On the big trees in the yard, the cicadas are singing hoarsely, as if telling the impatience of summer.

Under the tree, Xu Ping was half-lying on a bamboo chair, shaking a fan in his hand, looking at the nearest newspaper. In the past two years, there has been no major event in the imperial court, and there is no life to toss in some small things, for the sake of the few acres of professional land of the magistrates, two edicts have been issued in a few months, and they want to cancel it, and they also require an inventory of the barren acres, so they don't want to give the petty officials a quiet life. However, the biggest opponent of the Great Song Dynasty, the Khitan, underwent a drastic change, and the old lord Yelu Longxu died last month, and Bazimu Bugu changed his name to Yelu Zongzhen, that is, the emperor. The habit of the Grassland Dynasty is that every time a new lord is established, it takes a few years to toss, and it seems that there is no major event in the north of the Great Song Dynasty in a short period of time.

In the ninth year of Tiansheng, Zhao Zhen, the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, was twenty-two years old, and had not yet been in power, the newly established Khitan lord Yelu Zongzhen was fifteen years old, and he was still a confused teenager, and Li Foma, the king of Jiaozhi, was thirty-two years old, and he was high-spirited, and Li Yuanhao, who was in the party, was twenty-eight years old, and he had begun to emerge as the heir to the throne.

All the protagonists in East Asia who have been on the stage are in their prime and are quietly brewing a storm.

Xu Ping, located in Yongzhou, always paid attention to the movements of Jiaozhi in the south, and with the calm of the country there, the momentum of the outside world became more and more aggressive, and the first to bear the brunt was the three prefectures of Yongqinlian.

Between the two places, there is also a self-reliant immortal state of Guangyuan Prefecture Nong Cunfu, in recent years the momentum of expansion has been extremely fierce, Yongzhou is only relying on the two old Tuzhou of Bozhou and Tianzhou to barely block. Xu Ping is not familiar with Nong Cunfu, and has been paying attention to his son Nong Zhigao, who is famous in history. Nong Zhigao is eight years old this year, and he is a doll who has just become sensible, and he has to wait another seven or eight years if he wants to make trouble.

That is, with the thought of Nong Zhigao, Xu Ping felt that Yongzhou could be calm for another ten or eight years, and there would be no accidents in his office, and he had never taken drastic actions against the surrounding forces.

However, in the past two years, the court has been too calm inside and outside, which calmly makes Xu Ping faintly uneasy, and he always feels that his wishful thinking is only wrong.

Not far from Xu Ping, Xiuxiu sat on a small stool doing needlework, humming some unknown ballad softly. Even Xiuxiu is fifteen years old, and she slowly takes off her childishness.

At this moment, Xiuxiu suddenly said briskly: "Brother Gao is here, why haven't I seen you in the past two days, Sister Liu Xiaomei said that she missed you yesterday!" ”

Gao Daquan said a little embarrassedly: "What do you know as a child, just talk nonsense!" ”

Seeing Xu Ping looking over, Gao Daquan hurriedly saluted and handed over a list in his hand: "Official, this is a list of roads for Jinguang Temple, you can take a look." ”

Xu Ping took it, glanced at it casually, and then handed it back to Gao Daquan: "All the money has doubled, these believers in Qinzhou are all rich people, don't let them down." ”

"Double the money?" Gao Daquan asked puzzled.

"Not bad, double it." Xu Ping nodded, "Part of the extra money will be sent down, so that the brothers can drink wine and eat meat, and you can save the rest first, as a small treasury, and you can use it later." ”

Gao Daquan still didn't understand: "Why?" Cultivating Buddhist temples is to do good deeds, how can the officials be-"

Xu Ping said with a smile: "When did the Buddhist temple also do good deeds?" The lonely, widowed, young and old, the people who don't have enough to eat and wear, I give porridge every day to do good deeds. The mountains here are continuous, the roads are rugged, and you are doing good deeds by paving roads and building bridges everywhere. Yongzhou is remote and ignorant of education, so I printed books and built a school to do good deeds. It is those who have passed the liberation test, and I paid for their travel expenses to go to Beijing to catch the exam, which can also be said to be doing good deeds. Only this Buddhist temple should not be eaten, should not be worn, that is, the monks chanted a Buddha Buddha, accompanied by a smiling face and said that we are doing good deeds. They say that a good deed is really a good deed? ”

