Zhao Xing's mind turned the gains and losses slightly, and he nodded slightly, not explicitly agreeing or denying.

When the businessmen saw Zhao Xing like this, they were overjoyed, bowed their hands and thanked them, and then looked at Shu again: "Taiwei, since the fourth prince is the governor, does Taiwei want to set up a manor here, well, since the manor is established, there must be some family members left, I don't know how many people Taiwei plans to leave...... You have to leave two or three hundred people to be safe. ”

Zhao Xing smiled and pointed at Yuan Yeping: "Yuan Tuiguan, check two hundred people to stay." ”

The common interests are the most reliable alliance, and the Song Shang had to find a descendant of Zhao Xing to serve as the governor out of their own interests, which seems naïve, but it is in line with the reality of ancient China. Although Zhao Yun is young, although he does not have to visit the Chenlu branch in person, it can be believed that the people who will run the Chenlu branch business road from generation to generation will definitely pull the banner of Zhao Shan tightly to seek refuge.

When Chen Buqun heard this, he broke the silence and clapped his hands and said: "Have you decided, since it has been decided, we can set off, I can leave ten warships, more than 300 sailors to stay behind, there are not many other branches in the Lulu Branch, there are many slaves, you can train a slave soldier to assist us in fighting." It is now the rainy season, and on this plateau, it is impossible to trek and march in the rainy season, and we still have a few months to train, even if the situation is critical, and the navy left behind will have time to rush back home to deliver the letter.

As for us, at this moment, the three armies have no desire to fight, so let's transport the spoils back to our position as soon as possible, rest assured, what I pulled away is a group of well-fed wolves, and wait for my Great Song Sailor to turn back again. It will bring you a new pack of hungry wolves. They will be more greedy and more ferocious. ”

Zhao Xing stood up and immediately answered: "Okay, except for the left-behind personnel, the rest of the sergeants immediately got on the boat as a team, and the troops got up one after another, and we went back to Sri Lanka first." ”

Sinbad stopped Zhao Xing and pleaded: "Your Excellency, Marshal, please give this castle a name, we can't call it Karachi all the time." It is a castle in the style of the Song Kingdom. It should have a Song name so that the people of the land know where it belongs. ”

Zhao Xing's eyes swept over the map, on the map, there was a small bay on the east side of Karachi, pronounced by the locals, and it was marked with Katch. Zhao Xing vaguely remembered that Kutch Bay was in the era of British colonization. It was once translated as "Kaizhi Bay" to start governance, and the name was very Song and Chinese.

Zhao Xing clicked on the map and replied: "Just name it Kaizhi City, from here all the way to Kaizhi Bay." They are all the trade lords of our Song Kingdom, which are called the exclusive economic realms of Kaizhi. ”

Song Shang bowed his hand together: "Kaizhi, this name is good, Lord Xie Taiwei gave the name." ”

The next day, Zhao Xing boarded the Song warship in the heavy rain, and the Song army began to evacuate the Chenlu Branch, and all the ordnance materials that the Song army could not move were packaged and sold to the Song merchants who stayed in the local area. In this battle, the Song army demonstrated a powerful attack ability, and the Song army had the ability to attack the kings of small states at any time, and could easily capture the terror of the land. And then they showed everyone that they had no territorial ambitions. Just looking for a piece of land to set up a stall to do business......

The impact of this battlefield was enormous, and the neighboring Arabs knew the strength of the Song army. They began to face up to the agreement reached with the Song army to share the market, and at the same time, the surrounding countries were both afraid of the Song army's attack and understood that this group of people was just merchants who wanted to do business, and they began to spontaneously restrain the people in the country, forbidding them to rob the ranks of the Song merchants, and in this atmosphere, the power of the Song merchants began to quietly expand.

