This time, Wen Hao exchanged things for the imperial court, and he personally thought that the imperial court needed it the most, so he earned it. Moreover, he was very sure to persuade Emperor Rijong and the ministers of the court to accept the results of the negotiations, because these concessions were not his will alone, they were all in the authorization given to him by Emperor Rizong, and even recovered more losses for the imperial court. If such a result cannot be passed, then who has the ability to talk about it, the question is who has the ability? Wen Hao couldn't help but look left and right, there really wasn't!

Opening the port to the Great Song Dynasty was Wen Hao's first big gain for the Great Song Dynasty, and it was also an important part of his own plan. The country has long been deeply hidden, and even the shareholders of the Straits Company do not know where the country is. This is very detrimental to the Great Song Dynasty and its own plans. Wen Hao has always been accustomed to hiding in the shadows to plot against others, so he is most afraid of his peers.

Well, now, as long as the port of Jinhe Kingdom is opened, Wen Hao feels that he is sure to expand his influence into the other party's territory, and he feels that he has already figured out the context of Jinhe Kingdom, or that Emperor Hong has studied it thoroughly. To say that Wen Hao still has to thank this Emperor Hong, if it weren't for the inspiration of his two books, he wouldn't have been able to get this far. In any case, this Emperor Hong does have goods in his stomach, and many of his ideas and thoughts are very demagogic, which is very suitable for fooling others into working hard for their ideals.

However, Wen Hao did not accept this feeling, because the emperor did not reuse a great talent like himself, but praised his mediocre cousin, and interfered with himself in the issue of running a newspaper, which was simply a great insult to himself. As for who excavated themselves, who gave them a chance to show their faces. These questions were automatically filtered by him.

People like him. Doesn't think about the good that others do for themselves. As long as there is one thing that you are not happy with, then you are a bad person! If you stand in his way, then you are his mortal enemy! It must be eliminated as soon as possible.

Let Jin Heguo help the Great Song Dynasty build an ammunition factory, which is Wen Hao's second big gain. The Jinhe Kingdom has always been a strong country with strong ships and sharp guns, and at the same time, it has also relied on this influence to deter the Great Song Dynasty and its neighboring countries. As long as this factory is opened on the territory of the Great Song Dynasty, Wen Hao will have a way to get his hands on the gunpowder formula that Jin Heguo has been secret. At that time, the cannon of the Great Song Navy Division can also erode for several miles, and Jin Heguo can't pinch it as much as he wants?

In addition, the Great Song merchant ships can finally sail directly to the port of Kalamba. In exchange, the country of Jinhe also handed over the route. Without the benefits of firearms and the exclusive right of routes, Jin Heguo is simply a popular singer who wants to refuse and welcome, as long as you have the ability, you can get on as much as you want, Wen Hao thinks that he belongs to the category of people who have the ability.

As for the benefits of selling muskets to the New Army of the Great Song Dynasty and selling them to the corn seeds that the Great Song Dynasty could grow in the wasteland, Wen Hao didn't take it to heart. These are all tie-ins, and the really useful things are the above three points.

Of course, since it is a transaction, it does not matter whether it is a loss or a gain. You'll have to take out something to exchange with someone. What did Wen Hao come up with? Or what interests did the Southern Song Dynasty court concede. In fact, there are quite a few, but both Wenhao and Emperor Lizong think that these efforts are not very important. It's they who earned it. But Hong Tao doesn't see it that way, he thinks that these things are something that a country can't take out and exchange, and they are not for sale.

First of all, the three cities of Guangzhou, Quanzhou, and Qiongzhou were formally established by the businessmen's political participation associations. This group of fifteen people, elected by the maritime merchants, will represent the interests of all maritime merchants in their cities, and can exercise the functions and powers of the chamber of commerce, and can also supervise and impeach local officials, but cannot nominate and appoint them.

Without the approval of the Council, maritime merchants can refuse to carry out an executive order issued by the government. That is to say, in the future, if the government has any regulations involving the interests of maritime merchants, it must first be discussed with the political participation committee and can only be implemented after reaching a consensus.

What does this mean? Perhaps Wen Hao and the Great Song Dynasty were not aware of its seriousness.

On the surface, this is just a small group of a small number of maritime merchants, and it has nothing to do with others. But as the saying goes, a spark can start a prairie fire. Once the Maritime Participation Conference is effective and allows maritime merchants to protect their interests, other groups will follow suit.

No one is stupid, so why can you protect yourself and we can't? Since the imperial court has promised you maritime merchants to set up a political participation meeting, then we will also make a political participation meeting, they are all the people of the Great Song Dynasty, and they should be treated equally. The court of the Song Dynasty originally had relatively loose control over the people, and it was difficult for latecomers to refuse such a request as long as they had made an opening and had a precedent.