Gao Daquan touched his head: "Those who believe in the Buddha must have compassion in their hearts, and it is also to educate customs, and it is not a good thing to cut off all kinds of obscene shrines here?" ”

"Confused, I am a local governor, and I have the responsibility of educating the locality, and this education is not a monk's method to educate. Everyone has gone to believe in Buddhism, doesn't it mean that I am useless as an official? If it is said to be a guide to goodness, the words of sages, and the laws of the state, which one is not to lead people to good? Why do you have to trust a monk? ”

Seeing that Gao Daquan was still confused, Xu Ping said again: "What I just said has little to do with you, just forget if you don't listen to it." But it's a little more expensive, and I have other intentions. ”

"The officials still speak clearly, and the little ones are dull."

Xu Ping put down the newspaper in his hand, took a letter from the table in front of him, and said to Gao Daquan: "That day we went to Jinguangding, I always felt that those people came strangely, and after I came back, I asked Feng Zhizhou to go to Qinzhou to check the bottom letter of these people. The great monk Zhiyun is nothing, the letter said that he is a high-ranking monk, and he once followed the sea ship overseas to find the true scriptures, and there are many believers. What makes me most suspicious is the big financier, Huang Wei. The letter said that he was originally from Guangzhou, but Guangfu belonged to the East Road, and he couldn't find it out for a while. But this Huang Wei's business in Qinzhou sells a lot of the specialties of our barbarian chiefs in the mountains of Yongzhou, and he is also engaged in overseas trade, and his family property is huge, and he is one of the few outsiders in Qinzhou City. ”

Gao Daquan still didn't understand: "It's nothing?" ”

"Nothing? He is from Guangzhou, what is he going to do in Qinzhou for overseas business? How many businesses can't be done in Guangzhou? Besides, where is Qinzhou, where is there a Boyi field for trading with Jiaozhi, and when I get there, I don't do Jiaozhi business, I specialize in selling specialties in the mountains of Yongzhou, am I stupid? ”

Gao Daquan had never touched these things before, and he was still confused.

Xu Ping sighed and said, "Where did he get these Yongzhou specialties?" If you take the waterway, the Shunyu River will go all the way to the mouth of Guangzhou, why do you still need to run to Qinzhou? It is clear that his goods did not pass through us, but went straight out of the mountains. Qianlongtong, Shangsizhou has a mountain road leading to Qinzhou, which should be the source of his goods. ”

Speaking of this, Xu Ping put down the letter in his hand, squinted his eyes and smiled: "It's all the same as Guangzhou's first move, this Huang Wei reminds people of a person." ”

Soon after Xu Ping arrived in Ruhe County, he once asked Li Anren to find a mainland merchant who traded with the barbarians for him, and the person he found was a Guangzhou Jinshi named Huang Shimi. As a result, because of his heart to the Nong family in Guangyuan Prefecture, not only did the business not succeed, but he was also driven out of Yongzhou by Xu Ping, and he was no longer allowed to trade in Yongzhou.

It has been a few years since the incident, and Xu Ping has forgotten Huang Shimi's appearance, but when he saw Huang Wei that day, Xu Ping always felt a little familiar, and he came back and thought about it for a long time before he remembered Huang Shimi.

Of course, Huang Wei can't be Huang Shimi's name change, in that case, the dog will be too daring. But they are all surnamed Huang, they are all from Guangzhou, and they are all barbarian business, but I am afraid that I don't know what relatives they are.

Xu Ping is not a person with a small belly, but Huang Shimi's appearance made him very uncomfortable back then, and it involved the suspicion of collaborating with the enemy and treason, Xu Ping would not let it go lightly.

How could Xu Ping let him do it comfortably with something like Huang Wei operating? Take advantage of this opportunity to scrape out a few hundred dollars first. Thinking about it, their family has seen that Yongzhou has developed exceptionally prosperous in the past two years, how can a businessman not be blushing when he looks at money, and he still wants to do business in Yongzhou by virtue of such a reason.

Thinking of this, Xu Ping would not let them relax, and he had to let them remember the lesson. Doubling the price of road construction is also the meaning of Xu Ping's attitude to test their attitude, and see how to react before deciding what to do next.

(I can't stay up today, and the number of words owed will be made up tomorrow.) ）