Water Margin farming to become powerful

Liangzhe Road, Dongyang County, Zongze's thatched cottage stands quietly among the valleys.

After retiring from old age and returning to his hometown, Zongze was first allowed to be granted the false title of in charge of Hongqing Temple in Nanjing. On the surface, he was treated favorably by the officials with generous gifts, but in fact he was dismissed from his post as soon as he arrived in Nanjing. He was originally in Dengzhou officialdom The offended characters attacked him one after another.

In the history of Sun Xin's world, Zongze was falsely accused within two years of his retirement and was assigned to Zhenjiang as a director. He did not regain his freedom until the fourth year of Xuanhe.

However, in this time and space, with Sun Xin's help, Zongze had more money on hand than he could spend when he retired, and he was like a retired rich man.

Relying on this money, Zongze settled down in Dongyang safely after he retired, living a leisurely and contented life while working as a court official.

The large-scale military uprising by Sun Xin and others did not even affect him. When the war between Sun Xin and his children had just begun in Shandong, there was also talk in the court of purging all officials related to the Supervisory Committee, but when Sun Xin thought that no one could After defeating the children at an unexpected speed and threatening Cangzhou and Xuzhou, the Supervisory Committee has become a big force that the court cannot handle.

Then something unexpected happened to Zongze. All the officials who had some connection with the Supervisory Committee became the targets of the imperial court. Some people said that Zongze and Sun Xin were very hypocritical, and even the officials specially called people to ask if they had Zongze can help the imperial court send envoys to Dengzhou.

Zongze was naturally grateful for this, but he never expected that the officials would then pursue him and promote him, turning his original false title of being in charge of Hongqing Temple into a real position.

Zongze felt that the preferential treatment he received because of Sun Xinzao was inappropriate, but it was difficult to express it due to his old age.

Zongze now has no interest in political affairs and is only obsessed with landscapes. After his wife Chen died of illness in the past two years, Zongze even visited Dongyang County less.

When he woke up early that morning, there was no rice at home. Zongze wanted to go out for a walk, so he called his servant, led a mule, and walked slowly from his mountain villa to Dongyang County.

When they came to the county town and saw the bustling crowd, they suddenly felt like they were entering the world again. Zongze, his master and his servant, passed by the notice board next to the gate of the county town, but saw a group of people outside the notice board. Zongze saw that there were not many people there. It was easy to inquire, so he continued to let the servant lead the mule to walk slowly into the market.

"Did you hear that? The protection army..."

When the words "protection army" came into his ears, Zongze couldn't help but change his expression.

Since Sun Xin's strength has grown bigger and bigger, although Zongze has not been in Shandong in the past few years, he has long understood from the perspective of an onlooker that Sun Xin's intentions are not trivial. It is not an exaggeration to say that he wants to subvert the world. Today, Sun Xin seems to have It was a prince. Last year, the Supervisory Committee caused big things in Cangzhou and Xuzhou. When Zongze learned about it, he was shocked that Sun Xin actually made such a big move, but he was angry that this guy actually really As for the rebellion, deep down in his heart, he couldn't help but feel a little happy. After all, although the various behaviors of Sun Xin's supervisory committee were not in his eyes, in the end, they did not violate what Sun Xin had told him over the wine table. original intention.

"The situation is like a chess game. Where should the world go? I don't know."

Zongze silently recited this sentence in his heart. Although he knew that the Supervisory Committee was becoming more and more powerful in the past two years, he deliberately avoided receiving information from the Supervisory Committee. This was also a way to put himself and these external matters Isolated way.

Zongze asked his slave to lead the mule to buy some wine first, and then cut a ham. He sat at a roadside stall and ordered a bowl of Yangchun noodles.

Just as he was about to bite him, he heard someone talking about the Supervisory Committee. Zongze frowned slightly. Could it be that Sun Xin, the Supervisory Committee, had done something extraordinary?

Where did it hit again this time?

He was able to avoid it the first time, but the second time the words hit his ears, Zongze didn't avoid them deliberately and just sat there and listened.There were several businessmen chatting quietly at the tea stall. One had just come from the north, and the others were local businessmen selling silk.

Zongze heard the man with a northern accent share with others in a low voice with a smile on his face: "Everything I heard is true. The Supervisory Committee really brought people from the Liao Kingdom back. I saw them in Jinan Mansion." .”

"He is definitely from Liao. This supervisory committee may have really done something in Liao."

A few people nearby also listened with interest, with eager expressions on their faces, "Is it possible that the legend is true?"

Zongze frowned slightly. He realized that he seemed to have stayed in the mountain for too long and had not heard any recent news. Why did the Supervisory Committee still have something to do with the Liao Kingdom?
"It's probably true. It's spread all over Shandong. If it's not true, what will happen to the supervisor then?"

Zongze was stunned for a moment. Could it be that Sun Xin defected to the Liao people?This is absolutely impossible!
He couldn't help but continue to listen attentively, and listened to those few people continue to discuss: "Is it really so important to conquer that place?"

“I don’t know about this, but I heard from the people in the Shandong Supervisory Committee that taking those big states and counties was something that our Song Dynasty had not been able to accomplish for more than a hundred years, but it was done by their Supervisory Committee. "

"I don't believe it. It's probably just the Supervisory Council bragging about itself. What kind of state is it called?"

"One is called Yizhou, one is called Zhuozhou, and the other is called Youzhou. It is said to be Nanjing Xijin Prefecture, one of the five capitals of the Liao Kingdom. I don't know what the boundary is."

"We are all businessmen doing business in the Song Dynasty. We don't know how the business in the city in that place is."

"I'm afraid you can only find out by asking those big businessmen who are engaged in trade between the two countries."

Although these merchants traveled all over the country, they only did business within the borders of the Song Dynasty. I don't know how significant these three states and counties are. There are some who believe that the Supervisory Committee will accomplish great things, and some who don't.

At this moment, they heard a bang in their ears. Everyone looked back in shock and saw a white-haired old man looking at them eagerly. At that bang, the spoon and chopsticks he was holding to eat noodles were thrown away. , at this time he stood up excitedly and opened his mouth to speak.

The hawker doing noodle stall business on the side was stunned and quickly came up to see what happened.

The old man had already grabbed the northern businessman among the crowd and asked: "Where did you say the supervisory committee captured?"

Seeing Zongze looking so surprised and anxious, everyone present was in a daze.

The businessman who was caught by him had a puzzled look on his face. He looked at Zongze's dress and saw that he didn't look like an old man from a god's family with poor conditions, so he didn't regard him as a crazy old man.

(End of this chapter)