With the help of these two energetic generals, the situation in Lin'an City was restored to calm that afternoon. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Jia Yidao's excuse of using fireworks explosions to explain the sound of gunfire is very deceptive, and coupled with his position, it is easy for most people to believe it. Of course, there are also those who question with a skeptical attitude, it doesn't matter, whoever has a bigger question, Jia Rudao announced him to the palace in the name of the emperor, and then this person will never be able to get out again, and his position will be temporarily replaced by Jia Nidao's people with a new appointment in Menxia Province. Why is it temporary, because some official positions cannot be formally replaced without a formal process, and the formal process has to wait for Hong Tao to get Wu Qian done.

"Brother Hong, I heard that you opened the killing ring again, or the entire clan is exterminated, is it too much?" Wu Qian's matter Hong Tao was not in a hurry to do it, he had just arrived in Lin'an for less than a day, and it had already exceeded expectations if he could stabilize the situation. To be a man to be content, not too demanding, to eat one bite at a time, and to do work step by step. It's very good to have a small barbecue with Wennan in the Great Song Palace, chatting while eating, and relaxing yourself, it is also to let the soldiers relax.

"It's not me, it's not me! That's all Ding Daquan and Jia Rudao, I don't believe you go ask our marines. I didn't know who they killed beforehand, and I could only see a bunch of names afterwards. Hong Tao is struggling with a bunch of conchs, and he thinks that the conch meat in the East China Sea is tastier than that produced in the South China Sea, and the meat is more compact and delicate.

"But they died because of you!" Wen Nan didn't eat much, he was basically scolded for most of the day. was scolded by the Great Song Dynasty officials he was familiar with, one by one scolded more ugly than the other, even if he was a broad-minded person, it was impossible not to feel it at all in his heart.

"That's not true...... How did Xianggong Yue die? Everyone in the world is scolding Qin Hui, how many are scolding Emperor Gaozong? You might as well treat me as Emperor Gaozong first, Ding Daquan and Jia Nidao are my Qin Hui and Zhang Jun, so that a brain like you can figure it out. "It's very boring to dwell on this kind of issue. What time is it? It's not a domestic contradiction, it's a national war between countries. Although this war seems mild on the surface, it is also a war, a war where you die or I live. Isn't it normal to die at war? Throughout history, has there ever been a war in which people don't die? As long as it makes these people die meaningfully, whether it is for others or for themselves.

"But if you let them kill their loyal ministers, they will be left with traitors like them, and a pile of wall grass. Do you plan to rely on them to rule the Great Song Dynasty in the future? Then you really have the possibility of becoming Emperor Gaozong. "Hong Tao's crooked reasoning Wen Nan has refuted for twenty years, and there are not many chances of success, it is almost impossible to defeat him in these theories, or it is easier to resonate with something realistic.

"Again, I don't intend to rely on them to help me rule the country. The Great Song Dynasty has fallen to such a point, is it the responsibility of the official family alone? I think that the responsibility of the officials is only a small part, and most of it is the responsibility of these courtiers. And the loyal subjects you are talking about have more responsibilities, because they are clinging to this system that is no longer suitable, for their ideals and aspirations, and as for whether the people will live a better life, that is a secondary goal. Now that I'm here, I'm going to build this country according to my ideals, who do you think I should consider as an enemy? Are those traitors who have milk and mothers, or are these loyal ministers you said are a big threat to us? Hong Tao didn't tell Wen Nan all his plans, not because he didn't trust Wen Nan, but because he was instinctively used to it. In his plan, most of the Song officials, especially high-ranking officials, were not available talents, and they had no place in the future Great Song court.

But this matter can't be known to them in advance, and at the beginning, they must also use their status, prestige and ability to stand up for the last shift of the new Great Song. This is the callousness of politics, when it no longer needs you, it will kick you away like garbage, and do everything to the extreme, not caring about your feelings at all. The main reason why politicians have also lost their humanity is that this game is not played by normal people at all, and the more normal you are, the faster you will die.

"But we don't have enough people to rule such a big country, and these people will get along with us for a while. Your reuse of traitors and the killing of the loyal will leave us unavailable soon. Wen Nan agreed with Hong Tao on this point, this is not the first time that the two of them have argued about this matter, and there has already been a result. Even so, Wen Nan didn't think that Hong Tao's reuse of villains was good for the Great Song Dynasty.

"Two months at most, half a month at the minimum, and we have no shortage of manpower. Second Lieutenant, it's time to signal to the Pennsylvania. Hong Tao's answer to Wen Nan was intriguing, and he had a Marine officer fire a pyrotechnic flare, and a few minutes later, a flame of the same color rose from the south side of the palace.

