"Governor Zheng, don't underestimate the people of the world." Tong Ming said calmly.

"I've never underestimated the world, and I don't know what you're talking about."

Tong Ming smiled, disapproving Zheng Lang's words, this prefect has the ability, but he is also arrogant, he did not argue, and said: "You call yourself a gentleman." ”

"I'm not a gentleman."

"But the envoy is known for his faith."

Zheng Langmo couldn't speak. People do not stand without faith, why he said a word, many people believe it, because since he came to the Song Dynasty, he almost never lost his words. It doesn't seem important, but it's actually very important, for example, if he really went to the northwest and said to the soldiers, kill me, and I will treat your family well. When others say this, will the soldiers believe it, who are you, the emperor? But Zheng Lang's words, the soldiers will believe it. Or what decree is issued, and the people will believe it as well.

The same is true of the country, the edict cannot be changed to the twilight of Qin, the more it is changed, the more it loses its power.

Thou art faithful, and thou shalt not lie. Zheng Lang also diverted the topic and said: "Your name is Tong Ming, and there are very few surnames." ”

"Is it very few, does it have to be Zhao Qian, Sun Li, to be a masterpiece?"

"It's okay, it's just a code name."

"I also think so, nameless, the beginning of heaven and earth; Famous, the mother of all things. Before I was named, I was me, and after I was named, I was still me, and my name was just my codename. ”

"Yes, what do you mean, please tell me."

"Governor Zheng just wants to take advantage of Yi'er's fame, beat the grass, and surprise some little snakes. I think it's not appropriate, it's not appropriate, although you have been in Hangzhou for half a year, but to Hangzhou, forgive me for daring, you haven't understood its roots, not only Hangzhou, Mingyue Xiusu, the situation is more complicated than you imagined. You are a dragon crossing the river, people are tigers on the ground, they are really fighting, Jun is Liu Bang, but people are Xiang Yu. ”

"Xiang Yu is defeated."

"Xiang Yu was not defeated by Liu Bang, but by Han Xin. However, Han Shin is now in the hands of others. ”

"Who is Han Shin?"

"Jun has a headache for some women during this time, and Liu Bang also has a headache, but he used people well, but Jun didn't use them well."

It's like playing a dumb riddle, but Zheng Lang can understand it. The so-called woman is a widow, and the arrival of that Yanzi has brought many widows. So Hangzhou became like a singing opera, and most of the women came to see the excitement, and these women were women with status.

In the past, it was not that I didn't want to come, but in the Tang Dynasty, there was a high rate of accidents on ships, and only envoys came and went, so many people would not come. The Song Dynasty declined in foreign wars, and the surrounding areas could not be managed much, and the Wa Kingdom was overseas, what kind of prestige was raised, and the royal family of the Wa Kingdom fell, and the two sides cut off official exchanges.

This time, Wang Zhaoming waved the banner of envoys, also business, trade and exchange, and sent a large number of gifts, as for those mountains, and that mine, no one took it seriously, but a large number of expensive Song goods were genuine. Yanzi arrived with a special mission, and the aristocratic women didn't know it, so they came to watch the excitement together.

There are also many women who come to borrow seeds.

This kind of psychology is very strange, and there are also familiar Qiang in the northwest, such as not sleeping with her husband when you get married, but choosing a young man from the Han family to live together, and she is pregnant, and her husband's family thinks it is expensive. The same is true of the Wa Kingdom, some women do not hesitate to take risks in order to borrow this species, and drift to the Song Dynasty with the wind in a small boat alone, and then go back with the monsoon after borrowing the seed.

The risk is very high, some are buried at sea, and some settle down in the Song Dynasty, and less than one-tenth can take the seed back. But the widows and servants have succeeded each other, and every year there are ridiculous things, and the government does not care about this matter, and there is no such decree to care.

Needless to say, even those noble ladies have to borrow a dozen times when they see handsome Han men.

Originally, it was just immoral, but there were some accidents, such as some old bustards in Qinglou, seeing so many widows, some of them looked good, so they let the handsome man seduce him and lure him to the building. Some abducted and sold these women to singles.

There was too much going on, and Zheng Lang had to take care of it. There is no one in the entire Great Song Dynasty who hates the country more than him, but the two mines are on people's land, and half of the women are lost at once, and there are many noble women in the middle, which is not beautiful in the end. So he ordered the building to hand over these women, and there were still traffickers who could not sell them. Negotiate with Yanzi again, you have to take care of your own people.

