Feng Xing - Chapter 141

Fuzhou is the capital of Fujian Province.

There is Fuzhou Port in Fuzhou, which is one of the major ports of Da Zhou and the window for trade between Da Zhou and the tributes of Southeast Asian countries. Fuzhou Shipping Department is located here. The prosperity here can be imagined.

Daoist Qingfeng has never been to the coast. He thought that Fuzhou City was nothing more than that, and could not compare to the historic capital, Nanjing, which is full of luxury and gold, and naturally, it could not compare to misty Suzhou and luxurious and lustful Yangzhou. yangzhou.

Fujian is mountainous, and the land is narrow and densely populated. The city of Fuzhou is very different from other cities. There are mountains in the city and towers on the mountains. The entire city of Fuzhou is in a convex shape. It is said that as early as the Tang Dynasty, the city of Fuzhou had a pattern of three mountains and two towers, and it is still the same today.

The street, which can accommodate a number of horse-drawn carriages, is flat and wide. There are row upon row of shops, inns, restaurants and tea shops along the street. Pedestrians come and go on the road, rubbing shoulders. From time to time, there are luxuriously decorated carriages or gorgeously dressed young masters walking together. No less than the prosperous scenery of the capital.

Daoist Qingfeng and his party found an inn to settle down, planning to take a short rest before going to the governor’s office. They were exhausted all the way, and everyone was quite embarrassed. Since they planned to go to the Governor’s Mansion to do business, they naturally had to tidy up their appearance.

This is actually an excuse, but in fact, the person responsible for supporting Daoist Qingfeng is already waiting here.

It was Chen Hao.

Daoist Qingfeng stayed in the inn for two hours, and when he came out again, he regained his immortal appearance. The group of people took on a new look and rushed to the Governor’s Mansion.

The so-called people rely on clothes and horses rely on saddles. With this momentum, the concierge of the Governor’s Mansion, who had always looked above the roof, did not doubt their identities at all, and hurried to report them inside.

After Guan Qinghe received the notification, he still couldn’t believe it: “Angel?” The so-called angel refers to the imperial envoy or envoy sent by the imperial court, and it is a respectful title.

“The porter said that the leader is a Taoist priest, holding an imperial decree in his hand, and the accompanying guards seem to be members of Jinyiwei.”

Now Guan Qinghe couldn’t sit still anymore, and rushed out to greet her.

After the two parties met, they exchanged pleasantries, and Daoist Qingfeng did not hide his intention of coming.

With Guan Qinghe’s eyesight, it is natural to recognize that the imperial decree is not forged, but—send a boat to send this Taoist priest to the sea to find Penglai Immortal Island?

Guan Qinghe looked at the flying characters on the imperial decree and felt choked.

Although he is far away on the coast, he has his own channels for news about Beijing, so he naturally knows that there is a Taoist in the palace who is deeply favored by the emperor.

I thought it was just spreading rumors. After all, Emperor Jianping was a wise emperor, but what do you say now?

Guan Qinghe has always been decisive, but he couldn’t make up his mind for a while, so he could only order people to take Qingfeng Daoist and his party to resettle, and then ordered people to arrange to pick up the wind and clean the dust. In fact, he deliberately delayed the time.

Daoist Qingfeng and his party were taken to the guest house. Along the way, they saw the beautiful scenery in the Governor’s Mansion, with all kinds of exotic flowers and plants everywhere, multiple buildings, rockery and rocks, and winding paths leading to secluded places. Gardens in Suzhou.

After thinking about it again, it must have cost a lot to build such a garden. It seems that the saying that the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang is so fat is not a lie.

But Daoist Qingfeng didn’t care about these things. He was on the road for more than a month. Simply enjoy the enjoyment first, the high bed and soft pillows, and the banquet with wine. If Taoist Qingfeng is not an outsider, I am afraid that even beauties will be indispensable.

On the other side, Guan Qinghe ordered people to inquire about the news in Beijing.

It’s not that no one knows about Qingfeng Daoist leaving Beijing, it’s just that Qingfeng Daoist has fallen out of favor and not many people pay attention to it.

Thinking about it, it was just an infighting among Taoist priests, Qingfeng lost to Qingchenzi, so there was a moth looking for Penglai Xiandao, in fact, he went out of Beijing to find face for himself.

Since then, Guan Qinghe’s doubts have disappeared, but how should he arrange the going to sea?

It is easy to say the word “going to sea”. Taoist Master Qingfeng has invited the imperial decree, and he is also considered an angel. When an angel travels, safety is of the utmost importance, and the sea is different from the land. Not to mention the unpredictable weather at sea, there may be strong winds and waves at some point, especially when there are pirates at sea.

