He yelled loudly, and another person in the room hurriedly stood up, took a look out the window, and lowered the propped up window lattice. Because he moved too quickly, 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 a clamping city connecting the fort and the big city. He also built twelve warehouses along the river in the city to store military supplies. When carrying out 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 project was completed. In order to accommodate them, Cui Yu established the Wanma Society in the north of the city, which was both a military and civilian organization. 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 accommodate them, and once again occupied this area. Filled to the brim.
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 and the vigilant guards outside seemed out of place.
Two of these three people are local officials on the front line of Huaidong. One was Li Jue, the envoy for the Jianghuai system, and the other was Ying Chunzhi, the envoy for Huaidong economic strategy and pacification. There is another person who should not have appeared here in the first place. He is the commander of the new army established by Shi Miyuan in Zhenzhou with the help of the local money supervisor. Yang You, the ninth king of the Red Coat Army at that time.
In fact, not only Yang You, Li Jue is stationed in Jiankang Mansion, and Ying Chunzhi is stationed in Chuzhou. These two people should not come to Yangzhou. But not only did they come, they came in such a mysterious way that Jia She didn't even know 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 was unscrupulous in his words. In the past two years, while Jia She was busy offering bribes, Li Jue took the biggest hit among officials. So when I hear the word "worm", I feel extremely harsh.
He quickly smoothed things over: "It's really not about money, it's, it's..."
Halfway through his words, he waved his hands in frustration, not knowing how to express it.
A few years ago, when Cui Yu was in charge of the affairs of the Huaidong Appliance Company, he strengthened military preparedness inside and strictly prohibited making trouble outside. Later, Li Jue and Ying Chunzhi came to office one after another, and each wanted to do some business to show that their family and Cui Yu were different from the old Confucian.
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. Ying Chunzhi was even more fierce. He single-handedly pushed many maritime leaders to rebel in Zhongdu City, and he was also aggressive in dispatching troops at the border.
At that time, Lin'an was on the front line and saw that the Jurchens were badly beaten by the Black Tartars and that the whole country was about to fall apart, so they adopted a tacit attitude towards this radical strategy.
Until one day, Li Ding Haijun suddenly launched an attack and sent troops southward in a threatening manner, making a trip to Chuzhou and Baoying. The court's support for the two men remained unchanged, and Cui Yu was even 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 their peak as the Kaifeng court sent its troops south.
However, this situation soon passed. After Ding Haijun captured Kaifeng, his cooperation with Shi Xiang's party in the smuggling trade suddenly deepened, and the voices of North Korea and China becoming increasingly weaker.
This of course has nothing to do with the attitude of the people, but most of those who can speak out are 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 about money.
The north-south smuggling trade has long been a semi-open secret, and the benefits are so huge that Li Jue and Ying Chunzhi are both full of money. But suddenly there was no discussion of war and peace in the court, as if peace was a self-evident choice...
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 kind of 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 is the same. He served as an official for more than forty years and fought for more than forty years. His shouts made the ears of the Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers grow calluses, but he was very accurate in judging that the Jin Kingdom would be in chaos and destruction. Every word is indeed precious.
But there were too few such people in the officialdom 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 manipulate the emotions of the military and civilians and quickly enhance his own status. And because of his incompetence, he regarded the extremely difficult task of restoration as very simple, so he made frivolous decisions and ultimately failed to defeat the enemy. In vain, he exhausted the people's strength, consumed the country's resources, and disturbed the hearts of the people. Just like Han Yuzhou 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 of trees, still tired of talking about troops, and the trend of the main battle has weakened a lot. Nowadays, most of the people who take the lead in officialdom are of the third type.
The third type of people, like Li Jue and Ying Chunzhi, try to attract attention by taking a fighting 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 militant faction is, it cannot be eliminated. And as long as he occupies a considerable position in it, until the situation between the north and the south changes slightly, he will inevitably become a general and become a prime minister.
Who would have thought that now Lin'an court would be full of Zhuhe faction. Some people who once fought fiercely did not even pretend to pretend for that little benefit!
Are you kidding me? Although the Jurchens were finished, the Duke of Zhou who came after him, Guo Ning, was not easy to deal with. The founding of a powerful northern country that inherited the power of the Later Zhou Dynasty. Who doesn’t understand what this means? Why don't the ministers think about Zhao Guan's family? Can't you 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 to each other and communicated, and messengers rushed back and forth like a revolving lantern. When the two of them inquired about Lin'an, the contents of the letters became more and more sincere and desperate.
The envoy from Ding Haijun beat Shi Xiang's son and nephew, and almost beat him to death, but this didn't even make Shi Xiang excited! The old man has obviously made up his mind, what should we do? How many more years can your official career be delayed?
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 much... at least not one-tenth of Jia She's! Jia She built a luxurious mansion and raised several famous theater troupes. Who wouldn't envy him?
In the past two months, Jia She and the smugglers around him have gained momentum. Li Jue and Ying Chunzhi are both veterans of officialdom and can keenly sense subtle changes in the atmosphere. They know that these people have begun to ignore local officials.
If this continues, not only will your official career and money 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 annoying than others. No matter how unhappy my life was, after all, I was born as a scholar and followed the official path. No matter how bad my life was, I could always get a salary.
On the contrary, the new vicious dog recruited by Prime Minister Shi's sect was originally intended 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 call Jia She 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 Do you know that in the past two months, the soldiers and civilians of Zhenzhou have been clamoring and complaining that your army is disturbing 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. 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?"
