After a while, Liao Xiaoxiao came crying, she was a little faltering, but when she came to Zhao Xing, she didn't complain about the punishment she received just now, and knelt at Zhao Xing's feet gently to help the latter clean up her things.

Zhao Xing was not angry, pretending to be unaware and explaining the contents of the box to Liao Xiaoxiao.

The wives and concubines of the Song Dynasty families were far less tragic than in the Ming and Qing dynasties, because under the tide of commodity society, women had a little feudal consciousness, that is, territorial consciousness, and the so-called "territorial consciousness" is called "team consciousness" in modern times.

The "I" of feudal consciousness is different from the "I" of slave consciousness, the "I" in the slave's mind only contains "myself", while the "I" of feudal consciousness must contain the concept of "domain", that is, the space and territory to which I belong. Since Liao Xiaoxiao has entered this family, her "I" will extend outward to cover the entire family, so even if she competes for favor, she must expand the extension of the concept of "self" and put the interests of the family first.

The Song Dynasty was a patriarchal society, and the rules in the family were very heavy, and Liao Xiaoxiao was punished, but this was also the punishment imposed on her by the family, and the reason why she was punished was because she did do something against the interests of the family. So she didn't dare to complain in front of Zhao Xing, for fear of arousing the other party's disgust and then falling out of favor.

After she finished sorting out the things in the house with her injuries, Liao Xiaoxiao silently handed over a few letters, learned Zhao Xing's salutation, and addressed the owner of the letter: "Zhang Laozi from Suzhou sent a letter, saying that he already knew what you were doing in Mizhou, and the Ministry of War would allow the addition of the Mizhou Navy Army." In addition, he wants to ask you how many more handcuffs you need to defend yourself.

Also, a letter from a teacher in Beijing. He heard that you were preparing to open a printing shop, and sent a copy of "The Perception of Things". I hope you will publish it as well......"

"Physiognomy of Things"?!

Zhao Xing took the book curiously, flipped through a few pages, and one of the episodes caught his attention. "Unexpectedly, my teacher Su Dongpo is still a physicist - on the salt brine window paper, the baking zigzag is displayed - he actually noticed the silver salt blackening development technology...... Wait a minute. The silver salt turns black and develops! This is not a development technique, just a salt oxidation reaction, but. I seem to remember something. ”

Zhao Xing grabbed a piece of paper. Picking up the pen and writing a few words on the paper, Liao Xiaoxiao looked at the words written by Zhao Xing, giggled, took the brush and said, "What an ugly word, you say, I'll remember it." ”

"Listen: Silver Salt Imaging Technology...... Let me first think about what were the names of those chemicals in ancient times? ”

Liao Xiaoxiao smiled and said: "Do the officials want to build a new workshop, people mark those key secret recipes with the code words they know, why should the officials come up with prescriptions that everyone knows, the names of those medicines." You just need to know it yourself. ”

"Yes, first of all, we must use silver nitrate to make silver nitrate...... Glucose is also used, which can be prepared from barley germ tip...... Glucose reacts with silver salts to make mercury mirrors. ”

When Zhao Xing said the last three words. Liao's eyes lit up like a lamp. She approached Zhao Xing's side and said in a nickname: "Xianggong." Is this recipe good for concubines? ”

Zhao Xing shook his head: "You can't eat it, it's too profitable here, if you want me to say, the workshop can't be built in China at all." However, in this case, a lot of manpower is required...... Wait, you can find a merchant you know and quietly sell this recipe to them, and how much each copy is worth is also your private money. ”

Liao Xiaoxiao felt incredible: "Official, can this recipe really make a mercury mirror?" If it can really be done, this secret recipe will be passed down from ancestors to keep the secret from generation to generation......"

Zhao Xing shook his head: "You don't know, the rafters in the early days are rotten first, this business is too profitable, we have to wait until everyone is doing it, wait for its limelight to pass slightly, wait for its profiteering to slowly come down, and then our family will quietly start work again, cover their heads to make money, so as to keep peace - this year, peace is a blessing!" We can't repeat the soap factory incident, we can't afford to toss. ”

Liao Xiaoxiao thought about it for a long time and understood. She asked the meaning of several unfamiliar medicines on the post, and happily put away the prescription: "Xianggong, leave this matter to me." The concubine is also worried about the minister. ”

Without waiting for Zhao Xing to react, Liao Xiaoxiao ran out of the living room with small steps, leaving Zhao Xing pouting behind his back. This is to share my worries, it is obviously to grab money.