Therefore, in order to ensure the safety of travel, not only must the ship be strong and strong, but also those who are brave and good at fighting, especially those who are good at sea warfare, must be guarded by their side.

This matter gave Guan Qinghe a lot of headaches and felt extremely absurd, but he didn’t take it seriously, the Marquis of Jinghai was under his control, and the Marquis of Jinghai’s mansion was best at going to sea, so let them do it.

This delay was another half a month, Guan Qinghe performed a full set of plays, and politely sent Daoist Qingfeng out to sea.

In fact, it was also a gift to the God of Plague. This Taoist Master Qingfeng looked like a fairy, but he was actually an old **** stick and a rascal.

During the days when he lived in the governor’s mansion, he often went to Guan Qinghe to preach.

Daoist Qingfeng is an angel, it is impossible for Guan Qing and Gu Quan to miss him, but they can’t stand Tian Tian like this. Moreover, Daoist Qingfeng would always mention the matter of incense from time to time, and would give him some so-called consecrated Taoist talismans.

It’s just a matter of giving the talisman. The key point is that after he finishes delivering the talisman, he will always say how rare the talisman is, how much effort he spent making it, and how much effort he put in to consecrate the talisman. Please go back and give as much incense as alms.

In fact, to put it bluntly, he just wanted money. Guan Qinghe thought that he would be difficult to deal with, so it would be nice if he could get money.

It was a big deal, Taoist Master Qingfeng was even more kind to him, and took out a few talismans every two days, and after half a month, Guan Qinghe stuffed a drawer of yellow talismans in the drawer of his study, which made him see It’s disgusting, and when Taoist Master Qingfeng is mentioned, he can’t eat.

Isn’t this a gift to the God of Plague?

After sending Taoist Master Qingfeng away, Marquis Jinghai joked that he wondered if this Taoist priest could find the Penglai Fairy Mountain. If he went out to sea, he would encounter pirates, and he would be so frightened that he would come back.

Guan Qing and Mo Ran.

Jinghaihou was right, Daoist Qingfeng came back very quickly.

But not scared.

He didn’t find Penglai Xianshan, but Liangshan.

According to Daoist Qingfeng, he felt a trace of fetters in the midst of the three-cleaning point, and he thought that this fetter was the Penglai Xiandao calling him.

Because of this incident, he was often secretly despised by the sailors on the ship, but he was told before the trip that he came out to play with the angel, and he can play however he likes, as long as he doesn’t lose his life, go early back early.

The Taoist said that he wanted to find fetters, so let’s find fetters.

In order to find this bond, they have been exercising at sea for more than a month, and it is not without destination, that destination seems to be getting closer and closer to Ryukyu.

Could it be that the Penglai fairy island mentioned by the angels is in Ryukyu?

Penglai Xiandao is not in Ryukyu, but Ryukyu has a lot of food.

Daoist Qingfeng went crazy when he accidentally saw grain as high as a mountain piled up on the wharf where a black market in Ryukyu entered the port.

He ran towards the food, and under the afterglow of the setting sun, the beard of the immortal Taoist was gray, and the Taoist robe fluttered with the sea breeze, as if he was an immortal.

On the pier, the laborers who were carrying the grain immediately knelt down and shouted for the blessing of the gods.

This mountain of grain belonged to several great Zhou merchants.

It is reported that they planned to transport the grain back to Dazhou for sale, but they had no choice but to encounter the anti-sea order for the preparation of pirates, so they had to go back to Ryukyu.

Elder Qingfengdao burst into tears, and repeatedly said that he was enlightened by the Sanqing to save the people from suffering. He also said that disasters are raging in various places in Dazhou now, and there is a serious shortage of food. How many victims of disasters can be saved with this food.

After that, he took out the imperial decree and said that the imperial court would definitely not ask for these grains in vain, and would definitely not treat you badly. Those merchants were also sticks, as if they had never seen the imperial decree, they prostrated themselves on the ground and shouted long live.

Then it was what Daoist Qingfeng said.

There are not many good ones who can be maritime merchants, you are so penny-pinching, you are old and cunning, why did you follow others without negotiating the terms?

Those sailors who were in charge of protecting Daoist Qingfeng were just people from below, so naturally they didn’t know what tricks the people above were playing.

Since the angel said to take the fleet away, let’s take the fleet away.

Finally, I don’t have to look for the legendary Penglai Xiandao, I can go home.

Because of the pass order issued by the Governor of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the fact that the ship belonged to the Marquis of Jinghai at a glance, Qingfeng Daochang’s return journey was extremely smooth, and he returned to land safely and soundly.

