Regarding this trip south to Dali, I did not tell Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu and others the details. I just vaguely said that I would go out for two months for a private visit, otherwise I would attract a wave of "dissuasion" with righteous words.
"I thank you Daolin, I thank you Wen Tianxiang, I wish you Lu Xiufu, I wish you Lan Yu to see the Queen Mother, and to see Your Majesty,"
Xie Daoqing tilted his head slightly and said with a smile: "Four dear friends, please go down without courtesy."
"Thank you, Queen Mother, thank you, Your Majesty,"
"Yes," Xie Daoqing stretched out his hand to signal, "Four dear friends, please sit down."
Since I had been out for too long, I invited Queen Mother Xie Daoqing to the Royal Study Room to let her get acquainted with Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu and Lan Yu.
Xiaoqi made a new pot of tea, first filled a cup for Xie Daoqing and I, and said respectfully: "Your Majesty, please have some tea,"
I took the tea cup and said, "Xiao Qi, as the commander of the Jinyi Guards, you should also sit down and listen."
"Yes, the official family," Xiao Qi then poured tea for Xie Daolin and the other four people and sat aside.
"Mother, during my absence, the government affairs of the DPRK and Central Government will be handed over to Wen Tianxiang, the director of the Government Affairs Council, the military affairs will be handed over to Lu Xiufu, the director of the Military Affairs Academy, and the defense of Lin'an City will be handed over to the Admiral Xie Daolin. When they are in doubt, they need my mother to come. Made a decision,"
Xie Daoqing nodded and said: "Okay, officials, don't worry, I will handle it carefully."
"With my mother in charge, I can rest assured," I said with a smile, "Mother, I have made arrangements for the affairs of the court. If there is any evil intention, my mother can just mobilize the army to suppress it."
Xie Daoqing smiled softly and said: "The officials are joking, this Lin'an City is where my court is, so nothing bad could happen."
Xie Daolin said: "Your Majesty, the Empress Dowager is right. There are only two major military forces in Lin'an City: the Yulin Army and the Lin'an Military Region, and they are both in the hands of Your Majesty. I promise that nothing will happen."
I nodded and said: "Although this possibility is slim, it is better to be careful. The Royal Forest Army is fine, but among the three commanders of the Lin'an Military Region, Wu Songhan is the former general of the Forbidden Army."
The meaning of this sentence is very clear to everyone here. The Forbidden Army was originally under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council, and the Privy Council envoy was Jia Sidao. This inevitably made me suspicious, but no one said it clearly.
Xie Daoqing put it bluntly: "The officials can rest assured that although the grand master has a flamboyant personality, he is not a rebellious person. The queen mother still has this confidence."
"kindness,"
Lu Xiufu said: "In addition to Wu Songhan, there is also General Zhang Shun. Although he seems to have nothing to do with Jia, oh, and the original Forbidden Army, his time of joining the army was very short. Why didn't Your Majesty mention it?"
"Zhang Shun, I have my own sense of proportion. Besides, the father of the Zhang brothers was once favored by Mr. Yuan, so I think there is no problem. Jun Shi, you can rest assured about General Zhang Shun," of course I can't say , Zhang Shunzhong was a loyal minister who sacrificed his life heroically in the historical defense of Xiangyang.
"Yes, Your Majesty,"
"As long as the army is stable, other government affairs will be guaranteed. Wen Aiqing, the affairs of each ministry are carried out according to the established guidelines. Your Government Affairs Council is responsible for supervision. If you encounter difficult problems, please ask the Queen Mother for her orders."
"Yes, I understand,"
"You must keep abreast of the various studies of Lin'an University, the Academy of Sciences, and especially the Gunpowder Supervision, and follow up in a timely manner. If there are any problems, the court must solve them as soon as possible. No matter it is human, financial or material resources, it must provide strong support,"
"Yes, I obey your order,"
I continued: "The other thing is Xiaoqi's Jinyiwei. We must improve the establishment as soon as possible in these two months, make full use of the special powers I have given you Jinyiwei, use the characteristics of flexibility, autonomy and concealment to achieve results as soon as possible."
"Yes, Your Majesty, I understand,"
"Lan Yu, I leave the defense of the palace to you. This time I will take away two hundred imperial guards, plus the fifty guards stationed in the gunpowder prison. The number of guards left in the palace may not be enough. Therefore, I will hand over some of the martial arts personnel who were formerly part of the Young Guards in the Royal Forest Army to your unified command. At the same time, Xie Daolin and Xie Aiqing will personally sit in the palace with the original Young Guards,"
Lan Yu said: "Your Majesty, that's good. With Mr. Xie and these young guards joining me, I can ensure the safety of the palace even more."
For people of later generations, when traveling, you can choose from a variety of means of travel such as cars, trains, and airplanes. However, during the Song Dynasty, people who traveled long distances had only one choice, and that was horses (you can take boats on waterways). Even for me, This supreme emperor is no exception.
There are many emperors who like to travel in history. The most famous one is probably Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty. Among the TV works of later generations, there are countless dramas with the theme of Qianlong's voyage to the south of the Yangtze River. The one that impressed me the most is Zheng Shaoqiu. My husband starred in "A Play on Qianlong". Although it has been a long time, I still remember the theme song "Qing Qing" very well.
The sea water never dries up.
Even the sky cannot see through it.
The world of mortals smiles and wanders with you.
When I first heard this song on TV, I felt an inexplicable sense of loss. At that time, I didn’t know Le Lingshan, let alone Fang Ling. I felt sad for the fate of the characters in the play. Or there are other reasons, I don't know, maybe it's just a sense of fate.
