Qiming 1158

Chapter 993 Summoning the Envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty
When Yu Yunwen, Lu You, and Wang Qi and their entourage returned from Miyun County to Zhongdu City, it was already sunset, and the day had just passed.

After returning to the Sihaiting Station, many of the envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty did not return until dinner was on the table, and the people of the envoys returned to the Sihaiting one after another.

Their faces were full of excitement, and they kept saying something like [going to the night market at night]. They were carrying large and small bags, and it seemed that they had bought a lot of good things from the market in Zhongducheng. s things.

However, Chen Kangbo, who came back with the crowd, looked bad and ate dinner in silence, then he greeted Yu Yunwen and Lu You to his room and had a secret discussion.

"Today's trip to the market surprised me. I thought that the Ming Dynasty's major construction projects, major repairs to the Yellow River, and large-scale use of troops should have been exhausted and unsustainable, but seeing the situation at the market today, I found that the situation was not in this way.

There are many kinds of goods on the market, there are many shops, there are many street vendors, and there are also many buyers. Although I don’t want to say it, it is indeed a thriving image. Not to mention other cities, only Zhongdu City, it is true It has the prosperity that is not lost to Lin'an.

I personally bought some commodities and found that the prices were indeed relatively low, especially those related to food and clothing. The price of food was much cheaper than that in Lin'an, and there was no hoarding. question. "

Chen Kangbo frowned, his face full of worry, and he said, "The construction of the building, the repair of the Yellow River, the use of troops, each of these will cost a lot of money, and no matter how much you save, you can't save much.

So much use of money but still maintaining such a prosperous scene, so use of human and material resources without affecting agricultural production, how did the Ming Dynasty achieve it?With such a broken Central Plains, how did they do it? "

Yu Yunwen lowered his head and said nothing.

Lu You also lowered his head and said nothing.

The unusual behavior of the two surprised Chen Kangbo a little.

"Why didn't you two say a word? What did you see when you went to the countryside of Ming Kingdom today?"

Yu Yunwen still didn't move.

Lu You looked at Yu Yunwen's appearance, thought about it, and told Chen Kangbo what he had experienced today.

Chen Kangbo felt wrong when he heard half of it, and when he heard the whole thing, he was stunned on the spot, speechless for a long time.

"Popular education? Meng Xuetang? Is this true?"

Lu You nodded.

"What I saw with my own eyes is absolutely true, there is no false statement."

Chen Kangbo sucked in a breath of cold air, and then his face was full of confusion.

"why?"

Yu Yunwen, who had been silent for a while, held his head in his hands and whispered, "If they spread enlightenment, who are the disciples of the saints? Who are the followers of the saints? Are we? Or them? Why do they do this? I can't figure it out. !"

Lu You was silent and did not speak.

Chen Kangbo was speechless.

This question, they are destined to be unable to answer.

They were too shocked to have a good conversation.

Until the night before Su Yonglin decided to summon them, the three of them got together again and had a conversation.

After the exchange, they decided what to say when they saw Su Yonglin tomorrow, what to say and what not to say.

Anyway, basically Yu Yunwen and Lu You can just be dumb, unless Chen Kangbo is killed by Su Yonglin on the spot, these two people can talk, otherwise the background board and atmosphere have been formed.

Yu Yunwen had nothing to do with it, but Lu You was a little unhappy.

But he didn't dare to say that he really wanted to have a face-to-face conversation with Su Yonglin, and asked Su Yonglin why he decided to make such a groundbreaking move.

He really wanted to hear Su Yonglin say something more specific or more secretive. He felt that if Su Yonglin said it himself, it should be deeper than what was written in the book.

But obviously this could not be allowed by Chen Kangbo.

Chen Kangbo, as a political advisor and a member of the Zaifu team, had a huge influence on the political situation of the Southern Song Dynasty. Compared with that, Yu Yunwen and Lu You were of much lower rank and could not influence the decision-making level of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Moreover, what Chen Kangbo did must be on the side of the Southern Song Dynasty court, and there would be no such thing as a crooked buttocks.

So what else is there to say?
Lu You could only helplessly agree.

So early the next morning, the main envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty envoys put on their official uniforms and followed Chen Guangyuan, who had come to arrange their audience, to the palace, ready to be summoned by Su Yonglin.

According to the usual rules, the Southern Song Dynasty was a vassal of Daming, and its status was one level lower than Daming. Therefore, when the envoys of the Southern Song Dynasty saw the Daming Emperor, they had to pay homage to the emperor.

Regarding this, Chen Kangbo was quite critical, and he felt that this should not be the case.

But when he really saw Su Yonglin sitting upright in the Manmin Hall, he still hid all the thoughts in his heart without revealing it at all.

There is no other reason. The power of the Wanmin Hall and the silence of the officials and generals support Su Yonglin's supreme power as the founder of this country. The strong coercion made Chen Kangbo dare not even lift his head for a while. aspect of suppression.

How dare you express your dissatisfaction with this set of rules?
With such helplessness, Chen Kangbo stepped forward under Chen Guangyuan's instructions, and together with Yu Yunwen and Lu You, performed the highest-level worship ceremony to Su Yonglin and reported his name.

After the ceremony, they presented a gift list to Su Yonglin, saying that this was a gift presented by Zhao Tan, Emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, to Su Yonglin, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, and asked His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty to accept it.

Chen Guangyuan, the minister of Honglu Temple who presided over the ceremony, took the gift list, read it aloud in public, and presented it to Su Yonglin.

There are no surprises in the gifts, such as gold, silver, pearls, jade, calligraphy, painting and antiques.

After a series of procedures were completed, formal inquiries in public began. Su Yonglin symbolically asked about Zhao Tan's health, Zhao Gou's health, and their family's health.

Then Chen Kangbo, on behalf of Zhao Tan, sent greetings to Su Yonglin and cared about Su Yonglin's health.

After ignoring these innocuous topics, Chen Kangbo began to tell the "real reason" for this mission.

"Our country has suffered from natural and man-made disasters such as severe droughts, floods, thieves, etc., the country is exhausted, the people are poor, and it is not uncommon for them to eat food. A little reduction or exemption of the annual currency that is needed, or a little delay in delivery, will give our country a chance to breathe.”

Chen Kangbo looked earnest and his voice earnest, as if this was the main reason for his mission.

Su Yonglin, who knew the root cause of their mission to Daming, didn't have the slightest psychological fluctuation.

Therefore, he did not immediately open his mouth to give his own reply, and naturally someone would stand up to help him refute it.

Kong Maojie, who served as the censor of the Youdu, stood up.

"Chen Xianggong said, it is a bit strange, severe drought, floods, thieves, these disasters, which year did the Southern Dynasty not? Why not this year?

Besides, before the demise of the Jin Kingdom, which year did the Southern Dynasty not give the Jin Kingdom annual coins?In which year was the annual currency reduced due to disasters?Such a statement may not be convincing, right? "

Goodbye Chen Kangbo.

"The disasters in the past are really not as severe as this year's disasters. From last year to this year, there was a big thief in Jiangnan West Road. The imperial court was unable to win a complete victory after many times of encirclement and suppression. To charge military resources, so..."

Before Chen Kangbo finished speaking, Kong Maojie was "dissatisfied".

(End of this chapter)