Halfway through, Liao Xiaoxiao remembered that he only had a little maid Xiaoqing available here, and if this matter was hidden from Ah Zhu and Chen Yiyi, it seemed that it would be difficult to mobilize the manpower in the courtyard...... When she walked to the backyard, Liao Xiaoxiao had already figured it out, she held the recipe in her hand and reported it to Ah Zhu first. Ah Zhu stopped for a few words, and immediately shook his head: "Since the official has entrusted this matter to you, he has a lot of trust, and I can't interfere in this kind of thing, you go and ask Yiyi." ”

Yi Yi didn't even have the interest in listening to the explanation: "Didn't you see that I was busy, a whole five ships, I have to count it today, is it easy for me?" Go, you're just an idler at home, who will do this if you don't do this? Hurry up, hurry up, don't bother me. ”

Liao Xiaoxiao opened his mouth and stammered, and said again after a while: "The official said that this recipe is a rich ......."

"A fine stream of water is wealth, and getting rich overnight is a demon - you goblin do this, it's just right for you to do it! Go and go, you can do this by yourself, how much wealth you can get is your ability, don't bother me", Yi Yi replied without raising his head while calculating.

Liao Xiaoxiao was depressed, this money is tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, how can these two people not care...... Anyway, how much income is counted as my private money, what a beautiful thing?!

Zhao Xing rested in the house for two or three days, and Deng Yufu finally came to report the situation: "My lord, the barracks of the Mizhou regimental training have been planned, this is a booklet, and it is planned to be built one by one, and before the winter, it is estimated that about eighty percent of the regimental training families can live in new houses......"

Zhao Xing touched his chin and replied, "Just leave this matter to you, I don't worry about it...... Tomorrow we will build our house, and when they go back, we will start polishing the stones, and we must control the output, and the number of ships per month should be small but fine—you have to worry about this too much, I can't take care of it. Alas. My teacher sent me a manuscript, and I had to stare at the engraving.

That's right. Speaking of polishing stones, my widow heard that I had a job in Michigan, and this time I brought me some farm tools—all of them that I collected in the West. Let's go, go to the storeroom. ”

Deng Yufu, an agronomic expert, stood in Zhao Xing's warehouse. looked at the farm tools that Zhao Xing had collected from overseas. Only now did he realize that his boss was a collector, and he even had a horse reins in his pile of rags, and it was no wonder that the other party could recognize the mystery of the Mizhou Stone Land at a glance.

"This. It's like a plow. But the ploughshare is a bit weird, how can it be a disc and not a sharp-nosed plowshare? Deng Yufu pointed to a strangely shaped plow.

"This—this is a disc plow, a German disc plow, ah, that place is now called a German ......" Zhao Xing pointed to a warehouse and said, "My people are still unloading, and there are still some items on the ship." Besides, there are a lot of weird things here, and even I don't know what they are used for. You think slowly, anyway, my field is overgrown with grass, if you want to try these farming tools, just go to the field. ”

Zhao Xing said, leaving Deng Yufu in a daze, and walked out of the warehouse. turned around and told Cheng Shuang: "Send a thousand to Deng Ji's house." When he asked, he said, "We are ready to open his farm." This is the deposit. ”

Back in the room, Suo asked the Marquis in the hall, and when he saw Zhao Xing, he urged: "Lord Zhao, Fan Jinbu invited you to come over to the banquet, he was in a hurry, you had better hurry up." ”

Zhao Xing's heart was overjoyed: Tears, I finally caught up with the ** banquet of the Song Dynasty, what can I say, hurry up.

Song Dynasty officials spent one-third of their time on vacation every year, and when they were not on vacation, they were feasted one banquet after another, which was too lovely. Coming back to his senses, Zhao Xing asked Suo curiously, "Master Suo, when will Fan Jinbu leave?" What's the matter with him looking for me? Is there anything delicious ......?"

Suo asked to interrupt Zhao Xingdi's words: "Hugh has to guess." Banqiao Town came with several Jurchen guests, as well as a feudal merchant from Zhongli. They talked about some overseas affairs, and everyone didn't understand what they said, and the things they talked about were too unbelievable. ”

Zhao Xing nodded, beckoned Liao Xiaoxiao to dress up and accompany him to attend, and by the way, he also brought a orchid Kasri.

