The Song Dynasty has been deliberate for 16 years, only to know that it is the Water Margin

Chapter 343 Fireworks under Yangzhou in March

In the third year of Xuanhe in the Song Dynasty, the third day of March was the day of the Zhiyuan Festival.

But outside of Tokyo today, there is not a single commoner playing, not even half a paper kite in the sky.

The iron hoofs of the twelve gates in the four cities of Tokyo were thundering, the drums were roaring, and the horse infantry with various banners stopped for a short time to swear, and then began to march southward in an orderly manner. Because there were too many people, they did not gradually finish until the afternoon.

Zhilan Xiaozhu, the Emperor Daojun looked at a short and fat eunuch in front of him and asked, "How do you see it?"

The eunuch said in a low voice: "Officials, King Yun brought more than a dozen concubines with him, loaded them with various items into several carts, and the team was the last to leave."

Emperor Daojun frowned: "Where is King Qin?"

The eunuch said: "King Qin also took a bunch of people away."

Emperor Daojun asked curiously: "There are also women?"

The eunuch whispered: "The King of Qin took Zhao Yuannu and her maid, and the others looked like actors. Benu saw that one of them was thin and dry like a monkey, and he jumped very nimbly. It should be a stage performance. The scandal of the time."

The Emperor Daojun thought for a while, the second son was obsessed with the music recently, and he actually brought all the actors there, but this is a war, so what he did was so chaotic, and the third son was also not good, taking so many girls to Liangjiang, there is no way There is no appearance of rushing to the battlefield.

However, he still let out a sigh of relief, thinking secretly in his heart, the Western Army plus the Gyeonggi Forbidden Army, with a total of 10,000+ soldiers and horses, should not be too surprised to put down the Jiangnan bandits. Even if it is difficult to fight, it will not be defeated. Yes, after all, the Western Army has experienced hundreds of battles, and all the soldiers have long lost experience in the battlefield.

Thinking of this, he relaxed his body and waved to the short and fat eunuch. After the man exited the door, Zhang Di came in. Seeing him, the Emperor Daojun suddenly remembered Li Shishi. He hadn't been to Fanlou for a while, so he planned to Go over there tonight and have a look...

The water of the canal is leisurely, the light green water color is like the shimmering silk.

Several large ships had just entered the canal from Bianshui. For a moment, the sky and the earth were leisurely, the surrounding fields were open, and the eyes were looking far away.

Ships were developed in the Song Dynasty, Kaifeng had many waterways, and the Yellow River was beside it, so there were many sailing ships on weekdays.

But these ships are all warships. Although most of the warships are located along the coast, there are more than a dozen of them in Gyeonggi. They moor in various rivers every day and never leave the border of Kaifeng.

Driving in the middle is a large warship, which is also the best warship in the Song Dynasty at present, with ten masts and ten sails, 130 sails, and a keel and whale frame. Even in the Yangtze River, there is no such warship.

There are only five warships of this kind in the entire Song Dynasty, four in Dengzhou, Tongzhou, Fuzhou, and Leizhou, and the remaining one is in Tokyo.

These five warships are all named "Shenzhou", the most famous of which are "Lingxu Zhiyuan Anji Shenzhou" and "Lingfei Shunji Shenzhou".

In the first year of Yuanfeng, Emperor Shenzong of the Great Song Dynasty, the emperor sent envoys An Tao and Lu Mu to hire Koryo, and they drove the above two Shenzhou boats.

After arriving in Goryeo, Goryeo has never seen such a big ship before, only to see the majestic mountains, floating on the waves, the golden sails and the heads, and the dragons surrendered. .

At this moment, although the Shenzhou on the canal is not the two envoys to Korea, it is also one of the five Shenzhou, named "Long Kong Haozhi Ningyuan Shenzhou".

In front of Shenzhou stands a large red-bottomed gilt banner, almost as high as the mainmast, with the Chinese character "Qin" in regular script on it, fluttering in the wind, making a sound of hunting.

