He yelled loudly, and another person in the room hurriedly got up, took a look out the window, and lowered the propped up window lattice. Because his movement was too hasty, several pieces of dirt fell from the window.
Another person shouted in anger, sighed, and then fell silent.
The house where the three people lived was located due north of Jiashe Mansion, close to the Yingen Bridge, and was surrounded by places where poor people gathered.
When Cui Yu was in charge of Yangzhou a few years ago, he renovated the Yangzhou moat and the upper fort on Shugang in the north of the city. He also built an additional fortress connecting the fort and the big city. He also built twelve warehouses along the river in the city to reserve military rations.
During these projects, in addition to mobilizing the army, they also paid for the temporary recruitment of civilians, and the wages given were very generous.
Therefore, many poor people still gathered in this area after the completion of the project. In order to resettle them, Cui Yu organized the Wanma Society in the north of the city, which was both soldiers and civilians. However, not long after, there was a famine in eastern Zhejiang, and a large number of refugees crossed the river to seek survival.
Cui Yu opened the city gate to welcome the people, and once again filled up the area.
Since it is a place to accommodate the poor and help the people, it is inevitable that the house and courtyard are dilapidated and the big shots rarely come here. At this moment, the three people sitting in the room, as well as the vigilant guards outside, seem out of place.
Two of these three people are local officials on the front line of Huaidong. One is Li Jue, the Jianghuai envoy, and the other is Ying Chunzhi, the Huaidong Economic Strategy and Comfort envoy. There is another person who should not have appeared here in the first place.
Shi Miyuan established a new army commander in Zhenzhou relying on the local money supervisor, Yang You, the ninth king of the red coat army at that time.
In fact, not only Yang You, but also Li Jue was stationed in Jiankang Prefecture, and Ying Chunzhi was stationed in Chuzhou. These two people should not have come to Yangzhou. But not only did they come, they also came so mysteriously that Jia She
None of them knew anything about it.
After the room was silent for a while, Li Jue came back after closing the window and said angrily: "What moths? Is this a matter of money? If they take more, they are moths; if we take less, we are pillars?"
Yang You turned around and glared at him: "Did I talk about money? Why are you so anxious!"
Ying Chunzhi knew that Yang You was a true bandit and spoke unscrupulously. In the past two years, Jia She had been hopping up and down to pay bribes, but Li Jue had taken the biggest hit among officials. So when he heard the word "worm", he just
It feels extremely harsh.
He quickly smoothed things over: "It's really not about money, it's..."
Halfway through his words, he waved his hands in frustration, not knowing how to express himself.
In the early years, when Cui Yu was in charge of the Huaidong Yaosi Company, he strengthened military preparedness inside and strictly prohibited making trouble outside. Later, Li Jue and Ying Chunzhi took office one after another, and each wanted to do some business to show that they and Cui Yu
This old Confucian is different.
Li Jue often played against Cui Yu, and wrote to the court many times to abolish the Sui coins, break off diplomatic relations with the Jin Kingdom, and raise troops to restore the old territory. However, Ying Chunzhi was more fierce and single-handedly pushed many maritime leaders to move to Zhongdu City.
There was a rebellion in the country, and the troops deployed at the border were also aggressive.
Lin'an was on the frontline at that time, and seeing that the Jurchens were badly beaten by the Black Tartars and that the whole country was about to fall apart, they adopted a tacit attitude towards this radical strategy.
Until one day, Li Ding Haijun suddenly attacked and sent troops south to Chuzhou in a threatening manner. Baoying made a trip, but the court's support for the two men remained unchanged. Cui Yu was also summoned back to the court to serve as secretary and young supervisor.
The two were encouraged to go ahead and do it, and their reputation and future reached a peak as the Kaifeng court sent its troops south.
However, this situation soon passed. After Ding Haijun captured Kaifeng, the cooperation with Shi Xiang's party in the smuggling trade suddenly deepened, and the voices of North Korea and China's main war became weaker and weaker.
This of course has nothing to do with the attitude of the people, but most of the people who can speak out have been bought by unspeakable interests; and the recent incident in Lin'an that has attracted much attention has been replaced by the unspeakable conflict between Shi Xiang and the heir of King Yi.
, the courtiers seemed to be deliberately avoiding the issue of war with the north.
As Ying Chunzhi said, this is not a matter of money.
The smuggling trade between the north and the south has long been a semi-open secret, and the benefits are so huge that Li Jue and Ying Chunzhi are both talking about it. But the court suddenly stopped discussing war and peace, as if peace was silent.
Self-explanatory choice...
So where does that leave the two main combatants, Li Jue and Ying Chunzhi?
It should be noted that the main war faction in the Song Dynasty was actually divided into three completely different types of people.