Liao Xiaoxiao was asked to attend because she was familiar with official etiquette, Zhao Xing needed her reminder, and Kasli was fluent in many Chinese and could be used as a translator. But Liao Xiaoxiao was dressed a little weirdly today, which made Zhao Xing hesitate for a long time.

I saw that she had two dark circles under her eyes like a giant panda, and a golden pearl flower made of silk cloth, gold leaf, and kingfisher feathers was pasted on her face.

Zhao Xing hesitated for a long time, but finally endured it. He unhappily urged Liao Xiaoxiao to hide in the carriage: "Cover your head, I can't see your dark circles the most, as if I tortured you more." Did I torture you...... Like, I remember that you were full of happiness and happiness after you were done, and your skin was slippery and water-skiing, so why did you have any dark circles under your eyes? Gotcha, don't stare at this dark circle and go to Ah Zhu's place, it's a lot of trouble. ”

Liao Xiaoxiao chuckled, but didn't answer.

Her outfit is not the appearance of being tormented by excessive love. This is the most popular way to wear makeup in Tokyo this year, just like sunburn makeup is popular in one year.

The beaded flower pasted on Liao Xiaoxiao's face is called "Face Flower", and the bird cut with gold leaf is pasted on the cheek to create an artificial "laughing vortex", which is the most fashionable makeup method for petty bourgeoisie, female white-collar workers, and female aristocrats in Bianliang City at present.

It is said that the concubines in the palace also thought this appearance was very beautiful. Therefore, between the official eunuchs and their dependents, this appearance is ...... The Song Dynasty did not have a special guide for makeup fashion magazines, so they knew how to use the "face flower", which was a symbol of social hierarchy. At that time, women pasted this thing on their faces, and modern people could call them "tasteful", while in the Song Dynasty, they faintly showed that they were official dependents, or noblewomen and rich women......

In this era, the standard face makeup of the queen of the Song Dynasty was decorated with pearls on the forehead, cheeks and cheeks near the temples. This kind of face flower is to paste emerald hair on light materials such as silk to form an emerald blue background color, and then stick white pearls on it, and use the green and blue of emerald hair to reflect the white luster of the pearl, and stick it on the face to form a body pattern.

Queens are fashionable to dress up like this, of course Liao Xiaoxiao will not pay attention to Zhao Xing's complaints, she opened the carriage curtain, flashed her big eyes, and showed her dark circles at Zhao Xing. Asked crisply: "Official, what's the matter?" Is the concubine beautiful like this? Isn't it beautiful? Isn't it beautiful? ”

The last few words Liao Xiaoxiao chanted out in a tactful singing tone, which was no longer an inquiry, but a tease. People came and went on the street, Liao Xiaoxiao's chanting made the legs and feet of the passers-by weak, and Zhao Xing felt that a certain part of his body was hard.

"Sing again. Sing again and I'll hit you...... Cheng Shuang, remember to bring a copper plate, lest I see the appearance of Liao Zhipo and vomit it", Zhao Xing commanded with a strong and enduring expression.

When Zhao Xing arrived at Fan Yi's temporary official office. I heard a strange person telling a story. The story seems to be the story of "One Thousand and One Nights".

The story goes about a beautiful shopkeeper who runs a hotel and has a magical mill that makes flour automatically by chanting a spell. The bread made from this flour is particularly sweet, and guests from near and far like to stay with her.

There was a young and handsome young man who was also famous for staying in the beautiful shopkeeper's shopkeeper's shop, and at night he was about to touch the lady's bedroom to steal incense, but he found the shopkeeper chanting a spell to drive the magic mill...... The handsome man quietly retreated, the next day. He also discovered that all the travelers who had eaten the magic flour had become donkeys, making cows and horses for the shopkeeper.

Subsequently, the female shopkeeper invited the handsome man to eat pastries, and the handsome man secretly replaced the dough he brought with the female shopkeeper. By stealing beams for columns. let the female shopkeeper eat her own pastry, and the merry shopkeeper suddenly turned into a donkey. The handsome man rode the donkey all over the world......

When Zhao Xing entered, the story was being told**, Fan Yi saw Zhao Xing coming in, he didn't even bother to speak, pointed to the empty seat next to him, let Zhao Xing sit down by himself, and listened to the story intently. Zhao Xing didn't dare to make a sound, Liao Xiaoxiao, who was pulling the panda's eyes, quietly found a seat to sit down, turned around to look at the storyteller, and the audience listening to the story.

