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Chapter 399
During the period of the Three Kingdoms, Sun Quan and Zhou Yu discussed the plan to build the capital, and when they heard the sound of a phoenix on Hutou Mountain in the east of the city, they built the Phoenix Terrace, changed E County to Wuchang, and established the capital here.

Phoenix Terrace is located on the bank of South Lake.

Nanhu Lake was called Nanpu in ancient times, which is exactly Nanpu in Jiang Yan's "Farewell Fu", "green grass in spring, green waves in spring water, sending you off to Nanpu, how hurtful it is".

Not far from Phoenix Terrace and South Lake, there is a courtyard, which is owned by Lu Wende's family, named Fengyuan.

The garden was built in an extremely luxurious way. The bathing pool alone is the size of two front halls of an ordinary family. Warm water is constantly poured into the pool, and there is an outlet for water to flow out.

Jia Sidao sank his body into the steaming hot tub, and it took a long time for his head to emerge, laughing and shaking his head.

"Phew... since I left Lin'an, I haven't felt so comfortable for a long time."

He sighed with emotion, glanced at Li Xia who had just come over after changing clothes, and clicked his tongue a few times.

"Qunyu, look at this Li Feiyu..."

Needless to say Li Xia's figure, although Jia Sidao is a civil servant, he is quite strong, and even Liao Yingzhong, a scholar, has some tendons.

Li Xia sank into the water to stretch for a while, and then sat down near Jia Sidao and Liao Yingzhong after swimming two laps.

"Ha, if you want to swim in the big river, this is the bathing pool." Jia Sidao smiled and said, "But you young man, you are so old-fashioned that you just want to sit on the wall and watch?"

"To save Mr. Jia, I also received two blows."

"The bento is a beating. You and I are the ones who kill the enemy in battle. What's the point of this small battle?"

While talking, a row of beautiful maids came in through the door, each of them was wrapped in a piece of cloth, and walked barefoot to the pool to wait for them to take a bath.

The three maids behind Li Xia took off their long hair to freshen up, and sighed: "Is it okay for those who go to battle to kill the enemy and leave the soldiers behind to enjoy themselves?"

"It's not that I didn't eat and sleep with them, it's rare for you to come, and I borrowed a yard to entertain you."

Li Xia didn't say much, and asked, "Just now, Jia Xianggong said, why not go to the Northern Expedition?"

Jia Sidao smiled, raised his head, closed his eyes, and said casually: "The group of young men formed a 'Loyalty Club', and they were full of enthusiasm to protect their homes and the country. Feiyu felt that they might want to take back the rivers and mountains. .”

"It should be thought of."

"The loafers who don't want to put in the effort to study, the parents at home have nothing to do with them, so they let them form associations and mess around like this. They want to be clean. Do you really think everyone is high-spirited?"

Li Xia said, "I don't understand."

Liao Yingzhong sighed: "Feiyu has also seen that most of the youngsters from the Zhongyi Society are from well-to-do families. The children from poor families can't take care of their family work, so how can they waste their energy on these things. Today's youngsters are full of enthusiasm, shouting We want to recover the mountains and rivers. Tomorrow the imperial court really wants to go to the Northern Expedition, so where will we get the money and food? What we want is the taxes from these wealthy families, and the first ones who will oppose the Northern Expedition will be the parents of these teenagers."

"Everyone's words of justice are awe-inspiring. It's time to pay money and contribute. Let's see..." Jia Sidao smiled.

Li Xia was obviously not convinced, and shook his head.

The maid behind him was holding his hair, she couldn't help but lowered her head and smiled

Liao Ying said: "Feiyu has been to the Northland, what do you think of the Northland? Is it rich?"

"The Northland is only dilapidated and decaying, far from being rich." Li Xia thought of the withered state of the North, but he didn't know where to start.

"Imagine, Feiyu, if you were a commoner in the south of the Yangtze River, you would occasionally want to take back the Central Plains. Of course you feel great, but when you wake up the next day, the court has to levy taxes and conscripts, conscript men and women, and you have to leave your homeland and abandon your wife and children. Would you like to do that?" ?

