Song Beiyun

"Be careful." Song Beiyun instructed softly, "What are you going to do?"

"Travel around the world first, and then go to see the vastness of the world." Zhao Xing said with a smile: "Sorry, I couldn't plant the white flag in France with you, but I really can't wait for that day."

Song Beiyun nodded lightly: "Okay."

After the funeral was over, life returned to normal, and Zhao Xing finally decided to leave on this day.

Song Beiyun couldn't understand that he wanted to measure the world with his footsteps, but he supported Zhao Xing's decision because it was his true romance.Although he is actually incompetent as a father, husband, and emperor, perhaps he was not born for these duties.

There is no exaggerated farewell, just a few simple dishes and a big pot of warm rice wine in the ten-mile long pavilion.

The two chatted from morning to afternoon.

"I won't keep the elixir of life for you." Zhao Xing said with a smile, "Maybe it's useful or maybe it's not. I'll secretly eat it on the day I can't hold it any longer. If there is a chance, we can meet again. If you can't see each other, the first rain in March every year will be regarded as my coming back to see you."

Song Beiyun chuckled and raised his wine glass, "I wish you the best of luck."

"The future of the country is in your hands." Zhao Xing raised his glass and laughed, "I'm incompetent for anything. I guess it's because I shouldn't belong to this world."

"You've actually done a good job."

"But I'm not happy." Zhao Xing took a long breath: "Before I made this decision, I actually thought about it for a long time. But whether it is to be a good husband, a good emperor or a good father, in the end I will be able to stay. There is not much time left for me, I am in my 40s, not many years left. I want to keep the last bit of time for myself."

"Yes." Song Beiyun nodded and said, "It's all fine."

Zhao Xing suddenly realized that he had nothing to say, because he felt that the Song Beiyun he was facing was... a new Song Beiyun, and all his prepared remarks were pushed back by this "anything is fine", without any room for maneuver.

"Why don't you persuade me anymore? I was planning for you to persuade me but I wouldn't listen, and then pour out all my courage. Why didn't you persuade me?"

"If you and I are 20 years old this year, I will beg you. Because you are only 30 years old, there are still thousands of possibilities in life, and you are thriving. It is time to prepare for your journey. If you and I are 20 years old this year, I will persuade you. Because of the heavy responsibility And Daoyuan, the mainstay, is indispensable." Song Beiyun shook his head: "You and I are forty, although forty is not an old age, but looking up and down, it just hangs in the air. Looking back at 20 Years ago, 20 years ago, you and I were full of blood, kneeling on a huge world map, full of ambition, and vowed to make the country of China last for thousands of years. Looking forward to [-] years later, you and I are old and full of gray hair , reciting poems and singing songs, feeling that time has changed. It’s boring, it’s boring. It’s better if someone chooses a road that no one else will choose. After sixty years later, when talking with others, there will be a little more guessing and conjecture. curious."

Song Beiyun raised his head and looked at the cloudless sky, his eyes followed the sky, his thoughts soared too far.

After a long time, I came back to my senses: "It's enviable. Go, go. If you want to see me again, come and tell me about this journey of thousands of miles. If you can't see you again, you will be in the distance when the moon is bright in the Mid-Autumn Festival. Toasting three cups to my hometown is considered as the same love and moon.”

Zhao Xing pursed his lips and looked up at the sky: "It's getting late."

Song Beiyun got up at this moment and clasped his fists at Zhao Xing: "It's a blessing in the world to fight side by side with you in this life. Please cherish it when we say goodbye today."

Zhao Xing drank the rice wine in the cup, put his bags on his back, and left without looking back.

He can't look back and dare not look back, because this is his one-stop effort. Once he looks back, maybe he will never have the courage to take this step in this life.

Song Beiyun sat there looking at Zhao Xing's back, and poured himself a glass of wine casually.

Holding the wine glass in his hand, he suddenly thought of Master Hongyi's words.At this moment, there are long pavilions, ancient roads, and fragrant grasses, but the melodious flute sound is missing.

At the end of the day, I still can't say when, and the sunset is shining in the evening.

In the second month after Zhao Xing left, the first coal-fired power plant in Song Dynasty was officially listed in Lianyungang, which marked the beginning of the 2.0 era of the industrial age, and the widespread application of electricity.

Then the first fully ironclad ship was launched for a comprehensive sea trial, and then Da Song formally reached an agreement with Luzon to permanently own the Strait of Malacca.Both sides of the Malacca Strait officially became the enclaves of the Song Dynasty.

In April of the same year, an unprecedented large-scale war broke out in Constantinople. The European army gathered 85 people and launched an attack on Constantinople. Xia won the battle, but was also hurt.

At this point, the war in Eurasia has officially entered the stage of all-out war, and the war with the largest scale, the largest number of people affected, the most resources invested, and the largest total force in human history has officially kicked off.