On both sides of the big flag there are sub-flag banners, on one side it is written, Xuan Fu Lianghuai, and on the other side, it is written, South to conquer thieves.

Shenzhou pressed the waves and washed the water on the canal, moving forward steadily, and the two merchant ships and passenger boats gave way one after another.

The incident in the south of the Yangtze River has already exploded, and everyone on the ships and merchants who travel to and from the canal knows about the turbulent Huaixi incident that last year.

And the news of the imperial court's pursuit of thieves has also been spread, and there are many discussions among the people.

Regarding the chaos in the south of the Yangtze River, the common people have different opinions. As the saying goes, don't persuade others to be kind if you don't suffer from others. Most of the people in the market listen to the excitement, while businessmen and travelers are silent.

However, this did not affect their impression of the King of Qin. The court was corrupt, the officials were corrupt and perverted the law, and the bureaucracy in the southeast was like a wolf and a tiger. Whether these things were true or not, as long as they had enough to eat, they were still far away from the people.

Of course, this is only limited to those outside the south of the Yangtze River. People outside the south of the Yangtze River have always had a good view of the King of Qin. As for those in the two Zhejiang provinces, no one knows about it. They probably think that all officials are in collusion, let alone the royal family of Zhao and Song.

Zhao Tun did not go by land. Although he has power over Lianghuai, he will go to Huaidong this time, because Huaixi and Liangzhe Road do not border each other, and the capital has been moved from Luzhou to Shouzhou. Further, it has no strategic significance.

So he took the waterway, went straight down the canal, and went to Yangzhou, the capital of Huaidong.

Originally, Zhao Kai was also able to travel by water, but for some reason, he didn't compete with him, but took a carriage. As for Tong Guan, except for a few relatives, the rest were from the Western Army, and they were hardly familiar with boats. Water, he had no choice but to take a boat with his family.

Zhao Tuo raised [-] soldiers and horses, [-] cavalry, and [-] infantry from the Guards and Guards Division. The Xiang Army did not bring the township soldiers, and they will be supplemented by Lianghuai.

At this moment, there were a total of [-] infantrymen on these warships, all of whom he picked out who were familiar with water skills, and the rest of the horse infantry followed along the canal.

At this time, Zhao Tun walked out of the cabin and came to the deck, seeing the green hills on both sides of the bank, the canal with vast green water, boats and boats in the distance looking over from time to time, some lively locals from the capital, or who knew him, saluted , Shouting "King Qin is a thousand years old and safe", "Your Highness has worked hard", "Your Highness will return triumphantly soon".

The royal family of the Song Dynasty was always close to the people. It was not a big deal for the officials to go to Tokyo, drink in the shop, and watch the merchants make a living. It was not until the reign of the Daojun Emperor that there were some changes.

For some reason, the temples of this dynasty were held high, and the people were alienated, and the simple atmosphere at the beginning of the dynasty gradually disappeared.

There was a widely circulated joke in later generations, saying that two farmers were farming and chatting, and one farmer wiped the sweat from his head and said, "The farming is so tiring, how can the emperor endure it?"

Another farmer said, "The emperor uses a golden hoe to farm, and he doesn't feel tired when he likes the golden hoe."

At the same time, the wives of the two farmers were also talking at home, and they were both worried about what to eat for the evening. After all, the farmhouse was shabby and there were not many kinds of food and drink. One of the wives was looking forward to, "I don't know what food to eat in the palace tonight?"

Another woman replied, "The empress of the East Palace bakes big pancakes, and the empress of the West Palace peels green onions. They are very fragrant!"

This joke probably originated from the Shandong folk Lu opera "Xia Chenzhou".

The song is: "I heard that the old Bao is going out of Beijing, and the East Palace and the West Palace are too busy. The lady of the East Palace bakes big pancakes, and the lady of the West Palace peels green onions."

The meaning of these lyrics is that in order to bribe Bao Qingtian, the ladies spent a lot of money to make delicious and filling big pancakes with green onions, in order to bribe Bao Qingtian, but Bao Qingtian was still ashamed when he saw the delicious food With a face like Bao Qingtian, it is naturally stern and selfless.

