Northern Song Dynasty Revitalization Strategy

Chapter 791 People die for wealth, birds die for food

"Right now, the Wa Kingdom feels that it has climbed the big tree of the Jin Kingdom, so it doesn't care about the suzerain country?" Zhao Huan said with a sigh.

For the Wa Kingdom, the Song Dynasty is its suzerain state, so there is no problem at all. After all, Zhao Huan once personally issued an edict and canonized the Emperor Chongde of the Wa Kingdom as King Chongde. This fact was recognized by the Wa Kingdom.

But at the moment, Emperor Toba has confirmed that the Song Dynasty has accepted King Chongde, the political criminal of the Wa Kingdom, and also accepted the Jinren, and intends to get rid of the control of the Song Dynasty.

However, the entry of the Jin people did not bring stability to the Wa country. On the contrary, it put the Wa country in a precarious state.

The power of the plague surpassed Emperor Toba's knowledge.That's why the 3000 million taels of silver came to Da Song, and the intention was of course to please Da Song.

The vacillating Japanese country is destined to suffer a lot from this plague that is enough to destroy the country.

This is Zhao Huan's cognition, and it is also the cognition of the princes in the court.

"Let's not talk about the country of Wa for now. The Secretary of the Shipping Department of Tangkou City is trying to close the wharf to prevent the plague from the country of Wa from entering the Song Dynasty. I have rejected his letter." Zhao Huan took out a letter and handed it to Zhao Ying. Let the courtiers look at this letter together.

After reading the book, Li Mixun asked with a puzzled expression: "No?"

"No, this is a one-size-fits-all lazy policy."

"I think that because the cold winter is approaching, the sea is frozen and ships cannot pass through Jinkou. It doesn't matter whether it is closed or not, but Tangkou has become the only sea trade entrance for the Shipping Department of Dasong City. A large number of merchants are doing business on the sea. There are thousands of miles of seawalls. The Wansong people are still wandering at sea, if the dock is closed, how will they come back?" Zhao Huan nodded.

In making this decision, he actually took a great risk. If the plague really spread to Song Dynasty through Tangkou, the situation would become even more difficult to deal with.

But it has to be like this, is it possible to let the merchants of the Song Dynasty just float on the sea like this?

Japan, Koryo, Champa, and Wanli Haitang had frequent business and trade exchanges, and a large number of Song people went to sea to do business. If the docks were really closed, these people would really be alone overseas.

"Officials are benevolent, and the minister thinks that although closing the country is good for epidemic prevention, but closing the legal entry channel will make those who intend to come to the Song Dynasty take risks. The increase in the number of illegal channels will make it more difficult to deal with, resulting in The plague is spreading further." Li Gang praised the officials and expressed his point of view.

Can closing the wharf stop the merchants of the Great Song Dynasty from Wa Kingdom, Goryeo, Champa and Wanli Haitang and the Tibetans who want to come to the Great Song Dynasty?Obviously not, once the illegal passage starts, Da Song will face a more serious threat.

Controllable and uncontrollable are completely opposite results.

"Back to the matter of Chen Zimei. What does Dazai Li think?" Zhao Huan asked with a smile, looking at Li Gang's face, he needs to reach a consensus with Li Gang first.

Li Gang thought for a while and said: "The Chen family is gone, there are Tang family, Wang family, and Liu family, but the country's laws have been messed up, and the country will not be a country. I think that if Chen Zimei really instructed the human trafficking on Jingnan South Road, The minister thinks that severe punishment will never be forgiven."

Zhao Huan nodded, waved his hand, and signaled the courtiers to leave Wende Palace. He rubbed his slightly swollen temples. Of course, Zhao Huan had a mentality of taking advantage of Chen Zimei, otherwise he would not have issued an edict to turn Supervise.

Xing Prison's transfer to Dali Temple means that there will be more room for manipulation in this matter, and it also represents his own attitude.

However, Song Shiqing stopped him, and Li Gang said the same now.If Chen Zimei is not upright, then she should do whatever she wants.

"I think it's better to investigate this matter before making a conclusion. It's not easy for the Chen family." Li Gang also said something nice to the Chen family.

After all, since the Chen family came to the throne from the official family, they have not committed any misconduct except for giving the official family and the Supreme Emperor a skinny horse. However, the skinny horse was disliked by the government, so the Chen family immediately stopped raising the skinny horse. .

The personnel specially dispatched to investigate the case had already traveled to Jingzhou. After the officials got off the road, they were treated grandly by the local magistrate. The officials led by Cheng Chu directly avoided Jingzhou on the grounds that they were officials. Hospitality from the prefect.

But it was still delayed for some time, and it was transferred to Ezhou Prefecture the next day.This made Cheng Chu a little dissatisfied.

"What? The shopkeeper of Anjifang is dead?" Cheng Chu stared at Zongze dumbfounded. If the most important witness is dead, then the case will be impossible to investigate.

Zong Ze frowned, nodded helplessly, and said, "The death of this person is very strange. Just follow me."

Zong Ze brought Cheng Chu, who had not been repaired, to the water dungeon in Ezhou. The water dungeon was extremely heavily guarded. Of course, Zong Ze knew the role of the Chen family on the officials, so Yang Yao sent elite guards from the Jinghu Navy.

But people are still dead.

"Yellow face, vomiting blood, bleeding from the seven orifices, turbid excretion, died of arsenic poison. When the Jinghu Navy felt something was wrong, they opened the prison door and invited Wang Shan for diagnosis and treatment, but in the end he didn't survive. The dosage is really too big." Zong Ze gave Cheng Chu the case for autopsy.

Standing beside the corpse, Cheng Chu looked at the high skylight, which was a very small window rail made for ventilation. He pointed to where and asked, "Did the arsenic come in from there?"

The water prison was built next to the mountains and rivers. Under the condition of heavy defense, there were constant inspections. How could there be arsenic entering the prison?

"No. There are no signs of climbing outside the skylight, and the spider web is still there. It is not from where the poison was cast. It should be that someone in the guard's navy was entrusted to bring arsenic into the cell." Zong Ze shook his head and said.

Cheng Chu nodded and said, "The inner ghost."

This is not surprising, why even the criminals who were valued by the officials were able to die suddenly.

"I gathered all the guards in the past few days, and found a person who escaped from the camp. After hunting and searching, I found this person in Wuchongxi, but he was already dead." Zong Ze took Cheng Chu to look at the criminal who escaped from the camp.

A foreman stepped forward and said: "Four times on the back, one stab in the heart, and finally a stab in the throat. The fatal wound was a stab in the heart, and there was no splash in the throat. The stab in the throat was repaired after death."

Cheng Chu carefully observed the unclothed corpse, which was exactly in line with what Wu Zuo said, and among the relics, he also found a bag, but it was the luggage that fled the camp.

The most important thing is that a whole bag of about a thousand silver dollars is on him, which proves that this person fled the camp with a large amount of money.

Although the salary of the Song army is not bad, and the treatment is unprecedentedly good, but it has not reached the point where it can be owned by a middle-aged family after three or five years in the army.

A thousand silver dollars is a great fortune.

"There are very obvious traces of fighting at the Wuchongxi scene. There are more than 1000 steps. The murderer did not take money. The more than 130 silver dollars were sprinkled on the ground at the time and were not picked up. After verification, [-] of them were thorns. The remaining [-] pieces of the Hushui army's salary were not paid by the Jinghu navy." Zong Ze said with a sigh.

The wages of avarice is death.

　Thanks to "another novice" for the reward, thank you for your support.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)