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He shouted loudly, another person in the room hurriedly got up, took a look out of the window, and lowered the window lattice.Because the action was too hasty, a few pieces of dirt by the window were shaken off.

Another person shouted angrily, let out a long sigh, and then fell silent.

The house where the three lived was in the north of Jiashe's mansion, close to the direction of Ying'en Bridge, surrounded by places where poor people gathered.

When Cui Yuzhi was in charge of Yangzhou a few years ago, he refurbished the Yangzhou moat and the Shangbao City on the Shugang in the north of the city, and added a sandwich city connecting the Baocheng and Dacheng, and built twelve warehouses along the river in the city to store military supplies.When carrying out these projects, in addition to mobilizing troops, they also paid for the temporary recruitment of civilians, and the wages paid were very generous.

So many poor people still gather in this area after the project is over.In order to resettle them, Cui Yuzhi organized the Wanma Club in the north of the city, which is also a soldier and a people. But soon after, there was a famine in eastern Zhejiang, and a large number of refugees crossed the river to survive. Fill it to the brim.

Since it is a place to accommodate the poor and help the people, it is inevitable that the houses and yards are dilapidated, and the big shots seldom come here.At this moment, the three people sitting upright in the room, as well as the vigilant guards outside, seemed out of place.

Two of these three people are local officials on the front line of Huaidong.One is Li Jue, the envoy of the Jianghuai system, and the other is Ying Chunzhi, the appeasement envoy of Huaidong Economic Strategy.There is another person who should not have appeared here, but Shi Miyuan established the new army commander in Zhenzhou relying on the local money supervisor, Yang You, the nine kings of the Red Coat Army back then.

In fact, it wasn't just Yang You. Li Jue's residence was in Jiankang Mansion, and Ying Chunzhi's residence was in Chuzhou. These two people shouldn't have come to Yangzhou either.But not only did they come, but they also came so mysteriously that Jia She knew nothing about it.

After the room was silent for a while, Li Jue came back after closing the window and said angrily, "What kind of moth? Is this a matter of money? If they get more, they are moths; if we get less, are we pillars?"

Yang You turned around and stared at him: "Did I talk about money? What are you in a hurry for?"

Ying Chunzhi knew that Yang You was a bandit, and he would say anything without hesitation.In the past two years, Jia She jumped up and down to bribe, but Li Jue got the biggest head among the officials.So when I heard the word "worm", I felt extremely ear-piercing.

He quickly smoothed things over: "It's really not about money, yes, yes..."

In the middle of speaking, he waved his hands in frustration, not knowing how to express it.

A few years ago, when Cui Yuzhi was in charge of the Huaidong appeasement department, he strengthened his military equipment internally, and strictly prohibited causing trouble outside.Later, Li Jue and Ying Chunzhi came to work successively, and each wanted to do something to show that his family and Cui were different from this old Confucian.

Li Jue often played against Cui Yu, and wrote to the court many times to abolish the Sui coins, break off diplomatic relations with the Jin Kingdom, and raise troops to restore the old territory.Ying Chunzhi was even more fierce. He single-handedly pushed many maritime leaders to rebel in Zhongdu City, and he was also aggressive in dispatching troops at the border.

At that time, Lin'an was on the sidelines, seeing the Jurchens being beaten badly by the black tartars, and the whole country was about to fall apart, so they adopted a tacit attitude towards this radical strategy.

Until one day Li Ding's navy suddenly launched an attack and sent troops southward threateningly, and went to Chuzhou and Baoying. Encourage the two to let go, and the prestige and future of the two once reached their peak as the Kaifeng court sent troops south.

However, this situation soon passed.After Ding Haijun captured Kaifeng, his cooperation with Shi Xiang's party in the smuggling trade suddenly deepened, and the voices of North Korea and China becoming increasingly weaker.

Of course, this has nothing to do with the attitude of the people, but most of the people who can speak out are bought by unspeakable interests; and the recent incidents in Lin'an that have attracted attention have been replaced by the unspeakable conflict between Shi Xiang and Yi Wang's heir , the courtiers seemed to be deliberately avoiding the issue of war with the north.

As Ying Chunzhi said, it's not about money.

The north-south smuggling trade has long been a semi-open secret, and the benefits are so huge that Li Jue and Ying Chunzhi's family is full of oil.But all of a sudden, the court stopped discussing war and peace, as if peace was a self-evident choice...

Where would the two main combatants, Li Jue and Ying Chunzhi, be placed?

It should be noted that within the main combat faction of the Song Dynasty, there are actually three completely different types of people.

