Fu Song

Chapter 694 Arrival
Xiao Jing was a little confused, he couldn't figure out why his aunt would do this!
He still remembered that he had visited his aunt in Fenglingdu back then.

She is so graceful and luxurious, so calm and unhurried, even facing her father's thousands of troops, she still crosses Fenglingdu one by one, preventing her father from taking half a step forward.

He expressed the confusion in his heart, hoping that Tuoba Yangwei could give him some answers.

"I have discussed this issue with your master for a long time!" Tuoba Yangwei pondered for a while, and said: "We have some guesses."

"Please clarify Uncle Wei's doubts!"

"Your aunt looks normal on the surface, but deep down, I'm afraid she has gone crazy long ago!" Tuoba Yang said surprisingly.

"How is this possible?" Xiao Jing was stunned: "Looking at my aunt who governs the country in an orderly manner, and does things in an orderly manner, does she look half crazy?"

"I'm talking about madness, not madness in the sense you understand!" Tuoba said arrogantly: "She is ignoring everything now. Don't think that she has recruited talents from all over the world, vigorously reformed, and made the national power of Liao Kingdom flourish, but in fact, she I just hope that the sharp weapon in her hand is sharper, so that she can easily swing it at her enemies."

"Second uncle?"

"It should be!" Tuoba said arrogantly: "As for the final outcome of this knife, she doesn't care at all, and she doesn't care at all about the lives of thousands of people who make up this knife. Want a result, whether the result is good or bad!"

Xiao Jing gasped: "It shouldn't be like this. I still vaguely remember that my aunt worshiped my second uncle the most, and my father also said so."

"I'm afraid it's because of their admiration that they really want to defeat!" Tuoba spread his hands in awe. Anyway, in his opinion, none of the three brothers and sisters of the Xiao family is a normal person.

One by one, it seems that God has come down specially to make a game.

Now, this world is a huge chessboard, their brothers and sisters are chess players, and people like themselves are just a piece of chess on this chessboard.

"What if my aunt wins?"

"If your aunt really wins, I guess she will immediately lose interest and have no interest in the affairs of this world." Tuoba said proudly: "But if your second uncle wins, he will take it as a challenge." Starting from the starting point, he is eager to build the ideal country in his heart."

"So actually, you support Second Uncle, right?" Xiao Jing asked.

Tuoba smiled majestically and said, "Of course, Jing'an, with all due respect, your aunt is a lunatic right now. If a lunatic wins the world, no one knows what will happen in the future. Although I can't see through you two Uncle, but one thing about him will not change, that is, he will always think about how to make life better for people in this world. As long as he has this original intention, this person will not be sent there."

"Since that's the case, why should we go back and forth between Song and Liao, why not just choose?" Xiao Jing stood up and poured a glass of water for Tuoba Yangwei, and said with a smile.

"That's just my deepest thought, but when doing things, you can never follow your own inner needs, but do it according to the actual situation, because once we make a wrong choice, it will be a major issue for our wealth and life. How dare we do it recklessly ? If we think your aunt is more likely to win, we will definitely choose your aunt. As for what will happen in the future, we don't know, we can only take one step at a time!"

"Why can't we be our own masters?" Xiao Jing was a little unconvinced.

Tuoba laughed loudly: "If you want to be a chess player on the table, you must first have strength as a guarantee. If your strength is insufficient and you act recklessly, we will be the first to be destroyed. Jing'an, have you seen that, then Commander Jiang , why did you send this Chongming Bird to escort us?"

"Isn't it because this ship is more powerful? Can it guarantee our safety?"

"The Yangtze River is now the inland river of the Song Dynasty. Even a small fishing boat can safely transport us to Jiangning. The reason why Jiang Xiong did this was to show us their strength. Along the way, no matter what request you make, the captain of the ship will show it to you without hesitation, and even let you try the gun, what do you think?"

"Show us your strength!" Xiao Jing recalled.

"Yes, this is strength!" Tuoba nodded, and then picked up the Jiangning Weekly on the table, "You have seen the income of the first quarter's income from various places released by their household department, so what are you doing here?" What else did you see?"

