It was late spring, and the weather in Bianjing was already very warm, let alone Lingnan.

In a beautiful Zhuangzi on the outskirts of Guangzhou, little Zhu (Zhu Fengying) sat leisurely on a bamboo chair, watching his youngest son walk crookedly towards him with two chubby little short legs.

"Mother...... Mother......"

This child, nicknamed Baoshan, is Zhu Fengying's third child, but it is also her only son now.

The previous eldest son was gone in the first year of Jingkang.

Now there is a young son, and for her, who is already thirty years old, that is the last hope.

What's more, Zhao Kai's future is different from the past, and the chair is even more valuable. Zhu Fengying, whether it is to herself or to the Zhu family, cherishes her little son as if she were an eyeball.

The child ran towards his own mother, stretched out his little hand, grinned, and his two black eyes saw that Xiao Zhu's heart was soft.

"Come on, come on, Baoshan, come to my mother's place."

Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to his mother, Baoshan's face smiled brighter and brighter, and his calves stepped faster. It's just that it hasn't been long since I learned to walk at a young age, and I can't walk steadily, let alone trot?

And when he saw a man stumbling under his feet, his little body leaned forward.

"Yikes!" Xiao Zhu was so shocked that he stood up suddenly, startling the maids and servants behind him.

The child was followed by a nurse, and her eyes were quick, so she caught Xiao Zhu's baby egg. Xiao Zhu came forward to report the child, and his face was shocked.

Children don't feel scary. Raising his head from his mother's arms, Xu only felt amused, and laughed even more happily. Stretching out his two arms, he shouted to the nurse, "Yes, yes." ”

What can the nurse do, she has to gently persuade: "Little boy, if you fall and your hand hurts, it's not fun." ”

Xiao Zhu tugged his son's little hand and teased him, which diverted the child's attention. After playing for a while, the maidservant girl behind Xiao Zhu looked at the sky and said to Xiao Zhu: "Princess, it's time for the little boy to enter something." ”

Xiao Zhu's side asked the nurse to take her son to eat, but she sat down on the bamboo chair again.

Seeing that she didn't want to go back to the house, the personal maid saw that the sky was already getting dark, so she brought someone a cloak and unfolded it to put it on Xiao Zhu's family.

The latter sat on a bamboo chair, looking at the mountains dyed red by the sunset in the distance, and his eyes were a little wooden.

I'm going to leave here in a short time, and I'm really going to the South Seas, and I don't know if I'll be able to come back again in my lifetime......

Although, compared with the glory and wealth, compared with the dignity of overseas vassal kings, the so-called local feelings are worthless in Xiao Zhu's heart.

But how can there really be no nostalgia?

Zhao Kai returned to the backyard, and the first thing he saw was Xiao Zhu, who was wrapped in a cloak and sitting on a bamboo chair in a daze.

"The king is done?"

After being reminded, Xiao Zhu came back to his senses and saw Zhao Kai standing with his hands in his hands not far away, busy greeting.

Zhao Kai chuckled, "It's just an official document from the Jiaozhou government." ”

"Whether it's the chariot and horse guards, or the itinerary along the way, they have all arranged it."

It seemed to be good news, but Zhao Kai didn't have a smile on his face at all. He even wanted to curse, because he now had a feeling of being chased away.

"That's ...... time," Xiao Zhu's heart tightened.

"Just next month."

Zhao Kai will first arrive at Jiaozhou by boat, and then take the land route to the south, through Jiaozhou, through Zhancheng, and into Xuguo.

Xu Guo is the king of the eighth Zhao Yan, and his king name was originally King Yi, but he was changed to King Xu last year. Just as Zhao Huan's king name was changed to King Wu, Zhao Kai's king name was also changed to King Chen.

The kingdom of Xu was located at the southern tip of the Angkor Dynasty, in what was later the Mekong Delta.

This place is not to be regarded as the famous granary of Annam, but in this era, it is a barren land of rivers and waters.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, when Zhao Gou was still Zheng Zhilong, there were still few people in the Mekong Delta at that time, otherwise how could Yan Jiu, a dozen immigrants fleeing from China, easily get their hands on the land and build the so-called Hexian Town Port State?

In this day and age, the Song army occupied this place without much effort, and did not even use swords. The local natives surrendered one after another, and the Angkor dynasty did not send troops to this desolate land covered with water networks and jungles.

Instead, the main spearhead was aimed at the Song army that landed in Bangkok Bay.

There is the Wu State of the boss Zhao Huan, compared to the Xu State of the eighth, it is obvious that the Wu State is a greater threat to the Angkor Dynasty.

After Zhao Kai and his entourage arrived in Xuguo, they decided whether to cross Bangkok Bay into the Malay Peninsula or enter the Srivijaya country that occupied Malay by land, depending on the situation.

It is impossible to cross the ocean and go straight to Borneo.

When Zhao Kai and his entourage arrived in Xuguo, it was May to say the least, and at that time it was not only the question of whether there was a storm at sea, but also the opposite direction of the wind.

To enter Borneo through the Malay Peninsula, which is controlled by Srivijayaja, it is much simpler.

Xiao Zhu didn't speak for a long time.

Zhao Kai also knew how bad her mood was, and he had written to Zhao Gou a few years ago to see if he could temporarily leave Xiao Zhu and Baoshan in Guangzhou, and wait until this winter, and then take a boat to Borneo.

can be bluntly rejected by Zhao Gou.

It's not that he is cold-blooded, but he was touched by Zhao Kai's sore feet, and at the same time that Zhao Kai wrote to him, he even wrote to Yanfu Palace, asking Zhao Ji to come forward and make peace.

In a fit of anger, Zhao Gou directly pouted Zhao Kai.

Now that Zhao Kai and his party want to go south, the comfort and safety on land must come first. Zhao Kai still values his son-in-law's life. Not to mention that on the way, who dares to guarantee that Zhao Kai himself has always been safe and secure?

……

In April, King Chen and Zhao Kai and his entourage first boarded the sea ship to Jiaozhou, which opened a big scene of the clan surnamed Zhao reclaiming the earth.

Thousands of years later, in the history books, later generations directly compared this scene with the great feudalism of the Western Zhou Dynasty.

The Great Feudalism of the Western Zhou Dynasty was the origin of Chinese feudal society and a key step for the Chinese nation to occupy the basic territory of the Han Dynasty. Its contribution to expanding the territory has been in history for thousands of years, and the emperors of the past dynasties cannot be erased.

And what about Zhao Song's feudal vassals overseas?

In essence, it is no different from the great feudalism of the Western Zhou Dynasty, which is to use close relatives to open up new territories, to occupy and consolidate new territories.

Without the overseas vassal states one by one, without the succession of the clan surnamed Zhao, how can the footsteps of the Han people, the civilization of the Han people, and the system of the Han people really step out of the Central Plains?

The cake is so big that if you take one more bite, everyone else will eat less.

When someone starts eating in advance, when an act becomes a habit, that person can even eat the whole 'cake' over a long period of time.