But Wu Qian made this suggestion, and Hong Tao was a little skeptical. This shipyard is certainly not his own investment, so who else can let him come forward? There was only the Emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, or the Imperial Court of the Great Song Dynasty. The private establishment of a shipyard is supported by Hong Tao, which is a commercial act and is to make money, but he does not support the opening of a shipyard by the state. The Great Song Dynasty used this shipyard to build merchant ships, they wanted to use their own technology to build warships, and it seems that the Great Song Dynasty was also involved in this arms race. It's not that Hong Tao doesn't want the Great Song Dynasty to have a strong enough fleet, but not now, there are still many more urgent places to invest, and it is obviously unwise to use the limited financial resources at sea. Don't look at the Great Song Dynasty is much richer than the Mongol Empire, but the navy is a money-burning machine, and no amount of money is enough to burn.

"I'm afraid this will drag on for a while, and my craftsmen are working overtime at the moment, and I really can't spare manpower. In addition, I also came to Mingzhou for the last time in my private capacity, and my country has changed a little, and the specific details are estimated to be known by Lord Wu in a few days. "Teaching the Great Song Dynasty to build warships, Hong Tao will definitely not agree, this is his own eating guy, he has lost his technical advantage, and the Jinhe Empire will be crushed to death by the huge Southern Song Dynasty in minutes. And there is another problem in front of us, that is, the Great Song Dynasty does not know about the transformation of Jinhewan into an empire, but soon there will be official diplomats to Lin'an to submit their credentials, and the cooperative relationship between Jinhe Company and the Great Song Dynasty will definitely change, and there will be suspicions between the two countries, anyway, Hong Tao is not very optimistic about the prospects.

"Your country? As far as I know, Mr. Hong is an official of the Great Song Dynasty, an envoy of the Nanyang system! Although Wu Qian is enthusiastic about various water conservancy projects, he is a high-ranking official of the Great Song Dynasty after all. Very sensitive to certain words. Luo Youde and Wen Nan didn't react. He first heard something was wrong.

"To tell the truth, the Golden River Company no longer exists, and in its place is the Golden River Empire, and I have the honor of becoming the first emperor of the Empire. The official envoy is on his way to Lin'an, and he will help me personally resign from the position of envoy to the Great Song Emperor. "Now that the words have been said here, Hong Tao will no longer hide it, Wu Qian knew a few days early and a few days later knew that it would not affect him.

"What! Imperial? Emperor! As soon as Hong Tao said this, the three people present were all frightened. Wu Qian even stood up directly from the chair, watching Hong Tao open his mouth for a long time, still not thinking of what to say. Now that Hong Tao is the emperor, and he is a foreign emperor, the original relationship between the two of them dissipated in an instant. Now he was thinking about how a high-ranking official of the Great Song Dynasty should get along with a foreign emperor, which was really a new topic, and no one seemed to have encountered anything like it before.

"When did this happen? When we came back from Europe, you weren't fine, you didn't mention the founding of the country and the title of emperor! Isn't it a joke? Then this joke will be too big, and you shouldn't talk about this kind of thing casually. Luo Youde was shocked and a little disbelieving, the last time he saw Hong Tao was just a few months ago. It's not even half a year, why did the chairman become the emperor. With his knowledge of Hong Tao. Naturally, it was thought that Hong Tao was playing a prank again.

"It's been less than a month since the enthronement ceremony, and this time it's real, not a joke. I came this time to inform the two of you of this matter in advance, so as not to cause unnecessary misunderstandings, but I didn't expect Lord Wu to be there, so I simply notified them together. Hong Tao tried to make himself serious, and once again reiterated that this was true.

"Let's take my leave first, if that's the case, I'm afraid there will be another uproar in the court. It is difficult for the officials to convince those ministers who don't like the envoys this time, and it is difficult to say that they have joined forces to resist Mongolia in the past two years...... Mr. Hong, don't ...... "After a few minutes of thinking, Wu Qian also changed back to the appearance of the coastal envoy, hugged his fist to Hong Tao in a proper manner, then shook his head, turned around and walked out with a lonely expression. Listening to the meaning of his words, he did not have much expectations for the cooperation between the two countries in the future, and he briefly mentioned the reason, but due to the identity issue, it could not be elaborated, and it seems that the views and opinions of the Great Song Dynasty on the foreign force of Jinhewan are not unified.

"Sir, have you really become an emperor?" Wen Nan hadn't spoken before, he kept his head down and was thinking about something, until Wu sneaked out of the house, he raised his head again, there was no stunned expression on his face, but there was a look of anticipation in his eyes.

