Speaking of guns, Hong Tao couldn't help but worry about Martini's future. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Don't look fat at this fat man, but the aging rate is slower than himself, and his body is quite healthy, not like a short-lived master. If you wait until the empire begins to expand northward, it will take less than two months to call, and it will be difficult for you to speak for him at that time.

"Really, really a king! Your Majesty, the two of them are not sensible, don't be like them......" Hong Tao's words scared Medini, he had the same thoughts as Luo Youde, Swan, Qi Zu, and Wen Xiaoqi, and he never took what Hong Tao said about dividing the land as a king's family play seriously, but just wanted his children to be mixed with officials, and he was satisfied with leaving a way back for the family.

"Hey, it's cost-effective to think I'm a liar! What do I get if I lie to your two black sons? You have to eat and drink! It's true, put your heart in your stomach, not only your son is the king, but Boss Luo, Swan, Karl, and Qizu are all kings. I'm so generous, I still have more than half of the land in my hand! I don't have a few people in my hands who can be used, and it's still the same sentence, you can't mix up here for a few years, and you can't run north anymore, and your body can't run. Come with me, and send all your people in ships of the sea, and let your sons live in their country. It's much richer than here, it's all good land, and you can grow anything. ”

If it was mentioned in passing just now, now Hong Tao is really tempted. If Medini was still the governor, he would never have mobilized him to run to North America to become king, but now that he is retired, why is he still looking for pleasure here. There is a shortage of people in his hands, Martini doesn't look at the war, engineering, and scientific research, but he is a very good management talent, and look at Cape Town built and managed by him from scratch to know whether he has the ability in the end. And this guy is a very good national solidarizer, and if he can play with the blacks, he can naturally deal with the Indians.

"Since Your Majesty thinks so highly of me, then I will move the nest again, and I would have liked to bury it here. But I had to consult with the people of the tribe about this matter, and ask them what they meant. Martini was moved by Hong Tao's words, not because of how good the conditions of the land described by Hong Tao, but mainly because Martini had confidence in Hong Tao. This big man emperor has always counted since the day he knew him, he said that he would be burned to death, and if he said that he would be rich, he would really give it, and he would never treat anyone who followed him to fight the world.

And the problem of the northward expansion of the empire is indeed worth worrying, he was able to control the direction and speed when he was the governor, and now that he has retired, the new governor must show his ability. In which way people want to expand, they will definitely not come to ask themselves whether they agree or disagree.

"Don't be busy with this matter for now, you so many clansmen won't be able to finish it for a while, so let's talk to me about the empire first. From the time I left, the more detailed the better, tell me everything you know, and ask Cixi if you don't know. "Medini's clan is a windfall, but Hong Tao's biggest worry has not diminished by half a point, he seems to know what has changed in the empire in the past two years or so. Even if I leave this country, I don't want to get involved in it in the future, but after all, I built it by myself, and my every move involves my heart.

"Why don't I send someone to invite Minister Ci over, he is not an outsider, he already knows about my family here, and he has come with me. This time, when I went back to Jinhe City to report on my work, if it wasn't for Minister Ci who wrote me a letter and asked me to take the letter to his brother when I was in trouble, I don't think Bo Jiao would have come forward to speak for me. You don't know yet, Ciqi is now the Minister of Supervision, and the former kid surnamed Yi is the Prime Minister of the Empire. "Medini has been overseas for a long time, and he doesn't know much about the changes within the empire, so he is afraid that he will not be able to explain it to Hong Tao clearly.

"Yi Yi is the prime minister!! Ha...... Ha ha...... What a boy, so calculating! He still didn't listen to my warning, and he really landed on two boats! It's really the back waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves! Martini's words made Hong Tao's laughter change tone, dry, not so much laughing, but howling.

When Yi Yi was the Minister of Supervision, he had personal contacts with some young military officers and government officials, and every disturbance against the imperial government had something to do with him, which Ciqi told himself. When the trade union law and the party system were introduced, he himself had beaten him, and he understood it. Now it seems that he didn't take his advice seriously, and was still involved in the political groups of the second generation of the empire, and was still a major player. For so many years, he has been a hidden stake in the imperial government of the second generation of the empire. It's no wonder that although Yi Yi is older than those second generations, it is not much different, and it is not surprising that he and the second generation have common pursuits and ideals.

Medini and Hong Tao only talked for a few hours, and then arranged for Hong Tao to rest. The first is that he really doesn't know what the reason for many government changes is, and the second is that Hong Tao is old, a person in his fifties, who has been floating on the sea for another month, and his mind and body can't stand it, and his eyelids start to fight when he listens. Instead of spending time here, it is better to rest for two days and then talk, anyway, how the imperial government changes, he, the abdicated emperor, can't care. Even if you return to Jinhe City now, can you still oust the government from power? The current emperor is Hong Jinhe!