A kind of person, who deeply feels that as a son of man and a minister, he should think of the anger of his ancestors, and even more deeply feel that the people of the Central Plains are trapped in water and fire, and they plan day and night to recover, and they really have a feasible plan.

For example, the famous Xin Jiaxuan is the same.He served as an official for more than forty years and fought for more than forty years. His shouts made the ears of the Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers grow calluses, but he was very accurate in judging that the Jin Kingdom would be in chaos and destruction. Indeed, every word is pearls.

But there were too few such people in the officialdom of the Song Dynasty.

The other kind of people, although they grasp the principle of incompatibility between Han and traitors, are completely ignorant and even incompetent.

Because their words must be righteous, it is easy to coerce the emotions of the army and the people and rapidly improve their own status.And because of his incompetence, he regarded the extremely difficult task of restoration as extremely simple, so he made frivolous decisions, and in the end he was an enemy of no size.Just like Han Dongzhou who single-handedly promoted Kaixi's Northern Expedition.

Due to the vigorous purges of Prime Minister Shi, the number of such people in the official circles of the Song Dynasty was very small.

Since the failure of the Kaixi Northern Expedition, Jiangnan has become a wasteland of trees, still tired of talking about troops, and the trend of the main battle has weakened a lot.Nowadays, most of the people who take the lead in officialdom are of the third type.

The third type of people, like Li Jue and Ying Chunzhi, try to attract attention by relying on their positions in the main battle, and then engage in political speculation in order to benefit their own careers.

In their view, no matter how the voice of the main combat faction is weakened, it is impossible for it to disappear.And as long as I occupy a considerable position among them, if there is a slight change in the situation between the north and the south, it is inevitable that I will become a general and become a prime minister.

Who would have thought that now Lin'an court would be full of Zhuhe faction.Some people who once fought fiercely did not even pretend to pretend for that little benefit!

What are you kidding?Although the Jurchens were over, the Duke of Zhou, Guo Ning, who followed him, was not easy to get along with.Who doesn't understand what it means to build a powerful northern country that inherits from the Later Zhou Dynasty?Why don't the ministers think about Zhao Guan's family?Can't you see such a big threat?
Okay, okay, threats and all, since the noble people in the industry don't care, why should we care.

However, the princes of the court suddenly stopped talking about restoring rivers and mountains. What about us ministers who work on the frontier?
After discovering that the situation in the court had changed drastically, Li Jue and Ying Chunzhi were extremely anxious, writing letters to each other, and messengers running back and forth like lanterns.When the two of them inquired about Lin'an, the content of the letter became more and more sincere and more and more desperate.

Ding Haijun's envoy beat up Shi Xiang's son and nephew, and nearly killed him, but Shi Xiang didn't even get excited!The old man has obviously made up his mind, what should we do?How many years can I delay my official career?

Could it be that he really gave up the reputation accumulated over the past so many years, took the benefits given by the smugglers with peace of mind, and just finished his term as an important minister of the frontier like this?

What's deplorable is that the money he got wasn't much... at least not one-tenth of Jia She's!Jia She built a luxurious mansion and raised several famous theater troupes. Who wouldn't envy him?

In the past two months, Jia She and the smuggling merchants around him have become more and more powerful.Both Li Jue and Ying Chunzhi were veterans in the officialdom, and they could keenly sense the subtle changes in the atmosphere. They knew that these people had begun to ignore local officials.

If this continues, not only will your official career and money prospects be bad, but the power in your hands will also lose some value... In that case, what hope is there in life?
The only good thing is that people are more popular than people.No matter how unhappy my family is, after all, I was born as a scholar, and I am on the right track in the officialdom, no matter how bad it is, I will always have a salary.

It's the vicious dog newly recruited by Shi Xiang's family, which was originally intended to scare the strong neighbors; now that the vicious dog can't even eat dog food, he is the most anxious!

Thinking of this, both of them stared at Yang You.

Li Jue snorted twice with a half-smile: "Okay, even if Jia She is a moth. Yang Tongzhi, you secretly invited us to Yangzhou. Could it be that you want to persuade us to join you in the form and implore the court to remove you?" Insects and filth? Do you know that in the past two months, the soldiers and civilians of Zhenzhou have clamored and complained that your army has disrupted the local documents like snowflakes, if you make trouble, I will come to you if you have trouble, don't talk about the two of us casually."

Yang You looked at Li Jue, then at Ying Chunzhi, and said sharply, "What I'm going to do is up to the two of you. Just watch and be a witness."

"what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to kill Jia She!"

Li Jue and Ying Chunzhi were so frightened that they jumped eight feet high and shouted without words: "Why are you crazy! Are you kidding me! What medicine did you take by mistake? Do you want to die?"