Stimulated by the war, within a few months Europe could already come up with weapons capable of dealing with airships. Without the advantage of the sky, the progress of the Asian army's attack was also very slow. .

But the only difference is that Europe has the home field advantage, while the Asian army has an overseas combat advantage.

Both sides are very strong, and both have excellent commanders who can exploit their strengths and avoid weaknesses, and they bite each other to death. In addition, Europe itself has enough depth, so this war is worth seeing here.

But there is one thing that the European side can't beat the Asian army, that is, as the Asian army leaving the country to fight, as long as they keep supplying, they will never fail.As the defensive side, the European Army will inevitably lose part of its resource output no matter what, and affected by the war, food, industrial processes, and population will all begin to decline.

However, the Han nationality is also a nation with legendary tenacity. In terms of protracted war, the enemy is not an opponent.

Europe is in a hurry, but Asia is not in a hurry, because the overall impact of this war on Asia is positive. It has opened up a wide range of free trade areas, and even gradually began to feed back the Song Dynasty.

And this is also a link in Song Beiyun's strategic deployment, and because of this, he now has a brand new title - the only god in Asia.

However, Song Beiyun himself doesn't like this title, and it can even be described as disgusting.

Chapter 962: Sunny January 21, 7

"This concludes the report for the first half of the year."

Song Beiyun took the report and threw the stack of papers on the table. His expression was not good, and everyone below fell silent.

"I ask three questions. The first question is why there are frequent unjust, false and wrongful convictions and false data reports, and what is wrong with the grassroots officials here. Have you actually managed it well? Is there any collusion between supervisory officials and local officials? " Song Beiyun looked at the people in the former official department: "This is the responsibility of the official department, and as many as 32 cases have been found out now, what about the ones that have not been found out? Who will bear this responsibility? , doesn’t work anymore?”

"Second question, why didn't Southwest and other places report the truth after the disaster? All the reports are that the country is prosperous and the people are safe and the weather is going well." Song Beiyun suddenly stood up and overturned all the things in front of the table on the ground: "I want you to supervise What does the inspector do for food!?"

Everyone present silently lowered their heads, but it was Song Beiyun's third question that surprised them.

"Village tyrants, town tyrants and even town tyrants emerge in endlessly everywhere. On the surface, the policy is open, but in fact, the people have to pay taxes every time they empty the toilet. Who does this money fall on? Those local hooligans? They have the courage to follow The imperial court is against the country? Huh? What about you?"

Seeing that the people below were silent, Song Beiyun kicked over the desk and yelled, "Speak!"

At this moment, Xia Song coughed, stood up and said, "Relationships between localities are intertwined, and many places have high mountains and long rivers, so the news is blocked..."

"Don't tell me about difficulties." Song Beiyun waved his hand: "What I want is a solution. After 20 years of hard work, I woke up overnight and lived more and more. Is this your attitude? Don't tell me about this matter." If you talk about any difficulties, you can do it for me. Whoever stops you, I will help you clean it up. Is it difficult? I want to see how difficult it is! Xia Song, you can handle this matter, even if you give it to me one by one. Going down, you have to get things done. Don't rejoice for the rest of you, don't let me know that you are involved with those people, or I will let you go around!"

Song Beiyun is an actionist with an iron fist. He is a man who walked out of iron and fire in a serious manner. Worries?He has a worry about the hammer. He doesn't have any factions himself, and he doesn't rely on any family to start his career, so he has to insist on whoever loses his temper.

Make trouble with him?Play negative with him?Even if the head is not on the neck.Not to mention open confrontation, incitement, and confrontation. He dug an artificial lake outside Jinling City. Although the lake is for landscaping, everyone who knows it knows what it is for.

Xia Song is also a person who came all the way from Chang'an. He and Song Beiyun obviously came down with the same thought.In fact, he had already vaguely known about this matter from all levels of data and information, but he didn't say anything before the matter broke out.

If you have to wait, you have to wait for this day. When Song Beiyun kicks over the table, he will be able to strike quickly and firmly. Now he wants to see who those people who make excuses for him all day long Is there any other reason that can be said, if there is any reason, it is fine, go tell Song Beiyun, go and see if he will give him a chance.

This investigation is actually a bottom-up reorganization. This situation may happen many times in the future, but no matter what, this trend must not continue to spread.

After the meeting, Song Beiyun came to the study and sat there and began to read a book. At this time, Xia Song knocked on the door and walked in, sitting in front of him.

"Do you know why you were asked to do this?"

Song Beiyun asked softly wearing glasses.

Xia Song smiled lightly: "Because you understand that I am cruel and merciless, and I will not show mercy to those people."

