"Your Majesty, this earth is indeed much larger than the previous estimate of the Qingcheng Academy...... The circumference must have exceeded 80,000 miles! ”

Western Song Dynasty, Chang'an Mansion, Huaqing Palace.

Zhao Huan was in the Qinzheng Hall of the newly completed Imperial Palace, and summoned Li Qingzhao, the secretary of the Qingcheng Academy.

The current Chang'an City is not the Xiongcheng Shenjing left over from the Tang Dynasty, but a small city established on the basis of the original Chang'an City at the end of the Tang Dynasty and the beginning of the Five Dynasties. The interior is very cramped, and there is no place to build a relatively large palace for Zhao Huan to live in.

So Zhao Huan simply built the Huaqing Palace of the Tang Dynasty east of Chang'an Mansion on the old stop of the Huaqing Palace of the Tang Dynasty, as the place where he governed the dynasty.

Li Qingzhao is now widowed, and her husband, Zhao Mingcheng, died two years ago. After Zhao Mingcheng's death, the position of the secretary of the Qingcheng Academy was taken over by the great mathematician Li Qingzhao.

In addition, Zhao Ji's fifth son, Zhao Shu, the king of Ceylon County, was appointed to preside over the school palace with Li Qingzhao.

By the way, Zhao Shu's King of Ceylon was sealed before the First Central Plains War. Zhao Ji originally wanted him to go to Ceylon as the king, and he also agreed with Mo Niangzi to take the bright sky as the state religion of Ceylon, and also chose a beautiful woman with excellent character from the Manichaean Persian family for Zhao Shu to be a side concubine for Zhao Shu.

But the plan couldn't catch up with the changes, and before Zhao Shu could take the country, the world was in chaos.

And Zhao Shu and several other Great Song princes who were named overseas county kings were not very peaceful at first, and wanted to contact Zhao Kai, hoping to become a country with the support of the Eastern Song Dynasty.

But they never thought that Zhao Gou would be "clear every day"!

This scared a bunch of princes to death, and they all dismissed their subordinate officials and retainers, closed their doors, and pretended to be the little white rabbit prince.

Zhao Shu, the king of Ceylon County, was obsessed with learning and followed Zhao Mingcheng to become a scholar, showing no interest in politics and military affairs.

And Zhao Huan didn't want to be too cruel, so he asked the "Xue Wang Zhao Shu" to be in charge of the Qingcheng School Palace with Li Qingzhao after Zhao Mingcheng's death.

Today he also went to Huaqing Palace with Li Qingzhao to see the driver, and after Li Qingzhao finished speaking, he added: "Brother Huang, the Xuegong got news from the Shanghai University of Arts and Sciences that the continent discovered by the East Thief on the other side of the East Ocean and the continent discovered by the East China Sea Thief in the South Ocean are actually two continents...... The continent east of the Middle East Ocean, now named America. The continent in the Southern Ocean was renamed the New Song Dynasty. ”

"Humph!" Zhao Huan snorted coldly when he heard the word "New Song", Zhao Shu was frightened and looked at his brother in horror. The tragic situation when the ninth brother Zhao Gou died suddenly appeared in his mind.

Li Qingzhao said lightly: "The name of the New Song Dynasty was given by the rebels of the East China Sea, Your Majesty thinks it is inappropriate, just change one." ”

Zhao Huan said coldly: "Change what?" The name of the things in the East China Sea is up to him! No matter what you change your name, it won't become my territory!

It's not easy for me to go to sea now......"

Zhao Huan's efforts to go to sea from Jiaozhi hit Zhao Yan's soft nails. Zhao Yan had Duan Yu's family arrested, and they were sent to Dali and handed over to Yue Fei. At the same time, he called his cousin a younger brother but not a minister, and also built a fortress along the Fuliang River bordering Dali.

And Zhao Huan also knew that he didn't have the strength to go south to Jiaozhi, after all, Jiaozhi was too far away from Guanlong and Bashu, and the transportation was not convenient, and it was a place of miasma.