The broken north has been laid down, the imperial court has to move the capital, and the temples and palaces are urgently needed to be rebuilt. You will have to pay this tax for the next few decades, are you willing?
The south is rich and the north is poor. After regaining the Central Plains, the imperial court will have to "make up for the losses" and levy heavy taxes from the rich south to relieve the war-stricken north. Are you willing?
There are endless calls from the people to "recover the mountains and rivers". Officials and court officials really don't want to succeed and be praised through the ages?During the Duanping period, the officials tried their best to send troops to Heluo, but what happened?The whole country shouted loudly, how many people would stand up when the time came to send troops?Up to now, the southerners are unwilling to return to the north, but the northerners are willing to call. "

At this point, Liao Ying said with a long sigh: "Since Huma peeped at the river, the abandoned ponds and trees, I still hate talking about soldiers... I still hate talking about soldiers."

Listening to this, Li Xia felt more and more that the Song Dynasty was a complete mess.

A corner of Pian’an was obviously not safe. Manchu officials pointed at the people saying that they did not want the Northern Expedition, and the people also accused the court of being unable to recover the rivers and mountains.

"But if the north can't be recovered, and the Mongolians drive the Han people in the north to invade repeatedly, how long can they just defend? In case the world falls, will everyone be willing?"

"So what if you don't want to?" Liao Yingzhong sighed, "How many people can understand this truth?"

"If you don't understand, you can tell them." Li Xia said: "People in Sichuan understand that if Hanzhong is gone, Sichuan and Shu will be in danger. Could it be that people in Jiangnan don't understand..."

"Because there is a big river across the river, people in Jiangnan don't understand." Jia Sidao suddenly said, "People in the world are short-sighted, thinking that the Yangtze River is blocked by natural dangers, and Mongolians cannot go south. What do you do?"

He turned his head and glanced at Li Xia, his expression seemed to be much stricter.

"Let's not talk about the Northern Expedition or not. The imperial court already has insufficient supplies for the anti-Mongolian army. Every time it is sent more, it is only added to the poor. The farmer's land is getting less and the work is getting heavier, and the fertile land is concentrated in the noble family. , the officials and gentry of the Manchu dynasty were colluding, their power grew stronger and stronger, and their annexes grew more and more, and they only wanted to live in peace and stability. Who would be willing to use money and food to mobilize troops? Jade food is still tired of talking about soldiers'."

Li Xia looked at Jia Sidao through the heat rising from the bath, feeling that this person was extremely contradictory.

"What does Xianggong Jia mean?"

"When discussing military affairs, first discuss wealth, and when discussing wealth, first discuss curbing the rich and helping the poor. If you don't suppress mergers, don't abolish peace and purchase, how can you talk about wealth? How about mobilizing troops? How about the Northern Expedition?"

Liao Yingzhong was silent over there.

Several maids slowly got down from the bath, gently held their feet, and trimmed their nails...

Li Xia glanced at the maid, and then at Jia Sidao.

"Jia Xianggong, are you the powerful family who is collaborating with the gentry and wealthy families?" He asked bluntly.

For a moment, Jia Sidao was stunned for a moment, with a look of confusion in his eyes.

"That's right, I am the noble family who gather rich land. However... How many people are in the noble family who have vision like me?"

Li Xia didn't expect him to change the subject, and what followed was such a sentence, which was a bit too arrogant.

He asked, "What does Jia Xianggong want to do?"

"Let's not talk about this anymore." Jia Sidao smiled wryly, and kept his mouth shut.

He spread his hands, embraced a beautiful girl, and returned to his usual carefree appearance.

But there seemed to be something in his heart that was hesitating, waiting for the next decision.

Li Xia found that the more he gets along with Jia Sidao, the less he can see through him. Everything about this person seems to be a disguise, and he has never shown his true face...

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Jia Sidao felt the smooth skin in his hands, and when he closed his eyes, he saw himself as two teenagers.

One is a hard-working scholar who lost his father at the age of 11 and studied the Four Books and Five Classics day and night under the strict discipline of his mother;

Obviously wanting to resist the harsh teachings of his mother, looking forward to a life of drunkenness, dreaming of death, and carefree life, when he was young, he looked forward to living like that for a lifetime.

It just can't erase the mother's hopes.

"Do you dare to forget the achievements of your father and ancestor?"

"I dare not forget..."

Sometimes Jia Sidao doesn't know who he is and what kind of person he wants to be...

(End of this chapter)