The Reborn Lao Tzu Is the Emperor

Chapter 2218 Revisiting the Shrine of Martyrs

The streets are decorated with lights and festoons, and there is a lot of people.

Zhao Dongting sat in the carriage and opened the curtain to see.Outside the window, most people are filled with smiling faces.

In a trance, he seemed to go back nearly 20 years ago.At that time, when he was walking on the streets of Leizhou, how was it ever like this?

The mountains and rivers are broken, and everyone is in danger.There is either light worry on the face, or the heaviness of life, or numbness.

I don't know when he changed from self-protection to wanting to do something for the people of this world.In a trance, it has been nearly 20 years.

From the third year of Jingyan to the ninth year of Dingchang, he has also grown from an 11-year-old child to an adult who is nearly thirty years old.

I just don't know when I didn't feel that kind of pride in my heart.Yes, it's just a sense of relief that I can't live up to what I entrusted, and a sense of responsibility to build a solid foundation for the Song Dynasty.

From the gate of the city to the government office, the onlookers don't know who they are.The voice of the mountain is endless.

Zhao Dongting only stayed in Qiongzhou for two days, inspected several workshops and ports in Qiongzhou City, and then set off for Changsha.

Only this time it was obviously impossible to keep a low profile on the way back to Changsha, because the magistrate of Leizhou near Qiongzhou had already heard the news that he was in Qiongzhou, and sent someone to send a document requesting Zhao Dongting to visit Leizhou.

It is conceivable that Zhao Dongting will go to Leizhou next, and then all the state capitals will follow suit.

As for Leizhou, Zhao Dongting had special feelings, so he couldn't refuse.

He just rejected Ran Anguo's proposal to send soldiers to escort him to Leizhou with great fanfare.

No one in this world can endanger his life.

Ran Anguo also knew how powerful Kong Qiangu was, so he didn't force him.

After passing through Yirong in Qiongzhou, Zhao Dongting took everyone to Leizhou by boat.And this miraculous and convenient disguise technique surprised Her Royal Highness.

Unfortunately, Zhao Dongting declined her request to learn this disguise technique.He said that he promised the person who taught him the disguise technique not to spread the technique easily.

This is obviously a lie.

Liuzhier never said this, and Wu Amiao never said it.

But Her Majesty the Holy Maiden didn't know, and believed it.In her heart, Zhao Dongting is quite a trustworthy person.

She never thought that people like Zhao Dongting would talk nonsense.

When he arrived in Leizhou, Zhao Dongting did not go directly to the main mansion of Leizhou, but took a boat to Naozhou Island.

He always thought about the martyr's mausoleum here, and the disabled veterans who stayed here.

Naozhou Island is no longer as desolate as it used to be.

In fact, this is not a place with a particularly advantageous geographical location. Although it is an island, it is too close to Leizhou.But perhaps it is because Zhao Dongting made his fortune here that it is very lively now.

I don’t know how many Leizhou people moved here, so that Naozhou Island has become the most densely populated place in Leizhou.Later, it also became a well-known trade transfer station and tourist attraction on Guangnan West Road.

Most people who have heard of Zhao Dongting's family history will visit Naozhou Island whenever they go to Guangnan West Road.There is a constant flow of people in front of the Martyrs' Monument all day long.

Zhao Dongting walked up the mountain with his daughters, Kong Qiangu and others, and waited and watched for a long time in front of the martyr's monument.

"Song Junshan, the Temple of the Martyrs, the souls of the dead are loyal and brave to God."

Zhao Dongting has come to Naozhou Island several times, but every time he comes, he sees this sentence on the martyr's tablet, and he will recall the years in a daze.

He quietly took Le Chan's hand.

At that time, it was here that he met Le Chan.It was Le Chan who came to assassinate him.

Le Chan smiled slightly, and also held Zhao Dongting's hand tightly.

After all, she did not entrust the wrong person.

This is the greatest pride of her life.

Standing in front of the martyr's monument for a long time, Zhao Dongting led the crowd into the martyr's temple.Then, he walked to the veterans' barracks behind the martyr's temple.

Those veterans have always guarded here.

Before arriving at the barracks, he took off his disguise.

A veteran standing at the door, leaning on a cane and basking in the sun stared blankly at him, then his eyes turned red, "Old soldier Xu Sanhua kowtowed to the emperor, the emperor..."

Before he knelt down, he was supported by Zhao Dongting, "I come here in modest clothes, there is no need to be polite."

He took the old soldier's hand and walked towards the barracks.

Xu Sanhua's face was full of excitement, and he couldn't control himself.

Zhao Dongting asked: "Are the old soldiers still alive?"

Xu Sanhua replied: "Thanks to the great love of the emperor, most of the brothers are still alive back then, only four died of illness."

"Ugh……"

Zhao Dongting sighed softly and said nothing.

After leaving Naozhou Island that year, he asked all the officials on Guangnan West Road to take better care of the disabled and old soldiers on Naozhou Island.But in the end, there is no way for a person to resist the destiny.

Wealth and honor have fate, life and death depend on heaven.

But there are still most of them, which is already an excellent result.

On this day, Zhao Dongting didn't go down to Songjun Mountain until late at night, and stayed on Naozhou Island.

Throughout the afternoon, he stayed in the veterans' barracks, chatting with the veterans, playing chess, and basking in the sun.

What made him gratified was that these veterans were treated very well in terms of life, and some of them had already established families and established businesses here, spreading their branches and leaves.

(End of this chapter)