Most of the businessmen present were yellow-skinned, but the storyteller was obviously white. Around the white man sat several merchants, some of whom wore money rat-tail hairstyles and looked stupid and proud of their hairstyles, and they were Jurchens.

In the fourth year of Taizong Taiping's rejuvenation of the country (979 AD), the Song Dynasty began to "pass inspections" on female truths, trading horses, Dongzhu, furs and other goods with them. At first, the trading port was in Dengzhou, and later the Dengzhou Goryeo Pavilion moved to Mizhou, and they obviously came to Mizhou for profit.

Just as Zhao Xing was observing, the white man's story was finished, the merry female shopkeeper was rescued, and the handsome man handed over the donkey...... So, listening to the crowd in unison, Fan Yi took the opportunity to point to the businessman and introduce to Zhao Xing: "Lord Zhao, this is Suo Di, a businessman from Zhongli Country, he just told us a lot of overseas anecdotes, have you been to the country of Layer Pull and the country of Zhongli?" ”

Zhongli was the name of the Jin Dynasty, and in modern times it was called Somalia, and that part of the Song Dynasty belonged to the Aksumite Empire. This empire was about to be destroyed by the Arabs. The country is also a small country near Somalia, and in the Song Dynasty, this title was also used to refer to Somalia.

Zhao Xing nodded and replied: "Master Fan, in fact, the Zhongli Kingdom that Sodi talked about has been recorded in ancient times. The earliest record should be the era of Dayu's water control. That's the place I've been. ”

Zhao Xing's words undoubtedly dropped a heavyweight bomb, and even the Suo Dao who accompanied him was shocked, and asked in surprise: "Lord Zhao, what do you say?" ”

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas!"

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas? People say that this book is absurd and uninhibited, how can it record the ...... of Sodi's kingdom? Fan Ye was also asking in surprise.

"The Classic of Mountains and Seas" records the story of Yu killing co-workers. Hux, where the minister of the Gonggong lived - the word Huxu is pronounced "Egypt" by the locals. The word "Xiangliu" may also be mispronounced by the ancients, and the pronunciation of the locals is closer to the word "pharaoh".

In the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", it is recorded that Yu killed Xiangliu, built Emperor Yaotai, Emperor Yutai, Emperor Dan Zhutai, Emperor Shuntai, and was the platform of the emperors. In this passage, the local people of Gonggongzhitai call it the Pyramid of Khufu, the platform is in the east, the four sides of Taiwan, there is a snake in the corner, tiger-colored, facing the south - I have also seen the tiger-colored statue next to the Gonggongzhitai, it has a lion body, a human face, and is a stone statue. Locals call it the Sphinx.

Shouma in the Classic of Mountains and Seas is the middle of the country where Sodi is located, and according to the pronunciation of the locals, it is Somalia; And the locals call it the ...... of Mozambique."

Zhao Xing's use of a series of words close to the local pronunciation made Sodi understand what Zhao Xing was talking about, and he asked in a strange tone: "This lord, have you been to Mozambique?" Are you from the village of Kismaay, near Mogadishu? ”

Fan Yi understood, and Sodi's rhetorical question was equivalent to confirming what Zhao Xing said. He was speechless in shock, and muttered a string of emotion words in his mouth. Even people like Li Zhichun, who had always been quiet, were shocked by Zhao Xing's words, but the old man still heard a few words in Sodi's question, and hurriedly asked: "Leave people, what he said...... What's the matter with the dead wheat? ”

What's going on, Zhao Xing is also puzzled by the existence of this village. He could only answer truthfully: "Lord Li, Mugudushu (Mogadishu) is a port, and my Great Song merchant went to Sodi's country to do business, because the wind direction is not favorable. And they took up their place for a time in the Wooden Bone Bundle. Waiting to return home, coming and going, and over time they will gather into a village.

Locals call this village where the Song people gathered to live as Kismaiyu Village. Today, there are about 300 Song people living there. However, the Great Song Dynasty has strict regulations on merchants living overseas, and if these merchants do not return overseas, it is equivalent to not paying taxes to the Great Song Dynasty, so once they are discovered, they will be disqualified from the Great Song Dynasty, and the whistleblower will receive half of their property in the Great Song Dynasty. So they exist. Now it's a secret in the territory of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

This news shocked Fan Yi, and he turned the problem that Zhao Xing had just reflected in his mind, thinking about countermeasures.

