"Your Majesty, why don't we go back to Lin'an together? The official family will treat each other with national courtesy, and I, Zheng Deyuan, will personally be your bodyguard! Zheng Qingzhi is not confused, such a big credit belongs to him alone, he really can't bear it. And he is the commander of the sailor, if he wants to push it to others, he can't find anyone, he can't push it to the officials on land, they are all hundreds of miles away, and this lie can't be told. The only thing that can help him fight thunder is Hong Tao, as long as this king or emperor is there, he has room to toss and turn, it doesn't matter how big a hat is on Hong Tao's head, people have big heads, don't be afraid!

"I'm afraid this won't work, my brother's father doesn't know about it, such a big thing, it's child's play to send someone to inform me, so I have to rush back to China, and I hope Zheng Xiang understands! The Minister of Culture will take care of the matter here, and as for the merits, honors, etc., Zheng Xiang and the Minister of Culture will discuss it. I make a suggestion, although the Volunteers did not participate in the war, but they are subjects of the Great Song Dynasty, and their contributions are indispensable, this situation must be encouraged and not attacked, if there is a foreign invasion ten years later, with the precedent of the Volunteers, are you still worried that the people's hearts will not be available? ”

Hong Tao didn't want to be this big head, but he also thought of someone for Zheng Qingzhi to share the pressure, that is Wen Hao! Don't you want to be famous? Well, I'll help you, you are an advocate and organizer of the Volunteers, there is no reason to be obscure. Come on, see how capable you are! He also communicated with Wen Nan privately about this matter, Wen Nan was very dissatisfied with what his cousin had done, and Hong Tao thought that it was too light to deal with him like this, and he should be given a warning.

"Anyway, Your Majesty still puts state affairs and family affairs first, so I won't delay Your Majesty's return. As for the issue of compensation from the imperial court, please rest assured, Minister Wen is here, and I will meet with the official family immediately after I go back, and explain clearly His Majesty's contribution to the Great Song Dynasty. "Got Hong Tao's approval. also got a good place to transfer pressure, Zheng Qingzhi was too satisfied, so he stopped harassing Hong Tao. He also saw that Hong Tao was indeed preoccupied, and no one would go to participate in any celebrations at this time.

Hong Tao's fleet returned that night, and even Luo Youde's fleet did not wait. They would follow Zheng Qingzhi to Lin'an to receive an audience from the emperor. It is unlikely that the official will be crowned, but the reward is definitely a big drop, and if you don't take it for nothing, you won't take it. Moreover, Luo Youde's father is also an official of the current dynasty, and his status is the most suitable for attending this kind of event, only the benefits are not harmful.

As for whether Luo Youde will eat melons in the future when he hugs Zheng Qingzhi's thick leg, Hong Tao thinks that it will be no problem in a short time. With this big victory, at least enough for Zheng Qingzhi to squander for a while, no one can move him, including Emperor Lizong. Yue Fei's tragedy would not have happened to him. There is only one reason, he is a civil official! His victory represented the victory of the entire Southern Song scholar class. Whoever dares to deny it is to challenge the backbone of the entire society, and this ability Emperor Lizong does not have, and Hong Tao cannot have it.

Now Hong Tao didn't have the heart to think about it for a long time, in this naval battle, the Royal Navy lost two armed cargo ships, and the Jinhe was also beaten all over the big holes, and almost every battleship was wounded. The losses of sails and artillery were even greater. Many guns have been severely corroded in their chambers after being cooled by seawater, and they can only be scrapped. If you use it any longer, there is no security.

What's more important is the loss of personnel, which is the most scarce for the Golden River Empire, because the population of the empire is not much in the first place. The more than 300 people killed in the battle plus 100 seriously wounded were more than one percent of the total population of the empire, and they were all young and strong, even if there were graduates of the seafaring school and slave sailors on whaling ships who could be replenished every year, it would not be enough to die like this.

"No, it doesn't. If we don't drag the Mongol Empire to death in this way, we will die first, and the immigration policy cannot be delayed any longer, it must start immediately. Cixi, this matter is in charge of the Ministry of Supervision, and you can get me a report. I'll go to the council and counsel. There is only one purpose, which is to attract people from other countries to live in the Golden River Empire and become official residents of the Golden River Empire. Don't have too many target countries for the time being, let's try Mongolia, Japan, and the Great Song Dynasty first. Remember, what we want this time is not a slave, but a person with a craft, whether it is a farmer or a pig, as long as there is a craft, we call it skilled immigration. The fleet returned to Ximaozhou, and Hong Tao looked at the scarred battleships and the wounded in the navigation school, and began to plan for the future again. If you want to be lazy, you can't be lazy, as long as you sit in the position of the emperor, every minute doesn't belong to you, whether you want to do it or not, there is an invisible force pushing you forward.

"This matter is easy to do, as long as I promise to give them land, wages and the opportunity to join the strait company to do business, I can get thousands of people for Your Majesty in a month, we don't want to be too poor!" Cixi didn't feel the difficulty of the task assigned by Hong Tao, and now the Jinhe Empire is no longer the Jinhe Bay of a few years ago, and no one knows where this place is and what it does. Now, as long as there are ports and maritime merchants, no one will not know the name of the Jinhe Empire, and it may not be clear where this country is, but everyone has a unified understanding, that is, this country is rich, thieves are rich, and it is so rich!

Being able to live in such a country is the convincing spirit of the ancestors who have cultivated for eight lifetimes, and even some businessmen in the Great Song Dynasty have this idea. Cixi was resident in the Great Song Dynasty and often came into contact with people from all walks of life, and he had a clear idea of merchants from all over the world, so he didn't feel that the task assigned by Hong Tao was hard work.