In September of that year, at the end of the rainy season, Zhao Xing arrived in Sri Lanka after a difficult trek, and the powerful Song army defeated the ferocious Seljuks, and the victory shocked the Red Continent of India, and the forces of the Zhu Kingdom began to bow to the Song merchants on the Jaffna Peninsula and seek a compromise. With the support of the Song army, Sri Lanka announced its secession from Srivijaya and recognised the Song Dynasty as its suzerainty, paying taxes to the Song Dynasty.

Although this decision made the Three Buddhas deeply disappointed, in front of the powerful Song army, they did not dare to raise objections, so they had to endure this breath silently. The victory of the Song army also made the Nanyang countries begin to pay attention to the firearms used by the Song army, a Far Eastern army, with weapons similar to Thor, this news was praised by the mouth of the Nanyang countries, and soon also spread to the warring crusaders, and to Jerusalem. At this time, Deng Yufu was freed in Jerusalem, and the Crusaders sent a group of monks to escort him south along the kingdom of Serre in search of opportunities to make contact with the Song.

In mid-September, the Song fleet entered the Lion City, and at this time, the storm season came, and the Song army had to rest in the Lion City and wait for the storm to pass. Chen Buqun looked at the east in the wind and rain, and counted with his fingers: "Teacher, we have been out for a year, and in one year, we have also conquered several countries along the way, how can such a feat be rewritten in history." ”

The rain in the South Seas looked like a waterfall, Zhao Xingduan sat in the house, looked at the rain curtain outside the window, and said indifferently: "You are only in your twenties, what do you want to do with so much credit, do you want to eat idle meals in the future and do nothing?" ”

Chen Buqun thought for a while, and replied sullenly: "That's right, I don't care, I'm just a few petty officials, and I take the route of a military general, but the teacher has a lot of credit now, and he can't be rewarded, and the teacher can continue to be an official after he goes back this time" So we should make some mistakes......

Chen Buqun sighed: ",, teacher, what did you say you were doing with so much this time, people are eager to fill the cabin with gold and silver treasures, but the teacher has loaded 200,000 volumes, isn't this a loss, the intention is not good." ”

Zhao Xing looked at him: "Ah, you are ignorant, you are simply exaggerating the power of language, this is the trick of fortune tellers, they think that language has a magical effect like a magic spell, and there must be a common relationship between words with the same pronunciation, so one word can measure the stupidity of life!"

, What does it have to do with "losing" winning or winning, you have to consider it from the homonym, and think that I have committed a taboo in carrying these books. It's better to call those books. This is the British name for Ben, and if you replace it with this pronunciation, it should have nothing to do with winning or losing? It's unlucky, why didn't the teacher say it earlier", Chen Buqun actually didn't have any interest in measuring words based on homophony, just to pass the time of boredom, he continued to nag.

Zhao Xing smiled: "In my opinion, my greatest wealth is your group of students, and with your group of students, I can do great things." This also illustrates. Knowledge is the most powerful force.

This. We have captured 5,000 or 6,000 Arab scholars and brought back 200,000 copies of Arabic books, and I plan to put these captive scholars into the institutes, but if the institutes cannot fit them, they will be sent to hospitals, and the free hospitals in the south-eastern parts of the country will be expanded by 5,000 people. Scattered in various hospitals, medical institutes, and workshops, they can teach tens of thousands of students and apprentices for me, and can also treat hundreds of thousands of people.

And so it goes. There will be more than one million people in the world who will benefit me, and this will be my greatest treasure in the future. Am tangible treasures of gold and silver scarce in comparison? Do you and I lack that little money? As long as these are safely transported back to China, the power it will burst out will be unimaginable, no group, take good care of me, mine for a while, Chen Buqun asked abruptly: "Teacher, why is it that the place of returning to China in advance will be Yuan Yeping, and not others?" ”

Zhao Xing stopped the movement of his hand. raised his eyes and glanced at Chen Buqun. There was no answer.