However, he was quite smart, he didn’t bring the food fleet back directly, but stayed in the open sea, using the excuse that he had to go back to report the letter before deciding on the follow-up matters.

The first thing he did when he disembarked was to deliver a letter to the capital.

Guan Qinghe hurried over after receiving the news, but when he arrived, the supervisory censor of Fujian Province was also there. Not only that, but also the magistrate of Fuzhou Prefecture, the chief envoy of the procuratorial envoy, and the procuratorial envoy of the procuratorial envoy came in droves, and there were also many people who came to watch the wind.

After some investigation, Guan Qinghe found out that someone sent a letter to these adults, saying that an angel ordered them to go to the pier to watch the auspicious omen.

Then they went, and then they couldn’t cover it up.

After the news was sent to the capital, it caused an uproar.

There was a lot of discussion in the court, some people didn’t believe it at all, they thought it was extremely absurd, some people thought it must be groundless, but as the memorial of Fujian Province’s supervisory censor was also sent to Beijing, you have to believe it if you don’t believe it.

So the court started another discussion. Some people mentioned that they should open up sea routes, give more convenience to maritime merchants, and encourage maritime trade. Some people impeached the Fujian Shipping Department for not doing anything. Since they knew that there was food overseas, why did the court lack food? On deaf ears.

All in all, it has everything to say.

No one knew that this uproar was actually just a little girl who found a different way out.

Knowing that there is an anti-sea order to prepare for bandits along the coast, no one dares to do anything arbitrarily under the pretext of preparing for bandits, because if one is not careful, they may steal chickens and lose money.

Since this road does not work, then take another road.

Daoist Qingfeng is a swindling Taoist priest, but he can’t bear the identity of an angel. No one will be wary of such a person. As long as he can go to sea to ‘discover’ the food and pass the news back, the matter will be considered a success.

Guan Qinghe issued the order to prepare for bandits and ban the sea, in order to control the overall situation, using Yangmou. Feng Sheng persuaded Daoist Qingfeng to go out to sea to find the Penglai Immortal Island, and invited the imperial decree from Emperor Jianping. Although it was absurd, it was also a conspiracy.

Yangmou vs. Yangmou, only by surprise can they win, and if they fight by surprise, they will win by surprise.

All of a sudden, Daoist Qingfeng seemed to be the object of all attention, and even Qingchenzi did not dare to steal his edge.

You must know that these Taoist priests have some strange skills and tricks, which have never been tolerated in the court, but this time, Taoist Master Qingfeng has made such great achievements, as if he has become a Sanqing alive.

At the same time, many officials in the court were also smiling.

For more than a year, the imperial court has been experiencing troubled times. There is a shortage of food everywhere, and everyone is clamoring for food, especially the officials of the Ministry of Households. The pressure has been particularly great for more than a year. Everyone’s hair is falling out in handfuls. .

This time the food problem was finally solved, and finally I didn’t have to worry about losing my hair anymore.

In order not to lose their hair in the future, the officials of the household department even suggested that the court go to sea to buy grain. It is best to open up this way for future use.

In fact, over the past few years, perhaps the other six ministries have not realized it, but the people in the Ministry of Household Affairs know how much food is lacking in the current imperial court.

This crisis is over, what about next time?

So plan ahead. Therefore, since it is possible to go to sea to buy grain, why not go to sea to buy land, find a place suitable for growing grain, and buy more land for the exiled prisoners to plant. One is to solve the problem that prisoners have no place to go into exile, and the other is to solve the food crisis, killing two birds with one stone.

So much so that in the end it developed into that our Great Zhou has a strong national power, the sea power has reached a large scale, and there are so many wild lands overseas, those small countries are vulnerable, why can’t they occupy some?

Of course, this is something.

The businessmen headed by Chen Hao also made great contributions this time.

They donated all the food to the court on the grounds that they went to sea to buy food to understand the catastrophe of the country.

This is a scene, but no one knows that they are actually smugglers, but with so much food in short supply, no one is ignorant to mention this at the moment.

Whoever mentions whoever is the enemy of the people who are suffering, is the enemy of the people, and naturally is the enemy of the court.

Naturally, the imperial court would not want them for nothing, and there must be compensation afterwards. This compensation may not be made up in money, but the benefit cannot be measured by money. After all, what the Ministry of Households mentioned to open up this path for later use also requires people to do it. These people are familiar with the way, which is very useful.

So it’s a win-win situation.

After the household department allocated relief food to Shanxi, Feng Sheng finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the empress Li also breathed a sigh of relief. The haze that had shrouded the capital for a long time finally dissipated, and it seemed like a sunny day.

And it was already summer.