"Rich and poor are not the only criterion, the empire is not short of money, there is a shortage of talents! Do you know what it means to be a talent? I have to make this clear to you, or you will be doomed if you get me a bunch of careerists. Hong Tao was not satisfied with Cixi's answer, he was afraid that Cixi had misunderstood, and he had to make his thoughts clear to him.

"Is Wen Hao a talent?" This is a question that Hong Tao gave Cixi to think about.

“…… Wen Nan is, Wen Hao is not! Cixi's answer was correct, but he did not give the process of answering the question, and the important thing in thinking about the question was the idea, not the answer.

"You can't use my attitude towards Wen Hao as a basis to evaluate a person's good or bad, say your own thoughts!" Of course, Hong Tao would not be so fooled by Cixi, this guy didn't understand what he meant at all, and just guessed his intentions with his rich experience in sycophancy, which was too hateful.

"Actually, I don't think Wen Hao is annoying, many maritime merchants do dirtier things behind his back than him, but you have always been very good to those maritime merchants, why are you not at ease with Wen Hao alone?" Cixi's biggest advantage is that she has no face and no skin. So I'm not afraid that Hong Tao will point out any of his flaws, it doesn't matter if he has defects, ask more, listen more, learn more, and sooner or later he can make up for it.

"No matter how dirty the maritime business is, it is just to make money, and I have the benefits. enough for them to calculate a hundred years. And businessmen are always mutually beneficial, businessmen who eat alone can't survive, they make money for themselves at the same time, they will also lead society forward. Wen Hao is different, no matter how clean he looks on the surface, he is actually dirtier than a businessman in nature. His goal is more long-term, not money but power. I don't have that much right to give to these people, and they can't feed them, once they have the rights in their hands. will ask for more, and by any means. The most terrible thing is that he didn't want to use power to do anything, he just needed power. Such people cannot give them power, they are the destroyers of the state. ”

Since Cixi was asked to take up this job, Hong Tao had to explain the basic common sense to him clearly. How to distinguish what kind of mind a person has, you don't need to teach him, Cixi has a spirit in this regard. It's just that there are some kinds of people he has contact with that he can't reach, and all he has to do is to tell him in advance about people he hasn't seen or come into contact with. Let him have the impression in his heart that he will figure out the rest of the things by himself.

"Then why did Your Majesty keep him? If it's for the sake of Wennan's face, it's not easy to deal with. Leave it to me. I promise that he will be allowed to die reasonably and legally, and even if Minister Wen comes to investigate in person, he will not be able to find anything. "It's impossible for Cixi to fully understand what Hong Tao said for the time being, but with Wen Hao's example, he can study it slowly. What puzzled him was why Hong Tao still kept this scourge, according to his understanding of Hong Tao. This emperor is not a soft-hearted master, he has harmful ideas all over the place, and he basically learned this skill from His Majesty the Emperor, so he shouldn't be able to deal with such a small character as Wen Hao.

"This kind of person can't be killed, you killed a Wen Hao today. There will be Huang Hao, Hong Hao, and Luo Hao coming out tomorrow. In fact, they are not so scary, as long as they recognize their true colors and understand their intentions, this kind of person is still very easy to deal with, and we don't need to come forward. I am definitely not happy for them to emigrate to the empire, but it should not be too bad to let them toss and turn on the side of the Great Song Dynasty, and maybe there will be a good result. ”

"There are many such people in the Great Song Dynasty, and the best way to deal with them is to fight poison with poison. The reason why I kept this Wen Hao and didn't sabotage his attempts was to let him grow up as soon as possible, and then go back and toss those same kind in the Great Song Dynasty. With him charging in front, we can see every move in the court more clearly, and if necessary, we can bet on both sides, and we will never lose. It's not so much about letting others toss, it's better for Wen Hao to go, at least we know him better, and he has a certain amount of influence, and we can be regarded as an alliance with him in this regard. ”

"See, this is politics, there are no enemies and friends, only interests, and they are more fruitful and filthy than businessmen. Do you know why I was reluctant to turn Golden River Bay into a country before? This is one of those concerns. Once there is a country, a government, and officials, sooner or later there will be this kind of struggle in the Jinhe Empire, maybe worse than the Great Song Dynasty, and I don't want their generation to fight all day long. ”

"But there are some things that I can't stop alone, and since we got involved in the battle for the shipping route, Jinhewan is not under my control alone. With the huge benefits come a lot of side effects, some good and some bad, how to make the good more and the bad less is the responsibility of you and me, the officials of the empire. We are not working for ourselves, not just for our children and grandchildren, but for our work for the country. If the country is good, you and I officials will rise and the boat will rise, and the country will be bad, no matter how rich you and I are, we will not get a good death, do you understand what I mean? ”

As he grew older, Hong Tao became more and more like his father who was a teacher, and he loved to reason with others, sometimes involuntarily. When others ask him one, he not only has to answer one, but also has to tell people how this one came about, and it doesn't matter whether others are willing to listen to it or not, anyway, he has to say it, not to say that it is uncomfortable. Now in Jinhe City, except for the parliament and Qi Zu's gang, the other departments are respectful of this talkative emperor, once he is caught by the opportunity to give a lecture, at least half a day will not do anything, not only to listen to his vernacular, but also to listen carefully, it is best to write it in a notebook, because he is the emperor of the empire, who dares not to listen to the emperor when he speaks?

(To be continued.) )