Zhao Xing's students are not fools, and they are in officialdom. Many people are even better than Zhao Xing. Seeing that Zhao Xing didn't speak, Chen Buqun hesitated for a while, and cautiously tested: "Teacher, do you really think that we need to prepare a back road to Nanyang?" ”

Zhao Xing still didn't speak, and looked at Chen Buqun with an inquiring gaze, Chen Buqun smiled and replied: "Over the years, I have become accustomed to the teacher's way of doing things, the teacher never does useless work, this big storm, the entire fleet is stranded in Sri Lanka, but the teacher let part of the fleet brave the storm to return home, I can't help but speculate, what is the purpose of the teacher's this?"

Yuan Yeping can't hide what work he does from others, he began to organize a sentry team in the Chenlu Branch, although due to the big differences in language habits and customs, he did not do much in the Chenlu Branch, but I know that I can see from his organizational methods that he actually organized a team of domestic secret spies. Teachers often say that one is prosperous, and one is lost, so I thought, if the teacher has any deep meaning, can I run, can we students be alone? ”

Chen Buqun took a few breaths and continued to add: "In the past few days, I have been speculating about the purpose of the teacher, and what is the purpose of the teacher's stay to find out the secret spy team returning to China. At first, I thought that it might be that the teacher went abroad privately to seek the Lulu Branch, and I was worried that there might be changes in the country during the year I was not in China. But I also think that this is the purpose of the teacher

On this trip, we captured several princes in the Luzhi branch, however, at present, these princes have paid the ransom and returned, leaving behind some things similar to protons or substitute ghosts, and the prince and the merchant asked the fourth prince to be the governor, and the teacher actually agreed, which made me suddenly enlightened.

It turns out that the teacher has been running the back road, and the teacher has been thinking about staying overseas if he can't do it, and the teacher has stayed on this island to see what has happened in the country, and I guess that if there is a change in the country that the teacher doesn't want to see, maybe the teacher doesn't plan to go back

But, teacher, have you ever thought about our group of students, we are all your followers, following you from the DPRK to thousands of miles to this overseas battle. The ancients said that wealth does not return to the hometown, such as walking at night. Now we are making a lot of money in the foreign war, it is a good time to return to the hometown, the teacher stays overseas, depends on the wait-and-see, don't the teacher go back, we students can go back, a glory, a loss! ”

Zhao Xing stood up, walked around the room a few times with his hands behind his back, and said thoughtfully: "The situation in the court is unpredictable, I sent troops overseas this time without permission, violating many prohibitions of the imperial court, but these are historical inevitability.

You don't know how powerful the power of destruction is with the official family plus Cai Jing, because this power of destruction is implemented with the help of imperial power, and we can't resist the imperial power. Unless......

The reason why I am in a hurry to go to the South Seas. It's because time is pressing, and because now is the best time to go to the South Seas, if we miss this opportunity, we won't have another chance, even if we wait for a thousand years, we can't find such a good time, this opportunity can't be missed, so I hurriedly sent troops without stabilizing the country.

When I was in the South Seas, I often thought about this, the Arabs were afraid of fighting on two fronts. But we are not fighting on two fronts. We have to face strong foreign enemies, but also have to fight against the destruction of the country, this destructive force is not something we can resist, but fortunately, this era is not far from the Renzong period, and we can still pull it back to the gentleman politics of the Renzong era, so I arranged for the Hangzhou Party and Jiangxi to be sent to the court to fight for power, and I went overseas to cause trouble with them.

However. I'm constantly worried about the situation at home, and I'm worried that if we don't control the situation in the country, we're going to have to stay out of the country and survive the worst. But we had to prepare. ”

Chen Buqun pondered for a moment, and then said: "The teacher just said that we would make mistakes, but now we have what mistakes to make, and what mistakes can compensate us for the destruction of the country." After he finished drawing, he drew a large circle along the entire southern sea, pointing to the islands on the map slowly, almost word by word, and said: "Xiaoliuqiu, Boni, Srivijaya, Cam Ranh, Cochin." Plus Guangzhou, Quanzhou, Mingzhou. This is our new territory and the first circle of our defense at sea. The outer ring of these islands makes the sea where the islands are located a pond and backyard in my Great Song Land. According to the agreement with the Arabs, trade in this sea is our exclusive use. ”

