At this point, the official hesitated for a moment, then immediately spoke up: "And if your family can still send 3,000 royal ducks by this time next year, why don't I promote you to a high position?!"

The Huaizuo silk tycoon who also ran the Yuyingfang business was naturally overjoyed when he heard this, and he kowtowed on the spot to express his gratitude.

In front of the palace, under the rustling autumn wind, many celebrities from Huaizuo were becoming more and more dumbfounded... They never expected that such a royal Mid-Autumn Festival banquet, a place where Emperor Zhao should appreciate the customs, would actually allow such a shameless person to sneak in?

However, what is even more difficult for them to accept is that this shameless guy's ridiculous and straightforward behavior was actually recognized by the government... Was he really given an imperial favor or a special status?

Don’t we need to talk about traditional feudal morality?

If it were this direct, what was the point of them making a fuss about Qiao?

However, some people also directed complicated looks at the expressionless Sun Jin Sun Xiantai... Sun Xiantai was a governor, a top official. He was also a close minister sent out from the imperial court that day, and was also the confidant of the prime minister. Others might not know the official style, but how could he not know?

But since you know it, why can't you give me a hint in advance?

Give me this first show... the first soup opportunity, I will definitely be more elegant and more reliable than this duck seller, right? As the saying goes, if you buy bones for a thousand gold, you don't need to buy salted duck, right? We can also be professional as a shill!

Of course, I regret it, but this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and no one cares about elegance or inelegance anymore:

This one said that when Huai Shang was fighting against the Jin army, his family wanted to support them, but the government won too quickly and they didn’t have time. Then they kept regretting it for seven years and hoped that the government would give them another chance. His family could provide 3,000 sets of military uniforms, made of cloth, not cloth.

That said, every time a government bulletin comes out, our temple organizes study. We have long understood the government's guidelines, but because our temple is poor and far away, we have never been able to contribute... There is nothing else to do. We just had the autumn harvest this year and happened to have 500 dan of new rice stored in the warehouse. It would be better to send it directly to the government treasury, and there will be another 500 dan next year... In addition, we can even contact other temples and monasteries to prepare military rations for the soldiers accompanying the government in Yangzhou;

Some people also said that his family had neither food nor clothes, and they were just sailing on the canal and the Yangtze River. They happened to see the government's official ships were in tatters, so they were willing to donate three black lacquered big-bellied ships to the government to facilitate the transportation of official grain from the south to the north...

Of course, Zhao Jiu was full of emotion for these grateful representatives of Yangzhou scholars and citizens. Those who donated clothes were treated a little better than those who donated ducks; the monk from Daming Temple who donated food was directly granted a Buddhist name by the emperor, and Daming Temple was also given the exclusive outlet for Qingmiao Loan in Yangzhou city; the one who donated three big-bellied ships was directly selected as a fellow Jinshi because he was a local talent in Yangzhou, and was recruited as a secretary in front of the emperor... I just don't know whether he really spent a fortune on horse bones or sent them to the army when he returned to Tokyo.

But no matter what, with the arrival of the Jianyan Imperial Duck, the window paper was opened, and the banquet instantly became more lively than before, and it was pure joy for the people.

In the next few days, the official followed the same routine, only meeting with the children of the scholars and common people of Lianghuai every day, eating the tribute of meat floss today (meat floss was invented in this era), eating the tribute of seafood tomorrow, and going to Daming Temple to ring the bell and write a few words the day after tomorrow... Of course, he would definitely do some business like the royal duck business... Anyway, he stayed in Yangzhou and didn't move.

All I can say is that fortunately Yangzhou is one of the biggest cities in the world today, and the empress dowager has lived in Yangzhou for another six or seven years. The palaces are still there, and the army has a place to be housed. In addition, Emperor Zhao's style is there, so even if he eats meat floss once, he will no longer care about it. No matter what, it has nothing to do with extravagance... But even so, gradually, some bad rumors came. They all said that the official had worked hard for a long time, and it was rare for him to come to such a prosperous place, and for a while he felt that he was happy here and didn't want to leave.

So, in late August, when the envoy Lu Yihao, who was stationed in Hangzhou, sent envoys again to ask the emperor to cross the river to the south, the emperor still had no intention of crossing the river. This made many people feel anxious.

On August 25, two scholars from Jiangyin, Li Tao and Su Bai, crossed the river to Yangzhou, which was separated by a river, and knelt in front of the palace to make suggestions... The content of their letters was complicated and detailed. Some of them advised the emperor to be close to virtuous officials and stay away from villains, some suggested to unite the large ships from the southeast and head north to take Youyan, and some advised the emperor to change the official system... In response, Emperor Zhao accepted their letters, but did not meet these people. Instead, he asked the guard Shao Chengzhang to make it clear that after he crossed the river, he would meet with the southeast envoy, Prime Minister Lu, to hold a political symposium targeting the southeast. At that time, all the scholars and people in the southeast could speak to him in person, but since he was in Yangzhou, he only talked about love and romance, ate delicious food, and did not talk about political affairs.

The two scholars had no choice but to return to Jiangyin, which was separated by a river.

However, despite this, until the beginning of September, Emperor Zhao still did not cross the river to the southeast, and the officials and people in the southeast became increasingly restless.

It is said that this day was the Double Ninth Festival on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, and dignitaries, scholars and common people from all over the country went out of the city to climb mountains.

There is a mountain in Yuhang County, 50 miles northwest of Hangzhou City, called Jingshan. On the mountain there is a temple called Jingshan Temple. This temple is one of the five Zen temples in the southeast. Although it is not as prominent as the Daming Temple in Yangzhou, it is also an ancient temple of more than 300 years old, with more than a thousand monks and hundreds of monk rooms. Moreover, this mountain is located in the prosperous place in the southeast, so it is naturally the first choice for Yuhang people to climb.

However, although they all come to climb the mountain, the treatment they receive is completely different.

When a retired senior official from nearby came, he would be personally welcomed and his small courtyard would be cleaned up; when a wealthy family who had donated a large sum of money came, there would be a monk who would receive them carefully and make them feel warm; as for ordinary good men and women, if they did not donate some money or silk, it would be difficult for them to go in and have a cup of tea... You have to know that the tea from Jingshan Temple is a famous tea from the southeast, and a piece of tea cake would be worth a lot of gold.

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