"I really can't be more real, I can't talk much about Lord Wu here just now, in fact, I came to you and Brother Luo. We've known each other for a long time, so I won't say much polite words, but my question is very simple. You have to make your own choice, Brother Luo only needs to reconsider the development of the relationship with the empire in the future, but Brother Wen, you are different, you can do business without borders, but as an official, you can only choose one country. I want you to go back to serve as the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Golden River Empire, which is almost the position of Libu Langzhong, what do you think? After Hong Tao saw Wen Nan's eyes, his heart was a little lighter, and he simply said all his intentions straight to the point, don't wait for these two to think about it slowly, the hot knife is fast, and one is bald.

"Good fellow...... Then won't I be an imperial merchant in the future? The Emperor has a stake in my company...... Hey, hey, interesting. Brother Hong...... Oh, no, it's Your Majesty, how dare you do it! Luo Youde's personality is similar to Hong Tao in many places, the more he encounters major events, the more relaxed he becomes, and he also jokes.

"I correct that it is not me personally, nor the Royal, but the Imperial Government. In this matter, we will have to replan the main body in the future, and it is more appropriate to replace the imperial government with a department or an agent. Of course, it's just a change in form, all business operations are still the same as before, Brother Luo is still a merchant in the Great Song Dynasty, and the business he does is also a legal business, and I won't let Brother Luo do anything detrimental to the Great Song Dynasty, and you and your family don't need to bear any mental burden. Luo Youde's joke is also a statement to Hong Tao, and he wants to continue to cooperate with Hong Tao in the future. This is the businessman, who does not attach much importance to the concept of the state when it is not too involved in the interests of the state. Hong Tao did not disappoint Luo Youde, and he also clearly expressed his attitude to Luo Youde, dispelling some of Luo Youde's worries.

"Sir, can you give me a day to think about it?" Wen Nan is not as happy as Luo Youde, he is not a businessman, he must choose a side, and this time he can't repeat it, once he chooses a team, he has to completely cut off from the other side.

"No problem, I'll give you two days, I'll be back in two days, and I'll have to go to Carl's hometown in a few days. Brother Luo, you should hurry up and prepare the goods you brought. If Brother Wen is willing to come back to help me, then you can just follow the fleet and meet those countries, it's very interesting, Foreign Minister, it will be your job to deal with them in the future. Hong Tao felt that according to Wen Nan's character, it was indeed unlikely that he would immediately agree or reject himself, and such a big matter should also let him think about it before making the final choice. However, the material that should be added has to be added, and it is not impossible to use the small temptation to go to Europe, these days Luo Youde must have talked to Wen Nan about what he has seen and heard in Europe, and those who don't want to see it with their own eyes are definitely not normal people.

"What about the ship transferer? Could it be that Mr. wants to give up Da Song? Wen Nan also has a concern, he can't completely leave the Great Song Dynasty alone, this is his motherland after all.

"That's not going to happen, it's just that it's hard to say whether this transshipment fleet can be recognized by the imperial court, and maybe the imperial court itself will cancel it at that time." In addition, the purpose of this fleet has been achieved, and I will station a fleet off the coast of Mingzhou to prevent the Mongolian sailors from sneaking up on the sea. I'm afraid you don't know that the Mongols are secretly building ships, which is the fundamental reason why they haven't launched a large-scale offensive for more than a year. In order to defend the two ports of Dengzhou and Jinzhou from being attacked, they have stationed a lot of elite troops nearby, and I estimate that many important ports and rivers along the coast will also be strictly guarded, and now Mongolia has transferred all its troops to the coastal areas, and they plan to fight me in a decisive battle on the sea. Hong Tao himself did not have an accurate answer to this question raised by Wen Nan, and everything depended on the reaction of the Great Song Dynasty after his envoy officially announced the news of the establishment of the Jinhe Empire to the Great Song Dynasty.

"To tell the truth, not only are the Mongols building sailors, but the imperial court also has plans to replace the original sailors' boats, but it has not yet been decided what type of ship will be used. Some people advocate that the salmon-class should be changed to be used as a warship, and some people advocate asking Mr. for the drawings of the Jiao Shark class or even the killer whale class to build it by himself, and do not ask for one step, Lord Wu is one of the latter faction. He thought that it would be fine for him to take out such important inventions as cement and present them to the imperial court for free, and provide a little shipbuilding technology. "It's not surprising for Wen Nan to hear that the Mongol Empire is establishing a water division, it seems that the Great Song Dynasty is not all waste, they should have known this news for a long time.

"Hehehe...... I don't have any opinion on Lord Wu, this is called the difference in values, he should not have read my "Theory of Sea Power", otherwise he would not have made this request to me. You have to blame for this, you won't give my books everywhere, you have to wait for others to buy them themselves! "If you don't say that Hong Tao is thick-skinned, it's like how popular his books are.

"Hong ...... Your Majesty, you still wronged Brother Wen, he did send ...... But as far as I know, most people don't want to watch it, hehe......" Luo Youde helped Wen Nan say a fair word, although he changed his name to Hong Tao, but that careless energy, it is better not to change.

(To be continued.) )