Zhao Xing's brush then jumped, and sketched the terrain west of Srivijaya, and continued to point to the islands, saying: "Our agreement with the Arabs also includes this Indian Ocean, originally the Indian Ocean trade was monopolized by the Arabs, and the Song merchants could only sell the goods to them and buy goods from them, but now, in this sea area, the Song merchants also have the right to buy directly from the people, because of this direct purchase right, I believe that the profits of the Song merchants can increase by 30%. ”

Zhao Xing's brush pointed at the Lulu branch again, and said proudly: "This year, we have opened up a direct trade route to Europe, as long as the trade route is maintained in the past few years, our tax revenue will not be reduced, and with a huge amount of overseas business tax, it is enough to support me to carry out the changes I deserve." ”

Chen Buqun walked to the table, casually pointed to the area near the island chain sketched by Zhao Xing, and asked: "Teacher, don't forget that there are three islands near Boni, three Buddhas near Lion City, countries near Sri Lanka, and Arabia near Luzhi......

In the vicinity of all our locations, there are hostile guys, and the teacher's Nanyang layout makes me very incomprehensible now, these chess pieces, as if they are the lone pieces in the game of Go, want to connect the chess together, and it seems that the war will continue after that, and there will never be a chance to stop. I wondered? ”

After Chen Buqun finished speaking, he stepped aside and stopped talking. Zhao Xing added with a smile: "I know what you want to say, you want to say that I raise thieves to respect myself, that's right, I plan to do this, the Chinese people like comfort too much, don't leave them some enemies, how can we have a reason to maintain a huge fleet?" ”

Chen Buqun saw that Zhao Xing answered the question in his heart without hesitation, he felt Zhao Xing's trust, hurriedly jumped the topic, and jumped back to Yuan Yeping without any scruples: "Teacher, Yuan Tui Guan brought back hundreds of people, do you think he can bring us back the news we need?" ”

Zhao Xing nodded: "I must be able to!" The imperial court did not have a sense of secrecy, and most of the top secrets in the court would be published in the newspaper. As long as they flip through the newspaper, they can find the changes in this year, and then look behind the scenes of these changes, and all the changes in this year are clear. ”

What has changed this year?

In addition to the two phases, Fan Ye had three sons who were promoted to Jinshi, one son went to the local area to serve as a Jiupin judge, and the other two sons went to the Northern Affairs Bureau to help the imperial court prepare for the construction of the "North Sea Fleet". At the same time, Lu Huiqing passed away, and this is a good aspect.

On the bad side, it has been a year of many disasters. In the early stage of Zhao Xing's return to China, Su Zhe finally followed in his brother's footsteps and passed away, and then Fan Yi and Li Chang, the two Great Song accountants, also passed away one after another. Among the three. Su Zhe only served as the right servant for more than 20 days. Therefore, the ministers of the DPRK and China called it "the prime minister of the first ten", and the rest died as lang officials.

After Su Zhe's death, the phase hung empty. The old party has endured more than ten years of persecution, and the work of cultivating talents has stagnated, forming a talent fault, and they cannot elect corresponding leaders, while the Shu Party, the Luo Party, and the Guan Party are busy integrating resources, and the outstanding ones among them, such as Huang Tingjian and Zhang Lei, are far less qualified than Cai Jing.

On the contrary. Cai Jing said no matter what. He served as a Kaifeng Mansion Yin and several state officials, so Cai Jing inevitably ascended to the throne, and he and Zhang Shangying were listed as prime ministers on the left and right, and then, Zhou Bangyan and Huang Tingjian took his place as Hanlin Chengzhi and Zhengzi (the chief writer who helped the emperor write the edict).