Zhao Xing knew what the other party was thinking, and immediately added: "My lord, these businessmen stay overseas. It's just helpless. They still have to go back to the Great Song Dynasty after all. After returning, you have to pay taxes, and then you can go ashore and go home to be a good citizen. I also went overseas for three years. When I came back, I paid a lot of taxes. So, please be merciful, and take this as a legend - Xing is here, thank you for them! ”

Zhao Xing is comparing himself and hopes that Fan Ye will not punish those people, but in fact, the taxes of the Great Song Dynasty are not only taxes, but also annual poll taxes, etc., even if these people come back to pay commercial taxes, they also evade the annual poll tax and servitude......

But it is an unspoken rule for officials to protect each other, and as soon as Zhao Xing opened his mouth, Fan Ye was really embarrassed to pursue it. He laughed and replied, "That's it, the old man didn't hear about it." Today I will only talk about anecdotes, come, leave someone to talk to Sodi. ”

Zhao Xing's eyes turned to the white man, this white man kept his eyes flashing and thinking about something when Zhao Xing was talking to Fan Yi and others, and when Zhao Xing turned to him, he suddenly remembered something: "I seem to have heard people say that there was once a businessman who came to Zhongli ......."

Zhao Xing suddenly interrupted the other party's words in Latin and said, "Mr. Steele, in my country, the experience of going overseas is not worth showing off, if you remember anything, I want you to talk to me in Latin." ”

Sodi immediately understood, and he changed to Latin, the common language of diplomacy of the era, and said: "Legend has it that three years ago, a very tall Song man came to the king's palace, and he offered a rich gift and asked to see the Ark of the Covenant. But the king replied: The Ark of the Covenant has been buried and forbidden for anyone to see it. However, for the sake of the other party's gift, he can give the other party a small piece of territory, so that the other party can rest his feet and wash away the fatigue of the journey......

You should be that man—the lord of Kismaiyu, am I right? ”

Zhao Xing jumped away from the other party's question and asked rhetorically: "As far as I know, the footsteps of the Arabs are getting closer and closer to your king's palace, what else do you have in your country?" At this moment you came to our country, what goods are you selling? ”

Zhao Xing's words were asked in Chinese, and Fan Gong answered for him: "This Mr. Sodi's goods are inseparable from a black character, and he sells ebony, black iron, and black slaves." ”

Black slave, this word appeared in the Song Dynasty to surprise Zhao Xing, he turned to Sodi and asked the other party to confirm, Suodi nodded hurriedly.

Zhao Xing didn't know that the word "black slave" was the first to come out of Fan Yi's mouth. In a note, Fan mentions a merchant from the east coast of Africa who sold slaves to China instead of Kunlun.

As for the story that the feudal merchant just told, Fan Ye also localized it. For example, the beautiful female proprietress was named "Three Ladies" by him. Since this story was heard in the town of Banqiao, the name of the story was changed by him to "The Three Ladies of Banqiao".

Zhao Xing asked for confirmation again: "You are selling authentic African black slaves, not black slaves captured in the islands of South Asia?" ”

"African slaves, of course!" Steele, translated into Chinese as Sodi. Dissatisfied answer.

Li Zhichun interjected: "Leaving people, what is the difference between the two?" ”

"Height!" Zhao Xing replied: "Black Africans are tall. South Asian (Malay) blacks are short in stature; Black Africans are good at running with weights, and South Asian (Malay) blacks are good at archery and mountain climbing...... By the way, do you have African slave girls for sale? ”

Fan Yi showed an ambiguous smile, Suo Wenwen also showed a smile that all men understand, and Liao Xiaoxiao poked Zhao Xing with his fingers behind his back with the panda eye circle. Wang Zishao and Li Zhichun frowned slightly. Zhao Xing hurriedly explained: "The women of Zhongli are more than six feet tall, and they can carry goods weighing two stones for a hundred miles in a row without taking a breath. Such slave girls were hired into the backyard and could do jobs that many men could not do. ”

Suo asked, oh, and blurted out, "So." Don't you save the eunuchs? ”

"More than that". Zhao Xing showed a lewd smile that all men understand: "The women of Zhongli are strong, the muscles are contracted, such a strong woman, and gentle and obedient, put it in the boudoir, the taste is wonderful." ”

"Slut!" Liao Xiaoxiao murmured in a low voice behind Zhao Xing.

