In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 297 The conscience of heaven and earth, Xiao Jia, I am a good person
"September of the first year of Baoqing." Zhao Yurui spoke at this time: "You are only 11 years old. You climbed over the wall and peeked at Aunt Li's daughter taking a bath next door——"

"Hiss" Jia Sidao's face turned red, ashamed and scared.

Then Zhao Yurui started to think about it, basically all the various shitty things he did in Taizhou.

The more Jia Sidao listened, the more frightened he became. In the middle of winter, cold sweat broke out on his back.

Does this mean that the emperor has sent people to pay attention to me a long time ago?
Zhao Yurui read a dozen things at once, and finally closed the door: "I looked at your past and found that you are quite courageous. Except that you have never killed anyone, there is nothing else you dare not do."

A powerful minister is a powerful minister. Jia Sidao has shown unique abilities since he was a child. This guy is really bold and there is nothing he dares not do.

"The common people deserve to die. They are ignorant and incompetent. Please punish them, Your Majesty. The common people know they are wrong." Jia Sidao quickly admitted his mistake.

His acting skills were also good, and he burst into tears on the spot, saying that he had not had a father by his side since he was a child, and that his mother had allowed herself too much, and that she was really sorry for her sister.

He was so immersed in the performance that he burst into tears.

Zhao Yurui frowned and waved his hand: "Stop acting, stop acting. I don't know your moral character?"

"..." Jia Sidao looked innocent.

The next moment he wanted to cry some more.

Bang, Zhao Yurui slapped the table: "If you cry again, I'll drag you out and chop him down."

Jia Sidao immediately fell silent and looked at the emperor nervously.

"Get up." Zhao Yurui waved his hand: "Sit down."

Jia Sidao quickly stood up and sat down carefully in the direction Zhao Yurui pointed.

"I have been observing you for several years. You are a treacherous and treacherous person, with a lot of small cleverness and great cleverness - you, if you were an official in the government, you would be a very treacherous minister."

"..." Jia Sidao felt wronged, but he was a good man with a conscience.

Zhao Yurui was too lazy to talk nonsense with him, and said directly, the court now is different from before. Although you are the younger brother of the imperial concubine, you can't flatter her at will.

If you don't have merit and achievements, I can't help you.

Concubine Jia has saved some money in the past few years. If you have little ambition, your sister is willing to give you a sum of money so that you can buy a few acres of land, farm, study, and try to participate in the imperial examination.

If you have ambitions, I have a few difficult things to handle here, which are big things for the court. If you can handle them well, it will be a great achievement. You can be an official in an upright and fair manner without having to make excuses.

When Xiao Jia heard this, he felt as if he had been given a shot of chicken blood. He immediately patted his chest to the emperor. If there is anything difficult to do, leave it to me, Xiao Jia.

How can this guy bother to study? Historically, he relied on his help to get into officialdom.

If you let him farm, it won't be enough for him to enter the stalls. Sooner or later, even the farmland will be lost.

Jia Sidao said nothing, but wanted to stab the emperor.

Of course, he subconsciously thought that this was the emperor's brother-in-law testing him.

Zhao Yurui then said that he had two places to go, one was to go to the senior officials.

After Zhao Yurui said this, he came to the edge of the map again and clicked on the senior officials.

When Jia Sidao saw this high-ranking official, he thought he was alone in the sea and had never heard of it.

"Danyuan is located overseas. It used to be an undeveloped barren land. I have been immigrating continuously in the past few years. Currently, there are tens of thousands of households and nearly 20 people on the island."

"But there are still many local indigenous people on the island. The indigenous people have not been domesticated. They eat hair and drink blood, kill people like hemp, and often come down the mountain to harass the people of the Song Dynasty."

"I raised troops to encircle and suppress them, but because the mountains are difficult to travel, the effect was not great."

"Are you interested in encircling and suppressing the indigenous people?"

When Jia Sidao heard this, his expression seemed to be about to cry again: "Common people don't know how to lead troops to fight."

Not to mention going to encircle and suppress the natives, Jia Sidao didn't want to go when he saw that the senior officials were so far away and they were all natives.

