"Will this push them into a hurry and have a negative impact on the cooperation between the two countries?" Wen Nan knows better the temperament of those people in the Great Song Dynasty, and he can endure being beaten by the enemy, but he does not allow his own people to expose their shortcomings casually. Their face and self-esteem are all grown up to their own people, and they are full of smiling faces to the outside world.

"Hey, hey, hey...... You regard the empire as the Great Song Dynasty again, we are also a foreign country, a country more ruthless than the Mongol Empire, does the Great Song Dynasty dare to turn its face? The matter of the maritime strike, fools know that there is an empire behind the instigation, what is the result? The court pinched its nose and confessed. It's like a scourge woman, as long as she doesn't resist the first time, she won't resist the second or third time. This is also human nature, and it is this logic to instigate others. Since they can endure it, then go ahead and endure it. ”

"But don't tear your face directly, hand over the loan to the Straits Company, let them lend the money to the imperial court in the name of maritime merchants, and let the imperial court have some face. It is said that newspapers have appeared in coastal cities in recent years, many of which are run by locals. That's good, and Yiyi said, if this kind of resource is to be fully utilized, we have to continue to be the mastermind behind it. Speaking of Xingtou, Hong Tao really stretched out his hand and grinned.

"Your Majesty, Nan has always had a question, I don't know if I can ask ......" Wen Nan stopped writing when he heard this.

"You dare to bring your son and daughter to trouble the emperor, what else don't you dare." Hong Tao pursed his lips, this kind of nonsense is redundant, if you don't ask, you won't ask?

"It's Wen Hao's business! Before his resignation, Minister Tzu specifically mentioned to me that you did not allow the Ministry of Supervision to take special measures against him, but you did not say why. I want to ask, is it because of his relationship with me? It's no wonder that Wen Nan thinks of his cousin, when he talks about the Great Song Dynasty, especially the maritime merchants, it is difficult not to mention the new Nanyang Xuanfu Envoy.

This position was not a permanent official position in the Song Dynasty, a bit like the meaning of the minister. Wherever there is trouble, the imperial court will find an important minister to serve as a propaganda envoy to deal with this matter. But now it is different, due to the emergence of the Jinhe Empire, it not only prospered the maritime trade of the entire East Asia and South Asia, but also brought a real threat to the Great Song Dynasty. Relying on the original city and military towns alone is not enough to cope with the current situation, the imperial court urgently needs an important minister of the court who understands maritime business, understands Jinhe country, and has a certain political skill to sit on the coast, this person is none other than Wen Hao.

Moreover, no one grabbed this position from him, and none of the ministers of the DPRK and China were willing to be this angry bag. Because they are afraid of Jinhe Country in their hearts, not only is Jinhe Kingdom's maritime force too strong, but its governing philosophy and way of doing things are also completely different from those of the Great Song Dynasty. This kind of person can't be dealt with by the big members of the court, Wen Hao is willing to go, everyone supports it, and no longer raises any seniority issues, in their opinion, this position is no different from exile.

However, Wen Hao, the Nanyang Xuanfu envoy, is really not exiled, and the entire Guangnan West Road, Guangnan East Road, and Fujian Road are all under the jurisdiction of the Nanyang Xuanfu Division. He has very great powers, not only can he promote and recommend officials, and has the right to supervise, reward and punish officials in his jurisdiction, but also maintain important participation rights in civil affairs such as local disaster trafficking, farmland reclamation, recruitment of exiled household registration, and water conservancy construction, and even intervene in the imperial examination in his jurisdiction.

Of course, Emperor Lizong did not unconditionally believe in the representative of Wenhao, an emerging force, and while using him, he also had to guard against him. Originally, the position of the Xuanfu envoy was on the system and could also govern the military power, but this time the Great Song Dynasty court changed the power of the Xuanfu envoy and became the existence of the same level as the system envoy. They are the highest military and political chiefs of the three routes, a bit like the provincial governors and military commanders of later generations, one is in charge of civil affairs and the other is in charge of the military, and they are all directly under the orders of the central government, and no one should interfere with anyone.

Since they are all members of the imperial court who monopolize one party, Wen Hao's mind is very clear, he didn't go to make do with the envoys, and they set up the yamen in Quanzhou, so he went further south, fully embodying the humility of a junior, and went to Guangzhou by himself, and set up the Nanyang Xuanfu Division here. What's even more interesting is that he built the Xuanfu Division next to the headquarters of the Strait Company, because the Strait Company came early and occupied the middle of the street, and there were a large number of institutions such as the Strait Bank on both sides, the Xuanfu Division seemed a little small, buried in the middle of a pile of three- or four-story cement buildings.

But Wen Hao's move also brought him benefits, for a newly appointed and high-spirited court minister, he could not use the power in his hands to forcibly occupy the real estate of the Strait Company, and he did not even mention the matter of letting the Strait Company sell and sell the real estate, which is a great respect for the maritime businessmen, and the maritime merchants are full of good feelings for this new official who is no stranger to the first place.

Wen Hao's trick is very beautiful, not to mention this kind of thing in the Song Dynasty, even in the 21st century, the construction of the provincial government building, let which private enterprise move honestly? Who had ever heard that a government building would be huddled in a corner? You travel all over Chinese mainland, any province, city or county, and there will always be a government building with the best geographical location and the most majestic architecture. Regardless of whether the county and city are so poor and still in debt, the office building must be greeted by the five-star office buildings in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou. This is the historical inheritance, not that the quality of the officials in later generations is low, but the ancestors did it, thousands of years of inheritance, and there is no harm to themselves, why should they be abolished?

