In the imperial study room of the imperial palace in the capital, Zhao Lichuan opened the envelope and looked at the overseas grand occasion described in the letter, and he was a little confused.

thinks that back then, he was just trying to fight for a breath and avenge the fire, but he put himself in the big cage of the palace.

In the first two or three years, the government was still very unstable. At that time, it was a time when the rebellion was caught between foreign enemies, and he had no time to care about these things.

But with the past two or three years, the state affairs have been on the track, and the Qi and Song dynasties have ushered in a long-lost peaceful and prosperous era, which can be described as very smooth.

At this time, the royal ships that had gone out to sea returned.

In addition, those officials of the DPRK and China who went to sea, as well as those merchants who traveled together on sea ships, gained a lot.

Among them, they brought back those crop seeds that Emperor Taizu never forgot back then.

Of course, only corn and potato seeds were brought back.

As for the rubber, although there are already people overseas who have been producing and using it on a large scale. However, the resources of rubber trees are still very limited.

Therefore, in the end, those officials only brought back a few pieces of rubber products with limited flexibility, as well as a large bag of rubber tree seeds.

Then there are the pepper seeds. That pepper is the persimmon pepper, which is the modern pepper seed.

Those seeds, except for a part left by the royal family as a backup and self-cultivation, were all sent to Zhou Village in Yongzhou Prefecture, so that the Li family and the people of Zhou Village could try to plant them first.

Of course, this is the priority that Li Xiaonuan won when teaching the royal children Chinese pinyin, simplified characters, Arabic numerals, and English letters.

As for the merchant ships that went to sea with the team this time, without exception, they all had to pay a certain "protection fee" to the imperial court. This is commonly known as tariffs.

But in the face of the huge profits of overseas trade, this little tariff is insignificant to those businessmen.

However, for a country, every merchant ship, according to the value of the goods, pay different amounts of taxes and fees, and accumulate over time, that is a lot of wealth.

Such a large sum of money greatly alleviated the tight situation of the Qi and Song national treasury.

Although there has been no major famine disaster in recent years, it is difficult to guarantee that one day, Qi Song will encounter it.

Therefore, with such a sum of money to enrich the treasury, it can indeed make Zhao Wangchuan, as the emperor, feel more stable.

What's more, the last time the ship came back, it also brought back corn and potatoes, two hardy and high-yield food crops.

Half a year later, the ships were reassembled and set off with a larger fleet.

But this time, Qi Song increased export duties on those merchants. In this way, those merchants have to pay a layer of tax when they go out of the country. When you bring back the overseas goods and pay the import duties, then you will not be disappointed.

The reason why the imperial court would do this was reminded by Li Xiaonuan.

Overseas trade is too profitable, and the risks are extremely high.

Before, there was no imperial court, so those merchants who dared to take risks were not so bold to sell goods.

However, now that the people of the imperial court have helped them open a relatively safe and stable trade route, so that their business can be expanded, do they have to pay some relative fees to the imperial court?

Thus, a tariff system for imports and exports was created.

This move made those businessmen who were eager to follow the trend have to think twice and weigh again before they embarked on the road of import and export trade.

If it weren't for the imperial court to maintain order and mediate between countries, they would not be able to do business so comfortably and smoothly overseas.

As a result, after the import and export tariffs were issued, it didn't take long for all the merchants to accept them.

On the contrary, the old fashioned people in the court secretly blamed the emperor for not doing his job properly and paying too much attention to businessmen.

Therefore, during that period of time, Zhao Wangchuan was dissuaded and admonished by old scholars from all walks of life. In short, it's annoying.

Fortunately, those officials who have seen the world overseas have stood up to support Zhao Wangchuan's new initiative. Otherwise, Zhao Lichuan would really be annoyed by those old old-fashioned people.

Fortunately, with this new initiative, how many small businesses in Qi and Song have been saved.

Those people only care about the big cake overseas, and completely ignore the risks.

Therefore, as soon as the policy was introduced, those small businesses who wanted to press all their net worth and go to sea with the ship after fighting for debt calmed down. After thinking about it again, a large part of the people were still discouraged and obediently started as middlemen of imported products in Qi and Song.

Zhao Lichuan looked at the overseas customs and customs told in the letter, as well as the grand customs of various places, and couldn't wait to lead the team to go to sea in person.

I think back then, when he was ignorant and ignorant with the old way, he hadn't been adrift overseas for several years.

Now, not only the sea routes, but also the ships, and the exchange of documents from various countries, he will be trapped in this lonely cage.

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Who is to blame for this? If you want to blame, blame that Wang Shi did too much, so that he couldn't see it.

No, if you want to blame him, blame him for being reincarnated in the emperor's family, and he has more burdens that others want but can't bear.

For a while, Zhao Lichuan felt upset, so he walked out of the imperial study and walked to the upper study.

There, his sons and daughters and nephews were being taught by a little gentleman.

The upper study room is very large, and there are many courtyards.