Zhao Yurui smiled when he saw this and pointed his finger to another place.

"This is Tongguan, located on the main road of the Central Plains."

Zhao Yurui said that the chief of Tong people would be the commander-in-chief Nahe, and the deputy would be Li Ping, a Han nationality.

Li Ping likes to drink and play cards (Mahjong). I have a card room in Tongguan. Na Hemaizhu and Li Ping each hold [-]% of the shares. If you take over the management, you must not only maintain a good relationship with them, but also Stay profitable, no questions asked.

Xiao Jia is still a gangster now. He will stay in the court for a few years or more. After he reaches a high position, he will understand that Tongguan is a battleground for military strategists of all dynasties. For the Jin Kingdom, it is now a barrier to their Central Plains. .

Xiao Jia doesn't understand anything at this time, he is just a gangster from Taizhou.

When he heard that it was easy to handle, Taizhou also had billiards and mahjong. He had played both and liked them very much.

It was too satisfying: "Your Majesty, the common people are willing to go to Tongguan and run the card room well."

Zhao Yurui said: "Last year, the Tongguan Card Room earned me, Da Song, [-] coins. Next year, you can't go below this amount."

"Please rest assured, Your Majesty, we promise to exceed last year's performance."

Xiao Jia is quite confident. He can't guarantee anything else, but he really dares to pat his chest on this one.

Jia Sidao decided to go to Tongguan that day.

When leaving the Xuande Hall to say goodbye to her sister Jia Guifei, Jia Guifei was a little worried when she heard that she was going to the Kingdom of Jin.

On the contrary, Jia Sidao was persuading his sister that the Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom had been reconciled for several years, and his brother-in-law had been at peace with the Jin Kingdom since he ascended the throne. If the Song Dynasty could open a shop in Tongguan, there must be nothing wrong with it.

Besides, I'm just doing business, so what can I do?

After hearing this, Concubine Jia finally felt relieved.

After leaving the imperial city, Jia Sidao was also worried. He probably understood what he was doing in Tongguan.

It was probably to inquire about the situation and make friends with the Jin Kingdom officials and generals.

But the emperor didn't say it clearly, that is to say, he could do these things or not.

If you really want to ask me for information, I can just tell you something when the time comes.

Jia Sidao found it not difficult.And the emperor promised him that he would come back in one year at most.

On the sixth day of March, Jia Sidao took Jia An to Tongguan, escorted by a group of sergeants.

They went all the way to Xiangyang by water, and then to Guanghua Army.

This side is already the front line adjacent to the Jin Kingdom, but there has been no war between the Song Dynasty and the Jin Kingdom in the past few years, and this side is also quite peaceful.

The water balance that was originally blocked is also open.

Jia Sidao bought a medium-sized ship with [-] materials in Guanghua Army.

There was a man named Quan Ying on the ship, who claimed to be the second manager of the Tongguan store and was ordered to pick up Jia Sidao here.

Quanying is a big shopkeeper, which makes Jia Sidao feel very comfortable.

The sergeant who escorted him returned here, and Jia Sidao wanted to follow Quan Ying into Tongguan.

He got on the boat and took a look. The boat was full of various supplies, and then he realized that there were more than a dozen boats along the river that followed them into Tongguan.

At this time, Jia Sidao knew that the imperial court was actually doing business with the Kingdom of Jin. They shipped [-] stones of grain to the Jin people, as well as some sugar, refined salt, etc.

This made him even more determined. It seemed that the imperial court and the Kingdom of Jin were secretly in alliance.

At the end of March, their fleet set off from the Guanghua Army, turned north via Danjiangkou, and headed for the Jin Kingdom along the Junshui River.

In the Ming Dynasty, Dangzi Pass was built here to guard the Junshui River. Ships traveling between Henan and Huguang had to pass through Dangzi Pass here.

In the Song Dynasty, there was a horizontal bridge here, but the Jin State had troops stationed on both sides of the bridge, as well as firearms. In the past, it was locked horizontally with iron chains to prevent Song ships from entering.