Later, when the play was passed around, it got involved with the emperor's golden hoe and became a joke between the two peasant families.

The joke is naturally that ordinary people have shallow knowledge and poor life limits their imagination.

But is this really the case?Going down to Chenzhou, Chenzhou releases grain, Bao Zheng releases grain, this kind of folk drama has a long history, such as golden hoes and pancakes, is the original author short-sighted, or are the people really ignorant?Then why not arrange to go to other dynasties, just write in the Song Dynasty?
"Song History and Geography", there are Guanjia Hall and Silkworm Palace in the back garden of Miyagi.

At the beginning of the Song Dynasty, in order to show diligence, love for the people and emphasis on farming, the emperor set up the Guanjia Hall and the Sericulture Palace in the imperial palace. In the Guanjia Hall in the back garden, the emperor planted rice in front of the hall every year and harvested it in autumn. , Every spring, a sericulture ceremony is held in the Sericulture Palace, and the whole process of sericulture is completed.

"History of the Song Dynasty", in the fifth year of Dazhong Xiangfu, Emperor Zhenzong, while promoting Champa Rice to Liangjiang, Lianghuai, and Liangzhe, planted small fragrant rice and Champa Rice in Houyuan Yuchen Palace and other places, trying to figure out and observe .

"Song History Empress [-]", "Empress Cao focused on farming, often planting grains in the forbidden garden and kissing silkworms".

In the early Song Dynasty, farmland was widely distributed in the palace, and the back garden was the most concentrated, and scenes of farming can be seen everywhere.

According to the ancestral system, the Song emperor had to watch the crops every year, and the Song empress had to kiss the silkworms. However, during the reign of the Daojun emperor, except for the first few years of his accession to the throne, he never went to the fields again.

However, "Song History Huizong Benji IV" records that after Fangla's disaster was pacified during Xuanhe, the Emperor Daojun didn't know what to think, so he rolled up his trousers, carried a hoe, and went to work in the fields himself.

But that's all. Until the time of Jingkang, the Taoist emperor never touched a hoe again.

It can be seen from this that the matter of the emperor's golden hoe was very likely to be true in the Song Dynasty.

As for the empress pancake peeling green onion, although it is mostly a joke, but in the early Song Dynasty, simplicity and closeness to the people prevailed, so there may be similar things.

Standing at the bow of the boat with his hands behind his back, Zhao Tama sighed secretly in his heart thinking about these things, even if it is to buy people's hearts, these things are good, but the Daoist Emperor didn't pay much attention to them this time, and even refused to put on a show in the end up.

If Shenzong and Zhezong were here, would there still be Fangla riots?Will there still be an alliance at sea?Can it resist the Jurchen going south and protect the Yellow River Tokyo?

The efforts of several generations are often squandered in one generation.

But Jiangshan Sheji, there are no assumptions about military and national affairs, if it doesn't work, it won't work...

At this time, Zhao Yuannu came out, came to the front, and said politely: "My lord, what is the view?"

Zhao Tong smiled slightly: "I'm thinking about riding a crane down to Yangzhou, how can I spend the one hundred thousand guan?"

Zhao Yuannu said: "My lord is going to fight. If I had known earlier, I would disobey my orders and not follow, so as not to spoil the lord's event."

Zhao Tang glanced at her and said: "If you don't come this time, you won't know when the next time will be. Don't you want to go home and have a look?"

Zhao Yuannu said in a low voice: "My servant's home is in Tokyo, Yangzhou has no home, and I just miss things from time to time."

Zhao Tong chatted with her before, and knew that she was born in a boat family in Yangzhou City, her mother died early, and later her father married a daughter of a butcher's family, and after giving birth to two sons, he even sold her.

And she was already seven or eight years old at that time, so she naturally remembered all these things, and vaguely realized that her father actually knew and acquiesced in this matter.

In the Song Dynasty, buying and selling people was a felony, but for poor families who were unable to raise and sell their children, the officials conveniently implemented the decree of redemption, redeemed them with money, and used public funds to redeem the children for those poor families.

