Chapter 381 The Mission is Thick-skinned
Yang Daquan was quite relaxed. He came here on behalf of the pseudo-emperor Zhao Bing of Lin'an. He no longer discussed the issue of land. He only wanted the transfer of taxes from Chengdu, no matter how much.
In this way, Zhao Feiyan's Ministry of Rites had an easy talk, and Chengdu simply refused to transfer taxes to Lin'an. However, it announced to the world through the Chengdu Xunbao that the new Song Dynasty would support all anti-Mongol forces, unite all anti-Mongol people with lofty ideals to fight against the brutal Mongolian army and recover the land of the Song Dynasty.
Subsequently, the logistics department of the Ministry of War mobilized 100,000 shi of military rations from Chengdu and transported them to Luzhou, where they were distributed to Meng Gong and Yu Jie.
Lao Cao asked him: Why not transfer grain directly from Jinghu, but instead go to Chengdu instead?
Zhao Yulin said that it was true that the people in Yujie were short of food, but they would not starve to death for the time being.
Secondly, we have to get something out of investing 100,000 shi of military rations.
What do you get?
What we want is the hearts of the people.
Therefore, grain had to be transferred from Chengdu in a big way.
Old Cao was delighted and kept saying, "So that's what it is." He saw propaganda slogans posted on the military ships and the words "Serve the country with loyalty and dedication" printed on the grain bags. He kept saying, "Great, that's great."
When they got back, Zhao Feiyan told him that the Lin'an envoys wanted Ge'er Song to give them 500,000 strings of new currency so that they could report back. Otherwise, they would have to stay in Chengdu.
Zhao Yulin laughed. There was such a shameless delegation.
He asked, didn't they read the newspaper?
We have already provided Jiangdong with 100,000 dan of military rations. Wasn't that bought with money?
He told Feiyan not to give them any nonsense and just said "No way."
At this time, the guard reported that Xie Lingyun, the deputy envoy of the Lin'an delegation, had arrived and asked to see the princess and her husband.
Zhao Yulin asked him to go to the reception room.
After the two of them went over to greet each other, he told them to speak frankly.
After Xie Lingyun presented Shi Xiangbei's gift, he again stated the request of Shi's son in Lin'an.
Zhao Yulin flatly denied it. He said that the people of the New Song Dynasty kept their words and would not pursue the past of the Lin'an court. However, God is watching what people do, and the people have a scale in their hearts to weigh them. How can we let them down?
Shi Xiang followed the trend and promoted Jiangdong's submission, which was a great achievement. Living in the censorate was also working hard for the country. There is no idle position in our new Song Dynasty. We have to work for the country wherever we are.
Deputy Envoy Xie saw that the couple had sealed their secret and knew that it was useless to ask again. He was at a loss for a moment. Thinking of Shi's son's instructions that he would agree as long as his life was guaranteed, he accepted it with great difficulty. He turned to look at Zhao Feiyan.
Feiyan covered her face, took a sip of tea and said: Please ask Deputy Envoy Xie to go back and tell Prime Minister Shi that the Zhao family does not care about the past and publicly declares that the people who have surrendered to Lin'an include all members of the Shi family.
Lin'an did bad things and harmed Commander Zhao. Could it be that Prime Minister Shi has forgotten about it?
Commander Zhao put aside their past grudges and kept Shi Xiang's family safe, which was the first great gift he gave to him. Deputy Envoy Xie is still a member of our Zhao family. When he returns, we will handle matters according to the law. There is also some family affection between us, so we will naturally not treat the meritorious person unfairly.
This Xie Lingyun is a descendant of Empress Dowager Xie in the harem of the Song Dynasty. Shi's son used him as a liaison, definitely because of his blood relationship with the little princess Zhao Feiyan.
Zhao Feiyan knew this very well, and took advantage of the situation to make full use of this relationship.