Therefore, Zheng Lang said: "I took care of the general situation. ”

"No, you didn't use it well. Han Xin, who has also become Jun's opponent over there. ”

"Come to my house and say," Zheng Lang said in a deep voice.

Having said it so far, it is almost completely clear.

When he returned home with Tong Ming, Fu Bi was waiting for him and brought a Di newspaper, which was a tabloid newspaper in the Song Dynasty, which printed national events into a book and sent them to local officials from time to time, which was a kind of open cooking practice.

The Song Dynasty had many drawbacks, but it was not as good as any dynasty in the Ming Dynasty.

It was some means of internal governance that enabled the Song Dynasty to establish a developed business, and academics, science and technology, and culture were also the most progressive time periods in the feudal era.

Di Bao is divided into two things, the first thing is Li Yuanhao.

belittled Li Guo and the others, and sat and did not observe the enemy's situation.

After receiving the letter of state, the ministers were indignant, Yuan Hao gave himself the name of the country as Great Xia, and it became Western Xia in their mouths, and you were only worthy of being a Westerner in the poor land in the west!

After the anger, some people found that although Li Yuanhao's national letter was rebellious and falsely claimed to be the emperor, he could continue to be a minister to the Song Dynasty, and he did not know the etiquette and needed education, so he discussed the punishment of Li Yuanhao, and sent a large number of gifts to the envoys of Western Xia in accordance with the previous practice.

Zheng Lang laughed when he saw this paragraph.

Fu Bi asked, "Governor Zheng, what are you laughing at?" ”

"Rich brother, I think those smugglers who are locked up in prison will be released."

"No."

"Yuan Hao is the emperor, he is not guilty just by continuing to be a minister, and those smugglers of salt have also admitted their mistakes, can they be completely released as usual?"

After speaking, he continued to look down, but the humiliation continued to come, and the gifts were sent over, who knew that this envoy was very arrogant, and moved these gifts to the outside of the post station to dry, we are not rare to your Song people's things.

The calm people can't calm down, not only that, but the Western Xia envoy is more and more arrogant. Can you not be arrogant? Humiliating the Song Dynasty like this, the Song Dynasty also gave us gifts, and no one will put the Song people in their eyes, this is not the Song Dynasty, it is a group of cowards!

When the envoy entered the station, he dragged down the wall and crushed him to death.

Zheng Lang laughed again, "This idea is very clever, very clever." ”

Fu Bi also frowned, what a bad idea!

But it is normal, since the Song Dynasty, except for a few times except for Emperor Zhu Di, most of the time in the civil wars of all dynasties, foreign wars are outsiders, as for diplomacy, it is not to be taken seriously, sometimes stupid like a group of pigs being diplomats.

Continue to look, there is still a group of really sober people in the court, Cheng Lin said, if you don't punish you, you will be guilty of it, and now you are arrogant, but you can punish it for your crimes, and if you understand the law of the country, why bother with evil!

Wang Deyong and Chen Zhizhong seconded the proposal to behead him.

If you want to kill, you can kill, a dignified big country, a Chinese country that has been passed down through the ages, why use such unpopular means.

"Wang Deyong, good, Chen Zhizhong, good, Cheng Lin, good, it's not in vain that you have something to do with me!" Zheng Lang said. Wang Deyong robbed his brother-in-law, which has always made Zheng Lang angry, but even if he has some relatives, Cheng Lin has a deep relationship with Zheng Lang in Tokyo, and Chen Zhizhong is Yan Rong's father-in-law.

dared to say the killing messenger, which made Zheng Lang feel very relieved.

But at this point, Sheng Du and Zhang Guan continued to oppose.

And with their opposition, nothing can be done.

Discussion, discussion.

Wang Deyong said, Your Majesty, please give the minister a team, and let the minister avenge this great shame for His Majesty.

Zhao Zhen hesitated, what a fight.

Your Majesty, do you still want to compromise?

Zhao Zhen thought for a long time and said, let's talk about it again.

If it was a few years ago, when Li Yuanhao and Tubo fought fiercely, the Song Dynasty intervened, and the two sides attacked, Li Yuanhao was sad, and now Tubo can not form a threat to Li Yuanhao, and the mountain is dead, and the Song Dynasty itself forced the various ethnic groups of Western Xia into a group, even if the war starts, it must be carefully pondered.

Guan Jian Zhao Zhen is not this idea, he is still hesitating and waiting, how many years has not been a war, what will be the consequences of a war, he can't judge clearly, and more voices in the court asking for peace also hinder his judgment.

Let's talk again.

