor

Author: Ye Shenggu

Drinking wine and returning to the emperor

When Sun Xin heard that Zong Ze decided to retire and return home, he was mentally prepared.

In fact, when Sun Li told Sun Xin yesterday that Zongze had accepted the generous gift he gave, Sun Xin felt something was wrong.

Zong Ze's temperament has never been touched by such things, so he even accepted such a valuable gift without saying anything. Today, Sun Xin also asked the shopkeeper to carry a load of gifts at Zong Ze's home.

After hearing this, Zong Ze did not look refusal, and he was so stingy that people were picking in through the back door.

It turns out that the person is leaving, so there is no need to pretend to be fake in such matters.

Zong Ze told Sun Xin very bluntly that he wanted to open up the land and could help him in the last days. Sun Xin quickly said that he would give him the corresponding gift.

Zong Ze shook his head, looked at Sun Xin with a little drunkenness and said, "You guy really don't know how big a career you should start..."

Sun Xin and Sun Li were both stunned when they heard this, looking at Zong Ze and wondering what he was going to react.

The next moment, Zong Ze laughed, as if he was playing with the two of them very interestingly.

"If I could not do this for you when I was a Dengzhou magistrate, I was afraid that Dengzhou will no longer have a surname Zhao and your surname is yours. But since I will not be a Dengzhou magistrate, I will serve as an official.

I was thinking, to be honest, I was afraid that the surname Sun of Dengzhou would be better."

Sun Xin and Sun Li were shocked when they heard this, and Sun Li hurriedly said, "Mr. Zong is drunk."

Zong Ze shook his head and laughed, and then asked, "Sun Xin, you always say you want to expand your land. Now, Dengzhou has almost eaten three of them. Where can you expand?"

"The land of the outer palace."

"where?"

Zong Ze was drunk when he should be drunk, but when he should be awake, he changed his expression to do things.

Sun Xin slowly said two words: "Haizhou."

Zong Ze thought for a while, then frowned.

Where did you open your next farm? Sun Xin thought of many places: including Yuncheng, Lingzhou, and even Jinzhou and Yingzhou in the Liao Dynasty. However, in the end, Sun Xin decided to be the sea south of Dengzhou.

state.

The reason is very simple. Sun Xin’s idea was to use the chaos in Liangshan to expand his power. Liangshan messed up a place, and he intervened in a place. Whether in novels or in history, the southernmost point of the expansion of Liangshan’s power is the sea.

In the continent, then Haizhou is temporarily the southern boundary of its future sphere of influence.

The scope of influence of my plan in the future basically includes the entire Shandong, the east and north are against the sea, the west is the front line of the border with Hebei, and the south is naturally the Haizhou line. If you can insert a hole there as a defense barrier,

The power you occupy will be as solid as a god.

Zong Ze recited Haizhou several times, thought about it carefully, and then he had a meaningful smile on his face and nodded.

Sun Xin was relieved to see Zong Ze not objecting.

Then he asked tentatively: "I wonder if sir, can you help me plan something more?"

"What's the matter?" Zong Ze asked, shaking the wine bowl.

"Our supervisory committee wants to cover the taxes in Wendeng County."

Zong Ze looked at Sun Xin, then shook his head: "Don't even think about it!"

Sun Xin was quite surprised that he was obviously ill-intentioned in such a faraway place in Haizhou, but Zong Ze was willing to ask for a piece of land for him. Why did Zong Ze, who was already under his control at this time, absolutely refused?

Zong Ze said naturally: "Haizhou is not under my rule, but Wendeng is under my jurisdiction. If I take the initiative to give you the tax wallet of Wendeng County, you will make trouble in the future, wouldn't you want to give me too.

Involved?"

Sun Xin instantly understood that Zong Ze was thinking of leaving with someone in his arms. After all, Zong Ze was from Zhejiang. Even if Sun Xin really took over Shandong in the future, it would be after he left, and it had nothing to do with him. He helped him do it.

There will be no evidence of the land in Haizhou. For Zong Ze's idea, he may also think that Sun Xin can bring some benefits to the people of Shandong, but if he had to cover Wen Deng's taxes to Sun Xin during his tenure,

In the future, the court will investigate, but he will never be able to escape this relationship.

Of course, Sun Xin’s plan to Wendeng County was not the idea of ​​loyalty to the court. Now more than 80% of Wendeng’s land is operated by the Supervisory Council. All landlords of all sizes are followed by Sun Xinma. After he took over the land, the next step was to interfere in Wendeng’s administration.

The ultimate goal is naturally to empty the entire Wendeng county government office, and the tax collection and handling of Shangguan were handled by the yamen locked up in the county town, but the operational power of the entire county except Chengguan will be in the hands of the supervisory committee.

Zong Ze didn't say much about this, meaning that Sun Xin would do what he wanted to do, but he wouldn't help.

The negotiations between the two sides ended but did not end, but actually started drinking.

Zong Ze is leaving, and there are many things in his heart.

