Zhou Nan took the two to the goldsmith who was carving clouds and dragon patterns on the barrel of the telescope.

The golden barrel body has been carved with a lot of cloud patterns, and the dragon body has been roughly carved. Zhou Nan took the telescope from the goldsmith's hand and said to Cai You and Li Bangyan: "This is the treasure I said - the telescope. Cai You took it from Zhou Nan's hand, looked at the strange thing in his hand that was about two feet long and the thickness of his wrist, and looked at it over and over again, but there was nothing strange about it.

Zhou Nan asked Cai You to hold up the telescope, one end close to his eyes, the other end to the distance, and asked Cai You to help with the other hand, slowly pushing the barrel of the telescope.

I saw Cai You suddenly stop, looked into the distance, and then looked closer to the end of the telescope again, with an incredible expression.

Then Cai You changed the telescope to another direction, and then adjusted the distance of the barrel back and forth, and then exclaimed again and again: "Sure enough, it's a treasure!" As in front of you! Li Bangyan heard Cai You's strange words, and hurriedly asked Cai You for it, and looked into the distance with the telescope in his hand, Zhou Nan pointed out how Li Bangyan adjusted the telescope to see more clearly.

After Li Bangyan understood how to use it, he was even more full of praise, and his childlike heart was full of joy, holding a telescope to look around.

Zhou Nan looked at the expressions of the two with satisfaction, and said to the two: "This is the telescope, if you climb high and look far away, you can reach far." His Majesty the Emperor ordered me to build a carriage, and I presented the telescope with me. It's just that I'm not a courtier of the Great Song Dynasty, and I can't enter the palace to face the saint unless summoned by His Majesty the Emperor. I also want to ask the two of you to do the same. Cai You originally thought that Zhou Nan had something difficult for the two of them to do, but now when he heard it, he just took Zhou Nan to face the saint, and he also offered treasures, which was a good thing that even he had to follow, and said again and again: "The two of us will take you into the palace early tomorrow morning." ”

"Every day, the court has a permanent court, a permanent staff member in the court, an official above the Julang in the province of Menxia, an official above the living house in the Zhongshu province, an official above the Shilang in the Shangshu province, as well as the imperial historian Zhongcheng and the privy councillor officials all go to the Vertical Arch Hall to participate in the court and discuss major affairs in the court. Today's Chang Dynasty has passed, and when the Ming Dynasty arrives, Cai Shumi and I will take you into the palace and present treasures to the official family. When Li Bangyan was fine, he still thought of a reason to accompany Zhao Ji in the palace, and now he naturally will not let go of this opportunity to offer treasures.

Zhou Nan saw that the two of them agreed, so he invited the two of them to sit down.

"I wonder if His Majesty the Emperor has ever talked to the two adults about the border market?" Li Bangyan heard Zhou Nan ask about opening the border market with each other, and immediately scolded: "The official family asked during the court meeting, but they hated the king Jinyan, and even obstructed it repeatedly, and also joined other Liang Taifu, Zhao Bachelor and others to play a chapter, saying that if the border market is opened with the fans, it will be to feed the wolf with meat and lead them to be greedy and covetous." Rao is me and Cai Shumi's struggle, after all, he is the right person, so the official family is also in a dilemma, and he does not dare to make a decision easily. ”

"Who is Wang Jinjing?" Zhou Nan hadn't heard of this minister named Wang Jinjing, so he hurriedly asked.

"Wang Jinyan is the one with golden hair and golden eyes in the Zichen Palace." Li Bangyan seems to be very repulsive to Wang Huang.

"It turned out to be that brother water-avoiding golden-eyed beast!" Zhou Nan said with a smile.

"What is the water-avoiding golden-eyed beast?" Li Bangyan asked strangely. Zhou Nan remembered that the Song Dynasty did not have "Journey to the West", so he said casually: "I once heard that the water-avoiding golden-eyed beast is the water demon among the thirty-six caves, and the golden-haired and golden-eyed beast is originally here." ”

"It turns out that this Wang Jinyan is a water-avoiding golden-eyed beast, hahaha! It's very similar. Li Bangyan clapped his hands and said with a smile.

Cai You said: "The matter of the border city has been discussed many times in the DPRK, but the ministers of the DPRK and China have support and opposition, and the three princes and Wang Jinjing are determined to oppose General Zhou, and they will not get any benefits from it, Liang Shicheng secretly communicates with the three princes, and naturally he is also strongly opposed to the border market." However," Cai You said to Zhou Nan with a smile: "This time, General Zhou presented a carriage and a telescope, and Shimei and I had something to say, and we will definitely make the official family agree to the border market." Cai You said that Zhao Kai and Wang Hao opposed the opening of border markets to each other because they opposed Zhou Nan and did not get benefits.

The implication is that Cai You and Li Bangyan strongly support the mutual market, naturally because they have benefited.

Zhou Nan didn't say anything, and asked: "I have heard for a long time that the three princes and the crown prince are not in harmony, why does the prince not support the things that the three princes strongly oppose?" "In Zhou's opinion, if the crown prince has the heart and sees that the three princes are strongly opposed to one thing, no matter whether he is strong or not, he will stand up and support it vigorously, and he can't let the three princes agree.

"The prince is an honest gentleman, but his subordinate Geng Nanzhong is an extremely stubborn and dull person. He has always believed that everything is inferior only because of high reading, and he even looks down on merchants and others, thinking that businessmen seek profits, which is contrary to the etiquette, righteousness and shame preached by the sage, and such people will naturally not let the prince support the border market to do business. Cai You was extremely clear about Geng Nanzhong and the crown prince, and explained to Zhou Nan.

"I wonder if there is anyone else in the court who can say that His Majesty the Emperor is moving?" Zhou Nan asked, he wanted Cai You and Li Bangyan to win over a few more people and have a bigger grasp.

In this border market, Zhou Nan envisioned a real north-south exchange and sales of goods. When he controls the sphere of influence from Yanmen Pass to the Bohai Sea, it is not only the trading between Yanjing and the Great Song Dynasty, but also the goods from the north sold to the Great Song Dynasty in the south, and the goods of the Great Song Dynasty are sold to the north, and the value can be imagined.

It's worth the effort now. Cai You and Li Bangyan shook their heads at the same time, and Li Bangyan said: "Those who can stand up have already come forward." The rest of them either have no weight in their words, or they dare not wade into this troubled water. Seeing that Zhou Nan was a little disappointed, Cai You said tentatively: "General Zhou, in fact, you don't have to just stare at the minister. In the harem, there is the favored one, and he also has weight in speaking in front of the official family, like today's Liu Guifei. It's just that she asked Concubine Liu Guifei to go to the official family for no reason, but I'm afraid it won't be easy. That Liu Guifei has always cherished herself and easily did not get involved in court politics. Zhou Nan saw that what Cai You said made sense, and asked, "Which Liu Guifei?" ”

"Of course, it's Liu Guifei, the biological mother of Emperor Maode." Li Bangyan said immediately. Zhou Nan immediately appeared in front of him as a concubine in Huamian Pavilion that night, and the look in his apricot eyes was full of contempt and contempt.

Zhou Nan immediately felt uncomfortable and said, "I don't know Liu Guifei, so I'll forget it." ”

"Naturally, you don't know Liu Guifei anymore," Li Bangyan immediately said enthusiastically,

"I'm not familiar with that Liu Guifei either. There is no need to discuss this kind of thing with Concubine Liu, just start from her mother's brother. I can still talk to her mother's brothers, leave this matter to me, and in three or five days, then Liu Guifei will be able to talk to the official family. ”