The new era of chaos begins in the Song Dynasty

Chapter 103 Inn gossip
When the group entered Huazhou Fucheng, Han Zhi and his family went to stay at Deguanyi Station, while Ergou settled in a private inn for one night.

The so-called private inn is a privately opened inn, which is similar to the wild store outside the city, but the safety is slightly guaranteed, after all, it is in the city.

The only trouble is that the government servants will come to fight the autumn wind every now and then, and there will be a real picket every once in a while, but this does not prevent this kind of inn, which can be checked in without a passport, from becoming a real lively place.

The quacks who roam the rivers and lakes, the wild doctor who sells plasters, the half-blind man who tells fortunes, the peddlers, the migrating tourists, etc., etc., so the identities and backgrounds are different, but without exception, they are all in the society. The people at the lower level turned the inn into a small Ukiyo-e with mixed fish and dragons.

When Ergou checked in, the waiter and shopkeeper of the inn had some strange looks in their eyes. It was because Ergou was tender-faced and looked like an eleven or twelve-year-old boy, but he had a mule cart full of goods. , an obviously extraordinary horse, a good donkey and a rather ferocious big black dog.

Such a child walking in a busy market with gold is the root seed for disaster.

The innkeeper said bluntly as soon as he came up: "My dear guest, I have a word of advice. There are three religions and nine schools in my inn, and it is a bit unstable. If you stay here, we will only protect your life but not your property." Safety cannot be guaranteed, and if something happens, you should know that money is something external to you, and only your own life is the most important thing."

Er Gou smiled lightly, pulled out the Liquan gun from the car, but stabbed it several times in the air, and said: "Don't worry about the store! I have my own skills, whoever dares to provoke him, just kill him with one shot! Besides, my cart of salt sand (generally refers to mineral salt, which is poisonous and cannot be eaten by humans or animals before it is detoxified) is not worth much, and it is useless for him to take it away."

But the waiter in the inn looked at Ergou with the eyes of a fool, and sneered in his heart: I don't know the origin of this fellow, and I don't know the heights of heaven and earth, how can you have a gun that is worth so many simple knives.The salt sand is not worth much, but the big animals you brought are worth a lot of money!

Seeing that Ergou, the death-seeking ghost, could not be persuaded by the shopkeeper, he just shook his head, settled the carriage of the cattle, and opened an upper room with him for rest.

Ergou looked around in the room. The accommodation was really good, with all the beds, tables and chairs, and two large boxes for storing the guests' belongings, but the guests had to bring their own copper locks.

Ergou didn't have a copper lock, but it didn't bother him. Ergou grabbed a handful of Xining Xiaoping coins from the bag where the copper coins were kept. This was the most circulated copper coin in the Song Dynasty. The copper coins were printed with the four words "Xining Yuanbao" An official script character.

Ergou concentrated spiritual energy in his palms, turned it into thunder and melted dozens of small coins, and formed a gear lock out of thin air. After the copper water solidified and cooled, a simple gear-type combination lock was formed.

Er Gou locked most of the floating wealth in the box, changed into a well-fitting cyan Taoist robe, and left the room with a three-foot short gun and a cloth pocket, and came to the lobby of the inn.

The hall is very spacious, and there are more than a dozen square tables arranged in an orderly manner, among which there are seven or eight tables with good positions occupied. Among those people, some are eating like voracious meals, some are leisurely drinking tea and chatting, There are also those who are extremely bored and sit and chat, and so on.

Ergou chose an empty table in a remote location, sat down on a stool, and then waved to the waiter in the hall.

The guy approached the table quickly but not chaotically, wiped Ergou's table with the rag on his shoulder, and then said with a smile: "Do you have any orders, little guest officer?"

Ergou nodded and smiled, took out more than a dozen Xiaoping coins from himself, threw them on the table, and said: "Little brother, please answer a few questions for me, these rewards are yours."

The clerk looked at the Xining Xiaoping coins rolling on the table, and was immediately elated. While quickly picking up the Xiaoping coins, he just said, "If you have any questions, the little guest officer, just ask, and the little one will know everything!"

Ergou let the clerk pick up the copper coins, and then said: "In this store, if I have a valuable treasure that I want to sell, who should I go to?"

The guy frowned and thought about it, and said: "To tell you the truth, if you want to sell treasures in Huazhou City, you should go to the Dengji pawn shop at the front of the mansion. The price offered by that shop is still fair. In this inn, at most, you can find some traveling merchants, they don’t have much capital to wait, if the treasures of the guest officials are valuable, I’m afraid they won’t be able to pay a high price.”

Er Gou nodded, but stopped asking about this matter, and just changed the subject and asked: "Is there any delicious food in this shop? Tell me about it."

When the waiter heard that his job was coming, he immediately opened his mouth and said: "My guest doesn't know that the best dishes in our shop are tender roast chicken and drunken duck. It is said that when Emperor Zhang Sheng came to Huazhou, he would eat this chicken every day." One duck, only then can the dragon be healthy and then win a great victory over the Liao people."

Emperor Zhang Sheng was Song Zhenzong. The so-called victory over the Liao people refers to the fact that Song Zhenzong was forced by Kou Zhun to go north to conquer himself. In the end, the morale of the Song army was greatly boosted and he killed the general of the Liao State under the city of Chanzhou. The story of the Chanyuan Alliance is played.

Regarding this war, Yang Yanzhao, a famous anti-Liao general in the Northern Song Dynasty, has something to say: Your Majesty is trying to annihilate the enemy, so how can your Majesty seek peace?

This Zhenzong is quite similar to Wanyan Gou more than a hundred years later, except that he did not do such a heartless thing as "killing one's own general to please the enemy" to destroy the Great Wall, so it is famous in history. It's relatively better.

The guy was quite eloquent, and he told the story about Song Zhenzong eating Huazhou tender chicken and drunk duck. Although Ergou knew that most of the stories were false, he listened with great interest.

The reason is very simple. This guy was arranging the emperors of the previous Song dynasty. If it had been done in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it would have been bold, but in the Song Dynasty, it was a commonplace mess.

People in the Song Dynasty mostly enjoyed talking about interesting things about the emperor, but they rarely said anything wrong about the emperor. Instead, they had resentment and resentment. At most, they only scolded the officials in power. For example, Wang Anshi and Sima Guang were almost scolded miserably.

Wang Anshi was scolded because his reforms touched the cheese of many people, and he was often harsh and hasty in the process of reforms, so that good laws often turned into harmful ones. However, Mr. Wang showed his character flaws at this time, knowing that the law was harmful and did not change it. .

If Wang Anshi was scolded for being too strong-willed, then Sima Guang was scolded for being purely incompetent.

Because this guy deeply hated the new laws, he abolished them regardless of whether they were good or bad after he came to power. Then he found that the Song Dynasty had become even worse. He was dumbfounded immediately and then lay down, so much so that Emperor Zhezong wanted to dig him out of his grave after he came to power. Five horses came out and divided the body.

It can be said that, except for the calligrapher, all the emperors of the Northern Song Dynasty had a good reputation among the people of the Song Dynasty, and Renzong was the best among them.

The topic got far away, the buddy told a story, and introduced some dishes to Ergou.

Ergou smiled and asked the waiter to serve him all the meals he had mentioned, but a large table was full.

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