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"I'm originally from the north, and when I heard that His Majesty was going to emigrate to the north, I wanted to go home and have a look, maybe I could help you. "Kong Pei's reason is very sufficient, his hometown is on the Shandong Peninsula, according to his age, he is a little nostalgic for his hometown."www.biquge.info

"This is from your aunt, right? Jinhe, this kid betrayed Lao Tzu quickly, why do you talk to your mother about everything! Didn't your aunt say she wanted to come with you? Bo Jiao also knew about going to North America to be the king, Hong Tao didn't have to think about it, he knew who was so lax, and when he thought of the girl who was standing on the deck and smiling at himself, he really couldn't let go.

"My aunt has nothing to do but scold you all day, and even if she wants to follow me, she can't open her mouth. Why don't you go back and see her, just take her over, it's useless to be persuaded by others, my aunt is very stubborn. When it came to Bo Zhu, Bo Jiao didn't know whether to say it to their Bo family or to this uncle.

"I can't go back...... Identity does not allow, conditions do not allow, time does not allow. Wait a minute, when I'm done with this time, let Wen Nan run for me, and see if I can convince your aunt to let her come here for a while to relax. If you have nothing to do, you can also help me and your aunt blow the wind, just say that I live in the palace now, and she can live in the palace of the queen mother when she comes, hehehe...... "Hong Tao sighed, it's easy to say, go back! How do you go back? In what name to go back? He is now the prime minister of the Great Song Empire, so he can't say that he should let himself sneak back in disguise. Even if you want to sneak back, you can't do it, this barcode around your neck will reveal your identity in minutes.

"Then can I also go to the Emperor's palace for the night?" As soon as Bo Jiao heard about the palace, his eyes lit up. Don't look at the fact that he once served as the prime minister of the empire, but the Great Song Palace is still a very sacred place in his mind, this is the difference between his generation and the pure second generation of the Jinhe Empire, the difference in thought, can not be changed in a lifetime.

"Stay, must live! Not only do you have to live, but you also have to eat at the same table with the emperor! Let's go, Lao Kong, have you finished arranging things here? After the arrangement, go with me to meet the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty first, and chat with him if you have nothing to do. He was also quite pitiful, and kept me in the palace all day, making it difficult to see outsiders. You guys are here, have a meal and chat with him, and it can be regarded as relieving his boredom. "Emperor Lizong's family is already ordinary people in Hong Tao's eyes, but they still have to hold on to the emperor's position during this time. I am also a person who has sat in the emperor, and I can understand this feeling of extreme depression. Others can't mess around, Bo Jiao and Kong Pei are fine.

"You're still powerful, the emperor of a country will become a child when he comes to you, and if you say it's locked up, you'll be locked up. But let's not go to the palace yet, let's take a look at the gift that Kong Pei brought you, it is in the back, and it will arrive in more than half an hour. "Bo Jiao simply admires his uncle, since he was a child, he has followed his uncle to fight east and west, and has beaten countless chiefs, tribal leaders, little kings or something, it is not a matter at all, but I have never seen a real great emperor detained. However, he didn't bother to chat with the Great Song Emperor for the time being, raised his hand and pointed to the river in the east, indicating that there was a boat coming behind.

Bo Jiao was very accurate, a large string of salmon-class armed cargo ships soon appeared in view, when they slowly approached the dock, what came down from the ship was not cargo or people, but one by one war horses, a full six ships loaded with war horses, more than four hundred. After the cargo ships loaded with horses had left the shore, seven or eight more cargo ships docked in turn, and groups of Imperial Army troops began to disembark along the gangplank, lining up on the docks as they went, and soon the docks were full.

"Well, you two are here to decapitate me! Are you afraid that I'll just throw you two to death? Hong Tao looked at so many imperial troops, and his mouth was full of words, and he hated it for not his own.

"Hey, hey, hey...... This is the military aid provided to you by the Empire, an expeditionary force of 4,000 people, most of whom come from the Empire mainland and the port of Kalamba, and more than 300 of its rank and file officers are Han Chinese from the North. You may not know that when the agreement between Yi Yi and you was submitted to the Parliament, those Han Chinese councilors from the Northland could not sit still, and none of them did not vote in favor, they all hoped that you could build their hometown into the Jinhe Empire, so that although they left their hometown, their hometown parents could be better off. After the news came out of the parliament, the Han Chinese and the Great Song immigrants from the north ran to the door of the parliament to give their children over and let them recover their homeland for them. The Imperial Council finally decided to send Han Chinese officers from all over the country to form an expeditionary force, under my command, to cooperate with you in implementing the new policy north of the Yangtze River, and to give the Han people in the Empire a chance to return to their hometowns. Kong Pei was very satisfied with Hong Tao's reaction, it was not easy to surprise the old emperor.

