Chapter 704: Putting the Blame on Others
In the villa area of the east gate of Chengdu, in a house deep in the backyard of the villa of the island Japan, the foreign ambassador of the island Japan was talking to a Japanese warrior with a high bun in his hair.
The foreign envoy shouted sternly: The empire has long issued an order not to allow you to appear in the capital of the New Song Dynasty. Why didn’t you listen and actually chased all the way to Chengdu?
The warriors reported to him that they had been looking for an opportunity to assassinate the young Goryeo emperor and put the blame on the people of New Song, creating discord between Goryeo and New Song so that Goryeo could expel and drive away the New Song army, thus creating an opportunity for the Amaterasu Empire to destroy Goryeo.
This is the order of General Fujiwara.
The foreign envoy thought Fujiwara was playing with fire.
He believed that Fujiwara had lived on the island for a long time and did not know how powerful the New Song Dynasty was. He was provoking conflicts between the two countries and making the ruler of the New Song Dynasty angry, which would cause an earthquake and the country might be destroyed.
The guy sighed and said: Things are different now. When I first came to New Song, I only saw that New Song was vast, rich in resources, and had a large population, which was incomparable to the ferocity of our Amaterasu Empire.
Today's New Song Empire has people, money, good weapons, and many soldiers and generals. Do you know how many generals in the New Song Empire wore the uniforms of marshals, generals, and admirals at one time?
The New Song Kingdom has millions of powerful soldiers, with more than 100,000 stationed in Liaoyang Road alone. We should make friends with the New Song Kingdom, learn their technology, use their machines to produce, grow stronger, and then seek to annex Goryeo and set foot on the territory of the New Song Kingdom.
We have just been defeated and suffered huge losses. Even the people in our country can't find iron pots to cook. How can we easily cause trouble? Isn't the disastrous defeat in this invasion of Goryeo enough for us?
The samurai kneeling opposite him immediately blurted out: Damn it, you dare to disrespect General Fujiwara? Take back what you just said immediately.
The foreign envoy shook his head and said seriously: How dare you! I am the foreign envoy sent by the Amaterasu Empire to New Song. He is a subject of Emperor Amaterasu. He must obey the general's orders and be loyal to the empire.
How could a samurai argue with a civil official? He was afraid of being accused of being disloyal and unfilial, so he immediately behaved himself and kept saying "Umino, Umino."
The foreign envoy simply looked down upon these warriors who could only wield swords and guns, and ignored them completely, reminding this guy to remember that he was not allowed to cause trouble in the capital of the New Song Dynasty. Once exposed, the Empire and the New Song Dynasty would have no room for maneuver, and even his only bridge of mediation with the New Song Dynasty would be broken, which the Empire could not afford.
The samurai responded with "Umino."
The foreign envoy said expressionlessly: It's almost dawn, leave quickly.
The warrior bowed to the foreign envoy, turned around and walked out, disappearing into the night after a few jumps.
At Zhao's Mansion, Zhao Yulin woke up after daybreak, but he couldn't find Wu Yuqi, who had been partying with him last night. He went out to eat, but looked around for her but couldn't find her.
Shunzhidi asked him with a smile who he was looking for?
Zhao Yulin said that she asked even though she knew the answer, and lowered her head to drink the crucian carp porridge.
Zhidi said: Sister Yuqi was busy with a big case and took her people away early in the morning.
Zhao Yulin said with a hint of blame: I told her to hand it over to the brothers below, but she just wouldn't listen.
Zhidi said, "We are all your women, so who wants to be idle?" As she spoke, she went to carry him on her arm and went out to court. The officials were already waiting for him in the meeting room.
After the discussion on personnel appointments in various places proposed by Zhidi, the Transportation Department submitted the draft document on road construction rewards and subsidies to the officials for discussion.
Zhao Yulin saw the signatures of the Transport Department, the Road Department, the Revenue Department and the Public Affairs Office, and was very satisfied with the meticulousness of Cao Ying's work. He looked at Cao Ying approvingly from a distance and nodded.
Li Dagui, the Minister of Roads, was the first to speak, praising the reward and subsidy policy, which could greatly motivate government offices at all levels to build roads. He believed that after this document was issued, a large number of roads and bridges would be built in various places, and the Roads Department needed to increase the number of officials who knew how to build roads at the road and state levels.
Zhao Yulin nodded and said to Shunzhidi that the court was constantly increasing its efforts in road construction, and there were more and more road construction projects in various places. It was indeed necessary to increase the number of officials to manage road construction, and we couldn't let the money we had worked so hard to collect go to waste.
All the gentlemen nodded.
Shunzhidi immediately told Li Dagui: How should it be configured? Please give us a strategy first, Minister Li.
Hua Yue said with some worry: Repairing roads in various places will cost a lot of money. Can we afford it financially?
Money is needed everywhere right now.
Cao Yinggang was delighted to receive Zhao Yulin's praise, and confidently told everyone that it was okay. First, the Ministry of Roads would issue annual road construction subsidy caps to local areas to control the total amount of subsidies. Second, we would no longer approve road construction expenses in the future. The two offset each other, and the subsidy funds did not increase much.
Zhao Yulin nodded and explained to her: The roads are connected to each other. The national trunk roads at the court level, as well as the important military preparation roads on the border, must be built with separate funds from the court.
Cao Ying nodded and explained to everyone, this is the strategy.
She excitedly reported to the officials that after the roads and states across the country established postal banks, the accumulated money sent by the people through mail had become no small sum. A lot of money could be made through the operation of the bank, and the transportation department would receive a large amount of income.