The result of the discussion was to send someone to chase the gift from Li Yuanhao to the envoy who left the capital, chase it all the way to the border, and return the gift.

Zheng Lang sighed again: "It's not to return the gift, it's the child who is angry, where is the demeanor of the kingdom?" ”

Fu Bi still frowned, the bystander was clear, it was not good for the court to do this, now is not the time to be angry, after a long time with Zheng Lang, Fu Bi learned a truth, face is not valuable, for example, Zheng Lang is not a straight bachelor, does it prevent him from doing practical things? If you suffer it, there are many people who are jealous, but it is not easy to do practical things.

Now to come up with a way to deal with Western Xia, it is useless to be angry.

Zheng Lang sighed again: "Life is hard." ”

"Where do you mean that?"

Zheng Lang was silent, as a big country, a person with a long history, and the hard-working people in the world, he has always lived in his pockets...... Then he said, "Bring me a pen." ”

Xing'er brought pen and paper and sharpened the ink for Zheng Lang, and Zheng Lang began to write on the paper: The shame theory of Chinese.

Being a Chinese is disgraceful, not glorious.

Why do you say this, the territory of the Song Dynasty is large, that is, the territory of the Song Dynasty is very small, not as good as the Khitan, but the Song Dynasty has the land of Anointing, the population is ten times that of the Khitan, and the wealth is dozens of times. But what about now?

Any country with a big egg can touch it on the head.

The tenant farmers of the state moved a few leaves of the main Hakka, and they could put him to death, selling dozens of catties of salt, which was worth no more than two yuan, and they could not drink a cup of tea on the Fan Tower, and they would also be executed. But take a look at it as a foreigner, even if it is Western Xia, a land of eggs that is not as good as the Song Dynasty, not only can you wantonly humiliate the imperial court, but when you arrive in the capital, you will also openly humiliate you, from the emperor to the minister, to the millions of forbidden soldiers, you dare not move. The Khitan people came to the capital, galloped wildly in the downtown area, and trampled at will, and no one dared to admonish.

We are not China, we are Yelang, we are Jiaozhi, and even Yelang Country is not as good, occasionally they dare to be so big once or twice.

Such a big country, cowardly and so, how can it not make the people feel ashamed.

No wonder there are millions of Han people in Youzhou, and there are also hundreds of thousands of Han people in Shazhou and Lingzhou, all of whom are unwilling to return to the Song Dynasty, why should they return to the Song Dynasty, a country with such a and soft goods, what are you going to do when you come back?

What causes this? The population is insufficient, and I wonder which country in the world has a large population of the Song Dynasty. There is not enough money, and there is another country that is rich in the Song Dynasty. The people are not brave, how many people are hot-blooded in this nation? Without him, there are as many soft goods, and soft goods are easy to get on the top, so most of the people in the top position are soft goods, or for other reasons, this country has also become a country of soft eggs.

After writing the three or four hundred words of the current commentary, he copied another article and said: "Wang Yuan, this article will be posted at the gate of the state government together with the Di newspaper in a while, and the other article will be played to the imperial court." ”

Fu Bi said: "Governor Zheng, no." ”

It's okay for you to use your pen, but there are too many people to scold, from the emperor to the ministers, and the world will be shaken if the article comes out.

"What's the matter, I don't know what a gentleman, a villain, I only know that the country has reached the moment of life and death. Once the war in the northwest broke out, the Khitans took advantage of the situation to enter, and I suffered the enemy on my back, and my destruction was imminent. ”

In history, it will not be, the Khitan will decline, but when I come, the direction of history will gradually change, maybe it will be good, maybe it will be bad, anything can happen. The Khitans changed their minds, what did the Song Dynasty do? We must also give them sober and sober, and stop holding the dream of valuing peace, which is to play the piano to the cow, cover their ears and steal the bell, and deceive themselves.

I don't want to think about it, so I continue to read the newspaper.

The second thing in the Di newspaper is Zheng Lang.

Write out the reason why Zheng Lang insists on killing Guo Quan, this is a kind of protection, Zhao Zhen has grown up in recent years, understands a lot, and many things are equally bright in his heart, Zheng Lang wants to kill Guo Quan, not to deal with the Junzi Party, not to deal with the scholars, and to harm the country, even if he kills him, there is a reason.

He also said the reason why Han Qi impeached Zheng Lang, and threatened Zhao Zhen to kill the minister of state. I didn't say anything about it, but it won't be long before the whole world knows about it.

But it's not for Zheng Lang to seek justice, it has another purpose.