"It's no problem for people to be sent, but there are no serious cities in the north, and the population is not large, so I can't provide for it, so thousands of people eat and drink......" Hong Tao's face showed deep worry.

"Uncle, don't cry with us. Jin He explained to me before leaving, saying that if you cry poor, send these troops back, so as not to embarrass you...... "Bo Jiao was not deceived by Hong Tao's appearance, many tricks are too familiar, no matter how realistic Hong Tao does, they have lost their effect.

"Little bastard! Calculate his Lao Tzu with outsiders! Come on, I'll squeeze it again, maybe I can squeeze out one meal a day......" This time Hong Tao couldn't get up, and the lack of people in his hands was his biggest shortcoming. With these 4,000 imperial armies, it is much more cost-effective than going to the north with the Great Song Forbidden Army, at least these armies will not think about mutiny one day, take their heads off, and eat as much as they want.

"Your Majesty don't worry about supplies, the Royal Navy's Northern Fleet has begun to settle in Dengzhou Port, I estimate that in a few months, the first batch of Northland Councilors will go north to Dengzhou with condolence supplies, followed by those Imperial residents who want to return to their hometowns. Before I arrived, they were already donating money and materials to help you govern the North, and the amount will surely surprise you. I hadn't really noticed that the inhabitants of the empire were so rich before, but this time I opened my eyes. Kong Pei didn't calculate anything with Hong Tao, and he didn't worry about anything at all, because he knew that even if Hong Tao didn't provide a single grain of food, these more than 4,000 people would not be hungry.

"I really forgot about it...... Mistake, I didn't take advantage of such a good opportunity. After listening to Kong Pei's words, Hong Tao patted his thigh firmly. What a failure! How could you forget about the second largest race in the Golden River Empire, and you didn't even calculate it at all. It seems that he has really made no progress in national management over the years, except for the memory and experience in his head, there is nothing extraordinary. If it weren't for Yi Yi to plug this hole for himself, he would have to lose a very big help in vain.

Bo Jiao and Kong Pei only stayed in the palace for four days, and then followed Hong Tao out of Lin'an City and went north. This time, the waves were dashing, and instead of shrinking back on the boat and taking the sea route, he took more than 2,000 people on horseback and headed north along the canal.

The inland area of the Great Song Dynasty was too large, and it was impossible for him to just walk along the seashore and see nothing like that. Moreover, Bo Jiao and Kong Pei also had another mission, that is, to personally go to the inland areas north of the Yangtze River to see, and then report back to the imperial government what they had seen. This is the main basis for the Jinhe Imperial Government to correctly judge the local situation, so as to determine what kind of support should be given to Hong Tao.

Why do you have to go down the canal? The reason is very simple: the logistics and supplies of the troops have to be transported from the canal by boat, which can save a lot of transportation trouble, and there is no need to requisition and mobilize people. And Hong Tao didn't believe in the Great Song Xiangjun and the local government at this time, let them be in charge of their own logistics, it was better to let the weasel be in charge of guarding the chicken coop. The wind and waves have come over, and we must not make a mistake in such a small matter.

After Xiuzhou and Pingjiang Mansion, along the east bank of Taihu Lake all the way to the north, crossing the Yangtze River to Yangzhou, a section of the way down, Hong Tao, Bo Jiao, Kong Pei are more optimistic about the development trend of the Great Song Dynasty in the future. In these places, whether they are towns or villages, the people's lives are relatively rich, and there are many relatively large workshop associations, mainly engaged in the textile industry. According to the current state, Hong Tao can easily guide these primary handicraft industries to larger-scale factories, and capital, technology, and marketing are not problems, and the government can help solve them.

As soon as he was in a good mood, Hong Tao began to relax, and when he walked further, he would often leave the army with his guards and go to the nearby villages and towns to go around the field to grasp the first-hand information more effectively and prepare to make the preliminary plan.

But before he could figure out the details of how this plan should start and how to develop, he put down this matter that had not yet started for the time being. Because the further north you go, the more difficult the road becomes, or there are fewer and fewer roads, and it is difficult to find even dirt roads, but there are more and more rivers and swamps. Fortunately, the two thousand Imperial Army were all cavalry, and there were relatively reliable maps to guide them, so if you walked on just two legs, you wouldn't be able to go far in a day.

The road is more and more desolate and desolate, and it is often impossible to see a village or town for most of the day, at most you can see a few small fishing boats in the nearby lake. But those fishermen did not listen to the greetings, and obviously saw the army under the banner of the imperial court, but they did not scream, but hid everywhere and did not show their faces at all.

(To be continued.) )