And the courtyard where Zhao Wangchuan went was specially prepared for children under the age of nine.

Among them, in addition to the serious gentleman Mengxue, there is also a little gentleman who is only twelve years old to teach these children some other things.

That little boy is none other than the old Song Tou's little grandson Erbao - Song Chenglu. The eldest grandson, Song Chengen, as an envoy of the Qi and Song dynasties, followed the sea ship to go overseas.

What Song Chengen taught to the princes and princesses was all the things he learned from Li Xiaonuan.

Of course, in addition to those superficial things, Li Xiaonuan also taught Dabao and Xiaobao some things in private.

For example, the ninety-nine multiplication table, as well as some basic English, geometric algebra, physics, chemistry, biology, and other knowledge.

Li Xiaonuan's previous life was not an all-round student. Therefore, the things taught to the two brothers are just the most common.

But even the most common knowledge is what people in this era lack the most.

For a while, Zhao Lichuan was stunned at the door of the study. Because Song Erbao was telling the princes about the different structures between men and women.

Among them, there is a lot of biological knowledge involved.

Therefore, Zhao Lichuan was stunned.

Because he clearly heard the tricky questions from his children. And he also wanted to know how a 12-year-old local boy would deal with these children.

However, Song Erbao did not disappoint Zhao Wangchuan.

He started with the two poles of yin and yang. Then, it is analyzed from a biological point of view. In the end, it was not easy to explain Li Xiaonuan's concept of equality between men and women.

"Everything should be done with affection, and not with courtesy. In is, to achieve due mutual respect and act openly and honestly, why should we stick to "men and women at the age of seven do not sit at the same table"? Song Erbao finally concluded.

"But Master Min said that it was against the norm. Between men and women, it is necessary to avoid each other. The one who asked was Zhao Wangchuan's eight-year-old eldest son, the eldest son of him and Empress Wei Lin.

"That's all in accordance with the etiquette of the ancients, although it is good, but it is also not in line with reality. For example, the predecessors always said that all the states are barbarian and cannot be treated politely. But now that our fleet has returned, the situation described is not what our ancestors described. Therefore, the scope of avoidance between men and women actually needs to be adjusted with the times. Song Erbao said.

"How do you adjust that? Could it be that in the future, men and women can play, eat, drink and sleep in one place without any scruples? "This is the daughter of Zhao Wangchuan and Concubine Min, who is six years old this year.

"Your Royal Highness Princess, no matter what time it is, there is a difference between men and women. So there will never be the scenario you described. If, as I have said, it would be beneficial for children of your size to spend more time with each other and learn from each other. When you're older, it's not good to stick together and study all day like this. However, it is also good to arrange a good time and be able to communicate what you have learned frequently. The reason why Zhao Erbao said this is because Li Xiaonuan gave him several examples of men and women matching and getting twice the result with half the effort.

For a while, the teaching time was over, and the children had to go back to their respective palaces for dinner.

At this time, everyone found Zhao Wangchuan, who had been standing outside the window and listening to the lecture for a long time. As a result, all kinds of greetings rang out.

Zhao Lichuan asked the children to get up, and he got tired of his children for a while before driving them away.

"This is a letter from your eldest brother to your family." Zhao Lichuan took an envelope from the eunuch behind him and said.

Xiaomin thanked the emperor for his concern. Your Majesty, I don't know what else to tell Xiaomin? Song Erbao was very eye-catching, knowing that Zhao Lichuan was asking for something.

Zhao Wangchuan was not hypocritical, and said directly: "I know that Chenglu has learned a lot of good things from Lord Li. Now I don't want you to teach it to all the princes and princesses. I just want you to teach them something about that. I don't know if Chenglu may be promised? ”

Zhao Wangchuan's request is actually to plan for the future life of his children.

Every time the royal family undertakes, there will be a bloody crush. Therefore, Zhao Wangchuan hopes that his sons and daughters will have more contact and understanding of the outside world, so that they can spend less energy on this matter of fighting for power.

Of course, what he does not deny is that he also has ambitions to conquer a continent overseas.

But now that he is trapped here, he can only hope in his descendants.

"The little people obey the emperor's edict, and they will definitely teach all the masters." Song Erbao knelt on the ground and kowtowed.

Since then, the princes and princesses have had an extra course, a foreign language class.

Of course, only basic English is taught, and they can only have a simple conversation with foreigners who speak English.

As for others, as long as the emperor did not ask for it, Song Erbao would not teach on his own.

In this way, a few decades later, there was really an ambitious royal son and grandson, who formed a very powerful fleet and went to sea to conquer the mainland.

Of course, they obeyed Zhao Wangchuan's instructions, and only ruled the people of that continent in Zhao'an, and did not enslave them.

In addition, they also brought a lot of advanced technology and high-quality and high-yield crop seeds to educate the backward aborigines of the island.

Over time, that continent gradually formed a small Qi and Song kingdom with an alien taste. (To be continued.) )