Xie Lingyun was delighted to hear Feiyan's words that brought them closer. He would be rewarded for his merits in the future. He immediately expressed his loyalty in front of the couple and told Zhao Yulin that Shi Xiang was already making preparations and there would be news soon.
After returning, he would definitely urge Lin'an to submit to the New Song Dynasty.
Zhao Yulin, however, said, "Don't worry, safety comes first."
Later, the Chengdu Weekly of the New Song Dynasty will once again publish the strategy for the peaceful unification of Jiangdong. We never make a fool of ourselves in front of the world, so the deputy envoy can go back with peace of mind.
After seeing off the guests, Zhao Feiyan was in a particularly good mood when she saw the plants in the yard sprouting and spreading leaves, and the spring was in full swing. She asked Zhao Yulin to accompany her to the flower hall for tea.
Zhao Yulin smiled and held the little woman's hand as they walked towards the flower hall. The two of them sat side by side on the soft reclining chairs, enjoying the sunshine.
At the Zhao Mansion in Cuiping Mountain, after Hu Lan moved in, she demanded that the children call her "stepmother" in a very aggressive manner, as if she were the mistress of the house.
Wu Jing asked unconvincedly: What? Another stepmother, where did this stepmother come from?
Our Feiyan mother is the stepmother.
Hu Lan glared and said that she was now the stepmother, so she had to call her that. Tell me what you want, and the stepmother will surely satisfy you.
Haha, the little girl has learned her Toure family's methods of winning people's hearts. She knows that she must exchange benefits, so she immediately used them.
Wu Jing, Chen Liu and Zhu Fugui discussed it and said that they could call her stepmother, but their desire to work had to be satisfied. As long as they could convince our father to arrange for the three siblings to go out to work, then they could call her little mother.
Not only that, they would also ask their younger brothers and sisters to call her "little mother".
Hu Lan was delighted when he heard this, and jumped for joy by clapping his hands.
The three kids looked at her in confusion, expressing their dissatisfaction. Wu Jing said, "It hasn't been accomplished yet, so why are you showing off?"
Hu Lan also came to her senses. Yes, it seemed like a simple sentence, but she was still studying in Cuiping Mountain. How could she convince Zhao Yulin to arrange jobs for the kids?
When she thought of how Zhao Yulin always asked about the situation below before doing something, she immediately sat on the chair and calmly asked them what the brothers and sisters usually did.
Several sisters immediately started reporting, and it was nothing more than some apprenticeship this or that, and they had never done any real work.
The little girl didn't have any good ideas for a moment, but she said without revealing any flaws that she would take them out for a meal, and discuss what to do while they were eating.
Several cute kids were happy.
Normally, the family was strict and she had to report to the elders before going out. Now Hulan took the initiative to take the lead, which was really great. She immediately followed Hulan and wanted to go out. The guard Barter saw that there was only one maid with her, so he immediately stopped her and said that it was not safe for the little princess to go out.
Hu Lan felt that Bart had damaged the dignity of his young mother , and said sternly: How dare you, you cripple! Now that you are a guard, you are going against this princess?
Bart was so frightened by her yell that he immediately knelt down and begged the princess for punishment, telling him not to go out casually.
The three Wu Jing sisters who were following behind refused to stand for it and immediately went up to help Bater up. They also said loudly that if Hu Lan continued to bully others like this, they would not help her and did not want her help.
Hulan immediately realized that she had forgotten what Zhao Yulin said about equality for all. Bater was no longer a slave in her family, but a soldier of the Shenwei Army.
The little girl quickly went up to apologize to Bart and asked him to call two more guards to go out for dinner and play together.
Only then did Wu Jing and the others follow Hu Lan out.
She asked what to eat, chicken from Jinsha River, fish, and everything else that my mother-in-law had taken me to eat.
Chen Liu was a foodie. He immediately responded by saying that he had not crossed the river for a long time and it would be great if he could cross the river to eat a plate of firewood chicken.