The officials were delighted, and before they knew it, the court had hatched a goose that laid golden eggs.
Cao Ying was very happy and reported to everyone: We also have tobacco revenues from Guizhou and Yunnan. The tax revenue from the two major tobacco companies this year has exceeded Guizhou's annual tax revenue. We are not short of money.
Everyone is happy. It’s good enough as long as you have enough money. It’s good to have enough money.
Most of these officials had experienced the hard times under the previous dynasty. At that time, the Lin'an court was living on money and often could not even pay the officials' salaries.
When they arrived at the new Song court, they had nothing to worry about.
Zhao Yulin said with a smile that there were many other places to spend money. For the flood in Jinghu, we needed to provide disaster relief and resettle the people. His opinion was to relocate the people in the flood storage area and resettle them in other places. It would cost a lot of money to build new villages and towns. The people in the low-lying areas of flood discharge and flood diversion also needed to be relocated. These expenses were necessary, and we couldn't take care of one and forget the other.
Yu Jie and You Shi kept nodding their heads.
When the Yangtze River flooded, the two of them went to Jinghu for disaster relief. They saw with their own eyes that the people affected by the disaster were displaced and their families became refugees. It cost a lot .
Yu Jie apologized to the officials, saying that he had failed to supervise properly, which led to the collapse of the Jingjiang embankment and caused a huge flood disaster. He requested permission to punish himself with half a year's salary.
Zhao Yulin waved his hand and said: There are occasional floods in the big rivers. That is due to the extremely severe weather caused by climate change on the earth, as well as the poor execution of local officials and the construction of shoddy projects. Our planning and design standards are not high enough to withstand these major floods.
We must learn from our mistakes, sum up our experience and improve our ability to resist floods.
The gentlemen nodded. They all knew that Yu Jie was incorruptible and that his hard work in flood control was very hard. They all agreed with what Zhao Yulin said that the flood was so big that Jinghu Lake was impossible to prevent.
He told Yu Jie: Jinghu’s mission in the future is to develop agricultural production while building dikes and dams to fight flood disasters.
Yu Jie nodded continuously, indicating that the Water Department would keep a close eye on the Jingjiang River and the lower reaches of the Yellow River and would never allow any more dike breaches to occur.
Zhao Yulin was very satisfied with Yu Jie's attitude and nodded to drink tea.
Jiankang Prefecture, the young emperor of Goryeo rested here before he went out of the Yangtze River estuary and into the sea. Along the way, the young emperor saw nothing but the prosperous scenes of the New Song Dynasty and was reluctant to leave.
This girl sat on the Deyue Tower by the river, looking at the street view, tasting wine and admiring the moon. She was so fascinated by the sweet singing of the young lady behind the curtain that she didn't want to leave.
Suddenly, a swordsman flew in, stabbed the little emperor in the chest with a long sword, and yelled in a stiff accent: "I will kill you." The little boy was so scared that he sat on the chair with his mouth wide open.
The situation was urgent, and the two guards on the left and right of the little emperor immediately stepped forward to protect their master. One of them used his body to block the little emperor and was immediately pierced through the chest by the swordsman's sword. The other thin guard quickly drew out his sword and fought with the swordsman.
The young emperor had just caught his breath when two more swordsmen rushed in to kill people. The queens and concubines on his left and right were so scared that they screamed non-stop. The young emperor saw the villains stabbing his guards and concubines one after another and rushing towards him, and he secretly said, "Oh no, my life is over."
Seeing that the gangster's sword was about to pierce him, the guy simply closed his eyes and waited for death.
At this moment, I heard a "puff" sound beside my ear, and a strong man in black flew in from the back window and shouted: "Japanese pirates, stop being so arrogant, drop your swords and surrender."
The sturdy man threw darts to drive back the villains who were trying to assassinate the little emperor, and rushed forward to fight with the three swordsmen. More and more people in black rushed in and surrounded the five swordsmen to fight.
At this time, a pretty girl in colorful clothes came upstairs with a sword in hand, escorting a beautiful middle-aged woman. The pretty girl shouted: "Big brothers, don't be lenient. The chief steward only wants the corpse, not the living."
The middle-aged beautiful woman smiled and blamed her for what she said. It was as if her mother had become a big devil. If we don't kill them, the Japanese pirates will bite their tongues and commit suicide.
The pretty girl in colorful clothes said with a smile: She has a way to leave him alive, and then she grabbed a pair of chopsticks beside her and attacked. The little girl first stretched out her hand and stabbed the swordsman who was forced to come over. The guy was in pain and screamed "Ah". The little girl took advantage of the situation and attacked with her left hand, inserting a pair of chopsticks into the swordsman's mouth. Then she laughed and said: Look, mother, I guarantee that he won't die.
A man in black had already gone up to restrain the swordsman. The guy was so uncomfortable being tied up that he was furious. He kept uttering unclear words "eight, eight grids, eight grids." This exposed his identity as a Japanese.
The little emperor stepped forward in shock to inquire, and the pretty girl in colorful clothes said with a smile: "The king is blessed. Our New Song Kingdom's Shunfengsi General Wu personally escorted the king here from Chengdu to protect him. This princess also went with him and suffered a lot along the way."
The guards around the little emperor immediately whispered: Chief Steward Wu is the wife of King Zhao, so this young lady should be Princess Guangchen, who is known as the "Flying Fairy Princess" in the martial arts world, right?
