"You have ships several times larger than them, you have powerful sailors, your merchant ships can sail from the east of the continent to the west of the continent, what the great cannibals couldn't do in the past, you can do it now! It is true that everything has a constant number, but these hundreds of thousands of miles of oceans, countless mines, land, wealth buried in the ground and on the ground, this wealth that has been sleeping for thousands of years, are all waiting for you to develop! ”

“...... The sailors have your back, as long as you are within the range of the ship's guns, no one can do whatever they want to you! ......”

"But don't stop at the coast, send people inland. Then you not only have to trade goods, but also recruit local treasurers, and there is not enough copper in the market, so we will mine the copper mountain. If there are not enough goods on the market, we will make goods, and if there are not enough copperware, we will make copperware, and the number of skilled craftsmen who make glass is not enough, so we will break the control of the guilds on the market, recruit apprentices, and let the old craftsmen teach the skills. Your market is not a corner of the world, but the whole world!! ......”

When they left Wanghailou, many businessmen were still excited, and Zhao Xingde's words echoed in their minds.

Sun Shen walked with his head down, thinking about a lot of things. Is what Lord Zhao is describing the future prospects?

Suddenly, Sun Shen felt that he had knocked down a person, staggered two steps, and accidentally bumped into Nie Siwei, hurriedly took two steps back, bowed down and said: "Nie Xing, please forgive me, I am thinking about maritime trade, and I don't want to be in a trance for a while." He usually looks like a happy person who has no heart and lungs, and this solemn apology is also under the excitement of his heart, and he has no mood of gags.

"Trance?" Nie Siwei sighed in his heart, "What a young man!" ”

He stretched out his hand and patted Sun Shen on the shoulder: "Work hard, a good situation, it's up to you juniors." ”

This time, the Chamber of Commerce chartered a banquet on the ninth floor of Wanghai Tower, and originally wanted to win over the civil and military officials of the water division, but not only did they not get rid of the bodyguard coupons as they wished, but everyone's minds were full of what Zhao Xingde said. A junior businessman like Sun Shen is like a gambler who has entered a casino, and an old man like Nie Siwei no longer has the enthusiasm to gamble. Nie Siwei took a deep breath, took two quick steps forward, and bent down to get into the sedan chair. With the popularity of mulberry leaf horses in the south of the Yangtze River, the imperial court lifted the ban on horses, and the carriage for parties has become a symbol of status. But an old businessman like Nie Siwei has become accustomed to the stability of the sedan chair. He opened the sedan curtain and watched the carriages pass by, and he couldn't help but feel a little sad in his heart.

"It's not a big deal to defeat the Liao State. Luo Huan stretched his legs and feet, and sighed, "Things stretch for 130,000 miles, it's really ...... when you think about it" He sighed twice, not knowing what to say. From time to time, civil and military officials passed by from time to time, some of them were confused, still talking about the usual ups and downs while walking, and others looked like Luo Huan, looking deeply moved.

"The east and west stretch for 130,000 miles..... Zuo Nianyuan shook his head and said in a deep voice, "But if you don't sweep a house, how can you sweep the world!" ”

"Yes, if you don't sweep a house, how can you sweep the world." Luo Huan laughed and said loudly, "Zhuangyan! ”

The two got into the carriage one after another, thinking of the gains and losses of Hebei and Youzhou, and the success or failure of the Liao-Song dispute, compared with the 130,000-mile mainland, it was really just a corner of the dispute. Both of them are people who understand righteousness, understand that this is just a momentary mood, and they have to be down-to-earth in doing things, since they have taken over the important task of leading the Northern Expedition, they should be cautious.

Chen Gongju had already arranged a pavilion post for the two of them, and asked them to take over the camp head of the Northern Expedition as soon as possible.

After Ezhou opened artillery bombardment on the troublemakers, to this day, anyone understands the truth of firmly controlling the elite soldiers in their hands. The two only rested at the pavilion for one night, and the next day they went to the Northern Expeditionary military camp fifteen miles away from the state capital. For the Song State, the Northern Expedition is the top priority at the moment, everyone in the world is watching, the newspapers and the news are discussing the situation of preparations every day, Guangzhou has not yet recruited soldiers, but the huge camp has been filled with all kinds of military supplies, and the vicinity of the camp is full of all kinds of vendors who have heard the news of the future. Because of the lack of restraint, the military discipline of the camp leaders who arrived first was very lax, and all kinds of people entered and left the camp every day, and even unknown people rode horses and carried prostitutes through the camp.

Because the state school has not yet been appointed, Zuo Nianyuan and Luo Huan just watched coldly in the big camp, secretly observing the conduct of the generals, and whether the elite of the battalion head dared to fight or not. During this period, Luo Huan also bought a batch of Hezhong BMWs called "Treading Snow", so he owed Zuo Nianyuan a debt. Zuo Nianyuan, on the other hand, was busy gathering with the officers in the camp every day, wearing a shabby military robe, carrying a standard horizontal sword, riding a branded military horse, and wearing a felt hat with holes, and at first glance he looked no different from a battle-hardened officer of the forbidden army. When the officers knew that Zuo Nianyuan was once a state school student, they were all surprised, but no one regarded him as an outsider. When the state school appointed Zuo Nianyuan as the commander of the Northern Expedition, and then, when Zuo Nianyuan began to vigorously rectify military discipline, the generals also ordered it to be forbidden, and no one felt strange or deliberately violated the military order. Zuo Nianyuan seemed to have unconsciously erected his prestige in the barracks.