Fang Ling was particularly excited when he heard that I was going south to do business again. He shouted, "Brother, it's time to go out a long time ago. March is the right time for an outing in Jiangnan. Don't miss it." However, when I mentioned that this time my route south was to go to Guangzhou. When they arrived at Nanxi Road and Dali, Fang Ling also showed a hint of surprise and said, "It's so far away and we still have to go to Dali. Brother, do you know that the land of Dali is now the territory of the Mongols?"
"Of course I know, the place I want to go to this time is Tianlong Temple in Shanchan Prefecture, Dali,"
Fang Ling had never heard of the name Tianlong Temple and said, "I've never heard of Tianlong Temple. However, Ling'er heard that the scenery in Dali is very different from ours. It's not bad to go and have fun. Brother, the Mongols are nothing special. There are If Ling'er is here, he will be fine."
"That's right, my Ling'er is a martial arts master. If anyone wants to do harm to me, Ling'er, please help me defeat him."
"Haha, brother, with me as a free bodyguard, no one can touch you,"
Zhang Quanyi was also excited about this trip. Zhang Quanyi, who had followed Baiyunchan Lao Zhang Yun'an since he was a child, was very used to this kind of life. It is better to travel thousands of miles than to read thousands of books. For this reason, Zhang Quanyi One is deeply experienced.
In the early morning, when the sky was just beginning to lighten up, our group of six people and six riders quietly left Lin'an and headed south at high speed along the official road. What was different from the last two times was that Lan Yu stayed in the palace, and his replacement was Young Zhang Quanyi.
Wen Zhang took the lead, followed by Shen Mo, followed closely by Fang Ling and I, Yuan Ji and Zhang Quan were responsible for breaking up the rear, my mount was still the top royal horse in the palace named "Feiyan", and the other five riders They are also palace royal horses from the Western Regions.
After more than a year of practice, I am finally able to master horse riding skills proficiently.
Thanks to Yuan Ji's arrangement, Wen Zhang, who was leading the way, and Fang Ling, who was beside me, controlled the speed of progress. The distance from Lin'an to Dali was about two thousand kilometers. According to our average daily speed of about three hundred miles, it was about It takes twenty days. At the speed of our horse, the average daily journey of three hundred miles is quite easy. If we let the horse run wildly, the average daily journey of seven or eight hundred miles is not difficult.
On the third day after leaving Lin'an, we came to Quzhou Prefecture, the largest state capital in the southwest of Liangzhe West Road. From Quzhou Prefecture, we traveled southwest to the original Jiangnan West Road, now Jiangxi Province. In the area where the land meets the ground, there is a military road specially used by the army. Although this military road is not as wide as the official road, it has a solid roadbed and people are not allowed to walk on it, so it is often empty.
We galloped down the military road and tried to run wildly for a day. In the evening, Yuan Ji said, the day's journey is about 950 miles, and a thousand-mile horse is indeed extraordinary. If the rest time along the way is reduced, it will be a thousand miles in one day. It's not that difficult. No wonder Guan Yu ignored military orders on Huarong Road in order to repay Cao Cao for giving him a red rabbit and a BMW. This shows the ancient generals' love for BMWs. On the second day when I was so proud of such a speed, I... I found that my whole body was sore. Fortunately, Fang Ling gave me a massage that night, otherwise it would have been difficult to get up. In the next few days, Yuan Ji was determined not to allow such a rush, so we had to keep moving at a speed of three hundred miles a day. , I no longer try to travel thousands of miles in a day.
According to the defense plan formulated by Yuan Ji, the eight-armed apes Zhang Zijian and Yun Zhongfei, the commanders of the imperial guards, each led a hundred guards in casual clothes as our accompanying escort. Among them, Zhang Zijian's hundred-man team set off in advance to prepare controls along the way. To take measures, another hundred guards were scattered around us under the command of Yun Zhongfei. The mounts of these two hundred guards were not as fast as the horses we rode, so they could basically only rest two or three times a day. For an hour, fortunately, these guards are all highly skilled in martial arts, which is no problem. In addition, there are nearly a hundred members of the Longya Security Department who are secretly following along the way. Whenever they go to a place, they first contact the local Longya Intelligence Station. Members, please cooperate with Zhang Zijian who is moving forward and take precautions.
Compared with the Song-Mongolia border in the north, the security environment in the inland areas is relatively much more stable. Since I came to the throne, I have worked hard to develop the economy and rectify the officialdom. Over the past year or so, the economy in various places has generally begun to pick up, and people's lives have improved day by day. , social security will also stabilize simultaneously.
Every time I go to a place, before going to bed at night, I will hang out on the street with Fang Ling, Yuan Ji and others, eat local snacks, chat casually with the shopkeeper and waiter, and occasionally buy some gadgets. .
Regarding the current living conditions, the "happiness index" of the people has obviously increased a lot compared to previous years. People along the way generally said that life has changed a lot in the past year. These changes are roughly the same in various places. First of all, they feel that the government His attitude became gentler. In a small and remote county in Jiangxi Province, the owner of a snack bar told me personally that once, when he was on the way to purchase goods, he accidentally bumped into the sedan chair of the magistrate. Although the magistrate had no bad deeds, , but he was very domineering, so he was so frightened that he immediately fell to his knees and kept kowtowing to beg for mercy. Unexpectedly, after his parents got off the sedan chair, they not only did not blame him, but also asked him gently if he was hurt. If this happened before, I would have thought I dare not even think about it. Secondly, everyone has land to cultivate. As long as they work hard, they can have enough to eat. Thirdly, people with skills also receive support from the government. In many places, the government has even planned a special area. Low rents are rented to people who are skilled in craftsmanship as workshops for their production. At the same time, the government also helps them broaden their sales channels, which promotes the development of the local handicraft industry, and surrounding farmers also come to the workshops during their leisure time. Do part-time jobs to make ends meet,