Wang Lingyun looked at the wave-like crowd in front of him. Although he felt contempt in his heart, he did not dare to ignore it.
Even he didn't expect that things would turn into such a sharp confrontation with the people.
The person who really pushed him to go south was not the officials on Fujian Road, nor the elders in the family, nor his distant cousin Wang Deyong, but the nobleman in the inner palace, Zhao Weixian, a clan member of the Zhao family!
Zhao Weixian was a nobleman from Yugang, the magistrate of Qingyuan, and the subordinate of Wu Xin, the general of the Southern Expedition. In order to cultivate his power in the court over the years, Zhao Weixian could be said to have spent a lot of time and a lot of manpower and material resources.
The rewards were also very obvious. He could feel that his own strength was growing day by day. Once something happens, he will no longer be isolated and helpless. The people gathered around him, regardless of their official position or strength, are becoming increasingly stronger with the secret help of Zhao Weixian!
Both Qingliu and Xia Dang could sense that a force was surging in the dark, but they couldn't figure out the context of this force and couldn't prescribe the right medicine!
The imperial court is currently in troubled times, and the entire court is in unprecedented chaos. You sing and I appear on the stage, and gods and demons from all walks of life show their magical powers. Everyone says that the court is now dominated by Xianggong, and honest people gather together, but everyone I'm not blind. In the past when the Five Ghosts were in power, and even earlier when everyone was doing auspicious things and flattering the Zhenzong, the court had never been in such chaos. No one did anything real, they were all lying, deceiving the superiors and concealing the truth. Everyone is really unlucky!
Under this tide, the ambitious ones will benefit!
The incompetent Zhao Weixian took advantage of this gap and began his climb up the ladder step by step.
His is higher than anyone else, so if he wants to achieve something, he has to do it faster than anyone else.
People with common ambitions can easily gather around him!
Wang Lingyun is Zhao Weixian's person.
Zhao Weixian has done nothing else in these years. He moved all the resumes and information of officials in the Ministry of Personnel to his home and studied them constantly.
It can be said that Zhao Weixian looked over all the officials at all levels in the Song Dynasty!
There are not many people he can take advantage of!
Qingliu and Xia Dang divided up most of the officials in the court. Once these people are labeled, they are no longer free. They will have a lingering shadow with them throughout their lives. They may rise to great heights at any time, or they may be doomed at any time. .
They cannot control the general trend in the court, so they can only join in the fun.
But after a closer look, he still found many potential personnel. These people had neither father nor mother, and were often hit by two factions. It can be said that they were frustrated in the court. These people were Zhao Weixian's most Like the target!
Wu Xin is the best example. He is Xia Song's old subordinate, but Xia Song doesn't regard him as one of his own, and Qingliu doesn't want to see him. After the return of the Western Army, he also had to stand aside and the good things basically had nothing to do with him. .
But after entering Prince Zhao's Mansion, Wu Xin's fortunes rose. Not only did he get a good job going south to quell the chaos, but he was promoted several levels after returning. Now he is a senior military attache in the imperial court, and his status is incomparable.
Wang Lingyun is also Zhao Weixian's target.
Zhao Weixian uncovered the entanglement between the Wang family and Qingyuan. This alone made Zhao Weixian keenly aware that there must be an ulterior secret in it!
Qingyuan was nominally the treasury of the Song Dynasty, but in fact it was Liang Chuan's personal purse.
He has been in Qingyuan for many years and knows this better than anyone else!
Liang Chuan would not sit back and watch the Japanese wreak havoc in his own territory, nor would he allow the officials of the imperial court to act recklessly under his eyes!
Wang Zuo died mysteriously in Qingyuan. Afterwards, the incident was suppressed and blocked by the court. The hidden secret was that there was no three hundred taels of silver in this place.
Zhao Weixian's first instinct was that this matter was inseparable from Liang Chuan!
You can give it a try!
Zhao Weixian immediately asked someone to come to Fujian Road to recommend Wang Lingyun and their Wang family!
Sure enough, Zhao Weixian made the right bet again!
The Wang family and Liang Chuan have a bloody feud!
Zhao Weixian’s face showed
Give me a smile! As long as he seizes this opportunity, it will not be difficult to destroy Liangchuan!
Zhao Zhen attaches great importance to this new deal.
In these years, the Song Dynasty saw peace and prosperity, but in fact the people's lives were worse than when his father was in power. The country needed money everywhere. His father treated the Khitans as a son and gave them New Year coins.
When I arrived at Zhao Zhen's place, I wanted to be a hero, but I didn't expect that it was useless compared to his superstitious and mediocre father. A little Xixia had to become relatives and gave the court an extra yearly coin.
Although Xixia's annual coins are not much, compared with the taxes of the Song Dynasty, they are nothing, but the situation has taken a turn for the worse in recent years!
When the Japanese made trouble in the East China Sea, the money bags of the Song Dynasty and the income of various seaports were cut in half. They plummeted like jumping off a cliff. Nine out of ten lost it. It was great to get one achievement!
Zhao Weixian not only goes to the staff department every day to visit Luo Zhi's talented people, he also goes to several other departments every day when he has nothing to do.