Luo Huan is both civil and military, and he is friends with Zuo Nianyuan, so I can't understand how he got to this point.

With the degree of laxity in the previous military discipline in the camp, he originally thought that he would have to hang a few heads before the ban could be enforced. But now, all battalions strictly observe military discipline, and even practice day and night because of the big review that will be held soon. Twice a day, in the morning and evening, the leaders of each battalion pulled out the camp, and the officers and men entered the sub-city through the south, and the battalions walked neatly on the crowded streets, competing with each other for the neatness and majesty of the queue. Zuo Nianyuan was particularly strict with the iron law of not deducting military salaries, so that Luo Huan was in charge of the power to buy grain, grass, meat and vegetables, and Tuan Ding ate much better in the camp than outside, and some people were reluctant to eat, so they carefully left the steamed buns and dried meat for the family. Every morning when the exercise is over, outside the fence of the camp is full of the families of the regiments, who stretch their necks and wait like nestlings in the nest. The soldiers who let go of the exercise will hand out the food they had saved yesterday over the fence, and the family members will take it back and add some vegetables and leaves to cook it to make a good pot of porridge. Outside criticized that this kind of theft was a matter of theft, Zuo Nianyuan personally went to the state to learn to defend himself, the soldiers were hungry and couldn't fight, and their families were hungry and had no intention of fighting.

"These officials," Luo Huan accompanied Zuo Nianyuan to learn from the state, "You can bear such ugly words?" If I ......"

"How?" Zuo Nianyuan said with a smile, "Lord Luo has the expectations of everyone, but you have to remember today's words, the emperor is not short of hungry soldiers." He clapped his hands, not moved by the bitter words of some officials and students, and said with a smile, "It's only right to get the money out." He approached Luo Huan and said in a low voice, "I heard that in the past, before Mr. Zhao's Northern Expedition in Ezhou, in order to get military salaries, he directly sent his generals to break through the county government, and he was overly coerced. ”

"Don't be impulsive." Luo Huan shrank his neck and said with a wry smile, "That's a matter of urgency." And at that time, the world was turbulent, and the rules and systems were not established, and now it is different. You really can't stand this anger, instead of letting me go to smash the county government, why don't you go with me to find my mentor Liu Xuezheng to reason, those people with small bellies and chicken intestines, I don't believe that I can't clean them up. After finishing speaking, he realized that Zuo Nianyuan seemed to be smiling instead of smiling, and then he suddenly realized that this guy was playing with himself.

"Good Zuo Hongsheng," Luo Huan couldn't help but clench his fists and scolded in a low voice: "It's actually a pastime uncle, it's very powerful." ”

Luo Huan is Chen Gongju's most proud disciple, although he only commands the artillery battalion, his grade has been upgraded by two levels, and he is the same as Zuo Nianyuan. Although he used to put pen to paper, but these days he saw Zuo Nianyuan mixed among the officers like a fish in water, and he gradually felt that the army was not suitable for him. According to Chen Gongju's arrangement, Luo Huan was originally an official of the county order, and he had the righteous act of scattering his family wealth to recruit soldiers and horses, but he went to Xu Wen last time to protect Zhao Xingde, and in fact did not participate in the bloody battle under the city of Guangzhou. Regardless of the success or failure of the Northern Expedition, after returning from the north, Chen Gongju would arrange for Luo Huan to enter the state school, and at the same time experience in the government office, he would have the right time and place, and he might become the leader of the Qingliu side of Guangnan in the future. Although Chen Gongju did not say this painstaking arrangement, Zuo Nianyuan and Luo Huan knew it.

Therefore, Luo Huan can accompany Zuo Nianyuan to the state to "pass the hall", but it is impossible to really take people to rob the county government and cut himself off from the gentry of Guangnan. Both of them are the leaders of the younger generations of Guangnan Qingliu, and they know what they can do and what they can't do. The most important thing in the army is food, and the two of them asked for additional food and salary money from the state school, and they were thunderous with joy. The officers also understood that Commander Zuo and Commander Luo were indeed people with great backgrounds, and not that they had offended Shangguan by rumors, so they were assigned to the Northern Expedition.

A month later, the six battalions of the Northern Expedition were probably neat, and they were ready to participate in the big review.

The news had already been released, and the gentry and the common people couldn't help but watch, and a pergola was erected near the school review hall early. From early in the morning, the heads of the camps, which were neatly robbed, were moving, and the musketeers lined up in the open space in front of the barracks. The review has not yet officially begun, but outside the school field, hundreds of spears and spurs are already shining and reflecting in the rising sun, and sometimes the soldiers can be seen moving forward with neat steps and following the military flags, and under the command of the officers, the musketeers either stop or turn, and occasionally one or two people make mistakes, which inevitably attracts bursts of loud laughter from the onlookers.

In the eyes of the people, this is much more interesting than the juggling performances performed by the Xiang Army during the Dragon Boat Festival parade in previous years.