Xiao Jing was a little at a loss.

"Look carefully, you can figure out a lot of good things here." Tuoba proudly said: "For example, the price of rice, wheat, millet and so on."

Xiao Jing quickly found these things on the newspaper, which was not conspicuous in the middle of the newspaper.

After only one glance, he gasped.

"Mi is fifteen yuan a dou, wheat is ten yuan a dou, and millet is only six yuan a dou!"

"It's nearly three times lower than ours!" Tuoba said with a serious tone, "Such a low price, only when I was studying in Jingzhaohui decades ago, I saw such a low price in Song Dynasty." Price. But at that time, it was the time when Song Dynasty was at its most prosperous."

"Now that Li Chun has collapsed, Zhang Ziming has taken control of Qinfeng Road and a part of Shaanxi Road. This means that we finally have a safe and stable channel with the South. Then, can the cheap food from the South be shipped directly to us? Woolen cloth?"

"How can there be such a simple thing." Tuoba said with a smile: "Let's not talk about the shipping cost of this long distance? How much is the tax? It's inside our Western Army, and everyone hopes that the cheap food from the south will enter the country. Under our rule? This will affect the interests of many people."

"Before leaving, didn't the master still say that I hope you can persuade the second uncle to allow some of our products to enter the southern market?"

"Your master hopes that your second uncle can give us a profit so that many of our products can enter the southern market, but he didn't say that the southern products will enter our control!" Tuoba said with a smile: "Do you know a lot of products in the south? The products are much cheaper than ours. If the products from the south enter our rule on a large scale, how many people under our rule will go bankrupt and how many people will have no food? The foundation of most of the workshops of the Western Army is still the same as before. It was laid down when your second uncle was there, and the scale has continued to expand over the years, but the technology has not improved accordingly, and after more than ten years of money, now, it has long since lost its competitiveness!"

"What would Second Uncle do for such a thing? This is a unilateral profit!"

"I will do it. Your second uncle's focus on us is not on the little money." Tuoba said arrogantly.

"A lot of things, in the final analysis, are still a piece of money!"

"You're on point! Your second uncle also said back then that wars cost money in the end! Let's use an analogy, you have seen the cost of several battles between us and Yelumin in Gaochang this time." Bar?"

"Look, it's a toothache. After every battle, hundreds of thousands of feather arrows will be shot!" Xiao Jing shook his head.

"The cost of a feathered arrow is about [-] yuan. Each battle costs hundreds of thousands of arrows alone. These arrows basically don't have much recycling value. At most, you can pick up some arrows." Come back, this is only possible if you win the battle. You said you have no money, so why fight? Thanks to the continuous crossbow technology and artillery technology sent by your second uncle a few years ago to teach us, we are in Gaochang, and we are stabilizing Steadily defending this point, but to be honest, this battle is also a heartache."

"In the past two years, the war with Yelumin has also affected our economy, and the road to the west has been cut off, which has caused a lot of losses!" Xiao Jing was a little annoyed. "Now that the passage to the Western Regions is being controlled by Yelumin, we'll have to see his face instead."

"Yelumin is also unwilling to fight now. The goods he got from the west also need to pass through our territory and then sold. In the Liao Kingdom, the benefits of these goods are far less than those sold to the Southern Song Dynasty. Now , We are also negotiating with Yelvmin on how to share the issue."

"Can you still do this?" Xiao Jing didn't understand.

"Why, don't you think we and Yelumin can only fight to death?" Tuoba Yang said with a smile: "It's okay to fight when it's time to fight, and when it's time to do business to make money, it's not about doing business to make money. Both sides feel that fighting is not profitable, but if they want to lose blood, then naturally they have no interest. Now Yelumin thinks that fighting west is far more profitable than fighting with us, why does he want to fight with us? ? Now he's plotting against Hua Shizi!"

"Isn't he the Zhenbei King of the Liao Kingdom?"

