choke element

Five days later.

Baoying County.

In the middle Tang Dynasty, this place was originally Anyi County under Chuzhou.During Suzong's great trip, before and after Emperor Daizong's ascension to the throne, some local people presented the national treasure jade to the imperial court out of ten.Because Emperor Daizong was the king of Chu, this was regarded as auspicious by the court, and the new emperor ascended the throne, so it was changed to "Baoying".Anyi County was renamed Baoying County.

After the founding of the Song Dynasty, the capital was Kaifeng, and relying on Nanliang, the grain transferred to Kaifeng every year was as high as 600 million shi.The cities along the Bianqu, Huaishui, and canals are all rich because of this.It is a pity that the Song Dynasty lost the Central Plains, and this grain storage route was abandoned, and the Yellow River frequently broke its embankment, causing the river to flow into the Huaihe River, and the Huaihe River Basin flooded continuously.People in Baoying County can only continue to raise the embankment and compete with the water for land. This is the case, and the county is now surrounded by lakes and floods.

Baoying County has become a city surrounded by water on all sides, which instead highlights the status of controlling the Huaidong Military Corridor between the Song and Jin Dynasties.So over the years, his vitality gradually recovered, and even many officials who were supposed to take office in Chuzhou often lingered here.

On this day, Jia She, the father and mother officer of Baoying County, was returning from some official business. He walked through the South Street in a hurry, entered the famous garden in the south of the city, and went straight to the Babao Pavilion.

The magistrate of Jia County is in charge of the county's civil affairs, and he is considered a prominent figure in the local area.But he likes to interact with ordinary people and has no airs.So the people are willing to say hello when they see him.

Not today.

It was because Jia Zhixian had an unlucky expression on his face, and there were large bruises around his left and right eye sockets, as if he had been punched in the face twice.

So no one dared to push his bad luck until he turned into the water pavilion behind the Babao Pavilion and sat down.After a while, a merchant named Qingqiu slowly brought in. When he saw Jia She, he laughed suddenly, "Master, what's wrong with you? Could it be that the grape shelf at home has fallen down?"

Jia She slapped the table, "Zhou Keshan! Thanks to you for being able to laugh! This is the trouble you ordered the Navy to cause me!"

"Ding Haijun? Isn't that the Jiezhen Town established by Dajin in Shandong? I am a Liangmin of Dasong, and I just earn some hard money at sea. How can I have anything to do with them!"

Jia She sneered, his dark circles were facing Zhou Keshan.

Zhou Keshan looked at each other without giving in, and said with his tongue, "These two bites are not light! Xianzun, I have heard of a folk prescription, use boiled chicken to remove the shell, put it on the eye socket and press it, maybe... ..."

"Shut up!" Jia She became furious, slapped the table and shouted, "How long are you going to lie to me? Didn't Xueshi Ding and his party get on your ship? But they boarded the ship and headed north to recruit servants, and it was you all who came. People who set up the navy! Do you know that this group of people came to Beijing under the banner of the envoys of the Great Song Dynasty and captured the emperor of the Great Jin!"

"So what? The man on the sea was just hit by Ding Haijun, it wasn't me..."

"If you are not the person who ordered the navy, how could you calculate the voyage of the envoy's return so accurately? You deceived the envoys in Huaidong and the coastal areas as fools, so that's fine. Could it be that I, Jia Shechuan, don't know how to do it?" Is it!"

"Xianzun, don't believe me when I tell you. Isn't this a coincidence..."

Jia She pointed to his eyes and shouted: "Bachelor Ding was frightened to death by what you did in Zhongdu. He kept talking about me, Jia She, for harming him all the way back. He gave me two punches when we first met! Right two punches!" Zhou De, you look at me with black eyes and speak, you dare to try another perfunctory sentence!"

"Cough, cough, cough..."

Zhou Keshan said seriously: "Master Xian, I am really a good citizen of Song Dynasty. If you really don't believe me, I have nothing to do."

"This is an admission!" Jia She pointed at Zhou Keshan,
"Xianzun, you are slandering people for nothing!"

The two sides entangled for a few words, staring at each other like fighting cocks.After staring for a while, Jia She suddenly smiled wryly, and pointed to the seat: "Oh, please sit down."

"The county lord, you called me urgently, there must be something important, so you might as well just say it."

"Five days ago, there were rumors from Sizhou, Shouzhou, Yingzhou and other places in Dajin, all the way to Tang and Deng. It is said that Marshal Guo of your family is fierce and domineering. He has already seized the power of Dajin. Hundreds of thousands, tigers look at the Central Plains."

"How about that Marshal Guo, what does it have to do with us?"

"You don't understand. Since Jiading, the Great Song Dynasty has only sought stability for the Kingdom of Jin, and nothing else. As long as there are no major changes in the two countries, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty can travel freely. However, Marshal Guo of your family broke this stability. There are so many generals in the Dajin Kingdom that are so tense."

"I still don't understand, what does it have to do with Da Song when the people of the Dajin Kingdom beat their lives to death?"

The reason is actually very simple.Da Song's military power may not be as good as Da Jin's, so what Da Jin is afraid of, Da Song is even more afraid of.If a powerful official who rose suddenly could force the Jin Dynasty, which is in charge of a large army, to stay so tense, this person would be ten times more terrifying to Song Dynasty.

Jurchen's force was already a nightmare for Da Song, but after decades of getting along, he endured it and gradually got used to it.But Da Song never wanted to see a neighbor who was more fierce than Da Jin appearing beside him.

Jia She could hardly bear it, and wanted to bring out his own theory of replacing a vicious neighbor with a vicious tiger.If this theory is put into practice, it will immediately make many people feel sympathetic, but it is too embarrassing to say it now.So he thought for a moment and changed his angle.

