There was no suspense about the alliance with Byzantium, and the next day, Ming Jian personally participated in the negotiations and finalized a lot of cooperation content.

The most important thing is military cooperation and business exchanges, these two points, Ming Jian attaches great importance to, and the details are carefully considered before they are finally finalized.

Militarily, the Great Song Dynasty sold 10,000 Pu knives and 500 crossbows to Byzantium, and formed a 100,000-strong Japanese mercenary army for Byzantium.

In terms of commerce and trade, the two sides signed a trade agreement on mutual tax exemption.

Overall, this agreement is fair, but the Great Song Dynasty still occupies a certain head because of its own strength, and if nothing else, the goods of the Great Song Dynasty are not comparable to Byzantium.

With such a large economy allowing the Great Song Dynasty to dump goods, Ming Jian was not dissatisfied.

After finalizing it, Ming Jian immediately flew back to Bianjing.

After gathering the cabinet ministers, Ming Jian immediately threw out the agreement with Byzantium, Li Ruoshui, Li Gang and Qin Hui were not familiar with Byzantium, only knew that this place used to be called [Great Qin], and after listening to Ming Jian, he knew that Byzantium was a down-and-out power.

"The official family, this Byzantium tiger is now in Pingyang, but it is worthy of our Great Song Dynasty to help, but this is thousands of miles away, I am afraid that the whip is beyond the reach of the whip." Li Gang said.

Li Gang's loyalty to the Great Song Dynasty was 200%, and now the Great Song Dynasty was developing a little too fast, which made Li Gang feel worried, so he opposed supporting Byzantium.

Qin Hui said: "Lord Li, although this Byzantium is a little far away from my Great Song Dynasty, but now that the official family has opened the sea route, it is not laborious to come and go, this is a good time to increase the income of my Great Song Dynasty treasury, besides, private businessmen can also take this opportunity to open up sales channels and make the Great Song Dynasty more prosperous." In this way, wouldn't this be a good opportunity to strengthen my Great Song? Since the officials say that Byzantium is a big country, then their domestic consumption must be not small, and with the civilization of our Celestial Empire, it will be able to shine on Byzantium, which is a good opportunity to promote the prestige of the country! ”

Li Gang couldn't help nodding in the face of Qin Hui's speech, and said, "The reason is such a reason, but the old man is still worried." The official family, the minister thinks, this matter is better than convening the ministers to discuss and discuss, now although the national strength of the Great Song Dynasty is growing, but the Jin people in the north have always been our henchmen, the old minister thinks, or solve the Jin people in the north first, and then slowly expand outward, I don't know what the official family thinks? ”

Faced with Li Gang's defensive move, Ming Jian couldn't help but look a little ugly.

Although Li Gang has good ability and high prestige, if he doesn't keep up with his own rhythm, I'm afraid that the post of deputy prime minister of the cabinet will not last long!

Li Ruoshui saw this situation, and immediately said: "Official, what the two adults said makes sense. Please forgive the old minister's boldness, does the official family want to join forces with the Byzantium and Khitan people to eliminate the Jin people in one fell swoop? ”

Ming Jian smiled and said, "Li Aiqing still knows what I mean, then you can talk about the benefits of joining forces with Byzantium." ”

Li Ruoshui bowed and said, "Yes, official." Lao Chen believes that although this Byzantium is far away from our Great Song Dynasty, but now that we occupy the Western Regions, it will border Byzantium sooner or later, so that sooner or later, the two great powers will intersect. As the saying goes, either our friends or our enemies, now that the Jin people are not destroyed, then other countries can be drawn together as our friends. With the containment of Byzantium, the Turks, Khorezmians, Tocharians, and Arabs outside the Western Regions will not be able to invade our Western Regions, which will help us to carry out large-scale construction of the Western Regions under limited conditions. Once the Western Regions become a climate, when the time comes, how can they resist the golden people from a few breads? I don't know what the official thinks, whether the minister is right. ”

Ming Jian nodded and said, "What Aiqing said is very true, when I left Jiangning, I instructed Jiang Ninghou to send a million stupid women to the Western Regions, I don't know what the situation in the Western Regions is now?" ”

Li Ruoshui said: "The one million women have all settled down through the Hexi Corridor, and attracted nearly 500,000 Han people to migrate to the Western Regions, plus the local people, the total population of the Western Regions is now close to three million!" According to the report of the King of the Western Sea and the governor of the Western Regions, Chen Gang, the Western Regions are now building gallops and towns along the Silk Road. ”