Once the concept of political participation is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, it is indeed effective. The close relatives of the maritime merchants, the upper and lower ends of the entire industrial chain of trade activities, and the ordinary merchants on land also had to toss together. This group is even larger, although they are not like the maritime merchants who can take refuge in boats and tow their families, but it is precisely for this reason that their struggle will be more fierce and cruel, and the harm and impact on the court of the Great Song Dynasty will be greater. After all, many Song Dynasty officials were businessmen at home, which was tantamount to digging their foundations.

If the maritime and land merchants could protect their interests, what would the craftsmen and craftsmen do? Will they also want to protect themselves? The answer to this is yes, even the most honest peasants will have this appeal, and the further the court goes, the more difficult it will be to suppress this cry. Because the Maritime Council, the Land Merchant Council, and the Handicraft Council will all join forces to help those who have the same demands as them, not to help others, but to help themselves.

Is one political meeting enough? Will it satisfy the growing appetites of the merchant class? It would be a mistake to think so. The group of merchants has a greater appetite than any other class, and they are almost not satisfied, and even Hong Tao does not dare to say that he can completely control them. Unless you don't give them any hope, you just let them taste the sweetness once, and they will think about it for the rest of their lives, and as long as there is a glimmer of hope, they have to taste it again, and by the way, see if they can eat more.

If you don't have this understanding and awareness, and rashly loosen the constraints on the merchant class, you will dig a hole for yourself. Unless you compromise with the merchant class, this hole will never be filled.

This is also the characteristic of the merchant group, they know how to bargain better than other groups, know how to accept what they see, better understand the long flow, and are better at pondering people's hearts. Fight with them, unless you use absolute force to forcibly subdue them, no one will be able to please them, and they will be said to take advantage.

But the Great Song Dynasty couldn't use absolute force, because there was still a Jinhe Empire on the side. If the Great Song Dynasty wanted to solve this kind of problem by force, the Jinhe Kingdom would show its true colors. It would cooperate with the merchants to exert pressure on the Great Song Dynasty from the outside, distracting the energy of the Great Song court while trying to narrow the power gap between the merchants and the imperial court. When necessary, it will also provide weapons assistance to the merchant group, so that the imperial court will not see the hope of an easy victory, and can only give up little by little to more awakened groups at the negotiation table. When it wants to fight, it will find that it has been slowly eaten away and is covered with holes, and it has no ability to fight.

This is Hong Tao's full set of plans, and the use of this method can minimize the danger of war and be relatively controllable.

Of course, Hong Tao is not really a prophet, this thing has been played in other countries, but it is not so difficult, he is now playing at the MAX level, whether it can be as smooth as he imagined, only God knows.

is still the same sentence, Hong Tao just kills or buries it, he lights the flame, and he will pour some oil on it from time to time halfway, but he doesn't know if this fire can burn to the end. He didn't know if the fire would burn too hard and burn down everyone's houses. He only knows that this road is passed by others, and it is also a road that can enrich the country and strengthen the people, so he should let others take it too.

In this negotiation, Jinhe Kingdom had another gain, that is, to instigate the Great Song Dynasty court to decide on the Northern Expedition. This condition is the main condition in the negotiations, and the affairs of the maritime merchants are additional.

In fact, this was a smoke bomb released by Hong Tao, and he didn't care much about the Northern Expedition of the Great Song Dynasty or not. The Mongol Empire was finished, and two quasi-khanates hostile to each other could not afford to invade south. At this time, the most beneficial thing for the Great Song Dynasty should not be the Northern Expedition, but to sell back and forth between Guiyou and Meng Ge, provoking the two of them to pinch to death. In a few years, more than ten years, maybe the Southern Song Dynasty will not need to send troops to fight with their lives, and the territory in the north will fall into the hands of the Southern Song Dynasty court.

But Hong Tao really pitted the Southern Song Dynasty once on this issue, and in order to fulfill his ideals, he could no longer take care of the interests of the Southern Song court. In his opinion, a Southern Song Dynasty that entered the primary capitalist model was much more important than taking advantage of the fire to rob the Mongol Empire. In order to weaken the strength of the Southern Song Dynasty, he deliberately took advantage of the desire of Zheng Qing's main battle faction and Emperor Lizong's obsession with his homeland to promote the Northern Expedition.

Don't look at the Mongol Empire has fallen apart, but as long as the Southern Song Dynasty court sends troops and plays the banner of recovering their homeland, there is an 80% chance that Guiyou and Meng Ge will immediately reach a short-term agreement, and they will unite to deal with the Southern Song court. Therefore, this Northern Expedition was not as easy as the Southern Song Dynasty court expected, and if it was not done well, it would have to make the Southern Song Dynasty suffer a big loss.

Of course, the Mongol Empire couldn't stand it either. In front of the formed musketeers, they will suffer great losses in the early stage of the war, and even if they finally hold the territory in the north, they will have to end up with a loss of troops and a weak national strength.

(To be continued.) )