The country's salt, money, iron and grain, and taxes under the jurisdiction of the Third Division are all collected here.
This is the department that deals with money and food. It is a place that the Qingliu ministers don't like to come to. They think it is full of the smell of copper!
Zhao Weixian discovered a very terrible truth.
From the north of the Yangtze River, that is, to the north of Mingzhou, the revenue of these ports has dropped sharply, and the tax revenue is less than one-tenth of the past.
What is this concept? These ports are the lifeblood of the imperial court, which is equivalent to missing nine out of ten ports. Where does the imperial court get the money to support these doctors, and where does the money to support millions of imperial troops come from? We can only put more money into the people's pockets, but the people's wealth has long been wiped out after so many years of fighting. The roads in the south do not collect much money, and the north, especially the northwest states, collect taxes on the spot. In some places The tax will not be levied until ten years later!
The common people have no choice but to obediently take the money, otherwise they will be traitors without a king or a father!
Why is the New Deal so complicated and unable to be implemented?
The imperial court had to use money to pave the way for anything it did. Not to mention other things, just sending this document to implement the New Deal. How many thousand postmen could not do it? From the government to the villages, at every level, there are more than 100,000 people who need to be paid by the court. How much more money will be spent this year?
The court has reached a very critical moment, but these Qingliu officials in the court turned a blind eye. If they don't have money, they just ask Sansansi. As for whether Sansi has money, that's not their business!
Damn it, how could things be done like this!
Zhao Weixian also found that the income of several ports in the south, such as Qingyuan, Panyu and Mingzhou, did not drop much.
It is not impossible to say that the cause is the Japanese, but Zhao Weixian does not believe it if it is all the cause of the Japanese.
He can't control other places, but there is one place he must control, which is Qingyuan. This is Liang Chuan's base. How can he cut off Liang Chuan's retreat?
After much deliberation, there is only sea ban!
Anyway, the imperial court will not receive any more taxes. Reopening the port will only increase the strength of the Japanese! Zhao Weixian made such an unreasonable request at this time. Only at this time will the court feel that the port is useless!
With a wave of his hand, the court actually agreed!
You can open it again if necessary in the future. The minds of scholars are so clear, and their ideas are very rough and direct, but they do not understand the principles of business. Three feet of ice is not frozen in a day. To revitalize the business of a port, there are not many people. It is simply impossible to complete it in ten years or even hundreds of years.
Scholars would like to imagine that the port will be opened today and taxes will be collected tomorrow. The chicken has not yet been laid out of the egg, and the knife is out, ready to eat the meat. .
First ban the sea, then kill people.
Zhao Weixian did not express anything to Wang Lingyun, but promised Wang Lingyun many benefits.
He knew that the Wang family was in urgent need of a backer, someone who could speak for them in court, and he happened to be just such a person!
He also hinted to Wang Lingyun in the letter that he must get rid of some restless elements who took the lead in making trouble. When he mentioned this, he almost asked Liang Chuan to kill him!
Wang Lingyun was excited for a long time when he received Zhao Weixian's letter!
The opportunity finally came. If you can't even handle such a small thing, it would be equivalent to losing Zhao Weixian's trust!
He could avenge his uncle and win the favor of the nobles. Wang Lingyun didn't want to be disturbed by the idiots in front of him who were worse than dogs!
All the troops he brought from Fuzhou crossed the river. After gathering on the north bank, they began to encircle the villages at the rear with a flat push!
At first they looked like a military force, but as soon as they robbed two or three houses, the rogue bandit's style became suspicious!
The Qiu Ba people were afraid that they would fall behind and not be able to grab it, so they all scrambled to be the first and began to disobey the control. They just rushed towards Shanshui Village and Lianqian Village, which were crowded with people and houses!
There are still many people guarding the two villages!
Most of them are elderly and people with physical disabilities. Unless they don’t want to run, they really can’t!
Qiu Ba entered the village and the killings continued! The people begged and begged, they had not committed any crime or done any evil, and had lived in peace in this small mountain village all their lives. Why did these so-called court officials treat them like this!
Sometimes, there is no need for a reason to die!
Just because the villagers stand in front of Qiu Ba and hinder their wealth, that's enough!
Cries, fire, and the century-old mountain village finally disappeared forever at this moment.
Starting from the Wei and Jin Dynasties, people gradually settled in this small area. The deeds of our ancestors have become indescribable, and the surnames in Fengshan are also very mixed. People from all over the world have dedicated their lives here. .
For hundreds of years, the mountain village escaped the troubled times of the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties in the Northern and Southern Dynasties and was able to survive in the world. However, unexpectedly, the history of the village was forever stuck in what is known as the most beautiful era for the people. .
Wang Lingyun asked his men to pick some sugar cane, wash it and remove the skin, put it in his mouth and bite it.
The juice is very sweet.
Wang Lingyun took two hard bites, squeezed out the last bit of juice, and then spat out the residue!
He didn't understand what a broken piece of sugar cane was worth! Why don't you just plant something else? Do you have to risk your own life and destroy the whole family?