Even if he wanted to go to war, the Privy Council's warrior planes were not interested.

Even Yue Fei, who pacified the Dali Kingdom, also said that he could not attack the Jiaozhi Kingdom along the Fuliang River.

In the end, the Western Song Dynasty and Jiaozhi held secret negotiations and reached an agreement to "go to sea from the Fuliang River in the name of the Dali Chamber of Commerce".

Although following this agreement, the Western Song Dynasty could set up a Dali Chamber of Commerce on the ground in Jiaozhi to build sea ships, docks, and ports. It is also possible to use the trade routes of the Furajiang River to achieve a certain amount of sea trade. But the actual meaning is almost non-existent, just a symbol.

After all, the Western Song Dynasty is a landlocked country with extremely inconvenient transportation!

Moreover, the Western Song Dynasty was also a militarized country with a very strong feudal color. It is simply not possible for this country to play with maritime trade and capitalist industry and commerce.

By the way, now the Eastern Song Dynasty did not block the trade routes on the Yangtze River, and any merchant ships of the Western Song Dynasty could sail freely on the Yangtze River.

However, at the same time, the Western Song Dynasty only opened the port of Ezhou to trade with the Eastern Song Dynasty.

The goods of the Eastern Song Dynasty had to pay heavy taxes to pass through the Ezhou Customs!

In fact, the Western Song Dynasty did not want to trade with the Eastern Song Dynasty and the New Zhou Dynasty. And they don't have enough currency to support this trade.

Even if the Jingchu royal palace received 20 million taels of gold and silver shipped from Xuzhou, the Western Song Dynasty was still extremely short of currency.

The precious metal deposits in the Western Song Dynasty are limited (in fact, there is copper in Yunnan, but it has not been found yet), and Sichuan has to use iron money!

Moreover, there is no industry and commerce that can absorb gold, silver and copper from the outside world.

So now the internal circulation of the Western Song Dynasty has regressed to the level of the early Tang Dynasty, and a large number of Shu brocade is used as a token.

In the case of inconvenient transportation and lack of currency, the Western Song Dynasty court also adopted a series of policies to curb commercial development under the influence of the "Jingkang Staff".

For example, Chang'an City now has strict curfew regulations! Moreover, the "Kuofang" structure of the Tang-style city was restored, that is, within the big city, many small cities were separated by "fang walls".

Now there are "square walls" on both sides of the street in Chang'an City, and you can't set up stalls to do business!

And all the commercial activities are concentrated in the "Kuofang". Most of the "Kuofang" have only the most basic small businesses, selling rice and vegetables.

Larger transactions are concentrated in the east and west markets. However, the trading hours of the East and West markets are very short, and one is only open for six hours. Moreover, it is stipulated that civil officials and courtiers and above are not allowed to enter the eastern and western cities without an order!

Under the influence of such a decree and the special geographical environment of the Western Song Dynasty, the private industry and commerce in the Western Song Dynasty shrank extremely much, and there was no ability or motivation for foreign expansion.

However, while industry and commerce lost momentum, the semi-feudal military attaches of the Western Song Dynasty became increasingly belligerent.

They need more military merit, more land!

……

Zhao Shu and Li Qingzhao retreated, and the next to enter the Qinzheng Hall were Geng Nanzhong, He Li, Qu Duan, and Yue Fei

Geng Nanzhong and He Li are now the left and right phases - the names of Dazai and Shaozai have been abandoned and changed back to their original titles.

Qu Duan and Yue Fei respectively visited the Privy Council and the Privy Council, and the two represented Guan Longjun and Jing Chujun respectively.

Now the most powerful people in the Western Song Dynasty court are these four.

"Yue Fei," Zhao Huan glanced at his beloved general Yue Fei and showed a smile, "Have you seen Han Shizhong?" ”

"I've seen you."

Han Shizhong is now a scholar of Ren'ai Pavilion in the Xiliang Kingdom!