Zheng Lang replied that it was disgusting and wrong, and asked Han Qi to consider how to punish him, and he couldn't move his job and part-time job, not for himself, but for the country.

I know that I can't move, but Zheng Lang has other positions, to be precise, Zheng Lang's current official position is very long, Zhongsan Doctor, Xuanzheng Doctor, Tianzhang Pavilion Attendant, Hangzhou Mansion, Chongshi Envoy, Ning Haijun Jiedu, Ping An Supervisor, Founding Man, and Silver Fish Bag. As a capable official, it is not the longest, and some people can carry more than a dozen official positions.

If you want not to hinder Zheng Lang from doing things in Hangzhou, you can't move your duties and fill your posts, and those who can move are the front rank officials, rank officials, cabinet officials, and back knight officials, and pocket officials.

Han Qi didn't dare to move Zheng Lang's errand and official, the war would start, and the court was short of money, so moving Zheng Lang's errand and official at this time was self-inflicted, not Han Qi's doing.

In fact, it is not appropriate to ask Han Qi, he is a minister at this time, not the prime minister, he has the right to impeach, how can he have the right to punish officials. But Zhao Zhen asked, Zhao Zhen didn't know at first, Zheng Lang gave a hand, Zhao Zhen woke up, Han Qi didn't seem to be outspoken, but played a careful eye.

This was a move by Zheng Lang to fight back, but after asking Han Qi, Han Qi replied that he should be punished.

Zheng Jiazi himself admitted that he was disgusted, why didn't he punish him?

How to punish, according to the story of Zheng Lang in Taiping Prefecture a few years ago, except for the errand and official, the rest of the wipe to the end, what rank officials, cabinet officials, knights, and clothes bag officials are all taken out, and the official is demoted, and the Xuanzheng doctor of the fifth grade is demoted to the Gongwei doctor of the sixth grade, in order to show the punishment.

Zhao Zhen asked rhetorically: "Then can it be used as an example for liars." ”

Zheng Lang's advice is for the country, so that the officials should not deceive the superiors and subordinates, ignore the safety of the country, and be willing, as for Shi Jie, Kong Daofu and other gentlemen's nonsense, killing villains and degrading villains at every turn, what is the matter?

Han Qi didn't answer, but said, "Your Majesty, please allow the minister to go to the northwest." ”

Others don't care, I'm not afraid of death.

Zhao Zhen had no choice but to let him go down.

Then he wrote this matter in the newspaper, not to ask how to deal with Zheng Lang, if so, he would not write the reasons for Zheng Lang's killing, this is intended to warn the ministers, and they can't learn from Guo Quan.

As for the punishment, the reward can't be rewarded, so why punish? Is it true that I am not clear about right and wrong?

Zheng Lang smiled and put down the Di Bao, in the future, Han Qi will be busy, and he will take the lead from Fan Zhongyan's hands, and he may regard himself as an enemy.

Both of them are difficult, no matter how much he robs them, Fan Zhongyan Qingming is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, at most he will snatch half of it, as for himself, if Lu Yijian deals with himself, he will be tight, Han Qi, it's just the same thing, everyone has similar qualifications, if you want to break yourself, then try it.

put down the newspaper and said to Tong Ming: "Tong Dalang, tell me about Han Xin." ”

"Well, before you talk about Han Xin, can you let me ask two questions."

"Yes."

"Shi Yannian, has Governor Zheng heard of it?"

"I hear," Zheng Lang replied. This person repeatedly failed to win, and Song Zhenzong chose three moves to fail to be a jinshi, but he was awarded three classes to serve, and he was ashamed not to take office. In the first year of Ming Dao, Zhang Zhibai persuaded him to take office, called for the examination with Dali evaluation, and awarded the pavilion to proofread. It's luck, but also shows that since Liu E started the pavilion to loose, put in the past, Shi Yannian failed to do three moves, it is impossible to enter the pavilion, a middle school this position, the promotion will be very fast, less than a year of work, promoted to Dali Temple, please return to the son of heaven, change the sentence Haizhou. After Zhao Zhen took power, the official was the crown prince Zhongyun.

For the Western Xia people, not only Zheng Lang proposed it alone, but Shi Yannian also wrote a letter and suggested that the two sides should be prepared, but it was not accepted by the imperial court. Being an official is not too evil, a little far-sighted, and acceptable.