"What is the Pennsylvania going to do?" Wen Nan knew that this was Hong Tao informing a warship in the fleet to carry out a pre-set mission, but he didn't know what this mission was.

"Go negotiate with the Golden River Empire! The Great Song Dynasty is already ours, and if the Jinhe Empire prepares to go north again, it will become a cannibalism between father and son. Although the Emperor is not representative of the Imperial Government, I think they will also be a little skeptical of the face of the two generations of Emperors, and at least give us a chance to negotiate, you say. Hong Tao finally eliminated the last conch, wiped the sauce on his mouth, and prepared to poison the big blue crabs again.

"Isn't it too early to negotiate now, we haven't really been able to control the Great Song yet." To negotiate with the Jinhe Empire and get the other party to stop attacking the Great Song Dynasty and stop supporting the Straits Company State was an established measure that Wen Nan had known for a long time. But he didn't expect it to be implemented so quickly, and according to the original plan, this step would be taken later.

"You're not worried about running out of manpower, indeed, it's really not enough. Even if all the 500 grassroots cadres we brought in are qualified for their new positions, local officials do not strongly oppose it, and there is still a big shortage. I chatted with Ding Daquan in the afternoon, do you know how many talents we have to get are barely enough? Gotta add a zero after five hundred! Even if I drain all the talents of the Kingdom of Mexica, I will not be able to gather so many literate and managerial talents. God knows why the Great Song Dynasty got so many official positions, doesn't it cost money to support their court? Hong Tao began to digress again as he spoke, although he thought that the Great Song Dynasty was one of the most advanced in the dynasties and dynasties of Chinese history, but if he really wanted to be in it, he was still full of complaints.

"If you don't support them, the money will be spent more...... Wen Nan is like a philosopher at this time, and he tells the most simple truth in the shortest sentences.

"Well, you're right, that's the status quo. I'll have to raise them for the time being, but I know the people who make me spend money and have a bad heart, and I won't have any good fruit to eat in the end. I can tell you right now that they're going to end badly! You think that I have no one to rule the Great Song Dynasty, and those loyal ministers who are still locked up in the main hall and curse you and me actually think the same way, they are just taking advantage of our weakness and waiting for an opportunity to take advantage. First scolded us, stood on the moral high ground, and showed their integrity, and then, under the repeated requests of the two of us, obtained the rights they wanted, and reluctantly continued to be their high-ranking officials, in the name of sacrificing personal honor and disgrace for the country and the people. I'll their eight ancestors! The people who cheated me, I will make them repay ten times at most, but the people who plan to play with me like a fool, do you think I will spare them? So I advise you to die of this heart, I won't use most of these people, whether it's the leader of the literary world or the leader of the Shilin, I let them say that the sun is square, they must say it, otherwise I will find someone to rape and kill every woman in their family in front of all the Lin'an people. But they don't want to enter my government, they don't even need to clean the courtyard, don't think that the Great Song Dynasty will die without them, you see I will change a group of heavenly soldiers and generals for you. "Hong Tao conch did not eat less, nor did he drink less wine, plus he was always in a state of high tension for more than a day, and his mood was very unstable, and he was anxious when he spoke.

“…… You're not planning to move troops from the Golden River Empire, are you? Once Hong Tao enters this state, no one needs to persuade him, and the more he persuades, the worse the result. I didn't want to kill anyone, but if you persuade him more, he will immediately shoot the two prime ministers for you to see. Wen Nan, who was familiar with Hong Tao's temper, did not dare to say a good word for those loyal ministers, but took the topic elsewhere.

"If I don't look for people from the empire, where can I go to find so many grassroots officials with management skills and firm beliefs? The merchant group of the Straits Company can take advantage of the situation, but I can't rely on them completely, because I can't afford to pay too much. There is not enough interest exchange, do you really think my face is easy to use? At the critical moment, it is up to my son and my students, whether they agree or disagree with my approach, at least they will not spend their days thinking about how to fight for power and profit, and they can do something practical. And they are the group of people who can best understand my intentions, and if you don't need such a good helper, aren't you and I stupid? Hong Tao finally showed one of his hole cards.

The Imperial Government is no longer the small, petty government of a decade ago, with few people in total. Since the abdication of Da Hongtao, the expansion of the imperial government has been very rapid, the number of officials has also increased dramatically, coupled with the increasing investment in education for more than 20 years, the population base capable of acting as grassroots officials is very large. Even if the mainland can't get a few thousand people at once, the overseas colonies such as Cape Town, Kalamba, Malacca, and Brunei should be able to meet the first step of the Great Song Dynasty's needs.

(To be continued.) )