Since the abdication and departure of the Golden River Empire, the Golden River Empire has indeed changed a lot. First of all, there are two opposing parties, the royalist party and the al-Shabaab party, which is headed by Prime Minister Po Jiao and includes more than half of the ministers and parliamentarians; The Al-Shabaab is dominated by a group of second-generation officials of Jinhe State, including Boyu and Po Shrimp.

The royalists adhered to the development plan formulated by Hong Tao, and preferred to improve themselves slowly, advocating limited friendly coexistence with neighboring countries, and not in a hurry to expand their territory. Al-Shabaab, on the other hand, believed that there should be a major expansion of territory, and that whatever was useful to the empire should be owned by the empire.

As Hong Tao originally expected, the royalist party led by Bo Jiao won an absolute victory in the general election that began at the end of 1246, and Bo Jiao was also re-elected as the imperial prime minister. They also adhered to their governing philosophy, built the ports of Malacca, Penang, Karlamba, and Masca more perfectly, and established trade relations with many countries in the Arabian Peninsula region, and jointly used the route from the Great Song Dynasty to the Persian Gulf, pushing maritime trade to a new peak.

In terms of domestic construction, the royalists did not absorb a large number of new immigrants, and still guarded Jinhe City and Mayi City, and used the Royal Navy to deter the entire route and surrounding countries. In order to ensure that the merchants of the Jinhe Empire could obtain the maximum profits in the maritime trade, Bo Jiao abolished the institution of the Strait Company, and no longer provided special protection and care for the merchant ships of the Great Song Dynasty, freeing up more energy to support the development and growth of the empire's maritime merchants.

In fact, at this time, the Great Song Dynasty maritime merchants did not need the protection of the Jinhe Empire, and the routes were very safe, and only when they reached the Arabian Sea would there be slightly larger pirates. However, in the face of the large fleet of maritime merchants, the pirates did not dare to touch it, so they could only go to those scattered small maritime merchants, most of whom were still the Arabs' own maritime merchants.

In terms of diplomatic relations with the Song Dynasty, Bo Jiao also followed Hong Tao's old path. On the one hand, it continued to support the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty, and on the other hand, it continued to exert influence on the three autonomous cities and the coastal cities of the Great Song Dynasty through cultural exchanges and commercial activities.

Generally speaking, until 1249, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian Ocean were very calm, and there were no wars. Everyone was busy doing business, and even many of the smaller states on the Indian peninsula began to pay tribute to the port of Kalamba, trying to join the maritime trade system dominated by the Golden River Empire.

However, in the autumn of 1250, an incident suddenly occurred that broke the harmonious atmosphere in East Asia, and there was turmoil within the Great Song Kingdom.

In fact, the Northern Expedition was basically over in early 1249, and although the Mongol Empire fought stubbornly for several years, it was finally unable to resist the population of the Great Song Dynasty and the number of muskets of the Jinhe Empire, and was pushed back to the north step by step, losing most of the territory north of the Yellow River. Seeing that the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty was already unstoppable, Guiyou and Meng Ge simply stopped fighting together, and began to preserve their respective strength, and all returned to their fiefdoms to recuperate.

It is said that this is a great thing, the Great Song Dynasty not only recovered the land lost before, but also expanded hundreds of kilometers to the north before the snow, and there was no Western Xia Kingdom in the west, and the borders were about to expand to the fiefdoms of Chagatai and Wokotai, and the entire Yellow River Valley became the hinterland of the Great Song Dynasty.

But people, suddenly getting rich, often do strange things that are not quite logical, and the same is true for countries. The Southern Song Dynasty court has been beaten by others for hundreds of years, and suddenly turned over to be the master, feeling a little rich, and began to make stupid moves again. Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty actually wanted to move the capital back to Kaifeng, and formally proved his merits to the ancestors and ancestors.

In fact, there is nothing to move the capital, Kaifeng City is still there, although after two years of war and some dilapidation, but slowly repaired and repaired, after a few years of repair is almost, take the ministers back and go back. But Song Lizong didn't do it, he was in a hurry, as soon as this person got older, he was easy to get anxious, because he always felt that he couldn't live long, although he was not sick or sick, he also thought so.

As soon as the emperor was in a hurry, a few more ministers followed suit, and the matter of moving the capital became a disaster. Emperor Lizong of the Song Dynasty actually issued an edict asking the maritime merchants to help him transport building materials to the north by sea, and the plan was to carry them up the Yellow River all the way up to Kaifeng, or to call in vain and not give money. How many ships are needed? More than 300 ships! In fact, this amount is not too much, and the maritime merchants reluctantly agreed to the emperor's exploits in recovering his homeland.

(To be continued.) )