"Special means? You hate your cousin so much! It's supposed to be your cousin, right? The surname is Wen, you are so happy to watch him die! "Hong Tao belongs to the kind of people who do not distinguish between grandparents and cousins. Since he was a child, he has not been influenced by this aspect, and the family culture in the capital is very weak, and these names are only used as titles, so that people can roughly understand who is called, and they don't delve into it.

"But he didn't do anything good to the empire, and he went out to deceive in the name of the empire, and after using the empire and maritime merchants, he began to use the imperial court again. The ambition of this kind of person can never be satisfied, and my Wen family does not have a scum like him! Wen Nan doesn't look down on the current Wen Hao, and he doesn't know why the polite Wen Hao in the past has become what he is now. The more relatives they are, the more they hate them, and the more they are afraid that he will bring disaster to himself one day, it is better to kill the heart of the province. From this point of view, literati and scholars are the most ruthless and selfish group. On the surface, they are harmonious and angry, but in fact, their hearts are full of small knives, swishing all over the sky.

"Hehehe, you don't have the final say in the Wen family alone, he is not your son, even if it is your son, you have no right to decide his lifestyle and ideals. In fact, Wen Hao is not as unbearable as you say, he is a very smart person, and he is even the smartest person I have ever met. He is a good learner, open to new things, and able to apply what he has learned. If I could get him into a nautical school for a few years, I think he would be the best candidate for the chancellor of the empire. ”

When Wen Hao was mentioned, Hong Tao was happy. This guy is indeed a very hated thing, and since he became a powerful man, he has really caused trouble for the Empire. But Hong Tao not only hated him, but also appreciated, a kind of appreciation from a neutral point of view, he wanted to see what tricks this guy could perform. And only he can look at the problem from this point of view, because he doesn't have any sense of belonging, whether it is the Great Song Dynasty or the Jinhe Empire, it is a game in his eyes, if you can make the game more difficult and more challenging, wouldn't it be more fun?

"Never! He will ......" As soon as Wen Nan heard that Hong Tao planned to train Wen Hao to be the prime minister of the empire, he directly changed from a sitting position to a kneeling position, which can be regarded as a pleading.

"Don't worry, you listen to me. If he hadn't been so ambitious, I really planned to train him. It's a pity that his ambition is too great, his desire for power is too strong, and the empire can't tolerate such people. This set of rules of the empire is also destined to not need any too smart people to be leaders, what we need is balance, checks and balances, balance, and compromise, and we don't need big heroes, traitors, heroes, great men, and gods, we just need people who implement the rules in a down-to-earth manner. ”

"I don't let Cixi touch him, not because he's your cousin...... Oh, it's cousin. I just don't think it's necessary, at least not while I'm alive. Do you think I can't beat him? I watched every move he made and understood what he was going to do. Keeping him is still of great use to the empire, or rather, he is the vanguard of my transformation of the Great Song Dynasty. ”

"Remember? I told you about my expectations for Da Song. I hope that the Great Song Dynasty will slowly get rid of the thinking of the supremacy of imperial power, and even if it does not completely restrict its rights like the empire, at least it must be locked in a cage, and stop casually coming out to harm the country. Like this, there are only two paths! One is to bring down the Great Song Dynasty through war, and then we will start to rebuild; The other is to let the Great Song Dynasty adjust itself from the inside, and we exert influence and pressure from the outside, forcing it to change. Personally, I prefer the latter option, because I can't say for sure I'm right. For a goal that doesn't know right or wrong, I will kill blood all over the place, so what is the difference between me and Wen Hao, Zhao Fan, Shi Songzhi and others? ”

"With Wen Hao, the success rate of my plan is much higher. You have always said that Wen Hao is using the empire, using the maritime merchants, and using the imperial court, but have you ever wondered if I am also using him? Don't you see, since there was Wen Hao and their group, the Great Song Dynasty has changed more and more. This is a good phenomenon, Wen Hao is an outlier of the Great Song Dynasty, and having him stir up in the court is much stronger than the effect of us just exerting pressure outside. What a country and a group are most afraid of is not external pressure, but internal friction. From this point of view, Wen Hao is my right-hand man, and he is **** what he wants him to do the most. ”

"Of course, I can't let him do whatever he wants, and if he wants to get out of my control, then I will warn him, and if there is no special means of the Ministry of Supervision, it will not be too late. Don't think that I can't move him if he is a proclamation, even if he becomes the emperor, I want him to die today, and he won't live next month. And the Great Song Dynasty is not like the empire, they don't have a set of rules that can run normally without anyone, as soon as a person dies, his ideals, pursuits, wisdom, and experience are all gone with the wind. ”

"If I die now, whoever succeeds the emperor is actually the same, whether it is the emperor, the parliament, the government, or the people, no one can hold absolute power, and no one can change the rules at will, which is why I have always insisted on putting the rules first. I don't want my efforts and my generation's efforts to be in vain as soon as I close my eyes. We should not only leave our names on the monument, but also leave our life's wisdom, experience, and ideals to future generations, which is our most precious legacy. "Maybe it's really old, Hong Tao now likes to teach others very much. What can be said in three sentences, he can't finish thirty sentences, and the extension goes back and forth. This is also the reason why he can't find anyone to talk to, who wants to listen to him and play in the vernacular.

(To be continued.) )