The route of the Xiliang Kingdom is still bandits pretending to be scholars, obviously a group of feudal knights who are coarse and literate, but they want to call them scholars and bachelors. The various official names sound uniquely learned.

Among all the "scholars", they are headed by ten scholars, such as "Renai Pavilion", "Zhongyi Pavilion", "Lihe Pavilion", "Wisdom Pavilion", "Integrity Pavilion", "Wenwen Pavilion", "Kindness Pavilion", "Gongjin Pavilion", "Diligence and Thrift Pavilion", and "Forbearance Pavilion".

The ten bachelor numbers are taken from "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, knowledge, trust, gentleness, courtesy, and frugality".

The scholars of the Ten Pavilions are not divided into high and low levels, they can discuss politics in the DPRK, and they can lead one side when they go out. He is the most powerful knight under Xiliang Tianriko.

Han Shizhong and Han Renai came to congratulate Zhao Huan on his birthday this time as the birthday envoy of Xiliang Kingdom. He did not return immediately after his birthday, but was left in Chang'an to discuss important matters.

And the important thing to discuss is the transfer of Xiliang!

Now the Western Song Dynasty has no way to enter the sea, and it will definitely not be able to go to the sky, of course, it can only expand to the Western Regions.

The road to the west of the Western Song Dynasty happened to be blocked by Xiliang......

Therefore, the Privy Council of the Western Song Dynasty came up with a way to transfer the land of Xiliang to recover all the land of Xiliang, and then seal it to Zhao Huan's sons.

That's right, Zhao Huan is now starting to be the king of the domain!

The policy of dividing feudal kings, after the Western Jin Dynasty, was basically tasked with the way to take chaos.

But now Zhao Huan can't manage so much, because a group of Jingkang staff officers are dangling under his nose every day!

So there is no need for a vassal king to make trouble, a bunch of wits can turn his empire into a republic!

Therefore, the feudal king has become a means of restricting the opportunity......

As for the rebellion of the vassal king Jing or something...... Hehe, if there is such a vassal king, he Zhao Huan is too late to be happy. After all, the kings he sealed out were all his own sons, and it would be a good thing that a bull man would rise up and take power back.

"What did Han Shizhong say?" Zhao Huan asked.

Han Shizhong was surprised and didn't say anything.

Zhao Huan paused, "Is Xiliang Hui also transferred?" ”

Qu Duan replied, "Absolutely!" Because the land of Xiliang is large and barren, it is far more than the land of the Seven Rivers and the Kipchak grassland.

Moreover, Xiliao Dashi has converted to the Bright Heavenly Doctrine and turned his back on the Western Liang Heavenly Doctrine. Now Xiliang and Xiliao are no longer allies.

It turns out that the territory that was sealed to Xiliang is roughly Kazakhstan! That is, Yelu Dashi's original base in the Western Regions, the land of seven rivers, plus the vast and boundless Kipchak grassland.

This piece of land was not very rich in the Middle Ages, but it was much richer than the rotten land in Xiliang!

In particular, there is a Fergana Basin next to the Land of Seven Rivers, and the output of this basin alone is comparable to the Hexi Corridor, the core of Xiliang.

Qu Duan said again: "As long as the imperial court can provide guns and cannons, and then give reinforcements, with the power of Xiliang, it is easy to drive away Dashi's subordinates who stayed in Qihe and other places." The Kipchak grassland is basically ownerless, and Xiliang can also conquer it.

With Qihe and the Kipchak grassland, Zhang Li's life is much better than in Liangzhou. ”

"Good!" Zhao Huan nodded, "Send a minister to Liangzhou with Han Shizhong." ”

Geng Nanzhong played: "The minister recommended Zhang Jun to send an envoy to Xiliang. ”

Zhao Huan looked at Qu Duan again, "Your Majesty, the minister recommends Yao Pingzhong as the deputy envoy." ”

"Just let them go!"