To The Land of Nevernight

October of the 34th year of Kaiping.

Jinzhou is located in the southwest corner of the Song Dynasty.

There are many mountains in Jinzhou, and many famous mountains have been painted in poems and paintings by literati.Let’s talk about the far away, let’s talk about the near. Fu Wei, one of the Four Confucianists in the world, traveled to Jinzhou two years ago after Fu Xiru resigned from office.After he climbed Mount Lushan, he wrote a poem, which said: "Long fog sends home guests, Xiaolan breaks the smoke."

Because it is surrounded by mountains, Jinju has always been inconvenient to travel.Half a year ago, the emperor wanted to build an official road to connect Shuzhou and Jinzhou.The difficulty of building this official road is no less than that of the three official roads to the north of Shengjing, so officials from the Ministry of Industry and craftsmen from all over the world came to Jinzhou to busy repair the official road, and it must be completed within two years.

Outside the city of Jinzhou Prefecture, a carriage slowly drove over from the mountain path and arrived in front of the city gate.The soldiers guarding the city stepped forward to check. The driver gave something to the other party.A soft and peaceful voice came from the car: "Don't be too polite, maybe you've entered the city?"

The soldier nodded in fear: "Please, please."

After the carriage entered the city, it immediately went to the government office.About an hour later, a handsome young man in a blue brocade robe walked out of the yamen, and he took his bookboy with him to the place where the Ministry of Industry was building official roads.Halfway there, they happened to pass by Dasong Yinqi Village in Jinzhou.

Tang Shen stopped in his tracks and looked at the Yinqi Manor.

I saw two men in sackcloth walking out of it talking and laughing, holding the receipt from Yinqi Zhuang in their hands.

"This Yinqi Village is really convenient. It is very convenient to take out copper coins. After I sell the grain, I don't have to bring such a heavy hanging coin back to the village. I put most of it in this Yinqi Village. When I need it, I just come to get it. "

The two men walked away slowly while talking.

Boy Fengbi saw that Tang Shen had been looking at these two people all the time. He had followed Tang Shen for many years and understood his thoughts very well.Fengbi said: "Wang Xianggong's errands are really good, my lord, we can see Dasong Yinqizhuang in every prefecture we go to. After half a year, more and more people began to use this Yinqizhuang, everyone praises you for doing a good job."

Tang Shen: "Do you think you did a good job?"

Fengbi: "Nature is good."

Tang Shen smiled and shook his head: "It's not enough, this is not what senior brother wants."

"what?"

Feng Bi Boy scratched his head blankly, he was just a little book boy, he could read some words, but how could he understand them.

Since the beginning of the year, Wang Qin has been busy with the errands of Dasong Yinqizhuang.Over the past year, he has traveled to 36 states.On the land of each prefecture, a family of Dasong Yinqi Villages gradually opened up.The common people didn't know anything about this Dasong Yinqi Village at first, so they didn't dare to approach it casually.Wang Qin didn't need to worry about this kind of thing, Xu Linghou, the left servant of the household department, made a plan and ordered the silver deeds in various places to distribute the salary of the military department on the same day.

If there are soldiers in the family, they can go to Dasong Yinqizhuang to collect their family's salary on that day.I'm not afraid you don't need it, I'm afraid you don't even dare to enter.

Soon, the common people accepted this strange yamen, knowing that it was really a "government yamen" that ordinary people could enter.

The common people began to put money into Dasong Yinqizhuang, which must have caused fluctuations in the family.

However, no matter how much money the common people have, it cannot be as much as aristocratic families.At any time in this world, ninety percent of the wealth is gathered in the pockets of those few adults.The aristocratic family did not want to see the results of the Dasong Yinqizhuang, but the bloody case of the branch office that year was not easy to repeat.So one day, thousands of people in Qinzhou suddenly wanted to withdraw money from Yinqizhuang.

Dasong Yinqizhuang is not a simple warehouse. People put money in and keep it.Nature is working, leaving only daily needs.

As soon as this incident happened, Feng Guangcai, the prefect of Qinzhou, became grey-haired, because the Dasong Yinqi Village couldn't give the money for a while!

Qinzhou was in chaos immediately, and when the incident reached Shengjing, Zhao Fu smashed the letter on Wang Qin's body.

"Is this the good job you did for me?"

So last month, Wang Qin made a special trip to Qinzhou to settle the matter.Then he went south to Jinling Mansion and returned to Langya Wang Clan.

By the time Wang Qin left, it was already three days later.

Wang Hui, the fourth master of the Wang family, personally sent him out. Looking at her nephew's breeze-like figure, Wang Hui smiled wryly and bowed: "This ordinary person who is an official is to save money for the family, to benefit the family, and let the family borrow money." Domineering. But you and the second brother are good, this is to hollow out the foundation of the family!"

Wang Qin bowed back to him, with a clear and clear voice, as if through the ages: "When I was young, my fourth uncle once told Feng, why my Langya Wang family can last for 300 years, and live on this land of God, different from that Xie is declining day by day."

Wang Hui laughed loudly: "In this world, there is no giant standing forever! Move with the trend, keep the pivots at bay, this is the ancestral motto of my Wang family."

Wang Qin made a long bow, "Thank you, Fourth Uncle."

"You, and the second brother, are really the biggest prodigal sons of my royal family in the past 300 years!"

While she was scolding, Wang Hui had a smile on her face.

Naturally, Tang Shen didn't know what Wang Qin had done.But he knew that what Wang Qin really wanted was not to create a place that "helps the common people exchange money conveniently and conveniently", but to "use paper tokens"!

The money shortage in the Song Dynasty was nothing more than two reasons.