In the past few years, the two sides have been doing business, so it is natural for them to pass through.

Quanying was a good talker, and Jia Sidao was also a man of the same profession. The two quickly got along and became brothers.

When the fleet passed the Hengqiao, their ships docked specifically by the river.

Quan Ying took Jia Sidao over to meet people.

The general leading the army here is a Han Chinese named Zhong, and the whole British call him General Zhong.

The two parties met on the shore. Quan Ying said that this was their new shopkeeper named Jia Sidao, and then sent someone to deliver a bunch of tea, sugar, refined salt, silk, and finally 50 taels of silver.

General Zhong is smiling and easy to talk to. Shopkeeper Jia is young and handsome and has a bright future.

Jia Sidao is also a very capable braggart, and he can blow General Zhong into a fog with just a few words.

While he was talking to General Zhong, he didn't notice that Quan Ying was secretly looking at the number and arrangement of the golden soldiers around him, as well as the terrain characteristics.

When the two returned to the boat, Quanying came to the cabin alone, where there were still people waiting for him.

Immediately pick up the pen and paper on the table.

There is a map on the paper, but it is not drawn.

"After coming here so many times, I can basically confirm that there are usually about 100 people on the left bank of Jinbing and about 150 people on the right bank."

"The terrain here is relatively high. There seems to be firearms. I don't know what they are." Quan Ying drew a circle on the map.

"This is where the chains are. They can block the river bank at any time."

"This time is their meal break time, and there are the fewest people on the shore."

The two of them wrote and drew on the map and quickly put it away.

The fleet travels along the Junshui River to the Danshui River, from which you can enter Shaanxi.

The river here was originally narrow and could only pass by small boats.

However, in order to trade with the Song people, the Jin State mobilized people to expand the river channel in the past few years.

Now five hundred material ships can pass.

The fleet entered Shaanxi all the way and soon arrived at Wuguan.

Wuguan has a long history. It was built as early as the Spring and Autumn Period. It was named "Shaoxi Pass". During the Warring States Period, it was changed to "Wuguan". Together with Hangu Pass, Xiaoguan and Dashan Pass, it became the "Four Fortresses of Qin". Known as the four major portals in Guanzhong.

Wuguan is surrounded by mountains, with Shangluo Mountain on the west and cliffs on the north. The cliffs are high and the valley is deep, making it narrow and difficult to navigate.

To the south is Juejian, with the river outside the pass surrounding it on three sides: east, west and south. The city pass lies in the middle of the river.

Their ship cannot leave once it reaches the south.

Quanying also sent people to Wuguan. After a while, many golden soldiers came to Wuguan and guided them to carry the food on the ship along the mountain road to Wuguan, and then go down from the north.

Transporting food in this way is very troublesome. In the past, the food supplied by the Jin Kingdom to the Wuguan garrison had to be transported from Shangnan County or Shangzhou, which was dozens or hundreds of miles away.

Now the Song Army will leave food here every time they trade with them, which is very convenient for the Jin Kingdom.

Jia Sidao followed Quan Ying and watched the boatmen carrying bags of rice and others carrying two baskets, walking hard on the mountain road.

He was a little confused as to why the Song Dynasty wanted to support Jin Guo Mi Liang, so he asked Quan Ying.

Quanying said, if the golden man bids high, we can make a lot of money.

Jia Sidao nodded calmly.

However, when he saw the Jin soldiers, all of them had old clothes and looked malnourished. They were not as strong as the Song soldiers he had seen along the way. It is estimated that the Jin country did not have much money.

After going up the mountain, I saw Jin Bing lazily walking around and basking in the sun.

The energy and spirit were completely different from the Song Jun he had seen.

Along the way, he saw a large number of Song troops in the Guanghua Army. They were all well-equipped and well-trained.

Jia Sidao, who had never had a sense of national and national honor, suddenly felt a little proud. The army of the Song Dynasty seemed to be stronger than that of the Jin Dynasty.

But why can't I beat him?
Quanying took him to see the guard here again.

(End of this chapter)