The intervention method of redemption also means that the Song court acquiesced in the inconvenience of selling their own children for poor families.

This makes folks confuse "employment" with "trading". Most of what they sell will be in the name of employment, otherwise they may be redeemed by the government. It is embarrassing for the two, and the buyer will find trouble with the seller.

Zhao Yuannu's stepmother wanted to hide it from his father, so it was almost impossible to sell her alone, and she had been sold so far, even to Fanlou in Tokyo, it was even more impossible for her father not to know, after all, she had to be sold in the name of employment, It is necessary to sign a contract, and even this contract is for a lifetime, so there are things such as human redemption and self-redemption.

Zhao Tang looked at her and knew that she was heartbroken for the original family in Yangzhou. Anyone who was sold at a young age would not have a good impression of the original family, not to mention that the sale was not to a normal family, but to a colorful house.

Zhao Yuannu just missed Yangzhou where he grew up, so he always wanted to come back and take a look, but Zhao Tun felt that since he was back, it would be fine to see his family if possible, it just depends on her own wishes.

He said: "Let's talk about it after we go, I don't know if the Qionghua in Yangzhou is blooming or not."

Zhao Yuannu's eyes lit up when he heard the words, a look of memory appeared on his charming cheeks, and he said, "It seems to be half a month away."

Zhao Tong said: "Yuannu has seen it?"

Zhao Yuannu nodded hurriedly: "It's in the Houtu Temple in Yangzhou. There's such a big flower tree. I used to go there when I was a child. The flowers are crystal clear, like snowflakes falling from the Heavenly Palace."

Zhao Tang saw that what she said was interesting, and said with a smile: "I have also admired the name for a long time, so we might as well go and have a look together when it's open."

Zhao Yuannu showed joy when he heard the words, but then he said with some anticipation: "My family heard that this flower is a bit unknown, it seems to be like a prince, so it's better not to look at it."

Zhao Tang knew what she was talking about, shook his head and said, "What does Yang Guang's subjugation have to do with flowers? He has been militaristic and fierce all his life. He really thought that the canal was opened to see Qionghua?"

Zhao Yuannu didn't understand this, and said, "Both the embroidered book and Mr. Speech said so..."

Zhao Tong said: "It's also written in the history books, but how can it be taken seriously? It's just using such words to cover up his violence and immorality, and doing whatever he wants."

Zhao Yuannu could understand this, seeing no one on both sides, he couldn't help but quietly grabbed the corner of Zhao Tun's clothes, and said softly: "My family will accompany the prince to see Qionghua."

Zhao Tang looked at the blue waves in front of him, and suddenly said: "Actually, what I want to see most are Confucius Temple, Bird Clothes Lane, Zhuque Bridge, the banks of Qinhuai River, ten miles of wind and flowers..."

Zhao Yuannu's eyes fluttered, he grasped the corner of the robe tighter, and said: "The prince wants to see the Qinhuai River?"

Zhao Tong nodded, and Zhao Yuannu said again: "My lord is not promoting the two Huaihe Rivers this time, but the Qinhuai River is on Jiangnan East Road..."

Zhao Tun shook his head, a slight smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "What are the two Huaihe Jiangnan, under the Putian, could it be the king's land, and the shore of the land, could it be the king's ministers."

Then he said nothing, turned around and walked back to the cabin of the warship.

At this moment, the vast sky Haozhi Ningyuan Shenzhou is carrying about 600 people. In addition to the Scarlet Pioneer Group, the thirteen people selected by Suiyulou are also there.

The 13 people are now headed by Ding Daxie, and the rest are Ding Erxie who followed him to visit the Ghost Fan Tower, Lu Ping, Han Jiao, Jiang Zhang, Xu Daqing, and the third Bai family who has been secretly protecting the palace. Brother, wait, Shi Qian is also following this time.

Zhao Tang sat in the cabin for a while, then got up and went to the attic over there, thinking about having a small meeting with the people from Suiyulou.

(End of this chapter)