A person who deeply feels that he is a son of man and a subject of others should remember the anger of his ancestors and deeply feel that the people of the Central Plains are in dire straits. He plans day and night to recover, and he actually has a feasible plan.
For example, the famous Xin Jiaxuan was the same. He served as an official for more than forty years and fought for more than forty years. He shouted so loudly that the ears of the emperors and ministers of the Song Dynasty became calloused, but he was accurate in judging that the Jin Kingdom would be in chaos and destruction; he advocated the restoration of
The great plan is listed in ten chapters, and every word is accurate.
But there were too few such people in the official circles of the Song Dynasty.
The other kind of people, although they grasp the principle of incompatibility between Han and traitors, are completely ignorant and even incompetent.
Because his words are always upright, it is easy to control the emotions of the military and civilians and quickly improve his own status. And because he is incompetent, he regards the extremely difficult restoration of the great cause as extremely simple, so he makes frivolous decisions and ultimately cannot defeat the enemy, which is in vain.
It exhausts the people's strength, consumes the country's resources, and confuses people's hearts. Just like Han Xuanzhou who single-handedly promoted the Kaixi Northern Expedition.
Due to the vigorous purges of Prime Minister Shi, the number of such people in the official circles of the Song Dynasty was very small.
Since the failure of the Kaixi Northern Expedition, Jiangnan has become a wasteland, and the trend of war has weakened a lot. Most of the people who take the lead in officialdom today are of the third type.
The third type of people, like Li Jue and Ying Chunzhi, try to draw attention to themselves by taking a militant stance, and then engage in political speculation in order to benefit their own career.
In their view, no matter how weakened the voice of the main war faction is, it cannot be eliminated. As long as they occupy a considerable position among them, and when the situation between the north and the south changes slightly, they will inevitably become prime ministers.
Who would have thought that Lin'an court is now full of peace advocates. Some people who once fiercely advocated war no longer even pretended to do so for the sake of that little benefit!
Are you kidding me? Even though the Jurchens were finished, the Duke of Zhou, Guo Ning, who came after him, was not easy to deal with. A powerful northern country that succeeded the later Zhou Dynasty was established. Who doesn’t understand what this means? Why don’t the ministers stand for it?
Zhao Guanjia, think about it? Can you not see such a big threat?
Okay, okay, threats and all, since the noble people in the industry don't care, why should we care.
But the princes in the court suddenly stopped talking about restoring the rivers and mountains. What should we ministers working on the border do?
After discovering that the situation in the court had changed, Li Jue and Ying Chunzhi were extremely anxious. They wrote letters to each other, and messengers rushed back and forth like a revolving door. When they each inquired about Lin'an, the contents of the letters became more and more sincere.
, becoming more and more desperate.
The envoy from Dinghai Navy beat up Shi Xiang’s son and nephew and almost killed him, but this didn’t even make Shi Xiang excited! He has obviously made up his mind, what should we do? How much longer can our career be delayed?
Year?
Do you really want to give up the reputation you have accumulated over the past few years, just take the benefits from the smugglers and serve as an important minister on the border?
What's deplorable is that the money he got wasn't that much...at least not as much as one-tenth of what Jia She got! Jia She built a luxurious mansion and raised several famous theater troupes. Who wouldn't be envious after seeing this?
In the past two months, Jia She and the smuggling merchants around him have become more and more powerful. Li Jue and Ying Chunzhi are both veterans of officialdom and can keenly sense the subtle changes in the atmosphere. They know that these people have begun to
Local officials took notice.
If this continues, not only will your official career and financial prospects be bad, but the power in your hands will also lose some value... In that case, what hope is there in life?
The only good thing is that people are more irritating than others. No matter how unhappy my life is, after all, I am a scholar and follow the official path. No matter how bad I am, I will always have a salary.
On the contrary, the new vicious dog recruited by Prime Minister Shi's sect was originally planned to scare the powerful neighbors. Now that the vicious dog can't even eat dog food, he is the most worried!
Thinking of this, both of them stared at Yang You.
Li Juepi snorted with a smile: "Okay, let's just say Jia She is a moth. Governor Yang, you secretly made an appointment with us to Yangzhou. Could it be that you want to persuade us to sign a petition with you to implore the court to remove us?"
Do you know that in the past two months, the soldiers and civilians of Zhenzhou have clamored and complained about your army's disturbance of the place? The documents are like snowflakes. If you cause trouble, the trouble will come to you. Please don't mess with the two of us at will."
Yang You looked at Li Jue, then at Ying Chunzhi, and said sternly: "What I want to do is not up to you two. You can just watch and be a witness."
"what are you up to?"
"I'm going to kill Jia She!"
Li Jue and Ying Chunzhi were so frightened that they jumped eight feet high and shouted without words: "Why are you crazy! Are you kidding me! What medicine did you take by mistake? Do you want to die?"