First, precious metals are scarce and raw materials are not enough, so naturally not many coins are minted.

The second is the monopoly of the aristocratic family.Aristocratic families hide a large amount of gold and silver privately. If things go on like this, it will lead to the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer, a vicious circle.

What Wang Qin has to do is to snatch the money back from the aristocratic family and accumulate it year after year to fill the treasury with a sufficient foundation.Since then, paper tokens have been truly achieved.The common people not only recognize copper coins, but also recognize banknotes from Dasong Yinqizhuang.

However, all of this is still a long way to go.

Now that Tang Shen saw this Dasong Yinqi Village in Jinzhou, he felt relieved, but also felt that Wang Qin had worked too hard.

"Brother, it's really not easy!"

Feeling in his heart, Tang Shen thought again: How can it be easy for me?

He smiled, didn't say any more, and came to the Ministry of Industry.

In the twelfth lunar month, Tang Shen returned to Beijing.Unlike the south, Shengjing has already been covered by heavy snow.Hundreds of officials did not go to court these days because Zhao Fu had a headache.In the past few years, every cold winter, Zhao Fu often suffered from headaches, and even fell into a coma when it was severe.

It's just that no one expected that this time it would be so menacing.

Li Xiaoren, the inspector of the Qin Tianjian, led nine disciples to pray for the emperor's practice in the immortal platform.

On the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, three fast horses set out from Shengjing and headed for Gusu, Jizhou and Liangzhou.The three princes received the order at home, and they were all shocked when they heard the order.

Zhao Fu actually wrote down the imperial edict, if one day he does not wake up for ten days, he will recall the three princes back to Shengjing.

The first thought of the three princes was not to care about Zhao Fu's health, but to realize: Could it be that they are about to become emperors?

The three of them returned to Shengjing, and soon they all knew that their other two brothers had also returned.

If it were in the past, they would definitely operate independently to seek a greater chance of winning for themselves to inherit the throne.But the palace coup two years ago really frightened them. They were terrified. This was Zhao Fu's whim again, and this was another conspiracy by his father.

Two years ago, the palace of the first lunar month changed, and they still don't know the whole truth.But they understood a truth from it——

Their royal father is really ruthless and cold-blooded!

The three of them were both worried and excited. What they were worried about was whether this time it would be another conspiracy, whether their two brothers would become princes, or even emperors.The joy is...why can't I become the emperor?

Twenty-three days passed in a flash, and it was the twenty-third of the twelfth lunar month. At this time in previous years, all officials should be ready to rest.But this year the emperor was seriously ill, and all the ministers went to the Temple of Heaven to pray for the emperor.Seeing that the snow was falling bigger and bigger, and the weather was getting colder, the emperor had no intention of waking up.Many officials are faintly aware that the emperor may not survive this winter.

On the twenty-fourth day of the twelfth lunar month, Tang Shen entered the palace on duty.Even if Zhao Fu didn't wake up, a third-rank senior official would go to Qinzheng Hall every day and wait outside Funing Palace.

Tang Shen was wearing a thick cotton coat and stood outside Funing Palace for a whole day.

The chief eunuch Ji Fu took a bowl of hot soup, personally sent it out the door, and handed it to Tang Shen: "Your Majesty Tang has really worked hard, let's have a taste of the hot soup."

Tang Shen immediately took it with both hands: "Thank you, Eunuch."

Ji Fu said: "It started to snow this morning, and it has been snowing for a whole day, but it is much colder than yesterday."

Tang Shen: "Is your Majesty's situation better?"

Ji Fu's face froze, he shook his head slightly at Tang Shen, and signaled him with his eyes: Don't ask any more questions.

That's where things get bad.

Tang Shen was speechless.At first, he also guessed whether Zhao Fu was really ill or a fake illness this time, but as the days passed, it was obvious that Zhao Fu was really seriously ill.

Zhao Fu's time is running out...

Tang Shen only felt a sense of loss in his heart, unable to express his feelings.

Suddenly, in the vast snow, a black shadow was striding forward from the palace road of the Chuigong Palace.The cold black cloak danced with the cold wind. He was wearing armor, with a black iron long sword tied around his waist, with one hand resting on the hilt, and he walked quickly with big strides.Although this man was old, he walked very steadily, and soon he walked to the front of Funing Palace.

After the visitor stood still, he took a glance, and his falcon-like eyes fell on Tang Shen's face for a moment, then moved away quickly.He was so imposing, that one look around the audience was like a sea of ​​blood and hell, full of bones, and everyone present was suffocated.

Tang Shen's lips moved, looking at the white-haired old general who was as tall as a sword, suddenly, he realized who this person was.

In the imperial palace, except for the Imperial Forest Army, no one is allowed to enter the palace with a sword.

However, one person can.

Ji Fu apologized with a high-pitched voice, "I have seen the Generalissimo of the World's Soldiers and Horses. When did the Grand Master return to Beijing?"

Taishi Zhou opened his mouth, his voice was as cold as iron like his own: "Hurry up, you just arrived in the capital. How is your majesty?"

Ji Fu responded in a low voice.

Taishi Zhou was silent for a moment, his towering body was like a huge mountain. "Take the old man in."

"Yes."

Grand Master Zhou strode into Funing Palace, he walked past Tang Shen, Tang Shen immediately bowed and saluted.Grand Master Zhou glanced at him, but walked in without opening his mouth.

The hall door creaked and closed slowly, Tang Shen was holding the cold bowl of hot soup with both hands.

He looked up at the white snow falling in the sky, and thought in his heart: 25 days, this is the first official to enter Funing Palace.Is Taishi Zhou an official?

right.