"The last time you fought in Shandong, the rest of the Red Coat Army who fled to the territory of the Song Dynasty with their families and mouths, no less than tens of thousands! How much food was spent by the imperial court to accommodate them! Right now, your marshal must fight with the great to protect his power. Generals from all over the Kingdom of Jin will fight each other, and when the time comes, countless refugees will run around, how can I, Song Dynasty, bear this?"

Zhou Keshan asked back: "Then, how will Song Dynasty respond? Since the county lord is looking for me, he must have some advice."

"Da Song can't do anything, but your grain smuggling business at sea may be greatly reduced. On the other side, although there has always been nothing to do with sea merchants, Da Jin has turned upside down to such an extent, Da Song Gotta do something."

"This……"

Zhou Keshan pondered for a while.

He didn't doubt Jia She's judgment at all.After he opened up maritime trade on behalf of the Ding Navy, he successively dealt with many border officials of the Song Dynasty, and Jia She was one of the best.Although this gentleman has his faults, he is extremely smart and has a very good vision.Although he is just a small person in the local area, he judges the thoughts of many high-ranking and powerful families walking in the direction, but it is like reading the palm of his hand.

Since Jia She mentioned grain trade, it means that grain trade will definitely have problems.

And how important the grain trade is to the Ding Navy, who doesn't know the specific people who handle government affairs?

If Song Dynasty does this, it will definitely cause great trouble to the Ding Naval regime.Among other things, the reorganization of the Northern Army, the recovery of the Beijing Road and the Liaohai Corridor, the reconstruction of the Yanshan defense line, and even the continued wooing of the foreign warlords in the Northeast, which one does not require food support?
Without food, the Marshal's Mansion can't do anything!

Needless to say, Hebei and Zhongdu were battlefields where the Mongols swept back and forth for two years. Tens of millions of acres of fertile land, countless canals and irrigation systems were destroyed.It is not a matter of a year or two to restore farming in these places. If there is no continuous import of large amounts of food from the outside world as a supplement, the millions of mouths in these two places will have nothing to eat, and these people will not be able to survive this year's starvation!
Sweat dripped from Zhou Keshan's forehead.

This is trouble.

It is necessary to report to the Marshal's Mansion immediately to see how Marshal Guo can deal with it.

In addition, I don't know to what extent the court of the Song Dynasty can affect the maritime merchants. If the grain trade is reduced by [-]% or [-]%, the Marshal's Mansion tightens its belt, and it can overcome it.If it is reduced by [-]% to [-]%, there will be a big hole in the account book.If it is reduced by [-]%...

Zhou Keshan wanted to jump violently, but he was unwilling to lose his composure in front of Jia She.

This person is able to warn in advance, which is enough of a friend.

Zhou Keshan wants to explain that Marshal Guo has no hostility towards Song Dynasty, and he is also very sincere in establishing a naval regime and doing business with Song Dynasty.With the expansion of Dinghai's power, the business can be bigger and everyone can make money.But what's the point of saying that to a magistrate right now?

The two were silent for a while, and Jia She approached cautiously.

"I can't do anything about the sea. However, there are still several companies that transport grain along the canal; fragmentary ones can make up more than 2 shi of grain. I can find a way to move out of the waterway and let them go as soon as possible. Crossing the Huai River, before the court's intention is clear..."

Zhou Keshan's eyes lit up: "Good!"

Jia She was a little embarrassed: "However, this kind of thing has to be arranged along the way, and money cannot be lost..."

"Three thousand guan!" Zhou Keshan immediately reported a number.

"I want copper coins! I don't want precious banknotes, and I don't want to be in the club!"

Seeing the market price, one stone of rice is only 160 wen for two guan.This man opened his mouth and was about to lose one-fifth of the price of rice. It can be said that the lion opened his mouth!Zhou Keshan thought for a while, and knew that he was collecting money according to the taxation standard of the market, so he couldn't help but slander.

But he had a big smile on his face: "The treasure banknotes are of course waste paper, and I have never used the meeting to perfuse the county officials! Of course they are copper coins! Deliver them tonight!"

The two immediately clapped their hands and agreed.Zhou Keshan didn't say much, and said goodbye.

If he wanted to find out about the changes in the grain trade, he had to inquire through various channels, not just Jia She.

Jia She himself did not leave, but was still drinking tea slowly in the waterside pavilion.

After half an hour, a few more merchants came in.These people were the ones that Jia She mentioned earlier, transporting grain along the canal.They each have backers behind them, and in the past they didn't pay much attention to Jia She, the magistrate of sesame and mung bean.

But today, for some reason, there were rumors in the city that something earth-shaking had happened in the Kingdom of Jin, and the court would respond immediately, at least to tighten up the smuggling trade between Song and Jin.There are noses and eyes, it doesn't look like a fake.

What the imperial court does, the impact may not be great.In the past so many years, every time the imperial court tried to work hard on trade, it always ended in nothing.It's nothing more than the person in charge grabbing a little money, and then the subordinates will eat the big ones, and the government will eat the small ones.But in a short period of time, the fleets of these grain merchants are still slowly heading north on the canal. If they don't want to make the trip in vain, they have to trouble this Jia Xianzun in front of him to come forward and get through the link.

Several merchants were polite and flattering at the moment, and they chatted for a long time while covering each other.

Until the setting sun was about to set, one person finally couldn't hold back his temper, and stretched out his finger to signal: "Three thousand guan! Mr. Jia, we will offer three thousand guan, and we want the grain ship to cross the Huai River within ten days!"

Jia She patted the table and said, "You guys are really happy! But, I want copper coins! I don't want precious money, and I don't want to do my best!"