Tong Ming asked again: "Do you know that he drinks?" ”

Mentioning this, Zheng Lang and Fu Bi all smiled, this gentleman is too famous for drinking, Kou Zhun drinks and burns hundreds of giant candles, Lu Mengzheng drinks alone, only eats chicken tongue, Xiao Song drinks and wraps the cloth curtain, knowing that there are many beautiful girls and good wines in it, but outsiders can't see it.

However, this gentleman drinking alcohol is also rare in human history.

Wearing a cloak and a bare body, wearing shackles and drinking, it is called prisoner drinking.

Climbing to the top of a big tree to drink is called nest drinking.

Take off your clothes, wrap your body with rice and wheat stalks, stretch out your head to drink with people, retract your head, and then stretch out and drink again, which is called turtle drinking.

If you don't light up the lights at night and drink with the guests in the dark, it is called a ghost drink.

The body is flexible, and on the basis of the nest drink, another drinking method is invented, jumping from this tree to another tree, and then jumping to the ground, and then climbing the tree, saying that it is a crane drink.

How many days did not take a bath, lying in the temple behind the official office, drinking while catching lice, called lice drinking.

Once I drank with his righteous Liu Qian's newly opened Wang's restaurant, raised a glass and did it, from morning to evening, from beginning to end, without saying a word, until it was dark, the two of them did not change their faces and said goodbye. When the people in the capital heard about this, legend has it that two wine fairies came to Wang's Restaurant to drink.

In the Song Dynasty, it was also one of the elegant things, saying that he had the style of the Wei and Jin dynasties, so Zheng Lang didn't go to the Qinglou, the people of Hangzhou couldn't understand it, Zheng Da Governor, you are an elegant person, why don't you go to the Qinglou?

Regardless of whether it is an elegant matter or not, Fu Bi and Zheng Lang will not object, as long as they don't miss their official business, they don't care how he drinks. But it was disrespectful to his various drinking methods.

Tong Ming said again: "Has Governor Zheng heard of Li Langjun he met? ”

"Yes," Zheng Lang replied, his face already cautious.

This incident has not been long after it happened, but it is very sensational and has spread to Hangzhou.

Shi Yannian lives under the Cai River, there is a wealthy family nearby, and every day he hears the sound of singing bells inside, Shi Yannian is very curious, but he only sees dozens of servants coming in and out, and he has not seen the master, and one day he has the courage to ask, who is the master of your family?

Yes, the surname is Li, the owner is twenty years old, there is no Kundi, and there are dozens of concubines and maids in the family. Shi Yannian wanted to see him, but his servant said that Lang Jun had never received a doctor, but he liked to drink, and he could drink when he heard that he wanted to meet and test him.

After a few days, the fruit envoy invited Shi Yannian, entered his house, sat in the hall, and after a long time, the master only wore a turban, tied a silk, did not have a crown, and did not make an arch ceremony, leading Shi Yannian into an annex. The exquisite brocade tent curtain in the hall is overlapped, the furnishings are jeweled, and the extravagance is extremely extravagant, sitting for a while, there are two maids each holding a small plate in front of it, and there are more than ten red tooth cards in the plate, so that Shi Yannian takes five of them. The two maids retreated, and there were more than 10 people holding fruit and wine in front of the beautiful beauty, ordering wine to the maid with a card, and feeding it to a wine and food, which was called floppy wine. The wine was drunk five times, and the host passed away, and he didn't know how to send off the guests. After Shi Yannian went back, he thought about it, and came up with all kinds of drinking methods, it was a cow drink, and it couldn't be on the table at all, so people drank wine to be called Yaqu. I finally understood that drinking by myself was not elegant, it was messing around.

Write a letter of worship, eager to visit again, you must know that Shi Yannian is not only an official, but also very famous for his poems. But please pass it on, and the owner of this house will not accept it.

Shi Yannian was very hurt, and sent someone to inquire, only to know that he was a businessman, and he only knew this, and then asked, no one knew the details of the owner of this family.

Big businessmen cow to this point.

Tong Ming said: "This person is in Hangzhou, maybe he is also Xiang Yu." ”

"He's from Hangzhou?"

"No, it's from Mingzhou, but it's in Hangzhou, but this person is extremely low-key. The various decrees of the Zheng Governor's Mansion today are nothing more than tying up all the big households together, borrowing overseas wealth to benefit the community, the poor people, and the big families themselves. But some people may not care, and they have doubts at the time, and the deed shares obtained are not heavy, let alone tempted. Most of the people are bound, but those Xiang Yu may not care. If you don't use Han Xin, others will use it, and it may not even be possible to protect those two mines. ”

"Then how do I use Hanshin?"

"It's so useful, that county lord is Han Xin."