Ming Jian nodded and said, "Three million people are still too little, according to my wishes, the population of this Western Regions can be increased tenfold!" Ladies and gentlemen, don't just look at the situation of our Great Song Dynasty, Byzantium has a very advantageous geographical location, and it is a good object for our cooperation. From both a military and commercial point of view, Byzantium was a good partner. Once the cooperation with Byzantium begins, then the entire Silk Road will form towns and cities, and the Western Regions will become extremely prosperous, and if it is done well, there will be no worries in the five hundred years of the Great Song Dynasty! Therefore, I decided to cooperate with the Byzantines instead of attacking them, and exterminating the Jin people was just a piece of cake, and maintaining the longevity of the Great Song Dynasty was the key! ”

Ming Jian's words made the three ministers nod frequently.

Qin Hui said: "What the official said is very reasonable, please supervise the cooperation with Byzantium this time." ”

"It's okay, Aiqing should select some shrewd people and send them to Byzantium to learn their things, especially the language, and deal with them for a long time in the future, and there must be talents in this area. There are also weapons for Byzantium, which are also selected, and now Byzantium's national strength is very bad, if it weren't for the opponent's too bad, I'm afraid they would have been unable to withstand it a long time ago. Give an order to the king of Riben to form a mercenary army of 100,000 people and go to Byzantium across the ocean to help Byzantium fight. ”

Ming Jian said.

Qin Hui said: "The minister obeys the order." ”

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A year will soon pass again, and after the wise leadership of Ming Jian, the Great Song Dynasty has made a major breakthrough in this year.

The economy of the Great Song Dynasty has continued to develop, and the per capita annual income has exceeded 1,000 guan, and now the people are living very richly. Moreover, because of the implementation of the provincial and county system, the development of the Great Song Dynasty has become more balanced, and the gap between the rich and the poor has not widened.

The development of all walks of life has made the economy of Da Song more resilient.

Once the economy is developed, it can produce many unexpected chain reactions, and an industry gives birth to an industry and forms an industrial chain.

In some places, there are signs of capitalism, such as land enclosures.

Rich people naturally like to buy land, and those who yearn for urban life can earn high wages when they go out to work, so land sales have become a relatively common thing in the Great Song Dynasty.

For this matter, Ming Jian did not intervene, the territory of the Great Song Dynasty will become larger and larger, the population will increase, the economy will become more and more developed, and sooner or later it will move towards capitalism.

Although the enclosure movement seems to be a problem, it is an inevitable step, the big landlords will become big capitalists in the future, and many people who have lost their land will become workers, and this rhythm will make the Great Song Dynasty a pioneer of the industrial revolution.

However, that was many years later.

The number of people in the Great Song Dynasty has also exceeded the 100 million mark, and the people are living a prosperous life, so there are naturally more children.

It's a good life, Da Song can afford it.

The population that Ming Jian got out of the copy became the new force of the Great Song Dynasty, and changed his identity to become a newborn.

Even Mingjian himself has added a few children.

Queen Zhu Lian gave birth to a big fat boy a few years ago, although he is not as good as Zhao Hao, but he is also a tiger, which makes Ming Jian like it.

Years later, several concubines also gave birth one after another, and Wang Meifeng gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses, which made Ming Jian even more happy.

Now the medical level of the Great Song Dynasty has improved a lot, He Shaozeng and An Daoquan's Tai Hospital have trained batches of outstanding medical talents, and after these talents go to the locality, they have opened many medical centers, providing a strong guarantee for the health of the people, and the mortality rate of newborns is very low.

After the New Year, with the intervention of the Byzantines, the navigation industry of the Great Song Dynasty began to change dramatically, and a large number of merchants formed their own caravans to go to the sea in search of wealth.

This also gave birth to the development of the civil shipbuilding industry, which was not deliberately controlled by Ming Jian, and the shipbuilding industry in Jiangnan began to flourish.

For the shipbuilding industry, Ming Jian intends to guide shipyards to develop advanced ships, such as steam ships, who want to build them, Ming Jian directly made a marquis.

All walks of life, you chase me, so it's not lively.

Militarily, the Song army also gained a foothold in the Western Regions, and made contact with the international community, gradually forming a huge encirclement.

The Jin people began to sit still, the Turks began to move, and the envoys of Western countries began to appear in Bianjing.

The world is lively!