"This matter is still very dangerous. You should be more careful. And in the future, it may happen every 20 years." Song Beiyun took off his glasses and sighed helplessly: "Governing a big country is like cooking a small fish. Turning around is going to be a mess. In the past ten years, officials with good temperament have grown bigger and bigger, but they have become farther and farther away from their original intentions. This is a very common problem in the court. Those people have become high officials. He kept his mouth shut saying that he was a parent official, thinking that the common people would not be able to live without him, a joke, really a big joke. The relationship between fish and water, which was originally good, turned into a relationship of oil and water when they were floating on the top, and they would not let them down Is it breathable?"

Xia Song's danger is actually mainly due to political danger, not personal crisis. After all, he is now leading the team, let alone being assassinated, even if he chokes to death while washing his face in the place where he lives, the local Everyone from top to bottom had to be buried with him.

This was called an imperial envoy before, and only in troubled times in troubled times would someone dare to attack an imperial envoy, otherwise they would really be dead or alive.

"After you go down this time, remember three principles."

"You said."

"The first one, no matter how small a fly is, you can't let it go. The second one, no matter how big a tiger is, you can't let it go. The third one, go to Bao Zheng's side to get a criminal conviction and tell the world."

"clear."

In fact, who doesn't want the officialdom to be stable, but there is no way, not everyone can have a strong self-control ability to fight against the greed in their hearts.As time goes by and the distance is far away, it is inevitable that some people will start to corrupt and deteriorate. From the very beginning, they feel that this is nothing to do with it, and finally they can't stop at all. The things in the world are nothing less than this.

Governing the country by self-consciousness will inevitably destroy the country in the end, so governing the country requires laws. Although the rule of man is flexible, it is too flexible. Many things are flexible enough to be a pocket crime. The law is rigid, but rigidity lies in the fact that it can be contained. The vast majority of crimes are born.

The priorities of the law and the logic of cause and effect are put there, and people only account for [-]% in the end.

To be honest, Song Beiyun doesn't really care about rules or favors. He doesn't have much fun in this world. If he doesn't have fun, he doesn't have greed. This becomes more so as he grows older.

When he got home, Fo Baonu and Jin Ling'er happened to be there, so he sat down and chatted with them about recent events.

There is nothing to say about the rest.Life is nothing more than this. After a long time of firewood, rice, oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar and tea, there are fewer topics to talk about. If we can sit down and have a peaceful meal together, we are already at home and everything is going well.

Everyone is in their 40s, and life has long passed the impulse and passion of youth.Jin Ling'er is not the girl in the green dress back then, and Jin Ling'er is not the handsome gentleman in white robe and waving a paper fan.

The only thing that hasn't changed here may be Zuo Rou, but even Zuo Rou has some wrinkles at the corners of her eyes.

Age is here, and even the wonderful pen of regenerated flowers cannot outline new branches.

Sometimes family members would sit together and reminisce about their youth, but those absurdities could no longer be said.

Time will eventually return all passions to peace. In the end, everyone knows that companionship is the best ending of the story, and the fire will not last forever.

"Master, what exactly are you planning, I'm actually very curious."

This day, Zhang Qing came to the house for lunch. The only orthodox disciple of Song Beiyun became a son and daughter of Song Beiyun after the death of Mr. Zhang. very.

"Don't worry about what I'm trying to say, why don't you find someone to marry? You are not young, and you will be 34 next year."

"Ouch...Master..." Zhang Qing would explode when he heard this topic: "I'm still waiting for the results."

"Don't blame me for being wordy, I'm really doing it for your own good."

"I know, I know." Zhang Qing said with a sad face, "Don't nag me every time you see me, it's not safe to eat like this."

Song Beiyun sneered: "When a dog reaches his age, he has to be bred. You really are not in a hurry."

"Master..." Zhang Qing was forced to be helpless, and suddenly resorted to the great teleportation of the universe: "But Master came here as a future person, but he worked so hard to rule, what is the reason for it? People always have a motive, I think if Master is for comfort, so you could have been very stable 20 years ago, right?"

Song Beiyun lowered his eyelids: "Because I know better than anyone else how much suffering this country and this nation have suffered. As a member of it, I actually have the responsibility and obligation to help it avoid those sufferings."

"What's the trouble?"

Song Beiyun pursed his lips and smiled, but said nothing, while Zhang Qing kept staring at him with anticipation.

"Don't tell me?"

"It's not necessary." Song Beiyun shook his head and said, "It won't happen. Maybe my mission is over here, and the future is still up to you. Make it stronger, more advanced, and more civilized, and devote yourself to making this To make the world a better place, be the doer, the guide and the mediator."

"Master is a master after all, but you can't retire now, master. If you really want to retire, you will be in big trouble."

"You think I don't want to?" Song Beiyun shook his head and said helplessly, "You don't even know what my dream is."