At this moment, even Li Zhichun and Wang Zishao showed eager looks, and they asked in unison: "Sodi, do you have a female slave for sale?" ”

Sodi twisted his body uneasily and replied, "Black Africans are of higher quality. Such slaves are expensive......"

Zhao Xing glanced at Sodi, his expression a little cold.

There is no record of merchants like Sodi's in Chinese history, but foreign histories do record their business practices. In general, they sailed to the Arab world with a full load of cargo. Then a shipment of luxury goods was carried from Arabia to Vietnam. After unloading in Vietnam. They would buy a group of slaves and local specialties in Saigon, which is called "Kunlun" by the Chinese. Such as tortoiseshell, ivory, spices to China.

Most of the slaves they bought were black Malays, and modern archaeology believes that the reason for the demise of the black Malay people stemmed from their slave trade, which lasted for thousands of years.

In other words, most of the Arab ships that came to China were slave hunters – historically, they boasted of their cleverness: half a cargo out of port, a few small islands along the way, and a few men to fill the cabins in exchange for silk, tea, and porcelain, the most precious treasures of the Great Song Dynasty......

Steele felt that Zhao Xing's gaze at him was a little vicious, he was ignorant of Zhao Xing's anger, and he was still explaining: "Those tall slaves have to go deep into the jungle of Mozambique, the country of Mozambique, and the jungle will not see the light of day......

Perhaps finding it a bit difficult to explain such a complicated thing in Song, Sodi immediately jumped to Latin: "...... It is very dangerous for the slave catchers to go deep into the jungle where there is no light of day, and although the jungle people are poorly armed, they have a poisoned arrow, and the middle man will die; They will also hide themselves under the foliage and attack at close range......

At such a high cost, loading a shipload of such stubborn slaves to the Song Kingdom, and killing half of them along the way, from a commercial point of view, the cost of running this business is not worth the loss—lord, I think you can understand this. ”

Zhao Xing patted the orchid Kasri next to him and said, "Translate for him." How did he escape the obstruction of the country in which he was stationed? ”

Kasri spoke quickly, but Steele couldn't understand it, "Your Excellency, although you have a strong Arabic accent, I find that you are fluent in Latin, so why can't we just talk to each other?" …… What, miss, I see! Okay, let's move on. Please translate:

Is the country you are asking about – is that the Tamil State? I heard that Sriwijaya was still fighting them, and it is said that Sriwijaya, with the help of a group of mysterious people, had created a new fire-breathing ship capable of making a thunderous noise, spewing demonic flames and scorching iron streams.

God forbid, I was fortunate to meet a kind man in Saigon to guide me, and I was lucky enough to cross the unguarded Sriwijaya Gorge by luck with the help of the fighting between the two sides......

Believe me, I did have Mogadishu and Mozambican slaves on my ship, but they have now been sold. My ship went to Guangzhou first, where I sold half a shipload of cargo. If the rest of the goods are selling properly in Michigan, I will rush back to China soon. My lord, but if you are in dire need of African slaves, I can take an appointment.

Aha, in essence, we are people of one country, and although this is also your homeland, you are still a nobleman of our country. I am still glad to have met a lord of ours in this country, and I can give you a good price, and expect you to take care of my business—a little bit of it......"

The Song Dynasty officials present were originally surprised that Zhao Xing was proficient in the vassal language, but the topic that Zhao Xing had just thrown out was too tempting and completely diverted their attention. At this moment, hearing Zhao Xing and the other party talking at length in an incomprehensible language, they couldn't help but interject. Fan Yi first asked: "Liren, you are proficient in the feudal language, why don't you go to the feudal court?" If you have a heart, I will recommend it to the court after returning to the court. ”

In Fan Yi's feeling, the prosperity of the capital Bianliang and the foreign world are simply two worlds. He thought that Zhao Xing would be happy when he got the opportunity to go to Bianliang to be a petty official. But Li Zhichun didn't think so, he played a round and said: "I heard that Liren has not been in office for a long time this time, and Su Zizhan has gray hair as a recommender. Oh, I heard that Zhang Zihou urged you to take office, yes? ”

When Fan Ye heard this, he closed his mouth.

Wang Zishao then brought the topic back to the point: "Liren, how did the feudal merchant answer your question?" What's going on in the country of residence? Is there a war in the South Seas? Will it endanger the maritime trade of my Great Song Dynasty? ”