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Chapter 74 A Night Visit

"Thank you for your hard work, please serve tea in the side hall. I have something to ask you to bring to the prefect!"

"Yes, sir!"

Yu Jie sent the staff member to deliver the letter first, the staff member of the prefect Wu. **《》*After all, before the matter was understood, he sent someone to investigate the whereabouts of the imperial envoy to let others know, and there would be trouble. After the staff member was taken down, the people sent by Yu Jie came to him.

"Sir, Bei Zhi was ordered to investigate and discovered several strange things. At this moment, there were several large ships by the river, and their sails were strange, not like our Song Dynasty ships. In addition, the ship was unloading goods at the moment, all of which were crates. However, Bei Zhi saw Hui Hui cannons, although they were not like those used by the Mongols, because their long arms were removed and placed aside. There were about 300 soldiers on the ship, with strange armor, short weapons, and had never seen them before."

This news made Yu Jie feel a little surprised, but at this moment he had already confirmed that the imperial envoy must be false. Because as far as he knew, the young minister of the Pu surname who was not famous in the court was highly valued by the Song Li and Song Zhao Yun, the emperor of the Song Dynasty. His name was Zhao Yuju, the crown prince established by Shi Miyuan after he abolished Zhao Fubo's grandfather Zhao Rong.

Zhao Rong lost the right to inheritance back then, in fact, because of his own carelessness and underestimation of the energy of powerful ministers. This seemed to be the result of a loss after a political strategy contest. But if you look at it a little longer, you will find that Shi Miyuan's victory indicates the victory of the majestic and stupid bureaucratic system created by "ritual". As a result, the result was that China's economic development and technological development were delayed by hundreds of years. The so-called "Song fans" and "Ming fans" today are just facing the economy and technology that were ahead of the world at that time, and the two dynasties of the Ming Dynasty, but finally ended up in foreign countries and the demise of the barbarians.

In fact, it should be explained that no matter how regrets you are, you don’t understand why China has lost the opportunity to develop technology and civilization. It is definitely a sad thing. The reason is very simple, because the so-called “traditional culture” such as “respect for heaven and earth”, “dressing people” and other so-called “traditional culture” delays the real development of science and technology. As for what the use of technology, the prosperity of the “Huaxia Empire” is the result. Because of rifles and cannons, they will not pay attention to the people who are beaten, are happy. Faced with ignorant people who don’t know what technology is, the only two words that industrial civilization knows is—conquest!

After sending everyone away, Yu Jie began to think about his eyes alone. Although he had already concluded in his heart that the imperial envoy was fake, the matter that the fake imperial envoy did was quite in line with Yu Jie's appetite. Especially the fake imperial envoy was distributing food to the civilians who complained. To be honest, he had much more stern things than the officials of the Song Dynasty.

How could Yu Jie not understand the principle that water can carry boats and can also overturn boats. Unfortunately, the government's demand for levying part of the miscellaneous taxes is used to fight against the invasion of the Mongols. As for the other part, it is naturally the interests of the bureaucratic group. Even if the country is destroyed, they will not let go as the landlords.

"I really should meet such an interesting person. Even if I understand that I want to fight, I might as well go and have a private visit tonight!"

As a general, Yu Jie was quite cautious. The reason why he planned to meet the fake imperial envoy was that he had to figure out that this was a subordinate of a big boss in the court, a rebel army with ill-conspiracy, or it was a conspiracy from the Mongols. These things were mixed together, making the major event of resisting Mongolia even more complicated and insulting.

Just like when facing the invasion of the Qing Dynasty, how should the rebel army of King Chuang and Zhang Xianzhong evaluate? Their uprising was naturally because officials forced the people to rebel, but when the country resisted the invasion, such a civil war would naturally consume a lot of the Chinese nation's strength. The uprising and the invasion of the Qing Dynasty can be said to have complementary effects. But in the final analysis, it is just a true manifestation of "water can carry a boat, but can also overturn the boat", and it is also a true manifestation of the inability to cause internal strife and external troubles.

The same civil strife caused by the heavens' harsh government, and the harsh government was born from the interests and greed of the bureaucratic group. What created the bureaucratic group was exactly the "ritual" in the "traditional culture".

"That's true. If you don't enter the tiger's den, how can you get a tiger's son? I want to see what that fake imperial envoy looks like."

With this idea, Yu Jie dressed up as an ordinary businessman with several capable guards. A large cart was followed behind him, with some food and other things on it. This was what Yu Jie thought of getting close to the fake imperial envoy. First, he was providing food for the people who complained, and he also wanted to see the purpose of the fake imperial envoy.

As mentioned earlier, Yu Jie's government office is outside the city, so when he came to Kuizhou City, he saw the bright mansion at first sight. The so-called bright mansion is not actually how big the house is, but the bright lights at night and the crowds coming and going outside the mansion, which gives people this feeling. On the street outside the mansion, there are people coming and going everywhere, including those delivering goods in the grain shop and some servants in the yamen. They press their hands on their waist knives, which are like maintaining order.

"It's really lively here. There are probably not many such lively days in Kuizhou City!"

Naturally, Yu Jie's subordinates drove the people blocking the way to the side of the road. This was the habitual practice of the officials, but Yu Jie immediately stopped his subordinates' actions.

"Everyone, we are visiting privately. Why not do this? Or come with a full guard of ceremonies?"

Then, Yu Jie saw the following scene.

"Don't rob it if you exclude it, don't rob it. Each person has a bowl of soup and two steamed buns. Don't squeeze it!"

At this time, Yu Jie was not far from the stall where he distributed food to the civilians who complained. A bright light hung high there. With the slightly cold autumn wind, the fragrance of the food made people salivate.

Yu Jie could smell the meat and vegetable flavor, but in addition to that, there was some very fresh flavor. In fact, he didn't know that the thing was just cheap "MSG". The fullness was nothing more than rice soup, flour, fried vegetables and meat, and then mixed with some chili, pepper, pepper, etc. One bowl per person plus two steamed buns. On such a night, even for Yu Jie, it was a good bowl of food.

"This fake imperial envoy is very rich, and the price of this bowl of soup is not low!"


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