Huang Tingjian's promotion also means that his fate has changed. The original history. Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty summoned the exiled officials, and Huang Tingjian was summoned to take office, but Zhao Tingzhi's old hatred was not extinguished, and he instigated the officials in Hubei Province to find out the sentences in the "Chengtianyuan Tower Record" written by Huang Tingjian for a monastery in Jingnan, accusing him of "slandering the imperial court". So Huang Tingjian suffered a literary prison, was heavily demoted to Yizhou, and died in the border famine. Yu Zhaoxing killed Zhao Tingzhi, and as a result, Huang Tingjian's fate was changed.

However, because the new prime minister Zhang Shangying is a sycophant, he himself has been immersed in Buddhism and metaphysics, and pays attention to tolerance. In this way, the court inevitably became a "one-word hall" after all.

Of course, this kind of Yiyantang is still good for Zhao Xing, and Cai Jing is Zhao Xing's business partner. Zhao Xing immersed himself in local affairs. In the short term, it seems that Cai Jing's power will not be threatened, so Cai Jing supports and even connives, Zhao Xing sets his sights overseas.

And the little emperor side. Zhao Xing continued to send him a huge amount of coins and overseas treasures for him to squander, and also made the little emperor more protective of him, so the Nanyang Affairs Bureau, a year after his arrival, did not stay in the yamen, but went to run around the world.

But this connivance had no effect on Zhao Xing's reward scheme. The imperial court still can't make a decision, which has become a big problem in the Song court so far, and Cai Jing, who is proud of the spring breeze, can't think of a proper way, so he has to adopt delaying tactics, thinking about waiting for things to burn his eyebrows, and then think of a solution.

On this day, Cai Jing was invited to attend the inauguration ceremony of Guangnan Commercial Hall. After two years of construction, the huge Quang Nam Hall is finally nearing completion. Perhaps by coincidence, this Quang Nam Hall is located right across from Gen Yue.

The building designed by Zhao Xing is naturally colorful, and everyone in the Great Song Dynasty knows the castle. Zhao Xinglao likes to build his home like a military fortress, and this Guangnan Hall also adheres to this characteristic.

The ancients like to build the city squarely, but the castle built by Zhao Xing is crooked, and the reason for explaining to the outside world is that the land for purchase is limited, which leads to the fact that this building complex is limited by the terrain, and it has been built into this appearance, because the whole building complex resembles an eight-clawed spider, so although the merchants of Guangnan gave this building complex a very elegant name, the people of Manjing City like to call it "Spider Tower".

The periphery of the complex is sixteen crooked towers, which are connected by tall arches and arches. Between each of the two buildings is a small garden, each with its own characteristic plants, which together with the crooked buildings form the perimeter of the hall.

The architecture designed by Zhao Xing is also another feature. Each of the sixteen buildings had different functions, some were brothels, some were restaurants, tea houses, and sumo rooms, but half of them served as hotels for merchants and students.

In the middle of these unique entertainment facilities is a tall tower office tower, which is the Hall of the National Congress, with more than 10,000 counters for merchants from all over the world to sell their goods. Because of the existence of the National Assembly Hall, this complex became a famous shopping place in Bianliang City, Tokyo, during the soft opening period.

Cai Jing also has his own bunk in the National Assembly Pavilion, which is owned by his family and mainly sells real gemstone jewelry and fake antiques made in partnership with Zhao Xing. Because of this relationship, Quang Nam businessmen invited him to attend the official unveiling ceremony.

On the makeshift stage, the music of the capital is performing hard, the stage is full of flowers, noisy, and the noise of gongs and drums, Ma Xi, the son of Ma Mengde, approached Cai Jing and whispered: "Cai Xiang, how are the apples in Shaanxi?" ”

Cai Jing's eyes stared at the performance on the stage, and he replied softly without looking back: "It is said that Shaanxi apples have not become forests, but the imperial court has been peaceful for a long time, and the branches are used as bows and arrows, which seem to be unsellable, and the fruits are sour and astringent, and they are not very edible. The court is deliberating. ”

Ma Xi whispered: "Cai Xiang, the captain has sent a letter from overseas. ”

Cai Jing sighed and asked, "What did he say?" (To be continued, if you want to know what happens, please log in.) , more chapters,