From the heart, Zong Ze has been in Dengzhou for the past few years. Sun Xin has watched Zong Ze do his career step by step. From his perspective, he judged Zong Ze as a good official, but due to the boundaries of the times and the perspective of Zong Ze.

That's what you can see.

What officials can do to the people these days is education, encourage farmers, and organize disaster relief. Like Zong Ze, in addition to completing his job, he also wants to claim land for the people and reduce the transfer of powerful people to them.

The taxes are the best-selling officials.

If there was no Sun Xin in Dengzhou, perhaps the people in Dengzhou would think of Zongze's good things now, but Sun Xin has done too many things in recent years, which has brought earth-shaking changes in life to the people outside Dengzhou City.

Although Zong Ze's actions caused a lot of criticism in the court, they were not well known in the hearts of the people of Dengzhou.

Sun Xin knew that the efforts made by a clean official like Zong Ze could only be said to be slightly alleviated to the oppression suffered by the people of the world, but it could not be removed at all. He wanted to make the people live a hard life and to enrich the country and strengthen the army.

The solution is development.

The change in productivity of agricultural development is not enough to preserve the Song Dynasty, so industrialization is necessary, and there is no other way.

Zong Ze has already made up his mind to retire. According to the fact that he has left Dengzhou for only half a year, but he is very painful. It is precisely because he found that no matter how he does, he cannot change the foundation of the Song Dynasty. Instead, it is Sun.

In his opinion, a powerful man with ambition really makes people's lives much more peaceful.

He was too old and tired, and he fought for a lifetime. Now there was a confused long journey ahead, and behind him was a group of powerful people who were hurt by him. In the end, he had to decide to resign and return home.

With drunken eyes, Zong Ze suddenly asked Sun Xin: "Do you really want to go to Haizhou?"

Sun Xin nodded.

"This world is not that easy to save..." Zong Ze said suddenly.

This is a piece of advice and Zong Ze's words in his heart. Sun Xin nodded sincerely, but still said with a burning look on his face: "I want to go to Haizhou."

Zong Ze looked at him for a long time and laughed.

The river was covered with stars, and the three of them were already drunk and confused. Zong Ze began to sing. Sun Xin listened carefully and sang Yuefu, which was used to adjust the time to the public, but Tao Yuanming's poem.

Tao Yuanming said that he retired, and Zong Ze also wanted to retire, but from the poem "Picking chrysanthemums under the eastern fence", what Sun Xin heard was not free and easy, but a kind of powerless vicissitudes.

Sun Xin looked at the drunk old man in front of him and sighed in his heart. Before he resigned from office, he was willing to help him expand his career. He had selfish intentions, but it was mostly out of the public intention that he might be able to change the fate of the whole world. He had done his best.

As long as I can, I felt that this is how the world handed over the things to later generations, so I went home to farm.

But Sun Xin knew that Zong Ze did not succeed in enjoying such a life in his previous life. When the situation was unstable, he stood up again, traveled all over the country, and finally defended Bianjing alone at his age in his seventies.

Dead on the front line of the anti-Jin period, a person who cared about the world could not leave even if he wanted to leave.

Sun Li is a person who talks very little in front of outsiders, but when he listens to his younger brother talking to Zong Ze, he feels a magnificent spirit in his heart. He is a heroic character. Since he has fun, the wine will never stop. He drinks it while drinking.

Zong Ze fell first, and Sun Xin and Sun Li collapsed like mountains soon after.

It was not until dawn the next day that Sun Xin and Sun Li woke up one after another. Seeing that they were moved to the guest room to rest, they went out to ask Zong Ze's family what happened. Knowing that Zong Ze was still asleep, Sun Xin and Sun Li would

Say goodbye and go home.

When Sun Xin rode his horse to the city wall, the Dengzhou city gate just opened, and he whipped the horse Zihui Shili card.

That afternoon, Zong Ze sobered up and sent his family to Shili Pai, found Sun Xin and told him to go to Haizhou to see the place first.

Sun Xin finally breathed a sigh of relief. After preparing for a few days, he took a few shopkeepers to Haizhou.

Haizhou is the Lianyungang area in later generations.

It took four days to take a boat from Dengzhou to Haizhou. When I went to the place, I found that the terrain of Lianyungang at this time was completely different from that of later generations. In my memory, it should be that Lianyungang was caused by changes in seawater levels and the silt impacted by the diversion of the Yellow River.

The area has expanded a lot. In this era, Haizhou is still a remote place. Because it does not rely on the consumer market, although there are large ports, the maritime trade is not very prosperous.

The mountain roads operating to the mainland are the big income here.

The main industry is salt making. Although the industry is a bit single, the salt industry is the largest business these days, so the city of Haizhou is also rich.

There are many large houses with winding paths in the city, and when asked, they are all the houses of the great salt merchants.

Because this place is a salt merchant, the merchants like to buy land after they grow up. When Sun Xin was inspecting, he felt it was a bit difficult to do. After asking, he found that although the land here was barren, it was mostly relied on Haizhou City.

Most of the arable land in several counties under the jurisdiction of Hexia are dominated by land, and wild places like Dengzhou Shilipai can only be found at the edge of Haizhou.
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