Hu Lan wanted to capture this group of cute kids and fulfill their wishes. She immediately said that it was easy and we just had to cross the river.
After saying that, he immediately put his hands behind his back and walked directly to the riverside.
At that time, the fancy official boat that Chen Chen brought back was already old and had become a sightseeing boat for the Shenwei Army to ferry across the river. The guards went up and called out, and the boat immediately lowered the bridge plank, and the children boarded the boat.
Hu Lan brought them across the river and found that the dock in the north of the river was bustling with people coming and going.
Because Zhao Yulin's elder brother Zhao Yuqing committed a crime and was arrested and sentenced, his elder brother's business, including the firewood chicken, was confiscated by the government and no one dared to take over. After Lu Youpeng became the prefect of Xuzhou, he had to let the Shenwei Army take over and run it, and everything was managed by Zhao Yulin's mother.
The shopkeeper naturally knew Chen Liu, Wu Jing and the others, and he greeted them warmly and led them inside.
Chen Liu was delighted, and proudly told the shopkeeper that it was his young mother who was treating them today and that they would be eating firewood chicken. The shopkeeper just had to serve the dishes.
The shopkeeper had never heard that Zhao Yulin had remarried. He looked at Hu Lan in confusion, not knowing how to address her.
Hu Lan was happy to hear Chen Liu introduce her as the young mother. She thought she would hear the shopkeeper calling her Madam, but she saw him standing there stupidly, which made her unhappy.
Her eyebrows were raised and she asked in a cold voice, "What are you looking at? It's genuine."
The shopkeeper shuddered suddenly, put on a smiling face and said: Madam, please come this way.
Hu Lan was delighted and said with a laugh that's right, money is indispensable.
The shopkeeper was muttering in his heart, Damn, this is so scary. It doesn't matter if it's silver or not, just eat it, as long as the little girl is happy.
Wu Jing saw Bater and four guards standing on the side, and said to Hu Lan, "Set up two tables. The guards also need to eat. Our father treats the guards as brothers and they all drink Wugufeng."
Hu Lan was delighted and said generously that it was natural. He asked the maid to open two tables and pointed to the guards, saying that there would be enough grain.
Wu Jing said with a smile, "Let's not drink Wu Gu Feng, let's have two jars of Litchi Green Tea."
After a short while, a group of young people started eating the green lychee.
Seeing Chen Liu eating the chicken nuggets, Wu Jing said that he was a foodie as his father said, and they haven't come to the point yet. What should he do?
Hu Lan knew that it was not possible to ask Zhao Yulin to find jobs for the three children right away. Thinking that they already had experience as apprentices in various industries, she asked why they had to ask their father for help, they could do it themselves.
She looked at the pedestrians coming and going on the dock outside the Chaihuoji and said, "We can open a public carriage company to take these passengers to the north of the city, and then bring the passengers from the north of the city here, making a living by going back and forth."
This was an idea that Hu Lan came up with after seeing the shared horse-drawn carriages in Chengdu carrying teachers and students from Caotang Academy, and it made Wu Jing and the others happy.
Zhu Fugui immediately said that most of those people went to Jiuzhouba to eat, play and have fun. We can make an open-top carriage that travels along the tourist route, allowing people passing by to sightsee and enjoy the scenery. Since those people come here to eat and have fun, they can definitely afford the price.
Wu Jing told them that they could also give free rides to local grandfathers and grandmothers who . They could also let the carriage drivers be familiar with the stories of Yibin's main historical sites and tell them to the passengers as they drove. Business would definitely be good.
As the group of people were talking, the plan for Yibin's shared tourist carriage agency came up.
Zhu Fugui said that we should make our carriage bigger so that eight to ten people can sit in it, so that guests who come to eat and have fun can sit in the same carriage and talk.
Chen Liu thought that they could also charter a car. As long as they were willing to pay a high price, they could charter a carriage for fun. We only charge money anyway.