"What is it?"

"Just have nothing to worry about, idle around, eat and die every day." Song Beiyun pursed his lips and said, "But romance cannot be an eternal pursuit after all, and if you indulge in the tide of romanticism, you will be drowned. "

"That's why Master embarked on this path, right? But Master, have you ever thought that there may be nothing more romantic than revolution and changing fate against the sky. Therefore, Master who has been chasing materialism all his life , is actually an extreme romanticist?"

"Hahahahaha..." Song Beiyun laughed loudly: "I like what you say."

The ultimate romantic.

Maybe.

China is now in a period of great change unseen in a millennium. During this period, various ideas have sprung up like mushrooms. Some of them have inherited the past schools of thought, and some are new schools of thought.

Although there are many and complicated ideas, China’s lifespan is too long, so that even new ideas can find corresponding expressions in ancient books, and there are always clear examples to prove whether this idea is right or wrong. Constantly rebutting, and because of the emergence of a large number of thinkers, the current Song Dynasty and even China are under a vigorous and vigorous vitality.

It is even more intense than the Renaissance, and more profound than the Enlightenment.It is engraved with the wisdom inherited from this nation and the innate dialectical thinking. No civilization can reach such a height in understanding of freedom and order.

And in such a trend of thought, it has produced a large number of thinkers, educators, scientists and writers. Although the national fortune is far from reaching its apex, it has shown extremely brilliant signs.

Just like what Song Beiyun said, he alone cannot make a civilization bright and brilliant. The reason why this civilization is dazzling is that it is a jewel in itself, and Song Beiyun's role is only to polish it, so that it can bloom the original civilization. own light.

In the past world, Song Beiyun saw what a world dominated by Western civilization looked like. He never even thought about what it would look like when Eastern civilization began to influence the world.

But today he saw how charming the oriental thought, which is gradually getting rid of the feudal thinking, is. Just like what Zhang Qing said, it turned out that when materialism reaches its extreme, it will actually be so romantic.

Of course, there are still many problems, but they will be resolved in the end. Success does not need to be contemporary, because no one can shine with the sun and the moon, but there are people under the sun and the moon who are forging ahead.

July of the 21st year of the new calendar.

The world's largest port, Qinglong Port, was officially completed and renamed Shanghai Port. Twelve days later, the world's second largest port, Yazhou Port, was officially completed and renamed Haikou Port.The two ports can accept all existing ships from all over the world to enter the port at the same time and are equipped with extremely convenient land transportation capabilities. In the near future, trains will directly enter the port to form a fast transshipment hub.

And in August of the same year, the European side directly bypassed the frontline commanders and sent a peace document to the political center of the Song Dynasty. The entire article was written in Chinese, but Song Beiyun refused the peace talks, and the war between the two sides continued.

In November of the same year, the first Egyptian mission and caravan entered the Song Dynasty through the Wakhan Corridor, becoming the first African country to establish diplomatic relations with the Song Dynasty.

In December of the same year, various tribes in Tubo abandoned serfdom and voluntarily merged into the Song Dynasty. Zhou Xianlin became the first governor of Tubo, completing the rule division of Tubo area "since ancient times".

In January of the following year, the first iron lock pontoon bridge across the Yangtze River was completed in Jinling, ending the history of no bridges on the Yangtze River for thousands of years, and ending the history of people on both sides of the river needing boats to cross the river.

In March of the 22nd year of the new calendar, the emperor of the Liao Kingdom submitted the letter of credence, which opened the negotiation of the intention of unification between the two parties, and the topic of unification officially entered the dialogue stage.

In April of the 22nd year of the new calendar, the third Asia-Europe war began, and 40 Asian cavalry landed on the European plains.

Chapter 963: Sunny January 22, 5

"The issue of the unification of the Song and Liao Dynasties has now entered the discussion of the third content, which is mainly about the location of the capital. According to my father's idea, it would be better to set the capital in Beiping City, but now the southern officials have relatively strong opinions."

The third master is reporting the situation to his mother, and Fo Baonu has actually accepted the result. At least now, it seems that the issue of unification this time is not who annexes the other, but more like an integration between the two sides.

Before integration, economy, culture, trade, etc. need to be discussed in detail, because a sudden merger will inevitably bring various unpredictable problems to the two countries, especially in the economic and cultural fields.

And because the two regimes are different, and Song Beiyun cannot compromise on the one-bite-to-kill, so changing the regime and the regime requires careful adjustments.

Therefore, it may take another five to ten years from the negotiation table to the formal unification of the Eight Classics. After that, it will take another five to ten years to move the capital and complete the complete division of provinces.

Thinking about it, many people can't see the day when the reunification is truly completed, but in any case, the end of the long division of the land of China can already see the border.