"That's right, he's now dragging our main force in the Gaochang area, and he has fulfilled their empress dowager's strategic requirements!" Tuoba proudly said: "On this basis, what's wrong with him doing business with us? Of course, if we reveal a flaw, he will absolutely bite us unceremoniously."

"Then we are so ambiguous with the Liao Kingdom, isn't Second Uncle angry?"

"Why are you so angry!" Tuoba said arrogantly, "I guess your second uncle will try to give us more benefits, and then use greater economic benefits to tie us to his Da Song. It's getting tighter and tighter. When the people under the rule of the Western Army get too many benefits from Song Guo, everyone will be reluctant to lose this benefit. Psychologically, they will naturally favor Song Guo, and you I also know that the will of the people will greatly affect the decision-making of the superiors."

"Didn't you just say that many people under our rule are unwilling to do this? Because they have lost their interests!"

"It depends on what we have gained in the long-term and what we have lost in the near future, which is bigger!" Tuoba said with a smile: "Jing'an, like your Xiao family, your mother's Gao family, and your grandmother's. The Han family, as well as our Tuoba family, Rendo family, etc., can be regarded as the top families under the rule of the Western Army. If it is more beneficial in the long run, we are not afraid of losing a lot of short-term interests. And Some other families, either follow us or disappear, do you understand?"

Xiao Jing was silent for a moment, then nodded.

"Look at your second uncle's method of rectifying those powerful families in the south, hehe, we can also learn from it!" Tuoba smiled arrogantly: "This time, in addition to these things, what is more important for us is to Let's see if your second uncle has the ability to stand up to your aunt, if so, we will definitely choose your second uncle!"

There were bursts of cheers outside, and the two looked up out the window.

Several huge painting boats were slowly coming from the lower reaches. On the huge platform on the top floor, brightly dressed young men and ladies were crowding around the ship's side, and the boat musicians were also crowding here.

Although Huafang is very big, compared to their three-story giant ship, it is still like a little brother.

And those boys and girls on the painting boat can clearly distinguish the difference between the Chongming Bird and ordinary boats. At this moment, they are waving their hands and cheering to the people on board, while the boatmen and tricksters are also waving their hands. Pennies and musical instruments also cheered.

"See, they are not afraid of being soldiers!" Tuoba said with a smile: "Can our Western Army do it?"

Xiao Jing shook his head: "In our place, ordinary people are still very afraid of the army."

Tuoba smiled majestically and said, "I'm afraid you won't believe it when you tell it. It's the first time I saw the people wholeheartedly support an army. It was the Guangrui Army that your father brought into Hengshan back then."

"is it?"

"Yes, but more than ten years have passed, and the Guangrui Army is gone. The iron kites and Bubazi who replaced them only have the reputation of being invincible among the people. No more!" Tuoba said with a smile.

"Why are there so many painted boats?" Xiao Jing couldn't help asking, seeing some of these painted boats coming up downstream.

"It's sunny and sunny, it's a good time for spring outings, and rich young men and women will naturally come out to play. It seems that we should not be far from Jiangning, and such a boat usually won't leave the city too far .”

"Is it coming?"

"A little nervous?"

"Yes, I haven't seen my second uncle for more than ten years. This is not the second son of the Xiao family who cooked for me back then, this is the first assistant of the Song Dynasty who holds the fate and future of thousands of people in his hands!" Xiao Jing said deeply Take a breath.

"Don't say it's you, I'm nervous too!" Tuoba Yangwei said with a smile. "Let's go, let's go to the deck and have a look!"

The two walked up to the third deck and looked into the distance.

On the shore, there are more and more villages and houses. You can see people and cars on the broad road, and there are no stops. At the end of the road, farther away, it is gray like a giant Jiankang Stone City, the accompanying capital of the Song Dynasty where the beast was crouching, had already appeared in their field of vision.

On the bow deck, some soldiers vigorously blew the huge bullhorn erected there.

The melodious trumpet sound spread far away.

If warships like them want to enter the port, the procedures are much more complicated than ordinary ships.

(End of this chapter)